Candy
Dec 8, 2017 17:49:45 GMT -6
Post by Candy on Dec 8, 2017 17:49:45 GMT -6
CANDY
Name:Cassandra "Candy" Nicole Stevenson
Alias:
None
Age:
19
Affiliation:
Civilian
Family:
- Samuel Greene Stevenson; father; deceased
- Natasha Fairbanks Stevenson, née Sawhill; mother; deceased
- Carpathia Greene Stevenson; older sister; 21
- Eustace Clarence Stevenson; uncle; 44
- Enid Darrow Stevenson, née Aldbecker; aunt; 42
- Harold David Rathwall; uncle; deceased
- Helga "Mina" Wilhelmina Rathwall, née Sawhill; aunt; 44
Faceclaim:
None
APPEARANCE
Candy is a fairly tall girl at 5'10". She has a figure that is somewhat willowy, and quite fit, just short of being visibly muscled. She is fair-skinned, with a bit of tan; her face is somewhat narrow and high-cheeked, with a few faded freckles under her eyes. These eyes are green, and generally sparkle with good-natured cleverness. Her hair is slightly wavy and naturally red; but she carefully dyes it, alternating between royal purple and pink (it is currently pink). She ahs a fringe of short bangs, and combs the rest back, either letting it fall unbound between her shoulders or tying it in a loose ponytail (usually when she's working).
She prefers light, loose clothing, in white and pink, decorated with bolder shades of blue, green red or purple. When she's working, she wears a white bib apron, with her business' name on the chest and her name surmounted by the silhouette of a fox pouncing on a sundae in the upper left.
PERSONALITY
Candy is a friendly, outgoing young woman. Her great ambition is to make people happy, whether by serving them delicious treats or by encouraging them to fulfill their own dreams. Her demeanour is almost always cheerful, even bubbly; and she loves bright and cheerful things. However, her attitude isn't forced; she wears her heart on her sleeve, so if something does irritate or sadden her it will be obvious.
She loves to talk -- and listen -- and will strike up a conversation with just about anyone she meets. And while she does try to be careful, her penchant for saying what she feels and thinks will sometimes lead her to say things that might be hurtful -- in which case she is quick to apologise.
As for offending her, that's fairly hard to do unless you're actually hurting people. Candy likes to see everything peaceful, fun and happy. If that's disrupted in a selfish or malicious way, it will get her anger up. In that case, she won't hold her opinions back, and can get rather tart in her rebukes. However, while brave she isn't reckless. Capable as she is she's no match for a super, and she knows it, so if confronted by a villain she's likely to run, hide or call for help -- preferably all three. Although she is curious and is sometimes tempted to hang around and watch heroes and baddies fight it out.
She's always been a fan of fantasy, and loves hearing about adventures. She's proud to live in a city with its own team of superheroes, and would love to meet a Titan -- or all of them -- and hear their stories while feeding their sweet tooth. She does at times dream of having powers of her own, but she ahs no desire to be a hero -- she's happy in what she's doing, and if she could ask for anything more it would be the ability to literally grant wishes. And maybe have a nice fluffy fox tail of her own -- she adores all kinds of furry and scaly creatures, but especially foxes.
There are people who might be misled by the fluffiness and the bubbliness into thinking that Candy has nothing deeper. But she does. In fact she's very intelligent. Although she hated school, and balks at the idea of any more "formal" education, she loves learning, and picked up information on a number of topics. She's also quite creative, and enjoys making and experimenting with things herself -- as evidenced by the ice cream flavours she's inventing.
POWERS/SKILLS
Candy is just a normal human with no superpowers. But she is very smart and perceptive, generally able to read situations and react well. She also knows martial arts (black belt in karate), and can hold her own empty-handed or with a staff.
Skills
- Martial Arts
- Sweet Chef: Candy is really good at fixing food, especially sweet things like pastry, candy and of course ice cream. She actually makes some of the ice cream she sells, although due to demand much of it is premade.
- Seamstress: Candy can sew, knit and crochet, and a lot of what she wears she made herself.
- Educated: Candy prefers to learn on her own terms, and she's learned quite a lot. She's also functionally bilingual, able communicate in Spanish, though she's a ways from mastering the language.
Gadgets
- Cell Phone: Her trusty cell phone that serves all her needs for communication and music on the go!
- Can of Mace: A girl's best friend.
- Bo Staves: She has two of these, one at home and one in her restaurant. Both are good solid lengths of wood, about six feet, tapered slightly at the ends; perfect for bopping troublemakers on the head.
WEAKNESSES
Candy's primary weakness is that she is simply human in thsi crazy city of superpowered beings. Although on top of that -- while she's generally sensible -- her love of adventure and curiosity can get her into sticky situations.
HISTORY
Candy moved around a lot as a child. She was born in Jump. But when she was four, her parents -- who believed in returning to nature -- quit their jobs in the city (her father was a professor, her mother a pastry chef) and purchased a small farm in Jump's rural outskirts. She spent the next six years of her life there, except for visits to he city to see her relatives. Nothing overly remarkable happened during this period; Candy was happy and picked up a lot of her parents' love of nature and do-it-yourself attitude.
When she was ten, however, the family was in a car accident. Cassandra and her sister survived without lasting her injuries, but their parents were killed. Each child was then taken in by a different relative -- Carpathia by their father's brother, Candy by her mother's sister.
Her time with her aunt was not nearly so happy. Mina was a strict woman, who had never approved of her sister's decision to abandon her career. Things became especially tense when her husband, Uncle Harold, died. Candy was thirteen then and going into full-blown rebellion. However, she also developed some respect for her aunt, who was a strong, self-reliant woman in addition to being a disciplinarian. And Mina did come to love her playful niece, despite their disagreements.
These disagreements came to a head when Candy graduated high school. Candy had loathed school, being both resentful of the limits on her freedom and far ahead of the classes being taught. She announced that she was not going to college, but was instead going to pursue her dream of opening an ice cream parlour. Her aunt exploded. They had a terrible argument, prompting Candy to go to her sister's apartment.
However, things worked out afterwards. Her aunt was persuaded that Candy was serious, and that it was financially better for her to go into business than to go to college. However, Candy did have to compromise, promising her aunt to look into alternative forms of education while she got her business up and running.
So, with help from her sister, aunt and a friend of her uncle's -- a hotel manager interested in setting up a new restaurant near his location -- Candy got her dream. Albeit technically only the co-owner and junior partner to her aunt -- the bank having insisted on doing business with an adult with an established credit history -- Candy was the one in charge. She set everything up, purchased (and made) the ice cream, printed out her menus and business cards, and then opened.
"Sweet Magic by Candy ~ Ice Cream Shoppe".
The location was placed strategically, near the hotel and also relatively close tot he Piza Corner. Candy was not trying to compete with the latter, since she enjoyed their pizza herself, but she knew the Titans frequented it and she hoped that by being nearby they would notice her place too. Not just because having celebrities buying her ice cream would be really great for her business -- she had always wanted to meet Jump's superheroes, and befriend them if possible.
Meanwhile, she got her own apartment, living off a trust fund left behind by her parents while she waits for her business to start turning a profit.
Roleplayer's Name
Flammifluere (Flam)
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