#kalea.⠀⠀···⠀⠀study⠀⠀:⠀⠀the artist. ⠀⠀◗

[ofkalea]

❝ let us live since we must die❞ Is that AULI’I CRAVALHO? no, you’re mistaken, that’s actually KALEA PALAKIKO { cis woman, she/her }. She is a 20 year old HUMAN. She is an UNIVERSITY STUDENT / ARTIST can easily be found at THE ART MUSEUM. She is known for being SELF-SACRIFICING, CALCULATING, and STUBBORN but also ENIGMATIC, COMPASSIONATE, and SPUNKY. You could probably bribe them with 70’S/80’S VINYL RECORDS or piss them off by GOING BACK ON YOUR WORD. 

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FULL NAME: Kalea Alana Palakiko

CHARACTER INSPIRATIONS: Kaylee Frye (Firefly), Kili (The Hobbit), Nurse Chapel (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Jacob Stone (The Librarians), Riley Davis (MacGyver), Camille O’Connell (TVD), Clara Oswald (Doctor Who)

FACE CLAIM: Auli'i Cravalho

GENDER: Cis Woman (she/her)

AGE: Twenty

SPECIES: Human

OCCUPATION: University Student / Artist

LIVES IN: Tsavo

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❝YOU BETTER THROW A PARTY ON THE DAY THAT I DIE ❞

green green grass by george ezra

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PERSONALITY TRAITS:

Positive: compassionate ◇ enigmatic ◇ spunky ◇ intuitive ◇ driven

Negative: self-sacrificing ◇ calculating ◇ stubborn ◇ soft ◇ cunning

PAST:

Lahaina, HI saw the birth and upbringing of one Kalea Palakiko. The island life suited the young girl, despite the scuffed knees and mussed up hair she often sported thanks to her climbing, hiking and all manner of things her mother never understood. Her marine biologist father on the other hand? Fully enabled her more rambunctious tendencies throughout her adolescence...that is, until Kalea suddenly found her teen years parentless.

15 and an orphan, Kalea was taken in by her Aunt and Uncle on the mainland. Despite the new life change, and the absence in her life, she did her best to make the best of it. It's how she first learned about the supernatural (a clan of vampires being family friends), and became more of the nerd she is today. She threw herself into books and her art, using both as a coping mechanism whenever she needed to get herself out of her own head.

She discovered she had a knack for art, an artistic eye according to her Aunt. It even led to her learning how to forge paintings for a few of the vampires in her Aunt & Uncle's hometown, so they could store the real paintings away and hang the forgery's up on display. In fact, that small side business became lucrative enough during her last few years of high school for her to pay for the first year of college.

PRESENT:

She set her sights on Los Santos for college, moving to town 2 years ago and enrolling in an art history program. She also currently works as something of a freelance artist, creating her own works and selling them online to help pay for college. After graduation? She'd love to open her art studio and teach art to kids, even hosting night classes for adults too.

PLOT ARC 1 UPDATE: (tw: death) Arthur sent Douglas & Kalea down to the Archives, where the uncertain circumstances caused them to confess their love for each other, and share their first kiss. After going deeper into the Archives after splitting up, she was given Excalibur by the Knight upon the sword choosing the girl. Now, wielding the sword, she’s learning how to use it. She also recently got a runes tattoo in memory of her friend, Ronan, who was killed by Merlin…before Kalea got the chance to deliver the final blow to the mage.

MUSE AESTHETICS ◇ dark wavy hair moving with each step ◇ jasmine scented perfume lingering behind ◇ 80's music playing softly whilst she bakes

PERSONALITY: She's plucky, a sweetheart to a fold who carries herself with a casual confidence. She's never been a particularly bold one on her own, but definitely is the friend to step up to the plate for others. She'll cook for you to make sure you've eaten, and covets her vinyl record collection. She has a coral reef inspired tattoo on her left shoulder blade, and a wave on her inner right wrist.

CONNECTIONS ◇

Aunt & Uncle

Cousin (wc on main)

Best Friend

Confidant

Friends (pls & ty)

Fellow College Students

All the supernatural buddies tbh

Regulars / Customers of her art business

Connections from back in Hawaii

[averyzhao]

{ CHASE SUI WONDERS, 22, CIS WOMAN, SHE/HER } Is that AVERY ZHAO? A SOPHOMORE originally from ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, they decided to come to Ogden College to study MUSIC. They’re THE TORTURED ARTIST on campus, but even they could get blamed for Greer’s disappearance.  

—  CHARACTER STATS:

FULL NAME: Avery Kalea Zhao

NICKNAME(S): Ave, Aves

BIRTHDAY: February 17

HEIGHT: 5′4″

SEXUALITY: Bisexual for the longest time until she came to the realization two years ago that she’s actually a lesbian (which wasn’t great for her long-time boyfriend to hear lmao)

MBTI: ISTP-A (Virtuoso)

ZODIAC: Aquarius Sun, Capricorn Moon, Scorpio Rising

THREE POSITIVE TRAITS: Creative, Resilient, Impartial

THREE NEGATIVE TRAITS: Irreverent, Detached, Ruinous

THREE SKILLS: Talented songwriter, can play music by ear, can twist her tongue into a cloverleaf

DRINKS / SMOKES / DRUGS: No / Yes / Yes

—    EXTRACURRICULARS:

SPORTS: No <3

CLUBS: School Radio Station (DJ), Queer Alliance, Quiz Bowl

—   FUN FACTS: (TW Familial Death mention)

Her uncle was an openly gay rock star in the 80s, playing lead guitar for a band called The Crystal Emotion. He raised Avery after her mom passed away in 2005. He himself passed away in early 2020.

Avery was born in Hawaii. Her mom really loved it there. It’s also why her middle name is Kalea. It means “joy” or “happiness” in Hawaiian.

Avery still uses an iPhone X. She doesn’t see the point of trading her phone in for the latest version when the one she has still works perfectly fine.

This picture of Hozier is Avery’s home screen and she listens to him at least once a day. (Don’t remind her he’s a white man named Andrew, she’ll spiral).

Avery got her first tattoo to prove someone wrong. They said she wouldn’t have the balls to get a yin and yang symbol on her body because it was too cliché so she found the closest tattoo parlor and got it done.

—  ADDITIONAL INFO:

LINKS: Pinterest / Stats / Tasks

THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH GREER: Has hooked up with Greer a few times, casual friends

Avery first met Greer nearly two years ago in New York City on a night out. They partied, hooked up and promptly forgot about one another. It wasn’t until many months later that they ran into each other again and got to talking at a random bar. A workaholic, Avery was aimless now that the band she was a part of was essentially broken up. Greer dryly suggested that she try college as a solution to her woes. It was without a doubt a joke but  Avery was eager for something different and decided to pursue it anyway. So in short: Greer is the reason Avery is at Ogden College. Since starting there, they’ve hooked up one or two more times on the downlow but for the most part, they were just casual friends.

HOW THEY EMBODY THEIR TROPE

Avery is no stranger to suffering. In fact, life for her is living in spite of it. Her preferred method of dealing with the bad cards she’s been dealt with is songwriting, but it wasn’t long until that wasn’t enough. It was when a certain golden-haired someone suggested college of all things as a solution to her anguish that proper change started to come for Avery. The new environment gave her just what she needed to feel a little less unsteady. To her, Ogden felt like a soft reset. It provided just enough of a band-aid to her wounds to keep her moving in a direction that felt like progress. Though the weight of all she’s experienced in recent years still clung heavily to her, her misery wasn’t as loud in New Hampshire and she relished in the stability it gave her.

TLDR: Listless young musician attending college to feel something.

—   CONNECTION IDEAS: 

Past hookups, aggravated project partners, party friends, unrequited crushes, people she’s wronged and/or dislike her, old classmate from high school, someone whose virginity she took unknowingly, a fan of her old band, FWB, some dude who doesn’t realize she’s gay and has a crush on her lmao.

If none of the above interest you, I’m down to brainstorm and open to ideas! :)

[ofkalea]

tag drop finally