Name: Zelenka Haidee
Name Meaning: Zelenka is Czechoslovokian for "Little innocent one", and Haidee means "modest". Put it together and you get....The innocent modest one!
Nicknames: Schoolfriends call her "Zel", and sometimes "Enka".
Age: 17
Birthday: September 15
Zodiac: That makes her a gentle Virgo....but she has more of the worrying, perfectionist side of Virgo.
Hair: Zelenka has white hair that is cut close to her head, kind of in a pixie cut. Her bangs are at their longest in the middle of their forehead (opposite to the usual setup of bangs being shortest in the middle of the forehead), and she has small little pieces of hair that rest on her cheeks and curl up on her cheekbones.
Eyes: Zelenka's eyes are light green/blue, and are framed by a rim of thick lashes.
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 115 lbs.
Body Shape: The first impression anyone gets of Zelenka is "sharp". And she is. From her pointy chin to her bony knees, she is sharp (ie, very thin with no real "figure" to speak of). Her sharp nose and chin make her look somewhat like the popular conception of an elf.
Clothing: Zelenka prefers loose, baggy clothing to the tighter clothing her friends wear. Her usual outfit is slightly baggy jeans and a baby tee or three quarter, sleeve shirt, usually in a solid color. She also like to wear long, black skirts. Her favorite shirt of all time is a three quarters shirt with a chessboard pattern on it. Zelenka never wears shorts, sun dresses or shorter skirts, and rarely wears bathing suits. When she goes to the beach, she usually wears her normal clothes. At school she wears her uniform exactly as it was designed as she doesn't mind it. Her shoes are slip on brown loafers, and she likes the longer types of socks because they reduce the amount of skin she shows. When it gets cooler she wears a long, trench coat type brown jacket. It is made of canvas and stuffed with goose down, so it's pretty thick. There are buttons on it but no belt. Zelenka's school uniform has a short sleeved whote button-up shirt that's covered by a green vest. It also has a Navy blue knee length skirt with a strip of green around the bottom. She wears long, knee length socks with her uniform no matter what season it is. In the winter, her uniform is basically the same, except it has a long sleeved green sweater, and she usually wears a long sleeved button down white shirt under it.
Other: Zelenka has mediumly tanned skin except for her legs. They are horribly pale as she has not worn shorts in over three years. The only piercings she has are regular ones in her ears, and she is too afraid of needles to get any kind of tattoo, altough she thinks they're kind of cool.
Overall Appearance: Well, Zelenka is certainly not drop dead gorgeous, but she has a certain kind of beauty, the kind that you might have to be around for a long time before you start to appreciate it.
Personality: Well, for one thing, it's very hard to make Zelenka angry. She can shrug most any comment off, and half the time it's hard to tell whether she heard it at all. Another aspect for Zelenka is that everything is very cut-and-dried. She would rather look at what she has than make inferences from what she thinks or feels. Also, she gets very involved in school. Sometimes it can be hard to approach her or make her pay attention when she's working on schoolwork, and around midterms or other testing times, she begins to stress about getting good grades. At those times it's absolutely impossible to approach her. She also has a tendency to overestimate her abilities. For example, she might think she can do all her activities, have a job, AND keep up on her schoolwork, and it rarely occurs to her that quantity isn't necessarily quality. Zelenka is also very shy. She would rather sit at the back and not be noticed than speak up and let the world know what she is thinking. Consequently, she isn't that well known outside of her established group of friends. She is a worrier and constantly worries about whether or not she left the stove on, were all the light switches turned off, etc. When she leaves her house she always, *always* does a run through to make sure she turned off all the appliances. You could almost call it Obsessive Compulsive because she never feels safe unless she does the run-through (she's afraid that the wires will short circuit). She is also very suggestable. If she hears a story about an escaped murderer, she'll worry about it until he's caught; if someone tells her that gum can kill you, she'll give up gum. When Zelenka does any sort of project, she likes to make sure *every* aspect of her plan will work and that everything is perfect. In that way she is a perfectionist (sometimes it drives her teammates crazy, though). While she likes having powers that nobody else has, she is absolutely terrified to use them. She is afraid that she might set a blaze that she can't contol, and she worries about destroying or killing things around her with an uncontrollable blaze. Sometimes she has to be coaxed to use her powers. Otherwise, she is a fairly reliable member of the team, as far as attendance and willpower. She is also very good at making plans, especially ones that she has learned from Chess.
Strengths: Planning and making strategies, keeping calm and being patient, thinking before she acts, solving riddles, and math.
Weaknesses: Fire, worrying, worrying about whether everything is perfect, public speaking, overexerting herself, and needles.
Likes: Chess (can anyone say "grand master?"), literature, rainy days, math, science, and just about nearly evey other school subject.
Dislikes: Barecues (or anything that has to do with an open fire), things that are out of her control, public speaking, and needles or any sharp objects (such as knives).
Hobbies: Playing chess against anyone and everyone she can find, reading a nice, thick, difficult book, researching for school, solving riddles, anything having to do with computers and the internet.
Dream/Aspiration: Zelenka would like to be a physicist or an engineer, and she wouldn't mind writing about her research. She has always dreamed of discovering something, anything that was previously unknown.
Favorite Gemstone: Garnet
Favorite Color: Purple
Favorite Food: Hot Dogs
Least Favorite Food: Scrambled Eggs
Favorite Subject: Statistics
Least Favorite Subject: Speech. Zelenka hates getting up to speak in front of people.
School: Adrian Academy
What Grade are they in?: 12th grade
Schedule:
-1- Advanced Physics
-2- Literature
-3- Government and Politics
---Lunch---
-4- Statistics
-5- History
-6- Speech
Grades: Zelenka usually has A's, although she as gotten a B or two, but she usually studies hard enough and long enough to keep it up in the elite zone. Plus, she freaks out if she gets a grade that she thinks is even remotely low (that would be a B...).
School Status: Zelenka isn't a loner, but she isn't exactly swimming in friends, either. She has a group of really close friends that she has known forever, and her friends on the Chess club, but that's about it. She (and her friends) are often so busy with schoolwork that they don't get to see each other much.
Love life: Zelenka's love interest for about three years has been Orion Tanek, a clown in her same grade. Both of them are so shy, though, that they haven't ever admitted they have any feelings for each other.
Home: Zelenka lives with her mother, stepfather, and stepbrother in a spacious, though not opulent, mansion in Fausta. It has a large grounds that are mostly wild. It is forested, with streams and such for Li and Bae to mess around in.
Family: Inis Haidee (Gentle Modesty) - Zelenka's mother is a very quiet, introverted person, much like her daughter. Unlike her daughter, though, she is interested in arts, and often sells her artwork for extra money. Inis has light blue hair and brown eyes, and she is also small, like her daughter, but has a much more defined figure. She's a very pleasant woman and loves both of her children.
Bae Nantan(Inspirational spokesman) - Bae is Zelenka's stepfather. He is a very loud, ourgoing individual who is pretty much the polar oppostie of Zelenka and her mother. Standing about six feet tall with flaming red hair and a beard, he can be very intimidating. He runs his own legal services; he's a well known and well respected lawyer. He loves to do outdoorsy activities with his free time.
Li Nantan (Strong spokesmam) Li is Zelenka's step brother. He is 19, and about as loud and outgoing as they get. He was on the debate team at his school, and he is planning to go into law. Li really takes after his father, and he loves outdoor activities, too. He also has a fetish for ice cream, and he likes to treat Zelenka and anyone else who will come to triple scoop sundaes.
Arnold Haidee (Modest eagle power) - Arnold was Zelenka's real father, and to put it bluntly, he was a bum. He abandoned Zelenka and her mother when she was about four, so she doesn't remember him too well (more in history).
Friends: Caitrin Than(Pure brilliance) Caitrin is Zelenka's oldest, best friend. They have known each other since they were in kindergarten together. Caitrin is just about as level minded as they come, and Zelenka knows she can always go to her for advice. Caitrin has the loveliest green hair that she has been growing out since childhood, and her eyes are lavender. She and Zelenka often share clothes, as they are pretty much the same size.
Caedmon Shen(Spiritual wise warrior) - Caedmon is the president of the Chess club. He is a very, very skilled opponent. He is always there to listen to his friends, however, and he usually has good suggestions, and he's always coming up with good ideas for small parties and such. Coincidentally, he is also captain of the Speech and Debate team. Caedmon is short, about 5'5", and he has the most amzingly blonde hair. His eyes are also yellow, although he usually wears thick glasses.
Orion Tanek (Immortal son of fire) - Orion is a very cheerful, shy, and (sometimes) sarcastic young man who is Zelenka's on-again off-again boyfriend. They have strong feelings for each other, but the fact that they're both always so busy and they're both extremely shy has kept them from ever progressing beyond the stage of good friend/pseudo couple. Orion loves to tinker with any and every mechanical gizmo he can find, and he's also very into Sci-Fi movies and books and technifcal magazines.
History: Inis and Arnold met in high school. Inis was the shy, quiet one, and Arnold was the debonaire "man of the world". Arnold played his suavity for all it was worth and managed to convince Inis to get married to him right after graduation. Within a year the couple had had Zelenka. That was when Inis first noticed Arnold going...weird. First of all, he never treated her as anything but a housewife; and a slaving housewife at that. He never wanted to spend any time with his family, and he blew most of his money at the local bar and on horseracing. Mostly, he just refused to take any responsibility for any of his actions. Inis found it hard to find money to pay their bills, and when she confronted Arnold, he promised to shpae up. The next night he was gone; he had deserted the family. Showing an amazing type of adaptability, Inis quickly sold their small house in Idania and moved the both of them to a tiny apartment in Giolla. Zelenka, who was about four years old when this all took place, has only vague memories of life in Idania. What she does remember is that soon after they moved out of that house, it burned down, killing the new occupants. Since then, Zelenka has had a deeply ingrained fear of fire, although the rational part of her knows that it was just a coincidence. Zelenka started school just like any other child and soon met Caitrin. Amazingly enough, they are still best of friends after all that time. School always had a fascination for Zelenka. It challenged her in ways that she had never been challenged, and she found that she enjoyed it. As time passed, she became involved in more and more activities, until her schedule became so full that she was hardly at home. One year for Christmas Zelenka received a used chessboardas a present at a church function. Zelenka was immediately attracted to the game, and immediately started playing. She found the game so intriguing that she began to research it, and eventually she got too good to play against her mother. One afternoon, with her chessboard clutched under her arm, she left the house to play with the elderly men she always saw playing at the park. After awhile she became so good that she began to go to city competitions, and from there to other, more difficult competitions. Now, she is merely a few hundred points from the coveted title of "grand master". Inis spent most of her time away from home, too, but this was because she was working. Mother and daughter rarely saw each other, and then only for meals. Most of Inis's time was spent earning money to help Zelenka through school. And then she met Bae. Inis had sold a rather beautiful piece to Bae, and Bae found the piece (and the artist) very intriguing, albeit that the piece was ten years old and the artist abandoned. He himself was a widower, and they both fell for each other. When Zelenka was twelve, they married, and for the first time in her life, she had a real father. Zelenka really liked her stepfather because he was always kind to her, but she wasn't sure how Li would react to her. He kind old intimidated her with his size, but in him she found a kindly young man, albeit it argumentative, who was interested in many of the same things she was. At first they felt kind of awkward about each other, but now they get along more or less splendidly, save the arguments that most siblings have.
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Team: The Elementa
Senshi/Knight Name: Sailor Ignis
Element: Fire
Symbol: Triangle with an arrow pointing.
Henshin Item: Zelenka's henshin item is a medium sized red/orange crystal. When you hold it up to the light, it sometimes looks like there are flames inside of it. Besides that, there's nothing really special about it, as Zelenka hasn't had it set into a necklace or anything like that.
Henshin Phrase: Ignis Fire Power, Make up!
Transformation: To transform, Zelenka holds her crystal in both hands and raises it above her head. When she calls out the henshin phrase, two streams of fire spiral around her upheld arms, one around each arm, and when they reach her head they begin to spiral around her body, crisscrossing down to her feet and forming most of her outfit as they go. As they reach her feet they shoot out behind her, lighting up the black background with dancing flames. Zelenka, now Sailor Ignis, spins around once and strikes her pose, clasping her hands behind her. One of her legs is outstretched, and she winks, as if to an invisible audience. The music is racy piano music which comes to a crescendo as the two streams of fire race into the background.
Main Color: Red Orange
Secondary Color: Yellow
Fuku/Uniform: Zelenka's uniform consists of the usual skirt and halter top arrangement. Her skirt is pleated and mainly red orange with yellow trim on the top. The second skirt is also yellow. The bow on the back of her skirt is yellow. Her gloves and her choker are red orange, and the choker has her symbol in yellow in the middle. The halter top is also orange, but it has a yellow "bib" and a yellow bow. In the middle of the yellow bow is Ignis's symbol in orange. Her tiara consists of yellow beads, and the largest bead in the middle is orange. Her boots are yellow, go up to her mid calf, and lace up. For jewelry, Sailor Ignis wears bracelets on her upper arms that are sculpted to look like fire, ie., flame shaped.
Weapon: None
Attacks: Ignis Inferno! (offensive) When Sailor Ignis calls this attack, she bows her head and holds her hands straight out to her sides, palms up. Flames begin to dance in her palms, and she brings her hands together in front of her chest as if she were praying. The fire in her palms flares out, and she poses, feet together, hands stretched out in front of her, and palms facing outward. With a click of her heels, she sends the fire rocketing towards her enemies. When it reaches them, it surrounds them in a wall of fire. The beauty of this attack is that it can be used against multiple opponents. The more opponents there are, though, the weaker this attacks is. It also has a nasty effect on the enemy. It pretty much roasts them alive, but the level of roasting actually depends on the number of enemies, how strong Zelenka is at that point, and how much concentration she has. It is a pretty strong attack, so it drains sailor Ignis quite a bit.
Soot Blast (blinding) Before she calls this attack, Sailor Ignis forms one of her hands into a gun shape. After she finishes the attack phrase, she points her hand straight up in the air. A black cloud emerges from her raised hand, obscuring the battlefield in a cloud of ashes and soot. It's a good tactic to make a getaway.
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