Post by Odolina Benjamin-Elmore on Apr 25, 2009 1:10:46 GMT
the roleplayer
NAME: Seni
CONTACT: PM, AIM
GENDER: Female
AGE: 18
ROLEPLAY EXPERIENCE: Since I was 13
OTHER CHARACTERS: At this site? No one. Ask me if you’d like to know about other sites.
HOW YOU FOUND US: an AD on Paradise Pier
Odolina Benjamin-Elmore
Live through this, and you won't look back…
NAME: Seni
CONTACT: PM, AIM
GENDER: Female
AGE: 18
ROLEPLAY EXPERIENCE: Since I was 13
OTHER CHARACTERS: At this site? No one. Ask me if you’d like to know about other sites.
HOW YOU FOUND US: an AD on Paradise Pier
Odolina Benjamin-Elmore
Live through this, and you won't look back…
character basics
NICKNAMES: Oddy (by her brother and by some friends), Lina (by the majority of her family), Benji (the name she prefers to give people)
AGE: 16
GROUP: Student
YEAR: 11
BIRTHDAY: Feb. 28
GENDER: Female
PLAY-BY: Kato Rosaappearance
Being average was something Odolina Benjamin-Elmore unfortunately was. Her dark shoulder length hair was without volume, simply flat and thin. It never did anything interesting. She would attempt to make it curly, only to have it hall back flat within two hours. The most it ever did was wave oh so very slightly at the ends if she decided not to brush it for a couple days. Her eyes were the typical brown that so many others possessed.
Pale skin, average nose, average lips. Even her height was average at its not-so-startling 5ft 6in. The only thing that made Benji stand out at all was the shape of her eyes. Having a Japanese mother and an English father created features that were juxtaposed in way that at times she looked Japanese while at other times she looked perhaps… Well, she looked like a lot of things depending on who you were talking to. Hispanic, Spanish, Asian, Russian. If it weren’t for the intrigue of what heritage she might possess, Benji was convinced that her average looks would be seen as plain.personality
Likes:
Music: Debussy. Benji listens to classical music, but rarely knows what it is she’s listening too. Other than a few Beethoven and Mozart pieces that practically everyone can identify, she wouldn’t be able to place a name or composer to anything she heard. Except Debussy. One of her favorite songs ever is Clair de Lune.
J-Pop and Rock. Part of keeping with her heritage comes with listening to what’s current in her mother’s country. She loves Miyavi, Ellegarden, HY, Ai Osaka, Uteda Hikari, and countless other musical artists. By the same token she watches anime and Japanese dramas and reads manga.
Rock and Pop and everything else. Really Benji just likes all kinds of music, for the most part, and is open to anything and everything. She loves Jazz and Blues.
Food: Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Italian… you name it, Benji eats it. She particularly loves deserts, French dolces and the really cute desert things that you pretty much only find in the Asian market or Japan. Her absolute favorite dessert is green tea mochii.
Books: She gobbles down pretty much any book you throw at her. She particularly likes fantasies but she appreciates great literature. She’s a bit of a philosopher in the sense that when she analysis a book, she’s always searching for a deeper meaning and philosophy. She loves John Steinbeck, especially East of Eden. Benji also adores plays. Her two favorites at the moment are Ibsen’s “Doll House” and Williams “The Glass Menagerie.” Such writers and stories inspire her to become a writer one day herself.
Art and Art History: Let’s just say that Benji very much enjoys being cultured. It’s actually a wonder how she doesn’t know more about classical when she knows so much about art history. She likes to draw and paint. She’s considering perhaps becoming an illustrator one day to couple the novels she hopes to write.
Movies: She loves movies, but generally not the popular kind. While she enjoys the occasional fluff story, the philosopher in her prefers to watch foreign and art house films. She loves the deep and abstract and hard to grasp.
Dislikes:
Routine: Routine scares her. Being stuck doing the same thing over and over is entirely upsetting. But she’s not insane about it. Though occasionally, the walls of a classroom are a bit much. She feels caged and unable to break free from time to time. Often, when she gets like this, Benji has to excuse herself and hide out in the back of the school where it’s more open and she can feel the wind on her face.
Excessive touch: Being touched, especially by males, makes her nervous. She can hug a friend and whatnot, but only for a few moments. Intimacy in any form bothers her and she probably wouldn’t be able to make it to that point with anyone.
Her own weakness: Benji considers herself as weak. She almost hates herself for it. It’s a sticky feeling of dread and being caged within herself. Her desire is to be normal, to be able to reach out to someone without flinching, so sit in a classroom or any room without almost panicking. It doesn’t happen all the time, but sometimes she is paralyzed by her own memories. For this reason she’s more quiet and insecure that she should be. She knows that she can be so much more, that she can be so much more friendly and social and together, but she isn’t because she’s so trapped within herself and she doesn’t know how to break out.
DreamForm: It hurts her to be in her dream form. Both physically and emotionally.
Fears: Never being able to overcome her own trauma. She wants to be normal one day. More than that, she wants to be herself again.
Goals: To become a writer/illustrator. She’s even considering drawing and writing comic books.family & history
FATHER: Thomas Benjamin-Elmore, 48, International Business
MOTHER: Haruka Benjamin-Elmore, 39, Pianist
SIBLINGS: William Benjamin-Elmore, 19, College Freshman
HISTORY:
Odolina Benjamin-Elmore was born on February 28 to an English father and a Japanese mother in a London hospital. Most of her life was spent moving around since her father was in International Business. They lived in England, Japan, Germany, China, Singapore, Spain and America. Summers were usually alternated between England and Japan so that the children could stay rooted in their own cultures in addition to learning about others.
When she was living in America, a boy who often called her by her last name decided to nickname her Benji for short. Benji really liked the name and so she took to it, insisting that people call her that. It was perfect, she felt, because with a name like Benji she could avoid the horrible nickname of Oddy. And at the age of eight she was more tomboyish than anything and so having a nickname like Lina never seemed to fit, though her family refused to start calling her anything but.
She was thirteen and living in Singapore when her whole world got turned upside down. It was a normal day like any other as she came home from school. On her way to her house, she ran into a neighbor who asked if she would be so kind as to help him with something in the house. Being the completely naïve and trusting person that she was, she followed him into the house. He took her to a tiny room in his house and then proceeded to rape her.
Benji was so ashamed that she couldn’t tell her parents. From that moment on she felt completely trapped inside herself. Slowly she stopped eating and talking all together. Her parents became deeply concerned and tried to get her to talk. Finally she told them and they reported the neighbor but with no evidence it was her word against his. The family moved back to England, got her a therapist and Benji tried to start all over again. She cut her hair that used to be down to her waist up to her chin (it has since grown to her shoulders), she went to the therapist and so on, but it wasn’t enough.
For some reason she couldn’t be around her parents, she loved them, but for some reason being around them reminded her of all that happened. And all Benji wanted was to forget. So she put on an act of getting over it and convinced her parents to let her apply and attend Somnium Academy. There she is generally cheerful, even if it’s false. People regard her as a little strange because of her random disappearing acts and her distaste at being touch. For the most part, people either figure she’s shy or stuck up. No one knows the horror she’s trying to forget.dream form
When Benji enters the Dream World, her form shows just how trapped, broken and lost she really is. She mostly keeps a human form, only her arms turn into blackbird’s wings. Her wings are clipped, so she can’t fly. But even if they weren’t clipped, Benji has a thorn stuck in the place where her human shoulder turns to wing. Her black hair turns into soft black feathers and her face gets covered with a bird mask. She can’t remove the thorn or the mask. When in the Dream World, she can turn herself into a blackbird, but the thorn and the clip wings remain so she doesn’t even bother to try most nights.
It’s almost a nightmare for her as even in her Dreams she is trapped and handicapped, and what more, it’s more visible than in her waking life.