Post by CORIN ARGIRO on Feb 18, 2012 9:31:30 GMT -5
Corin Ardere Argiro ;
vampire ;; 19 ;; temporal pyrokinesis
[/center]character info ;
name ; corin ardere argiro
age ; 19 (2438)
gender ; female.
species/membergroup ; vampire
family ;
Chrism - mother - deceased. (human)
Athos - father - deceased. (human)
Muse - cousin/sister - deceased. (human)
Castiel - ex-lover - deceased. (human)
sexual orientation ; heterosexual
high school level ; graduate
character claims ;
face claim ; demi lovato
power claim ;
TEMPORAL PYROKINESIS (COLD FIRE)
Corin has the ability generate a blue flame of fire. Unlike normal blue fire which gives off the most blazing temperatures that burn (compared to normal flames of orange and red), Corin can give off the coldest temperatures that freeze.
In a human, she can freeze their blood, allowing no mortal to survive. They will become frost bitten, as if stuck in the freezer for a day. Automatically, after they are frozen, they will die and eventually thaw out. In a vampire, Corin can freeze their venom, not allowing them to move until it thaws. The amount of time that they spend frozen depends on their strength.
Due to the fact that Corin uses this power so frequently, she must feed twice as much as the normal Cold One. She normally drinks three to four humans every other night.
behind the mask ;
your name ; Erin
your age ; 16
other characters ;
Ariana
Jayden
Corin
PSYCHICAL
HAIR DESCRIPTION ;; long copper-ringlets that glisten with blonde highlights, inherited from her mother in Ancient Greece. wears it down in a tamed way or in a messy bun or braid with tresses falling into her eyes.
EYE DESCRIPTION ;; once had almond-shaped chocolate brown eyes before she was turned that came from her father in Ancient Greece. two millennium later, she has blood red orbs from the human blood.
BODY DESCRIPTION ;;Corin has an hourglass figure that shows an innocent creature when truly the muscular toned arms and stomach show a supposed hired assassin. She has manly, and broad shoulders than take away some feminine side of her. She also has high cheek bones that highlight her almond-shaped eyes. Her skin is pale with dark circles under the crimson orbs. Her bangs make her face seem fragile and mystifying. She has a scar along the nape of her neck, just dancing below her hairline, the scar shown from when she was turned.
PERSONALITY
Corin deals with things according to how you feel about them or how they meet her mind – fits her personal values. She lives in the world of people possibilities and has excellent people skills. She understands people and has a special talent for bringing out the best in others (though she uses it to her advantage). Her main interest in life is observing and understanding. She is focused on understanding, supporting, and encouraging others. She makes things happen for people, and gets her best personal satisfaction from this. She has an ability to make people do exactly what she wants them to do. She can get under people's skins and get the reactions that she is seeking. Her motives are sometimes selfish - she will try to manipulate them.
It's important for her to spend time alone. She has the tendency to be hard on herself and turn to dark thoughts when alone. So, instead, she tries filling her life with activities involving other people. She tends to define her life's direction and priorities according to other people's needs (for specific purposes such as manipulating; secrets; love).
She tends to be more reserved about exposing herself than other people. Although she may have strongly-felt beliefs, Corin is likely to refrain from expressing them. Because her strongest interest lies in being a catalyst of change in other people, she is likely to interact with others on their own level, in a chameleon-like manner, rather than as individuals.
Corin has definite values and opinions which she is able to express clearly and succinctly. These beliefs will be expressed as long as she is not too personal. Corin is, in many ways expressive and open, but more focused on being responsive and supportive of others. When faced with a conflict between a strongly-held value and serving another person's need, she is highly likely to value her own needs.
She may feel quite lonely even when surrounded by people. This feeling of aloneness may be exacerbated by the tendency to not reveal her true self.
Corin can be fun to be with, and truly understand and love people. She is typically very straight-forward and honest. Corin exudes a lot of self-confidence, and has a great amount of ability to do many different things. She is generally bright, full of potential, energetic and fast-paced. Corin is usually good at anything which captures her interest.
Corin likes for things to be well-organized, and will work hard at maintaining structure and resolving ambiguity. She has a tendency to be fussy, especially with her home environments.
She does not like dealing with impersonal reasoning. Corin does understand or appreciate its merit, and will be unhappy in situations where she is forced to deal with logic and facts without any connection to a human element. Living in the world of people possibilities, Corin enjoys her plans more than her achievements. She gets excited about possibilities for the future, but may become easily bored and restless with the present.
Corin likes to be witty; sports; long walks; full moons; observing; relationships; love; writing; music; roses (white); gardens; fighting. She absolutely despises fake people; betrayal; death; pain; spiders; thorns; losing the one you love; the Volturi; heartbreak. Her greatest strengths analytical; determination; sarcasm; manipulation; offensive/defensive combat. Her greatest weaknesses revolve around romance; too trusting; loyalty; pain; honesty. Her main quirks and habits are when she goes after whatever is trying to hurt/kill her; walking alone in the shadow; staying by Aro’s side; thinking of becoming disloyal to the Volturi. Her greatest fears are being killed by Aro; having her heart broken by someone she loved; the Volturi discovering her disloyalty. And her biggest secret is that she once fell in love with a human; is a Volturi assassin for Aro; is thinking of becoming disloyal to the Volturi.
Corin has a strong need for close, intimate relationships, and will put forth a lot of effort in creating and maintaining these relationships. She is very loyal and trustworthy once involved in a relationship.
Corin is someone who has not found their place in the world is likely to be extremely sensitive to criticism, and to have the tendency to worry excessively and feel guilty. She is a charming, warm, gracious, creative and diverse individual with richly developed insights into what makes other people tick. This special ability to see growth potential in others combined with a genuine drive to help people makes Corin a a truly valued individual. As giving and caring as she could be, Corin always tends to value her own needs more.
HISTORY
Athens, Greece, had always been a land of prosperity, fertility, and liberty – as well as power. It had thrived as a city for years – easily the most outstanding nation in the Eastern Hemisphere at the time. But there came a change in power balance – and war sparked with the Spartans.
In the year 427, a daughter was born of Chrism and Athos Argiro – a newly wedded couple in their early twenties. Her name was Corin Ardere Argiro, and the moment that Athos gazed at his daughter, did he realize that she had been blessed by Aphrodite herself. She had an unearthed beauty with her waist length copper ringlets that glistened with strands of blonde inherited from her mother. It was part of the status quo that Corin was born into. A place of nobility. Even at a young age, Corin would have to prove herself – as part of nobility and power for she was a female – and females in Ancient Greece were at the bottom of the food chain in Corin’s eyes. But as a child, Athos and Chrism were cautious and feared their daughter’s future for every since the age of ten months – Corin had been a pyromaniac. Her parents would find her always staring in focus at the flame of the candle or torch that lit the room. In fact, the infant’s first word was “fire”.
When Corin turned two years of age, her aunt and uncle perished at war with Spartans who raided the southern half of Athens. When the Athens Army pushed the Spartans back, Corin’s parents took her cousin, Muse, in their home.. Her parents considered Muse an affordable gain to their family and predicted a bright future for her. And so began the two’s lives. In a city where there was only one way to become the most favorite – you had to have beauty, brains, and bravery. When it came to Muse and Corin, the two had it all. And that was the only similarity. Both of the girls were practically opposites. While Muse was cheerful and loud, Corin was more quiet and contemplative. However, in attitude, Muse was a rebel, the opposite of Corin’s “goody-two-shoes” attitude. Both girls didn’t really get long, maybe most because the difference of their talent and character. Yet the place that they live was too large, but tight-knitted, and it’s impossible for the sibling rivalry and conflict to develop even further. Therefore, instead of fighting and competing, the two cousins preferred not to do social things together and tried to be civilized with each other during minor amount of time they spend together at dining room or their shared-bedroom.
As the two grew together, there was one major difference that separated them. Corin’s liking to fire spread to an extreme. It was almost if she could talk to fire. Everywhere you went in the Argiro’s home, a fire would be lit near Corin’s figure. When Corin was older, and she was questioned about her addiction to fire, she simply responded that fire was beautiful. It kept her alive. It reminded her of warmth and the bound of family and friendship. Fire, to her, was in no way destructive but merely beautiful. The beginning of life. To her, fire was a precious artifact that existed in her deep heart. Athos once claimed that Corin was life fire herself, and if the supernatural was possible, she would be able to produce fire. It was phrase that Corin thought of naturally.
Muse, Corin, and the Argiro’s had lived in Athens for hundreds of years, at least their ancestors did. But in Athens, there was limited things for teenagers to do. While the educating took up most of their day, there was the only thing that they do – teenagers secretly taught themselves the art of combat. Muse and Corin were part of the underground league of teenagers that were training for war – just in case the Spartans got past the Athens’ defenses. Corin and Muse both excelled.
During her nineteen years of living in Athens, Corin had never made contact with Spartans. Yes, she did travel to Sparta at one point when she was younger, but since the wall had been built around Athens, all teenagers below 21 were not permitted outside of the city. The elders of Athens believed that outside contact would be destructive for the youngsters and they’re not allowing the young ones to have contact until they’re powerful enough, in the age of 21. Corin, never one to break the rules, wasn’t interested about the outside world. Based on what she learned from the history, outsiders would be dangerous since they were easy to be effected by evil, and their judgments were easily being biased. Beside, the gate to go out of Athens was protected by high-level guards and only few civilians were allowed to cross them.
Long before the Spartan-Athen war, Athens been living without troubles for almost five centuries and no one felt there’s any need to build army as a precaution. However, things were change just as easy as a man can turn from angel to evil. When Corin turned fifteen, some Spartans surrounding Athens began attacking. No one really knows what caused the attack or who initiated it. One thing for sure was they’re ready, too ready for just a spontaneous act, and they’re too brutal to make this a simple war to claim a territory.
When Corin turned seventeen, Athos was drafted into the war. With goodbyes and farewells, Corin watched her father troop off into battle. But while she mourned the possibility of him leaving, Muse and Chrism went on as if he had never been here. This angered the teenager to no end, so she did the unthinkable. If she was the only one who cared about her father’s well-being, then she too would go out to war. But in this day and age, it was unarguable for a girl to go to war. So, with a beating heart and strong-will, Corin placed her hair into a high bun and placed a helmet on her head, sword in hand, and went off to war.
It was easier than thought to masquerade as a solider. But Corin quickly became the center of attention. As she looped through the foot soldiers of the Spartans with grace, other soldiers were slaughtered. She was one of the few who could light the fire upon raids. And the only one who somehow managed to light the fire in the rain. Her commanding officer took note of this and brought her to a higher status. War felt right to Corin, but she still longed for her family’s comfort. It was nearly when Corin was to turn nineteen when word came that the Third Division of the Army had been ambushed. No survivors. That meant that her father was dead.
During this time, Chrism dutifully called Corin home, wanting her daughter home after her father’s death. In doing so, Corin’s cover was blown as all realized that they had been outdone by a mere teenage female. It irked her fellow soldiers to no end, and she was sent back to Athens with no words of protest. There, Chrism announced that Corin and Muse were being sent north with the rest of the young of Athens. They were losing the war. So, with heavy hearts, the three joined the groups that were evacuating Athens. But Chrism had known that this would not be easy.
Corin’s mother had foreseen the situation, but she was just one person and no one was believe her until it was too late. In the darkest night of the month, the attack came in a sudden. The attacker seemed to know what they’re doing for they could destroy the spell within an hour. Then the situation was become to unbearable to be told, it was tough and even though all the people tried their best to against the attacker, they’re loosing in numbers. In some fights, power is nothing against number, and that war was one of them.
Corin, with her mother and cousin and other civilians, were trying to slip out, planning to sneak out from the war. However, their effort to runaway failed as one of the child cried of a reason that no one aware about. Their group who most were children and less powerful women were easy to be defeated by their attacker. The Spartans ambushed them, slaughtering them all. During the last attempt of protecting her family, Muse died, killed by Spartans in front of Corin and Chrism. Muse died trying to protect her cousin and her now mother from some Spartans that were more than ready to take their lives. The failure of killing Corin and Chrism made their attacker being more brutal. They choose to attack Chrism first and managed to injure her badly before they moved and planned to attack Corin. When Chrism realized that Corin was next, she used the last of her strength to push her daughter out of the way, suffering the fatal blow. However, at the same time, a coven of vampires caught the scent of fresh blood. Thus, the frenzy began as they took out the remaining survivors as well as the division of the Spartan Army that was attacking them. Corin held her own for the first few blows, but one managed to slash her across the torso, drawing blood and greedily bending over to feed. But just below he managed to touch the dying Corin, a shadow that Corin later came to realize had been her commanding officer swooped down on the creature. Corin felt a warm slash of pain and became screaming as her commanding officer bit her, venom streaming into her body. She was in a glazed-over form as she glanced to her right just as the commanding officer started the fire. And in that moment, Corin saw the fire consume her city, her family, and the enemy. And the fire destroyed what was left of her fragile heart.
Corin’s first memory was waking up in a small bed in a home just outside of Athens. She was just awake like mortals do in their everyday life, in tranquil sense with no worries and pains. As her sight met a pairs of eyes in front of her, it was then when she started to panicked. Panicked because as she looked at their face she knew immediately that she had become what had killed her friends and family. A vampire. Waking up and realizing that you were what you despised was not scary, but frustrating. Corin break out into a tantrum, quickly diving on the nearest human who had found her. The human put up no fight (in a vampire’s eyes), for Corin quickly placed both hands on his chest, growling all the while. All of the sudden the human screamed as flames of blue fire erupted in Corin’s palms. The human quickly froze to death. Leaving Corin with solidified blood and nothing to feed on.
The teenager realized that the fire she harnessed was destructive, just as the fire she had known had come to be. Her heart was cold, no longer filled with the warmth of fire. Fire had destroyed her home. Destroyed her family. And destroyed her life. In vengeance, Corin began to slaughter humans in a dazed state, killing all who saw her, freezing all who watched her feed.
For centuries, over a millennia, they called her the Moonlight Slayer. She slaughtered unsuspecting townspeople. With each time she used her power, Corin realized that the hungrier she became. She often ended up feeding on three or four humans every other day. So her routine continued, with each human she fed from, others might have caught her, but she stealthily ambushed them, freezing their bodies as if they had been an iceberg for a hundred years. Their blood solidified as she hid them, but days later, they thawed out, as dead as the one she had drank from.
This continued until the mid 1100’s, when Corin began a blood lust phase that had her stealthily enter Volterra under the Volturi’s radar. She had never come to know the Volturi’s existence, but noticed some form of vampire civilization when she smelled their scent. It started off with just a human walking in on her feeding, a house on the outskirts of Volterra. By the morning, the citizens found three frozen humans outside a current resident’s home – and two humans inside, drained of blood. This alerted the Volturi to her presence. It was two days later when a nameless Volturi member caught sight of Corin in the flesh and approached her. In panic, she used her power on the vampire. He froze with her touch as she made her escape. Aro found him later that night, under a strange paralysis. The vampire eventually thawed out and it was discovered that based on a vampire’s strength, they would be frozen in place for however long it took them to free themselves.
It was a week later when Corin was eventually captured by the Volturi. She was offered a position among the guard to which she accepted gratefully – so desperately wanting companions for her after being alone all through life. Corin was made a Volturi assassin – she was sent out to capture or kill those who were smaller threats to the Volturi that were not big enough needing the Volturi guard to defeat them. Aro sent her out quite frequently, and when she used her power, she fed right outside the city of Volterra for she was not allowed to feed inside its walls. It was four centuries after her recruitment when Corin was sent after a boy in southern Italy by the name of Castiel. He had discovered vampires’ existence and fled. Corin was sent out to dispose of him.
When she met with him for the first time, she fell head over heels for him. As did he for her. Corin and Castiel ran away together, hiding from the Volturi for two years until Aro and Demetri eventually caught up with them. Aro made Corin kill Castiel, made her watch as the life disappeared from her lover’s eyes. When it was over, if vampires could sob, Corin would have flooded the entire European continent. The centuries that followed, Corin became passive, hiding behind Aro’s shadow, and manipulative.
As the present came about, Corin realized that she was becoming more unsettled within the Volturi walls. She now has to make a decision - either desert the people she has called family for two millennia or stay in the shadows forever.
Even Corin does not know the answer.
