Post by Phoebe Minola on Feb 16, 2014 19:09:42 GMT -5
Name: Phoebe "Feebs" Minola. Will also respond to Foo.
Age: 24
Date of Birth: October 3rd
Birthplace: Athens, Greece. She grew up in Ohio, USA, though.
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual, but modest about it
Face Claim: My own original art~(COPYRIGHTED STUFF, NO TOUCHIE!)
Appearance: Phoebe is about 5' 5" and of quite a chubby build. She has a round face, pale complexion, hazel eyes and light brown, frizzy, shoulder-length hair with a purple and hot pink streak on the right side. She sometimes wears her hair pinned up with a clip. She has a scar from old stitches over her left eyebrow and wears black and green secretary glasses for her bad sight.
She has a bit of trouble finding clothes that fit her size and thus dresses simply. She usually goes with plain jeans or pants with a variety of simple shirts and tops. She's quite fond of T-Shirts and hoodies with geeky stamps. She likes All-Stars shoes and Doc Martens boots. She has three piercings, two on the right ear and one on the left, and wears simple silver earrings that she changes around sometimes. She might wear a variety of simple accessories like rings or bracelets.
She's usually seen carrying a black and gray messenger bag with a lot of geeky-themed buttons, which she collects. She needs her glasses because she has pretty bad eye-sight without them.
Class: Persona-user
Arcana: The High Priestess
Occupation: Substitute English teacher and part-time bookstore clerk; aspiringstarving writer.
Weapons and Proficiencies (Optional): Crowbars and hammers (Strike type)
Phoebe grew up in a family with a lot of boys so she's used to throwing her weight around and getting into a few fights here and there. While she'll beat off regular people with fist and foot (and tooth, occasionally), for a more serious situation she'll reach for anything blunt and hefty she can fight with, usually a crowbar or a hammer.
Coming from a hunting-loving state, Phoebe knows her way around small caliber firearms but doesn't actually own a gun herself at the moment.
Personality: Phoebe is one of those people who appear unassuming, introverted and private but hide a wealth of eccentricity and quirks.
Normally easy-going, polite and a little reserved, Phoebe tends to look at everything through the lens of reason. She's very good at keeping her head and looking for rational explanations to unusual circumstances; she's a natural skeptic and usually rejects half-baked explanations but is open-minded enough to accept something out of the ordinary, given enough evidence. She's very well-read, intelligent and very good at research which gives her insight into a lot of different subjects.
She's also extremely fond of writing and displays a good talent for the medium. She hasn't published anything yet but her fanfiction is generally well accepted, though she's let that drop on the wayside recently to focus on her own short stories and novels. She spends much of her free time in front of her computer, working on her stories and talking with her family or friends. She's a self-confessed geek and loves playing video games and watching movies or shows on her computer and PS3. Other times she might be relaxing with her cat, Eliot, and a good book.
Feebs is admittedly not very good at dealing with people. She's shy and awkward but earnest in her good-natured approach. Once she manages to warm up to someone she can be very affectionate, friendly and eager to help, even if she isn't good at the kind of small-talk friends might engage in. Being an introvert, she's more likely to listen to others than talk and is happy to just hang out and play games or watch movies. She'll selflessly help others, even strangers, if she must, even if she's frightened or confused. When it comes to her students, Feebs is awkward but kind, a little bit on the pushy side when it comes to assigning and expecting homework and secretly, she's a little terrified of her students. But go on, just try to mess with any of them while she's around.
Because of her income issues she took up a second job at a bookstore as a clerk. She's a little bored with her jobs, and sometimes regrets moving to Mosaic City, but she finds joy in dealing with books. Feebs has an almost uncanny ability to find books that suit people the best and her suggestions are regarded as coming from almost flawless taste -- which she disregards, insisting that everyone can enjoy any book they want, but that some books resonate with certain people better than others.
Despite her usually stout patience, she has a rather bad temper problem; she bottles up her frustrations and resent until they burst, usually either with a bout of explosive swearing (in Greek, usually) and rude gestures, or a little bit of a violent streak. She's never proud of herself when she behaves like this and unless she has a serious grudge against her target, she's quick to apologize.
She is an unashamed foodie and loves talking about food and drinks she enjoys. She's a decent cook and likes trying out new recipes but has the good conscience to never serve a dish she's not confident of and has already made several times successfully. She takes her cooking and baking seriously enough to not come up with inedible results. In fact, her blueberry and choc-chip muffins are quite famous and tend to disappear very quickly when making a presence in a break-room or coffee table. She likes sharing her cooking with people. Also quite fond of her drinks too and she'll happily chug down a couple of Cuba Libres on a Saturday night or when she's feeling moody. Quite a beer connoisseur too.
Despite her introversion and her quiet appearance, Phoebe is, at heart, a bit of a pervert. She's got quite a lot of hentai and other naughty material on her computer and her apartment, but she's quite modest about it and won't bring it up where it doesn't belong. In fact, it'll only slip through in her online chats, her erotic writing (she gets things off her chest) and occasionally, when she's distracted, in conversation and it's a surefire way to get her to spazz.
As much as she appears to be comfortable with her figure and weight, Phoebe is always painfully aware of her weight problem and half-resents her appearance. She tends to brush off remarks and jokes about her size and even makes some herself, but she's actually quite upset when they are made in mean spirits. She wishes she looked a little different and could buy the kinds of clothes or shoes she'd love to wear. Although she tries to take good care of her diet, she has a bad habit of eating more than usual when stressed out, which happens a lot.
Though she has a good head for dealing with problems, she presents with a strange reaction; while good at keeping calm in disastrous situations, she's more likely to be reduced to a bundle of nerves over something more mundane and simple like bills or her rent. She also gets rather frightened easily and is ashamed of being such a scaredicat, especially when people depend on her. Even if she stands up for something or someone, she's probably going to be secretly quaking in her boots the whole time.
Although she fancies she's grown out of it now, as an adolescent she had a much more serious self-image problem and had a bit of a self-destructive streak.
Likes:
- Cola
- Books
- Her cat, Eliot
- Video games
- Writing! Writing, writing, writing...
- Good food
- Music
- Knitting
- Booze! (especially her Cuba Libres)
Dislikes:
- Spiders (VERY MUCH SO)
- Bugs
- Coffee
- Loud parties
- Bad stories and bad writing
- Bullies and impatient people
- Wildfires
- Warm beer
History: Phoebe was born in Athens, her parents being Greek nationals who shortly afterwards moved to the USA in the light of the economic crisis in Greece. She grew up in Ohio with her family of two sisters and a brother, all much older than her. She had a fairly ordinary childhood, with the typical high school and family drama, friendships, betrayals, hysteria over studying and running around trying to figure out who she was.
When she was a teenager, she and her parents were vacationing in Greece in July when one of the wildfires the country is infamous for broke out. Phoebe was alone in their family house in Athens, to catch up on some sleep, while her parents were on an two-day excursion out of the capital. Phoebe woke up late to a phonecall by her frantic parents telling her that the wildfire's front was less than 500 meters away from the location of their home. Indeed, Phoebe opened her window to a wall of smoke.
Managing to hold on to her composure, she pulled herself together, gathered family passports and important papers and prepared to evacuate the house, expecting the worse. The suburbia street she walked out into was buzzing with more life than she'd ever seen with people evacuating houses and fighting spark-ups. Phoebe found herself helping carrying a child suffering from asthma out of his house with his elderly grandmother and then venturing into the smoke front pouring down the street from the fire on the hill just above, with others looking for others who needed help.
In the end, the fires cost the lives of several fire-fighters, but spared her family's house and the majority of the street they lived on. It left a lasting impression on her and still haunts her nightmares to this day.
Phoebe graduated from a US college with a degree in English Literature and the advantage of speaking English and Greek as her mother languages. She looked for a teaching position in Greece or elsewhere as an English teacher and just two years ago got a position in Southern China. After a disastrous stay there and a failed relationship, she moved to Mosaic City with a new position in one of the local schools as a substitute English teacher. In order to supplement her income she also took a part-time job as a bookstore clerk.
Soon after she moved there, the perimeter around Mosaic City was established. She was concerned and even afraid, but decided to keep her head and sit tight. Life went on as normal for a couple of months. She was returning home late one night, after having a few beers too many. She got a bit lost and somehow wandered towards the outer circle in her half-drunk daze, out of a curiosity to see what the perimeter was. In her partial inebriation, she wasn't even sure where exactly she was. She foolishly wandered too far out.
While poking around the ruins of what must've been an auto-shop of some kid, bewildered at the destruction that made no sense, Phoebe was confronted with Shadows. Naturally, she panicked. She seized the closest weapon to her, a crowbar, and attempted to defend herself. However, the monsters wouldn't yield to the simply being wailed upon by a solid piece of steel wielded by a plump young woman. Cornered and unable to fight further, Phoebe almost allowed hopelessness to take over her, when a voice echoed in her head.
It was regal, sweet and clear as a bell: "I am thou. Thou art I..."
She didn't quite know what she did next. She remembers a brilliant azure glow, a card that looked like it was made of liquid diamonds that shattered when she touched it just as the Shadows rushed in for the coup de grace and a single word she said without knowing why: Persona.
And then Antiope arrived.
The Shadows crashed onto a round shield of the Amazonian creature and in a blur of red and black, the Persona routed the Shadows in a flash of fire and steel-tipped spear. Her Persona had awakened. And Phoebe hadn't got a clue what it all meant. She can't remember exactly how she got back to her apartment but when she did, she knew something impossible had happened. Something that felt right and filled her heart with more warmth than anything ever had.
And she also knew for sure that something was dreadfully wrong with Mosaic City, that had nothing to do with the radiation leak nonsense they'd been told about.
OOC Name: Phoebe
Persona: Antiope
Persona Lore: In Greek mythology, Antiope was an Amazon, daughter of Ares and sister to Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons. She was the wife of Theseus, and the only Amazon known to have married.
During Hercules' ninth Labor, obtaining the girdle of Hippolyte, his companion Theseus, king of Athens, encountered Antiope during a skirmish between the two armies. Legend holds that they fell in love and mediated between the Amazons and Hercules' army for a peaceful resolution of the conflict. However, the goddess Hera, ever trying to sabotage Hercules' Labors, incited the Amazons to attack, forcing Hercules and his party to retreat. Disgusted with her sisters' dishonorable behavior Antiope allegedly joined them and returned to Athens with Theseus.
They were married and Antiope gave birth to a son, Hippolytus. However, the Amazons incorrectly assumed that the Athenian had abducted Antiope by force and attacked Athens in an attempt to rescue Antipe and reclaim the girdle, unaware that Hercules had taken it away. Antiope rode into battle at the side of her husband in defence of the city and people she had come to love as their queen. In a battle near the Areos Pagos (Hill of Ares) the Amazons were defeated and their army routed out of Athens. In the conflict however, Antiope was shot dead by an Amazon named Molpadia. Theseus honored his fallen wife with a funerary procession fit for a warrior hero.
Antiope was hence honored as a protective hero-deity of Athens along the cult of Theseus and girls often honored the heroine by leaving offerings of their hair at her tomb.
Skills: Agi, Skewer, Makajam
Strengths and Weaknesses: Resistance: Agi/Slash
Weakness: Bufu/Strike
[li]Phoebe from Original Art played by Phoebe[/li]
Age: 24
Date of Birth: October 3rd
Birthplace: Athens, Greece. She grew up in Ohio, USA, though.
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual, but modest about it
Face Claim: My own original art~
Appearance: Phoebe is about 5' 5" and of quite a chubby build. She has a round face, pale complexion, hazel eyes and light brown, frizzy, shoulder-length hair with a purple and hot pink streak on the right side. She sometimes wears her hair pinned up with a clip. She has a scar from old stitches over her left eyebrow and wears black and green secretary glasses for her bad sight.
She has a bit of trouble finding clothes that fit her size and thus dresses simply. She usually goes with plain jeans or pants with a variety of simple shirts and tops. She's quite fond of T-Shirts and hoodies with geeky stamps. She likes All-Stars shoes and Doc Martens boots. She has three piercings, two on the right ear and one on the left, and wears simple silver earrings that she changes around sometimes. She might wear a variety of simple accessories like rings or bracelets.
She's usually seen carrying a black and gray messenger bag with a lot of geeky-themed buttons, which she collects. She needs her glasses because she has pretty bad eye-sight without them.
Class: Persona-user
Arcana: The High Priestess
Occupation: Substitute English teacher and part-time bookstore clerk; aspiring
Weapons and Proficiencies (Optional): Crowbars and hammers (Strike type)
Phoebe grew up in a family with a lot of boys so she's used to throwing her weight around and getting into a few fights here and there. While she'll beat off regular people with fist and foot (and tooth, occasionally), for a more serious situation she'll reach for anything blunt and hefty she can fight with, usually a crowbar or a hammer.
Coming from a hunting-loving state, Phoebe knows her way around small caliber firearms but doesn't actually own a gun herself at the moment.
Personality: Phoebe is one of those people who appear unassuming, introverted and private but hide a wealth of eccentricity and quirks.
Normally easy-going, polite and a little reserved, Phoebe tends to look at everything through the lens of reason. She's very good at keeping her head and looking for rational explanations to unusual circumstances; she's a natural skeptic and usually rejects half-baked explanations but is open-minded enough to accept something out of the ordinary, given enough evidence. She's very well-read, intelligent and very good at research which gives her insight into a lot of different subjects.
She's also extremely fond of writing and displays a good talent for the medium. She hasn't published anything yet but her fanfiction is generally well accepted, though she's let that drop on the wayside recently to focus on her own short stories and novels. She spends much of her free time in front of her computer, working on her stories and talking with her family or friends. She's a self-confessed geek and loves playing video games and watching movies or shows on her computer and PS3. Other times she might be relaxing with her cat, Eliot, and a good book.
Feebs is admittedly not very good at dealing with people. She's shy and awkward but earnest in her good-natured approach. Once she manages to warm up to someone she can be very affectionate, friendly and eager to help, even if she isn't good at the kind of small-talk friends might engage in. Being an introvert, she's more likely to listen to others than talk and is happy to just hang out and play games or watch movies. She'll selflessly help others, even strangers, if she must, even if she's frightened or confused. When it comes to her students, Feebs is awkward but kind, a little bit on the pushy side when it comes to assigning and expecting homework and secretly, she's a little terrified of her students. But go on, just try to mess with any of them while she's around.
Because of her income issues she took up a second job at a bookstore as a clerk. She's a little bored with her jobs, and sometimes regrets moving to Mosaic City, but she finds joy in dealing with books. Feebs has an almost uncanny ability to find books that suit people the best and her suggestions are regarded as coming from almost flawless taste -- which she disregards, insisting that everyone can enjoy any book they want, but that some books resonate with certain people better than others.
Despite her usually stout patience, she has a rather bad temper problem; she bottles up her frustrations and resent until they burst, usually either with a bout of explosive swearing (in Greek, usually) and rude gestures, or a little bit of a violent streak. She's never proud of herself when she behaves like this and unless she has a serious grudge against her target, she's quick to apologize.
She is an unashamed foodie and loves talking about food and drinks she enjoys. She's a decent cook and likes trying out new recipes but has the good conscience to never serve a dish she's not confident of and has already made several times successfully. She takes her cooking and baking seriously enough to not come up with inedible results. In fact, her blueberry and choc-chip muffins are quite famous and tend to disappear very quickly when making a presence in a break-room or coffee table. She likes sharing her cooking with people. Also quite fond of her drinks too and she'll happily chug down a couple of Cuba Libres on a Saturday night or when she's feeling moody. Quite a beer connoisseur too.
Despite her introversion and her quiet appearance, Phoebe is, at heart, a bit of a pervert. She's got quite a lot of hentai and other naughty material on her computer and her apartment, but she's quite modest about it and won't bring it up where it doesn't belong. In fact, it'll only slip through in her online chats, her erotic writing (she gets things off her chest) and occasionally, when she's distracted, in conversation and it's a surefire way to get her to spazz.
As much as she appears to be comfortable with her figure and weight, Phoebe is always painfully aware of her weight problem and half-resents her appearance. She tends to brush off remarks and jokes about her size and even makes some herself, but she's actually quite upset when they are made in mean spirits. She wishes she looked a little different and could buy the kinds of clothes or shoes she'd love to wear. Although she tries to take good care of her diet, she has a bad habit of eating more than usual when stressed out, which happens a lot.
Though she has a good head for dealing with problems, she presents with a strange reaction; while good at keeping calm in disastrous situations, she's more likely to be reduced to a bundle of nerves over something more mundane and simple like bills or her rent. She also gets rather frightened easily and is ashamed of being such a scaredicat, especially when people depend on her. Even if she stands up for something or someone, she's probably going to be secretly quaking in her boots the whole time.
Although she fancies she's grown out of it now, as an adolescent she had a much more serious self-image problem and had a bit of a self-destructive streak.
Likes:
- Cola
- Books
- Her cat, Eliot
- Video games
- Writing! Writing, writing, writing...
- Good food
- Music
- Knitting
- Booze! (especially her Cuba Libres)
Dislikes:
- Spiders (VERY MUCH SO)
- Bugs
- Coffee
- Loud parties
- Bad stories and bad writing
- Bullies and impatient people
- Wildfires
- Warm beer
History: Phoebe was born in Athens, her parents being Greek nationals who shortly afterwards moved to the USA in the light of the economic crisis in Greece. She grew up in Ohio with her family of two sisters and a brother, all much older than her. She had a fairly ordinary childhood, with the typical high school and family drama, friendships, betrayals, hysteria over studying and running around trying to figure out who she was.
When she was a teenager, she and her parents were vacationing in Greece in July when one of the wildfires the country is infamous for broke out. Phoebe was alone in their family house in Athens, to catch up on some sleep, while her parents were on an two-day excursion out of the capital. Phoebe woke up late to a phonecall by her frantic parents telling her that the wildfire's front was less than 500 meters away from the location of their home. Indeed, Phoebe opened her window to a wall of smoke.
Managing to hold on to her composure, she pulled herself together, gathered family passports and important papers and prepared to evacuate the house, expecting the worse. The suburbia street she walked out into was buzzing with more life than she'd ever seen with people evacuating houses and fighting spark-ups. Phoebe found herself helping carrying a child suffering from asthma out of his house with his elderly grandmother and then venturing into the smoke front pouring down the street from the fire on the hill just above, with others looking for others who needed help.
In the end, the fires cost the lives of several fire-fighters, but spared her family's house and the majority of the street they lived on. It left a lasting impression on her and still haunts her nightmares to this day.
Phoebe graduated from a US college with a degree in English Literature and the advantage of speaking English and Greek as her mother languages. She looked for a teaching position in Greece or elsewhere as an English teacher and just two years ago got a position in Southern China. After a disastrous stay there and a failed relationship, she moved to Mosaic City with a new position in one of the local schools as a substitute English teacher. In order to supplement her income she also took a part-time job as a bookstore clerk.
Soon after she moved there, the perimeter around Mosaic City was established. She was concerned and even afraid, but decided to keep her head and sit tight. Life went on as normal for a couple of months. She was returning home late one night, after having a few beers too many. She got a bit lost and somehow wandered towards the outer circle in her half-drunk daze, out of a curiosity to see what the perimeter was. In her partial inebriation, she wasn't even sure where exactly she was. She foolishly wandered too far out.
While poking around the ruins of what must've been an auto-shop of some kid, bewildered at the destruction that made no sense, Phoebe was confronted with Shadows. Naturally, she panicked. She seized the closest weapon to her, a crowbar, and attempted to defend herself. However, the monsters wouldn't yield to the simply being wailed upon by a solid piece of steel wielded by a plump young woman. Cornered and unable to fight further, Phoebe almost allowed hopelessness to take over her, when a voice echoed in her head.
It was regal, sweet and clear as a bell: "I am thou. Thou art I..."
She didn't quite know what she did next. She remembers a brilliant azure glow, a card that looked like it was made of liquid diamonds that shattered when she touched it just as the Shadows rushed in for the coup de grace and a single word she said without knowing why: Persona.
And then Antiope arrived.
The Shadows crashed onto a round shield of the Amazonian creature and in a blur of red and black, the Persona routed the Shadows in a flash of fire and steel-tipped spear. Her Persona had awakened. And Phoebe hadn't got a clue what it all meant. She can't remember exactly how she got back to her apartment but when she did, she knew something impossible had happened. Something that felt right and filled her heart with more warmth than anything ever had.
And she also knew for sure that something was dreadfully wrong with Mosaic City, that had nothing to do with the radiation leak nonsense they'd been told about.
OOC Name: Phoebe
Persona: Antiope
Appearance: 
Persona Lore: In Greek mythology, Antiope was an Amazon, daughter of Ares and sister to Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons. She was the wife of Theseus, and the only Amazon known to have married.
During Hercules' ninth Labor, obtaining the girdle of Hippolyte, his companion Theseus, king of Athens, encountered Antiope during a skirmish between the two armies. Legend holds that they fell in love and mediated between the Amazons and Hercules' army for a peaceful resolution of the conflict. However, the goddess Hera, ever trying to sabotage Hercules' Labors, incited the Amazons to attack, forcing Hercules and his party to retreat. Disgusted with her sisters' dishonorable behavior Antiope allegedly joined them and returned to Athens with Theseus.
They were married and Antiope gave birth to a son, Hippolytus. However, the Amazons incorrectly assumed that the Athenian had abducted Antiope by force and attacked Athens in an attempt to rescue Antipe and reclaim the girdle, unaware that Hercules had taken it away. Antiope rode into battle at the side of her husband in defence of the city and people she had come to love as their queen. In a battle near the Areos Pagos (Hill of Ares) the Amazons were defeated and their army routed out of Athens. In the conflict however, Antiope was shot dead by an Amazon named Molpadia. Theseus honored his fallen wife with a funerary procession fit for a warrior hero.
Antiope was hence honored as a protective hero-deity of Athens along the cult of Theseus and girls often honored the heroine by leaving offerings of their hair at her tomb.
Skills: Agi, Skewer, Makajam
Strengths and Weaknesses: Resistance: Agi/Slash
Weakness: Bufu/Strike
[li]Phoebe from Original Art played by Phoebe[/li]
