Kyrie Elysia Barrial

Kee-ree || Ehl-ee-see-ya || Bar-ree-al

Physical Appearance
Kiyr is a very tiny woman with an almost doll-like appearancee. From wide blue eyes and a softly heart-shaped face, she exudes something of an innocent "protect me" aura, even though she doesn't mean to. Overall she is slender, but with muscle tone from years of gymnastics and other physical activities, though her hands are still soft and rather small.

Still, there's no mistaking her for a male: she's curved in all the right places, but not overbearingly so.

Her hair is rather thick, and when left in wavy-curls, makes her appear younger, unless she's put makeup on. Her hair colour is what some describe as "honey blonde" - though changes to a brighter and almost "true blonde" in the sun, and does have a natural curl. She has a tendency to braid it, or tie it into a bun.

Depending on the distance, her eyes are either a crystalline, vibrant blue; from further away they appear almost grey.

Physical Activity
From ballet, to gymnastics, to soccer and baseball, and so on. Kiyr tends to prefer sports and physical activities that depend on herself, or her range of motion and balance, over those requiring a team effort, but she still enjoys them nonetheless. She has energy to burn and is almost constantly on the move; this provides a small distraction for her mind, as well, as she'll have to concentrate on something.

A Different View Up Here
It started out as an awkward, slow hobby. A way to tire her body out, even after a day of running around doing goodness knows what. Kyrie used to sneak out of her home at night, scaling the house and eventually venturing further away. She's an avid partaker of parkour, and despite her smaller size, she can run and keep up with some of the best.

Reading and Writing
Yeats, Chaucer and Shakespear, to - in secret - romance novels, mystery, suspense, Kiyr can devour books if given the time to do so, whether it's by herself, her family, or other means. She also enjoys project writing and creative writing; essays to poetry, and beyond. Some of her reading and writing satisfy her thirst for knowledge, while others are purely for her own enjoyment. Reading also brings out her love and passion for learning, and of languages.

I Remember This...
Despite constantly thinking, Kiyr has an excellent memory and can recall things that are probably completely insignificant to the person she's talking to.

I Heard That
Due to being a quiet observer and as unobtrusive as possible, Kiyr's hearing tends to be sharper than your average Joe's. This is not to say if she's a room away that she could hear someone whispering into someone's ear, just that she's constantly listening to the world around her.

Parlez-vous..?
French. English. The girl has a passion for languages and has even studied old Latin, as well as several other languages. While her background means she's most fluent in French and English, it does not deter her from learning more. She took several years of Latin in school, and found a particularly intriguing language, "Carpathian" to heart for some of the lessons taught through it in a book she had once read.

You should Walk with Bells On!
It's Kiyr's nature to be quiet and unobtrusive while listening, so she's developed a way of walking that is almost completely silent. Despite walking around with two metal bands around her ankle, they almost never make a sound.

Observing
Kyrie has a good gasp of situations and people, mostly through observing them.

Basic Medical Knowledge
Because her sister was already gearing up for Med School, often times Kyrie would help Arianna to study and increase her knowledge to make entrance into college easier--this, coupled with Family Volunteer work, gives her a better knowledge base than most of your average people.

Kyrie Barrial has lead a comfortable life since she was born to her parents, Alexander and Gabriella Barrial. The family could trace their lineage back with Patents, and both were among the old "nobility" for both their French and British backgrounds. However, a title is merely a title in this day and age, and Kiyr will quietly keep her own title of privilege a secret, along with her first name.

Her family, though by no means rich, was well off and could comfortably care for their family. Kiyr is not the youngest child in her family, but the middle. She has four siblings, two older, two younger.

Not hard done by, but not of incredibly wealthy stock meant she was able to attend a private school (though to be fair, they were all sent to the Public School System until their high school years when things grew noticeably more violent) but still had to work for what she had. If she wanted to play sports - and she did, almost driving her parents crazy with the sheer amount of activities she wanted to take part in - she had to earn it. Earn it she did. Piano, dance, soccer, baseball, school-hosted sports, Wing Tsun/Wing Chun, she was there with almost endless energy. Later she began adding cello (14), and then violin (17) to her repertoire of musical instruments she would learn to play.

Add to it a healthy thirst and appreciation for knowledge, and Kyrie had her schedule full. She never seemed to grow resentful of it, only worked harder to continue excelling at things. So while she played baseball, her mind raced ahead to homework, essays, poetry, what she would be doing later, while she focused on the game at hand.

So it went through highschool. In College, she took more language studies, as well as continuing to pursue music, along with the odd class of whatever-happened-to-interest-her-at-the-time, from history to psychology. In time she graduated, continuing to pursue a path in the line of music, got her own place, continued to live her own life; travel was certainly something she liked to do. A few relationships since high school, but the young woman finds herself to be single and quite content with that, for now. Recently, her sister convinced her to join her in attending PHS #552 as faculty, cajoling and kindly coercing her into teaching music.

Kiyr had finally convinced her parents to let her try Wing Chun in grade school. It's a fluid style that requires precise positioning and movements to use your opponent's strength and force against them via deflections and rapid strikes. It does not require a lot of strength to use, as the power comes from aligning your centre of mass to your opponent's with rapid blows that will cause them to buckle.


Strenths

Simultaneous defence and attack can be particularly hard to counter, especially against someone well-versed in the style and fast as all getout to boot. With most of the power coming from pivotting and torquing the whole body, this style doesn't require someone to be a powerhouse to use effectively, generally speaking.

Weaknesses

As the style does not require a lot of strength to use, its attacks are diminished if the user does not hit the same spot enough. As well, if their opponent can discern the rhythm the combatant uses for their simultaneous attack and defence, they can be thwarted and beaten.

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