Post by catleyna on Jun 8, 2013 6:43:53 GMT -5
..x.. the basics
Name: Jian Li Zhao
Age: 112
Race: Vampire
Birthday: 1st January 1901
Gender: female
Eye Color: green most of the time, changes with mood
Hair: blonde curls
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General Appearance:
Jian has eyes that sometimes change in colour and sometimes even shape. She has no actual control over the changes, they come with her mood. Also Jian has lovely blond curls that fall over her shoulders.
She's about 5'9" and very lean. Before she turned she was very athletic and had a perfect body shaped, which stayed with her since her body was arrested in time.
Talents: Jian is extremely fast, even for a vampire. As a human, back when it was still frowned upon, she did a lot of running despite her mother disapproving. Lucky for her she lived in a small town, with a lot of hidden roads, where not many people saw her.
She also consideres her changing eyes as a talent of hers. Even though she can't really controll it, she understands that when she's angry they darken in colour and when she's happy they lighten up and have that spark in them. Jian has learned to use that to her advantage.
Interests: When she's bored she likes to audition for runway shows. It's a little tricky, as she can't go out during the day. Thankfully there's a lot of auditions after sunset, and the shows of big designers are late during the day anyway. In summer the sun is up too long however, limiting Jians hobby to winter time.
Jian likes to manicure her nails a lot and knows all about current styles. Never would she go out in a saggy jumper, just for comfort.
She barely admits this to anyone, but Jian is very fond of reading. She's a member of the biggest library in New York, which thankfully has long opening hours.
Her one love is dancing. Whenever she can she switches on her stereo and turns up the volume to dance. She had a warlock noise seal the walls of her appartment, because of all the complaints that she had gotten. And she loved her flat and didn't want to give it up because of those annoying neighbours. She owned the appartment for god's sake.
Personality: Jian is a very egoistic person. She want's things to go her way, or no way. And she really doesn't care who is getting hurt by her words or actions. It's just not something Jian likes to concern herself with. People need to get over themselves, really.
Jian is pretty and she knows it. There's pride in her whole stance. No one can take her down. Her confidence is through the roof, it has really turned into a more than significant amount of arrogance. But even when people tell her that she is an arrogant b****, she just shrugs and tells them to live with it.
Jian will pretend to always be right until some significant prove has been brought to light, that her point is not the right one. She will only admit to someone else's point if she is annoyed by them or bored by the discussion. If she knows that she's right and has proof, she will tell people to "gogle it" and ignore them until they admit that she was right. It gives her a lot of satisfaction. If she didn't know that many things because of all the books that she had read, she would probably not be like that.
And at the end of all Jian does just not care even a tiny bit what other people think of her. She knows who she is and embraces it all the way. No need to change just to please other people, unless they are very beautiful people. Jian would do anything to please a pretty man.
Weaknesses: Her arrogance, sunlight, pretty boys
Strengths: She is very fast, knows a lot of facts and is a very good dancer
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History: Jian was born in on New Year's eve of 1901 in a small town in North Dakota. Her parents named her Adrianna back then and she carried that name until she turned into a vampire, which is when she chose her new identity as Jian. She had a younger sister who was almost two years younger than her and an older brother called Richard. Jian assumes that all of her close family are dead by now, but she never checked wether one of them might have become immortal by some miracle. It really wasn't that unlikely after what Jian had found out about her family, after she had turned into a vampire.
If all her sources were correct, then her grandmother had been a changeling of the fae folk. A weak faery switched with a healthy human baby to strengthen the fairies blood line. Most of the time the changeling dies, but Jian's grandmother survived, never knowing of her origin. They lived so far off any supernatural beings that she never even suspected anything. What is left of her fae heritage are Jians changing eyes and probably her pround stance.
When she was eighteen Jian got bored by her towny live and decided to run away from home. She never looked back and never had the slightes regret of not seeing her family since then. Jian had heard stories abou the magnificent New York, capital of the "new world", whatever that was supposed to mean, but she intended to find out. New York enchanted her, and she never left it, but for travelling the world every now and again.
There is no memory left of how or who changed her into a vampire, the weeks around the time of her transition are a misty haze in her memory. All she knew was that she had gotten bored of her name 'Adrianna', who wanted to be called that when you could make your own identity? So she decided to chose her own name. Jian meaning strong and Li meaning clever and then she picked some random chinese last name to go with the chinese names. She had no connection to China whatsoever, but she liked the sound of a chinese name.
She does not live with the New York clan, but has her own flat in Brooklyn. Rumour has it, that there are quite a few downworlders to be found in Brooklyn, but that was nothing Jian cared about. In New York it was easy to be a night creature. No one ever suspected anything and you could basically do everything that others did during the day, thanks to 24h shops and everything really.
RP Sample: As Tessa Herondale
It had taken Tessa a long time to accept her ability as a blessing and embrace it rather than try to avoid using it. By now she had learned how absolutely valuable it was. Her being the only on earth to be able to change into someone else at will, if she held something of theirs, and also accesing their personality and general behaviour. If need be, she could impersonate anyone. It rarely ever happened that she could not penetrate someone's mind. In those cases the subject most likely had a block placed in their mind by a warlock or was just plain senile. The uniqueness of her talent made it invaluable and people had to have a solid reason before she ever used her ability to their will, they also payed her fortunes. Never would she do anything evil or endanger anyone.
After she had met Hyacinth in the early days, when she was still learning about her ability, she had not tried to use her disguise to fool faries. Hyacinth could just look through it and see the real Tessa below Jessamine's pretty face. That was when Tessa figured that her disguise must just be some sort of strong glamour that all except apparently fae could not see through. It must have something to do with them only being able to say the truth or the like. The conclusion of her being able to cast a glamour so strong around herself was however, that she could also see through stong glamours.
Tessa watched Nicholaus take off his glasses. It had seemed a little impolite to her, that he had been wearing them all the time, but then the sun was shining so he had a good excuse for wearing them. Her eyes widenend just that tiny fraction, that Nicholaus would surely be able to make out, when she looked into his blood red eyes that she could see through the slight blur which came from a strong glamour. A little embarassed at her first reaction to his eyes she said amazed: "I have never seen such an eye colour before and I have seen a lot! You must be one of the fay folk." Tessa was used to a lot, but these crimson eyes were just a little disturbing. She understood now, why Nicholaus would want to hide them with the glamour and glasses in addition.
The way Nicholaus looked away when talking about his family and basically early years made it clear to Tessa that they had talked enough on that topic and she should therefore not ask any more questions on it. "What do I do?", she laughed at that. "I work in a book store. Absolutely underpayed but I love it. I'm lucky enough to be payed fortunes for my... other occupation. And what do you do to blend into the human world?" As she did not like to talk about her ability to strangers she preferred to not name it and her tone usually inidacted it too. Fair enough if he asked her about it, she could tell him, but he would probably not be able to see it anyway if she showed him.
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