Post by ashleigh Sky Shepard on Aug 5, 2012 16:29:00 GMT -5
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ASHLEIGH SKY SHEPARD
Ashleigh *Ash* Shepard | 128 | Bi | Good&Evil/Demon | Photographic Journalist | Summer Glau[/color][/font][/CENTER]
STRENGTHS
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- Demon Powers: She has the general powers of most demons, including superhuman strength, agility and durability.
- Cryokinesis: As the demons that raised and turned her intended, she also got the elemental power of Cryokinesis and using the power of ice to her advantage, freezing all kinds of things, or people, but being able to do more than just that with it too, as long as it has to do with ice.
- Photographing: She’s a very talented photographer that loves to find the best sceneries to make her pictures from, and she would take as long as she could to make the pictures she thinks are best.
- Writing: She has a good skill for writing up stories, including her diaries, and fiction stories that just came up into her head and she wrote to occupy herself from any other thoughts, but also journalistic articles for things she noticed through the years when she wasn’t in solitude, and now to her happiness for her job.
- Listening: She’s a very good listener, at least Ash herself is, she honestly lovest o just take the time to listen to others hope to be able to help them with it too, because she loves listening and especially helping others their problems instead of focussing on herself and her own.
WEAKNESSES
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- Dual Personality: Even though she has learned to keep it suppressed from controlling anything else of her body than just being able to talk to her, if she gets angry enough or something that REALLY catches the dark personality’s attention, she can still be taken over and be in the reversed situation of being suppressed as good as possible by the dark half.
- Hot Fire: Because of her elemental power of ice, she can only have so much heat and fire at the same time, her ice can compensate and even fight fire to a pretty good extent, but if it is too focussed and/or hot, she and her energy can suffer from the result of the ice melting and making her weaker or just feeling the burning pain emanate through that way.
- Awkward: Because of how she knows exactly by now what she is and how it influences her, or could even do it more, she can be a bit awkward, especially around people she actually lies she can be really awkward at first or from time to time.
- Claustrophobic: The demons that raised her kept all of the kids at night in very small closets, with just a few pillows to sleep on and nothing else, not even a light, this made her automatically pretty badly claustrophobic and against complete darkness too.
- Uncertainty: She doubts herself quite a lot, not sure about herself, how much of the dark half is actually derived from her own personality, if the demons took her because they saw that evil potential inside her or because it’s just because of how innocent she can look, all these doubts make her very uncertain, but she’s also very uncertain at the same time if she still even deserves to stay alive.
LIKES
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- Sightseeing.
- Heights.
- Letting loose.
- Photographing & Writing.
- Friends.
DISLIKES
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- Pure Evil.
- Her Dark Half.
- Confined Spaces.
- Suffering.
- Being used.
HISTORY
Ashleigh was born 128 years ago in a small village in Europe where he family ran to after getting into trouble with a group of demons that they only figured out too late were actual demons that wanted their daughters for their own bidding. While Ash and her sister Anna weren’t told anything about the whole situation, they just grew up, eventually adapting to the new living environment and the new language there. Their childhood was peaceful from there on out until Ashleigh eventually turned 9 and on the night of her birthday, the village was attacked by a group of men and women that used dark magical powers to destroy as much of the village within minutes and kill as much of the villagers that got in their way even a little bit.[/BLOCKQUOTE]
Ashleigh doesn’t remember too much about it, except the screaming, the sounds of the villagers she slightly knew screaming for mercy and in pain, her parents trying to hide her and her sister, but failing in the end and only a flash of how she saw them die in front of them. She still doesn’t know how it happened, but just after that flash that she can remember, her sister was gone too, but she had been right next to her at that moment, and as the people took her, which turned out to be the same demons their parents had been on the run from, she never spotted her sister and never saw her again, but still secretly always holding on to the hope that she might be alive somewhere and that at least something or someone thought she was worth saving from these people.
She figured she herself would be dead within no time, but once they arrived at the house they were living at, it became clear soon that she wasn’t the only child being held there, she was one of four in total from then on, yet still being one of the older ones of them, which made some of them look up to her, a role she automatically had to accept and take on herself. She began seeing them as her siblings and even though they were raised in human form by demons, who tried to make them as tough as possible by abusing them, making them do horrible things to other prisoners they brought in, Ash kept hope for something to change herself, and tried to let the others have the same.
It wasn’t until years later when she was about to turn into an adult officially at the age of 18, when they took her in the middle of the night on a Full Moon to one of the big chambers in the house for some kind of ritual. Having a completely bad feeling about instantly when they had taken her so spontaneously, she was sure that something was off, that something was really wrong an started fighting as hard as she could, giving them an as hard as time as ever to try and get away, or try to keep them busy for as long as possible because she had managed to let one of the boys and the girl that she saw as her siblings get away, but didn’t know that the other boy had been captured again in that process.
The ritual they performed on her was painful, that’s the most she remembered, a deep splitting pain through her entire body, suddenly feeling very cold and having the most disturbing thoughts she ever had go through her head. It felt for her like she had been screaming in agony for hours, maybe even days, at least it seemed to last endless before she finally collapsed to the ground, laying there for she didn’t know how long either. When she finally pushed herself up, she felt different, confused, conflicted, especially when they brought the boy that had been captured into the room, putting him in front of her and telling her to use what she had gained thanks to them to kill him, to put him out of his misery because he would otherwise suffer the same fate. She didn’t want to comply and she refused as much she could, getting a beating that she noticed didn’t feel as much as she had expected and usually did. Still before she could regain herself, she got that splitting pain shoot through her body again, and before she realized it, she had been partially taken over by another side of her that had been created inside her. The demons seemed surprised of this themselves, having expected that side of her to be the only thing left in her, the obedient dark demon they had created with the powers of a demon and Cryokinesis they had given her, but Ashleigh herself was still in there too, witnessing how this dark half of hers seemed to know exactly what to do and used her Cryokinesis power to freeze the just a big younger guy than her, and even though she was screaming to stop at that moment, seeing with her own eyes how she herself smashed the frozen body into pieces.
Heartbroken of what she had seen herself do, even though she hadn’t any control of it at that time, she was brought back to her quarters to rest, not that she got much rest because quickly enough that other side of her started talking to her, telling her how she hated that weak part of her, that she shouldn’t feel bad, but if she was going to keep feeling that way, she would find a way to get rid of her, not wanting something like her to keep her down from the power and everything that she could achieve with her new “demon family” but Ash still didn’t give up, she didn’t give into the threats, stating that she would rather die herself and take her down with her, before she was going to let her take full control. One night she managed to break loose, once she managed to control the demon powers and the Cryokinesis for her own gain, and not having to be her dark half to use it, ignoring how mad that made that dark side of her. It took her some work, but she managed to kill quite a few of the demons using what they had given her against them and then fleeing the scene, running for about a day non stop until eventually she had to take a rest in a city.
After she had gone to sleep, her dark half had managed to take over again because of the low activity of Ash’s own consciousness and started killing people in the hotel she was staying at, making Ash realize it halfway through and after fighting quite a battle in her mind, managing to take over, looking at the people she felt responsible for killing lying in front of her and the blood spread around. She was officially 22 then, but she couldn’t live her life, she knew it, especially not like this, so she ran again, finding a place that was deserted and had supplies for her to survive and laid low there, locking herself in there mostly when she went to sleep, making sure it was resistant to quite some force and as best against freezing as possible. She spent about a century there, only going out when she needed supplies, using the rest of the time to practice keeping herself under control and suppressing her dark side, which on her own turn was enraged by this human personality being able to be a step ahead of her suddenly with everything.
After 102 years of this, she had to move because of construction and housing being build where she was hiding out, and with coincidence ended up eventually in the United States, she started trying to live a normal life as possible, trying to ignore the dark half inside of her, which still kept on fighting for control, and still managed to get out from time to time too, or even leaking some of it’s sinister ideas into her part of their mind, making her sick, or just simply completely furious because of it and having to fight to not give into that feeling like she knew that the dark half wanted. After 4 more years, she found a sort of neutral balance, it was fragile, but it was more than she had managed to get before. When she learned of all the different kinds of supernatural activity in LA, both herself and her dark half got different ideas of the opportunities of it and it didn’t take long for her to move there when she had showed them some of the pictures she’d made through the years of the isolated sceneries she’d been through, loving to observe life, and getting a job as a photographic journalist for her mixed skills of making good pictures and her writing.
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Ashleigh will probably be a pretty complicated, funny but on some occasions evil character that will on one hand try to live a normal life and do the job that she already loves, but at the same time her own half and the dark half wanting to find support to help either of them for their own goals. Both will probably want to find a good willing witch too that Ash herself can try to ask for help, and her dark half probably wanting to use that as an asset of trying to get rid of Ash herself. I hope to be able to show the conflict within her, but also show that Ash herself has a strong personality which also was part of why her own personality wasn’t completely erased from her head but was split into a dual personality between herself and the demon personality the demons wanted for her. I left some holes open in her history so they could always come into her storyline later on. Apart from that, I hope she can mix into some of the other plottage as well, find her place some more and hopefully even from Ash’s side personally being able to help and be of use to some of the people on the Good side.[/BLOCKQUOTE]
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