Application for NextGen

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:21:02 GMT

Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ: Corina or Cori
Email: Speedstergrl5@gmail.com
AIM (if you have one): Speedstergrl5
Character Name: Mia Dearden
Character LJ (if applicable): Speedstergrl5
Physical description (face, build, weight): 5'3 125lbs long chestnut brown hair, brown eyes, lean, but athletic.
Age: 17
Birthday: May 3
Codename (if using one): N/A at the moment
PB: (If using one.) Elise Gaiten
Abilities: Expert in hand-to-hand combat.
Weaknesses and flaws: She's a bit to quick to throw herself in the line of fire. Sometimes she acts before she thinks. She's loyal and once you get past the sarcasm and flirtatiousness, she's got a really good, but slightly damaged heart. She doesn't trust easily and she's a lot more vulnerable than she lets on. She's tough when she needs to be, but would never admit that once and a while it's nice to have someone taking care of her for once despite the fact that she's old enough to take care of herself.
Character location/Home: Doesn't have one.
Alignment (villain, hero etc): She is unaligned at the moment.
Team: N/A at the moment
Relatives (living/dead?): Her Mother and Father are alive, but she hasn't seen her mother since she was two and she hasn't seen her Father since she ran away.
Backstory: Mia was born in Metropolis Kansas and is an only child. Two years after she was born her Mother left, her whereabouts are currently unknown. Her Father started drinking after her Mother left and became verbally and physically abusive shortly after. The night before her 12th birthday her Father sexually abused her for the first time and then she ran away from home. Shortly after she met a man named Rick who was in his late teens. She moved in with him when he promised to love and take care of her. She fell for him shortly after and not long after he turned her to a life of prostitution and cage fighting for money. Their relationship was a mess of verbal, physical and sexual abuse. Mia spent four years with Rick before Oliver Queen found her and showed her there was a different way to live.
How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: uh...that's a good question, I'm not really sure.
What are you planning to do with this character? I would love to explore Mia's past a bit as well as dealing with her future. I always sort of wondered what happened to her Mom and I've never seen that mentioned anywhere so that could be cool to dive into or really just let her interact with other people. Develop some friendships, maybe a little makeshift family kind of deal, and a healthy romantic relationship since she's never actually been in one.
What do you want to see happen with this character?: I would like her to create a life for herself. A real life. She's never really had a place to call home or people who cared about her for the right reasons. I'd like her to have friends and try to open up and deal with her issues and eventually have a healthy romantic relationship with someone.

Please include a sample post/scene

The shouts from the crowd echoed around her as she crouched near to the ground. Every night it came to this point. It was no longer about skill or fairness. Hell tonight's guy was at least twice her size, so she was pretty sure fairness wasn't even in the equation. It was only about one thing. Her will to survive.

Mia lifted her head slowly, her blood warm against her skin as it painted her lip. She met her opponents eyes, anger coursing through her body. She used the pain inside of her, every fight she'd ever had, every John who made her do something she hadn't want to, every thought of the man who called himself her Father, Rick...everything.

Mia focused the energy, channeled it and then pounced. Her body shot out, fist slamming into her opponents gut before her leg thrust out catching him in the knee. He cried out, but she didn't stop, she couldn't. Side punch, upper cut, jab. She twisted her body, ducked a punch, and then landed a roundhouse kick to his head.

Her breathing was heavy, sweat glistened on her body as she watched him sway. Once, twice and then he was falling crashing to the ground and cheer erupted around her. Mia closed her eyes, swallowed hard and opened them a second later. Faces all around the cage clapped and shouted at her. They liked when she got mad. They liked when she put grown ass men in their places, sometimes she even liked it too.

Her name was Mia Dearden and this was her life.

She lives in a fairy tale, Somewhere too far for us to find

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