Post by Nesia Notonegoro on Jun 14, 2014 0:22:57 GMT -8
Ladies and gentlemen and those otherwise concerned, tonight we would like to proudly present our debut act...
Nesia Ingkiriwang Annisa Notonegoro
Nesia, Nessie
Prologue
Indonesia | Indonesian; mixed |
23 | Female |
Straight | Combat Choreographer, Actress, Dancer (additional/background dancer) |
CC - 5 years Actress - 1 year Dancer - 6 years |
Act 1
Black | DarkBrown |
Brown | 158cm |
Hourglass
Good reflexes, henna tattoo on left arm (design changes as she repaints it; is not always present), one piercing on each ear.
Act 2
Personality
Being constantly observed and looked at, Nesia Notonegoro creates a mask to suit these purposes. When she is around people she knows through her job, like fellow actors, Nesia is more talkative and outgoing. She also doesn't mind being physically close to people she barely knows, though usually such contact only happens briefly. Sometimes she deliberately let herself seen in public with a celebrity (usually an attractive male), just to give the paparazzi another gossip to chew on. Nesia knows how much the public loves gossiping about private life; being one who loves to gossip herself. The media can find her attending social gatherings or charity events, mingling with the other celebrities. The more you are seen in the media, people will recognize you easier in the streets. Naturally, no one will not instantly recognize her if she walks around the city without those aforementioned stuff.First impression of Nesia is usually friendly and cheerful, albeit shy sometimes. Her rather small stature and always-present smile emphasize the cheerfulness. An avid listener and enthusiastic person, Nesia seem eager to listen to everything you talk about, especially about your own self. She is quite curious, so people often surprised when she asks so many questions during their first meeting, especially when they're not in a professional atmosphere. Do note that she does that to know your social standing so it'd be easier for her to interact with you. In return for that questions Nesia will tell you first about herself, hoping you will do the same. Once she feels comfortable with you, you'll hear her talking about stuff from her home country. Mention that you like an aspect about Indonesia and Nesia instantly considers you as a friend.
Polite and tend to use a lot of euphemism, Nesia is a person who prefers to maintain the harmony in the atmosphere. Creating a strife or confrontation is something to be avoided. Rather than saying her disagreement openly, she does it subtly. Her explanation gets long and not really going to the point, but the other way is too blunt for her liking. Bluntness is sometimes mistaken as rudeness, making her sugarcoats her intentions with carefully chosen words so she will not hurt their feelings accidentally. Whatever they're talking about, Nesia will try not to anger the other person and make them lose their face. Raising her voice in an argument is also rare, though arguing itself is not something she'd do openly. If she has to deny a request, Nesia would make up excuses and hope you catch her meaning. Miscommunication is bound to happen if you used to say everything bluntly. When she's working, however, she forces herself to be a little more blunt than usual. It's necessary sometimes.
Nesia is familiar with many forms of art since she early age, and has tried some types at least once before she finally settled on martial and performing arts. This makes her grow up to be a creative and resourceful person. This trait is visible especially in her fighting style. Silat teaches its practitioners to use their surroundings as a weapon, following the philosophy tak ada akar rotan pun jadi - if there's no rattan roots can be used. So although she specializes in spear and staff, Nesia can use other items as her weapon; even items such as spoon or hairpin. She also applies this philosophy to everyday life, which is very useful to tackle unfinished works when deadline is approaching.
Compared to the majority of people in California, Nesia dresses more modestly. Her personal clothing choice is one that doesn't show too much skin and not tight. She does occasionally wear sleeveless top or mini skirt, but she only does that to fit in or her job requires that clothing. While she doesn't mind telling people one or two things about herself (see the second paragraph), to actually showing them publicly is a different matter. Nesia prefers keeping them as a secret, only to be shown to several people she really trusts. She also dislikes physical contact with strangers - especially the male ones - past formal handshake, which is why she never accepts invitation to go partying in clubs. It's just plain awkward and uncomfortable for her. Even eye contact is rarely done outside of the professional setting.
While she uses the term 'friends' rather loosely, Nesia doesn't really open herself to a select few. Everyone has a chance to be her close friend since she's not picky about your background, unless you're a rude person or breach her personal space too often. Acquaintances and friends usually see her public, more bubbly persona. Close friends, however, will see more of Nesia without that mask. She is a great listener and loyal to her friends and family. You can rant to her about your problems or ask her for a favor. Just be careful, sometimes she lets your secret or two out unintentionally while she's gossiping with her female friends. She likes making everyone around her feels comfortable. Nesia favors emotional connection before physical ones, and sees her relationships as platonic acquaintance/friendship. Her loyalty is quite unshakable and she will stick with her friends through thick and thin. Nesia will also defend them if they're involved in a confrontation, but sometimes she can't see the fact that they are the wrong ones in that matter. She will feel so ashamed once she finally realizes it. The woman can be stubborn sometimes, although opinions can sway her easily and leave her in doubts.
When it comes to romance, Nesia usually waits the other person to make the moves. She also develops crushes easily, and it's not uncommon for her to have crushes on several people at once. Physical intimacy always comes later than the emotional one. It's not impossible for her to initiate it first after she reached a certain degree of closeness (which will take a rather long time). Nesia is also a jealous person, but instead of explicitly shows it, she'll drop subtle hints as usual.
It feels satisfying when the younger people look up to her as a role model. For her, being a good example means that Nesia must maintain her behavior. Showing a slightest hint of bad attitude is simply unacceptable. Nesia feels other people would not like her as much as before if they find that out; they might even hate her. She doesn't want to make them disappointed either, so she'd rather pretend that everything is okay than revealing that she has a problem. Nesia believes everything she does must be things worth mentioning, things that would make people amazed. There is no need to give news to family if it's not good enough. Failure and bad stuff, naturally, are to be stored away in the past and never spoken of anymore.
Sometimes having such a huge interest in many things have a down side. Nesia finds it hard to focus on something, unless it's really exciting for her. She constantly moves from one thing to another, seeking for the same excitement. The only things she could focus on are the ones she enjoys doing or important matters. Her emotion is usually easy to read, it also tends to switch quickly from being sad to happy and vice versa. When dealing with work matters, however, Nesia has learned to mask her true emotion behind her usual polite smile.
Due to the highly competitive atmosphere in the movie industry, Nesia often feels intimidated by other people who is more talented, more beautiful and more skilled than her. To keep herself from not improving her skills, Nesia secretly marks a person as a rival, so she'll feel motivated to surpass that person's skill. This one-sided rivalry sometimes becomes too overwhelming, making her envious over said rival's achievements. She tends to over-thinking things, mostly about other people's opinion about herself. This trait makes her appear as anxious and neurotic. Smoking is her way to escape everyday stress, and since she seems to live a healthy lifestyle, not even her close friends know about this habit. She often spends more time worrying over a task than doing the task itself, and also known to come late to appointments. She is actually able to act diligently, but not without pressure if the job is not something she really wants to do. Her motto is 'live for today' after all. Why do something today that can be done tomorrow?
Because of her laziness, Nesia prefers to achieve or acquire things with as little effort as possible. She won't be hesitate to manipulate or bribe people, if all legal ways have been tried and proven fail. Breaking rules is not something strange for her. Still, it doesn't mean Nesia only takes advantage of people around her. The woman upholds fair trade. If she had done a favor to someone, Nesia expects said person will return it to her and vice versa. She isn't fond of order and prefers her surroundings to be organized in a chaotic way. While to an outsider's eye it may look cluttered, Nesia does remember when she last sees a certain item and where to find it. For her, it is not messy if she still can find things easily.
Nesia doesn't dwell much in the past (although some things are still bothering her, contrary to what she believes) and quick to forgive people who had hurt her, but she'd never forget their unjust deed. Or rather, that's what it seems. Depends on who you are and what you've done to her, she is either completely forgive you or keep a grudge on you. As time passes, sometimes the grudge is forgotten. If she plans to take a revenge, it is either by pulling a lot of strings so you can't trace it back to her or punch you in the face directly. If you apologize to her, chances are she no longer feels a need to take revenge. But she will feel a bit wary of you. Nesia rarely lost her temper, but when she does that won't be a pretty sight. She has a pretty destructive rage, often destroying things within her reach or throwing things at the object of her anger. She knows about this, so Nesia always leave the scene before her hand starts throwing things. Since she has no qualms about injuring people in this state, it is advised to leave her alone until she calmed down.
Quirks
~She tend to tug her hair when thinking or feeling nervous.~Blushes easily when complimented, especially by an attractive male.
~Often burps after a meal. She will not do it in public or when someone else is present.
~Sometimes she addresses people older than her with Mr/Ms. Calling them by first name still feels weird for Nesia. She's still trying to get rid of this habit.
~Always have a guling (a kind of body pillow) when she's sleeping. It's hard to sleep without a guling to hug. If this item is not present, Nesia will substitute it with a pillow.
~When a close friend(s) go out to eat together with her, Nesia will offer to eat their unfinished meal. Since this behavior looks weird, she doesn't do it when the present company is only an acquaintance. Though she will glance at their plate so often, conveying her subtle intention to them.
~Sometimes she declines an offer or a favor because she's afraid she'll look greedy to the other person. If you insist, Nesia will accept it eventually.
~Nesia knows yummy eateries around California and other places she has visited before. Somehow she always know when a restaurant opens and where to find them.
Act 3
Likes Food, body paint/temporary henna tattoos, social media, gossips, making gossips, scooter/motorcycles, Indonesian traditional dances + martial arts, money, technology, bottled tea, drama & romance series, scary stories, relaxing, learning about new things/people, her home country, smoking (only in stressful situations!), handicraft, humidity, rain, flower shaped hairpins, her hair | Dislikes Rude people, people who break rules, wasting food, money, being without money, the cold, touchy-feely guys, people who don't follow traffic rules, rules/schedules/regulations, cigarette smell on her hair and clothes, smoking, corruption, people doing dishonest work, clubs/clubbing, dry weather, alcohol. |
Aspirations Settling down: and start her own family. Need to find a guy who meets her parents' acceptance first, though.Getting a degree: she didn't finish college, but now she wanted to return again. Too bad her jobs always keep her occupied. Going back home: With experience she has gained in Hollywood, Nesia hopes to improve Indonesia's movie industry. | Insecurities People's opinion about her: Public image is important. In the movie industry, those opinions will affect her career too. Nesia tries hard to keep her image positive. On the other hand, her tendency to start gossips is used to cover her private life. Sometimes she gets lost in between them, though; the cover becomes too private, or the paparazzi finds out about her private life.Inferiority complex: And low self-esteem. Even though she knows she can do better (and sometimes it is proven that she do better) than her peers, Nesia still feel that it's not enough. She has to outshine others, otherwise it is better not to do anything at all rather than try and fail. Nesia suppresses this feeling in everyday life by focusing on subjects that she knows she can do well. If there's someone else who was also able to do those subjects well, Nesia will marked them as a rival. She will not let this feeling showed up, though. On the surface she treats said rival no different than she treats her friend or colleague, yet whenever they accomplish something Nesia will feel a bit resentment towards them. Looks: Am I thin enough for this dress? Does this dress match the shoes? Nesia always double check her clothes before she leaves the door every morning. Advices about fashion and ake up are always welcomed. She exercises regularly (being a dancer and a practitioner of martial arts) yet she still feel she will need bigger clothes if she doesn't watch her diet. |
Epilogue
Background
Nesia was born in an upper-middle class family with many siblings. As a middle child, she's often compared to her older siblings or other kids in order to motivate her. The result was the exact opposite of her parents' expectation. Nesia was withdrawn and often did her assignment half-assed. It was dancing and martial arts that finally drew her out from her shell. Mostly because of all people she was compared with, no one really excel in these fields.Her father owns several private hospitals whose patients mostly are the rich people. Her mother was a socialite, once a model and played in some TV series. She knows what it feels to be constantly seen and observed in public, which becomes the reason why she and her husband pushes their children to their limits. Be perfect, be flawless and be the best. Be someone whom your parents can be proud of. They both spoiled their children, but in return they expect no less than the best their kids can do.
Nesia did average in academics, somewhat disappointing her father who expected her to follow her eldest brother's path into science olympics. The only thing she did good was dancing, and it seemed that her mother pushed her to become excellent in it. Yet halfway through elementary school Nesia discovered pencak silat and secretly joined the club without telling anyone. One of her siblings told it to their parents, and while their mother was a tad disliking it, their father was amused. "Let her do what she wants for now," he said back then, "she'll grew bored of it sooner or later."
But she never grew bored.
Nesia attended less dancing lessons and more martial arts sessions. At age 12 Nesia started learning how to fight with toya (long staff), and eventually switched to spear. Fighting with weapons gave her an advantage to knock out her opponents. For the next four years, Nesia performed her dance in school festivals and went to participate in local martial arts tournaments. And then her parents decided to send her to the USA, following her brother who was enrolling in a university, to finish her high school education.
It was rather sudden and the change shocked her. Adapting to the language was easy, but the culture was hard. Nesia found herself unable to blend in, unlike in her previous schools where she was able to make lots of friends easily. Someone finally invited her to join the drama club. Thinking that she'd make more friends easily, Nesia accepted.
In the club she mostly worked on costumes and props, being too shy to appear on stage. Soon she began to do minor roles and helped her friends to do fighting scenes. Nesia's first major role was a main heroine who went on a quest to save her brother. She originally only helped to do the fighting moves, but the original cast went down with a flu just three days before they're going to perform it. Being the only one who remember the moves, Nesia was chosen to replace her. Even though she forgot a line or two and had to improve, the audience praised the fighting scene. And one of them happened to be a director of an indie production house.
He offered Nesia a part time job, helping him directing combat scenes. It was an opportunity to learn more about movie industry and Nesia started to like acting. So she accepted, and right after she graduated high school Nesia worked full time for him. Her parents wanted her to at least finish college first, so Nesia enrolled at some place but never finished it. Instead she fully immersed herself in movie industry. Aside from movies, she also performed in music videos, mostly as a dancer.
Lately Nesia works independently and have been trying to do some more acting. Her path to Hollywood carved open after she plays a minor role in one of the blockbuster movies. Nesia is still trying to adjust to her new fame.
Credits
Name: derp
Birthday: derpmonth derpthday
Skype: derpinesia
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Birthday: derpmonth derpthday
Skype: derpinesia
Tumblr: derpina-doppelganger
Welcome to Hollywood
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