Birthday: March 29th
Height: 5'10
Weight: 142lbs (About average for her height.)
Hair color: Vivid red-orange colour, a shade she's extremely proud of. It is a little on the wavy side, it could probably hang fairly straight if she felt so inclined to pay more attention to it. It tends to be rather untidy however.
Eye color: Metallic grey.
Disability: T9 Spinal Chord injury, resulting in paraplegia.
Personality: Kora is a little difficult to get along with initially. She suffers from the upbringing double-whammy of being from a family who were both rich and entitled, and had a charming love of violence.
She's rather arrogant and caustic, and has a tendency to push into situations without thinking. She has very much a 'might is right' attitude to authority, and is happy to follow a person so long as they can prove themselves her superior in a physical sense rather than mental or emotional. If she doesn't respect authority, she with habitually act up and challenge them.
As a result of these traits, she often ends up getting into fights, seeming to see her disability as little reason not to. She becomes extremely displeased when others think of her as at all fragile as a consequence of it.
While quite clever in a sense, Kora was never the most academic of folks, and tends to be a bit disparaging of learned people. Her grades have never been excellent, though she appears to hold her own. She feels little motivation to succeed academically, putting more emphasis in athletic achievement. This has meant that she's felt quite useless and otherwise obsolete since she lost the ability to walk. It makes her very frustrated, and her stubbornness and pride prevents her ever asking for help, even with things she cannot handle.
Beyond all this bravado and temper however, Kora can be quite a decent person. She has a good sense of humor, not seeming to take herself too seriously, and being one of the first to joke about things, even in grim situations. She is quite talkative and sociable, easily slipping into conversation with others.
Above all she is extremely brave...to a degree most would would call 'suicidal'. She seems to be totally unconcerned about danger or personal safety. Perhaps as a result of her almost kamikaze mode of crisis-management, she never panics where he own safety is concerned.
Appearance: Kora is naturally a fairly tall, athletic individual from a nordic background, though as she is no longer able to stand, her height is considerably less noticable. She has something of a shallow hourglass figure, though it isn't something that she shows up to much effect. Kora has never seemed over concerned with her appearance or 'dressing herself up' so to speak.
She tends to dress quite casually and practically, hating anything overly showy or restrictive. It seems the easiest way to irritate Kora is to require some sort of formal dress from her. Her disability has resulted in lost muscle tone in her legs, something that she does her best to avoid showing off if she cant help it. The initial accident also resulted in several large and fairly noticable areas of hypotrophic scarring around her abdomen, ribs, and up along her face from her jawline to under her left eye, the skin on that cheek appearing uneven and reddish in colour, and tends to distort the corner of her mouth somewhat on that side. Kora is decidedly unashamed of these and has no trouble talking about them.
History:
Kora comes from a family of fairly high status. Her father was an industrial tychoon, the head of a large power company and owner of several mining operations. The family itself was not altogether pleasant, however. Kora was born the younger child of the family, and her birth was quite traumatic for her mother Karina and landed her in hospital for some time afterwards. A combination of that and post-natal depression resulted in her becoming extremely distant toward her youngest. Kora's father on the other hand, showed a great deal of favouritism towards her over her siblings. He praised her almost unfailingly and encouraged her to be assertive, even aggressive. It made her extremely spoiled. Kora's siblings were often disregarded in her favour, something that, in combination with her aggressive personality, mean that they were never on very good terms.
The exact nature of Kora's accident is unclear, and is something she neglects of talk about, but what is known was that after it, when it became clear that she would never recover her ability to walk, her father's favour was lost. The man had hoped to make her his successor in his business, but he could not reconcile this with her new image. To him, a wheelchair was a sign of weakness which others would capitalize on. As a result, he abandoned his plans for Kora and turned his attention to her elder brother. By then, the young woman had burned her bridges with her other siblings, and was left much to herself. She worked hard, to show that she was still independent, still strong, but her attempts made little headway. When she was told she was being sent away to school, Kora was not altogether surprised, and quite pleased. She saw it as a chance to show her own worth.