Post by blythe on Aug 3, 2009 5:07:02 GMT -5
My name is Natalya Rois Belladonna Fernandez Ruíz Benson. However, most people don't like to say such a long, complicated name, so they decide to call me whatever comes to mind. My mother calls me Leya when I talk back. The people at Florence's Academy call me Natalie because my original spelling is heathenish. My father calls me Rosie. However, most people are satisfied with Nat, Talia, or Tali. I am turning seventeen on December, 24th, and I am sure that my fellow gypsies will be ready to celebrate.
You know, on a random side note, I've been compared to a young woman named Michelle Kathryn. Though, I'm sure she's prettier than me.
APPEARANCE[/i] Natalya has caramel colored skin that is free of most blemishes that are noticeable. She has faint bumps over her face and a few freckles near her underarms but nothing that could seriously detract from the mostly uniform color of her skin. Her hands are usually cold to the touch along with the rest of her body due to poor blood circulation.
Body type. Her body type is petite due to a rather fast metabolism and a lifestyle that doesn’t condone indulgence and sloth-like behavior. She stands at about five-foot even with around a hundred and one pounds with a few extra ounces that might tip the scale in favor of one-oh-two. She’s rather thin with a chest that doesn’t make people stop and do a double take because things that big shouldn’t exist. Her body used to be described as boyish, but she has finally grown into curves.
Eyes. Her eyes are rounded and a bright amber color that turns considerably more orange in the sunlight. They’re bright and expressive when around people and finery as bright as she can be. Otherwise, they’re usually more subdued with the hint that if the right buttons are pressed, she’ll light up like the moon on a clear night. Her eyes are curtained by medium length black lashes that aren’t nearly as thick and luxurious as the accepted standard of beauty, but it means that they don’t detract from her eyes, rather gesture to them gently.
Hair. Her hair is naturally a medium tone of brown, widely curled and a length around her mid-back. Sometimes, when the mood finds her, she’ll dye it certain colors and currently has a gold color snaking through most of the strands of her hair. It’s soft, though, not as soft as before she took to dyeing it colors that pleased her, but it doesn’t have the coarse, wiry feel of Asian hair. It’s her defining feature, usually out and blowing in the wind instead of being tamed by a pony tail older or anything of the sort.
Facial Structure. Her face is oval shaped with higher cheek bones. They aren’t defined, rather blending into the soft roundness of her face. Her button nose is, perhaps, larger than one might want, but she’ll staunchly declare it offers character rather than detracting from her overall beauty. Her eyes sit comfortably between her reasonably tempered forehead and hidden cheek bones, the highlights and emotion centers of her face.
Her eyebrows are thick and dark, adding more contrast against the lighter tone of her skin. She refuses to pluck them into a thinner line, just doing what it takes to make them uniform. Her mouth is puckered and faintly colored, with the upper lip the same color as her skin and the bottom one slightly fuller and pinker. It’s usually twitching towards a smile because mirth is her primary emotion. Lastly come her ears which are medium sized and really could have been omitted without one noticing.
Posture. She stands and sits erect, finding slouching painful and otherwise unnatural for her. She only looks sophisticated when she’s lost in thought and standing or sitting still. Otherwise, one would instantly spot her to be on the lower end of the class scale.
Gait. Her way of walking depends on the day. Usually, she has some sort of grace, her body moving naturally and rhythmically with her steps. There are many times when she’s tripped over something, but her reactions are usually fast enough to catch and right herself in a few seconds. There are a few permanent scars on her hands and knees, though, from falling too many times when running. She holds her head up high and her shoulders back with a bounce in her step that usually betrays any somber expression with the idea that she could be happier and more vibrant than she seems.
Aura. The aura she gives off is a soft one. While it’s apparent that she’s a happier person than most, she rarely tries to broadcast her content with life as it is. Others don’t seem to be as pleased with their stakes in life, and she’d rather not rub them the wrong way. For the most part, when she’s not working, Natalya is sitting around somewhere reading silently or singing softly as she meanders through the streets. Her mouth instantly closes when anyone looks at her with frustration.
Usual Expression & Defining Features. Well, if you’re smart, you’ll have guessed at her usual expression is a subdued happy one that grows when given the time. Her defining features are most definitely her expressive eyes and her long hair. The serene expression she gets on occasion is also one at which to look.[/ul]
PERSONALITY
She also tries to avoid putting too much attachment on things that are impermanent, including getting too close to people and pets and the like. While appearing to love everything desperately, she's actually quite distant, and one can catch it if they look hard enough.
Temperance. - While refraining from vices, she also tries to avoid overindulgence. This however, doesn't come so much from trying to be good as to being used to a life where having a little is having a lot because it is rare to have anything at all at times. Her background involves a bit of poverty and stealing (on her parents' side) but a colorfully patched abode.
With such a Spartan existence at times, it's been ingrained in her to conserve to the point of being miserly. While she might willingly consent to spending all her money at once on others, she'll rarely open her purse for herself.
Charity. - As stated above, she's very thrifty when it comes to herself and rather a Santa Claus with others. Not only is she willing to spend her entire paycheck on anyone who seems to want or need it, she's willing to give up all her time and services and resources and advice to anyone who so much as begins to ask.
Her charity-- if possible-- stretches even farther for children and animals and for those with tears in their eyes. Most of her behavior stems from this overwhelming need for people to like her and love her, and, perhaps, a more altruistic desire to see unhappy people look a little happier.
Diligence. - Pretty obvious. She works for others. She works for herself. While Natalya might be a lazy person at heart, she suppresses the urge to lie around because lying around and being a bum doesn't get anything accomplished but weight gain and brain regression. As stated above, everything she owns will be put forth to help someone else at the drop of a hat.
Patience. - She has unending patience as long as her mask is perfectly in place. Natalya is a very impatience person on the inside and happens to show it when issues that don't involve people begin to bother her. But, how could she make someone hate her by trying to speed them up? Instead of hurrying someone along, she'll act as if them taking their time is right and not bothersome. She'll smile and take a child by the hand if they don't get something, while being more than discontent at how slowly they come to the realization.
Kindness. - Everyone judges everyone they meet. To have someone say they don't is to be in the presence of a liar. Natalya admits that if someone looks like a killer, she will think she looks like a killer. If someone looks very effeminate, she will think he's gay. That doesn't mean she'll discriminate against them. That doesn't mean she'll hate them. It just means she's using the instinct to take in one's surroundings and make educated guesses about people.
In order to combat this, Natalya usually approaches people in an attempt to find out about the real person. If she automatically labels someone mean, she'll try and find examples of how they aren't. She refuses to judge on skin color or make generalizations about class, gender and the like. Everyone has a fair shot for her to accept them.
Humility. - With a combination of wanting people to adore her and low self-esteem that spurs that on, she's one of the last people you'll hear praising herself. To her, she's a selfish, lazy, egotistical fool-- which may be true under the thick layers of a mask, but to others that would hardly be a case. In fact, this might be her largest flaw because it can irritate many people to have their compliments shot down with sniper's accuracy. If one wants to receive a mountain of compliments, though, he or she simply has to accuse her of being hateful.
Cue the spewing of far-fetched but ego-stroking praise.
Justice. - Expect Natalya to do right by you. She would be loathe to wrong anyone intentionally. She'd be loathe to go against laws because of the inconvenience to her jurors and because it feels morally wrong to her. Even if it seems unfair to others, she'll accept them. Even if she protests and proclaims for the rights of others, she'll bend to the law because to her... it's there for a reason.
Of course, others could tell her that going against the law will help many people who need help, and then you have a very torn Natalya. Any argument that more people will be helped could push her to break the law. Really, helping one person it enough, so perhaps the laws don't have so much of a hold on her.
The Real Deal. Underneath the saint-like exterior might very well be a sinner in a saint's robe trying to gain the perks without changing her base nature. Or she might be a saint with sinner-like thoughts and urges that are to be suppressed. She might be sinner on the reform. She might very well be human. Oh wait... Whatever the reason she is what she is, Natalya is what she is. Her need for people to approve of her knows few bounds. Blood, sweat, and tears will go into each effort if they're needed.
While she really rarely feels anger or irritation for more than a few seconds at a time, she isn't a stranger to jealousy, resentment, disappointment and disillusionment. Natalya simply chooses to react by trying harder to seem perfect rather than have someone upset by her own offense to a subject or action. Instead of avoiding someone when they make her uncomfortable, she'll force herself to find the total good in them.
In fact, the only time one can really see her true negative emotions is when she cries for people and when she happens to resort to anorexia. Stress is the main trigger for her. Stress that seems to have no end and no fix. Stress that a forced smile or compliment won't fix. Her coping mechanisms are to simply cry and refuse to eat because how can she smile, how can she enjoy anything if her whole life is jolted so? Even those actions are hidden to the best of her abilities. She'll wave away puffy eyes on allergies and a slimmer waist line on black-- it's a slimming color, you know.
Don't expect her to be completely honest with things. She'll twist stories to make them less hurtful or more interesting. She's a pathological liar with all the best intentions at heart, from keeping people from hurting others to make them feel better about themselves. You might as well say she's a wonderful secret keeper if telling the truth would-- literally or figuratively-- kill someone. Her whole constructed emotional shell/mask are for saving as many emotions and lives as possible.
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LIKES
Random likes of hers include coming across a new flower-- she adores bluebells-- or finding someone who doesn't mind her chatter. She likes studying some of the things in Florence's because of the intricate and gossamer like designs and fabrics. She enjoys making little kids smile and coming across wild deer or rabbits in the forests. Sometimes she tries to make birds land on her arms or sit still enough for butterflies.
Though bad for keeping her job, she adores sleeping in late and staying up well past the appearance of millions of stars in the sky. Her favorite nights happen to be full moons because she feels that's when the world is perfect, though crescent moons have a pleasant habit of spilling happy dreams from the tip of it's bow. There's nothing like the night sky, and she usually does prefer it to the day sky.
Sometimes, if she's lucky, Natalya gets a chance to indulge in playing the piano at Florence's Academy. If that's not an option, she'll occasionally tell her own fortune with her tarot cards which is a happy past time for her.[/ul]
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BIOGRAPHY[/i] Evangelista Fernandez Martín de Ruiz Benson is a thirty-eight year old woman who used to be a thief in Spain before setting in England twelve years ago.
FAMILY TREE
Padre Biológico. Alaric Ruiz Dali is a fifty year old Spanish Gitano who had married Evangelista and died shortly after Natalya's birth.
Padrastro. Kensington Fitzwilliam Benson is a forty-two year old born Gypsy and was given a formal name in hopes that he would rise about his station in life.
Media Hermana. Esmeralda Lily Benson is a two-year-old who was born of Evangelista and Kensington.
Tia. Alejandrina Fernandez Martín de Soto is a thirty-four year old woman who is the sister of Evangelista, wife of Eduardo and mother of Callista.
Tio. Eduardo Soto Sotomayor is a forty-year-old man who is the brother-in-law to Evangelista and uncle to Natalya.
Prima. Callista Rois Fernandez Soto is Natalya's fourteen-year-old cousin.[/ul]
FOOTNOTES
My name happens to be Blythe, but perhaps you know me by the following: Jasmine, Jazzy, And all that jazz, Jazzerella, Jazz hands, Raina, Reina, Rena, Rainabow, Rainadeer, Rainaman, Rainashower, Rainacoat, Rainaboots, Rainastorm, Rainaguage, Bunny, Bunneh, Bunni, Bun, Hunnibunni, Cinnabun, Energizer Bunny, Ghost Bunny, Bugs Bunny, Big Buns, and, finally, RA!NA--survivedtheblackout. As for what characters I have now? None.
