Allya
From The Yuriban Encyclopedia
Allya Grace was born on March 3rd of the year 1984 of a Japanese woman and an American man stationed at a naval base. The youngest of two daughters, she moved to Yuriba on November 26th of the year 2002 under the pretense that her friends had driven into town, and left her at a rest stop as a joke after driving away. She's currently single and is happier that way.
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Description
Taken directly from her normal description:
She's a tall girl. Not too tall though. She stands at a proud 5'10, Her skin is bordering on medium tan, with a texture as smooth as silk. For a moment, you find yourself entranced by her eyes as they shift from a deep muddy brown, to a calm, serene blue, and finally, to a sharp, piercing, unnatural green. Her long sea-blue and green hair hangs down from underneath her in two long pigtails. Two blue, curved chin-length bangs fall to the side of her heartshaped face, parallel to eachother. Bizzarely, cool, clean water drips from her bangs, and the ends of her hair. Her ears slightly poke out from behind her hair, giving her a cute elf-like appearance.
A brown leather jacket adorns her upper body, zipped up about half way. As thats where the zipper gets jammed. Under the coat is a longsleeved purple t-shirt, the word "~Symphony~" written in big green letters across the chest. The elbows of the jacket bear brown leather patches, looking to be sewn in for padding. Out of the coatsleeves, you can see she is wearing very thing blue gloves. They gloves are designed, by the looks of them, to simply keep her hands from being seen, instead of actually keeping them warm.
Below her waist is an ankle length blue woolen skirt. If you just happen to catch a glimpse under the skirt, you'll notice she's wearing thin green sweatpants that are tucked into white socks. On her feet are two dirty looking tennis shoes.
History
Allya's pre-island life was fairly turbulent and she doesn't much like to talk about it. Being born on a U.S. navy base, she spent her early years there prior to the divorce of her parents. While her older sister stayed with her father and eventually returned to the United States, Allya remained with her mother. After some domestic and legal trouble, Allya found it prudent to leave her mother's house for a safer, less U.N. affiliated nation. She then came to Yuriba.
Briefly Allya's sister resided on Yuriba, but she left and is presumed "okay."
Transformation
An old legend had been passed down from about four or five generations in Allya's Japanese family told the story of how a young man had been wondering about in the mountains one day and stumbled across a secluded hotspring where the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen had been bathing, and like all such legends he somehow made her his wife. The woman turned out to be a local water spirit of some standing. It is said that once every generation since then one direct descendant in each generation inherits the abilities and powers of the water being. However, many believed this story to be simply folly as no documented abilites had ever been passed down to descendents of the couple. Allya on the other hand, discovered that the story had been very much true. Upon arriving in Yuriba, an interesting transformation began to take place.
She found that holding her breath underwater became much easier than she originally remembered... and one day after accidentally inhaling a lungful she could actually breathe under fresh water. With this came a great deal of experimentation involving long communication with everything from the pacific ocean to bathwater. Finally after a short month of sleepless nights and various discomforts she had become a fresh water sprite.
Immediately she tempted fate and took a swim in the ocean that resulted in a brief stint of blindness. Her body had not yet finished it's change, and the different type of water that the ocean as had caused a taint in the process. Her blindness did pass after several months, and after long communication with spirits that resided in the pacific ocean she was granted the same abilities and rights that she had with fresh water to salt water, and attained the rank of Water Elemental.
She thinks the term Water Elemental is a hokey term, and prefers the term Water Sprite.
Allya soon found this is not the lovely fantasy job it should be, but in fact involves a great deal of paperwork. She is assisted by her water spirit familiar Sophia who she refers to as a "Living PDA." Additionally, Sophia refers to Allya as a "Living Jerk Who Should Do Her Own Dang 432-G Forms." She has since then hired an actual person to help with the paperwork that Sophia doesn't especially need to handle.
It should be noted that Allya is a fiercely territorial person when it comes to her element, and she generally does not get along well with people who claim to do a similar job as she does. She is working hard to adjust this problem, however, due to her hermit lifestyle it is a terribly slow process.
Personality
Allya is an oddball due to the intense flux of magic that surrounds the island. Not only is she close to two of her greatest elements (water and salt water), but she is almost literally over powered by their close presence. In the case of salt water, in being absolutely surrounded by it, she uses a great deal of unconscious effort to block out the great amount of voices that she hears from the sea as well as the massive amount of energy she sometimes just wants to carry her away. It's not much of a surprise that when everything is said and done Allya is packed filled with eccentricities.
Businesses
Allya currently runs several on-island businesses that range from plush doll sales to restaurants.
The Baby Seal
The Baby Seal is a dive that Allya has gone out of her way to make look seedy and untrustworthy. Designed mostly for customers who don't take things too drastically seriously, The Baby Seal sees much less patronage than Leona's Bar and Girl or the Crimson Rose and Sword due to it's offbeat and somewhat disturbing nature. The bar itself is staffed by a bitter aging ex beatnik hippie named Maybell who's cooking is as angry as her feelings on both Nixon and whichever Pope is in control of the Vatican.
Aside from unhealthy dining, the BS offers music that theoretically could be danced to in it's old-style jukebox. The Jukebox itself contains music that ranges from mainstream to radically obscure. When Allya is on the premises the Karaoke machine is also available for public use provided that the rules be followed to a T.
The Baby Seal differs in that is currently (as far as Allya knows anyway) the only bar in Yuriba to pose age restrictions on who is allowed to buy alcohol. No customer under 18 years old may purchase alcohol, and those that do receive a strict warning on a three strike system.
omoCo
During the Matsuri festival and other holidays, Allya runs a booth that delivers both plushies and insults to it's patrons. Insults are 50 lilies a pop and not very nice at all! Plushies cost quite a bit extra. Her claim to fame in the plushie world is omo.
omo (spelled in all lowercase letters, so that it looks like what he is) is a tiny boxing glove wielding tentacle monster with a heart of uranium plated gold wrapped in lemon. Born in a sewer on Alpha Pavonis V, he is the universe's self proclaimed GREATEST FIGHTER who has sworn an oath of chastity until he can win the heart of his one true love: The Penultimate Fairy Princess. omo speaks with an incredibly deep and loud Russian accent which he uses to inspire fear in his greatest of enemies: John Quincy Adams (lovingly referred to as simply Quincy). omo has chased Quincy throughout the universe after discovering that it was not actually a cerebral hemorrhage that killed John Quincy Adams, but malevolent evil spirit of the same name posessing his body and using it to wrack discomfort among the cosmos. Currently, omo is employed as Allya's bodyguard. Despite this terribly offensive (and often retconned) backstory, omo plushies have sold quite well at every village event that they are sold at.
Some of omo's most famous quotes are:
"I am omo!"
"omo says be cool! Stay in school!"
"Do not hate! Abbreviate!"
"My spidey sense is tingling!"
omo plushies are available in the following flavors: Plain omo, Pirate omo, Ninja omo, Sleepytime omo, and Sexy omo. If your omo starts acting up and having a mind of it's own that isn't centered on John Quincy Adams, chastity, the Penultimate Fairy Princess, awesome space battles where he totally punches out jerks, and or behaves erratically and walks on it's own, you own a defective and possibly cursed plushie. Any plushie as such is thusly the responsibility of it's owner and is not considered to be a part of the ever changing Official omo Canon.
Allya is currently owner of all rights pertaining to omo, omo backstory, omo future story, omo personality, and omo quotes.
Current Status
Currently Allya lives alone in the forest in her waterfront house. She is not looking for any sorts of romance, and is quite happy to be left the heck alone.
