The One Eyed Bandit
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Gender: Female
Age: 17
Appearance:
Standing at 5'7", Ellis is a girl of a rather average height, an weighing in at around 120lbs, usually, she would present a rather indistinct, forgettable image. However, she makes up for this in multiple ways. The first thing one would notice, is her rather long, reddish brown hair, often kept in a roughly put-together ponytail that falls well past her shoulders, ending slightly above her waist line. Complementing this are her eyes, taking of an similar, if not the same, hue has her hair presenting her with what could almost be considered a color scheme, naturally. In regards to her expressions, one could call Ellis rather striking, specifically striking in the manner of being stuck by a baseball bat. Her expressions only ever seem to range from bored to disinterested to arrogant, and, finally, to annoyed. While this undeniably isn't one of her more attractive features, it does tend to leave an impression on others as time goes on.
In terms of dress, Ellis seems to prefer desaturated, subdued colors. She favors either dressing to one of two extremes, namely, she will often cover herself almost entirely, wearing heavier, winter jackets along with a pair of trousers, shoes, and occasionally a pair of gloves, or, dressing in an urban style, wearing not more than a hoodie, a singlet and a pair of shorts, sometimes even going without so much as a pair of shoes or sandals.
Nationality: American / Japanese
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Personality Strengths: Confident - Highly Intelligent - Undaunted - Knowledgeable
"I'm smarter than you. Deal with it."
Academically, Ellis is one of the top students within Colonial High, and a literal genius, bolstering an IQ of 164, even when taking into account students from higher year levels. She has a talent for just being able to 'get' things, often being able to grasp a subject or concept that others may have to study for hours to nail down, just by having it explained to her once, and, due to this She can usually breeze through her studies with little effort on her part, much to the chagrin of several other students of Colonial High. That being said, despite his grades he holds very little interest in the majority of her subjects, taking most of them because of her confidence in her ability to breeze through them with little effort. The one subject she seems to hold any level of investment in is English, indeed, it is likely the only class you could catch her actively paying attention in, assuming that she doesn't already know what's being taught, which, more often than not, is indeed the case.
Aside from her academic skills, she is well known around school for her undaunted attitude. She rarely ever shows concern that her performance at whatever it is she happens to be doing will be anything less than perfect, in fact, she barely even considers the possibility that she could fail at any given task, the past few years, nay, near her entire life being filled with success after success. Alongside this, for better or worse, comes a rather blunt personality in general. She isn't the type to hold back her thoughts, more oft than not being one of the domineering members of a conversation, regardless of who the other participants happen to be.
Personality Weaknesses: Arrogant - Blunt - Apathetic - Easily Bored - Cynical
"Meh. Not like they're even that bad."
As previously mentioned, she is more than a little bit blunt. She'll speak whatever happens to be on his mind regardless of the situation, or who she's talking to, paying little heed to to how uncomfortable, or infuriated his words may cause someone to become. Due to this she often has a hard time keeping friends, usually driving them off at some point or another from him, rather common, habit of outright insulting someone over the slightest discrepancy. On top of this, his confidence has lead into an strong sense of arrogance. She holds the belief that, should she try, she could rather easily surpass the few students in the school who hold higher grades than his, being fully convinced that she is by far the most intelligent student within Colonial High.
Other than this it should be noted that Ellis holds a level of disinterest in her surroundings that borders on apathy, something clear from her usual weary, monotone manner of speak that almost always persists, save for when she is either writing, or pissed. While, aside from a habit of teasing, she isn't the type to actively go out of her way to harm someone, she also isn't the type to go out of her way to help someone, she'd rather save a few minutes getting to her lunch spot than give a hand to someone being bullied. Additionally, her social skills aren't exactly up to stuff. Not to say that she's a shy individual, she's far from it, but, as you likely have an idea of by now, she isn't exactly the nicest of people. Furthermore, Ellis holds an extremely cynical mindset. She mistrusts others, being convinced that those who have tried to befriend her since her entrance into high-school only do so to gain something or another.
Background:
"What?"
July 17th, the beginning of Ellis's life, can, and has been described as many things. Born in a hospital of no real importance, within a town of even less, even the birth itself was for the most part, decidedly average and uninteresting. Following this trend, nothing of particular interest happened during the first months of her life. But, as time went on, she began to show a significantly increased rate of mental development, already beginning to display levels of comprehension on par with the typical child of twenty-three months by the age of one. Of which her parents, as one would imagine, were elated, but, due to her still young age, they decided to leave things unreported for the time being.
Entering kindergarten, Ellis often found herself being showered by praise from her parents, and, had come to accept it as a sort of norm. Not to be disappointed, the effort she extended in class, alongside her above average comprehension abilities, quickly netted her a spot as the 'teachers pet' of her kindergarten. However, with both she and her classmates still being of a young age, she was thankfully spared from the spite and teasing that could be expected from children of a slightly more advanced age. As she advanced into primary school however, things were set to change. Continuing her conquest of the education system, Ellis consistently found herself as the top scoring student among her classes, and, at this point in her life, actually putting in the extra effort to help it stay that way. Unfortunately though, with their growth in age other children also became bolder, beginning to tease her for her studious ways. Starting off as nothing of any concern, Ellis ignored it for the most part, simply going on with her usual routine. But, as the years when on those who chose to harass her would only worsen in their attempts, going out of their way to publicly embarrass her at any given opportunity. And Ellis, currently being a much, quieter, shyer girl than she currently is, wasn't one to go out of her way to stop them, simply taking it for as long as she could hold out. For most, one would find a breaking point amongst all this, but, Ellis was fortunate enough to be blessed with an anchor to help her work through those difficult times. A boy, a friend, a best friend, who stood with her through thick and thin, without a single care as to the ridicule that he would take on as her associate.
Moving on to middle school though, he found her friend lost, his parents moving off to some far off region of Canada. With his loss, and her attendance of the same school as many of her previous peers, she retreated into the world of writing, as both a genuine interest, and an escape from her school life. Things however, would only continue to worsen. While most who had once partook in her harassment and grown enough to move on, a select few still were determined to keep up their ways, and, despite the greatly lessened participants, those who remained grew increasingly malicious with their torments. As things worsened, she grew increasingly attached to her writing as a sort of security blanket, this though, would only lead her to finally reach a point at which she would break. Eventually catching on to her habit of writing, her bullies began to use it as a target, stealing and destroying a, rather lengthy, story she had been naive enough to work on at school. Almost immediately Ellis began to dissuade them, intentionally distracting herself in class as to purge herself of her title as a teachers pet. This, did seem to work for a short while, but, as a major test came along, Ellis still found herself passing with ease, something that would only cause to further irritate the bullies. As this carried on, things slowly began to quick back up where they had left off. This, the final straw so to speak, began her from the shy bookworm Ellis once was, into the girl she is today. As a result of the resurfaced bullying, Ellis began to develop an increasingly pessimistic view of the world. The way she saw things, whether she would tend to her academics, or whether she ignore them in their entirety, she would suffer for it. So, as one last attempt, she tried to fight back. Surely enough, whether it was due to her intelligence, or her knack for writing, she was able to give back to the bullies with ease, aggravating them into a full blown physical attack, leading to their expulsion.
With the quick success of this method, Ellis soon began to take it on as her primary way of being, no more would she allow herself to be the weak, quiet little girl that was easy to pick on, and no longer would she hold her tongue and thoughts at bay. By the end of middle school, she would have become a completely different girl than the one who had entered it. Intelligent and Abrasive to a fault, she would no longer be found tormented during her free-time or the like. Moving into high-school, little changed. She maintained what had once only been a defense mechanism, willfully ignoring most of what was to be said in classes, and never went back to the girl she had once been. Sure, she wasn't set to make any friends the way she behaved, but, to her, that would only be giving people a chance to put her through what she had in the past. Truly, the only thing that really remained from her past self was her love of writing, even going on to have a few of her works published, at the age of fifteen. Her application to The Refugee of Eleven was one that had been unexpected. Most would figure the girl to be uninterested in such things, but, for reasons known only to her, she applied for a stay at the prestigious camp, and, with her grades, regardless of the effort put into them, there was no way she would be refused entrance.
Hobbies:
"I'd rather this list was only two entrees long..."
~Writing~
In contrast to her lousy disposition towards school, and rather abrasive personality Ellis is an avid writer. She often spends many an hour weaving her own fictional worlds and stories, it not being uncommon for her to outright lock herself in her room, spending her time finishing off the latest chapter of a novel, in rather than say, sleep, or making her way to school. Speaking of which, the masses of effort than Ellis avoids placing into her schoolwork, often instead finds itself present in her writing, so much so that, despite her age, two of her novels, both being apart of a romance series, have been published, the first enjoying moderately good sales, and the second making it to #4 on the best sellers chart. Due to her use of the pen name Auria Kaname, this is only known around the school by the few who actually talk to the girl, and, after their experiences, most of which are unlikely to spread rumors of another one of her successes.
~"Art"~
Now, when it comes to art, hobby is a rather strenuous term to call it, rather, she only repeatedly takes part in the activity out of stubbornness. Her artistic skills, in case you haven't caught on, are rather horrid, to the point where she somehow mangles to screw up her attempts to draw even stick figures. Now, usually, Ellis would outright abandon the activity altogether, but, due to her tenancies to include illustrations within her novels, she is determined to improve her artistic skills, if for no other reason than having to deal with an artist during her writing process.
Alas, in the four years she has been trying, she hasn't come any closer to improving her skills.
~Jogging and Running~
There isn't much to be said about this one. Ellis, despite her desire to just lock herself up in her room writing, has enough pride to keep in a fit state of body, or at least, to prevent herself from gaining weight. It is simply a hobby developed from routine, her only opinion on the activity being that of it being a decent way to wind down, or work through writers block.
~Acrobatics~
Through no choice of her own, for the past six years Ellis has regularly attended an acrobatics class as one of her mothers attempts to provoke her into fostering more friendships, alas, as of yet, this has not borne fruit. Concerning this, Ellis surprisingly does not keep up her usual routine of succeeding at everything she attempts. Not to say that she is outright awful at the sport, but rather, she is decidedly average, the only outstanding strengths she displays, being outweighed by either another weakness, or her generally disinterested attitude towards the sport, though, she must admit, alongside her habit of jogging, it is rather handy when it comes to getting away from the people she pisses off.
Likes:
"Eh... This stuff is pretty OK"
- Writing
- Baths
- Subdued Colors
- Asian Food
- Reading
- People who think they're smarter than her. More specifically, she likes putting them in their place.
- And lastly, Sweet Food, especially Stick Biscuits
Dislikes:
"This stuff though? It sucks."
- Swimming, (She can't swim)
- Sleeping
- Waking Up
- Violence. It's not that she hates it, but she has absolutely no idea how to defend herself against it.
- Soap Operas
- Bullies
- She can't deal with Sour Food, so yeah, that.
- Caves, they terrify her.
- Horror Movies. See above.
Clubs: None
Crush: Currently, nada, none, zero, zilch.
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