● N A M E ●Gillian E. Doss.
Predictably, Gillian is mostly known as Gilly amongst family and friends. Her father used to call her Fish, a pet name that came about when she was a tiny little baby - most likely from the 'Gill' in her name.
Twenty years old.
Born March 18, 1996 in the early morning (1:23 AM to be exact) on a dreaded Monday.
Female.
● O C C U P A T I O N ●College student and part-time cashier at the local gas station.
Gilly is in her third year of college, majoring in Engineering.
Despite being a millennial (in all the technical senses possible – and probably the political ones too), Gillian E. Doss is not a millennial. Or, at least, she doesn’t look like one. Matter of fact, she looks like something straight out of the 60s.
Gilly, of course, practices good hygiene – she showers, she uses deodorant, she keeps her hair and fingernails healthy and she brushes her teeth – but she certainly does not upkeep her appearance. Her long red hair rests on her back and shoulders, thick and unkempt and tangles galore. She usually brushes it in the morning, but her hair mainly goes untouched throughout the day and is often the slightest bit frizzy. She stands an impressive five feet and nine inches tall, but her clothes often do not fit her right – either too baggy or too small. When it comes to her posture, energy seems to course through her body and she doesn’t walk places, but bounds – and it’s nearly impossible to keep her from standing still, she even bounces on the balls of her feet.
Gilly tends to dress old-fashion and like she stepped out of the sixties. Typically, when dressing, she chooses a single color a day and wears everything of that color – she’s a stickler for color coding. Gilly prefers skirts – cute knee length skirts made of polyester and cotton – rather than jeans and likes to wear cute silky blouses with flowers and whales and other beautiful decorative things. Permanently attached to her feet - metaphorically speaking, literally would be rather disgusting - are her favorite light blue Chuck Taylor converses. Gilly smells like sunshine - it may not make sense, but grab any generic perfume bottle or deodorant with sunshine in the name, and that's what she smells like - with the slightest hint of coconut. Her face is typically makeup-less except for the occasional colored chapstick on especially cold days that chap her lips.
● P E R S O N A L I T Y ●Sugar, spice and everything nice...then pour a shit ton of sugar and nice things into the mixture because Gilly doesn't have enough spice.
It’s true, Gilly doesn’t have a mean bone in her body. She’s the friendly type who is always overly concerned with other people’s feelings. Gilly makes it her priority to make sure everyone and everything are the happiest they can be. She’s empathetic and relates easily to other people’s pain – maybe a little too emotionally on her part. If someone is sad, Gilly would sob even more than them; if someone had gotten an A on their test, Gilly will throw them a full-blown party – okay, maybe not, but she’ll be more excited than that person. Her friendly nature does not only give her a sympathetic ear, but a rather easy-to-fool heart. Gilly is probably one of the most gullible and naïve people you ever meet. She believes in never doubting unless given a reason to doubt – which often ends up with Gilly being fooled by one thing or another. Perhaps this is the reason why she has a hard time picking up on sarcasm and passive aggressive behavior.
Gilly is a quiet person most of the time – but do not mistake her quiet behavior for introversion. Gilly thrives on human interaction and tries to make as many friends as she can. Unfortunately, not a lot of people return this sentiment, especially since Gilly can be seen as rather socially awkward. Gilly suffers from Home School Syndrome – aka, growing up in homeschooled, Gilly never really got the socialization she needed. It also doesn’t help that Gilly is oblivious to all things social – she can’t tell the difference between flirting and being friendly, being nice and being fake.
Gilly is quite known for her academic endeavors. She enjoys learning and has a natural thirst for knowledge. She can be found with her nose in a book, or foraging around in the leaves to study interesting things (more than once she had rashes from poison ivy). As with most studious human beings, Gilly’s like for learning and her insatiable curiosity bleeds into her social life. It can be quite irritating, really, how nosy Gilly can be. She will go to any lengths to satisfy it, especially when it comes to other people’s secrets. It’s not that she does it intentionally or with malicious will, but she simply can’t help but want to know. It can even be said that Gilly has no sense of preservation, considering the dangerous situations she has put herself in for the sake of her curiosity – plus other reasons.
It should be noted that it is nearly impossible to scare Gilly and she rather enjoys horror movies.
● R O M A N T I C I N T E R E S T S ●Gilly has no experience in romantic endeavors whatsoever. The only exposure to any romance of any kind is that of movies and books - and Brad Pitt never was very attractive to her. As a typical human being with no dating experience at all, Gilly wishes for the typical sweeps-you-off-your-feet romance that, well, sweeps her off her feet! An utterly hopeless romantic, Gilly tends to swoon at romantic acts in the movies - but she would rather have a best friend as a lover.
● O R I G I N S T O R Y ●Gillian E. Doss has spent her whole life in small little Verona – the only out-of-state place Gilly ever set foot in was Portland, Oregon. Her father is from Verona too, and a lover of the simple life. Gilly’s mother, on the other hand, was a woman filled with wanderlust – when she was alive, that is. Gilly doesn’t remember much of her mother, Leona Doss died when Gilly was four years old. Leona was in love with helping the community, and especially liked to donate as much blood as she could in the annual blood drive. The last blood drive Leona went to not only gave her a sense of value, but acquired immune deficiency syndrome – also known as AIDS, something that carries the worst kind of stigma. The way it was explained to Gilly was there was a mix-up with the blood and needle – she was a bit too young to understand.
Having to watch his wife die from infection took its toll on
Benjamin Doss and he became a bit of a recluse and overly paranoid of germs and bacteria. Perhaps his biggest fear was of losing Gilly to illness as well, and he kept Gilly far from possible health hazards as he could. One of these ways was, unfortunately for Gilly,
home school. Age five to eighteen, Gilly was confined to the study room for six hours of learning. Most of the time, however, Gilly just snuck out while her father wasn’t looking and sneaking into the backyard to play in the dirt and in the trees. As it can be imagined, Gilly’s social skills suffered from such reclusion – even though she wasn’t completely separated from others and would go out once in a while to the town.
After Gilly turned eighteen years old, she was out from under her father’s thumb and began to attend the community college. She still lived with
Benjamin Doss and he still fretted over her, but Gilly was a grown college student now! She could go out whenever she wanted, do whatever she wanted. So, naturally, this meant getting a job at a gas station and spending her time in the
Salem’s Diner or
One Thousand Pages.
When she had fallen ill, it was like her father’s worst nightmare was coming true. For hours he would stay by her side, reading her old fairy tales he read to her when she was a child and feeding her hot chicken soup. Gilly first learned of her new
abilities, for lack of a better term, when she awoke to staring at her
own body. It was only for a split second, where she was able to stare into her sleeping face and see her snoozing father in her peripheral vision, before she was snapped back like a rubber band. Gilly startled awake in her bed, feeling the slightest headache – probably caused by confusion – and an eerie unsettling in her stomach.
● S U P E R P O W E R ●Astral Projection.
● P O W E R C L A S S I F I C A T I O N ●Mystic.
● A B I L I T I E S ●Gilly is able to separate her body and her whatever and travel the astral plane. When her body and 'soul', for lack of a better word, are separated, her body falls into something that appears like sleep - or possibly something closer to a coma. For the most part, Gilly is incorporeal - but, as she gets stronger, that may change. Gilly can walk and seems to almost levitate, or float, when in her astral state.
● W E A K N E S S E S ●When astral projecting, Gilly's body is completely vulnerable to other people and she cannot protect herself from being hurt, kidnapped, or killed in this state. Furthermore, the longer Gilly is away from her body, the weaker she becomes - if her body is taken during this time and placed somewhere where she didn't leave it, Gilly could potentially die while looking for it.
Banned
