Post by Lucretia Odovacar on Apr 14, 2015 11:11:46 GMT
Name: Lucretia Odovacar
Age: 16
Date of Birth: June 12
Birthplace: Aviano, Italy
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: ~*~It's a mystery~*~
Face Claim: Saya Kisaragi - Blood-C
Appearance:
Height: 5'6" (167cm)
Distinguishing Features: The first thing most anyone notices about her is her exceptionally pale skin. It goes beyond pale and almost makes her look like a ghost. It's not from albinism, as her eyes might suggest, but from almost never going outside. It's gotten to the point where going outside for long periods of time in the daylight is actually a little painful.
In contrast to her skin, she almost always has some dark circles under her eyes due to lack of sleep.
Lucretia also refuses to go outside without looking at least somewhat decent. She doesn't feel the need to look like a model, but she doesn't want to look like a slob either. A loose ponytail and something besides ugly sweatpants is normally sufficient for her.
Class: Persona User
Arcana: The Hermit
Occupation: Student mostly (second year). Sometimes she does some 'things' on the computer (much of which are of dubious legality), but any money made from that is strictly a bonus.
Starting Equipment: Her weapon is less a single item and more a multitude of them. She has no experience with fighting, so she pretty much just finds whatever's laying around (or whatever happens to be in her pockets at the time) and either throws it at enemies or just beats them over the head with it. Level 1. Does strike damage.
Personality: The first thing that anyone would notice when looking at Lucretia is the almost permanent scowl on her face. It's normally even there when she's in a good mood, so it's not that she's always in a bad mood, it's just that she doesn't smile often. Smiling tends to be a sign of something dangerous rather than happiness even. The reason her expression is almost always like that is because she is extremely serious, a complete perfectionist, and almost always mentally active.
She's serious to the point of being humorless. No amount of puns or jokes will ever get her to laugh, and attempts to get her to laugh are more likely to just piss her off. She also doesn't appreciate jabs at her faults, cute nicknames or anything of the like. She has no tolerance for failure, or people messing up, though she's much harder on herself than she is on anyone else. She's only likely to yell at them for a few minutes before getting the urge to go fix it. Venting can make her feel better for a little bit, but in the end it's not going to make anything better.
Because of that and how quite Lucretia is, she can come off as anti-social. To an extent, she is. She doesn't want many friends, but some are okay. Her blunt and critical nature has turned most people away from her in the past, but a lot of that isn't intentional on her part. It's not that she doesn't care about people, it's that she's absolutely terrible at showing it. Even beyond those social traits, she's a bit self-centered, so when she gets absorbed in a project she has a tendency to forget about everything else, including the people she's supposedly friends with. Business partners and the like are more likely to be remembered, as she tends to want actual things out of them.
Likes:
Mechanics: From computers, to cars, to any machine, Lucretia loves anything with a lot of complex moving parts. She builds her own computers and devices, and likes taking apart existing things just as much. She's also quite good at reverse engineering code and tech in general.
Outsmarting people: While she's not prone to playing tricks on people or anything like that, she does like strategy games, or fighting enemies using clever tricks rather than brute force.
Research: Or perhaps better put, learning new things and figuring things out. This is more than puzzles, she enjoys learning more and expanding her mind. That 'eureka' moment when she figures out the solution to a problem she's been working on for a long time is one of the best feelings she knows of.
Working with others: Surprising considering how generally anti-social she is, but in many situations she honestly prefers working together with others than working alone. Some projects would be hindered by working with others, but those are in the minority. She would never say it this way, but she is actually very aware of what she is and isn't good at, and likes to fill in those gaps with other peoples' skills.
Dislikes:
The outdoors: The sun is bad enough, but there's not even enough out there to be worthwhile. She'd rather lock herself in her room and do more interesting things. Camping is one of her personal hells.
Sarcasm: She's terrible at reading it, so it just makes her look dumb. Looking dumb is just not okay.
Language: Even though she's fluent in 2 and can speak a few others to some degree because of all the places she's lived in, she absolutely them and learning them. There are way too many silly nuances, and she's reached a point in her life where erasing her accent would be very difficult, so it just makes her sound silly when she talks. She also has no particular love for literature, and analyzing it is horribly boring.
Online games: She enjoys a lot of video games, though she doesn't play as much as she used to, but online gaming is still a bit of a sore spot for her. She wasted a lot of time playing those when she was younger, and regrets it.
History: Her father was in the Italian air force, and encountered her mother in a chance meeting on a trip to the UK. A few years later, she immigrated to Italy, they got married and they had a child. Sadly, his work required a lot of international travel from him, and he ended up dragging his family around the world. As Lucretia grew, all of this travel meant that she'd be changing schools, homes and the people she was around every few years, so she never really bothered to get attached to anyone. There just didn't seem to be any point. Occasionally she'd make a couple of friends, and sometimes she'd keep in touch with them online, but this was rare.
Instead, she was more interested in activities she could do herself. She first got interested in technology through educational games. She would play a few games that she just considered mindless fun, but this wasn't as common. Eventually, she wanted to know how her computer worked, and eventually she was able to take one apart. It was one of the most exciting moments of her early childhood. It completely destroyed the poor machine, but it was the first step to figuring out how all of those pieces worked.
Gaming was also the reason she ended up learning about networking, databases, and several other important parts of data storage and security. She used to play a particular online game, but eventually got frustrated at how annoying farming for gold was and that the particular item she wanted to get just wouldn't drop. She figure out how to hack the server so she could get that item and as much gold as she could ever use. It worked well for a little less than a year, but she was eventually caught and banned. She swore off online gaming at that point, and it's still a bit of a sore spot for her since she failed.
As she grew, her interest in gaming dropped as her interest in building grew. She became less interested in consuming media in general; she wanted to create her own things. She took it really seriously and didn't do much else for quite some time. Her skills skyrocketed, but her parents started to get a little worried about some of her behaviors. She wasn't talking to anyone, she would frequently forget to eat and stay up for days at a time. It couldn't be healthy.
Eventually, her dad's work took them to Japan. Their first home was in southern Japan, and a few years later, as usual, they had to move somewhere else. Her mom asked how long he'd be staying in Japan in general, and it looked like he'd be moving between bases in this country for awhile. Rather than travel all the time, her parents opted for Lucretia and her mother to stay in Tokyo until it was time to go to a new country entirely. Her mother hoped that would give Lucretia some of the stability she'd been lacking. Sadly, it also meant that she would have to mingle with people that didn't speak English or Italian. She had already been living in Japan for 2 years at this point, so she had picked up a lot of Japanese by immersion, but her ability to speak it was far from perfect. It wasn't ideal, and her mother was a little worried about how she would do in a Japanese school, but it seemed better to her than the alternative. Lucretia didn't agree, but her mother insisted. Thus, the two of them moved to Tokyo, and she was going to start school in two weeks.
The first week was fairly uneventful. She continued working on various projects and life was relatively okay. One night, all of her devices stopped working. Grumbling, she assumed that her mom accidentally stepped on something again or the cat chewed on her cords or something again, so she stepped out ofher secret base treehouse and the world was completely wrong. The sky was green, the moon was glowing an unnatural green, and the grass in her yard was untamed and full of plants she didn't even recognize. She could also just 'sense' that there were other...things out there. She had no idea what they were, but she could see their movements. They were just walking around. None were coming near here fortunately. She could tell they were dangerous...somehow, even if they didn't seem it. At this point, she was just assuming she had passed out while working on something again, so she didn't think much of it.
Then it happened again the next night, and the night after that. Something was obviously strange. She started seriously investigating what happened here, while trying to avoid the dangerous things as much as possible. One night, she got close enough to see one, but stayed far enough away that it wouldn't be able to do anything to her. It was a blob, just a black blob. Rather than answering any of her questions, it just created more. She watched it for a little while, but it was just sitting there, being a blob. It wasn't very exciting. Just as she was about to leave, she sensed another one coming towards the blob she was looking at. This one was flying, and was a little less of a blob, but it was still kind of blobby. It waved its hand and launched a fireball about the size of her head at the ground blob and it dissolved into nothing. That seemed like a good time to get away from these things, so she retreated back to her base with more questions than answers.
The next night it happened again. This was clearly going to be become a common occurrence. Lucretia folded her hands and thought. There was some bit of occult phenomenon going on, but she had never heard of something like this from any kind of myth. Sure, she hadn't looked very hard because she wasn't interested in the occult, but at this point she figured that she was on her own. She had no idea where to even start. She closed her eyes and continued to think about how she should go about this, and eventually felt something stir in her mind. It didn't speak in the traditional sense, but it made her mind move in directions that wouldn't have ordinarily occurred to her, and seemed to be helping her figure out how understand. She still understood nothing, but she felt like she had a place to start now. When she opened her eyes, there was a different strange blob floating in front of her. This one was brighter with what looked like vertically stacked red eyes. The blob's eyes closed and it disappeared. Lucretia felt like she should be confused, but after a moment of thought, she felt like she had some idea of what happened.
So, it was time to experiment to see if she really did. She sought out another blob. This one was another ground blobby blob, and like before she kept her distance so that it wouldn't see her. She thought for a moment, not quite sure what she was trying to do, but eventually a blue card-shaped light appeared in front of her, and without hesitation, she grabbed it. Her own, red-eyed blob appeared before her and she suddenly understood something about those creatures that she didn't before. Sadly, once again, it left her with more questions than answers, but it was a start. She still didn't know what they were, or what was going on, but she understood that it was weak to fire...whatever that meant.
It was quite a mystery, and it left her excited. It was a shame she'd be starting school in two days.
OOC Name: Kitten4u
Notes: Lucretia grew up speaking Italian and English and is thus fluent in those languages. However, her Japanese is just okay at best. It's passable, but she has a heavy accent and makes fairly frequent mistakes. Her Japanese handwriting is also nigh impossible to read.
She refers to herself using "ore" rather than "watashi" or "atashi" even though it's considered extremely rude for a girl to do so. Lots of people mistake this as an error on her part, but it's completely intentional. Having gender restricted options, and having the ones for her gender be less powerful sounding, offends her sensibilities. Though, she will sometimes revert to watashi like a good girl when dealing with authority. Sometimes.
She has a small computer on the rim of her glasses that she sometimes uses to access the internet in places she shouldn't. It's not powerful enough to handle much else though.
She really dislikes school, but has decided that it's a necessary evil. That doesn't stop her from sometimes browsing the internet during class. Especially during useless classes like English, a language she was taught at birth and is already fluent in. As much as she hates it, she also insists on studying because she wants the highest test scores (except for the stupid classes, they don't count).
When Lucretia gets very interested in something she's prone to forgetting to sleep and eat for days at a time.
Persona: Coeus
Appearance:
Her persona more resembles a almost hellish-looking blob of light and shadow rather than having any form. It has two eyes, one on top of the other, that glow a bright red.
Persona Lore: Coeus was one of the first titans; one of the giant children of Uranus and Gaia. He's considered the embodiment of the celestial axis at which the heavens rotate around, and is the god of intellect, known for having a particular inquisitive and curious mind. Like all the titans that fought the Olympian gods, he was banished to Tartarus. In his madness there, he managed to break his bonds, but his escape was ultimately stopped by Cerberus.
Skills:
Radar Scan
Patra
(300 remaining)
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Resist: Electricity
Weak: Light
Age: 16
Date of Birth: June 12
Birthplace: Aviano, Italy
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: ~*~It's a mystery~*~
Face Claim: Saya Kisaragi - Blood-C
Appearance:
Height: 5'6" (167cm)
Distinguishing Features: The first thing most anyone notices about her is her exceptionally pale skin. It goes beyond pale and almost makes her look like a ghost. It's not from albinism, as her eyes might suggest, but from almost never going outside. It's gotten to the point where going outside for long periods of time in the daylight is actually a little painful.
In contrast to her skin, she almost always has some dark circles under her eyes due to lack of sleep.
Lucretia also refuses to go outside without looking at least somewhat decent. She doesn't feel the need to look like a model, but she doesn't want to look like a slob either. A loose ponytail and something besides ugly sweatpants is normally sufficient for her.
Class: Persona User
Arcana: The Hermit
Occupation: Student mostly (second year). Sometimes she does some 'things' on the computer (much of which are of dubious legality), but any money made from that is strictly a bonus.
Starting Equipment: Her weapon is less a single item and more a multitude of them. She has no experience with fighting, so she pretty much just finds whatever's laying around (or whatever happens to be in her pockets at the time) and either throws it at enemies or just beats them over the head with it. Level 1. Does strike damage.
Personality: The first thing that anyone would notice when looking at Lucretia is the almost permanent scowl on her face. It's normally even there when she's in a good mood, so it's not that she's always in a bad mood, it's just that she doesn't smile often. Smiling tends to be a sign of something dangerous rather than happiness even. The reason her expression is almost always like that is because she is extremely serious, a complete perfectionist, and almost always mentally active.
She's serious to the point of being humorless. No amount of puns or jokes will ever get her to laugh, and attempts to get her to laugh are more likely to just piss her off. She also doesn't appreciate jabs at her faults, cute nicknames or anything of the like. She has no tolerance for failure, or people messing up, though she's much harder on herself than she is on anyone else. She's only likely to yell at them for a few minutes before getting the urge to go fix it. Venting can make her feel better for a little bit, but in the end it's not going to make anything better.
Because of that and how quite Lucretia is, she can come off as anti-social. To an extent, she is. She doesn't want many friends, but some are okay. Her blunt and critical nature has turned most people away from her in the past, but a lot of that isn't intentional on her part. It's not that she doesn't care about people, it's that she's absolutely terrible at showing it. Even beyond those social traits, she's a bit self-centered, so when she gets absorbed in a project she has a tendency to forget about everything else, including the people she's supposedly friends with. Business partners and the like are more likely to be remembered, as she tends to want actual things out of them.
Likes:
Mechanics: From computers, to cars, to any machine, Lucretia loves anything with a lot of complex moving parts. She builds her own computers and devices, and likes taking apart existing things just as much. She's also quite good at reverse engineering code and tech in general.
Outsmarting people: While she's not prone to playing tricks on people or anything like that, she does like strategy games, or fighting enemies using clever tricks rather than brute force.
Research: Or perhaps better put, learning new things and figuring things out. This is more than puzzles, she enjoys learning more and expanding her mind. That 'eureka' moment when she figures out the solution to a problem she's been working on for a long time is one of the best feelings she knows of.
Working with others: Surprising considering how generally anti-social she is, but in many situations she honestly prefers working together with others than working alone. Some projects would be hindered by working with others, but those are in the minority. She would never say it this way, but she is actually very aware of what she is and isn't good at, and likes to fill in those gaps with other peoples' skills.
Dislikes:
The outdoors: The sun is bad enough, but there's not even enough out there to be worthwhile. She'd rather lock herself in her room and do more interesting things. Camping is one of her personal hells.
Sarcasm: She's terrible at reading it, so it just makes her look dumb. Looking dumb is just not okay.
Language: Even though she's fluent in 2 and can speak a few others to some degree because of all the places she's lived in, she absolutely them and learning them. There are way too many silly nuances, and she's reached a point in her life where erasing her accent would be very difficult, so it just makes her sound silly when she talks. She also has no particular love for literature, and analyzing it is horribly boring.
Online games: She enjoys a lot of video games, though she doesn't play as much as she used to, but online gaming is still a bit of a sore spot for her. She wasted a lot of time playing those when she was younger, and regrets it.
History: Her father was in the Italian air force, and encountered her mother in a chance meeting on a trip to the UK. A few years later, she immigrated to Italy, they got married and they had a child. Sadly, his work required a lot of international travel from him, and he ended up dragging his family around the world. As Lucretia grew, all of this travel meant that she'd be changing schools, homes and the people she was around every few years, so she never really bothered to get attached to anyone. There just didn't seem to be any point. Occasionally she'd make a couple of friends, and sometimes she'd keep in touch with them online, but this was rare.
Instead, she was more interested in activities she could do herself. She first got interested in technology through educational games. She would play a few games that she just considered mindless fun, but this wasn't as common. Eventually, she wanted to know how her computer worked, and eventually she was able to take one apart. It was one of the most exciting moments of her early childhood. It completely destroyed the poor machine, but it was the first step to figuring out how all of those pieces worked.
Gaming was also the reason she ended up learning about networking, databases, and several other important parts of data storage and security. She used to play a particular online game, but eventually got frustrated at how annoying farming for gold was and that the particular item she wanted to get just wouldn't drop. She figure out how to hack the server so she could get that item and as much gold as she could ever use. It worked well for a little less than a year, but she was eventually caught and banned. She swore off online gaming at that point, and it's still a bit of a sore spot for her since she failed.
As she grew, her interest in gaming dropped as her interest in building grew. She became less interested in consuming media in general; she wanted to create her own things. She took it really seriously and didn't do much else for quite some time. Her skills skyrocketed, but her parents started to get a little worried about some of her behaviors. She wasn't talking to anyone, she would frequently forget to eat and stay up for days at a time. It couldn't be healthy.
Eventually, her dad's work took them to Japan. Their first home was in southern Japan, and a few years later, as usual, they had to move somewhere else. Her mom asked how long he'd be staying in Japan in general, and it looked like he'd be moving between bases in this country for awhile. Rather than travel all the time, her parents opted for Lucretia and her mother to stay in Tokyo until it was time to go to a new country entirely. Her mother hoped that would give Lucretia some of the stability she'd been lacking. Sadly, it also meant that she would have to mingle with people that didn't speak English or Italian. She had already been living in Japan for 2 years at this point, so she had picked up a lot of Japanese by immersion, but her ability to speak it was far from perfect. It wasn't ideal, and her mother was a little worried about how she would do in a Japanese school, but it seemed better to her than the alternative. Lucretia didn't agree, but her mother insisted. Thus, the two of them moved to Tokyo, and she was going to start school in two weeks.
The first week was fairly uneventful. She continued working on various projects and life was relatively okay. One night, all of her devices stopped working. Grumbling, she assumed that her mom accidentally stepped on something again or the cat chewed on her cords or something again, so she stepped out of
Then it happened again the next night, and the night after that. Something was obviously strange. She started seriously investigating what happened here, while trying to avoid the dangerous things as much as possible. One night, she got close enough to see one, but stayed far enough away that it wouldn't be able to do anything to her. It was a blob, just a black blob. Rather than answering any of her questions, it just created more. She watched it for a little while, but it was just sitting there, being a blob. It wasn't very exciting. Just as she was about to leave, she sensed another one coming towards the blob she was looking at. This one was flying, and was a little less of a blob, but it was still kind of blobby. It waved its hand and launched a fireball about the size of her head at the ground blob and it dissolved into nothing. That seemed like a good time to get away from these things, so she retreated back to her base with more questions than answers.
The next night it happened again. This was clearly going to be become a common occurrence. Lucretia folded her hands and thought. There was some bit of occult phenomenon going on, but she had never heard of something like this from any kind of myth. Sure, she hadn't looked very hard because she wasn't interested in the occult, but at this point she figured that she was on her own. She had no idea where to even start. She closed her eyes and continued to think about how she should go about this, and eventually felt something stir in her mind. It didn't speak in the traditional sense, but it made her mind move in directions that wouldn't have ordinarily occurred to her, and seemed to be helping her figure out how understand. She still understood nothing, but she felt like she had a place to start now. When she opened her eyes, there was a different strange blob floating in front of her. This one was brighter with what looked like vertically stacked red eyes. The blob's eyes closed and it disappeared. Lucretia felt like she should be confused, but after a moment of thought, she felt like she had some idea of what happened.
So, it was time to experiment to see if she really did. She sought out another blob. This one was another ground blobby blob, and like before she kept her distance so that it wouldn't see her. She thought for a moment, not quite sure what she was trying to do, but eventually a blue card-shaped light appeared in front of her, and without hesitation, she grabbed it. Her own, red-eyed blob appeared before her and she suddenly understood something about those creatures that she didn't before. Sadly, once again, it left her with more questions than answers, but it was a start. She still didn't know what they were, or what was going on, but she understood that it was weak to fire...whatever that meant.
It was quite a mystery, and it left her excited. It was a shame she'd be starting school in two days.
OOC Name: Kitten4u
Notes: Lucretia grew up speaking Italian and English and is thus fluent in those languages. However, her Japanese is just okay at best. It's passable, but she has a heavy accent and makes fairly frequent mistakes. Her Japanese handwriting is also nigh impossible to read.
She refers to herself using "ore" rather than "watashi" or "atashi" even though it's considered extremely rude for a girl to do so. Lots of people mistake this as an error on her part, but it's completely intentional. Having gender restricted options, and having the ones for her gender be less powerful sounding, offends her sensibilities. Though, she will sometimes revert to watashi like a good girl when dealing with authority. Sometimes.
She has a small computer on the rim of her glasses that she sometimes uses to access the internet in places she shouldn't. It's not powerful enough to handle much else though.
She really dislikes school, but has decided that it's a necessary evil. That doesn't stop her from sometimes browsing the internet during class. Especially during useless classes like English, a language she was taught at birth and is already fluent in. As much as she hates it, she also insists on studying because she wants the highest test scores (except for the stupid classes, they don't count).
When Lucretia gets very interested in something she's prone to forgetting to sleep and eat for days at a time.
Persona: Coeus
Appearance:
Her persona more resembles a almost hellish-looking blob of light and shadow rather than having any form. It has two eyes, one on top of the other, that glow a bright red.
Persona Lore: Coeus was one of the first titans; one of the giant children of Uranus and Gaia. He's considered the embodiment of the celestial axis at which the heavens rotate around, and is the god of intellect, known for having a particular inquisitive and curious mind. Like all the titans that fought the Olympian gods, he was banished to Tartarus. In his madness there, he managed to break his bonds, but his escape was ultimately stopped by Cerberus.
Skills:
Radar Scan
Patra
(300 remaining)
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Resist: Electricity
Weak: Light
