Kayla Drake (DONE)

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KAYLA NERYS DRAKE


Secretive, Loving, Adaptive

BACK TO BASICS ' '

Full Name: Kayla Nerys Drake
Significance of Name: Drake is a kind of duck. The goose was supposed to be sacred to Frigg. Nerys is Welsh for Lady and Kayla has the possible meaning of “beloved.” Frigg’s name is supposed to mean “Beloved Lady.”
Nickname(s): Kay. "Candy" to people who think they're being funny (initials: KND --> Kendy --> Candy)
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Orientation: Bisexual
Grade: Sophomore
Celeb you're using: Kristen Bell
Deity: Frigg - Norse
Title of your deity: Goddess of Fertility, Childbirth, Motherhood, Love, the Stars, Magic, Weather, the Home, Marriage, Prophecy and Destiny, Protector of Women and Children

STRIKE A POSE ' '

Physical Appearance: Kayla is a tiny thing, not being taller than five-two or so. She’s often the person who’s, quite literally, looking up to people. Not that it particularly matters. She’s never had much of a napoleon complex, so it’s had very little impact on her life. She’s not very thick. She’s extremely petite and seems to have the metabolism of a hare. Kayla is very fair skinned, from a mostly Scottish and Polish ancestry, and she tends to have a good complexion, unless she’s stressed in which she breaks out rather bad. During those days, she goes and finds as much cover up as possible and then hides until the break-out has passed. It’s one of her self-conscious things. She’s also not very big in the bust department, but, again, that’s never bothered her much.

She is fit. It’s probably the fast metabolism, but she is extremely fit and she’s does do the occasional work-out, for she maintains it. Generally, she dresses comfortably. She doesn’t mind getting gussied but, but she prefers comfort over looking good. Unless it’s during one of her break-outs, she doesn’t usually wear make-up.

One of the things that tend to strike people about Kay when they first see her is her smile. When she smiles, her face becomes all smile. She has perfect Cupid’s bow lips that are a pale cranberry color and her teeth are very straight and clean. Her smile tends to block out the rest of her features and it throws people off a bit. She also has very angular features. With high cheekbones and a fairly narrow nose, she doesn’t have the typically rounded face that most people find attractive.

Kayla has icy blue eyes, the kind one only sees on Antarctic glaciers. Perhaps it comes from her deity, but she has always had these wintry blue eyes and she knows how to train them on a person and make them confess whatever dirty secret their trying to hide. Kayla also has a lot of hair. She’s has sunshine blonde hair that tends to get shaggy if she doesn’t take care of it. It happens frequently, generally during one of her ‘not-present’ days.

LET'S GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER ' '

Personality Description: Kayla is a very secretive young woman. It’s not out of timidity or shyness, but it became one out of survival. Since her first ability caused a number of problems which led to a number of other problems, she’s since kept her visions to herself. It’s very rare to get her to speak out about them. If one has managed to do that, then they’ve managed to break down her wall and have gained her deepest trust. It’s something they have to be careful with, however, as, if they break that trust, she’ll cut them out of her life like cancer. Because of her secretiveness, she tends to come off as cold and sarcastic. It’s a defense mechanism. She’ll put on her ‘social get-together’ face or laugh when it’s necessary, but ask her about her personal life or try to get to know her and she’ll either lie, answer you with one word or put up her defensive shield of sarcasm. Kayla prefers talking and hanging around children to talking and hanging around adults. Kids aren’t bothered by her occasional moments of ‘absence’ and they don’t bug her about what she knows. Granted, she knows all about them, but they don’t ask her.

Kayla used to live in a home that was fairly airy, despite the winter seasons. She misses that. She loved having a home that allowed her to be outside and in, with a breeze and an atrium, a backyard and a garden. She loves both and has yet to find a home that will cater to this, so it’s hard to find where she is at the moment. One moment, she feels like being inside and the next she feels like wandering around for three hours. It’s tough to find her and sometimes having a Kayla sighting is like sighting Nessie or a UFO.

There are moments when Kayla just isn’t there. She’s never taken the death of her brother very well and, as a result, there are times when she’s checked out. Her body is there, she’s breathing, she’s alive, but mentally she’s gone elsewhere. She usually does it once or twice a month, but it’s only for a day and the next day she’s perfectly fine. Even if someone were to come into her room and try and shake her out of it, it would be pointless. Nothing brings her out of it. A fire could be set to her bed and she’ll just lay there. Even with various medications she takes, she still has these days and will continue to have these days until she learns how to forgive herself, which is no time in the near future.

Kayla can be fun to be around, you just have to catch her at the right time. If she’s jogging or knitting or something similar, she’s much more receptive to people. Granted, she’s still sarcastic, but she warms up easier and her sarcasm will turn to light chiding. She can be a good conversationalist and she doesn’t mind showing someone how to do a hobby she enjoys in particular. When kids are around, people get to see a side of Kayla that never comes out: the happy, smiling, laughing Kayla that used to be before her brother died.

Likes:
- Gardens and Gardening: Kayla is pretty adaptive, feeling at home either inside or out, but she's found that gardens are a happy mix of the two.
- Knitting (gives her hands something to do): She doesn't really do it for the whole "look! I can make a pretty doily!" aspect as the "I need to concentrate on something else so I don't pass-out" aspect.
- Babies and children: She prefers them to most adults. They 'keep it real.'
- Starry Nights: While the sun is great, she enjoys being outside on a warm night, far from light pollution. It's one of her guilty pleasures.
- The Occult: She is NOT into Satanism or any of that junk (she thinks it's a ridiculous attempt to seem 'edgy'), but she does have an interest in things like alchemy, spells, nature magic and reads up on it quite frequently.
- Wild Weather: She loves weather when it's in it's extreme one way or another. Storms, Tornadoes, Blizzards, Heat-Waves, etc., she loves it. Makes her feel more connected to the planet.
- Learning and Reading: She loves to read and she loves learning in general. Any new information she can learn or find out is a tiny present for her, just because she usually has her visions that ruin the surprise in just about anything. She'll reread books like ten times and hesitates to share them.
Dislikes:
- Mistletoe: Read bio. Also, it's an ugly plant.
- Being bugged about her visions: She really hates her ability. She's accurate every-time to a T and there's nothing she can do about it, whether it be good or bad, so she keeps it to herself and doesn't take kindly to people annoying her about it or probing her about what she sees.
- Having one of her 'fainting' spells: In addition to it having a connection to her ability, it results in scrapes/bruises/broken bones/etc. when she falls/slips/cuts herself/etc. because she has a black-out.
- Fundamentalists: Life isn't that simple. Get over yourselves.
- Liars: OK, who does like them, right? But she really can't stand dishonesty because she knows if you're lying and since most people have an idea of what she can do, they're insulting her intelligence and that just makes her pissy.
- Blonde Jokes: Kinda obvious. Yes, she can read. No, she's not obsessed with shopping. Yes, she can do basic math. No, she's not ditsy. Yes, the carpet matches the drapes.
Strength:
- Adaptive: After being hospitalized for being crazy and having to hide the ability to see the future of everything, Kayla has learned how to adapt to just about any situation in order to make herself seem normal. Likewise, she's able to adapt to just about any setting she's in. Except for cities. She doesn't care for those because the visions give her a migraine and she's out for days.
- Loving: Kayla is fiercely maternal. When she loves someone, whether it be family, friend or lover, she loves them. Children in particular. Mommy mode kicks in hard and she finds herself mothering even when there's no reason for it. She's extremely playful in this respect and often gets punished as bad as a child would for doing something like a making a mess in the kitchen while making mud pies. It's happened before.
- Secretive: She'll take a secret to the grave. She's a firm believer in the ideology of "gossip sucks" and generally doesn't take the bait when gossip swings her way, seeing it none of her business. If someone confides in her, it'll stay confided until the confider tells her otherwise.
- Open-minded: She doesn't like labels. She doesn't like people labeling each other or themselves. While it's true that no one is absolutely open-minded about everything, Kayla is more so than most. When it comes to her sexuality, her views on religion and philosophy, politics, etc., she tries to be flexible.
- Feminist: No, she's not going to burn her bra and assert that women are the superior sex. However, she does believe in total equality for everyone. She tends to stick up for women and children more than she does men, but that's because no one else does. While she appreciates the gesture of chivalry, she doesn't see it as necessary. She'll usually just smile and be gracious about it, seeing it as someone just being polite as opposed to trying subjugate her based on her sex.
Weaknesses:
- Intensely Secretive: When it comes to her own history and her visions, she seals up tighter than a dolphin's arse. She will absolutely not talk about her visions with anyone or anything and it takes a very special person to get her to open up about it. While she's labeled as a 'Precog' no one has ever heard her make a prediction or talk about a vision. The only reason anyone knows that she's a precog is because their teachers say it's so. It comes from a number of trust issues she had as a child.
- Manic Depressive Comas: Clinically, she's manic depressive. Again, it comes from her childhood but there's time when she just doesn't want to get out of bed, she's mentally checked out and people need to come back tomorrow in order to get her to react to anything. She's just gone. Her body is there and she's alive, but she's mentally not there. It's not a black-out, she's not having a vision, she's just gone. Ever since Brody died, this is how she's been and she gets attacks like these at least once a month. Once she's had one, usually lasting a day, she's fine for the rest of the month. Like a period.
- Issues with loosing: She doesn't mind loosing a game or something stupid like that, but when it comes to a war of words, she'll take it personally. She loves debating and she's a very sore looser if she doesn't 'win' a debate and may God/Allah/Buddha/Xenu help you if don't let her win. It usually ends with her saying something like, "OK, yeah. You win. Why don't you go to sleep? Take a little nap?" in a very creepy toneless voice.
- Commitment issues: She tends to have issues with commitment. She's had one or two boyfriends before but the parameters of their relationships apparently weren't voiced and they thought she was cheating on them, despite her making it very clear that it was an open relationship. Ask her to settle down with one person and she freaks. It'd take a very special individual to make her even consider it.
- Crying: She's very weepy. It doesn't necessarily mean she's sad, she just cries really easily when she's mad, happy, sad, tired, etc. People often get confused when she starts getting weepy because they think she's upset. She's not. It's just something she's always done.

Fears: Never being surprised ever again, never having a regular dream ever again, and never being able to walk again because of some freak accident where she has a black-out and then falls down the stairs and snaps her neck. Sure, she'll know who won a baseball game, but now she can't walk. Thanks, precognition!

Goal: Get a grip on her precognition. Really. That's it. If she could get rid of it altogether, that would be great.

Power/Ability: Precognition- Frigg knew everyone's destiny, but she never told anyone because there was no point, as it was set in stone. The one time she did try to change it, her son died anyway and she was heartbroken. Kayla is the same way. The girl has visions just about everyday and, chances are, she know more about you than you do. She can see the future to a T, whether she wants too or not, and it really vexes her. She can tap into it just for fun, but she prefers not to. It has it's uses though, as she can usually make small changes to destiny, such as dodging a bullet or helping someone else dodge one, but it has to be a right-there-and-then thing, not something that's a week or so away.

WELCOME TO MY LIFE ' '

Place of Origin: Montana, U.S.
History:
Kayla was one of three children. Born to John and Terra Drake on a Friday morning in June, the nurses in the room gasped at how wide and beautiful her eyes were. Other than that, there was nothing particularly special about her birth. She grew up in the usual manner, having a fairly normal life until she was about three. Her parents noticed she started having severe night terrors. At first, they were small, like a raccoon getting into the hen house, which would happen within the week. Then, her dreams grew longer and more vivid, things like a car going off the road. Relatively soon after, they would hear about someone falling asleep at the wheel and driving off road into a telephone pole.

One evening, when she was about six, Kayla came running into her parents’ room screaming about the planes making the buildings fall down and how the people kept screaming, how there was ash everywhere and how people were on fire. Caulking it up to her not wanting to sleep in her own bed, they calmed her down, gave her some Nyquil and waited till she fell asleep. The following morning, all over the news, there was a broadcast that the twin towers had been struck in a terrorist attack. A very pregnant Terra was a little horrified. All the details, and then some, fit what her daughter had predicted. While her father saw it as nothing more than a strange coincidence, Terra couldn’t get over the idea that there was something deeply wrong with her daughter.

A son was born to John and Terra when Kayla was about four. She of course already knew she would have a brother but after the way her mother looked at her last time she told them about one of her ‘dreams’ she was hesitant about telling them again. Her parents named him Brody and he was a beautiful baby. The only problem they found was that he had a severe allergy to mistletoe. Contact with the plant would cause him to go into shock and he would need treatment immediately. What scared Terra was that Kayla knew all this and suggested that they test the baby for such an allergy. Since it meant the difference between her brother’s life and his death, she was willing to risk her mother being terrified of her once more.

Kayla immediately fell in love with him, slipping into a maternal role, volunteering to even do the grunt work like change diapers, clean spit-up, and the like. She was the one who would wake up in the night with him, a six year old girl, as her mother went into a kind of depression. She still viewed Kayla as a freak and the fact that she was so attached to the new baby scared her, in case she somehow wiped some of that freakiness on Brody. When John found out about this, the two fought viciously. He thought Terra was being paranoid, that there was nothing wrong with their daughter, that the idea was crazy. When Kayla was six, Terra stormed out of the house. While her parents never technically divorced, Terra no longer came home and Kayla didn’t see her mother again. Despite everything, Kayla missed her mother. Brody looked more like Terra than he did John, who Kayla took after, and Kayla found herself more and more attached to her brother. He became her reason for living, just as a mother views a child.

A year went by and John met another woman, named Marie, who had a son Brody’s age from a previous marriage. The boy, Henry, had special needs as he had a degenerative eye condition. Kayla accepted him as her brother though, falling, once again, into the maternal role. John and Marie apparently didn’t mind ‘living in sin’ as the other townsfolk said behind their back, and the three children didn’t care much either.

However, Kayla started losing more and more sleep. Then, the dreams stopped being dreams and became full visions. She would have black-outs and fainting spells where she would see one vision or another. They took her to several doctors and psychiatrists who couldn’t find anything wrong with her. She started seeing a child psychologist named Irene on a regular basis. She was a kind woman and the lesser of several evils, so Kayla agreed to talk with her. She would talk with her about everything but her visions. And, of course, she didn’t dare tell her father the truth about her black-outs. If having premonitions scared her mother away, what would it do to her father, who’d stuck up for her all those years? No, Kayla didn’t dare talk about her ability to her father or Irene. Instead, she made up some stories that seemed reasonable enough for a girl of her age to be worrying about. Nothing too serious that she needed hospitalization but nothing too inane that her father thought her fit and stopped her sessions. She liked Irene and didn’t want to stop visiting her. As much as she liked Marie, Irene felt like more of a mother to her and, in her own way, was healing Kayla’s mind and fears.

The only one who knew the truth about Kayla’s fainting spells was her brother Brody. Brody had an idea, that his sister saw things, but he never regarded her as a freak or someone to be feared. He just saw her as his sister and his mother figure, more or less.

When Kayla was fourteen, she had a vision that caused one of her longest black-outs. She was out for at least three days, woke up in a hospital, shaking and wide-eyed. She didn’t talk about what she saw, instead she set about reading. She kept Brody close to her wherever she went, school excluded, and started to distance herself from Henry. Her parents were confused by this change in their daughter’s personality. Even Irene couldn’t find out why Kayla was so upset and frazzled. She started to have dark circles around her eyes and insisted on sleeping in the same room as Brody. When she wasn’t shadowing Brody everywhere he went, she was at the library reading. She read books on plants, on first-aid, on medicines, on healing techniques and even looked into new age healing methods. She was obsessed and would check the calendar every day, though she wouldn’t tell anyone why.

Eventually, she started to calm down. She released her clingy grip on her brother, who was grateful despite his love of his sister. She even let Henry come close, letting herself return to normal. Things began settling into normalcy. Her meetings with Irene resumed to normal and her parents slowly ceased worrying about her.

But it was all for nothing.

One day in December, it had started snowing so the three children went out to play. Kayla watched as the two boys pretended to have swords, hitting each other and doing what boys do. Kayla was relatively content to sit in the snow and watch. However, one thing led to another. One minute her brothers were playing and the next she heard Henry screaming for help. Kayla was up and on her feet, running to the two boys, screaming back towards the house that something happened. The snow slowed her down, and she slipped several times, but she eventually made it to her brothers. Henry was crying, feeling around for someone, anyone, and Brody was laying down gasping for air, turning blue before her eyes. She reached out to assure Henry that she was there and immediately set about trying to help Brody. She kept screaming for her parents, but they were too far away. She couldn’t send Henry on his own because he couldn’t see where he was going. Kayla was alone.

Eventually, he slipped away. He held him as he went, but he went nonetheless. She couldn’t stop crying and they had to eventually pry him from her arms. She slipped into a deep depression. Her body was there, but she wasn't. She was alive and healthy, but her mind was gone. It was a nervous break-down more or less and she still goes into states like these from time to time, though they only last a day, as opposed to the sporadic time frame they did when they first started. When she eventually started to come back to reality, she resolved that she wouldn't talk about her ability or attempt to change any long term prophecies. Sure, she could pull a person out of the way of oncoming traffic, but it had to be a there and then sort of thing, not something that would happen weeks from then.

When Pantheon came for her, explained her situation, she was ready to deny it all, deny that she had any sort of ability, deny, deny, deny. However, after their persistent insistence and the promise that they could help her control her ability, she decided she would go. For all intensive purposes, she's a precog in name only, as she won't share any of her visions with anyone, despite them being accurate 100% of the time.

CONNECTION TO THE MYTH ' '

- Frigg knew the future but wouldn’t tell anyone because there was nothing that could be done about it. Kayla is a precog and won’t tell anyone about her visions because her family thought she was crazy and the one time she did try and prevent one, her brother died anyway.
- Frigg is the child of an earth deity. Kayla’s mother’s name was Terra.
- Frigg was the mother of Baldur and the step-mother of Hodr. Kayla had a little brother named Brody and a step-brother named Henry.
- Hodr was blind. Henry had a degenerative eye condition.
- Frigg had a vision that Baldur would be murdered and demanded allegiance from everything on the planet that they wouldn’t hurt her son, with the exception of mistletoe. Kayla had a bad vision about her brother’s death and immediately started setting about finding everything she could about healing and protection, even going so far as to look into the occult in order to save her brother.
- Baldur was killed by his brother Hodr by either a mistletoe arrow or a sword named Mistletoe. Brody went into anaphylactic shock because of a severe allergy to mistletoe, caused by a freak accident with his brother Henry.
- Frigg, in addition to being married to Odin and being a bit promiscuous with his brothers, had a constant ‘companion’ named Eir, who was a valkyrie of healing. This connects to Kayla in two ways: Irene was a psychologist she was very close to, who helped ‘heal’ some of her psychological problems. Also, Kayla has a super relaxed view on sexuality and relationships as a whole, not being one for strict monogamy and having a more bisexual view on life.
- When Baldur died, Frigg was distraught and mourned for a very long time, crying tears of gold. Kayla will go into catatonic states at least once a month, where she's mentally 'checked-out', due to her remorse over her little brother.

ROLEPLAYING SAMPLE ' '

I was here before as Coyote.

BEHIND THE SCENE ' '

Your name: Kyra
Age: in my twenties
How long have you been RPing? About two years maybe I dunno.
Where/How did you find us? Friend of a friend.

[KC]

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