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Name: Karisma 'Kari' 'Ris' Singh
Age/Birthdate: 24, March 23rd, 1983
Occupation: Often out of work actress (has to live in the Pentamerone)

Fairytale: Tinker Bell from Peter Pan (Modern)
Ability, if any: Quite the 'tinker', Karisma has the ability to mend almost any metal (pots, pans, gates, jewelery), though she does it grudgingly (or to annoy) and always expects to be thanked a dozen times.

History:
Born in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York, Karisma Singh was the third of four children. Her parents, two devout Sikhs, tried to raise all of their children with the basic beliefs and values of their religion. Karisma struggled to fit into thsi more limited way of life. While she was constantly full of energy, emotional, dramatic, and flighty -- Her parents tried to impress upon her the necessity of being demure, a listener, and level headed. While her sisters (one younger, one older) and brother had little difficultly following the prohibitions in Sikhism, Karisma refused to go along with her family's ways. She was caught cutting her own hair at the age of six. While her parents attempted to pass off this sin as Karisma simply not understanding the rules of their faith, Karisma had known very well that what she did was wrong.

Her closest family member was her brother, Kanvar. She had memories of following a boy -- though there was something decidedly unbrotherly about her relationship with the boy that she assumed was from her dreams. Memories of pirate ships, mermaids, and dreadful girl with curly hair continued to bother Karisma. Whenever she had an especially strong memory she was prone to become very irritable and irrational. She hated these memories of a life where she could fly around and be free when she was stuck in such a stuffy, confining lifestyle.

After a terrible row with her brother when she was eight years old, Karisma began battering the backyard chain link fence that she wasn't supposed to go out of. To her surprise, the fence gave way much easier than it should. Frightened that she had seemingly melted the metal, Karisma ran for it. She got as far as the second playground she saw and hid there until her family (which included her four sets of cousins) found her hiding in a slide.

The school counselor advised that her parents allow her to express herself in new and creative ways. They said that this would lead to a decrease in outbursts and that Karisma would become a more relateable and steady person. Karisma started out doing artwork, but she could never get the images in her head onto paper in the way that she wanted to. She gave up on art because she knew she'd never be good enough. When she was thirteen and entered High School, Karisma began doing theatre. She found that she had a much greater knack for acting than artwork, and since her over exaggeration of her own emotions was easy for her to bring onto the stage, she did very well in theatre.

Her family believed in reincarnation -- but not that Karisma was a faerie. She had shared her fears that she might actually be a faerie with her sisters and they had laughed at her and the youngest had told her mother. Her parents chided her for such heretical beliefs, and Karisma tried to keep it all bottled inside of her. Karisma came into full realization of her identity after a night where she dreamed the end of her life as Tinkerbell. She experienced a slow, agonizing death as she looked into the eyes of the boy who would always be a boy. Karisma was so disturbed by how real the dream had been, that when 'Hook' approached her later that day, she was not at all surprised.

Karisma was overwhelmingly glad to find out that she wasn't an insane person. She wasn't allowed to tell the truth to her parents, but that didn't mean that Karisma made their lives any easier. Karisma was not allowed to move out of her house and into the Pentamerone. She begged, pleaded, whined, groaned, threw a temper tantrum, but nothing seemed to convince the indomitable Hook that her home life so terrible and she just had to get out.

Even though she still had to go home each night, Karisma began to spend many hours at the Pentamerone. She was always on the search for her Peter, since she was told that he would appear one day.

The day she turned eighteen was the day that Karisma moved into the Pentamerone. She hardly said four words to her parents before lugging her suitcases downtown. They have been convinced that their daughter is a part of a dangerous cult, and Karisma has not had any contact with them over the past six years. The day she moved out was also the day that Karisma had her hair cut, eyebrows plucked, and a bikini wax (she didn't enjoy that, but wanted to do it to prove she could).

She decided to turn her high-school hobby into a career and began trying to get herself on the stage. Karisma does well in melodramatic roles but struggles to establish herself in serious, sombre, grounded roles. She has been in several projects over the past few years, but never earns enough money to have complete independence. She is lately in the chorus of West Side Story and understudying the role of Anita. With any amount of luck (or managing her temper enough to keep from throwing something at the head of the director), this will be Karisma's big break.

Personality: Karisma is the definition of mercurial. Even though she now is in the possession of a body bigger than a large leaf, she still does not have the ability to hold multiple emotions at once. All of Karisma's emotions are to the extreme. When she is happy she is practically ecstatic and has to make everyone else around her grin. When she is upset she is depressed and cannot abide if anyone else around her has something to smile about.

Forget water and air: Karisma lives off of compliments. She has no qualms about fishing for them. If she wants to be puffed up, she might do something for someone (try her hand at baking cookies, 'cleaning' things, etc.). When they thank her, she will go on about how she's done a terrible job at it, intending for you to exclaim that she has done it all perfectly.

Although her over dramatic behaviors are not as terrible when Karisma has an outlet on the stage, Karisma does have a tendency to make mountains out of molehills, and she expects you to gaze in astonishment at the problems that she has found. She loves to call attention to the problems and issues of others (especially those who treat her with disdain), and insists that every problem is a huge problem. She never is happy unless there is at least some chaos for her to watch and participate in. She flocks to conflict like a moth to flame.

She does not have a very long fuse and is prone to get very angry very quickly. Karisma has almost given up trying to control her temper, even if other people have told her that it is possible. She lies and says she wishes she could control it, but she secretly loves that adrenaline rush of fire when she completely blows her lid.

Karisma does not have a large number of worldly possessions. What she does own she is insanely possessive about. She will only share with other people if she believes that she will get something out of it -- compliments, petting, raised status, favors, etc. Her sense of posession extends beyond inanimate objects. She doesn't like it when 'new' people come in and affect the relationships that she has established. This trait of hers comes out in the worst way in regards to Peter.

Despite Karisma's faults, she does have positive qualities. She is a very gregarious, engaging person. While she might have firm loyalties to a select few people, she finds it very easy to be at least initially inviting to all acquaintances that she makes. She knows how to be a charmer and can turn on that aspect of her personality when she needs to (as long as she is not under large amounts of stress). She is also very proactive and quick and actually cares about doing things to the best of her ability when she does something.

Played-By: Soha Ali Khan

the obligatory bit
Karisma is struggling in her first reincarnation. She has clearly remembered bits and pieces of her story from a very young age. Having to deal with her family rolling their eyes at her instance that she was a fairy was incredibly difficult for Karisma when she first began to understand the truth. Now that she knows that she truly is a faerie, Karisma loves to be around people who know that she is. She has been disappointed to learn that people look down on her since she is a 'newbie' in the reincarnation sense. Karisma pretends that her lower status among the other members of the Atheneum doesn't bother her. She tries to give herself enough 'flair' to make up for her lack of prestige. Just as Tinkerbell would die if people didn't believe in faeries, Karisma needs to have compliments and be made much of to keep from wilting and growing depressed.

Now that she is in a full body, just like Peter and Wendy, Karisma is hoping that she can come out more on top of things. She is still insanely jealous of this new avatar of Wendy, and doesn't like anyone or anything to come between herself and Peter. Karisma thinks that she and the new incarnation of Peter should be inseparable, and will do what it takes to make things so.

Because she died so young in her tale, Karisma is very nervous about death. Being in her first reincarnation and unsure how everything is going to work (and not willing to ask about this big question), Karisma fears losing this life early. While she knows that she will be reborn, Karisma has an insatiable appetite for this life, is proud of her body (what if she ends up as something like a fish the next time around?), and is determined to make it big in her chosen career.