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Nickname: Cori, with a heart dotting the i. In fact, any time she writes out her name, any i is dotted with a heart. She is working on adopting Sera as a name for the stage, however.
Place of Birth: Place of Birth: Guadalupe, Mexico (Where in 1531, one of the Great Apparitions of the Virgin Mary appeared)
Place of Residence: San Diego
School: UCSD (Freshman)
Birth date: November 1st
Astrological Sign: Scorpio (While Judgement embodies the element of fire, it also is the Psychopomp, the carrier of Souls from one world to another. Since Halloween is the time where spirits can most easy cross over to this world, it suggests All Hallow's Day, when the rules of judgement are reasserted, as a birthday. Additionally, it is ruled by Pluto, which plays into the Hermetic Psychopomp aspect, and the Rider-Waite depiction of the card has the caskets afloat in water, Scorpio's element.)
Gemstone: Pearl
Blood type: AB+
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 142
Age: 18
Likes:
Roses - Not only are they pretty, and, even if called by another name, as sweet smelling, they're just cool. She tends to prefer her roses with thorns, thank you very much. (Additionally, according to some sources, the Phoenix, symbol of
fire and rebirth, two of Judgement's prominent attributes, was born from the first rose in the Garden of Eden.)
Glass - She loves glass, enjoying its cool hard and smooth texture as well as its beauty and clarity. If in doubt of what to give someone for a present, it's usually glass. (Relevance Note - Not only is glass used for optics, essential in making certain judgements, but it's a rebirth and ascension, in a way, as fire transforms sand into glass. Plus, it's nifty.)
Plaintive Music - She's fond of solo musical instruments, especially strings or woodwinds, and of windchimes. She
finds a serenity in the single, plaintive sound of an oboe or a sitar unquenched by the quiet around her.
Occult - She is an avid student of esoteric knowledge, studying mysticisms of a wide range of religions from buddhist and wiccan to her birth faith, Roman Catholic.
Magic - Not arcane studies (that's above) but rather stage magic. She's no David Copperfield, but she's good enough to bring out a rose to hand someone and perform other basic and moderate tricks.
Theatre - She adores it, for nowhere else is Truth and Glamour so integrally entwined. This field allows judgement and understanding, as well as embracing the fantastic. Only when someone can put on the life of another person can they begin to know them. As a spin-off of this, she's fond of costumes, especially masks.
Spicy Food - A total Chile Head, she adores anything from very hot
Mexican to triple curry Thai. She likes to snack on Chile Peppers, where she finds
anything below 30,000 on the Scoville Heat Index painfully dull. (As a
reference, jalapenos average about 4,000. Cayenne peppers barely fall into her
preference range.)
Dislikes:
Deceit - She draws a fine line between Glamour, which is the wonder of fantasy, the mystique of theatre, the allure of beauty, and Deceit. In her opinion, telling lies to hurt someone, or terrify them into obedience, or simply make profit, all those are despicable. As a result, she holds a very low opinion of television evangelists, racial supremacists, and politicians, as well as anyone who goes around trying to hammer people into believing their subjective truth is absolute. Yes, it has been pointed out to her that she's holding these people up to the yardstick of HER subjective truth, but she simply concedes the point and says she's doing the best she can.
Vandalism - In her opinion, destroying or defacing something does not prove the worth of the vandal, it merely makes everyone suffer. This includes graffiti, an act she has been guilty of in the past, during the time she was lashing out.
Being sticky - When it comes to food, if she's eating finger food that's sticky (like a glazed doughnut) then she'll either use a fork or have a wet napkin ready to wipe her fingers as quickly as possible. Muggy weather and mud will also make her feel sticky and uncomfortable. She can tolerate it if she has to, such as the spirit gum for costuming, but prefers to take rolls with less arduous requirements.
Garlic - There's just something about the oily pungent bitter taste that turns her stomach. As a result, she tends to skip most Italian foods, although she'll make an exception for triple-meat habanero pepper pizza.
Hobbies: Collecting glass figures, masks, and windchimes, riding her motorcycle, and surfing. Her two greatest hobbies/obsessions, though, would be her Occult studies and her Drama/Acting.
Favorite Subject: Creative writing. Sometimes her tasks of helping the spirits require that their stories be told, and she is enjoying learning how to tell them well, while also finding an unexpected talent for turn of phrase. Tied would be her Drama course, where she's putting her grasp of nuances and her flair for moody scenes to good effect. She's well aware, after many a lecture from her mother, that neither of these courses has a "practical future", and that she should be working towards a professional degree, but right now, she figures she has enough weight on her shoulders, so she's taking things that help her make sense of her life.
Hated Subject: History. She knows that most of what she's being taught is total revisionist crap. She's had the fortune, for good or ill, to talk to some of the people involved and she knows that most of the greatest heroes and worst destards were just people, just plain folks in unplain circumstances. She gets especially touchy when people get into moral arguments based on Manifest Destiny. Fortunately, now that she's in college, she can somewhat avoid these courses.
Appearance:
Hair: Her hair is nearly a powder pink, with a tendency to separate a little into loose strands. She wears it in a fairly short style, with the back barely caresses her neck, with the sides coming loosely to her chin. Her bangs are shorter, but not by much, falling in loose array of strands over her eyes to just around her nose.
Face: Her skin is a warm gold, smoothly burnished and toned by sea and sun. Wide set, slightly large eyes rest beneath fairly thick lashes and well trimmed eyebrows, and her lips usually carry a light gloss, but no lipstick. Her face itself is oval, tending slightly to triangular.
Build: Slender and androgynous, she's a few inches shy of 6', and a few pounds over 140. While she is not "flat", she's very lightly endowed, which makes it easy for her to play off of her appearance to pass for either a girl or a very pretty boy (a la anime bishounen).
Style: She generally wears black slacks, either dress slacks or, occasionally, leather pants. Her shirts tend to be loose and blousy, often in more than one layer. For jackets, she alternates between a stylish but rakish black leather jacket and, for her "occult investigator" actions, a black trenchcoat. She prefers boots, but on the beach she wears sandals. For jewelry, her ears are pierced, but usually she wears studs, and she almost always is wearing both a crucifix and a pentagram pendant.
Personality: Cori is fascinated with both Truth and Glamour, which translates into a strong curiousity and a driving interest in Mysteries and the Occult. When there is something going on, there is a part of her that is drven to find out what it is, which means she tends to have one ear open to the gossip as she wanders around, and listens to all of the backstage whispers, but those secrets pale to what she truly yearns for, the secrets of the universe. She studies magic and the occult not for power, and definitely not so she can threaten to "curse people" or cast love spells, but rather because she sees it as a path to greater understanding and awareness, feeling that both of those traits are necessary to have good judgement and make good choices.
In addition to wanting to know the truth, she likes to wrap herself, and the world, in a certain mystique. Unlike the scientist who wants to make harsh and analytic assessments, she wants to experience not only the bare truths but the complexities of imagination that give those truths meaning. Simple facts may suffice for justice, for the court of law or the lab, but she deals with other things. There is a whole feeling of the WHY a person would choose an action that affects judgement, a way of viewing the world that changes, perhaps, what is right or wrong in a given instance. And that glamour, that illusion of maya, is what the theatre provides to her. She can wear masks and act out roles, vicariously gaining understandings outside of her own, understandings necessary both to her curiousity and to her duties.
She was not always this way. Barely more than a year ago, she was a rather wild, resentful girl. Like many teens, she was rebellious almost for the purpose of being so, fighting any restrictions placed upon her, determined to make her own way in things and totally unclear what that way should be. She bordered on hating herself, feeling she was ugly, stupid, and pretty much useless. Her parents never tried to instill this in her, but she had neither the confident flamboyance of her father nor the clinical intelligence of her mother. What she failed to realize is that she had neither gift because she refused to allow herself to accept them. In the interim, she has become less afraid of being molded by others, realizing she can learn the strengths of another and maintain the nature of herself.
With acceptance of the good has come awareness of the bad, but a need to accept those as well. Just as she has her mother's insight and ability to make split second calls if she needs to, she has learned, much to her distaste, that she has her mother's capacity to be cold-hearted and ruthless if necessary. She never sought making life or death decisions, and she is shocked to find that she can. A secret dread of hers is the eventual time when she will have to make a choice between a cherished person and "the right answer", whatever it might be, and that is the seed of a recurring nightmare of hers.
To the observer, Cori comes off as flamboyant, a bit cocky, somewhat mercurial, and, on a good day, almost bardic. She is definitely a drama queen, and a bit of a Diva. Those are traits she's always had, but in recent times she's tempered the fire of a wilder youth with a more poetic flair, a greater attention to her audience's needs as well as her own.
Her theatric ways serve to cover other aspects of her nature, ones that are less readily able to be shared with friends and acquaintances. Part of why she loves mixing the worlds of truth and Glamour is because it parallels her private life, where she lives in two different worlds, the living and the dead. Since in many ways she doesn't feel she can truly be a part of either, she dwells in a third, somewhere betwixt them. Her ability to see ghosts is the source of a wide range of emotions. It is actually part of how she defines herself, inside, and she would never willingly relinquish it, but it does cause her to keep a little apart from the ordinary world, and can cause her a bit of moodiness and the awakening of older, wilder, more resentful feelings. In her poetic moods, she sees herself as Al-Sirat, the razor thin bridge between life and death that winnows the just and takes them to there reward, and cheerfully dons the mysterious shroud of her trenchcoat. In her less poetic moods, she sees herself as a teenage girl who got a bunch of crap she never wanted from a life she half-remembers that robbed a life that might have been fun. The truth is that she has enough Drama Queen in her that she's getting off by angsting over her, but she DOES live in a different world than anyone else.
Faults: None, she's absolutely perfect, just ask her. She tends to be a bit too flamboyant, she's nosy, she can be moody at times, and it's hard to get her to shut up if she feels like going on about things.
Pluses: She's clever, dramatic, creative, and often intuitive.
Personality type: (INFJ - INTROVERSION, INTUITIVE, with FEELING and JUDGEMENT) Called the Knight, they are intuitive, complex, caring people who need to combine the inner or spiritual world with the world and people around them. They tend to be spiritual or almost psychic, often knowing things without being able to explain them or how they know them. They can be stubborn or passionate, and are difficult to dissuade once they have decided something.
