Asalia Naelle Alvarez
Physical Traits
Gender:
Female
Birthdate:
16.07.1986 (28)
Ethnicity:
Caribbean
Height:
5' 12"
Weight:
153
Body:
Medium frame, healthy, with good muscle tone. Ectomorphic - People with an ectomorphic body type are naturally thin and lightly build with flat chest and poorly muscled limbs. They can usually eat as much as they want without gaining fat. Extreme ectomorphs are commonly described as "skinny" individuals. Minimal body hair, with color similar to skin tone.
Face:
Heart - Face is wide at the temples and hairline, narrowing to a small delicate chin. Dark brown eyes that slant up. Average irises, average eye spacing, and average-sized eyes. Protruding eyes. Curved eyebrows, high-height eyebrows. High forehead with no features.
Hair:
Long, dark brown hair. Asalia usually wears her hair open, it just falling in slightly messy waves just over her shoulders. She is blessed with very strong, thick hair, which doesn't need much treatment, and is satisfied with the regular shampoo and daily shower it gets.
Skin:
Light brown, normal skin. Birthmarks, Blisters, Stretch marks, Tattoos
Nose:
A nose that is straight from the keystone area of the nose between the eyes instead of from the forehead. A medium bridge, rounded tip, and wide base. Underside of nose is flat.
Lips:
Bottom and top lips are equal in proportion and fullness. Top lip is a Cupid's bow shape.
Teeth:
Medium teeth.
Dental probems:
None
Hands:
Medium hands with medium-length, thin-width fingers that have rounded tips. Square palms with few deep lines. Short fingernails.
Hand and fingernail condition:
Thin nails, Narrow nails
Palmistry - Types of Hands - Palmistry Basics Fingernails - Diagonistic Tool
Health Issues:
Allergies, Vision Problems
Smell:
Mint
Voice:
Low pitch. Rough quality - Uneven, bumpy sound appearing to be unsteady short-term, but persisting over the long-term (Technical: Modes of vibration of the vocal folds are not synchronized)
Distinctive Voice or Speech Traits:
Asalia was born in Seattle, yet her parents still mainly spoke Spanish with her, which is how her words are spoken with what seems to be just a slightly different melody, yet no accent. Her Spanish is still fluent, even though she uses it rarely, unless she feels like it. Since she works fulltime at the Pulse, Lia is always up to date on the latest "Speech Culture" and knows all the words and abbreviations minors and young adults tend to come up with. Depending on who she speaks with, she speaks with different vocabulary, trying to impress her other.
Vocabulary:
Average
Distinctive Features:
Lia has been pretty lucky by the lottery of lucks, yet one thing she has been bullied for in her childhood was her large forehead. Her hairline is very high, and her forehead very round, only adding to the "large"-effect.
Even though Asalia's childhood home was a little dangerous with broken and thrown plates, the girl manages to withstand childhood with hardly any injuries - the only 'scars' she has are a few tiny white scars on her fingers, which she got when she started to become a bartender, and quickly slicing oranges and limes didn't work too well yet.
Lia has three tattoos, a tramp stamp on her very lower back from when it looked sexy, the shape of the Dominican Republic on her right foot's ankle, and a spying glass on her right hand's wrist.
Stance:
Due to Lia's calm and carefree nature, her stance is very relaxed. She often stands with her weight on one leg. Yet, since she works as a bartender, where she needs to stand for 8 hours a night straight, she knows how to be properly straight, so her back doesn't start aching.
Walk:
Lia's walk is just as relaxed as her stance. She walks rather straight and rather fast, since with her height and her long legs, her steps are large. Her hips stay rigid, and her walk doesn't seem to have a "music rhythm". Common Gestures:Being a deeply relaxed person, Lia doesn't have any nervous ticks, yet she knows exactly what to do to make others feel a little hotter - and those are the things she likes to to. Biting her lip, touching her neck or collar bones, cocking one eyebrow are only the most common ones.
Facial Expressions:
Lia's resting face looks as if she was sad - at least that is what others have told her. Fortunately for Lia (the are you okay?s do get on her nerves), she is a very smiling person, even if her smile tends to be a little more devious than happy.
Clothes and Shoes:
On her days off, Lia is a typical "tee and jeans" person, even if it's still just a hint more stylish than that. She prefers boyfriend-jeans to skinny ones, but once she works or parties herself, she likes tight and shiny to show off what she has. As for shoes, she usually goes for Nikes, since she finds them comfortable, and they're great to work in.
Cosmetics:
Lia likes to wear just no make-up at all whenever she's home, and is one of those people that only wear make-up to get attention from others, not because she finds herself prettier with it. She usually just goes with eyeliner and mascara, since she finds it already does the biggest deal. Another thing Lia loves is her hibiscus shampoo - she adores the smell and rarely puts on perfume, just because she doesn't want to overpower its scent.
Sociological
Birthplace:
Earth
Current Home:
Earth
Sexual Orientation:
On the Kinsey Sexuality Rating Scale, 3 - Equally heterosexual and homosexual
Number of Siblings:
0, 0 of whom are still living, and of which the character is only child.
Relationships within Family:
While Lia's parents passionately hate each other, Lia loves each of them just as much as they love her. She still thinks one day they will get together again, so she doesn't even think too much about the whole situation. Both of her parents are very strong characters, her mother came from a poor family and has always been working her ass off in her life, until she met Aarón. Lia admires her mother Caterina's passion and fire, even though she herself can only be burning up for someone for rather short periods of time, and doesn't nearly have as much energy. Aarón, her father is a very passionate man as well, though on another level. He is more calm, and a little spoiled, used to getting the things he likes and others admiring him. However, when he loves, he loves with 100%, absolutely committing himself to love alone, and is a hopeless, incredibly cheesy romantic. Her parents are still a little too overprotective, calling her at least once every two weeks, but Lia acts very casual about it.
Character's History:
Asalia's parents met and fell in love back in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. Her father Aarón comes from a very rich shapeshifter family, her mother Caterina is a human. It was love at first sight, and soon Caterina was pregnant with Asalia - which was when the Alvarez Family disowned their son, and the couple moved to America. Her childhood was dominated by her parents relationship, either loving each other over the top, or screaming at each other at the top of their lungs. This is what Lia grew up thinking what love was like, and chased after passionate burning relationships just like that, which never worked.
At 21, her parents eventually really divorced, Asalia got a major in business, but continued to work in her college job: Being a bartender at the pulse. She lives less than a block away and enjoys her life, living in the moment, not thinking about tomorrow.
Family Religious Background:
Christian
Importance:
Somewhat
Father's Occupation:
None
Aarón was the thirdborn of the Alvarez family, a shapeshifter family which has gathered a lot of riches over the years, and owns a hotel chain. Not being the firstborn, he wouldn't inherit the business, so he was never expected to work anyway, unless he wanted to, which he didn't. Even now in America, he still just lives off the money his family has given him upon disownment.
Mother's Occupation:
Services Caterina worked herself up the career ladder in the Alvarez Hotel in Santo Domingo. She started helping out everywhere, from just cleaning to being charge of the organization. In America, she continued where she started and is now receptionist for a smaller hotel chain in Seattle. Family's Economic Class (while the character was growing up):Upper class
Notable Relatives:
Diego Alvarez - the current owner of the Alvarez Hotel Chain. A very strict, very traditional man with what seems to be a heart of stone - and a very talented Eagle Shapeshifter.
Cecília Alvarez - her paternal grandmother. Lia has met neither, but apparently Cecília is just as strict and hard as her grandfather - but instead with a warm heart that spoils her children to death. Shapeshifts into a lioness, and is known to do so often to impress others.
Manuél Sillas - maternal grandfather, a shoemaker, who is still very proud of raising his four children into hardworking ones. He doesn't know anything about the supernatural world. Óphelia Farrow - one of the younger sisters of her mother, who also moves to America. She lives in New York with her husband and three sons.
Family Traditions:
Her father's family used to be nothing but traditions, but Aarón has been slightly a rebel before anyway. Ever since the divorce, there are no real family traditions, and neither have there really been before either. She meets with both of them separately.
Character's Education:
Grammar school, High school, University
Character's Occupation:
Services Lia is a full-time bartender at the Pulse. She takes orders, makes drinks, thinks of and invents special drinks and flirts with her customers. Yes, that is an actual part of her job description.
Character's Economic Class:
Middle class
Character's Religion:
Agnostic
Importance:
Little
Number of Children:
0 Lia doesn't have children, neither does she want any at the moment, or the near future.
Personal Life:
Relationship:
Never married
While Lia's sex life has always been rather good, her romantic life was been ever lacking. She gets interested in other people, and those people fall in love with her and she takes care of them for a few weeks - but eventually she just gets bored. Even though she crushes so quick, there yet has to be a person that really interests her long-time.
Lia's home is incredibly messy. Working varying shifts from 8-3, or 11-6 she sleeps until midday, and then proceeds to have the day after her liking, until she works again at night. Lia likes to read, especially if she can do it at a cute cafe somewhere. Being an extreme extrovert, Lia gets her energy from being around people, and that is what she does in her free time as well: Meet friends, neighbors, strangers...
Special Talent:
Lia's tiny special talents are seemingly endless. She can roll her tongue, twist and turn it, she can wiggle her ears, knows a few card tricks she learned on the way - but mostly she knows what people want, and she can speak honey dripping words.
Hobbies:
Lia's hobbies aren't really the most original - she likes reading occasionally, but the book has to be good enough. If it is, she can swallow it all in a few days. She likes to jog now and then when the weather is right and sunny, or do some other sport the magazines are freaking out about. But usually it's sitting in cafés, or calling her friends, or even finding strangers to get to know. The world is full of adventure, and they'll find you eventually.
Friends:
As someone who gets to know so many people, Lia has tons of friends, but actually really only two she actually cares about. Her best friend is Mitchell McClare, who is a coworker of hers. Bold, flamboyant, and a tongue on fire, the two are such a power couple of comments and wits and jokes, it annoys the shit out of all the others. Her other friend is Jenny Smith, whom she knows from high school. They were friends back then, sitting next to each other and giggling about boys and teachers, and somehow, Jenny had the patience to keep up with Lia.
Reputation:
Back in college, her reputation was set in stone: 'Slut'. Plastered all over her for her love to have sex, and her love for people, she got stares and catcalled - and she didn't care. Eventually, it impressed people, and times have changed - even if Lia didn't really. There are still quite a few broken hearts on the path behind her, and while she manages to put down most of her lovers gently, some never took it well. "Heartbreaker" isn't common, but murmured around, yet what everyone agrees upon is that Lia is what she loves to do: "Flirt".
Keepsakes:
Lia doesn't really hang unto things, unlike her mother, who still has her baby locks and jewelery from when she was a child and similar, or her father, who has photo albums for every year of her life so far. However, somewhere in her apartment there are socks or bras or boxers forgotten by old lovers, and who knows, maybe one day a new one will be in urgent need of a new bra?
Favorites:
Food: Eggs Benedict on rye with spinach
Color: Red
Outfit: Knotted blouse, boyfriend jeans, nikes
Passtime: Getting to know people
Literary Genre: Thriller
Items: Her Nike shoes - no more backpain at work!
Animal: Panther
Music: Drum'n'Bass
Plant: Palm Trees
Annoyances:
Lia is easy-going and carefree, but if it's one thing Lia hates it's people she can't crack. She's funny, she's pretty - so why would you not like her? And why is it she just can't seem to find the key to what you like? It drives her crazy.
Group Affiliation:
Even though Lia is so much of a people's person, she actually rather concentrates on the individuals, and has never really been part of a group. The only group she really has is in is the "Pulse Crew" consisting of her and her coworkers, who frequently get drunk together.
Psychological
Motto:
"Anyone who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
Myers Briggs Personality Type:
ESFP
TypeLogic ESFP Profile Lifexpolore ESFP Description MBTI Types (Terse)
Leadership:
Leader - Always takes the leadership role, whether through force of personality or desperate desire to be in control.
Group Role:
Explorer Explorers promote exploration of new and better ways of doing things, to uncover hidden potential in people, things or situations. They break new ground, and are often looking one step beyond the current situation to pursue unexplored avenues, until all the possibilities have been exhausted. Explorers often challenge the status quo and experiment with the introduction of change, to see if the situation can be improved or new potential uncovered.
This role most closely corresponds with ENFP, ENTP Myers Briggs personality types.
For more information, see: The Role of Team Members Margerison-McCann Team Performance Wheel Team Management Profile
Cooperation in a group setting:
Only if something is to be gained
Style of Thinking:
Pragmatist
Pragmatists often show a good deal of humor, a quickness to agree with others' ideas". Unlike the idealist, they don't shy away from conflict but neither do they relish it like the synthesist. They realize it is useful and necessary and they make use of it. They like to experiment and brainstorm and can be very creative.
The pragmatist motto appear to be "Whatever works.". They are not ones for great, long range plans and tend to be short range, practical thinkers. They tend to employ an incremental or piecemeal approach to life. This may be in conflict with someone who has long range goals but the advantage to the pragmatist approach is that it produces demonstrable results quickly.
In being focused on the short term and the quick payoff, they tend to be very creative and innovative. They, more than any other thinking style, realize that even the longest journey begins with a single step.
In keeping with the idea of quick payoff and short term thinking, pragmatists tend to be good tacticians. If you are not concerned about long range plans but need something accomplished tomorrow or next week, the pragmatist is usually the person who can find a way to make it happen. The pragmatists believe in their way of thinking and are good at convincing others of its validity. In this way, they are good marketers of ideas. They understand their audiences and understand how to package their proposals to make them sell.
Pragmatists seldom get caught in the trap of finding themselves stuck with no direction to turn. They are good at contingency planning. If they find one path blocked, they will look for another one. This can often be seen as intimidating by the more conservative elements of out society. Their best advantage is their creativity and ability to cope with change whereas the problem with the pragmatist is their impression of working "off the cuff" or not to any plan or direction. For more information, see The Art of Thinking.
Personality Flaws:
Severity: Minor, not disruptive
Mental Health Complaints:
Severity: Minor, not disruptive
Fears:
Due to her carefree nature, Lia isn't really afraid of much,. but their certainly are some things. Especially fish. She doesn't really know where it comes from, but to her, fish are just evil, and disgusting, and there is a certain reason they cannot live on land. Apart from that, she's not really too happy whenever there's a storm outside, and doesn't like being alone when the thunder comes.
Weaknesses and Shortcomings:
Asalia is absolutely egocentric. Whatever she does, she does for herself, even if it is helping others. That can be very off-putting once noticed. Apart from that, Lia is super messy in her apartment and her carefree nature often gives her quite a lot trouble whenever she forgets appointments and birthdays. Plus, her attention span is very short, and she gets bored so easily.
Hopes and Dreams:
Lia lives in the moment. If she didn't, maybe she would not still be a bartender, or live in a one-room-apartment. So right now, she doesn't really have any dreams, except "staying awesome forever", and she only hopes to not ever lose her job and meet the most interesting and crazy of people.
Desperation:
Lia is desperate for happenings, she simply can't stand it if nothing happens around her. Plus, once she's laid her eye on someone, she is more than desperate for them to like her, and actually gets really frustrated and annoyed whenever they actually don't.
At Stake:
At the moment, nothing really is at stake for Lia. Nothing is really to be won, either, she's just living her life with her stable job, able to pay her rent, good relationship with her parents and no current fling.
Most and Least Self-Serving Actions:
Almost exclusively all of Lia's actions are self-serving. The most self-serving thing she has ever done was probably entertaining and sleeping with Jordan for a while, who is The Pulse's owner's best friend - which she found out via long talks with her coworkers and the owner themselves. Jordan fell head over heels for Lia, and Lia told xir how much she wanted to get a little more money, and how good of a bartender she was. Jordan told the owner, and eventually, after 3 months of going out, Lia got her current position, and left Jordan. Her last self-serving action was talking to the neighbor underneath of her for a while, becoming better neighbors, just because Lia felt like it, and he seemed lonely.
Goals:
Similar to her dreams, Lia doesn't really have any long-term goals. Keep her job and her apartment, that's about it, let life be the party it is. Living in the moment and being carefree, neither does she really have any immediate goals, except for getting those tea cocktails a fix spot on the Pulse's menu, because those are so delicious. Unfortunately, The Pulse is just not that high fashion and a bit more "Vodka Coke".
Prejudices:
Being open-minded and a queer woman of colour, Lia finds it very hard and troubling to be prejudiced, because she's faced so much prejudice in her life already. However, because of her own parents' history, and the shapeshifters she met at The Pulse, she does kind of think they are elitist. Plus, she kind of finds straight and gay people a little boring - why just one gender and sex, when you can have all of them?
Politics:
Culturally liberal, Fiscally liberal, Anti-expansionist, Local power, Apolitical
Beliefs:
In her early twenties, Lia read a lot about philosophy, but by now, she's gained enough experience to have her own theories. Lia's beliefs aren't the most thought-through, since she isn't introverted at all, and doesn't spend a lot of time on herself with her mind. She believes people shouldn't be judged for things they've done in the past, nor should you judge them because you actually get to know them yourself. Even though her mother is extremely superstitious, Lia isn't at all, and neither does believe in horoscopes, nor black cats. Again, while raised by two very practicing Christians - her mother more than her father - Lia has never gotten quite the hang of it. Her parents blaim it on America, especially her father, but as Lia explains again and again, it's not like she doesn't believe in God. She just doesn't know, there might be one, there might not, as an Agnostic, she'll find out in the end, right?
Moral Code:
Asalia's moral code is rather complicated. On the one hand she loves people, believes in making their day, flirting with them, on the other hand she gets bored and just drops them. On the one hand she believes in utter honesty and always telling the truth - but she will always make up a believable story before leaving someone, so they don't feel that bad. She is generally a nice person, but does everything she does for herself. Lia herself doesn't think much about morals, apart from following those she was taught as a child.
Strengths:
Lia is funny. Lia is a people's person, and knows exactly what to say, when to say. Lia enjoys life and is a very positive person, and once she decided on something she wants, her willpower to get it is almost endless. On top of that, she is physically very fit, and has those muscles rocking!
Secrets:
Unless you count where the emergency key to her apartment is, Lia doesn't really have secrets - even that location she has told enough strangers with a "meet me at home later"-wink already. Asalia believes in honesty, and doesn't have enough drama to actually have secrets. Even the daily gossip she is told at The Pulse is being spread by her, so those can't be called secrets, either.
Secrecy about Personal Information:
Open and honest
Emotional Attack:
To hurt this character, one would: Go deep, not let go. Ask her about her parents, about their divorce, about all the bad things, and not let go of the topic, no matter how much she laughs, or yells. Because those things have happened and hurt her, but she's ever allowed them to hurt herself... which does not mean she's over them at all.
Reliability of Memory:
Very reliable
Sense of Humor:
Vulgar
Spontaneous
Light
Physical
Openly displayed
Conventional
Active (makes jokes)
Deviation from Type:
Since Lia likes to go with the flow, there are times when she just says "Fuck it" and acts absolutely out of character. Maybe she thinks she crushes, but upon getting to fully know them, doesn't get bored, but actually gets interested in having them around as a friend. Maybe her friends become so important to her that she might actually do something that is not for her sake, where she gets nothing out of it. Maybe she has days in which she feels like cleaning her apartment. Lia wouldn't like to set herself in stone, so from now and then, those things actually happen.
