Full Name:
Azalea Valerian
*Meaning:
Azalea is a pink flower well known for its beauty and sturdiness. The last name Valerian means “strong” or “strength”. Ultimately her name means both strength and beauty.
*Nickname:
Aza (ironically this name means “comfort” or “relief”)
Species/Role: Female Slayer 1
Vampire Owner: Male Vampire 3
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Height: 5’ 7”
Weight: 126 lbs
Appearance:
Distinguishing Features:
No scars, tattoos or piercings of any type
Motto/Catch Phrase:
"The more beautiful the flower is, the more deadly are its toxins."
Personality:
Azalea was raised to be a very mild mannered young lady. Everything about her is graceful; her soothing voice, her fluid movements, even her scent is appealing as she always smells of crushed roses. Azalea was born and raised solely with the intent of being the perfect lady and her personality reflects much of that. On the outside Azalea is a soft spoken beauty. Often you may see her through the window as she wanders around in the garden, the garden she finds joy in tending to whenever she can. However, when you get to know her better, her Slayer tendencies come out and she'll very different. When she feels more comfortable around you she will voice her own opinions and fight to get her point across. She's less ladylike in the sense that she's unwilling to take orders from those claiming to be above her and demands that they earn her respect before she pays it. Azalea is very charismatic and protective of other people, more than once putting her life on the line for a stranger, but doesn't like recognition. All in all Azalea is a passionate and free willed flower hiding in the body of a mild mannered young lady.
- Being Outside (especially in the Garden)
- Combat Practice / Fighting / Training
- Solitude
- Flowers
- Sewing (Dresses mostly)
- Nighttime
- Reading and Writing
- Respect
- Flirting
- Being Kept Indoors
- Water (she can't swim)
- Strangers / Lots of People
- Bears / Wolves
- Being Thought of as Weak
- Pity
- Felling Helpless
Touch/Pain - Azalea grew up with very little physical touch and is very sensitive to it, and hypersensitive to pain to the point it can be crippling and she often carries some form of dried leaves that upon consuming will numb her body and serve as pain relievers
Direct Orders - Having always been controlled by others, Azalea is always weaked by direct commands as her insticts tell her to obey, however her time as a Slayer has made this slightly less extreme than it used to be
Physically Weak - Though her body has become stronger during her time as a Slayer, Azalea's body was designed to be slender and beautiful; not strong, so she finds herself struggling with tasks that require a lot of physical strengt
Friendship/Love - Azalea's entire life revolved around the idea that she needed to find a suitable husband and that all else was unimportant, so though she's very good with people, she struggles with the concept of friends and to love someone romantically is still very new to her
Fears:
Aquaphobia - Azalea was never taught to swim and now avoids large bodies of water for fear of drowning
Agrizoophobia - In her eary Slayer years Azalea found herself alone in the forest facing off with a pack of wolves and now fears wild animals
Brontophobia - The fear of thunder and lightning developed due to when she was a child and had to remain in her room, alone, during violent storms
Theme Song: “Rose Red” by Emilie Autumn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAiROUocvRU
"Rose Red"
Rose, Rose, Rose, Red
Will I ever see thee wed?
I will marry at thy will sir,
At thy will
A thousand years gone by
Too late to wonder why
I'm here alone
If in my darkest hour
She rose that fell a flower
I should have known
Rose, Rose, Rose, Red
Will I ever see thee wed?
Only if you can capture me
Tell me no more stories
And I'll tell you no lies
No one wants to hurt me
But everybody tries
And if you think that I've been waiting
For my planets to align
It's time you go on
Get your things, get up, get out
I'm doing fine, yeah yeah
Someday these walls will speak
The floors beneath you creek
To call my name
Here in my web of dreams
My whispers turn to screams
And place the blame
Rose, Rose, Rose, Red
Will I ever see thee wed?
Only if you discover me
Tell me no more stories
And I'll tell you no lies
No one wants to hurt me
But everybody tries
And if you think that I've been waiting
For my planets to align
It's time you go on
Get your things, get up, get out
I'm doing fine, yeah yeah
Tell me no more stories
And I'll tell you no lies
No one wants to hurt me
But everybody tries
And if you think that I've been waiting
For my planets to align
It's time you go on
Get your things, get up, get out
I'm doing fine, yeah yeah
For this freedom
I have given all I had
For this darkness
I gave my light
For this wisdom
I have lost my innocence
Take my petals
And cover me with the night
Tell me no more stories
And I'll tell you no lies
No one wants to hurt me
But everybody tries
And if you think that I've been waiting
For my planets to align
It's time you go on
Get your things, get up, get out, get out, get out
I'm doing fine, yeah yeah
Tell me no more stories
And I'll tell you no lies
No one wants to hurt me
But everybody tries
And if you think that I've been waiting
For my planets to align
It's time you go on
Get your things, get up, get out
I'm doing fine, yeah yeah
Tell me no more stories
And I'll tell you no lies
No one wants to hurt me
But everybody tries
And if you think that I've been waiting
For my planets to align
It's time you go on
Get your things, get up, get out
I'm doing fine, yeah yeah
Tell me no more stories
And I'll tell you no lies
No one wants to hurt me
But everybody tries
And if you think that I've been waiting
For my planets to align
It's time you go on
Get your things, get up, get out
I'm doing fine, yeah yeah
Yeah, yeah
General Skills:
Azalea is fairly good at sewing, singing, dancing, reading/writing (in a variety of different languages) and even horseback riding (as her parents found these things suitable interests for young ladies). She has also ben taught how to play the piano, the viola and the harp though she prefers the piano. However she excels in two speific areas: cooking and gardening. She makes an excellent chef as she knows exactly what plants to use in order to make the meal taste good. However, that is not the only thing she does with her plants. Azalea knows all the medical values of the flowers too, and has learned to use them in order to make poison or other natural remedies which helps whenever she is required to perform first aid.
Fighting Talent(s):
Azalea often coats her weapon of choice (a dagger with a rose as the hilt) in these natural poisons as though they will not kill a vampire they can slow them down and/or weaken them. Though the dagger is her weapon of choice she is also skilled in archery, hand to hand combat and sword fighting, but she finds close-combat with her dagger to be the easiest.
History:
Born into a large, noble family as the ninth daughter, Azalea was named according to tradition (each of her sisters also being named after flowers: Dahlia, Willow, Lilac and Lily, Tula, Rosella, Meadow, and Violet). She was raised learning things that would make her more appealing bride, like singing and cooking.. Additionally, as tradition demanded, she learned the names and uses to most every flower known and tended to the garden in her spare time. But as time passed she became less interested in her female grace and more interested in the art of combat and things generally more appealing to the men of the generation. This unladylike fascination concerned her parents who already had plans to marry her off to a wealthy suitor, so Azalea was forced to keep her interests a secret lest her parents put an untimely end to them.
Azalea’s family was well known mostly for the beautiful young women that came from long and expansive line. Wealthy men from all across the lands came to court the fine young ladies; to marvel at their pink-tinted hair and sparkling blue eyes. Her parents were very proud of each of their gorgeous children and attempted to raise them to be proper young women so that in due time them could be married off to the appropriate husband. In this case, Azalea was no exception. Her light pink hair was silky and soft, her eyes such a crystal blue they almost seemed to shimmer in the light. She had many suitors vying for her hand in marriage, which pleased her father greatly. However, Azalea had different plans. On the night of her 15th birthday party, during which all the wealthy young gentlemen would attempt to court her while her father selected potential husbands, she picked one of the flowers from her garden known to make one sick and consumed it. The party will went on as scheduled but she was able to escape to her room under the excuse of “feeling ill”.
About an hour or two into the party there was a knock on the door and Azalea casually called “Come in!” expecting it to be a maid sent to check on her. It was however, to her great surprise, a young gentleman dressed in very expensive and formal clothes. He seemed to have a seductive darkness about him, a grace she couldn’t quite place, but it made her feel uncertain. She greeted him politely enough but then asked him kindly to leave as she was not feeling well, but he did not move. Instead he closed the door behind him and started gliding towards her. Azalea became fearful and called out for him to leave, trying to escape but before she knew what was happening he'd grabbed her and pinned her to her bed, sinking long fangs into her neck. Azalea could only struggle weakly as she felt the life leaving her until suddenly the man went limp and she felt strong arms lift her up before she passed out.
When she woke up a few days later she was in another manor house, more run down than her home but larger on a great amount of land. A man came in, about her age, to check on her and she asked where she was. As it turns out she had been attacked by a vampire and the man who stood in front of her, and had saved her, was a Slayer. He'd brought her here to one the Slayer's HQs so that she would recover and possibly be trained to fight. She immediately agreed and began training. She put her knowledge of plants to good use and was very good with poisons and medicines, her actually being the one to discover that garlic made vampires ill. Azalea spent two years training to be a Slayer before she set off on her own, hunting. For the last two years she has been on this hunt, but in the meantime her family has been looking for her. The King and Queen knew that if she were to be found by her family again, she would tell the world about the existence of vampires, and being a noble woman they would believe her. They did not know, however, that in that time she'd become a Slayer.
But regardless of her Slayer abilities, the vampires sent to retrieve her ambushed and overwhelmed her, knocking her unconscious and bring her to the manor where she would be held in captivity until the end of her days. None of them know she is a Slayer except the other Slayer in the manor, who has not said anything.
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