Zylona Xanthos//D4 {COMPLETE}

Name: Zylona Yvonne Xanthos
Age: 14
Gender: Female
District/Area: District 4
Appearance:

Zylona has long, fiery red hair that falls to her waist. It's generally in a single plait, or at least pulled out of her face in one way or another. It is by far her best feature, and certainly the most vibrant. Her eyes, of an average size, are a blue- green hue, lined by thin, long red lashes. Her skin, pale and smooth, has a very good complexion, with no spots or scars. She has a button nose and a very pink mouth. She is rarely seen without her glasses.

She is very small for her age, just about reaching 4 foot 10. She can barely tip scales of a hundred pounds. She's skinny, but her curves are pretty much non existent, leaving her with a boyish figure and little attention from guys. Her wardrobe mainly consists of jeans and plain; she fades into the background willingly, not wanting to attract attention. She does, however, have a few training-type tunics, mainly for the occasional swim/climb she does when not bothered or for practical experiments.

Personality:

Zylona is smart. Like, weirdly smart. Like, she-will-creep-you-out-and-walk-away-feeling-very-much-accomplished smart. She is very resourceful with her issues, and that trait also comes with patience; she's had an odd enough life to know when she'll just have to wait things out. And anyway, if she absolutely has too wait, there are just about enough books in the world to keep her occupied for a decent amount of time.

However, her immense brainpower comes with some major personality drawbacks. She is cocky in her wisdom, and when she's wrong she can be quite the drama queen, and can end up in a full blown tantrum; she does have a fiery little temper. Zylona hates conspiracy theories and demands proof from anyone who has a hypothesis. She has a self-authoritative air about her when it comes to things such as projects, demanding the leadership role. However, while she is extremely logical, she isn't very original imagination-wise.

Altogether, Zylona is a very down-to-earth person, if a little conceited. She makes for a reliable friend. Structure is essential for her; she hates change, she hate new 'fads', she hates losing old traditions etcetera. She is highly ambitious. She does not however, impose her ambitions on others in the way she does with her ideals- she likes to keep some stuff to herself.

History:

Zylona's life hasn't been too hard, but it's not been a silver spoon fed life either. She was born on the 1st of January to Jake and Gina Xanthos. Her parents, easy living anglers without a fortune didn't quite have enough to support both themselves and a daughter, especially since her mother had to stop working in order to take care of her. Eventually, they were left with no choice; when Zylona was eighteen months old, her parents gave her up to her father's sister, Auntie Beth the seamstress.

The fact that she was living with her aunt was never hidden from Zylona; her parents felt terrible about giving her up and truly wanted to maintain a relationship with their daughter. However, they found her difficult to get on with since they were so unused to living with her, especially once she started school and got really smart. Even patient people can snap, and when she was eight, that's what Zylona did. She finally told her parents to get the hell out of her life and stay out.

They listened. They left. And they had another child. A son. A son who they loved and raised themselves.

This hit Zylona hard. How could her parents give her up but look after her new baby brother? Did they want a boy in the first place and decided that a girl wasn't good enough? She became closed off from the world, less naïve, more introverted. She began to set herself goals in life, academic goals. Her already great school performance soared. Her teacher, Mr Everen, offered her private tuition, which she gladly took. She was easily able to scoot to the top of her class, and then to the upper end of the class above her. But she still needed her parents permission to be bumped up a class, as she had only been fostered by her aunt and her parents were still her official guardians. But she still refused to see them, and so remained in her own class with people her own age.

Since her intellectual stimulation at school had been removed (not for lack of trying on the part of Mr Everen), her home life revolved around designing new fishing equipment and boats. She made one or two prototypes on a smaller scale. Her aunt even taught her how to draw proper blueprints for them.

Finally, aged twelve, Zylona gave in to her aunt's excessive nagging. Not to talk to her parents- she'd crossed that bridge and burnt it a long time before. To talk to her brother. It wasn't really his fault after all. He couldn't help his being conceived. It was her parents really.

It turned out in the end that they were completely different, despite the insistence of the three adults. He was only four at the time, so there weren't many categories where similarities would fall, but he was so trusting that Zylona just couldn't take it. He'd grown up with his parents. He got to go to the market holding his parents hands while every insisted how sweet the family were. His parents took him out on fishing trips and could provide for him. Her parents had ditched her cause they couldn't be bothered. It was her aunt who had kept her sane in the end. She'd looked after her in the same way a parent should.

The next time she saw her brother, she looked away. When she passed her parents in the street, they didn't get a passing glance. She'd moved on, and expected them to do the same. The only reminder she had of her 'real' family was the sad look Mr Everen constantly gave her whenever they passed in the school corridors.

Codeword: Odair
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