#Tisha legally changed her name for convenience but her family still uses her birth name

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You could hide beside me Maybe for a while And I won't tell no one your name

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character info sheet.

Name: Tisha Whileaway

Name meaning: Tisha changed her name back in 2013 after leaving home and starting her career as an artist. She has legally changed it since for convenience's sake. Tisha comes from the Latin name Leticia, meaning joy. Whileaway she took from writer Johanna Russ’s feminist sci fi writing. In Russ’s short story When It Changed, Whileaway is a human colony planet made up entirely of women.

Alias(ses): You could call her birth name Kavitha an alias (She considers Tisha to be her real name now), but she doesn't really use it. She's essentially always Tisha - only her family still calls her Kavitha.

Two pictures you like of your character:

Three headcanons you never told anyone: (This is actually headcanons I’ve never told anyone this time around because they’re very old whoops)

The consequences for Tisha being turned into a vampire would be dire. Her second sight plus a vampire’s perception would turn her into a kind of a vampiric Dr. Manhattan, seeing and experiencing all of reality at the same time. She’d live through it, but it would not be a good thing.

Tisha has exactly 1 (one) canon past life though there are probably more. She was a dye merchant in Ancient Rome. This ended poorly.

Tisha has a BA in Art History from McMaster University, where she also played on the women’s rugby team.

Three things your character likes to do in their free time:

Travel. Tisha loves taking in new sights and adding to her visual lexicon.

Go to hockey and football games (She’s a Leafs girl and is invested in the Argos, but if all there is to watch is an NFL game she will show up for the Packers)

Go bar hopping, which will usually end at a dance club. Tisha loves the chaos and noise of the nightlife, and will try to drink you under the table.

Three people your character loves:

Her family. I have to keep this to one slot because she has (checks notes) four brothers, two sisters, eleven nieces and nephews, and nine aunts and uncles. It’s a massive family, and while she can’t be her complete self with them, she loves them.

Her friends, especially the supernatural ones (one slot for the same reason). Tisha loves quickly and deeply, there is very little daylight between a first meeting and “I will risk my life for you” which is a character flaw but she doesn’t see it that way.

She doesn’t have a partner, but expect her to love as deep and as fast as she does her friends when she finds one. Tisha loves love, loves being in love, loves having a muse she adores.

Two things your character regrets:

Picking up smoking. She started when she was seventeen for the aesthetic, and now that she’s almost thirty and she’s not as athletic as she was, it’s a drag.

Never finding a way to explain what she is to her parents. She thinks it’s probably for the best, but she has a good relationship with them, and hiding it from them is extremely difficult.

Three phobias (fears) your character has:

Silence.

Similarly, going blind, or anything that robs her of one or more senses.

Forest fires.

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