Syliva

Name: Syliva

Gender: Female

Age: 7

Year in school: Senior High 3rd Year

Dorm: Cobalt

Height: 5'6"

Appearance:



Personality:
Positive:
---Devoted: To her interests, her schooling, and any actual friends she manages to make. Sylvia devotes herself wholeheartedly to the things that help bring a smile to her otherwise troubled heart. Living with the knowledge of past transgressions and persecution has garnered a need for Sylvia to individualize herself from her ancestors and separate their pasts from her present.
---Friendly: When it comes right down to it there isn't a single bad bone in Sylvia's body. She's polite, she's considerate, and is an all around pleasant person to be with.
---Caring: She'll involve herself in other people's troubles if she feels that there is something she can do to be of help.

Negative:
---Extremely Shy: Let's face it, there is absolutely no way Sylvia will ever be able to bring herself to be the first one to introduce herself to another outside of extreme necessity. She would never dream of trying to be the face of any party and she is so desperately shy to a fault that she even tends to avoid people she needs to interact with. Sylvia is often so shy that she tends to avoid others as much as possible. This usually results in her coming off as an unusually quiet person and sometimes people even mistake her silence as being insensitive or rude to others.
---Timid: Sylvia is so constantly wary of her proximity to others that sometimes she even forgets where she is. That is until someone speaks and she becomes needlessly startled. Often backing down from arguments, Sylvia is not one to like holding discussions where a difference of opinion tends to become involved as she won't try to win the argument even if she knows herself to be correct and will instead go silent and try to slip away at the earliest possible chance.
---Easily Discouraged: Her interests aside, Even a small bit of negativity in regards to the efforts she puts forth into something can send Sylvia into an inwardly forced panic of self loathing. Many a good project or process Sylvia has shown interest in has ended up going unfinished thanks to the harsh words of another. Sometimes even constructive criticism is enough to send her into a creativity block.

Likes:
---Music: is one of the few things Sylvia has found that help her to relax in times of stress. She enjoys many forms of instrumental, classical, and jazz music and can often be found somewhere off by herself listening or singing along to various pieces. One usually knows it's her when they hear music playing since Sylvia doesn't use headphones due to her hypersensitivity to sounds.
---Cooking: One of the few pastimes Sylvia genetically inherited and enjoys is a love for cooking. Her own meals are usually self made and serve as a double standard, giving herself something delicious to eat while simultaneously permitting her the chance to avoid the academy's often noisy and crowded cafeteria.
---Reading: Books are probably one of Sylvia's favorite pastimes. She can find a quiet corner within the academy grounds and lose herself in a story for hours on end without ever having to interact with other people. She particularly likes fantasy and romance novels.

Dislikes:
---Boisterous People: Loud noises are one thing but noisy people are another thing entirely. Thanks to her heightened sensitivity to sounds Sylvia tries her best to avoid people she knows are prone to being loud and obnoxious. Her personal problems with noisy people is made even worse when she's too timid and shy to ask the guilty party to be a bit more polite or quiet.
---Group Gatherings/Events: There is nothing worse for someone as shy and timid as Sylvia than to be involved in group gatherings and events. It is another reason why she chooses to avoid people because all too often the people she meets are far more outgoing and try to invite her to such activities. Group events, especially ones where lots of people gather and the resounding noises can compound into a boisterous blur, often send Sylvia into a state of anxiety and often trigger chronic headaches.
---Deadlines: are possibly one of the worst things about school that Sylvia is forced to endure. It doesn't help when things distract or discourage her from her goals and deadlines closing in on her only serve to increase Sylvia's anxiety.

History:
Despite only being seven years of age herself, Sylvia is possessed of all her previous generation's knowledge and hundreds of years of history which for anyone other than an Elfein might prove to be truly overwhelming. In times of personal dilemma Sylvia particularly struggles with picking through her own interests and the plague of interests brought on by the memories her predecessors left her with. Despite the plethora of old knowledge haunting the recesses of her brain, Sylvia has managed to individualize herself over the past seven years and form what she believes to be experiences and interests that are genuinely her own.
Entering the Academy was her way of making an attempt to correct her issues of being excessively introverted as well as to try and reassure herself that the history of the Elfein race's past is just that. A past which holds no true value within modern society. Despite this determination to change her personal outlook on the stigmatisms involving her species, Sylva chose to pass herself off as an Elf. Having spent most of her life enrolled in the academy, Sylvia has yet to come out and reveal herself to anyone. Even to this day she hasn't been able to muster up the courage to let anyone know that she is in fact of Elfein descent and not Elvish.



Name of Species:
Elfein

Baseline Dimension:
Elfein are typically similar in height to Humans often ranging from five to six feet in height. On average they tend to possess a more slender appearance than humans but still typically weigh between 110 and 130 pounds as full grown adults.
Due to their unique physical biology, Elfein are a strictly female race.
It is not possible for half breeds of this species to exist.

Baseline Appearance:
In terms of outward appearances, Elfein are often slender and share similar physical qualities to smoothly toned humans. Eye colors tend to range from green to brown as well as shades of blue or teal. These may be faded, dark, or even brilliant in tone. As far as Elfein hair is concerned it maintains a silky fine and often straight appearance. Due to its consistency Elfein hair sheds water easily and is difficult to style. Artificially curling Elfein hair is almost always an impossible feat to accomplish. Hair tones share all the variety normally seen in humans but with added possibilities for silvers and pale silvery blues to occur. Skin tones of this species tend to lean more towards fairer and paler tones and are almost never dark. One key difference which stands out are Elfein ears which are long, slender, and pointed ranging from an inch or two beyond human norms to sometimes lengths of six inches or more. Despite having a generally outward elfish appearance and reaching physical maturity within the span of their first eight years, the average lifespan of an Elfein is similar to that of humans.

Culture/Origin of Species:
It is unclear as to when the first members of the Elfein appeared but their presence in history has been deemed both a curse and a blessing. With their innate resistances to poisons lone members of the race would often sell themselves to employers as assassins, luring in targets with their deceitful elfish charms before coaxing their victims into a grim demise of poisonous intoxication. Others choose to meld with common society and exist throughout the known world, passing themselves off as elves and attempting to experience normal lives. But because of their biological structure and physical inability to procreate with other members of their own race, the overall Elfein population is relatively small and they require the assistance of another living humanoid belonging to a different species in order to reproduce. Once intimate acts produce results, the Elfein ejects a pupae-like membrane from an organ extending up into her trachea. A sticky acidic resin is then applied to the pupae from the parent both as protection and a source of nutrients for the offspring. Because of this method of reproduction the vast majority of Elfein are seen by the common populace as goblin-like parasites whose only goal is to steal the essence of humanoid male victims in order to produce and continue their line of succession. This social aspect, coupled with their stigmatizing method of reproduction poses a serious problem for any Elfein who seeks to engage in either normal or romantic relationships.
Newborn members of the species mature inside of a tough pupae-like state and form into a visual appearance of not more than ten years within a matter of three months before they are officially born into the world. Even as newborns, Elfein retain the knowledge of memories and experiences from their Elfein parent and may even inherit some of the memories and experiences derived from their donor parent. It is not uncommon for an Elfein parent to abandon her child to avoid being exposed as newborns are deemed independent upon birth and do not actually require a family setting to survive.
As memories and experiences are passed on from parent to child most members of the species reach mental maturity at incredibly young ages. Due to the inherent controversy behind Elfein history and an unwitting ability to remember past wrongdoings from before their own time, most members of this species tend to actively avoid forming close personal and romantic relationships, reserving themselves to maintaining acquaintance-like friendly relations with others instead.

Traits:
•Natural Toxins: Elfein possess an organ which naturally produces a sticky resin-like and toxic acid within their bodies. The substance can be collected and used as a rudimentary poison to coat weapons or to make concoctions. While the substance itself is not harmful to Elfein it can cause significant burns or irritation if it makes contact with the skin of those who do not possess a strong resistance to poisons.
•Poison Resistance: With the way in which their anatomy works all members of the species have high tolerance against toxins, granting them a natural resistance to acids and poisons. Because of this trait Elfein are not susceptible to food poisoning and other low-grade poisons.
•Keen senses: With naturally attuned organs in their ears and sharply adjustable eyes, Elfein have heightened awareness when it comes to sight and sound and can even see clearly in lower lighting conditions.
•Memory Boost: Because Elfein directly inherit the majority of their initial knowledge from their biological Elfein parent they are exceedingly intelligent and capable gaining a natural +3 to their Stamina Aspect.

Flaws:
•Elfein are inherently asocial, preferring to remain alone and limiting contact with others outside of necessity. Due to the stigmatisms regarding their species Elfein are massively shy, skeptical, and untrusting of others when it comes to social encounters which makes it exceedingly difficult for them to form lasting friendly relationships.
•Hyper Sensitivity: Due to their heightened sense of sight and sound, Elfein are extremely sensitive to sudden changes in lighting and loud or high pitched noises. For example: Going from a poorly lit room to a bright sunny day outdoors after a fresh snowfall can cause temporary blindness while excessively loud noises make for issues with chronically induced headaches.