Cordelia Vidraru Rosales

PHYSICAL;

With a maximum natural height of 5’4”, Cora is fairly small in stature and not very intimidating. With a diamond shaped face and a sharp chin, her golden eyes have little creases at the edges from all the times she’s smiled just a tad too wide. There are a hint of dark circles under her eyes from too many late nights and a small scar on her left cheek from an accident involving stairs as a child. Her lips are thin with a hint of cupid’s bow, generally covered with some kind of lipstick should she have time in the morning. A small nose completes her facial features, pointed up and often goes red if it gets too warm or too cold. Her hair matches the color of her eyes, with messy bangs from her own attempts to cut the thick and troublesome strands. Often she just brushes it off to the side to just keep it out of the way. She seems to like to dye it random colors - she’s had everything from lavender to white to black and everything in between.

There is a relatively bold quality about her. When she walks into a room, there is something about the way she holds herself that demands people’s eyes - maybe it’s the way that her back is always straight or maybe it’s the metal of her shoes that make that click against hard floors or how she meets everyone’s eyes who look at her first. And yet there is still signs of her own disorganization through the chips in her nails or the bandages around her fingers or when her makeup is smeared slightly to the right from rushing out of the door.

Few things identify her as anything but human as to allow her to blend in with the humans. Two curly horns protrude from just above slightly pointed pierced ears that curl like that of a rams and shift her hair especially in wind and prevent her from really laying on her sides comfortably. Her tongue is sharp to the point in which she often accidentally cuts herself on it both in conversation and when she’s just eating. With cat-like irises, the golden color of her eyes glitters like the metal that is so often represented with her father’s sin. And no matter her age, she seems to just have flawless skin from her demonic regenerative ability. When her abilities have activated, the veins around her eyes become more pronounced.

Cora always tries to be presentable in every setting - whether it be having her school uniform be on straight or a nice dress for a formal event or even just a nice pair of earrings for hanging around the island with friends. It’s a little uncommon to see her in a pair of jeans as she favors skirts and shorts however the cold weather can make her begrudgingly put on a pair of jeans. There is always some kind of effort into how she looks, even if it’s just her in some lounge wear to sit around the house in.​

MENTAL;​

A charming young woman upon first meeting, one would call her a lady. With how she walks with fluidity and how calmly she seems to handle problems sent her away. Always her nose in a book and capable of treating people politely. Holding herself with the confidence of a pride demon and of a Rosales. With how clearly and how fluidly words fall off her tongue, one would see Cordelia as the type to have confidence overflowing inside of her head. Her sweet words tend to wrap around whomever she is speaking to mainly to make them feel her father’s sin and manipulate their mentality to increase whatever pride they feel. And yet, a rose among the thorns? Cordelia is the bush of thorns below her own flower - and often those thorns can prick herself just as fatally that they pick others. Her thorns, in a sense, stop on her words but not in her own mind. Her view of herself is warped by personal standards and experiences, forcing her pride to be significantly less than that of her pride demon peers. One of the things that remains despite how her mind continues to twirl with her age, is her primary goal to be someone her demon and adoptive families can be proud of - though she’s not quite sure how to get there.

Just as any demon or even any human, she can feel the full spectrum of emotions from pure rage to euphoria to despair and everything and anything in between. One would suspect that pride would be easier for her to feel, and to an extent they are not wrong. She has an easier time feeling pride however she just seems to almost avoid it. Perhaps it is because she is too focused on pleasing others than really pleasing herself, especially if those others are family, even if it means hurting herself in the process. Homegrown workaholic, it is not uncommon to see her wandering in the hallways at night because she forgot some work somewhere around the house. Sometimes her workload gets out of control not because of the amount of work but her own personal standards and expectations dragging things out. Sometimes the stress and frustration of her work can make her extremely irritable and she will ash out at anyone and everyone around her - later she will recognize this and try to apologize or make up for what she’s done. Cordelia particularly feels like a burden on the Rosales family because she was taken in on a favor, so she does as much as she can in order to almost earn her place among the family. She tries to do as much as possible in order to not be a burden.

With not only her “training” in Hell and her own fascination with the minds of others, Cordelia has slowly allowed herself to learn the art of deduction. By learning more about people this way, she finds easier approaches to how to address them - especially if she needs to corrupt them with her sin. However these deductions and experiences between herself and another person can determine if she can trust them. Her trust, when earned through a series of trial-like encounters, is absolute. Almost literally, she can follow those she trusts to the ends of the Earth. It can take a major event or betrayal to lose her loyalty - once it is gone, it is impossible to get back.

When someone has been labeled as a friend in Cordelia’s mind, she shifts in personality. Much of her lady-like or extremely polite exterior melts away, to reveal the dork beneath. Cordelia is extraordinarily sentimental and loves to speak with her companions. She can talk for hours about nothing and change topics fourteen different times if the conversation goes long enough. Sarcastic humor and terrible jokes are not uncommon and even though she might groan if the jokes are given by others, she cannot help but laugh soon after. If her schedule is particularly busy, she always tries to find some kind of time to make sure she has a reasonable balance of family, school, and friends - however this does not always work out if she misses an alarm or reminder and is working for hours on end.

Family has an easier time of achieving the status of friendship, whether they share the Rosales surname or they are a demon of sin. Cordelia is particularly protective of the children of Pride and the Rosales family, being far more willing to smile sweetly as she beats someone to the floor. She may feel like a burden, however she’d be damned if she was going to let someone talk shit. Anyone who was idiotic enough to do so deserves it, in her opinion. Cordelia tries to help her siblings as much as possible, whether in school or otherwise.​

ABILITIES;​

Demon of Pride​

A child of pride, let alone being a child of hell, definitely has it’s perks and drawbacks. As a demon, she has a particular weakness towards holy objects and grounds as they make her particularly uncomfortable or even burn her on contact depending on how holy it is and how much skin contact is given. Upon her physical body’s death, she is merely sent back to hell until she can get a replacement making her almost immortal. This time can take anywhere from hours to weeks depending on the damage.

Of course, as a child of Pride, she can manipulate it as she see’s fit. Two of the abilities that she has that revolve around her sin include Pride Aura and Pride Empowerment. Cordelia can produce a Pride Aura of approximately eighteen feet around her that increases the probability in which someone in this aura will feel pride however it does not guarantee it. The more people in this area, the more it drains her. Her current maximum before she reaches her limits is ten people for fifteen minutes. When near people with an intense amount of it, Cordelia is Empowered by Pride. The more pride she is surrounded by, the more her power increases. This can be channeled into other abilities or empower her physically in manners such as speed or strength or eyesight - however it can only be in one area at a time.

Her final and probably most unique ability as a child of the Prince of Pride Lucifer is Dark Light Manipulation. As hell represents the darker side of things and Lucifer, another rendition of the fallen angel who betrayed God or who was betrayed by God, some of his children can manipulate the darker rand more destructive side of light. Dark Light, and thus Dark Light Manipulation, is the more detrimental light of nature that damages, destroys, and consumes most if not all it comes across. It represents the hazardous and destructive side of light. Like the element of fire, Dark Light is incredibly difficult control and can flare out to destroy even its user and all those around them without caution. The more power, the less control. Pure Darkness Manipulation, White Light Manipulation, and Holy Light Manipulation are the best counters to this. Cordelia has a reasonable amount of control over her aspect however when she loses control of herself, this control is lost over the ability. In this time it is best to keep her isolated. In order to practice this control she must not be around any person or building.​

MORE;​

Growing up, Cora always liked to think that she was favored among her father’s children. She was certainly not his favorite - he never truly spoke of who held that title or really gave any hints. However with how well she was treated and trained, she came to the conclusion he at least saw potential in her. Sometimes she just sat and listened to plans or read about his successes in history, always trying to tell herself that she could live up to the standard that she had begun to mentally set herself. Slowly she had put herself in the mindset that she had to earn this treatment and training, and make her father proud. However there was only so much that Hell could offer.

So, Lucifer handed her off to a trusted companion.

Cora was very confused and mildly frightened when she arrived on Manta Carlos at nine years old, with a new family technically. She appreciated that she was at least handed off to people who were also arch-demons and yet she still felt disconnected. The Rosales family was large and honestly intimidating for a little demon still learning how to properly be a demon of pride. Just like she had in hell, Cora put herself in the mentality that she had to earn her place among the Rosales Family and it’s gang. This almost forced herself to grow up faster, just to make these people proud.

As the years passed, Cora grew a little more comfortable. The two men who headed the family she saw as her fathers just as much as Lucifer. The other children of the family became her siblings and although she may not get along with everyone all the time, it was home. It was like being back in Hell but without the screaming of the damned. Although she relaxed around them, Cora still wanted to make her family proud in her studies and progress of how to be a true Pride Demon.

In the current time, Cora still attends the Academy at her final year in high school. She still works to make her family proud and to master the art of temptation, and has yet to make a decision on her major.​