Name: Zelipia Orchid Menidaeus | Age: 22 | Gender: Female | Species: Half-human, half-elf | Sexuality: Bisexual | Height: 5'5" | Weight: 160lbs
Pronunciation: Zah-lipp-ee-uh | Skin colour: Medium brown | Hair colour: Purple ombre | Eye colour: Medium brown | Trade/Job: Animal groomer
Appearance:
Standing at only five feet and five inches in height, Zelipia weighs approximately 160 lbs. She has a curvy figure with a narrow waist and wide hips. Her skin is a medium brown colour. She has large, angular eyes that are light brown in colour with elegant eyebrows, narrow cheeks, thick eyelashes, and full lips. Her hair is thick and curly, and while it starts out black at her roots, the sun bleaches it to a purple colour that results in an ombre look, the tips light lavender in colour while the bulk of her hair is a brighter purple shade. Her eyebrows are also purple. Zelipia has a diamond stud in her nose, a beauty mark on her upper left cheek, and a tattoo on her upper back. Zelipia's taste in fashion is quite varied and seemingly random - some days she'll wear jeans and a t-shirt, other days she'll wear frilly dresses, and other days she'll wear high heels and a mini-skirt.
Personality:
Zelipia has always been rather unpredictable. Overall, she tends to be upbeat and spunky, but her mood typically changes based on the day. Some days, she'll be outgoing, friendly, and talkative, while other days she can be quiet and almost sad, and sometimes she gets grumpy and is quick to anger. Regardless what her mood is, Zelipia has a tendency to be a bit of a prankster. She enjoys playing tricks on others, though she tries to keep them harmless. Zelipia is a bit of a romantic, and she'd love to meet someone fun who'll take her pranks with a grain of salt. Zelipia, like the rest of her family, is an animal lover, though she has a preference for cats. She has a cat named Soup.
History/Bio:
Zelipia was born in a nomadic elven tribe to her mother, Lanissa. Because Zelipia was half-human, the tribe discovered that her mother had been unfaithful to her father - a cripple who'd been injured in a hunting accident before Zelipia was born and was unable to actually have any more children as a result. The tribe was furious with Lanissa for lying with a man outside of her marriage, and they banished her from the tribe along with the new baby. Lanissa's husband Eriato was permitted to stay in the tribe because he was a man of some rank, and because he was an invalid and the tribe couldn't send him out into the world in good conscience. Lanissa took Zelipia's older brother Rhyanid with her despite the protests of the rest of the tribe, but her older sister Illyana chose to stay in the tribe with her father, uncle, and friends.
Lanissa moved to the floating islands with her two children, heartbroken about losing Illyana and Eriato. She swore off dating, deciding that she was going to focus on raising her two children and providing them with the best life she could. Learning about human life was difficult, but the children figured it out easily and enjoyed themselves growing up on the islands. Lanissa was welcomed into the home of an elderly elven woman who took pity on her for being kicked out of her tribe, having been through something similar when she'd been younger, and the elderly woman watched the children while Lanissa worked two jobs. She worked hard and saved up money until, when Rhyanid and Zelipia were ten and seven years old, she was able to afford to open up a pet shop. The elderly woman passed away two years later, leaving Lanissa the little home they'd shared in her will.
Zelipia never cared for school and had a tendency to slack off when she should have been working on her studies. She helped her mother and brother around the shop whenever she could. When she was sixteen, she started working there for real, and her mother found that she did particularly well with getting the animals to sit still while she groomed them. Lanissa decided to have Zelipia work as a groomer, and she loved it, enjoying making the animals look pretty. She's dated a string of guys since she was nineteen, but never lasted more than a few months with any of them because she just wasn't feeling it.