Collins, Willa Nadine

THE BASICS

ON THE SURFACE

FULL NAME	Willa Nadine Collins
NICK NAMES	I have so many there is no way I could even list them all. It would probably just be easier if you came up with your own. I've been called Willie, Lala, Naddi, Dina, Lilly, Collins, Lindsay, and so much more. I guess that's what happpens when you have been around for As long as I have,
AGE	113
DATE OF BIRTH	July 2
GENDER	Fem
SEXUALITY	Mostly straight, but never completely against anything. After all, life shouldn't be boring.
YEAR	I'm an adult and accidentally grabbed the student app. WHOOPS. I haven't decided what her job will be yet, if that helps you at all.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS	Rich, but not in the "I can drown you in money" way. More in the "I have lived a lone time and like to hide rolls of cash under my floorboards because #GreatDepression" kind of way.
PLAYER ALIAS	Rynstone!

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL

FACE CLAIM	Isla Fisher
HEIGHT	5'3''
WEIGHT	114 lbs
HAIR COLOR	BRIGHT red
EYE COLOR	chocolate brown
COMPLEXION	Pale
NATIONALITY	American
APPEARANCE DESCRIPTION	Willa is a tiny, pocket sized little girl who, despite being 113 years old, appears as thought she is in her early twenties. She keeps up with the current fashion trends and is always looking fresh and pretty with a bright, infectious smile on her face and an inner light that is basically always shining.

BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS

LIKES	Dancing Travelling the world Having a good time Talking Meeting people Dancing some more Music Christmas time Talking about thins that happened in the post like she can remember them, cause she can and it's kind of funny. History, although to her it's just "life" Living in a big city Being IDed in bars and liquor stores Her fake ID so that she doesn't get arrested for trying to explain to the bartender why she is 113 but looks like she is in her early twenties. Her kids, even though she hasn't really even gotten to see them and most of them have died. Flirting, especially the harmless "I'm not going to sleep with you but you're cute enough to acknowledge that I fantasized about it" kind of way. Contradictions because, let's be real, they are hilarious.
DISLIKES	Her kids, because she is constantly remembering that she left them with their father and that they died without their mother. Having to ALWAYS have a fake ID because she is actually of age but no one would believe her if she tried to show her actual ID. The very real fear that she may be arrested again someday and they would scan her finger prints and wonder how she could have been a combat nurse in 1943 in Japan and then BAM, international incident. Chocolate. Not completely. She'll eat it. But after 112 Valentine's worth of almond butter filled Russel Stover's she is ready to call it quits. Political correctness. Get and hanky and whine about it, why don't ya? People who think she should care what their opinion is just because they went to an Ivy League college or something. Pretentious douche. Not dancing. Complete silence. She got enough of that as a kind in the woods. Being too far away from an actual shopping mall. The idea of the internet. It's handy, sure, but they know EVERYTHING about you. It's super duper creepy when you Google something and suddenly you see nothing but ads for that one thing for months. Like, seriously.
BEST SUBJECT	Um History I guess. I haven't been to school in a hot sec.
WORST SUBJECT	Again, haven't been in school for a while, but I recall disliking the entire institution that was math.
STRENGTHS	Remembering things. After all, you would have to be to retain one-hundred years worth of memories. Really outgoing. Hiding things, due to a century of making sure people don't figure out how old she really is. Reading. Even though this seems like a trivial skill, Willa believes that if you can learn to read you can teach yourself anything. Saving money. Looking young? She always lists this as a strength even though it really shouldn't count. She is like Peter Pan or something. Emergency medical care Restaurantuership
WEAKNESSES	Opening up to people. Years of hiding behind fake identities and trying to avoid the police has left Willa afraid of letting people in. Telling the truth about herself is a dangerous game and she doesn't play it often. College and higher education in general. Being quick about things. Being completely understanding about things. Feeling empathetic for peoples little problems. Technology. It's impossible and moves way too fast.
HOBBIES	Reading. Dancing. Always dancing. Music.
PET PEEVES	Willa doesn't like when people try to "back in my day" her. There is almost no one in the world who can do that rightfully. It is also annoying because she obviously knows way more about the past than they do. One-upers. You know who I mean. Those people who always try to tell you a sadder story than the one you just told? So annoying.
PERSONALITY DESCRIPTION	Willa has a complicated personality. She is a sweet, snarky, straightforward girl who shines like a new penny. She is always smiling and joking around with people and is almost unnaturally outgoing. Willa is hyperactive and loud. She loves to talk and get to know people. Dancing is her passion and she misses the old swingers music she used to dance to in the 20's more than anything in the world. But she has seen some things that kid's these days could never imagine. Behind her excitable nature there is a serious and intense woman who is probably more mentally strong that the most well-trained marine. She was a combat war nurse during World War 2 where she saw more bloodied skulls and starving men than she did in all of her years traveling Africa later in life. Willa handles stress with grace and is solid as they come. She is dependable and always looks to help others when she can.

ALL THE SMALL THINGS

POWER	Age Manipulation
POWER DESCRIPTION	Willa's power of age manipulation is very broad, while being very specific at the same time. First, she can control her age at will. Whatever age she fancies to be, Willa can simply look at herself in the mirror and make herself that age. There are limitations tot he power that are worth mentioning. The first, it that she must be looking at herself in the mirror. She also can not make herself younger than the age where she originally obtained the power. In that case, it means she will never be younger than thirteen. She can use her power on herself whenever she wants but the more years she ages herself back, the more of a headache she will get. She has never tried to age herself back more than fifteen years at a time and is unsure of what may happen. Although she doesn't know this, Willa can manipulate the ages of the people around her as well. She has never been formally trained in this ability and may never be trained in it, but that does not change the fact that the potential is there. Willa must be touching the person, skin to skin, and she must be looking in to their eyes. The limitations of Willa's ability as they pertain to other people are much more vast. For instance, she can not age someone younger than fifteen or older than thirty-five. She can only really do this for someone once every ten years or so and it can only be used once each time. his ability CAN keep someone else alive just like she keeps herself alive, but like I said it can only be used once every eight to ten years. If she were to encounter a power negation SPB, there would be no drastic change. After she chooses her age, she begins to age at a regular rate until she uses her power again.
SPECIAL ITEMS	Jeremy Langly, Willa's second husband, gave her a necklace the day they got married. To this day it is one of Willa's most prized possessions, despite that fact that the engraving on the inside of the locket says "To my dearest Colly, I am forever yours. -Jeremy" Which would completely confuse someone who read it and didn't know about her past.

SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW

CHARACTER HISTORY

If you were just to look at her, Willa would look like a normal, twenty-two year old girl with an affinity for fashion. She has fiery red hair that catches your attention the minute you lay eyes on her and is always smiling like nothing bad has ever happened to her. But that is not at all the truth behind her pretty face. Willa was born in the smallest of small towns. Calloway, Wyoming was barely a concept when she was brought into the world in 1902. She was one of the youngest in town for a long time, only close in age with one girl who was slightly older than she was, until she was about ten. Her parents were strong people who believed in the ideas preached by this Calloway family. They longed for a place where the Super Powered Beings could live in peace without fear of being attacked or rejected by the outside population. Unfortunately, things don’t always go the way you would hope. The Collins family was a wealthy one. In fact, of the three major families in Calloway, it could be argued that the Collins ranked near the top in family wealth. You see, Mr. James Collins had been in the railroad industry just as it started up. It was easy for him to build his company and eventually that led to an advantageous marriage with him non-powered wife, Ariana. Less than a year into their marriage, they got pregnant with their first, and only, child. Willa was born July 2, 1902 in the backyard of her family’s large estate. As she grew up, she was homeschooled by the best tutors money and super powered beings had to offer. The live in tutor was almost like a friend to Willa, and spent more time with her than her actually family did. By the time she was nine, Willa had made only one friend her own age. But it wouldn’t last long. After her tenth birthday, her father and mother were on their way back to see Willa. After all, the Independence Day celebrations in Calloway were beginning and there was a large festival happening in the downtown area. But they never did make it to the fair. Attacked by brigades on the road, both of her parents were killed for the little money they kept on their person. Willa, devastated by the loss of her parents, disappeared from Calloway without a word, taking her family fortune and her tutor with her as a guardian. To the people in Calloway, many of them probably thought she must of died, or being kidnapped. Not that it ever occurred to Willa to care. When she turned thirteen, her power emerged and she no longer had the need to worry over a tutor. Willa was staring into a looking glass one day, and her warped image shifted and changed until she looked as if she were about twenty-two years old. Naturally, she flipped out. Her mother had not had a power, and her father’s was a subtle handy-man sort of thing that made him about to fix anything that was broken. So seeing herself age so rapidly, and at her own request, really threw Willa for a loop. She was suddenly twenty-two, and somehow she could tell it was because that was the age she demanded to be. The more she tried, the more she was able to see herself change from a thirteen year old girl, to a twenty-two year old woman, back to a sixteen year old. She had complete control over her age. So at thirteen years old, living in the body of a twenty-two year old woman, Willa moved to New York City just as the nation threw itself into what would become Willa’s favorite time in her life. Prohibition was in full swing and despite various warning from new friends she found in the city, Willa found a speakeasy behind the cabinet of a sandwich shop and disappeared into the world of flappers and moonshine. She loved to dance, she loved to make music, and she loved to meet people. In this time, Willa blew through a good portion of her family’s money, making irresponsible choices and gambling large portions of it away around the poker table. But history would betray her. The roaring twenties can to an end and the Great Depression hit her square in the bank account. She lost all of her money and all of her will to continue on. Desperation does strange things to people. In a sad attempt to make a living, Willa became missed up with some rather nasty people. She would later come to regret her decisions throughout this time period, but in the moment, it seemed like the right choice. Gang wars and mafias left Willa in the precarious position of please the man at the top. It would be in this era that she would enter into her first marriage. The man’s name was Giovanni and he treated her as well as could be expected of an Italian mobster out of Brooklyn. He only hit her when she deserved it and loved their three children together more than any other father she had seen. But when the war began, Willa knew it was her chance to get away. Giovanni began to wonder why she never aged, or why she would age at strange rates. One day she would still look like she did when they met, and the next she would have inexplicably aged ten years. In 1942, Willa changed her name for the first time. She became Colly Willcox and joined the nurses wards that travelled to Europe to help the troops fight the Nazi regime. As Colly, Willa started her tour of duty in North Africa but was quickly moved to the Pacific where she specialized in the rehabilitation of men who were rescued from the Prisoner of War camps. In her time as a combat nurse, Willa saw men from all over the world trapped in their bodies and begging her to release them. They lost limbs, had been horrifyingly tortured, and had seen things Willa could never even imagine. Most of them were starving and begging her for more food that she wasn’t allowed to give them. Without a doubt, Willa still looked back at this time as the hardest thing she has ever done. Colly Willcox was extremely humbled by the experiences of World War 2, and would go on to study nursing so that she could continue working in hospitals as a healer for years to come. On the transport ship back to Ellis Island, Colly Willcox met her second husband. His name was Jeremy Langly, and he was quite the man. A strapping soldier who flew planes for the British Royal Air Brigade, Jeremy convinced Colly to return to England with him. She did so gladly, and that is where she got her first job working in a hospital. Jeremy would die of cancer before they had any children. After Jeremy Langly died, Willa vowed that she would never love again. After all, at this point it was clear that her ability to choose her age would prolong her life and she would, until she chose to die, always continue to lose the people that she loved. After Jeremy’s death, Willa decided it was time for a change. She bid farewell to her old friends in England and headed back state-side, where she would become known as Nadine, or Dina, Langly. She returned to being twenty-two, and got a job at a hospital as a nurses aid where she buckled down and would, for the next twenty years, strategically age herself so that she could continue to live in the city. In the sixties, Willa was forced to leave New York. She ran into her youngest son, Antonio, in a shop near Broadway, and he recognized her immediately. Realizing that she couldn’t live in New York anymore, Willa decided to head west. Los Angeles, although nothing like her beloved New York City, was a beautiful place to live. As Nadine Langly, Willa once again regressed in age back to nineteen. She decided to try going to school at UCLA and became quickly tired of the anti-war sentiment that seemed to run rampant among the student body. She dropped out before she finished her first semester and left LA. The year was 1978, when Willa finally became herself again. She was living in Las Vegas, spending a little time with another SPB family while she took a break from her adventurous lifestyle. Willa fell in love with Las Vegas. The mobsters and the lights reminded her so fondly of the roaring twenties, and she couldn’t help but wish she could stay there forever. But nothing could ever be that simple. After her dear friend was killed in a shooting on the strip in 1995, Willa left Las Vegas and spent the next twenty years traveling the world. She visited large cities, and small towns all over the world. She found that this was the easiest way to keep herself from being discovered as an SPB. She would get a job nursing the sick, or teaching the young, and earn enough money to move on to her next location. After a while, she was able to get herself a nice nest egg built up and it wasn’t until the early 2000’s that Willa decided to trust a bank again. But eventually you run out of places travel to, and you long for something familiar. So Willa decided to return to her old stomping grounds of Calloway. It wasn’t only the people that are different. There is a school there now, which hadn’t existed when she was a child. The town actually had a number of buildings, instead of just one long one that served as the center of the community. After some renovations, her old family home would be livable once again. And the best part? She was able to become a Collins again. She bought herself a bar from a dying owner and now hopes to make a good impression on the residents of Calloway without disclosing too much about her power or her age.

THE HOUSE THAT BUILT ME

MOTHER	James Collins - Deceased - "I didn't know either of my parents very well. They were always away working and died when I was young."
FATHER	Ariana Collins - Deceased - "I didn't know either of my parents very well. They were always away working and died when I was young."
SIBLINGS	NONE
OTHER	TRISTAN DELAINE ALDRICH-RAINER - 115 - UNKNOWN - OLD FAMILY FRIEND - "She was my very best friend before I ran away from Calloway almost 100 years ago. I have every reason to believe she is dead."

CREATED BY RYN