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Demon Seraph

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2014 3:17 pm


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Name: Millifred Green.
Alias: Milly.
Age: 14.
Gender: Female.
Powers: Invisibility.
Aura: Main color is lemon yellow, secondary color is ruby red. High frequency.
Appearance: What might have been a charming shade of pale blue skin is instead spotted with blotchy freckles that cover most of her face(especially the cheeks and forehead), shoulders, her back and her limbs- right down to the tips of her toes and fingers. Attempting to cover up all of the blemishes has long since become a lost cause so she adopted a preference for sweater-vests that cover much of her gross spots while still appearing dignified(with the long sleeves and collar that covers but doesn't swallow up her neck). Her elder brother seems to make them look fantastic, the outfit and freckles alike, so she's trying real hard to try emulating that confidence he seems to rock. It's a small effort to maintain a somewhat classy appearance. It's really just kind of nerdy, though. Often paired with poorly fitting pants that cling around her calves(since it's hard to find pants to fit her long legs) and her favourite yellow sneakers.

Her hair is dusty auburn(nothing real vibrant) and tied back in a short nub of a ponytail(with whatever coloured band she can find usually), but the front bangs are choppy and uneven. Not to mention the bangs are too short to be tucked behind her ears without flopping forward again. Since she has yet to find hair clips without sparkling glitter and flowery decor, she's never considered them an option for rebellious bangs. They don't obscure her vision at least: if they did she'd just take the scissors to them again to fix that.

Although her eyes are slightly narrowed(not quite slanted unless her smile pushes her cheeks up) it doesn't hide their putrid green colouring: definitely not olive, not even close to hazel. Admittedly, smiling is a thing she does often. It is not a small or quiet smile, but a broad one that sometimes twists crookedly at the edges. Especially if she picks up on someone feeling discomfort or if they're placed in an unfavourable situation, whether she had a hand in causing it or not. She doesn't always meet the eyes of those she speaks with, but when she does she sometimes forgets to blink. Because of this her eyes can have an irritated look around the edges from being so dry(something she hasn't quite picked up on yet that's actually the cause of not blinking as often). Probably going to need glasses or eye drops down the line to help sort out the strain.

Even if she has horrid posture and lets her shoulders droop way down, there's a certain pride in the way she holds her head up and chin out from her neck. Sometimes she'll catch herself crossing her arms and hastily correct this habit, not wanting to look like one of those "other sulky teens". For the most part she seems more self conscious about how she holds herself more so than her less than desirable aesthetics: feet apart when she stands, back facing toward walls when she can, preferring to stand at the edge of a group rather than surrounded by others. She's a bit lanky and tall for a girl her age, standing at 5'6" and fit, but she looks more than a bit awkward when she moves since her limbs seem so long compared to her stumpy torso.

Personality: Milly likes to consider herself as playful and encouraging, wanting nothing more than to have fun. She likes helping other people share in her fun, often in ways anyone outside of even her immediate family might suggest are violent and sadistic. She plays rough and delights in the suffering of others, rarely hiding her open glee at misfortune that isn't hers. If she's on the receiving end of unfortunate events, she tends to be a bit more sullen and withdrawn about it. Despite her somewhat volatile nature and questionable intentions she really does enjoy the company of others, and is still very self-conscious about rejection of potential friends' company or those she respects.

It is difficult to deter her once she's taken an interest in something, as she can be very stubborn and determined to get what she wants- or do some damage if she can't. She can be incredibly spiteful and jealous, but for the most part is just curious. With some less than healthy ways of expressing that enthusiasm for the world around her.

Milly tends to be a very hands on person when interacting with the world and, unfortunately, people too(and any other living creature unfortunate enough to get within grabbing range). Her hands do more talking than she does often, grabbing and pushing things around as she pleases unless given a very good reason not to(and even then it can take several attempts before she's dissuaded). She often places emphasis on random words in her speech for no apparent reason, but it's just a habit picked up from her brother. Although she can be pushy and a bully about getting her way, she can easily be persuaded into attempts at more acceptable behaviour with food- particularly sweet fruits or candies.

History: Mark and Magnolia Green worked hard to support their two children, Matthew and Millifred. It took roughly forty minutes for their parents to drive into the city from the suburbs they lived in every morning, and again in the evening. The long hours they worked often left the children in the hands of questionably negligent babysitters, and entirely too much time on their hands when they grew older. Matthew latched onto reading, gaming and inevitably the internet shortly after the family caved in to buying a computer. Milly delighted in catching bugs and running around the neighbourhood with them. Amazingly, no one seemed to appreciate her enthusiastic sharing of the grimy and slimy creatures she discovered.

Milly's childhood was an uneventful one, although her elder brother handled the lack of social interactions much better than she did. He had the glowing grace of the internet to guide him, and Milly had to entertain herself mostly(which often involved violent outbursts). She was disruptive in her younger school days without proper discipline(often being exceptionally rough with classmates), though the threat of expulsion was horrifying. The last thing she wanted was more isolation, especially where it was already hard to socialize. With great effort and several tantrums later, she began to imitate her brother. After all, Matthew was an upstanding and intelligent kid who almost never drew attention to himself. If that's what it took to stay in her classes, she had to make the effort. Very slowly, her attempts at being a civil child improved to the point that she became a tolerable menace. It was easier to develop this persona after her transition into middle school, where she was virtually unknown. More than that, she found she'd grown to genuinely admire her brother's accomplishments and tried to emulate them with mixed results. She even began to dress similarly to Matthew in these years, along with adopting some of his sayings and mannerisms.

Of course, Milly was not her brother. She still found immense joy in tormenting others just as much as hanging around with them, making for all kinds of strife during the next couple of years. During the summer she turned fourteen, an all new terror was introduced to Milly's classmates when her psychic powers began to manifest. She began phasing in and out of sight without control for short spurts of time, much to her own frustration and panic. The students who witnessed her sudden flickers were hard pressed to explain to staff what they'd seen(and thusly dismissed as nonsense). By the end of the week, Milly was coming around to the idea that this wasn't so bad after all. The look of surprise and confusion people gave was priceless, and it was harder for them to retaliate against the invisible girl. That was the only way she had to deal with the nagging terror that she might vanish for real, making sure people knew she was there.

With another two weeks she'd gained slight control over the ability, able to force the shift with enough concentration and even maintain it for a little while. Milly found herself napping frequently to make up for the energy it sapped, though that didn't seem like such a terrible thing. Even though it was beginning to have adverse effects on her sleeping habits, she was having a fantastic time frightening her peers. That is, until her very weary and concerned parents presented a peculiar brochure to Milly. They weren't oblivious to the ongoing shenanigans of their daughter, and several times now she'd unintentionally scared them quite badly with accidental bursts of invisibility(Milly hadn't even realized they were around). They'd been on the verge of contacting an exorcist when an equally horrifying explanation was given on that brochure: their daughter was probably just a psychic.

Thankfully, the paper offered a place to send their troubled Millifred that could deal with the powers her parents couldn't- and everything else, they hoped. It wasn't long before Milly was shipped off to camp, both excited and curious about the strange new world that had been presented to her.
PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 2:26 pm


Demon Seraph

Hello! Hopefully you find my crit helpful.

As for appearance it is perfection, and I really want to see art of hers. I just picture her grin and it makes me laugh. I'm curious to how long her hair is down, because a nub of a ponytail could be shoulder length hair or shorter. But that's more of my curiosity than a crit. Are her hands/fingers/feet/toes long like her limbs or are they more stumpy like her torso?

I'm curious to what are some of the things that she finds fun but are violent? Does she like to wrestle/fight, or is more like catching bugs/animals and messing with them? Is her sadistic humor more towards other people, or are animals in the same boat. You put that she is spiteful, if she is at the receiving end of unfortunate events while she has withdrawn is she planning revenge or does she just let it go after a while?

How does she react to rejection from people that she wants to be her friend? Does she simply brush it off, or does her determined trait step up and she is willing to do anything to become their friend? Or does she get spiteful and try to make them pay for not being her friend?

How does one become someone that she respects? Is it things they do, how they act, their intelligence level?

What kind of things make her stop grabbing things/people? Would she stop if they kept telling an authority figure, or if they were crying again and again? Also when she does stop is she mad/pouty that she has to stop or she just pretends like it's okay?

For her history I wonder what her parents did/said about her violent and sadistic funtimes? Did they ever notice, or was it simply ignored? Also the baby sitters, did they ignore her, try to stay away from her, or try to 'fix her'? Were there any babysitters that she actually liked? How much older is her brother than her? Did she ever play video games with her brother? I feel like her nature would make her like violent video games, or maybe they aren't hands on enough for her? Did she have any friends to run around the neighborhood with looking for bugs? Or was she always alone in her adventures?

How did her family/others deal with her violent outburst? When she was threatened to be expelled what did her parents do? Were they worried for her? Did they try to discipline her or were they worried that it was too late? I know they weren't around much, but how were they with her when they were around? How do her and her brother interact? Are they close, I know she looks up to him but how does he see/treat her? Did he help her become more like him, or was it all from observation?

What kind of tormenting did she do to others? Did anyone ever stick up to her? If so what did they do? Did she have friends in middle school, and if so did she torment them as well or does she only do that to people she isn't on such good terms with?

Where did her parents get the brochure? Did one of the teachers also see her going invisible and gave the brochure to her parents, or did her parents/brother look it up online?

How does she feel about leaving her brother for camp?

That's all for now!

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 30, 2014 10:53 am


MILLIFRED IS ACCEPTED!

Here is your journal, your full art and cert will be posted in the main thread and PM'd to you.


Demon Seraph
PostPosted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:02 pm


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Yaaay accepted Milly! emotion_kirakira
Thank youuu!

But eeeughads I don't have an excuse proper for not responding to this sooner, I've been putting it off for no honest reason. xnx

Your crit was and continues to be super helpful! I hadn't considered some of those things so I'ma try and go down the list and fill in that info for you. ; 3 ;
Nub of a ponytail I always considered super short. Just enough hair to pull back into the ponytail and an inch or two left sticking out? I'm abysmal at body descriptions so I still don't have a good answer for her digits and feet/hands being long as well, gah.

I'm positive she enjoys wrestling if the odds are in her favour but she's not really built for head-to-head fights. She's all tall and gangly without a lot of force to put behind any blows. I think she'd more enjoy being towards people and picking on them, and much smaller animals that she might be able to get away with(insects definitely, but anything bigger than a cat probably not). She'd definitely carry that sort of grudge around with her for awhile until she could do something about it, or if it proved impossible to act on. Like if her satisfaction of fulfilling it wouldn't outweigh the consequences to herself.
I think she'd tell herself that she was definitely their friend regardless of the rejection. It'd take several pretty serious/firm attempts to get through that no, stahp, do not want before she'd switch gears to getting "back at them" for it.
All three of those things play a factor in what she respects and looks up to though(how they act, what they do, intelligence).

If someone started whacking on her hard enough she'd probably stop being so grabby with them, otherwise it'd be a hard thing to keep longterm. It would depend on who they told for authority? Crying might not effect it, depends on if it was loud or more quiet. She'd probably play it off like she didn't mind having to stop but it'd be a pretty hollow act for her age right now. xD

Her parents didn't get to see a lot of it, and were kept busy a lot with their jobs and keeping the house paid/cared for. But they did disapprove of the nastier reports they were given from sitters and such. Might have tried to speak to her about it but without any real lasting results- like the awkward "is something going on" talk that doesn't go anywhere pbbbt! The baby sitters might have tried to do something with correcting the awful behaviour but it clearly hasn't worked out. Might have been a couple she liked, sure! I left the brother's age vague because I'm bad with numbers and still working that out. Old enough so that she would look up to him without them being TOO close enough in years, so there wouldn't be scrapping over things(rings of friends, studies, that sort of thing). If that makes sense? I think his disinterest in what a pest she was made Milly admire him more, since she always sorta mistook it for a mutual respect when he just really doesn't care that much for her. On the yeah-we're-kin root, I'm sure he cares that he has a sister, but he came first and he has better things to be doing. She likes that cool attitude but doesn't dare try and annoy him for a reaction like she would others. Indirectly I'm sure her brother helped shape her need for attention more, but that wouldn't be his goal. They get along, I'm sure she thinks they're close, but Matthew doesn't care nearly as much or feel as strongly. As long as it wasn't disturbing him, it wasn't his problem pretty much. (I'm still not quite sure about her gaming habits, I'm going to give that a bit more thought before I can offer info on it. D: )

Her parents were absolutely worried about her but not quite sure how to handle it. They were stressed sure, probably worried for her just as much as the other kids. I'm sure the thought of it being too late might have come up in their private talks, but they still had a hard time with the idea of something being so wrong with their daughter that it couldn't be corrected. Whatever discipline was probably a lot lighter than it should have been since it didn't snap her out of her set habits. In the later years it'd probably be a mix of her parents trying not to upset her thinking that stress they dumped onto their kids was the reason. Guilt and denial woohoo!
Lots of people probably stuck up to her but unless they actually intimidated or hurt her she'd probably keep pushing(to see what she could get away with)- unless some other compromise presented itself. She probably had a couple friends or picked up new ones when she drove off old ones(purposefully or not), but she'd still tease and pick on them. Just in a more mild way, with a different mindset. Like, the affection for a friend would absolutely be there. But so is that inner push to see awful things done to them.

I left where the parents got the brochure from vague, but it probably would have been one of the teachers!

The actual feelings she has about leaving her brother probably haven't set in yet with the excitement and hurry to shove her off to camp. On one hand it's probably like "YISS FRANDS YISS POWERS" and that rush is probably the blanket over her anxieties about leaving home and all that.

Again, I can't apologize enough for being this slow. The questions kinda overwhelmed me at first from being so many and not knowing a lot of the answers. I just pushed it off repeatedly. I'll make an effort to keeping more attentive about these posts!
whee

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