Grimaldi, Kerry Ann - Celestial

[Kerry Grimaldi]

KERRY ANN FALLEN GRIMALDI

FULL NAME: Kerry Ann Fallen Grimaldi
CODENAME: Celestial
FACE CLAIM: Alice Schmidt
AGE: 23
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: Unaffiliated
ALIGNMENT: Neutral

Personal

SEXUALITY: Bisexual
GENDER: Woman
PRONOUNS: She/Her
ETHNICITY: Adairan/white

Double Life

ABILITIES:

Lighter bones - Her family all have lighter bones. Rather than being hollow though, they're honeycombed inside for structural integrity.
Breathe - The bloodline comes with a larger lung capacity, but they also need less breath to do labour intensive actions too.
Enhanced Endurance - She could run a marathon so much easier than the average human, and it isn't just due to her lighter bones. Her family has developed enhanced endurance to help with their flights.

SKILLS: 

-Trained and proficient in the use of knives, swords, bayonets, and a variety of guns.

-Trained in the use of the Adairan military martial arts program, a variety of martial arts moves meant to defend and attack unarmed.

-Trained in strategies and tactics of war, ethics and leadership.

-Trained to be mentally, physically and psychologically tough and to make good judgment calls in a crunch.

-Trained in First Aid Level 1, with extra medical knowledge of her clan and bloodline and their needs.

-Fluent in English and Gaelic, with a starting understanding in Spanish.

-Excellent at the guitar, banjo and drums.

WEAKNESSES:

- Lighter bones break more easily.

- Socially awkward.  You would be too if you only gained friends a couple years ago.

- Tries too hard to be independent, which can end up landing her in trouble.  Some stuff you gotta rely on others for, but she doesn't really know how.  So her leadership ability is great, but her teamwork not so much.

- Relaxing is...literally something she works at.

-Great anxiety, people pleasing behaviours, and likely some kind of PTSD as a result of her childhood but she hasn't gone into her head to figure that out yet.

Appearance

GENERAL: Kerry is five foot ten inches tall, with a lithe figure.  She has long blonde hair that when in uniform she puts up into a very neat bun.  Her posture is very good on and off the job, and she carries her head high now that she is part of the Royal Adairan Marines.  Her strides are long and relatively quick.  Every step she takes is done with utmost purpose.  

COSTUME: The fatigues of the Royal Adairan Marines are blue, black, grey and white camouflage.  That's the combat uniform.  In formal uniform, it is a tartan kilt.  The tartan is in the Adairan colours, royal blue, black, grey and white.  The actual uniform is black with silver buttons.  There's also an aiguillette (a cord signifying rank) that, if you are a Royal Marine, is grey and white braided together.

Personality

Kerry has a tendency to keep to herself for the most part.  She enjoys watching animated shows, listening to music and other simple idle pleasures she wasn't allowed to indulge in as a child.  She doesn't let herself absorb herself into them but she enjoys them all the same as hobbies.  She also enjoys making things, like out of wood for example.  Or learning new things, which keeps her brain occupied.  She is friendly when she comes across people she sees as having a good vibe.  Her intuition is sharp and largely not wrong so she is a good judge of character usually.  She wishes to bring honour to her name, and become someone her clan would acknowledge.  In reality, nothing will ever reach that, and she needs to accept that but hasn't yet. 

She likely has some kind of anxiety disorder or PTSD as a result of her upbringing, but she largely avoids going into her head so that will probably surprise her when she starts dealing with it.  For now, she enjoys her job as a marine and focuses on that.  She is diligent, practicing the skills she's amassed daily.  She isn't as good at relaxing, even if she's doing her hobbies.  And making friends is something she has to quite literally work at, as she is a quiet sort of lone wolf in many ways.  It isn't that she is against having friends.  She's had them after all.  It's that she is not quite sure how to go about making friends, and so she has no idea where to start on that endeavour.

History

Kerry was born in a secluded region of Adaira, in Europe.  The area is prone to flooding and architecture has turned the towns into a series of treehouses to avoid it.  However, this is not the only reason the houses are tall.  Kerry was not born into a family, but a clan.  A bloodline of superpowers.  And the clan members are born with wings.  Therefore, houses high up make perfect sense for most.  Unfortunately for Kerry, she was born without wings.  Thus started a hard life for her.  There was no coddling for the child.  In the clan, no-one knows their birth parents.  Everyone raises the children.  Everyone teaches them.  For a child with no wings, that meant brutal training on the ground because the clan believed a wingless child required it to make up for their lack of wings.  Basically, she grew up in a clan society with the belief that those with wings had superiority to those without.  No-one in the clan has last names, what is in its place is a name that is supposed to reflect who they are.  Most get it at puberty.  Kerry was saddled with 'Fallen' at birth.  Just because she didn't have wings in a clan that always did. 

She underwent gruelling training, being called names repeatedly from the time she learned to walk.  But for her, it was normal.  She met every challenge.  While other children her age in the clan were taught lessons and then had time left over to play, Kerry had very little time to do so.  Sometimes she would sing songs she heard playing on the radio to herself while she trained, did her lessons and worked out.

Truthfully when the clan elder had assigned the amount of lessons and training, he'd meant to break her spirit.  Make her quit.  Make her leave.  To him, she didn't belong in the clan.  She found out when she was 9 that she was the product of one of the clan's women going outside the clan to someone they didn't approve of, and having a child with him.  Kerry was born shortly after they brought the woman back.  She still didn't know which woman in the clan it was.  Maybe they weren't still around.  Whatever they did though, it did nothing.  At first she thought everyone went through it.  When she was 10, she realized the other children didn't have to work as hard.  Until she was 13, she thought the training was because she was promising.  To toughen her spirit and body.  Then she realized it was because she didn't have wings and was seen as a blemish.  It's amazing the things you can accomplish out of spite.  She continued her training, and her lessons.  And learned more besides, taking in information faster and faster.  By the time she was 16, the elder was having to do the lessons himself.  The others had given up on breaking Kerry.  She was excelling instead.  Finally when she was 18, the age you can join the military in Adaira, the elder sent her off thinking that would finally get rid of her.  Possibly she would fail and go off in shame.

Didn't happen.  Turns out if you go through training that bad your entire life, training to become a marine seems like normal life.  Royal Marines of Adaira have a system that separates those with powers and those without, and then those with powers are also divided into categories depending on how powerful they are.  It's to make the training more accurate and helpful.  They go through a period of two years to train.  After that, it depends on whether you've had other training previously.  In Kerry's case, she had gruelling training growing up.  After the two years, she went through a six month period of advance training.  After that was a three and half month period for health and psych screening to try and weed out the more twisted individuals.  Kerry wrote down everything she knew about the health history of her clan, and then they tested for genetic diseases as well.  She passed with flying colours of course.  After that, you fight the royals.  Yes, you read that correctly.  Being a royal marine is a huge honour, but what is even more an honour is receiving a purple Fourragere (a cord signifying rank) among them.  To be a regular member of the Royal Adairan Marines you have to last ten minutes in a fight against Honos Black and five minutes against Orion Black .  Kerry was able to do this.  To become a Royal Adairan Marine with a purple Fourragere and become a royal bodyguard however, you have to additionally last two minutes against the Queen of Adaira.  Kerry was unable to achieve this, lasting one minute forty seconds.  If you do not last against the Queen for that period of time, you can try again in two years time.  For her efforts lasting one minute forty seconds, Kerry received a medal. 

There was one additional feat however.  Queen Rose of Adaira was introduced to 'Private Fallen'.  Fallen for a last name.  After Kerry lasted one minute forty seconds against Queen Rose, Kerry was given a medal.  Additionally though, Queen Rose decided to adopt her and give Kerry her maiden name.  Kerry has the paperwork to prove that in all but blood, she is a Grimaldi.  An honour that Kerry gladly accepted.

Of course, outside of the official training she did do other things.  She got used to being able to access technology and music, and make friends.  For once, she was able to make friends around her own age who didn't regard her as broken.  These included Leonard Lincoln and Ginny Dylan.  It also had Olivia Roberts but that was...a romance.  It helped Kerry realize she was bisexual.  Unfortunately, her relationship with Olivia was not a good one.  It left her with some troubles to overcome mentally.  That said, her friendships were very essential.  For one, her friends saw her last name, and eventually heard her story.  Everyone with powers usually got a codename of sorts, but Kerry didn't have one.  She didn't know what to say she went by.  Ginny and Leonard tossed some names around.  Rather than let her be known as Fallen, they decided to give her the name Celestial.  Because of her clan's powers.  At least that's the reason they told her.  In truth, they discussed it privately and decided that Kerry was rising above what was done to her.

After becoming a Royal Adairan Marine, Kerry spent a year in the corps getting accustomed to how things were done along with the friends she'd made in her time training.  She was offered the position of Adairan ambassador to the US and spent a year training for that.  She also took college classes for a semester for it, some law and communications classes, as well as political science.  It wasn't required of her either, but Kerry decided to study Spanish as well to help with the post.  And because she finally had the opportunity to learn another language.  She still continues her studies on the language even after leaving college.  After that, she was sent as part of the Adairan embassy to the US.  This is the post she currently finds herself in, and she finds it an honourable post.

Player

OOC NAME: Exxie

PRONOUNS: They/Them

OTHER CHARACTERS: I am not listing them all I have too many.  And I am too lazy for all of that.

SOURCE: Just so happens I helped create it.  Go figure.

credit to Laura of Adox

[KingJ]