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Character Chart
Character’s full name: Kalyani Cruise
Reason or meaning of name: Origins are Indian and Sanskrit.
It means Beautiful, auspicious, and blessed. So, doesn't really fit!
Character’s nickname: Kelsi
Reason for nickname: Because she hates how she just had to be named after her mother.
Birth date: April 21, 1980
Physical appearance
Age: 11 (At the very beginning.)
How old does he/she appear: 7-9. She looks really young.
Weight: 72
Height: 4'5"
Body build: She's tiny. Really, small. She's flat, not much shape, she's just really thin.
Shape of face: It's diamond-shaped and slightly oval.
Eye color: Black-brown.
Glasses or contacts: Neither.
Skin tone: She's partially Indian, so her skin is darker than usual, but still pale for her Indian side.
Distinguishing marks: She has a long pointed nose that's really narrow. If you look at her from a 3/4th point of view, and she's grinning widely, her nose will hide her eye farther away from the camera.
Predominant features: Her smile. It's a really big bright smile that covers her face.
Hair color: Black-brown. Same color as her eyes.
Type of hair: Amazingly messy. It's extremely long, unevenly layered, and horribly taken care of. It falls right above her waist and ends badly in different areas, consisting mostly of split ends, or just random strands of hair bending in different areas. She has bangs, too, that are badly taken care of and tend to bend in random directions themselves. Her hair is so messy, that the shorter strands of hair on the top of her head (the ones that are supposed to be part of her bangs but strongly refuse to) tend to raise higher than the other hair, producing a slightly visible "ahoge". If her hair is particularly badly handled, it will fall in her face, and stand out more.
Hairstyle: She always wears it down, and unbrushed.
Voice: A high ringing voice that usually pisses adults off when she yells.
Overall attractiveness: As a child, she'd probably pass for 8 1-2/10, but overall for her age she'd be more of a 6/10.
Physical disabilities: None. She's got rather strong arms, though.
Usual fashion of dress: School uniform. Even the smallest size is too large for her, though, so the sock always droop down to her ankles, and the vest hangs from her body over her skirt, making it kind of poof out from under the vest like in those animes, but the skirt is still too long so it just looks a bit awkward.
Favorite outfit: She actually loves wearing single things. Not shorts and a shirt, skirt and a shirt, etc. She likes to wear loose plain dresses like the one Kiki wears in Kiki's Delivery Service. In fact, she has one just like that. Also, she loves overalls, especially the large ones. In the summer, she'll just stick to the simple dresses or old overalls with the pant part ripped off, so that they're really really short.
Jewelry or accessories: Not really any. When she was younger, though, her parents were kind of stupid and bought two necklaces for both her twin and her, one with the letter K and the letter R so they wouldn't forget which is which. Oh, they just put the necklaces on the two of them randomly. So, if a sudden breeze burst through the window that night in the hospital, making papers fly off a table and onto the floor, grabbing the attention of Rob Cruise and Kalyani Cruise, and causing them to bend over to pick up those few papers, then bonk heads, causing both to drop the necklaces, and pick up different ones? Well, Kelsi Cruise would have then been Robin Cruise, and vise versa.
Other:
Magical stuff
Wand: Made of aspen, with the core of unicorn hair. It's 8 inches long, and narrow.
Boggart: A box, getting smaller and smaller around a person.
Patronus: A Shiba Inu~
Broom: A Bluebottle.
Blood Status: Muggle-born
House: Hufflepuff
Personality
Good personality traits: She's loyal- like a dog, hilarious (doesn't mean to be), fair, and good-hearted, persistent, defensive (both good and bad)
Bad personality traits: Rude, loud, obnoxious, absent-minded, controlling, clingy, competitive.
Mood character is most often in: Loud, hyper, joking around, unaware of surroundings.
Sense of humor: She doesn't mean to have a sense of humor, but she can't help it when she does pathetic things that are just hilarious to others.
Character’s greatest joy in life: When people agree with her, and make her feel superior.
Character’s greatest fear: She's extremely claustrophobic. Extremely. Seriously.
What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil? Hmm, I'm not sure...
Character is most at ease when: She is at home on the couch watching television with a bowl of popcorn.
Most ill at ease when: Proved wrong, proved stupid, taunted, etc.
Enraged when: When people purposely provoke her to make her angry, then once she snaps, they get away with it and she gets all the blame.
Depressed or sad when: Hmmm, I'm not sure, either.
Priorities: Her schoolwork, her siblings, and cleaning up after herself.
Life philosophy: She doesn't even KNOW what philosophy is.
If granted one wish, it would be: To be taller, prettier, and cooler than her sister, Robin.
Character’s soft spot: I'd say her worst sin would be Envy, considering how she gets jealous extremely easily and tries to rise higher than other people, and fail.. But, also connected to this, she tends to admire people extremely easily, for example you draw a mountain and you'll be her king/queen for a week.
Is this soft spot obvious to others? Extremely, considering it's focused on others.
Greatest strength: Her arms. Not her fists, nor hands, but her arms. She'd be an awesome beater.
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: Her absent-mindedness. She can forget something so easily.
Biggest regret: Nothing.
Minor regret: Breaking her sister's bedpost by jumping back and forth from her bed to her sister's bed with her brother.
Biggest accomplishment: She once went for a walk with her sister and brother and didn't come back until the next morning because they got lost. She's amazed she survived the whole night.
Minor accomplishment: She once made a perfume out of crushed flower petals.
Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: She always looses in bets. ALWAYS. And it always makes her do stupid things.
Character’s darkest secret: For example, the time her brother and her had a bet on who would be able to go all the way into an ice cold lake in winter, and guess who lost? She did. So what did she have to do? She had to run around the leg twice naked with a big sign around her neck saying: "I ARE A SORE LOSER". This happened when she was five, though.
The only people who know are the people at the lake at that time, her family, and the police who brought her home. She was only five, though.
Goals
Drives and motivations: Growing up successfully, and becoming a rich millionaire.
Immediate goals: Be able to get the remote from her brother when they're watching television, find something she's better at than her sister, and WIN MONOPOLY.
Long term goals: Growing up taller, and beautiful, and sexy, like those girls in the magazines Ally reads.
How the character plans to accomplish these goals: Find some magical food that does all the work for her.
How other characters will be affected: They won't, except for the boys. Oh, they'll all get turned on, yes yes! >]
Past
Hometown: Cerdigion, Wales.
Here's an image of it in Winter:
And a drawn picture of her town during Spring/Summer:
Type of childhood: Well, it wasn't full of surprises, if that's what you ask. It was mostly mischievous, and boring for her, With occasional suspicious things going on around her. For example, she wanted to get a glass of water in the middle of the night, and so she sat up, and the light turned on, and a glass of water appeared in her hand. Along with many other strange stories. But, she never had many friends, being controlling and rude to everyone, they mostly just left her alone.
Pets: None, unfortunately. Her mom was allergic to nearly all things that had fur.
First memory: Staring outside of a window on a snowy winter day, watching older students go to school in their school uniforms and coats, and seeing a little girl her age with her mother wearing the most beautiful cream color with soft fur to warm her neck, and thinking,
Gee, I want that coat.Most important childhood memory: The time she put her hands in the fireplace. Luckily for her, the fire had just started so it wasn't too bad, but she still got badly burnt.
Why: Never play with fire.
Childhood hero: This guy across the street who used to set his bike in this totally slanted tree in the summer, and ride down it. He was amazing at it, and still did it when he broke his arm. She still remembers the bike lines engraved into the poor old tree.
Dream job: Anything that will make her famous, and rich.
Education: strict private muggle school, soon to be Hogwarts.
Religion: She's protestant, from her dad's side.
Finances: They're a little bit under average.
Present
Current location: Cerdigion, Wales.
Currently living with: Mother, Father (often gone on long business trips to Africa and such for mining trips. Since he's a miner.), Alley, Robin, Fry, Andrea.
Pets: Andrea has a pet goldfish. It's name is Blue. Because it swims in water, which is naturally blue.
Religion: Same, same.
Occupation: None. She's just a student.
Finances: Still a little bit under average.
Family
Mother: Kalyani Cruise
Relationship with her: Kind of distant, but they're just fine!
Father: Robert Cruise
Relationship with him: Good relationship. He's out often, but when he's home, he's a pretty good dad.
Siblings: (oldest to youngest) Yash (at some huge college in America), Allison (Known as Ally), Robin (her twin sister), Anand (Mostly known as Fry.), and Andrea.
Relationship with them: Well, she didn't know Yash very well, according to her parents, they got him before they were married, then got married, and he was born. Yay. He's been gone for quite a while, though, so they don't know him well. And then they got Allison who's extremely motherly and bossy, and can get grumpy real easily. Robin and her get fairly along, but they sometimes argued. Fry is like her parter in crime. They have amazing adventures together, but also tend to fight horribly. Fights usually ended in tears (younger years), or bloody noses (today). Andrea's just a cutie, and if Kelsi finds proper words, she can manipulate Andrea into doing anything for her.
Spouse: None.
Relationship with him/her: N/A
Children: None.
Relationship with them: N/A
Other important family members: None.
Favorites
Color: Purple. If she had the chance, she'd dye her hair bright purple.
Least favorite color: Sienna. It's a brownish green, a hideous color.
Music: She's not much of a music fan, but she loves the piano.
Food: She loves all those French pastries- definitely including Cream puffs.
Literature: Ahhh....
Form of entertainment: Bets with her siblings, "Adventures", walks, Television, anything that will take her mind away from simple things.
Expressions: What?
Mode of transportation: She could live in planes.
Most prized possession: That weird necklace her parents gave her. She likes the little amethysts on it.
Habits
Hobbies: She is kind of picking up art, she loves to draw landscapes, and snow, and shadows on objects.
Plays a musical instrument? Nothing.
Plays a sport? Well, no. Her mom signed her up for ballet when she was younger, but it didn't suit her much, even if she had the posture. Her moves were too jerky, especially in the arms. And she never listened in class, and couldn't focus at the recitals.
How he/she would spend a rainy day: Jumping in puddles when she's younger, but mostly focused on watching it fall on the street outside of her house.
Spending habits: Not much, unless you count the five dollars she gets in allowance, which she usually spends in a convention store, or in deals.
Smokes: No.
Drinks: No.
Other drugs: No.
What does he/she do too much of? I'm not sure, she moves around randomly.
What does he/she do too little of? Trying to stay with a single hobby.
Extremely skilled at: Well, I wouldn't say extremely skilled, but she loves knitting, and drawing, and such.
Extremely unskilled at: Cooking. She's incredibly horrible at that.
Nervous tics: Chewing on her hair, snapping her fingers at a beat in her head.
Usual body posture: Hands pressed by her sides stiffly, or one hand holding her other arm.
Mannerisms: She's not that polite, sadly. Her mom tried to raise her politely, but didn't succeed all too well at that.
Peculiarities: If she gets excited, her hands ball into fists and her wrists start to make her hands twitch involuntarily.
Traits
Optimist or pessimist? Along the middle. It depends what for.
Introvert or extrovert? Extrovert.
Daredevil or cautious? Daredevil.
Logical or emotional? Emotional.
Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat? Disorderly and messy.
Prefers working or relaxing? She likes to work a lot and a lot, then relax for a few days.
Confident or unsure of himself/herself? Unsure mostly.
Animal lover? Depends. If it's a sloth, it's a no. If it's a fwuffy wittle wabbit, yes.
Self-perception (this part might as well be first person)
How he/she feels about himself/herself: She feels really conscious of how she looks, her height, and uncertain of her actions. Otherwise, if she's good at something, she'll get all big-headed about it.
One word the character would use to describe self: Different. She likes being called different.
One paragraph description of how the character would describe self: I don't know.
What does the character consider his/her best personality trait? She's not that modest, and would try to invent stuff, so she'd say her superiorness.
What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait? Nothing.
What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic? Her smile.
What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic? Her nose, and her height.
How does the character think others perceive him/her: She thinks people are scared of her, and if they're not, they want to be her very best friend!
What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: She'd like to have more self confidence.
Relationships with others
Opinion of other people in general: They're alright. She doesn't pay much attention to them. Unless they stare at her. Then, they're immediately on her hate list until they have a good reason to why they're staring at her. (eg: "Oh, because you're so PRETTY!")
Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others? Ahhh, she's rather blunt!
Person character most hates: No one.
Best friend(s): Nobody, so far, but maybe in her first year, she'll make friends!
Love interest(s): Nobody! EWW!
Person character goes to for advice: Ally.
Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: Andrea.
Person character feels shy or awkward around: Nobody! She's never felt shy or awkward!
Person character openly admires: Her future friend's older brother. He's so brave and outgoing! (Libby)
Person character secretly admires: THE MAN WHO INVENTED UNDERWEAR. YES.
Most important person in character’s life before story starts: Her family, altogether.
After story starts: Same, but including friends.