"It's amazing how everything can change in the blink of an eye."
Name: Bella Jade Aset
Nickname: Jade (by friends, but not her family).
Age: 20 years young.
Sexuality: Bisexual, with a heavy female preference. ♀
Pantheon: Egyptian.
Ancestor: Isis.
Occupation: Makeup artist and mourner for the Funeral Home, and in college to become a pathologist.
Likes:
☑ Reading and writing poetry
☑ Drinking
☑ Partying
☑ Sushi
☑ Her powers
Dislikes:
☒ Living in the shadow of her sisters
☒ Feeling like the black sheep of her family
☒ Soda
☒ Carrots
☒ Being judged
Fears:
! Maniaphobia [Fear of insanity]
! Apiphobia [Fear of bees]
! Merinthophobia [Fear of being bound or tied up]
Hobbies:
⚓ Photography. Mostly nature, or candid shots.
⚓ Writing. (She's been working on a novel for two years)
Ancestor: Isis, the Egyptian goddess and patroness of nature and magic. Protector of the dead and the goddess of children.
Powers:
♧ Life Touch. Jade has the ability to turn back the clock on aging by touching someone. Likewise, she can also spin the clock forward, rapidly aging them.
⚘ Projected Protection. Jade has the ability to create a force field around objects, herself, and others. While in the shield she can levitate objects, but not people.
ღ Mother's Touch. Jade can emit a soft, calming aura around herself that is increasingly potent if she is touching the person or animal. It is invisible, and cannot be detected by humans.
Weaknesses:
♧ She only has control over this power when she is touching someone- when the connection is broken, the effect stops, and the person will continue aging as normal. The power only works on humans- or those without supernatural abilities (she cannot use it on herself or those like her).
⚘ The shield is good for any mortal weapon or danger- however, magical entities can pass through it, and she can not shield something (or some one) for more than ten minutes.
ღ For the effect to work it's best, she must be touching the person's skin, but standing next to them will still give the effect. She has to be focusing for the aura to hold up, and loud noises and stress make it nearly impossible. If she is not calm- she cannot calm others.
Strengths:
♕ Listening. Jade is very good at being a shoulder to cry on, or punching bag. She's very good at taking in information without flaunting her own views or opinion.
♔ Vanishing act. Jade is scary good at being everywhere, and nowhere, all the time. She seems to be in the right place at the right time, all the time.
Thoughts:
"I think we should all be a little less concerned with the matters of where everyone came from, and more concerned with where we're going."
Personality:
Jade is an extremely bright and caring young woman. She will almost always go out of her way to help a friend in need, as long as it's on the down low and out of the public eye. This could be considered a weakness of hers, as she is often giving more than she should be. Jade is always willing to help, but she doesn't want praise for her actions. In fact, she'd just as soon pretend she doesn't care, and blow someone off, then secretly go help them. Because she is extremely caring, she gets herself hurt or into trouble with her older sister for helping the 'wrong type' of people. Jade is a ‘glass half full’ kind of girl, and enjoys life. She loves reading almost more than she loves picnics in the graveyard at night. She can be a bit of an introvert sometimes, preferring the dead to the living when it comes to men. She grew up thinking she was a little off, and perhaps even corrupted. She didn't swoon over boys the way her younger sister did, and she didn't seem to have an overwhelming need to mother like her older sister. She found out that she was officially bisexual in seventh grade, and she's had a preference for women ever since. She loves the way the walk, talk, look, act, carry themselves-- pretty much everything about them. It's not that she's ever had a bad experience with men, she was just born this way.
Jade is terrible at lying, and not very good at being sneaky either. On the other hand, she is very good at keeping secrets! Then again, who would she tell? The corpses she works with? She loves animals, particularly birds, because her father used to call he ‘little bird’. Robins and Blue Jays are her favorites. She secretly writes in a diary, religiously, every night. Jade is a big scardie-cat when it comes to haunted houses, or scary movies... I mean, the girl sleeps with all of her limbs tucked under the covers for fear of a demon grabbing them if one dangles off. Even still, she loves graveyards and cemeteries- she works in the funeral home, after all. Jade feels as though she has a deep connection to the dead, and it helps her to feel a little closer to her mother. Sometimes Jade likes to slip away from everyone and just sit quietly by herself. Not that she's broody all the time, but just sometimes-- the weight of death starts to bring her down a bit. It's generally days like this that inspire crazy weekends.
Around strangers Jade is very quiet and shy, but around friends she is loud and silly. She loves to try new and exciting things, though this has gotten her into serious trouble with Alaura before. Unlike her elder sister, Jade doesn't see a problem with letting loose on Saturdays to have a little fun. She's been known to drink every now and again, and she's a social smoker. She's a fun drunk, a bit bubbly and giggly, but never violent. Maybe a part of her just likes to ruffle her perfect older sister's feathers. Jade has been known to achieve this by jumping off the local bridge, skinny-dipping, staying out past curfew (when she was younger), and coming home smelling like cigarette smoke and alcohol. Bella loves photography, reading and writing, which would probably be her top three favorite things; aside from women. She's never pictured herself settling down with a man, and certainly doesn't plan on getting pregnant- ever. The idea of childbirth terrifies her. "Have you even seen a birthing video? You couldn't pay me. No. Not for me. I'll leave the grandchildren up to Alaura and April- I'm sure they've got it covered."
Humble|| Listener || Adventurous ||Loyal || Terrible liar || Silly|| Borderline Lesbian|| Creative|| Daring || Intelligent || Dark|| Caring
History:
Bella Jade Aset was born as the second child to her parents, and was robbed of her position of "The Baby" a mere two years into being the apple of her parent's eye. She was quickly swept to the side, though unintentionally, by her parents to make room for their new bundle of joy. She was only thirteen when their mother died, but she doesn't remember most of that day. She's blocked most of it out from her memory. The only thing she does remember is Alaura pulling her from the back of the van and swimming her through the water to safety. They both nearly drowned; because at the time Jade did not know how to swim. Alaura seemed to be her mother ever since that day, and when she was younger she certainly did her fair share of stressing the eldest out. Partying, smoking, drinking, and coming out of the closet... even still, Alaura never seemed to give up on her, and never once made her feel unloved. For that, Jade will always love her, even if she wants to strangle her sometime. Sisterly love, eh? When it comes to the younger, Jade is indifferent. She loves her, of course, but she never connected with her the way Alaura connects with everyone. Maybe it was because she stole the role of baby, or maybe it's because she's so beautiful and so much like Alaura who perfectly reflects their mother... either way, over the years Jade has let herself fade off into the background. Her father has already told her that the bakery and house will go to Alaura, if anything were to happen to him.
Jade started working for the funeral home when she was fourteen, and got her own place when she was 18. A small townhouse, close to the heart of town. She was overjoyed, and very proud of herself. Her favorite spot being the patio out back, where she does most of her writing. It wasn't long after moving into her townhouse that she realized how lonely she was, having left her family. She decided that since she had a house, she finally had something to offer the most beautiful woman in town. Gwyn. It seemed logical, and Gwyn was brilliant so she would be a perfect study buddy for college (Jade is studying to be a pathologist).
It took everything she had to finally as her girlfriend to move in with her. After all, that had only been dating for six months, but oh! How perfect those six months had been. After much debating, Gwyn agreed and moved in. Life was perfect for Jade. She had never been happier. Her nights were filled with cuddling next to her lover, forced to watch Gwyn's favorite genre (horror). Jade had everything she could ever want-- and she fucked it all up.
One night, after a particularly sad and dark day at work, Jade decided that she wanted to go out and have a good time, but Gwyn was off visiting her parents for the weekend. Rumor had it that Quincy was back on the drugs, so she went to him for a good time. And a great time she had... too good of a time. When she woke up the next morning, she had no idea what had happened the night before; but she was pleasantly surprised to find Gwyn home early and taking a shower. "Morning, baby, you're back early," she called into the bathroom as she slowly pulled herself from the bed and walked towards the door. The room was frigid against her naked form. She slowly pushed open the door, and froze at what she saw. A man. In her shower. In her house.
The weight of what had happened landed on her chest like a thousand bricks, and she actually fainted in the doorway. When she woke up again, the naked man was gone but the feeling in her heart was still there. When Gwyn came home, Jade was in tears and confessed to everything that she could remember. The drinking, the party- and then waking up to a naked man in the house. "I think we had se- Baby, don't- please! Please, look at me, Gwyn, I- Come back! GWYN!" Hot tears poured down her face as she chased after the love of her life. Gwyn got in her car and sped off, leaving Jade to collapse in the driving, sobbing in the rain.
Two months later
"Bella, have you put on weight?" Alaura asked one day, as they met for coffee at their dad's bakery. [color=darkred]"Yeah, a little.." "Breakup blues?" "Yeah," she sighed, looking down at her coffee cup miserably. Alaura frowned and reached across the table, gently stroking her sister's hand. "At least you confessed, and you are truly sorry... just give her some time. I'm sure she'll forgive you."
Five months later
Jade stood silently in front of the mirror, staring blankly at her naked reflection. There was no denying it. Where her stomach had once been beautifully flat, it was starting to swell. Just slightly, but noticeably if she wore a shirt that was too tight. There was no convincing herself otherwise, because after seventeen pregnancy tests-- she was pregnant, and her entire world was about to change.
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