Post by Terra Owens on Mar 30, 2012 12:38:38 GMT -5
”Terra Owens”
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NAME: Terra Owens
Nicknames: Ter, Terry, Terry-Berry (originally only by Holly and Michael, but Pierre has adopted it. She will hit others who call her that) Gorgeous/Darling/Babe (and variations hereof, only by Michael. She will hit others who call her that, and sometimes Michael as well), Baby girl (only by her mother. She will hit others who call her that)
GENDER: Female
SEXUALITY: Straight
AGE: 21
BIRTHDAY: 15/10/90
MYTHOLOGY: Greek
BLOODLINE Demi-goddess – Daughter of Gaia
ALLIGNMENT: The Olympians, (as long as it's not Persephone or Athena asking) though she will support them in her own way and all of the gods have mercy upon them if they get on her bad side
OCCUPATION: She works in a pet store, but she's not allowed to assist customers, to which she has no objections
RESIDENT:
SPECIAL ABILITIES:
Sensing pregnancy:
Terra is able to sense if a woman is pregnant, how many babies she is having and of which gender.
Blessing birth:
She has the ability to bless the birth of a child, thereby ensuring that the baby will be fully developed and healthy when it is born.
Swearing an oath:
If people swear an oath to her, it will be impossible for them not to follow through with it. Once the oath has been sworn, the person who swore it will feel drawn towards things or actions that will help him or her fulfill the oath. If someone were to try to ignore an oath sworn to her, they will feel physically ill (feels similar to catching the flu) and the illness will get worse the longer the oath is ignored or purposefully worked against. While the illness gets worse, the urge to do the things that will lead to fulfilling the oath will grow. The illness disappears instantly when the person begins to work toward fulfilling the oath.
She generally tries to keep people from swearing anything to her because of this.
POWER RELATED WEAKNESSES:
Sensing pregnancy:
To be able to sense the pregnancy, she has to be within a few feet of the person.
Blessing birth:
Though the blessing ensures the health of the baby, there is no guarantee for the child's physical health, meaning that a child that has been blessed by Terra can still be born with a physical handicap, such as a missing limp.
Swearing an oath:
People have to actually say “I swear...” with the implied (or mentioned) receiver being Terra (randomly exclaiming “I swear” won't work), and if the thing they swear is physically impossible for them to do, they will do whatever comes closest and is within their physical capability.
GENERAL APPEARANCE: She is rather short and has a lean built. Even though her facial features are naturally soft, her expressions are often the exact opposite. Despite her small frame and lack of obvious muscle, she gives off an ominous aura that clearly indicates that she is not somebody you would want to mess with.
HAIR COLOR & STYLE: Dark brown, bordering on black, long and wavy. She usually wears it loose, and actually quite enjoys having it brushing her back.
EYES COLOR: Chocolate brown
HEIGHT: 5'3''
FLAWS & BODYART: Pierced ears: Three piercings in the right ear lope, one in the left lope and one in the top of the left ear. She has a few scars scattered over her body from various incidents, but is otherwise 'clean'.
USUAL ATTIRE: Terra dresses casually and usually in earthy colors, simply because she finds it calming and comfortable.
(Please ignore the prices and labels, this was the best photo I could find that represents Terra's style of clothing)
She couldn't care less about labels, and usually goes for what's cheap and comfortable
PLAY-BY: Norah Jones
LIKES: Skipping stones (because it is the one thing she's always best at), stones, rocks and gems, looking at the rain, anything that has to do with her little brother, animals (because they don't have ulterior motives to being nice to you), kids, lying on the ground, flowers (though she will never admit it)
DISLIKES: Being told what to do, being in water (she never learned how to swim), people invading her personal space, people who bully those who are younger/smaller than themselves, flying, overly happy/friendly/enthusiastic people
FEARS: Anything bad happening to her family, being left by the ones she loves (has already happened a few times which has only deepened her fear)
SKILLS: If she gets into a fight, she fights dirty (kicking groins, pulling hair, throwing dirt in her opponent's eyes etc), she's good at cheating in fights and using dirty tricks to win. It's pub fighting and she picked it up when her family lived in Chicago, but just because she can, doesn't mean she uses it all the time. There is always a reason when she gets into a fight.
WEAKNESSES: She is short, both in stature and temper, the stature part being the reason why she fights dirty, as she wouldn't stand that much of a chance otherwise, despite the fact that she's stronger than she looks.
QUIRKS/HABITS: She always, unconsciously, checks for exits as the first thing when she enters a room, a habit she adopted when she spent a lot of time with the street kids.
ADDICTIONS: She is addicted to her little brother. Just slightly. She can quit whenever she wants to!
PERSONAL PLOT: She is too damn independent (and truthfully a little scary – she's already glaring at me) for me to decide what she does. I will attempt to simply let her live her somewhat normal life I guess.
PERSONALITY: Terra is a very headstrong person, she is incredibly stubborn and only rarely changes her mind, even after she has been proven wrong several times. She will keep going as if nothing has changed and work towards the goal she set herself at the beginning. This also means that she usually gets what she wants, though it's through hard work and stubbornness more than from being spoiled. She would rather fight for something than have it handed to her, because she feels like people patronize her when they are being too helpful. She is highly independent and wants to do things on her own and in her own way.
She is fiercely loyal and protective of the ones she love. She will stop at nothing to make sure that her family, Pierre in particular, is safe and happy, and she is not shy to get physical to get her point across. She often comes across as harsh and cold, because she speaks her mind and refuses to sugarcoat her opinions (except with Pierre) and she always stands by what she says. Her honesty has a tendency to make people believe she's rude and uncaring of others' feelings, but in reality Terra believes that people deserve to hear the truth, and that it simply isn't her fault that they can't stand to hear it.
FATHER: Aaron Owens – Dead
MOTHER: Gaia – The Mother Earth
SIBLINGS: Siblings from Gaia:
Uranus, Pontus, Ourea, the 50-headed 100-armed Giants, the Cyclopes, the Titans, the Erinyes, Giants, Meliads, along with a long line of other gods, goddesses and other creatures.
OTHER: Amelia Owens Gagnon – Adopted mother – Works in a grocery store
Julian Gagnon – Amelia's husband and Terra's stepfather – French-Canadian – Works for a telemarketing firm
'Stepsiblings': Ruby & Jade Owens Gagnon – Twins – 10 years younger than Terra – Amelia's daughters from a failed relationship after Aaron – Regards Julian as their father and calls him 'dad', even though they know he isn't their real father
Pierre Owens Gagnon – 14 years younger than Terra – Julian and Amelia's son – Adores Terra beyond compare
Holly Ann Martin – Terra's best friend – Dead
Michael Jones – Terra's boyfriend
Terra is the only one in her family who hasn't adopted Julian's last name after Amelia married him, because she refuses to see him as a father figure. The two of them share a mutual respect for each other instead.
PLACE OF BIRTH: Chicago, Illinois
CRIMINAL RECORD: Surprisingly enough, clean. She has escaped being tied to anything so far.
HISTORY: Terra's story begins with Aaron and Amelia. The two were married, very much in love and wanted a child, but despite multiple attempts, they couldn't conceive one. As even artificial insemination failed, the couple turned to their gods and pleaded for the blessing of a child, and with Greek Mythology being their belief of choice, they went to Hera, goddess of motherhood. However, Hera couldn't help them, as the only way for the couple to have a child, would be if Aaron got someone else pregnant, and that someone else would agree to give up the baby, and as Hera is also the goddess of marriage, she wanted nothing to do with such a scheme. Nevertheless, she did tell the couple that they should try and talk to Gaia, the Mother Earth, and that to see her, they would have to speak to Persephone and speak to her heart.
Convincing the Queen of the Underworld, proved to be a bit more challenging than the couple had anticipated. Their love and want for a child was not enough to enlist the help of the goddess, and thus, in an act of desperation, Aaron offered to give up the majority of the life he had left in exchange for her help. This got Persephone's attention, and she agreed to help Aaron to get to the Elysian Fields, where Gaia lived, twice. The first trip to get the Mother Earth pregnant, and the second to collect the child. Fortunately, it turned out that Gaia was more than willing to help, once Aaron met her and explained how a living mortal had made it to the Elysian Fields. She even happily handed him over the resulting baby girl, when he arrived the second time.
Having been brought safely away from the Underworld, Terra lived four normal years with her parents, being loved more than any child had been in a very long time, as she was the apple of her parents' eyes. Up until this point, it could be argued that Terra's life was pretty close to perfect, even though it had been short. Unfortunately, that changed on a windy afternoon, when two police officers arrived at the little family's front door, to inform Amelia that Aaron had been killed in a car accident. Even though Amelia had been aware that Aaron had given up a lot of his life in order for them to get Terra, she had been unprepared for the suddenness of losing him, and she was rendered heartbroken. Terra doesn't remember a lot from this, as she was only four years old, and she only has vague memories of her father.
Following Aaron's death, Amelia had to struggle to get through her grief, and even though she still loved Terra with all of her heart, the girl was left to herself a lot more than she had been previously. This didn't bother her, as the family that moved in across from them had a girl her age, and while Amelia worked to get herself on the right track again, Terra spent most of her time in the apartment across the hall, playing with Holly. The two little girls almost became joined by the hip, and as they began to spend a lot of time in the alleys, they also formed friendships with the street kids of Chicago.
Right before Terra turned eight, Amelia brought her first new boyfriend home for her daughter to meet. At this time, Terra was still a very open minded child, and she took to the man instantly, liking him and wanting him to stay. The relationship didn't work out, and as this happened multiple times within the next year and a half, Terra became wary of the new people she trusted and liked. At the age of ten, Terra was more than satisfied that her mother's former boyfriend had left before her little sisters were born, while Amelia wasn't entirely sure if it was the prospect of being a father that had made him leave, or if it was the peculiarity of having a nine-year-old proclaim that her mother was pregnant with twin girls, after which the nine-year-old blessed her mother's stomach. Either way, Amelia was relieved that Terra seemed to enjoy having siblings.
After the twins were born, Terra flat out refused to be friendly to any man Amelia brought home, resulting in Terra spending a lot more time with Holly than she already was, while she still remained on good terms with her mother. This meant, that even though Terra and Holly still hung out with street kids, they never joined in on the not so legal things the street kids did from time to time. Staying out of trouble became easier, as their little group gained another member, a certain rich boy with parent issues, and though Terra was strongly against letting him into the group, Michael proved to be more stubborn than her on that particular subject.
Terra was twelve years old the first time Amelia brought Julian home, presenting him as her new boyfriend. As such, Terra proceeded to ignore him the first month he showed up, and she only gradually, and reluctantly, warmed up to him as he kept coming back. Even as he didn't run away when, a year later, Terra announced that Amelia was pregnant again, Terra was still somehow waiting for him to leave. It wasn't until Amelia and Julian brought a sleeping baby Pierre home from the hospital, and Terra saw the love and fascination in his eyes as he looked at his son, that she decided to stop treating him like he would run away at any given moment.
For the next five years following Pierre's birth, the Gagnon family settled into the closest thing Terra had been to normal since before her father died. However, as she was highly unaccustomed to the situation, Terra took to staying in the streets more and more. Her friendships with the street kids of Chicago grew, as well as her relationship with Michael, who became her official boyfriend a few weeks before she turned twenty. Not too long after this happy birthday, Terra and Holly were caught in the cross-fire when two Chicago gangs went at it. The girls took cover behind a dumpster in an alley, where they stayed until they hadn't heard any gunfire in a while. To check if the coast was clear, Holly poked her head out from behind the dumpster, only to be shot directly in the head by a lingering gang member.
HEALTH INSURIANCE: Yes, because Julian insisted and is paying for it
DRIVERS LICENSE: Yes, for cars, again because Julian insisted and payed for it (before, she drove without it)
VEHICLE: Doesn't have one
OOC NAME: CCL
AGE: 20
CONTACT: PM or Skype, and PM me for my Skype
RP EXAMPLE:
DATE October 23rd 2011
TIME Around noon
WEATHER Cold and grey
PASSWORD: MYTHS
I ‘CCL’ have read and agreed to the rules that this board has, and are ready to take the consequences if I do not follow them, step over the line or in any other way cause the admins to need to take action.