Post by cielo on Dec 18, 2010 20:56:33 GMT -5
"The world ended... Didn't you get the memo?"
- Amy
- Amy
Your Name: Rory (Morgan/Chelsea)
How many years roleplaying?: 8
"You don't know what it's like out there. You may think you do but you don't. It's only a matter of time."
- Rick Grimes[/center]
Character Name: Cielo Lightwood
Age: eleven
Hometown: New York City, New York
Current Location: with Rick’s group
Bio:
It was immediate from birth that something was different about the twins: something besides being small. While every other faculty seemed to be there, their ability to see was lacking nearly completely. A battery of tests told the hospital that neither twin would ever regain full vision.
Their mother - a single mother who hadn't wanted children in the first place - left the hospital without her children, thereby signing custody of them over to the state. Doctors there were left with the twins: nameless, except for the last name of their mother: Lightwood.
The midwife who had helped birth them named them. If she hadn't had three children of her own, she would have considered adopting the children she named Cielo and Rayo: the girl's name meant Sky, the boy's name meant lightning.
It was when they were two years old that the second difference was noticed in the twins: Rayo remembered every single thing that was ever told to him, and Cielo could recite every single president and the capitol of every state and country. Backwards. And they were only two.
It led to speculation at the orphanage they were currently living at - but children do strange things all the time, don't they? So when the next oddity occurred - both of them learning to read Braille at the age of three without any more prompting than being handed a book on it - people knew that there was definitely something up, and they took both of the twins for testing.
Their IQ's were off the chart: 182 at the age of five.
All their lives, Cielo and Rayo have gotten along with the use of echolocation: they click their tongues and listen to the sound rebounding off of objects. It enables them to see - almost like a bat, or a dolphin. Though they can see partially, their vision is limited to shadows and vague outlines. They can see where a person is, a sliver of vision left. If they tilt their heads, they can use this sliver of vision but reading and other such things are extremely difficult, and, for the most part, pointless. Their remaining vision enables them to get around and find their way, but their hearing was always their favorite way of seeing. They've received the name 'bat kids', which, hey, they sort of like. For the most part, the twins tended to speak to each other and hang out with each other - it was, after all, the only other person who completely understood them.
However, they do speak to other students and that's where they pick up many of their habits: such as nodding their heads, looking towards a person who's speaking, and things like that.
They've been in accelerated classes all throughout their lives: Cielo and Rayo finished elementary school at seven, middle school at nine, and high school at eleven. They've been accepted to NYU on full ride scholarships. That's the only reason they're able to go: without a mother to pay their tuitions, they're only able to go because someone is paying for them.
They dormed together at the college, the only coed students allowed, simply because it was impractical to separate them. But despite this original intention, separation was in fact in the books for the twins. When the walkers attacked, Rayo was one of the first to go. It killed Cielo, nearly completely. He was always the one who was cautious, always the one who was holding her back – why was it him that got killed first when he was the one who thought everything through?
Maybe precisely for that reason.
But she hated it. And it’s given her a bit of a bitter resentment towards siblings and family units that she does hide quite well. She survived those first few days on her own by grouping with a couple of college students and then by following Emmy and her group. She was never the type of child that liked to be a part of something without contributing, so she often worked like an adult of the group. She helped to think out plans, refused to attach herself to any particular person like many other kids would have, and worked as a singular unit except for when she was helping the other members of the group. She’s traveled with them and is part of the group that formed from the melding of those two groups. She still tries to contribute like she did with Emmy’s group, and unless people ask her about it, she doesn’t outright tell them that she’s blind – even though it’s a known thing around the camp, simply because it would be impractical for people not to know.
She is one of the first to tell of any approaching animal or sound, simply because she hears it first. She’s proven quite useful in this.
Likes:
- philosophy/art/writing/creating/books
- coffee
- epiphanies
- her brain
- outdoors
- free time
- dancing
- music
- textures
Dislikes:
- loud noises (disruptive)
- happy families
- being reigned in
- foster families
- people who think she’s disabled
- the silence
Strengths:
- excellent hearing
- extremely high IQ
- can use echolocation
- sarcasm
- determined as all get out/insistent on proving herself
- always has some sort of idea/plan up her sleeve
Weaknesses:
- age (she’s eleven)
- partially blind (legally blind)
- doesn’t think things through/often has harebrained schemes
- shares her opinion even when its not asked for
- flies off the handle if people question her about her family
- was a bit isolated with her brother
- jealous of families
Anything Else? I swear, I'll be keeping up with posts. I've got a month off and things won't be picking up for quite some time.
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