Aspen Turner
Nov 17, 2010 17:25:01 GMT -5
Post by Aspen Turner on Nov 17, 2010 17:25:01 GMT -5
[/i][/size][/right]The Basics
Name: Aspen Marie Turner
Nicknames: Penny, Pen
Age: 21 ; December 25th, 1988
Orientation: Heterosexual
Desired Rank/Job: Graduated student ; Library assistant
Powers: Invisibility. Aspen has the ability to turn herself (and her clothes, for some reason) invisible. She is currently learning how to extend her ability to other objects, both in and out of her touch.
However, due to her abilities, she is afflicted with a sort of glamour that makes her difficult to notice on occasion. Also, when nervous, she has a tendency to just vanish.
Play By: Gemma Arterton
The Details
Hair Color: Brown/Black
Eye Color: Brown
Any Piercings? None
Any Tattoos? None
Any Scars? Few (none important)
General Appearance: Aspen is approximately 5'8'' and has the remarkable talent of being able to avoid just about every eye in a room. While tall, she is slender. Willowy, in a word. Full breasts and round hips even out her body, but still, as if her natural beauty did not exist, she is often very difficult to detect by sight. Though this is just a product of her Invisibility, it does deal a slight blow to her ego on occasion.
Her facial structure is regal; high cheek bones, a small, straight nose and wide, doe-like eyes. Full lips accent her heart-shaped face. To top it off, she keeps her skin healthy and warm in appearance (slightly pale).
Aspen's hair just reaches her shoulders. In drier weather (meaning fall through spring) her hair is straight and left down (she doesn't do much with it), but when summer comes around, the humidity tends to turn her naturally straight hair in to a mess of curls.
Fashion-wise, Aspen is in no way a expert. She tends to stick with jeans, khakis, t-shirts and simple dresses. She owns mostly sandals and a few pairs of tennis shoes. She does, however, have a penchant for chain necklaces.
Personality: Due to Aspen's childhood, the first thing you will notice about her (if you notice her) is her almost striking shyness. Some walk away from her wondering if she can speak at all. She is not good with words, thus says as few as humanly possible.
While she is painfully shy, she is also an extremely passionate young woman. Though she has difficulty investing herself in to personal projects (shopping, beautification rituals, taking what she wants), she will use her quiet steadfastness to help anyone she cares for. Just as well, she is veritably pacifistic. She will avoid confrontation at all costs, in almost all situations.
Unlike many, she is not afraid of her emotions, and in fact is very open to them. She differs from others in the fact that she rarely acts on her impulses, while she recognizes them clearly. She is very non-self-serving.
From a third person perspective, she appears meek and generally ineffectual. And in truth, she sort of is. Easily fooled and stubborn to a fault, she is the type to believe someone so long as they seem nice (she's naive). She is very literate and book-smart yet she struggles with math, politics and science.
She has low self-esteem due to her mother and a innocent love for human-kind due to father. She values honesty, endurance, kindness, gentleness and strength most in a person.
Your Vices
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Fears: Primarily her mother and hurting someone (she also has a significant fear of bulls which, over time, has extended to a fear of horses).
Secret: She blames herself for her brothers death due to her mother constantly saying so.
Family Ties
Father: David Davis Turner (78)
Mother: Renee Marie Ross-Turner (74)
Siblings: An older brother, Leeland (would be 45). Powerless. (Deceased)
Any Other Important People:None besides her father and (dead) brother.
History
Aspen was born in Texas to the Turner family on Christmas day in 1988. They had prepared for her birth to be unsuccessful due to her mother's age (52), but by some blessing, she was perfectly healthy.
The first six years of her life were extremely happy. These years she spent growing up on her parent's cattle farm. It was half a year after she turned six when tragedy hit. She had left the home (without permission) and had wandered all the way to the pens where riders trained on unbroken bulls for competitive bull-ridding. The aged wooden fence was old, and she got close enough to climb up and lean over the side. Her brother, Leeland, was nearby and saw her. Simply out of concern for seeing his baby sister outside alone, he walked to her and pulled her off the fence.
For some reason (one which Aspen dedicates much of her time to nowadays), the bull, rider still pinned to it's back, charged viciously at the small girl. Leeland noticed at the last second and threw Aspen out of the way. The fence, rickety and old, gave easily against the anger of the bull.
Leeland was killed in the rampage.
After Leeland's death, Renee grew exceedingly cruel and distant. She constantly blamed Aspen for the death of her first and only son, saying that if Aspen had never left the home unchaperoned, Leeland never would have been near the fence when the bull charged.
For some time, all Aspen could understand was that Mommy was mad. After she turned eight or so, she finally started to really understand the seriousness of what her mother was accusing her of. And after listening to her mother's constant and relentless accusations, she believed that she really had been at fault for her brother's death.
Believing she'd done something so horrible, she tried to do all she could to help other people and ignore herself, somehow hoping to repay the debt she'd created in removing her precious brother from the world. Her father, a kind, wizened man tried hard to reconcile his family, but failed. In the end, he took to trying to ensure Aspen that she was a good young woman and that her brother's death had been an accident. While her father and her shared a very strong relationship, she still continued to believe the constantly reiterated words of her mother.
Her mother was primarily a verbal abuser, though occasionally she would drive herself to slapping fits where for minutes upon minutes she would slap Aspen's face and arms. Sometimes this continued until David discovered them and intervened.
Though Aspen's mother loathed her, Renee would have bouts of depression that would result in her apologizing profusely and begging Aspen for forgiveness. Young and blinded by her love, Aspen chose to always forgive and care for her mother, unable to see that her mother had something truly wrong with her due to Leeland's death. When these bouts of depression would end, the anger would come back and the cycle would continue.
When she was twelve, her mother had an especially vicious fit of anger. David was only down the hall, but Renee chose that very moment to try and take a real swing at her daughter.
In the midst of her screaming accusations (and swinging fists), David burst in to the room and grabbed on to her, attempting to protect his daughter. Renee only fought him as well, clawing at his arms and screaming. Frightened and worried about her parents, a sort of blankness overtook Aspen.
While she cried, her parents suddenly stopped fighting, and were staring at the place Aspen stood.
Their daughter had disappeared.
A couple of weeks later (fortunately, Renee spent these weeks in more of a depression than her anger), A recruiter from Hammel came for her.
Her mother, in a state of regret and sadness, begged her daughter to stay and care for her mother. David, on the other hand, insisted she leave for her safety and well-being. Confused and unsure, Aspen decided alone to leave so she could learn how to control the random moments of invisibility she now experienced so frequently.
It took her time to master her calm, but she graduated at eighteen with a good grip on her powers. She made no special friends or connections while in school due to her shyness, but still did well throughout.
Despite graduating, she had remained in Pilot Ridge. Now that she was old enough to understand her mother's illness, she feared returning. She now works as a library intern in the institute. She keeps regular correspondence with her father, but rarely asks about her mother as she used to.
Roleplay Example
Is Casper Cole enough? :> If not, I'll whip something up.
What About You?
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Name: Mel
Age: Fifteen. :>
Experience: Once before, for all of about a week. So, we'll just go with 'no experience'.
How Did You Find Us? An ad.
Ready To Play? Sir!
