Post by Sparrow Akiyama on Jul 10, 2010 22:45:44 GMT -5
Sydney Lai
Full Name: Da-Xia “Sydney” Lai
Age: 26
Civilian or Special: Special
Currently Located: Transient
Affiliated with: Neutral
Celebrity Claim: Zhang, Ziyi
Relation to You: Stepsister
Appearance: At 5’5” and 110 pounds, Sydney is rather small. She has long black hair that she usually keeps in a ponytail. Her facial features, including her brown eyes, are all small, and her face is oval-shaped. Her hands and feet are also small. She almost always wears comfortable but stylish clothes, such as cotton blouses and jeans.
Personality: Sydney is very quiet and keeps to herself whenever possible. She dislikes strangers and situations that place her in the spotlight, although her career choice places her in this position often. However, among people that she knows well, she warms up, and shows another side of herself that is fun, relaxed, and entertaining. She is kind to others, but is not immediately trusting of them.
Abilities
Ergokinesis: Sydney has the ability to manipulate the energy around her. She can bestow energy upon other people or objects or take away the energy of others, and manipulate the energy of her own body as well. She can also release or transfer energy in brief flares. The expended energy can be invisible or colorful, depending on how Sydney manipulates it; she can create very pretty spectacles in this manner. She can also use the energy as percussive blasts.
Limits
Sydney’s ability strictly follows the natural laws of science. She cannot create energy of her own, but merely channel and alter the energy that already exists. She also cannot use psionic energy, and she cannot form the energy into protective shields.
Da-Xia was born in New York City. Her mother, Mei Song, was a relatively new actress on the American scene, and her father was an investment specialist based in Manhattan. Due to her career, Mei traveled often, and soon found that the married life put too much of a strain on her acting. She and Sydney’s father divorced when Da-Xia was two, which resulted in Da-Xia splitting her time between her father in New York and wherever her mother happened to be every few months.
She began using the name “Sydney” in elementary school, as “Da-Xia” was too hard to pronounce and was too easy to make fun of. Because of her family situation, she moved often, enrolling in various schools in her mother’s neighborhoods, then returning to school in Manhattan. Despite this, she harbored no ill feelings toward either of her parents, and even decided to follow in her mother’s footsteps and become an actress.
Mei was able to open many doors for Sydney, as far as her acting career. This allowed Sydney to grow as an actress and get used to the industry. Once she graduated from high school, she devoted herself entirely to acting, and gained some recognition for her work.
When Sydney was twenty-four years old, Mei remarried; her new husband was Andrew Akiyama, the director of a movie they had worked on together. Sydney and Andrew got along well, and Andrew began to cast her in his movies, hoping to make her more famous, as he had been attempting to do for Mei. Sparrow, Sydney’s new stepsister, began to serve as her stunt double as well, both in Andrew’s movies and in others.
The new family has become quite close, though Sydney still keeps in touch with her father. Sydney is perfectly happy with her life, as she makes enough money to support herself and gets to travel often. She would not mind being more famous, but she is also content with what she has already achieved.
