Post by Gia Alpert on May 7, 2009 11:25:32 GMT -5
Name: Gia Catherine Alpert – Gia is a variation of the Greek Goddess Gaia, the Mother Earth
Nicknames: G (Gee), Smalls (a reference to her height)
Age: 17
Sexuality: Bi
Gender: Female
Birthday: December 13, 1992
Weight, Height, Build: 125lbs/5’4”/skinny with small curves
Unique features: Birthmark on her left hip
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Current Location: New York, New York
Species (human, vampire, witch, shifter/werewolf): Witch
If you are a witch, which element: Earth
Appearance: Gia is kind of a short girl, standing at the almost-there-but-not-quite-average-height of 5’4”. Along with her small height comes a small but slightly curvaceous frame. She has bright hazel/green eyes, semi-dark blonde hair with long side-swept bangs. She cuts her hair obsessively, changing the style frequently from straight to curly, but the length is always somewhere between her chin and just about her shoulders. Anything longer than that, she gets aggravated because long hair tends to get in the way.
She’s not a flashy person. She always dresses comfy-casual, but always stylish. She sticks to a particular set of colors: greens, yellows, browns, blues, and blacks. She is a heel-shoe kind of girl; walking in flats is awkward for her. Skirts are okay in a professional or party setting but, any other time, she’s in pants. Other than that, she is never seen without a piece of jewelry, about five rings and a necklace. Her favorite stone is the emerald, so two or three of those pieces will have that.
Celebrity Twin: Allison Mack
Likes (10+):
Gardening
Animals (especially her pet dog, an Akita Inu named Boreas)
Going to the movies
Art: making images out of stone or wood
Snooper: she will get the truth, no matter what
Working to make her powers grow
Meeting other elementals
Relaxing in Central Park
Learning as much as she can about the supernatural world
Herbal tea
Dislikes (10+):
Fellow witches that abuse their power for personal gain or amusement
Snobby/Stuck up people
Manipulative people
Close-minded people
Anything that harms the earth (pollution, deforestation, etc.)
Her cousin
Crying, especially people seeing her cry
Her mild case of low self-esteem
Halloween decorations of hooked nose hags on broomsticks
Clowns
Strengths(3+):
Her Powers
Honesty/Expressing her opinions
Learning as much as possible
Weaknesses (3+):
Doesn’t know if she’s good or evil yet
Keeping Friends
Men and women (romantically)
Fears (5+):
Losing control and killing again
Being alone
Censorship
Snooping straight into danger
The possibilities of why she was given up for adoption
Dreams(3+):
Reaching her full element potential
A place where all people like her don’t have to hide their powers
Being with her "angel"
Secrets (3+):
Misses her adoptive parents
Wants to find true love, but snubs the ideas of true love and soul mates to others
Caused an earthquake in Central California, which killed a classmate
Personality: Gia is a fiercely devoted and loyal person when it comes to her friends, doing anything to protect them even at risk to herself. It may be hard for her to trust others at first but, when she does let someone in her “inner circle”, they are usually in for life. Anyone that is her friend doesn’t just have a friend, they have a confidante that’s eager to help no matter what the problem.
She is a brutally honest and extremely opinionated person. She’s been told in the past that she is so straightforward that, if she hurts someone’s feelings, she doesn’t even notice until someone else tells her she did so. She has been known to get into fights with others about her lack of discretion when it comes to her openness, but she can’t help that she’s passionate about certain causes. On the flip side, she is an extremely private person herself and hates it when others try to delve into a past she’d rather forget.
As loving as she is with her friends, more often than not, to protect herself, she distances herself from them. This restrictiveness is more than likely why she has so very little of them. With this, she also doesn’t share her Wiccan beliefs and powers to others. It’s her personal secret and, unless confronted by another like herself, and proven to be telling the truth, she will take her secret to the grave.
Gia also has a really forgiving nature. She can’t stay mad at someone for very long, so a simple apology usually gets you back into her good graces automatically. Unless there was a massive betrayal involved somewhere, she can be the human equivalent of a doormat when it comes to forgiveness. She may be a doormat and forgive, however, she never forgets.
Lastly, Gia is a very spiritual person. She was raised in a Catholic home but doesn’t follow it, or any other religion besides Wicca. Instead, she worships all the varying Gods and Goddesses of the Earth element, from all the different religions. Since she doesn’t resign herself to one religion or belief system, she jokingly calls herself an “Agnostic-Wiccan”. Along with her excessive need for privacy, she only practices her craft and performs rituals at its most powerful hour, midnight, in the seclusion of either her home or the woods, which she has to travel from the city to get to.
Mother: Demi Dodd-Alpert, forty-seven, RN
Father: Nathaniel "Nate" Alpert, forty-nine, lawyer
Siblings: None
Other family: Eleanor “Nell” Hughes, Gia’s twenty-two year old cousin/fashion design school student
Best Memory: Making a dead flower come back to life, the second manifestation of her powers
Worst Memory: September 28, 2004
Overall History: The Alpert family adopted Gia when she was seven. She had been in foster care since she was a small child and the only part of her biological family that she remembers is her father. The memories are vague, remembering only his dark eyes, but she believes that he didn’t want to give her up. While the Alperts were the only real family she had, she is both terrified and longs to find her birth parents and see if they can explain where her powers come from.
Growing up in San Francisco was okay. It was such a simple place, despite the diversity, and it was the same routine every day for her. A frequent visitor growing up was the Hughes' goddaughter and niece, Gia's cousin, Eleanor a.k.a. Nell. Gia and Nell never got along. Nell, being a year older, thought she was the boss of Gia, who clearly remembers a lot of horrible tricks Nell played on her. Example: she would lock her in the basement with the lights off when they "played" hide and seek as children. Because of Nell, Gia reverted from a happy, outgoing child to quiet and reserved, bottling her emotions.
When she was twelve, she had been in the library studying when a boy from one of her classes began to harass her. Henry Hamilton, just a regular ass at her middle school, was a regular tormentor of Gia's, one of many, because she was always alone since she was the "weird art kid". She always took the teasing in stride, never fighting back, because fighting back never worked with Nell so why would it in school? The day Gia learned she had powers was the day Henry died. In the midst of his jeering and teasing, she had been quiet and tried to ignore him when she just couldn't take it anymore. That day, September 28, 2004, all of Gia's bottled up emotions erupted into a 6.0 earthquake felt throughout all central California. Henry had died, one of the hanging lights in the libraray falling and crushing him.
Gia knew she had done it and she had been glad Henry died, which scared her to no end. Thinking they would help her, she told her adopted parents. Instead, they became terrified of her and completely isolated themselves from her until they could get rid of her. When she was sixteen, they managed to ship her off to New York's very own Academy of Athena by way of academic scholarship for her senior year. Before she left California, however, she filed for permission to become an emancipated minor and her wish was granted. She hasn't spoken to her adoptive parents since she the incident or since she left.
Ever since she was young, she's always felt a presence around her. She has always felt as though she's being watched and, after she healed a stranger and woke up in the morgue, she met the man that was watching her. He helped her escape the morgue and hospital without being seen. She never learned his name. He told her that she should be more careful, and that he would be watching over her before he disappeared. She hasn't seen him anywhere since except in her dreams. Gia has taken to calling him her "angel".
Currently, she works part-time at the public library as a research assistant but longs to get out of it and do something important. She practices the craft slowly and cautiously, as she's scared she might hurt someone else. Since that day five years ago, she has never been able to manifest an earthquake. The most she can do is healing the injured (whether it be herself, other people, plants or animals) and freeze time. Although the freezing happens completely on accident most times, and always at the most inopportune moments. She's not ashamed of what she is, but she doesn't show it off either.
Your Name: Mary
Experience: Almost a year
Contact Info: mccalvert89@hotmail.com
Anything else: Um…nope!
Rule Phrase: Bewitchingly Bizarre and Immorally Inexplicable
Roleplay Example:
Being alone wasn’t as bad as everyone seemed to think it was.
Sure, Gia was worried, probably like everyone else in the world, that she would die alone. But she was alive right now and she desperately needed quiet. At least when she was alone she had enough peace to study! There was so much information in the world, so many subjects, and she wanted to learn all that she could about all of them. And that took quiet. Whether at home or at the library, where quiet was a sanctimonious rule never to be broken, quiet was a precious thing to her.
And it was so hard to find! Sometimes, just for the hell of it, she would pretend to be deaf so she wouldn’t be bothered at work. After all, she couldn't freeze people every time they got on her nerves. That was a fast way to exhaust herself, and then her powers probably wouldn't work when she needed them. Her boss, Marjory, would scold her many times. She would say that pretending to be handicapped is “a disrespectful and horrible thing to do”. But Gia knew that she found it amusing. Marjory, robust woman that she was, couldn’t stay quiet for very long. She was always talking loudly, telling stories, and her laugh was more like a deep howl. If she was brutally honest with herself, Marjory was really Gia’s only friend. The older woman often called her at night to chit-chat, to lecture her about going to college, follow her dreams, invited her to go to the movies, ate lunch with her, and even tried to set her up on dates!
Yes, Marjory was a good friend indeed.
Taking a sip of her herbal tea, Gia wondered just how much longer she could last before dropping Marjory down the preverbal mineshaft.
Sure, Gia was worried, probably like everyone else in the world, that she would die alone. But she was alive right now and she desperately needed quiet. At least when she was alone she had enough peace to study! There was so much information in the world, so many subjects, and she wanted to learn all that she could about all of them. And that took quiet. Whether at home or at the library, where quiet was a sanctimonious rule never to be broken, quiet was a precious thing to her.
And it was so hard to find! Sometimes, just for the hell of it, she would pretend to be deaf so she wouldn’t be bothered at work. After all, she couldn't freeze people every time they got on her nerves. That was a fast way to exhaust herself, and then her powers probably wouldn't work when she needed them. Her boss, Marjory, would scold her many times. She would say that pretending to be handicapped is “a disrespectful and horrible thing to do”. But Gia knew that she found it amusing. Marjory, robust woman that she was, couldn’t stay quiet for very long. She was always talking loudly, telling stories, and her laugh was more like a deep howl. If she was brutally honest with herself, Marjory was really Gia’s only friend. The older woman often called her at night to chit-chat, to lecture her about going to college, follow her dreams, invited her to go to the movies, ate lunch with her, and even tried to set her up on dates!
Yes, Marjory was a good friend indeed.
Taking a sip of her herbal tea, Gia wondered just how much longer she could last before dropping Marjory down the preverbal mineshaft.
