Image Song: Rolling Girl
Species: Salamander Halfling
Gender: Female (But people believe she is male!)
Nickname(s): Gabe, Gabbie
Age: 16
Grade-Level: 11th
Dorm Number: 219
Appearance: Gabriel is a small woman, her height is nothing impressive; putting it bluntly she is a rather diminutive young lady. Sheâs very short for a boy, and still even small for a girl her age. She keeps her hair short thanks to the fact that she is enrolled at Merryweather Academy as a boy, it doesnât even touch her shoulders. Thanks to the fact that sheâs pretending to be a guy, she tends to make sure that her hair is a little on the unruly side at all times, but normally itâs so straight that it just sort of does nothing but what gravity tell it to.
From the back of her hair to the front; length is not very different, her bangs are kept to about the middle of her face and they produce gaps at her forehead that show her eyes quite well. Because she is pretending to be a guy, Gabriel is lucky for the fact that keeping her hair like this makes it look like she has a face that is just built androgynously, not quite soft enough to be a girl, but not harsh enough to be a guy. However, if she did have her bangs pulled up and away from the sides of her face, she would look very feminine, her face structure is undoubtedly that of a girlâs, high cheek bones, small nose and a very gentle sort of face, with large red eyes that make her look innocent. . . .
Sheâs quite the pretty thing really, but thanks to the practice she has had in acting as a boy, she is able to keep an expression upon her face that shows an air of mystery and mischievousness to it, a very slight smile and eyes looking placid.
Body wise, sheâs small, though she sort of developed a little bit sooner than other girls her age so she does possess a well-developed figure and body for someone of her size, already having surpassed most girls her age. However, she keeps this hidden from the world with very tightly wound breast bindings, and baggy clothing that does a good job of keeping her curves and figure hidden from view; coupling this with her hair and her bemused expressions, Gabriel is easily able to pull off looking like a boy.
If she were able to dress like a proper lady though, Gabriel would honestly look like a frail thing, her joints are a bit bony and her skin is very fair, almost too much for a boyâs, and thereâs barely a mark on it. However, this sort of frail appearance of hers that does carry on over when she has herself dressed as a boy has caused her to gain some unwanted attention. . . .
Preferred Clothing: Honestly, she loves very feminine clothing, skirts, shorts, blouses and such, but because she is hiding her gender, the clothing that she now wears is always baggy and made for boys.
Height: 5 ft 1 ins
Weight: 95 lbs
Measurements: 32-24-33 (83-63-86)
Hair Color: Golden Blonde
Eye Color: Ruby Red
Teenagers and their crazy imaginations, right?
The truth is though that Gabriel is genuinely sweet and kind, she never puts on a façade, nor does she fake how it is she is feeling. If she is angry, she sure as hell lets people know it; the very same can be said for however else she is feeling, whether she is happy, sad, scared, etc. In line with her bullheaded ways, she is not afraid to take a risk or two without considering the consequences; if she is dead set on doing something, she goes through with it! It is very hard to shake her opinion of people once she forms one.
If she believes someone is a good person, and truly kind she will not change her views for almost anything. She tends to maintain faith in people, even under the most horrible of circumstances. Frankly, it is hard to get her to truly hate someone. She knows people call her naĂŻve for this, but she embraces it and often will just smile to their claims and say, âAnd Iâm damn proud of it!â she believes in peopleâs hearts; she truly trusts that between good and evil, people will choose the right path.
Sheâs highly spirited, rather blunt, she likes playing simple pranks on people she cares about from time to time, and she will sometimes do this to get them out of their doldrums or to release tension in a situation. Gabriel isnât passed making herself look like a fool in order to get someone to crack a smile, to soothe a crying child, or to just dissolve a edgy situation; this involves her maybe tripping, falling in a comedic manner and possibly acting like sheâs stupid. She considers herself a people person, likable and charming.
Gabriel is capable of making friends fast, and is able to bond with others rather easy, getting attached at the drop of a hat. Once sheâs bonded with a person, sheâs liable to latch onto them at random, give them hugs and at times, tease them. Well, she would be able to do this if she didnât have to be so careful of her secret. At times, if things donât go her way, sheâll pout.
Gabriel is a good girl with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong; she is sensitive, bubbly and easily able to be moved to tears. Sheâs a kind-hearted youth whoâs into things most girls her age might be. She loves watching dramas, romantic-comedies, reading girly and emotionally gooey manga. . . . Sheâs shy around guys, jealous of other girls and their good looks, and envious of couples she sees around her school.
If she had the chance to be herself, as in be a girl, Gabriel would be someone who smiled and laughed, played jokes on others and would gush over who her latest crush was, or how good-looking a celebrity was. One thing though that has not let up despite the fact that she is hiding as a guy is the fact that she has a very evident, and odd phobia of aliens. For those who know, no one can understand why she has this phobia, or how she even developed it. Also, because she IS a teenager too, itâs not entirely out of the question that sheâll take something with a second meaning, and wind up with her mind in the gutter. Sheâs extremely shy toward these matters and itâll result with her having a reddened face, and going stark silent. If someone tries to talk to her when sheâs in one of these states, sheâll tend to just whine and stutter out something that makes no sense.
One thing to consider about Gabriel too, is her fierce need to protect and look out for those close to her.
Quirks: Despite her fear of aliens, Gabriel tends to always watch programs on them and UFOs, she doesnât know why she torments herself so; she simply does. Though, part of her rambles on about the fact that when Earth is invaded in the near future by the little green bastards; sheâll be ready for them.
Gabriel has been told that she sleepwalks. While sheâs not aware of if this is true or now, it has been claimed she wanders around after she is suppose to sleep, a deadened look upon her face, and sheâs unresponsive.
Despite disguising herself as a boy, Gabriel has maintained some rather feminine loves, such as the fact she greatly enjoys what is considered domestic work. . . .
Unlike most girls, sheâs not even remotely frightened of insects or spiders.
Likes: Sweets, video games, manga/anime, shopping, stargazing, friends, television and the Internet.
Dislikes: Math, homework, bitter and spicy foods, drama, bugs, thunderstorms, pain, blood, and rain, Aliens/UFO stories.
Hobbies: Stargazing, shopping, reading, cooking and online roleplaying.
Phobia(s):
Acrophobia - Heights
Brontophobia - Thunderstorms
Neilasparophobia - Aliens
Aquaphobia - Deep water
Skills: Sheâs a very nimble girl, because of her small size, sheâs agile and very fleet of foot. Also, she knows how to hit someone and make it hurt. Gabriel is not trained to fight, but she isnât helpless.
If there is one thing Gabriel is skilled at, it is the fact that she is able to quickly read a book and retain almost every bit of information from the text right off the bat; she has a very good memory, and has had it her entire life. This is why she has such good grades despite hardly ever studying.
Gabriel finds herself quite gifted in the area of literature, sheâs a capable writer and a little actress. From days spent alone, reciting dialogue from books, novels and movies to herself, Gabriel has found herself very skilled at the art of acting.
Roommate: Adrial Alleyne
Relationships
Family
Father â Lucas Sinclair (Deceased)
Murdered one rainy day several years ago.
Mother â Adella Blanchet (Living; whereabouts unknown)
Walked out on Lucas when Gabriel was nine, has not been seen or heard from since.
Grandfather â Maxwell Sinclair (Living; Gabrielâs guardian)
Took Gabriel in after her fatherâs death; until then, Gabriel had never met her fatherâs father. Maxwell had great shame in his son for having a child who was only half Salamander, and he disowned him because of this happening. Upon finding out of his sonâs death however, and the fact that his granddaughter was left alone in the world, Maxwell took her in so she could survive. He still holds much disappointment in her for being only half Salamander and also, for being a girl.
Friends
N/A
Enemies
N/A
Love Interest
N/A
Personal History: Gabriel was born as a result of a one-night stand between the human Adella and the salamander Lucas. It was intended to be this, however, when Adella discovered her pregnancy she was kicked out of her home by her parents, then promptly disowned. She came to Lucas and admitted to him the state of her being, the fact that she was carrying his child. Upon this truth becoming known, Lucas took responsibility for Adella and the child within her womb. Even though she was human, Lucas knew what he had done and understood the obligations he had to ensure the womanâs health. Adella herself was unaware of Lucaâs non-human blood, and believed the father of her child to be human. . . .
While Lucas was completely willing to assume the duties the situation called for and to take care of Adella and his child, Lucasâ father was not so keen on this. . . . Maxwell Sinclair would have preferred Adella to have an abortion, and then disappear from his sonâs life. Maxwell was the head of his family, the Sinclairs, and was not happy with the idea of his son having a child who was only a Halfling. Lucas was his only son, and the one who would carry on their familyâs name and bloodline. If anything, Maxwell did not want his familyâs blood to thin out because of a stupid mistake . . . he did not wish for the name of the Sinclairs to be tainted by the existence of a Halfling.
Lucas would not have this though, he would not have Adella abort the childâshe was healthy and so was the fetus, so there was no reason for such a thing to occur. Adella herself did not wish this done either. So, because his son refused to have the Halfling child aborted, Maxwell disowned his son and cut off all contact with him. From here on in Lucas and Adella were on their own; the former keeping the secret of his heritage an ongoing secret from the latter. Because they were on their own with a child on the way, the young couple struggled to get by . . . but managed to make it. After some hard months, Gabriel was born into the world, a happy and healthy little Halfling girl.
Her parents never married, but they remained together for some years, Lucas keeping the secret of his non-human blood under wraps. The small family was pretty happy together until Gabriel was nine, and her own powers as a Salamander Halfling awoke. With her daughter suddenly spewing fire, Adella learned the truth about Lucas, her daughter and why it was Maxwell Sinclair had been so upset about her pregnancy. Utterly horrified, she fled, then and there, leaving Lucas and Gabriel behind. This was the last time Gabriel ever saw her mother.
For the next three years, she would live with her father, being something of a daddyâs girl. Even though there were hard times, the father and daughter had each other, and that was enough for them to be happy. However, this meager lifestyle would abruptly end one fateful day when Gabriel was just twelve. While she was in school, her father was outâit was raining. . . . He was killed, having been mugged.
She was gathered from school without having any knowledge of what had happened . . . she was taken into the care of child services, while they tried to track down her mother, to no avail. The entire time this was going on, Gabriel was questioning what was going on, because she hadnât the slightest idea, she was never told until later on. When it was deemed impossible to locate Adella, child services was ready to place her into foster care, but before this could happen, someone intervened and stepped in, offering to take care of her. A rather regal looking elderly man came from nowhere, and said he would take charge of the girl. Gabriel didnât know who he was, and still did not know that her father had passed on. Gabriel asked him who he was, and why it was she was even there.
The man looked at her, eyes cold, and told her that he was her grandfather, and that she would be his ward because her father was dead.
Hearing her father was dead, Gabriel entered into a state of shock and subsequently fainted, her small body being caught by her grandfather, Gabriel was then taken by Maxwell to his abode and taken into his rigid care. Despite having come to take the girl into his care, Maxwell still was not pleased with the fact that the only living heir to his bloodline was a Halfling . . . and on top of that, a girl. He questioned her powers and her abilities at all, and wonder if she were worthy of even bearing the name âSinclair.â He had plans to see to the proper development of her powers, and making sure that she lived up to her surname.
As Gabriel came around from fainting; she was an entirely different girl, left in an emotional state of shock, she was rather doll-like, and unresponsive to whatever was said to her, whatever Maxwell told Gabriel to do, she did without question. The loss of her father wiped Gabrielâs personality clean.
When Maxwell had her demonstrate her poorly developed powers, he was nothing but enraged and ashamed of her for her weaknesses. It made him even more upset that she was a girl . . . he didnât want anyone to know of this. Of her. A few years passed, Gabriel still in her grandfatherâs care, he worked with her to develop her powers to no avail. She never seemed to improve because she lacked emotions. Fatigued of dealing with her, the elderly man looked into sending her off somewhereâit was then he enrolled the child into Merryweather Academy.
However, he filled out her forms and stated that she was not a female, but . . . a male. Maxwell didnât want it known that his only descendant was a Halfling girl, he felt like it shamed him and his familyâs well-known name. Gabriel retained her submissiveness from the emotional shock she went through years before and did not question her grandfather when he instructed her to have her hair cut and to begin binding her breasts at all times. Aspects of the girlâs personality had returned to her by this point, but she remained frightened of her grandfather and believed it best to not question him and his words.
Soon after this, the girl was shipped off to Merryweather Academy, disguised as a boy. . . .
Schedule: Algebra 1, Biology, Creative Writing, Literature and World History
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