Adena Nightingale

[Birdybot]

~trainer sprite to go here~
[so let the love tear us apart
i've found a cure for a broken heart
let it tear us apart]

a small piece of advice
that took 22 years in the make
and i will break it for you now
please learn from my mistakes

:username// Birdybot
:character name// Adena Lana Nightingale
:age// 16
:gender// Female
:lyrics// Let's Dance to Joy Division - Panic! at the disco
:strengths// Acting, playing the violin, composing music, imagination
:weaknesses// OCD, loneliness, doesn't take life seriously enough (for example although she'll remain calm in a crisis she'll not be worried enough)

let's dance to joy division
and celebrate the irony
everything is going wrong
but we're so happy

:appearance// Adena is about average in height, standing at about 5'5". Her weight is not really in proportion to this; she is underweight, although it is probably mostly due to the fact that she has a slim build as well as being quite skinny. She has a minimum amount of body fat, mostly having muscle attached to her bones. This makes her very athletic and fast. She is light on her feet and able to jump high, darting out the way of any oncoming attackers quickly. She is an agile person, able to move swiftly without bumping into anything. She can judge her movements well, making her able to move about fast. Her build is dainty, making her seem fragile at times, yet she still manages to be strong and graceful when in action.

The hair which frames Adena's oval face is somewhere between blonde and brown in colour. More towards the brown than the blonde, it might be described as a sort of sandy brown colour. It hangs down to just below her shoulders, with a gentle natural wave to it. It shines in sunlight, and Adena keeps it clean and neat, since she likes her hair. Her face is pretty average, with evenly proportioned features and a few faint freckles about her nose. Her lips usually have a smile on them, since she is a happy person who gives a happy impression. Her eyes lie below thin, arched eyebrows. These eyes are deep and a golden brown colour. They're the sort of eyes you can really lose yourself in. The way the light from the sun or lamp hits them might even make the colours of her eyes flicker like a little like fire. It's mostly these eyes which make her face stand out despite not being any prettier or uglier than everyone else.

Adena's body is, like her face, pretty average for a girl her age. While not completely developed yet, she does have curves. She is caucasian, her skin fairly pale, but not too white or anything. Her stomach is flat due to her regular exercise and the absence of junk food in her diet, and the one thing Adena doesn't really like about her appearance is that her hands are a little large. She has long fingers which help her with her violin playing especially, but she still doesn't really like that her hands look slightly too big. It's hard to notice unless you look hard. Her fingers, though, as well as her toes (though not as much), are definitely long.

Now, onto her clothes. Adena likes to look stylish, but she does like comfort too. She generally wears old jeans or leggings, something which allows a lot of movement and isn't a skirt or dress. She avoids dresses and skirts as much as possible. Her shoes are simple too, trainers. She has a couple of pairs, and she's had both for a while and finds them comfortable as well as decent supports for her feet. Her T-shirts are usually of a simple design, either plain or maybe striped, perhaps with a few words or a picture on them. Nothing too complex. She generally wears baggy ones to allow more movement and comfort, and manages to pull the look on with a little careful choice. She has a hooded jacket in case it gets cold, as well as a coat and a few warm jumpers.

Lastly, we cover her voice. It's not something you see, but it's part of what makes her herself. Adena's voice is the sort you can pick out from a crowd, something which didn't please her at school. It is not exactly loud, but louder than average. Her voice is a definite female one, gentle, soft and soothing at times while full of energy at others. Her accent is from southern England, but in no way makes her seem any more posh or rich than she is because the tone and way she speaks.

let's dance to joy division
and raise our glass to the ceiling
'cos this could all go so wrong
but we're so happy

:personality// The first thing most people notice about Adena is that she has problems with her mental health. It's somewhere in between OCD (obsessive compulsive dissorder) and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity dissorder). She can never sit still and is constantly figiting. She occasionally panics and convinces herself someone's after her, but that doesn't happen very often. She normally is just very energetic and feels strong needs to do little things like tap a fence or count the leaves on a branch. She knows it's silly, but gets quite nervy if she doesn't do that. Adena hates this aspect of herself, and hopes to some day manage to get over it. She is aware that it was caused by trauma in her past, so thinks that by forgetting her past she can be normal again.

Mental problems aside, Adena is a nice girl, more intelligent than average but not a nerd or anything. She tries her best to be pleasant to people, smiling at people she recognises if she meets them in the street and loves making new friends. She can be sociable to people, but often they are put off by the way she can act quite strangely sometimes. The down side of this is that it is hard for her to find people who are willing to make friends with her, despite how easily she can win people over. The up side is that she knows that everyone who like her for her and ignores her dissorders are true friends and can be trusted.

She is reasonably intelligent, too. Although she was only ever average at school work, outside of school she finds herself able to cope well. Her kind of mind is an imaginative, creative one; not so much a remembering languages, facts and dates one. She can write poems, stories, think up the most amazing things in her head, and work out how her Pokémon should dodge the latest attack. She's not so good at camping. Pitching a tent takes a while for her, and with an attention span the size of a walnut she quickly gets frustrated. Cooking is another thing which makes her angry, but if it goes well she gets quite proud of whatever she's made.

Most people who lack something make up for it with something else. Adena makes up for her mental problems with creativity- especially with music. Able to think up the most beautiful melodies, this is the best way she has of expressing herself. She takes her violin everywhere- it was quite expensive but makes a wonderful sound. She can improvise, write music and read music to a very high standard, producing sounds which could make the soul shiver by drawing her bow across the strings. Her friends envy this talent, and since her mental health makes it hard for her to explain her feelings sometimes, this is the best way for her to express herself; the music hits a person's very soul and makes them empathise with her.

Adena enjoys drama, loving being able to lose herself in a character that is so unlike her and her life, loving how acting allows her to enter to worlds of her imagination. Another talent of hers is to be able to understand Pokémon speech- something she finds quite useful. (If you won't allow this, that's fine)

Deep down, although she won't admit it, Adena is lonely. Very lonely. All she really wants is someone by her side. She knows that a lot of the time when life gets her down, what she needs most of all is a hug and some comforting words. That's one of the reasons why she decided to become a Pokémon trainer- for companionship. She knows that truly, she needs another human to be completely fullfilled, but until that person comes along she will make do with her Pokémon.

[Lou]

Beautiful way of laying it out Accepted!