Child of Wind

Alta Gale is one of my all time favorite OCs I have made due to all the thought that went into making her. She was made for a Tegaki RP for this school for Demi gods and they were divided up into the 12 roman zodiacs. She was based off the sign Libra, hence the blind fold, but she isn’t blind. For this I did some research on some characteristics of what makes up the Libra sign (I’m a Virgo so I didn’t know much about it...) it has something to do with her gift, which she calls a curse. I’ll get into what that is a in a second. Now since she’s not a part of the RP site anymore, because it died... I’ve done so much more with her. I have built a whole story behind her and I changed her design a bit out of her school uniform into something angelic since she’s an air sign. I really want to do something is her since I love her so much, like either make a comic based off the RP site or make a group here for the school >>.

But any who, her back story so I can explain her powers and what not. Her father was a wind sylph, not really a god but more like a wind elemental, but a very powerful one. He was in arranged marriage with another powerful magical being (her powers I haven’t really decided on but she’s not a wind elemental.) So the marriage wasn’t out of love but for more political/social reasons. Her father had a silver flute which he could control the winds with. It also could be used as a weapon. Depending on the song you played on the flute determined what weapon comes out of it (made out of wind, like a blade of wind, or a whip, etc.) He used to hang out in the forest to play music to get away from his home life. One day while he was out in the woods he heard the most beautiful song of a woman singing. The owner of the voice was that of Alta’s mother and he instantly fell in love with her. And well... one thing lead to another between them and her mother was pregnant with her. But his wife and parents found out about this and they were furious. They sealed away her father and his wife placed a curse over her mother saying “May your child have the power to see what a vile serpent you truly are!”

To her mother’s surprise and dismay when Alta was born she instantly knew something was different with her eyes and her heart sank. Alta was born with empathic sight, she has the ability to look into a person’s heart and soul to see their true self, their hopes, dreams, fears.... What she sees depends on the strength of the emotion, so it can range from just an aura or full blown visions. When she looks into the heart of a truly evil person it physical hurts her causing a massive headache. What Alta doesn’t know is that her headaches are a part of her other abilities that her sight can do. Later on she’ll know that her sight automatically wants to absorb those negative thoughts and desires to be purified so she can temperately pacify someone. It’s not a permeate change, just enough time to like run away in a fight. But that ability takes a lot of mental control and energy to do, so since she’s unaware of this ability it causes her to have headaches. (The reason why I choose empathic powers for her is because I read that Libras and I quote ”Librans are sensitive to the needs of others and have the gift, sometimes to an almost psychic extent, of understanding the emotional needs of their companions and meeting them with their own innate optimism”)

The people of her village used to tease her, torment her calling her all sorts of horrible names, but never once did she hold any ill will towards them. She didn’t blame them for their fear of her powers, her curse. She felt like a peeping tom on the souls of other and she hated it. Her poor mother has labeled as a whore and was also was tormented by the villagers for giving birth to this ‘demon’. The only way Alta knew how to cheer up her mother was to play her flute, her father’s flute which was given to her mother as a gift. Unlike her father Alta cannot control the winds with is as he did since she is only a half breed and her powers over the wind aren’t as strong. She can however use its other power of turning it into a weapon, but she never uses it since she’s a lover not a fighter. But one day the torment they put her mother through got so bad that when Alta came home she found her mother on the floor of their home crying nursing her badly bruised face surrounded by some of the village’s men. Alta was shocked to see what they had done to her and Alta was jumped from behind by some of the men and fiercely blind folded. Alta struggled begging not to be taken away swearing never to use her eyes again but all she could hear was her weeping ‘I’m sorry.... I’m sorry’ as the men dragged her away. She was abandoned deep within the woods saying if she returned that they would kill her mother and her. Since that day she had never used her eye sight once. Being a daughter of the wind she has an innate sense of the wind so she can ‘see’ by feeling the wind currents around her. It took awhile to get used to but its second nature. So now after all her years alone she heard of a school for her kind, to learn how to use their powers and it is her deepest wish is to learn a way to control her sight, to turn it ‘off’ so she can look at people without seeing within them. To be somewhat normal.

Whoa... sorry for all that text >> There’s still more to her story but I think that’s enough. So that’s Alta for you ^^ A lot of thought