Post by rei on May 7, 2008 8:12:06 GMT 1
(Credits:Colored by Aya 88 on Deviantart)
Attended School: Hircine
Name: Reira Ling (first name pronounced: Layla)
Nickname: Ray
Nationality:American
Ethnicity: Chinese/Irish
Age: 16
Grade Sophomore
Gender: Female
Weight: 105 lbs.
Height: 5'6"
Eye Color: Emerald Green
Hair Colour: Jet Black
Appearance
(Credits: Drawn by Zoo-chan on DeviantArt)
Body:
Reira's frame is very small, hourglass shaped and petite, giving her a fragile outer appearance. She has lengthy legs and is extremely flexible due to dance and gymnastics training starting at a young age. Because of the training, her body toned yet, to most people she still looks albeit too bony for her own good. Having an average bust size for a girl, she is nothing uniquely eyecatching in the curve department. Three thin scars grace her back due to a car accident when she was younger. Reira also has a tattoo of a crescent moon with a tribal pattern extending from the moon on her lower back. For piercings, she has one on each of her lobes and on cartilage piercing on her right ear.
Cosmetic:
Usually seen around in feminine clothing, she normally wears dark boot cut jeans along with a pair of white sneakers. For shirts, Reira prefers loose off shoulder tops with long wide sleeves that do not hinder arm movement. She usually wears a white or black wifebeater underneath the wide shirts with colors ranging from pink to teal. From time to time she would wear graphic-T's with witty sayings on it or with intricate designs such as large angel wings on the back. Reira is usually seen with a red ribbon tying her hair up in a high ponytail. On the ribbon is a crescent moon symbol along with the Chinese character 'Nin' that Ryu had written for her.
Hair:
In her own opinion, her hair and her skin are her best physical qualities. The long raven black tresses fall to her mid-back and is in perfect condition. The long hair does not have split ends, and is limp, yet, well-hydrated, silky and soft. It is maintained through washing everyday and by not damaging it through heat styling and using dyes. Her bangs are parted to the right and fall in layers.
Habits:
If being an eccentric is a habit, Reira definately adopted that habit. She has a impulsive nature that puts her in the habitual routine of being extremely friendly with everyone. Otherwise, another habit would be brushing her bangs behind her ears.
Other Information
Personality:
Reira is a simple minded, impulsive. naive, innocent and extremely spontaneous girl. She is open and willing to speak up. Reira is extremely emotional and sensitive when it comes to matters that are dear to her. Being caught in uncomfortable situations or when in contact with someone assertive she becomes a bit soft-spoken and shy.
Reira is one whom values friendship, love, and loyalty. She'd die for any friend, yet because of her innocent nature, she is easily decieved and manipulated. Even when she has been manipulated, she believes human are naturally good, and she holds nothing against them. Even her parents whom have hurt her deeply. Preferring reason before fighting, she could be defined as a pacifist. However, Reira is extremely fearful of being alone. Sensitive to being abandoned, rejected, unwanted, she tends to cry in said situations.
Hobbies:
Reira enjoys sports; all kinds of sports. For example, she excels in cheerleading and dance but participates in, soccer, sprinting, highjump as well as longjump. She is more of the active student rather than an academic one. Although, she fairs quite well in biology and French. Another one of her hobbies is to sing, and play the piano which she was forced to learn by her mother. Besides the said activities, Reira enjoys swimming and playing videogames. She loves roleplaying games as well as reading comics much like any other teenager.
Extracurricular:
As seen in the list of many sports above, Reira is part of the cheerleading team, track and field team and dance squad. Besides sports, she joins the student council and go to meetings regularly.
Important Details
History:
Early Days
Reira lived a normal boring city girl life. Born into a middle classed family, she got along with people in school, got good marks, loved life, had friends, and all that she wanted. She spent the earlier years of her life in GuangDong, China, where she learned the language and customs. When she reached the age of seven she moved to the state of Philadelphia, where her dad's business flourished. Her family continued to prosper and life could not have been better.
However the horrible event that plagued her life was the death of her older brother, Keita. He had protected her throughout all her life, from the local neighbourhood bullies, the inconsiderate manipulative older kids, and pretty much the world. Therefore, she spent most of her life a sheltered and innocent child that knows nothing about the corrupted world. The only person in her family that was close to her was Keita, and he taught her to respect others, treasure friends, and to never take things for granted.
He sheltered her and guided her through life and it was not until her twelvth birthday did he lose his life in a car accident. Within the accident, the collision was so great that lives were lost in the two cars. All the passengers were sent to the hospital, Reira's parents left close to being unscathed, however Reira had a few deep cuts in her back that resulted in scars.
Her parents were in shock like any other family would if they lost someone dear to them. It was then did the downfall of Reira's life truly begin. She had mo more priviledges, no more love, just loneliness and the pressure and expectations she recieved from her parents. The burden of her brother's death fell onto her shoulders, seeing that it was her brother that fastened Reira's seatbelt in and forgot his own. Her parents blamed her for Keita's death and Reira could only wallow in her guilt for a few years.
Her brother was an honor student and an active part of the community, he made his parents proud. Reira's parents' attention were always focused on him. But now that he was not present, Reira had his standards thrown onto her. After a few months, her parents divorced after blaming each other for not being able to save Keita. Ending up living with her mother, Reira had to work seven days a week afterschool, and in between her extracurricular activities in order to help keep the two afloat financially.
Reira's mother, Myra, continues to push her daughter with extracurricular classes and forces her to be top of her class. Yet, Reira fails to do so causing a bitter atmosphere in her home in the rare times her mother is present. Because of this, Reira does not tend to go home, and so distracts herself with her commitments.
Mugen Hall Days
Reira had experienced, well, quite a few cases of drama. She had fell in love with Kaji Keisuke, a cold, manipulative and slightly sadistic individual. It took her only moments to warm up to him, yet he was hesistant in meeting her and rejected her attachment to him. However, through time Reira had grown a bit too attached and, after a confession at an ice cream parlour Kaji had accepted her love but could not promise his own.
Nonetheless, Reira was still happy. When she decided to move out from home, she met up with her abusive father. After a drama filled act to get Kaji to saftey, it was obvious to her that Kaji truly cared for her. Things settled after, but Reira recieved a inhumane beating from her father. With that child services had came into play taking her parents into trial. Reira found refuge at Auric's home where she stayed, hoping to win the case against her parents, while at the same time worry about the information Lynn, Kaji's so-called 'puppet' had informed her of.
The case was won by Auric's mother whom was a fantastic lawyer. Life was good and even better when Reira's doubts of Kaji dispersed. On her sixteenth birthday, Kaji had given her a silver necklace, with the word 'Serendipity' engraved on the heart. He whispered the three words she had longed to hear and it marked a memorable birthday.
Life began to take another turn downhill during the time after that, Auric had left for Japan, and Kaji called her telling her that he was 'bored' of her. Yet truly only done so to protect her from his enemies, not wanting her to associate herself with a dangerous individual like him. Reira had slumped into depression barely sleeping and eating. After her weeks of isolation, she meets up with a friend whom advised her to ask Kaji for a reasonable explanation. During her visit to Kaji's dorm many events occured including Kaji almost raping her, in attempts to seal his resolve that she should stay away from him.
During her depressive period she was attacked by thugs and was saved by Taku, the ex-captain of PHS 381 of Mugen. She had awoke in a state of disillusionment and thought Taku was Kaji. She ended up kissing Taku and telling him that she loved him believing that all along he was Kaji. When she woke up from her slumber however, she realized the predicament and an awkward friendship emerged.
Not long after, her mom suffering from bankruptcy and insanity had kidnapped Reira. Through beating and torture Reira was thrown into the hospital and saved due to her friends. Life changed since then, and Reira's mentality became stronger. She lived her life to protect and does not want anything to happen to her loved ones. Her hair was cut short due to surgery, her legs broken, ribs fractured, and body cut and bruised.
With that, after healing her body and fully recouvering, she left the city and decided to have a new start at Hircine.
Fighting Style:
Having little to no martial arts background or lessons, Reira's moves are based on her instinctual reaction, along with creativity. However, the variety of moves she uses would increase as she learns from her opponents or sparring partners she may encounter in the future. She is a balance between using offensive and defensive attacks.
Being a more agile fighter rather than one of brute strength she depends on her dexerity, and flexibility to evade or sneak in a counter. Her style is concentrated on a variety style of kicks and using her hands to block, while her legs tend to send the attacks. If in a battle, she prefers close range combat.
Strengths:
Being small and petite, Reira would use that to her advantage when fighting larger opponents. Being athletic and involved in dance and cheerleading, her core and leg muscles are strong proving her a good solid stance against opponents her size. Her legs provide strong kicks and her agility as a sprinter makes her a dexerity based fighter that could pack a mean kick.
Weaknesses:
However being so small and light, she is easily thrown over, picked up, tackled and so forth. Her arm strength is not very strong and reaction rate varies on her concentration level. Her judgment and her emotions are easily influenced. Which in turn causes her to lose concentration, and all is lost then. To put her weakness in literal terms, she's a pushover.
