Aug 10, 2020 1:04:50 GMT -6
 Ilona Amelia Visse tell me reality is better than a dream. general info
appearance With bright red hair and matching eyes, Ilona is easy to spot in a crowd. She stands at 5’6” and weighs about 130 lbs. She doesn’t have much muscle mass anymore, but she used to be pretty well built. She has a notable burn scar across her left shoulder, but she usually keeps that hidden with clothing. Most of the time she dresses casually and she favors long sleeved shirts. personality
Illy has a kind heart and a cheery disposition. She likes to play the role of the perfect friend, smiling when you’re happy or being a shoulder to cry on when someone wrongs you. She always sticks to a strict system of morals. She will never put herself before others, and a small part of her will always fight back if someone else tries to support her when they need it more. She hates being indebted to people, so she rarely accepts things from others, including gifts. If someone hurts her, they won’t get a second chance. She won’t instantly jump into action getting revenge, though. She’ll wait for any anger to fade away and she can approach the situation with a level head. If that proves impossible, she’ll have someone else make things even for her. But, no matter what, she won’t let it go. Justice only remains balanced when the wrongdoing and the payment are matched. Illy hates being in the middle of conflict. She’ll stand her ground in a fight if she has to, but if others are fighting she’ll try to make peace. If that doesn’t work she’ll crack down on them and make sure they do. While in situations like this she’s not above a few white lies, usually she’s blatantly honest with little regard for the feelings of others. Ilona has dealt with her fair share of children and idiots. If you are in her charge, she will take care of you no matter what. That doesn’t mean she’ll tolerate acting out, though. She has a very no-nonsense approach to handling what she deems to be the ridiculous actions of others. abilities Blood Manipulation - Basic - Ilona doesn’t have much control over blood manipulation. She considers it a crude practice, and even if she could master it she wouldn’t want to. Super Speed - Moderate - She is very fast. Running has saved her life in the past and she knows it might be important again in the future, so she really values this skill and tries to keep up her stamina. Enhanced Strength - Basic - As a vampire, Ilona is naturally very strong. She wouldn’t be much in an arm wrestling match against another vampire, but her strength far exceeds that of a human. Natural - regenerative healing factor, night vision, wall crawling backstory 1600s As the youngest child of a prestigious family in Polish-Lithuania, Ilona was left wanting for very little growing up. Back then, she was fairly naive to the cruelties of the world. She went out of her way to be friends with people, whether their social status matched her own or not. Innocent and well mannered, she expected the best from herself and her family. In the future it would turn out that her faith in both was misplaced. Around 1650, things started turning chaotic around them. Nobility were persecuted. The few friends Illy thought she had began drawing away and the family was forced to move to a less public estate. During this time, her mother began to fall apart. Watching it play out broke Ilona's heart, but there was nothing she could do. She had enough trouble handing her own fluctuating emotions. 1700s Back then she didn't think things could get worse, but in 1701 she was proven wrong. She still remembers every detail of the night her life went to hell. She was the first one to wake up. Smoke filled the room around her, but that's not what had broken her slumber. A man stood over her, cloaked in shadows. Words circled around her, urgent yet distant. "You have to get out of here." She couldn't comprehend them. There was a fire. It filled the air. It choked her. Her family was still somewhere in the house. They were going to burn. She couldn't let that happen. A hand grabbed her wrist, but she broke free from it and ran into the hall. She had to get to them. She had to help then. And then, out of nowhere, a flash of light lashed out at her and a ball of pain collided with her shoulder. Her scream echoed through the house, but she had to keep going. She had to... Before she could push forward, the stranger caught up with her and forced her back. "You're going to kill yourself! You have to come with me!" The words broke through her panic and she knew he was right. There was fire everywhere; she'd never be able to get through. So, with tears in her eyes, she followed the strange man out her window and left her family to burn. After that night, everything was different. Her life wouldn't be so simple again for a long time. The man who'd saved her, Constantyn, never explained why he'd been there, but he'd unquestionably saved her life and she had enough faith in people back then that she didn't feel the need to press him too much. He belonged to ‘the Knights of Order,’ an incredibly cheesy name for a group of vigilantes that saw the wrongs in the world and corrected them - and there was so much wrong with the world they lived in. When broken down to the basics, they were an assassin’s guild that took cases based on whether they were justified. She joined this guild and let them turn her into a weapon. She trusted them to judge right and wrong for her. She stayed with them for the next fifty years before deciding to strike out on her own. It was around this time that Ilona heard rumors of her family. They were supposedly alive. She couldn't let herself believe it, though. If they’d survived, she’d be the wayward child who abandoned her family and if not her heart would be broken all over again. Instead, she set thoughts of her past life behind her. They would bring nothing but pain. For the next few years, she traveled a lot, taking what jobs she could. With her qualifications and lack of experience, that usually involved less than legal tasks. She'd long since stopped caring about what was right or wrong. She did what she had to to get by and then some. It was during this time that she saved up most of the money that stays stashed away in her savings account. 1800s After about half a century of travelling and doing things her old self wouldn’t have even considered, Ilona wanted to settle down. She managed to get a job as a governess for a rich family with 2 children. She held this position for 10 years before her work was done. The experience re-ignited her interest in academics, though, and she got a job at a library where, on her off time, she was allowed to read whatever she wanted from the large collection. For a long time, she didn’t leave that library except to get food and sleep. In 1850, women were just beginning to be accepted into colleges, and Ilona took advantage of the opportunity. She studied literature in London. Staying in one place so long, however, just served to bring back old memories. They haunted her and she began to suffer from nightmares. She began traveling a lot, never settling down in one place for long. 1900s WW2 brought a change to Illy’s lifestyle. She usually preferred to stay neutral, but there was no denying that the Allies were fighting a moral fight, and not lending her hand would be a terrible thing to do. She joined the French army for the duration of the conflict. Once things settled down again, she went back to her nomadic lifestyle. 2000s When Illy finally settled in one place, it wasn’t of her own choosing. Rather, she fell in love with a TRS agent named Elliot. Elliot may not have been her soulmate, but he was the love of her life. They made a home in England and finally, for once, her life held the promise of stability. 4 years after they met, they had their first child, Ligeia. Ligeia was bright eyed and intelligent and, for a while, the center of Illy's world. While she'd never coddle her children now, for the first few years of Ligeia's life she was fairly spoiled. 7 years later, tragedy struck. On a mission to stop a rampant terror, Elliot was killed. Shortly after, Ilona learned she was pregnant. When the twins were born, it only felt right to name them after ghosts of her past: Katya and Elliot. With memories of her only happy life weighing on her, Illy couldn't stay in London. Instead, she moved to Lorsette and took up a teaching position at the elementary school. It's now been 8 years and she is fairly settled in her life. misc Here is her Family Tree Likes: coffee, family, reading Dislikes: being cold, hurting people, conflict | roleplayer info  ☆ NAME Leesee ☆ RP EXPERIENCE About 5 years? ☆ TIMEZONE CET ☆ GENDER Female ☆ AGE Teen-aged ☆ OTHER CHARACTERS Lexie Abbot @elizabeth @crimson Mikaela Lye Anele Coetzee ☆ FACE CLAIM FIRE EMBLEM, Cordelia ---------------------- THIS CHARACTER BELONGS TO LEESEE. DO NOT STEAL. |
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