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BASICS
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Name:
Kamala Esha Russell
Age: 17
Gender: Female
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POWER
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Time
Taking on the power of time itself, the user of this magic can manipulate the flow of time through "time fields", a limited area set out by the caster in which time functions differently than outside it, whether it passes slower, faster, or is stopped completely. A master of time magic can use its powers to manipulate the battlefield to their liking, slowing or stopping enemies and speeding up their allies. This power can also be used to reverse a broken object to before it was broken, or age an object or material to the point where it has eroded from existence. However, these time fields only stay up for as long as the caster sustains them, and the larger and more numerous these fields are, the more energy it drains from the caster.
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APPEARANCE
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A literal American Indian, Esha is the daughter of a Sikh mother and an American father, and has genetically gotten the best of both worlds. She has been blessed with a skin tone between her mother's lovely deep brown and her father's fair white, resulting in a beautiful pale copper skin tone. Her hazel eyes were definitely from her father's side, but her thick chestnut locks were from her mother's side for certain. Her mother also passed on her incredible metabolism, and her father gave her his height, resulting in a 5'10"; 130 lbs. beauty (177.8 cm; 59 kg). She has a pretty graceful figure, looking to be fit, but not buff, with a flat tummy, long legs, high cheekbones, plump yet small lips, that all give her a look that many of her peers would consider incredibly attractive.
As an athletic girl, Esha's body is thin and less curvaceous, though she has naturally wide hips to make up for this. She is a slight bit bony, but she's certainly not lanky or sickly looking. She's oftentimes told she has a model's form, or a ballerina body. Though she doesn't like caking make-up on, she enjoys playing with her make-up now and again, and wears it in a way that makes her look older than she is. This on top of her height get her occasionally mixed up for a teacher as opposed to a student.
Esha has a rather Bohemian and urban sense of style that is reminiscent of 70's flower children, but less flashy. During more formal events, she typically wears traditional Sikh clothes, including a dupatta. How traditional her appearance is depends on what type of event she's at and how formal she's expected to dress. A creative soul, she typically slightly alters her school uniform to reflect her personality better without making any dress code violations...except for her henna tattoos, those are definitely against school policies, but she does it anyway and gets away with it since most of her peers are ignorant enough to think this cultural artwork is somehow religiously affiliated, and the school doesn't want to touch that with a ten foot pole.
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PERSONALITY
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Short Version
Down to Earth, Emotional, Peaceful, Kind, Fun, Intelligent, Introverted yet Sociable, Like-able
Descriptive
Pretty fun and easy going, Esha is the cool kid pretty much everyone knows, but wouldn't necessarily call "popular." As a socially accepted outcast, if you will, Esha is at worst called a hipster or a hippie, and at best a chill girl who is as touch with her heritage as she can be without being raised within the culture.
Esha is an incredibly gifted and intelligent girl with a wisdom beyond her years that is both a reason she can get along so well with all her peers and is the very reason she feels so disconnected from them all the time. She's a straight A student save for any of her technology classes, which she does about average in due to lack of interest. She's definitely and outdoors-y person, and has a hard time keeping up with technology most of the time. She's perfectly satisfied with her clunky old flip phone as long as it does it's job, and doesn't update her computer unless she absolutely has to - she has no need on account of the little amount of time she spends online. Her distaste of technology borders on technophobic.
She's a quirky, humorous, easy-going, and laid back young woman. Regardless of this, she's definitely an introverted person - something a lot of her classmates don't understand since the concept that you don't have to be shy to be introverted and vice versa goes over their heads. She can easily communicate with her classmates and teachers as needed, and will assert herself if she feels she's being treated poorly, and she knows virtually the entire school by name, including many underclassmen.
Appearances can be deceiving, however, and while she appears to be level headed, Esha is actually a spiraling, emotional mess. Having high anxiety, Esha relies on her emergency meds on a weekly basis on average to keep her from having a panic attack in the middle of class. For a young woman as assertive as she is, she is in truth quite the delicate flower and when left alone with nothing but her thoughts, can very easily fall into a minor depressive state. She stresses constantly about what she wants to do with her life, and struggles with feeling like she's walking mindlessly down a path that leads no where. The positive flip side of this is that she lives in the moment and is oftentimes more excitable and gratuitous than others her age, contributing to her polite personality that make her an immediate favorite of the adults in her life, such as her teachers. She she smiles brighter than most girls her age and hides her true feelings well, but this negatively results in virtually no friends but countless acquaintances. If directly asked, she'd claim to prefer it this way, as it gives her time to focus on her studies, but deep down she's incredibly lonely, and just dying to have someone to call a friend.
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BIOGRAPHY
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Esha was born in America shortly after her parents eloped due to cultural conflicts in regards to the relationship between a Sikh woman and a white man claiming to be inspired spiritually by Hindu, Shinto, and Buddhism, though claiming none as his own belief system or lifestyle. Esha knows little of what drove her mother to flee her country and marry her father, but it matters very little to her, as she loves both her parents dearly despite their tragic past and lack of acceptance in her mother's country.
For the first decade of her life she was raised by both her parents in the rocky mountains of Alaska and home-schooled mostly by her mother, but also in part by her father. It was a peaceful existence, albeit a lonely one with very little opportunities to socialize with people her age. This never really bothered her enough for her to consider it abnormal, however, since she received lots of affection and attention from her parents and frequent out-of-state trips to visit with her similarly loving grandparents to make up for it. It wasn't until she turned 12 and her mother passed away of a heart attack, which was an unfortunate result of her mother's
HMC. Esha's only link to her Indian heritage was her mother, so she's always felt a severe disconnect from her cultural ancestry, which upsets her greatly to this day. Since then, she's gone by her middle name of Esha, which was also her mother's middle name.
Despite the loss, she still maintains a stable and happy relationship with her father and grandparents, one that she holds very dear. After her mother's untimely passing, her father and her decided it was best to leave the state to go live with her grandparents, who now play a role as her guardians to fill the void her mother's death created. She was home schooled by her grandmother until her freshmen year, in which she began to attend the public school nearby. Meanwhile, starting shortly after her mother died, Esha took up the hobby of belly dancing, finding great joy and comfort in it. She contributes a lot of her grief-related healing to taking up this form of dance, and has gotten quite talented over the years. Not many of her peers are aware of this hobby of hers, however, for fear of making the rumors worse.
On that note, Esha is a rather well-liked girl at her school, but like any other high schooler, she struggles with coming to grips with the balance between not caring what others think but maintaining a happy and respectable reputation. Also like all other kids her age, there are those who don't like her, making jokes that she's just a hipster or a wannabe hippie. The worst of her treatment comes from many of the boys who are rather aggressive about wanting to date her, or the girls who are incredibly jealous of her early-set maturity - physically and mentally. Most of the time, however, Esha can get along with just about anyone, teachers and fellow students alike.
Esha would consider her life pretty average. Aside from her mother's death (of which she's never coped with well at all), if asked, would probably say that the worst she's got it is that she has no sense of direction in her life, and doesn't yet have any clue what sort of college she potentially wants to go to or even what she wants to do when she graduates high school.
That and she really wishes people would stop mistaking her for her dad's wife.
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OTHER
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Hobbies
Belly dancing, cooking, sketching, henna tattooing, painting, hiking, photography, playing the bongos, and watching Bollywood or Superhero (Avengers, Batman, etc.) movies with her dad~ She also likes to volunteer at local animal shelters, as well as go to local cafes and listen to slam poetry with her dad whenever she finds the time to do either.
...and she's a little ashamed to admit for fear of being too cliche, but she loves making flower crowns >w<
Likes
♥ | Dancing | Calming Music | Weird Music | Red | Natural and Earthy Hues/Colors | Pastels | Rainbows | Laughing | Reading | Books | Grass | Plants | Animals | Nature | Her Heritage | Learning | Indian Food | Mexican Food | Quiche | Chocolate | Apple Pie | Movies | Slam Poetry | Flowers | Art | ♥
Dislikes
♦ | Obnoxiously Loud People | Bossy People | Disrespect | Dishonesty | Lying | Grays | Metal music | Hard Rock | Electronic music (dubstep, techno, etc.) | Fast Food | Hamburgers | Candy | Video Games | Computers | ♦
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