Tellen Ani Lucas

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Nickname(s): Telli
Age: twenty-two
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 21 December 1991
Date of Change:
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
Hometown: Birmingham, Chicago, Ann Arbor, San Francisco, Baton Rouge
Current Residence: Mostly Chicago, Illinois
Species: Magi
Main Animal:
Occupation: Commission Artist, Freelance Artist, Temp work
Ability(ies):

Primary: Water Animation -- The strength of being able to manipulate water through its three states, the weakness of only being able to control the same weight of water that she could lift herself.

Secondary: Animal Communication -- The strength of being able to communicate with all animals, wild or domestic, but the weakness of having absolutely no control over their actions.

Playby: Eva Green
Height: 5' 6
Weight: 135 pounds
Scars/Marks: Tattoo representing Artemis on the back of her right shoulder, tattoo of her own design on the back of her left.
Personal Style:

Absolutely no sleeves that cannot be pushed up past her elbows, as they almost always are. Comfortable jeans, occasionally slacks, bright skirts with tights if she's in the mood. Converse or other light, comfortable shoes. Rarely heels, rarely, occasionally flowery or interesting hairpieces. Antique hats are always a favorite. All of her clothes are either painted, dyed, sewn, embroidered, beaded or otherwise accented or remade by her own hand because she would rather wear rags than something purely commercial. Everything is colorful. Little white, often black.

Species Appearance:

N/A

Likes:

Color
Acrylics, Oils and Watercolors
Graphite
Music
Singing
Animals
Insects
More Color
More Music
Heights
People
Laughter
People-Watching and -Listening
Eavesdropping Unashamedly
Reading booksbooksbooksbooksbooks

Dislikes:

Colored Pencils
Hypocrites
Arrogance
Aggressiveness
Indecisiveness
Abusiveness
Obnoxious Anger
Brooding

Strengths:

Little Fear of things that bother most people, like the dark and high places and small places
Working Odd Hours
Waking up and going to sleep quickly
Artistry and
All Creative Ventures

Weaknesses:

Rewarding herself (within reason) for reaching goals -- she hates to spend money
Patience with indecisive or weak-willed people
Remembering to do things like eat or clean
Making time to take showers -- she washes her hair in the kitchen sink a lot
Wearing colors that match -- they usually don't

Habits/Quirks: Tapping her toes constantly, whether standing, sitting, anything; humming; tugging on her lower lip when she's thinking
Fears: Realizing she's spent so much time on her artistic career that she'll never slow down and have a life like everyone else's.
Secrets: She uses her art as an excuse not to slow down.
Goals: Get over her fear of romance.
Overall Personality:

Telli has spent her entire life learning and relearning and experimenting with art and artistry and color, and her life has become a reflection of that. She draws stripes and plaid on her eyelids with eyeliner, aliens on her nails if she ever paints her nails (always toenails), and she repaints her shoes about every six months because she likes to see what new she can come up with.

Telli thinks the best life lived is one in which she finds reasons not to regret even her harshest mistakes, and she absolutely refuses to wallow or regret for more than a day or two. Life is too short for that. She is almost always smiling softly or wickedly to herself, for some reasons or another.

If she's singing to herself and someone tells her to stop, she purposefully belts the next line or harmony, then affably quiets down. If they tell her to stop doodling, she ignores them. If they tell her to stop fidgeting she at least tries. If they tell her there must be something wrong with her if she's so determined not to spend a day unhappy, she smirks, tells them they must be right because all the cleverest people are the miserable ones, and she builds her life out of stubbornly located and eccentric positivity.

She's hard to offend, hard to frighten, hard to intimidate, and easy to amuse, and you will never convince her the world is not a worthy place to live in. Perhaps she is a bit blinded to the worst things, but she knows one person can't change any world but their own, so she chooses not to let the other worlds hurt her. This isn't to say she doesn't get angry--she certainly does--she just doesn't often get sad.

Father: Andrew Lucas - Architect in Baton Rouge - living
Mother: Charlee Lucas - Artist in Baton Rouge - living
Siblings: Younger brother, 17, still in Baton Rouge
Additional Family: a few here and there
Other Important People:
History:

Tellen was adopted at birth, and was never interested in seeking out her biological family. What would be the point? Chances were they couldn't keep her for legitimate reasons, and if they wanted to know her they would have kept track of her themselves. Instead she was adopted by an artist and architect who wished they could still travel the world, but wanted kids more. They adopted their first and had their second between them, and the entire family moved states about every four years, the parents unable to fully suppress their wandering hearts for long.

Telli's life was average as a child. She was always the crafty and creative one in school and class, and when someone needed something for a project, inevitably her house would have it somewhere. Most kids didn't have PVC pipe, pipe cleaners, scrapbook paper, old sheets, plywood bits, wires of all sorts and paints of more sorts just sitting around in case they were ever needed, so Telli was popular with the constructive-type people.

When she was seventeen she began to feel the stirrings of something peculiar under her skin, and when Telli was eighteen she began noticing how certain items tended to react strangely when she was around. Within three months she narrowed the items down to water-based items, such as some of her paints, within six she could move them on her own at will, and by the time she was nineteen she could work water into nearly any shape or animation she wanted it to.

Somewhere along the lines here, as Tellen searched her mind and memories and soul for the will to seek out her biological parents, for the source of her peculiar abilities, she also realized that animals watched her a bit more closely than they used to. She'd always adored animals of all kinds, and shied from none, but now they seemed to listen more closely to her words than ever before.

By the time she was twenty-one, she could speak to any animal she willed, though not influence them with anything but her words, and not with her will, but above all of her talent with water and arts of all kinds, this was the skill she valued the most, and held the most secret in her heart.

Tellen studied for two years at a community college in Louisiana, for art--primarily painting and drawing--then moved back to Chicago, her favorite of all the cities in which they had ever lived. And it worked well as a base for her work. She'd been selling her work since she was fourteen, and had established a wide audience, and now receives calls to paint murals in as far-off places as Japan, who particularly like her watercolors in their business buildings.

Now, Telli lives in a flat filled with plants, a fish tank, a Great Dane and two zebra finches who have command of the plant life.

Alias: Ivy
Time Zone: EST
Application Number: Two
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