Crimson Academy for the Superhuman discussion
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TW: child labor, lack of will to live, sexual assault.
Just a functional member of fuckin' society.
「name」Leandra Chandri.
「age」18.
「date of birth」September 17.
「gender + pronouns」Female, she/her.
「sexuality」Bisexual.
「position at the academy」Student.
Hey, hey. Calm down. It doesn't matter anyways.
「personality」Leandra may be a little hard to get to know because she doesn't actively pursue social interactions and she is typically more closed off, so she can seem a little antisocial.
(Unless she's running her bakery, in which case she makes sure to smile brightly for the customers.)
But if she meets someone pure and innocent, she is very quick to get attached and to want to protect the person. She is really protective and had a very sisterly instinct towards innocent people, kind of being the family that she never had.
Around normal people who don't captivate her heart, though, she doesn't seek to really get to know them unless it's good for her in some way.
She is also a bit quick to get overwhelmed and snap at someone but she immediately feels bad once she calms down and realizes she was a little mean. She likes being in a leadership position and has a way of feeling nurturing and confident enough to be considered for that kind of position but as I said before, if someone overwhelms her with too many questions or tasks, she can get snappy which might not make her the best leader (Though she really wishes she could be.)
If she sees an injustice, she is quick to speak up about it. She wants things to be fair and equal and people to be treated correctly and she's tired of this society that has been suffocating her.
She also has little patience for sadists and others who want to hurt and kill people for its enjoyment, and she is willing to let them know loud and strong. Though she will try to keep these types of people off her back as much as possible (she doesn't like causing more trouble than she needs), again her personality might get in the way of that.
Going along with her sisterly instincts and her way of getting attached, the monotonous, painful life she has endured has made her lose a lot of joy for living and she is willing to sacrifice herself for her protégés if need be. She understands deeply that some people truly want to live and she couldn't bear to not help out. So yes, she is willing to sacrifice herself but only if she is absolutely certain her sacrifice is not in vain - she isn't suicidal.
Additionally, she has a deep disgust for how the working-class is considered like tools and objects instead of real people.
「personality type」ISTJ
「zodiac sign」Virgo
「good qualities」
Resilient
Adaptable
Loyal
Perseverent
「flaws」
Brusque
Antisocial
Temperamental
Calloused
Bleak
「fears」
Not being able to save those she cares about.
Being alone.
The dark.
「aspirations」
To live a quiet but successful life.
To be able to see Dana again.
To gain respect from people.
To not have to be scared of herself/her powers anymore.
... did I ask.
「face claim」Chiara Scelsi.
「appearance description」(This is based off of her faceclaim) She is tall, with broad shoulders and a slightly large stature. She had fair skin and greenish-brown eyes. Her hair is long, brown, and curly.
「clothing style」She doesn't give two fucks about fashion. Hence she'll just wear whatever is practical and easy to move in. She doesn't like anything too revealing so prefers baggy clothing. She doesn't like dressing super femininely either. She usually just wears something comfortable, with probably no design or anything on it.
Eh. I'm doing just fine. I guess.
「history」Leandra was born from a very struggling family. Her parents worked at a factory to try to get food on the table and keep their home, but the work barely paid and so they had to work there for extra shifts. Because of this, Leandra barely saw them and quickly learned to take care of herself on her own. She loves her parents but there is always a place of resentment in her heart. She believes that every child deserves to have someone to watch over them and she can't help but feel a bit angry at her parents for not being able to provide that, even though they were valid and they were trying.
She stayed at home and did the cooking and chores with the bit of food they had. She didn't really have an interest in making friends with the neighborhood kids so instead she just stayed at home.
But when she was twelve, she finally was tired of it all. Of waiting at home doing barely nothing and not earning anything for herself. She was just so frustrated at how she was living and because she was young and desperate, she was also quite gullible. So on a whim, she ran away from home, thinking that she'd find some magical opportunity.
Of course, reality wasn't like that and she soon found herself living in the street. And she felt so stupid and scared and yet there was still this spark of determination within her that made her want to keep going. Maybe she was fooling herself in her desperation, but she had this feeling that she shouldn't return home. That there was something out there for her.
To eat, she resorted to stealing and begging, and slept hidden where she could. But when she was around 13, she had to face the reality that stealing and stealth really wasn't her strong suit. She'd gotten caught by the police multiple times which had earned her some bruises and a few cuts and she really didn't know what she was doing. Additionally she had been mugged a couple of times in some alleys, and lost everything she had, as well as getting some things stolen while she was asleep.
She didn't know what to do anymore.
She wandered into the industrial part of the city, looking at the factories, wishing she could work there - but she was not old enough just yet to legally work.
But then a man walked up to her, and offered her a deal. He said he had a factory that also offered housing. In exchange for her work, she'd get to sleep there with a roof over her head and maybe even get a few coins.
The offer tempted Leandra but she argued that technically she wasn't old enough to legally work there.
The man told her to not worry about it, and she was so desperate that she accepted.
The man technically wasn't lying. She got a small bunk to sleep in. But the working conditions were absolute hell, especially for a child. She was working almost 24/7, sometimes with dangerous items and in an unsanitary place. But she had nowhere else to go, so she stayed.
Her life became an endless cycle of monotonous working, but as she grew older, she started to figure out a way out. To see if there was a place where she could make it. She knew she had a talent for cooking and baking and with a little luck she could maybe open a bakery. Anything would be better than that hellish place.
So she cranked up her working schedule to gain more money, stayed up doing extra things for some people on the street, even stealing again here and there, until when she was 16, she could finally open up a bakery.
She had to keep up with the intense working hours of her factory to have enough money to keep the bakery open, but through her skills and patience, her bakery's reputation kind of blew up.
She became popular around the neighborhood, and soon the bakery made her more money than the factory.
Of course she needed to keep working there too to sustain the bills and food and everything, but for once she had found true success.
That didn't exactly make her life any easier. Her days became balancing two heavy jobs to try to sustain herself and the bakery, and a monstrous cycle of baking and working. Baking and working.
Once she was around 17, the factory's boss started making some… inappropriate advances on her. Absolutely outraged, disgusted (and a little bit traumatized, though she won't admit it to herself), she went to the local police office to complain. The police officer laughed at her face and told her that she should "focus on being a functional member of society instead of wimping about bullshit".
The words stuck with her.
What the fuck is a functional member of society?
Her bakery was sustainable enough for her to maybe consider quitting her factory job, and in a strike of that famous temper of hers, she quit and focused on baking.
A week later, as she worked as hard as she could to sustain herself, she caught a girl named Dana trying to steal one of her loaves of bread.
She wanted to get mad but when Dana started explaining desperately that she had no home and she ran away and she was trying to survive as best as she could…
Leandra couldn't help but see herself within Dana, and offered Dana to work as an assistant at her bakery. And she wasn't going to be like her factory boss, Leandra told herself. So Leandra added that Dana got to sleep in the bakery too, and that she would pay Dana fairly.
Dana accepted, and of course Leandra then realized afterwards that she didn't have enough money to pay Dana fairly.
So to her great annoyance, she went back to her job at the factory to be able to pay Dana.
Her boss greeted her with a smirk, quoting the police officer that had enraged her: "I see you've gone back to trying to be a functional member of society."
Leandra was purely disgusted.
The world truly just viewed her as another tool, she realized.
And again, her days were filled to the brim with work, work and more work.
But soon a sweet sister dynamic formed between Dana and Leandra and they both became incredibly attached to each other. The only part in life that made her happy was talking to Dana and teaching her how to bake, and chatting about other things.
So she continued balancing keeping her boss away from her (he was still continuing his old creepy behavior), working at the bakery, working at the factory, and teaching Dana.
Until, you see, her powers revealed themselves very late… and at a traumatic moment. Her factory boss had been drunk and he had realized that Leandra also owned a bakery on the side. In a fit of drunken rage he entered the bakery where he started throwing insults at her and Dana. Leandra stayed frozen in terror (something that haunts her with guilt to this day) and didn't do anything to help. Dana, meanwhile, in a burst of bravery, stood up for herself and snapped back at the boss. The boss got even more mad and was going to punch Leandra when suddenly.. her powers snapped in and she withered her boss's soul.
Leandra spent the next day trying to calm herself, calm Dana, and register what happened. Luckily, she received the letter a bit later and ran off. She didn't want to abandon Dana but she didn't want the police to start meddling either. So she knew she had to go to this mysterious academy.
「likes」
Sandwiches
Baking
Pottery
Crafts
「dislikes」
Reading
Writing
Socializing
Being used
Could you fuck off for a second? I'll be right back.
「ability name」Soul Manipulation.
「short description of ability」The user can concentrate on the nearby person of their choice and access their soul. Through this, they can inflict spiritual pain on the person or corrupt the soul into becoming dark and rotten, causing the victim to be momentarily sapped of strength and will to live.
「ability strengths」
Can inflict spiritual pain
Can drain energy
「ability weaknesses」
Mentally draining for user
Victim is aware that something strange is going on within them.
「burnout」If used too many times and in a short amount of time, or if the corruption of a soul is maintained for too long, the user first starts to feel... unsettled, and then starts to hallucinate, then dissociate, and even fall unconscious if they keep going despite the red flags.
Does it look like I want to be here?
「stats」
strength 7-/10
stamina 8-/10
agility 2-/10
accuracy 4-/10
intelligence 5-/10
perception 4-/10
trustworthiness 8-/10
kindness 5-/10
Y'all are still out here giving fucks?
「author's note」She was written late at night on three braincells so… oops.
「playlist」
Maria by Hwasa.
Fire Drill by Melanie Martinez.
The Bakery by Melanie Martinez.
Strawberry Shortcake by Melanie Martinez.
Swigin Party by Lorde.
A World Alone by Lorde.
The Seed by AURORA.
「other」None.
Good fuckin' morning.
Ideas:
~Grumpy overworked girl who bakes and has an unfortunate aptitude with souls.
~Machiavellian genderfluid who has gone through a lot.