Genesis

Character Outline
Appearance: Genesis is a young woman in her mid-twenties, striking blue eyes with red hair that varies from a deep red to almost orange color and falls at her shoulder blades. Her eyes become golden when she uses fire. She stands at about 5'10" with pale skin that is quite warm to the touch. She is also almost always dressed in red, usually crimson, whether it be a shirt, jacket, pants, anything (just never all at once, ew, tacky).

Personality: Genesis is passionate and fiery individual. Her emotions run deep and they are not tempered. Sometimes. She loves to have a flare, to be dramatic and to be heard. In this vein, she’s also quite vain and ensures she also looks good when going out. She loves looking good. She keeps a calm façade most of the time but should she become angry, there was a fire in her that would not be quelled until she calmed herself down. Part of that anger is that she is prone to jealousy, whether it be from a lover or someone who was better than her (proven or not).

Genesis is also a master with words and very charismatic. She should want to, she can and will manipulate those around her. However, she's hardly ever found a reason to do this since she likes to be above such trickery (though it doesn't hurt every now and then to have a little fun~). However, that doesn't mean she won't use such tactics when the need calls for it. Her immortality also gives her quite the daring attitude. She was risky as a human but now nearly indestructible? Why, the possibilities were endless for her. Given her long life-span, she has spent time learning about everything around her and, more importantly, who. She is quite the social butterfly and will use this knowledge to her advantage should she need it.

Despite all this mingling that she actually doesn't favor doing, she never opens herself up unless one is a close friend of hers. She doesn't like being in the dark, but she doesn't like making herself vulnerable if she can help it. Hence the need to be charismatic without pushing too hard. Genesis can be enigma to those around her and due to being a phoenix, there is a respect that she automatically has, she also doesn't mind flaunting this and because certain other creatures don't dare question her, it's easy to see how she can become "close" the other people but never let them become close to her.

Specific Strengths/Weaknesses: Genesis' strength lies in the most obvious trait that she is born with. Fire. She can control it exceptionally well, it heals her wounds, and keeps her nearly-immortal (with the obvious weakness that water can destroy her if enough of it is used while she is fatally wounded). With her abilities, she often is seen carrying what looks to be a hilt of a bladeless sword. At will, a fiery blade will come forth at her command, it can act like a real blade as though it were metal but it can also set anything on fire should she will it.

A weakness she has, besides water, is her fear of water. Oh, she can drink it, shower in it, what have you, but she refuses to swim in it. She refuses to be submerged into it (no bubble baths for her) in any way possible. Her emotions can be another weakness as she doesn't have complete control of them and can show quite a temper.

Character History
At the heart of Florence, during the Renaissance, a baby with fiery red hair and shockingly blue eyes was born, a healthy baby girl. She was the first baby of this high classed family and thus, she was named Genesis. Without remembering her old life, she grew up to be quite the privileged young girl, she was talented, beautiful, and every man wanted her. Who could ask for a perfect daughter? Unfortunately, the key factor in all this was that every man wanted her. Not just to court her but because she was also rich. That didn't always involve courting, now did it? Just before her sixteenth birthday, when she and her betrothed would be announced, she was kidnapped and held for ransom. She had fully expected her parents to pay the ransom and retrieve their daughter, they couldn't afford to lose her, after all. ...could they?

They could. The kidnapper never got his ransom and took it out on Genesis. She was raped and murdered in the fields. Except, she didn't die. No, her body was engulfed in flame soon after the "kill", burning the man to death as her body was healed of all of its wounds. Genesis also remembered both her old life and what was left of her human life, also gaining the knowledge of the Phoenixes and her True Name: Phoenicia. With this, her anger over the injustice of what had been done to her, she killed the man who intended to kill her.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Her family, too, suffered her wrath for their betrayal. Once the deed was done, she left. Never to be seen again for quite some time. The world was not quite ready for her presence, after all. Even she knew this at a young and angry age. But that did not mean she didn't live. She left Italy, vowing never to return. She settled in in the various other countries hereafter and come the 21st century, she was in America.

However, there was also the Phoenix Realm that she had to re-enter and regain her place. Her King would surely have missed her, she thought. Before she awoke in Florence, she was a well-known courtesan of the Phoenix court and a mistress to the King. Unfortunately, an attempted coup brought both her and the Kings life to an end. Her life wasn't as important as her King's so she knew she wouldn't have been searched for right away. But now she could return, anger in her veins. Oh, she couldn't kill the other Phoenixes but her wrath was legendary even before she was reborn. They'd feel pain before she retook her seat in the Council.

By the 21st Century, she was well back into the order of things, with a new way of life in both the Council and in the Human realm. In the Human realm, she is simply known as an actress in the various plays are featured in the theater hall just down the street of the nightclub Guilty Pleasures. At night, she can be seen frequently working there as well as a dancer and part-time bartender (only on exceptionally busy days, otherwise she's the one enticing people to the dance floor).