Post by greenly benedikt on Jul 30, 2008 8:59:01 GMT -8
greenly evangeline benedikt
name: megan
age: 20
writing experience: enough
how'd you find us?: stumbled upon the site
other characters: none
where do you most want to travel to?: prague
name: greenly e.benedikt
age: eighteen
job: n/a
year: senior
canon or original: original
housing: nordurljos pass-- anna benedikt, maddox benedikt
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hair color: dark brown
eye color: brown
height: 5' 9
clothing style: loud, unkempt, eclectic, colorful, favors skin-tight jeans and skirts; loose flowing blouses and dresses
distinguishing marks: On her left wrist she has a burn mark from being too close when her grandmother was cooking one evening. Then there's the botched tattoo she has on her ankle that got infected leaving the area part rose tattoo and part scar. Even though it isn't necessarily a flaw Greenly has a problem with her lips. Sure she doens't have to pay for collagen injections but her over plumb lips tends to make her feel overconscious especially when people like to stare at her face.
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likes
dislikes
quirks.Wearing headphones around her neck. In the early stages of her development she found that it was always easier to calm down when she listened to music. So she wears her earphones or headphones just in case she starts feeling incredibly angry.
.Biting her lips. She has always did this whenever she became irritated by something. It’s a sign that her anger was escalating.
.Rubs her tattoo when she’s really concentrated on something
.Never slouches
dreams.when she was a child she had dreams of being a singer, of one day meeting her father, having a complete and whole family but somewhere during her early teenage years she lost faith in dreams ever coming true but if there was anything she could wish for is normalcy; losing her ability and maybe one day gaining a family of her own.
secrets. she wants nothing more than to stop being the person she's become and go back to who she was when she was younger
mainvolatile.vulnerable. jaded. struggles to get close to others except for a select few. manipulative. liar. fierce. stubborn.
ability: disintegration
developmentAs a child Greenly was never able to keep toys or just about anything for long because she’d always take her anger out on her toys. For the longest time her mother and grandmother would find semi-deformed toys lying around in her bedroom. Greenly was twelve when she first really used her ability. She had recently moved to London, where the children found that the foreign girl was a perfect candidate for teasing. Almost in tears she went home where she was met with a less than friendly reception from her mother, who having a bad day at work took it out on her daughter. Overwhelmed by her emotions she ran away to a nearby park while tears streaming down her pale cheek. Unknown to her, a strange man began following her and with no warning he grabbed the child from behind ready to hurt her. Her first reaction was to scream but when the man muffled her screams with a handkerchief she resorted to punching, kicking ,biting, scratching her way to escape. In desperation she grabbed his hands away from her clothing, and suddenly the man let out a cry of such agony that Greenly still remembers it to this day. It wasn’t until she could feel his burning flesh did she finally let go. Once she released her grip the man ran away calling her a monster over his shoulder. After that she stayed away from most people and would skip school so the kids wouldn’t see her if she were to ever show her ability in moments of anger.
Once she realized that it only came when she was angry, she tried to begin acting like a normal kid but it was too late. The children at school already thought of her as a loner and never approached her and Lilja, her mother who never cared for her illegitimate child decided it was too much of a hassle to appeal to her so she completely ignored the child altogether. When she became a teen that was when Greenly began doing some illegal things and using her power to her benefit. It wasn’t until she got in trouble with the police did her mother decide to send her away back home to Iceland where she wouldn’t cause trouble. Now that she’s much older and she has a lot more control over her power except for when she‘s extremely angry, then she can‘t control it to save her life. After being sent back to Iceland she stopped using her ability as much unless she was in need of it.
beliefsWhen she first became aware of her abilities, Greenly came to view herself as a monster found in her brother’s American comic books and hated it with a passion. It was the barrier that kept her from becoming closer to her family and people at school. Because of it, when her ability was in its early stages of development she had to make herself an outcast to protect those around her. As she grew older she accepted her ‘gift’ when she saw that it could benefit her. Instead of benefiting ,she feels that the more and more she uses her ability a little piece of her humanity goes along with it. So far she has used it for ill means which has only gotten her mixed up with a bad group and furthered the rift between her and her mother. With the move to Iceland she has decided to only use it if necessary.
important people
Lilja Benedikt;mother;38
Jacoby Kroes;brother;22
Anna Benedikt;grandmother;67
Maddox Benedikt;grandfather;68
history
The day Greenly was born wasn’t necessarily a day of happiness . Her mother didn’t hold her in her arms while tears of mirth ran down her face. And her father wasn’t there, video camera in hand to record the momentous event. Instead her father was miles away enjoying a family dinner with his own family while her mother stared listlessly at her only daughter, wondering how she came to be in her current position: alone with two small children, a house with a mortgage, unemployed, and disgraced in the eyes of her parents and neighbors. Over and over in her head all she could think of was how bad her life turned out, consequently after the lights reappeared.
Before she managed to make a mess of her life Lilja Benedikt was your normal teenager living in the small town of Eventide. From the age of two till she was sixteen she and her parents lived in a small but comfortable apartment in the outskirts of London. In Lilja’s eyes London was the center of the world, and nowhere in the world could compare to her city. It wasn’t only the excitement of the city that made her love it so much but what she could accomplish there. At the age of six or so Lilja began dancing at a dance studio renowned for producing some of the best technical and graceful dancers in England. For years she danced in that studio toying with the dreams of one day becoming a prima ballerina. But her plans were cut short when her father announced that the family would be moving back to Iceland. Everything Lilja worked for till that moments crumbled into pieces before her eyes. Six months later she was living in Eventide, away from everything she knew and loved. It was then she made a promise to herself that she wouldn’t stay in this hick town for any longer.
All plans to leave once secondary school finished flew out of the window when Lilja met her first love Erik Kroes, a classmate of hers. With his kind heart and ready smile Erik was the typical nice guy and being the nice guy never gets you noticed by flighty, vapid girls such as Lilja who wasonly interested in boys who were either bad or were popular miles around. As different as day and night, no one expected them to ever be together or get married at such a young age. On a whim, they were married in a very small ceremony; the guests included their parents and a judge to preside over the ceremony. The young couple were only nineteen and twenty at the time of their marriage, a sure sign of how unprepared they were for married life. Before long Lilja became bored with her husband and he came to see her as a very self-centered person but his love for her motivated him to try and make it work. A year after they were married, the young couple welcomed their first and only child into their lives, a son named Jacoby Michael. Jacoby was the apple of his father’s eye from the very start. What man doesn’t want a son to call his own and carry on the family name? In the beginning,Erik thought that the birth of a child would bring him and his wife closer- it did the opposite and they became even more distant. After the birth of her son , it hit Lilja how wrong married life was for her or her for it. This wasn’t her plan at all but she never knew who she’d fall in love with or if she’d even get married. Now that she was , she wanted out. She wanted some distraction and in a town as small as Eventide the only excitement was catching a fish in the numerous lakes and rivers around the town. Fortunately or unfortunately for her, that distraction came in the shape of the obscenely handsome, charismatic Mr. Oliver Green who recently established a law firm in a nearby town .When he was in need of a secretary to oversee his office he chose Lilja out of hundreds of applicants.
It started off as innocent flirtation but escalated into something much more. It swept them both in a whirlwind of emotions and for the first time Lilja felt exhilarated . Not once did she think of the consequences that would occur because of her secret tryst. Lilja’s affair lasted for two years until something happened that would rock her world: she became pregnant. Although she knew that all her problems would be solved if she aborted the baby she chose to keep the baby. It was the first unselfish decision she ever made and a decision that she‘d regret soon enough. Lilja never thought out what would happen when her child was born and people realized that he or she didn’t belong to her fair headed parents. For seven months Lilja managed to fool everyone from her husband to her mother to Oliver that the baby belonged to Erik. The night the lights returned Lilja was on her way home when she felt the familiar and unwelcome pangs of contractions. Six hours later Greenly Benedikt was born in the small hospital of Eventide.
Everyone from the nurse to the doctor who helped deliver Greenly to the elderly janitor could not deny that Greenly was a beautiful child ... and she was nothing like her parents. Dark full hair covered her newborn head and instead of the distinctive blue or gray color of her mother and supposed father , she had intense dark brown eyes. In a family of blondes with lightly colored eyes Greenly stuck out like a sore thumb. For the second time since he learned that he was going to have another child Erik doubted that his daughter was his. Finally, he had to face the truth his wife cheated on him and gave birth to another man’s child. Greenly was no more than a week old when Erik left his wife. With her husband gone Lilja didn’t know who else to turn to but her lover but even he left her. Unknown to her he already had someone, a fiancée, who along with wealth came with a prestigious family name and he wasn’t going to give that up to be with a woman who had nothing going for her and two children, one not even being his. And that’s exactly what he told her.
The months following the appearance of the lights were full of depression for the single mother of two. Without her husband’s income and the fact it became harder and harder to show up at work Lilja made the decision to move out of her house and move into her parents home for the time being. It was her grandparents who really raised Greenly and for that she grew to love them more than just her grandparents but her true parents. Though her children were more than content with their current living situation Lilja, became discontent with living her parents and having the whole town know that she ruined a good thing with her husband for another man. It didn’t take long for the hushed whispers and the disapproving glares to get to Lilja, so when her children were six and eight Lilja decided to leave Eventide to decide what she would do with her life. The next time they saw their mother was when Greenly was eleven and her brother Jacoby was just beginning his second year of high school. One afternoon after school they came home to find their mother sitting in the living room, dressed trendily in a blue frock and her blonde hair styled expertly to show off her looks. Their short family reunion was nothing but awkward. Having never seen their mother in so long, she was more of a stranger rather than the woman who gave birth to them. What took them more by surprise was what she announced next.
While the children were living in Eventide with their grandparents Lilja decided to go back to her childhood home of London, and though she spent too long without dancing, that didn't stop her from trying to pursue a career that involved dance. For a few years she worked jobs that didn't ask much of a high school graduate until she happened on her former dance teacher. During their conversation, her teacher casually asked her if she had any interest teaching a ballet class at her dance studio since one of her teachers decided she'd do better if she ran her own studio. Without hesitation Lilja jumped at the chance of doing something she loved. It was the next best thing and she wasn't about to give it up, no matter what. After everything that happened earlier on in her life, this opportunity was a means to make her world right again. So when it came time for her teacher to retire, the only possible candidate she could think of to run her studio was none other than Lilja. "Yes, I'll do it." Milliseconds hadn't passed before those words gushed from her lips. Even though she would be uprooting her children to live with her in England nothing could stop her from taking on that job, not even her children.
Livid.Angry.Frustration.Upset. A thesaurus would be needed to explain all the emotions that Greenly was going through at that time. She couldn't understand why this woman, all of a sudden after years away from her children would suddenly decided to make them leave their real home to live in some foreign land. That single instance in time was enough for Greenly to despise her mother and that dislike never lessened but grew as Greenly became older. Maybe deep down in her heart Lilja thought she was doing something beneficial for her children in moving them away from the small hick town of Eventide to a center of the world but instead that move proved to be the catalyst for the changes in her daughter.
Not even a month passed after her mother's announcement when Greenly found herself living in a townhouse near the center of London. Saying that the move wasn't a culture shock would be an outright lie. After years of living in a small town where everyone knew everyone and everything about them to living in a city like London was unbelievably hard. Everything proved a challenge when she first moved. But learning a new language and getting used to strange foods was nothing like moving to a new school where people looked at her as if she carried another head on her shoulders.
Leaving her grandparents and her hometown behind was more of challenge for Greenly than anyone could've imagined. Besides her brother they were the only people on earth who she could converse with freely . When she first became aware of her ability, they were the first ones that she chose to confide in. The closeness she shared with her grandparents helped her evolve from a shy child into a much happier and confident one. But these children in her new school were worse than a pack of hungry lions when it came to the new girl. And once she went under their attack she retreated back into an antisocial loner. If misery was a period time, it was definitely the beginning of junior high to the beginning of high school. With her brother busy with his number of friends and her mother who cared more for her studio than her children, Greenly had no one to turn to and withdrew father and farther into herself. Cursed with an ability that was more destructive than beneficial, for a relatively long period of time Greenly entered into a state of depression. Depression has a funny way of making you not care for anything in the world. Whether you ate anything that day or what type of clothing you wore the day before or even if you got in trouble with authorities at all. That lack of concern for welfare led Greenly do whatever she pleased despite the severity of the consequences. The end of junior high was marred with bad marks on her report cards, teachers constantly calling her mother about her behavior, cutting classes, random fights, developing a love for cigarettes, vandalism, shoplifting whenever the mood took her, and of course Gabriel Hayworth.
The subject of love, and sex never crossed Greenly's mind before Gabriel walked into her life clad in designer jeans, a sly, mesmerizing smile, an overconfident air with a bad boy image thrown into the mix. Beautiful enough to make both men and women stop and stare, he was the fantasy of every girl at Greenly's secondary school. As gorgeous as he was everyone knew it was better to keep their distance rather than share one word to London's premier bad boy unless of course if it was to get a good deal on your choice of drugs. Raised in a broken home, the only way Gabriel could ever afford his five hundred dollar jeans was by selling and buying drugs, among other things. Swept up in a fervor at the age of fourteen to have the things that he was denied by his parents' poverty, Gabriel relished in his lifestyle though it would spell an early death for him. The only time he doubted his choice was when he found himself falling for Greenly Benedikt.
Throughout her life Greenly made sure that the only people who knew of her ability were those that she could trust like her grandparents and her brother. By accident, Gabriel learned her secret one afternoon after school was done. Too careless and reckless to check if anyone was watching her Greenly proceeded to break into a classmates locker as payback for the embarrassing incident she suffered during lunch. Once she emptied the contents of any valuables, she left a surprise in a brown paper bag just for her deserving classmate. Instead of finding an empty hallway when she turned to leave she found herself staring into the emotionless green eyes of Gabriel Hayworth. "How did you do that?" Just those five words were enough to spread panic through her entire body until she began trembling at the thought of her secret being let out. "It's a little thing called intelligence. Nothing special, you know. It's not that hard to figure out the combination when she's always reciting it loudly every morning." Lying to weasel her way out of anything was already second nature but for the first time instead of believing her like everyone else did, he continued to stare at her, waiting patiently for the truth. "So where's the lock? This?" He calmly asked, leaning down to pick up the remains of the lock from the floor. "I could forget all of this if you help me."
So that was how it began. Simple blackmail was all it took for the two to become almost inseparable.
Like her grandparents, Gabriel had enough of an effect on Greenly to make her break away from her reserved loner attitude. That outcome, though wasn't as great as the outcome from her grandparents. Greenly didn't transform into the sweet girl she once was but the manipulative, aloof bitch that people came to hate, fear and pretend to like. Hanging around Gabriel soon made everyone respect her, lest they get on her boyfriend's bad side. From then on it seemed everyone was consumed with Greenly. Not once did Greenly forget that these people were the same people who made her miserable every second of her life until Gabriel came along. Out of all her friends the only one she trusted was Gabriel. Maybe because he held her future in his hand by knowing her secret or maybe because they spent nights together, doing nothing but talking about their past, the present and the future. The love she felt for Gabriel was enough to convince her that she would do anything for him even if it was illegal.
Unfortunately, the intensity of her feelings weren't reciprocated as much. Yes, Gabriel loved Greenly but it didn't keep him from cheating on her with numerous girls. So blinded by love or infatuation was she, that Gabriel was able to cheat on her with a supposed good friend right under her nose. Her entire world came crashing down on her when she walked in on him in a extremely compromising situation. All the lessons she learned on controlling her temper went out the window when she the love of her life having sex with someone she thought of as a relatively good friend. The assault charges she faced might not have been so harsh if the police hadn't found heroin in the pocket of her jacket. Heroin she agreed to carry for Gabriel to a friend who lived nearby. The only reason she chose not to divulge who she received the narcotics from because she knew that her betrayal would mean everyone from the United States to Singapore would learn of her secret. And her freedom was something she was not about to give up just to be the jealous, vindictive girlfriend and get back at her cheating boyfriend.
The already rocky conditions between Greenly and her mother worsened when Lilja stepped through the police doorway and found her daughter handcuffed, accompanied by an officer while looking upon her without any remorse for her actions. Angry beyond disbelief ,Lilja's hand lashed out landing heavily on her daughter's cheek with a resounding SMACK! "You should be ashamed." Ashamed? Greenly knew that if there was one person who should be ashamed it was her mother. " Ashamed she says. Funny, because I can remember everyone saying that about you. The same person who was known as a whore who cheated on her loving husband. Isn't that being a bit hypocritical mother?"
There was nothing that Lilja could do to control her unruly daughter except send her away to her grandparents where she was sure she couldn't cause any trouble. Little did she know that this was what Greenly wanted ever since she stepped foot on English soil. And finally after so many years away from home she was returning.
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