Player: Becky!!

REINCARNATION NAME: Icarus
RESOURCES: Wikipedia, a bunch of encyclopedia entries

CURRENT NAME: Ira Elizabeth Reynolds
AGE & BIRTHDAY: 20, 8/7/90
RESIDENCE: Chicago, an apartment with Acacia Volkov and Acacia's dog Trip.
OCCUPATION: Student

TALENT: N/A

PLAYED BY: Allison Harvard http://29.media.tumblr.com/CqoCYPUQJpvd0kllKerpPAoZo1_400.jpg

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Ira is quite tall, standing at 5'9 with a very thin frame. Her friends and family are constantly worried about her weight. She looks frail, drawn, and tired most of the time. Her facial features are somewhat alien with her big eyes and her pronounced bone structure. Her hair bounces between blonde and brown mostly due to her dying it or forgetting to dye it.

She never has time for fashion so what she wears is what she wears and it's usually hanging off her. Her knuckles are scarred with lashings she received as a child from her parents when she asked the wrong questions.

STRENGTHS: Ira is extremely cautious when it comes to her work. She is the kind of person who will check and re-check something over to make sure it is right. She's been good at hiding her problem but her cover is starting to slip. Art and anything in written form. She's very dexterous and good with hand-eye coordination though years of playing video games.

WEAKNESSES: She has trouble differentiating reality and fantasy. She has trouble communicating in every day life. Self medicating. She's physically weak, she's got no muscle mass and has a hard time moving things around and lifting, if she got into a fist fight she'd loose in a heart beat.

DETAILED PERSONALITY: Ira is, for the most part, quiet. She's got her heads in the clouds and is often caught daydreaming. She's a little bit of a space cadet and she loves to read. She sticks mostly to fantasy, science fiction, faerie tales, and comics. She is a closet case nerd, she'll never admit it to anyone aloud but she reads webcomics all the time and watches as many fantasy and sci-fi movies as she possibly can. She is strange, many of her friends often calling her loony. She is flighty, flakey to a degree, and often in her own little world.

Despite her flights of fancy, she is the kind of person who will check and re-check her work to make sure it is right and that it is quality before considering it done. She is cautious to a degree, she doesn't let people get close to her very easily and she takes her time with most things. The one thing she has never been cautious about is throwing herself into self medication. When she immerses herself into certain drug states she finds that it is easier to shut out the weird visions.

Another way to drown out visions and weird voices is to blast loud noises. She likes her music loud and surround sound is her best friend. She prefers music with an edge to it and going to shows which sometimes leads her into some reckless decision making.

PERSONAL HISTORY: Ira was born the last child to a large family. Her parents had already had four sons they named Jakob, Amos, Efraim, and Levi. When Rebecca Reynolds found out she was pregnant again both she and her husband Isaac expected another boy and so picked out the name Ira. When they were made parents of an underweight premature baby girl with jaundice and a weak heart beat they kept the name and prayed that she would get better. The doctors reassured her parents that Ira had a fight in her unlike they had ever seen before, she somehow pulled through the first night and it got easier after that. She rebounded quickly, though she had to stay in the hospital for her first few months, her parents by her side.

When she was finally released from the hospital she was brought back home and raised in a strict Jewish household. She was taught Hebrew and learned all her religious instruction from her parents and brothers but there was always something a little off about it to her, it didn't feel like it quite fit. Even as a child she knew it was constantly being disciplined by her parents for asking questions like "how could one god take care of the world? It's just too big of a job and it doesn't make sense." She earned many lashings in any day and still has the scars to prove it.

As a child she had dreams of flying, sometimes they were so vivid she felt like she was flying and even believed it to be true. She was always running around telling people she could fly but her parents insisted that she could not. At the age of five she tried to jump off a roof to prove her point. If her older brother Efraim hadn't been there to catch her by the arm as she flung herself off the roof, she would have fallen to her death. She was immediately placed in therapy where she was told her dreams were just that; dreams. They were not real.

These dreams though are visions of her time as Icarus, and in recent years they have been triggered by certain things going on around her while she is awake as well as sleeping. She has not figured out what they mean and experiencing them since childhood with little to no help she began self medicating. She began with just the occasional joint to try and ease herself away from any daytime visions, it helped at first but soon it wasn't enough to escape her reality. She began experimenting with heavier drugs such as cocaine and heroine. Her narcotic use has turned her a bit more lethargic than she had been in the past. Her grades are slipping in school and it's likely that she will fail out if she doesn't start working harder and kicks her nasty little habits. She is on a downward spiral, going nowhere fast.

Just this past year she got an apartment with a girl named Acacia. When she is around her she feels a sense of familiarity but she can not quite place it, perhaps because she is a fellow dork.

tags: bio, ooc