Victoria "Tori" Kingora [wip]

[Victoria Kingora]

Victoria Lauren Kingora

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I wish I could cross my arms
and cross your mind 'cause I believe ,

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name - Victoria Lauren Kingora
nicknames - Tori, she hates her name being so formal, so he insists that her friends call her by a much more... "simpler" name.
gender - female
age - Seventeen
grade - Junior
major -Oceanography
minor - Astronomy
portrayer - Elisabeth Harnois
representing - #230 Kingdra

that you'd unfold your paper heart
and wear it on your sleeve ,

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personality[/center]

Like a piece of driftwood in the ocean, Victoria goes with the flow of life and lives by this philosophy. Her life twists and turns around her like beautiful ribbons as she watches the spectacle, refusing to influence the complicated dance routine. What happens just happens, that is all there is too it. She believes that the universe has a natural flow, much like the ocean, and her fate is already planned by a higher being. Human freedom doesn’t exactly exist, so why bother pushing against it?

However, certain things will awaken the dragon inside of her. When a cause of significant magnitude has come to her attention, she will finally break her bonds and begin to work diligently towards her goal. Like awakening from a slumber, she will turn all of her abilities upon this goal and will not stop pursing it until she gets what she wants.

This might make her seem lazy, but Victoria knows the secrets of ‘work smarter, not harder’. A very intelligent girl, she doesn’t like to show it off. She hates bragging. Remaining silent until provoked, she doesn’t like to call attention to herself. This can cause other students to become annoyed with her because she’ll often let a group project fail because she doesn’t speak up when she knows something is going wrong. It isn’t because she wants them to fail, it’s because she doesn’t want to point out others flaws. She wants to see the very best in people and this can cause her to be easily taken advantage of.

Very skilled in outdoor survival skills, Victoria loves being outside. The wilderness is like a sanctuary for her. The water is very close to nirvana. She loves swimming.

all my life I wish I broke mirrors
instead of promises
'cause all I see is a shattered conscience
staring back at me ,

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appearance[/center]

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oh please be done, how much longer
can this drama afford to run ?

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history[/center]

hometown - (Either from Pallet, Colorado, or elsewhere)

Born in Seattle, Washington, Victoria grew up in a very democratic, open and accepting society. Living there until she was thirteen years old, she still has very fond memories of growing up in the drizzly city. The natural beauty of the area surrounding the city really set her to loving the outdoors. She had mountains on one side and the glorious ocean on the other side. Her best friend was a little girl who lived down the street in their sleepy suburb about thirty minutes outside of downtown. The two were an instant match and they played for hours building forts, playing games and causing a whole mess of trouble.

Financially, her parents were not doing so well. Bills and payments were piling up and starting to cause a strain on the relationship after her father was laid off. For the past three years they had been living off inheritance from Victoria’s grandfather on her father’s side, he had been a very wealthy businessman. Although the young girl didn’t understand what exactly business grandpa had been doing, she knew it was somewhat shady. She was correct.

Her grandfather had been very close within a ring of powerful men who were Wall Street fat cats. Using cut throat tactics they influenced large businesses through multiple strings they held and gaining fat wads of cash through the stocks. Her father had been ushered into this “family business” as well but quickly left his hometown of Pallet to come out to Seattle and to pursue a worthy career. But because of his family’s current financial status he turned back to this ring of men.

They welcomed him with open arms, knowing the full power of his name and what it would do when he took over his father’s legacy on the floor of Wall Street. Wealth poured into the family from there on and they were living off better than before. They had never really been poor while living in Seattle, as both of her parents had jobs most of the time they were living there. Victoria ignored it for the most part, only getting somewhat excited when they moved into a house that was clearly too large for the family but none the less beautiful.

Her father continued to float through his new “job” and would often leave on business trips. Greed seemed to descending upon him and he started leaving more and more, always pursuing more money. It bothered Victoria very much and soon she began to beg her father not to go on his trips so much. He agreed, as of that point he became known as ‘The Dragon’. It was a powerful nickname as he had made some very good deals as of late that supplied a very large sum to his bank account. Soon business was coming to their home in Pallet, Colorado. She didn’t mind as much, at least her father was staying home. He was not the leader of a “Mafia”, it was a very small group of men who owned powerful companies that could influence other companies to make the stock market play out how they wanted it to.

As she became older she started to begin to hate what her father was doing. But she refused to believe that her father knew that what he was doing was wrong. She just simply ignores it.

then I was given grace and love
I was blind but now I can see ,

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connect the dots[/center]

• My thought process began with her name. Kingdra reminds me of this really exquisite, amazing, almost royal Pokemon. I figured that Victoria would fit that bill perfectly. According to Bulbapedia 'Kingora' is a mistranslated version of 'Kingdra'.
  
• Since Kingdra is a water/dragon type, I figured that Victoria should enjoy the water. But I didn't just want to limit her to that so I included all outdoors.
  
• The most fun I had was with her personality. Since Kingdra is based off a seahorse/weedy sea dragon, I did a lot of research on those two animals. The sea dragon isn't actually able to latch onto things like seahorses are able to, so they're constantly floating along. Besides, both of them kinda just float when they're in the ocean. How cute.
  
• Another thing that supports this idea of being 'floating on' personality was the pokedex entries. The basic idea of all of them was that it sleeps on the bottom of the sea floor, but when it wakes up shit starts to go down. It can create whirlpools just by yawning! So its got some power when it finally wakes up.
  
• Lastly, and the most important, is Victoria's attitude of not wanting to call attention to herself. What struck me most when I was looking at Kingdra on Bulbapedia was the single sentence 'Kingdra is a larger, more elegant version of Seadra.' Because the fact that Kingdra came from such a cute small thing and is only a larger version of it, I figured that Victoria would respect what she came from and small things as well.
  

fate looks sharp, severs all my ties
and breaks whatever doesn't bend ,

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but I don't need a telescope
to see that there's hope
and that makes me feel brave ,

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