KAEL, AREN NOVA

FULL NAME
Aren Nova Rob

NICKNAMES
A.J., Nova, Renny

DATE OF BIRTH
November, 9.

AGE
Sixteen

GRADE/YEAR
Eleventh

ELEMENT
Thunder

SEXUALITY
Homosexual

MARITAL STATUS
Single

CELEBRITY CLAIM
Choi Min Ki

EYE COLOUR
Black

HAIR COLOUR
Technically mahogany, but generally died near-bleached blonde

HEIGHT & WEIGHT
5 ft 0.2 in ;; 104 lbs

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES
Aren has a few random scars that are mostly from when he was still in the US, but nothing else that is noticeable. His right ear is pierced once in the upper shell, where he usually keeps a simple fake-diamond stud.

CLOTHING STYLE
Aren dresses like a girl. He wears skirts and dresses, although these generally reach his knees at the very least because of his little secret. He prefers wearing stockings or pantyhose over having bare legs however. He’ll even wear high heels occasionally, and he lets his hair grow out so he can look the part. Most often, he keeps his hair in a tight bun at the back of his head.

POSITIVE TRAITS

• SWEET—when he talks to people, he’s generally nice to them and sometimes even comes across as unusually polite, though this tends to pass when he’s irritated. He doesn’t usually go out of his way to talk to people either
  
• QUIET—he’s the type to listen, as opposed to interrupting, and to sit at the back of the room and pay attention without raising his hand
  
• LOYAL—once he attaches to someone, they’re likely to have a good friend in him forever, as only something extreme is able to break his trust once earned, though that process may be a bit difficult
  
• PATIENT—with his friends only; with strangers, he only manages to be patient if he’s in a good mood, though he can fake patience by hiding beneath his sweetness
  
• CHEERFUL—even when he’s upset, he has a facade of being in a relatively good mood, though he’s generally even quieter; as it is, he’s more inclined to be positive than he is to be negative
  
• STABLE—he isn’t prone to breakdowns or such as long as his weak spots aren’t pushed
  

NEGATIVE TRAITS

• IRRITABLE—a lot of things get on his nerves, and he tends to get snappy when people annoy him, which usually breaks his cheerful facade the worse it gets
  
• JUDGMENTAL—once someone makes an impression on him, they have to work really hard to give him a different one, so it’s generally a good idea to be nice to him first
  
• VINDICTIVE—do him wrong, and he’ll get back at you even if he likes you. the boy likes his revenge and believes it ought to be served whenever someone is wronged, even if the betrayal is small
  
• SECRETIVE—he doesn’t like talking about his past, and he’s definitely not going to talk about his personal life if he can avoid it
  
• BLUNT—he isn’t worried about offending people; he’ll tell you what he thinks of you without sugarcoating. It’s when he needs to talk about himself that he has reservations
  
• SOLITARY—aren prefers being alone to being with people unless they’re exactly the right people
  
• SENSITIVE—if other people are arguing or upset, aren typically picks up on and avoids it if he can. he hates it when other people are mad at him and tends to be timid when he feels they are
  

LIKES

• his adoptive father
  
• strawberries
  
• science
  
• movies
  
• candles
  
• pizza
  
• crime shows
  
• cats
  
• small, tight spaces
  
• flirting
  
• compliments
  
• climbing things
  
• dressing up/costumes
  
• minecraft
  
• symmetry
  
• shuffling playing cards
  
• trivia
  

DISLIKES

• most meats
  
• school
  
• his powers
  
• violence
  
• creepy-crawlies
  
• being ignored
  
• fast-moving relationships
  
• religious fanatics
  
• politics
  
• arguing
  
• sour foods
  
• loud noises
  
• yelling
  
• crowds
  
• high-pressure situations
  
• knock-knock jokes
  
• astrology
  

STRENGTHS

• KEEPING SECRETS—not only his own, but those of others, are unlikely to leave his lips except for a a very good reason or because he’s in extreme emotional distress, and then only his own secrets will escape him
  
• RESEARCHING—while he has a rough time putting the information together, he’s got a knack for gathering it in the first place; it’s usually his saving grace when it comes to school
  
• PUZZLES—he loves puzzles, which has helped him to get very good at them; they also act as his chosen method of stress relief
  

WEAKNESSES

• SLOW LEARNER—he has a tough time with most academic subjects and finds it hard to keep up with them because he needs time to process information; timed tests are especially hard for him
  
• PHYSICALLY UNFIT—he isn’t very active, and that takes a toll on how much he’s able to accomplish in terms of running and other forms of exercise
  
• MEMORIZATION—aren finds it very difficult to memorize anything and usually needs a lot of repeats to remember things, including names. he’s terrible with names.
  

FEARS

• thunderstorms
  
• being found out
  
• losing his new family
  
• dying alone
  
• dogs, especially big ones
  
• horses
  

BEST MEMORY
Though not a single event, but rather a long and grueling series, Aren was over the moon when the school nurse bothered to adopt him.

WORST MEMORY
Ever since his mother locked him outside during the thunderstorm, he’s hated and feared thunderstorms.

LONG-TERM GOAL
Be happy. If he can’t manage that, he just wants to be able to find himself, figure out who he really is, because he doesn’t quite understand his own identity and desperately wants to.

MOTHER
Agatha Rob (#40), Deceased.

FATHER
Unknown to Aren: Ryan Lively (#41), Truck driver.

SIBLINGS
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OTHER
Joseph Rob: Uncle, Foster Care Father, Electrical Engineer, 45
Maria [James] Rob: Aunt, Foster Care Mother, Cashier, 43
Lawrence Rob: Uncle, Website and Video Game Developer/Creator, 48
Avery Kael: Adoptive Father, Nurse, 27

HISTORY

BIRTH—His mother had never been mentally stable. She lived away from most people in a small, rural area of Montana peopled mostly with small-scale farmers. She was impregnated by a man who ran from her as soon as he found out she was with child. Her extreme desires to procure a daughter eventually led her to the delusion that her child was indeed a girl. She gave birth at home with a midwife who was, conveniently, a neighbor. Aren got lucky with his name, for his mother was interested in those of the unisex variety. From there on, he was raised as a girl. His mother dressed him in girl’s clothing. She taught him how to sew and how to play the piano. She treated him like a girl because she deluded herself in thinking he really was one.

EIGHT—His mother’s instability was most notable in her delusion, but it came out through a bad temper otherwise as well. She tended to punish her child for the oddest little things, such as smiling in the wrong manner or waking up early for school, once it started. One night, during a storm, a thunder clap frightened him enough to drop a plate while washing the dishes. The plate broke. His mother went through the roof. She locked him outside, where he cowered under some bushes through the storm (birthing his fear of thunderstorms) until morning, when the mailman found him, still awake, still terrified. The mailman reported the incident to the authorities. The short version is that his mother was declared unfit and sent for a short stay in a mental hospital, whereas he was sent to Maple Hollow in Canada to stay with his aunt and uncle. His relations were also foster care parents, and they were determined not to show favoritism towards him. They, too, however, believed him to be a girl. He joined the other five children and ended up rooming with one of the other girls.

THIRTEEN—As he grew up, he continued to be treated like a girl, and continued to act like it. From a relatively young age, he knew he had no interest in girls in that way, but from an even younger age, his extremely devout relations impressed upon him and the others how wrong they found such relationships to be. For him, it was easier to continue pretending to be a girl. He could show affection or attraction to boys occasionally and just be teased for having a crush in the first place, rather than someone trying to tell him his behavior was incorrect or satanic in some way.

FOURTEEN—Aren first showed himself to be an elemental quite on accident. He was doing the dishes with one of his “siblings” at his side when his aunt began yelling at his uncle. The yelling unnerved him, especially as the fight migrated into the kitchen and got even louder. In a moment of shock, when his aunt hit a particularly high note, a slice of electricity jumped through the water and hit his foster sister. She shrieked from the surprise and the pain. After some clearing up, the family understood what had happened (his mother and her brother, the uncle with whom he stayed, were both elementals) and enrolled him in the academy of the elements. He stayed living at home, out of his relations’ desire and because he was too chicken to live in the dorms. He didn’t want to be found out.

FIFTEEN—Puberty was fortunately kind for him. The boy maintained his slim figure and soft face, thereby able to keep up the facade of his gender. His secret, however, slipped after he got in a fight at school and was taken to the nurse’s office. The two grew close, and, after a few conversations, the nurse offered to adopt him. The process ended up being long and complicated as he was living with blood-relations (and the nurse was so young), but, eventually, aunt and uncle gave in. Aren moved in with the nurse. The adoption process included a change of his surname, for which he was relieved. He felt as though it let him take a step away from his past, which he didn’t want to think about, especially when he learned his mother had committed suicide while in the mental hospital by storing her pills and swallowing them all at once. It didn’t tear him apart as much as he expected it might, and has joined his sex as one of his more closely-guarded secrets.

YOUR NAME
Lali

YOUR AGE
Old enough

RP EXPERIENCE
6-7 years

HOW'D YOU FIND US?
I don’t remember

SECRET WORD
Correct.

RP SAMPLE

no thank you <3