Alodia Towner

Full Name: Alodia Josephine Towner

Al - Short for Alodia Didi - Also written as 'DD' at times, her artist pseudonym Ali - Don't even try to call her by that Briar Rose - Funnily enough it is all an act

20 y/o > Junior > Fine Arts Student ​

APPEARANCE

5'8 feet = 173 cm 120 Lbs = 54 kg BMI = 18 [Slightly underweight]

It is strange, really. With just one kilogram, a little over two pounds, more the girl would have been considered to have a healthy weight. It is barely noticeable, but the change of one digit would have shown the green light instead of a yellow colour when she scales her own BMI [Body Mass Index]. It doesn't bother her too much though, knowing that it is only a slight difference Alodia puts her own body on a low priority, finding it more important to maintain her scholarship and keep her sponsors on a leash. Besides, so she reasons, if she had been born and raised in the East her BMI would have been a healthy one instead. It just so happens that she was born in a place and country where the scale averages are put higher and that her body type doesn't fit it.

Long limbs and corpse, Alodia is known to be rather flat and stick like in figure. It often serves her the sneering comment of being a 'disco lantern' combined with the odd colours that she had dyed her hair in. A hilarious nickname many find and mostly left to ignore from Alodia's side. She has no concerns about her body as her insecurity isn't a negative body image, like most girls her age, but comes from her handicap. Combined with her own reluctance to interact with the students Alodia has also been greatly avoiding crowded places, making it so that she frequently skips out on meals as she can't stand sitting in the dining room where everyone is noisily chatting with each other. ​​

HOBBIES/INTERESTS/SKILLS

SIGN LANGUAGE

As a young girl Alodia had been sent to meetings with fellow kids who are either completely deaf or partially so. Through them she had learnt to 'speak' in sign language and is able to communicate fluently and confidently with them with only her hands. She rarely gets to use it though, as her parents barely understand any sign language as they couldn't afford to take lessons themselves. That along with the reasoning that Alodia is only partially deaf they have resorted to speak really loudly to each other instead.

ARTS

Essentially it is arts what keeps her alive. Alodia is far from smart, neither is her family rich or anywhere near it. The girl wouldn't even have received the chances she had, or be able to attend college at all if it weren't for the fact that she was immensely and undeniably talented. As a young child she loved to draw her days away, a hobby her parents tried to discourage her from as they wanted her to succeed via a safer route. However, as she kept on going, drawing her days away and eventually got picked up by her teachers and recommended to join competitions they started to pressure her. Once it was found that she was talented, so talented that people were willing to give money for, to support her to further develop herself, from there on that hobby she loved became something serious. It was what was going to support her in the future, what was going to ensure her future, it became the safe route to walk on for her.

FORGING

A less than noble talent that Alodia possesses. Due to her keen eye for detail and her steady hand she is capable to forging handwriting, paintings, and more almost flawlessly. As copying is usually frowned down upon Alodia keeps this skill a secret, not wanting to fall down her pedestal and be falsely accused of one thing she would never do; plagiarising. A skill that has helped her out on occasions, when she needed a note for the teacher for example, and a skill that she rather keeps a secret. Afraid that people will judge her for her own capabilities.

PICK POCKETING

Another skill that Alodia is less than proud of is pick pocketing. As a young girl who grew up between rich children on an elite school she always felt envious of their wealth. Thinking that they wouldn't miss some extra pocket money she then had started to steal it from them, taking that what she didn't have herself. At first she was a bit clumsy, but now she has mastered it as a talent. Able to sneakily get her hands on what doesn't belong to her.

LOCK PICKING

A skill she learnt when she was in a fancy boarding school back as a teenager. Alodia would often forget about the time and find herself be locked out of the dorms, or that she was locked up in the place where she had been doing her art at. At first she would have waited for someone of the staff to help her, but over time as she wanted to avoid to be scolded the girl then started to pick the locks herself to let herself in or out.

FAUX NAPPING

It is how she earned her name as the 'Sleeping Beauty'. Due to Alodia's handicap she tries to avoid interaction as much as she can, afraid that people will find out about her partial deafness if she isn't careful. For that reason the girl pretends to be asleep half of the time whilst she is truly observing the class. People think that she is always fast asleep and thus don't bother her, but in the meanwhile she is paying attention to everyone with a clear mind. It is unfortunate however that she doesn't hear any better due to it and still misses half of what is said.

STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES

HEAR IMPAIRED

Alodia is a slightly deaf. She can't hear background noises and really needs to focus herself if she wants to hear and understand something completely. It is a condition she has lived with ever since she was small, but she still struggles with her handicap as she feels ashamed of it. Though she has by now learnt how to read lips it is very exhausting to squint her eyes all the times to get what the teacher is saying. This is the reason why she pretends that she is asleep in classes instead so that she doesn't have to tell the tale of her partial deafness to the class. Alodia is able to live a perfectly normal life though despite her handicap, but she will need a hearing device for that. Once she had such a hearing device, but it has long since run out of batteries and she really doesn't want to wear it, afraid that she might be laughed at by others if they find out about her 'problem'.

GRAPHEME-COLOUR SYNESTHESIA

A neurological phenomenon inside of her brains in which she believes that numbers, letters and words are shaded with a colour. For example, the letter 'k' will be red inside of her mind. It is the most common form of synethesia and the source of inspiration for Alodia. Everything can trigger the phenomena inside of her, sounds of letters, words or numbers to seeing them. It is another reason why she doesn't like to look at the blackboard of the teacher, or why she doesn't do her schoolwork. Everything dances in front of her and bursts out in colours, giving her this undeniable urge to draw, sketch or paint again.

SOCIAL ANXIETY

It is strange, really. Despite that she proudly prods around with rainbow coloured hair and seems to be flipping everyone's opinions and whispers off without a care Alodia is actually very insecure about herself. Though she is aware that has an exceptional talent and while she generally doesn't give much about others there is just something daunting about big crowds to her. It is mostly connected to her handicap as her hear impairment makes it unable for her to sit in a crowd comfortably. The sounds that zoom and surround her all sound a bit drowned out, as if she is underwater, and thus the words are blurred. If someone were to speak to her as well, trying to maintain some sort of conversation with her Alodia wouldn't be able to understand or follow, making the chance that she is to be found out about her handicap even greater. It is something that the girl greatly fears and thus she generally tries to avoid big crowds, causing her to skip out on meals frequently as she just can't stand the dinner room where all of the students come together.

SHARP EYES

As someone who is partially hear impaired Alodia has her eyes to make up for her handicap. Where she lacks the ability to hear well she can see like a hawk. Colour nuances, slight differences, she is the first to notice these. It is also partly a trained skill as an artist and as a forger, as she works with colours on a daily base, but also had to make sure that her forged works didn't leave any signs behind for a laymen's eye.

NIMBLE FINGERS

For art she needs a steady hand, for pick pocketing and for lock picking she needs a light hand. Alodia has quite the lean fingers that crafty in whatever they do. Thief fingers she calls them, but no one has to know about the nicknames she gives to her hands and what she does with them.

DAYDREAMER

She tends to zone out a lot into dreams. Thinking of new figures, new projects to paint, draw, or etc... As an artist who is pressured with a scholarship, and thus has to deliver, Alodia is constantly looking for inspiration and new projects to work on. This in combination with her synesthesia the girl tends to zone out a little when given the chance as the world surrounding her turns into a blur of colours. ​​

PERSONALITY

ECCENTRIC & LAIDBACK "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra!"

Everything about Alodia screams out 'strange', 'odd', 'freak', from the way she clothes, to the colour she dyes her hair in, to the way she moves around, speaks, just plainly everything about her. Despite being shy Alodia likes to stand out, to show off that she is different from the rest, that she is an artist. The words and sounds that she can't express herself she tries to convert into colours, statements that she can't make, or put in eloquent words, she tries to show it all in her way of dressing, doing, moving, breathing. To Alodia her body is her canvas as well, waiting for colours to be splattered on it so that she can express herself.

After years of whispers behind her back, whispers that she can't hear but knows are there, Alodia has learnt not to care about them. She has learnt that she is going to be whoever she wants, not caring for their approval and if they like it or not. She is rather relaxed under the peering eyes that are staring at her, judging her. However, one may expect such a thing after years of being talked about, laughed at by others. It was only a matter of time before she had desensitised herself from it all.

RESERVED & BASHFUL "La, la, how the life goes on!"

Despite her flamboyant appearance Alodia is far from extroverted in character. The years of bullying, and being told that she was strange, odd, weird, has taken its toll on her, resulting in the girl shutting herself down whenever she is in a crowd. She locks herself up inside of her own heart, not daring to open up to anyone about her own sensitivities. She holds everything within, not daring to talk to anyone about it, not daring to mention it, and it is slowly building up inside of her, stapling up.

Contradicting her surprising appearance that gathers a lot of attention and going against her laid back attitude Alodia is a bit shy. It was worse as a young girl, where she would blush and stutter in front of everyone she talked to, however she still has this uncanny anxiety whenever she needs to meet new people. Speaking in public is absolute torture for her, still and she can't relax when in a large crowd of strangers. She has been, however, better at hiding it and is able to come over as a little less tense than before.

HISTORY

PROLOGUE "Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play"

Her parents were both people who owned nothing. Her mother came from a family of immigrants, having faced many hardships and discrimination from the local people. She grew up with little in hands, but with goals in mind. She had to make it, or at least make sure that her family make it, so that they would never be disdained again. Alodia's father came from a family of unambitious people who never really did aim for anything in life but to laugh and drink. A lifestyle her father would have adopted hadn't he met her hard working mother and fallen for her. Both of them came from a background that others looked down upon, frowned upon and made fun of. However they both tried and hoped for the best, slaving themselves endlessly in the hopes that their children never had to live the same life and suffer the same dirt they had experienced.

From such a family Alodia was born, loved and adored, but poor and disdained. The female had to suffer from the arrogance of the outside world at a young age. However, she didn't seem to notice much of what was happening outside, much less did she seem to hear her mother at all whenever she was called. For some reason Alodia seemed to miss half of the sounds there was in the world. She always put the television on louder than anyone else, had to ask repeatedly what was said and had some odd pronunciation going on. At first her parents thought that she was just slow, slower than the rest, however, after a while they started to suspect that their little girl might actually have more going on than just a slow mind.

When she started elementary school the teachers spoke to her parents about their suspicions. The second opinion of another laymen convinced them to take Alodia to the doctor, to check her up and see if she had any problems in health. It was then that the doctor confirmed that Alodia indeed had a problem. A hearing problem to be exact as she was partially deaf. A devastating news for her parents as this not only meant extra costs to send her to a special education and have her condition fixed, but it also meant that their little girl had to struggle in the big, scary and judgemental world.

DESPICABLE WORLD "Now it looks as though they're here to stay"

It was as they had feared. Because the family didn't have the means to send Alodia to school for special education, nor did they want to, wanting her to grow up as normally as she could, Alodia attended a normal school for normal children and faced her bullies. She was quiet as a child, most of the times because she had no idea what to say and what was said, but she also had trouble getting along with the rest because she stood out. A bit too tall for her age, stick-like and scrawny, she was an easy target for her tormentors and to top it off she had an hearing impairment. Though her parents didn't realise it Alodia was the laughing stock of the class, the one everyone could bully.

However, at least the girl had one way to escape her classmates and the world in overall. She loved to draw she found, in sand, on paper, wherever she could really. Her teachers took notice of her interests and encouraged her to continue, to draw more, her parents were less ecstatic. They wanted her to focus on her studies, to aim for something and not to become a target of society like they had become. Little did they know that Alodia already was, but the girl kept quiet, diligently trying to bend to her parents will. It was hard however, because there was so much going on inside of her mind. Alodia had this urge to draw, a burning passion and she could do so the whole day, drawing everything she saw.

It was then that her teachers noticed a strange pattern in her drawings, a strange loony figure with limbs too long and no face. Alodia would always proudly show her drawings to them, for she knew that they would praise her unlike her parents, however the figure she drew were strange and disturbing. At first they thought she was drawing an adult, but when they confronted her about it Alodia shook her head, smiling as she said that this was a friend. She claimed that she saw the figure on a daily base on her way to school and with recess. The loony figure with long limbs and no face apparently was everywhere when she was outside and whenever she pointed him out to the other children the rest would scatter off. "My protector!" she had claimed to the teachers as she believed that the figure must be the reason why the kids left her alone. However no one had ever seen or noticed this presence except from her, efficiently labelling her as more of a freak than she was before. A freak who not only was deaf, but also saw things. Loopy.

ALL FANCY AND DANDY "Oh, I believe in yesterday."

By the time that Alodia started high school she had completely turned into a 'freak' who kept to herself. Since long had she understood that this figure she saw was something only she saw for some reason. She and a few other kids who were put through therapy because apparently they were crazy. Slowly the girl stopped drawing this figure and stopped mentioning him as well, not wanting to be called crazy and neither wanting to spend her parents' hard earned money on therapy. She tried to pretend that she was fine, but the secrets she kept made her feel all the more lonely. So lonely in fact that she was hoping to see 'Slenderman', as he was apparently called, everyday on her way to school.

By the time Alodia starts high school a lot has changed as well. The girl is still as strange as ever, still struggling with her handicap, but she has learnt to live with it without anyone noticing it. Much to her parents' disagreement at first she also still draws, however now on a more professional level. A level that could grant her the ticket out of the judgement of her neighbours and earn the admiration of all. After that someone picked up on her talents Alodia started to compete in contests with her art, eventually winning herself a scholarship that would pay for her education on a fancy private boarding school. It was an elite school that would later grant her access to the greatest universities in the world, a chance she couldn't slip pass as this also meant her parents wouldn't need to pay for her education anymore. Determined the girl had won the competition and earned her sponsors, working hard on her art so that she could stay relevant. All while she kept her own disability a secret and struggled through her schoolwork while hoping to see Slenderman. It was then that her slight hope and imaginary friendship with Slenderman grew into more, her feelings deepening as she wished that he would come closer instead of away. Soon, so she found, Alodia was in love with this strange and loony figure.

While working her way through high school on the fancy boarding school, still forever judged and stared at, Alodia worked hard to earn her recognition and keep her scholarships. However, she noticed later that Slenderman was disappearing from her. Slowly she noticed that she hadn't seem him in a while, that he wasn't standing there at the same spot anymore as she had seen him before. It unsettled her for a while because he had been around her for so long. Had something happened? Feeling scared the girl hoped that it wasn't true, hoped that Slenderman wouldn't leave her alone. However that hope was in vain it seemed as by the time that she graduated High school she hadn't seen Slenderman in a year. It seemed that as soon as she had realised and confessed her feelings to her own heart that the figure had disappeared, as if blown away by the wind.

Saddened the, now, woman promised herself that she would continue. After all she still had to make sure that she made it into society to avoid their scorn and to gain her parents approval. She also had to make sure that her parents weren't suffering under the costs she made by applying for scholarships and the likes. They still weren't rich and Alodia's art wasn't making enough money yet to support herself in college. She needed her sponsors, her scholarships and she completely threw herself in work now that her 'friend' had left her. All of her hard work paid off however, as Alodia was invited to study arts on Harvard. Without any hesitation the girl seized her chances and enrolled herself in, working endlessly as she tried to live as 'normally' as she could. She could, however, never forget this Slenderman that disappeared so suddenly. ​

HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT SLENDERMAN

GUARDIAN ANGEL / DADDY LONG LEGS

For some reason Alodia has never felt scared of Slenderman's presence. In fact it has always been a comforting one. Just like how she feels out of the world, Slenderman looks like he doesn't belong here. Alone, unique, strange, lonely, Alodia feels that Slenderman and she can understand each other on a deeper level. She believes that the creature is merely looking for some company, someone who won't judge him for his appearance just like how she doesn't want to be pitied for her handicap. In a way she feels protected by his appearance and wishes that he would stay around her more. However, ever since the day that she admitted to herself how much she loved Slenderman near her his figure disappeared from her side. A fact that saddens her by a lot, however, now that he is appearing again Alodia is ready to never have him disappear again. ​

- Quotes in the personality and biography are from The Beatles, from the songs 'Obladi Oblada' and 'Yesterday' respectively. ​