Post by luka & lira bryant on Mar 4, 2009 22:34:57 GMT -5
Luka and Lira
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Put your hand in mine, never let go.
Never wake up 'cause I'm done with promises.[/center]
I REMEMBER WHEN WE USED TO LAUGH
[/color]ABOUT NOTHIN' AT ALL, IT WAS BETTER THAN GOIN' MAD[/font][/center]
FROM TRYIN' TO SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS WE'RE GOIN' THROUGH
[/color]FORGET 'EM ALL[/font][/center]
NAME MEANINGS: Nothing in particular. No one really thought of that.
NICKNAMES: They call each other 'Lu' and 'Lir' from time to time.
SEXES: Male and female, respectively.
AGES: Both twenty-one.
SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS: Lira is straight, but Luka is bi, leaning more towards men.
ETHNICITIES:Both Caucasian.
RELIGIONS:Lira is an atheist, while Luka is more agnostic, bordering on spiritual.
CANON OR ORIGINAL: Originals.[/color][/font][/ul]
'CAUSE ON THOSE NIGHTS, WE WOULD STAND AND
[/color]NEVER FALL[/font][/center]
HAIR: Black.
EYES: Blue.
HEIGHT & WEIGHT: Luka is 5' 11", a bit underweight at 167 lbs. Lira is 5' 9", and weighs 145.
BODY TYPES: Both are rather slender, with long limbs. Lira is well-endowed, but not stripper-quality, and Luka is slightly efeminate, but still has defined muscles.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Luka and Lira are identical twins, aside from the gender factor, obviously. Both have startlingly bright blue eyes that border on grey, and fine, soft raven hair. Luka's is a bit long for a boy, and falls in his eyes, while Lira's is slightly past her shoulders, almost always kept away from her eyes by hair pins or bows.
They have similar fetishes for black, slightly punky clothing, and it sets of their pale skin quite well, thank you very much. Luka has a scar cutting through his right eyebrow that he obtained while fence-hopping in his youth, and two lip piercings on the lower left side. Lira's piercings extend no farther than her ears, as she's deathly afraid of needles, but Luka has been pushing her to get one in her nose, saying a little diamond would look 'so cute'.
Luka has high cheekbones, a sweeping jawline, long neck and aristocratic nose, with full, slightly pale lips and thin, elegant eyebrows, most of which contribute to his slightly feminine look. He doesn't resent this, but it does make it a little harder to get taken seriously. His smile is dazzling and charming, showing off his perfectly straight teeth.
Lira's jaw is delicate and graceful, her lips full and pink, with her brother's nose and cheekbones, and smaller brows. Her teeth aren't crooked, but her canines came in higher up her gums, and Luka often teasingly calls her 'the vampire', due to their longer look. [/color][/font][/ul]
TOGETHER,
[/color]WE FACED IT ALL[/font][/center]
Luka----------Lira
Music!----------Music!
Art----------Poker
Cigarettes----------Reading
Skateboarding----------Photography
Guitar----------Piano/Keyboard
Stephen King----------James Patterson
Action Flicks----------Slasher Flicks
Partying----------Partying
Alternative----------Classical
Sketching----------Animals
Dancing----------Moshing
Concerts----------Getting Shit-faced
Fast Cars----------Motorcycles
Roller-coasters----------Coffee
Rain----------Sleeping In
DISLIKES:
Luka----------Lira
Art Critics----------Needles
Homophobes----------Hospitals
Public Transport----------Rap
Chick Flicks----------Chick Flicks
Cross-country----------Bigots
Snakes----------Psychiatrists
Cold Weather----------When Luka forgets to do the laundry
Being Sick----------America's Most Wanted
Speeding Tickets----------Being designated driver
Volume Restrictions----------J.K Rowling
STRENGTHS:
Luka----------Lira
Plays Guitar Well----------Plays Piano Well
Sings Well (Tenor)----------Sings Very Well
Sketching----------Photography
Patient----------Loyal and Supportive
Affectionate----------Talented Fist-fighter
WEAKNESSES:
Luka----------Lira
Not much stamina----------Hot-headed
Takes everything to heart----------Impatient
Spacey----------Doesn't have the best manners
Easily distracted----------Stubborn
Insomniac----------Sarcastic
HABITS/QUIRKS:
Luka----------Lira
Bites his nails----------Cracks her knuckles/neck
Likes to go barefoot----------Sleeps curled in a ball
Licks his teeth----------Bites her lip
OVERALL PERSONALITY: In this aspect, Luka and Lira are complete opposites. Luka is carefree and happy-go-lucky. Utterly obssessed with music, he spends a lot of time writing songs and fiddling with his guitar, with no concrete plans for the future. He's the true definition of 'sensitive artist', and is patient and kind, with a healthy helping of charisma.
He's easy to like, but tends to wear his heart on his sleeve, and doesn't like violence. He's intellectual and knowledgeable, a good majority of his songs based on recent events, for good or for bad. He's honest, but tactful and gentle about it, and is a very loving, affectionate person. He does, however, have a mild form of schizophrenia that causes him to seem distant and unfocused, making it hard for him to concentrate on any one thing if he isn't on his meds, and, in severe cases, giving him the whole; 'voices in my head' experience. It's never really caused trouble, though.
Luka is a very deep thinker, and can simply lose himself in his thoughts for long periods of time, looking as if he's simply staring off into space when, for all anyone knows, he could be coming up with the meaning of life. He does not believe in a God, per se; he has a more spiritual outlook, energies of the earth and all that.
Lira, on the other hand, is hard-headed and fiery, and tends to be a bit abrasive. When she gets her mind set on something, its going to get done, and its going to get done her way. She is hot-tempered, but not unkind if you don't deserve it. It you do, however, her tongue is sharp, and she puts her wit to use with stinging sarcasm.
She is blunt, and somewhat uncouth, but she is fiercly loyal to those she trusts, and would never abandon a friend in need. She has often proved to be the 'defender' of her brother, throughout the years, and even a bit of a mother figure, if a bit unorthodox.
Lira has no particular disorder of any sort, just a raging temper that tends to flare up at inconvenient times. She can be quite aggressive when angered, and has a hard time calming herself down once she's riled up. She is generally a friendly, amiable person, however.[/color][/font][/ul]
WE'D STAY UP LATE AND WE’D TALK ALL NIGHT
[/color]IN A DARK ROOM LIT BY THE TV LIGHT[/font][/center]
SIBLINGS: Each other, of course.
OTHER FAMILY: Luka was at one point fostered by Laura and Harold Kenneth, and he liked them well enough to consider them family. Lira was fostered further back by Trista and Jacobi Mathas, but she never considered them parents, especially after the incident with her uncle.
PETS: None, yet.
OVERALL HISTORY: Luka and Lira were abandoned at birth, because their mother was too poor to support one child, let alone two, and had not believed in abortion. They grew up in the Hawley-Smoot orphanage, depending on one another completely, and becoming very close. They were schooled by the orphanage employees, and so never really got onto the school scene to make any friends.
At the age of seven they were taken into their first foster home, but it was short-lived. Their foster parents were somewhat disturbed by the level of their intimacy; ergo, their cuddling, and their insistence on sharing a bed. The orphanage workers had always assumed that they would grow out of it, but when they had lost two more possible homes, and were still unadopted by the age of twelve due to these tendencies, they began to worry.
It was suggested that they be put into separate homes, and they were. Lira was taken in by Trista and Jacobi Mathas, who lived an hour from the orphanage, in the next town, and Luka by Harold and Laura Kenneth. The twins often inquired after one another, but were continually told that it was not currently possible for the two to meet.
This went well enough for about two years, though both of the twins seemed a little antisocial, unnacustomed to going to a public school, but when they turned fourteen, Lira went through a terrible experience. A family reunion was held at her foster parent's house over the weekend, and she was raped by her foster father's brother. No one even knew anything was wrong until her foster uncle was about to leave back home with the rest of the relatives, and she came into the room, walked right up to him, and stabbed him through the hand with a letter opener. She broke down in tears while he was taken to the hospital, and they could get no explanation out of her. All she would do was demand to see her brother. Her Luka.
Elsewhere Luka's foster parents were experiencing a similar demand. Luka had woken in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, and without explanation barricaded himself in his room until his foster parents would take him to his sister. This went on for a few days, Luka surviving on poptarts and fruit pilfered from the kitchen at night, until Harold and Laura finally called the orphanage, only to find that Lira had been returned to it, and was undergoing counseling due to a 'traumatic experience'.
When the two met again it was as if not a day had passed. They caught each other up on their lives, and promised that they'd never be separated again.
While Lira remained in the orphanage, safely away from anymore harm, Luka had yet to be exposed to the worst. When he was sixteen his foster mother relapsed with ovarian cancer, which she had been supposedly cured of before they had taken him in, and his foster father started drinking heavily. Lira was the only one that ever found out Luka was being beaten nearly every day by the man, and mere months after it began, the two simply dissapeared. Missing child reports were filed, but the two were never seen in the southwest U.S. again. A few weeks later, they were in Atlanta, Georgia.
They got part-time jobs in the city, stayed on the DL, and homeschooled themselves via the internet, staying in an old brownstone the renter was allowing them to use for minimum charge after hearing their story. The old woman, name Emma Snow, eventually helped them to procure their highschool degrees, even though she wasn't a legal guardian, and they have been forever grateful for the risk she took in helping and housing them.
When the two came of age, and were no longer wards of the state, they came out with their true names, dropping the fake ones they had been using when neccesary, ergo, to everyone but Ms. Snow, and were subsequently fired from their jobs because the supermarket feared a suit, but neither of them really cared, as they'd been planning on getting better ones now that they needn't be so discreet anyway. They kept their fake last name, Bryant, and had it legally changed to such.
It was at this point that it was discovered that Luka was bi, bent towards homosexual. Neither of them had ever really had time to explore romance and relationships before this time (this being why they couldn't understand peoples' disaproval of their amount of physical contact), but now that they were free from hiding, things took their natural course via parties, etc.
Luka had his first boyfriend when he was nineteen, a twenty year-old named Rico Perez, and lost his virginity to him three months in. They were a good match, but they broke it off after nine months when Rico left for Juarez to help his family. There have since been flings and short-lived romances in his life, but Luka has yet to have another serious relationship.
Lira, being the partier that she is, often has one-night stands and such, but she has never really trusted men with her heart, and has thus never really had a lover. She got pretty close to a seventeen-year-old named Ryan Parker around the time Rico left, but nothing ever really happened, and they lost touch a few months after.
Emma Snow died of a stroke a month later, and, having no living relatives, wrote in her will that what money she had left would go to the twins, which is why they were able to get the apartment they currently inhabit. They visit her grave every Sunday to this day.
At twenty-one, Luka now works at a local music store, and intends to become a musician one day, while Lira works as a cashier at the local Hot Topic. When she has enough money she intends to go to college and major in biology, but her real dream is to be a singer. Veterinary science is just her fall-back.[/color][/font][/ul]
THROUGH ALL THE HARD TIMES IN MY LIFE
[/color]THOSE NIGHTS KEPT ME ALIVE[/font][/center]
ROLEPLAY SAMPLE:
Long, slender fingers with chipped, black fingernails danced delicately over the keys of a rather old-looking keyboard, beginning to pick out the notes of 'Hallelujah', by Rufus Wainwright, with practiced accuracy and grace, Lira Bryant smiling serenely as the melody filled her ears. She flicked her raven hair out of her face, lamenting the loss of yet another bobby pin, then tilted her head back as she began to sing the first stanza.
"I've heard there was a secret chord,
that David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?"
Her singing was soft at first, but her brilliantly blue eyes flashed with pleasure as the sounds soothed her normally fiery spirit, relaxing her, and her voice grew stronger, ringing through the apartment.
"It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth,
The minor fall, the major lift,
The Baffled King composing, hallelujah."
She digressed into the series of 'hallelujah's that followed, eyes closing as she lost herself in the harmony. So oblivious to everything but herself and the keyboard was she, that she nearly lost the tune when another, more masculine voice joined her in the room.
"Your faith was strong, but you needed proof,
You saw her bathing on the roof,
Her beauty, and the moonlight overthrew you..."
She turned to see that her twin brother, Luka, was the one who had taken up the vocals, though she had known it from the start. She grinned as he came up behind her and hugged her around the shoulders, and they began to sing in time with one another.
"She tied you to a kitchen chair,
She broke your throne, she cut your hair,
And from your lips, she drew the hallelujah."
This was how it had always been. Brother and sister, one half and the other, watching out for each other, and sharing in common what they loved in music. At the moment, Luka longed to join in the instrumentals with his guitar, but he had been in the midst of restringing it when he had heard his sister playing from the living room, and so he contented himself to sing, his other great passion.
"Maybe I have been here before,
I know this room, I've walked this floor.
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch,
Love is not a victory march;
Its a cold and its a broken hallelujah."
The twins could already hear their neighbors from the first floor apartment banging on their roof and telling them to quiet down, but Lira only played louder, they only made their voices stronger, overpowering the noise with a much more pleasant one of their own.
"There was a time when you'd let me know,
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The Holy Dark was movin' too,
And every breath we drew was hallelujah?"
The pounding was getting louder, but Ms. McGlone could just go fuck herself for all they cared. If she didn't appreciate good music when she heard it (and it was good music), then she wasn't worth their time anyway. Not even the landowner liked her much, so if no one else complained, they could be relatively sure they wouldn't get evicted.
"Maybe there's a God above,
And all I ever learned from Love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you...
And its not a cry you can hear at night,
Its not somebody who's seen the light;
Its a cold and its a broken, hallelujah!"
Lira stopped singing, leaving Luka to belt out the final string of lyrics in his charming tenor, ending the song on that last, melodic, drawn out 'hallelujah'. She stilled her fingers on the keyboard as the final note passed, and the two stood there, panting a little, and smiling broadly.
These were the moments they lived for.
THERE’S NOTHING WRONG
[/color]WITH US[/font]
THIS HURR APPLICATION WAS CREATED BY FOR THE WINCHESTER ! OF CAUTION. THE TITLES ARE LYRICS FROM THE SONG 'THOSE NIGHTS' BY THE FAHMAZING BAND CALLED SKILLET. THIS CODE WANTS TO BE USED, BUT DON'T ABUSE IT. BASICALLY, YOU CAN CHANGE THE COLOURS, BUT DON'T EFF WITH IT ANY MORE THAN THAT AND DON'T TAKE THIS CREDIT OFF![/center]
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