Post by Kallisto Notara on Dec 21, 2007 4:56:09 GMT -5
Kallisto Notara
The Basics
Name: Kallisto Notara
Nickname: Kalli
Race: Mortal
Age: 24
Height: 5'7"
Hair Color and Eye Color: Dark Brown, Brown
Make Us Love You
Likes:
Helping People
Firefighting
Sports
Gourmet Cooking
Ballroom Dancing
Chinese & Filipino Food
Shopping
Putting Together Puzzles
Boxing
Dolphins
Reading
Dislikes:
Sexist Pigs
People in her way
Being a patient
Politics
Abusers
Bugs
Telling families, "I'm sorry they're dead."
Overprotective Males
Hot Dogs (there's a story there)
Reporters
Habits:
Singing in the shower
Washing her hair twice after a fire
Good table manners
Neat freak
Personality: Kalli is a very determined individual. There has not been a goal she has set that she has not attained as of yet. Part of this determination comes from the feeling that she has to live her life for herself and lost family. The other part stems from her parents telling her starting at a young age she could do anything she set her mind to.
While she has many very good friends she is difficult to get to know at first and has an innate fear of losing people she cares for. She is a very compassionate person and treats every patient and fire victim with the dignity and respect she would treat her own family with, were they still alive.
Kallisto handles pressure extremely well and can be very stubborn at times. She doesn't believe in leaving a job until it's finished. Her sense of humor can be considered sick at times, this is part of how she has learned to relieve pressure and deal with the stresses of her job. As a friend she is fiercly loyal and would stop at nothing to help someone that's in need.
Family;; Keeps Us Insane
Parents: Marcos & Selena Notara (Deceased)
Siblings: Elena & Carissa(Deceased)
Family Dynamics: Kalli's family consists of the Fire Department, her own family dying in a house fire when she was only eighteen years old. Her parents were both only children and her two sisters both younger than her died in the fire with their parents. With both sets of grandparents already gone and no immediate family left Kallisto was on her own until she became a firefighter.
Discovering she had no family of her own, she was immediately "adopted" by the fire department family. The Chief and his wife took her under their wing and she considers them to be like a second set of parents. She is included in all their family activities and spends the holidays where she's not working with the Chief's family.
As for the other firefighters on the department they have become like brothers and sisters to her. Like any siblings she gets along with some better than others, but no matter what they are and will always be her family. For the most part she gets along with everyone and is fiercely loyal to the emergency services community. Afterall they're all she has left.
History[ /b]: If Kallisto were able to trace her geneology back to Ancient Greek times she would find that she is a direct decendent of Achilles via his relationship with Brisies while she was his "War Prize" though there are references in which he called her his wife. Brisies did not know she was pregnant until after the fall of Troy and Achilles death. Some questioned whether she was carrying the child of Agememnon or Achilles even until the child was five years old.
Achilles son turned five it was found that he too much like Achilles at that point to further question his parentage. When he grew old enough he married and he too had a son and furthur down the line. Until Kallisto's father Marcos married her mothr and she was born. Overall she had a happy childhood and despite a few bouts of rebellion here and there was very close to her parents and her sisters were considered her best friends.
Kallisto was away at a dance camp for the summer after she'd turned eighteen when she recieved word of her family's untily demise. Leaving camp immediately she arrived back home to find that the fire had taken everything from her, with the exception of the posessions she had taken with her to camp. Among those possessions was a teddy bear she had gotten from her parents when she was eight years old and a single family photo from the previous Christmas.
Left alone and grieved that this could happen to others, she took part of her inheritance after the funerals and went to fire school that following fall. While in school she fell in love with the job and made the decision to gain her paramedic's license also. Between the life insurance policies, homeowner's insurance and investments her father had made, she has no worry for money, but continues to do her job with a passion and tenacity that few have seen before.
Extra: She has an odd fascination with her Greek Heritage and with Greek Mythology that she gained from her Grandma Notara before she died.
