Alania Jasper Wilts

the basics

full name ♦ Alania Jasper Wilts
nicknames ♦ Nia or Birdie
age ♦ July 3rd 1998
occupation ♦ Student
school ♦ Primrose Acadamy
species ♦ Human
ability/power ♦ Animal Control
how the ability works ♦
She is able to speak with animals of any kind; be it birds, mammals, or aquatic beast. Once connected with an animal, she can give ask them to complete various task for her. At the moment she can connect up to two animals without worry of lossing control. Three is pushing it, and four will just turn into a shit show.

She has found she has a hard time normally getting more predatory animals to listen to her commands or those of high intelligence. The former actually ends up attacking her half of the time when she comes into contact with them. Because of this, she has numerous little scares on her hands from scratches and bites.

If she has a relationship with the animal prior to her trying form a connection with them, she has found the chance of her power actually working increases by two folds.

Her parents have already come up with a theory why her powers are so fickled in their ways, and it purely comes down to Alania's mental state. Because of her childhood, Alania has always tried to suppress her abilities since she could remember. It was only when she was adopted by the Wilts at the age of fourteen did she slowly come to use and control her abilities.

gender ♦ Female | She/Her
sexuality ♦ Pansexual

the appearance

face claim ♦ Alina Schiano
height and weight ♦ 5'5"
identifying features ♦ She has numerous little faint scars on her hands from animal scratches and bites. Her right ear has a bar, two more piercings along the top of her ear, and two piercings through her lobe. She has one tattoo, and it is a little mustache on the side of her left pointer finger.
overall appearance ♦ Alania is something of a fairy-like child. She has a thin build that makes her seem fragile to everyone who doesn't know her. The only thing that saves her from being thought of as a child is her generous amount of curves. It's not like she has a LOT of curves, but enough that her tush has a little something-something to it, and her breast are more like medium sized grapefruit instead of apples. Long wavy -on the verge of being curly- red hair flows down her back, with large doe green eyes that have gotten her out of trouble more than a few times.

Even though she comes from a well-off family, she somehow always has this frazzled geeky look to her. Probably because she insists on all of her clothes being bought only from secondhand shops, and often times buying sizes that are a bit too big for her. One such article of clothing is actually her favorite find. An oversized knitted cardigan that sometimes looks like it is swallowing her whole. Added with her geeky over-sized oval glasses, she has that frazzled geeky look down to an art really.

the personality

likes ♦
Forests
Winter
Her Dog (Atlas)
Sweets
Hiking/Camping
Animals

dislikes ♦
Rude People
Spicy Food
Bullies
Rushing
Being in a building for long
Understimulating Talks

strengths ♦
Patient
Reslient

weaknesses ♦
Insecure
People-Pleasing
Animals

dreams ♦
Finding out about her real parents
Becoming a vet.

fears ♦
Finding out about why her parents abandoned her
Losing control of her abilities
Being abandoned again
Being alone
Thunder

overall personality ♦
She likes for people to think she is a happy life loving girl, and for the most part, she is. She is happy with everything she obtained and loves life around her, but that is far from the whole truth. She has an acute fear of being alone for too long. One of the many side effects of being stuck in the foster system ten years too many.

Although it did sort of forced her to be something of a social butterfly. In her desperation to keep from being alone, she talks to anyone around her no matter how they look or behave. She likes to think everyone has a bit of goodness in them, no matter how they try to cover it up. Her persistence in wanting to befriend others is surprisingly strong. Even if she rebuffed harshly, she won't give up; it's almost scary really.

Unfortunately, she has somehow managed to keep her naivety through the years, or maybe you could just call her extremely dense. Many men and women have tried to flirt and coax the silly thing into their beds or arms, and many times she has laughed it off as them just being playful and teasing. It takes a lot for her to ever realize someone feels something for her more than simple friends.

the history

father ♦ Nathan John Wilts, 45, Painter
mother ♦ Tillia Hawkskin Wilts, 48, Sculptor
siblings ♦ N/A
important people ♦
---- ---- Jasper, ??, ----
---- ---- Jasper, ??, ----
hometown ♦
She doesn't remember where she was born or where she grew up till the age of five. Her earliest memories that come to her are being in the foster care system. She has jumped around from home to home but finally found a permanent family with the Wilts at the age of fourteen. They live in New Orleans, Louisiana.

overall history ♦
Alania didn't have the greatest childhood growing up, but it wasn't the worse one she heard of either. Since she could remember she has been jumping from foster home to foster home. Many times she was returned for the same reason. Something happens that causes her powers to be triggered, and someone gets hurt. It didn't matter that she never started the fights, or it was the fright that got her; her "parents" always felt something was off about her.

They would try to hide it, sometimes even thinking its cute when all the animals in the neighborhood seemed to be drawn to her, but it never lasts. Usually, after some neighborhood bully corners her, or being left alone during a thunderstorm does the accident happen. Several dogs jumping over fences to tear the kid apart but never harming her. Birds smashing into her "parents" windows to wake them in the dead of night, even if it means breaking their necks on the glass panels.

The first time it happens it is brushed aside, but the second time gathers their attention. Its the third that causes the whispers and stares, and finally the fourth that packs her bags and brings her back to the system. It's not like she could blame her would-be parents, they didn't know what they were getting into when they adopted her, but it still hurt every time.

Over time she tried stopping it. Suppressing her gift so she could be normal like the other kids around her, but it was hard. Something always caused her to slip, to accidentally relapse and call to the beast around her when she knows she shouldn't.

Yet it was one of these lapses that got her, her forever home. The Wilts didn't shed from her abilities, instead, they seemed to cherish it, even nourish it. They accepted her for what and who she is with love that she hadn't felt since she could remember.

Yes, her new family was a bit (a lot) weird, but they are kind to her, and that is all she could ask for. Sometimes she thinks they are holding secrets from her. Ones that will destroy her fragile hold of a family that she finally acquired after years of failures. Maybe that's why she never dug into the secrets or asked what's in the basement that they keep locked away night and day. She is content, for now, to smile and bury the memory of finding a book with a photo of her and two other people in it holding her close. Their faces gouged out beyond recognition, yet hers left alone; untouched and blemish free. Yes, she was content to forget about that, for now.

Now she attends Primrose Academy in hopes of mastering her powers. Harnessing them and stopping the unconscious flukes that she sometimes display. She can't live her life if she is constantly worrying about accidentally mauling some jerk with people's dogs, just because he angered her.

the role player

alias ♦Foxbrush
age ♦ 22
pronouns ♦ She/Her
code ♦ ADMIN EDIT
other characters ♦ N/A