#nisassa

3. Scars or painful spots:-There’s a scar on the back of her neck due to falling off of a swingset as a child, and another scar on her ankle from being bit by a rattlesnake as a teenager when she visited her cousins in Arizona. She lived through the second ordeal, thank god, but right foot is sometimes fuzzy because of the impacted muscle.

6. Their vices (physical or emotional):-She smokes when stressed. It helps calm her down and set her at ease. Some days she’ll go through an entire pack before getting calm. Other times she’ll be off smoking for a month.-She’s also a procrastinator and will leave most things till the last minute to do, especially if it’s something she’s  forced and doesn’t want to do at all. It’s just not in the stars. Can’t do it. Not today.

10. Fears/Phobias:-Because of the snake bite, she’s still uneasy around snakes. She’s also afraid of death and doesn’t like E.T. the alien. Yes, the last one is weird but it scared her to bits when she first saw the movie as a child.

13. What gets them flustered.-Getting into an actual relationship again. The most she’s gone since high school and after Marshall’s death were mostly one-sided crushes. They usually faded out before she could act on the feelings and she’s personally not ready to fully dive into that aspect again. It doesn’t fluster her as much as it scares her but hey, that’s life for you. -She also gets normally flustered at seeing people wear socks and sandals–it’s just–no. Stop that. That’s really stupid, what the hell??

1. Their physical weak spots:-She’s not physically strong and not tall like a quartz, much better suited for espionage and literal cannon fodder.

2. Their emotional/moral weak spots.-She can be weak willed in the company of more dominating and negative personalities, that she’ll try to keep the peace and will go along with whatever they say to avoid conflict. It messes with her self-confidence greatly and makes her wary upon meeting other people.

14. Ingrained Habits/Forces of Habit-When happy, she begins to float like a cloud. The literal term cloud nine is applied here, but she’s rarely ever happy and content enough to do this so it’s a very private habit not too many gems know about. In fact, Charoites were capable of this ability but the Diamonds never saw this since they overworked them and used them to the point that they were always miserable and scared that the habit was blocked mentally.

-She literally latches onto people she deems safe. “Steven-bomb"s them and follows them around. Black Star and Larimar don’t mind this while Pyrite does, so the habit can easily be viewed annoying depending on the other party.

16. Dark secrets/Skeletons in the closet-Instead of staying with her fellow Charoite in the battle she was born to fight in, she ran away and hid. it’s a good thing she did so, the others were literally pawns and meat shields to take the brunt of the attacks from the opposing party before the Gems could take over the planet. She has slight pstd of the battle and doesn’t like talking about it, feeling guilty that she couldn’t get to the others in time and tell them to run away with her.

2. Their emotional/moral weak spots

Being guilt-tripped, especially concerning the fact she basically ran from home, leaving her family worried. While she didn’t approve of their customs for her finding a guardian, she still loves them and her heart bleeds a little about what she did. Her stubborness can cover it up most of the time, but not always.

Inadequacy being pointed out. It just happened to be the case that, in the earlier stages of her wizardhood, she wasn’t particularly skilled and didn’t possess the necessary know-how to be out on her own. While she was able to hide it for the most part, she was quite aware of her low skillset and it worried her. Hence being confronted with things she can’t do or is learning slowly, it still stings.

And later of course, her family. Motherhood makes her more determined than she already was.

8. Bad memories/experiences

I’m fairly sure she came close to dying a couple of times while trying to get to DulceDomum. She had been made scared plenty already by her parents, but never having been faced with it, also made the danger somewhat vague and detached. That one time she was captured by Knights, she was sure she was going to die and it did leave her with a mild trauma. It healed overtime and through experience, but it hasn’t left.

Another incident included a miscalculated fire spell that set part of her hair on fire. She had to wear her hair short for a while and she hated it.

11. Bad or petty habits

Stubborn, the inability to admit she is wrong. Aware of her shortcomings, bluff is more often than not a tool Naina uses to one up someone who is critisizing her. She doesn’t like to lose face, and even when she realizes she’s wrong, she has a hard time admitting it and will often give a twist to it so she can have the last word after all.

Also has the habit to sneak food to any animal in sight. This isn’t necessarily bad though.

17. Regrets 

She does feel remorse about the way she left her family when she did. She often wonders if maybe she could have persuaded them to make her see reason, so she didn’t have to leave on such awkward terms.

Also mild regrets about refusing an epidural when it was offered.

20. What-ifs/Alternate Timelines

1. Their physical weak spots:-Her height. Forever doomed to be tiny through genes means constantly trying to ask for help reaching things off the high shelf/ standing on tip toes/ constant short people problems.

7. Their tickle spots:-Her feet for some reason. It’s the most cliche’d spot but its a target spot.

9. Humiliating memories:-Hmm..none that I can think of yet. She hasn’t really been humiliated much.

18. Things they’ll never admit:-How much her mother’s career and concern for her appearance is important to the woman; Bianca’s afraid her mother might downward spiral fast into where she’ll end up losing her life to upkeep her perfect model image. She’s too shy and worried about the backlash of that argument and instead turns a blind eye while discretely throwing away her mother’s weight loss pills when she’s not looking.

Guilty pleasures:-Chocolate. She tries to stay away from it as much as she can but it’s a weakness of hers and a way to get on her good side. It’s even worse during that time of the month.

Their tickle spots:-Her sides are easily the most ticklish spot on her. Hugs make her chuckle, and intense tickling fights will leave her kicking the attacker into submission. Seriously, don’t do it. She’s got a mean kick and if you’re a man, you’ll get a nice punt in the balls.

What-ifs/Alternate Timelines:-If her father had remained a constant in her life and she and her mom didn’t move, Polly would’ve grown up as a native islander, more down to earth, very ocean savvy and less fashionable or material oriented. Less pearls, more thrills, I’d say. 

Dark secrets/’skeletons in the closet’:-She actually grew up poor and as an islander for awhile with her mother–her upbringing isn’t as glamorous as her blog makes it out to be.

7. Their tickle spots:-Camille no, you’ll use it for evil. Her back is most sensitive for sure because of all the tattoos that occupy there. Also the small spot under her chest but before it reaches the stomach is  the most sensitive yet–mostly since it isn’t usually touched like the back and also is a very intimate location.

9. Humiliating memories:-Dulce: Her goth phase. Tried dying her hair black at one point and it became some kind of weird black tipped-bright red roots mess once it grew out. She burned all the pictures of that year so no one will see. (Actually Carter and Chantal have he two remaining photos but they’re also under lock and key. Good luck trying to get them from them).

-Demigod: anytime when she started molting her feathers for her summer coat. Harpies generally tend to hide during this process, yet being employed in camp where they can be called upon at anytime–it makes for embarrassing interactions.

10. Fears/phobias:-She’s claustrophobic, her mind goes into hyper analyzing drive whenever she’s stuck somewhere without any means–that she knows of–to escape. She gets twitchy, irratic, and slowly descends into a madness of panic.-Also hates spiders. She’s not afraid of them–she hates them, there’s a difference.-(Demigod Verse) Swimming. She’s not a good swimmer and prefers staying out of the ocean as much as she could. Zeus may be her patron god, but that doesn’t mean Poseidon could easily drown her if he got ticked.

11. Bad or petty habits:-She can hold a grudge for months and be very bitter about it. Even when the fight has long gone and things are back to normal, she’ll still bring it up. -Tends to assume a lot within the first ten minutes of a first meeting and will hold it against that person for the rest of their days; This is why 50% of her relationships began with a sour note and why even half of those take years for a turn-around to happen.

21. Turning points in their life:(Dulce)-Meeting The Stavrinos-Blackwoods when she was 5 (she doesn’t remember much from it but a few lingering feelings remain)-The shadow attack that her mother died protecting her, while she herself gained a mental block due to it being traumatizing.-Formally meeting Agnitus, re-meeting Elias years later, and subsequently making the pact to be a Fire-based Wizard.-There'safewmoreIcan'trevealsincethey'restillbeingworkedon

4. Best places to kiss on their body:- I have a feeling this is gonna be the most popular question yet--Around the neck region, towards her collarbones, or the forehead where it houses Dhaval’s piercing–since pact marks tend to leave a sensitive spot. Also the top of her chest and hips; there’s no particular reason why, they’re just a little ticklish but  also sensitive.

11.    Their emotional/moral weak spots:-She can seem to be detached from a conversation most days, and other days she can be very blunt where it seems like she doesn’t care for the other’s wellbeing. She does, most definitely, just shows it differently. She also doesn’t seem to register normal scary things as something she should fear, and normal harmless things as something she should fear herself. Instead of having a flight or fight sense when against a monster, she has a Hug-or-fight sense.

19. Fears/phobias:-Hello kitty, wishing troll dolls, over-the-top cute things that seem harmless to many, are viewed as having no souls to her. Kill it, kill it with fire!

22. What gets them flustered:-Romance. She’s used to being friend-zoned/platonic/always-the-third-wheel for so long that a person being interested in her romantically is just like “Whoa that the heck??!” Anything beyond hugs and hand-holdings turns her into a burnt-beet-red looking mess, and becomes a little more reserved because of her up-bringing (no those things are for privacy–bats roaming hands away-) In her surroundings she was grown up with much….lighter-looking women that other men usually went for, and paid no attention to getting involved with dating because of it. No one looked her way as much as they did the other women and the matchmaker of her city deemed her not marriage-material, so she kept busy doing other things.

2. Their emotional/moral weak spots:-He pushes any pure feelings of sadness or regret down or laughs off his own faults as something he meant to do–puts himself down for other’s benefits until later it comes out during his secluded moments. He’s a horrible person when drunk and there’s a reason why you should drink in company while having fun instead of solitude and sadness and he’s the textbook picture of it. He also believes if you’re stupid enough to die or put yourself on the line of fire, then you might as well just sink or swim without his help. He’d rather stay alive for another day, thanks.

12. Grudges and vendettas:-Has an ever lasting grudge against the empousa that cornered him into escaping into that Hotel that pretty much ruined his old life. Probably not getting enough therapy for being emotionally constipated.

13. What gets them flustered:-Actual compliments, genuine care for his well-being. He’s used to being put down or berated a lot so it’s very overwhelming and confusing for him to get a “Nice job” or something of the like and he just goes like “….you know you were talking to me right???? -what is this tomfoolery-” He’s used to others not caring about him at all or just brushing him off as an annoyance and feels more confident in those situations because he knows how to react right away. Actual care, though, just leaves him a standing-blushing mess and squinty-eyed at the person giving it like he’s just waiting for them to turn back into being a jerk to him.

17. Regrets:-Telling his dad he’d be right back from camp when he wouldn’t be. -Trying to hit on 20th century camp counselors at the tender age of an out of place 19th century 14-year-old (he blames puberty for that one).