Post by semele on May 30, 2012 2:41:32 GMT -5
SARAH ZOLA DEL VINO
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basics.
• Full Name [/color] | Sarah Zola del Vino
• Significance of Name [/color] |
How your character's full name can relate to the god's names.
' first – Sarah means princess and Semele was a princess.
' middle – Zola means earth and Semele was under the earth until Dionysus saved her.
' last – del vino means ‘of wine’ and Semele was the mother of Dionysus, the wine god.
• Age: [/color] | Forever 21
• Grade [/color] | Counselor
• Sexuality [/color] | Heterosexual
• Deity [/color] | Semele - Greek
• Title of your deity [/color] | Mother of Dionysus and lover of Zeus, goddess of the Bacchanalia.
appearance.
• Build [/color] | Tiny svelte little thing that stand at 5'3"
• Hair Color & Style [/color] | White blonde and long, sometimes in some pretty fancy styles
• Eye Color [/color] | Constantly switching from violet to star blue
• Played By [/color] | Emilia Clarke
• First Impression[/color] | When Sarah entered the room, it wasn’t entering so much as floating inside. She really didn’t walk anymore unless she was deliberately trying to not scare me. Seeing a woman floating on a regular basis took people off guard. Sarah floated in the room and sat herself down at a place designated her own. She stared blankly at all the things she technically couldn’t touch. She was still working on that part. She could touch something for a limited time but after awhile she felt exhausted instead just used deft pale fingers to push it around the desk. Sarah did so now. The rolling of a pencil was the only sound in the room.
Sarah grew tired of that and started braiding her hair. She didn’t feel exhaustion or pain so she could mess with her hair for long periods at a time. Often she had elaborate hair-dos thanks to having nothing else to do. Sarah’s hair was long and pale blonde now. It hadn’t always been, it used to be a dark brown, but now she was a blonde and it didn’t stop growing until it hit her waist.
She scanned the empty room. Her eyes flashed violet to blue to violet, off and on. They changed all the time, something she really had no control over. Sarah tossed an overly elaborate braid back over her shoulder and reclined at much as she could. She fell through the chair and then through the floor. She cursed lightly and floated back up again.
personality.
• Overall Personality[/color] | At first, Sara is very reserved and quiet. She’s been to hell and back, literally, and thus has a hard time warming up to people and being happy and peppy. She is a kind soul though and smiles warmly at jokes or the students being silly. She adores children though she stays away from them because of what she is now. She loves listening to children’s laughter and often relaxes in a park where she can hear them playing.
When Sara eventually warms up to a person, she’s kind and sweet, polite and gentle. She’s the kind of person who, initially, wouldn’t talk sh!t even if she had a mouth full of it. She enjoys laughing when she gets the chance, though people don’t usually see it. Her lightly accented voice is soothing to someone upset, which is usually the kind of person she gravitates towards. Sara is a lovely young woman when people manage to break through the icy shell.
There is a darkness about her. Being dead, she isn’t without an uncomfortable aura. People who can stand to be her tend to have a darkness about themselves. People who are much lighter usually find her unnerving and fear her. That’s just the kind of vibe she gives off now.
She’s changing though. She grew up to be a woman that was used to being walked all over. She’s learned her lesson and is always changing and growing. She much more free-spirited now and will go against authority if she can successfully do so.
Sara is also a mother. She’s sort of a dragon mother towards everyone else, prizing her son above everything else in the world.
• Likes [/color] |
' one - Wine - Can't drink it anymore, but damn she misses it.
' two - Her son - Even when he's making an ass of himself, she loves her boy.
' three - Beach bonfires - Even after her 'accident' she likes beach bonfires.
' four - Helping people - Her life has been so crappy, she enjoys making someone else's a little less.
' five - Being complimented - she has a vain streak and she loves being complimented because it happens so rarely now.
• Dislikes [/color] |
' one - Drugs - ruined her life
' two - Pushy people - ruined her life
' three - Out of control fires - bad memories
' four - Having no control - she spent most of her life and after life having no control.
' five - Kiwis - Doesn't miss those
• Flaws [/color] |
' Physical - She's dead.
' Emotional - Overly protective of her boy
' Psychological - Overly protective because she missed so much of his life, she wants to be protective now
• Habits [/color] |
' Physical - Floats off
' Emotional - Gets lost in her thoughts easily
' Psychological - Does so because there's much she missed and she thinks about it.
• Skills[/color] |
' one - Stealthy
' two - Observant
' three - Agreeable
• Fears[/color] | Being sucked back into the underworld or her son growing to be an asshole
• Dreams[/color] | Watch her son grow not into an asshole and maybe find a way to be tangible for more than ten minutes at a time.
• Best Memory[/color] | I stared at the applicator I’d just peed on. Stared at it harder than I’ve ever stared at anything my life. I didn’t care about the flecks of pee or the discarded box. I’m just staring hard at the applicator and that plus symbol. It’s a plus. Not a minus. A plus. I’m carrying life inside me at that moment. I’m currently holding a tiny person inside me and it’ll grow into a person. I’m going to have a baby. I look around at the syringes and the blow, all the poison I’ve been putting in my body. In one swoop, I dumped it all in the toilet because I don’t want or need it anymore. It’s going to make me miserable and sick and I’m going to hate life, but this little life inside me? It’s much more important. I’m not going to make it sick because I need the high.
• Worst Memory[/color] | The fire was my fault. I nearly killed my son. I hadn’t really practiced it like I should have and it got away from me, lighting out home and all our things. It was the chemicals, the meth I was cooking, that really set things alight. Denes was going to die if I didn’t do something. In a split second, I threw myself over him and shielded him from the explosion, taking the heat, the burning and all the pain. My body couldn’t take it. I could manipulate fire, but I couldn’t deflect it from my skin and everything I had went into protecting him. I just remember a searing pain, my son screaming and then nothing.
ability.
The ability to pass through solid matter.
-The Superpower Wiki
• Applications
- Sarah is able to move through objects and ignore most physical effects in her way.
- Sarah is able to ignore most attacks, physical dangers and gravity.
- Sarah can ignore physical objects, whether solid, liquid or gas.
- Sarah can ignore most forms of energy (heat/cold, electricity, etc.).
- Sarah can ignore gravity.
- Sarah can walk on air, water, fire, etc.
- Sarah can also levitate.
• Limitations
- Some materials/effects may be un-passable, such as magical barriers.
- May be affected by energy level.
- She can’t be solid for more than a few minutes at a time. With some practice she can probably be solid for longer, but otherwise she’s constantly intangible.
- Only while really trying can she move object, touch people, be solid because her intangibility is always on.
The power to inhabit the body of an individual.
-The Superpower Wiki
• Applications
- Sarah can take control of the body of another, by stealing their motor functions and senses. She has no body to leave, so she has no fear of her body being taken over.
- She can temporarily inhabit the body of the target. A permanent inhabitation has yet to be tested.
- Sarah can control a person's actions.
- When Sarah possesses a body she gains the skills and powers of the body.
- She can possess a body which can be useful for espionage and can lie dormant inside the persons mind, leading to her being able to cause telepathy and/or mind manipulation of that particular person.
• Limitations
- Overtaken targets may be able fight back for their bodies, depending on will and power level. Regular people have no chance against her.
- Needs to enter the person for transfer to be made.
- She can only use one body at a time. In the future, she may be able to split her essence to go into multiple targets but, at the moment, she can only be in one.
- Takes her a minute or two to take time to control
- It’s easier if she had the person’s permission first, but she’s able to force herself too. She doesn’t like doing it, but she can.
- May be banished through Purification.
- Telepathic Psychics, superhuman intelligent people and magic users are harder to control, but she can do it with lots of concentration and no interruption.
history.
• Birthplace [/color] | Napa, California
• Mother [/color] | Mary del Vino
• Father [/color] | Thomas del Vino
• Siblings[/color] | Alice (sister), Ina (sister), Shane (brother)
• Other Relations [/color] | Denes del Vino (son), Farren Demetrius (niece), Van Amir (nephew), Donar Demetrius (baby-daddy)
• Overall history[/color] | On her tombstone, it says she was born in 1975 and died in 1997. Her son was four years old when she died and left this world and she’s regretted it ever since, having missed out on most of his life.
Sara was born to Thomas del Vino and Mary del Vino (née Brier). She was the third of four children, the other being Alice Hanover (née del Vino), Ina Hodgins (née del Vino), and Shane del Vino, who was the youngest. Her family owned several wineries and vineyards all over the world, though they were primarily based in Napa.
Sara lived a blessed life. She would bask in the vineyards and play with her little brother Shane. Her older sisters wanted nothing to do with her, seeing her as too wild and unpredictable, too tomboyish. Shane was happy to have a playmate and Sara was happy to have Shane. The four children grew up in luxury and ended up going to private school and the like. Sara was a passing student, having no real interest in the scholastic part of school, much more interested in plays and literature, stuff they didn’t teach students right off the bat.
Sara developed fire manipulation when she was about 8 years old. The sun heated her blood and invigorated her. On hot days, she found her ability was stronger and she could set things alight. She would entertain her brother with little fire shows, though he was sworn to secrecy on the matter. Sara never sought out a trainer of some sort of her ability, despite it being offered by Pantheon Academy. She would have been part of their earliest class, but turned it down outright. She didn’t like school and going away from her brother wasn’t very appealing.
Sara was fairly popular as a socialite and one day, while attending one of her parents’ many parties, she met an older man named Donar Demetrius, a diamond tycoon from somewhere in Africa, though she was never sure where exactly. Eight years her senior, he was dashing and handsome. Rich too, though so was she so she never really focused too much on that aspect. He was everything she’d been told to stay away from so, naturally, at fifteen, she ran away with him. She lost her virginity soon after and was happy to do so.
He kept her in a small penthouse in Manhattan and made sure she wanted for nothing. Her family had disowned her, though they didn’t know where she was because she never outright said. Donar made sure she was dressed in clothes he liked seeing her in and made sure she was always on his arm at important function in the States. Because she had a nature that had an eye for trouble, Donar kept her docile with whatever illegal pharmaceuticals he could find. She was quickly addicted and, she realized too late, trapped as his personal toy, for lack of a better word.
Her fire manipulation couldn’t help her out. She could burn everything in the room, but Donar would just assume she set it on fire to get attention or help and would have it replaced while she was high and on one of his yachts somewhere. She couldn’t even use her ability on him because of her lack of control and because of Donar soon had her hooked on various kinds of illegal drugs. She lost any will to escape and actually looked forward to Donar’s visits, happy to give herself over to him completely. He of course was thrilled by this and was happy with the little Stockholm Syndrome victim. He showed her around everywhere and then took her home and got her high enough that she’d do anything.
Then she found out she was pregnant. It was a wakeup call of the severest kind and she immediately stopped taking her ‘medicine’, as it had been come to be called. Donar noticed her lack of interest in her ‘medications’ and decided to watch her instead of forcing them on her. When he came in several weeks later, Sara broke the news to him, expecting him to be happy. Instead, he was angry. They weren’t married, she was supposed to be his secret, and he wasn’t about to marry his mistress.
So, he set her up with a small apartment in L.A, a small amount of cash, urged her to start job hunting and never spoke to her again. Abandoned and pregnant, with no skills, Sara didn’t know where to turn. Her emotions began to control her fire manipulation and soon she was setting things on fire that she genuinely didn’t mean too. Her apartment was spotted with scorch marks and couldn’t sleep on her mattress without setting some part of it on fire. She’s soon taken to sleeping in the bathtub with her fire manipulation to warm her because she had nowhere else to sleep without burning something down.
Sara had seen various drugs made before and started doing the same thing. Since he parents and sisters wanted nothing to do with her, she turned to that life and began cooking up illegal substances. While she didn’t take them, she did deal them to the best of her ability and was able to bring in a little money.
Sara gave birth when she was eighteen, she gave birth to a beautiful dark haired baby boy. She named him Denes, Shane’s middle name, and tried to set her life straight. It wasn’t easy. Having gotten a waitressing job that didn’t mind her having a baby at the hip, she couldn’t bring in nearly enough money. So, she began making her illegal drugs and working as a waitress. The exhaustion from it was staggering, but she found it worth it in order to see her boy grow. They had to share a bed and Sara was extra careful with her abilities, but the two were happy. Denes didn’t need much and tended to make his own toys or use his imagination. They would fall asleep with him playing with her hair and wake up with her making them eggs and beans for breakfast. It wasn’t much, but it was something. For a time, she was happy. Denes looked a bit more like Donar than he did like her, but she didn’t mind.
Then, it all ended when she was twenty one. While ‘cooking’ one day, she heard a crash and immediately feared that Denes had fallen out a window or something. It turns out, he’d thrown a baseball that ended up crashing out the window instead. In her fear, she’d ignited most of the kitchen. She didn’t know at the time, but ran to find out if he was okay. See that he was, she scolded him for scaring her and went back into the kitchen. By that time, the kitchen was alight and had spread to the living room. Since there wasn’t enough time to save her boy, she sheltered him with her body as the fire met the chemicals and exploded. She died, he lived.
The Underworld was less than pleasant. She didn’t get to go to ‘heaven’ or any of that sort of stuff they talked to her about in Sunday School. It was a dark place where spirits like her inhabited. Since she was new, she was picked on. They explained to her who she was and how she’d botched up her life. Her son would be Dionysus and she would be Semele. They teased her about losing everything and how she was a failure as a human. Sara would sneak away when she could to check in on her boy as he grew, but it was only in brief snippets since the exertion was ‘painful’, for lack of a better word. Sara despaired as her son started using his ability, illusion, to kill her sisters. She was happy when Shane finally had custody of him, but he was far from a good parent. She knew this about him already, since he had the same personality she once did.
She watched as he ran amok in L.A and slowly slipped into a downward spiral. She watched as he destroyed a little girl’s family and she watched when the school that had once asked her to join finally tracked him down and caught him. She also watched as the little girl that helped find him participated in the search. She was thankful she did.
When her son began to have affections for the girl, she knew she needed to contact her. Arianna Naxos was her best hope for being free of the underworld. She could talk to Denes, since every time Sara tried she couldn’t control herself and ended up dispersing back to the Underworld. Soon she contact Ms. Naxos, anxious for her help.
similarities between your character and your deity.
- Her parents were rich, making her a kind of princess, like Semele.
- Her siblings hated her, like Semele.
- Semele was burned up by Zeus’ radiance. Sara was a fire manipulator who lost control of her ability and ended up killing herself.
- Zeus saved the fetus Dionysus from Semele’s burning corpse and sewed him up in his leg. Sara narrowly saved Vino from being burned up by sheltering him with her body.
- Semele was saved by Dionysus from the underworld and Sara was saved by Vino from the underworld.
- Semele was a princess from the middle east and Sara has primarily Arabic roots.
- Both died.
- Zeus took advantage of the princess on a regular basis. Sara was fairly hopped up on one drug or another and was in turn taken advantage of by Donar Demetrius.
- Both had babies.
roleplay sample.
Look at Frigg from years ago.
about you.
• Your name [/color] | Kyra
• Age [/color] | 20
• How long have you been RPing? [/color] | Several Months
• Where/How did you find us?[/color] | Friend of a Friend
• Have you read the Rules? [/color] | prozacpuddin@gmail.com
• Have you read the Character/PB Rules? [/color] | Turquoise
• Would you like to participate in a Recruitment Thread? [/color] | Sorta already doing it.[/size]
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