Naza's Characters

[Naza Sutera]

This character is made specifically for the Saurian Adventure RP.

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Name: Amelia Alaer Cimmaron

Place of Origin: Oceannis, Aquas

Age: 30

Profession: Photographer, Geologist

Race: Father is a Coyote. Her mother is bi-species; Red Fox and Grey Wolf.

Sex: Female

Height: 5ft, 4in

Weight: 146lbs

Appearance: According to the Body Mass Index, she’s slightly overweight, but nowhere near the point where it’s unhealthy or anything like that. Her original color pallet is similar to that of a red fox, but she gets a bleach and dye job done periodically to keep a “vanilla ice-cream†color. Hair goes down to her upper back; originally straight, but styled to be wavy. Ice-blue eyes. Sometimes wears horn-rimmed glasses which she humorously refers to as her "eyes".

Clothing: Because of her creative and stylistic background, Amelia is a bit of a self-professed fashionista and fashion victim.

For the Saurian excursion, she’ll be doing a light beige camisole with a dark denim mini-skirt. For an “outdoorsy/lumberjack†chic, she’ll throw on a plaid Flanagan, unbuttoned, with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows. But there are two coupe de grâces : the shoes and the bag. For the shoes, she’s doing a pair of $1,600 hiking boots propped up on 6-inch heels with a 1-inch platform, in grey suede with traction soles (courtesy of Alaïa Azzedine design house). Yes people; high-heeled hiking boots. It’s a contradiction of terms, right? And for the bag, it’s a $1,800 backpack by Louis Vuitton. It’s Brown, leather, and sports the signature “LV†monogram/print. Of course, she could have gotten something from the local Wal-Mart for 1-10% of the price.

History: Amelia was born in the city of Oceannis, Aquas towards the end of her father’s final military tour. By the time she was a year old, her father had finished his military career, and moved to the Crystal Court Township (an upper-market housing project on the fringe of Corneria City) to raise his family. There, Amelia’s mother became a real estate agent, and her father became a police officer.

Towards her senior year at New Horizons High School of the Arts, a classmate and an acquaintance was the victim of a violent sexual assault while walking to her car after attending a party. The police chief at the time made a public statement about the young woman’s choice in clothing and how that incited the assault. Both displeased and inspired by the statement, Amelia collaborated with a group of friends/classmates and her father (who taught her Krav Maga after the attack, which she still practices to date) for a final class project called “Get Back! Stay Back! High Fashion Self Defenseâ€. It was a film and photography project that consisted of a series of short films/demonstrations of Krav Maga techniques while wearing not-so-conservative articles of clothing, such as high heels, pencil skirts, and other articles of clothing that may otherwise make actual fighting or simply fleeing ineffectual. Not only did the students receive extra credit in their respective classes for the project, the series was featured in the news media succeeding the closure of the rape case, as well as inspire several fashion and lifestyle magazines post articles and launch capaings for high fashion+self-defense, and being integrated into the Krav Maga women’s self defense curriculum. Amelia and the other collaborators were interviewed by Mod3 Magazine and Corneria Cosmo, and were each paid a lump sum of cash by The Krav Maga Association of Self Defense for use of their material.

At the age of nineteen, she entered a two-year program at Valencia Community College, getting an Associates Degree in Fine Art, and minoring in Photography and Cinematography. Originally, she was had planned to continue her education at The Institute of Creative Studies and do something that reflected fashion. However, she had the idea to travel and (video-)blog about her adventures, so she traveled all over Corneria and around the Lylat System to first-handedly experience other people and their ways of life. Furthermore, she experienced and witnessed vastly different climates and landscapes and decided to study geology. Sciences have always been something Amelia had been interested in, which is why she became an undergraduate at Silverstone University. There, she majored in the Geo-Planetary Sciences academic program and minored in Cultural Studies.

Recently, Amelia had taken up freelance photography as a profession in conjunction with being a scientist. While much of her dossier deals with landscape and wildlife photography, she has also done portrait/wedding photography, and (of course) fashion photography. She plans further studying to become a photojournalist.

At current, the physical state of the planet Sauria has been all over the media, especially since it’s destruction could cause serious damage to the equilibrium of the Lylat System. The fact that the planet is simply crumbling apart the way it is defies physics and goes against geological and planetary sciences. Seeing as how the state of the planet makes being on it dangerous, and the fact that the citizens are going through a civil war, Amelia was the first of a few scientists willing to make history by putting themselves in the danger zone.

Personality: When she was in high school, her psychologist gave her an IQ test, which she scored a 170 on it. Another specialist diagnosed her with Attention Deficit Disorder. Though the combination of those two things has been a source of creativity and brilliance for her, she would be bouncing off the walls and her conversations flying a million miles an hour. She could very well be schizophrenic, but her taking regular medicaments slow her thoughts down and bring her back into our universe.

In any case, Amelia has a rather lively and gregarious; a social butterfly of sorts. She tends to be quite talkative and random sometimes. Though the aforementioned can be arguably entertaining, it can cause her to appear airheaded and ditzy until she divulges a surprising “Aha!†moment of information.

She is also a very curious and questioning person, and is not afraid to ask questions if she wants to know something. The way she asks also follows her theme of “arbitrary pretense of ineptitudeâ€, in that the content of the question on it’s own (with the thought behind it being a non-factor) may have nothing to do with the current conversation or state of affairs. It’s only when one has the patience and/or understanding to see that there’s a method to her madness.

And on the subject of her “arbitrary pretense of ineptitudeâ€, it is a way for her to bridge the gap between knowledge/understanding and ignorance/misinterpretation, be it within herself or when talking to another person. In that regard, she’ll use a lot of popular and mainstream culture references when talking, no matter what she’s talking about, since they are things most people are familiar with.

Although Amelia is very well spoken and makes an effort to be tasteful, she can be very ostentatious and overly opinionated. If she feels that there is an issue that needs to be spoken on, be sure that she’s going to open her mouth about it. Sometimes, she might say something that shouldn’t be said.

Amelia can be overelaborate, bourgeois, and self-indulgent. This is evidenced by the fact that she bought a Louis Vuitton bag for the trip for nearly $2,000, and how the expensive Alaïa hiking boots she bought are just an excuse to wear high heels. And don’t put it past her to be wearing makeup despite the admittedly disadvantageous conditions.

Skillsets: Amelia has a Batchelor’s Degree in Geo-Planetary Sciences, which is to say that she is knowledgeable in the broad number of subjects they encompass: geology, physical geography, geophysics, soil science, oceanography, and atmospheric sciences. She also has general knowledge concerning biology, biochemistry, and mathematics. She’s traveled a lot and minored in cultural studies at Silverstone University, so she’s decent at understanding other cultures and ways of life. She’s been practicing self-defense since high school, but it’s distinct from actual fighting, in that Krav Maga is more about “stun and runâ€. Also, she's fluent in four languages, to include Saurian.