{"Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make out own place in it.”}
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Nirvana Elria
|{Nickname}|
Vana
|{Age}|
23
|{Sexuality}|
Heterosexual
|{Hometown}|
Born in Sydney, Australia, raised in Waldria
|{Blood Type}|
Half-Blood
|{Appearance}|
Nirvana stands at a mere five feet and two inches. She has a slim yet muscular body, looking like something of an athlete. Her extensive time climbing cliffs that overhang the ocean and swimming with her mermaids attests to her toned body. Yes, she is womanly but her lack of pure curves make her look young and boyish. Her wavy auburn hair is at a medium length just below her shoulders, and is often tangled at its own will. Her skin is pale and clear, but not without its charming light freckles. Vana has crystal blue eyes that complement her dark features and sharp facial structure.
|{Myth}|
The Mermaid
Mermaids are known for their seductive and treacherous tricks. They are direct decedents of ancient Sirens, a creature that is now extinct. The merfolk are beautiful and aloof, really only liking each other and their tamers. The merwomen sing songs and play petty games to trick men into drowning themselves. The mermen are strong and are known for tipping ships over, though they generally don’t cause much trouble. All of the mermaids have a special connection with the weather and making storms, but need to group together to make anything dangerous. Most mermaids are pure bred, but occasionally some one special can be turned into a mermaid. Via the mermaids breath the mermaid can inject a poison into their victim, most humans die from this but sometimes someone is properly turned. Though the mermaid is a powerful creature they have one major flaw. The merwomen are capable and often susceptible to falling in love with a humans. Most of these love stories in end very badly, but on rare occasion there is a happily ever after.
Singing | Nirvana learned to sing from the mermaids when she was a young girl. She has somewhat of a haunting and seductive voice because of the mermaids’ training.
Reading & Learning | Vana is a smart girl and is often found sitting at the oceans shore reading a good book.
Swimming | Naturally, Nirvana is a great swimmer and spends a lot of her time outside in the water.
Rock Climbing & Cliff Diving | Nirvana also has a knack for anything a little dangerous. She is often found cliff jumping into the ocean and rock climbing.
Bow & Arrow | Vana’s grandfather taught her how to use and bow and arrow. Her skills are not anything like the elves, but she’s something to be afraid of when she has a quiver on her back.
|{Fears || Weaknesses}|
Men & Love | Nirvana is generally untrusting of men and love and their fancies.
Physically small | Vana may be witty and a sharp with her tongue (something else she subconsciously learned from the mermaids), but she doesn’t have much body mass to fight well with.
Darkness | Though she may be right on target in the daytime she has poor depth perception at night. And though she would readily deny it, Vana is also afraid of the dark.
|{Way To Waldria}|
Nirvana learned an ancient trick that is restricted to the mermaids. Take a mermaid tear, a pearl, plop it into any kind of body of water while saying a string of Latin words and a portal just big enough for you will appear in the water.
|{Family Tree}
Lorenzo Elria | Grandfather | Pure-blood | Deceased
Victoria Gergel Elria | Grand-mother | Pure-blood | Alive
Fredrick Elria | Father | Pure-blood | Alive
Katie DeBreve | Mother | Human | Unknown
Nirvana was born into a wealthy pure-blood family of tamers as the bastard half-blood. The Elria name is known amongst most people in Waldria. They were her father’s family and were known as some kind of Dukes and Duchesses. Nirvana doesn’t know much about either side of her family. Her mother was poor human woman who her father wooed. They were never married, nor did Nirvana ever know her mother more than the three weeks a year that she saw her. Vana was raised in a proper family, but she wasn’t treated like the other cousins. She was half-blood and that was obviously a problem for many of the older folks in her bloodline.
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Nirvana has always had to stand on her own two feet. She may have grown up in one of the most wealthy and respected families of Waldria, but being the only half-blood made her strong. She is remarkably smart and witty, always trying to get under someone’s skin. Vana is a sweet tart to those she trusts and loves, but is something nasty and sour to those she doesn’t respect or care for. Having her heart broken by her family and their disloyalty to her has made Nirvana untrusting and sometimes unfriendly. Though she has calculated decided about most things in her life, she struggles when anything comes to love or affection. Perhaps it was because she wasn't given much affection has the outcast child, or maybe she just doesn't understand what those feelings are. Nirvana has never fully grasped the concept of duality in relationships and working with others; she is very much her own master and never really learned to play nice. Because of this odd concoction of traits Vana doesn't have many friends and appears stand offish to those who don't know her.
Vana is much like her father in the way that once she has decided on an idea there is no changing her mind. Her stubbornness is both a blessing a curse. Generally she knows what she doing, but sometimes her hard headedness bites her in the butt. Nirvana has lived a relatively lonely life, befriending her mermaids more than other tamers or humans. Though relatively secluded in her younger years, she manages herself will when speaking and interacting with others. It's hard to crack the shell that is around Nirvana's true personality, after all she's spent the majority of her life putting those defense up.
|{History}|
Nirvana grew up as the black sheep in her family. She was the only child to the son of Lorenzo Elria, who had a fling with an Australian woman when he was far too young to care for his own child. Her father, Fredrick, was at the ripe age of sixteen when he decided to go and play with the big boys, and at seventeen he was burdened with a little half-blood bundle of shame. Needless to say, Nirvana was raised by the Elria tribe, mostly under the direct care of her grandmother Victoria and her grandfather Lorenzo. Her grandmother, amongst the majority of the family was a terror to Vana, often giving her no guidance or just plain up ignoring her. Lorenzo was another story though, he was kind and forgiving of the lost girl, and even though he was apart of one of the longest pure-bred family lines he stilled loved Nirvana. Fredrick was an interesting fellow, and unprepared for a child when Nirvana came into this world. When he first receive Vana he was scared and didn't quite know what to do with her. As she grew up though his love for her grew, it grew until it was suppressed by the embarrassment that his family threw on him. Fredrick was always a very self-conscious man and never wanted to stray from the good life that his parents had provided for him. As Victoria distanced herself from the young child and shunned the idea of half-bloods in the family, her son Fredrcik slowly followed. By the time that Nirvana was fourteen she had learned how to be a good girl and do as grandmother says. Her father was a shadow of the man she remembered and her grandfather was dead, and now Nirvana was pretending to be someone she wasn't.
Now, ten years later, Nirvana's broken heartedness has turned cold. She is just as confused as she was when she was a child, but is far more equipped and confident to show it. Vana never grew up hating her family, but after years of searching for an answer she wants nothing more than to shame her grandmother's precious name. Still, the public knows nothing of her half-blood status, and Vana tries to keep up appearances. She keeps the Elria name in spite of everything, working her way closer to the family just so she can turn them on each other. Vana still lives in the mansion that she was raised in amongst the dozen other Elria's who live there, but she tries to avoid her grandmother and father.
|{Theme Song}
Marrow | St. Vincent
Muscle connects to the bone
And bone to the ire and the marrow
I wish I had a gentle mind
And a spine made up of iron
Mouth connects to the teeth
And teeth to the loves and curses
Honey can you reach the spot
That need oilin' and fixin'?
H-E-L-P
Help me, help me
H-E-L-P
Help me, help me
Muscle connects to the bone
And bone to the ire and the marrow
So I pretend there aren't ten strings
Tied to all ten of my fingers
H-E-L-P
Help me, help me
If you want we could go somewhere else
H-E-L-P
H-E-L-P
H-E-L-P
H-E-L-P
|{Other}
N/A
|{Face Claim}
Eleanor Tomlinson
Character Dialogue || #Color