Post by crystal on Sept 27, 2012 1:34:24 GMT -5
* crystal m. donavan ,
* start with basics ,
[ I'M SWIMMING IN THE SMOKE OF BRIDGES I HAVE BURNED ]
[ I'M SWIMMING IN THE SMOKE OF BRIDGES I HAVE BURNED ]
FULL NAME Crystal Marie Donavan
NICKNAMES Crissie, Doc.
DATE OF BIRTH December 17th
AGE 30
GRADE/YEAR Graduated
ELEMENT Water
SEXUALITY Strait
MARITAL STATUS Single
OCCUPATION School Psychologist/Guidance Councilor (whichever makes students more comfortable)
* into the mirror ,
[ AGAINST MY WILL I STAND BESIDE MY OWN REFLECTION ]
[ AGAINST MY WILL I STAND BESIDE MY OWN REFLECTION ]
CELEBRITY CLAIM Kathleen Robertson
EYE COLOUR Grey
HAIR COLOUR Strawberry Blonde
HEIGHT & WEIGHT 5’7” 140lbs she swears it’s all muscle and most people agree with her.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES Other than her hair, which can be spotted from across a convention center, one of her greatest features is her smile. Not a bubbly smile but a much more understanding one which is why she became the school psychiatrist.
She also has tattoo of a feather on her left hip. She’s not quite sure why she got it though.
CLOTHING STYLE Crystal has never been one to follow trends like most other girls, she tends to wear clothes that have streamlined looks rather than over the top in fashion. Jeans are usually the norm in her closet just because she is often running around the school helping out the medical staff whenever necessary, and she finds with elementals and high tensions between the elements that tends to be very often. The most jewelry she ever wears would be a necklace that is a boarderline choker just so it doesn’t get in her way when she is doing anything.
Although even with her rather practical style she usually leaves her hair down, or when she is about to train will put it up in a ponytail although even then she often wears her hair down still.
* deeper than skin ,
[ TAKE EVERYTHING FROM THE INSIDE & THROW IT ALL AWAY ]
[ TAKE EVERYTHING FROM THE INSIDE & THROW IT ALL AWAY ]
POSITIVE TRAITS
- Adventurous Crystal is always up for a new challenge be it learning something new or meeting someone new. Although this can border on stupidity at times.
- Friendly Being a psychiatrist this is slightly necessary but Crystal has never been considered not friendly, often times she is considered too friendly as she tries not to treat anyone differently until she knows enough about them to make a judgment call. Of course she’s not perfect she does sometimes stereotype but she is trying not to.
- Motherly When she was younger many probably would have considered this a bad thing but now not so much, she really cares about the students (and sometimes faculty) that come through her office and unless they go out of their way to make her really detest them she can still see the person underneath.
- Observant Crystal is very quick to pick up subtle hints in wording, tone, or in directions that would lead to any sort of conclusion. She always believed that the moment you stopped paying attention was the moment you got dead. It also helped her avoid her fair share of pranks when she roamed the halls.
- Loyal When she has made a friend Crystal will stand by them until the end of time no one could stop her from helping others, not unless they strike her down.
- Confident Crystal knows who she is and she wouldn’t let anyone change that for the world
NEGATIVE TRAITS
- Disorganized The only reason she is able to remember when anything is due is thanks to the A.Q.U.A.S. organizational system. Without it she swears she would forget the time of day. When to be where at what time has never been all that easy for her, names and faces and life stories are fine… as long as it doesn’t have anything to do with history.
- Stubborn On her moral viewpoints she can be a bit of a stick in the mud, hurting other people is bad, being kind is good. It takes a lot to change her mind on her beliefs but it can be done.
- Self Sacrificing Her sense of self-preservation is highly lacking when it comes to other people, she will very likely work herself into the ground for another person.
- Open Book Although there are some things she keeps hidden other than that Crystal is very honest and open with others about her feelings and what she thinks of them. She is often times tactful about how she goes about this although once someone has crossed a line she will rip them a new one.
- Rule Breaker Crystal has never liked doing things the same way as everyone else, and over the years she has become a master at breaking rules in spirit without actually breaking them when it gets down to the letter of the rule.
LIKES
- Her Job
- Being helpful
- Reading
- Swimming (wonder why)
- Learning new things
- The Forest oddly enough
- Science
- People
DISLIKES
- Bureaucracy
- Liars (she can see right through them)
- Being asked the same illogical question over and over again
- Rules
- Being disreguarded
STRENGTHS
- Manipulation Unsurprisingly through her years of schooling Crystal has learned how to manipulate the human psyche into doing what she wants it to do. Does this make her a little bit of a bitch at times, maybe, but it makes her very good at her job.
- Cutting through the Bullshit She doesn’t like wasting her time at any one task so she really knows how to get her work done quickly.
- Avoiding Fights Although she is a strong fighter (due the many extra hours she put into her training) she tries to avoid fights if at all possible. She went through one of the more bloody wars in her time at school and she has no desire to hurt anyone again. Paralyzing one person was enough for her.
WEAKNESSES
- Self-preservation As stated above Crystal is not great at the whole self-preservation stich can sometimes be lost on her. She is more likely to put herself into precarious situations without too much thought about herself. She will always help someone who needs her. It’s gotten her stabbed in the back once or twice but hey she’s still alive to tell the tale right so it can’t be that bad.
- Overly-Emotional Crystal tends to get caught up in whatever situation she is a part of.
- Abilities Crystal avoids any attacking moves at all cost, she will practice in a gym when no one is around to see her but all in all she is much better at defensive fighting then offensive, mostly due to practice. She has a very natural affinity for offensive moves but she is scared of using them and of how powerful she actually is.
FEARS
- The Talk She dreads being forced to talk about herself to others, she hates to think what they will find underneath her exterior. She knows she has done some rotten things in her life and she has no wish to go over them with someone who just thinks that she needs to talk over some issues. This doesn’t mean she doesn’t think it would work wonders on other people.
- Being helpless She dreads the day that she won’t be able to help those around her, that she won’t be able to say, or do the right thing and someone will suffer because she wasn’t there to help them out. So she throws herself into her work to make sure nothing ever happens.
- Nightmares She sometimes has nightmares about what happened during the days she was a student of this academy. She has them mostly under control and doesn’t let others know about this if she can help it.
BEST MEMORY On the day she graduated Med School and realized looking back to the crowd that her entire life was ahead of her, she had finally gone and done something that could help change the lives of so many.
WORST MEMORY The moment she realized that another person had suffered because of some stupid stunt she had chosen to pull.
LONG-TERM GOAL She wants to help as many people as she can in the hope of chasing away her past life.
* past reflections ,
[ SOMETIMES I REMEMBER THE DARKNESS OF MY PAST ]
[ SOMETIMES I REMEMBER THE DARKNESS OF MY PAST ]
MOTHER Serenity Swanson Donavan 58 painter
FATHER Kyle Donavan 60
SIBLINGS No Long lost twins this time around
OTHERWell there was this one cat
HISTORY
Crystal was born in Maple Hollow’s very own hospital and was raised among elementals who showed her their way of life. Seeing as both of her parents were water elementals she grew up learning about the water in the air and how her parents manipulated the world around them using such simple tasks. Her mother had manipulated the water in her paints to put together such emotional works of art, some of which she has kept to this day. So when she was finally old enough to get out of elementary school and go into the academy there was no shock that she was in fact a water elemental.
Like most water elementals she was friendly and had her various friends although she was one of the worst troublemakers. She blew up toilets to flood floors, dyed the water supply the color of blood to freak everyone out, and her most memorable locking the fire dorms shut after breakfast so the late arrivals were late to class. She always went for the more dramatic and theatrical pranks but only hypothetically took credit for them. These were some of the best moments of her life, learning how to hone her skills to not only to pull many outrageous pranks but she stood side by side with her allies
When she looks back at these days she remembers spending a lot of quality time in detention trying not to get caught pulling pranks on whoever was supposed to keep them out of trouble. She was no where near the best prankster in water but she was much better at getting away with what she was doing. How people ticked always seemed so easy to understand for her so talking her way out of trouble was a no brainer to her, and especially getting extensions on projects she found that if teachers liked you they were much more likely to be lenient on you, so came about the “Oh poor me” face, still works to this day, especially when working with impressionable men.
Although the good old days couldn’t last forever in a place as volatile as the academy and war was declared on fire. Earth being the good allies they were even back then jumped in to assist with what was going on and thunder soon joined the party and it was an all out war. Earth being slightly pacifistic tried to do as little actual fighting as possible choosing more to block doors to keep the fire and thunder always going the wrong direction, water was elected to be the more direct of the two.
They iced floors that the fire students tended to travel and watched them fail in class as water made their ink run. To say the least water and earth took a rather sneaky approach to war. Fire and thunder had a much different idea. During that time there were many earth and water students who went to the infirmary due to burns one or two were hospitalized due to “out of control” lighting moves during training. That’s not to say that fire and lightning students weren’t going to the infirmary with frostbite, that was definitely happening as well but more often than not their fighting happened in the form of prank-like ways.
Then the war turned slightly darker, an all out fight broke out in the dungeons as some earth students were working on rearranging the marble statues to block the corridors that many students traversed. Crystal and another earth student had been keeping guard of the others while they worked but as they were in the middle of moving some of the support beams that held the celling in place they were ambushed.
Crystal herself had been taken by surprise and when she was still recovering from being slammed against a wall she felt a loud crash and heard screams, ”Leave it their dead meat” once she was able to see what had happened one of the girls she had been protecting had been crushed under one of the statues, crushed to death by the element that should have protected her. Crystal grew up more that day then she had in her entire high school experience. She soon became less involved in the fighting and more involved with the peace making.
Although her efforts went nowhere and after she graduated she left the fight and went outside her little community for college. She became much more driven and determined to be the kind of person who would be able to help that helpless kid without destroying another life. Yet after eight years of schooling, and three years of residency she knew shewantedneeded to go back. She needed to help stop these kinds of situations from happening again.
So she sent an application to the academy seeing as she now had her MD and psychiatry license she was far overqualified for a simple school guidance counselor or psychologist. So she has chosen to help out where she can in both the physical treatment of the student body and psychological. So she could make sure fights like the one she was part of never occurred again.
* puppet on a string ,
[ SOMETHING INSIDE ME THAT PULLS BENEATH THE SURFACE ]
[ SOMETHING INSIDE ME THAT PULLS BENEATH THE SURFACE ]
YOUR NAME Crystal
YOUR AGE 18
RP EXPERIENCE Same as Tay
HOW'D YOU FIND US? The first or second time *innocent face*
SECRET WORD Correct
RP SAMPLE
I was lazy so I just took this from one of my threadstarters on the other site I’m on.He was gone, they caught him - killed him - for believing in her cause. No one else believed he was innocent; no one that mattered cared. The people he had been helping would know what had happened. He had been caught helping the sick find the water they needed, caught being kind to others, caught caring about the same lost souls she had needed to help from the day her father passed on leaving her in charge.
Keep them safe Caterina, just like I would.
She had tried, and she had failed. She almost let death come but instinct had taken over and she had run. Right through the wall of the building only to fall to the next story of the next one. She outran the telepaths chasing her when she became invisible and hid below ground with the many other broken minds. She had run from the teleporters, into places they couldn't see or find without knowing where to direct their powers. She had run from the hounds, walking in a block of concrete tended to confuse any nose. Although, she had hidden the pain.
The pain that throbbed in her chest whenever she closed her eyes and saw her family lying on the floor in a bloodied heap or when she fell asleep and dreamed she could hear Will utter one final "I love you." Then she would see his father let him loose and she would be held back unable to phase through her restraints and save him. She couldn't save him...
She gasped and sat bolt upright, looking over her shoulder to see what had woken her up, only to see the owner of the apartment sprawled over the chair his heart lying on the floor next to him.
She wanted... No, she needed them to feel what she felt, all the Toltec loving scum of the world to feel what it was like to have their chest torn apart. She couldn't believe her chest could hurt so much and her heart was still in one piece. She felt like Alessandro Romano had dug his filthy hands into her chest and slowly, pulled her heart out leaving a giant hole, an empty feeling that her heart used to hold. But, that was gone now.
She only felt the rage.
She grabbed the nearest thing to her hand and threw it at the broken body in the chair. The sickening crack of the bones under her fury made her feel powerful. Like she could still save her family. Her smiling singing sister, her blubbering brother, and Will. She hated herself for picking but if she could have a single one of them back it would be him.
"Why did you do this to me?" she would not let the tears fall. She would avenge them first then she would allow herself the time to grieve. "You Bastards do this every day, they work for you day in and day out, and as soon as someone stands up to say no you cut them down!" Her voice was unfamiliar to her ears. The growling hissing and spitting was something that they had made her into.
She took an angry step toward the corpse and soon the lifeless Toltec worker was lying on the ground sprawled in a heap. "Tell me!" She felt her anger loose it's power and she collapsed to the ground resting her head on her knees. "Tell me."
