RP: Journey For The Evolutionary Staff
Status: Discontinued
Name: Cressida Sabaciel, Ph.D.
Age: 112, (Apparent Age: 30-something)
Gender: Female
Original Nationality: Greek/Polish
Race: Elven
Sexual Orientation: Pansexual
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 130 lbs
Build: Small-framed, slight belly, healthy and fit
Skin Color: Alabaster
Hair Color: White
Eye Color: Blue
Tattoos: None
Piercings: None
Role: Evolutionary Biologist
Personality: Stern but friendly, studious, curious, hands-on, turns to pastries when stressed
Bio:
Born into families of Greek and Polish descent, Cressida learned to appreciate all aspects of the world around her from a very young age. Her family fled wars throughout Europe from the time she was very little, leaving her birthplace on an island in the eastern Aegean Sea and fleeing north, into mainland Europe. For the first several decades of her life, she and her family lived in the Polish countryside, where her mother had grown up. Her formative years were spent doing what most other members of the farming peasantry did at the time, and despite life being rather dull outside of her books, it was a safer and calmer life than the one she would have led had her family stayed in Greece.
During the early half of the 1900s, when German tensions were high and Europe swayed between wars, Cressida decided to find her own way, leaving their home in Poland and traveling to England, where she took on several different wartime occupations, several of which eventually funneled her into her choice of studies after the War. Her family, including her younger brother, had chosen to stay in Poland. Their fair skin, blue eyes, and light-colored hair bought them relative safety so long as they kept their ears hidden and their identities quiet. To the dismay of her parents, Cressida's brother took an interest in evolution and phrenology through secondhand information from the Germans. He wrote to his sister about things he'd heard from passers-by, and though the actions of the barbaric individuals he eavesdropped on made her sick to her stomach, the science -- or attempts at it -- behind their madness piqued her curiosity.
Postwar, Cressida enrolled in higher education, finding herself seated in the back of the lecture halls thanks to merit and a decades-long piecemeal education. Her university studies were riveting, ranging from chemical sciences to philosophy. By the end of her undergraduate program, she'd decided to pursue a career as a Professor of Evolutionary Biology. After eight more years of arduous studying, researching, and dissertating, she'd dabbled in most every earthly subject and earned herself a position among the staff of the Polymath Institute of Research and Education as a young professor. She rarely heard from her parents, despite advancing technology making it easier than ever to communicate. Occasionally, her brother still sent her letters, but as her career matured and she gained tenure, his letters eventually stopped coming.
Alone but never lonely amidst her studies and students, Cressida found a love for good food to keep her inspired when things got slow. Her morning never feels complete without a cup of tea and a croissant, and when the skies are gray and her spirits low, nothing gets her back to feeling like herself faster than a little fruit tart or a delicious cupcake. Her home is small and crammed to bursting with books dating back to the 1800s, many of them first editions. Her windowsill is overflowing with plants, and a sturdy table against the wall supports a hefty aquarium full of colorful tropical fish.
