Ili (arista_isolani) wrote in not_honest_ooc, @ 2008-03-18 23:55:00 |
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[Name:] Ana
IC:
[Name:] Iliana Sartosi
[Age:] 28
[Birthday:] November 15, 1979
[Race:] Human
[Physical Description:] Ili is about 5 feet, 5 inches tall and quite slim. She keeps herself in shape. Her hair is long and a very dark brown and her eyes are brown. She has no tattoos, but she does have narrow scar several inches long on her left shin. She's quite attractive and well aware of it, not at all averse to using her body and her looks to get what she wants.
[Personality:] Ili is far too self-assured for her own good. Nor is she above taking (quite literally) anything she thinks she wants. She has some skill at telepathy and isn't above using it to take a peek at people's thoughts and use that to her own advantage. All the same, she gets horribly upset if anyone were to invade her own privacy in any form or fashion. She's the sort of girl you don't take home to your parents but you'd probably take home to bed. She's also the sort of girl to never take a guy back to her place.
Likes: Expensive, shiny things. Knowing what people are thinking. Money. Men.
Dislikes: Having her own privacy violated. Being teased. Imbibing alcohol. TV Psychics.
The "face" they show others: Most people see Ili as one of those glamorous women who breeze into one's life from time to time. The sort of woman who seems to light up a room but for all of that? She's far too good for you and she knows it. Those who meet her think she must be some rich man's kept woman or somehow slept her way into money. Most men don't seem to mind this when they're talking to her, but their wives dislike her on sight.
[History:] Ili was presumably born in New York City but never knew her parents. She has some vague, shadowy memories of a woman she assume was her mother putting her to bed one night, tucking her in as a small child, but other than that? Her memories are of foster home after foster home until she reached the age of thirteen and ran away. From there, she spent several years on the streets, just managing to survive, scrabbling for food, learning how to steal as well as what people would give her for her body. She might have stayed in the gutter, but for a man who found her and pulled her out of it. He called himself Mel and he recognized in her a talent for telepathy. For some time before that, Ili had been noticing that sometimes, when she really wanted someone to believe something, they would or if things were really quiet, she thought she heard people around her talking when their lips weren't moving at all. It was Mel who taught her how to control her gift and develop it as well as how to act like a lady. Ili wasn't a very grateful student, however, she left him after a falling out when she was eighteen to pursue her own goals across the Pond.
Making use of what she had learned on the streets as well as from Mel, Ili became something of a thief and a con artist in order to make her living. Why live a legitimate life, barely scraping by, when one could break the law and live like a modern-day queen? That was what she figured, at any rate. So far, it seems to be working for her. She owns a nice flat in one of London's better neighborhoods and the people she sees day-to-day have no idea what she actually does to make her living. Most of them assume she's some highly paid call girl or something of that ilk since she's always dressed to show off her body and never out of style if she can help it.
Because of her 'job', she does travel quite a bit and she's careful not to pull anything too big in her 'hometown' of London. For all that she's human, Ili is still quite aware of the supernatural scene, though she tends to give others in it a wide berth, if she can help it. She doesn't want to be associated with the 'freaks', she has an image to maintain, after all. At least publicly. She won't turn down your money if you hire her for a job, however, no matter whether you're a Demon or a Were or anything else, so long as the money's good.
[Weaknesses:] Ili grew up with little in the way of luxuries. She's making up for that now and has been known to spend beyond her means and then have to stretch herself with more illegal activity than she should to make up for it. She's also more than a little susceptible to bribery. Her life on the streets (and in foster care) taught her to only look out for herself, she has little care for others beyond what they can do for her and therefore doesn't make real friends very easily though she is acquainted with many people. She can also be abrupt and impatient in conversation, and is usually tempted to use her telepathy to get to the point more quickly than someone can talk. Having never finished ninth grade, there are 'book' things Ili just never learned and this can cause her problems.
[Strengths:] Her looks, which tend to make people see her as just another social butterfly and therefore underestimate her. Her telepathy, which allows her to cause others to see what she wishes them to see, or to anticipate their actions (and comes in very handy during both conning and thievery). Is quick on her feet and adept at survival. Understands both the higher ends of the social strata as well as those on the streets and can move in either circle. Though she never finished high school, she still received some further education from Mel and she was always rather bright so it's not always noticeable, or, more to the point, she can laughingly chalk it up to being a "dumb American" while she's in England.
[Family:] No family that she knows of. Her parents seem to have given her up to become a ward of the state when she was a small child.
[PB:] Virginie Ledoyen
This is all your fault, EJ. Somehow. =P You said you wanted more girls.