Age: Twenty-one
Sexuality: Pansexual
Faceclaim: Aurora Aksnes
Hexcode: #330033
W E I G H T || One hundred and twenty-six pounds
E Y E S || Heterochromia, light blue and light brown
H A I R || Pale blonde, silvery
O D D I T I E S || Tattoo of triple goddess moon on right palm, these symbols on her right hand, this over her heart, this on one leg and this on the other, and this on her chest.
A P P E A R A N C E || Petite and fae-like, Lina is slim, short, and pale looking, her most striking features are her light hair and colorful eyes, and she is graceful. She usually wears something along the lines of this, this, or this. She also wears a hearing aid on her left ear, usually hidden by hair.
flowers â flower arrangements â honesty â sewing â artistic
projects â dancing â exotic teas â jade green â crystals
â handmade jewelry â vintage jackets â dogs â writing â lit
fireplaces â blankets â storytelling â asl â used books â jewelry
making â crafting flower crowns
Q U I R K S ||
-- always doing something with her hands:
creating keeps her occupied and makes her feel useful, and
making things beautiful calms her
-- braiding different strands of hair:
this gives her something to do with her hands and gets her
hair out of her face
S T R E N G T H S ||
-- intuition: Lina holds an intimate
clear knowledge of things, and grabs insights that escape
the normal thought process. This can be from people, stories,
places, or things.
-- flower arrangement: A rather
strange skill, but one that Lina enjoys, so she makes all the
arrangements for the house.
-- crystal healing: Lina has a
strange connection with crystals, and is able to use them
and attune to them in order to heal emotional wounds.
-- intelligence: despite her aloof
attitude, Lina is exceedingly books smart, and often reads while
she does other things, she knows thousands of odd things about
a plethora of different topics from submarines to the history of
cheese.
loud noises â dreams â learning something about someone
that she didn't mean to â impatience â showing too much skin â
forgetting things â running â darkness â being stressed â
getting lost â itchy clothes â coffee â uncomfortable shoes â
people speaking too fast or too quiet â abusers
F E A R S ||
-- dreams: nightmares plague
Lina's sleep, so sometimes she stays up all through the night,
even when she needs sleep.
-- abuse: Lina was an odd child
growing up in poverty, she wishes to never be harmed like she
was then.
W E A K N E S S E S ||
-- physicality: because of her life
experience and stature, Lina is not as physically capable as many other
people, and can become worn out easily.
-- music: though she loves to hum
and listen to music, Lina is almost always off key, and has no
musical talent in her whatsoever.
-- social ability: because of her
intuition and her general oddness, many people who don't know
her often find her earnestness and look off-putting.
-- hearing: Lina is deaf in her right
ear because of abuse, and she is hard of hearing in her left ear
as well. Because this happened at a later age, she is still learning
asl, and speaks like a hearing person, but often must focus on lip
reading to know what is going on.
Lina doesn't often look on the bright side of things, mostly because there never was a bright side to things in her early life other than books. She can't focus on one thing for too long, so often goes back and forth between projects or tasks, which may be confusing to some, but her ability to multitask is unparalleled. Though not overtly emotional, Lina does feel things deeply, but she is able to compartmentalize in a healthy manner, and process her feelings remarkably well for someone so young. This, she believes, is all thanks to characters she loves in books who are strong and independent. He attunement to crystals is also beneficial emotionally, because she believes they help her organize and align her emotions and thoughts, and because of her belief, they do aid in her keeping her mind a tidier place than her physical space is. She lives amongst organized chaos because she had so many projects happening at once, her mind is much more tidy, which helps to deal with her relative mess.
She spends time learning about people and situations before doing something about them, and despite her dislike of planning and general creativity, she finds herself having to plan before entering in social interactions or working in a group. She is comfortable around people she knows and people who know her, but because of her off-putting look and outer persona, she must make an effort to be understood by others, which is often why she keeps to herself. She'd much prefer to be reading and dealing with flowers.
When she was twelve, after a particularly rough beating, Lina suddenly felt a clarity unlike anything she had ever felt before. She understood and felt the anger, frustration, shame, and fear of her father, who would soon be drafted into the army. When her mother came home, Lina understood her too, the lies, high, and shame. She realized that she understood many more things about old artifacts in their home and the people she passed on the street. Her mind moved at a hundred miles a minute, and she was confused and jumpy. Several days later, her mother left with a lover. Then, Lina found, at a passing market, a gem, that turned out to be quartz, that she was drawn to at one of the vendors. It helped her clear her mind form the waves of clarity about everything she saw. she began to collect little raw gems whenever those types of vendors passed through with the little money she could earn cleaning the homes of rich families.
She was neglected and abused by her father, and after many years was taken by an American couple when she was fifteen to live in the United States, where she perfected the little English she had learned in Ukraine and integrated herself into society after years of violence. The couple became her foster parents, and she loved them, despite never forgetting where she came from. They realized she was hard of hearing and cared for her medical needs, and her foster mother, who would be generally considered a hippie, taught her about crystals and let her work in their flower shop. She read, and learned, and grew, and became stronger. Before her eighteenth birthday, the couple got into a car accident that killed them, and Lina was sent, per order of her American mother, to live in Ashwood with a relative of her foster mother. After realizing the girl's abilities, the relative sent her to the home for other girls like her, girls with special abilities. Lina has grown, though her body is not as strong as is should be, her inner strength makes up for it, and though she has changed, she will never forget her origin and the pain that finally brought her to a decent place.