
Username: τίmε
Name: Nora Bel
Nickname: --
Age: 17
Gender:Female
Description: Nora stands at the height of 5’7ft, so depending who she’s standing next to she can seem small but being French it can only be expected. Her hair is chestnut in colour, falling down to the bottom of her shoulder blades framing her high cheekbones. Hey eyes are a piercing blue, on occasions her stare is enough to make one to look away. But streaks of soot can be found on her face due to sitting in front of fires.
History: Her family had always been poor, from what she has heard. From a young ager her mother taught Nora how toread maps, design and draw them. But unfortunately a year or two later her mother died of an unexpected illness, this was around the time when Nora was six or seven.
Since then, Nora has travelled with her father; they needed the money to survive so they travelled the lands selling his carpentry work. This was when she put her map skills to work, drawing maps as she went and navigating through the lands. During there stay in other countries, she was able to pick up the language they spoke, being interested in them due to never having proper education.
Of course her father taught her what he could, carpentry for one but at every attempt she cut her fingers. He also taught her what he knew of horses, their horse being the one that pulled their cart. As the years went by he attempted to teach her reading and writing, well what he knew of it, and she managed to pick a little in her native tongue; French.
Despite all his fine wood-work, Nora and her father never managed to have enough to actually be able to stay in one place. The money that was given to them for the wood work went towards buying wood to make more things and food for the horse and themselves, if luck enough for them to stay a night somewhere. If not, they had the welcoming stars of the outside world including the bitter cold.
And then one day her farther died suddenly, of course Nora mourned silently but no one cared how she felt, she needed to survive in this world. She took care of the horse, and even sold the last of her father’s wood-work but kept a small wooden bird he had made her with a chain that he had bought her too. It was the only thing she had left of him, and he had always said she was a bird. Because birds always found a way of enjoying themselves, being outdoors and free but always surviving; like herself.
While selling the wood-work, someone spotted her maps on the back of the cart. Stating that they were good enough to sell. It was then she redrew them, and began selling the copies. Nora had found a new way of surviving.
It had been at least a year ago since she started selling her maps, and had turned seventeen with no family but only the enjoyment of her work.
Personality: Nora is quiet most of the time, quiet but observant, a skill needed to draw maps. She hasn’t really socialised for her entire life so one could expect her to be shy, Nora has only really spoken with her parents when they were alive and the people buying her maps, she was always on the move never being able to have true friends. When it comes to someone asking how she feels, Nora will lie unsuccessfully because she has never opened up to anyone. But with the way she can communicate in numerous languages, she’s not afraid to confuse people by what she’s saying. Actually enjoying the others confusion, making her feel clever for once.
Strengths-
-Navigation along with drawing maps
-Observant
-Communicating in different languages
-Stern glares
-Puts others before herself
Weaknesses-
-Her mathematic skills are awful, she just relies on peoples honesty and her stern glare to get the money she needs.
-Reading
-Writing to some extent
-Swimming
-Disobedient
-Reckless
-Lying
Likes-
- Stars
- Animals, birds most of all
- Her necklace from her father
- Travelling
- Visiting new places
- Being outdoors
- Drawing
- Funny people
- Honest people
- Learning new things
Dislikes-
- Bossy people, she enjoys her freedom and has not been told what to do for a while.
- Loud noises
- Stupid questions
- Carpentry, she can do a little but not well
- People who think to highly of themselves
Fears- The sea, water, she’s terrified that she would drown due to being unable to swim, something to be expected from someone who has lived on land all her life.
Other: She carries a satchel of the sorts around with her, it contains her maps, the originals and the copies of them. Aware that if she left them alone, they were most likely going to be stolen.