Post by Flame on Jan 18, 2018 19:00:43 GMT -5
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"You've met a hundred me's and know none of them." - Val
Valeria Alba
"You've met a hundred me's and know none of them." - Val
{Character Information}
Surname: Alba
Given Name: Valeria
Nickname/s: "Mirage" Val
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Age: 25
Birthday: 3/28 Mar. 28th
Home Region: Grand Line
Occupation: Actor / Bounty Hunter
Bounty: None
Jolly Roger:
{Appearance & Personality}
-Personality Traits-
Alignment: Theatrically Unstable Neutral
TheatricalVal enjoys a little hyperbole. She is quite emphatic about things. She exudes the overdone emotions of one who often acts. This can happen in both overly bold and overly quiet ways. For some it can be easily seen through as she tends to overdo. But she is also quite a good actor, capable of playing many roles and fitting them quite well by her own perception and by some others. Her most common character goes by the name of L and is much more demure than Val herself.
ConfidentVal is very self-assured. She is confident in her skills and abilities and their ability to get her out of trouble and complete the tasks she sets out for herself. This can be seen most often when on rare occasion she is just acting as herself. She is proud of herself and believes to a very high degree in her own worth. It is also this belief that allows her to act without fear of being seen through. To play whatever emotion she needs at the flip of a switch and keep on going through.
LearnedVal is extremely well read. Having read hundreds of pages of literature and watched/read innumerable plays by the greatest of playwrights she is understandably full of knowledge that is not always the most useful. But through her experience with the many characters and all their lines she has become an excellent conversationalist. Able to think on the fly and place herself deep inside the minds of other characters. She studies all these works in tedium, pouring over the pages and learning them backwards and forwards. Apart from that she has fleeting interests and has tidbits of knowledge over a vast scale of subjects from her dalliances in other realms of books.
Sharp TongueVal has grown a powerful wit. Her study of the theater and literature contributes greatly to this. Sitting atop her real life experience is excessively large amounts of second hand knowledge through those studies. Hundreds and thousands of pages of conversation written by some of the most creative minds of high-minded society in combination with a fast thinking tongue has molded a solid off-the-cuff ability to make jabs. The style of the jab may cycle between smarter witticisms and more base ones, but mostly because she enjoys both.
Art LoverVal is a fan and sometime patron of the arts. She watches plays on occasion, enjoys music, and reads much of literature. It is one thing that seems distinctly her that she grasps to desperately. When she isn't playing a role or the like she can often be found paging through novels or scripts with hungry eyes.
Lost in PersonasVal is often not herself. Caught in an ever changing personality Val is somewhat forgetting who she is. She has vague notions of what personality traits run beneath her though she lacks a little nuance of that. She generally understands that she is witty, believes she is quite smart. Her love of reading and the arts also seem to be obvious to her. Apart from those, her likes and dislikes, friends and others have slipped into the deep recesses of her mind forgotten in the hecticness of it all.
Virtues: Learned, Confident, Patron of the Arts
Vices: Sharp Tongued, Overly-Proud
Fears: Variable
-Physical Traits / Appearance-
Height: 6'1" or 185 cm
Build: A Sleek Medium Blue
Eye Color: Icy Blue
Hair Style: Short Straight White Hair
Ethnicity: Spanish
AppearanceVal is a chameleonic person on most occasions. When shes playing a character she dresses the part. This often requires the use of a non-trivial use of make-up though she makes it as subtle as she is capable. It addresses what is often contours of her face though some of the facial structure will normally remain. She also lacks a way to change her eye color. What she doesn't have she often sows for herself, though this only extends so far in terms of the level of grandeur she can recreate.
When not in-character so to speak Val wears a fairly simple set of clothes. She prefers light colors and baggy clothing. It'll often hang slightly upon her body rather than hold tightly to it. It is not so baggy as to be subversive to her ability to move around with dexterity. This is true in her choices of upper and lower quadrant regalia. She prefers to wear gloves, generally of a soft material stained black. Beneath the makeup she is a dark skinned woman often with a mischievous grin adorning her face. She is a sleek attractive woman to most who have met the real Val.
{Character Story}
Total X-Poinz: 450
Used X-Poinz: 50{ See Full Breakdown}
Full Breakdown0 Knife Juggling | E-Rank FiSt(0) Free X-Poinz | 0 Used
-50 Offhand Flip | R1 Tech
-My Voyages-{Starting XPoinz}
Starting XPoinz
+ 300 X-Poinz
D Class Package
+ 150 X-Poinz
{Skills and Combat Abilities}
-Inventory-
The MaskA simple and yet elegant masquerade mask which Val takes around with her. It has a reddish-orange hue and yellow eyes which have thin slits with which to see through. When she wears it it is held to her head by an elastic 'string'.-Skills-
Non-Combat Skills
ActingValeria is an acting pro, she is very diligent about her job. She puts herself deeply into her role maintaining the persona for nearly the whole time while she does so. Her own personality is often shoved back into the depths of her head to make room for the persona she needs to put on.
HandyVal is quite good with her hands doing odds and ends chores. She can sew, fix some things, make origami, and all sorts of useless skills. She can be quite useful to have around because while she doesn't have a depth of knowledge in most subjects she has a wealth of knowledge in many subjects.
CookingVal is not the best cook out there, she is also not the worst. She can make simple dishes that are perhaps at best a little underseasoned. Her tongue has to be used to a lot of things so she is very interested in trying out new things with it.
Combat Skills
Inhuman Dexterity - Human Trait #1Val's skill with her fingers is practiced and learned over years. Just as it informs her handiness with tools, sewing, etc. it also helps with her knifework. She is fairly confident with a knife able to manipulate it between her fingers like one might do with a pencil.
Inhuman Flexibility - Human Trait #2Val is excessively flexible. She can get her head through her legs to look behind or even above her back. With ease she can turn herself into a human pretzel and just as easily get out. Do not assume she can't bend the way you think, she is perfectly willing to at least try to prove you wrong.-Fighting Styles-
Knife Juggling
E-Rank Knife Combat0 X-Poinz
Val specializes in close combat knife/dagger work. She can use her flexibility, coordination, and dexterity to handle the weapon quickly and get her cuts in. It is in infighting where Val is more dangerous. She is quite good at constantly switching whichever hand is grasping her dagger by flicking it between the two at any given time.
Aspects
WeaponCombat Knife (x2)
Rank 0 DaggerHer personal combat knife, its a fairly long blade somewhere in between what one might expect from a dagger and a knife. It has a very simple grip with a cloth wrap on it to act as an actual grip. Val actually has two of these though rarely uses both at the same time.
TechniquesOffhand Flip
Rank 1 Technique - 50 X-PoinzFeinting an attack with one hand she flicks her wrist to toss her weapon to the other hand and slash at her opponent with it.
{Character Relations}
-Family-Alba Troupe - Troupe - Val's performing troupe and extended family has not seen Val in ages. Neither has she them but she maintains a fondness for the group that would make any reunion much wanted. Having spent the first 15 years of her life with them there is both much she knows and doesn't know about the working of the Alba Troupe.-Friends-None as of yet
-Foes-None as of yet
{History}
Youth (0-6)Valeria was born to a troupe of travelling performers. She grew up surrounded by the arts and people of a more worldly nature. Her early life was spent watching those around her act on stage, play music, practice magic, dress up, and all that which happens. It was quite the positive environment to grow up in, learning was easy for her with these sort of people as her teachers. So Val grew up quick, learned fast and a lot about a multitude of different subjects.
Part of the Team (7-15)As she grew older Val's education grew more practically. Where she used to just learn by watching she was now invited to put herself on stage and perform. With the likes of the great playwrights and poets of the world to learn from Val gained a trouper's tongue. But her interest in learning wasn't stifled either, splitting time between her acting practice and learning Val quickly improved in all aspects. The boundless energy of youth at her side she picked up juggling tricks, accents, and a powerful memory in her rapid growth as a member of the troupe. Even swordfighting was learned to some extent as she had to practice it for some mock fights when she was required to play a youthful boy rather than some female character.
And of course she learned of places. All the while, all this learning she gained while travelling with her troupe. Going to new places every few months, moving from island to island with her extended family of a troupe she crossed the Grand Line not once but thrice. As time went on she grew from an iffy actor to a good one. Her skills in rhetoric improved and her breadth of talents grew though none quite so much as acting.
Growth (16-22)As her acting talent grew she suddenly found that her family was perhaps not enough to allow her to grow completely. So she went to her parents at the age of sixteen to see if she could go to a famed institute for the art of acting and try to improve there. Understanding as they were her parents pushed back at first. But seeing the strength of her will to do so they relented in a short time. Thus it was that Valeria Alba went to Bravo Bravissimo to train with those who are considered the best actors in the world.
However the world was not as easy as just going to Bravo Bravissimo and finding a place for herself. She started off small there, joining a small troupe as they were the only ones who'd take her. An off-main group they liked to do very physical plays full of action. And since the group didn't have the size or wealth to properly do stunts, their actors had to quickly learn to do their own stunts sometimes without the full protection an actor would normally be provided. A challenge, but nonetheless one Valeria accepted as a necessity for her to improve her repertoire. The group also required their actors to help with set design which is where she learned and improved her handicraft skills.
Through practice and a fair amount of skill it soon became obvious the gem Valeria was in this troupe and after three year and a half of loitering with the group she got picked up by a far more famous group. Installed with a group of young up and coming actors Valeria was among those whom she thought would best understand her. The competition however she found was unexpected, in her former troupes they had been much more friendly and though Val grew with the group she was uncomfortable with them as a whole. It was thus that she decided that rather than giving up she'd fully devote herself to becoming the characters she acted as.
Though this somewhat isolated her from the group, it also vastly improved her own acting skills. All those who were part of the group rose with her nonetheless. Heralded as one of the most promising groups of actors in the last two decades their whole group quickly became known to the Bravo Bravissimo crowd. As she grew in skill and value something began to itch at her. It was another year before she realized it was her trouper blood. It disliked her stillness, it craved the travelling that she had experienced for her whole life. And so on a whim she decided to leave Bravo Bravissimo even though her career had been swinging upwards.
On Her Own (23-25)Without knowledge of where her family was Valeria set out. With what funds she had, she travelled from Bravo Bravissimo to Port West. Living there for a while she worked as a waitress and sometimes a singer at some bars. Unfortunately some parts of her lifestyle ended up being more expensive than that money which she could turn by doing what jobs she did. So after two years of simply burning through her funds she decided she had to do something about it. Noticing the large value of bounty's she figured why not. Through her experience with plays, and some consultations with some of those who came to the bars she worked at she thought she would be capable of it. Thus began her bounty hunting life.