Illusion of Memory: Valkyrie Profile ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PERSONA SHEET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Player Information ------------------ **Name (or alias): Amy Lynn **Contact E-mail Address: littleangel@neuralpathway.net **Mailing List E-mail Address: littleangel@neuralpathway.net Age: 20 Gender: Female Instant Messaging (AIM, ICQ, etc): AIM- chibirose99 ICQ- 115421013 Why do you want to join?: Because..... And it looks like a lot of fun too. ^_^ Character Quick Summary ----------------------- **Name: Aelia **Age: 25 **Gender: Female **Occupation: Mercenary **Appearance: On her forehead she bears a design that appeared when she mastered the powers of the dragon gem. She has short ruffled red hair and bangs that fall into her eyes. Her emerald green eyes are lined with thick eyelashes and thin eyebrows. Her slender yet muscular build wears a green dragonian armor made short for ease of movement. **Personality: Playful, Controlled, Has a lot of repressed anger, Distrusting (especially of men), Prideful, Confident, Stubborn, Strong willed, Foolhardy, Loyal, Hates men and Enjoys Battle (paid for or not). Character Information --------------------- -Name: Aelia -Age: 25 -Gender: Female -Occupation(s): Mercenary -General Description: On her forehead she bears a design that appeared when she mastered the powers of the dragon gem. Her short ruffled red hair reaches the back of her neck, while her bangs fall short of her eyes in the center, and into them near the sides. Her emerald green eyes are lined with thick eyelashes and thin eyebrows. She has a light tan completion with soft features and pale pink lips. Her slender yet muscular build wears green dragonian armor. Underneath is a leather and chain mail bodysuit, which is covered by the outer armor that consists of a breastplate, riveted along the ribcage to allow as well as enhance air circulation and movement. Shoulder guards are held on with thin leather straps, while her elaborately fashioned gauntlets reach her elbows, the left one bearing the look of a dragon's head. The girdled plates attached to her breastplate look almost as if the were cut to look like the edge of a dragon's wing, and made short for ease of movement showing off her well toned legs. Her boots reach her knee and are riveted much like her breastplate at the knee and arch area to allow easy movement. Her left side has all the extras it seems for as well as the gauntlet, her shoulder guard has on it a small pair of wings that match the larger set found on her boots. This is also the side on which she carries her rapier and has a bandage on her mid-thigh from some previous encounter. -Personality: Her love of battle or any good fight is obvious in her playful, and foolhardy disposition. Despite a lot of repressed anger and hatred toward men Aelia has a controlled temper that comes in handy during an intense fight. Though distrusting (especially of men), she is very loyal and confident in her ability to do whatever she sets her mind to. Somewhat prideful, and stubborn like her father once was, Aelia has developed a strong will that pulls her through even when the situation looks impossible. -Background and History: Born in Gerebellum, Aelia is the daughter of Patrick; a dragonian cast out from his clan when he married a "normal human", and Diana, the daughter of a servant class family in Gerebellum. Having been disowned by his own clan Patrick joined the military in Gerebellum to support his family. Using the power of the dragon gem he easily defeated his opponents, gaining him the fear and respect of those around him. As time went on there was a change in his personality. He became cruel, bloodthirsty and violent with his family. At first it was thought it was his drinking, but as the numerous marks appearing on Diana and young Aelia began to increase the sad truth was revealed. As time progressed Aelia and her mother looked forward to the times when her father would be called away to war. They didn't like the fact that so many were dying in the war, or that it continued to bring a large number of refugees to Gerebellum, but it kept them safe from her father who seemed far worse than even the nobles who were waiting for the opportunity to wipe out the slums where they lived. The nobles would at least be quick about it, for the time being it was a slow torture that seemed to kill them a little each day. Aelia longed for the day she could find a way to free both her mother and herself from Patrick's grasp. Diana would not leave; she continued to tell Aelia it wasn't his fault and that somewhere in him was the man she married, it was just hard to see it. Aelia couldn't understand how she could believe that when he was always abusing them both for no reason other than they were there. With time Aelia became even stronger hoping to protect her mother from the increasing anger of her father. She had to agree with the others, he wasn't the same man he once was. Something was robbing him of the humanity that separates humans from monsters. It wasn't long after Aelia turned 19 that the clash between the rich and poor was began to escalate to dangerous levels. Her father and other men from the slums that served in the military were planning a revolt. Fearing the backlash against the slums Diana took the gem from her husband when he was passed out on the floor. When he awakened and found the gem missing he blamed Aelia. He tried strangling her and when her mother interfered she was thrown into a shelf and killed. Enraged Aelia took the gem and transformed into a dragon, beating him within an inch of his life. After reverting to her normal state she felt no remorse for what she had done. After gathering a few things she walked out and looked at the mangled form of the man she once called father, "You are no longer my father or the man my mother once loved. We are free of you now; I should have known death was the only way you'd let her go. Remember today and live with what you have become." With this she left for the last time never to return to what she had always known as home. She no longer had a place to go and the difficulty of the situation began to be all too real. What was she to do out in the streets? She was no better off than the refugees who came and were unable to find anything, home or work. But this was where she grew up, after all those years of people turning their backs pretending everything was fine, there had to be something. Remembering a neighbor's conversation Aelia headed for the inn in hopes of getting a serving job, or something that would earn her room and board until she was able to find a better means of support. The owner of the inn had a spot open because one of the girls had recently quit to 'run off with some boy' as the woman put it. Aelia was given a small room and food and told she would start the next morning. Before the sun had a chance to rise she was up and working until dark that night. This went on for about 6 months until a group of people about her age came to the inn for a couple nights. They constantly spoke of battles they had won, places they had been. It was all absolutely fascinating to Aelia, who had always just wanted to get out of the slums. She had to admit it all sounded like something she would like to do. The group was passing through after some business is what one had said, but some of them looked so familiar that it was hard to believe they were from somewhere else. After one particularly busy day Aelia went into the common room to clean up after the guests only to find the same group of adventurers there once more. Usually she would have waited, but she was worn out and looking forward to going to bed, so she went in and quietly began cleaning up around them. An armor-clad girl with brown hair braided around the back of her head, no older than Aelia walked over and began helping her with the work. Aelia of course protested, telling the girl it was not necessary. Her objections were met with a sweet smile as the girl introduced herself as Celia, someone who had also grown up in Gerebellum. She told her that about 6 months before she had been in the inn doing the very same thing. Once things were cleaned the girls sat down and talked late into the night. As she drifted off to sleep that night Aelia pondered the offer: join them and become a mercenary. The idea was very enticing; she would give her answer in the morning. The next morning Aelia met with the innkeeper and thanked her for all that she had done. The woman understood and Aelia had been scaring some of the men who came through and acted inappropriately, at least now she wouldn't be worrying about the help intimidating the costumers. By sunset that evening she was traveling out of Gerebellum for the first time accompanying a very diverse group that would become more like a dysfunctional family than it would a mercenary group. Within the next few years Aelia traveled as a mercenary and slowly mastered the use of the dragon gem. In that time she met many new people and developed friendships she never knew possible. At first Kashell and the other guys in the group had to try really hard to earn her trust and never learned why. As her powers increased and her personality took some strange changes and the guys became especially cautious of her sudden mood swings. Though she had once been like Celia, the frequent use of the gem caused her to become more aggressive and somewhat merciless in battle. Others like Celia and Lemia, a girl who honestly just baffled Aelia, never seemed to worry much, but the others had just cause to fret. Lemia's devotion and love for Grey were confusing enough, but the girl was abnormally sweet and charming for the time in which they were living. 5 1/2 years after she joined up with the group it split, each person searching for Grey. He was once their companion and friend, but now they hunted him like a criminal. No one could understand why he had murdered Lemia; she was so innocent, it just didn't make sense. For 6 months they have been searching all of Midgard. Occasionally they run into one another, but seldom have anything of importance to share about the search. To make ends meet some have taken on the occasional mercenary job hoping it will give them the information they search for in the process. So far nothing has been discovered, but no one knows what the future holds. -Birthday: July 29th -Height: 5'7" -Weight: 135lbs. -Eyes (color and shape): Round emerald colored eyes slightly slanted up at the edges, and lined with thick eyelashes. -Complexion: Light tan (soft white/brown) -Hair (color and style): Short, neck length, ruffled red hair -Voice: High alto that often hints at an over-confidence in personal abilities. -Clothing: Green dragonian armor: Underneath is a leather and chain mail bodysuit, which is covered by the outer armor that consists of a breastplate, riveted along the ribcage to allow as well as enhance air circulation and movement. Shoulder guards are held on with thin leather straps, while her elaborately fashioned gauntlets reach her elbows, the left one bearing the look of a dragon's head. The girdled plates attached to her breastplate look almost as if the were cut to look like the edge of a dragon's wing, and made short for ease of movement showing off her well toned legs. Her boots reach her knee and are riveted much like her breastplate at the knee and arch area to allow easy movement. -Tools (Weapons, Magic, Armour): Spear, Rapier, Dragonian Armor and the Dragon gem -Abilities/Disabilities: Shape shifting, Mastery of spear and sword, street fighting, and the ability to utilize the dragon gem as a magical artifact. -Hobbies: Sparring/street fighting, javelin throws, soccer and occasionally basic martial arts training. -Birthplace: Gerebellum -Mother: Diana -Father: Patrick -Siblings: N/A -Children: N/A -Mate: N/A (good luck when it happens) -Other relations: unknown -Affiliation: None -Current residence: Gerebellum -Current Life Conflicts: ~ She is losing her personality/humanity each time she uses the Dragon gem ~Distrust of men, and people in general === -Hero Traits (optional): -Skills (optional): === -Other notes: ~Slated to be a mercenary for another character ~Some history of the Dragon clan to be revealed in posts later ===