Name: Cairo Amelii
Age: 18
Birthday: 17th October, 1997
Gender: female
Species: human
Category: Student
Class: College
Grade: Second Year College
College Major: Liberal Arts
Appearance Description:
Cairo has dark, raven black hair, cut short to just above her jawline. It always seems to fall about her head in a mess even if she attempts to straighten it. Her skin, in contrast, is rather pale. Almost sickly pale, as if her skin has never seen the light of day. Her eyes are a deep blue that glimmer like water when she smiles, but usually have a dull, distant look.
Cairo stands at about 5'2, but very rarely is her full height seen. She weighs just over 95 lbs, the unusual lack of weight coming from her bone mass. Born with Osteoporosis, she spends most of her time during bad weather in a wheelchair or, when she's strong enough, walking about on crutches. She has a hard time walking normally on uneven surfaces, because she is missing one of her pinkie toes.
Cairo's average outfit is fairly uniform - skirts and t-shirts knee high socks and running shoes in warm weather, jeans and oversized hoodies in the winter when she has the option to leave the dorms. On occasion she'll have a hospital wristband on her arm that she forgot to remove, and she typically has an emergency call bracelet on her left arm.
Personality Description: Cairo is, to put it simply, really bad at all kinds of social interaction. She isolated herself for many years, unsure of who she might hurt or what might happen with her curse, opting to shove them away opposed to seeking out help.
The March Virus was a sudden snap back to reality. While the doctors would never give a straight-forward claim as to how or when she would die, a diagnosis given to her by student Florentin Blanchett in quarantine that informed her that she would, more likely than not, die before the cure was formed. It was both expected and surprising, and alongside with the Riddle Effect, made things much clearer. She’s not worrying about her curse, its effect on other people, or its effect on herself. She’s trying to be happy despite her curse, instead of being afraid of it.
Cairo is still rather clingy to the people she knows and trusts, mostly to her boyfriend Iaemor and his sister, who are both encouraging her to be more confident in her chances of survival. She’s self-conscious about many things, and is at risk for takotsubo cardiomyopathy under emotional stress. Cairo is suffering from unrecognized post-traumatic stress disorder related to events in the corn maze of October 2016, having nightmares and suffering from insomnia, while even small reminders giving her enough stress to trigger a mild heart attack. She occasionally goes through periods of contentment, where she doesn’t seem to be too attached to reality. During these, she’s collected, calm, and distant. Cairo never remembers what happens during these periods of time.
Powers: Cairo’s curse is an entirely unpleasant one. Little is known about it, because those who had it before her never lived to pass on the knowledge to the next to receive it. The curse is passed from parent to child, rarely passing on to male offspring, but it is not impossible. More commonly, the mother will die in childbirth if the baby is female, and leave the boys untouched. If the current victim of the host dies without having children, the curse will seek out the youngest direct relative and attach to them. The average lifespan of those with the curse is 30-40 years.
The curse forces the victim to harbour bad luck, oozing it like a constant aura around them. It accumulates if not gotten rid of, and doesn’t stop, gathering to the point where it might break loose and cause lethal harm. To avoid having this happen, the bad luck must be released harmlessly into an area void of life, or steadily drained into everyone the victim interacts with throughout the day. The luck transfers best through direct contact, but weak amounts (enough for a bad hair day, or tripping over an untied shoelace) can be transferred through the aura.
Biography: Cairo was raised by her father in the australian outback, no less than twenty miles from the nearest backwater town. She was generally disconnected from society, half for her benefit, and half for theirs. Since birth, Cairo's life has been a series of ill fortunes. Her mother died soon after child birth, and it was later found that the child was born with Osteoporosis. She learned mostly on her own, reading from her father's texts. She learned how to use a dictionary when she was seven so that she could actually understand some of them. Her father taught her math and algebra, while their neighbour attempted to teach her sewing and cooking. After the thirty second bandaid and seventeenth smoke alarm, the latter classes were abandoned. Nearly every second month she had to make a trip to a hospital, either for a check up or a cast.
When she was fourteen, they moved to a city in America to stay with her aunt. There, Cairo's health deteriorated slightly as she was exposed to the pollution, however her father's health took a definite turn for the worse. Cancer they told her. Caught too late for them to stop it. He wouldn't survive the year they said.
He didn't last the month.
After that Cairo's luck got worse. Gas lines would burst and set fire at restaurants. Water pipes leaked, foundations crumbled. The more depressed she became the worse her luck got. She spiralled downwards in a heavy spiral until her sixteenth birthday. On that day, a fire caught in her school. A gas pipe had blown in a chemistry lab, and filled the room. It caught fire and caused an explosion. The firefighters had trouble containing the fire and twenty three students died. Having been in that room often to escape her curse with logical formulas, she blamed herself. Twenty three lives claimed by Cairo's curse.
She realized then that she had to keep it contained. Look up, never back. Don't cry. Keep it under control. Only one more soul could fall victim to this curse. No one else had to get hurt.
She finished her highschool classes online, rarely going out into the streets and barely talking to her aunt. She convinced herself that was the only way to live. The only way she could convince herself that it would be okay. Not two years later, the ill luck struck agian, hospitalizing her aunt. Cairo escaped the confines of the city and wept in an unused field. When she returned home, Cairo found a letter on her desk, with the return address of Starlight Academy.
Since arrival, Cairo been rude and whiny, shoving people as far away as she could get them and holding them there. Despite mandatory therapy, she did not trust anyone, nor did she stop pushing them away. There was a brief time where she started to ease out, while she was seeing a psychiatrist by the name of Desmond Reynolds, because he wasn't asking her to do anything but relax. She thought he was immune to her curse's effects, so when it eventually proved otherwise she snapped back up like a clam and refused to open up agian.
Additional Information: Cairo has had thirty seven different pets, most of them small mammals or fish, and so far very few of them have lasted more than six months. The longest to live was a stray cat she adopted who eventually died of illness after a year. In place of live animals, Cairo now collects stuffed animals of all sorts, excluding arachnids.
Age: 18
Birthday: 17th October, 1997
Gender: female
Species: human
Category: Student
Class: College
Grade: Second Year College
College Major: Liberal Arts
Appearance Description:
Cairo has dark, raven black hair, cut short to just above her jawline. It always seems to fall about her head in a mess even if she attempts to straighten it. Her skin, in contrast, is rather pale. Almost sickly pale, as if her skin has never seen the light of day. Her eyes are a deep blue that glimmer like water when she smiles, but usually have a dull, distant look.
Cairo stands at about 5'2, but very rarely is her full height seen. She weighs just over 95 lbs, the unusual lack of weight coming from her bone mass. Born with Osteoporosis, she spends most of her time during bad weather in a wheelchair or, when she's strong enough, walking about on crutches. She has a hard time walking normally on uneven surfaces, because she is missing one of her pinkie toes.
Cairo's average outfit is fairly uniform - skirts and t-shirts knee high socks and running shoes in warm weather, jeans and oversized hoodies in the winter when she has the option to leave the dorms. On occasion she'll have a hospital wristband on her arm that she forgot to remove, and she typically has an emergency call bracelet on her left arm.
Personality Description: Cairo is, to put it simply, really bad at all kinds of social interaction. She isolated herself for many years, unsure of who she might hurt or what might happen with her curse, opting to shove them away opposed to seeking out help.
The March Virus was a sudden snap back to reality. While the doctors would never give a straight-forward claim as to how or when she would die, a diagnosis given to her by student Florentin Blanchett in quarantine that informed her that she would, more likely than not, die before the cure was formed. It was both expected and surprising, and alongside with the Riddle Effect, made things much clearer. She’s not worrying about her curse, its effect on other people, or its effect on herself. She’s trying to be happy despite her curse, instead of being afraid of it.
Cairo is still rather clingy to the people she knows and trusts, mostly to her boyfriend Iaemor and his sister, who are both encouraging her to be more confident in her chances of survival. She’s self-conscious about many things, and is at risk for takotsubo cardiomyopathy under emotional stress. Cairo is suffering from unrecognized post-traumatic stress disorder related to events in the corn maze of October 2016, having nightmares and suffering from insomnia, while even small reminders giving her enough stress to trigger a mild heart attack. She occasionally goes through periods of contentment, where she doesn’t seem to be too attached to reality. During these, she’s collected, calm, and distant. Cairo never remembers what happens during these periods of time.
Powers: Cairo’s curse is an entirely unpleasant one. Little is known about it, because those who had it before her never lived to pass on the knowledge to the next to receive it. The curse is passed from parent to child, rarely passing on to male offspring, but it is not impossible. More commonly, the mother will die in childbirth if the baby is female, and leave the boys untouched. If the current victim of the host dies without having children, the curse will seek out the youngest direct relative and attach to them. The average lifespan of those with the curse is 30-40 years.
The curse forces the victim to harbour bad luck, oozing it like a constant aura around them. It accumulates if not gotten rid of, and doesn’t stop, gathering to the point where it might break loose and cause lethal harm. To avoid having this happen, the bad luck must be released harmlessly into an area void of life, or steadily drained into everyone the victim interacts with throughout the day. The luck transfers best through direct contact, but weak amounts (enough for a bad hair day, or tripping over an untied shoelace) can be transferred through the aura.
Biography: Cairo was raised by her father in the australian outback, no less than twenty miles from the nearest backwater town. She was generally disconnected from society, half for her benefit, and half for theirs. Since birth, Cairo's life has been a series of ill fortunes. Her mother died soon after child birth, and it was later found that the child was born with Osteoporosis. She learned mostly on her own, reading from her father's texts. She learned how to use a dictionary when she was seven so that she could actually understand some of them. Her father taught her math and algebra, while their neighbour attempted to teach her sewing and cooking. After the thirty second bandaid and seventeenth smoke alarm, the latter classes were abandoned. Nearly every second month she had to make a trip to a hospital, either for a check up or a cast.
When she was fourteen, they moved to a city in America to stay with her aunt. There, Cairo's health deteriorated slightly as she was exposed to the pollution, however her father's health took a definite turn for the worse. Cancer they told her. Caught too late for them to stop it. He wouldn't survive the year they said.
He didn't last the month.
After that Cairo's luck got worse. Gas lines would burst and set fire at restaurants. Water pipes leaked, foundations crumbled. The more depressed she became the worse her luck got. She spiralled downwards in a heavy spiral until her sixteenth birthday. On that day, a fire caught in her school. A gas pipe had blown in a chemistry lab, and filled the room. It caught fire and caused an explosion. The firefighters had trouble containing the fire and twenty three students died. Having been in that room often to escape her curse with logical formulas, she blamed herself. Twenty three lives claimed by Cairo's curse.
She realized then that she had to keep it contained. Look up, never back. Don't cry. Keep it under control. Only one more soul could fall victim to this curse. No one else had to get hurt.
She finished her highschool classes online, rarely going out into the streets and barely talking to her aunt. She convinced herself that was the only way to live. The only way she could convince herself that it would be okay. Not two years later, the ill luck struck agian, hospitalizing her aunt. Cairo escaped the confines of the city and wept in an unused field. When she returned home, Cairo found a letter on her desk, with the return address of Starlight Academy.
Since arrival, Cairo been rude and whiny, shoving people as far away as she could get them and holding them there. Despite mandatory therapy, she did not trust anyone, nor did she stop pushing them away. There was a brief time where she started to ease out, while she was seeing a psychiatrist by the name of Desmond Reynolds, because he wasn't asking her to do anything but relax. She thought he was immune to her curse's effects, so when it eventually proved otherwise she snapped back up like a clam and refused to open up agian.
Additional Information: Cairo has had thirty seven different pets, most of them small mammals or fish, and so far very few of them have lasted more than six months. The longest to live was a stray cat she adopted who eventually died of illness after a year. In place of live animals, Cairo now collects stuffed animals of all sorts, excluding arachnids.
