"Poetry Is An Orphan Of Silence. The Words Never Quite Equal The Experience Behind Them."
~ Charles Simic
Quartz Marie Jones
NICKNAMES
Q/Que: Its the most common but she likes it. Its very simple which is why she likes it so much.
Red: She has red hair, she hates this nickname because she sees it as unimaginative.
Pixie: A well loved nickname that playing on that fact that she is short and delicate built.
DATE OF BIRTH:
January 9th
AGE
Eight-teen
OCCUPATION
Gilded
GENDER
Female
SEXUALITY
Bi-Sexual
DIALOGUE COLOR
Dialogue: #347e81 || Thought: #92dbff
Quartz is a very small girl, barley reaching the 5 foot mark and barely weighing in at a 100 pounds with fiery hair and bright blue eyes. She wears alot of black and red clothing that accents her pale skin. Her Mistress has had onyx, rubies, and diamonds implanted into her skin. Mostly on her collar bones and shoulders with just a few along Quartz's hair line. Her gilded marks are abstract and seem to connect is odd ways, they cover her body lightly with the thicker lines being on her arms, legs, back and the sides of her torso. The lighter lines loop around the gems on her collar bones and hair line, and can be occasionally seen on her stomach depending on the clothing she wears.
Her Mistress is pretty lenient with her and in such she wears whatever she wants, does her make up however she wishes, and is often experimenting with hair styles. Of course this leniency is often frowned upon by others but as of yet her Mistress has not done anything to remove the freedom she has allowed Quartz and so she continues to do as she pleases with her appearance, except of course hide her markings.
Quartz's Style
PERSONALITY
✦Eccentric ✦Argumentative ✦Exuberant ✦Temperamental ✦Cold ✦Adventurous ✦Kind ✦Courageous
Quartz is an easy person to like, yeah she has her faults like the fact that she is temperamental and never backs down a fight, the fact that she is far to argumentative for her own good. Really, she can argue anything and typically she uses actually facts to back it up but what's the point of arguing the color spectrum and how it is very possible that what she sees as green and what she calls green could be what someone else sees as red? No use is the answer but she will argue it.
Though typically a loving person, to new people Quartz's very cold. Not that she doesn't want to get to know them or be around them but simply that she isn't sure whether she can trust them yet or what she can trust them with. This is the reason she comes off as cold toward people she doesn't know, her friends will laugh and tell the newcomers all about their first meeting with Quartz when its mentioned. To them its just who she is and its just an endearing little personality quirk.
Those are the not so good thing about her, but she is eccentric and happy. Even though cold toward new people she draws them in with her eccentric attire and her laughter that is bight and full. Her smiles that fill her face and her bright blue eyes that show her emotions so very clearly never leaving anyone with a doubt about how she is feeling. Her exuberant nature, her tendency to be eccentric, and adventurous are just some of her good qualities. Its just who she is and her faults cant mar the good points of her personality.
Seeing as she was only with her family until her tenth birthday and as such doesn't remember them well but she is really close to her Patrician and was quite close to several of the boys and girls from the orphanage. For awhile they were all she had to live for until she was 'adopted'into becoming a Gilded.
LIKES
✔Hot Chocolate: The warm rich taste of the chocolate on her tongue matched with a light rain or chilly morning is the best and she considers it a sinful experience.
✔Wood Fire: The smell of the smoke, the warmth it gives, and the knowledge that if not contained would mean doom always appealed to her for some reason.
✔Working Out: Who does like the feeling or sore muscles, light sweat, and a comfortable exhaustion? Well, most people dont but it makes her feel powerful to know that she can do more then she could the day before.
✔Romantic Books: The pure idea of love and soul mates has always enthralled her even if she has a hard time believing in them.
✔Old Blues: The soulful sound of the softly played instruments and emotion filled voices give her peace and relax her in away that nothing else can.
DISLIKES
✖Anxiety: She has suffered from anxiety for most of her life and it is something she hates, it is a large part of her fear of being lost and refuses to go anywhere by herself even though she has permission to do so.
✖Humid Weather: Her naturally softly curled hair puffs up and is unmanageable in humid weather and it also makes her sweat, both are reasons she hates it. Also, it is normally appears before thunder storms, which are something that she dislikes.
✖Thunder Storms: Harsh wind, loud noise, flashes of lightning, blinding rain, all scary parts of thunder storms which she not only dislikes but also frighten her.
✖Arrogant People: She grew up poor, spent time in an orphanage, and then was adopted to become a Gilded. All things those who have money often look down upon which frustrates and displeases Quartz.
✖Unnecessary Noise: Back ground noise is one thing but too much noise well give her headaches which always turn into migraines.
FEARS
☠Cars: An understandable fear given she lost her whole family because of a car crash, its not that she cant get into a car but she is very nervous when she enters one and trys her best o do so rarely.
☠Blood: After her parents car crash she kept having nightmares about twisted metal and blood every where, then she saw a dog get hit in the road and sense then the sight of someone elses blood will make her faint.
☠Getting Lost: There is no rational reason for this fear, she has just always had it and as such Quartz refuses to go anywhere alone.
One stormy night in the middle of winter Donald and Michelle Jones rushed through the bumpy mountain roads to get to a hospital. Little Alex sat in the backseat pouting that the families annual Christmas camping trip was being cut short all because the younger sibling he didn't want was trying to make their presence known five and a half weeks early. Lightning flashed in the sky as Michelle let out a small scream and Donald cursed under his breath. His eyes were frantic as he tried to find the sign for the main road that should get them to the nearest hospital in just under twenty minutes.
After almost thirty more minutes they finally made it to the small hospital and Michelle was rushed into a birthing room, Alex waited with his dad in the waiting room scared because all he could hear was the pain filled screams that came from the rooms near by. Clinging to his father the little boy cried sure that all the women hidden behind closed doors were dying just like his mom. Five hours later, a shaky Donald and the tear stained Alex were finally allowed in Michelle's room where she laid peacefully but sweaty and tired. Donald helped Alex on to the bed where he peered into the sleeping, pink blanket wrapped bundle. Though he didn't want a younger sibling he decided in that moment a little sister wasn't a bad thing, at least he wouldn't have to share his toys. Quartz, that was the name he chose for his baby sister not knowing that it wasn't his choice but his parents smiled and went with it.
Five years later and Alex had long come to the conclusion that there was something wrong with his baby sister, she wanted nothing to do with all her pretty dolls or squishy stuff animals but instead wanted to play with her older brothers old Tonka trucks and play in the mud, not that he really minded because he gave him something to do. It was also a lot of fun to see her look so agitated when forced to wear pretty dresses and bows. At ten, he thought he was much to cool for his five year old sister and when his friends came over was far crueler then needed to make sure she left them alone.
It wasn't until she was seven or eight, after a very mean joke, that Alex realized just how much he loved his little sister because she ran off and not ten minutes later he heard her scream and while his friends joked that she was being a baby he rushed to find her and found that she had fallen from a tree and broke her arm. Quartz never blamed him though. This was a turning point for their relationship, one that the sweet little girl was very happy with. It was only a few years later, right after her tenth birthday, while she was sleeping at a friends place her parents and brother were in a car crash where they all died leaving her all alone.
Quartz was sent to one of the better orphanage known as Angels Keep, a pretty well known hunting ground for Gildeds because it only takes beautiful boys and girls. After five years of living here making friends and slowly healing from having her family ripped away from her, she was adopted by her Patrician who she has lived happily and comfortably with for the past three years.
MISCELLANEOUS
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