Post by aluinn on Jun 4, 2009 0:22:48 GMT -5
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Player Information
Handle: Aluinn
Gender: female
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Character Information
Canon? nope
Character Name: Ballari Amare
Gender: female
Age: 27
Species/Breed: Asiatic Cheetah
Current Occupation: librarian by day;; Arcangel
Personality: Quiet and reserved, during her day job, one might mistake Ballari for a gentle wallflower as she goes about business in a non-intrusive, anti-social sort of way. Avoiding conflict wherever she goes, she is set on not being seen or noticed, and she's quite good at it. Of course, that is while the sun is in the sky. During the night or, the occasional job during the day of course, Ballari's quiet ways are useful in a rather deadly way. Although she is quiet and does not often allow her tongue to lash out, Ballari should not be mistaken for a dumb or slow creature, for her whit is difficult to match. Though an observer, and quite possibly because of this, Lari's intelligence is vast; she is quick to learn and has a photographic memory which comes in very handy whilst working with the Hour Glass Guild.
Her quiet nature must also not be mistaken as a gentle unassuming nature. The basest of her instincts are to trust no one and always assume the worst. She is largely a pessimist, believing that if selfish or untoward motives can be found, then they are probably being used or to blame. She usually spots the worst in others before the best and her humor is saturated in sarcasm.
Ballari is also incredibly spiritual. Her belief system is fairly unique and rather progressive; moving toward the individual self as the center of desire and need for her faith. She believes that all living things are to be respected and treated fairly with reverence; including the earth, fellow animals and lesser animals, even the gates themselves. But her emphasis on spirituality does not mean she is against murder or killing, she just has a special ritual and routine which she must perform in order to pay respect and show honor in doing such things. Ballari also has very little patience for those who would mock others beliefs; be them her own or one followed by someone else - spirituality is one area which Lari feels must be respected by one and all.
Appearance: Slender and lanky would be two good words to describe Ballari. Her frame is obviously an athletic one, however, not of waifish appearance but rather that of a lean athlete. Her eyes are a deep auburn color with long gold and reddish lashes. Her coloring is typical of Asiatic Cheetahs, with ruddy-golden fur garnished with sporadic black spots twirling around the crown of her head and down her neck and shoulders. Her stomach is mostly bare of the spots with lighter colored fur, the pattern does continue on her back, however. The tear-shaped adornments on either side of her muzzle are rather pronounced and give her impressively mysterious, if sad, air.
She chooses to keep her hair, which if it were allowed to grow would be long and golden with reddish highlights and black streaks where the spots on her scalp continue on through her mane, cropped to the same length as the rest of her coat. The red hourglass tattoo earned by joining the Angels is located on her lower back, just above the base of her tail. Her tail is long and well muscled; helping her to balance during sharp turns or flying leaps. Her spots continue down along her tail and then dissolves into rings before disappearing al l together into a golden tuft of fur at the tip.
Lari's attire is during the day conservative with muted colors and no flair. Her preferred attire would be simple blouses and longish skirts. Modesty is the word during the day. Her night job requires something a little more stealthy, and thus she has a black-aptly named-catsuit to suit her activities much better. The black cloth fits snugly and perfectly over her curvy athletic frame, accentuating any muscles and flattering features she possesses.
Background:
As a young cub, Ballari was left on the doorstep of a childcare home. Ballari grew up knowing full well she was different from the people who raised her. Ballari longed for something more in her life ever since she was old enough to walk and begin to talk. School was never technically difficult for her; however, she spent most of her time acting out and getting into trouble. Her life was a jumble of run-ins with authority, fights with her adoptive family and days spent on her own, sleeping in gutters and trying to prove her point; that she didn't belong with those who tried to tell her who she was. She decided when she was threatened with expulsion from her high school that she had to do something with her life. She wouldn't be a dropout and a loser. She started researching and digging and finally discovered the recruiting process of the Hour Glass Guild. Ballari worked hard, and instantly her grades lifted, though her behaviour was still rough and tumble, she graduated high school with flying colors and was accepted into the Angels.
During training, Ballari decided to begin digging into her past. She discovered her mother had been a teenager when she’d given birth to Ballari. Lari made contact with Savita only once, they had a meeting and Savita explained the entire ordeal to Ballari. Savita had given her small cub up to what she thought had been an orphanage, it turned out that it had actually been some sort of research laboratory working underground. Research on furres was illegal, for obvious moral and ethical reasons. When Savita found out where she’d left her babe, she fought to have Lari returned to her; but it was too late. Savita was told that Lari had passed away. Savita was distraught but she moved on with her life. Lari was enraged after the meeting and immediately began looking for the corporation. Ballari vowed she would one day find and stop them.
As her training progressed, however, Ballari found herself coming to grips with the situation of her life. Ballari found peace during a mission which granted her a retreat and reprieve from daily rigors. This was where she found her spiritual side. Coming into touch with such a part of herself that she had before not known to exist was exhilarating and she began to excel in her training faster than ever. It was not long before she was an ArcAngel apprentice. Because of her natural grace, prowess and athletic ability, Ballari did very well in her advanced fighting skills. She specialized in stealth, spying and assassination. The young cat was taught not to be seen or heard, to get the job done without anyone noticing her presence. And she was damned good at it.
Ballari was informed, when she was on the brink of graduating from apprentice status to full-fledged ArcAngel, that she must make a sacrifice. She had known the day was coming but it seemed somehow to sneak up so soon; unnoticed, just as she herself had been trained to do. The irony was incredible and Ballari threw herself into meditation, trying to discover what was most important to her; what she could possibly sacrifice in order to be worthy of the ArcAngel title. After many days, perhaps even weeks, of deep thought, it became apparent to Ballari that what she cherished most was the silence; the ability to meditate on her own and be singularly still with her own thoughts. She was not sure how this could be sacrificed, but she brought it before her predecessors for their own thoughts. It is not exactly clear, even to Ballari, how the Angels were able to do such a thing, but since the day she admitted her greatest held posession, Ballari has not been able to have a moment of pure silence and stillness. Be it voices or white noise, Ballari is no longer blessed with the ability to truly meditate; her mind is in constant reel.
So, for the last four years, Ballari has been doing what she does best, and survived surprisingly long for an ArcAngel. She prefers to work alone, despite the fact that the noise in her mind has turned to voices and she is never truly 'alone' anymore, other physical presences usually make her aggressive or uneasy. She has more enemies than one can count and fewer 'friends' than digits on her left fore-paw. Regardless, she is proud of what she has become.
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