Name: Ivy Sutors
Nickname: Have you
tried to nickname someone with a three-letter name? It's not easy. The closest Ivy's ever come to being nicknamed was when someone thought her last name was Sue.
Age: Fourteen! Ah, the early days of high school, when people aren't filled with ruthless hatred.
Birthday: April second.
Sign: Aries
Gemstone: Diamond
Blood Type: A Negative
Fav. Food: She enjoys potatoes in most shapes and forms, some more than others. Waffle fries? Amazing. Sweet potato fries? Ehhhhh, no. Mashed potatoes, with melted cheese and some scallions? Be
still, her heart.
Hated Food: Peppers. The very smell of them makes her gag.
School: Meadowview High School
Hobbies: Sleeping -- Ivy sleeps a
lot. She doesn't go out and hang out with people, she doesn't play video games: she sleeps. She can sleep in a car, she can sleep on a couch, and it's really hard to wake her up once she's asleep. After all, it's a great way to pass time! She doesn't often remember her dreams, but who cares? Taking naps is a part of her routine, and she goes home from school and sleeps before doing any homework.
In addition to that, she figured out very early on in life that people didn't nap as much as her -- but Ivy tends to remember her dreams! She's kept a dream journal since a young age, and there's a few boxes of nothing but journals, scrap pieces of paper, and composition books under her bed. Next to her bed sits five well-read books on dream interpretation, and all her journals are dated by time and day and year. Each entry follows a a simple pattern: a description of the dream, notable features she remembers, and what they're supposed to mean.
Ceramics -- Ivy's room has little jars and artpieces on every shelf. She's not a prodigy by any means, but she's been working with clay since she entered middle school: it was her relief from the endless maelstrom of everyone else. Every now and often, she turns out a masterpiece. (Unfortunately, she has kinda nasty hands as a result; her nails are uneven and clay is in her skin creases.) It's one of the few things she's ever asked her parents to buy her supplies for, and she regularly goes to any classes she can. Doesn't matter the age range: she'll work with her clay if she's surrounded by 50-year-olds or preschoolers. It's one of the things that makes her very happy.
ASL -- Ivy's aunt is Deaf, and to connect more with her extended family, Ivy has been working on teaching herself American Sign Language since she was eleven. She's semi-fluent: her vocabulary is ranging, and her expressiveness and classifiers are good, but her grammar...isn't great, since she's a solitary person and self-taught, and you can only learn so much! She won't make her friends sign at all and gets a bit embarrassed if she's called out on it, but she has a habit of signing while she speaks to emphasize a word; and is happy to teach if asked.
Virtues: (Not) Kicking Them While They're Down -- Ivy refuses to capitalize off of someone else's flaws or failings to help herself out. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, right? Help out people in need, and don't use them as vantage points for advancement, and you'll be a good person. It's things as little as giving someone their pen back that you
really like, and things as big as refusing to kill because you don't want to die. She doesn't believe there's good in everyone, nothing like that -- she just likes it good for herself, and hey, why make it hard for people?
Good Memory -- Ivy is pretty good at holding multiple things in her head at the same time, regardless of the details. It doesn't matter if she
does those things, only that she remembers about them, and that's what this virtue refers to. She might not even understand them! But she can keep good lists, if she puts her mind to it. It's a shame she never has any initiative: she could be a
fantastic student if she experienced a moment of actually wanting to.
Calm -- Ivy is surprisingly good at keeping her cool with most things, if they're not things she's personally put off and waited to do. She can take a second and think them through, and she can chill out and have a good time if there's nothing to worry about. (There is a lot to worry about, unfortunately.) Asides from the anxiety she brings on herself with postponing things, Ivy is pretty chill! Comes with sleeping all the time; it's hard to get to sleep when you're worried.
Flaws: Lazy -- Nehhhhh, she'll do it later; such is the personal creed of Ivy Sutors. It's not that she doesn't want to do things, or that she doesn't want to help: she's just not very good at self-motivation. Even though Ivy knows she should do something, she can't bring herself to do it instead of goofing off. And then things get put off until the last minute, causing her anxiety and bad grades. She knows it's a self-destructive cycle but she
can't stop, because things don't hold any real Immediacy for her until the very last minute. It'd be a great fantasy plot trait! Except she's a real person, and she almost failed out of her english class last year.
It's not that her time management skills suck (although it is) -- it's mostly because Ivy has no initiative to do anything she doesn't especially want to do. And as of the last year or two, all she really wants to do is ceramics and sleep. Her argument is that she'd
do things if she was rewarded for them: but, A), she wouldn't, and B), why should she be rewarded for things she ought to do anyways?
Socially Inept -- Ivy was homeschooled for the entirety of elementary, and her first real interaction with kids her age was middle school: unfortunately, middle school is the time period where everyone loses their ******** mind. Instead of trying to navigate the tangled webs of social statuses, Ivy decided it wasn't worth it at all and just never tried. TL;DR: Ivy is
awful at reading social cues and is pretty clueless about group dynamics. Unless things are flat out stated, she just tends to ignore them; and unless pointed out, she rarely realizes that people have any connections beyond friendship. She doesn't get injokes, tends to take things at face value, and doesn't realize when it's an inappropriate moment to bring something up!
Her parents tried to make it mandatory that she had to interact with people when she was homeschooled, ironically. They took her to Girl Scout meetings, free art classes, the park -- but she just kind of sat there and stared at people and never talked. They gave up the same year she entered middle school.
Shy -- she's not literally tiny, but! Ivy will put her head down and try to be unnoticeable if given the chance. She doesn't like being noticed. Sometimes people make fun of her, and she's learned that just staying small, staying quiet, and doing her own thing...might not make them go away, but it makes them easier to tolerate, at the very least. She is very afraid to voice her own opinions and tends to just sit there and stare at people, and rarely stands up for herself because it's too much effort. She just wants to
sleep. Why expend the effort on something that she doesn't want to care about?
Ivy is an easy target for any bullying because she's somewhat clueless but won't fight back at all. She refuses to voice her own opinions unless pressed, and rarely does anything social unless pressed: too many people looking at her! Nooo. She just wants to be tiny as a mouse and have nobody look at her and she's okay with them talking, just don't talk about her or to her.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Eyes: A silvery grey, approximately
#97BDBF. They're usually somewhat unfocused and half-lidded.
Hair: Seafoam green, somewhere around
71EEB8. Short in the back, with curly bangs and a few perfect ringlets reaching to her jaw.
Face: Ivy is Afro-Asian (or debatably Blasian, but that just sounds weird). Her skin tone and eye shape are similar to
Denyce Lawton's. She has a round face, big ears, and a bit of baby fat still on her cheeks.
Clothes: Primarily N/A, but Ivy's a tank top and cargo pants kind of gal. Add some flip flops in there. She's a casual person with very muted tastes in colors: browns, monochromatic, occasionally cream and a really greyish blue. Her clothes don't tend to match super well in style, and she's not a big fan of patterns. She wears a braided leather bracelet on both wrists, and has an old key with misshapen teeth that she wears on a leather cord as a necklace.
Body Type: Ivy is slightly below average height, and a bit chubby. She tries not to be self-conscious, but it really doesn't work, and she just doesn't feel like working out. She's fairly busty for her age.
Notes:
Narcoleptic -- Ivy was diagnosed at twelve, but was unable to obtain accommodations in school for it and sometimes forgets to take her medication. She is prone to zoning out and having brief periods of unresponsiveness, and given the chance, she naps very frequently. Naps after school, napping in class, napping whenever and wherever possible. Her rules are wake up two hours prior to school, sleep when she gets home from school, and go to sleep at 10:30 pm: extra naps as needed or wanted, of course.
This
does affect her school life -- she's got quite a bit of detentions from falling asleep in class on those days she forgets to take medication. As a Senshi, well...those late-night patrols are going to ruin her sleep schedule of Sleep At This Time No Matter What something fierce. Welcome to Sailor Warhol, Senshi of Moods and also Halfhearted Sleepy Attacks (And The Likely Falling Asleep At Other People's Houses).
Ivy suffers from
narcolepsy without cataplexy, which manifests itself as strong daytime sleepiness primarily. However, when suffering from strong emotions, she will often be overtaken by bursts of sleepiness -- although she will very rarely just drop down and sleep right there, if she closes her eyes for five seconds while lying down or sitting, girl's out like a light.
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