I thinks I can post me character here. . . we'll see what happens. It's an interesting experiment.
First Name: Tahira
Last Name: Ali
When he/she came here: Uhhhhhhh
Age: (this and real age confuse me)
Real Age: ...So she was 62 when the portal came for her!
I don't know what that translates into over here but okayyyy. . .
Alignment: Light
Description or Picture: Eh, let me get that for you.
Apologies, I couldn't find the normally colored one. But Tahira Ali is two or three inches shy of five feet, and has thin shoulders and a frail frame. Her hair is grey turning white, and her eyes are a light grey/blue color. Her skin is olive-toned, and her cheekbones high on her face, which is marked by a distinctive widow's peak. If that helps. Sorry again. :/
Backstory until Year 200 Before getting hereTahira Ali was born in May 1950 to Shasta Wadiri Almontaser, a dissident Uighur journalist writing during Mao's period, and Beatrice Marie Anandini, an expatriate philosophy professor working in Red China. She was born Elan Tahera Almontaser in a Washington DC area hospital while her parents filed papers for asylum in America. Shortly afterward, they decided their daughter was not safe and asked Shasta's sister, Sumitra, a failed missionary to the Arab world, to raise her instead. The whole family, less Elan's older brother David (who had recently graduated from a boarding school in America), adopted a series of false names and went underground.
She was raised under the name Tahira Ali alongside Sumitra (now Solara)'s daughter Alia. Alia had a near genius IQ and received a full scholarship to Tokyo International Academy. Due to the nature of Solara's missionary work, Tahira Ali was offered a full scholarship to the local Catholic school, which was run by a mission of nuns and a single priest. Most of the other students belonged to the European upper class, which ruled her predominantly Arab nation. She performed about average in school, excelling in math and theology, but only mediocre in science, history, and language.
Graduating in Spring 1968, the politics of her nation were growing tense, a bomb waiting to explode. Early August, tensions exploded, and a full scale revolution began, complete with vicious violence against the European oppressors. The first day of the so-called August Revolution, Tahira Ali disappeared and re-emerged over the following months as the world's newest mass murderer, killing victims in no less than five different countries. By December, she had murdered several high-profile victims, including an American Senator (and presidential nominee) and a renowned Catholic Cardinal, and she was the first woman added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted List.
As months stretched into years, unsolved murders were often attributed to Tahira Ali, who seemed to have disappeared. By the 1980s, law enforcement internationally suspected that she was involved with so-called "Islamic terrorist factions". By the 1990s, the FBI accumulated evidence that suggested ties to Usama bin Ladin and Al Qaeda. The current reward for Tahira Ali's capture is $25 million.
David Almontaser is now chair of the department of mathematics at MIT and married with five kids and a number of grandchildren and even a few great-grandchildren. He remains unaware to whom he is related, as no law enforcement agency has the information that Tahira Ali itself is really only a lifelong alias designed to protect against the schemes of Mao Tsetung. Solara (Sumitra) has since passed away. Alia received a Nobel Chemistry Prize before her death in 2006 during a brief war between two nations. Despite constant questioning, Alia denied any knowledge of Tahira Ali's whereabouts or activities up through her death. Solara coorperated with authorities, providing them with most of the known photographs or handwriting facsimiles the police have on file.
Tahira Ali was arrested on a tip from Alia's daughter, Kami, in 2013, and then went on trial. In Spring 2014, she was sentenced to death. It was shortly after arriving at the federal supermax prison that the portal appeared and she was taken from the Real World/One of my Novels.
after getting here Tahira Ali was confused and bewildered, unsure where she was or what was going on. So she turned to the coping skill that had worked so well for her back in the Real World, and disappeared, trying to avoid others. But avoidance only lasts so long, and recently, she decided that the darkness needed to be defeated once and for all. After all, she had changed in the last several decades of her time in the Real World. She wasn't a good person. Come to think of it, she was rather despicable. Yet she was capable of good, contrary to popular opinion, and wanted to do what was right.
What Did your Character come From? One of my own novels. Hence the extra info.