CIVILIAN . QUINN, KORRA

Female

Homosexual

Eighteen

November 5th, 1993

German Japanese Mix

Fluent: English
Basics: Latin, Greek

Harlequin, Quinnie, Teal Terror

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Korra

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Korra lives her day to day life exiled from her family as a black sheep but still living her life using their money to support herself in a small apartment in down town that doubles as her workshop.  Korra has a small studio space owned by a friend she uses to display her works that she plans to someday buy when she has enough earning power, but until that day comes, she's forced to rely on the kindness of others.

When she's not taking classes in college, Korra is working in her studio as a sculptor, carver and engraver, she uses various different materials ranging from metals, stones, gems or wood.  Though she typically creates whatever she likes and puts them on sale or display, she also takes commissions for a slightly higher then normal price because she finds it difficult adhering to other's expectations of her art and the effort she puts into it increases the cost.

Her particular brand that she's in the process of trying to develop is called "Harlequin" after her middle name and her last name making her art a bit more recognizable with a brand, but it is still a cheap and inexpensive self owned and supported brand name that hasn't stretched beyond the local art scene.  Her works also earned the name "Teal Terrors" because of how they tend to depict cruelty and pain so vividly and because of Korra's sharply colored eyes whenever she gets passionate about her work.

Korra lives a life separate from her family that she no longer has faith in feeling abandoned by them emotionally, she tries to cut ties with them as much as she can even though she knows she can't survive without their money.  She still receives letters from them now and again but typically just gives them a glance over to make sure her parents are still alive and her siblings aren't causing trouble for her.

Korra seems to have a very petite frame and appears frail despite having much more strength then a normal girl her size.  This abnormal strength comes from necessity while working with and altering the shapes of stone by crushing and chiseling them, bending metals and shaving wood.  Looks are easily deceiving as Korra's physic doesn't properly represent her physical strength that allows her to easily handle her materials she works with.

Despite working in a very physically demanding field, Korra has very soft and delicate features and smooth hands even after handling the materials.  Korra goes to great lengths to get rid of her callouses to make sure her touch is as smooth and delicate as can be so she doesn't risk applying too much or too little strength allowing her to make precise strokes and movements easier.

She tends to wear a long hoodie like robe when moving around to hide the skimpy clothing she wears beneath it, though it's a unique look, Korra enjoys the strange robe and has grown attached to it over the years to the point of having a small collection of back up robes in case one of them gets torn.  Beneath her hoodie, Korra tends to wear skimpy clothing like a swimsuit and shorts, she usually likes to feel the elements on her skin when she's working causing her to take her hoodie off and wear her revealing under clothing when she works before putting it back on to stay appropriate when she finishes.

Korra has a very stoic demeanor and rarely makes grand or intense expressions, her face almost frozen in an indifferent and disinterested look, she'll occasionally muster a meek smile or a faint frown when she's happy or upset but otherwise her facial expressions don't become grand unless she's reached the depths of despair and her morale is at an all time low.

In the event that Korra's enthusiasm, hope or faith falls low, believing that something is cruel or terrible or unfair, her stoic demeanor will crack.  With a dark eerie grin, Korra becomes very intense and hysterical when she feels a situation is hopeless or that fate is being unreasonably cruel to her.  As if tempting fate to try and give her more pain and suffering, Korra finds excitement in those situations letting her perform at her best where others would sulk or give up.

Despite seeming disinterested or indifferent at all times, Korra's feelings are very real.  She'll feel sad, happy or lonely like anyone else would, she merely has trouble making the proper expression and reacting to it normally, instead her face as if frozen will rarely portray what she feels at heart.

In truth, Korra tends to look at the world around her filled with despair and frustration.  Ever since she was a little girl, Korra wanted to change the world into one where dreams could come true with effort alone but as she grew, Korra realized that things don't always go as planned no matter how much effort or trying someone puts into something, there's always a chance things won't work out.  This eventually led to Korra growing irritated with the way things worked in the world, hoping that one day things would change and a world could be created where anything was possible with effort.  Though she knows things won't change so easily, she pours those feelings into her work giving it the uniqueness many have come to praise.

Though she has such a bleak outlook on life and the world around her, Korra finds fun where she can, squeezing out every ounce of happiness fun and excitement she can out of life to try and stifle some of the pain and frustration she feels from it.  Korra goes to great lengths to try and find some happiness for herself, and though it hasn't developed into much yet, she continues trying in hopes of finding someone who would love her like her parents couldn't.

Theme Music: Somnus Nemoris

Korra's life started in a large family.  Her parents were well known historians and modern day adventurers braving ruins and dig sites where they uncovered various artifacts and unique ancient tools.  The youngest of 5, Korra had a lot of expectations placed on her from the start.  Her older brothers and sisters each were gifted prodigies in one field or another, and grew up with their parents' praises while they supported their gifts.  

Even Korra eventually came to realize she had a gift for sculpting.  Ever since she could remember, she was playing with clay and building blocks trying to make things in her play room.  Every innocent day of her childhood before school was filled with fun as her parents encouraged her to grow and keep building and playing their attention was fulfilling and made her eager to build more for them, though it began to change as she started school.

Ever since the beginning of her schooling, Korra didn't learn quite as fast or well as other students, she was a C student at best and her parents began visiting her in the play room less and less.  Their attentions instead went towards their travels and expeditions to discover new things and research more about the world, Korra, just like the rest of her siblings was secluded and left alone to try and learn and grow on her own.  Quickly growing saddened and despairing from the loneliness, Korra buried herself in sculpting and building because it was the one thing her parents praised her for.

Unlike normal children, Korra spent all of her time in the playroom, researching arts, learning techniques professionals used and finding videos to watch to teach her with the help of her nanny.  Korra was slowly developing unique skills in elementary school allowing her to sculpt well, but even that didn't buy her parent's attention.  Instead she only got more frustrated as her oldest sibling began going on adventures of their own like her parents, she grew angry that she wasn't allowed to share in the happiness and adventure.  It caused her to grow even more irritated as her art became an obsession.  She started looking to try alternative materials to grow even more skilled, switching from clay and to stones and woods, Korra worked religiously to try and earn her parent's attention again but things still didn't go as planned.

Through middle school things didn't change, instead more of her older siblings started setting off to support their parents in their research and exploring.  It caused Korra's demeanor to grow frigid and stoic as she poured more and more of her focus into her art, losing touch with any sense of intensity.  She began developing a calm and delicate demeanor so she could work with her materials letting each stroke be perfectly controlled and each motion delicate and calm.  Only getting more desperate for some kind of change in her life.

It wasn't until highschool while she was mastering metal sculpting and bending that she felt she realized the errors she'd been making.  Since her childhood she'd been copying experts and professionals in her art trying to reproduce their works but each time her parents were simply more interested in uncovering the originals in ruins and on adventures.  As the last of the siblings left beginning their own life, Korra revolutionized her thinking, developing her own technique and style, she gave birth to a horrifying and dark sculpture.

The Nanny that took care of her even in her teenage years was terrified by the cruelty and desperation the sculpture gave off, contorted metal in the shape of people being absorbed into a tree dragging other people into it.  It was Korra's first "Harlequin" piece and the first thing that earned a call from her parents since her first time playing with clay as a child.

Filled with excitement, Korra continued crafting dark pieces from many different materials, the playroom she'd been having fun in evolving into a workshop little by little as she grew was now a full blown studio for her to work in and by the time it was Korra's turn to set off on her own adventure like her siblings, her parents finally returned.

At first excited and elated, Korra was overjoyed to see them and show them around the things she'd been working on from her first piece to the ones she made while her parents were traveling back home to meet her.  Just like her Nanny, her parents were horrified but their eyes were glued to the statues and vases, each one had such intense detail and featured twisted senses of cruelty, revenge or pain.  They were impressed beyond their wildest dreams that their daughter in highschool could make something they would mistake for a professional's piece that was worthy of a museum spot.

While being showered by praise, Korra felt like she finally arrived, like everything was coming together until her parents told her that they had to put her in a proper studio right away.  Their words echoing in her head, she looked at them in disbelief while they started frantically planning her future for her.  Immediately alarmed, Korra watched her parents make plans to send her off to college in California with disbelief as all of her effort and struggling gave her none of what she wanted.

Trying to stop them, she grabbed her parents by their coat tails and pleaded, explaining that she just wanted to go out into the world with them and uncover ruins and find fancy artifacts with them, she tried to appeal to them and tell them all of her effort was to try to be worthy.  Without hesitation, her parents merely chuckled looking at her with vague concern like she was crazy explaining to her that going to college and being a professional was for the best, just like her siblings, she had a gift that couldn't be ignored.

Korra's heart sank.

She began piecing things together bit by bit, each of her siblings leaving on an adventure without a heartfelt reunion, without being allowed to visit or play with each other.  In her head she could see it playing out each time, her parents planning their futures and shipping them out to different places around the world.  While the images were zipping through her head, Korra finally snapped, her stoic and calm demeanor finally cracking into hysteria, Korra couldn't hold the laughter and giggles in.  She panicked and immediately grabbed her carving knife and cleaved a deep wound into one of her works causing her parents to suddenly freeze during their planning process.  Without hesitation, Korra began destroying her sculptures one by one turning stone into rubble, wood into shards and metal into scrap.

Her parents, concerned and scared for her tried to stop her, but Korra only continued destroying the things she worked so hard to make for them.  Finally finding herself crouching in the middle of a rubble filled work room, Korra's hysteric laughter turned into sobs when she finally calmed down.  Inconsolable, her mother tried to figure out what was wrong while her father looked through the rubble for anything that was salvageable.  Korra spent the rest of that day in relative silence, every time her mother tried to speak with her, Korra would merely glance her way with an empty indifferent expression even with tear stained cheeks.

For all her protests, Korra accepted her fate with indifference, her plan and hopes failing to bring her family closer together with her success, her failure weighing heavily on her heart it only proved to show her the world was rotten.  In spite of all of the effort she put in, burning most of her life away slaving over becoming a skilled sculptor, she wasn't allowed to follow in her mother and father's footsteps.  No matter how much she protested they didn't seem to have an interest in taking her with them leaving her with only one course of action.

Enrolling in the college her parents picked for her, living in the apartment and using the workshop they paid for, Korra resigned herself to her fate making sculptures and trying to develop a brand for herself.  With the help of a few fans she made that saw her work during school, Korra began displaying her work and selling her works in a small gallery.  She created the name "Harlequin" for her works though her small fan base used the name "Teal Terrors" because of how dark and deep the works portrayed horrifying things she started trying to create a life for herself.

In the present, Korra accepts that her parents may never truly value her as a person and only want her as an artist to brag about.  Though she once desperately tried to chase after them, she believes she realized the error in her efforts to accomplish a dream that couldn't be realized.  Wishing for a world in which effort and drive was enough to change someone's fate, Korra decided on a new goal of finding someone who would love her instead of someone to offer her love to, believing that when that day comes, she'll be able to truly perfect her artform and on that day, the emptiness and darkness she's had to live with would fade.

Mythology: Though not an expert, Korra has various obscure knowledge about ancient myths and various supernatural creatures that normal people might not have heard of.  Having looked into various different cultures for inspiration for her dark pieces, Korra's collected a lot of unique factoids and understands various beasts, gods and other creatures from different cultures and understands various different interpretations of their legends.


Gallery: Korra has a small spot in Wayward's gallery that features her works.  It's section is also written in her business card and she tends to be proud that her works have made it there feeling at home among the other up and coming stars.


Business Cards: Korra carries on hand a small mountain of business cards in her shorts that she gives out to people without restraint in an effort to make herself more well known.  They are currently in circulation allowing people to hear about her before meeting her.


Details: Korra's certainly not a fighter in any sense of the word, being sheltered and protected, at best, she can use her slightly higher then average strength from her work to protect herself.  She does however have very good eyesight and perception skills that let her recognize distance and measure things well from afar because of her work.