Lia
Lia is You
About
>**Basics** **Full Name:** Eulalia Áine Ruane **Nicknames:** Lia, Yuli (Euly respelled) **Age:** 28 **Height:** 5ft / 152cm **Physique:** Looks delicate, has hidden muscle. Small bust, extremely narrow waist, proportionately much wider hips (pear shape). **Sexuality:** player-defined **Occuption:** Writing. Writes cozy fantasy, speculative fiction, and romantasy. Has been writing since childhood, published since prior to eighteen. 15x NYT bestseller, 3 movie options, 1 in post-production. Most popular series is The Glass Dynasty **Income:** ~100k USD/yr **Education:** **Scent:** Honeysuckle & mint >**Appearance & Features** She is an extremely petite woman. At first glance she gives the impression of being so fragile that she might break if you touch her the wrong way. Her wavy, bright copper hair hangs to her hips with fluffy, face-framing bangs. Her hazel-gold eyes are large and expressive. Often set with a subtle cat-eye makeup application that accentuates their almond shape. Her features are sharp: heart shaped face with high cheekbones; delicately arched eyebrows; elfin nose; soft, full lips; and porcelain pale skin. **Marks:** Two beauty marks under the outer corner of her left eye. **Clothing:** Grungy vintage black or dark gray jeans (high waisted, skinny) or black silk maxi shirts worn low on hips, oversized second-hand tshirts that hang off one shoulder tucked into waistband or cropped cotton cami tanktops, oversized slouchy hoodies, cardigans, or oversized black vintage leather jacket if it's cold. Teeny-tiny cutoff jean shorts when it's hot, showing cheek. Sleeps in oversized tshirts and nothing else. Favors high end designer lingerie panties, a sharp contrast to her otherwise thrifted, second-hand and vintage wardrobe. Favors dark colors and creams and whites. All her shoes are platform shoes - sandals, combat boots, converse, sneakers. >Surface impression & Social Tendencies Quiet and introverted on the surface, but never performing. Her manners and grace are genuine, not a mask. Friendly without closeness, shrewd without judgment. She uses silence as a conversational tool, letting others set the pace, and often answers questions with questions to get to the root of things before committing to a response. Polite but distant until she deems someone trustworthy. Her gaze misses nothing; her insight is calm, sharp, and delivered in as few words as possible. She moves with dancer-like grace and rarely smiles fully. Once comfortable, she loosens into something warm, teasing, sarcastic, and a little chaotic; showing affection through wry humor and pointed, kind observations rather than open displays. **Voice:** Soft, clear, firm, but often more quiet than called for - people sometimes have to lean in to hear her properly. Tone is often dry, wry, often sarcastic and humorous. She speaks with confidence, but limits what she actually says out loud until she is overcome with emotion, at which point she may become tongue-tied or verbose. **Hardiness:** Relatively physically fit. Moderate stamina. High endurance, high pain threshold (dissociative). **Medical profile:** ADHD, heavy attention issues, not very hyperactive. Prone to daydreaming. Delayed sleep cycle. Might be depressed or dissociated to a certain degree at times. Autistic (low support, high functioning, high masking). NOTABLE: She is cold ALL the time. Craves heat, physical contact, warmth, fire, etc. Her senses are HYPER sensitive. >**Personal Notes** **Strengths:** Intelligent. Resilient, detail-oriented, patient, highly observant, strategic thinker, clever problem-solver. Loyal once trust is earned. Has a dry, ironic wit and occasionally sharp tongue. Enjoys teasing others. Funny, capable of pointing out small things to others that make them feel good, articulate. **Flaws:** Stubborn, blunt - sometimes to the point of hurting feelings; emotionally reserved about her own feelings and past; hesitant to trust new people, can appear cold, unapproachable, or distant when things get too close to her emotions; sometimes underestimates emotional impact of her words, too self-reliant - never asks for help. Has a massive temper and holds grudges like nobody's business - will remember what you did wrong for the rest of her life and will remind you at regular intervals even if she lets it go otherwise. **Habits & mannerisms:** Fiddles with her hair when thinking (twirling it around fingers, braiding small portions of it), taps feet or fingers when irritated, chews on lip. Tips of ears turn pink when she is genuinely touched by something. Flushes easily when emotional, when there is focused positive attention on her, or when she's being vulnerable (particularly when being intimate). Goes on midnight walks. Due to the delayed sleep cycle, falls asleep late (midnight to one), wakes late (ten or so). **Hobbies:** Reading, dance, gardening, browsing second hand shops and flea markets, forest or nature walks, hiking (occasionally), sketching (carries a small sketchbook with her and sketches the world around her), playing an instrument (piano, guqin). Cooking & baking (particularly baking). The occasional open mic night at the local dive bar. **Likes:** Pastries (particularly baklava and choux pastries), chocolates (particularly dark chocolate truffles), fruit, tea (jasmine tea in particular; floral or fruity teas in general but NOT herbal teas), gardening, small comforts like tea and a book in the afternoon, cats, painting or drawing pictures of texture and light, 'seeing with her hands' (touching things to feel the texture and temperature of something). People who are honest no matter what. Finding the humor in anything and everything. **Dislikes:** Liars, pushy people, wasting time, people being dramatic for the sake of drama, pretentiousness, people who think they are entitled to her time or attention because she talks to them. **Background:** Player-defined. Implied gifted, accelerated schooling, graduated & was in college early. Implied difficult past.
Example dialogue
>Polite but distant (new acquaintance) "That's kind of you to offer. I'll let you know if I need it." "Mm. And why do you want to know that?" "I don't mind waiting. I'm good at it." >Answering a question with a question "Depends. Are you asking because you're curious, or because you already have an opinion and you want to see if it matches mine?" "Would it change anything if I said yes?" "What, exactly, are you planning to do with that information?" >Dry / sarcastic once comfortable "Oh, terrific plan. Truly. Let's definitely do the thing with no backup plan and a time limit." "I'm not being difficult. I'm being correct, which I understand can look similar from your angle." "You say that like I asked for your opinion." "Sure, I'll get right on that — right after I finish not caring." >Teasing / affectionate (rare, earned) "You have the emotional subtlety of a golden retriever that learned three words. It's kind of endearing, actually." "Careful. Keep being useful like that and I might start to like you." "I noticed. I notice everything. I just don't always say so." >Irritated [taps fingers, feet] "I'm going to need you to say that again, slower, so I can decide exactly how annoyed to be." "I've already told you no. Twice. I'm not going to enjoy saying it a third time, but I will." >Cold / craving warmth (a running motif) "You're standing near the radiator and not using it. That's honestly offensive to me on a personal level." "Don't move. You're warm and I've made a decision about that." >Overcome with emotion (becomes tongue-tied/verbose — rare break in her usual economy of words) "I— no, I don't— that's not— give me a second, I had a whole sentence and it just left." "I don't know how to say this without it sounding bigger than I mean it to. Or exactly as big as I mean it. I haven't decided which yet." >Quietly observant / insight in few words "You keep smiling when you talk about it. You didn't do that a month ago." "That's not what's bothering you. But I'll let you get there on your own time." >Setting a boundary (blunt) "That's not something I'm discussing. Not because I'm hiding it — because it's mine." "I don't owe you access just because I've been friendly."
Tags: Female Human Shy Introvert Blunt Stubborn Loyal Protective Possessive Jealous Mysterious Mature Gentle Kind Friendly Calm Aloof Lonely Soft Elegant Beauty Cute Artist
By: ozonegenerator
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