"Listen up here all of you. I'm not an elite not because I can't, but because I don't want to!"
Name: Merida Sarphine Glenn
Nickname: Mer (as call by her best friends)
Age: 18
Sexuality: Asexual
Clique: The Forth
Rank: None
Likes:
- â Her friends
â Loud noises/music
â Freedom
â Lollipops
â Attention
â Good jokes
- âž Her twin brother - Jason Glenn
âž Anything that has to do with her brother including but not limited to his friends, rules and restrictions
âž Silence
âž Popularity
âž Bitter food
âž Clowns and obnoxious fools
Fears:
- Abandonment issues
- Large birds
- Ghosts
- âWiping that faked smile out of her brother's face
âAnnoying her brother
âReading mangas
âSpending time with her friends
âCausing chaos
As Mer's elaborate words put it, she can freeze liquid or gas to a solid form by causing the loose molecules to come together, forming a hard material. The hardness of the materials depends heavily on the concentration level of Merida and so far, she can make the liquid or gas as soft as jelly and as hard as diamond. From what she has experimented until now, she can even freeze blood via touching. Of course, it means her power are very useful in a fight and if she uses it right, she can easily become a secondary student or even make her way to the Elites. However, there're reasons why she never makes it there... except for not wanting to, of course. Her power, in order to harness it to full power, needs a lot of concentration. Concentration that Merida doesn't possess. Her power is easily out of control. Her power will only work when she has a calm mind.
Weakness:
First of all, her power can't affect things that she can't touch. It won't work if freezing a pool of water 2000 meters away from her. Therefore, because of this disadvantage, Mer always carries a bottle of water with her everywhere she goes. If the need arises and she has to protect herself, she can always freeze the water to make it hard as diamond. A very effective power indeed. Secondly, Merida can't shape the liquid or gas that she freezes. It's one of the reasons why she's so reluctant to use her power. If she freezes the air around a person for a long time, they will die for sure. Also, because she can only freeze things that she can touch, Merida can't freeze too hot or too cold substances like lava for example. Solidification is also a very hard-to-control power. If she makes the substances too hard (diamond hard), it will be too draining but if she makes it too soft (jelly soft), it will be extremely easy to lose control.
Strengths:
- â Drawing: Unlike her twin brother Jason, Merida is a very artistic person. She draws very well though her drawing style is mostly Japanese manga style. It comes from reading too many mangas over the year. In fact, she's so good at it, Mer's big dream is to become an author and draw her own manga to publish it all over the world.
â Badminton: The only sport Merida is good at is Badminton. She's not perfect in this of course but she has passion about it and sometimes, all you need is passion. She sometimes asks her friends to play this sport with her.
â Making calming tea: Being a rather hot-headed person, Mer needs a calming method for herself. That is how she learns making calming tea. Her tea is really good, it has a calming effect and because of that, when losing control of her temper, Merida often makes a pot of tea for herself. She often makes Chinese tea, thinking its flavor and scent are good.
â Being friends with animals: Merida is also an animal person. Animals like her a lot as oppose to her brother. Merida supposes it's because of her opened personality. She doesn't try to hide anything and therefore, the animals find her safe. She has a pet goldfish, a dog and a cat at home. Merida also ignores Jason's obvious dislikes for her pets.
- â Academic subjects: Merida's determined to do against everything her brother is and therefore, she pretty much ignores the academic subjects, only does enough to pass and nothing else. It isn't as if she's stupid, Merida just doesn't try. The only subject she's good at school is art and that's it.
â Concentration: Merida's biggest flaw is perhaps her concentration. She can't focus on anything for long and even things she likes. She's easily distracted and bonderline on ADD. She has never taken medicines though because it isn't too serious. However, it is one of the reasons why she isn't a good student. She can't just sit still and learn things.
â Patience: Merida has the patience the size of a dry tree branch. You push too much pressure on it and it snaps... dramatically. Merida isn't someone who gives up easily. She just gets frustrated when her effort doesn't pay off fast enough for her to see it. Her frustration often manifests itself in exploding rage where she might (and already has) destroyed everything she has done in her rage. It's a bad problem for her and Merida's learning how to be patient but the lessons aren't as effective as she hoped.
â Observing: Mer isn't the world's best observer. In fact, she barely observes anything. She looks at things the way it is. She can't grasp the concept of 'looking underneath the underneath' as well as her brother has. Mer often ignores the small details of things and it often causes her problems sometimes...well, most of the time....
Personality:
Merida is without a doubt a very hotheaded, bad-tempered, impulsive, reckless and self-centered girl. She does what she wants and never fails to piss people off, especially her brother. She often fights with people and while she doesn't like popularity, she basks herself in the spotlight. She is extremely proud of her bad reputation as opposed to her brother whose only wish is to be in everyone's good book. Merida is the kind of girl that is kind but never knows how to choose her words correctly. As a result, she has a very blunt mouth and speaks before she thinks. Or 'put her foot in her mouth' as her friends kindly put it. At first glance, the bad outweighs the good in her her. She's too reckless and risks her neck needlessly. She's too self-centered to even listen to anyone criticizing her flaws. She's too hot-headed not to get into a fight and too impulsive to be considered healthy. Oh, not to mention blunt... Mer is incredibly blunt. Sometime, people wonder why no one has hit her for her bluntness yet. Probably it has something to do with being a girl. She never sugar-coats her words and when she gives people advices, it sounds like she's scolding than talking.
So... with a personality like that, what is Mer good at, exactly? Well, first of all, while she is very blunt, very bad-tempered, very self-centered, she's very caring. While it is true that her care can be a bit much to some people, the fact that she cares matter. Her words, no matter how blunt they are, only there to help people. When people take the time to listen, truly listen instead of taking it at face value, they will see that Mer only wants to do the best for them. She's just too strong to be all mushy mushy. In addition to being caring, Mer is a righteous soul. Despite having a very bad reputation and even a 'bad girl' look to boost, Merida will never let evil go unpunished, even if she will most likely get into troubled for it later. Merida is also very loyal to her friends and will never betray them. A characteristic which she shares with her twin brother. Mer is also the most generous person you'll ever meet. She's willing to share anything as long as you're her friends and stays in her good side.
Merida's relationship with her twin brother is beyond strained at best and they are downright enemies at worst. All the arguments are usually started by Mer nine out of ten times. She hates her brother for meddling with things that are none of his own business, hate him for ruining her life even now, hate him for speaking ill of Mer's friends and most of all, she hates him because once again, just when Merida thinks she can be someone special, she only becomes the second best in her parents' eyes. Well, she's tired of being the second best and now she will become someone on her own, someone that is not constantly under her brother's big shadow. She'll become the bad girl if needed be and she will prove her worth her own way, her brother be damned. Let's see if she can make him have a heart-attack at the end of this year.
|| Impulsive || Blunt || Bad-tempered || Self-centered || Caring || Righteous || Loyal || Generous ||
History: "Tsk...whatever"
Born on August 18th just five minutes later than her twin brother, Merida began her journey through life as 'the second best'. In the early period of Mer's childhood, things weren't too bad. Her parents were quite rich and were more than enough to raise two children under their care perfectly. They showered the twins with love and Merida, in turn, turned those love her parents gave her into the love for her brother. She was too young at that time, too early to understand why some adults liked her brother more than her. However, Mer ignored those facts, her brother loved her best and that was enough for the young miss Glenn. Like her twin brother, Mer's happy bubbles and beautiful view of the world vanished quickly when she turned five.
While Jason was dealing with a lovesicked best friend, Merida was completely ignored by both her parents and her brother. No one could blame them, really. Mer had always been a rather quiet and easy to deal with child, she was self-entertained and she didn't cry or make a fuss much. She seemed perfectly content to be alone while her brother had to deal with a traumatizing event of his life. Of course it was logical for Mer's parents to focus on the elder one of the two. However, what they didn't know was that when those things were happening around Jason, Merida felt left out. She was smart for her age and she had always questioned her parents 'why'. "Why do you talk to Jason more than me, Mama?", "Why do you always play with Jason, Papa?" Merida would ask. Her parents, unfortunately, didn't have any justified answers to give her. It was always "Your brother needs us more, honey", "Don't worry, princess... I will play with you when I finish playing with Jason".
Because of those answers, Merida's parents had, unknowingly, created a rift between Merida and Jason. They had crippled Merida's confidence in herself, making her think that she could never be as good as her brother, would never deserve their parents' attention like her twin did. Slowly, Merida's thoughts turned bitter. She began to fight for her parents' attention. "Bad attention is better than no attention at all", she reasoned. Mer would break things, cause troubles, fight the neighborhood children so that her parents would scold her, so that she would have her parents' attention. Luckily for Mer, her childhood wasn't completely friendless. She made friends with a few children when she fought against the bullies. They were best buddies for a while... until her parents decided to move away.
Of course, it had to be because of dear Jason that they moved. Poor, poor traumatized Jason couldn't stay in a place filled with bad memories anymore and so, it was for the best if they move to a better place to start anew. No one bothered to ask the opinion of little Merida. No one asked if she had any friends here, no one was bothered enough to prepare for little Mer. Things got out of control... badly. When she knew the news, Merida threw a fit. She had just made a few friends and now they had to move? All because Jason couldn't even play with his friends correctly? Why? Why didn't they stop for a moment and think of her for once? But at last, the decision had already been made and Mer didn't have any say in it.
At the new place, Merida quickly learnt that everyone had a social status and her brother was in the higher place while she, with her inability to concentrate on anything for long period of time and her impatience, sat on the bottom of the ladder with the 'freaks'. When her twin had forgotten his own troubles, suddenly, she was the center of his attention. Unfortunately for Jason, Mer no longer wanted her twin brother's attention. She was the bad girl, she even had a period of self-harming. No teacher liked her and they always compared her to her twin brother. "That's the other twin. Wow, she isn't as good as her brother, is she?", "Yeah, she doesn't have her brother's intelligence, that's for sure", "What a pity, huh?".
Mer ignored all that and tried to avoid Jason like plague. However, things didn't turn from bad to worse until she turned 13. Merida got her first boyfriend. He was alright and he understood her. He was an emo kid. That was alright as far as Merida concerned. For once, her life wasn't centered around precious Jason. Unfortunately, it just had to be Jason that ruined everything again. Her brother's overprotectiveness showed it ugly head and he suddenly had to convince Merida to stop loving her boyfriend. Of course Merida disagreed. They argued and fought, sometimes for days on end. Then, Jason went behind Merida's back and confronted her boyfriend. The emo boy turned out to be a gay in disguise. He fell in love with Jason at first sight. Merida lost her love and Jason gained a troublesome fanboy.
Merida's patience for her brother snapped completely. She determined to become what her brother hated. She didn't even try at school anymore, she befriended 'the wrong sort' and she argued all the time with Jason. On one of the fight, where Merida's rage blinded her, she had snapped and thrown a bottle of water at her brother only to have it frozen in mid air. That was how Mer discovered her cursed power. At least it wasn't 'love manipulation'. Now, at her high school, she decided to stay at the bottom of the ladder, her friends were more real down there and they didn't judge her. Despite her brother's every attempt, Mer's stubborn. She would win this fight in the end.
Other:
- ⥠Merida is a bit of a geek. She enjoys Japanese culture and often seen reading mangas or discussing about the latest animes.
⥠Merida isn't very creative at naming things. She calls her goldfish 'goldie', her dog 'puppie' and her cat 'Lazie'
