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[ UNDERESTIMATED ] - due to her slim stature and not very threatening persona, nora is often thought of as weak and defenseless. because she doesn't have the muscle strength to actually be wielding a sword and shield in a battle, it is easy for the warrior type of demigod to assume she is not a fighter. and to be quite honest, this is just fine by nora; she loves it when she can show them just how powerful she can be.
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[ SARCASTIC ] - this girl has never been quite the nicest person around, so she speaks sarcasm quite fluently. it's not necessarily that she uses it to cut people - she just doesn't have a lot of patience for stupidity or people she doesn't like. she feels she makes a better point by speaking in sarcasm, because to be fluent in wittiness is a clear sign of being intelligent, and anyone who doesn't think so just aren't intelligent enough to use it themselves.
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[ DRIFTER ] - nora has no real goals in life, and she's not the type of person who wants something to happen. at the same time, though, she wanders, wondering if her life has a purpose. she is a lost soul who is desperate for a place to belong, a niche to fit in, and although she pretends she has everything together, nora really doesn't.
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[ EASILY MANIPULATED ] - because nora has no real personality or ambition or life goal to call her own, she can be easily manipulated. she's not so naive that someone can literally just tell her what to do - she hates that - but a few whispers or a roundabout way of describing the logic of one person's view can get nora onboard pretty easily.
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[ HOLDS GRUDGES ] - a little bitter and easily slighted, nora remembers the wrongs done against her or the few people she cares about. she is vindictive, and has no qualms paying back more than the other person deserves. nora has always felt like the world has been against her, and the least she can do is make other people hurt for hurting her.
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[ LONE WOLF ] - as much as possible, nora doesn't like to trust. she feels as though she's been hurt by too many people and this has made her jaded. no one else will have her back quite as well as she does, and she prefers doing things her own way. no one would question her motives, her reasons, or her processes if she was by herself, after all, and she doesn't need anyone to protect her - she can protect herself.
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[ ALTERNATIVE ] - ever since she was a child, nora has never felt as though she fit in anywhere. she never fit in with any of her classmates at school - which she would eventually realise was because she was a demigod - but even arriving at camp jupiter, she didn't feel as though she belonged. this has caused nora to fall into alternative, sometimes rebellious, groups, because she feels she doesn't fit in anywhere else. she experiments with everything outside what society deems as mainstream, and shuns the 'popular' things because she feels like she's supposed to.

[attr="class","hopelovetitle"]BIOGRAPHY

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[ MOTHER ] - marguerite alarie, mortal, deceased[break]
[ FOSTER MOTHER ] - arabella duchamps, mortal[break]
[ FATHER ] - apollo, roman god of the sun[break][break]
Claimed: Yes[break]
Number of years at camp: Seven[break][break]
nora, nora, nora. always did have a chip on your shoulder, ever since you were a kid, thinking your life was so much harder than everyone else's because you were an orphan and you didn't have a real family. from the moment you could walk and talk, you'd pick fights with others because you were 'misunderstood', because you were wanting attention, because you had adhd, or whatever else the social working shrink decided you had that week. really, it was just because you were never one to allow any kind of insult or offense to yourself, so you'd rather let others underestimate your petite size - then find themselves flat on their backs because a skinny little thing like you actually had the guts to stand up to others.
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if you had a better attitude or were 'well adjusted', you'd probably have been adopted. you were pretty, and fairly quiet, not one to throw tantrums or scream bloody murder. no, you were the type of kid that sat in the corner, wide eyes watching everyone else, never missing anything. you had always been alone, just you, others found you standoffish and mean and a bit up yourself. it had made you an easy target for bullying, because everyone always just assumed you'd stand there and take it. joke's on them, right? especially once you began to realise just how much you could hurt others and no one would ever even assume it had anything to do with you.
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because you grew into your powers fairly young. it started off as a self-defense mechanism, a way to hurt a kid bigger than you and who had you trapped in the corner, threatening you while another kid held your arms behind your back. you had narrowed your eyes at him and wished Hades upon him, and then he was bleeding from his nose and even though you knew it was just incidental, still you hoped it was because of you because big smelly tommy deserved it. you were all of ten years old because kids are vicious, but even then you had just smirked as they all ran away. maybe they all thought it was you, too.
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it was when you were fifteen that someone else caught on to what you were doing. you'd spent the last five years just playing with your abilities, not really believing it was you causing others pain but still hoping it was anyway. you were at the back of some mall about to be jumped by the brother of some girl whose hair practically fell out of her head - you didn't even touch her, you swear - when some girl with a rifle catches you trying to stop the guy's heart. the rifle girl stops you because she can see you're about to pass the Hades out from the effort, and then she whisks you away, telling you stories about gods and monsters and how it all affected you.
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and you left, never to return to the group home with your foster siblings and foster mother. you never needed them, never needed anyone. they report you as a runaway, but only because they have to - otherwise, they don't care that you left, either.
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the rifle girl brings you to lupa, but the wolf is disappointed in you. you relied too much on your magic, on fighting from a distance, on hiding and attacking by surprise. it didn't matter that you were good at it, it didn't matter that it let you gain the upperhand - lupa was roman, and she wanted you to be good at fighting with swords and shields like any other good little roman demigod. did you do as she said? barely, just enough to get her to send you to camp jupiter after a very long training session. she seemed more happy to get you out of her fur; someone else's problem now, much like everyone else in your life passing you on for someone else to deal with.
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no recommendation letters, no family to speak of, no greatness exhibited anywhere: straight to the bottom of the barrel for you, but you never minded. imagine being at the top tier and having all those expectations on you? imagine conforming? no, thank you, you'd much prefer to slum it with the rest of the losers down in fifth. let others underestimate you. let others laugh and jeer at you for using bows and arrows. let others think you are weak and they are strong. let others see you how they think you are. because all you have ever lived for is disappointing everyone, and by the gods, you love seeing the look on those haughty legionnaire faces that you can kick their gluteus maximus.

[attr="class","hopelovetitle"]POWERS, SKILLS & WEAPONS

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[ VITAKINESIS ] - nora has the ability to manipulate the body, particularly vital organs, however unlike most of her siblings, her power has been warped to cause harm instead of actually healing. this is just fine by nora, as this is what she would have preferred using her ability for, anyway.
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weaknesses: her power works strongest with proximity, especially skin-to-skin contact. the greater the manipulation and the more unnatural it is - ie forcibly slowing and stopping a well-functioning and healthy heart - causes greater energy loss and can cause her to pass out, sometimes to the point where her own curses affect her, too.
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[ MINOR AUDIOKINESIS ] - something nora has greater power of is her audiokinesis. primarily, it is a high-pitched whine in someone's ears, growing louder the more focus and energy nora puts into it.
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weaknesses: as a minor power, this is limited to an annoying sound in one's ears. nora hasn't actually exploded someone's head using this technique, much to her disappointment. it is also limited by distance.
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[ ARCHERY ] - not much of a warrior considering her stature, nora's greatest combat strength is archery. she has impeccable aim, and prefers to pick a high secluded spot for sniper attacks. the romans of course don't look very favourably on this skill, but nora doesn't care in the least. this has been her strongest combat ability since she was very young, and the fact that the vast majority of the romans look down on archery has only caused her to hone it all the more.

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PLAYED BY ARK

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DUMONT, EMMA as nora alarie