Name: Astyr Isabella Moorington
Aliases: Star
Age: 17, almost 18.
Gender: Female
Archetype: The Gamer Geek
Personality: Astyr is a very bubbly person, when she isn't caught up in gaming, reading, watching movies or her comics. She loves socializing, and makes friends fairly quickly. Typically, she's outgoing, caring, kind, and gentle; not to mention overly cautious. However, sometimes she can get carried away when caught up in video games, and frequently curses when she dies on any game. However, aside from this, she's a courteous and polite young woman. Stubborn and independent, yes, but kind. She typically hangs out with the opposite gender, and is often attracted to by them without realizing it. However, she frequently likes someone without knowing if they like her, and often gets a bit shy and flustered around them; which, with her, is a clear 'I-like-you-but-am-too-scared-to-say-it' sign. Though, she is now terrified of getting in a relationship with/too close to someone due to past events.
Appearance/Picture:
Single or Taken: Single
Sexuality: Straight
Audition Tape: In the video, the first part is a short slideshow of varying videos. First, Astyr is seen juggling and laughing, surrounded by cheerful and elated children cheering her on. It appears to be a birthday party, with her as the entertainer. Next, there is a clip of her again, this time riding a skateboard being quickly pulled along by a group of excited dogs; a clip of her volunteer work for the local animal shelter. Then, it switches to her in what appears to be a hospital, carefully pushing a wheelchair bound teen down to a room, where a variety of gift baskets and other such things await. However, another video barely starts before being cut off, swapping to Astyr sitting in a dark-blue wolf-themed room, sat on a waterbed, carefully holding a large Boa. "Hey, TD peeps. I'm Astyr Moorington, and I think I got what it takes to win. Even if not, I'd love to go out there and have fun. So... Well, that's it. Hope ya consider me!" Then, it fades to black.
Talents: Astyr, over the years, has obtained a natural ease when playing games. She has beaten every one she owns, and frequently plays against her friends, only to boast when she 'kicked your ass!'. She is extremely wise in the area of tech, and frequently toys with things to find ways to 'make them better'. She also is great at drawing and percussion, but isn't good at other forms of art. Her most favored talent, however, is her incredulous acting skills, which have given her extreme talent with impersonations. Lastly, she can juggle, and has mad skills with paintball, aersoft, and nerf guns.
Weaknesses: Unlike most girls who claim to be nerds, geeks, or gamers, she truly is all of those at heart. And, she tends to be a bit prideful of it, and frequently boasts her savvy-ness with technology, and her ability to beat almost anyone at games. She sometime loses her temper, especially when she sees people being picked on. She isn't afraid to speak her mind, which sometimes gets her into trouble. Due to past events, she's scared of getting too close to people, out of fear of losing others or getting them hurt. She hates small spaces more than anything, and despises train and bus rides. Because of a medical condition, she is slightly lacking in physical strength, gets injured extremely easily, and fatigues quickly. Her immune system is weak because of the condition, leading to her falling ill fairly often. However, she typically completely hides her disease, which leads to her often getting hurt doing things she shouldn't do.
Fears: Astyr is admittedly scared of lending her games, comics, books, CDs/DVDs, and controllers to others for the fact she thinks they'll damage or break them. She's terrified of small spaces, after being locked in a closet on accident and left there for over twenty-four hours. She has a chronic fear of losing those she loves, after an old friend of hers murdered her boyfriend. Since then, she's been scared that the murderer, who was an ex of hers that was apparently stalking her, is out there, looking for her. She's also scared to get in another relationship because of this.
Biography: Since she grew up in a house with only a brother and her father(her mother was home off and on), Astyr has always been a bit of a tomboy. However, her family situation is what people assume to have caused this, though it's quite the contrary. At a young age, Astyr had started picking up comics, books, and games on her own. Her father wasn't exactly fond of the fact she enjoyed these things(save for gaming, since he was a gamer as well), but didn't try to stop her or judge her for it. Over the years, her skills in reading, general technology, gaming, and IQ increased incredulously. At the age of five, she had already started reading the Inheritance Cycle, the Harry Potter books, The Book Thief, and more. She got through almost all of her books, comics, and games in a matter of months, before persuading her father to get her more. This continued for quite some time, before Aiden, Astyr's little brother, was born. Her mother had already seldom been home due to working in a travel business, but she returned less and less after this. Though, Astyr was used to it, and Aiden adjusted to it as he grew as well. Soon enough, Astyr had gotten quite a few tricks up her sleeve. He convinced her babysitter to let her try her drum set, and turned out to be surprisingly good at it. At seven, the same boy had agreed to teach her lessons on it, and she learned quickly. The next thing she took on..?
Acting. And to hell if she wasn't great at it, that little mastermind. She did it left and right, frequently reciting quotes from famous plays, movies, books, and television shows. Along with these skills, her talent of impersonations surfaced, as well. She started working with the community theatre, participating in a variety of plays and musicals. And, eventually, this took off for her. By fourteen, she was being paid to participate in a variety of play, musicals, and even to do voice acting for a few shows.
She excelled in school, going above and beyond expectation. She laid low on her performances for the school year, rather making time to volunteer with a few shows here and there. She helped out at both the local hospital and animal shelter, and was persuaded to do some party entertaining by a few parents of kids she occasionally babysat. It always seemed like she never had enough time, nor enough to do.
Soon enough, at fifteen, Astyr had her first long-term relationship. She'd had a few in the past, but they had all ended up to be psychopaths or total assholes. But this one was different; they'd been dating for about a year, and were so close that some mistook them for siblings. However, when they were almost to their second anniversary...
He was found dead.
Astyr was utterly devastated when she got the phone call. She cried for almost a week on end, keeping herself locked in her room. She didn't eat, didn't sleep, and seldom drank. When she finally left her room again, still sniveling and tear-streaked, she received a letter in the mail. There was no return address, nor anything else but Astyr's name. She opened it hesitantly, slowly sliding out the letter. It read, in bold red ink, "_ ____ ___, ____. _ ____ ___ _'_ __ __. ___ ____ ______ __ __." It was signed "____, S.E." She only sobbed harder, as she immediately knew who had murdered her beloved. What made it worse, was that the murderer had signed it with his initials: Seth Eastwood. Not only that, but when she handed it to the police for investigation, the culprit had written it in Seth's blood, in forged handwriting.
Ever since then, Astyr has avoided relationships like the plague, even when she strongly likes someone. Why? Because it'd put her and anyone she got with in danger. She believes that _______ _______, the murderer and her insane ex, is still stalking her and plotting against her, even two years after the incident. She applied for TD in hopes of escaping, possibly making friends, and if she were lucky.. Falling in love again. Just... Without the merciless murder, this time around.
Medical Issue: When Astyr turned four, she was diagnosed with EDS: which changed her physical life. She was forced to drop out of soccer, could participate in few games on the playground, and was to do little physical writing(limiting her to typing long assignments on a laptop). This is partially why she is so fond of all the other things she does, and boasts them a bit; she feels the need to prove she really is worth something, even with a disease.
The form of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Astyr inherited is the hyper-mobility type. This results in; extremely soft skin(that is fairly stretchy) that bruises easily, abnormal and almost disturbing flexibility, a weak immune system(due to her body having to work hard to keep itself together), weak joints that make for easy bending, fragile bones that are easy to break, frequent dislocations, and much more.
She also has to wear these constantly. They're ring splints that keep her fingers from bending ways they aren't supposed to. Though, she passes them off as regular rings:
(Mine are a bit tarnished.. But oh well. It works. She wears these on both hands.)
