ARIANNA CAMILLA BLAZE

Ah-ri-anna || Cam-ill-a || Blāze

Physical Appearance
The eldest female Barrial is tall and somewhat willowy. Years of dance and other physical activities such as yoga and an active lifestyle has kept her body trim, yet not overly toned and especially not muscular. She is not a fighter, but a lover: of the arts, of healing.

Arianna has pale eyes that are closer to honey than a very light brown, though they do have some striations and the colour darkens a little towards the outside of her iris. She has a mostly-pale complexion which can be troublesome in the Californian sun, but she doesn't seem to burn too easily. Her hair is blonde with some darker undertones. It's fairly long but cut in a layered style and will occasionally curl a little bit on her. Most times it remains straight. When she's working she has a tendency to pull it back from her face in a ponytail to keep her hands free. Her eyes glitter with warmth and humour and are a shade of pale brown that easily passes for "honey". They're highly expressive.

She has just slightly-wider hips than her shoulders. While she's not an hour-glass figure, it's almost close enough all the same. Her body is decently proportioned, with long legs. Her feet are about a size eight in women's shoes. She prefers flats or shoes with low heels if a touch of elegance is needed.

Reading
As an avid reader - both medical text to information, plays, and stories - Arianna could spend all day curled up with a blanket and a good book if she was allowed to.

Dance
Having classically trained in Ballroom for most of her life, the Barrial family's dance lessons had kind of spawned from Arianna's initial interest in dance. She normally partnered with her twin brother, Armand, but later with her boyfriend and deceased fiancé, Ronald Harris on occasion. She's danced in competitions for West Coast Swing, which still reigns her most beloved ballroom style to this day.

Theatre / Drama
More of a passion than a hobby along with dance, this would have been something she would have pursued as well as dance as a career choice. As it turns out, not only does Arianna have a passion for this, she also is of a pretty decent talent.

Yoga
This was most-often done with her mother for a few years, though her younger sisters were cajoled into coming as well. She enjoys the peace and yoga also provides the benefits of keeping and increasing her natural flexibility.

Learning
Arianna has a passion for knowledge and learning. It means she's pretty open minded and completely willing to research things and search for knowledge on her own.

Singing
Along with drama and theatre, Arianna enjoys singing. She carries a decent tune--certainly not the best, but her voice is soft and rather pleasant all the same. Her mother first taught her how to play the piano, but she found over the years that she much preferred singing. Still, they are some of the fondest memories of her childhood.

Surgeon / Medical Knowledge
Though young, still, Arianna has swept through her medical programs with a flourish.

Learning
Not only does she have a passion for it, but Arianna tends to be very good at learning. She's a woman who is smart and can be a bit ruthless when it comes to expanding information, knowledge, and wisdom. Set her loose on a library or the world and watch this lady go.

Acting
Theatre and drama aren't interests for nothing, either. Arianna can fit herself into a variety of roles as a strong woman, able to even play roles that could be perceived as truly weak and utterly helpless when needed. She has fairly decent composure and a steady poker face when necessary. She knows and abides by one of the true rules of acting: some part of it, always, has to be real for it to be believable. Her little sister picked that tidbit up from her, at one point.

Cooking / Baking
While not the best kitchen cuisine creator, Arianna has decent skills, though her strength is more towards baking. But she has a good foundation and handles herself very well from years of cooking en famille, at first learning from her mother.

Empathy
Arianna has a very high amount of empathy, and thus, compassion. She can read people well enough and has a sense for when they need a hug...and for when they need a little bit of tough loving--neither of which she will shy away from giving. This makes her chosen profession as a Surgeon both easier and more difficult, at times, as loss can be quite devastating. But her heart is strong and she can handle it.

Judge of Character
The blonde is a fairly good judge of character and does form strong opinions on people, depending on what she sees of both their words and their actions--the latter of which tend to tell more than their words. Her opinion on people can be changed, however, as she absolutely realizes that people can change, and sometimes a bad situation draws out the imperfections of a person more than a person's good traits.

Parlez-vous..?
While her list of languages is not as extensive as her younger sister's, Arianna is completely bilingual with French and English. She can comprehend languages like Spanish, being that both French and Spanish (along with several other languages) have roots in Latin. She knows some basic Latin, but languages have not been a priority to focus on learning.

Memory
Arianna's memory is very sharp. People, places, situations, and what she has learned is all stored safely away, for the most part. Obviously she does not have an eidetic or photographic memory, but it's almost on-par with her younger sister's.

As the second-eldest Barrial child, Arianna was born as a paternal twin to her brother, Armand. While both sides of her family come from lines of old nobility, a very high emphasis was placed upon hard work and diligence and earning a place, rather than riding on an inheritance or the generosity of other people.

She and her twin have been nigh-inseparable their lives. With that degree of closeness often came some arguments here and there in life, but nothing permanently damaging. It was the same way with their extremely close-knit family.

She started her interest in physical movement young, with gymnastics, but not very long. She quickly moved to dance lessons, and eventually, her twin got caught up in her excitement and joined.

Life was normal. They never really "wanted" for anything, being that their family was comfortably well-off, but if they wanted something, they were expected to work for it. School started in a private school so she and her twin could receive the best start, away from the horrors of the CPS. Her younger sister started two years later. In junior high, amidst her high marks and bright mind, there came a couple "teenage" relationships where she began to figure boys out. They came, they went, and she grew. It was during this time she also found she loved the small drama club and mini productions that were put on, and she began nurturing that pass-time as well.

Graduating to highschool found Arianna excelling further still. She was a bright young woman and already - with all the volunteering she did with her family at the Children's Hospital in Seattle - had a handle on what path she wanted to take in life: become a surgeon, help as many people as she could between that and her medical degree. The last semester of her tenth grade she started looking into taking College level courses.

And found out that she had it bad for Ronald Harris. It all started during ballroom dance competitions, mostly West Coast Swing.

Their families had a rather competitive - as an understatement - and nasty tension and her twin was decidedly rather abrasive as the man of that household insulted his father at every turn--mind you, Alexander wasn't necessarily being kind in turn. For years, the families' relationships were very strained. They dated in secret, a veritable modern-day Romeo and Juliet. Her younger sister wound up finding out and frequently went out with them, as did Ronald's younger brother. For a while, even, Steve and Kyrie tried to "date" but wound up finding out they were simply best as friends--which was, in Arianna's opinion, adorable.

That summer, Arianna and Ronald took the first step towards coming out, together. They began with Arianna's family, who was by far more complacent than the Harris family. Ronald's father had a massive chip on his shoulder in the belief he was better than Alexander because he rose from poverty and had to work harder than Alex had for his career. It turned out to be Armand that had answered the door with Ronald and Steve both standing outside, with Arianna hot on his heels but too late.

Hell broke loose and the argument that ensued between the twins was the worst they'd ever had. Kyrie got caught in the crossfire. Their father was rigid at first, but--he'd taught his children to make their own choices, to stand firm with love and kindness, and to face the consequences if there were. And he, with encouragement from his wife, Gabriella, and Kyrie as well as the youngest Barrial, Aless...accepted and gave Ronald a chance. Armand had none of it at that point.

Ronald was - family tension aside - a gem and a true gentleman. He was on his way, as well, in the medical field, and danced. He was a sweetheart, and with the Barrial family, at least, accepting - if not approving in some cases - Arianna's choice, they had part of their veil of secrecy lifted.

By the time the eleventh grade rolled around, she was taking those courses on top of her regular classes. It continued through the rest of her two final high school years.

About a year after graduating, during a West Coast Swing dancing competition, Arianna and Ronald finally revealed their relationship to the Harris family by partnering up--much to Armand's displeasure. He had, however, by and large accepted his sister's choice and stood by her side, if perhaps a little begrudgingly.

After they danced, to the shock of all the onlookers...Ronald proposed. Arianna said yes.

And though the Harris family - well, mostly just Ronald's dad and a little from the youngest sister, really, as Steve knew and his mother was a sucker for romance - had a conniption fit, they never looked back. It was a year and a half later, just half a year before the date they were set to be married, that things changed. And not by their will.

There was an accident. A car wreck. It took Ronald's life, left Arianna heartbroken, with several injuries. It took her youngest sister's life as well, leaving Ronald's sister injured, similarly to her, without the emotional ties of being in love and having her entire future ripped away in one shocking instant of devastation. As she recovered, physically, she threw herself into her school work, into volunteering, trying to heal even as she tried to help others. Eventually, she recovered from the event...but it was several years later she met her husband-to-be. She was twenty four, then, entering into the lattermost portions of school so she could be what she wanted to be: a surgeon.

It was after graduating, several years of work, and a marriage just a year and a half ago...that Arianna was recently offered a position at this school, in particular. Even though she primarily wished to stay within an actual Hospital...she couldn't deny that there was some need to give back. It was a long debate as she hashed out the pros and cons with her family, and especially her husband, but Arianna wound up accepting.

And, convincing her sister to branch out with her skills and apply as well.

So, they moved from Seattle...to New York. West to East; not for a new start, but with the hopes to help set some of the kids in the schools they had never really been subjected to...to a better life.

Arianna is a non-combat oriented character. She will attempt talking her way out a confrontation or fleeing if necessary. Due to her medical training she's highly aware of vulnerable points on a body and will - if necessary - target them.

Despite her peaceful views, her husband took it upon himself to teach her, with her agreement, how to protect herself. She's studied under him, for several years, and has since become fairly adept and confident. If she hadn't...she wouldn't be here.

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