Full Name| Daniella Mizuki Smith
Nickname(s)| Dani, Mizuki
Age| 158 (Appears 17)
Gender| Female
Height| 5'3"
Weight| 105 lbs
Orientation| Straight
Element| Water
Motto| "Just stay calm, let each day flow by like a stream."
Likes|
- Fashion
- Swimming
- Rain
- Being strong
- Staying calm
- Reading
- Karate
Dislikes|
- Being forced to do something
- Conflict
- Thinking about the past
- The War
- Darkness elementals
- Being overly emotional
Equipment|
- Small water container
- Tiny hand-knife she keeps in her pocket
Appearance|
Petite and compact, Dani has the stereotypical frame associated with Asian women. In fact, the only features she inherited from her Western father are the thickness of her lips and the darker hew of her skin. Her body is slender to the point of looking brittle, and despite the constant training she puts in to be fit to work her element- she has never managed to put on more than a pound of muscle. The thick black fall of her hair she keeps trimmed neatly just below her chin, though she has been known to style it differently depending on her mood and has even on one occasion chopped it off into a pixie cut. Her hair is the one thing about her appearance that has changed as time has passed, shortening and lengthening as styles have changed. Although it's been tempting for her to remove herself from the ever-shifting trends of the modern age, Dani has become fascinated with fashion over her life and has used it to adapt to the world. Always on the cutting edge of style, her clothes are trendy to the point of excess so it's never quite obvious if she is behind or ahead of the style curve.
When using her element, Dani's appearance changes very little. The only visible changes are that her eyes begin to shine an iridescent turquoise and water around her tends to become unsettled. She often uses her element to create weapons or different shapes around her hands.
Personality|
Due to her sheltered childhood, Daniella has a very shy and subdued approach to other people. However despite the fact that she spent the majority of her formative years behind closed doors, she enjoys meeting new people. These two aspects of her personality may seem an odd coupling- especially when taken into account the fact that she rarely lives long in one place-, but it works well for her. Constantly creating new relationships means that she never has a chance to delve too far into one and risk either hurting that person or having her identity discovered. She also gets along with people very easily due to her calm and collected attitude, she very rarely meets a person that she cannot connect with on a basic level.
However, there is a part of her that is very volatile. When Dani gets angry she becomes like a different person. Although it very rarely occurs, when her rage comes it's like a tidal wave- and has on occasion physically manifested in such a form- destroying everything in it's path. These outbursts usually come in short, explosive doses and when they are gone it as if they never happened except for the damage left in their wake.
History|
Daniella's story begins with the meeting of her parents. In 1853, a ship carrying a crew of emissaries from one relatively new nation arrived at the shores of the island country that kept its borders closed. They had been sent out to try and broker a treaty between their nation and the older civilization. Of course, none of what occurred between the different leaders of the two nations have any real baring on the rest Daniella's life, but it is important nonetheless because of the main fact that it is this ship that brought her father to her mother. A lowly assistant to the important Commodore in charge of the mission, her father meant nothing to the mission and was therefore allowed exorbitants amount of free time to explore the mysterious country. While on an one such adventure through the port of the capital city, he came upon a small shrine. Little did he know when he entered the ancient building that there he would meet the woman who in less than a year's time would become his wife and who he would later take back with him to his home country. Another factor of importance that went undetected by the man was the fact that this shrine was dedicated to an ancient water spirit that the woman's family had dedicated themselves to for centuries. Of course, the sailor couldn't have noted that fact even if he'd wanted to as he and the shrine maiden who'd sparked his interest didn't share a single word in common. It was a miracle that he managed to convince her to marry him and leave her country, let alone to fall in love with him. Even after they established a method of communication, however, this particular detail went unmentioned- as the man, a devout follower of a faith that rejected the supremacy of the elements, refused to allow his wife to continue with any worship or veneration of other gods or demons.
After the man and woman had been married for a year and had migrated back to city where the sailor had originated from, the former shrine maiden gave birth to their daughter. From the very start it was obvious that she was different than the people and around her, and not just because of the fact that she was the only half-Japanese person for hundreds of miles. Even as a tiny baby she had an affinity for water- she learned to swim before she could walk. Although her father just thought it was an extraordinary oddity, her mother knew better. The people that had cared for the ocean demon's shrine had had water in their blood for as long as they could remember, and every generation or two one of them would be born with the ability to commune with the element on an implicit level. However, Daniella's mother knew this also came as an extreme burden- as not only were these chosen cursed with an inexplicably long lifespan but also the danger that had arisen some time in the near past from the rising of the darkest element. So for as long as she could, the lonely island woman kept her daughter as separated from others as much as humanly possible and only allowed her to commune with water when they were completely alone- even keeping this power of her daughter's hidden from her father for fear of his religious fervor. Because of her mother's paranoia and concern, Dani grew up sheltered and alone until the day she turned thirteen. That evening she snuck out of the house away from her mother's supervision and made her way alone to the pier at the edge of their city. Unfortunately while she was there she met with a group of drunken soldiers who found her slanted eyes and olive skin an entertaining amusement. When her mother finally found her, Daniella was standing in a puddle of water with the bodies of five drowned men lying around her. It was then that she knew what she had to do. Less than ten hours later the young girl was on a ship back to her mother's homeland to learn everything she could from that side of her family about controlling her powers.
More than a hundred years later and Daniella has never let her power get a hold of her the way she did that night at the pier. Of course, she's also not let anyone get close enough to her for that to be a problem. Not only has she become afraid of letting anyone get close enough to incite her emotions- although she is usually placid, her anger is an explosively dangerous thing when it does come- she has learned over time that people begin to question someone who doesn't appear to age over a span of ten years or more. So after leaving her family's shrine, she has spent the last eighty years of her life moving from town to town and not settling down in a specific location for more than a decade.
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