Feo Eleri Smith - to overjoy

Player
Name: Sunny
Personal Journal: shiptastically 
Age: 24
Contact Info: ishipitsunny@aim, corsetkitty@plurk
Other Characters: N/A

Character
Name: Feo Eleri Smith (Terrível)
Age: 18
Suitability: N/A
World Description: 
Character Background: Feo spent the better part of her childhood in L.A., California. She lived in a two-bedroom house with her mother, Jenny, her father, Paulo, and her older half-sister, Wren. Wren was two years older than her, and the two never really got along. In fact, her rivalry with Wren, more than anything else in her life, shaped her personality. As Feo grew up, it was obvious that she was the prettier of the two. She won beautiful baby contests, and at age 5, won her first and only beauty pageant. Wren hated this, as she would only be considered average at best.

 

Once Wren had entered middle school, it was discovered that she was extremely intelligent. She was moved up a grade, and proceeded to rub it in Feo’s face. Feo was okay in school, but she was nowhere near the genius that Wren was turning out to be. The girl were constantly at each other’s throats, Feo taunting Wren about her plain Jane looks (Feo was still a very pretty girl) and Wren retorted with Feo’s lack of scholastic aptitude. It got to the point where their parents hesitated to leave them in the same room by themselves. The war came to a head two years later when Feo, taking a break from riding her bike, heard her parents talking to Wren. She put her head near the door to her parent’s room, and heard something that would change her world forever.

 

“Wren, honey, don’t worry about what that girl said about you. So what if she thinks you’re ugly? You’re brilliant, and you are going places. Besides, most girls that are the cute ones at your age are either ugly or useless at mine”

 

Feo was crushed. She had no idea that Wren had been crying before she came in, or that her mom had been talking about a bully in Wren’s class and not her. All she knew is that Wren had won. No matter how bad she made Wren feel, she was still going to win in the end. It was likely she was going to be an ugly loser when she grew up, and there wasn’t much she could do about it. In the weeks to come, Feo would spend most of her time playing outside, going as far as doing her homework at lunch so she could get out of the house faster. When she did encounter her sister, she didn‘t speak to her at all. It was possibly worse than before. None of them could figure out what was behind the sudden change. 

 

Jenny got an offer as a plant supervisor, but it required transferring from California to Minnesota. She wasn’t thrilled about it, but it was a major pay raise and offered a change of scene. After discussing it with Carlos, they decided that he would sell his car repair shop, and they would make the move to Saint Paul. Wren and Feo would have to start fresh in a completely new state. They both adjusted surprisingly well, even being civil to one another. Feo started to go by Eleri in school, not wanting to be teased about her name. Unfortunately, she was teased anyway. Where girls had been jealous of Wren for being better in class than they were, they were jealous of Eleri (as she was now known) for being prettier than them. She began constantly getting detention for bickering with them during classes. Her parents tried talking to her, but she refused to tell them what was going on. At their wit's end, they begged Wren to help her younger sister out. She begrudingly agreed. Although Feo wouldn't listen to Wren at first, she wore her down. In time, the two started hanging out with each other just because they wanted to. Wren told Feo how she had been treated back then, and how she had to stop caring what people thought about her - including Feo. With Wren's advice, she made it through middle school with her head held high. One unexpected side effect of said confidence was her reputation as a notorious flirt (and worse). She loved the power she had when a boy was under her spell. Quite a few guys had fallen under her spell during middle school; she’d stolen more than her share of boyfriends. However, she never got any further than kissing with any of them. 

 

In Bayview, she ran with the popular circles. She wasn’t necessarily friends with all of them, she just found them to be the group she had the most in common with. In tenth grade, she was put in a beginning band class. She couldn’t transfer out of it; the classes were too full. The band teacher, Mr. Schuster, put her on instrument after instrument, trying to find one she could play. He eventually found her an old alto sax. To her, Mr. Schuster, and her family’s surprise, she had a natural gift for it. She soon grew in her skill, seeing it as a ticket to her being more than just a pretty face. Outside of school, she generally was either working out or practicing. With all her activity in band, she never got any less popular or any less flirtatious. She didn’t actively steal anyone’s man anymore, but she frequently crossed the line between flirting with someone and actually coming on to them. 

Once arriving on the island, Feo Smith first awoke in the sawmill. She was soon approached by Ethan Kent and soon they formed a group with Duncan McMahon . They formed a plan to steal a weapon from Cisco Vasquez and Joe Rios. Before they could carry it out, Brent Shanahan tossed dynamite at the sawmill. In the explosion Feo was badly injured, losing two fingers off her right hand, suffering several burns on her limbs and was knocked unconscious for a minute. Ethan administered first aid and when they awoke she fought with him, blaming him for the incident. After some tension the group decided to stay together and wandered to the tunnels.

 

Feo started out the second day waking up in the tunnels to find Ethan holding her as she slept. She gave him a quick kiss to wake him up but they were interrupted by a noise from further down the tunnel and went to see what had caused it. The trio came upon Haruka Watanabe and Frankie Fiametta on the floor, having collided with each other. They were soon joined by Liz Polanski, who attempted to comfort Haruka, but was rebuffed. Feo took the opportunity to steal Haruka's oar while she cowered behind Duncan. Ethan and Feo talked briefly with Frankie before leaving to escape the tunnels with Liz. Along the way, Liz looked for radio relays in the tunnel, hoping that there would be none and that the collars would not be able to be remotley detonated underground, but Feo pointed them out. Liz attempted to destroy one of the relays but was stopped by Ethan who told her rather rudley that destroying terrorist property would result in her death and asking that if she wished to be blown up that she wait until he and Feo were clear of the area. As soon as the three exited the tunnels, Ethan and Feo bid Liz good bye and set off.

 

Ethan and Feo journied across the island, coming to stop at the higher point of the mountain. Using his boyscout knowledge, Ethan started a fire and the two talked. They conversed for some time, then slept together. After the act the two talked a bit more, then walked down the mountain to the ranger station.

 

At the ranger station, the pair looked around the hut for a few minutes. Ethan pulled an old bike into the office of the hut and proceeded to look through the files in the cabinets and drawers while Feo looked around and mused on how the hut reminded her of her grandmother's house. Ethan devised a plan to build an electrical generator out of the bicycle and the motor from the fridge in the kitchen that would power the computer so they might find out their location and sneak it into the broadcast. In order to get Feo a safe distance from the hut without raising suspicion he cruelly insulted her until she stormed out. When she heard the explosion of his collar she rushed back and found his body. She dragged the corpse back to the hut and found the instructions and the note he had written her as a good bye. Feo worked to build the generator and was joined by Isabel Guerra, Charlie Duclare, Helen Wilson, and Winnie Clark. The group silently worked to power the generator by taking turns on the bicycle. After several hours the computer was charged and Feo started the machine. Feo searched the contents of the computer, finally yeilding the location and name of the island and wrote it down. Kitty Gittschall and Roland Harte then wandered into the station but before long the area was declared a danger zone. The group haphazardly tried to hide what they had done as they escaped but Feo recognized it wouldn't be enough to fool the terrorists and stayed behind to properly dispose of the evidence. In staying behind to make sure their secret was kept Feo was unable to get out of the danger zone in time and her collar was detonated.

Reason for Playing:

Personality: A great deal of Feo's personality can be explained by her issues about her appearance. While some people have complexes about feeling ugly, she has no such thing. She's always been pretty at worst, and when she tries she's downright gorgeous. She loves being attractive, so that's not where the problem lies.

Her issue is that she feels it's all she is. She's got average intelligence, and her sister is at near-genius levels. Thanks to taking to heart what she overheard her mother say when she was younger, she's convinced she'll be a nobody when she gets older. She felt that clinging to her looks as long as she could was the only solution, and even when her natural talent for music was revealed, she still kept that tendency, working hard to stay in shape. 

She doesn't make a big deal of it, but she's a hard worker by nature. She pushes herself constantly, practicing her saxophone for hours and hours, waking up to work out every morning without fail. It's both because she feels the need to and because she loves what she does.It's rare she takes a break, but when she does party it tends to be a wild affair. Feo tends to throw herself passionately into the things she cares about, to the exclusion of other things. She's pretty well-known in her school, being "friends" with the popular crowd, but for the most part all her relationships outside of her family were superficial right up until she ended up in SOTF. 

While she's not exactly book-smart, she does have another talent beside her music: using her looks for nefarious purposes. When she was younger, she got her kicks from tempting guys away from their girlfriends. As she got older, she got less cruel, but she still flirts and can be fairly manipulative with the opposite sex. She plays delicate a lot, a complete lie, but one that tends to be effective. She is a bit of a user at times, not because she needs to (at least, not before she was kidnapped), but because it makes her feel smarter, more clever. And she's gotten rather good at it over the years.

She has a reputation as being a slut, a cocktease. She's aware of the fact that she is a tease, and rather enjoys being one. Her sex life isn't nearly as active as the rumors say, at least not with the number of partners she's had. She can count them on one hand, it's not a really big thing to her. If people are intimidated by her or dislike her for that, she really doesn't care all that much.

Her manner of speech tends to be caustic and blunt, but she rarely insults people. Besides the girls she's wronged over the years, she can get along with people pretty decently, though she doesn't make much of an effort to. She'll be decent to people who are to her though. The only type of people she generally dislikes are condescending ones. More than nearly anything, she can't tolerate being looked down upon.

The one thing Feo is really light-hearted about is music. She loves it, loves talking about it, loves what it can can do for her . . . or what it could have done for her. With the loss of two of her fingers, she can't play her instrument anymore. Considering it was going to be her ticket to being more than just a pretty face, it's a rather disheartening prospect, and notably the only real concern with her condition. 

Weakness isn't something she likes, in herself or others. Although she has lingering issues about her self-worth, you'd never know it from how she acts. When she's caught up in the explosion that disfigures her, she trudges on, never really stopping to mourn her loss. Though she has low moments, she tends to stay strong, even going to far as to be angry at a girl for crying about the situation. She hates being dependent on others, yet is willing to use them to preserve her life. When her class is kidnapped and forced into a death match, the only time she ever completely breaks down is when her traveling companion, Ethan, is killed after she leaves him for insulting her.



Abilities: Just a regular old human being here. No powers.

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