Post by stheno on Apr 7, 2010 1:56:18 GMT -5
BRIANNA MATILDA GREYSTONE
Violent, Cynical, Aggressive
Violent, Cynical, Aggressive
BACK TO BASICS ' '
Full Name: Brianna Matilda Greystone
Significance of Name: Stheno was known as being the “fighting” gorgon of the three (the most violent). Together, Brianna Matilda means “strong and mighty in battle.” Greystone’s what happen when she gets angry.
Nickname(s): Bree is fine. Mattie if you’re her sister only. Call her BM and she’ll petrify your nutsack. Call her Pythia if you’re employing her “services.”
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Orientation: Depends on who's paying
Grade: Senior (Held back a year)
Celeb you're using: Mosh
Deity: Stheno - Greek
Title of your deity: Gorgon (the angry one)
STRIKE A POSE ' '
Physical Appearance: In terms of features, Brianna is not that bad. She had a super pale complexion, a trait that apparently runs in her very Nordic ancestry. Her hair used to be a golden color as a children, but the color slowly bleached itself out, naturally becoming a kind of white blonde color, that she keeps long and generally side swept. Brianna has a thing for pin-up models, so the closer her hair can mimic them, the better. Sometimes it'll be side swept, sometimes it'll be straight bangs, it all depends really. She takes very good care of her hair, being particularly proud of it and not letting anyone she doesn't intimately trust handle it.
She had the same kind of rounded face as her two younger sisters, with pink plump lips. Her nose is dainty and small and her teeth relatively perfect (something she took great pains and a lot of Johns in order to pay for due to years of fighting). Her complexion it perfect, but it comes from a regimen of facial cleansers that she never fails forget, as it helps keep her skin fresh and tantalizing for her job.
However, it's her eyes that generally get people. Like her sister's they're blue. Brianna's are like the gleam of the sky on a sword, a steel blue, with long lashes. She'd become quite adept at accented her eyes, finding that clients, if they focus on her eyes, are more likely to be submissive and make her job easier. After her hair, her eyes are her pride and joy.
Due to a hard lifestyle, Brianna is fairly skinny. She has almost no hips and she had undernourished arms and legs. However, posture has taught her how to hide these things and she's able to make herself appear fit. When naked, her ribs are plain to see and her thighs don't touch. In addition, her breasts are on the smallish side. Not beestings, but not quite enough for a handful either. Not that it much matters, as her clients don't get to touch her except by latex.
Despite apperances, Brianna is very strong. Not abnormally so, but above average for most non-powered humans. Her rage issues tend to aid her in this endeavor. After all, when one throws as many chairs out windows as she does, muscle tends to build.
Brianna normally dresses in fair unusual clothes. In fact, she'd kind of scary to look at when she walks down the street, preferring "urban" scene clothing to regular clothes. When she's working however, she's the queen of latex and leather, becoming a pro at looking both menacing and beautiful at the same time.
LET'S GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER ' '
Personality Description: Brianna has a very violent personality and it's not totally her fault. She has rage issues that can sometimes pop-out at the oddest moments and often end in someone bleeding. The slightest thing can set her off, such as a look or an off-hand comment. It doesn't take much to get her started on the path to destruction and usually her sisters are the trigger. You threaten them, she will keep fighting until she either passes out or you're dead. Not a figure of speech.
Brianna is very protective of her little sisters. She will kill, maim, whatever for them. The moment she senses that they are in trouble or upset, she enters mother-bear mood and will hunt down their assailants whether her sisters want her to or not. She's more than willing to give her sisters' money, clothes, food, whatever they need to survive and she's always there to try and protect them from the world now that she's found them again.
Brianna has a difficult relationship with people. After being jaded at a very young age, she tends to piss them off until they go away or until she deems them an "OK" person because they can deal with her pissy nature. However, when she slips into her dominatrix role, she hates them. With a passion. The great thing about being a dominatrix, except for the safeword, is that she gets to torture people for money. It's great and helps to relieve some of the pent up rage she has. As it is, she works the underground circuit in Seattle now that she's here. Hey, everyone needs a job.
Likes:
- Snakes
- Fighting
- Starting Fights
- Ending Fights
- Destroying things
- Destruction
- Her job
- Water
- Ocean
- Rivers
- Latex
- Dreadlocks
- Ice Cream
- Dramatic make-up
- Dramatic clothes
- Her sisters
Dislikes:
- Everybody else
- Mirrors
- Peaceful Conflict Resolution
- Her Medications (though PA says she must take them)
- Mongooses
- Non-professionals or relatives messing with her hair
- Being away from her family
- Dressing “normal”
- Psychiatrists
- Any movie that doesn’t fall under the genre thriller, sci-fi or horror
- spicy food
- Heat (will only subject herself to it for her snake)
- Criers
- Girly girls (siblings excluded)
- Any music that doesn’t fall under the heavy/black/death/doom/drone/gothic/industrial/sludge/speed/Viking/thrash/rap/symphonic metal genre
- the Sun
Strength:
- Confident
- Street-smart
- Motherly (towards her siblings)
- Self-sustaining
- Independent
- Can spot people’s physical weaknesses easily
- Good at her job
- Dirty Harry attitude
- Practiced at being no-touchy
- Fighter
Weaknesses:
- Georgia
- Medomai
- Intermittent Explosive Disorder
- Snakes (not out of fear, she’ll just go out of her way to save one)
- Hates people
- Prefers to fight her way out of a situation, no matter how minor.
- .001% control over her ability
- Cynical
- Angry
- bezerker rage
Fears: Loosing her family again.
Goal: Becoming a Madam.
Power/Ability: Petrification- the ability to psionically transmute the cells of biotic subjects into a material similar to stone. One with this ability can petrify as many creatures as are in vision range (which make visual or physical contact). Brianna is unable to control this ability so she cannot make direct skin contact with anyone without turning them to stone, with the exception of her two sisters and the outer-skin of snakes (if they bite her, they petrify and she had a bitch of a time getting them off her). They explained that it was something to do with the cellular make-up of the snake’s skin that prevented her from petrifying them (yes, I copied this almost verbatim from Georgia’s ability).
WELCOME TO MY LIFE ' '
Origin: New York to Brooklyn to New Jersey
History: Brianna was probably the only one of the three girls to not be permanently adopted. Given her personality, it’s no damn wonder.
Brianna is the oldest of three girls and probably the only one to vaguely remember her mother’s face. She had fair skin and almost white-blonde hair like her daughters, but her eyes were gone. Not missing from her head, but empty, like something died in her and all that was left to care for her children was this husk that smoked bad stuff. She was young too, much too young to have already had three children at her age. Brianna didn’t remember their father at all. She remembered hearing a man she thought was their father yelling at their mother and then slamming a door. That’s it.
One of Brianna’s earliest memories, and the only one where she can see her mother clearly, is of her screaming youngest sister, an unnamed infant that Brianna had dubbed “Screamy.” Of course, she was only four at the time, so she called her something more akin to “Skweemy.” Also, her other sister, who she called Georgie-Porgie, or just Porgie if she wanted to make her mad, was hungry and asking for cereal. She asked her mother to do something about Skweemy and Porgie but the woman just looked at her like one might look at an oddly painted fire hydrant, her limbs hanging about her like a dead octopus. Thus, began Brianna’s mission of caring for her younger sisters.
As the oldest, Brianna took it upon herself to make sure no harm came to her younger siblings. This often took very odd measures including stealing and occasionally beating the crap out of other kids in order to find money to support the trio. Since their mother was useless, Brianna took over. She fed and clothed her siblings to the best of her ability, brushing their hair (or in Skweemy’s case, her fuzz), giving them baths, all at the age of five. It was a huge undertaking for so young a girl, but she did so with a ferocious kind of love.
Up until then, Brianna had never been a violent girl. Sure, she would beat up the occasional kid, but it was in order to support her sisters. She was never prone to violence, never desiring blood, never wanting to hurt anyone on purpose. That was, until child protective services came to pick the trio up. At first, everything was fine. Then they told the three that, not for want of trying, a family wanted to adopt Skweemy, mostly due to her age. A fierce kind of rage flicked on in the five-year-old’s mind. She held on to her baby sister, hissing, like how she had seen snakes do on animal planet. The animals always ran away from the snakes when they hissed. They didn’t do so with Brianna. Eventually, it took three staff members to safely pry the infant from her sister’s arms. Brianna went into a rage, clawing and biting the social workers who were stealing her sister. They had to isolate her for a time due to her rage. From then on, rage was one of her closest friends. When they let her rejoin her sister, Brianna held on to Georgie as if her very life depended on it, ready to attack anyone who attempted to challenge this fact. When they were told that her sister was moving “far far away,” Brianna felt that white hot rage burn through her, more closely bonding her to her younger sister. It broke her tiny heart that she couldn’t console Georgie’s tears at night and made her angrier at the system that separated them.
After that, it was foster home after foster home for Brianna and George. For a brief and almost traumatic few months, the two were sent to opposite homes. Brianna just about burnt the house she was staying at down, throwing severe temper tantrums. She would harm anyone and anything she came close too, destroying furniture, scratching up her foster parents, the works. It was only when she was able to see her sister that the tantrums would vanish magically and Brianna had an almost gentle countenance, playing with her sister’s long blonde hair, so like her own. However, inevitably, they would be separated again and Brianna would go right back to being destructive. Seeing the pattern, the two sisters were placed together once again and Brianna’s anger was soothed.
However, their situation went from bad to worse. How Mitch was certified to take in two ten and eleven year old girls was anyone’s guess, but he did. An angry drunk, Brianna found herself working as a human shield for her sister. Her mothering instinct over her remaining sibling earned her many scars and bruises, but she wore them proudly as it meant Georgia escaped unscathed and Brianna had done her job. After awhile, this hardened Brianna considerably and she became fairly used to the beatings, even fighting back herself once or twice. But, the straw that broke the camel’s back came when she walked in on Mitch beating her sister for accidentally spilling a whiskey bottle. Brianna’s rage kicked in full, causing her to see red, quite literally. She lunged at the drunken man, grabbing a still hot iron (though how it came to be in her hand is a mystery she’s still yet to solve), smacking him off of her sister. He fell to the floor and Brianna gave him a few more whacks to be sure. The combination of burning iron and blunt force trauma knocked out Mitch cold. Georgia came too, but Brianna checked out for a moment, her heart beating in her chest, a fury unleashed.
Seeing as how she was the reason Mitch was now in intensive care in the hospital and he now wanted to press charges, Brianna was brought in for questioning. She was separated from Georgia again and it took every ounce of her strength to not let her rage get out of hand. However, Georgia’s bruises and Brianna’s old scars were proof enough that Mitch was full of shit and the charges were dropped. However, just to be sure, both girl were evaluated by child psychiatrists. While Georgia was found to be relatively normal, cold but normal, Brianna was diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder, a rage disorder that had something to do with the hardwiring in her brain. She was essentially bred for rage and anger, which most likely developed after years of neglect and abuse. Since her sister was the only constant in her young life, her rage rarely affected the younger girl who hadn’t been aware of it until Mitch’s murder attempt.
It was then that Brianna made an important decision. Once the police let her go, albeit under the watchful eye of a psychiatrist who’d already pumped her full of medications, Brianna heard from Georgia that a couple wanted to foster the younger girl. Brianna felt her heart wrench in her chest and it took her a moment to realize what Georgia was saying. Brianna and Georgia both knew that, given her “mental illness,” Brianna was going to be a hard one to foster and unlikely to end up being with Georgia. At least this way, Georgia would have a secure home and a chance at a happy life. In this way, Brianna was playing the ultimate motherly role and let her sister go. After all, they’d get to see each other since they lived in the same city, right?
Brianna was shortly thereafter put in a foster home in Brooklyn for abnormal cases, meaning she was place with a boy who thought he was a toaster, twin girls who were cutters and another boy who apparently had a bad gang record due to a sadistic nature. Either way, Brianna felt relatively at home with the Looney Tune Bunch and managed to keep her anger issues relatively under control, though the occasional outburst still occurred. At that time, Brianna made it a mission to try and find out what became of their mother and Skweemy. It took a lot of effort on the part of both girls, but they managed to find the address. It was in Greece and she was called Medomai, not Skweemy. They sent her a letter almost ten minutes after receiving the address, having already discussed what they would say to her once they met her. However, instead of hearing from their sister, they received her picture and much politer version of “don’t try contacting us again, you crazy bitches.” Or, that’s how Brianna summarized it. The picture amazed the two of them. She Brianna’s eyes and Georgia’s golden hair. She had their complexion and eye color, an in-between blue-green, like sea water. She was beautiful and it crushed Brianna that she’d never meet her.
Around the time that Brianna turned twelve, her final sibling was taken from her. The family had decided to move to Seattle, stealing away Georgia with them. That last time she saw her was hard. Brianna felt icy inside and as she hugged Georgia one last time, she felt like a piece of herself was tearing off with her. After that, she was gone. Brianna sat in central park for a long time, heaving gigantic sobs once her sister was gone. It was the only time she had ever cried and would ever cry. It took her foster family almost two days to find her, since she was curled up on a park bench staring into nothingness. The only thing she had of either sister was Medomai’s picture photo-copied and Georgia’s latest picture. She carried those around everywhere with her.
When Brianna was seventeen, she fell off the grid. She managed to run away from her foster home and for awhile lived on the street until a young woman in New Jersey named Stormee (whose real name was Deborah) found her and said she had a pretty face. When Brianna tried to attack her for her money, Stormee just laughed and said, “Yeah, you got what it takes, kid.” Shortly after, no questions asked about her age, Brianna joined an underground ‘club.’ Not quite a strip club, it was a rumor-only club where the only people who could find it were the only people who knew where it was to begin with. Brianna began working there until the pseudonym, Pythia. Seeing as how she was a very angry girl and needed a way to learn how to curb and control her anger, Stormee taught her the fine art of being a dominatrix. Brianna took to it surprisingly well; as if torturing men had been something she’d done her whole life. Not to mention, this was a special club that allowed extreme violence, so Brianna could go to town beating the crap out of a guy until he said the safe word. Eventually, Brianna was so finely tuned to it that she could both get her rage fix and make money as being one of the best doms in New Jersey. She didn’t have to have sex with any of them, and she didn’t, thus maintaining her virginity to this day, yet still managing to be one of the best ladies at the Club.
She had a good deal going on, making lots of money for what she did and managing to make her own living where she bought a small apartment and even a pet boa named Cleopatra (Cleo for short). She managed to buy a computer and email her sister Georgia daily, only to find out that her sister was doing miserable. To be honest, despite the fact that she was making a ton of cash, Brianna wasn’t too happy either, almost being chronically depressed if it wasn’t for Cleo. However, she vowed to save enough money to eventually move to Seattle where she could work at the Club’s west coast base and thus be closer to her sister. She of course, told her sister nothing about her profession as a dominatrix.
It all almost came crashing down when her ability kicked in.
Brianna hypothesized that her ability probably had kicked it much sooner than she realized, but, due to her constantly wearing fishnets and latex, she never had the chance to truly find out. She was in the process of teasing a very promising and wealthy client when she pulled off one of her latex gloves in order to smack him. She did so and he froze. At first, she thought he had some sort of a heart-attack, but he was stone still. It horrified Brianna at first, so much so that she untied the guy and tried to bring him back to life, but seemed to only worsen the situation as the man’s skin became harder and harder. Eventually, scared of being caught, she dragged him outside, asked someone to cover her shift and tossed him into a river, though not after taking his practically exploding wallet first. She began to do this frequently with customers, taking more than the price she was a worth, but, of course, the Club began to notice.
Then, a man had managed to find her. Thinking at first he was a customer, she was surprised to find he was actually a teacher from a special school. At that point, she thought he wanted her to do some teacher-student role playing, but was quickly filled in that it was an actual school and what she could do was because of who she was in another life. At this point, she thought he was even more full of shit, dressed, and took the night off early, only to find the guy waiting at her dorm room. The guy, named Mr. Cadman which she thought was a damn stupid name, was accompanied by a trainee named Desiree. It took the combined efforts of both of them to make her believe that they were telling the truth, that she was a reincarnated gorgon named Stheno and that her sisters were already waiting at the school for her. She was sold at the word “sisters” and immediately jumped at the chance to attend. The only downside would be that she was to be held back a year because of her practically dropping out of the public school system her senior year. She shrugged it off, took her boa Cleo with her (who oddly wasn’t affected by her ability) and trotted off with the two of them to Pantheon, where she was to be reunited with the sisters she lost.
CONNECTION TO THE MYTH ' '
- Brianna is one of three daughters and Stheno was one of three gorgons.
- Stheno was said to only become violent after she saw what was done to her sister Medusa and Brianna only became violent after they took Medomai “Skweemy” Cassian away.
- Brianna is incredibly close to her sisters, just like the gorgons.
- Stheno and Brianna are both the “violent” ones in their respective groups.
- Brianna has a rage disorder, possibly caused by her being Stheno, which she put to work by working as a dominatrix.
- Pythia was Brianna’s pseudonym when she was working, the same title of another Greek snake monster.
- Brianna likes snakes and has a young boa constrictor named Cleopatra that likes to entwine herself in Brianna’s hair. This reference is pretty obvious.
ROLEPLAYING SAMPLE ' '
See Deandre
BEHIND THE SCENE ' '
Your name: Chris
Age: Dunno
How long have you been RPing? Duno
Where/How did you find us? Dunno
