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• The opposite of war isn't peace...it's creation •

C H A R A C T E R • I N F O

Character Name(s): Jaida Laurent

Nicknames/Aliases: “J”

Gender: Female

Race: Muse (Creativity)

Actual Character Age: 19

DOB: December 1, 1988

Physical Description:
- Height: Petite and spunky at 5’0”, Jaida makes up for it by constantly wearing some sort of heel. It may be anything from a favorite metal stiletto-heeled boot to a chunky Doc Marten, but whatever it is…it has a heel.
- Weight/Build: A small to medium frame. She doesn’t own a scale (she thinks it’s crap), but last time she checked she was somewhere in the 112 range – not that Jaida cares.
- Hair: Naturally? She has no idea anymore, but she’s been dying it bright orange for as long as she can remember. Sometimes she bleaches out the tips for that fade-to-blonde look, but most of the time she keeps it orange – her favorite color.
- Eyes: A surprisingly calm silvery blue, in contrast to her vibrant hair color.
- Style: Absolutely her own. This is the girl with orange hair, after all! She’s fond of wild, brightly colored make-up and off-the-wall hairstyles. She’s the type that mixes patterns with ease and somehow seems to pull them off. Prone to making (or at least ‘tailoring’) her favorite pieces, Jaida definitely has an individual style.

Distinguishing marks: Has three multi-colored stars tattooed diagonally across the inside of her right wrist (one yellow, one blue, one pink – each bigger than the last), but the trait she’s known for is her bright orange hair.

PB: Bonnie McKee

Birth Location: Chicago, Illinois

M O R E • C H A R A C T E R • I N F O

Personality: If the hair doesn’t get her noticed, Jaida’s loud and out-spoken personality tends to. She’s the type that will always answer a question honestly, even if you aren’t prepared to hear it. The type that doesn’t believe lying really solves much of anything, she isn’t totally against bending the truth. If it benefits her and doesn’t really hurt anybody in the process, then what’s the harm?

As social as they come, meeting new people is like a high for her. She’s curious, bordering on nosy – which lends well to her making friends almost as much as it does to chasing them away – though sticking close to Jaida will always prove interesting. She tends to be a study in contradictions: she likes to party as much as she likes a movie at home, never one to reject a drink she dislikes getting wasted and though she claims she isn’t into assholes she gets along best with people with difficult personalities.

If there’s one quick way to bond with Jaida, it’s definitely over music. She’s been in and out of garage bands since she was thirteen and craves live music like nothing else in the world. Chances are it’ll be a constant in her room, not to mention the iPod that rarely (if ever) leaves her side. And should you recommend an artist she’s never heard of and ends up loving? You’re definitely her new favorite person.

Personal Background: December in Chicago is never easy for anybody. The winds off Lake Michigan that earned the city its nickname turn frigid as winter moves across the Midwest; and then there’s the snow, not to mention ice storms, that have a tendency to knock out power for weeks at a time. So for a sixteen year-old drug addict who’s about to have a baby far before there ready, whose boyfriend ran off the first he heard the word ‘pregnant’, it’s an especially rough time. Harder still is the winter that follows for the baby that’s left behind when its mother bolts the hospital, disappearing back out onto the streets that she’s called home for the majority of her young life. And if you need reassurance that it’s all true….just ask Jaida. It’s how her life started out, after all.

She was turned over to the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services once the hospital had detoxed from her system the drugs her mother had so lovingly left behind. Sickly at first, Jaida bounced back quickly under the hospital’s care and was turned over in hopes of finding her a home that actually wanted the little girl. But like most kids who go into ‘the system’, life does not always work out like some made-for-tv movie. Sometimes there isn’t a perfect family that comes, sometimes you just sit there and…rot. The place lacked stimulation and the older Jaida got, the more she started to crave it. Color, sound, anything would have been a welcomed distraction from the sights inside the DCFS center.

Jaida was around thirteen when she and some of the older kids talked about getting out. They didn’t want to wait around any more, they were old enough now to realize that they weren’t getting a happy ending. Where the hell had all these couples who wanted perfect little babies been when she was one? They never paid attention to the older kids…no one wanted to adopt a teenager. They were too much trouble. So the kids decided they wanted out. Get enough of them together, plotting like they were, and something was bound to happen. Especially when the staff members were employees of the state who weren’t paid nearly enough to really give a damn about the kids.

Joe was a pick-pocket from Hell’s Kitchen that could snag your wallet out of your tightest jeans…and do it while he looked you in the eye. So, for him, snagging the keys from one of the ‘wardens’ wasn’t tough at all. In fact, it was downright child’s play. And once they had the keys, it was just a matter of waiting for lights out…and then slowing trickling out to go the bathroom…or so they said. In reality the kids crept to the bathrooms, waited until they were sure the hallways were clear and then slipped out a back service door that the older kids used to smoke; with the keys in hand, nothing could stop them from getting out.

The yard outside was the toughest part, but the kids were quicker than the adults that might have been patrolling; and since they weren’t in juvy, there were no high wired fences or armed guards to watch out for. There was just the occasional staffer with a flashlight…piece of cake. The whole escape took two hours; one hundred and twenty minutes until they fled back to the city streets, to familiar stomping grounds or ones that housed other escapees from the system.

Jaida loved the street life; there was constant music, always new people to meet. She could panhandle for money or sell some of the clothes she’d made…even pick pocket if she got really desperate. In fact, pick pocketing was what brought her face to face with a Halcyon Hall scout in the first place. How he caught her, she couldn’t have told you at the time – enhanced smell was not an issue she usually ran across, but he’d caught her scent….and then her. What surprised her was that he offered to buy her a cup of coffee, give her a few bucks. Not normally one for charity, Jaida could admit she needed the cash and the coffee sounded like a godsend – the ‘Windy City’ was rarely kind to its street rats. The scout obviously picked up on Jaida’s ‘gifts’…told her about what she was, about a place where she could learn more about it. And so that pure chance greeting gave her the first chance she’d ever had to get herself off the streets. Naturally, she agreed to come to Halcyon to learn about her abilities, what they are, what she can do….to wait and see what comes next.

Family: None that she knows or gives a damn about

Weakness: Similar to humans, though the fact that she’s a muse allows her to age slower and steer clear of most illnesses, not to mention she heals only slightly faster than a human would.

Magical Abilities: Able to inspire creative thoughts. She’s the girl you want around if you’re striving to finish that perfect song or craving the end to the novel you’ve been penning for years. Jaida has the ability to get someone’s creative juices flowing with her presence alone.

Any Training: None concerning her magic as of yet.

Special Skills: Has a killer voice that she’ll use any chance she can get and plays a pretty mean guitar as well. It’s not an ‘ability’ per-se, but once you’ve met Jaida it’s pretty hard to forget her – the girl definitely makes an impression.

House: Zephir House

Start Date at Halcyon: Brand spankin’ new

Classes:
- Late Morning – Music: String Instruments
- Mid Afternoon – Art: Photography
- Late Afternoon – Supernatural Races: Fact and Fiction

After School Clubs: Music Club

AIM Name: RevivingMemory

Journal: http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/divaboheme

Rooming with: Alone

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- Yahoo: almighty_arse
Your name (internet or real): Erica
Your age: 22

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	5:	halcyon_halls, halcyon_houses, school_plans, theyearspassed, tower_of_babble

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5: crowchick, never_conform, phoenix_lullaby, whats_my_name, where_am_i

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