Achlys Corby

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Name: Achlys Forbes
Meaning: Mist, darkness
Gender: female
Age: 18
Birthday: March 11
Blood Type: AB
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Strengths: expressing herself through writing
Weaknesses: identifying colors, expressing herself person to person
Family: She’s an orphan.
School History: West Side Elementary, Tir na Nog junior high, Khun-Lun high school

Appearance

With her bright red hair, blue eyes, and curls, she does tend to stand out in a crowd, but not overly so. It’s more her tendency to dress all in black tones that gets the attention. Beyond that, she seems average and unimportant.

Clothing style

She dresses in black, white, and shades of grey as she’s colour blind.

Personality

Average isn’t the word here. She’s quite intelligent, but chooses not to show it, deliberately scoring lower than she’s capable of on tests. She prefers to hide her true nature from the world, taking on the pen name Munin Corby whenever she wants to express herself. She’s not a Goth, despite appearances to the contrary.

History

Who knows? Things might have turned out differently if she’d had parents to help her along the way, but that’s neither here nor there. Suffice it to say that she was put up for adoption almost immediately after she was born. At age 10, the orphanage she’d been living in burned to the ground. The survivors were sent to an orphanage in Elysium Valley’s downtown core. The experience left Achlys with a permanent fear of fire and did something to her psyche that went undetected by the doctors and psychiatrists that examined the orphans after the accident. The cause of the fire was undetermined, but explained to the media as having been caused by faulty electrics in the building.

She was put through West Side Elementary, on to Tir na Nog junior high, and then to Khun-Lun high school where she’s going in to her final year. Unlike many of her peers, she has no envy of the students at Elysium Valley High School, seeing them as being on pretty much even footing with her but with uniforms. The Ching Tu students are another matter entirely. She envies not only their school, but their secure social positions and family wealth.

She works part time at the Full of Beans coffee house downtown.

LIKES

Food: red peppers
Gemstone: pearl
Flower: Clover
Color: grey
Activities: checking out girls, writing, poetry, vampires, symbology and superstitions

DISLIKES

Food: coffee, shoyu (soy sauce), breaded and battered foods
Gemstone: diamond (they’re not a girl’s best friend)
Flower: Jonquil (daffodil)
Color: all colours
Activities: being called a Goth, fire