Post by Yen on Jul 12, 2011 18:15:30 GMT -5
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Official Name: Asrielle Lei Anahita
Nicknames: Ana, Resident Bookworm, The Lost Scientist
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Race: Amestrian from Central (Caucasian, Human)
Working Status: Ana works three different jobs to support herself at Liore. Her first job is at the library, where she cleans, organizes, and helps visitors. Her second job is at the inn where she takes orders, arranges stays, and cleans the rooms. Ana's final job at Liore is a temporary nurse, where she tends to the sick and injured within Liore's church, working alongside Cornello.
Alignment: Ana has always been good, doing her best to find benign ways to help others.
Appearance: Asrielle has a fair complexion, and is about 5'1", and weighs about 76.2 lbs. She has long dark brown hair that reaches three inches past her shoulders, and deep blue eyes that express her curiosity well. She dresses plainly, despite her families rich heritage, generally wearing a tan, beige, or grey turtleneck, and a long black skirt that reaches past her knees. The only hint of Ana's true heritage is a small pearl necklace she wears in memory of her mother, yet it often lays hidden under a shawl or sweater. Asrielle wears large black glasses for reading purposes, but tends to refrain from wearing them during battle for fear of loosing or breaking them. (During such situations, she places them inside a case that she keeps in a pouch tied to her hip.) Due to the fact that she often travels long distances, she wears small soft shoes that much resemble moccasins to prevent massive blisters, or being weighed down in a dangerous situation. Probably the most defining attribute to her rather plain appearance would be book (or books) that she is often seen reading. Asrielle is rarely seen without a book, and always has at least one book inside her small black travel case.
Defining Features/ Disabilities: Ana hides it well, but she still is nurturing three fractured ribs, one on the right, and two on the left, as well as a fractured left leg. She takes medications that she hand makes to lessen the pain so that it is bearable when she runs.
Goals/Ambitions: Ana currently resides in Liore to escape from her father, who had nearly broken her ribs and leg during an angered rampage. She hopes to become a successful alchemist, with the power and knowledge to help those around her.
History: Ana was born Asrielle Lei Anahita, a single child into a rich family from Central, and sheltered for most of her childhood life from the devastation of war. She was taught to think of herself above others, and that she alone could outsmart any Amestrian child. Ana learned quickly among other children, and was even called a prodigy for her age, able to quickly solve any question within reason. However, despite her parents best efforts to keep her attention away from the war of Ishval and the growing resistance, Ana couldn't help but notice the wounded soldiers that would return weekly from the trains, and the many that were carted away in bags.
The rumors at school continued to puzzle Ana, when she heard that there was a power that ended the war and brought peace to Amestris, the power of Alchemy. Hoping that there was a way to help the wounded soldiers, Ana began to study Alchemy in secret, for her parents would hear nothing of her idea and refused immediately. The process was incredibly slow, as most of the books her father had were not for beginners, and her father rarely left his library for her to wander alone. A long three years passed, and Ana was finally twelve, yet she still had only the basic grasp of alchemy, studying only basic properties and small transmutations. Still, she was an alchemist, even if only a beginner, and had successfully transmuted several small rocks into random accessories.
Although Ana now knew the basics of Alchemy, she still didn't know how to transmute any kind of medicine, let alone create cures for wounded and sick soldiers. Events had taken a worse turn for Ana when her mother fell fatally ill, suffering from a peculiar disease for nearly a year, needing constant attention. Ana's father could not create a cure, not even with the support of the best medical center in all of Central, leaving Ana motherless, and her father a widower. Ana inherited the small pearl necklace that her mother used to wear, along with grief that seemed to haunt the house.
Despite being well off, and still with a living child, Ana's father continued down a spiral of depression leaving him jealous and angry at his daughter. He couldn't take the blame of failing to save his wife, and in turn blamed his daughter for his late wife's death. Aden (Ana's father) believed that the time he spent with his daughter while his wife suffered contributed to her eventual death, and that Ana wasted his time while he should have been looking for the cure. Aden began to hurt Ana out of spite, eventually fracturing three ribs (two on the left, and one on the right), and her left leg.
Ana had put up with her father's anger for a single long year before finally deciding to run away. She stole her favorite alchemy book from her fathers library, along with a large sum of money from her fathers old records book (The money he had set aside intending on using it to buy the cure for his wife, was hidden in the book that he recorded his experiments in.), and a few other assets that would help her survive, and left her home in the dead of night. It took her a while to decide where to go, and how to get there, but she quickly made up her mind to head to Liore before the week ended, not wanting to be caught by the officials and brought back home. Wasting no time to purchase provisions from the far side of town, along with a decent map, she bribed a taxi driver to take her to Liore (one hell of a bribe), and had left Central at last.
Upon arriving at Liore, Ana quickly realized that life was going to be much different. She no longer had the fare to live the spoiled life she was used to, and had no real knowledge on Liore. She lived homeless on the streets for two weeks before finding work in the town, tending to the library, cleaning the hotel residence, and tending to the sick and the weak with Cornello (yes, I know he's the bad guy) to provide a living for herself. She had become a proficient alchemist at last, and was allowed free range of the library, but often gets chills around the peculiar priest. Nonetheless, this would have to do until she found something better to do...
Personality: Ana is a naturally loving character, and likes to be helpful in any situation, but has a nasty knack of being shy around new people, and easily distracted by her reading material. She doesn't introduce herself by her full name, preferring to be called 'Ana' as a nickname, for fear of being discovered and returned to her father. She doesn't like to be helped in anything she does, unless someone is willing to share new knowledge in alchemy, and is often stubborn when told to 'sit and wait'. Ana also dislikes being touched, namely around her ribs, as some of the wounds are still sensitive, and bring about bad memories. Ana has always loved learning, and especially loves learning about things that she really shouldn't know. This in turn leads to her being exceptionally curious when there are locked objects or 'taboo' books. Although Ana is generally curious, she refrains from asking too many questions to strangers, seeing that it could lead to trouble. Her favorite course of action is to learn from an inanimate object, as they tend not to betray or tell lies. Ana is often suspicious of those with strange abilities and powers, as she believes that people with inexplicable capabilities are often involved with dangerous and devious entities.
Weapons and Tools: Asrielle has no large weapons of substantial use, but does carry two small knives and a flashlight. One knife resides in her waist pouch, along side her glasses case and her flashlight, and the other is hidden inside the waistline of her turtleneck where it is securely fastened in case she cannot reach the other knife in time. In addition to her knives and flashlight, she has a small knowledge of Alchemy, but just enough to manipulate small quantities of earth, and alter the properties of specific plants to create medicines and poisons.
Ana's most typical course of action when attacked is to knock her opponent off balance with her alchemy, using a small quantity of earth to either sink or shift under her opponents feet, so that she can either run, or decide the next course of action. Other times, if the opponent happens to be too close for her to perform her alchemy, she will reach for one of her two knives to either scare the attacker off, wound their arms, or gouge their eyes (it mostly depends on the severity of the attack, as Ana doesn't like to kill others). If Ana is truly fearful for her life, or others lives, she can perform a few high powered earth alchemy techniques, generally creating a large wall of earth between her and her opponent, and even sending the wall with a fast momentum towards the enemy with intent to crush them underneath the wall. In rare situations, Ana may use poison that she concocts during her research time, injecting it through one of her knives, and eventually weakening the opponent with the poison until they fall unconscious. None of her poisons are lethal, as she prefers to tie them up and leave them for others.
Friends/Family: Ana's only living family is her father Aden (her mother Audrie had passed away years ago, and her grandparents died before the war of Ishval), who she still resents because of his cruel treatment. She has done her best to avoid coming in contact with him again. Her closest friends would be the villagers of Liore, which she cares for, but doesn't let any know about her history feeling that there's much more important matters at hand, and that trusting any too much could lead to trouble. She has let Cornello know even less about her, spare the fact that she is an alchemist needing a place to stay, as she suspects him to be involved with malicious powers.
RP Sample: Admiring the now freshly cleaned inn, Ana sat in the back behind the counter on one of the old wooden benches. She knew in her heart that it wouldn't last long; the moment a customer decided to walk in would mean more sand and grime tracked inside. 'Why can't anyone just wipe off their shoes before they come in? It would make everything so much easier!' The young alchemist thought to herself as she flipped half heartedly through the pages of an old beaten alchemy book. There was no sense to actually spend time to read the book, she had read it several times between now and when she was ten. It was just a relic that occupied her time as she waited for the peace of night to encompass the ongoing afternoon.
Immediately recognizing the sound of the old innkeeper approaching, Ana hardly lifted her head from the book as she knew it was almost time to settle down. He would be here to close off the kitchen, leaving the night comers to eat in peace, turn up the radio spending a few minutes to pray with Cornello to the holy sun god, and then disappear up the stairs where he would chat with his wife. Life wasn't exactly exciting anymore, but it was better than to try and eek out a life in Central.
Ana couldn't help but shudder at the reminder, as one of her hands immediately flew to her ribs, trying to ease the pain. 'Equivalent exchange...' Ana thought sadly, 'it's not real. I'm no replacement for mother. It wasn't fair at all.' Just as Ana tried to shake off the memory, a flashback seemed to occupy her mind, placing her in a trance where the rest of the world disappeared.
Ana was small and twelve again, remembering the month just after her mother had died. She had been researching alchemy for a while, and there was a rule to it: Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. She would sit under her bed, holding her breath until tears would burn her face. "Mother will come back, and father won't be sad." Ana would tell herself, but nothing happened. Her father was always sad and mother never did come back.
Feeling someone poke her cheek, Ana quickly came about, recognizing the innkeepers bearded face. "You okay, little Bookworm?" He asked with a worried tone in his voice, "it's getting to be that time again, we need to close shop." Ana mustered a small smile, "I'm fine, just thinking." she said as she hopped up from her chair, putting the book away, and heading towards the doors to lock up for the night.
As the innkeeper headed up the stairs, Ana couldn't help but notice feathers in large clumps floating just outside the Inn window. 'Now that's odd...' Ana thought, leaving the inn to have a better look. 'What are these doing here? Oh!' As Ana approached the pile of feathers on the side of the Inn, she saw over twenty bird corpses. "Cornello?" She whispered lowly, as it was the second time this month that this weird phenomenon occurred.
Deciding to leave the cleanup to the janitor, Ana wandered back inside the inn and up to her room. 'Things just don't get much weirder...'
Additional Information: Although Ana can be antisocial, she does in fact care for others, and feel the need for companionship. She can just be a little strange at times. She is also afflicted with a small obsessive compulsive disorder, causing her to become aggravated at a few specific flaws (disorganization, clumsiness, lost objects, small failures, and typos... even the typos in your posts! XD), often leading to small confrontations with the offender. Another note, Ana left Central for Liore knowing that it was dangerous, not just as a random choice, but an escape where the military wouldn't bring the well known daughter home.
Navy = Thoughts
Blue = Words
Brown = Npc Words
