Name: Araya Anita Fine
Age: 21
Species: Initia - Radix 
Family: N/A
Element: Water and Earth 
Face Claim: Janet Devlin

Araya Anita Fine or Ara as she usually is referred to by others, was born in New York, a city which is assumed never to sleep. Little to nothing is known about her birth parents except that one of them could have belonged to the Initia fraction. From the time she could speak and understand things, the only parents she knew were Mathieu and Markus, a loving gay couple who had adopted her when she was just two years old. The circumstances surrounding her adoption itself was a mystery to her, but one that she wasn’t much interested in solving. Her life was happy with her two loving parents and she couldn’t want for anything more.

Mathieu and Markus were wonderful parents to their little Ara and adored and loved her dearly. There was nothing they wouldn’t do for her and she did not feel the want of anything at all in their company. They lived in a house perfect for three just on the outskirts of New York City. They were far enough out to see the gorgeous lights without the horrid noise and Ara had ample space to run around and play and swim. It was there, that she began to take keen interest in swimming and would often be teased by them as being a water girl.

But her happy times did not last for long. One day, when they were going together for a picnic, an oncoming truck crashed into their car. Markus dies on the spot, Mathieu was severely injured and Ara went in a coma for three and half months. When she woke up, her happy childhood vanished like a dream for everything had changed. Her only living father, who had once loved her like she was his life now barely acknowledged her. He was so affected by Marcus's death that the only way to survive was to drown into a bottle of alcohol. He barely was aware of his own self, let alone the little lost girl who was now completely dependent on him.

It wasn't until she was twelve when she could no longer so unnoticed.

It all ached, waking up three months later to a father gone and the other drinking like it could be his last. She was devastated and no one to turn to but a stuffed teddy bear, when spoken of Markus her father would grow upset and repeatedly ask her not to bring him up. She felt alone. She really didn't know how to cope and as sad as it sounded she pretended her teddy bear was her shrink and he gave her advice. Like a little Jimminy Cricket, only a bear.

Arya was at Swim Practice, her favorite sport, when she had to stay late while she waited for her father to pick her up. It wasn't the first time, so, it wasn't like it bothered the little water bug.. But.. A group of homophobic children started teasing her. One of the kids went to as far as throwing her back into the pool once she was dry and dressed. That was the first time anything 'odd' happened. The boy got hit with a wave of water, it scared her. She had no understanding at all as of what was happening. When Mathieu was told he too at first tried to make sense of it but eventually just stated, "You're special, Ara.. Just be careful on who you show and what you do." That incident started the knowledge of a tattoo forming with little to no pain at all

Since was never able to control her magic, so being careful didn't become an option. At fourteen people began to fear her or find her to be a freak it wasn't even until her father was being put in a tight situation with some homophobes that she completely lost control. The Earth began to rumble underneath the men, but, they didn't get hurt. Of course when men jump a man, for being gay and trying to hurt him for a ridiculous reason like going to his child's school fair, you must expect something to happen to you. Mathieu only scolded because he was afraid his daughter would be taken away from him.

At eighteen she got the money saved, which was hard from the things her 'gifts' broke, and moved to Eternal City to learn more about her family. Her real parents were dead, but, she found people like her that liked her for who she was. She learned from an elderly lady that her mother was a spirited fire Initia who fell in love with a human, though, as cliche as it sounded someone else wanted her mother's love. A dark curse was placed on them, they would grow ill as soon as they had a child. Her parents thought if they got past city lines the curse would be broken. The rest the elderly woman did not know, but, she did eventually find out the two died on their way home with a statement of wanting to be buried in their home town from a family friend of her birth-father's. She suspected she was adopted in New York because either, A they didn't know if the would make it or B to keep her protected from a curse being placed on her.

Of course she still keeps in touch with her adopted father.

Good Personality Traits: Compassionate, Mellow, Determined.

Bad Personality Traits: Push-over, Submissive, Pessimist