Post by persephonehadejr on May 25, 2012 4:10:56 GMT -5
FARREN CORA DEMETRIUS
Inquisitive Pastoral Idyllic
[/size][/font][/center] Inquisitive Pastoral Idyllic
basics.
• Full Name
• Significance of Name [/color] |
How your character's full name can relate to the god's names.
' first- Farren means Iron-colored. Persephone used to be a goddess where one couldn’t mention her name (like Hades) and thus, in the Odyssey, was called the Iron Queen.
' middle- Cora is one of Persephone’s names, a conjugated version of the word Kore meaning “Maiden.”
' last- Demetrius is a family name meaning earth lover.
• Age: [/color] | 17
• Grade [/color] | Junior
• Sexuality [/color] | Heterosexual
• Deity [/color] | Persephone - Greek
• Title of your deity [/color] | Greek goddess of the Spring, the Balance between Life & Death, Queen of the Underworld
appearance.
• Build [/color] | 5’6” and curvy
• Hair Color & Style [/color] | Wheat colored hair that she wears in a variety of styles, though lately she’s cut it short.
• Eye Color [/color] | Hazel green
• Played By [/color] | Dianna Agron
• First Impression[/color] | Farren didn’t get the chance to read as often as she’d like. She spent most of her time now sorting her life out, balancing business transactions with a company that would soon be hers, bonding with her children and trying to keep up in school. Reading for fun was a true luxury nowadays. Idly brushing some hair behind her ear, she was reading a book by Robert Graves entitled the White Goddess, honoring a number of goddesses. It’d been sitting on her shelf collecting dust, since she bought it in her sophomore year. Farren’s hazel eyes skittered back and forth across the page. The sun through the window made her hair seem a brighter shade of yellow than usual.
Farren’s pale skin seemed a little brighter and her full lips a little pinker. The sun always seemed to make her brighter, her palette much more vivid, like the flowers she grew to know so well. When she was in the dark or in the cloudiness of winter and fall, it was the opposite. Her colors were muted and fallen, sunken. Lately that had been her in general but this small moment stolen for herself allowed her to be brighter, more alive. The sun helped too.
Farren reached a break in the book and glanced at her bracelet. She wore it all the time. It was made for her in South Africa by Uba and she’d yet to get rid of it. While she was no longer ‘in love’ with the young man, she did miss him. She missed his spirit and his laughter. She still felt responsible for his death, indirectly. She idly spun it around her wrist and studied the woodwork. He was a great craftsman.
personality.
• Overall Personality[/color] | Farren is a very kind and nice girl, very sweet, but she also has a wicked bitch streak when it comes to defending the impoverished or those trying to squash worker’s rights and will not hesitate to slap a bitch if she’s wearing unethical jewelry (and Farren can tell, seeing as how she grew up in the business).
In most cases, Farren is outgoing and friendly. She doesn’t really hesitate to approach anyone and tries to make friends. She’s not always successful, but doesn’t really care because fuck them, that’s why. Farren enjoys the company of people and has been a people person since she was very young. She’s acquired a few tidbits of language here and there due to her childhood, but mostly she speaks English, Afrikaans and Zulu. She enjoys talking to people and listening, just because she’s always had a love of stories and story-telling.
Farren doesn’t see race, like, at all. It never registers with her and never has. She’s never understood the whole ‘racism’ thing, despite her father being a raging pro-apartheid psychopath. Farren is very colorblind to race-related issues and, sometimes, it’s gotten her in trouble when she makes a comment. She doesn’t believe in stereotypes, so things that may be considered taboo in the States are lost on her. Farren is fairly aggressive towards racists as she sees it as a meaningless gesture and a waste of time and resources that could be put to better use bettering the planet or something.
Farren doesn’t really like to talk about her family because the majority of them are psychopaths. She loves her adopted siblings, they’re cool, but the others are on the whack-a-doodle side. She dislikes both her parents. She also won’t talk about Uba. It’s one of the few painful things she remembers and keeps it secret, shying away from conversations that may lead to topics involving Uba’s death. She’ll just change the subject quickly, before the other person realizes what’s happened.
When it comes to worker’s rights and unionization, Farren is a beast. She can’t stand it when someone crushes the little guy. She can’t stand it when children are being forced to work or when people are working twenty-hour days without breaks. She won’t buy anything from workshops where people are exploited and absolutely refuses to wear jewelry. When someone tries to challenge her on the issue, unless they have hard facts (like the cases where someone has abused the rights the union affords), she will fight them tooth and nail, citing issue after issue as to whether or not the employer should provide of the employees, help with the safety standards, etc.
Farren, as she’s grown, has also become a mother and this, in many ways, has made her more vicious. She used to be a bit cowardly on issues not pertaining to worker’s rights and indeed used to be a bit of a frightened girl on anything outside of that realm. That’s all changed now. She’s a mother of two and is rapidly growing closer to inheriting her father’s company. She has some fight in her now and far from the push-over she once was. The Underworld Queen is definitely coming out now.
Farren also likes flowers.
• Likes [/color] |
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• Dislikes [/color] |
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• Flaws [/color] |
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• Habits [/color] |
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• Skills[/color] |
' one - Keen knowledge of plants and horticulture
' two - Keen understanding of eco-friendly technology and projects
' three - Soothing presence?
• Fears[/color] | Hurting someone who doesn't deserve it. Losing her children.
• Dreams[/color] | Improving mining conditions in Africa. Change her company into an eco-friendly beast.
• Best Memory[/color] | first person please
• Worst Memory[/color] | first person please
ability.
The ability to manipulate the essence of Life, which is present in all living beings throughout the universe.
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• Applications
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The power to shift between the natural solstices and equinoxes of one’s environment.
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The power to utilize magic involving the dead, life-force and/or souls.
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The Ability to Control Plant-Life.
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history.
• Birthplace [/color] | Rural South Africa
• Mother [/color] | Flora Demetrius
• Father [/color] | Adam Hallmar
• Siblings[/color] | Zachariah Demetrius (twin brother- deceased), adopted siblings- Abram Demetrius, William Demetrius, Richard Demetrius, Donna Demetrius, Philip Demetrius
• Other Relations [/color] | Donar Demetrius (Uncle), Terra Amir nee Demetrius (aunt), Mentha Hallmar-Brier (step-mother), Barak Amir (uncle), Van Amir (cousin), Sara del Vino (aunt), Denes del Vino (cousin)
• Overall history[/color] | In the great game of life, Farren was screwed over fairly early on. She was probably the only sane one in a family full of bad-shit insane family members.
First, there was her mother. Her mother, Flora, was one of three adopted children. She had two brothers, Adam, who was technically not related to her, and Donar, who was her natural brother. She also had a biological twin sister, Terra. While the three had a relatively normal upbringing, the family had invested in several diamond mines, being a lesser known branch of the obscenely wealthy de Beers family. Adam, the oldest of the three, married early to a young socialite named Mentha. When it became clear that Mentha couldn’t conceive or bear children, Adam asked his sister if she would be a surrogate and donate one of her eggs so that they could have a child. Being wealthy, they desperately needed an heir of some sort and when Flora was on the fence, the couple beseeched Donar, who more or less governed the family. Donar convinced Flora to go along with the procedure and she did. Thus, Farren and her twin brother Zachariah were conceived into a considerably insane family unit. When Zachariah came out first, the couple decided they would take the boy and Flora was left with the daughter, Farren. She quickly grew attached to her daughter and rarely let the girl out of her sight to a point where she was more or less smothering Farren.
After awhile, Flora made having children a habit. Rather, she made adopting children a habit. Farren was soon joined by Abram, twins William and Richard, her sister Donna and another brother Philip. She started giving Brangelina as run for their money. The children were generally from shanty-towns, some of them having lost their parents to AIDS, or they were rescued from the diamond mines. Flora has long since found out how her family’s company was destroying the environment in Africa and she was horrified by their treatment of children, so she denounced any connection she may have had to the family. Donar wasn’t happy about this, but he allowed her to go. Flora set out as one of the leading experts in botany and environmental issues, taking Farren and her adopted children all over the world.
When Farren was still little, her twin Zachariah died in an accident. The boy had run into the street and died instantly. Farren barely remembered her biological brother, but she did remember her mother being very quiet and stoic for several months. She realized later that her mother had always had doubts about letting go any custody rights she may have had to Zachariah. After Adam and Mentha had grieved, they demanded to have their daughter. Flora, who had agreed to the terms that she would keep the girl, refused to let her go. It became a huge legal battle that forced Flora to return to South Africa with her children. Farren didn’t know who her biological father was, as Flora had always referred to him as the Sperm Donor, and didn’t understand why he suddenly wanted her now. However, while she was out, messing around with some callas flowers she found near her family’s home, a man rolled up to her in a black car and pulled the little girl inside. With him, was a stern woman with bright green eyes. They drove off in a hurry before Farren really knew what was happening to her.
The man was Adam Hallmarr, her biological father, and Mentha Hallmarr-Bier, her step-mother. Farren was kept under their watch and told that she was going to stay with her father now. Farren wasn’t allowed out of the house, not even to go and mess around outside, and was practically coddled to death by her step-mother who she insisted called her Mamma. Farren didn’t because that was ridiculous and she wasn’t too young and get a grasp on the situation. Soon, her uncle Donar started visiting. He would often fight with Adam, but Farren was usually spirited away to have her hair braided by one of the maids with Mentha watched and told her that she should stand straighter or stay inside because she’s getting too much color or any number of other complaints, practically having pomegranates stuffed down her throat because they were filled with “antioxidants” and they were good for her. Farren hated them.
Eventually, Farren was allowed to see her mother. Donar had helped Flora and Adam come to an agreement. Adam would have his daughter during the fall and winter and Flora would have her in the spring and summer. This was Farren’s life for most of her childhood. It was back and forth between the two. Needless to say, Farren was caught in a crapshoot of a situation. On the one hand, she had an obsessively clingy mother never letting her out of her sight but allowed her to go outside to her heart’s content. On the other, she had an obsessively controlling father and step-mother that never let her outside. Farren was resentful of all her parental units. She felt closer to her adopted siblings than she did to her parents.
When she was about seven, she developed her first ability. Her step-mother, Mentha, had insisted on her downing another pomegranate. Farren didn’t want too. She was sick of them and had them every other day. When Mentha tried to force one down her throat, Farren’s ability kicked in defensively. One thing led to another and Farren had somehow withered her step-mother. The woman looked like she had been freeze-dried. Farren immediately ran the moment the door opened, hiding in the brush outside. She threw up and waited a day before she went back into the house. She never told her father what she had done, not really understanding it herself.
It got worse for Farren about a month later, the month before she left to see her mother. She started believing it ghosts, as one came into her room and started talking gibberish. While she was terrified at the time, the voice was familiar and she recognized it as her step-mother. She couldn’t have left faster. She begged her mother to let her stay with her, that she didn’t want to go back to her father’s house because of the ‘ghost’ that came in regularly and sat on her bed. Unfortunately, there was nothing Flora could do as it would risk her loosing Farren in another custody battle. When Farren eventually had to go back to her father’s home, Mentha was there waiting, speaking in gibberish. Farren closed her eyes and demanded that she leave. In an effort to appease her step-mother’s spirit, Farren had taken a potted mint plant and offered it to Mentha with some water as a means of helping her pass over, something she had learned from one of her father’s many babysitters for her. As Farren concentrated on the plant, it grew, blossoming to almost steroid dimensions. Farren demanded that Mentha use it to pass over. She did. Farren immediately ran outside with the plant and planted it. From then on, Farren realized she may possibly be a little different.
Farren honed her abilities, though she was mostly on her own, having developed three within a four month span. Soon, she could control plants and plant-materials, use necromancy to have spirits do her bidding or other devious acts and could control the life essence in a person, able to age a person or wither parts of their bodies.
Farren had never approved of her father’s diamond mines. At first, it was because of her mother. However, as she grew older and actually saw some of the conditions of the mines, it became her own opinion and she was disgusted by it. The deal was forever cinched when a mine ended up killing the boy she loved.
When Farren was old enough to realize boys were cute, she met a boy named Uba. He was not an Afrikaner, but a “black African”, one of the children who worked in her father’s mines, though at that point he was becoming a young man. He was a handsome boy, athletically built and had a love of the outdoors, like she did. He taught her bits of Zulu. She would follow him around and blush every time he smiled at her. Her father, an apartheid supporter, didn’t exactly approve of this friendship between the two children and began putting restrictions of Farren’s time with Uba. He had at first thought she’d taken an interest in the family mining company and allowed the friendship, but it became clear that it wasn’t really the case when Farren laid a peck on Uba’s lips.
With Uba, she learned about the mines and the terrible conditions, the deaths, the blood diamonds, all sorts of horror stories concerning the mines. She became vehemently against immoral mining and would bring all sorts of supplies she bought herself for the workers, often scolding some of the overseers for working some of the younger children too hard. She wasn’t able to get them out of the mines, as many of them had families to feed and would just go to another mine that was may be crueler. Farren wasn’t allowed too far into the mine, but she was allowed outside of it and became popular with the miners for her treats and water bottles she brought them. She would also secretly restore life to some of the tired, sick or injured workers. She did so subtly, that even they didn’t notice how well their back felt or how clearly they could see.
When she would visit her mother, she could only talk about Uba, about how handsome he was, about how funny and smart he was. Her mother, always thrilled to go against what Adam wanted, encouraged this friendship. Though she didn’t notice until after, Farren would light up the scenery when she was with Uba. The flowers would bloom, the weather would become idyllic and the animals would begin mounted each other because it was similar to springtime and that’s what animals did during springtime apparently.
Uba, ultimately, didn’t see Farren in the way she saw him. He had eyes for a Lewa, a girl from the town near Farren’s house. While Farren talked about him to her mother, he talked about Lewa to Farren. He spent about one third of his time with Farren and two thirds with Lewa. Farren was a little put out, but when he was with her, she cherished the moments.
That changed when news came that Uba had been killed in a cave in. They had hit an underground spring that flooded the tunnel almost immediately. Farren wasn’t allowed to go to his funeral because he father was an asshole, saying, “There’s no body to bury.” Farren eventually went to spend her time with her mother. For once in her life, she actually craved her mother’s clinginess, crying in her arms over the death of her ‘first love.’ The weather changed as things began to die, as they would in autumn. It was during that month that Farren received a letter. It explained who she was and offered her a chance to attend a school that could help her hone her powers. Farren agreed and left Africa as soon as she could, determined to learn ways to help improve mining conditions for the workers.
similarities between your character and your deity.
- Family:
Father- Adam Hallmar (First name is "Man of the red earth"- Hades)
Mother- Flora Demetrius (Names means "Flowers"- Demeter)
Uncle- Taran Demetrius (name means "Thunder"- Zeus)
Step-mother- Mentha Hallmar-Brier (Name means "Mint"- Menthe)
Brother- Zachariah Demetrius (deceased) ((name starts with a Z- Zagreus))
Adopted Siblings (mother’s foster children- Persephone's half-siblings through Demeter):
- Abram Demetrius (means "Father of nations"- Eubulus, father of one of Artemis' huntresses)
- William Demetrius (Twin)- (Name means "Strong, mighty protector"- Philomelus, creator of the ox-cart)
- Richard Demetrius (Twin)- (Name sounds like rich- Plutus, god of wealth)
- Donna Demetrius- (name means "Lady"- Despoina, a deity just called "The Mistress")
- Philip Demetrius- (Name means "horse lover"- Arion, a super-horse)
- Persephone was the child of Zeus and Demeter, a brother and sister. Farren was the child of an adopted brother and his adopted sister, via artificial insemination due to the brother’s wife being infertile.
- Menthe was Hades’ mistress who Farren killed. Mentha was Farren’s step-mother, who Farren killed in self-defense.
- Menthe was turned into a plant by Persephone. During a very complicated necromantic/plant manipulation hybrid ritual, Farren transferred her step-mother’s ghost to a plant.
- All the powers have to do with Persephone.
- Both were supposedly blondes and fair skinned.
- Zeus determined that Persephone would be in the underworld during part of the year. Taran, Farren’s uncle and a powerful member of the family, forced his adopted siblings to come to an agreement and share custody of the girl.
- Persephone’s only full brother, Zagreus, was murdered. Farren’s brother, Zachariah, was killed in a hit-n-run.
- Persephone was kid-napped in a field. Farren was as well.
- Persephone was fed pomegranates. Farren as well.
- In some more modern versions of the myth, Demeter is portrayed as a severely smothering mother. Farren’s mother is also smothering.
- Farren’s mother was a botanist and environmentalist. Persephone’s mother was Demeter.
- Persephone was depicted as caring and friendly, inviting and kind. Farren is a nice and caring girl, but is strong-willed and has a soft spot for workers rights and encourages the idea of unionizing.
- Persephone fell in love with Adonis, who was in love with Aphrodite who also loved Adonis. Farren fell in love with Uba, who was in love with Lewa who also loved Uba.
- Uba and Adonis are names that both mean ‘Lord.’
- Adonis was killed near a river. Uba was drowned in an underground river.
- Persephone was upset by Adonis’ death. Uba has been the only person Farren had ever really shed tears for.
- A number of other tidbits but I’m too sleepy to write them all.
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about you.
• Your name [/color] | Perse
• Age [/color] | 24
• How long have you been RPing? [/color] | Since I was 8
• Where/How did you find us?[/color] | YouTube
• Have you read the Rules? [/color] | saillormn@sbcglobal.net
• Have you read the Character/PB Rules? [/color] | Purple
• Would you like to participate in a Recruitment Thread? [/color] | Nope.[/justify][/size]
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