Face The Day ✧ Ghost ✦ Slow Burn ✧ Team Best Team ✦ Pretty Little Head ✧ All Is Well (Its Only Blood)
{"Terror made me cruel..."}
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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Vitalia Ramona Grigori
| N I C K N A M E |
Talia
| A G E |
16
| G E N D E R |
Female
| P A R E N T |
Hades
| B I R T H D A T E |
November 15th; Scorpio
♏
| E T H N I C I T Y |
Russian
| S E X U A L I T Y |
Panromantic; Asexual
{"We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us. "}
- Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas
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5’7”
| W E I G H T |
122lbs
| E Y E C O L O R |
Light Blue
| H A I R C O L O R |
Blonde
| A P P E A R A N C E |
Tall and slim, not very muscular but not fat either. Shes got fair skin, long blonde hair, and blue eyes which is a family trait coming from her mothers side. Her style never varies much, and she often stays consistent with her hair and make up. No matter what she always braids her hair, always does her make up in dark shades, and always puts on dark clothing no matter how hot it is. She wears lots of leather and dark clothing. She has various piercings and tattoos, most of her tattoos resembling things that are very near and dear to her heart. Such as the pattern of buttercups (flowers) tattoo'd on her upper arm, and the various swirling names on the branches of a tree on her left hip/back region (Containing her families names.) Her zodiac (Scorpio) is tattoo'd in the form of scorpion bearing a tailed M on her collar bone, just high enough that its stinger can be seen if she wears low cut shirts. Finally she has the worlds "Still Standing" in Russian on both of her legs, the word still being placed on her left and Standing on her right.
| O D D I T I E S |
Watered down Russian Accent
{"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in constrast."}
- Charles Dickens
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✦ Sarcastic ✧ Controlling ✦ ✧ Adaptive ✦ Observant
Talia is your average moody teenager - only, shes got a good reason to be. Okay, not that good of a reason, but non-the-less she is moody and there's not much to stop it. While she can be pretty cheerful (or as cheerful as her perpetual sense of anger will let her) she can also be a handful and for the people who have to deal with her it can be a bit much. Shes a sarcastic little spitfire, with a way of taking words and twisting them into something else. She seems to hear what she wants to hear, and often develops a case of selective hearing when people try and talk to her about whats bothering her. She hates small-talk, but she doesn't exactly hate people who talk to her. She likes having friends, and she likes being around them, its just that the way she is, her constant mood swings are a bit of a problem. While she admits that it is a problem she has yet to do anything to really fix it. Especially since her mouth has often gotten her into more trouble than what its worth.
On another side of the spectrum Talia is rather adaptive to her situation. She learns when she needs to, does research if need be, and always tries to maintain her ability to quickly keep up with the change happening around her. Its a pretty big balancing act for someone who has spent much of her life in one place, but she manages it quite well. Shes also rather observant, more so than what she should be at such a young age. While you may think she is being quiet because she has nothing to say, it is more likely that she is listening and watching those around her. She gathers secrets like a spider catches flies - but she isn't the kind to blackmail anyone. Simply uses her powers of observation to keep tabs on those around her - you never know whose a good or bad guy.
From her father she developed a bit of his peacekeeping sensibility - shes always ready to fight with others herself but when it comes to anyone else fighting friends/family she is likely to step in and try and stop it. Unfortunately she did not develop his calm; which she could have very much needed considering her angsty teenage mood swings. However there are a few situations in which Talia is completely at peace; 1) Being around her family, and 2) being when she has full control over a situation. A lack of control often makes her feel lost, or weak, and often causes her to lash out more often then not. But when she has control, and an uninterrupted routine she can function quite well.
Some would say shes rather childish still for a 16 year old; and she would reply that she is still trying to shake off the years of damage done by her mother. Sure its a flimsy excuse now that shes away from the woman who practically ignored her every need for a parental figure, but its still a valid reason for her to act out and seek attention based on her own thoughts.
{“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.” }
- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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✧Netherkinesis - Excels in communicating with spirits, but unfortunately has little control over summoning or manipulating them. Which she finds very aggravating.
✧Umbrakinesis - Her strongest and most potent ability, she finds controlling shadows extremely easy, and is at her strongest swathed in darkness.
✧Currency Manipulation - She often struggles with this power, another sore point with her. While with high concentration she can achieve this sort of manipulation, she still has to use a lot of concentration for it.
| S T R E N G T H S |At Least five. Repeat if needed.
✦Speaks Her Mind – Talia isn’t afraid to say what shes thinking, and in that respect most would consider this a weakness. She considers it her greatest strength, as it shows she isn’t a liar.
✧Learns Quickly – She has always been someone who adapts fast, and learns faster. She consumes knowledge at a rapid pace; but she doesn’t always use it.
✦Thinks Fast – In stressful or high intensity situations she is capable of finding a solution to a problem on the spot, giving her an edge up when it comes to danger.
✧Intelligent – Because she uses her mind the most she is rather intelligent, whether she uses this intelligence for her benefit or not is up to her; most of the time she does not unless she needs to.
✦Strong Willed – she is exceptionally strong willed, refusing to bend over backwards for anyone else; this makes her somewhat averse to authority though.
| W E A K N E S S E S |As many or more as Strengths. Repeat if needed.
✦Weak; Physically – She doesn’t spend much time doing exercise, she does take a gym class but she only works half as hard as anyone else.
✧Needy – She is kind of dependent emotionally on other people, she can live without them of course, but when they are in her life she likes to think that they are her world.
✦Sarcastic – Her sarcasm isn’t usually the nice, playful teasing kind, but more so the rude kind. Which usually results in bad views towards her.
✧Perpetually Angry – While she can be happy, and act cheerful, she seems to always have a perpetual air of anger that never leaves. People often think she is angry with them, even when she isn’t.
✦Stone Walls – She doesn’t like people to know what she is feeling, or thinking, so she does a lot of stone walling.
{“You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.” }
- ― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
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✦ Photography – “I like taking pictures of things, I’m not very good, but I think it’s pretty cool.”
✧ Scrap Booking – “Okay yeah, its totally lame but if I’m going to take the pictures I might as well do something cool with them.”
✦ Skating – “As you can tell most of my hobbies are weirdly hipster or lame, oh well.”
| H A B I T S |
✧Pulling Out Hair – “I know it’s a super bad habit, but I only do it when I’m stressed.”
✦Cracking Her Knuckles – “I do it so much it’s become annoying even to me…”
✧Bouncing Her Leg – “All the time, without even knowing it, I hate it but can’t stop.”
| L I K E S |
✦Winter – The dreary landscape during winter is her favorite.
✧Darkness – This goes without saying.
✦Rock Music – she isn’t fond of any other music.
✧Cats – She relates to them in a way.
✦Pool – She’s pretty good at it.
| D I S L I K E S |
✦Summer – She isn’t fond of the heat.
✧Children – Shes perfectly fine with her own siblings, but any other kid is annoying to her.
✦Small Dogs – Big ones are fine, small ones are annoying.
✧Small Spaces – she hates being trapped.
✦Prejudice – Talia can be rude, she can be mean, and she above all else can come off as snobbish, but she is in no way Prejudice against anyone.
| G O A L S |At least three. Repeat if needed.
✦ Full Control - She knows it may be unrealistic, but someday, she hopes to have control over every aspect of her godly powers.
✧ Riches - While she didn't grow up in low class poverty she did toe the line between that and middle class, where many of her clothes were thrift shop bought and passed down to the twins as the years went on. They ate a lot of simple throw together dinners, and never got to go out and enjoy family time together. She wants her life to be different.
✦Overcome Fears - While she has yet to achieve this she wants to overcome her fears and put her weaknesses behind her.
| F E A R S |At least three. Repeat if needed.
✧Fire - A rather bad experience trying to cook her own dinner as a kid led her to this fear, she can barely touch a stove anymore and gets nervous even at the smallest of flames.
✦ Gore - Okay, so yeah she likes darkness and all that crap but shes really not a fan of organs, blood, or anything else related to viscera.
✧ Claustrophobia - Small spaces are a big nope.
{“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” }
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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Saint Petersburg, Russia
| H I S T O R Y |
As a child, Talia knew no difference between her step-father and the father of hers that her mother spoke often of, and in fact for a long time there after she had believed her step-father to actually be her father. Until that is the fighting started, and the man had confessed to Talia that though he had allowed her to call him her father he had in fact never been her father at all. It was, to a 5 year old that is, a rather devastating moment in her life - and she honestly did not want to believe it. Worse was that she really didn't understand quite what that meant. So he wasn't her father...then who was? She wondered if her little brother Timur was fatherless as well, but that became known when her now ex-step-father asked for partial custody of him and not for her. Another thing that caused her to hate the man.
Again, not even a year later her mother met another man, became pregnant once more and birthed the twins that following year. At this point, 6 - nearly 7 - years old she was fully able to start asking questions. Who is he? Whats he like? Did mom actually know him? That last question got her a prompt smack to her face; her mother hadn't quite been prepared to be questioned so thoroughly by her six year old and had felt bad about it immediately. But she was still sternly refusing to tell Talia anything. Talia didn't know why until she got older and realized her mothers selfish ways.
She grew up in a household with a mother that was more like a friend or sister, always bidding for her and her siblings favor, but never really taking care of or guiding them in life. Its no surprise when she decided to quit going to school one day; and proceeded to skip school for weeks afterward. Her mother didn't even know until the schools calls finally got through to her. And she didn't seem to care. "If its what you want honey," She would say, or "Just come home when your done." Talia fell into a crowd that wasn't quite bad, but they weren't good either.
She was twelve when she got her first piercing, fourteen when she started piling on the tattoos. She didn't see anything wrong with it, and honestly she was just waiting for her mother to tell her that enough was enough - she never did. From her fourteenth birthday onward she ran the streets with a pack of unruly, and uncared for children. It was on such an outing that her powers began to manifest, she had felt it first in the shadows of a dirty alley. The shadows around her moving unnaturally, she had been afraid - and then all at once she was not. She could feel the power, running through her.
Talia went home that day, she confronted her mother and this time she didn't back down. Accusations were thrown back and forth, in Talias eyes the mother that had never truly been there was a whore, for using her habit of sleeping around to try and lie to Talia. But Talia knew how to tell when her mother was lying - she pushed, and pushed until finally - she gave a name. Hades.
Now, her first thought was not - my father is a Greek God. But after meeting him (there was no choice really her powers had begun to manifest in ways that were entirely out of her control.) She understood immediately that her life was changing. While she rejected him at first (who was he to suddenly tell her she needed to go to some random school to train, when she barely even knew him.) But somehow he managed to convince her. And she found that despite being entirely un-amused by him (at least for a while.) she had to reign in some control over the shadows that seemed to dance about wherever she went.
| F A M I L Y T I E S |
Hades| "Considering I didn't know the guy for half my life, it came as a pretty big surprise when he weaseled his way in. Sure at first he was really annoying with the you've got gods blood in you and powers yadda yadda bullcrap. But then I started warming up to him. I mean, hes eccentric as hell and more like a weird uncle, but I've grown rather fond of the antics at this point. We don't spend much time around each other, but I've still grown sort of embarrassingly attached to the idea of him."
Vera Grigori 35| "I'm close with my mom, but kinda too close. I mean, she was pretty young when she met Hades so when I came about it was pretty much like a baby raising a baby. when I got old enough we were more like friends than mother and daughter - which was not a good thing really. I love her and all, but I really could have done with some parenting."
Roza and Uliana Grigori 10| "the twins were born last, they came with step-dad number 2. I'm pretty close with them, I mean, I was more of a parent than mom was a parent but that's besides the point. We enjoyed each others company, and I made it my job to protect them no matter what.
Timur Grigori 15| "My little brother, he came a year after but he likes to pretend hes older than me. Always giving me life advice, always pretending to be an adult - well I've got news buddy, you aren't an adult. Anyway he isn't so bad if you can look past the whole I'm a grown up in a 15 year old body type thing."
{“My coffee gets increasingly better the more I drink and the closer I come to the bottom of the cup, where all the sugar is. I wonder if life is the same way as we approach the end.”}
- Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
Kathryn Newton
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| P R O T R A Y E D B Y |
Bartholomew Finch