Post by bindy on Sept 5, 2011 15:59:10 GMT -5
BELINDA OSCA
cheerful, intelligent, compassionate
cheerful, intelligent, compassionate
BACK TO BASICS ' '
Full Name: Belinda Osca
Significance of Name: Belinda--beautiful serpent
Osca--Angitia is/was an Oscan goddess
Nickname(s): Bindy
Age:15
Grade: Freshman
Gender: female
Orientation: asexual; panromantic.
Grade: freshman
Celeb you're using: Anna Shaffer (played Romilda Vane in Harry Potter)
Deity: Angitia Oscan (Roman-ish)
Title of your deity: Goddess of Snakes
STRIKE A POSE ' '
Physical Appearance:
Bindy mostly after her father, the most obvious thing being her hair. Where her mother's is straight, Bindy's is wildly curly and terribly unmanageable. It finagles its way out of ponytail holders, poofs out from under headbands, and completely ignores barrettes. It won't even stay behind her ears for long, and it tangles in any earrings she might wear that are more than studs. This is why, nine out of ten times that you look at her, she'll be fiddling with her hair. She also has her father's dark, bushy eyebrows (and does pluck them a little), over dark eyes. In fact, those eyes are the only respect in which she doesn't look like her father (apart from being, you know, a girl). They're a very dark brown that looks black in some lights, and are fringed with even darker lashes.
As for Bindy's face. it's oval-shaped. She has a smattering of freckles across her cheekbones, and her nose is straight and a little long. Her lips are full, and her mouth is a little larger than average. Her skin isn't tanned but it's the sort of pale that prompts parents to lecture about spending time outside the house; it's more kind of an in-between color. Bindy's voice is contralto in tone (that is to say, her voice isn't high but it isn't low either, not to say she can sing well.) And if you want to know about her figure, the correct answer is "what figure?" She does have curves, but they're small and anyway, she prefers such oversized clothing that you can barely tell they're there. She is tall, coming in at around 5'7.
LET'S GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER ' '
Personality Description:
Bindy is a cheerful person. A very, very cheerful person. She's a die-hard optimist who believes that every cloud has a silver lining, always look on the bright side of life (and she knows the song, too), and cliches like that. Not that she would word it in said cliches, but that's how her outlook on life is easiest to describe. Bindy believes everything will work out right and that nothing truly bad will ever happen and stay happened to her or people she knows. (This is, of course, incorrect. But she believes it anyway.) Bindy's also friendly and open-minded. She doesn't judge on appearances or what other people say about someone; she prefers to form her own opinions.
Bindy is also pretty smart. She certainly isn't in the league of the super-intelligent kids, but she makes A's and B+'s (when she tries). She's good at problem-solving and she retains knowledge well. But while she is smart in scholastic areas, she's also not so smart in others. Bindy can, at times, be completely oblivious. As in "elephant? What elephant?" oblivious. She can get so wrapped up in her own thoughts that she'll bump into things or fail to notice other things,like people in the room with her. And impulse control…let's just say she's not the best. As in: "hey, look, there's a deep dark hole that has appeared under mysterious circumstances, let's go check it out! Yes, of course, right now, we have to get in and get out before it vanishes again!" (And then she will proceed to go down without telling anyone or even thinking it might be a bad idea. This is, of course, just an example. Bindy has never climbed down into deep, dark, mysterious holes without telling anyone. She just would if the opportunity ever arose.) She's also kind of (read: really) bad at working in teams/with groups and really doesn't like it when it comes up in class. She likes people, yes, but she prefers to do projects and other things on her own.
It's also hard to make Bindy really angry. Well, perhaps that's incorrect. It's hard to make her yell at you. She has a pretty good hold on her temper, and it's hard to make her lose it. When she does lose it, though, she loses it pretty badly, although never to the point of physically hurting someone.
Likes:
-sunny days
-reading
-victorianindustrial music
-cabaret music
-oversized band t-shirts
-obscure bands
-math class
-funky jewelry
-snakes
Dislikes:
-pushy people
-bullies or bigots
-being bored/things
-any kind of rap music
-having to sit still
-people hitting on her
-people assuming she can't fall in love because she's asexual
Strengths:
-smart
-enthusiastic
-independent
-graceful and fast
-not afraid to get dirty
-good with numbers
-has a wide knowledge of helpful plants
Weaknesses:
-can be very unobservant
-bad at teamwork
-physically weak
-not cautious/impulsive
-very, very messy and disorganized
Fears: dogs. She does not like dogs. Especially big ones.
Goal: she wants to be a herpetologist, or, if that fails, a marine biologist. (Not a doctor, though, because she knows how very inconvenient healing would be for a doctor.)
Power/Ability: Healing. Bindy has only to lay hands on someone to know what's wrong with them, be it a mental or physical affliction. Of course, then the problem is fixing it. She's very best at bodily injuries, like broken arms or beestings (or snakebites. Actually, snakebites are easiest for her to fix, being Angitia's shtick.). It takes only a few minutes for her to fix a broken bone (although it does need to be lined up first, because if it isn't it'll heal crooked and need rebreeding), and even less for her to purge poison of any kind. It's sicknesses that take longer--a cold, for example, will take a lot of effort, and mostly it'll be the symptoms she's making go away. And don't even think about mental illnesses. If it's caused by something physical, yes, she can fix it. But if it isn't, the most she can do is calm down the person who has it.
WELCOME TO MY LIFE ' '
Place of Origin: Delaware
Family: Father--Alexander Osca
Mother--Caroline Osca (nee Voltaco)
Siblings--none.
History:
To start with her father, Alexander Osca was born and lived the first five years of his life in Italy. He probably would have spent the rest of his life there as well, were it not for his great-aunt, who had emigrated to America before his parents were even married, falling terribly ill and needing a caretaker. The rest of the family were unable to go, but as Alexander's father had just lost his job and his mother was a columnist who could do her work from anywhere, they were the ones who packed up and moved to go look after the great-aunt. They lived with her in her house--well, so large it was really more of a mansion--and then life ensued. The great-aunt died when Alexander was in eighth grade, but she'd left them the house in her will so they didn't have to move. Anyway, life went on, and eventually he went to college, where he met a lovely girl named Caroline in his junior year. And, given the fact Bindy's here, you can guess what happened after that, right?
Right. One thing led to another, and one day in early August, they brought little Bindy home from the hospital. She grew up, as, well, your average kid. The first sign she might be…not exactly normal was on a hiking trip when she was eight. There was a rock field called the Devil's Bed (it was in New Jersey, which seems to be fond of naming things after the Jersey Devil). There was a large part of the rock field that was in the sun, which their route took them across. Caroline warned Bindy to be careful to watch where she was putting her feet because there might be snakes on the rocks. Bindy, being Bindy, only did this for a little bit before her mind went wandering off to other topics. She tripped on a cleft in the rock, didn't manage to catch her balance in time (she was, after all, eight), and managed to land right next to a timber rattlesnake. Her hand clipped its nail, which, naturally, said snake was not happy about. It was rearing up to bite her when it suddenly stopped, looked at her for a minute, and then slithered away. Bindy's parents relieved (if extremely perplexed) when they realized that the worst injuries she'd sustained were a skinned knee and a skinned palm. They gave her a lecture about observing her surroundings, etc, and were on their way.
The second sign Bindy wasn't normal was a day in the eighth grade. School was out for the day, and everyone was jostling their way down the concrete steps outside of the school building. Bindy's then-best friend, Alice McBride was pushed just a little bit too hard, tripped, fell, and hit her head. Hard. As in, unconscious, blood-on-the-pavement hard. Everyone was freaking out, and it took a little bit for someone to figure out somebody should fetch the nurse. Bindy knelt next to her friend and tried to stop the bleeding with her wadded-up sweater, but it wasn't working too well--at least, it wasn't working too well right up until Bindy's actual hand touched Alice's head. She felt strange for a second, like something was going out of her through her fingers, and then Alice sat up, looking confused, and demanded to know what was going on. Through a mixture of creative lying and Alice acting woozy (and only half-faking it) they got the teachers and most of the students to let it go. (Some still gave Bindy weird looks in the hallways for the rest of the year, and Alice as well.) And Bindy, after a few experiments on herself (and, after one unfortunate incident involving slippery stairs, the dog), realized that Alice's head wound really had been serious, not superficial like she'd said (and half-convinced herself to believe), and that she could somehow heal (some things better than others).
Anyways, Bindy soon received a letter from Pantheon Academy, offering her the chance to attend and learn how to use and control her skills. Her parents had received a similar letter, but there were some differences--for example, it didn't mention a thing about the fact Bindy's abilities. It simply said the Academy had been looking at her school records and decided they would like to offer her entrance. Enclosed was a pamphlet lauding the academics, dorms, grounds, etc. Bindy's parents didn't quite want to send her to boarding school, but the local private school was too expensive for them, and it was either that or the public high school, which they didn't like much. So Bindy was sent off to Pantheon Academy.
CONNECTION TO THE MYTH ' '
--Angitia, as well as being a goddess of snake-killing, is also a goddess of snake-dcharming. No snake has ever even tried to hurt Bindy, and a few have even straight-out avoided her.
--Angitia was famed for her knowledge of healing plants and had a grove dedicated to her. Bindy, while not exactly great at growing plants, knows a lot about ones that are good for you.
--Bindy's maternal grandparents and father were both born in Italy. Angitia is a Roman goddess.
ROLEPLAYING SAMPLE ' '
/blockquote]The first thing Lace thought when she saw the guy was another swearword, followed in quick succession by several more when she realized he looked like a giant anthropomorphic fox. Her next thought was, man, this guy is drunk. She’d seen people who were drunk before, but they were usually out in front of bars, having just been chucked onto the street. Weren’t you supposed to be all genteel and just get tipsy at big parties like these?
“Um,” she said lamely. Dear god, what was wrong with her? Did she always have to look so guilty when she got caught at something? Why couldn’t she be all nonchalant and come up with good excuses? No, it was holding the object of offense—in this case, the big silver candlestick behind her back—and looking so red-handed it wasn’t funny.
“Look, I, er, I got lost,” she said. Terrible lie. Awful, awful lie. Lie she’d just said, so she couldn’t take it back. “And I’d really, really appreciate it if you said absolutely nothing about to this. To anyone. At all. Please?”
BEHIND THE SCENE ' '
Your name: Katie
Age: freshman!
How long have you been RPing?A year or thereabouts
Where/How did you find us?Ad on Camp Half-Blood
