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Alias: None Age: 30 Sexuality: Bisexual Height: 180cm Weight: 71.6 KG Hair: Straight, shoulder-length blonde hair, usually tied back in a pony-tail Eyes: Wide, brilliant Sapphire eyes, now slightly glazed over Skin and Scars: tanned, olive skin. Scars of various size litter her body
Details
Althea has naturally tanned skin, littered with a few scars from her time as a hunter. While she used to be in extremely good shape with solid muscles to compliment her figure, her time on the street started to erode her hard work away. What she does have only being kept due to her inability to give up a routine even if it causes her more harm than good. Her normally well-kept blonde hair looks more like a rat’s nest now, dirty more often than not and matted. While she kept her hair the same way it seems to of been cut with a rusty knife rather than a pair of shears. Her brilliant blue eyes are slightly faded due to her blindness. Those who would have known her before would have known how hard she worked for herself and would probably be a bit sad to see her current condition.
✖ Depressed ⤋ Sudden Noises ✖ Regretful ⤋ Not knowing her surroundings ✖ Anxious ⤋ Letting others down ✖ Lonely ⤋ Feeling useless or powerless ✖ Headstrong ⤋ Spicy Foods
Behaviour
Once upon a time, Althea would have been described as bright, cheerful, the very life of a room. But now that felt so very long ago. Over the last year and a half she had fallen hard, losing almost everything in the matter of months. She quickly fell into a deep depression, which only grew worse once she was kicked to the streets and had to blindly hunt for something to eat, often going for a few days without. She lost connection to her friends and was alone. Loud, expected sounds started to affect her day to day. Making her a crying shivering mess from the panic attacks they would cause. She’s slowly starting to recover but without any support system it feels more like an uphill battle and she easily can end up dejected. But she does her best to put up a front for people, even if for others it would obviously seem fake. Althea seems scared to show any level of weakness in her current state, trying to deflect any question relating to her well being out of fear that she would just end up breaking down once again.
History
There is an age old tale which could be seen as the origin of any civilized being. Noble hires a young attractive maid and eventually falls for her. Despite the maids original denial of his advances he eventually wears her down and woos her. Their cardinal desires take over and after a short affair a child is conceived. Yet the noble doesn’t want to see unfaithful to his wife so he fires the maid, sending regular hush money to get so she doesn’t come forward with the child. And while the cash could be seen as a bit unusual, it’s how Althea’s mother was able to care for her daughter and herself. They lived in relative comfort doing whatever it was they felt like. While she had her mother’s maiden name, Althea was never told the identity of her father. But that never really bother the young, athletic girl, the city was to cramped for her liking anyway, so why should she care about being some noble’s child. As soon as she could she found a group of hunters getting ready to leave the city and begged them to take her on as a pupil. Of course at first they denied her request, but Althea proved to be stubborn at the very least, tracking down the same set of hunters whenever they entered the city and begged them to take her on. Eventually she got her wish.
And so, Althea was happy. The freedom that came with being a hunter was intoxicating. Traveling with her mentor through the wilds and ruins of the world, staying in camps and safe houses, slaying monsters and young Althea had quite the affinity for it. Because of her gifts in the field she had been able to set up a comfortable and semi-successful life while she stayed in the city. Being able to move into a nice house and get a few luxury items. Yet life is unfair. A few years into her career her mother died. Thankfully she had been on her own for a while by then but her mother’s death still hurt her.
Eventually she passed down her coin to an apprentice of her own despite initially not wanting to take one on and after some drinking her old mentor challenged her to a dare. He had been tracking the creature for a while. He was confident that he would be able to outperform both Althea and her apprentice. And in a decision that Althea would regret in a few days she agreed. So their dare was set, whoever killed the beast first won and a small prize would be handed out to the winner and in the wee hours of the morning the hunt began.
The creature they were hunting was this strange chimeric creature that wasn’t seen before in the hunting grounds. But it was only one creature so even with a greenhorn, Althea and her apprentice had the upper hand. It was shortly after noon the following day that the pair was able to find the beast’s lair. Setting a trap they lured the creature out into the open and attacked. The two of them quick gained the upper hand and right as they slayed the beast, they were ambushed by another creature of identical nature. It took one swipe of the beast’s claws to gouge Althea’s apprentice, their guts spilling onto the ground. Althea would cry out and attack in anger, but her moves her reckless. She was barely dodging the creature’s swipes and bites. But the battle only lasted around 10 seconds. The beast’s tail would swing and hit Althea hard in the face, causing her to fly backwards and lose consciousness.
When her mind started to return to her, Althea noticed she was not lying on the cold dirt ground of the forest but rather a soft bed. She would ground and open her eyes, but would only continue to see darkness. Panic and confusion would set in as she started to call out for help and her apprentice. She would hear running, sounds of shoes on the ground getting close and closer. As hands would hold her down, she would continue to thrash and scream, crying out for her apprentice. It wasn’t until she heard the voice of her mentor she would start to calm down and she learned what happened. After the creature knocked Althea out, her mentor had caught up right as it happened. Shocked to see two of the beast he would kill the remaining beast. But by the time he checked on her apprentice they had already passed away. He feared the worse for Althea but help some level of hope when he could feel a pulse.
But he explained that those events where four days prior and Althea had been out since. They were starting to worry she would never wake. But the doctors had worried about her vision. When they examined her they noted something about her eyes seemed off, but no one could expect the full blindness that came of it. Her mentor would stay with her for a bit, as the waves of emotion washed over her, the tears, and the heartbreak. But he would place something metallic on the nightstand next to her bed, explaining it was the coin she gave to her apprentice.
From there Althea’s life went downhill. Her fund quickly ran out. While she had wanted for nothing while she was a hunter, she wasn’t extremely rich. It didn’t take long for Althea to end up on the streets, stubbornly holding onto her last two possessions: her vanta Bo staff and the coin she gave her apprentice. Finding herself blind, depressed and in denial she would slowly start to waste away on the streets, living in the alleyways and using her bo staff as a tool to get around without bumping into people and objects. She would weakly and desperately cling onto her old workout habits the best she could. Pushups, sit ups and other workouts bringing her back to a happy time, only for it to all crash as she realized once she opened her eyes the darkness would continue to greet her. The exercise only hurting her has she couldn’t get enough nutrition to fit the routine. Her life would somewhat change as she found herself inside what she thought was a mostly empty, forgotten shed. But when the owner of a florist shop went to pick up some tools she would see the wasting away Althea and in a rare act of kindness, took in Althea. She gave her a job at her shop despite the ex-hunters blindness. And while she couldn’t pay her a lot, the florist would allow Althea to live in the shed, making it a bit more homelike in the process. Yet it was still a shed and althea slept on top of a stack of blankets with a really old pillow. It wasn’t comfortable but the first time since her new life a year and a half ago, she didn’t feel completely hopeless.
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ of THQ
★MEULK OF THQ
Last Edit: Dec 11, 2019 4:33:19 GMT by Althea Crane
Yggdrasil is sleek, black and extremely flexible Bo staff standing at 170 cm with golden accents.
Ability
On top of being a Bo staff made of black vanta metal, Yggdrasil has the ability extend up to 12m. The bo staff maintains it's flexibility and really only effects it's range.
Tectonic Rift
Vel Rank: 1 - Control
Power
Althea's Vel is only she was always proud of but always took strides not to rely on to heavily. She named it Tectonic Rift, as she could control the earth in a 12 meter radius around her. Ranging from moving the earth under her to quick dodge, to causing rocks around the size of her torso to raise out of the ground and then fling them at people.
Disadvantages
- Range: The main weakness of her Vel is the range. She can not control earth outside of her range, and while she can toss stones potienally outside of her range, once it's out of her range, it's not in her control anymore. - Material: It's a pretty straight forward one, if she doesn't have earth around her, she can't control it. - Vision: One of her newest weakness came with her recent disability. Because of her blindness she can not properly aim the stones she is throwing, only going by what she can hear. On top of that, if earth gets thrown into her range but she can see it, she wouldn't be able to control it.
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ of THQ
★MEULK OF THQ
Last Edit: Dec 16, 2019 5:56:32 GMT by Althea Crane
Star Rank: ★ Description: Before her blindness, Althea was quite slippery, using her Bo staff to help her preform various acrobatic acts like flips, somersaults, dodging and just overall enhanced agility. And while her blindness slowed her down slightly, she can surprisingly prove to be just as flexible as long as she doesn't run into anything.
However she has been slowed due to her blindness. Since at this point in her life she can really only throw rocks blindly and hope they hit.
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Star Rank: ★ Description: Despite only being at the florist shop for a about two months, she caught onto basic gardening and flower care rather fast despite her blindness.
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Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ of THQ
★MEULK OF THQ
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Last Edit: Dec 15, 2019 21:08:37 GMT by Althea Crane
It is an unfortunate life you've lead with every step seeming more dreadful than the last... and yet, here you are, still fighting the good fight in the only way you know how. Where will your path lead you to next, I wonder?
