Post by bri4 on Jul 15, 2012 9:16:01 GMT -8
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Erin Mina Bexely
Gender: Female
Age/DOB: 29 / January 18th, 1983
Occupation: Ghost Hunter, she let's others hire her for all their ghostly problems; Also, she has a job as a photographer, ironically called Shutter Shocked, and owns her own online cupcake business, named Hey! Cupcakes!
Race:Medium
Appearance;
Standing at 5'4", Erin is the picture of average height, though there is absolutely nothing else average about her. She has a slim build, nothing too spectacular for those who are fans of muscles, but fora girl who doesn't really have time to workout, she's happy with herself.
White-blonde hair is cropped short in a cut that can easily be spiked up to resemble that of a pizie cut. On many girls, it would look boyish, but with Erin's pixie-like features, she just looks like some sort of leather-jacket wearing fairy. Piercing medium blue eys have an almost gray tint to them, making her look rather mysterious and sometimes dangerous. Of course, only the expressions on her face could really portray any harm to annyone. SHe's not exactly intimidating to look at, unless clothes can be counted as an intimidation factor.
Erin owns many leather jackets. She has fulll length leather jackets, cropped leather jackets, leather jackets that button, leather jackets that buckle and leather jackets that zip. She wears one of them almost at all times, though if it jut burning hot outside, she might actually leave it behind. Of course, sometimes, she just feels like wearing normal clothes. She has sweaters, after all, and she is a girl, so sometimes she miht accessorize with a scarf, though nothing with flowers on it. Polka dots are a better choice. Beneath her leather jackets, she often wears plain colored tanks tops overlayed with a coordinating, but not the same color, soft, semi-clingy shirt.. In the way of pants, Erin usually goes for dark colored skiiny jeans, though sometimes she wears leather pants, cargo pants, just normal jeans, or a denim skirt with leggings beneath. Most days, Erin wears short leather boots that would remind almost anyone of a biker, utb sometimes, she'll put on converse. Makeup for Abby is always light. She doesn't walk around looking like a raccoon with dark eyeliner, but goes for a very simple lip gloss, a small amount of eye liner and mascara, and on some days, a little blush.
Personality;
Erin is the kind of girl that doesn’t have many friends, and is glad for the solitude. She’d kind of a loner but doesn’t go out of her way to avoid social situations. She just happens to know better places to be at said times that there are parties, concerts, or events with large amounts of people. Ok, so maybe she avoids them just a little, but her reasoning for doing so is not the living, breathing people that inhabit those proceedings, but ones whose hearts are no longer beating. It is, after all, hard to focus on the living with so much interference from the dead.
One way she avoids ghosts is with the internet. Facebook is like her savior. She uses it all time and is constantly getting on it at night, which interrupts her sleep hours. She doesn’t care though, and posts a new picture or a new status every day. If she liked change, she might even get on Twitter, but that site would be something new, and therefore she dislikes it.
Ghosts do affect Mina’s life greatly, and she can only handle helping one, maybe two, at a time with their problems. Unless the spirit is malevolent, she will not harm it; it’s not her way to hurt anyone if they don’t start the fight, but she won’t hesitate to end them. No matter how callous she may seem, she actually does want to assist those ghosts to would like her aid. At first, she may seem reluctant to take on another paranormal issue, but it’s just a front she puts up so the ghosts don’t get to comfortable around her.
Of course, ghosts are the only ones that get to see Mina’s prickly first impression. After the initial meeting, she becomes more warm and friendly, but get too close relationship wise, and all the walls start getting rebuilt and fortified. The reason for such defense is because of her inability to truly trust anyone. It would take a long time to show her that anyone is trustworthy, but if it is accomplished, you may have made a lifetime friend. Of course, if you can’t prove it, then, it’s back to the same old sarcastic, prickly Erin as when she was first met.
Truth is, she’s got a sharp wit and she isn’t afraid to use it, but her words can just be painfully sharp in general. She isn’t afraid to go around asking questions that many would consider rude, offensive, or prying. If she thinks of a question, she’s going to ask it, but that way of thinking isn’t limited to questions. She’ll say just about anything she’s thinking, so be ready for complete honesty.
Besides being sharp of wit, sarcastic at most times, and kind of a loner, she is also insanely competitive and sees nearly everything in life as some sort of game. If someone revs their car’s engine around her, you can bet money that there’s going to be a race and win, but you could also bet that if someone were to push their shopping cart a little farther than her, she’d take it as an invitation for a race too. She doesn’t just race, though. She attempts to be better than everyone at everything. All the time. It certainly can get annoying quickly.
Even though she’s witty, she has a lack of common sense, mainly because she doesn’t fear much. Her common sense is on a level far below most. She doesn’t really think about things before she says them, and even more so, she doesn’t think about things before she does them. If there is a dark alley and she wants to park there, she will. If there is a full moon, she’ll go out for a night walk without even thinking about the danger. O f course, her lack of common sense transfers over to the mundane as well. For instance, she often has troubles with figuring things out that are simple, such as how to fix a problem with the computer, how to find her way places (she’s always getting lost), and she often asks rather dumb questions because, well, she just wants to know and can’t figure it out.
As for talents, she has a wide variety of them, mainly because, growing up, she strove to be better than her friends, enemies, and acquaintances at everything. She’s proficient in gymnastics, and rather good at it with the floor routing and beam being her strong suits, jiu jitsu, a form of fighting that focuses on grappling and the ground, Wushu, or kung fu which is a defensive form of fighting, swimming as it was her high school and college sport, parkour, gun and bow shooting. Although she has no common sense, when adrenaline hits her and survival mode is turned on, her instincts kick in and she does what she has to to keep on living without even realizing it.
As is to be expected by a girl whose only truly girly talent is gymnastics, she does not wear the typical all girly clothes. Instead she often wears ripped skinny jeans, or regular jeans that she tucks into leather boots that would remind anyone of the military. Sometimes, her boots are black, sometimes they’re brown. It really depends on what color belt she’s wearing, if she’s wearing one. Her shirts are often a little more girly, and she’ll often choose to wear a much girly shirt than any of her other clothes. It could be a flowing, patterned, sleeveless blouse, layered fitted tees, or a modernized sweater complete with a scarf. Of course, she ALWAYS wears a leather jacket over anything but scarves.
Honestly, though, she has a sort of secret passion for fashion, which she won’t admit to anyone. It is probably one thing she’ll try to lie and weasel her way around. She’ll even outright tell people that she sees ghosts, but not that she absolutely adores fashion and records Top Model on her tv. Sometimes, on good days or days she’s feeling girly, she’ll even wear skirts and shoes that aren’t military boots. Well, usually she still wears the boots, but on REALLY good days, she’ll wear pretty shoes.
Another slightly girly thing that she totally enjoys, though she’ll admit this one, is baking, decorating, and eating cupcakes, well any cake really, but cupcakes are just so tiny and cute. It makes them special and much more fun to decorate. She has an artistic talent for decorating, as well, so it only makes sense that her talent should be used for food, as food can be eaten.
Other foods that she enjoys are hamburgers, steaks, potatoes in any form except scalloped, spaghetti, Italian food in general, most any Asian food, and she’d rather adventurous so she’ll try things that most Americans would never even consider tasting, and lemonade. She is rather obsessed with lemonade. And cupcakes. Well, and butterscotch.
In the way of female friends, Erin has few. Her and girls just usually don’t get along as they have nothing in common really, and if they do, she won’t admit it. If she has a friend that’s a girl, that friend is going to be every bit as independent and as much of a tomboy as she is, or it probably just won’t work out. Well, that is, unless that girl can keep a secret and refrain from telling the world about Erin’s secret love of girly things and fashion.
One more thing that should be easily inferred about Erin is that she hates to be taken care of. She is an independent woman who knows how to take care of herself, and yet, for whatever reason, she ironically finds herself drawn to the rough, rugged type of men who want nothing more than to take care of their girl. She’s also got a thing for geeks, though, or anyone that happens to be a little awkward. She finds that awkwardness endearing. Of course, she doesn’t expect to be in very many relationships cause she shoots them down before they can even get started.
Likes: Competition, guns, sports, cupcakes, lemonade, butterscotch, leather jackets, fashion (secretly), alone time, cake decorating, swimming, sarcasm, parkour, food, Facebook, and taking pictures
Dislikes: Crowds, deceitful people, being made a fool of, people who think they’re better than her, not being the best at something, moving too fast in any sort of relationship, change
Strengths: Tough, agile, quick to act in stressful situations, ability to protect her own emotions,sarcasm comes easy to her - which she thinks is a strength, good instincts when adrenaline kicks in, cupcake baking, photography, very good memory, knowledge of the supernatural
Weaknesses: She really doesn’t fear much, so she acts rashly and stupidly sometimes, seeing ghosts makes it hard to focus when in large crowds or public places, addiction to social networking sites, constant need to be better than others, lack of common sense, slow to forgive, never forgets, holds grudges, sometimes is controlled by vengeanance, guarded heart, not good at making friends, pushes people away that know her too well
Fears: Death, people finding out she likes fashion, crowds, change
History;
No one remembers what it was like to be born, or exactly where they were born, and even for the first three or four years of life, memories are fuzzy if nothing exciting happened. That’s the way things were for Mina. Her mom tells her that she was born in a hospital in Tennessee on a trip. It was a premature birth and the doctors weren’t sure the baby would make it, but by a miracle of technology and science, she did. The first few years of life were average, as Erin didn’t know that seeing grayscale people was not normal. Her parents didn’t even dismiss it or tell her to keep it a secret, because she would have remembered that.
Kindergarten was it really sunk in that she was different. Not only was she finally going to school, but her parents enrolled her in gymnastics. The other kids didn’t believe her when she talked about seeing people who were dead, and she didn’t any friends until about 3rd grade. A boy had sat down by her at recess, and she learned by talking to him that he was also different. He couldn’t see ghosts, but he believed she could because he could turn into a wolf on the full moon. At first, Erin hadn’t believed him, but she just decided to accept it. She wanted a friend, after all. Soon, she met a few other guys who were lycanthropes, his friends. They all believed her about the ghosts, every last one, and so, they became good friends.
Erin and the boy she’d first met, Braxton, were best friends until 6th grade. In that grade, she lost her best friend, not to a death or anything, but because he got a girlfriend. Immediately, it was decided by his girlfriend, Nicki, that he was not to speak to Erin as she was a freak. That was the day when Erin really started hating other girls. Of course, she hadn’t really like them before because they were so damn judgmental, but 6th grade when she lost her best friend was the ultimate deciding factor in her decision to be friends with the least amount of girls as possible. That was also the year that she stopped giving out her heart to anyone. You see, she’d been in puppy love with Braxton, and he’d even told her that he liked her back. They’d sat under trees together, played at parks, and had grown up together, but he broke her heart by choosing a girl who was normal. From that day on, she never let herself like a guy in junior high again.
7th grade was tough without Braxton. She still had James and Spencer, the other lycanthropes, plus a few other guys she’d met, and one girl named Britt. Britt wasn’t a typical girl. In fact, she liked girls, so that’s probably why she not along with Erin, not because Erin likes girls, but because Britt acted more like a guy than a women. They became pretty good friends, though Erin never had a best friend after Braxton broke her heart. She was slow to heal, and even slower to forgive. Before, Erin had been a good student, but her grades were slipping month by month. The ghosts were finally realizing who to talk to in the school.
By 8th grade, every day was hard for her to focus. There were ghosts everywhere, trying to communicate with her in any way possible, even if they meant lifting her pencil from her hand, making her look like an idiot when she tried to catch it. James was the first to stop being her friend. He’d finally decided to try out for the football team, and became the star quarter back within two months, not a surprise given his abilities. Spencer stuck it out a little longer because he had a crush on her and always had, but Erin wasn’t stupid enough to care about relationships any more. In fact, as soon as they became too close of friends, Spencer wasn’t the one to leave, Erin pushed him away.
Ninth grade was hard for her, as she disliked change immensely. Britt was really her only good friend left, mostly because they were both different from the rest of society. O f course, high school, she made a new friend, one who was even more different than anyone else. His name was Dennis Gardener, and he was a vampire. It was much easier for her to get close to Dennis than the other students, as they knew that Dennis was just as weird, if not weirder, than Erin. He was always wearing clothes that covered his entire body, never wore a pair of shorts or a short sleeve shirt, and had the values of someone from the 50s, which is because he was from the 50s.
It was Dennis, not Erin’s parents, that actually inspired her to pursue her gift of being a medium, and he was always here for her after a bad run with a ghost. He helped her with ideas on how to allow the ghosts to finally leave this realm and go onto the afterlife, but he wasn’t just there for him the bad times. He was also there for the good. They baked cakes together, listened to 80s music and had horrible sing-a-longs to it. Finally, Erin had a best friend again, which Britt despised because she’d though she was Erin’s best friend. Once she learned she wasn’t, Britt began hanging out with the wrong crowd.
10th grade was probably the best of Erin’s life. She and Dennis finally admitted to each other that they wanted to be more than friends. They started dating, and had to deal with people constantly making fun of them, but stuck it through. Britt was gone from Erin’s life, and the only friend she had left was Dennis. He was her everything, well that and the knowledge that she was helping the world by ridding it off ghosts, and also helping the ghosts pass on. She also continued to go to gymnastics and competed in competitions, though she never won, because she always got distracted by the ghosts at the meet, and there were many.
The year after, when she was a junior in high school, everything changed. Dennis told her that he wasn’t going to go on dating her unless she became like him, immortal, because he couldn’t stand the thought of losing her. Erin had considered it for a few weeks, but then decided against it. Her entire life would have to change if she became like him, and if there was one thing Erin hated more than anything else in the world, it was change. Dennis broke up with her that day, and then, Erin had no one. She even quit gymnastics because she was tired of losing, though she vowed to never let her ability as a medium interfere with any competition again.
12th grade came and went in a flash. The only thing she even really recounted that was school related was being asked to join Yearbook, and rejecting it. Yes, she had quite a bit of talent with photography, but that was because she loved uploading pictures to Facebook. Instead of focusing on the living world and school, she began to focus on the dead. Ghosts were her life now. After school, on weekends, all she did was find them, and help them move on. Most of the ghosts in her area had similar stories, and so no one really caught her attention and stuck out in the crowd. In fact, most of them had been in car accidents and just wanted to find their families to see how they were.
After graduating, Erin decided to go to college and major in photography. It turned out to be a good choice, because the classes were relatively small. She attended Salem State College, here in Massachusetts, and her parents actually paid for most of the tuition. It was one of the only positives that she remembered about them. They hadn’t been bad parents, but simply not memorable, as they were usually on the computer or watching tv. Holidays had still been fun, and it was at Christmas during her freshman year at college that her grandfather finally explained what it meant to be a medium.
In her Grandpa’s eyes, ghosts were a plight on the living world, and so had to be removed, by any means necessary. He taught her how to shoot a gun and a bow, and enrolled her in jiu jitsu and a martial arts school that focused on genuine kung fu. He brought her out into the ghost world armed and ready for any evil spirits, which she hadn’t encountered yet, but believed existed. He also taught her how to endow those weapons with the power t harm the ghosts, but it was very strenuous and drained of Erin of all life. In fact, after doing it, she felt as if she might just die, but had, of course, lived.
During her sophomore year of college, she met her first malevolent spirit. He as a 20 year-old that had been constantly made fun of, no matter where he was, for his geeky nature. All he wanted was to harm those who had made fun of him, and so, regrettably, Erin had had to take him out. Even to this day, she felt sorry for him, but he was the first of only a few truly evil spirits she met.
Her junior and college years passed with ease. She didn’t really have friends and her dormmate hated her, but so was life. She was the best photographer in her class and was already working at events and taking high schoolers’ senior pictures. The money she made was enough to afford her to feed her interest in cooking, and so she also attended culinary school on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. She got certificates in French, pastry, and vegetarian cuisine, but didn’t stay long enough to get an actual degree. There were just too many people. Besides, she had a certificate for pastry, which is what she really wanted as decorating cakes and cupcakes was one of her passions, even if it did remind her of Braxton.
As soon as she graduated college, Erin moved to St. Calais. She’d visited it once and it teemed with supernatural life, which meant she would fit in just fine. Ghosts were everywhere, and people here were a little more accepting of the fact that she could see them than in other cities. In fact, she even created a business for “ghost hunting” in which she was hired out to rid people of unwanted spirits in their homes, or from being attached to them. Erin only used force if necessary, of course, but sometimes, it was.
It took three years of living in a shabby apartment for she to realize that she wasn’t going to make enough money hunting ghosts to live happily, so she also opened a photography business. At first, no wanted pictures taken by her, because, well, no one knew the quality of her work. However, she soon made a name for herself. She didn’t move out of the apartment for another 4 years, though, because she found that she needed a batter car first, a laptop with a high enough processor to deal with all her photography and medium needs, plus enough memory to store all those pictures, and she carelessly spent her money on things like going out to eat at fine restaurants, as she was a bit of a foodie.
She also used some of that money to start up an online cupcake business at the age of 26. She had to get all the equipment, buy a website, and start making a profit. Soon, she was, but not because of the name. She was absolutely horrible at names, and decided to call it Hey! Cupcakes! Ironically, the Hey! Seemed to catch people’s attention, and she actually was making a profit in 2 years.
With 3 jobs, though none of them were all that time consuming, as she could refuse offers by saying she was booked for photography and had run out of certain kinds of cupcakes, she finally decided to move out of the trashy apartment she was in. Ghost hunting was a little harder to refuse, so she often didn’t, but she was good at prioritizing .Now, she lived in a much better one, though there was a roommate in there that she had never imagined she’d be living with.
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OOC;
Name:Bri
Other Characters: Madeline Larkin, Trent Thayer, and Josain Sedlowe
Preferred method of contact: Pm or AIM
How did you find us?: Anothe site (:
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