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EDIT 2***: SUMMER'S HERE. AND FINALLY AN APP UPDATE THAT WAS WITHIN THE APP CHECK TIMELIMITEDIT**:
-WELL I FORGOT TO TELL PEOPLE I UPDATED HER OUTFIT FOR ONE--woops.
--Added some personal relations and Rayen's thoughts on them below, more to come, and added new teammate
ID Card #: 548048912
Name: Rayen Flores-Cabello
-- Goes by "Ray/Rae" or "Yen" or Rayen.
THREADCUTTER username: FlowerPower62
Title: Gardener
Gender: Female
Height: 4'8"
Level of spiritual awareness: Lvl 4
-She needs to focus to clearly see thread. Else wise, they look like shimmers of light. She thinks to herself that they look like little shimmering star trails until it dawns on her that they're supposed to be threads. In the beginning she didn't pay much mind to them when she was withdrawn and depressed--since it reflected on her willpower to work, but as the decades went on and her mind became clear, their shimmering light became more apparent for her to notice....with effort on her part.
PERSONALITY:
Postives: Endearing | Compassionate | Easy-going | Humble Heart | Optimistic | Determined | Loyal
Neutral Points: Dreamer | Quiet | Logically Neutral | Bottles things in | Intense Moodiness
Negatives: Indecisive | Easily intimidated | Shy | Meek Voice | Flight rather than Fight | Self-Conscious
Rayen has a humble heart larger than her own small stature, keeping a positive outlook on life when things look bleak. Which is ironic considering the girl is dead. Whereas most would see the glass as half empty, she usually sees it half full, figuring where the water has almost gone, there will always be more to pour later on, always brimming with optimisim. Relatively easy going, Rayen doesn't mind rolling with the punches even when the going gets tough, she'd just keep going until the tough leads into a good outcome. Raised from birth around advocates, liberals and activists, she has a bit of a hippist's streak within her, that she stands her ground and becomes loyal to the things she believes in, holding a compassionate feeling for those she holds dear.
While all of this is well and good, she also keeps a neutral mind when it comes to seeing both sides of the arguement, realizing both have strong points and becomes very indesicive when it comes to reaching a conclusion. Sometimes she's moody and can be wrapped up in a sad vent of her own melancholy for days holed up in her room, and other days she could easily bottle away negativity--letting it fester for later when she's all alone for the good of not bothering anyone else. She could be a woman of a thousand words or a few meek squeaks and nothing all, it really depends on your relationship with her. She's so easily intimidated that the true personality within her is hardly shown and she flees after the first meeting. She's terribly shy, a habit that's never left her--even after death, making her also self-conscious. Ironic how she believes in others, but lacks the same thing for herslf, which hindered her in getting into a team for a long time before she was able to be with the three team members that she was most comfortable being around with. Honestly, though, one could never uncover her true personality without months of a dedication of persisting their prescence or at least letting her come to them on her own accord and terms.
Obituary
Date of birth: March 7th, 1949 - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Caribbean Islands (Mid to Late Trujillo Era)
Date of death: July 12th, 1969; Age 20 years old
Cause of death: Gunshot wound in the back of her head at a Protest Rally. Died from blood loss and bleeding in the brain within minutes.
Location: Miami Springs, Florida
Weapon of Death: Rose Pattern Pruning Shears - A reminiscent token from a past hobby she enjoyed when she was alive; She keeps it on a belt loop or back pocket of shorts.
Cell phone: LG Mach LS860 -- She keeps it hidden in her bra...for some reason. She loves the qwerty function along with it's sleekness. It's tiny like her!
BIO:
-Humble Beginnings-
Born in the Dominican Republic during The Era of Trujillo, to a single woman named Saqui, Rayen's mother had the amusing humor to make their names fit together as "Favorite" and "Flower". Fitting since she owned a small garden in the apartment that they lived in. Rayen and her mother lived among close neighbors and friends of the family in their community. Her mother was part of rising activists who found President Rafael Trujillo's changing laws to be questionably unsound and unsafe. It was quite the double edged knife: while he helped the country get out of financial debt, he also was promoting propoganda against Haitians and enforcing "more white" intergration. She was too young to understand this at the time but even after his term in office, he still had a hand in the politics by conditioning the subsequent presidents into the same ideal he had. Also unbeknowst to Rayen until she was old enough to understand, her mother and her mother's friends were part of their own small activist group against Trujillo and his puppet presidents. Her mother died some years before Hector Trujillo was re-elected president in 1957. Some suspected of a small illness that snuck up on the poor woman, others figured foul play from the government wiping out oppressors. Either way, she died, and without a father around, her little Rayen was only 7 years old and all alone.
Luckily, Saqui was also cordial and friendly, so her close friends took the little girl in to watch after. She was passed around for a few months until there was an acceptable living arrangement with a couple that didn't have kids of their own. She was allowed to keep her last names in honor of her mother, but they loved her all the same. They did have some kids of their own eventually when Rayen was 11, and distraught that they would disown her and turn her away, she stayed at her school, refusing to go home. It was a terrible time to decide for running away from home, since just recently the murders of the three Mirabal sisters had caused high concern and her foster family went about looking for her. They found her, reaffirmed belief in her that she was part of the family too, proving that they were worried sick when they couldn't find her and thought she was killed since they, too, were against the government.
Rayen moved to Puerto Rico during the immigration waves two years after the Assassination of Trujillo. She was only 14, but the similar speaking country gave her some common ground and transition from one state to the next didn't prove to be a big problem for her.
-Pre Death-
Their time in Puerto Rico was brief, merely a year-long stepping stone before moving to Miami Beach, Florida. The parents of their household figured it'd be more safer for the children to pursue an education as well as being introduced to the English language first hand. Rayen struggled a lot in high school, being thick accented and small not helping her amongst her peers, she found comfort within her pseudo-relatives at home while staying in contact with her old friends back in the DR. Eventually by the time of her graduation, Rayen did make some friends and moved out, not really set for going to college but making money doing agricultural work instead. In her spare time she would go to protest rallies with friends, even dragging some along beside her during the US intervention in 1966. They lived in a van and would travel along the state of Florida, doing odd end jobs here and there while fighting the good fight; It wasn't ideal but it was their way of life and Rayen loved it. She even became an activist, joining the then growing Black Panthers Party, all the while keeping true to her ideals of everyone living in peace.
Even talk about astronauts heading to the moon, Rayen got starry eyed. If scientists could reach outside of the box with their intellectual thinking and go as far as reaching past the earth and stars to reach the moon, then the same could happen for peace, right?
Well...
Things within the BPP got pretty bad, even though they were civil rights activists, some were more "active" than others and fought back harder against the police involvement. There were many casualties and in the summer of 1969, Rayen was one of them. She turned around once in the middle of a fight to calm a friend down and a Policeman shot her point blank in the back of her head.
All she had in her hands were flowers and bracelets for peace.
-Post Death-
Awakening in a field of flowers was very jarring for her. Not for the fact she was dead, no that realization came much later, but she was in one violent area in one minute and then placed in a peaceful neutral ground the next. To say she was scared would be putting it lightly, the young woman was absolutely terrified. She even ran away within minutes after they took her ID card, not bothering to wait for an explanation. A knock to her door and a slip underneath the crack of the laminated card later, Rayen was faced with reality: She was dead. She didn't know which felt colder, her ID card or cold hard truth.
She was dead and she was all alone in the world.
Rayen remained alone for some time, keeping her distance save a few she had to interact with. Be it for food, doing her classes, or being dragged along for reaping orders. She was passed along from team to team, never making lasting connections. Eventually she found herself asleep back to the field where her second life all began. Resting among the chrysanthemums brought her the first sense of clarity she had in months, their multicolored petals flowing in the breeze together as one. They were all different, but here for a reason. They might've missed their real world counterparts, or not at all, but the matter of the fact was that they were not alone.
And neither was she.
-From Then to Now-
After her realization in the gardens, Rayen made a bit of a turn around within the later part of her Near 50 Years with HQ. Still quiet, the young woman has made some effort, even if it's small.
Currently, Rayen has been content. She spends most of her time in the serenity of the gardens and Chrysanthemum fields, or lounging near the Death Cafe--she still wonders how that apprentice was able to pull it off, but they have wonderful coffee so she she's not complaining. Regardless of the decades she had spent here at HQ, she's still wary of new arrivals and keeps mostly to herself, out of pure habit of being shy and unsure of how to approach, but eventually warms up to each and every one of them--if they're nice. It's more often to find her on the outside looking in, watching as she views them from afar before deciding to head over. She remembers how it feels being frightened and confused after waking up from recently dying, so if she's able to bring them some ease then it's her own way of giving each and every one of them peace.
STATS:
HP: 19
STR:
-She's tiny but she packs a punch. It's nothing worth falling over from, but it'll definitely hurt and leave a nice-sized bruise for a good long while. She's worked in gardens and lawn care so heavy-lifting isn't foreign to her, so she can lift some things with relative ease, she does need help now and then.
DEX:
-Very nimble and quick, Rayen is easily able to reach into smaller spaces and utilize her short stature to it's fullest advantage. Normally in life before dying, she was used to infiltrate companies at night, sneaking in and out with very important documents to use for their cause. Her past hobbies with playing with plants, climbing trees and being an outdoorsy person has helped her coordination to be high as well. She's very good with her hands.
CON:
-Being small and stockily built allows her to be more grounded and take in much more punches than the average woman. Becoming sick is hardly in her agenda, her stamina is quite high, she's very scrappy and doesn't mind getting dirty-- she's used to being barefoot outdoors since she could first walk. However, just because she can take a beating than most doesn't mean she won't cry from it (spoiler: she will, expect ghibli-styled tears).
INT:
-She's attentive, smart enough to understand the basics of right and wrong, and enjoys recreational reading. But she likes to listen and take others' opinions in consideration before choosing her own, making her easy to sway with a good arguement. It's best not to leave her to decide on something important by herself because she'll become very indecisive and will need about an hour (or 5 days) before reaching to a decision. There's no self-faith within herself.
WIS:
- What she lacks in will and book-smarts, she makes up for enough in sensual-smarts and basic need-to-know for survival. Living in times where you always had to make do did help her hone in some ideas of how to self persevere. She's also aware of others' feelings around her and takes them into consideration as well as providing a well neutral based advice if needed. There's a calm other-worldly serene sense of thinking within her brain. It's rather optimistic and rational on most days.
CHA:
- She's shy but very sweet when comfortable in her surroundings. Once warmed up to another person, she's doggedly loyal and will put in effort to hang out with them as well as chat or sit around and literally do nothing all day. She's an easy going person to hang with and in fact, when confident in her surroundings, she can become quite the chatterbox.
EXTRA:
RELATIONSHIPS
Team/Roommates:
Mirella Souza
Lincoln
Kehinde
Relationship Chart
Contact:
-Timezone: EST (USA)
-Note that all of these are very tentative considering I work in the Retail Business right now, so I can fluctuate between being busy to being online nearly everyday.
DA Messages: quick, fun and easy. I can reply to them easily. (Thank you phone)
DA Notes: I get to them, depending on the length of the message if we're rping or not I can....vary in response time. Plus there's life, so that's a definite variable.
Skype: Easy to ping on skype, if I can, I will get back to you as soon as I can.
Forums: UH... IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I'VE BEEN ON ONE--LIKE 2010?! HOW. HOW DO--if you don't mind me fumbling around and asking more questions than rping, then that'll be great.
PLEASE NOTE!!!: It's been a very long, long, LONG time since I've done lit-rps well and I'm still trying to get into the swing of it again. Odds are, I normally do script/regular headcanoning before actual rping so if you can put up with that, then bless you for putting up with lil ol' me. <3;;;
Extra Links~:
Stats and Relationships in General
Roleplay - Tracker
Personal Space Scale
Past Apps:
Ref 1
Ref 2
Rayen (c) Paulagirl93
Also thanks to Mizz-Mizzy for helping me with the history section and giving me ideas<3
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Comments: 49
lirrah9 [2016-07-23 16:30:53 +0000 UTC]
she seems so sweet! I really like her ;v; I wonder how the activist part of her would feel about the hunters?
how did this small child win the hunger games in that simulator i'm
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Pandamunk In reply to lirrah9 [2016-07-24 01:28:51 +0000 UTC]
Thank you! Actually, that's a good question and I have a prepared answer for that! See, she doesn't like fighting in general and stands for peace foremost--being part of the black panthers resonated more with the idea that they were activating for freedom rather than being very....disturbing the peace about it. She was more of the gentle civil ones that just marched and handed out flower crowns.
Rayen understands that death is a part of life and usually once dead, it ends a person's suffering, so she views HQ as doing a good deed in helping out. The hunters, well....propoganda has obviously warped her mind but also seeing them interact and actively kill fellow apprentices has made her unnerved by the group that claims they want to question and go against the black and white that is Life/Death/Fate.
Hope that helps!<3
DUDE I KNOW RIGHT? I'M SO PROUD OF HER BUT....like...she only killed maybe 3 people and that's pretty small for a number in comparison, sheeh
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lirrah9 In reply to Pandamunk [2016-07-24 12:05:25 +0000 UTC]
that makes a bit of sense yeah ;v; i mean usually you'd expect activists etc. to be very bold and such but she's honestly such a sweet pea and ldkfjsldkf she's cute
hunter propaganda more like join hte hunters
least she didn't get htds
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basedmoni [2016-07-12 10:51:30 +0000 UTC]
GREAT Now both you and Taly gOT ME WANTING TO JOIN AAA
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Pandamunk In reply to basedmoni [2016-07-13 00:36:46 +0000 UTC]
come next app update you should join us
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OkamiJubei [2016-02-05 10:07:04 +0000 UTC]
She's an interesting character, pretty cute as well.
Sad that she dies pretty young.
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nikkaroo [2015-09-15 16:37:06 +0000 UTC]
Lantern
"To be your guide in times of darkness."
Enables Teams to navigate through dark areas with ease.
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Pandamunk In reply to nikkaroo [2016-07-13 01:20:25 +0000 UTC]
Did the lanterns go away or was it just forgotten in the big journal re-write update? Not to be nit-picky, I literally remembered this today myself, but the lantern's still there in the inventory i believe 8D;
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nikkaroo In reply to Pandamunk [2016-07-25 13:59:21 +0000 UTC]
-fixed and added it back to your inventory! O v O
so sorry about that babe, it's either Sheets that glitched (cries it's been doing that a lot on us) or yea something poofed during our journal revamp XD thanks for letting me knowwwwww
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ShamelessMagic [2015-08-04 21:17:30 +0000 UTC]
She's so cute, I love her expression in her profile pic! My Floridian girl~
(She and Salvia could speak full-on Spanish to each other, hahahah xD ...just noticed they both literally were born and died in the same years .__. )
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Pandamunk In reply to ShamelessMagic [2015-08-04 21:55:44 +0000 UTC]
Thank you! Her beginnings were really sad, I should've elaborated more on them but I was afraid of breaking the word count limit or something.
(YES YES YES (I know no spanish myself but that would be awesome) ....HOLY CRAP YOU'RE RIGHT. Born 4 months apart, and died 4 months apart. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
or maybe yes. Lol hahaha
random stupid idea, but considering how depressed and going through the motions Rayen was in the beginning, what if Salvia was her first reap order since it's generally within the same country more or less that they're both from?
excuse me as I am evil and make things sad
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ShamelessMagic In reply to Pandamunk [2015-08-04 22:06:41 +0000 UTC]
MY GOD I DIDN'T EVEN COUNT THE MONTHS--FATE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THIS TIME LOLOLOL
Actually I like that. I like that a lot. I would 100% approve it as headcanon if it is so
My goodness whether or not Rayen still recognizes Salvia, they ought to meet
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Pandamunk In reply to ShamelessMagic [2015-08-04 22:21:51 +0000 UTC]
HE'S A TROLL. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? AHAHAHAHA
okay so I had this thought that it might've been really hard for her to do at first because OH GOD POOR SWEET CHILD IS ON THE STREETS AND STARVING AND SICK NO NO NO SHE CAN'T DIE
So Rayen waited and waited and waited but no one was coming to help Salvia so she had to do it in order to help her find peace in the next life also because Death said so
tbh she might not for awhile currently? Maybe saw the old Salvia in passing after her death but didn't make contact out of fear of getting yelled at, but if they met again and they spent time, the cogwheels would turn and then she's like DIOS MIO
dude the best thing about headcanons with ocs is that it can be canon. BD
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ShamelessMagic In reply to Pandamunk [2015-08-04 23:55:15 +0000 UTC]
Wow I am digging this so much ahahaha 8DD
Haha, that would explain Salvia's slow and tormentous last words while she slowly crumbled to her death /SMACKED
I do know when Salvia arrived to the planes, she took about a year off for drug rehab before actually starting her reaping missions, so it's understandable if they never met each other until now. Particularly since Salvia started switching up her style after rehab and stuck with the short hair, haha
I bet if they did sit down and talk and manage to talk pensively about how they died, oh boy oh boy, it's gonna be one HECK OF AN EPIPHANY
This is wonderful. Absolutely the best. Let's make this work.
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Pandamunk In reply to ShamelessMagic [2015-08-05 07:43:50 +0000 UTC]
I added her in Rayen's "relationships" thing. Just something she remembers of the girl way back when, not currently. :'D
And yes! That could work! Her sudden change in outfit and hair would be a complete 180--especially since she looks a lot healthier now than she did back then.
Good lord, both girls suffered depression and shit after dying--the 60's-70's were not a good decade for reaping.
*BOUNCES* I'MEXCITED~YOUEXCITED?
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ShamelessMagic In reply to Pandamunk [2015-08-06 21:57:43 +0000 UTC]
Heeee I'll add Rayen as an indirect relationship to Salvia as well~ (yes those count shush)
Fffff I know. I'm awful to my kids. xD Yours deserve way more love though -huggles- <33
MUCHO EXCITTTTE
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Zackypenguin [2015-08-03 11:39:49 +0000 UTC]
Lincoln puts her on his shoulders and sings Aladdin's "A WHOLE NEW WOOOOOOORRRLLLD"
The four become the magic carpet.
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Pandamunk In reply to Zackypenguin [2015-08-04 16:56:41 +0000 UTC]
:LDSFLLDSKFSLKSDFLKSDF OMFG LINCOLN I CAN'T WITH YOU
THAT IS ANOTHER GOOD NAME FOR THE TEAM, YES.
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Zackypenguin In reply to Pandamunk [2015-08-09 02:05:07 +0000 UTC]
RAYEN'LL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT NOW
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Pandamunk In reply to mochibii95 [2015-08-04 16:57:23 +0000 UTC]
Time to make some goooood memories~ ;D
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nikkaroo [2015-07-29 05:11:02 +0000 UTC]
Congrats on being accepted to our Apprentice family Paula~ ^ v ^
We hope you'll have lotsa fun with us here at DeApp! O v O
Fran: /fluffs up her hair and puts lotsa flowers in it/ Looks like we have another flowery sheep in HQ~~~ ゚・✿ヾ╲(。◕‿◕。)╱✿・゚
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Pandamunk In reply to nikkaroo [2015-07-29 06:14:19 +0000 UTC]
Thank you! I hope to be active as much as I can, it looks so nice and you're all so nice. <333
Rayen: *goes big eyed and starry eyes at all the flowers* Ah, you're so sweet~ Muchas gracias , señor! *takes a flower out and hands one back to him, too short to reach his ear but tries to put on on there anyway* c8
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nikkaroo In reply to Pandamunk [2015-08-13 13:43:14 +0000 UTC]
<333 NAWWWW YOU'RE A NICE ONE TOO DEARIE
Fran: /laughs gaily at her adorable attempts to place the flower in his hair/ Oh flower sheep, it's alright. These are for you~ /takes flower gently from her hand and tucks it in her glorious mane u v u
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Pandamunk In reply to NesoXIII [2015-07-28 19:37:22 +0000 UTC]
:thumb428064267: HEEEE YES YES SHE IS
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Pandamunk In reply to Yenros [2015-07-27 09:04:02 +0000 UTC]
omg your heart, thank you so much~
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Pandamunk In reply to KuroBllack [2015-07-27 09:04:35 +0000 UTC]
Beautiful hair that takes FOREVER TO BRUSH
Thankyou<33
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Sentientlover800 [2015-07-23 23:21:03 +0000 UTC]
-SHREIKS- MY DAUGHTER
She's super cute and her story's so interesting!!! Good luck!!!
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Pandamunk In reply to Sentientlover800 [2015-07-24 00:19:38 +0000 UTC]
THE BBY
Hee, thank you so much. I wish you luck, too!
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RedHeadClutz92 [2015-07-23 17:03:33 +0000 UTC]
D8< SHE IS SO CUUUUUUTE!!!!
also you make me what to join this club
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Pandamunk In reply to RedHeadClutz92 [2015-07-24 00:20:54 +0000 UTC]
Thank yoooou.
I think they have opening events every few months so just keep checking? The one for now ends on the 25th
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RedHeadClutz92 In reply to Pandamunk [2015-07-24 01:43:23 +0000 UTC]
Ooooo! I'll keep it in my sights then~
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VicariousRed [2015-07-23 07:10:20 +0000 UTC]
What a cutie!!! Loving her fashion sense and her hair!!!
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