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Name: Selena Brooks

Nickname: None unless someone gives her one.

Age: 17, 18, 19

Birthday: September 20th

Sign: Virgo

Gemstone: Sapphire

Blood Type: O+

Fav. Food: Angel food cake or cheese cake with chocolate syrup and strawberries.

Hated Food: She doesn't really have any particular food she hates. Her motto is "I'll try it at least twice just don't tell me what it is if it isn't obvious".

School: She currently attends Crystal Academy on a gymnastics scholarship.

Hobbies:

• Gymnastics: Starting out with the tumble tots program, Selena has been doing gymnastics since she was 5 years old. Her parents never pressured her to being the best instead they taught her to do what she enjoyed, so long as you're having fun keep it up once it's no longer fun find something else. She is an all around gymnast participating in floor, beam, uneven bars, and the vault though she excels at uneven bars and floor. Roughly two years ago she made a mistake on the balance beam while doing a back-flip combo managing to fracture her shin because she didn't get enough air. This has planted a seed of fear in her when doing flips on the beam but she is over coming that little by little.
  
  
• Going to plays/ dances: From A Mid Summer Nights Dream to The Nutcracker to Wicked, Selena enjoys going to the local theater with friends and family to watch productions of various plays and dances. Though she's not all about getting the best seat up close or on the balcony, she rather goes for the cheap seats and is happy grabbing binoculars. One thing worth noting is she loves to support the local school's drama class/ club and quite enjoys going to the school's renditions of classic plays or their own originals (especially if they are a comedy). Her favorite play to this day was a school musical of Le Miserables.
  
  
• Baking: Now there is a difference between baking and cooking. Don't even think about asking her to cook for you or she will mentally pie you in the face. However baking is another story entirely. Every time Selena's grandmother would come visit the two of them would commandeer the kitchen and bake everything from banana chocolate chip breakfast bread to brownies and cupcakes. The house always smelled of sweets or fancy bread (zucchini bread, carrot cake, the works). When her grandmother passed away when she was 12, Selena picked up a tradition Tuesday Treats, every Tuesday she goes on a baking spree either for her family, friends, or special occasions doesn't matter but she bakes these treats mostly for others.

Attacks:

Sailor Scout Attack: Wind Blades
Reaching up above her head Sailor Pherkad grasps a hold of a magical partially transparent closed fan bringing it down to in front of her face. With a snap of her wrist the fan opens up, and brings her arm back and with a sweeping motion waving the fan directly at her opponent. The fan disappears once she finishes the sweeping motion.

This attack produces three 1' gold glowing crescent shaped blades which are propelled forward at staggered distances by wind with the equivalent speed of someone running. This is a frontal cone effect with a spread of 45 degrees and reaches 10' from Sailor Pherkad. It is possible to dodge the blades but still get brushed by the gust of wind (easier at a distance). The strength of the wind isn't enough to knock a person down (unless they are already off balance) but it can make a person stagger backwards a step. The blades cause the sensation of shallow cuts if they successfully hit an opponent and disappear after contact or when they reach 10' away from her. The lingering sensation lasts for 30 seconds and this attack can be summoned twice.

Visual Video: 3:38 mark

Super Sailor Scout Attack: Wind Blade Barrage
Reaching up above her head Sailor Pherkad grasps a hold of a magical partially transparent closed fan bringing it down to in front of her face. With a snap of her wrist the fan opens up, and brings her arm back and with a sweeping motion waving the fan directly at her opponent. The fan disappears once she finishes the sweeping motion.

This attack produces five 1' gold glowing crescent shaped blades which are propelled forward at staggered distances by wind with the equivalent speed of someone on a bike (25 MPH?). This is a frontal cone effect with a spread of 45 degrees and reaches 10' from Sailor Pherkad. It is possible to dodge the blades but still get brushed by the gust of wind (easier at a distance). The strength of the wind can knock a person down if are already off balance or not paying attention, otherwise it will make an opponent stagger backwards a couple steps. The blades cause the sensation of receiving a mid to shallow cut(s) if they successfully hit an opponent and disappear after contact or when they reach 10' away from her. The lingering sensation last for 45 seconds This attack can be summoned once.

Visual Video: 3:38 mark

Eternal Sailor Attack:Turbulent Whirlwind Encircle
Two magical partially transparent closed fans appear on either side of Sailor Pherkad in which she reaches out grasping a hold of both. With a flick of both wrists the fans snap open. She makes two large sweeping motions with each arm creating four (7' T x 3'W) whirlwinds. (see image below for placement / visual of this attack) Once the whirlwinds have been created she closes both fans bringing them together combining them into one fan. With the tip pointed upward she rotates hand in a circular motion clockwise to make the whirlwinds begin encircling her.

The speed at which the whirlwinds are encircling her is mid way between her first two attacks (Faster than a run slower then a biker in a hurry) but they are dodge-able if timed right. If an opponent gets touched by the winds of the whirlwinds it will pull them into it. The whirlwinds do no damage but spin the opponent inside it for 10 seconds before tossing them out 5' away from the center where Sailor Pherkad is (this should be far enough away that it wouldn't grab the person again unless they stumbled backwards into it). The dizziness lasts for about 20 seconds. The attack itself lasts for 60 seconds unless interrupted by a direct attack which causes her to stop rotating her fan in which the whirlwinds slow down then fade away. The whirlwinds begin to slow down at the 50 second mark and fully disappear at 60 seconds.

Visual of attack: placement of whirlwinds
** Note: will discuss with opponents about attacks and whirlwinds before a RP regarding weather or not it would make sense if a whirlwinds could mess up their attack.

Mother: Theresa Brooks, a whisper of a woman. A former housewife who had taken up two part time jobs when her husband failed to land a new job after being fired for the fourth time. To avoid more conflict she has been known to turn her cheek toward her husband's passive-aggressive and physically aggressive behavior.

Father: Dave Brooks, an angry drunk of a man who when life kicks him down the solution is to kick one back... or five. When sober he is an agreeable man but his alcoholism has caused him to black out completely and during these episodes, he has become extremely violent. Yelling is the least of anyone's concerns when fists start flying and objects get thrown across the room. While he has never been reported by his wife or two daughters, neighbors have seen the bruises and overheard the belligerent comments and know otherwise.

Older Sister: Christine Brooks, older by 7 years she had run away from home multiple times. Pegged as a delinquent child by authorities who did not believe the word of an abused child, Christine was quick to leave the house once she graduated at the age of 17 since family was not willing to get involved with the situation and help her out. She had tried in the past to gain legal custody of her younger sister but Selena had refused if only to be there for their mother since she refuses to leave the man out of fear he'd hunt them down.