Nothing is ever perfect. That is a lesson we all learn early in life. Though of course, some try their hardest to be.

The year is 2008 and the and a mere four years ago the Vale family lived a life that seemed perfect. Though of course, the family was anything except for normal. Not because there was thirteen kids, and not because the kids' parents seem very young. Each member of the family has at least one ability that separates him or her from average human beings.

In the year 2004, the government of Mirei, their home at the time, declared war against a neighboring country known as Rezine. The husband and father of the family left to join, and little did the family know that would be the last time he was seen again.

In 2005, the family received a letter from military officials saying that the man was missing in action. After two years. the family assumed the worst. The man whom had been husband and father for centuries (literally as the parents are at least five hundred years old) had finally been killed.

The family mourned his death for a year, and some members still are. Just a few months ago, the family returned to their mother's native country, and have taken up residency in a small town known as Spring Lake.

Though barely a month after moving to Spring Lake, the mother met up with an old childhood friend and it didn't take long for a relationship to form. Now things get interesting when this new boyfriend is moving in with the family, and the family will have to not only hide their abilities in public but at home too.

Unless of course somebody finally tells mommy dearest's new boyfriend. And what happens when the MIA father returns to their old home, finds his family has left, and then finds the new place of residency?

Rules

No godmoddding.
Please post at least a paragraph. No aterisks, and remember to use quotation marks for speech as well as italics for thought.
PM all profiles to me with the title as "Lala....what?"
No posting unless I accept your profile.
Please do not post and leave, that is rather annoying.
Swearing is all right, just not every other word.
You may play a maxinum of six characters. (Only two kids though.)
I have the right to add and remove rules when I feel necessary.
Have Fun or I'll sic a crazed InuYasha fangirl on you!

Roles:

Mother: Soquira
Father:
New Boyfriend:

Children:
1. Soquira
2. Lt. Summers
3. Soquira
4. Cows Go Moo
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Profile Format

Username:
Character Name:
Age:
Information: (Bio, personality, etc...at least a paragraph.)
Role: (What you are to the family. Please specifiy if not listed above.)
Occupation:
Special Abilties: (If any)
Appearance: (Link please or detailed description.)
Other:

Username: Soquira
Character Name: Esmereina Vale
Age: A real lady never reveals her age!
Information: Esmereina was the only child of a wealthy S'Vellian family. She grew up spoiled, and was used to getting what she wanted. Which is why, when she met her late husband she hadn't been expected a challenge, but that turned out to be exactly what she got. After meeting him her spoiled attitude disappeared and she became a rather well shy woman most of the time. Quiet and apparently calm most of the time, Soquira is anything except an open book. She despises sharing her feelings, as she hates having people worry about her and lives to help others as much as she possibly can.
Role: Mother
Occupation: Kindergarten teacher, former nurse.
Special Abilities: She can control wintry elements and manipulate ice and snow.
Appearance: Esmereina
Other: She is a hopeless romantic and never really got past her husband's "death."

Username: Lt. Summers
Character Name: Sparrow
Age: Looks 17 but is really 307
Information: Sparrow is one of the older siblings, but not the oldest. She takes a while to trust people, but she doesn't know why. She doesn't like making friends, not to keep them safe from her, but because she thinks that that humans are stupid. She will befriend a human if they are smarter than most other humans. She loves to write, especially dark, evil stories, mainly because she thinks they are interesting. Dark stories let her imagine what's out there, but she doesn't necessarily wish harm upon others. Her main goal in life is to get people to leave her the heck alone. She not only wants to be an author, but also and archaeologist, to study dead people and ancient artifacts. Oh, and she loves anything black and white. She especially loves them in horizontal stripes. Most people would call her emo, but she is in no way depressed, just ornery. She loves pirates, and has slightly more respect for stupid pirate fans than for stupid ninja fans.
Role: daughter
Occupation: She works in an antique store.
Special Abilties: She can manipulate time.
Appearance: She loves to wear black and white striped shirts, and she has short, dark hair. Her hair is not black, but some people call it that. It is more of a dark brown that shines red in the right light and black in shadows. her eyes are grey. She is of average height and weight. She wears a red beanie and a fur-lined leather jacket and jeans. The right sleeve of her jacket is embroidered with white, gold, and brown roses. She wears black converses. Her mouth is almost always pursed or turned down. On a leather thong around her neck she wears a medallion that few would recognize as a piece-of-eight, which she bought from the antique store that she works at.

Username: Soquira
Character Name: Elizabeth 'Candy' Vale
Age: Eighteen exactly.
Information: One of the daughters of the family, Candy always tried to be absolutely perfect growing up. She graduated from high school last year with a B average, and her extra-curricular activites ranged from the yearbook staff to cheerleading. Candy knows that she is beautiful and isn't one to hesitate when it comes to using her looks to get what she wants. Still, like everybody, Candy has her flaws, the girl lacks common sense and that is probably one of the reasons why she has a four-year old daughter named Isabella. Though she acts extremely confident, she has low self-esteem and it really doesn't take much to depress her.
Role: Daughter.
Occupation: Waitress
Special Abilties: She has the ability to change her appearance at will, as well as the appearancea of others.
Appearance: With emerald colored eyes
Other: She gained her nickname because of her love of sweets.

Username: Soquira
Character Name: Isabella Vale.
Age: Four.
Information: She is the daughter of Candy and probably will grow up to be a rather bright and bubbly girl, as she already seems to be one, and she never cries. Literally. She adores her family and always seems to know when something bad is going to happen though she never shares the feelings.
Role: Daughter of Candy.
Special Ability: She has the ability to levitate.
Appearance: [x]

Username: Cows Go Moo
Character Name: Dominic "Dom" Vale
Age: 17
Information: As one of the sons in the family, Dominic tried for the most part to be perfect growing up. Unfortunately, somewhere down that path he ended up diverging from a normal path and dropping out of high school and pursuing to become a writer. He tends to be a practical person, though his judgment can be clouded with his drinking problem. He can also be reclusive from appearance, but after getting to know him he's actually pretty social. Contradicting to his appearance, he tends to dress pretty casually most of the time. He also has a lazy streak that tends to get the best of him when he's working...or writing.
Role: Son
Occupation: Bus boy, writer
Special Abilties: Can animate inanimate objects
Appearance: [Dominic]
Other: None

Sparrow sighed and blew a stray lock of hair out of her face as she dusted a gold plated candle holder. Just another day, just another candle holder. She wished they would get something exciting in the shop, like a skull or something. Not that she was sure they even sold bones.

She fingered her necklace absent-mindely and looked at her watch. It was 40 minutes till closing time and she could go home. She felt especially exahausted today.

As the dark haired woman fixed the pillows on her white couch, a small sigh escaped her lips. This was going to be interesting all right. She hadn't yet told her family about her boyfriend who was supposed to move in only two days from now and she had a feeling that they would be none to happy about it.

Brushing a strand of hair out of her eyes, Esmereina's dark eyes scanned the room, everything was far too quiet. Not that she didn't mind it, having a full house was never peaceful, but there was something eerie about silence in the house. Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes and reached for the book sitting on the in-table.

The Illiad, a book she had read many times, but it never hurt to read again. Now just to wait for the mayhem to start. If it didn't.........well she would be convinced that she was still asleep.

Sparrow counted the miuntes. She snapped her gum in boredom and wrapped her hair around her finger. She could tell her mom was apprehensive before she left for school today, but didn't know why. Sparrow hated not knowing what was up. She was also kinda worried; her mother never had anything good to tell them if she had to wait to tell them.

Walking down the street, Candy carried her four-year old daughter looking rather bored. Her mother had been eager to have them all out of the house this morning, though there wasn't much to do in this sleepy little town that the family called home. Shrugging it off she stepped into the antiques shop her sister worked in and looked around.

For some reason she never had been fond of the place. Setting Isabella down, she spotted her sister and made her way over. "Looks like you're having fun."

"Oodles," Sparrow replied sarcastically. She loved her family, but she wasn't exactly excited about hanging out with them. She handed Candy some gum and pointed to a couple of chairs for her and Isabella.

Sparrow tapped her long black fingernails on the glass counter and leaned over it to examine a wooden box made of oak with purple heart insets. It was beautiful.

A sigh came from Dominic as he scrubbed the dishes. If only less people were around he could make all the towels and sponges work for him. He knew that wouldn't happen though. He handed a few plates to the next person who dried and put them away. He had about ten minutes before his shift was over and he could get the heck out of here. He sometimes wondered why he didn't just stay in school, but he remembered that the excessive work really wrapped around his writing time.

Candy sighed as she watched the four year old play with a string; keeping an eye on the girl she turned her attention to her sister and forced a small smile. "So..." She began quietly; "What are you doinbg after this? I wouldn't advice going straight home," She paused, "Mom's taken the words "neat" and "freak" to a new level. Still haven't figured out exactly why though."

Sparrow glanced over at Candy. "I wans't planning on going home," she lied, not wanting her sister to know she hadn't thought about that already. She popped her gum again and picked up a necklace from the glass case underneath, acting like she was examining it. Her eyes rested on it as she thought. What could Ma want?

[Hey, since Sparrow is 307, but looks 17, and Candy is 18, would Sparrow or Candy be older?]

[Well by a technicality Sparrow would be older, but if she only looks seventeen I guess in public Candy would be considered older.]

Candy frowned and looked around, the fact that Sparrow seemed to feel the need to pop her gum was irritating. A personal pet peeve of Candy's. Standing up she looked around before looking at the items under the glass. Some of the items were all right but it was rare that she found anything that really caught her eye in this shop. "So, do you have any idea what might be up?"


[By the way, I'm at work so you didn't see me on here. ^^;]

[Kay, so in Sparrow's thoughts, and when they arent around public, Sparrow can refer to her as little sister, but talking in public, older?]

Sparrow snapped her gum again. "Not a clue," she said, fingering the necklace. She carefully set the necklace back in the case and popped her gum again, trying for a louder snap. She checked her watch; 5 minutes. "I'm gonna start closing up shop, so you guys need to leave," she told Candy. She closed the glass case and pulled the store keys from her pocket. She didn't own the place, but she was the senior employee, considering she was the only employee and the owner trusted her completely.

[Got cha. *wink*]

[Er, I sent my profile to the owner of the thread, but it hasn't been put up yet... ^^; Has it not been accepted?]

[Soquira has a bad computer, so she can't post much. It will probably be accepted in like a week with maybe one of two posts a week.]

Sparrow put the keys in the ignition and started the car, waiting for her sister and niece to get in.