OC Profile: Cyrilla Gunvaldsson

Name: Cyrilla ‘Cyril’ Gunvaldsson

Age: 38

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Ethnicity: Pakistani by blood, Scandinavian on her adoptive father’s side, Welsh-English and European Spanish on her adoptive mother’s side.

Height: Five feet, nine inches.

Weight/Build: Cyrilla is tall, lean, and built like a hunting cat. Her arms and legs are long and soft at first glance, seemingly having no tone to them. Thanks to all her years as a working class girl and rising through society, the muscles can tighten into steel cables with one flex, giving her strength that is uncommon for her gender. Only her hands are notably calloused and hard, especially in that they always seem to be slightly grimy and marked with oil and grease.

Cyrilla’s body is hourglass shaped, with her upper chest being medium sized over a stomach that is petite and hard. Her thighs are larger than her shoulders, built like a track runner or professional kickboxer.

Skin Color: Cyrilla’s skin is a deep, rich shade of olive. Although she works very hard, she takes good care of her body, maintaining a pleasant physical appearance.

Facial Features: Her face resembles a secretarybird. It is lean, angular along the sides with narrow cheeks, a small chin, a small, semi-pointed nose, and an intense gaze. Cyrilla’s forehead is exposed because of how she wears her hair, something which she pays no heed to. Several tiny pockmarks are seen on her forehead which she cannot quite get rid of.

Eyes: Her eyes are colored a rare silver.

Hair: It’s color is onyx black. Cyrilla wears it freely in a naturally spiked style.

Attire: Cyrilla wears business clothes at work consisting of a corporate casual suit, sometimes with a tie, often wearing coveralls beneath these when she works in the garage. Outside of the garage, she can be seen donning a green tank top with black jeans and tennis shoes, or a leather jacket over a denim vest with track pants and boots.

Personality: This woman is not to be trifled with. She believes that just as kindness and compassion are important to help people, they also need to know how to take care of themselves so that they won’t become dependent. Her core belief is: If you give a person a fish, you’ll feed them for a day, but if you teach them to fish, you’ll feed them forever. She takes it in moderation, understanding that you need to sometimes give people a few fish until they are able to pick up the pole, to use a metaphor. To do that, she might give you a few practice courses at work, or with a video game, and guide you through it with all the patience a good person is known for. Once she is certain that you have learned everything, she’ll put you into things on your own for one day or level to see how you fare. If you need further help, she’ll give it to you. If you don’t, then she’ll see how long you can last. If you don’t need her help, you had better show it, because she will give you a lecture or further reprimands for not planning ahead with her if you make a hotblooded mistake or become overconfident. As much as Cyrilla helps people learn the ropes, she becomes annoyed when somebody gets in over their head because they want to show off.

Cyrilla loves her son, Richter, and is doing everything in her power to encourage him to stop his selfish behavior. She doesn’t always use the same techniques to punish him, and is shown to be very warm to him most of the time. She sometimes lets him learn the consequences of his actions by letting him follow through on them and finding out the repercussions for himself, but only if said penalties will not land him in dangerous trouble. If the stakes are too high, she will take Richter into her own hands, sometimes literally.

She is quite tomboyish and tough, fully willing to state what she thinks in the presence of others and stand up for both herself and other people. Cyrilla is not quite hotblooded, as she knows better than to pick fights and pointless challenges, preferring to solve situations with calm, witty words and sit downs, while still insuring that the right thing is done for both parties. It’s still unwise to provoke her into a fight, as she can bring you to your knees with her hands if she is so inclined.

Largely asexual and platonic in nature, she doesn’t have much interest in a male or female romance, preferring to just be close friends with the men and women around her. She is far from phobic about love and will help others with their problems in whatever way possible if she can.

Bio

(Happy Hard Knock Life)

Cyrilla was adopted at birth by two parents who were once wealthy and high on the social scale, only for them to lose their fortune in a stock market crash when she was still a baby, forcing them to relocate to a working class neighborhood. Growing up, she did not have many luxuries. Her parents had to work hard at their jobs and they could afford only basic food and clothes. Cyrilla was able to be happy because her mother and father were both very loving and dedicated to each other and her, always assuring her that she was destined for something better than this, and she always had them to support her.

In school, she was largely a tough girl. The underclass schools were full of tough kids, and unlike what statistics and movies portray, the girls were every bit as fierce as the boys. Cyrilla studied as hard as she could and earned high grades. It still didn’t change that she learned to defend herself in street fights with both girls and boys, even befriending both genders for her skills with her fists.

(Wheels and the Workplace)

After graduating from high school, Cyrilla went onto night school. Even with all of the part time work and her family’s saved up money, she couldn’t quite afford college. It was still a smart move, as she learned about car mechanics and business management, her preferred subjects. Several years later, she landed a job in a chop shop as a mechanic, quickly earning the respect of the other men and women in the garage for her natural talent with machines. She could change tires, plug up oil leaks, charge up engines, fix wires, the works. A few years later, she was promoted to manager of the garage for her ability to both command and work. It would take a long time to list all of her accomplishments. By this point in time, she is vice president of the chop shop, making sizable figures, living in a nice suburban neighborhood, and she still enjoys working in the garage alongside the office, even though her bosses object to this.

(For My Son)

Cyrilla adopted a boy eventually, naming him Richter and raising him on her own. She was a good mother to him, teaching him responsibility and life lessons as well as how to take care of himself by educating him in practical knowledge from washing dishes to cooking. When he started school, she hoped that he would have a happier time than she did. Things became complicated when Richter performed poorly. Tests revealed that the boy was actually gifted intellectually. Unfortunately, even on her salary, she could not afford to send him to a private school, and the current mode of education’s elite programs were not up to his standards, causing some friction between them. Nevertheless, both Cyrilla and Richter love each other and are quick to forgive one another when they fight.

Misc.
-She drives a Mini-SUV truck.

-Cyrilla likes to watch action, war, and horror movies. The more fight scenes, gore, and gunplay in them, the better!

-Cyrilla likes to listen to hard rock, metal, and sometimes hip hop.

-She practices street fighting and Boxing in her spare time.

-She is kind of a history nut when you least expect it.

-Cyrilla collects vintage magazines in her spare time.