Esmay Rose Willows
Nov 17, 2013 16:50:13 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2013 16:50:13 GMT -7
Esmay Rose Willows
"Some nights, I stay up cashing in my bad luck. Some nights, I call it a draw."
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Full Name - Esmay Rose Willows
Nicknames/Alias - May (By her Siblings), Rose (By her mother) Doctor (By co-Workers)
Age - Twenty-four
Date of Birth - June 4th
Place of Birth - Jakarta, Osiris
Gender - Female
Sexual Orientation - Bisexual
Affiliation - Alliance/neutral
Occupation - Fugitive (formerly a bio-medical researcher)
Play-By - Emily Browning
Build - Slender, Slight, Short
Height & Weight - 5'3" 109 lbs.
Hair - Long brown hair down to her mid-back almost always kept clean and straight.
Eyes - Green
Unique Features - Each ear has two piercings and a piercing on the left side of her nose. Dressing Style - Mostly casual to casual dress.
Other -
- Esmay has never held a weapon in her life. Though she is uncomfortable around them she has seen enough Alliance Military contracts come and go at the research facility that she can keep it in check.
- Esmay Suffers from acute stress induced asthma.
Likes - Science, Travel, Exploration, Knowledge, and Success
Dislikes - Rules, Politics, Failure, Being alone, and Stress
Quirks/Habits -
- Esmay has a habit of spending hours in the morning making sure her appearance looks right but also that she did not spend hours working on it. Tons of effort to look like she didn't put effort in to it.
- When Esmay is nervous she starts to count things and look for numerical patterns in things around her.
Fears -
- Esmay is afraid of getting caught for her part in what happened with her father. It is likely she would suffer the same fate as her father if the Alliance figured it out.
- Inability to continue learning. Be it inside the halls of learning or out on her own she is dedicated to learning more and continuing her father's research.
Secrets - Esmay is responsible for her father's imprisonment and disappearance at the hands of the Alliance. Her father's research was on the cusp of a breakthrough.
Strengths - Dedication, Eidetic Memory, Strong Will
Weaknesses - Holds a grudge, Pushy, Poor decision maker, Pride, and Socially awkward
Talents/Special Abilities - Numerical genius, Quick learner, Eidetic Memory
Aspirations - Esmay's first aspiration is to complete her fathers work on chemically induced genetic therapy and manipulation. More importantly is to make a name for herself as a leader in the field throughout the 'Verse.
Overall Personality -
Esmay is very conscience-driven. She is guided by her passion instead of some standard set of, morals. She considers herself an ethical person, but her moral compass doesn't necessarily overlap with what other people, and even the law, would consider right. The largest example of that in her life is that she began trials of an untested experiment on someone she loved in hopes that the procedure could cure him. She threw away her career and risked incarceration to use a medical experiment she had confidence in to try to give this man a fighting chance. She has never given up on anything that she seriously and deeply believed in, and in that most substantial case, it came at an extremely high price.
She is stubborn, bull-headed, and always wants to get her way. She is willing to face most challenges with her go-getter attitude. She has learned that there are times when one should stand down from a situation, though. While she may not believe she's wrong, she will concede when the gains aren't worth the costs in a given situation.
While Esmay is slow to make friends, she holds the few she has very close to her heart and would do anything for them. If she does manage to get close to people beyond a professional setting and establish a friendship, she would spend the rest of her life in contact with them if there is any way she could manage it. She is very passionate and caring toward the people she calls friends.
Esmay can be very selfish in her actions. She has a hard time seeing past her desires and feelings in her life sometimes. She has a short fuse when things upset her and will show her wrath with the slightest provocation. Without someone to help her see reason, she can hold onto a grudge for a long time.
Father - Johnston Richard Willows - 57
Mother - Temperance Rose Willows (Hawkins) - 55
Siblings -
Adrian Willows - 32
Bayle Willows - 30
Claire Willows - 28
Drew Willows - 26
Other Significant People - Jeremiah Clark - 26 Jeremiah Was a close friend growing up and in college. He was also a lab assistant for her father like she was.
Jacob Willows - 58 Jacob is Johnston's older brother and the black sheep of the family having fought for the independents during the war. Johnston and him never talked but Esmay and her Mother were still in contact with him.
Pets - Newton- Newton was her dog growing up and is at home with her mother now that she has left home. Newton is an eleven year old pitbull.
Your History -Esmay Rose Willows was born to Dr. Johnston Willows and Dr. Temperance Willows. Her father was an alliance bio-medical researcher, her mother a doctor of forensic pathology. Esmay was the youngest of five children. All of them were born into a family that would be able to offer them everything they could ever want.
Esmay's parents started her and her siblings' educations at a young age. Even before she was school-age, Esmay had her own personal tutors to guide her and teach her every detail of what she would need to know in life. Esmay, more then any of her sisters, caught on to everything. She was speaking two languages by the time she started school, and playing the piano with the grace and skill of a professional.
Esmay was also looked at by all the household staff as the family tyrant. She was demanding of everyone: her parents, her siblings, and, most of all, the staff. She hounded them all for more of everything she could get. Nothing got by her, not a word, and most definitely not one little scrap of knowledge. She was a bit of a brat, expecting everything to be done her way and right when she wanted it. Over time, the staff almost grew to resent her for her stubborn and selfish ways.
There came a day when she was ten that she demanded the staff be fired because she overheard them poking fun at the fact that she was ten and still needed a light on while she slept. All of her screaming and yelling was to no avail. Her father was her guiding light and set her straight, explaining to her how she could not do something like that to people just out of anger. Though she had reluctantly accepted her father's choice, it took months until she was willing to listen to any of them again and let her grudge go.
As she grew older, she was tested and found to have an eidetic memory. Her parents and involved faculty petitioned to expedite her education, feeling she would waste valuable time in courses remedial to her level of understanding. She was allowed to skip over a lot of courses through testing that showed a thorough grasp of the material, and her education was accelerated so that she finished high school at the age of sixteen. She was admitted to college in her home town as well: Jakarta, Osiris. Her best friend from high school, Jeremiah Clark, had just turned eighteen and graduated that same year. He began his college education with her. She went for her PHD in bio-medical engineering, while he focused on chemical engineering. She made very few friends in college due to her isolated upbringing and focus on her studies, but she became closer and closer with Jeremiah.
By the time she was twenty, she had finished her bachelor's degree and began working alongside her father, who was working in bio-medical research for the Alliance. Their project was a study of chemically-induced genetic therapies and gene manipulation. Jeremiah, by the request of Esmay, was brought on as an intern as well. Johnston could not have been prouder of his youngest daughter at that moment, believing that she had a brighter mind than even he had, even with all his years of experience. She quickly learned every detail of her father's work and was right there at his side for every breakthrough.
Jeremiah had joined the field for completely different reason than simple interest, though. He suffered from a genetic abnormality that aged his bone cells at an accelerated rate that would likely kill him before the age of thirty. At the age of twenty, Esmay and Jeremiah were a couple with a bright future, or so she thought, until he finally told her about his condition. This exponentially increased her efforts to further the experiment. It also pushed her to pursue her education even harder, wanting to have every piece of knowledge she could put to use in the cause. Five months after her twenty-third birthday, she had complete her PHD and was on to her residency.
Now officially holding the title, Dr. Esmay Willows she was the youngest of the research team. The months plugged by and they continued to make forward progress, but Jeremiah's condition was deteriorating. In January of twenty-five twenty, Jeremiah's condition had gotten so bad that he was unable to continue working at the lab.
The research had not been approved for human testing yet, but they had run out of time and options. His condition was deteriorating rapidly, and the amount of time he would have left would likely not be more then a few more months at best. Esmay brought Jeremiah into the lab after hours using her father's security badge to get them in and began the first human trials. Things had looked hopeful by all the readings. Esmay had stepped out of the lab to grab more equipment that she had brought in from her fathers home lab as the system was running its cycles on Jeremiah. What Esmay didn't know was that any badge in after hours would set off the alarm system. Her father responded, followed shortly by a team of feds. Before Esmay had returned to the building, the Feds had arrived and entered to find Jeremiah there in the lab attached to the equipment and her father in the lab.
When confronted by the feds, Johnston confessed to beginning the human trials himself while Esmay hid, paralyzed with fear. Johnston was arrested, and Jeremiah was taken from the lab for further testing at a separate facility off-world. Esmay wouldn't have been able to deny her involvement if she'd been found, and no amount of protesting would have convinced the feds that her father hadn't been involved: they'd found him there. When the feds had cleared the two men and the main bulk of the equipment from the room they had left only a single guard in the room. As he began to take the computer she crept out from where she was hiding. Grabbing a syringe and some sedatives she charged him and injected him while he began to ask her to identify herself, knocking him out in only a minute.
She downloaded the files she needed and walked out of the lab trying to keep her cool as best she could, finding her way out the back before the Feds could catch her or even knew what she'd just done. Once clear of the building she raced off toward home but as she closed she could see the Feds had already made it there she wasn't going to be able to return home. She sat there in her car in shock as she watched on. The building was surrounded and her mother at the door with lines of Feds making their way into the place no doubt to toss everything and see what they could turn up in her father's personal lab.
Finally she turned around and drove off. She had to figure out what she was going to do. For a while she debated turning herself in. After some time though she realized she had to complete the work and be able to help Jeremiah. She would need more time to figure out how to save him and that wasn't going to happen if she stayed here on Osiris.
She knew there would be no way that she would be able to make it to the docks and secure transport off the planet before the Feds figured out she was there in the lab and was the one who attacked one of their men. She thus sent a wave to her Uncle Jacob asking for his help. He was able to set her up with everything she would need, namely an alternate identity to get herself off of Osiris with. She would use her mothers maiden name. It was a simple change and one she could keep and would hold long enough for her to get off world. Next was the ship he got her passage on. She would gain passage aboard the White Strider, a simple cargo transport ship that worked basic runs for the Alliance. It was a safe ship and wouldn't pose any trouble for her. Finally a destination, Santo, a tourist destination out in the boarder worlds that people could easily be lost in the mix of. it was everything she needed to be safely away from the Alliance while Jacob fashioned her a whole new life to protect her from the Feds.
Late that night, or early the following morning, depending on how you look at it, she made her way to the space dock evading the ever growing presence of Feds on the docks, and boarded the White Strider without incident. The trip between the two worlds was uneventful.
Presently, she's just arrived on Santo aboard the White Strider. Sometime after the raid of her home, the Alliance broadcast her name and photo as wanted as a suspect in an unspecified crime, for a substantial reward. Unfortunately for her, the photograph came to the attention of the White Strider's captain before he---and she---had made it off of Santo.
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What should we call you? - Esmay
Roleplaying Experience - Been watching RP sites for the last few years but this will be my first go of it.
Where did you find us? - Random RP searches. I saw it on the Battlestar Hyperion site and decided to surf on over here and then BOOM! I was stating on my character.
Prove Yourself - I read this little question and was just about to write yes on here as if it was that simple and shiny then I realized you were looking for something from me and I had to think back on the shiny little list of rules you had put up and thought to myself. "Huh, would it be shiny if I had a clue what they were talking about."
Post Script -
Other characters - Esmay is all I got.
How we should contact you - PM
Roleplay Example -
The White Strider had landed and Esmay was now safe from the reach of the Alliance, for now at least. It would buy her enough time to figure out what she needed to know to be able to save Jeremiah. She had bought him time, maybe a few years at best with the work they had done but it wasn't going to last for ever. Mainly they had just reversed the damage that had happened so far but even with that it was still going to spread again and likely at an accelerated rate.
She said her goodbyes to the crew that had brought her there and paid them for their service. She left the ship with her bag in hand, walked down the ramp, and found herself at the docks. She reached into her bag to grab her wallet. She would need money to pay for her stay. It was then she realized she had forgotten it on the table in the galley where she was saying goodbye.
Esmay walked back up the ramp and made her way toward the galley. Just before she reached to door and before she could let the first words escape her mouth she could her them talking in there, about her, who she really was. She had given them a false name. They spoke of a reward out for her and how they should go find her.
Her fist clenched the strap of her bag and her heart began to race. If she stood there any longer they would all come out that door and find her. Esmay turned to run out but instead crept along slowly out of fear she would make too much noise. Finally she made it down to the cargo bay and could see the light of the world outside the door again. She was so close. It was then that the mechanic walked up and placed a hand on her shoulder.
In that moment her heart stopped. They had caught her and she was now doomed to be returned to Osiris to face whatever fate the Alliance had in store for her. Worse yet she would not be able to study Jeremiah's results and figure out what they could do to reverse the effects of his condition permanently.
"Temperance, take care of yourself out there alright? Its not like the core out here."
"You take care as well William. And its Dr. Hawkins." She was of course joking with the last part She had gotten along well with the mechanic. More so than any of the other crew surprisingly. Then she stepped off out of his grasp quickening her pace down the ramp and out of sight. She wasn't going to be able to get her wallet. She had a bit of cash on her and would likely have to use it to keep on the move one more time before she would finally be able to stop and rest. She move down the docks mixing in to the crowd hidden from view once again.
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SYR INTEGRA of CAUTION 2.0 created this and she will happily hunt you down, rip out your spinal cord, and beat you to death with it if you steal her hard work and claim it as your own. especially since she will gladly share it with any and all who wish to use it, provided they leave her nice, little credit attached.
