Valerie

• Virtue: Hope Vice: Greed
• Concept: Dancer
• Attributes
  • Mental: Intelligence 2, Wits 3, Resolve 1
  • Physical: Strength 2, Dexterity 4 , Stamina 2
  • Social: Presence 3, Manipulation 2, Composure 2
• Abilities
  • Mental: Academics (Psycology) 3, Computer 1, Medicine 1, Occult 2
  • Physical: Athletics 3, Drive 1
  • Social: Empathy 2, Expression 3 (Dance), Persuasion (Seduction) 3, Streetwise 1, Subterfuge 2

Background

I've been dancing since before I could walk, literally. My mother and I used to go to Yup'ik tribal functions back home in Alaska. See, you'd never guess at first glance, but I'm a quarter native. So anyways, the folks tell stories about me at seven months following the movements from my mother's arms as they danced. It helps that the Yup'ik don't move thier feet much. My earliest memories are dancing with them, loving the furry fans and envying the incredible masks. The dance was raw and expressive, but eventually it started to feel limiting to me. I wanted to jump and spin like the dancers on TV.

My mother relented to getting me tap lessons in the city, and two times a week I'm fly in my dad's plane to goto them. This wasn't because we lived so far out we had to fly or anything, just that dad flew around Alaska for a living so we did it because we could. Tap was the exact opposite of the tribal dance I'd learned, all feel and difficult to express with. As I grew I continued my search for the perfect dance style. I tried to talk my parents into taking me to every dance class I heard of, and they relented on most. It's at about this point that I realised I wasn't like other girls. I didn't dance because I wanted to be pretty or have center stage. I danced because I had to.

Many recitals and proformances later, and enough threats to stop paying for classes to get me to keep my grades up I was the star dancer in all of Alaska. I got many awards for many different things, the one I was proudest of was expressive modern dane. I had scholarships, and an acceptance letter from Juilliard. I was on top of the world.

Juilliard was intense. I found out that being the best dancer in Alaska didn't go as far as one would expect in New York. The work was gruling, but also exhilerating.