Post by Milk on Jun 23, 2009 0:24:18 GMT -5
Name: Gwenifer Harlow- Goes by 'Gwen'
Age: 22
Sex: Female
Race: Human Seer- can see the past/history
Prominent Trait: sorrow-filled eyes
Fears: being robbed, heights, unlocked front doors,
dieing in a hospital
Issues: HIV Positive, can't touch anything or anyone without seeing their past, disowned by her parents
Loves: sleeping, heated blankets, new things with no history, babies, the rain, movies, museums, glowing embers, being able to relax and dance around, sweet things like hot chocolate, being difficult
Hates: being thought of as crazy, spicy foods, being sick, crowds, loud music, using knives, comments about her weight, long words, demands
Appearance: Gwen is about 5'5 with pale brown eyes and short brown hair that is often dyed funky colors. She is pretty much just skin and bones. She can't afford new clothes so she wears whatever she can find but makes an effort to make her clothes match. She wears gloves so she doesn't unnecessarily touch anything or anyone. She does her best to just blend in an go unnoticed but her oddly colored hair definitely doesn't help that.
Pros: quiet, perceptive, helpful, good cook, could be considered pretty if she loosened up, able to access information, good with technology, escape artist
Cons: her visions are activated by skin contact so she pretty much refused to touch anyone, often won't talk of her past, definitely won't have sex with anyone, distrusting, a little crazy, easily frustrated, tries too hard to be independent
Background && Family:
Mrs Regina Harlow was fast on her way to becoming Mayor of Seasport Falls when her first born daughter, Gwenifer Marie Harlow, began displaying strange symptoms, most prevalently, hallucinations. Knowing it would do her political career and aspirations no good she and her husband decided it would be best to send young Gwen away for 'help' and tell the media that the girl had died in a car crash. A crash was created with bodies and bribes in place before the story was released.
With the girl whisked away to a, not exactly state sanctioned, institution in Cyanide City under the name of Gwenyth Louise Haldow, the soon-to-be mayor was able to relax and quickly move on. She visited her daughter three times, the last of the visits occurring when Gwen was nine. After that last visit Regina became pregnant with her second child and finally had the family distraction she craved.
This left Gwen to suffer through twelve years of absolute hell. The institute Gwen was placed in as a child was nice enough, though still no place for a kid. When she was fifteen overcrowding forced the institute to ship her off to another asylum, this one much less friendly. There Gwen was subjected to tortuous attempts to 'cure' her supposed disorder. in an effort to save money the asylum had a habit of reusing needles which resulted in sixteen year old Gwen contracting HIV. She may not have been crazy when she entered the asylum, but some of it certainly rubbed off on her by the end.
At the age of eighteen Gwen was released out onto the streets with no training, no medicine, and no idea of where to go. After over a year of bouncing from shelter to shelter and sleeping in warehouses she was found by Victor Moore, the leader of the Night-Stalkers gang who had caught wind of the rumors of the history seeing girl. He gave her a job as a messenger and informant while paying her and providing her much needed medication. Even with the job Gwen still has trouble purchasing food for herself since most of her money goes toward the rent of her less-than-stellar apartment.
Age: 22
Sex: Female
Race: Human Seer- can see the past/history
Prominent Trait: sorrow-filled eyes
Fears: being robbed, heights, unlocked front doors,
dieing in a hospital
Issues: HIV Positive, can't touch anything or anyone without seeing their past, disowned by her parents
Loves: sleeping, heated blankets, new things with no history, babies, the rain, movies, museums, glowing embers, being able to relax and dance around, sweet things like hot chocolate, being difficult
Hates: being thought of as crazy, spicy foods, being sick, crowds, loud music, using knives, comments about her weight, long words, demands
Appearance: Gwen is about 5'5 with pale brown eyes and short brown hair that is often dyed funky colors. She is pretty much just skin and bones. She can't afford new clothes so she wears whatever she can find but makes an effort to make her clothes match. She wears gloves so she doesn't unnecessarily touch anything or anyone. She does her best to just blend in an go unnoticed but her oddly colored hair definitely doesn't help that.
Pros: quiet, perceptive, helpful, good cook, could be considered pretty if she loosened up, able to access information, good with technology, escape artist
Cons: her visions are activated by skin contact so she pretty much refused to touch anyone, often won't talk of her past, definitely won't have sex with anyone, distrusting, a little crazy, easily frustrated, tries too hard to be independent
Background && Family:
Mrs Regina Harlow was fast on her way to becoming Mayor of Seasport Falls when her first born daughter, Gwenifer Marie Harlow, began displaying strange symptoms, most prevalently, hallucinations. Knowing it would do her political career and aspirations no good she and her husband decided it would be best to send young Gwen away for 'help' and tell the media that the girl had died in a car crash. A crash was created with bodies and bribes in place before the story was released.
With the girl whisked away to a, not exactly state sanctioned, institution in Cyanide City under the name of Gwenyth Louise Haldow, the soon-to-be mayor was able to relax and quickly move on. She visited her daughter three times, the last of the visits occurring when Gwen was nine. After that last visit Regina became pregnant with her second child and finally had the family distraction she craved.
This left Gwen to suffer through twelve years of absolute hell. The institute Gwen was placed in as a child was nice enough, though still no place for a kid. When she was fifteen overcrowding forced the institute to ship her off to another asylum, this one much less friendly. There Gwen was subjected to tortuous attempts to 'cure' her supposed disorder. in an effort to save money the asylum had a habit of reusing needles which resulted in sixteen year old Gwen contracting HIV. She may not have been crazy when she entered the asylum, but some of it certainly rubbed off on her by the end.
At the age of eighteen Gwen was released out onto the streets with no training, no medicine, and no idea of where to go. After over a year of bouncing from shelter to shelter and sleeping in warehouses she was found by Victor Moore, the leader of the Night-Stalkers gang who had caught wind of the rumors of the history seeing girl. He gave her a job as a messenger and informant while paying her and providing her much needed medication. Even with the job Gwen still has trouble purchasing food for herself since most of her money goes toward the rent of her less-than-stellar apartment.