SLATER, orenda tallulah, pocahontas

orenda tallulah slater,
debuting as pocahontas.

“Look around you! This is where the path of hatred has brought us. This is the path I choose. What will yours be?”

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FULL NAME: orenda tallulah slater

“My folks, under my mother’s insistence, named me and my two older sisters with traditional Native American names. I think it’s all because of my mum’s kick that she’s like a quarter Native American or something. She doesn’t even remember what tribe so all she did was Google a list of girl Native American names and threw them together – like this. Orenda means magical power. Tallulah means leaping water. I suppose it works, it’s unique enough.”

NICKNAME(S): ren, lula, slater

“At my old school, I may have had the most unique name, but more often than not I’d hear someone shouting ‘Slater’, turn around and they’d be talking to me. It’s sort of weird, but maybe it’s just a kick everyone has to use my last name. It’s not exactly hard to pronounce my first name, oh-ren-duh, tuh-loo-luh.”

AGE/DOB: 18 years old & February 13

"Aquarius and the number 13 makes me happy. But, I don't get up every morning and hunt down my horoscope like some of the other girls in my house. I just get up every day and pick up one of my dream dictionaries to see if I can figure out what the hell is going on with my head half the time."

GENDER AND SEXUALITY: femme & straightish...

"I have the physical attributes of a woman, if you ask me what my gender is again I will have to hurt you. As for my sexuality, I usually chase after men, sometimes girls catch my eye, but a lot of them are crazy, as I myself am crazy, no further elaboration is needed."

FAIRYTALE CHARACTER: pocahontas

"Did you know her name means 'little mischief' or 'naughty one'? The fact that this is Pocahontas, who is awesome as a Disney character and a real person, and her name means such, means limitless levels of epic. I also love the fact that I can match the singing voice for the character, which is works because I love singing the songs form the movies."

HOUSE: Ingraea

"Yeah, it's the house of the pretty princesses and the prince charmings, although some of them aren't so pretty, personality-wise and some of them are SO not charming. I don't even get why they call them 'prince charming' anyway. It's kind of... well... stupid. But still, some of them are pretty decent."

FACE CLAIM: Alicia Keys

“Some girl. She’s famous. She can sing? I guess that works. So, not only am I Pocahontas, but I look like a famous singer. Where’s the royalties?”

POWERS:

"So, if you've ever seen the movies, you would know what powers I have, but to elaborate for you: Pocahontas, in the films, was able to commune with nature, talk to spirits, empathize with animals, and understand unknown languages. Hell, my favorite scene is when she called on the forces of nature: "Mountain help my heart be great, eagle help my feet to fly, spirits of the earth and sky, please don't let it be too late." I can't really talk to animals, I just get what they're saying. I'm like those people who try and narrate the lives of their pets or babies, but not stupidly annoying about it. I can commune with nature, like with animals. I have freaky dreams that I never get, like who the hell knows what a bunny eating a dandelion means. I haven't really encountered a lot of foreign languages so I don't know how that last one works. But one thing I love most, calling on the spirits to give me a little boost. Like, wind to run faster or a bird to jump higher, all of it is absolutely thrilling."

ANY DISTINGUISHING FEATURES:

"I'm of average height and I'm African-American, with a bit of Native American thrown in there. I'm athletic so it keeps my body toned. I have pierced ears and a belly ring that NO ONE is to know about, or rather my mother is to never find out about. But, I think my most distinguishing feature is my really long hair. I mean, it goes to my BUTT for god's sake."

LIKES:
[+] favorite pastry in the world: cinnamon rolls
[+] favorite dessert in the world: jello
[+] favorite drink in the world: hot chocolate
[+] favorite candy in the world: chewy caramels, gummy worms, skittles or reeses
[+] her Dad
[+] gymnastics: "it helps when trying not to fall out of trees."
[+] sports (playing more than watching: volleyball, football{"you Americans call it soccer."}, track)
[+] hide and seek
[+] being outside in general
[+] climbing trees: "Willows are my favorite. Ah, the irony."
[+] going on adventures
[+] thrill sports: cliff diving, rafting, etc.
[+] going on hikes
[+] taking long walks in the woods: "this does not count as hiking."
[+] bonfires, because they're better than parties
[+] being barefoot, because shoes are overrated
[+] running
[+] swimming
[+] sunbathing
[+] standing in a breeze: "Do you know how comforting that is to me? It's like the wind is giving me a hug!"
[+] snowball fights
[+] being warm and cozy: "I know this sound contradictory, but believe me, it works."
[+] scarves: "And not just the ones you tie around your neck."
[+] pretty much every animal there is, especially otters and dogs
[+] archery: "for when you can only take one shot."
[+] long conversations that you can look back on and smile about
[+] learning new things
[+] reading; mystery, historical fiction; romance
[+] writing
[+] daydreaming: "As per my role as a leading Disney female character."
[+] music: "I'll listen to anything once."
[+] dancing
[+] dancing in the car
[+] singing: "I sound better singing broadway, Motown or country songs."
[+] hula hooping
[+] old school cartoons: "Forget Chowder and those other stupid ones. I want Rugrats and Aah! Real Monsters."
[+] guys
[+] guys who actually have spine
[+] guys who show confidence
[+] guy hair
[+] making people smile
[+] musicians: "Despite my jealousy of their talents, the ones I know are pretty awesome."
[+] knick-knacks
[+] hand-me-downs
[+] lighters
[+] Bailey's Irish Cream Whiskey

DISLIKES:
[-] the presumptuous happy ending: "Not everyone ends up happy. Look at the ending of Pocahontas."
[-] people who act like they know everything
[-] people who always have to be right: "Is that the same thing as the last one?"
[-] judgmental people
[-] people who talk about others behind their back and then act like nothing's wrong when they see them. Annoying.
[-] liars
[-] people who act like the world owes them something: "Hey, they owe you a 'kiss my ass.'"
[-] people who don't say thank you: "I don't know why, but it really bugs me."
[-] high expectations
[-] assumptions
[-] prejudices
[-] losing things
[-] breaking things
[-] running into things
[-] dim lighting: "That's what light switches and opening the blinds are for."
[-] buzz kills
[-] awkward silences in conversations
[-] repeating herself
[-] boys who are uber-clingy
[-] boys who are way too serious
[-] being lost
[-] soda
[-] spicy food
[-] most meat: "Once i started realizing I could commune with them, it put me off most meat. But, I'll still eat poultry."
[-] reality shows
[-] obligations that take away her freedom
[-] being told to “calm down”
[-] being told what to do or what’s ‘for her own good’
[-] people who tell her "she should be ashamed" for something that she doesn't feel ashamed about
[-] getting yelled at by important people
[-] arguments with important people
[-] being unsure of herself
[-] not being believed when she’s telling the truth
[-] bugs: namely centipedes & spiders: "I like dragonflies and butterflies, though."
[-] being cold
[-] having a cold
[-] messiness
[-] people who don't clean up after themselves
[-] people who are inconsiderate of others

STRENGTHS:
[&] honest
[&] determined
[&] reliable
[&] saying what needs to be said
[&] singing
[&] athletics
[&] her powers
[&] unique sense of wisdom
[&] dancing
[&] witty: "Read: Sarcastic bitch."
[&] loyal

WEAKNESSES:
[#] regrets
[#] reckless
[#] impulsive
[#] easily guilt tripped but doesn't usually show it
[#] gullible
[#] easily distracted
[#] weird dreams: "They are SO confusing!!!"
[#] compliments, people don't usually say them so when she hears them directed towards her she gets a little confused as to how to respond, despite the fact that she admits to being pretty sometimes

GOALS:
[*] to one day never have regrets
[*] to celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans
[*] to live for the sake of living
[*] to have her own cottage

FEARS:
[#] painful death
[#] being the cause of someone’s pain
[#] getting caught up in a destiny that she had no say in
[#] disappointing her dear ones
[#] anyone she cares about getting hurt
[#] her ex-boyfriend

ANY HABITS OR QUIRKS:
[&] she’s like a crow, she collects shiny things; usually stones and marbles
[&] draws on her arms a lot
[&] she loves scarves
[&] she collects scarves
[&] and hats too
[&] rubbing her forehead when she's stressed or upset
[&] rambles on sometimes

SECRETS:
[?] her ex-boyfriend
[?] knows the Wizard of Oz by heart
[?] and Wicked the Musical
[?] she doesn’t know if she wants to BE Pocahontas or be herself, or is there a middle ground
[?] she actually believes in the happy ending and wants one of her own
[?] is a rather sexual being, but tries to keep it under wraps, but the stress of doing that leads to other reckless behavior

OVERALL:
ENERGETIC & OUTGOING
Does she know your name? If not, brace yourself because she’ll come running up to you and ask you what it is. Due to a recent lost bet with her older sister, she has promised to ask for people’s names first before she hugs them. Once she gets your name and information as to whether or not you’re alright with physical contact, she will grab you in her arms and try to pick you up. That is Orenda Slater in her absolutely best mood. She’s energetic and tries to spread her energy around to other people. She’s not afraid to come up to you and say she forgot your name and since she can’t remember your name, she can’t hug you so it’s your job to remedy it. Although later on, Ren will feel a little regret for her behavior, hoping that it doesn’t result in you never letting her hug you again. She’s just a ‘little’ touchy-feely in her actions. She gets hyper easily and likes to find new ways to have fun, even if it is at the cost of her friends' sanity.
DETERMINED & HONEST
When Orenda wants something done, she tries her best to do it. Even if she does end up distracted, she’ll wind up sitting back in front of the project to finish it. If it’s something that is of importance to her dear ones, then there are no distractions. Unless it’s a cute boy whose name she knows, then she’ll be back in a second. Her dear ones are the people who mean more to her than just regular friends. There’s a mental list in her head. But these are the people she would do anything for and would never dare lie to. They make up different parts of her heart and keep it beating, as she puts it. Even still, she tries her hardest to never have to lie to other people as well. Sometimes she’s brutally honest and it makes people upset, but in her opinion it’s better to tell the truth and draw a tear than to lie and fake a smile. She doesn't like to keep secrets, but she will if she has to. It's mostly because she will end up thinking about the secret and then people will ask what is bothering her and she'd have to lie to keep it secret. Although, she doesn't go up to random people and tell them secrets. She has a close circle of friends that she is always honest with. Otherwise, she may just tell the person to fuck off.
self-critical and remorseful
Despite all these rather crazy factors about her demeanor, her nature is very self-critical. She doesn’t want other people to be inconvenienced by her actions and feels that most negative things that happen could have been prevented if she’d done things differently. Although she accepts the fact that she can’t change the past, Ren can’t help but feel a little remorse for any bad things that happen around her. She jokingly calls herself the Bad Luck Queen with her tendencies to run into inanimate objects, break things, fall or just cause a little chaos. She can’t help her reckless behavior because she honestly doesn’t want to restrain herself. She feels that restraining herself is lying to everyone around her. But, her reckless behavior is often the cause of uncomfortable, if amusing, repercussions.

PARENTS:
Andrew Jacob Slater
Cheyenne Olivia Slater
SIBLING(S):
Winona Tala Slater - 25
Nita Kachine Slater - 22
OTHER IMPORTANT FIGURES: Mouse - her Rottweiler
HOMETOWN/HOME AWAY FROM GRIMM'S: London, England, UK
OVERALL:
“I was born in the north-south. That’s what I like to call it. It isn’t complete south, that’s South Carolina, and it isn’t complete north, that’s more New Jersey and New York. Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and North Carolina are in the center of that section so they don’t really count for the south, although North Carolina is pretty close. Nevertheless, that’s where I was born in February, to the frustration of my mother. She was born in February. My sisters were born in January and April respectively, so she wanted me to be born in March. Apparently, I was impatient and didn’t feel like being cooped up anymore. My father was born in May if you absolutely must know. Continuing with my glorious background, the town I was born in is named Greensboro, where everything is miles apart and you don’t dare trying to walk somewhere unless you’re absolutely sure of the location. If you’re not, you’ll get lost. Not only that, the weather is more bipolar than the poles of the planet. There’s a saying, “If you don’t like the weather wait 5 minutes.” I finish that saying with: “Then it’ll just get worse.” That’s my birth town and I love it.

So, I have my oldest sister Winona, not the singer, and Nita, pronounce that wrong and you’ll see what she does to you. My father, Andrew, is pretty cool and my mom, Cheyenne, is just a little insane. Her name is the reason for her Native American heritage kick. That was what led to all of her Google research. She really needs to get off the computer sometimes. I honestly think that my Dad has more Native American blood than she does. We all lived together in Greensboro until I was 5 years old. Right around Christmas, my dad got an abroad transfer at his job and voila, we’re in Britain. Do you know how cold it gets in Britain during the summer? I was a little 5 year old girl from the ‘south’ in December-time Britain. I was FREEZING. That was my first impression of that country, but not my last. Once things started warming up I started liking it a little more, a move is easier for kids I suppose. I made a lot of friends during my time there and had loads of fun. Then I got the letter.

My reaction to the letter was, “Is this some kind of joke?! Mom, stop using our address for your weird internet stuff!” Exactly. Then I re-read it a couple times with my Dad and after contacting them to prove it was legit, I had to decide if I wanted to go. It wasn’t just my parents making me go, but my Dad was cool enough to ask me if I wanted to go. I suppose he was trying to make up for all the screaming and crying that I did when we moved to Britain all those years before.

But, the interesting part was realizing the weird stuff that was happening to me was actually because of Pocahontas' spirit. I never got why I was so much more comfortable in a forest than the big cities. Sure, Greensboro was nicely spread out and I was cool with that, but London was so over charged with buildings and streets, I often felt stifled. There was that, and the weird dreams I got sometimes. Can you believe I actually had a dream about a spinning arrow once? I think it was related to the fact that the gas tank was drastically low in the car, but this was also the time that I was getting ready to head to Grimm's.

When I got to England I had grown up around adults with southern accents, as such my twang was coming about as I talked more and more. My time in London spawned a bit of a British accent. Now, I had a British-Southern accent and my name was the result of a Google search. Do you know how freaked out I was to walk through the doors of Grimm and introduce myself to other kids? I was eleven years old and was the weirdest walking conglomerate of culture, in my opinion. Then I was sent to the ‘Royals’ house. Honestly, the place is pretty cool, if some annoying jerks, but that’s everywhere in the world. Grimm’s was pretty fucking awesome. And I got to go home during the summer!

I went back home every summer, just to placate my mother for the most part. She wasn’t particularly pleased with the idea of sending me back to some ‘suspicious school all by myself to get kidnapped and raped’. Those were her exact words. Nevertheless, I came back and usually lazed around the house or got a part-time job.

This past summer, I went back and got a job at a music store and I met a boy. I will only refer to him as a boy because, despite my fear that’s all he really is. He told me his name was Henry and he was pretty cute, so we started hanging out outside of work a lot. Considering I was only there for 3 months, we moved pretty quickly, but not THAT quickly, thankfully. Around the beginning of August when I started talking about going back to school, he started acting weird. He would get really angry if I ever brought it up and was determined to never let me out of my sight unless he knew exactly where I was and with whom. I finally mentioned his strange behavior to my sister, Winona and the first thing she said was “Get away from him.” So, after thinking on it for a while, I did. I broke up with him in mid-August and it was a little anti-climatic I thought. For a couple of days I just chilled around the house, having quit my job as well so I could have some real vacation time. Then things started getting extremely weird. He had offered the idea of us staying friends and I blindly agreed to it. That last couples of weeks in London were absolutely horrible. He kept calling me and would ‘accidentally’ bump into me when I went out.

One day, I went out to lunch with an old primary school friend, William. Mind you, William’s gay, but Henry didn’t know that. He did the ‘accidental’ bump and I decided to try shaking him off by pretending that I was going out with Will. I didn’t hear about it until the next day, but he apparently found Will and dragged him outside to beat him up. I called him up to tell him to leave me alone and he only told me that it was my fault that William got hurt. I suppose it was. I suppose I shouldn’t have dragged him into the middle of it, but I can’t go back in time and change everything that ever went wrong in my life. I managed to avoid him for the most part until I left, but with that obsession of his, who knows what may happen in the next summer that I go back.

But something I’ve been confused about since I got to Grimm’s. Since I’m Pocahontas, am I supposed to fall in love with john smith? Am I just supposed to follow her path or do I have the opportunity to create my own? Don’t I get a say in my own future? Especially since my past has been like this?”

PSEUDONYM: Kore
AGE: 20
GENDER: female
ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO ADD: Okay, so I edited her a bit, but nothing major, just a few small things here and there, like a couple dislikes and likes, her powers and her birthday. That is all.
I'm getting ready to start my 3rd year in college for my Bachelor's in Secondary Education and History. My dream is to be the Tomb Raider. I haven't had my own pet in years. I'm a major geek about a lot of things: anime, manga, webcomics, rpg, video games, etc.
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