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Name: Aeronwen Bleddyn
Nickname(s): She prefers to be called by her full name, but has recently accepted to being called Aero.
Age: Sixteen
Sex: Female
Birthday: January 19th
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
Gemstone: Ruby
Origin: Born in Wales. Sent to the southern US to live with her only living relative, her grandmother, when she was five. At ten, her Grandmother died and she was put in foster care. At sixteen she was transferred to the Celeste foster system.
Bloodtype: B
Height: 4'10
Bodytype: She is very tiny and skinny. Her skin is extremely pale. Like never been in the sun before pale. She is also fairly flatchested. Think A-cup. (See ref)
Hair: Her hair is shorter in the back and slightly longer in the front, straight, and white. (See ref)
Eyes: Wide, round, milky white and blind. (See ref)
Fashion:

• Main Ref: Used for hair, skin, eyes, and an example of the kind of fashion she likes to wear, though she is usually found in something simpler. (Art by Chocorette)
  
• Dresses. Not skirts if she can help it. Dresses. And usually long dresses with long sleeves. She prefers for her hands to be covered at least halfway. If this cannot be achieved by the dress itself, she has a few pairs of arm warmers that do the job. This is her favorite dress, but she can also be found in dresses like these: [xXx] || [xXx] || [xXx] || [xXx]. As for shoes, she prefers boots of some kind. Ankle boots, knee-high boots, even thigh-highs if her dress is short. Her only real requirement is a soft heel (soft as in it makes very little noise when she walks.) Examples are the one in the main ref and these.
  
• Colors are usually dull browns with the occasional red. See her palettes: Dull & Bright

Demeanor: Introvert

Personality Traits

• [+]Self-Reliant
  Through her experiences, she's found that it's much easier and less disappointing if she depends only on herself. She takes care of herself and the things she cares about. She doesn't think about the welfare of others unless she can use them like puppets tied to a string. To her, it is every man for himself. In every foster home she's been put in, she's ended up doing most of her own parenting. She's looking forward to her eighteenth birthday when she can find a place of her own.
  
• [+]Loyal
  Much like a mother bear will fight or kill to save her cubs, so will Aero when those she cares for are in trouble or danger. Though there aren't many people that fall under that heading for her, there is nothing she wouldn't do for them. Now that she's been moved to Celeste, her list has become empty and she is also a little warier of who she lets on the list. There have been, and I'm sure will be, people who make the list without Aero even noticing it. Her loyalty has never been a "Wait, let me think" kind of thing. It's an instant reaction and she has very little control over it. This loyalty doesn't always have to be a life or death kind of thing. If she's with a friend and someone picks a fight, she'll always be on the side of her friend even if she thinks they're wrong. Later she'll talk to them about it, but it's always in private, never in public.
  
• [+]Adaptable
  Since the accident that took her parents, Aero has learned how to adapt to her surroundings. Too often in the foster homes she's been in, the blind girl became the instant and seemingly easier target. At first, Aero allowed it to happen and just took whatever came at her because she still didn't understand that her parents and grandmother were gone, she thought they would come rescue her. When more time passed and she understood they were gone for good, Aero taught herself to be more aware of her surroundings. Since then, she adapts fairly easily to new environments, though adapting to new people is still an effort.
  
• [=]Quiet
  It's not that she's afraid of speaking, she just doesn't want her own voice to cover sounds she might hear. Because she's blind, her other senses are sharper and she can hear things that others might not be able to. It's also not that she's not physically capable of yelling, she just prefers not to. She also prefers to be in quieter environments, no young screaming children, because such sharp and piercing noises hurt her more sensitive ears and deafens her more to other noises.
  
• [=]Moderately OCD
  She has a way of organizing her things and prefers they stay that way. If things are moved, she will get annoyed and put them back. She has a need to touch things. Usually she carries around a worry stone or a scrap of fabric that she can keep in her pocket and touch. When she's nervous, the need to touch is amplified. Normally the worry stone or fabric is enough and her need to touch is satisfied, but she will almost always be running her fingers over a wall if she's walking next to one regardless of the stone or fabric in her other hand.
  
• [=]Collector
  Much like her hobby of collecting dolls, Aero collects people. It's not even a conscious thought process. She'll find someone she likes or is interested in somehow and just like that, they are classified as hers in her mind. Once a person makes this list, Aero will do anything to keep them safe. She might not always be the nicest person to them, but they belong to her and she will do her best to keep them safe.
  
• [-]Selfish
  Her general mindset is thinking about who or what can benefit her. She's not above using people to get what she wants, and it's highly unlikely she'll feel any kind of remorse about it. She, however, hates being used. Generally the people she's 'collected' won't be people she uses, but it's not unheard of for her. If she does use someone she's collected, she *might* feel remorseful, but it's always for a justified reason in her mind.
  
• [-]Private
  She hates talking about herself and will never do so if she doesn't absolutely have to. She doesn't want anyone to get too close to her, partly for fear of something happening to take them away from her and partly because she's afraid that any information she gives out will be used against her later. She's wary about people asking personal questions of her and will always ask why they want to know.
  
• [-]Childish
  Because of how young she is, she can still be a little immature. If things don't go her way, she will get upset about it. When she's upset, she'll likely act out and do things against the person or persons who angered her. This doesn't always mean a temper tantrum, but it's not impossible. Usually it's things like refusing to help when asked, doing exactly the opposite of what is asked of her, or just outright ignoring the person. This has gotten her in trouble before, her anger and childishness putting her in situations she wouldn't otherwise put herself in.

Quirks

• Grammatically Correct
  She has a way of speaking that not many people would associate with a modern day American teenager. It's very prim and proper. Someone once called it "something out of a terrible Shakespearean play."
  
• "Do not touch me."
  She hates being touched and will jerk away from anyone that is too close to her. If someone is deliberately messing with her by constantly trying to touch her, she has been known to bite. Hard.
  
• Hates being surprised.
  She hates surprises. Always has, and always will. There isn't really a reason for it, she just hates it.
  
• Pyrophobic
  When she was five, her parents were killed in a fire. The firemen found Aero first and brought her out, but by the time they were going to go back in to get her parents, the house had already begun collapsing and trapped her parents inside and the rescue team outside. Since then, Aero has been deathly afraid of fire.

Hobbies

• Collecting Dolls
  Since she was a child, the collecting of dolls has been a kind of security blanket. She always felt that even though she couldn't see them that they were looking out for her. She keeps collecting the dolls partly out of habit now, but partly because she keeps make more and more clothing for them. Though she can't see them, she can feel the hair and clothes and know exactly which doll she's touching. Currently her collection is at a minimum since she doesn't have a job and cannot buy more of them.
  
• Sewing
  She can't see, but she can feel the fabric. Her very first home economics teacher in middle school taught her how to use her sense of touch to gauge what she needed to sew. Since then, she's sewn dozens of outfits for her dolls and wants to try sewing a dress for herself. If she can pull that off, she wants to create clothing that she can sell.
  
• Swimming
  She finds being in water relaxing. She doesn't know exactly why, but she's always been attracted to the water. Whether it's cold or hot, she loves it all. It's why she prefers to take baths instead of showers and will go swimming any chance she can get. She does, however, prefer to be alone when she swims, and prefers to be somewhere that isn't crowded and is not populated by children.

Favourite Food: Sweets
Least Favourite Food: Vegetables
Family: She currently lives in the dorms at school. Outside of the school she lives in foster care.

• Mother || Aderyn Bleddyn (nee Pryce)
  
• Father || Carwyn Bleddyn
  
• Grandmother || Rhosyn Pryce
  From what Aero can remember, her parents were both very loving and kind people. When she was five, an electrical outlet sparked and caught fire while they were sleeping upstairs. No one was awake to know what was happening. A neighbor called the police and the firemen got there in time to pull Aero out, but when they turned to go back in for her parents, the house had begun collapsing and no one was allowed back in. Aero cried while she heard her whole life burning to ashes. From there, she was sent to live with her mother's mother who lived in the southeastern US. She lived with her until the age of ten when her grandmother passed away. She was placed in foster care, and at sixteen was transferred into the Celeste system.

School: St. Michael's Prep
Grade: 9th, going into 10th
Favourite Subject: Home Economics, especially sewing.
Least Favourite Subject: Art. She doesn't see the point. Quite literally.

Question
We all have ideas for our characters--what are yours? Talk about plans you have for this character in the shop, whether they be personally-based plots, or plots with other people, or plans you would like to see your character involved in, et cetera. Please pick up to three and elaborate on each one you choose! <3

1. While I was translating Aero to La Luna, she talked to me a lot about her past world. What she described was a world of mostly water with several islands of varying shapes and sizes. Each island had something different to offer the others, which meant there was a lot of local trade. Their world was mostly dark, a constant midnight where the only natural light was the pair of moons in the sky. The people of Pyxis began to adapt. The females began to be born blind, and soon it was found that they were also born with an extra sense: the ability to navigate the sea without their sight. By the time Aeronwen became Queen, blind females were being raised to the aristocracy and were prized on trade ships. Even Queen Aeronwen served her time on a ship before she became ruler. This doesn't mean that all ships had a blind female, just that the ships that had them generally had fewer problems at sea.
   Aside from this, Pyxis was a highly matriarchal world. The women ruled and held all major positions. The men were usually traders, merchants, servants, soldiers, or studs.
   
2. Because of this, the few Senshi of Pyxis tended to be women and their Knights were generally men. (This isn't to say that a man can't be a Senshi of Pyxis or a woman a Knight, it was just very rare.) For Sailor Pyxis, her Knight was the captain of the ship she sailed on before she became Queen. It was generally looked down upon for a queen to take a lover/consort who was not also an aristocrat, but when they found the captain was also a Knight and was metaphysically tied to the Queen, they realized there was nothing they could do to keep the pair from happening. Even in later incarnations, Pyxis and her Knight were a mismatched pair and they were usually in love as well. What I'd like to see is someone get a Knight for Pyxis, maybe a female who becomes a male Knight? Something that will surprise Aeronwen. She's never fallen in love or really even had a crush before, so something along those lines would be interesting.

Prompt
Whether it be because your car broke down, your bus is late, or your ride just doesn't seem to be coming--or maybe, oddly enough, you like walking in this heat--you're stuck walking. Drudging, really. Drudging? Well, it's also pouring, much to your great distaste.
Great.
The crack of thunder causes you to jump, but perhaps it's because it seems louder than it should, considering the lightning is much further distant--at least, that's how it looks. You look from the left to the right, up and down, behind you, and finally in front of you again, to find yourself face-to-face with a monstrous figure, tall and made out of wires and seeming to spark with every drop of rain onto its skin.
You blink.
Nothing changes.
...What do you do now?
((While your senshi is allowed to power up, no other powereds are allowed to come to your rescue! Work with your environment and figure out how to resolve this electrical youma problem!))
Aeronwen was accustomed to walking everywhere. She was not, however, accustomed to walking in the rain. The pouring rain, at that. Just. Great. While her normal temperament wasn't exactly pleasant, the heat combined with the rain and its effects sent her mood plummeting. The only silver lining to this awful cloud was that she had decided upon a shorter dress this morning so even though the fabric was still plastered to her legs, it wasn't hampering her ability to walk. Her boots, however, were probably ruined from all the water currently soaked into the...well, the entirety of the damn things. Not to mention it made the slogging sensation even worse. The sloshing that sounded with every step she took combined with the near deafening rain and thunder made for one extremely irritated Aeronwen.

So, as one might imagine, the apparently sudden presence of a youma did nothing to lift her mood. Shocking, isn't it?

Aeronwen didn't often curse, but she felt this situation warranted it, especially when she realized what she had attributed to the crash of thunder was actually the crash of rather large footsteps. Her first instinct was to get rid of the damned thing but her own bad mood made her feel...petulant. She let fly a string of curses she'd had the pleasure of learning from one of the foster fathers she'd had before. Stopping in the middle of the sidewalk, she sighed and closed her eyes. It didn't do anything for her vision since all she ever saw was blobs in grey-scale, but the effect was what she wanted. Her ears became a a little sharper and she could place the youma in front of her. Too close. She cursed and jumped back, the words flying out of her mouth before she could stop them.

"Pyxis Power, Make Up!" she called and twirled her staff over her head, making sure she was clear of the monster before she used her next move. "Puppet Eyes!" And suddenly her world was clear. Thankfully the dark rain made the sudden brightness easier on her mind's eye as she was granted brief vision from the cameo-like doll head pinned to her chest bow. The youma was huge, bigger than Aeronwen had anticipated. Using the sight she had before it disappeared, she backed up a few more steps before slamming one end of her staff down and vaulting toward the youma. With all her strength, she slammed her heel into its face and grinned darkly at its howl of pain. Picking up her staff as she moved, she used it like a baseball bat and slammed it across the youma's back before she landed in a crouch, trying to silence her breathing so she could hear as the youma whirled to see her. With a shrill laugh, Pyxis ran a few feet away before her vision died and she was left in her blurry world again, but it didn't seem to slow her down as she turned and waited for it to come closer. The pounding footsteps vibrated through the soles of her boots. Five feet away...four feet. Three...two....one! Pyxis crouched and moved forward, slamming her staff into the ankle of the youma. The resulting thud was extremely satisfying as she heard and felt it fall. Once again, she was quite happy with her under five foot frame. Because, after all...

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall," she said and laughed, no longer concerned about the uniform plastered to her skin. The adrenaline coursing through her body made her feel twenty feet tall as she walked around the youma. The next wail from the thing hurt her ears as she felt it getting up. A quick rush of fear made her breath come quicker. Before it could get all the way up, Pyxis estimated where its head was and brought her staff down hard. A quick yelp of pain gave her another taste of satisfaction, but she could tell she was a little off on her calculation. She stepped back, nearly tripping over the curb as she moved backward, finally hitting something solid behind her. A quick touch with one hand confirmed that she'd found a car and she hoped it was empty as she planned what to do next. She let the thing get up, and its roar of anger made her gasp. But she had to do this.

She could feel it slamming closer and she ducked, moving in time for the youma to slam into the car, turning it over and then over again, effectively pinning the youma underneath the rubber tires. "Puppet Eyes," she murmured and smiled when she saw it struggling under the car. She stepped closer to it and watched the electricity begin to fade under the insulating tires. Not much longer, she thought. She raised her staff above an eye and waited. The electricity dissipated further and Pyxis slammed the end of her staff into the youma's eye. The howl of pain was delicious and slid along her skin as she laughed.

The rain slowed, the wind picked up, and the youma disintegrated on the breeze.