Angela "Angie" Flores
Sept 13, 2013 0:58:58 GMT -5
Post by Angie Flores on Sept 13, 2013 0:58:58 GMT -5
[/i][/size][/right]The Basics
Name: Angela Alexandra Flores Rodriguez
Nicknames: Angie
Age: 35
Orientation: Heterosexual
Desired Rank/Job: Assistant District Attorney, running for State Attorney.
Powers: Animation
Ability to temporarily bring inanimate objects to life. Side effects could include social awkwardness with actual human beings and becoming inanimate oneself when using over-using powers.
Angie prefers to animate pens in particular, but also animates the toaster to follow her son around like a puppy. Angie can only animate things for a maximum of an hour. She can animate one larger object--like a toaster and anything up to a microwave--or five smaller ones before her attention fractures.
Play By: Sonequa Martin-Green
The Details
Hair Color: Black. She typically straightens it.
Eye Color: Brown
Any Piercings? Her ears are pierced, but that's it.
Any Tattoos? One on her ankle or a star and moon from her younger days.
Any Scars? Nope!
General Appearance:
Angie is a beautiful woman with long black hair, nice skin and large dark eyes. However, she wasn't always so. As a girl she was awkward and lanky, with a long-boned face, long limbs, and an inclination to trip over things. She grew into her looks. She's still not the curviest person in the world, but her appearance became slender instead of lanky, her face filled out instead of being bony, and she eventually learned not to trip on things and walk with grace.
While at work, she has a very strict way of dressing. Usually she goes for a pants suit or other formal attire. Her goal is to come off as professional and she does a good job. However, she hasn't quite succumbed to the image of a bland businesswoman, and under the neutral-colored jacket is usually a bright-colored top. She's also renowned for her interesting earring choices, ranging from hoops to whimsical silver ribbons. She tends to wear heavier makeup, and often straightens her hair. She is sometimes uncomfortable with that, as she knows that she should be proud of her hair's natural curl, but it's habit and she likes the way she looks with it straight.
When she's off work, her attire is much more laid back. She doesn't do skirts. Ever. The tomboy aspect of her has never changed in that respect. If it's just a day at home with her son, she'll wear sweatpants the whole day long and won't care. If she's going out, she'll pull out the jeans and a t-shirt and will walk out without makeup and let her hair be as frizzy as it can get. She's pretty confident in how she looks, and when she's out of the courtroom and out of the office, she's not afraid to show it.
Personality:
Angie was once really, really geeky. You know, like the kind of girl who wears glasses and talks in Star Trek, Star Wars and Kurt Vonnegut quotes. The girl who probably knows Klingon but you're too afraid to ask because she starts speaking it to you. It made sense. She was intelligent, her powers made her socially awkward, and she was definitely not the prettiest girl in school. Besides, she liked that kind of stuff, and it was easier than trying to talk to people.
However, as she got older, a few things changed. For one, she found she liked serious topics. Her realm of knowledge changed from information about Quantum Leap to case laws. She became very good at logic puzzles, riddles and decoding indecipherable blocks of text. She even is able to talk to people and go out for drinks (although not a lot). However, some things haven't changed at all.
For one, Angie is still a geek. She loves to come home and show her son things like Quantum Leap and Star Trek: Next Generation, and read him books like Sherlock Holmes and the Hobbit. She also really enjoys having a good time and relaxing. During her days home she loves to play video games or paint ridiculous things using only her fingers. But she still tends not to like to go out in public and prefers to do things at home.
However, once she's at work, she assumes a persona. There she can't be fun and carefree--or she doesn't think she can. So she becomes cool, professional and tough. Perhaps a little too tough in order to compensate for her innate shyness--she has been talked to before for speaking her mind without thinking of the consequences, and the more sensitive secretaries tend to be relocated quickly. You never have any doubt that she knows her stuff in the courtroom, but sometimes some of that geeky shyness still comes out--the way she twists her hands or changes too quickly from subject to subject. She's also somewhat insecure in her appearance--hence why her professional attire starts to look the same. However, you can also see some of her mischievousness in the courtroom. Sometimes she likes to animate her pens to distract the opposing counsel or the jury.
She doesn't like to accept help. Even when her sister died, passing her son into Angie's care, Angie never asked for assistance. It didn't matter that she had student loans to pay and was just finding her way as a lawyer. Her unwillingness to accept help or even to let people in has been the downfall of many a relationship. Too many bad experiences in her teenage years, she supposes, but she doesn't like to overanalyze it.
Your Vices
Likes:
The law
Sweatpants
Finger painting
Making pens dance
Her son
Her job
Politics
Meta rights campaigns
Speeches
Winning
Dislikes:
Racial slurs
Losing
Hate crimes
Pineapple (she's allergic)
Parent-teacher conference (she panics)
Being sick
An illogical argument
Animating showers (Water EVERYWHERE)
Science homework (she never knows how to help)
Bugs
Strengths:
Improvising
Entertaining others with her powers
Distracting others with her powers
The law
Closing arguments
Cleaning
Weaknesses:
Remembering simple math problems
Sometimes still gets stage fright
Too proud to ask for help
Men. Specifically, interacting with them.
Sometimes forgetful--the lose-your-keys kind of forgetful
Bad at driving
Fears:
Going into anaphylactic shock due to her allergy
Losing her son
Losing her job
Secret: She slept with the quarterback in the high school football team.
Family Ties
Father: Jesús Flores Martinez
Mother: María Guadalupe Rodriguez Gonzalez de Flores
Siblings: Gloria Flores Rodriguez de Arroyo (deceased)
Any Other Important People: Her adopted son, Marcus Arroyo Flores.
Her first cousin, Mike Batista.
History
Angie was born and grew up in San Diego California, the daughter of two immigrants from Mexico there. She was happy there with her younger sister, who was a year younger than her. They might not have had a lot, but they had enough, and Angie always felt secure and safe with her family. She grew up speaking Spanish and English, attending Mass, and watching her parents doing all kinds of jobs to keep themselves afloat.
When she was twelve, her mother came home to watch Angie playing with the toaster like it was a puppy. It kept bouncing up and down and following her around. Apparently, she'd been doing it in class as well--only this time, making the pens dance around like from a scene in Fantasia until she froze up and couldn't be moved for an hour.
Needless to say, she was very promptly picked up by a recruiter and carted to Hammel. The first few years were hard. Her power and the fact that she'd never been away from her family for an extended period of time meant that she was initially very shy. She also wasn't really pretty or impressive and she ended up retreating into herself for most of her time at Hammel. She watched a lot of TV and read a lot of books, and became heavily invested in geek culture. Past that, she enjoyed studying. She was good in her classes and liked to study. It wasn't until senior year that she began to develop, gaining some curves and becoming less clumsy. This got the attention of the local high school's football star, and they briefly had a fling that ended badly as Angie was terrified of what would happen if they went public. Periodically she still regrets that.
She applied to go to school in New York and, based on her grades and her writing ability, was accepted and moved there. Midway through her degree in political science (settled on when Angie discovered she loved the intricacies of law and the crazy reactions of politicians), Angie got the notice that her parents were being deported back to Mexico. Lawyers fought it on all the grounds they could, but her family didn't have enough funds to hire a good one. Angie and her sister, being born in the US, were left behind. Angie's complete inability to help her parents made her decide what she was going to do with her future--and that was to be a lawyer.
It wasn't easy. For one, Angie had to get over her shyness. She took a lot of theater classes and public speaking classes and eventually taught herself to be able to handle speaking in front of people. She got scholarships and loans in order to cover her law school tuition and her exams, and made it into a good law school. Not the best, but good. She had a relationship with one of her fellow students for a while that carried on even when they graduated, but only stopped when he decided to leave New York, and she decided to stay. She rented an apartment and got a job in a corporate law office, her plan being to one day reach the Attorney General's office--well, after she paid off her debts.
She continued on, going up through the ranks at her firm and periodically trying to date, but never having that much luck. The next major change in her life occurred when she was twenty-four. Her sister had married three years before and had had a son. However, in 2004, her sister and her brother-in-law were killed in a car crash. Angie assumed legal responsibility over the two-year-old Marcus and adopted him. She never denied the fact that he wasn't biologically hers, but in all other ways she treated him like her son. She kept trying to make things work out in New York, but after three years, she realized New York wasn't a good place to raise a kid by yourself. She moved back to Pilot Ridge in order to provide Marcus with a good, safe home--one that he wasn't guaranteed in New York--and got a job in the District Attorney's office. She's been working there since. This year, there have been quite a few changes. For one, Marcus manifested and ended up going to Hammel. In addition, Angie paid off her debts enough to consider making a run for the state attorney position. She's currently in the process of running for office, managing Marcus's education and power, and still working on her own caseload.
Roleplay Example
*gestures to the horde*
What About You?
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Name: Lugia
Age: Early twenties and likely to stay there for a while.
Experience: Ten long years.
How Did You Find Us? I no longer remember.
Ready To Play? Ummm...duh?
