« Prev 1 Next » Reply Share Thread Facebook Twitter Tumblr LinkedIn MySpace Email Go to Previous Thread Next Thread Please make a selection first Author Topic: Polly Villalobos (Read 287 times) Polly Villalobos Student [send pm] Joined: February 2016 Posts: 191 Polly Villalobos « Jan 31, 2016 21:38:12 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Name: Polly Villalobos Nickname(s): Polly The Paladin Status: Jr. Agent Age: 19 Gender: Female Nationality: American Ethnicity: Mexican Height: 5'5 Weight: 115 Religious Beliefs: Catholic Sexual Orientation: Bisexual Appearance: Personality: Polly is passionate and energetic. Excited for life and all of it's challenges. Driven to better herself and overcome any and all obstacles. Driven to not only overcome the challenges presented to her but to seek them out for the thrill of it, or in some cases because the easiest road is not always the right road. She is dedicated to doing the right thing, even when it is hard. Especially when it is hard. Inspired to live her life with honor and virtue she has taken up the mantel of defending her home and country from supernatural threats. Along with her passion is a chattering social side with an intense love for people. Everything about people, talking with them, learning about them. Everyone has stories and pasts that brought them to where they are today and she loves hearing about them. To pick at their brains and lives, though she tends to romanticize it and view it as more as a story rather than events that sometimes may have had profound and tragic impressions on the other person. That however doesn't stop her sunny disposition for long. She is of the mindset of when you fall down you pick yourself up and brush yourself off and try again. Nothing is worthwhile without being hard won. Yet despite that philosophy repeated setbacks or stupid mistakes can and will frustrate her turning her into a bristling spiky ball of rage until she finds some kind of an outlet to vent her frustrations. Interests: Poetry, Hiking, Volunteering at animal shelters, swordsmanship, stories romanticizing knights, mixed martial arts. Skills: Athletic - Outside of the use of her power she is very active and athletic. She is an avid partaker in parkour and mixed martial arts. Bi-Lingual - She is fluent in both English and Spanish. Home and Hearth - Her Mother saw to it that she knew how to cook, clean, iron, and everything else that she considered wifely duties so that she could run her household when she "came to her senses and found a husband". Abilities/Powers: Enhanced Swordsmanship - Users are able to demonstrate a natural aptitude for the ways of the sword, including anything sword-shaped such as fictional swords. They are able to wield a sword with incredible proficiency in speed, power, and skill, allowing them to perform feats such as stopping and deflecting bullets, decimating large objects or areas, cutting through solid material such as steel, and even hold back their strength to deal damage to their foes without killing them. History: Growing up with three older brothers Polly's interests were always more aligned with more traditional boy interests than girls. Always one that would rather play with sticks and bugs than dolls. As for her brothers, they always treated her as one of them. For good and ill they'd never go easy on her or let the fact that she was a girl deter them from picking on her. So she did what anyone would do and learned to fight back and give as good as she got from them. Much to her Parent's horror at her little princess fighting and rough housing with the boys. Both her Mother and Father were firm believers in set gender roles and did their best to try and dissuade their daughter from rough housing and playing with the boys to much. Her Father acting as disciplinarian to crack down on her Brothers from getting rough with her, while her Mother tried to instill her with what she saw as the proper skill set for her daughter to have. Perhaps it was a competitive streak, or just rebellion but the more they tried to push her away from being like her brothers the more she pushed herself in that direction. It started with getting into fights at school. Always with the biggest baddest boy she could find. She'd come home with ripped dresses and dirty hands and clothes almost daily. And when she was inevitably grounded she'd pass the time by reading, sparking a love for poetry and legends and fantasy stories about heroic knights saving princesses and slaying dragons. Though in her imagination she was always the knight saving the prince from the tower, not the other way around. As she got older she began to see even less and less reason why girls couldn't be the knights in the story. And why in the real world people acted like she was some frail creature that might break if they breathed on her wrong. In Jr. High she started taking up after school activities, namely the fencing club. Her parents protested at first, but with the help of the faculty adviser they relented. Choosing to see it as a way to be fit and compete rather than actually fight. Especially in this day and age. She fell in love with it. The thrill of having a blade in hand, the flow of footwork and pacing. Of maintaining your guard while looking for any weakness and then like a coiled viper you strike. Suddenly and swiftly. She soaked up everything she could about it, practicing daily, reading books on fencing and historical sword fighting. That book was a particular favorite of hers. Reading about how so many different cultures used similar weapons in such different approaches. From rapiers to broadswords, Katanas to daggers, there were so many different styles to use a blade. She didn't get her power until her Sophmore year of high school. She had taken up an interest in MMA fighting and started going to classes for that after school on days that she didn't have fencing. When her parents found out they grounded her, forbidding her from returning and threatening to take her out of fencing as well. Saying that they had been to soft on her, and had spoiled her letting her act however she wanted. She screamed at them, they yelled back at her for what felt like hours. Her Brother's joining in, taking both sides of the argument until the whole household was nearly shaking from all of the shouting. It was with a shrill scream that she had finally stormed off to her room, yelling as she threw pillows, books, and clothes at the wall in frustration. One such item was her favorite book, the book on historical sword fighting. She didn't even notice how the book vanished when it hit the wall in her rage. It wasn't for another few weeks that she had even noticed that it was missing. She blamed her parents for throwing away her stuff, prompting another fight as she accused them and them denying doing any such thing. After three months of being forced to come straight home after school Polly finally convinced her parents to let her resume her fencing. Playing on the possibility for scholarships. Upon her return she found that her skill was leaps and bounds above where it was. She won every match, defeated everyone that was sent against her. And placed first in every competition that she entered. It was like her body's movements were being guided to greater heights, striking with more speed, strength, and skill than she had ever thought possible for her. Eventually she was able to piece it all together, the missing book, the sudden increase in her skill. She didn't know what the power was, but she had heard about some objects being able to give people Metahuman abilities. Sentient powers of sorts. It honestly bummed her out when she realized it. All of her victories, her progress. It was no longer her own. It was no longer the result of her own efforts, but a set conclusion. And so she looked for new ways to challenge herself. And when she turned 19 she found it in Paradigm Academy. Maybe no normal person could give her the challenge she needed to grow. But maybe it meant that she would get the chance to make her own story, and be her own knight after all. 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