HULL, ANNALISE KACEY {complete}

[ANNALISE KACEY HULL]

ANNALISE KACEY HULL

- - -you're a million ways to be cruel - - -[/center]

ALIAS

Anna mostly, Ann, or Hull.

AGE

17.

HERITAGE

Spain.

TITLE

Senior.

CLASSIFICATION

Demigoddess.

ORIGIN

Victoria, British Columbia.

SEXUALITY

Straight.

- - - tomorrow is a day away - - -

PLAY BY

Jessica Stroup.

HAIR COLOR/STYLE

Long, dark brown hair. It remains fairly flat on its own, with only a slight wave, and isn't very thick.

EYE COLOR

Pale gray-blue eyes, beneath well-groomed, slightly arched brows.

BODY TYPE

Standing at only 5'5, Anna is fairly small but mighty. She doesn't look it, but she's actually quite fit- not to the point of being off-puttingly muscular, but she's toned. Her double lifestyle demands it.

FACIAL FEATURES

Anna has a more or less round face, with soft features. She has a delicately proportioned mouth, and a small, slightly pointed nose. Her most striking features are her thickly lashed eyes, and her smile.

CLOTHING STYLE

Anna is comfortable with her looks, so choosing clothing isn't an issue. She's more likely to wear jeans, sweatshirts, and t-shirts for the convenience, rather than heels and a tight skirt. That being said, she does like to get dressed up for an occassion, probably because she spends so much time in mundane clothing and likes to make an impression when she can. She doesn't have a ton of personal money to spend of lavish outfits though, so she saves her chance.

As far as her every day clothing is concerned, she tends to choose things based on durability, and flexibility, but doesn't usually get 'baggy' clothes unless she's just chilling out around her room- she knows how unflattering they can be.

- - - and yesterday was gone too fast - - -

LIKES

• Running
• Old furniture
• Getting dressed up
• Hiking
• Rain

DISLIKES

• Small spaces
• Feeling indebted to someone
• Being taken by surprise
• Feeling desperate
• Over thinking things

ADVANTAGES

strengths, personality only, at least four.
Observant - Anna prides herself on being able to tell the difference between when it's time to talk, and when it isn't. She isn't shy exactly, but until she gets the feel of someone she tends to be rather reserved.
Supportive - While she may not feel comfortable divulging her own secrets, she tends to be the one people go to when they need to vent.
Independent - She is very capable of looking after herself, even without demi-goddess powers.
Disciplined - It is something she has been working on- discipline with shifting, and with dealing with classmates. She tries to treat people fairly, and in a consistent manner, but it can be difficult.

DISADVANTAGES

weaknesses, personality only, at least four.
Stubborn - Like a rock, but mostly about the things that are dear to her. She's seen a lot in her young life, and knows when she's found something to hold on to.
Independent - Yes, it is a strength, but also one of her greater weaknesses. As she grows older it becomes more and more apparent that she needs company, but she doesn't know how to rely on others.
Mistrustful - Not to the point that she doesn't get along well with people, but it can be a bit irritating to some that she will accept the role as a trusted friend, and not return the feelings.
Over-ambitious - She has a pretty honed sense of self-preservation, but sometimes she pushes her body too far.

PERSONALITY

She's the kind of girl who leads a double life, more or less. She has a reputation for those who know her history, and she feels the need to prove to those people that they are sadly mistaken about her. She feels misunderstood when it comes to her status as a demi-goddess- she doesn't want it to define her as a person.

She's no hermit- in fact, she has quite a few friends at school- but they aren't really the type that she can divulge secrets to. They are company during lunch hour, entertainment on a bad day, but she doesn't have a strong relationship with anyone in particular.
Though her independence is essentially self-enforced, Anna doesn't actually enjoy being entirely alone. It is mostly just a lingering habit to first and foremost lookout for only herself, and it seems to be too large of a task to change those ways now.

Generally fairly neutral, because she doesn't enjoy being in the thick of school drama, it can come as a bit of a surprise when Anna loses her temper. But cross a line, and she'll take you out. She has very little patience for someone who doesn't respect her, and will definitely let them know. As far as relationships go, she doesn't let them interfere with the life she's established- plus, it's hard to be close to someone if she isn't willing to be honest about what she is. This isn't to say that Anna doesn't allow herself distractions- they just don't get serious.

- - - you wonder what the future will bring - - -

MOTHER

Persephone.

FATHER

Raymond Hull. {deceased, age 29}

SIBLINGS

Melanie Wright. {Half sister-25}

PET

None at school.

WEALTH STATUS

Personally lower class- aunt is middle-upper class.

HISTORY

Anna's story doesn't just start with her birth. It goes back much further, almost nine years- to her father's first child, Melanie.

Raymond Hull wasn't a particularly bright man, but that didn't make him a good person, as if his lack of ability to scheme somehow made him not lust after the same things as others. He was young, and in what he thought was love with his college girlfriend, Lindsey Wright. Surprise surprise, those feelings would eventually fade, but at the time he could ask for nothing more.
They were together for about nine months. The road wasn't always smooth, but it didn't matter- as both Lindsey and Raymond grew older, they started to realize they wouldn't be together forever, but neither wanted to be the first to admit it. They were slowly falling out of love, but all it took was one reckless night to change their differing courses in life. Lindsey was pregnant, and it wasn't an option in for either parent to consider giving up the baby. So their futures were cemented together, and both pretended that this was the spark their relationship needed to spring back into life.

Three months in to the pregnancy, Lindsey was starting to worry. She didn't have faith in Ray's ability to stick around when the going got tough, and she was eager to bind him to her so she wouldn't be left to raise a child alone. He was reluctant, but could see no other option, aside from abandoning her. So the day was set for them to be married, mere months ahead so they would be ready for when the baby arrived. Lindsey had to put off finishing college, and Ray...well, his patience was stretched thin. Both knew they were settling, but he seemed to have more of a problem with it than she did. In later years this would begin to bother Lindsey less and less- she accepted that they were a dis-functional couple, but she could put on a brave face for the baby. The nine months blew by in a whirlwind of best wishes from friends, and (a little more reluctantly) from family, but pass they did, until the newlyweds held their new baby girl in their arms. Melania Hull had once again ignited some of their passion for one another, making the first few years seem like there had never been any problems to start with. Lindsey and Ray were kind to each other...at least in front of Melanie. Their days were numbered, but it essentially went as an unspoken agreement that they would wait until their daughter was older before they gave up trying to keep the marriage afloat.

It only really fell to shambles when Melanie was around eight years old, and Ray began to stray. By that point he and Lindsey were living in separate rooms, and she knew her husband was out on the town by night- she had stopped caring long ago. Most of his relationships were one night stands, but eventually he met someone that even he, with his experience in the world of failed long-term love, could not simply pass up. With her lush brown hair, those kind eyes, and her almost cool treatment of him, he was sure to stick around simply because he wanted what he couldn't have. Ray pursued the mysterious woman, who, even after they began dating, was still oddly distant. But the gods have their reasons for walking the earth and
using mortals for their own devices. The day Persephone walked out of Raymond Hull's life, he thought that was the end, that he would never see her again. Lindsey was an afterthought- the papers were filed for their divorce anyway- but now Melanie was the one thing he had left. The little girl lived with her mother in another part of town as Ray began his downward spiral. He got to see his daughter on weekends, and the rest of the time occupied himself with drinking, trying to work out how he had lost it all.
But he was wrong about the goddess who had walked out. She returned, only one last time. To his horror she brought to him a baby that she claimed was his (after only three months? He couldn't believe it), and even more distressingly, would apparently have a host of powers. He was blown away by what she was telling him, and in fact didn't believe a word of it until the goddess showed him what she meant, what she could do, and what the baby would one day be able to do. He was a plaything to the goddess, she explained, but must nonetheless look after the child. Ray was skeptical, and no closer to getting his life on track again, but none of that mattered when several months later he was killed in a hit and run.
In the brief time that he had known his second daughter, it came to the attention of one individual that this was not a good environment for a baby. Ray had revealed the existence of his second daughter, named Annalise, and it had been a key reason why Lindsey then severed all ties with her ex-husband and refused to let him see Melanie any more. It had the opposite effect on his family, however. His only remaining family member was an estranged older sister, Charlotte Hull, who took and interest in Anna's well-being once she found out about Ray's lack of stability. Charlotte was able to contact Ray before he died, and as his sister, she was awarded custody of Anna, since Lindsey refused. During the brief meetings between the siblings, Ray (usually in a drunken stupor) relayed all of what Anna's mother had explained to him to a very attentive Charlotte. She was a bit of a free spirit, used to living on her own, a fan of things a little out of the ordinary. It was crazy to believe what her brother told her, but there was a part of her that just accepted it anyway. And so it was that Charlotte ended up with a daughter of sorts, who came to live with her in Victoria, British Columbia.

Anna was raised on the edges of Victoria, in her aunt's bungalow that overlooked forest. It was a comfortable living- Charlotte did huge commissioned paintings, and had been at her craft for two decades before Anna came along. The girl respected her eccentric relative, and learned to give her space when she was in one of her creative whirlwinds. In school Anna found it easy to fit in with the other kids, although there were always those nosy few who wanted to know why she didn't live with her actual parents, or who they had been. She was a normal girl, to Charlotte's relief, who didn't know how she would go about explaining Anna's history if problems ever arose- if, because she had yet to see proof that the girl was anything more than human.

Yet just because Charlotte had not seen anything, did not mean that Anna was not experiencing changes. By middle school she was inexplicably reviving plants, and to her own horror, hearing voices. It was months before she started making the connection between animals and those voices, but when she did, it didn't reassure her in the least. It got to a point that she was so disturbed, she revealed all of her worries to Charlotte- it was time. Charlotte explained as best she could, but Anna's disbelief was still strong. How could she be...? It took time, but eventually she learned to live with it, and accept the ludicrous story. It would be their little secret, what she could do, what she supposedly was.

Her powers grew stronger the more aware of them she became, but it wasn't until she was nearing her first year of highschool that things really changed. She had grown fond of her abilities, even if they did make it difficult to relate to others, and was steadily building up to a point where she had some control. It would be nothing compared to the power she would later wield when she arrived at Thaedeus and learned about her goddess mother in detail, but it was a start. Between the start of the manifestation of power, and her own fear, she hadn't spent much time being a regular kid. It took awhile then for her to get back into the swing of it, but when she did, there were disastrous results. Every confrontation with another student made her woozy, sudden surprises sent her heart thundering. It was like she was falling apart from the inside. The pamphlet from the school arrived just in time, for it was only when she agreed to move to Seattle and attend the institute that apparently specialized in 'her kind' that someone finally explained the last of her changes.

She was among the shifters, the few at the school who could turn into their particular animal at will. Pleased as she was to find that she wasn't literally ripping out of her skin at that very moment, knowing it was on the way according to the school staff was as daunting as anything. Those first changes were hell, mainly because she felt like a freak among freaks, but it soon became apparent that things weren't as bad as she thought. She had always felt at home in the woods, had always enjoyed exercise...it wasn't as difficult to transition into this new life as she expected. In fact, she made friends rather easily, as long as she kept certain information to herself- no one had to know that by being a daughter of Persephone with additional 'gifts' meant she could transform into an animal. She was already among the Demi-gods of Thaedeus, and was assured a place of higher status, although she didn't really see the difference. She never looked down upon the Unnaturals, or Nymphs, though she had to admit it felt kind of good to realize you had an exceptional pedigree just like that.

Every summer since her arrival at the school, Anna returned to BC having learned more than just the regular subjects. Her greatest triumph was honing her gifts, though there is still work to be done. In her senior year she is planning her future beyond the school walls, but it is harder than she thought, especially with the looming pressure of fitting in to social norms outside of her circle of gifted friends. She has also been in contact with her half sister, despite the rocky nature of their father's relationship with Lindsey.

Sweet beavertails I can't write any more. :[

- - - as you worry about the sins of your past - - -

OOC ALIAS

Brasssssss.

OTHER CHARACTERS

The Brass boys, Wes Bennett, and Holly Rivers.