Erica 'Blaze' Davis.

WARNING: EXTREMELY LONG CHARACTER DESCRIPTION AHEAD. CONTINUE.


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Full Name: Erica Rose Davis
Nickname: Blaze
Reason for nickname: Schizophrenic Pyromaniac
Race: Human
Title: "The Kindling"
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Age: 15
Appears: 14
Eye color: Green
Goggles: Deep red (glows like cat's eyes in dark light)
Hair: Shoulder-length, normally braided, tangled
Weight: 94 lbs (without gear)
Height: 4'5
Build: Thin, agile
Skin Tone: slightly tan
Markings: Burn Scars all over body
Health: Gets simple cold easily
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Favorite food: Raspberries
Least favorite food: Ironically, Peppers.
Favorite expression (or would-be-favorite): "Laughter is the shock absorb-er that eases the blows of life."
Insults (in her world): Wetfire, Smokelung
Hobbies: Burning small sticks, drawing with ash
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Daredevil/Cautious: Daredevil
Acts: More thoughtful when alone or area is quiet
Habits: Hums, cracks knuckles
Strengths: Running, throwing
Weaknesses: Lifting, aiming
Soft spot: Animals, seeing people cry
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BACKGROUND: When Erica was 6 years of age, her house burned down and her Mother, Father and younger sister died in the fire. She survived, but not without the scars to show for it. She hid in the forest and was eventually pronounced dead. She traveled from town to town, searching for a place that she could call her own. She stumbled across an abandoned hunting cabin. Inside it was enough dried food to last her until she could find some more, a blanket, a water filter, and a set of clothes. She was young, but she was clever. She only took what she could carry and even of that, what was vital. Everything else stayed. After weeks of searching, and finding nothing, she decided to make her own home. She had found a cave. It was fairly large, but she did discover a bear living in it. Luckily for her, it was easy to smoke the bear out by sneaking in a creating a fire in the back of the cave. After she made sure that nothing else lived here, she moved in. As years went by, it became more comfortable for her to live in. She would strip the nearby trees occasionally for softer leaves used on bedding and whatnot. She had to fix the clothing so that it would fit her, and until she was 14, they didn't very well. She found herself constantly burning things for her benefit, and had grown accustomed to the heat of the flames. They were warm and soothed her when she remembered her family. Around age 9, a small voice began to show itself in the back of her mind. She couldn't put a face to it, but she knew she recognized the voice. It was cold, yet spoke the truth. A hard truth, but the truth nonetheless. Months went by, and this voice, now called Coal, seemed to be a part of Blaze. She couldn't rid of it if she tried and accepted it.

(Age 10) One morning, while she was outside, looking for any changes, a small animal bounded up to her. She was taken aback, as she had never seen anything like it. It looked like a stretched-out rabbit. At first, she was deciding whether or not she could eat it, but as days went by, she found herself growing fond of it. She fondly named it Scorch. With Scorch as her new companion, Coal was forgotten, all until Blaze fell. She was knocked unconscious for several days. Her dreams were nightmares. Coal became the sole keeper of this new world. Blaze explored while she was asleep, lured in by Coal's eyes, red like embers. The world was burning and there was nothing Blaze could do but allow it to happen, maybe even start several flames herself. She did, and it turned her. When she awoke, Coal was her conscience. She was who she was because of Coal. She spent a several-day journey to the cabin she had found as a young girl. Inside, she found more things that she could use. She used a blanket as a bag and managed to tote an extremely large amount of gunpowder and bullets back to her cave. This world reality, was extremely similar to the world Coal had shown her. She just needed to add a bit of fire.

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EXTRAS: I have plans for Scorch actually being a human-turned ferret or something like that, which explains his abnormally long ferret...-y lfespan.
-Blaze has an amazing talent for singing, but of course no one is around her hear her.
- She is extremely skilled in making explosives or weapons out of most anything she can find
- She is brave and ambitious, yet mildly untrustworthy (Because of coal) and stubborn
- Coal was created so that she wouldn't go *completely* insane, and to help her find a voice of reason, even if that reason isn't particularly good.
-In a pressured situation, she will often have "melt-downs" in which she literally wants to light everything in sight on fire.
- She has COMPLETELY forgotten her family at this point, though the mention of a family or her life before the cave could result in a melt-down. I'm not sure yet.

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This. took. FOREVER.

I was working on it off and on for two days, but I'm so proud of the outcome. I originally wanted to put a cool background on there, but Sai was bugging so I just went with deviantart green.

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