Civilian: Tymiko Waters
Name: Tymiko Waters
Nickname: Ty
Age: 16
Birthday: March 13th
Sign: Pisces
Gemstone: Aquamarine
Blood Type: B
Fav. Food: BBQ Pork Buns
Hated Food: Bell Peppers
School: Meadowview High School (Co-Ed)
Hobbies:
Adventuring - Tymiko really enjoys explore new and lesser-known places, particularly difficult-to-access ones like areas too small for adults or too high for most people to dare climbing to. She loves nooks and crannies and hiding herself away when she wants to be alone and clear her head, particularly when she's upset. Usually she will climb trees, but occasionally she'll find some way to get up a building by climbing a drainpipe or end up somewhere else she probably shouldn't have access to or has no business being. When overwhelmed by her emotions, such things matter little to her and her adrenaline sometimes gets her to places she wouldn't ordinarily be able to get to. Even when not alone or troubled, she relishes being able to hide where others wouldn't think to look, like when playing hide-and-seek or simply being able to go where others can't or aren't willing to. She likes being active and playing games outside, spending time in the outdoors while admiring the beauty of nature. Ty likes pushing herself and while rock-climbing gyms are fun for her, she often considers them too tame because of the gear and hand-holds involved. Free-handed climbing and parkour are the sorts of activities she enjoys more and that get her blood pumping.
Swimming - Ty doesn't she practice swimming competitively, but she does so when she can to relieve stress and enjoy immersing herself in a nearly weightless environment. The nature of water and its beauty appeals to her tremendously, so much to the point that when she sees a pool, she immediately has the urge to enter it. Learning and performing tricks such as swan diving and different styles of swimming are a great source of entertainment for her, especially when she can pretend she's a pirate abandoning ship or a mermaid exploring the ocean's depths by swimming strictly with her legs together. Everything underwater is, to Tymiko, an entirely different world, and mostly inaccessible to air-breathers.
Pretending - Tymiko sees the world through a child's eyes - more so than other teenagers her age - and clings to her childhood as best she can. In this fashion, she constantly exercises her imagination by daydreaming and playing pretend, requiring very little to keep herself amused. A bicycle might be a beloved steed and a playground can turn into a pirate ship being ravaged by a kraken. While her peers may have lost interest in games like tag and hide-and-seek long ago, Ty still stubbornly plays these games whenever she can in addition to creating her own. She still talks to her imaginary friends on occasion, causing her family to worry for her sometimes because that's one of many things she hasn't shown any inclination toward 'growing out of'. Her idol is Peter Pan and she is determined to live her life as much like a child as she can, often playing the role of a pirate girl in her games. Unfortunately at the stage she is in her life, due to her beliefs, transitioning from a child into a teenager has been especially hard for her and she's had difficulty coping.
Virtues:
Creative - Due to her love of playing pretend and using her imagination, Tymiko has had a creative streak since she was a child. She used to believe that making up or ‘interpreting’ stories from pictures was the true act of reading, causing her parents to ask her to ‘read’ to them for their entertainment up until she discovered what reading actually was. When the girl didn’t have enough toys to play with, she would draw and cut out figures to dress or move about. Ty was also the sort that enjoyed making pillow and blanket forts, using weeds from her mother’s garden to make ‘stews’, collecting bottle caps to serve as play coins for pirate treasure, and more. She can be very resourceful and innovate, applying her creativity to whatever problems she may face.
Brave - Despite her fears of what others might think of her and what they say about her in regards to calling her weird and childish, Tymiko does her best to be brave in terms of staying true to herself. Due to Peter Pan being her hero, she came to adopt many of his ideals such as being brave, even if that entails rash decisions and foolish choices and she knows there are risks and consequences involved. Over the years, she discovered that true bravery isn't a lack of fear, but an acceptance of it. Even when the odds are against her or she knows that she's bound to lose or fail, Ty gathers her courage and does her best to try anyway. Although she is naturally more comfortable to let things be, avoid confrontation in favor of harmony, and go with the flow when she can, she will stand up and fight tooth and nail for what she believes in if her values are compromised.
Curious - Although she is naturally introverted, Ty's curiosity of other people and things keeps her from being entirely anti-social and is also why she’s adventurous and likes to explore. She is motivated by the idea of being able to discover something impossible or unexplainable. With people, she is driven by the prospect of finding people she could consider real, true friends because she believes such friendships are rare and thus all the more valuable. Even if there are people she doesn’t like, Tymiko gets curious as to what makes them the way they are and will often pester, poke, and prod them to learn more about them rather than to try to avoid them. She believes that the more she learns about people and is able to understand them, the better she might be able to get along with them and, perhaps, be understood better in turn.
Empathetic - Tymiko is very empathetic and sympathetic towards others. While she dislikes the human race as a whole, she has a very caring nature when it comes to individuals. When she doesn’t understand someone, she does her best to try to see things from their perspective so she can relate to them better and attempt to get an idea of what they’re going through, usually in the hopes that she can help or at least not hold it against them for being the way that they are, regardless of whether she agrees with it or not. When dealing with people she doesn’t understand, she does her best to be as honest, sincere, and genuine with them as possible in the hopes that they will eventually feel safe enough to do the same with her. She feels she’s live a sheltered life and though she wants to stay as much a child as she can, there are other aspects of her that she wants to mature, like consideration for others and their circumstances.
Flaws:
Extremist - This girl has a hard time finding balance in anything she does. She's almost always one extreme or the other: extremely happy or extremely upset; extremely talkative or extremely quiet; extremely mature or extremely immature, etc. She can rarely find an in-between even through her feelings toward others. She either hoards people close to the point of being possessive of them or, that failing, pushes them away, claiming they mean nothing to her. When she endeavors to do something, the only two possible results she believes she can manage are total failure or total success. It's all or nothing for Tymiko, making her something of a perfectionist and difficult to work with in certain regards. If something isn't done right, it has to be done all over again or not at all. She has been trying to work on this, but it’s been having detrimental effects on her lifestyle, particularly because she feels that since she isn’t exactly considered a child any more, she must be an adult. As this is the one thing she has been striving to avoid becoming, she gets depressed at the mere idea and contemplates suicidal thoughts. If she can’t stay a child, she would rather be nothing at all than allow herself to become a corrupt adult.
Immature - There are a few things Tymiko picked up from Peter Pan that she probably would have been better without. One of them is that forgetting is the key to happiness. Because of that, Ty tends to purposely forget things that stress her out or upset her in order to avoid such issues. This may be childish, but if you told her so, she would probably just consider it a compliment without reflecting on the negative connotations of the term. Other childish traits Ty tends to exhibit are selfishness, denial, and an inability to know when enough is enough. She acts more ignorant or naive than her years and has been known to play dumb when she doesn't want to face a simple fact of reality. Her childish nature is also evident through her cheerfulness, playfulness, and optimism, but she sometimes exhibits these traits during the most inappropriate of times which can result in the annoyance and disapproval of others.
Possessive - This girl is very easily jealous of people. She tends to think of others as being in two categories: only her friend and her friend alone, or not her friend at all. This is a result of her all-or-nothing way of thinking combined with her high standards of friendship and her defense mechanism of pushing people away in order to avoid feeling rejected. This combination makes it difficult for her to make many friends, though, and Tymiko is often lonely, so when she finds a potential friend, she clings to them for dear life. This frequently causes the person to feel suffocated by her, especially when Ty gets jealous if they interact too amicably with anyone else. And of course if the person expresses the slightest bit of unease, Tymiko will shove them into the category of ‘not her friend at all’ simply to avoid being hurt herself. She claims she would rather have no friends than a bunch of superficial ones, but her loneliness tends to gnaw away at her stubborn pride, making her feel weak.
Over-Emotional - Like everything else about her, Tymiko’s emotions tend to manifest themselves in extremes which can make her a pretty intense person and tricky to interact with if one isn’t used to it. She tends to make a bigger deal out of things than necessary for reasons sometimes completely unrelated to the subject she seems to be focusing on. Ty wears her heart on her sleeve, exposing her true thoughts and feelings to others without reservation, which many might find obnoxious. While she can become frequently cranky or annoyed, it’s not all that difficult to cheer her right back up because she laughs just as easily as she cries, temperamental as she is. At least part of this may be attributed to her being a teenage girl with many different hormones and trying to resist various changes and growing up. However, some things, such as her tendency to be a packrat out of great sentimentality for the momentos she saves, are all her.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Eyes: Bright aqua blue (#00ccff ██████) in color, large, and almond-shaped.
Hair: Medium-length black hair that is voluminous, thick, and wavy in style. It curls at the tips and goes about an inch or two past her shoulders. She occasionally wears a braid in her hair and usually has a headscarf or headwrap.
Face: Heart-shaped, childish face with an olive-tan (#de9457 ██████ just like her brother) complexion, a soft, somewhat flat nose, and small, slightly pointed ears with silver hoop earrings.
Clothes: This outfit on this base if possible, please.
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