balo driskell

personality:

MBTI: ESFP

Enneagram: Type 2w3 (The Helper with The Achiever Wing)

Alignment: Neutral Good

Zodiac: Pisces

Percy Jackson Parent: Iris

Pokémon Type: Dragon

Dragon Types seem to operate on their own plane of existence, with its own system of morals and values. Stubborn yet perpetually happy, Dragons refuse to grapple with your criticisms of them.

Dragons live their lives without any care about whether other people notice. They tend to be reclusive and self-contained. Because they are so resolute about doing things their own way, and feel no need to explain it, they don’t make good long-term partners for most people. However, if you can give them the space they need to forge their own quiet, maybe sometimes even a bit odd, lives, you can learn a great deal of wisdom from them.

Pokémon Subtype: Ghost

What sets Ghost Types apart is that they have a past, a history that they can’t escape. That doesn’t necessarily mean a traumatic event. While some Ghosts are mournful or caught dwelling on old pains, others appear to be connected to a distant past of revelry. Ghosts are caught in a state of suspended animation. There is a consistency within them, which harkens back to some moment in time that made them who they are now. Some are obsessive about history, or about honoring their culture’s traditions. Others can’t stop reading books on Attachment Theory, and talking about how they absorbed their parents’ epigenetic trauma. They are at once both rooted and detached. Their existence reminds you time is not real.

Unlike some of the other emotionally-distant-seeming types, such as Ice and Psychic, Ghosts are not intentionally putting walls up between themselves and other people. In fact, they can be over-sharers, telling long stories about their pasts, bearing their most secret selves. There is something very vulnerable about them. Still, there is liminal veil between them and everyone else. The curse of Ghost Types is that they feel things very intensely, they hunger and yearn, and they understand the distant, root causes of many modern-day problems. Yet they can’t seem to fully connect to reality or feel anyone else reaching back at them. They make excellent poets, painters, story-tellers, fanfic writers, cultural historians, and museum curators.

Winx: Nature

biography:

TBA

family:

Father’s Full Name: Lance Driskell

Father’s Status: Alive

Father’s Occupation: Owner / Chef at his restaurant (Driskell’s)

Mother’s Full Name: Cassandra “Cass” Driskell

Mother’s Occupation: Waitress

Siblings: Grace Driskell, Zander Driskell

Boyfriend/Husband: Cade Carroll (at this point these two being together is canon unless otherwise decided because I feel both these muses are at their absolute best as people when they're together. I am open to discussing single! Balo and Cade on a verse per verse basis, however).

other notes:

• Balo’s kind of a literal ray of sunshine who believes (almost) everyone is truly good at heart. Usually you’ll see her running around with a smile trying to brighten everyone’s day. She tries to put everyone’s happiness before herself, however, she’s slowly getting better about forming boundaries.

• Very easy to manipulate, something I’m not opposed to you using in threads with her.

• While it’d be easy to assume Balo’s dumb, that’s not quite the case. She has a tendency of playing dumb to make herself seem harmless because if people pass over her she's safe, and sometimes she likes to block out information she really doesn't want to know. This results in her being seemingly knowledgeable in things you think she never needs to know, and absolutely clueless on things she should know sometimes. Want to know how to sew sutures? She’s your girl! Want to know the definition of cannibalism? She’s going to get that wrong.

• Balo’s left handed, which might not seem like an important fact to know but given how many of my muses are right handed I think ti's worth noting! 

•  Balo doesn't like to swear, avoids it the majority of the time.

• Balo’s home life growing up was far from perfect. Her father, Lance - was an abusive alcoholic, and while her mother tried her best to protect her children - she also covered things up out of fear of losing her children. It’s very #complicated

• After an incident where her father stabbed her brother, Zander, while going after Balo - the family moved back to where Lance grew up - Newcastle upon Tyne. This has resulted in Balo having occasionally mixed slang, and changes in accent when she says certain words.

• Part of her way of coping with everything involving her family was restricting her food intake for a false sense of control - eventually developing into a full-blown eating disorder. Balo is in recovery / therapy for it and is healthy as of now, so it shouldn’t come up in threads too much but it feels like an important fact.

If you have any questions, please feel free to dm me and I’ll be happy to answer them.