Aleksandra Norin
"I just wanted to be left alone."
"I just wanted to be left alone."
Full Name:
Aleksandra Norin
Nicknames and Aliases:
Sasha or Aleks
Wish:
To be left alone.
Price Payed:
Her sight.
Gender:
Female
Age:
17
Sexual Orientation:
Heterosexual
Power:
To become invisible at will. Her clothes will also become invisible, as well as anything that she touches. On her own, she can become invisible for an indefinite amount of time, but the more other things she makes invisible the faster she becomes exhausted and unable to continue. Things she makes invisible can see themselves, and see her, but no one else can see them.
Hair Color:
Red. It's actually brown, but she's taken to dying it a deep red. It began as an attempt to fit in, but now she just likes the colour.
Eye Color:
Amber.
Height:
1.7 metres (5'6).
Weight:
60 kg (130 pounds).
Tattoos:
None.
Piercings:
Her ears, though she hasn't been wearing earrings and the holes are starting to close up.
Scars:
She has a few scars from where she'd anxiously scratch at her arms as a young child, and she has a small scar on her knee from where she fell out of a tree and ripped something in her leg and had to have surgery to fix it.
Oddities:
She likes to wear her hair in a pony tail with a light blue ribbon, but it's hard to get the ponytail even when she can't see it, so often her hair is lopsided. She also never wears makeup because it's too hard to apply.
Personality:
{Friendly, Thoughtful, Self-Depreciating, Empathetic}
Aleks is, to say the least, a selfless person. She tries to be nice to everyone, even if they aren't nice to her. She's one to stick up for the little guy. But she has a problem with self image, and she often worries that she's not good enough. Which is why she tries so hard to please people. And because she struggles so much in the recesses of her mind, she is very attuned to other people's emotions, and is usually willing to help take the burden of those emotions. In the same way, being around happy people will make her happy, sad people make her sad, et cetera. And when she's alone, she has problems with getting lost in her mind, with all the troubling thoughts there in. She can easily work herself into strong emotion, be it anger, sadness, resentment, or loneliness, if she's left alone too long, but she can easily hide these emotions. And even when she can't hold onto them, she doesn't explode physically. She just becomes very verbally abusive of those around her. Because she is so attuned to other people, she knows a little better what makes them tick, and when she's set off she can say things that are specifically intended to hurt people. She always regrets what she says after a fit of anger, and in the future she tries harder to keep her emotions, which causes the next explosion to be worse that the one before. Ad infinitum.
Even though, when it comes to other people, Aleks is very friendly, often trying to be happy for them, she rarely lets others know of her true feelings. She wants to be seen as someone who's happy, someone those around her can confide in. Someone who is never sad. In that, she is usually very good at controlling her outwards emotions. When she becomes upset, angry, or any emotion she perceives as negative, her face stills, and her mouth grows slightly thinner, but it's not an expression most people would notice. It takes a lot to make her cry in public. She is also very loyal to people she considers friends, but even though she is friendly to everyone, she doesn't consider many people her true friends, and that makes her feel alone a lot, which leads to a feeling of emptiness and her tendency to mentally beat herself up. But regardless of what happens to her, she is more than willing to sacrifice for others, and she cares about everyone.
Hobbies:
Reading. Now she usually listens to books on tape, she's learning braille, but it's difficult for her.
Singing. She's a decent singer, she's never had lessons, but she likes making up her own songs.
People 'watching'. She likes to eavesdrop on conversations and learn about the random strangers in her world.
Habits:
When she's extremely nervous, she scratches her arm and laughs.
She often plays with pieces of her hair, tugging, braiding, twirling.
She's very restless, she often taps on things or bounces her leg.
Aleks also flinches easily if she hears someone come closer to her, or someone says something in a sharp voice, or there is a loud noise.
Likes/Loves:
Good hearing. Because she is blind, her sense of hearing has developed, and she is able to locate the source of sounds and hear quiet sounds much better than she could when she could see.
Empathy. She is good at telling how people are feeling by their tone of voice, it's a gut feeling that is mostly right.
Stealth. Being able to become invisible, Aleks has practiced how to stay silent, breaking quietly and measuring her footsteps. In an unfamiliar place, however, her blindness negates this strength.
Intelligence. Aleks is pretty smart, she did well in school and has good critical thinking skills.
Positivity. Aleks is good at helping others see the bright side of the situation, even when she's not feeling happy or positive herself. She is good at brightening other people's days.
Weaknesses:
Fear. Aleks is easily scared by intimidating people and loud noises. She'll try not to show it, but it does inhibit her.
Blindness. Not being able to see makes it difficult to move around on her own, she has to rely heavily on other people for many things.
Depression. Aleks easily falls into depression, which makes her listless and distracted.
Weakness. Physically, Aleks isn't very strong. She cannot fight, and can easily be physically incapacitated.
Flight. In confrontation, Aleks's first instinct is to run away. Which can cause many problems.
{Friendly, Thoughtful, Self-Depreciating, Empathetic}
Aleks is, to say the least, a selfless person. She tries to be nice to everyone, even if they aren't nice to her. She's one to stick up for the little guy. But she has a problem with self image, and she often worries that she's not good enough. Which is why she tries so hard to please people. And because she struggles so much in the recesses of her mind, she is very attuned to other people's emotions, and is usually willing to help take the burden of those emotions. In the same way, being around happy people will make her happy, sad people make her sad, et cetera. And when she's alone, she has problems with getting lost in her mind, with all the troubling thoughts there in. She can easily work herself into strong emotion, be it anger, sadness, resentment, or loneliness, if she's left alone too long, but she can easily hide these emotions. And even when she can't hold onto them, she doesn't explode physically. She just becomes very verbally abusive of those around her. Because she is so attuned to other people, she knows a little better what makes them tick, and when she's set off she can say things that are specifically intended to hurt people. She always regrets what she says after a fit of anger, and in the future she tries harder to keep her emotions, which causes the next explosion to be worse that the one before. Ad infinitum.
Even though, when it comes to other people, Aleks is very friendly, often trying to be happy for them, she rarely lets others know of her true feelings. She wants to be seen as someone who's happy, someone those around her can confide in. Someone who is never sad. In that, she is usually very good at controlling her outwards emotions. When she becomes upset, angry, or any emotion she perceives as negative, her face stills, and her mouth grows slightly thinner, but it's not an expression most people would notice. It takes a lot to make her cry in public. She is also very loyal to people she considers friends, but even though she is friendly to everyone, she doesn't consider many people her true friends, and that makes her feel alone a lot, which leads to a feeling of emptiness and her tendency to mentally beat herself up. But regardless of what happens to her, she is more than willing to sacrifice for others, and she cares about everyone.
Hobbies:
Reading. Now she usually listens to books on tape, she's learning braille, but it's difficult for her.
Singing. She's a decent singer, she's never had lessons, but she likes making up her own songs.
People 'watching'. She likes to eavesdrop on conversations and learn about the random strangers in her world.
Habits:
When she's extremely nervous, she scratches her arm and laughs.
She often plays with pieces of her hair, tugging, braiding, twirling.
She's very restless, she often taps on things or bounces her leg.
Aleks also flinches easily if she hears someone come closer to her, or someone says something in a sharp voice, or there is a loud noise.
Likes/Loves:
- Her friends.
- Sweets.
- When people around her are happy.
- Music.
- Audiobooks.
- When people treat her differently because she's blind.
- Feeling worthless.
- Tripping.
- Dogs (She's afraid of dogs that bark a lot.)
- The rain.
Good hearing. Because she is blind, her sense of hearing has developed, and she is able to locate the source of sounds and hear quiet sounds much better than she could when she could see.
Empathy. She is good at telling how people are feeling by their tone of voice, it's a gut feeling that is mostly right.
Stealth. Being able to become invisible, Aleks has practiced how to stay silent, breaking quietly and measuring her footsteps. In an unfamiliar place, however, her blindness negates this strength.
Intelligence. Aleks is pretty smart, she did well in school and has good critical thinking skills.
Positivity. Aleks is good at helping others see the bright side of the situation, even when she's not feeling happy or positive herself. She is good at brightening other people's days.
Weaknesses:
Fear. Aleks is easily scared by intimidating people and loud noises. She'll try not to show it, but it does inhibit her.
Blindness. Not being able to see makes it difficult to move around on her own, she has to rely heavily on other people for many things.
Depression. Aleks easily falls into depression, which makes her listless and distracted.
Weakness. Physically, Aleks isn't very strong. She cannot fight, and can easily be physically incapacitated.
Flight. In confrontation, Aleks's first instinct is to run away. Which can cause many problems.
History:
At the age of six, Aleks moved from Russia, where she was born to America. Her family put her up for adoption in the states in the hopes that she'd have a better life than she would growing up with six older siblings in a poor home. Being a pretty, happy little girl, she was adopted by a middle-class couple that couldn't have children of their own. Aleks had a hard time learning English, and she was often teased at school for her thick accent and her paleness. Despite that, she seemed to be a relatively happy child, she had a few close friends, mostly other misfit kids, and she kept up relatively well in her lessons once she started picking up the language.
Her adoptive parents loved her very much, and as she grew older, they began to worry that she was pulling apart from them, so they began smothering her, not realizing that their actions would make her more distant from them. At that time in her life, around the age of 12, she also began dealing with problems at school. Because she and her friends were on the outcast side of the social hierarchy of her middle school, they were teased often. She didn't have too much of a problem with it early on, but she always stuck up for her friends, and eventually the bullies began targeting her instead. And her self esteem problems came into play. She was teased about everything. Even things that weren't true. Other kids began avoiding her due to the bullies, and she had to develop a thick outer skin. She wouldn't even let her closest friends see how badly the bulling hurt her.
In high school, the bullying became more physical. She'd be harassed and pushed around when walking in the halls. Kids would follow her home and scare her. But she didn't want to worry her foster parents or her teachers or her friends. One day, while hiding in the girl's bathroom, knowing there were a pack of kids waiting just outside like a pack of hungry dogs, she sat on the floor, clutching a tiny four leaf clover. It was dumb to think it would work, but she closed her eyes and wished on it, then tucked it into the inner pocket of her jacket. When she opened her eyes, her vision was a little foggy. She stepped outside, and no one was there. But on her way home, her vision faded completely. Her fearful foster parents took her to a doctor, who said he didn't know where the vision loss had come from. It was inexplicable.
Back at home, her adoptive parents treated her like a china doll, ready to break for a few days, not letting her go to school. They decided to send her to a school for youth with disabilities. One night, her father was cooking, and he accidentally dropped a plate. It shattered loudly, and frightened, Aleks disappeared. Her father panicked, calling out for her. When she responded, he was confused, hearing her voice but not seeing her. Then she reappeared. Her father was fascinated by her power, and helped her learn how to use it by telling her when she was visible or not, and the two kept it a secret from her mother and everyone else. Now she is practicing stretching her abilities, and she can feel when she's invisible or not, so she doesn't have to worry about accidentally staying invisible and not knowing.
She resents her power for making her blind, but she's accepted it. She would go back and shoulder the bullying again to get her sight back, though.
Face Claim:
Gou Matsuoka from Free!
At the age of six, Aleks moved from Russia, where she was born to America. Her family put her up for adoption in the states in the hopes that she'd have a better life than she would growing up with six older siblings in a poor home. Being a pretty, happy little girl, she was adopted by a middle-class couple that couldn't have children of their own. Aleks had a hard time learning English, and she was often teased at school for her thick accent and her paleness. Despite that, she seemed to be a relatively happy child, she had a few close friends, mostly other misfit kids, and she kept up relatively well in her lessons once she started picking up the language.
Her adoptive parents loved her very much, and as she grew older, they began to worry that she was pulling apart from them, so they began smothering her, not realizing that their actions would make her more distant from them. At that time in her life, around the age of 12, she also began dealing with problems at school. Because she and her friends were on the outcast side of the social hierarchy of her middle school, they were teased often. She didn't have too much of a problem with it early on, but she always stuck up for her friends, and eventually the bullies began targeting her instead. And her self esteem problems came into play. She was teased about everything. Even things that weren't true. Other kids began avoiding her due to the bullies, and she had to develop a thick outer skin. She wouldn't even let her closest friends see how badly the bulling hurt her.
In high school, the bullying became more physical. She'd be harassed and pushed around when walking in the halls. Kids would follow her home and scare her. But she didn't want to worry her foster parents or her teachers or her friends. One day, while hiding in the girl's bathroom, knowing there were a pack of kids waiting just outside like a pack of hungry dogs, she sat on the floor, clutching a tiny four leaf clover. It was dumb to think it would work, but she closed her eyes and wished on it, then tucked it into the inner pocket of her jacket. When she opened her eyes, her vision was a little foggy. She stepped outside, and no one was there. But on her way home, her vision faded completely. Her fearful foster parents took her to a doctor, who said he didn't know where the vision loss had come from. It was inexplicable.
Back at home, her adoptive parents treated her like a china doll, ready to break for a few days, not letting her go to school. They decided to send her to a school for youth with disabilities. One night, her father was cooking, and he accidentally dropped a plate. It shattered loudly, and frightened, Aleks disappeared. Her father panicked, calling out for her. When she responded, he was confused, hearing her voice but not seeing her. Then she reappeared. Her father was fascinated by her power, and helped her learn how to use it by telling her when she was visible or not, and the two kept it a secret from her mother and everyone else. Now she is practicing stretching her abilities, and she can feel when she's invisible or not, so she doesn't have to worry about accidentally staying invisible and not knowing.
She resents her power for making her blind, but she's accepted it. She would go back and shoulder the bullying again to get her sight back, though.
Face Claim:
Gou Matsuoka from Free!
