Loreitia Zhialao
The Basics
|Nickname:| None
|Age:| 27
|Gender:| Female
|Race:| Celestial Warrior
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|Height:| 6'2"
|Weight:| 196 lbs
|Eye Color:| Grey
|Hair Color:| Brown
|Skin Tone:| Olive
|Distinct Markings:| A stylized scale with equal balances on her lower back
|Physical Description:| When Loreitia was young it was clear she was going to be tall. Even as a youth she remained taller than her peers, continuing to grow until she was twenty. She was taught hand-to-hand combat since her childhood, specializing in leg attacks, giving her powerful muscles. Her very body is a weapon that she hones and she is proud of it.
Confidently, she wears her hair long. When not exercising she keeps it free; while exercising she pulls it back into a tail or bun. Her eyes are reminiscent of her father's, almond, while the color draws from her mother's family. Loreitia's skin is olive toned that varies in its shades of light and dark depending on the amount of time she spends inside or outside. Because she usually exercises outside, save for the coldest or harshest of weather, her skin remains a dark olive shade.
Personality
|Likes:| Fighting is a favorite past time for Loreitia. Her father was the one who taught her how to fight, to keep her body limber and fluid when she moved. Now that her father has passed, when she fights she does so in her father's memory.
|Dislikes:| Loreitia is an abnormal woman and she knows it. Most women do not reach her height and few men do either. However, many find this to be an invitation to attempt to make her conform or feel awkward about herself and the lack of femininity in her height. Above all, she hates people who treat her this way and will often go out of her way to deliberately wear traditionally masculine garb to show how much she doesn't care.
|Personality Description:| In spite of her love of fighting, Loreitia is a quiet person. She enjoys solitude and peace, preferring to exercise in secluded places away from civilization and noise. She does not often get time for this because she is the lead instructor at her late father's dojo. When she was young she might have been shy, but now she clearly is not. Though she does not speak unless she needs to, Loreitia is a confident woman and has gotten used to the spotlight her height places her in.
Secretly, she does enjoy feminine things as well. Though she has gotten used to blatantly displacing gender roles, she enjoys shopping for luxurious things and dressing up when the occasion calls for it. She learned from her mother and aunts how to sew and will often make accessories for her outfits. At the end of the day she will take off her pants and shirt to replace them with a feminine robe while she takes her time in the bath or in front of the mirror, pampering herself with lotions and oils she saved up for.
Abilities
|Elemental Ability:| Using the air around her, she can create winds to boost her speed and allow her to jump higher or stay in the air longer, giving her the brief illusion of flight. She can also change the pressure of the air around other people, making it lighter or heavier, while she remains immune to the change. When used on a large scale, she can lessen or amplify nearby storms. When used on a small scale she can create "bullets" of air pressure, making her blows sharper or giving her a lethal long range attack. Because of her sensitivity to the air she has a quaint talent for weather prediction.
|Specialized Element:| Air pressure
|Weapon of Choice:| Her legs and fists.
History
|Past:| Shian Zhialao, father of Loreitia Zhialao, was the middle child of a family deeply entrenched in martial arts who lived near Gellus Castle and often became renowned guards there. Shian, however, didn't wish to become a guard. Instead, he wanted to travel, explore places and meet people. As a middle child, he was allowed to do this and sent on his way with wishes of luck. It was in Tueor that he met Danosia, the daughter of a tailor and his future wife. He remained in Tueor for a time, courting Danosia for a year. Shian then asked for her hand in marriage, to which she accepted, and they were married.
But married does not mean settled and neither of them were quite ready to settle. Shian suggested to his new wife that she join him in traveling and she agreed. The two were a young, vibrant couple, happily traveling across the land until Danosia became with child in their third year of marriage. Shian took his wife to his family at the Gellus Castle to wait for their child to be born. During this time he practice his family martial arts seriously, hoping that he might be able to open a dojo to secure a stable future for his new family. He asked his family elders for permission and, shortly before Loreitia's birth, they granted it.
By the time Loreitia was two she and her parents moved to Lapideus, where two of Danosia's sisters had moved to start a shop. There Shian opened his dojo, where he drew many young men seeking to learn how to fight without weapons. Loreitia grew up seeing her dad teach people the ways of this kind of fighting style and would often clumsily mimic him as soon as she could walk.
When she was five her father took her into his classes and began seriously teaching her, seeing her youthful passion to follow her father's footsteps. Shortly after this Danosia became pregnant again, this time with a boy. Loreitia took her duties as an older sister very seriously, guarding little Shou fiercely, even from the neighbor's curious puppy.
Soon enough both Loreitia and Shou were learning their family's art, though Shou was much more reluctant. He preferred staying with his mother, learning how to sew and making clothing with his aunts. Shian didn't mind, but insisted that he still learn. This prompted Loreitia to learn fighting vigilantly. She knew her brother was not a fighter and if he didn't fight then she would protect him always.
As they grew older Loreitia grew taller and taller, a skinny girl blossoming into an intimidating warrior. Many of the dojo boys looked up to her and she slipped into the role of a junior instructor before she was fifteen while her brother slipped out of the dojo and into his aunts' shop. Outside the dojo was another story. Both siblings were enrolled in school and children are not kind. While Shou was relatively normal and accepted his sister was another story. She was a head taller than most of the boys, intimidating with her hard earned muscles, and her grey eyes were piercing.
It was quickly learned that she was not to be bullied, but neglect itself is another kind of bullying. Loreitia had few friends in school, save her dear brother, and grew rather shy for a time. Her height wasn't something she could change and she refused to give up martial arts. Shian noticed his daughter growing withdrawn over the school year and, worried, he and Danosia talked to her.
Slowly, after this talk, Loreitia began to disregard her peers' opinions. When she graduated from the school she stowed her silly diploma in the back of her closet and began working full-time at the dojo at the age of twenty. It was at this age that her father had felt the need to travel, but Loreitia felt no such need and stand firmly rooted. She was quite content with her life until her father fell sick two years later during a fierce winter. He was recovering by the time spring came, but he was still weak when another illness struck him and this time he did not recover. While at his bedside Shian told his daughter he knew of her secret.
Since the age of ten she had discovered her sudden ability to manipulate the air around her, making her faster, allowing her to glide, jump higher, and do all kinds of unnatural things. Her father had secretly watched his daughter discover and experiment with these abilities and researched what this meant for her. Through this research he discovered his daughter was the reincarnation of a celestial warrior of air and told her just a day before his death.
|Location:| Lapideus City
|Allied with:| Neutral. Until she becomes personally affected she will remain indifferent to either side.
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