Post by nala on May 8, 2012 10:12:49 GMT -5
* nala c. thomas ,
* 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 nala christine thomas
NICKNAMES n/a
DATE OF BIRTH may 14th
AGE twenty-eight
GRADE/YEAR teacher of world history
ELEMENT wind
SEXUALITY heterosexual
MARITAL STATUS single
* into the mirror ,
[ AGAINST MY WILL I STAND BESIDE MY OWN REFLECTION ]
[ AGAINST MY WILL I STAND BESIDE MY OWN REFLECTION ]
CELEBRITY CLAIM zoe saldana
EYE COLOUR brown
HAIR COLOUR dark brown
HEIGHT & WEIGHT 5'7", 115 pounds
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES just your ordinary pierced ears, though she has been considering a tattoo for a little while.
CLOTHING STYLE chic and sophisticated. she believes that one can be sexy without revealing it all, and much of her wardrobe represents this belief -- fashionable slacks and blazers for work, sundresses and skirts for everything else and heels all the time otherwise. she dresses to give off an overall impression, making everything come together to make one statement, rather than trying to making individual pieces work together haphazardly. she's a classy lady.
* deeper than skin ,
[ TAKE EVERYTHING FROM THE INSIDE & THROW IT ALL AWAY ]
[ TAKE EVERYTHING FROM THE INSIDE & THROW IT ALL AWAY ]
POSITIVE TRAITS
- adventurous ; nala has always been prone to going out and finding out answers of the world herself, from things like 'learning how to bake a good cake' to things with a wider scope, like learning about a country's culture and people. she tackles new challenges head on and with gusto, no matter what is required of her.
- modest ; she's had a pretty good life, honestly, but she doesn't find the need to brag about it. she downplays her achievements and is frank and honest about her failures, both of which she has plenty of. she's perfectly comfortable with who she is and finds people of the pretentious sort tiring to be around, and so she tries her hardest not to become one of them.
- sincere ; she puts her heart into whatever it is that she's doing, 100%, be it her studies, her teaching, or simply being a friend. she genuinely cares for the things that she holds dear to her heart, such as work and the people close to her -- she may not mince words and sugarcoat everything (or more like anything), she firmly believes in herself and the people around her. she might not say what you want to hear, but she will consistently make an effort to say what you need to.
NEGATIVE TRAITS
- temperamental ; these aren't wild mood swings, no -- she just lets small things bug her, like when she can't beat a certain level of a video game repeatedly, or if something unexpected gets in the way of whatever she's doing. her little annoyances constantly get the best of her, and while they don't last long -- twenty minutes, tops -- it's just something she tries to be aware of. it's hard to keep it in check sometimes, though, especially when bad things happen in threes.
- stand-offish ; this is based on first impressions, but because she tends to be on the quiet side of the spectrum, people tend to do some weird adding up, in that her relative quiet plus her intelligence makes her seem kind of snooty and unapproachable. she's trying to undo this, but it's kind of hard to do so after this being how she has been since she was young. it's certainly a work in progress.
- high expectations ; it's hard for nala to think that people wouldn't want the best for themselves, but she often forgets that what she thinks is best for people is, more than likely, not what they think is best for them. she just doesn't get why someone would want getting married and having kids to be their mission in life -- there's nothing wrong with that, but she just doesn't know why they'd settle when they could be so much more than that.
LIKES
- the history channel
- video games
- reading
- her dog, tino
- archery
DISLIKES
- bell peppers
- texting
- dark chocolate
- heights
- gratuitous nudity
STRENGTHS
- conviction
- eloquent
- well-learned
WEAKNESSES
- easily frustrated (especially when things don't go as planned)
- too logical at times
- unable to view things from an outside point of view
FEARS
- frogs
- being ridiculed / embarrassed
- puppets
BEST MEMORY perhaps more applicable as a 'best collection' of memories, nala spent her second semester of grad school in poland, after finalizing her thesis topic of the country circa world war ii, with a focus on the russian invasion, the katyn massacre, and near polish genocide. having no personal ties to the country, she gained a tremendous respect for the culture and the people of poland, and while it was hard, it was very, very worth it.
WORST MEMORY having trained in ballet since she was 6, she was at a dance competition and forgot her solo number halfway through and, in her moment of panic, ran off the stage. she was 13. while she didn't give up dancing then, that moment stayed in her mind enough that when it came to boarding school, quitting wasn't too much of a heavy decision.
LONG-TERM GOAL for now, getting her ph.d and moving up to become a professor.
* past reflections ,
[ SOMETIMES I REMEMBER THE DARKNESS OF MY PAST ]
[ SOMETIMES I REMEMBER THE DARKNESS OF MY PAST ]
MOTHER natasha thomas, 54, theatre manager
FATHER stepfather -- cory landers, 57, screenwriter.
SIBLINGS one half-brother -- troy landers, 20, student
OTHER n/a
HISTORY
nala was born in toronto to natasha and marcus wright, on may 14th. even though much of her childhood was spent relatively happy, as a child, it's hard to gauge how the world around you is. while she never thought anything was amiss with her parents' relationship, it became clear when the arguments escalated somewhat, about a lot of things -- moving away, what kind of school to send her to, things of that sort. the divorce came when she was three and her mother got full custody of her. she changed her name back to her maiden name, thomas, and did the same for nala.
her mother met cory landers, her future step-father, when a film obtained permission to shoot on location at the theatre natasha worked at, and cory had insisted on being present throughout the filming process. the story is rather simple after that -- they met, they fell in love, cory moved to canada from his native new york and they got married when nala was about seven years old, and when she was eight, natasha gave birth to her half-brother, troy. nala was slightly taken aback at the new figure in her life, and like all children really didn't want him cramping her style, but she grew to tolerate him. this would change when they both grew up, getting a little more life experience under their belts, but it was hard to find anything in common with a baby at eight, nine years old.
however, when her powers came into light around the age of thirteen, this threw both her stepfather and half-brother into a loop, as her mother apparently just forgot to mention the tiny little fact that natasha was an elemental, of the earth variety. there were a lot of discussions that went on, then, as it took her father a long while to come to grips with the idea that his wife and stepdaughter were practically superheroes, and his son would probably wind up one also. there was little else to be done but send nala off to the academy to begin her studies.
nala was a natural student, excelling at most of the subjects save for science and math, but didn't actively care much about what she was learning, save for the basics of elemental control. it wasn't until her world history class junior year that that began to change. after being assigned a paper on poland's generic involvement in world war ii, nala at first approached it with the same amout of indifference she gave every other lengthy homework assignment, but once she started doing the research, her curiosity grew and she began to do more than was necessary, and her interest grew into a thirst for knowledge of times long gone. it's funny to think that one silly little research paper would spur her along and make her so infatuated with a field that has nothing to do with the present, in a time when the world was trying to get to the future ahead of its time.
her decisions on what to do with her life were made with relative ease after that -- she knew for sure she wanted to major in world history for college, and then do a much, much narrow focus later for grad school, and that she did. however, feeling a little burnt out after grad school -- years of researching nothing but death and destruction and war would do that to you -- she opted to take a break and started substitute teaching around toronto, until a teaching position for history opened up at the academy. she decided to take it for more stable income and is now on her second year there, hoping to get a few more years in before finally going on to getting her doctorate.
* puppet on a string ,
[ SOMETHING INSIDE ME THAT PULLS BENEATH THE SURFACE ]
[ SOMETHING INSIDE ME THAT PULLS BENEATH THE SURFACE ]
YOUR NAME cassie
YOUR AGE indeed i am
RP EXPERIENCE 8 years, give or take.
HOW'D YOU FIND US? an still! C:
SECRET WORD correct
RP SAMPLEplease see matthew fuyu chang's application! (:
