RUKA ARROW -- JUMPER

[RUKA ARROW]

Ruka "Blue" Arrow
Jumper

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FULL NAME: Ruka Mai Arrow
NICKNAMES/ALIAS: Blue
AGE: 19
BIRTHDAY:May 08th
BIRTHPLACE: Japan
OCCUPATION: Switches jobs whenever she moves, normally some sort of part-time, easy job. She also spends her nights as a freelance hacker of a sort - taking contracts online and hacking for money.
GENDER: Female?
ORIENTATION: Pansexual
LOYALTY: Herself. If she had to choose a side she'd choose Rebels
SPECIES: Jumper
REGISTERED?: No
FACE: Aya Ueto

EYE COLOR: Dark brown
SKIN TONE: Quite pale
HAIR COLOR: Brown
HEIGHT: 5"3
WEIGHT: 133 pounds
FASHION STYLE: Casually, clothes that could be worn in lots of different countries without attracting attention. Normally short-sleeved top with a warmer jacket.
APPEARANCE: Blue's slim and small for her age, often making people put her even younger than she is - a fact Blue uses to her advantage. She's half-Japanese but takes after her mother most, making it hard to tell that she's also half-American. She tends to keep her hair cut short to keep out of her face and often under a hat or hood.

FAVORITE HOBBY/ACTIVITY: She loves singing, going to foreign places, reading and hacking or programming computers for fun.
PERSONAL STRENGTHS: Blue's an expert hacker and a damn good liar, she's also got a very good singing voice.
PERSONAL WEAKNESSES: She has a hate for authority and a soft spot for people who 'stick it to the man' nonviolently, she also hates violence and despise anyone who uses it - no matter what the reason. As well, she suffers from severe claustrophobia.
QUIRKS/HABITS: When she's thinking she braids her hair or hums, she also laces her fingers together when she's nervous.
FEARS: As said, she has severe claustrophobia. When she's in a small room, trapped or in a crowd it can get so bad that she has panic attacks and sometimes can't breath and has, on occasion, blacked out.
WISHES: She wants equal rights for everyone and she wants to be able to let people know what she is without fear. (In slightly less-grand scale, she wants a pet cat)
SECRETS: The fact that she's a Jumper, her real name (she goes by "Blue" to protect her parents)

PERSONALITY: She's quiet and confident, voicing her opinions when she wants to but she's not a fan of small talk - if she wants to end a conversation, she does. She gives her opinions in a blunt, calm manner and has been accused of being cold, callous or unfeeling before. The truth is that she hides her feeling well. Blue hates it when people lie for a bad reason, or assume she 'doesn't want to know' when she does, and if someone annoys her she tells them. Blue's quite paranoid, especially when it comes to trusting strangers, and she tends to assume the worst, turn and run. That said, she wouldn't fight someone - or hurt them - even if it meant her own death. She's a devout pacifist and a vegetarian. She loves cats.

MOTHER: Mai Arrow|56|Human|Software developer|Alive
FATHER: Harold Arrow|60|Human|Professor of computing|Alive

HISTORY: Ruka was born in Japan but her family left before she was four and she spent the rest of her life growing up in England, the country of her father's birth. She was a bright student and a generally clever girl, quickly becoming the best in her class in the sciences, math, English and computing. She was an only child but not spoilt despite her family being quite wealthy, her parents made an effort to ensure that she stayed that way by only letting her buy stuff with her own money.

Blue started earning money - in a way - when she was thirteen. She agreed to help a friend - Penelope - who was failing school by hacking the school computers and changing her grades. Although she succeeded, she got caught and was suspended. Her 'fame' spread through the school as gossip spread and most of the other pupils seemed to believe that Blue was accepting payment for hacking and other computer-type crimes. Blue was approached by an older girl who wanted Blue to try hacking her email, when Blue managed - eventually - it got around the school and Blue's renown spread further, she was paid for it as well and was fairly rich for a girl of her age (not very wealthy though, she charged £1 per hack and only did 84 in total while at school)

Blue's parents enjoyed travelling, especially to new countries and, due to this, Blue traveled from Japan, to France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Austria before she hit fifteen, she also had a love for seeing new places and often took long walks around when they arrived at new places, sightseeing.

Eventually, at age sixteen, she was caught hacking the school's exam files and expelled from school, her parents paying the headmaster money to keep them from getting the police involved. Blue was sent to live with her Grandmother in Japan as an attempt to stop her 'rebellious behavior' actually, as that was a few months after she'd discovered her ability, it didn't hinder her at all. Blue didn't like her new school, or the teachers, and - despite being one of the best students in her class still - didn't get on with anyone. She'd get detention, get grounded and not allowed out of her room, but in the mean time she'd be going on long walks in France or watching concerts in England.

One day, she mistimed. The England-Japan time difference was forgotten and she arrived back in her room in front of her gran. Being a traditional and supernatural-hating woman, Blue's gran ran off to get help. Blue grabbed some clothes and money and jumped to the first place she could think of, in this case Spain. From there Blue phoned her parents and explained what had happened. They were shocked but told her to come back to England to 'talk it over'. Blue agreed and jumped back an hour later, to her old bedroom. She crept downstairs and heard her parents talking to someone - she never knew who - about needing to ask her - Blue - some questions about whether she knew anything about the resistance. She didn't but the way the man spoke made Blue freak out and jump back to Germany. From there, she took a bus to an airport and - thankful that her passport was still in her jeans - took the first flight there was - America.

After arriving at America, in a desperate need to make money, Blue went to an online chatroom and announced that she'd hack things for money. She made a website (called http://www.blue.com) and, as the years went by, her name slowly spread and her jobs, which had originally just been the basic is-my-husband-cheating-on-me type changed into government system hacks and the like. Since hearing about the resistance from before, Blue's been trying to find them - not sure if she wants to join them or help them or just learn more about them - but, so far at least, she hasn't succeeded.

REACTION/FEELINGS TOWARDS SUPERNATURALS: She feels a connection to them, particularly ones that are - like her - on the run. Although she disagrees completely with the violence on both sides of the conflict. That said, she'd help another supernatural if it came to it.

MENTIONABLE BELONGINGS: Although she makes an effort not to, there's a locket with her mother and father's photos she keeps for sentimental value.

OTHER:

ROLEPLAY SAMPLE: Blue hummed quietly to herself as she sat back, relaxing in the red hot sun of the beach. Although, five minutes ago, she'd been holed up in her apartment back in America, the beach was in Spain, San Sebastian to be precise. Closing her eyes, Blue let the tension melt off her shoulders, reclining into the sun with ease that spoke of hours of sunbathing previously. The beach - in La Concha - was her favorite place to go in Spain, at least when it was sunny.

Opening her eyes, Blue reached for her book, wrapping her fingers over the novel and flipping it open to her page. Headphones in and a song playing, the heat of the sun warming her back and an excellent book at her fingertips - life couldn't get any better.

Half an hour later, just as the sun turned from pleasant to unbearable and the other tourists packed up and headed off, Blue slipped book in bag, pulled her clothes over her swimming costuming and, with a casual glance for watchers, returned to her apartment. No-one saw her enter, and no-one saw her leave.

And that was just the way Blue liked it.

ALIAS: Heather