Shiela "LuxConsumptis" Machina

=• Background •= Shiela was born around 1984 in Salt Lake City, Utah. After she was born, it was discovered that her vocal cords hadn't developed properly which caused her to become a mute. Because of this, she was teased all throughout school. Coincidentally, this was how she met her first friend; a young boy named Marcus. Marcus and Shiela were fast friends, both protecting the other in any way they could when the bullies came around. Marcus even helped Shiela learn sign language, which Shiela was struggling to learn at the time.

Around college, Shiela began noticing some changes in her dear friend, who began slowly becoming a shut in. Every time she visited her friend, she'd find a new painting that he painted the night before. Her worry for her friends sanity increased with time until around 2010 when her worry peaked as she went to visit him one day and found that his front door was broken open, blood everywhere and his paintings torn apart. Since then, she has swore that she'd find him.

One night when she was looking for him, she was staying a hotel in Canada and she went back to her apartment and found her friend's severed head on her bed. The shock of seeing the head caused her to feint. When she awoke, the head was gone but the blood was still there as well as a strange rune written in blood on the wall. Shiela bought a book on the Occult the next day to help her with what she may be dealing with.

Recently, after her recent joining with the Illuminati, she has found a trail to her old friend: A series of pictures taken from somewhere in London. Filled with new-found hope that she may soon find her old friend, Shiela starts to finally put the pieces together, and gets ever closer to finding her friend.

=• Appearance •= Shiela's hair is bright red with white tips. Her eyes are also a deep shade of red, popping out from the black eye shadow she is hardly ever seen without. Her clothes are colored in a similar fashion: Her top being a long, red and black striped shirt underneath a long, black jacket. He skin shows no scars and is rather pale, despite her being outside most of the time.

Her body is given an average appearance due to her baggy fashion choices, but her body is skinny to the point of being unhealthy. She hardly eats or sleeps anymore due to her search, and she hides what she can through her clothes or makeup.

=• Personality •= Though being a mute might give most the first appearance of being cold and spiteful, she actually enjoys the company of others. This is, however, within reason. She likes to crack jokes both at the expense of others (including herself) and at inappropriate times. Thankfully, since all she can do is either sign or write, this part of her personality mostly doesn't cause problems. She does have a short temper with people who she thinks are wasting her time or are trying to distract her from finding her friend. She is very trusting, almost to a fault, and in return can be trusted with just about anything (most times making the joke that her lips are sealed).