Post by Naomi Garcia on Dec 10, 2023 11:47:01 GMT -5
WELCOME TO LOS EUROSIA,
NAOMI CAMILLA GARCIA
"If I get too close
And I'm not how you hoped
Forgive my northern attitude
Oh, I was raised out in the cold
If the sun don't rise
'Til the summertime
Forgive my northern attitude
Oh, I was raised on little light"
BASICS
NAME:
AGE: 29
BIRTHDATE: September 25th (Libra)
PRONOUNS: She/Her
SEXUALITY: Pansexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single
OCCUPATION: Gifted Protection Agent: Naomi works for the Sector helping other Gifteds who are being targeted by Hunters or other Gifted hate groups. Her job is to work with Gifted clients helping them through counselling, assigning them a new identity, and setting them up with new lives as far from their aggressors as she can. She often works with other Sector Gifted Advocates to help find new jobs, homes, and various other resources to provide Gifted individuals with new, safe lives. The Gifted Protection Program isn't as large of an operation as some of the other workings in the Sector so Naomi is able to really work one on one with her clients.
Dog walker/Dog Fosterer: More of a hobby than a job really, Naomi has always loved working with animals. On the weekends Naomi walks the dogs of several people in her neighborhood. Taking them to the park, out for a jog, even taking them to the vets or groomer if their owner is too busy. Naomi is also well known by several animal shelters all through California for taking in emergency cases. Whether that's a dog that's special needs and needs particular medical attention or a dog that may be scheduled to be put down. Naomi will take them in and care for them until they're able to find a new home. Though there have been three dogs that she has Foster Failed and wound up adopting herself. She will sometimes also home cats though not quite as often.
NEIGHBORHOOD: West Hook
MEMBER GROUP: Sector
POWERS:
Illusion Manipulation: Naomi is able to manipulate and create several different kinds of illusions. That could be anything from vague dancing colors and shapes moving around the air all the way to complex scenes involving figments of people, animals, and objects. The more she is able to focus on the illusion the more tangible it will become. If she knows enough about a person she is able to form a perfect illusion of them that able to be touched and talk. She can form full scenes. Illusionary vines that will hold a person to the ground. Animals that can claw and bite.
Sometimes her illusions aren't perfect. There's been times she's formed people without faces, dogs with the legs of a cat, wonky eyes, and mismatched colors. Though this doesn't happen as often now that she's had more time to practice with her gift. Sometimes she does it on purpose. And sometimes she's simply too exhausted to focus on the proper details.
The most important part of Naomi's gift is how real she can focus on making something. While making something like a small, red rubber ball feel and look real wouldn't be difficult, something like complex scenes and people are much harder. They require more intensive focus to make them look and feel real. To be able to hug a lost loved one or make a sprawling green forest would require much more intensive focus on Naomi's part which is both mentally and physically draining. But the more she focuses the more she might be able to trick a person into believing something. Believing that the dogs that are biting them are really doing damage. That the vines wrapped around them are really holding them down. However, the more Naomi has to focus on something and the more of a mental strain something takes on her the less specific things become. When she has to focus on how a dog bite might look on a persons body or how thorns might prick their skin the more often she winds up messing up. Losing detail and focus the more tired she becomes.
The more complex the illusion is the more taxing it is on Naomi's energy. Focusing on little details takes a lot out of her over time. The color of a buildings door, the position of shadows and how they move with the position of the sun. People are the most complex illusions for her to make as she has to focus on several different details all at once. How they talk, walk, hair color, eye color, their smell. Humans are extremely complex systems and take a lot to form perfectly.
Emotional Manipulation: Naomi is able to feel and influence the emotions of others. It's easier to influence an acceleration of something someone is already feeling. Making an irritated person blindly furious. Make a sad person cripplingly depressed. Make a happy person brightly jubilant. However, she can also influence a change in emotions. Bringing calm in a moment of panic. Soothe a persons grief. Ease a persons suspicions. Incite fear or panic through someone's calm. Things of that nature. More often than not she uses the Gift on her clients when they are experiencing panic or distress. While touch isn't required it does make things easier, as well as making eye contact with someone.
While she can spread the influence over a group of people doing so isn't as easy as concentrating on one person. It requires more focus and energy output to spread the influence over several people and make sure it works properly. Pushing the Gift too far has also been known to cause migraines, nose bleeds, vomiting, and fainting for Naomi.
Using this in tandem with her other Gift though can make her illusions more powerful. Influencing someone to be panicked or fearful might make it easier for them to believe they are really in danger. Easing a persons suspicions might make them more intent on believing they're truly standing in a house or speaking to an old friend.
THE LOOKS
HEIGHT: 5'4"
WEIGHT: 142lbs
HAIR COLOR: Dark brown
EYE COLOR: Actually dark brown, she tends to change it up often
FACE CLAIM: Lauren Jauregui
OVERALL APPEARANCE: With a severe case of RBF Naomi isn't normally one most might consider approachable. Due to her job she's learned to mask much of what would be considered cold or off putting. Normally keeping up some kind of small smile, pitching up her voice to seem less threatening, anything so people feel more comfortable opening up to her. Which has seemed to work. Naomi has long, thick dark brown hair that has a tendency to look black in most lighting. Her eyes often seem to be an enigma to others but it's mostly due to her use of her Gift. It's a small enough thing to change and keep up that won't exhaust her for using it for long periods of time and Naomi has found it's useful in confusing people. She's fairly short and on the thicker side but all too confident in her appearance.
She has a series of tattoos along her body along with a few scars. One tattoo along her spine that says I am that I am in cursive. She also has the date 6/6/18 by on her upper forearm, a bee on her inner left wrist, a dragonfly on the back of her neck, the name Angelica on her forearm, and the Roman Numerals XXVII on her right elbow. Most of her scars are small and superficial, having mostly faded by now. There are a few however that tend to stand out the most such as the three bullet wounds on her right shoulder, left side of her chest, and her right hip.
INSIDE
LIKES:
-Sitting outside, especially during rainy days
-Reading
-Dancing
-Animals, especially dogs and horses
-Being alone or in very small groups
-Knitting and crocheting
DISLIKES:
-Very bright, sunny days. Her eyes are sensitive and she gets headaches/migraines easily
-Roaches, flies, spiders, most bugs in general
-Large crowds while she's sober
-Blood
-Gun fire and the sound of exploding fireworks
-Being suddenly touched
STRENGTHS:
Hard Worker: Naomi is known for having a very strong work ethic. She's never afraid to get down and dirty when the situation calls for it. She's also been known to pull more than her own weight when she needs to for things. She's very good at problem solving and believes in working smarter, not harder. She genuinely enjoys finding ways to work through problems and find practical solutions to things.
Empathetic: As one might guess Naomi is a very empathetic type of person. Due to her ability to really feel others emotions it made her a very understanding and compassionate kind of person. She does her best to see things from different perspectives and understand a persons motives for things. She's seen as being very in tune with her own emotions as well as others. Able to effectively communicate her feelings and truly feel those of loved ones and complete strangers. When she flies off the handle for one reason or another she's quick to apologize and attempt to fix her wrongs because she's able to understand how she might have hurt someone in her own anger.
Independent: Naomi grew up the eldest daughter in a large family. This meant there was a lot of responsibility placed on her shoulders at a fairly young age. Because of this she grew up to become very independent, and to a degree very motherly. She will find ways to do things on her own as often as she possibly can. Though this doesn't mean she's afraid of asking for help when she knows she needs it. Living on her own, changing her own tires, taking care of her own problems Naomi has become comfortable in the idea that she doesn't need anyone. That she chooses who belongs in her life.
WEAKNESSES:
Emotionally Mechanical: Though Naomi is able to talk about her emotions in an effective manner it often seems very cold and mechanical in a way. While she can talk about her feelings and rationalize them she doesn't truly let herself feel them. Often times she pushes them down and tries to pick them apart until there's nothing left of them to feel. Sometimes though this doesn't always work and can cause her to blow up.
Closed off: While Naomi is happy to listen to the lives and struggles of those around her she's very reserved about her own. She doesn't open up to others about her pain, her worries, her sadness. It might be hypocritical but there are few people Naomi has felt comfortable opening up to. Mostly out of worry that she wouldn't be who they want or expect her to be. Worried that her thoughts, her feelings, her emotions would be simply too much for someone else. This causes her to be more apprehensive with letting people close to her.
High Alert: Call it paranoia, call it suspicion, call it PTSD, call it whatever you will but Naomi tends to hold a heavy amount of anxiety. Especially in crowds she becomes very tense and anxious. Always looking for exits. Scared that a stranger could be attempting to hurt her. Scared that she could be found again. She's usually fairly good at hiding this anxiety but it can cause her to become snappy or irritable in the moment.
OVERALL PERSONALITY:
Naomi is a fairly reserved and private person. She often becomes overwhelmed or anxious in crowds so she tends to stick to herself or small groups of her friends. Unless she's been drinking that is. When she wants to be she can be very warm and inviting. Due to the nature of her job it requires people to find her calming and trustworthy. Which she is. It just takes a bit more of a push for her to seem that way with strangers. Though she's become very good at masking in an attempt to come off as nonthreatening and easy going. Naomi can be very energetic and playful when the mood strikes. She can also be rather sneaky and mischievous. She loves making people laugh. Loves seeing and feeling the joy of others around her. Especially of the people she loves.
Naomi isn't very outgoing. In fact, she's fairly introverted. She doesn't often seek out interacting with strangers unless she needs to. Because of this her circle of friends is small but that's the way she prefers it. Naomi is very hard working and actually loves finding answers to problems. She's not afraid of getting her hands dirty and is willing to pull more than her own weight. Which can be a detriment when she eventually burns herself out. She's fiercely independent and doesn't like feeling as if she needs to rely on anyone else. That's not to say she won't search for help when she knows she does in fact need it. She just prefers doing things on her own.
Though not obvious to most people Naomi is a very private and closed off person. Often putting up a front to others of who she thinks they want her to be. There are a select few who Naomi has really opened up to. Doing so terrifies her. Naomi fears that if she can't be what others want, what they expect her to be, she'll be hurt or abandoned. If she shows how brash she can be. How cold and angry she can be. If she shows them that she isn't a constant beacon of light and warmth they'll recoil from her. Ignoring the fact of how loving and warm she can be without trying.
BACKGROUND
HOMETOWN: Soldotna, Alaska
FAMILY:
Naomi is the last living member of her family
PETS:
Chance: Chance was the first dog Naomi ever Foster Failed. He is a very large XL American Pitbull that had been used as a fighting dog for a very long time. When she first took him in Chance was very skittish and aggressive around people and it took a very long time for Naomi to build trust with him. Now he is her shadow. Chance follows Naomi everywhere and can often be found curled up next to her or across her lap when she's sitting down. He can still be nervous around people, especially men, but he's come a long way from the dog that was going to be put down.
Brutus: Brutus is a three legged Rottweiler that Naomi also Foster Failed. He came to her originally fully unable to walk after being picked up off the side of the road. He was extremely malnourished, covered in fleas and mange, with a severe infection in one of his front legs. While he was very afraid he still wanted to be very loving and affectionate and Naomi couldn't help but fall in love with his big brown puppy dog eyes.
Bear: Bear was the last dog Naomi Foster Failed. Bear is blind and suffers from seizures. This made him very hard to adopt out, especially as he would become terrified when people would try to rush him into a new situation. Naomi spent a full year working with Bear to make him feel safe, comfortable, and confident then didn't have the heart in her to give him away.
HISTORY:
Naomi was born the third child and first girl in siblings. She had three older brothers and five younger brothers and sisters growing up. A lot of the responsibility of caring for her younger siblings was placed on Naomi's shoulder from a young age which made her grow up fast as she became a defacto parent. Naomi was born in Matanzas, Cuba but her family moved to Alaska when she was seven years old. Most of her life they bounced between the two homes but Naomi spent many of her important developmental years in Alaska. Her grandparents on her fathers side both died when she was ten years old and unlike her mother he had no siblings.
Despite spending much of her time watching after five younger siblings Naomi had a happy childhood. Her parents were part of a Gifted activist group that was attempting to expose and normalize other Gifteds to the regular world. They were loving and supportive of all this children. Always made sure they were happy and healthy and wanted for nothing in their lives. However, their work with the activist group did put a large target on their back. Not that Naomi's parents ever let their children know that.
When Naomi was nineteen she met her first real love. With her parents full support and blessing Naomi moved away from home to live in Alaska with her partner. They were together for years while Naomi went through schooling and had settled a life together. When she was twenty three she had to return to Cuba for a family emergency. There was a email she received saying her mother wasn't doing well and she needed to go home. Naomi informed her partner she wouldn't be gone long and flew back to Cuba. Her entire family had showed up, little did they know they'd been lambs led to the slaughter.
Hunters attacked Naomi's family, killing them off one by one. Naomi was hospitalized, just barely surviving herself before the authorities arrived. A Sector agent met Naomi in the hospital. He informed her they'd been keeping an eye on her and her family. Trying to calmly silence them before something like this happened. The Hunters knew Naomi had survived and she was told if she wanted to remain that way she needed to come with them. Naomi couldn't even say goodbye to her partner.
She left behind everything she'd ever known. Changed her name, the way she looked, and moved far away. For a year she moved between several different cities until she settled down in los Eurosia. Naomi joined the Sector and became a Protection Agent in hopes to save others from facing what she almost had to face herself.
THE PLAYER
NAME: Cat
AGE: 26
TIMEZONE: GMT