Cressida
Current Name: Cressida de Rotrou
Real Name: Cressida Aristipossos
Nickname: Cres, Ida
Former Names: Lisette Hale, Annemarie Conway, Miriam Samson, etc. There have been a lot of them...
Legal Status: Legal citizen of France with no criminal record. At the moment.
Age: ... How about a couple millenia? Just to be safe. You really don't want to know.
Birthdate: Um... A long time ago.
Birthplace: Greece
Marital Status: Engaged to Leon. Again. What can we say? She likes wearing wedding dresses.
Occupation: Formerly a model for teen-type magazines, Cressida turned to fashion design in the late 1990's and has proved to have moderate success.
Favorite Food: Fondue of any kind, salads, pomengranates
Likes: Leon, Quixana, Anemone, Courage, Terror - what can we say, she loves her family more than life! wine in front of a fireplace, fuzzy blankets, silk and fine cotton, babies, spring, flowers of all types
Dislikes: cemetaries, snakes, loneliness, the smell of incense, being away from Leon
Hobbies: sewing, sketching (only with charcoal), taking long walks, playing the lyre, weaving
Personality: Warm, painfully friendly, complete optimist, sociable to the point of being a butterfly, loyal to her loved ones (Leon and the kids being topmost on the list), always ready to offer advice/help/fashion tips, often has the attention span of a hummingbird and tries (with limited success) to multi-task up to a dozen things at once, approaches the world with the eyes of a 10-minute-old fawn and thus is prone to believing anything people tell her as well as taking candy from strangers
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 115 if that.
Eyes: Dark violet.
Hair: Chestnut brown.
Physical Description: Petite and slim, Cressida was and is and always will be the perfect little Grecian beauty born to wear the chitons and upswept hair. She will also always look eighteen at the oldest... On her best days. If she tries, she can look like a slightly too-sexy fifteen. The age discrepancy isn't only the fault of her Immortality either. She is just naturally young-looking and topping the rulers at barely five foot two doesn't help any. Built small and slight, the only "mature" think about her is the way her hips widen out sensually, emphasized by her trim, flat tummy. Long-fingered hands and dainty feet move quickly and expressively; since being released into the world, Cressida has problems staying utterly still and often fiddles with a string or taps her foot as she waits for something else to happen. She is a complete tactile junkie and can often be found with a hand on her lover's arm or shoulder, a quiet kind of needy possession.
Cressida offers the world a face that revolves around the notion of gentle rounds and curves. A sweet oval with a determined little chin and a button nose, her face is pleasantly pretty without being astoundingly gorgeous. Except for when she smiles. Her smile is wide and free and gorgeous, stretching her little rosebud mouth to a grin that seems to radiate the Joy of Life. Her cheekbones show more with a smile and lend her features a new, elfin quality. It's small wonder suitors were falling at her feet as she made her way along ancient Grecian pathways with a smile. Her eyes are also a striking point with her; long, almond-shaped, and a deep shade of violet, they sparkle with amusement and intelligence and she has delighted in the modern world of cosmetics to play them up. She also has taken to sunscreens like a pro and experimented to find the perfect way to enjoy both the sun and a preservation of her faintly olive-gold skin color. The advent of temporary hair coloring led her to try various ways of highlighting her chestnut brown hair. Which, by the way, she tends to keep to at least shoulder-blade length, sometimes adding some soft layers to frame her face.
Fashion sense as varied and flexible as you'd expect from a woman centuries-old, Cres has a definite fondness for anything that Leon seems to prefer. We'll call it the ouroboros style of dressing. Left to herself, though, she likes flowy, short-skirted dresses and anything that covers as little of her skin as possible. She lives for sandals and owns more than Leona Helmsley owned pumps. Barefoot is often preferred, though, and she always takes great care that her toenails are painted prettily for this occurence. Yes, she's such a girly-girl. She's happy with it.
Distinguishing Features: She has a vivid tattoo of a purple crocus, surrounded by vines, on her left hip. Leon's intials are hidden amongst the vines. She also has double piercings in each ear and a discrete hoop through her belly button.
Art by Kyatia
