Ghost

[Ghost]

Ghost

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Name: Victoria “Vicky” Slater
Alias: Ghost
Gender: Female
Age: seventeen-years-old
Birth Date: March, 17th

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Height: 5’6
Weight: 48 kg
Build: Slender
Eye Colour: Sapphire blue
Hair Colour: Jet-black with natural dark blue highlights that become apparent when under artificial or natural lighting.
Avatar: Naoto Shirogane from Persona 4.

Though on the tall side, Ghost possesses a highly slender frame that is bordering on being too skinny, resulting in her possessing very little body fat and giving her a boyish physique. She participates in various physical activities, granting her some muscle in her arms and legs, whilst also keeping her stomach flat – a fit body but not one worthy of physical praise. She is also of an androgynous appearance, causing her to bare both masculine and feminine physical qualities that make it possible to masquerade as either gender. She is fortunate to possess flawless, imperfection-free skin despite being in her adolescent years, a complexion that is as soft as silk and naturally pale despite her Australian heritage. A fair shade comparable to moonlight, milk or porcelain.

Ghost’s facial structure is short but narrow with soft features that bare some masculinity taints to their femineity. Her nose is a bit on the long side, however it is also rather slender and perfectly straight ending with a slight arch, her pale lips are small and slightly thin whilst her eyebrows, dark and thin, are naturally arched and set close to her eyes, often leading her to wear a “less-than-impressed” expression on her face. Ghost possesses large eyes, which are thickly framed with long naturally dark lashes that eliminate the need for mascara; supporting hues of a striking shade of blue, usually compared to the shade of sapphires, often reflecting sharp intelligence, boredom and syndicalism. Her eyesight isn’t so good, her vision being less than “20”, and, as such, she requires glasses to read, though her vision is still strong enough that she doesn’t need to wear glasses all the time, usually supporting glasses with pale purple lining.

Her ears are small and delicate of appearance, possessing peircings through her earlobes and all along her right ear’s rim, visible due to the style of her hair. Hair, which she keeps at a short boyish length, not permitting it to reach any further than her chin in messy strands due to the fact that she finds long hair to be a hindrance, and a style that suits her well but only adds to her boyish visage. Hair of a dark shade of black that bares blue highlights when exposed to sources of light, and which also supports bangs that fall pass her eyes, often obscuring Ghost’s vision and distracting her.

Being tomboyish in nature, Ghost’s taste in clothing can hardly be referred to as “feminine”, strongly disliking anything with a skirt, heeled shoes or in “bright” shades, excluding white or light shades of purple. In her eyes, it’s pants or nothing. Her choice in clothing tends to be tight-fitting, flaunting her long slender limbs nicely, and more on the casual side of fashion. Denim jeans, t-shirts, sweaters, hoodies, heavy boots and accessories such as ties or studded belts are commonly seen worn by Ghost, all baring patterns such as stripes, or with detailed images or catchy sayings. She finds dark shades to appear more flattering against her pale flesh than bright colours, thus choosing to stay away from shades of pink, yellow or green, and has an odd fondness for hats, particularly caps, and will practically always be found supporting a hat on top of her messy cropped hair, even when indoors. On special occasions, such as when visiting powerful government officials, working on a special case or, oddly enough, when returning to Wammy’s House, she chooses to wear business-like suits that bare a slightly gothic quality to them.

Though she lacks a sense of femineity, Ghost is widely considered by those who have laid eyes upon her as being quite pretty, a fact that she makes no attempt to emphasis when considering her choice of garments. She is also never without at least one gun, which is always concealed on her person.

THE DRUGS DON'T WORK
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Likes:

• Solitude
  
• Games
  
• Hats
  
• Praise
  
• Complex puzzles or problems
  
• A mystery
  
• Martial arts
  
• Shooting
  
• Reading, particularly “romantic” literature and seinen manga
  
• Individuality
  
• Sweetened foods and drinks
  
• Wammy House

Dislikes:

• Unnecessary attention
  
• “Annoying people”
  
• Those who conform to other people’s tastes, opinions and expectations
  
• Feeling insecure, or being proved wrong
  
• Failure
  
• Boredom
  
• Secrets
  
• Coffee and anything with nuts in it
  
• Heights
  
• Most animals
  
• Liars

Fears:

• Heights
  
• Decapitation, or being injured by any sharp object
  
• Storms (specifically lightning and thunder)

Strengths:

• Of genius-level intelligence and a natural strategist
  
• Sees problems and questions in different and various perspectives
  
• Strongly independent
  
• Determined and incapable of accepting failure when deeply involved in an activity
  
• Very creative
  
• Attractive
  
• Very swift of foot and flexible to boot.

Weaknesses:

• Anti-social, and thus her own social skills are lax
  
• Obsessive with activities that achieve her full attention
  
• Easily bored
  
• Bordering on being “over-confident”
  
• Lacks any true ambition
  
• Does not acknowledge her own limits
  
• Is strongly distrustful towards strangers

Specializations:

• Criminology and problem-solving (Main focus)
  
• Human and criminal behaviour
  
• Martial arts (Specifically karate) and shooting

Only seventeen-years-of age but internationally famous for her talents at solving crimes despite only being in the detective business for just under four years, Ghost is undeniably a genius amongst humans, possessing an impressively high IQ level and a fondness for mind-games. Very few in the world could hope to compete with her intellectually and only adding to her success is her natural beauty that often appeals to the opposite sex, though Ghost acts in a manner of being indifferent to the advantages of her appearance. An idea that is completely untrue as Ghost is completely oblivious to her beauty, for the value of one’s physical appearance had never been an importance within Wammy House and, as such, it was not her beauty that ever received praise.

It is not surprising that arrogance is a trait that the girl is subjectable to, being completely confident and proud of her abilities and strengths but merciless in the critiquing of others, for whilst she does not verbally point out their “numerous” flaws, Ghost instinctively rejects them and, as she considers very few people her equal, she is often alone. Though solitude is an aspect that Ghost finds enjoyable, not requiring companionship to keep her happy. It is a known fact that constantly reading adds to one’s knowledge and intelligence, and it is a skill that Ghost undertakes often, however she prefers challenging her brain with difficult puzzles and games, both of which she is quite talented at. Unfortunately, her love for games and constant undertaking of them has led her to view every challenge in life as a “game”, resulting in her rarely taking life seriously or considering or relying on her emotions. She is also highly competitive, and failure is something she simply won’t tolerate in herself, let alone others.

As a former resident of Wammy House, the purpose behind Ghost’s unique but extensive education and training was to groom her into a possible successor for the legendary L. To a degree, such training was successful as Ghost did enter and excel at solving crimes few could, she even developed a fondness for sweetened foods which is a trait the two share, however she is not at his level of brilliancy. Lacking discipline and ambition, Ghost only ever places her all into a task that she finds “interesting” – a rare occurrence, and she becomes bored quite easily, she has no desire to succeed or to surpass L, preferring to keep at her own level of genius. Believing the pressure and expectations that would no doubt come with his reputation would be more than just “annoying.”

A little known fact is that Ghost is severally allergic to nuts, causing her to hate any product including the food. She is ambidextrous and dislikes just about every type of animal due to their dependency on humans once tamed, and also because their fur often causes her to sneeze, their scales are uncomfortable to touch or their feathers are filthy. When in thought, Ghost has a habit of closing her eyes and chewing on her right thumb.

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Family: All deceased.
Heritage: Australian
Hometown: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birthplace: Noosa, Queensland, Australia

It was late that wet, cold Autumn’s night when Victoria Slater came into the world, born to a barely legal teenaged girl who knew not of who Victoria’s father could be. Only adding further to her terrible situation was that there was a complication to Victoria’s birth, one where her mother bled a lot. Too much. None of the hospital staff could stop her bleeding, causing her to bleed to death and in which resulted in Victoria being orphaned. With no family to claim her, she was immediately placed into Noosa’s nearest orphanage.

She didn’t stay there for long. After all, Victoria was a beautiful healthy baby girl, more calm and better-mannered than most of the other children within the orphanage. By the time that she was five months old, she was adopted by a wealthy family who named her Victoria Slater, or “Vicky” for short. With them, Vicky was spoiled rotten, always given anything she desired within an hour and never denied a single thing, however she did not quite fit in with her adopted family. It wasn’t only that her appearance didn’t quite match theirs, it was also that Vicky was quite obviously too intelligent for a toddler or small child. She learnt things at an alarmingly fast pace and deeply unnerved her adoptive parents to the point that by she was six years old, Vicky had been officially dumped by her adopted parents and placed into a unique orphanage known as “Wammy’s House”.

It was here that Vicky was given an entirely different name, one which she quickly learnt to only answer to and which she decided to carry on through the rest of her years. “Ghost”, was what they decided to call her, an odd name, and the reasons for it being her name were never revealed to the girl, and she never asked. It was explained to her that only the most special of children were taken into Wammy’s House, the purpose for doing so was to provide the world with another rare genius – another “L”. Here Ghost studied and learnt, flaunting her brilliancy to the pleasure of her teachers and becoming less and less like a child. She studied ancient civilisations and learnt the world’s history, numerous languages were supplied to her mind as were complex equations and timeless novels. It was discovered that no puzzle existed that Ghost could not solve, normally in an alarmingly short space of time, and that the behaviour of humans was as easy to understand as learning to cook. In an effort to get her to interact with others at the orphanage, Ghost was encouraged to participate in sports, discovering a talent and like for karate and shooting.

By the time that she was fourteen, Ghost had done well to meet the expectations of her teachers and it was decided to allow her to explore the real world, an act that caused her to pursue a career in detective-work and criminal analysis. And once her seventeenth birthday arrived, Ghost was just as famous as “L”, though not quite as good, travelling the world and solving crimes that few were capable of solving. Though content with her career, Ghost still returns to Wammy House every few months or so in order to communicate with the people that she left behind there and because it is the only place that she considers home.

YOU'RE GONNA GO FAR, KID
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Name: Ghost
Age: Eighteen-years-old
Experience: 4-5 years now
Codeword: Don't look here.
Fun fact: I’m really passionate about my art and have even had some of it submitted into national galleries when I was younger.
Sample Post:

The soft pitter-pattering of rain vibrated against the thick stained glass of the small hotel window, constant as if to demand attention, though it was almost completely drowned out by the robotic tune of the slowly rotating fan, which hung from the ivory white ceiling, acting as the source or artificial light within the room also. Though no lights had been switched on within the small room. The only source of light being the pale blue glow of the opened dark laptop, which the teenaged girl viewed from the room’s bed.
The constant tapping as her pale fingers danced over the keys barely audible at the time.

Lying stomach and chest down upon the soft king-sized bed, knees bent and bare pale feet resting almost directly above her backside, Ghost silently viewed the information sent to her for her newest case. Dressed in only a dark blue singlet top, her bra missing beneath so that her slender chest appeared flatter than usual and also so that her small nipples were visible beneath, and plan black underwear, it was clear that she was not leaving her rented room for the rest of the night. A black beanie worn on her head, almost completely concealing her short messy black hair.
Pale pretty face showing very little expression whilst blue eyes were deeply bored as they scanned the screen, adding every new speck of information to her memory.

Yawning loudly, the teenaged girl made no effort to stifle the motion, her eyes watering from the strain. It had been a while since she had gotten a good night’s sleep, and her most recent case did little to attract her selective attention. It caused her to question if she should even take the case on or pass it on to another detective, someone more ambitious and foolish than she.
An untimely death. An unnatural death but no clear idea of what caused that death. No murder weapon either. No witnesses and few suspects.
The same boring crap, in Ghost’s mind. Really, it wouldn’t even take her a weak to figure out the murderer and the motive behind the crime. It never did.

A loud knock rang against the room’s locked door, causing Ghost to glance towards the door, a soft sigh escaping her lips.
She had called room service to supply her with dinner and a drink but didn’t particularly want to let whoever it was who answered her call into her temporary room. Communication with anyone was the last thing that Ghost wanted to do at that moment.
Yet, at another knock she forced herself to her feet, her movements baring clear reluctance. Unconcerned about how little she was wearing at the time, Ghost crossed the room and pulled open the door.

[Rhiatte]

Very nice job. You are accepted.