daringred_
(crush me)
Age: 19
Birthday: October 25th
Zodiac: Scorpio
Gender: female, goes by she/her pronouns.
Orientation: homosexual, although she will still frequently flirt with guys.
Origin: Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 130 pounds
Eye colour: blue
Hair colour: blonde
Nationality: American
Dominant hand: right
Voice claim: Sasha Pieterse
Languages: English, French, partial Italian
Religion: n/a
Vices: formidable; thoughtless; unforgiving; withdrawn; intolerant; cunning.
Virtues:creative; calculating; independent; persistent; decisive; resourceful.
Quirks: drums her fingers against the cover of her book when bored, or waiting for
something; uproots grass and/or flowers when angry or sulking; sings incoherently
when elated.
Fears: being overrun by darkness; having her creations turn against her, although
such a thing is unlikely considering they dispel at her will; ravines, or any drop with
an invisible bottom.
Skills: adaptability to situations, focusing on her ability to adapt at will very quickly
with little to no hesitation; listening, following her own claims that she can "hear"
people's fears; ability to work well under pressure - rarely does she feel or cave to
time constraints or expectations.
Likes: pastel colours; daisy chains and flower crowns; overgrown clearings; deer;
sitting on cliff edges and listening to the ocean; bringing her creations to life to keep
herself company - the island can be a lonely place sometimes.
Dislikes: strangers; people touching her things; being made a fool of; the thought
of being used as entertainment value; the assertion that she's weak for being both
young and female; fire.
Opinions: after spending almost a decade of her life on the island, Lauren's become
depressingly used to the annual battles to the point where she doesn't quite mind them
so much anymore and simply finds them both exciting and an outlet for her the anger
she bottles up for the remainder of the year. She gets a kick out of bringing monsters
down and loves looking for a window of opportunity to use some of her more prized
manifestations. As for the escape plan? She's both for it and against it. She wants to
get off of the island and go home as much as the next misfit but she's privately worried
about what will become of both her and her creations back in the real world.
Power: the master of Imagination Manifestation, Lauren's magical ability enables her
to summon anything from her own imagination into existence. Naturally, any wielder of
this form of magic tends to have their own stylistic approach to the entities/objects they
summon, with Lauren tending to follow a rather dark and demonic aesthetic. All of her
creations come forth accompanied with shadows, darkness, the whole shebang, and it
completely clashes with her demure and almost innocent outer appearance. For example
one of her favourite, and most frequently used, creatures is an impossibly gigantic black
snake complete with ominous violet eyes and fangs the size of people. (Like we're talking
twice the size of the Basilisk they had lurking in the Chamber of Secrets.) While not at all
necessary for her powers to activate, and her creations to manifest, Lauren frequently
hauls around an unmarked leather-bound book containing detailed notes on all of her
favourite and most-used manifestations as well as ideas for future ones.
Biography: growing up, Lauren was always a quiet child overlooked in favour of other
children. She was polite, kind and well-behaved to the point where barely anybody paid
attention to her because there was no reason to monitor her. While left alone to her own
devices she would frequently conjure cute little animals to play with in her bedroom, all of
them promptly disappearing whenever anyone came through the door. She never knew
exactly what she was doing, or how it worked, but she unconsciously did it anyway. But
the older she got, the less it happened, and soon enough her manifestations disappeared
completely to the point where she always dismissed them as vivid imaginary friends from
when she was "just a kid". As she entered middle school, Lauren quickly became a target
of bullies for being a teacher's pet and a goody-two-shoes who never broke the rules and
constantly snitched on students who did.
Raised under the short poem that "sticks and stones will break my bones but words will
never hurt me," she took the verbal abuse with little to no issue. It wasn't until shortly after
she turned 12 that things finally took too drastic a turn and her manifestations came back
in full force to defend her. An older boy due to leave that same year had approached her
and gleefully torn to shreds the book she'd been writing in; it had been a little journal her
dad had given her before going to work abroad in France, and she'd been writing down
a story in it ever since he'd left ready to show him when he returned. The last thing that
anyone remembered after Daniel Mason tore up Lauren's book was the sight of a 40 foot
spider writhing around on the playground crushing everything in sight. After that it was
bye bye New York for Lauren as she was carted off to the island and left never to see
her home again.
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