ARBINGER, MICHELLE CLAIRE

[nikki1]

* michelle c. arbinger ,

* start with basics ,
[ I'M SWIMMING IN THE SMOKE OF BRIDGES I HAVE BURNED ]

FULL NAME Michelle Claire Arbinger

NICKNAMES N/A

DATE OF BIRTH January, 2nd.

AGE Fifteen

GRADE/YEAR Tenth

ELEMENT Wind

SEXUALITY Heterosexual

MARITAL STATUS Single

* into the mirror ,
[ AGAINST MY WILL I STAND BESIDE MY OWN REFLECTION ]

CELEBRITY CLAIM Hailee Steinfeld

EYE COLOUR Icey blue

HAIR COLOUR Brunette with undertones of scarlet red

HEIGHT & WEIGHT Michelle stands at 5 foot 3 inches and weighs in at 117 lbs.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES While they couldn't be used to identify her body if found dead, Michelle has her ears pierced as well as a small burn scar on her forearm.

CLOTHING STYLE Michelle is very conservative with the way she dresses. Most of the time she is in long pants or a skirt or dress that at least comes down to her knees. She doesn't wear anything low cut and she is very modest. She wears mostly dresses that have many thin layers and have floral prints and she generally pairs them with a belt and some flats. Her style has more of a southern bell feel, which originates from her home state of Missouri.

* deeper than skin ,
[ TAKE EVERYTHING FROM THE INSIDE & THROW IT ALL AWAY ]

POSITIVE TRAITS

• Polite
  
• Compassionate
  
• Openhearted
  
• Can be easy to talk to
  
• Trustworthy
  
• She stands up for what she believes in
  

NEGATIVE TRAITS

• Can be extremely shy
  
• Easily manipulated due to being naive
  
• Insecure
  
• Impulsive
  
• She's an easy target for bullies
  

LIKES

• Reading
  
• Being around small groups
  
• Rainy days with no thunder
  
• Sunrises and sunsets
  
• Grass and trees
  
• Frogs
  
• Fruits
  
• Chicken fingers
  
• Soup on cold days
  
• Peaceful afternoons
  

DISLIKES

• Large crowds
  
• Arrogance
  
• Thunder ( or other loud noises in general )
  
• Swearing
  
• Shorts
  
• Severe weather
  
• Rude or hateful people
  

STRENGTHS

• Very motivated
  
• Compassion allows her to make friends easily.. though her shyness can slow her down sometimes.
  
• Despite her shyness she can express her beliefs to anyone which can make her outspoken on occasion.
  

WEAKNESSES

• Lacks physical strength
  
• Has no sense of direction what-so-ever
  
• Has a weakened sense of self-esteem
  

FEARS

• Physical pain
  
• Losing loved ones
  
• Natural disasters, Severe weather, loud noises, etc.
  

BEST MEMORY Still to this day Michelle can remember her father singing her to sleep and helping her ride her bike. There isn't just one memory that sticks out as her favorite, but just the memory of her early childhood is what she considers her 'best'.

WORST MEMORY How the extended family ostracized her immediate family after her and her father's 'bizarre and sinful' abilities came to light.

LONG-TERM GOAL To get through school, get married, and have a family with twins before she is thirty.

* past reflections ,
[ SOMETIMES I REMEMBER THE DARKNESS OF MY PAST ]

MOTHER Abigail Lee Horner-Arbinger (43), Pottery maker.

FATHER Jonah Richard Arbinger (46), Professor.

SIBLINGS N/A

OTHER N/A

HISTORY Michelle's father and mother met in the quiet southern state of Missouri when they were both in their early twenties. They casually dated for a while before Jonah presented her with a purity ring and the request of going steady. Seven years later they were married in a conservative religious mannor. The young couple spent most of their days working in their respective fields, Jonah working as a professor in a nearby university, and Abigail as an artist making pottery or the occasional sculpture out of clay.

When they got the news of expectancy the couple was thrilled, and on a chilly January night Abigail gave birth to a tiny baby whom they named Michelle. Soon, the cold reality of life started to sink in Jonah's heart; he hadn't even had time to tell his wife about his.. certain capabilities. You see, Jonah was an elemental who had taken the chances and married out of his lineage of elementals.. Even worse he had married out of the species all together. Abigail was purely and irrevocably a human and lacked any kind of knowledge of Jonah's family line; he had claimed they all lived in Europe and that he didn't have any siblings. Both which were lies. Jonah had three brothers and his parents lived in the chilly city of Toronto, Canada.

Yet, Jonah was able to keep his mouth shut, awaiting the problems that he would face if and when they crossed that path. For the most part that meant that Michelle led a simple, normal life. She went to elementary school, made friends, fought with friends, learned how to ride a bike, cried when she got her pigtails pulled, and everything else that went along with being "normal".

It wasn't until Michelle turned thirteen that things took a turn for the worst. It was Easter, one of the only holidays that Abigail's family would gather around in festivities. All the young children were outside, getting ready to go search for the eggs around the Arbinger's home. Michelle, who was now too old to go around looking for the brightly colored cases, was helping her cousin Adrienne and her aunt Louise watch for any rough handling or fighting that might have broken out in the excitement of hunting for the candy-filled eggs. And though Michelle doesn't remember a lot about what happened, it involved two of her younger cousin's yelling at each other, an out of character Michelle yelling, and a very strong gust of wind that knocked the two younger children down, causing the egg that they were fighting over to drop and roll several feet away.

Needless to say, Abigail's family was flustered, scared, and furious. Being as religious and conservative as they were the family labeled Michelle and her father as "evil" and "witches" and left within the hour. Her mother, confused and now emotionally impaired demanded answers.. and Jonah had no choice but to give them to her. At first she was in hysterics, how could her husband keep so much a secret? How could he lie to her so easily. It took the couple four weeks to settle it all out, but at least it was settled. The couple, while hurt, relied on love and faith to keep them together, and arrangements were made for them to move into Maple Hollow where Jonah grew up as a young elemental. They also agreed that sending Michelle there would give her a chance to explore her abilities with sound nature that nothing would go wrong and that their only child wouldn't be labeled as she once was by their family.

* puppet on a string ,
[ SOMETHING INSIDE ME THAT PULLS BENEATH THE SURFACE ]

YOUR NAME Just call me Nikki :)

YOUR AGE Why yes I am over thirteen; I am seventeen, actually.

RP EXPERIENCE Oh god umm.. four or five years I think? I've been off and on for a longer time but I don't really consider those as counting towards actual experience.

HOW'D YOU FIND US? An advertisement on another forum

SECRET WORD Correct

RP SAMPLE

Bright lights and millions of people. That's what Miyuki loves to be around. Tokyo at night just so happens to be the most beautiful place that the brunette had ever been in. And that up against New York, Paris, the Bahamas, and all the other vacations spots that her family had been to in her short fifteen years of life. Now Miyuki wasn't generally allowed to walk the streets alone at night, but as she had a late-night work out session for an up coming photoshoot her step mother and her father made an exception. The young teen was clad in a flowing white dress which hit just above her knees, a tight red jacket and brown belt with matching brown boots completed her look. Even after a three hour dance work out she still had time to reapply her makeup and brush her hair and place it back in the tight bun that was spun around on the top of her head. Her body was void of sweat, a freezing classroom often cured the dancer's from their nasty, sweaty nature. Swung around her shoulder was her pink dance bag which held her dance outfit and her pointe shoes. It was light both in color and in weight and it was small in size, only large enough to fit her leotard, tutu, shoes, and couple pairs of socks.. and that was if she managed to neatly shove and compact it enough to pull the zipper from end to end.

She walked gracefully, dodging most of the people was swam through the crowd the opposing way. She had taken this street many times before, but since it was getting darker there seemed to be more of an influx of people joining the crowd from their closing stores and shops. 'Why did I tell Mi Sun I would walk? That was a stupid, stupid thing to do Yuki... Why are you so dumb sometimes?' the young teen thought, rolling her eyes and grunting softly in frustration. The worst was waiting for the pedestrian crosswalk signal to read 'go'. For those times she had to wait, squished inside the crowd of large, scary and unfamiliar people. On occasion one would sneeze, cough, or get a phone call which would become a long and annoying conversation about dinner or something nasty about what an older couple would do when their children were out at their friend's houses. 'Some people have no class!'

Miyuki eyed the crosswalk sign, silently swearing at it as she waited. When it turned green, the crowd would shift gears and hustle across. Miyuki maintained the same pace as to not get trampled and to not run into the man in front of her. City walking was an art that the young teen had learned many years ago when she first started her modeling career. You had to be on time, so you needed to time your pace and estimate your time of arrival down to seconds. It wasn't long before Miyuki had turned down a different street than most of the crowd, which allowed her to pick up her pace in order to arrive at her destination: home. You see, it was a Friday night and she wanted to get out on the town, possibly go shopping or call her friends down from their third story bedrooms in an act of defiance to their curfews to hang out. As she went further and further down this street, though, things got less and less rememberable and before the brunette girl noticed, she had no idea where she was in the large city.

"Oh what else could go wrong!" she hissed, throwing her eyes up to the sky as if daring it to rain down on her. Luckily it didn't, else Miyuki might have turned into Godzilla and begin to destroy the surrounding buildings. She turned on her heel, heading back the way she came. Pulling out her cellphone she attempted to send a text to her brother Yuudai. He could drive and come and find her, bring her back home safely to their estate. However, as she walked with her eyes glued to her small screen, she bumped into a solid.. thing. She stumbled back slightly, her rage ever growing. "Watch it," she growled, shaking her head in disbelief. The person looked at her almost like it could have been her fault. Ha, that was funny. She continued to pound on her keys in frustration as she looked back up to see what street corner she had wound up on. After that, she sent the text to her brother, pushed her back against the nearby building, and waited for a reply. 'Life sucks sometimes.'

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