Nehi Cariño

[Nehi Cariño]

CHARACTER PROFILE
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// OUT OF CHARACTER

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// IN CHARACTER

Name: Nehi Cariño. [neh-hee car-een-yo]
Age: 17. Born on August 14th.
Gender: Female.
Species: Human.
Class: Peasant.
Hobbies: Nehi loves to climb trees. She runs and jumps, climbs trees and tumbles and loves every moment of it. She also enjoys singing and helping people, though it doesn't count so much as a hobby as a way of life. She also enjoys drawing, when given the chance.

Appearance: The first thing most people tend to notice about Nehi is that she is quite obviously a foreigner. Her skin is darker than those that are usually found in this country and her large, hazel eyes give away the fact that, no matter where she is, she is not home. Her hands are soft and slender, gentle in even the most basic tasks. Though her body has only recently matured, she carries herself as if she has had a lifetime of experience, though the ease with which a smile appears on her ever-expressive face is testimony to the fact that, though she has lived through plenty, she really doesn't see fit to dwell on it. The girl's body is soft and flexible and she has enough muscle to get by, though it hardly shows. She is well proportioned, skinny but pleasantly curved, and her long, dark hair is often pushed out of the way, even though it soon falls back into her face, giving her a rather tousled look that only serves to make her seem more exotic.

Her eyes are constantly full of something, whether it is kindness or concern or simply curiosity - there is always something in her eyes and an expression on her face. Often, this expression is thoughtful or amused, but occasionally she will take her lower lip into her mouth and chew on it lightly in nervousness or lick it repeatedly as it remains there while she concentrates. Her fingers are almost constantly moving and she is too, even if it's just a slight bounce or a tap of the foot while she is sitting. If she is ever heard singing, it is a beautiful bit of luck; the girl has a wonderful voice, with a slightly Spanish accent, and she does enjoy to sing, even though she rarely does anymore.

Personality: The girl is a bit confusing, when one first meets her. Even after a while, chances are pretty good that you won't know her as well as you think you do. She's known to be spontaneous and caring and her instincts, despite the fact that she is human, are to care for everyone that needs it, regardless of position. If she is told not to do something, she only wants it more. She is caring to the point of near-motherliness, despite her age, and she has a quick tongue and a sharp wit, things that are usually directed at those who irritate her somehow - something surprisingly hard to do. Nehi is incredibly loyal and would do absolutely anything for a friend, something that is likely to get her into trouble in a place like this.

She has an odd way of viewing the world around her as well, as if she is stuck in a sort of perpetual childhood. After talking with her for a while, however, this is clearly not the case; she merely wants to find the best of things and is determined to remain innocent, even as she grows older. Innocent, however, does not mean naive, and she has learned most things the hard way. She has a distrust of males when she is alone with them, and though she enjoys touching in friendly ways, the mere suggestion of anything more has her shrinking away in fear. Even being scared, however, she still feels like she is something wild, part of the world that has never felt like home. She has an almost infinite capacity for love and rarely dislikes anyone, even if they get on her nerves a bit. Though she can get annoyed, she rarely holds this against someone unless it's a repeated offense.

Nehi makes some odd noises, whether they are of fright or surprise or even just while she yawns. These unnerve some people, but she can't seem to help them. Usually they are squeaks of some type, though squeals and mews are not entirely uncommon. Sometimes an entirely new sound will pop up, surprising even her.

History: The bundle of joy was born to parents far away, then passed from house to house when they died - nobody could care for another child, but the baby was too happy, too full of life to kill just because of that. So they passed her around, raising her together, teaching her all sorts of things but avoiding the one that got her into the most trouble.

When she was fifteen, one of the local boys tried to kiss her, something she hadn't had to think of before because she'd always been 'that orphan girl' to them. Pleasesd with the attention, she let him, and he took it as an invitation to do as he pleased which, unfortunately for Nehi, meant that his fingers were touching places that she was not entirely sure she wanted his fingers to touch. She ran away and took only the few things that she had been given, catching rides with kind strangers and wandering around, dirty and confused. Sometime before she found Ville de Kadence, she accepted that she was not the same, ignorant girl she had been, having seen her share of violence and persecution on her way. But, young as she was, she was powerless to stop what fully grown men could barely think of speaking out against, and she was forced to continue on. She took up residence here and there, singing for bread or board, occasionally given a bit of money which she always turned around and used to buy food for someone less fortunate than she was.

After people started getting killed where she was, she moved again, finally finding her way to the area around Ville de Kadence, hesitant to try her luck there because of her fear of others dying - Nehi had started to believe that it was she who brought the reaper, for so many seemed to have died when she was around. Her parents, those people in the villages... she understood that there was some larger force at work, but having seen so much seemed to have taken a bit of a toll. It has taken her two years to get here and she doesn't exactly tend to discuss what happened before her arrival.