Post by Crystalia de la Rosa on Dec 10, 2012 5:36:43 GMT -5
[ FULL NAME ] : Crystalia Carmen de la Rosa
[ NICKNAMES ] : Crys or Crystal
[ GENDER ] : Female
[ CANON/OC] : OC
[ POWERS] : Can control four basic elements (air, fire, earth, water) and everything relating to them.
[SPECIES] : Mutant
FANDOM: X-Men, but OC
[CODENAME] : Firebelle
[ AGE & BIRTHDAY ] : 25, February 29th
[ JOB ] : Professor of foreign languages (Spanish, Italian, French)
[ AFFILIATION ] : Mutants/X-men/Good people
[ SEXUAL ORIENTATION ] : Heterosexual
[ PET ] : /
[ FACE CLAIM ] : Mia Maestro
[ LIKES ] :
-shopping
-men
-manipulation
-money
-her family
-her powers
-flying
-music
-dresses
-colour green
-competitions
-winning
-getting her way
-honesty
-chocolate
[ DISLIKES ] :
-liars
-Brotherhood
-scars
-Americans (bad experiences on a trip to Salem)
-unhealthy food
[ STRENGTHS ] :
-fire control
-water control
-air control
-earth control
-flying
-leadership
-elemental resistance
-offensive battle
[ WEAKNESSES ] :
-cooking
-basically useless without her powers
-defensive battles
-singing
-drawing
-her emotions (her powers get out of control if angered, saddened, etc.)
[ PERSONALITY ] :
Crystalia is quite strong-minded but prefers to put all her skills into her powers rather than not. She usually ignores ordinary humans as she believes herself and all gifted to be above them. She is best described as being very stubborn, confident, determined and sometimes rather blunt. But Crys is also rather cunning and has a strong sense of ambition. She has an attitude of course, one people tend to both love and hate, but Crystalia doesn’t really care what people think unless it’s from her closest friends. She is surprisingly laid-back as stress and worry just annoy her. She is a very smug and self-righteous person but Crys really does like to be in charge and to have control over situations or sometimes even people. Having grown up in a wealthy Spanish family, she understands the importance of using influence and means to dominate and does not see herself has having many limits. Sometimes she comes off as being arrogant or deceptive but it’s actually because she is such an outspoken and confident person, plus she refuses to just put up with people. If something or someone bothers her, she is more than likely to take a stand. Sarcasm is practically her natural tone of voice.
[ FAMILY] :
Estrella, 49, detective (mother)
Diego, 52, lawyer (father)
Hector, 29, unemployed, cousin/adoptive brother
[ BIOGRAPHY ] :
Crystalia is the only child of a strong Spanish aristocratic family. While they are very proud of being Spanish, De La Rosa family moved to UK shortly after Crystalia had been born. Her father, Diego de la Rosa, is well known London lawyer and has a reputation of being strong and powerful. Her mother, Estrella, comes from a powerful Spanish aristocrat line as well and had been betrothed to Diego at an early age. Crystalia was raised with impeccable manners and is pressured by her family to excel and not disapppoint/tarnish the family name.
While her father wanted a son to carry on the family legacy, her mother had always wanted a daughter and was very smothering at times. In earlier years while being a student in Xavier Institute, Crystal often recieved letters from home that were warm coming from her mother, yet scathing from her father if she caught doing anything other than what he sent her to school for--perfecting her powers and finding a suitable (aka rich) man to begin her future with. Her parents instilled the rule "anything less than perfection is unacceptable" as a child, and Crystalia strives to keep up with the high expectations put upon her.
At the end of her fourth year of being a student at the Institute, Crystal's mother disappeared mysteriously, and since then her father has been nearly unbearable now that his wife isn't around to placate him. He has gone from strictly wanting Crystalia to do the best and be the best to introducing her to evil mutants, wanting her to join the Brotherhood, something Crystal wasn't comfortable with. In response to his overbearing and strict rules, Crystal has pushed back and is testing her boundaries with him by trying to branch out and make new friends and have a bit of fun. A light during the dark summers is her cousin, turned honorary brother, Hector, who is curently unemployed, and living in Brazil. They do not see each other often, but he makes it more bearable. Crystalia is certain Hector is the only one who understands her, because he was there where everything major for her was going on and helped her to calm down after she accidentaly used her fire powers on her mother for the first time her mutation began after Estrella refused to let Crystalia see her boyfriend.
That year, being thirteen, was just full of horrible things for her, and was sure that the Fates were out to get her. After showing this first trace of mutant powers at the beginning of the year, Crystalia's father started to force her to learn everything about mutants and mutant teams (X-Men and Brotherhood) there was to be. Around April, Crystal had had enough and ran into the horse stables her family owned. Blind with tears, Crystalia didn't notice that she knocked over a flaming torch and hid with one of the mares, falling asleep with exhaustion. Neighing horses woke her up, and she saw that the whole barn was filled with smoke and fire. She was frozen with fear and couldn't move. When fire started to burn her legs, Crystalia woke up from her frozen state and escaped without a scratch, though her clothes were burned off. The elements that she controlled didn't hurt her at all. Though she wasn't hurt, Crystalia is apprehensive about using fire, because it is volatile and can sometimes takes control away from her. After that day, Professor Xavier found her and gave her a chance to join the Institute, which Crystalia gladly accepted.
She isn't sure if she will be a part of the X-Men yet, though her friends have urged her to join, Crystal still feels uneasy. But it's not like that she'll admit it to anyone.
