Hiwalani-Noa || Lani || 20 || Nymph || Pan
Lani has a certain control over plants, though plants native to Hawaii and other such animals bend easier to her will than others. Like other Nymphs, flowers bloom where she walks, though the flowers that she leaves behind tend to be ones found from her island home. When it comes to vines and common plants, she can manipulate their health and growth, even from a distance, though for larger plants – such as trees – she needs to actually place her hands on them to manipulate their health and growth. Her hair also has a Royal Poinciana flower that blooms whenever she's in a good mood and disappears when she's sad or in a bad mood. She can sense the health of plants around her and even though she knows that all plants must die eventually, she cannot help but to heal them. Ill plants dampens her mood and causes other plants around her to wilt. She is capable of healing herself and others through siphoning health from plants, but she doesn't really like the idea of taking health away from plants so she tends to have some herbal remedy instead and she's limited to cuts, bruises, headaches and things like that. She can't cure AIDS.
Appearance
Standing at 5'3" and weighing in at 124lbs, her hair is naturally a sort of honey blonde but she's been known to dye it a variety of colors. Her eyes are actually different colored. Her right eye is a really soft and bright shade of icy, crystal blue similar to Neal McDonough's while her left eye is a bright shade of brown with flecks of gold and green around the center. On her right hand is the same tattoo found on the right hand of Zane: a tribal Polynesian design that they got four years ago. She also has a tattoo on her left foot that she gave herself more recently. On her right arm is a colorful half-sleeve that she's been doodling on and off for the past two years. Her piercings include viper, shark, cyber, medusa, jestrum, nostril, right eyebrow, tongue, both ears tip to base and industrial, and navel. She never has them all in at the same time.
▲Singing // Dancing
▲Writing // Acting
▲Horticulture // Botany
▲Cooking // Baking
▲Gymnastics // Sports
▲Tattooing // Swimming
▲Multi-Instrumental // Audio Engineering
Fears
ϟBeing alone
ϟBeing talentless
ϟLosing her fanbase
ϟDeath
ϟLosing Zane
▼Diabetes // Sleep Apnea
▼Pesticide // Herbicide
▼Big heart // Trusting
▼Adrenaline Junkie // Short
▼Bit of a pothead // Overemotional
▼Impulsive // Theatrical
▼Curious // Hoardes
Secrets
⋆She is a virgin
⋆She is terrified of little spiders
⋆She cannot surpass basic 6th grade math
⋆She hates bottlenose dolphins
⋆She likes to eat raw fish
Personality
One of the first things that people tend to notice about Lani is how friendly she is. She tends to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, which often, inevitably ends up with her getting her feelings hurt when someone betrays her trust by taking advantage of her trusting nature. This, by no means, means that she is a pushover. Sure, she'll trust a person before she knows them, but once someone's on her bad side, it's hard to get back in her good graces and she can be a complete and total nightmare. She might be small, but she's stronger than she looks and isn't opposed to shooting someone in the face with a paintball, decking them, or just outright brawling. She's a very physical woman and seems to constantly need to be in motion, though she does have her lazy days. If you ask her brother, Zane, and anybody whose ever spent more than a few hours with her they'll tell you that she can be a bit of an adrenaline junkie. She's got a lot of energy, especially on sunny days, and she's all for going out there and getting a few bumps and bruises. She and Zane are well known for their first string of YouTube videos that consisted of them taking their martial arts class lessons to the streets and fighting with each other. If someone asks her for a fight, so long as someone's recording she generally doesn't oppose. She also loves extreme paintball and capture the flag and has a deep respect for people willing to head out to the woods with little to no protection, trying to capture a flag at the risk of getting shot in their nether regions with a fast flying small ball of paint. She's also a bit of a nerd and she's not afraid to show it. Zane was the one who got her into it. Usually on cloudy or rainy days, you can find her playing video games or reading a comic book from her huge stash. She's also taken to collecting costumes. She can be a bit on the theatrical side, though not in the sense that she legitimately makes a huge deal out of everything; Let's just say that she knows how to make everything exciting. She enjoys putting a smile on people's faces by turning everything into some sort of event, sometimes treating only having enough cereal for one more bowl as though it were a Shakespearean tragedy. She has surprised quite a few people when she was found out to be a Nymph - Most of her kind tend to be very gentle and almost delicate, very nature loving and reserved. She's more aggressive and outgoing than most Nymphs. When it comes to singing and dancing, all a person needs to do is ask. She'll serenade anyone and tango with any partner whether on or off camera. Speaking of cameras, she loves them. Not for the sake of attention, but to capture life as it happens to watch and relive later. Whether it's photography or cinematography, she loves it and believes that everyone should be caught on camera doing something memorable at least once. And her fans - She loves her fans and the people that she's worked with. Or at least most of them. Being looked up to was a thrill for her and she always did her best to set a good example [though some might argue against that] and she loved being able to bring joy to her fans. The thought of losing some of her followers because of being inhuman both saddened and angered her. Still, she has gone back to YouTube and refuses to fade away into a has-been.
One of the first things that people tend to notice about Lani is how friendly she is. She tends to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, which often, inevitably ends up with her getting her feelings hurt when someone betrays her trust by taking advantage of her trusting nature. This, by no means, means that she is a pushover. Sure, she'll trust a person before she knows them, but once someone's on her bad side, it's hard to get back in her good graces and she can be a complete and total nightmare. She might be small, but she's stronger than she looks and isn't opposed to shooting someone in the face with a paintball, decking them, or just outright brawling. She's a very physical woman and seems to constantly need to be in motion, though she does have her lazy days. If you ask her brother, Zane, and anybody whose ever spent more than a few hours with her they'll tell you that she can be a bit of an adrenaline junkie. She's got a lot of energy, especially on sunny days, and she's all for going out there and getting a few bumps and bruises. She and Zane are well known for their first string of YouTube videos that consisted of them taking their martial arts class lessons to the streets and fighting with each other. If someone asks her for a fight, so long as someone's recording she generally doesn't oppose. She also loves extreme paintball and capture the flag and has a deep respect for people willing to head out to the woods with little to no protection, trying to capture a flag at the risk of getting shot in their nether regions with a fast flying small ball of paint. She's also a bit of a nerd and she's not afraid to show it. Zane was the one who got her into it. Usually on cloudy or rainy days, you can find her playing video games or reading a comic book from her huge stash. She's also taken to collecting costumes. She can be a bit on the theatrical side, though not in the sense that she legitimately makes a huge deal out of everything; Let's just say that she knows how to make everything exciting. She enjoys putting a smile on people's faces by turning everything into some sort of event, sometimes treating only having enough cereal for one more bowl as though it were a Shakespearean tragedy. She has surprised quite a few people when she was found out to be a Nymph - Most of her kind tend to be very gentle and almost delicate, very nature loving and reserved. She's more aggressive and outgoing than most Nymphs. When it comes to singing and dancing, all a person needs to do is ask. She'll serenade anyone and tango with any partner whether on or off camera. Speaking of cameras, she loves them. Not for the sake of attention, but to capture life as it happens to watch and relive later. Whether it's photography or cinematography, she loves it and believes that everyone should be caught on camera doing something memorable at least once. And her fans - She loves her fans and the people that she's worked with. Or at least most of them. Being looked up to was a thrill for her and she always did her best to set a good example [though some might argue against that] and she loved being able to bring joy to her fans. The thought of losing some of her followers because of being inhuman both saddened and angered her. Still, she has gone back to YouTube and refuses to fade away into a has-been.
Likes
✯ Music ✯ Romance ✯ Swimming ✯ Singing ✯ Dancing ✯ Uploading new videos ✯ Her fans ✯ Eating ✯ Pranking ✯ Traveling ✯ Cooking ✯ Fishing ✯ Animals ✯ Musicals ✯ Acting ✯ Tricking Tourists ✯ Running ✯ Parkour ✯ Tanning ✯ Self-Expression ✯ Body Art ✯ Art ✯ Being admired ✯ The beach ✯ Diving for pearls ✯ Sushi ✯ Sports ✯ Surfing ✯ Cooking ✯ Sharks ✯ Comics ✯ Orcas ✯ Video Games ✯ Sunsets ✯ Chicken sandwiches with sugar and chocolate syrup ✯ Food ✯ Luaus ✯ Checkers ✯ Leis ✯ Flower arranging ✯ Energy drinks ✯ Almonds ✯ Fruits ✯ Dancing around terribly half naked while singing horribly off key for no reason ✯ Skinny Dipping ✯ Collecting treasure and seashells ✯ Bikinis ✯ Flash mobs ✯ Being free ✯ Being independent ✯ Motorcycles ✯ ATVs ✯ Cheap but chic fashion ✯ Getting gifts ✯ Poi ✯ Lau Lau ✯ Kalua Pig ✯ Smirnoff ✯ Vodka ✯ Opihi ✯ Saimin ✯ Poke ✯ Mai Tais ✯ Okolehao ✯ Margaritas ✯ The beach at night ✯ The rain ✯ Archery ✯ Flirting ✯ Extreme Paintball wars ✯ Camping ✯ Her pets ✯ Organic food ✯ The Farmers Market ✯ Whiskey ✯ Romantic gestures ✯ Romance movies – Especially The Vow ✯
Dislikes
☢ Rudeness ☢ Haole mimicking/mocking Hawaiian traditions ☢ Being bossed around ☢ Pickles ☢ Pollution ☢ Horndogs ☢ Being underestimated ☢ Being seen/treated as a "Barbie" ☢ Bratty kids ☢ Bad parents ☢ Obnoxious people ☢ Wool blankets ☢ Bad diets ☢ Bad hygiene ☢ Bad hair days ☢ Creativity being stifled ☢ Bullies ☢ Snotty rich people ☢ Being grabbed at ☢ Betrayal ☢ Bottlenose Dolphins ☢ Being told what to do ☢ Being stereotyped ☢ McDonald's ☢ Being overlooked ☢ Pitch black nights ☢ Having things decided for her ☢ Hecklers ☢ Being called talentless ☢ Processed food ☢ The government ☢ Prejudice against supernaturals ☢ Pesticides ☢ Double standards ☢ Losing a fight ☢ Being still for too long ☢ When people can't take a joke ☢ When Zane calls her Pinky ☢ Terrible wardrobes ☢ Cigarettes ☢ Anti marijuana laws ☢ Buzzkills ☢ People who yell at kids in public ☢ People who beat their kids in public ☢ Sand in her ears ☢ Vanilla ice cream ☢ Root beer floats ☢ Being alone ☢ People assuming and telling her how she feels ☢ People assuming and telling her what she thinks ☢ Being treated like a child ☢
“Where do babies come from?”
“Well, when a mommy and a daddy really like each other or a man and a woman are just horny, a man sticks his penis in a woman's vagina and then they have sex and then a baby comes out of a woman's vagina nine months later. That's right, buddy. You came out of where mommy and daddy pee from.”
“Oh.... That's disgusting.”
“And you ruined our lives. Good talk, champ. Off to bed.”
That's the usual talk kids have with their parents when they ask questions about “the birds and the bees”. But that talk doesn't apply to Hiwalani-Noa. This young woman was born from a tree, not a vagina. Yes, you read correctly. She came from a tree. Nobody is really sure how the process of a Nymph's birth comes to be. Seeing a Nymph born, all you see is a child emerging from some form of nature. Water, a bush, a flower, a tree. You get the idea. Lani walked right out of a Delonix Regia in Maui – Or a Royal Poinciana, for you non-plant-identifying people. Just as many Nymphs do, she seemed to be born with the common physical appearance of those native to the region from which she was born. And no, she was not born as a newborn. That's just silly. She looked only about eight years old when she was born and seemed highly intelligent for her age. As her kind does, she immediately sought a solution to her predicament. Back in the good old days of pestilence and pirates, nobody paid much mind to children walking around without parents. It was almost expected. But people these days are all about the protection of children, so there was the issue of preventing people from asking too many questions and snooping too much. She made herself visible on the island and only a few people knew what she was, though she was lucky that they were very traditional Polynesians and had a deep respect for nature and kept her a being a secret. It wasn't too long after that Zane found her and she convinced him that they should stick together. The two were taken in by a young couple who couldn't have kids of their own, papers forged for them. They were officially internationally adopted children. The two became inseparable and nobody really asked them any questions, told that the children had horrific pasts that they didn't want to talk about. With the amount of scars they had [from adventuring] it was easily believable. The two didn't have any school records but were able to take tests to determine which grade they'd be in and were soon placed in 5th grade together. Yes, a little bit smarter than the average “8 year old”. During their years in Hawaii, the two were raised with a love for the arts. For was not art part of nature? Zane never had any intentions on being famous, unlike his diva sister. He enjoyed his time behind the camera while she enjoyed her time in front of it. Their YouTube stardom started out as videos of them in pageants and other competitions and some of their explorations. It evolved into them doing skits to them pulling Jackass-like pranks on each other to flash mobs to dance tutorials to pranks on random people to vlogging to cover songs to original songs and finally all of it rolled into one. Lani was eight [though she looked fifteen] when the two of them finished high school together [after she cheated in all of her math classes] and started working together at their adopted mother's dance studio. They didn't work there long because their dreams soon came true. Or at least Lani's did. She was invited to star in a movie. Now, she had starred in movies before. Low budget movies on the Syfy channel and as an extra in other random movies. But a key character for a potential blockbuster? It was too good to pass up. And thus began their glorious career. It was just a start and they were almost at the top of the game. They had everything. But it was all snatched away when the government started passing laws against supernaturals. At first the two were just going to keep quiet about it, though they did sympathize with the supernaturals. Because of their sympathy, people started questioning them. There were those who defended them and sympathized as well but there were just as many who saw them as traitors to the human race. And with enough research, it was found out that there were no records on them existing. Every legal document on them was fake. Lani did not agree to go quietly and neither did Zane. Their parents were sent to prison for harboring supernaturals and withholding information. Lani and Zane joined up with some rebels. But it was shortlived and they were both thrown into prison. Lani got out early for good behavior after being forced by Zane to agree to go quietly to a “reservation” for supernaturals. And so she heads to Teraton, fresh out of prison.
Other
She wears glasses and speaks in a thickly Polynesian accent that might sometimes have an Australian slur to it.[/center]