Nyx ll Vanessa Leona

[Vanessa Leona]

Name: Vanessa (Cordelia) Leona
Age: 15
Birthday: December 2
Birthplace: Boston
Year OR Occupation: Sophomore

Who are you?: Nyx

Personality:
Vanessa Leona. Cunning and manipulative, she always seems to be under suspicion, but she's never really linked to any wrongdoing. At first, she can come off as a shy, quiet girl, but those who know her know otherwise. She's used to getting exactly what she wants in life, and when she doesn't, she's likely to get nasty. Loyalty? She knows what it means, but she doesn't have an ounce of it. One day, she can seem quiet and ready to be friends, then the next she wants to stab you in the back. Truth be told, most people don't really like her, but if there's something underhanded and tricky to be done, she's probably one of the first to talk to. Vanessa always seems slightly irritated, which is due to her near-anorexia diet. Because her parents never paid attention to her, she was always trying to improve her appearance, because they wanted her to go into modeling or acting. Not that she had any intention of either, but she desperately wanted their attention.

In some ways, she's a child. Immature and quiet, a girl who's never really in the spotlight, but longs for her parent's love. In others, she's very mature and cunning. She's not afraid to be manipulative, or stab someone who billed themself as her best friend in the back. That is, if she ever had someone who billed themselves as her best friend. Mostly, people tried to avoid her unless they want something out of her, like money or influence. After they realize that she has no intention of providing either, they stay away from her. Antisocial? Well yes, she is. After all, when it comes down to it, she's not exactly a 'nice' person. She's not really a typical school 'ice queen', because she doesn't really have friends to manipulate, but she can be very manipulative when it comes down to it. And of course, she has a bit of an internal self esteem conflict. She's not a senior yet, but when she is, the rest of her class is in for some trouble.

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Family:
{Parents}
Derek Leona
Cassandra Leona
History:
Although Vanessa was born in Boston, the only child of wealthy parents, she and her parents moved to New York when she was five. She was mainly raised by servants, with her parents never home, which led to her need to manipulate other people to get what she wanted. Throughout her childhood, her 'friends' were all people who were hoping to get a piece of her money, and over time she became more and more isolated. She has a hard time relating to others, and almost never smiled. People expected her to be a popular socialite in her teens, but other than her efforts to change her appearance to please her parents, she didn't live up to that expectation. She was always a mysterious schemer, and never quite in trouble. When she got her attendance letter for Mount Olympus High, she billed it as an ultra-exclusive high school that had sought her out because she came from a wealthy family.

They couldn't argue with that, so off she went to school. At school, she was once again unpopular, though there were a few who liked her (or rather, pretended to) for the sake of her wealthy background. People would joke that she was a goth in disguise, and that she was going to kill herself, but she learned to avoid most human contact whenever she could. During classes, she passed with good, but not out-of-the-ballpark amazing grades, and mostly just tried to stay quiet and keep her head down. All the while, she was plotting and dreaming of course. Several well-performed pranks in her Freshmen year led several teachers to keep an eye on her, but the evidence never quite pinned her down.

Instead of her taking the blame, people who had hurt her always seemed to get in trouble. They insisted that they were innocent, but somehow the evidence always led to them. Vanessa wasn't the dramatic frontrunner type, she was more of a background string puller. If she put her mind, and money, to it, she probably could have gained popularity, but it just wasn't her style. People thought she was strange, and with good reason. Her parents of course, still hardly noticed her, no matter what she did, or how she tried to capture their attention. As her second year approached, her schemes began to grow more elaborate, though they were cunning as ever. With her headphones securely covering her ears, and her traditional black and white clothing, she watched the others, just waiting for her opportunity. After all, people don't like her for a good reason. She's the incarnation of Nyx, goddess of night. Always a very feared subject in mythology.

Anything else?:
Vanessa has a few problems with anorexia-like diets, and the fact that she's very cold to everyone. Really, she feels like no one understands her, because she's too different. Her abilities began to show just before she came to the school, furthering her belief that she was different. Of course, she was only one of many at the school, but in her mind she was still different, which fueled her antisocial behaviors.

[Blair Von Der Wodsen]

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