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Name: Daniyah Nejem

Nickname: None, but call her what you will at your own risk.

Age: 20

Birthday: March 13th

Sign: Pisces

Gemstone: Aquamarine

Blood Type: B

Fav. Food: While she doesn't claim to have a sweet tooth, cheesecake far outweighs anything else when it comes to food. The more, the better. Chocolate cheesecake would secure you any service she could provide (minus the illegal or inappropriate ones!)

Hated Food: Pizza. They simply don't make it just the way she likes it, despite her express and specific instructions. Fluffy and chewy crust, light mustard sauce with salmon and pineapple. Is that so hard to do?

School: DCU, currently majoring in engineering



Hobbies:


• Tinkering - Daniyah loves to simply take things apart just to put them back together again. She's very interested in how things move, change and operate in general. Her favorite things are watches, clocks and other devices with small moving parts. How these parts all fit together into a working whole is incredibly fascinating to her. When her mother allows, she even takes apart some of the appliances around the house in order to fix or upgrade them in some fashion. Dani will even go so far as to go to garage sales and pick up old, worn or broken items just to sit at her desk and tinker with them. She's made a few completely new items out of parts of old ones, or added to existing items with extra parts.

• Running - Not only is her love of running showcased in the track team, Daniyah runs simply because she loves running. She's better at distance than at speed, and adores her place on the Cross Country team. Her position in the ranks isn't as important to her as the fact that she can get out there and put the pedal to the medal that makes her happiest. She loves the feel of the wind in her hair, as cliche as that sounds, and simply loves the fact that she's going somewhere. Exercising is something that helps clear her mind and keep her everyday life in perspective. She runs a route around her neighborhood every evening after school and every morning before breakfast. An iPod in one ear and a bottle of water in her hand and she's happy as a clam.

• Mazes, Puzzles and War Games - Dani cannot get enough of mazes and other games that involve the use of the brain. She owns every book of puzzles she can get her hands on, along with every iteration of puzzle video games she can afford. She thinks of it like training in a way, but training for what, she isn't sure. If she can't run and she doesn't have homework to do, she's got either a puzzle on the table, a puzzle book in her lap or she's at her computer, playing the latest version of Command and Conquer. The idea that one commander can organize a huge group of sub-commanders and underlings to win a war makes her simply giddy. She likes to think of herself as General Daniyah, and everyone else in her little war game is a working part of a whole machine whose primary goal is at her discretion.



Virtues:


Brave - Very little makes her fearful, and Daniyah much prefers to dive head-first into new situations than to take too much time to deliberate. If there's a scary place in town you need to visit but can't go alone, Dani would accompany you and plow through the area first and with pleasure. She likes the idea of being a pioneer - discovering things for the first time to report back to everyone else. If people think there's a shark in the lake, you bet she'd be one of the first in with a snorkel and camera to prove whether Jaws escaped the local zoo or not. After spending a few years in therapy after suffering from a dog attack when she was little, she realized that she's pretty tough when it comes right down to it, so why not take advantage of that? Naturally, she's gotten hurt or gotten in trouble because of her willingness to dive in. She's broken a few bones here and there, fallen out of her fair share of trees and pissed off a neighbor for jumping into their backyard to get her friend's baseball, but it's all life's wear and tear in her eyes.

Hard-working - Productivity is one thing she can't get enough of. Whether it's getting her latest batch of homework for history class or finishing her final lap in track practice, Dani loves crossing things off of her to-do list and relishing in the fact that she's done a good day's work. The only problem with her attitude is that she quickly runs out of things to do and becomes bored and agitated. She's slowly learning to invent things for herself to do instead of relying on others to provide her with tasks (like teachers or coaches), but it's still in the works. When she's got her nose to the grindstone, she concerns herself not with speed, but with quality. There's no point in rushing to finish something only to find a multitude of errors littering your paper. Besides, the sooner she gets it done, the sooner she could possibly become bored. This leads her to take the "slow and steady wins the race" approach to most things, and she does her best to allot herself enough time to finish something with the quality she wants without it being late.

Respectful - Being respectful goes a very long way. With a military upbringing from her father, Daniyah treats everyone as if they were one rank (or more) higher than she is, no matter who they are. Strangers, teachers, family and friends are all treated with the utmost care. She uses her sirs, ma'ams, miss's and other honorifics like people use toilet paper, but to her, it's all out of her respect for you. If you ask her to stop, she will, and she realizes it bothers some people (or makes them feel old!). You can quickly fall out of favor with her if you are disrespectful to her or someone she admires like a teacher. If you lose respect from her, she can become downright vicious if she has to interact with you in any way. She won't go out of her way to put you down, but if you're an a*****e, she won't hesitate to call you out on it and treat you like she thinks you deserve. If you're a respectful enemy or rival of hers, she'll still treat you the same as a family member. Respect begets respect in her book.




Flaws:


Ruthless - Piss her off, and combined with her tunnel vision, this can be something scary. Her morality in gray at best and when it comes to finishing a task and very little would stop her. If someone it caught cheating during a track race, she will hunt them down and threaten to expose them to the school board if they do it again, or try blackmailing them in some other fashion. If faced with a choice of trying (and possibly failing) to save everyone over saving a select few people by letting some of them die, she's opt for the latter. It's like a battlefield hospital - amputate the arm to save the rest of the body. She thinks about a great many situations in the fashion, and doesn't see a problem at all with it. If you beat on a friend of hers or someone she knows, she'll stop just short of assault (or will assault you outright if she knows you won't call the police) to get even. If she were in Mortal Kombat, she'd finish everyone off with a Brutality.

Tunnel Vision - Once she has something in mind, be it a goal, an action, target or a position, she'll not stop until she's either incapacitated, the opportunity is no longer available, her method is invalid, or some other catastrophic event occurs. She simply hates to leave things unfinished, but more often than not, she cannot let this thing go. For example, if you offend her, she will get in your face to intimidate you into apologize and if you don't, she'll continue to do it until you relent. If she gets it in her head that a particular tinkering project must be finished that night, then all other priorities get pushed aside. She's missed school assignments and other important dates. She's been known to pull all-nighters to get a paper done just to spend the next three days in Rome: Total War attempting to finish a level flawlessly. She's had her school hiccups, but adding more things to her list of tasks is a very dangerous proposition.

Obedient -One may think of this as a virtue, being that she would do as she is asked to do, but not so much in this case. If you are above Dani in rank, position in a group, age or she simply thinks that highly of you, she'll do most anything you say without a single thought. She reverts instantly to a mindset of "minion" and assumes you have the greatest, most logical or best of intentions with your request of her. She considers herself as someone who needs to climb the ranks in order to make suggestions or give her thoughts to people she views like this, much like a private in the military. The morality of the act she is committing for someone else is of no concern to her - if anything, she thinks of herself as the weapon, not the wielder. If you have a problem with what she's done, take it up with the manager. She'll keep her thoughts to herself and will sometimes politely ask to speak her mind, but more often than not, you'll find she's a very vicious and very obedient guard dog (oh the irony).





PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Eyes: Bright cyan in color and usually with narrowed or severe. She's often regarding someone with a very serious look on her face.

Hair: Dark brown and straight, her hair ends at the apex of her thighs. It's thick and is almost always loose and down. She doesn't put any accessories in it aside from an occasional hair tie, which serves a purpose, she assures you.

Face: Heart shaped, though her features tend to be a bit more angular. Corvus' face is similar to what Dani's face shape is. She also has some clawlike nicks across her face and body. She was the victim of a dog attack when she was younger. It's more severe on her arms and chest than on her face. Her skin is very dark and she almost looks Arabic.

Clothes: Daniyah opts for simple jeans and a shirt most days. Anything she can easily run in and isn't too bright, distracting or formal is preferable to her.

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