Opal

Suggested Music: Apani B - A Million Eyes

Basic Information

Name: Opal
Type: Dragon-Blooded Exalt
Age: 27
Player: NPC
Aspect: Undetermined
Concept: Grass-Spider, thrill-seeker
Motivation: Force Creation to confront the harsh reality that violence and peace necessarily go hand in hand.
Political Affiliation: The Hallowed Order of the Grass Spiders
Anima: (Subject to change based on caste) A hazy blue glow surrounds Opal and ripples gently at lower levels, like a pond. As the anima grows more intense, the blue glow more closely resembles a raging rapids, turning a darker green and frothing with white tendrils of raw energy at its edge, hissing as they claw at the air. At its maximum power, however, Opal's anima delves into the depths of her darkness, and becomes a flat black, gently pulsing oval. It is dead silent.
Likes: Exploring new territory, climbing trees, spontaneous trips, baths, alcohol, Gateway
Dislikes: Eating (especially meat), politics, being forced to take charge, meditation, being teased about her hair

Background

Opal spent her earliest years as part of a traveling performing act that circled the eastern area of the Confederation of Rivers. With no parents to speak of, she was owned wholly by the act's sponsors and quickly became the show's feature attraction - a child prodigy who had no reservations performing death defying aerial stunts and acrobatics. On a particularly fateful day, Anton, a made member of the organization, witnessed her performance and recommended her to the Three Elite Fiends. Her kidnapping from the traveling group was arranged, and within the year, eight year-old Opal was in the custody of the Grass Spiders. Already an expert gymnast, she was trained to be an effective killer and infiltrator from that point forward, raised by the assassins who would later become her colleagues and indoctrinated to the Order's attitude.

She accepted her first contract at age 14, and was formally inducted into the Order a year later. Although she is not the oldest member of her circle, she in the senior-most member. Even among Grass-Spiders who have been members of the organization for a longer time period, Opal is highly regarded, as her hits-per-year is one of the highest of any in the Order. Her athletic ability is nigh-unparalleled, and she is one of the Order's best acrobats.

Opal, for her part, is a pretty normal young woman most of the time. She usually takes a pragmatic view in politics and daily life, and takes some joy in pointing out when others are being impractical or hypocritical. She craves adventure, and finds great pleasure in the fact that her work often provides for an ample amount of excitement. Although the jovial attitudes of her foster family shielded her somewhat from the macabre nature of her work, her ultimately brutal upbringing is apparent in mild neuroses that lie just beneath her overtly 'casual' exterior -- she is a heavy drinker, avoids eating, and in her most private moments, is prone to bouts of depression (only Rizuka is aware of this, and the two never speak of it).

Opal doesn't know her birthday.

Despite being born with stark red hair, she did not Exalt as a Fire-Aspect. She is extremely touchy about this.