Chess Belle
✖ Nicknames ✖
Chey (pronounced Shay)
✖ Age ✖
14
✖ Gender ✖
Female
✖ Sign ✖
Libra
✖ Role ✖
The Empress
✖ Sexuality ✖
She's a little young to have decided something so important.
✖ Nationality ✖
British English
✖ Face Claim ✖
Yayoi Takatsuki
4'9, 80 Ibs
✖ Hair Color ✖
Chess's hair color is a vibrant ginger, a mix of red, orange, and brown hues that make up the unique shade of her hair.
✖ Eye Color ✖
Chess's eyes are a wonderful turquoise. Some days they appear to be as deep as the ocean and as blue as the sky, others they are as green as spring grass and sparkle like dew covered leaves.
✖ Clothing ✖
Chess's clothing style is very relaxed, she dresses for her mood and can normally be wearing cute and comfortable articles that suit her body well.
Synethesia, a neurological phenomenon in which simulation of one cognitive sensory pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. In other words, Chess can hear smells and taste sounds. The alphabet and number line are in all different colors, each letter or number having a different personality and taste of their own. Is is due to this that Chess is artistically gifted, she can tell you when a note is good based on if it tastes sour or sweet or if a picture is symmetrical based on its sound. Her senses are finely tuned, like a violin waiting to be plucked, on its own one string makes a certain sound, but plucking several strings simultaneously make sweet music.
Of course this can also lead to sensory overload, it doesn't happen often but when it does just give Chess some space and let her breath. If she hasn't appeared to recover within a few minutes then Chess has either fallen asleep or passed out. In these instances it is important to check that she is still breathing because Chess has a tendency to hold her breath during these occasional freak outs. Thankfully they don't last long, but when they are over she may be thirsty depending on whether or not she has been screaming.
During these episodes Chess has no control and it sometimes scares people, but again they're very rare and easily contained.
Music || Drawing || Sweets || Jogging || Swimming || Spring || Cherry blossoms || Manga || Baby animals ||Having friends.
Dislikes
Liars || Broken Promises || The heat || Long winters || Cicadas || Worms || Being touched without permission || Bad tasting music || Sour sounds || Black licorice.
Flaws
Sensory overloads || Blunt || Candid || A bit spoiled
Fears
Dying from a sensory overload || Bodies of water bigger than a bathtub || The dark
Chess was born on a warm fall evening, the weather hadn't quite turned chilly yet and was still hot enough to be wearing summer clothes. The girl was born nearly four months early, with a weak heart and underdeveloped pair of lungs. The first year of her life was spent in the NICU, she was so fragile that her parents were afraid to hold her and to compensate they adorned her hospital room with pink balloons and teddy bears, patiently waiting for the day they could bring their baby girl home.
Three times during this stay code blue was called and Chess had to be revived. Three times they had nearly lost their one and only daughter, but Chess was a fighter and twelve months later, three days after her first birthday Chess was discharged and the neighborhood celebrated with a Welcome Home Chess Belle party. It was a fantastic event, quite a spectacle actually with her parents fretting over Chess and ensuring that everyone who showed up washed their hands thoroughly before touching their delicate child. At the end of the week Chess was readmitted to the hospital, this time because one of her lungs had collapsed.
The little girl grew up wheeling an oxygen tank wherever she went. People stared, teachers talked down to her with sympathetic smiles and other children excluded Chess from their games because she was too slow having to wheel around the little green tank. Chess would get sick often and have to stay home, sometimes she would make excuses so that she didn't have to face the bullies at school and the teacher's who pretended not to see. It was a hard and lonely life and so the girl retreated into her drawings.
They did not find out that Chess was a syntheset until she was six. At first her parents believed she was just babbling about how the Motzart tape they played in the car was so sweet, like chocolate covered marshmallows that it sometimes made her teeth hurt and the rap songs on the radio tasted like bad cheese. After a few doctor appointments it was confirmed that Chess had a very rare neurological condition called Synethesia.
All of a sudden Chess became the bell of the ball, her classmates wanted to know what their names tasted like and what personalities each letter had. Chess was happy to tell them and even happier at the attention she was suddenly getting. She had gone from being the class zero, to being celebrated by them all.
In fifth grade Chess's left lung collapsed again. This time time there was no saving it and it would only be a matter of time before her right one shriveled away. She needed a double lung transplant and the chances of a match were slim. So they waited, her classmates would come to visit, wishing her well and ultimately knowing the next time they saw Chess it would be in a casket and the tiny girl with a big personality would no longer be bubbling with excitement but would be laying still, somehow appearing peaceful and fulfilled even though her life had been so short.
Sometime during her stay Chess got sick and had to be moved to an isolated part of the hospital. No one could visit her, not even her parents due to the fear of outside germs and so she was alone once more. Chess spent her days falling in and out of consciousness, waiting for the relief of pain medicine and hoping that the burning in her chest would be relieved soon. Then a miracle happened, they found a match. A little girl around Chess's age had passed of a brain tumor and her parents decided to donate her body so that other's could live the life their daughter never got to.
Chess was the first on the list to receive the girl's lungs. The next time she woke up, there was a fresh pain in her chest but her parents were there, wearing masks and crying tears of joy.
Things changed afterwards, although she would occasionally still need the oxygen tanks Chess suddenly found that she could run with the other kids (although her weak heart did not like this, it eventually became used to exercise), she could sing and breathe without the pain and struggle to breath. All it took was a handful of pills a day to ensure that her body did not reject her new lungs and Chess was happy to take them.
Things were going great, life as she knew it just kept getting better and better and then a mysterious letter showed up at their door.
Hospital Mental Evaluation
Subject X42759, AKA "Chess Belle" has been evaluated by Dr. Cornelius Taft in accordance to the School Admissions Mental Health Test. Chess appears outwardly happy, when asked about the lungs she received 42759 suddenly became serious and expressed her deepest heartfelt apologies for the child who passed, but was ultimately happy that she was the one to receive the appendages. She even joked about maybe getting a "new heart" next. While 42759 does suffer from Synethesia it does not seem to bother her at all, in fact suffer would be the incorrect word as Chess seems to enjoy having it and depicted an outline of how numbers and letters appear.
What does concern Dr. Taft is the infrequent sensory overloads she experiences. Due to her lungs it is worrisome that she stops breathing during these "freak outs" and must be reminded to take deep, slow breaths. Other than that Dr. Taft was not concerned by anything, but has stated the importance of keeping an eye on her and ensuring that she does not get sick as even the smallest of colds could have dire consequences to a transplant patient.
