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School was never for her. What Alicia wanted was to be famous - not as a singer or a dancer or an actress, no not at all. She didn't like Hollywood and all its horrible stories and pathetic attempts at producing stars. Alicia wanted to be a gymnast. That was her goal from the start. Science took a backseat, as did everything else in her life. She just...didn't want it. She passed, holding on tightly to her Bs and Cs, but if she had the choice in the matter, she'd be out of school in a hurry.

Alicia Nicole Rybak was born on October 30th, in Great Neck, New York. She was a hyper baby, and a hyper child - and is quite the hyper teenager. She's silly and giggly and loves to laugh and play around. Her parents already had a daughter that was three years older, Carly Ann Rybak. She was the perfect child so far and they dreamed that Alicia would follow along in her footsteps so they could have the perfect family they always wanted. No problems, no messes, no fights, just perfection. Impossible, unnatural, perfection.

At first, Alicia wanted to be just like Carly. Wanted to play with her dolls and have tea parties with Carly's older friends. She wanted to fit in with her. The two were close friends and loved each other dearly. They both dreamed of getting careers in science - Carly in computer science and Alicia in marine biology. This...lasted until Alicia was four.

She grew up in the time of the magnificent seven of the 1996 Olympics and that was what started her gymnastics obsession at the age of four. She started at a nearby gymnastics school and started learning the sport, baby tumbles and all. She started taking ballet and stretch classes to help her balance and flexibility. It was her obsession. Right after school every day she would go to the gymnastics school and practice more and more. She began to compete in competitions and began to win them. She began doing competitions in ballet, also, and started to win those. She was becoming a champion, she was becoming a star in her own right. No, she wasn't internationally known...but throughout the American gymnastics circuit, she was becoming quite a big deal. Such a big deal that she qualified to go to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics. It was her big break, her key to the door. She was able to get the bronze in the individual all around, the gold in the individual floor exercise, and with the American team got silver in the team all around. Now Alicia wasn't just known nationwide but worldwide. She was...well, damn proud.

Now at the age of sixteen, Alicia is training hard for more world championships and bigger challenges. What else comes after the Olympics, exactly?

Alicia grew up on Long Island - in Great Neck. She went to school there and that was where she started her ballet and gymnastics training. She was bubbly and happy, got along with her parents and older sister. Life was nice, life felt so perfect. She was more daddy's girl than anything - he picked her up from classes and drove her wherever she needed to go. They had ice cream every Friday after school without fail. They went to the park every Saturday. She loved him and felt a closer bond to him than she did to her mother who was obsessed with her older sister, Carly. Her mother was a school teacher, but with prices raising, she aimed her sights toward a teaching career in New York. Well, she got what she wanted. The Rybak family moved into New York City about a year ago when Alicia's mom got a job as a French professor at Columbia University. Her father left the Nassau County Police Department and joined the NYPD. As for Alicia, she switched training schools and now goes to NYC Elite Gymnastics. She's going into her junior year of high school and is finding it harder than ever. Her worst subjects are math and science and she can't seem to make herself sit down to focus on study anything but gymnastics. During her sophomore year, she managed to get herself a tutor. At first she didn't really take to him but there was something about him that made her listen, that made her focus. Something that made her so curious...


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Alicia has always been hands on. Art, music, sports, video games, and science labs are easier for her to grasp than math, English, history, and the like. Her parents expect her to be a straight A student like her older sister and that makes Alicia very irritable and aggravated. She doesn't want to be anything like her sister, "the perfect daughter." Straight As, beautiful, never cursed, never got grounded, got accepted into all the colleges she applied to and left for Harvard to study, what else, science. Alicia feels so much resentment toward her family for trying to make her the perfect daughter part two. Despite her awards and trophies and medals from gymnastics and ballet, she can tell that they wish she'd focus more on school and getting into an ivy league school. They pay for it because she's good, and she stays not only because she loves it...but to spite them. It broke her to see that despite her going to Beijing and getting medals she still wasn't feeling love and support. She felt shunned. It made her very hateful, and flipped her personality around 180 degrees.

Aside from her hate toward her parents and her passion for ballet and gymnastics, Alicia is...well, Alicia. She's polite, keeps her manners, is quiet and respectful. Around adults and teachers, she's the perfect little angel...but this perfect little angel is slowly rebelling and losing her mind. She feels and notices her parents expectations more than she did as a kid, and has completely lost the angel bit. Tired of the "why can't you be more like your sister?" comments, Alicia is making sure she's nothing like her. She's rebelling a lot outside of her life at home, too. She fakes sick to ditch classes, she spends her time after school at the gym, at the arcade, at Starbucks, or at the Sanrio store. She wants to get a job but can't with her tutoring, ballet classes, and gymnastics training. She wants to be independent but knows she has two more years before she can feel the freedom that she so desperately craves.

She knows she's quite a handful. She can not take no for an answer. She's lazy and a procrastinator, which often gets her in trouble in her classes. She's gained the art of lying however which is a pro and a con - sometimes she lies herself into one big hell of a mess...but other times it saves her from problems and bad situations. She holds grudges and as of late has been unmotivated to do anything. Her sour mood at home has been coming out in everything - her schoolwork, her dancing, her gymnastics, her friendships...everything. She just has not been having a good summer at all. She feels stressed out all the time and looking for a way out, looking for something that will make her...her. Something that will make her unique and known for being Alicia, not Carly's sister or Professor Rybak's daughter. Aside from gymnastics though, she doesn't know what she wants. She knows that gymnastics girls are at their prime between 12 and 16 so she's heading toward old age...she knows it won't last forever and that stresses her out even more. She is leaning toward becoming a gymnastics coach or a professional dancer. Again, out of her parents' desires, but she just doesn't care. The main thing about Alicia is her inability to give up. Sometimes this ability is deemed even by her as rather ridiculous, but she believes she shouldn't give up until she's tried everything. Little does she know how much this will help her in the future.

Alicia can be a ditz sometimes, she knows it. She's a big daydreamer. She still wishes for stardom and to be honest, that's one goal she's achieved. Her medals and 1-2-3 American sweep in the individual all around got her press and more coverage than she could have ever imagined having. She's honored, proud, and loving the spotlight. She's still hyper indeed, and quirky. She likes breaking out into song and dance, likes dressing up for no reason - she goes out with odd colored wigs and hopes to dye her hair when she's older. She's pretty unexperienced in the relationship department. She had two boyfriends but they lasted maybe two months each. She doesn't get it but she attributes it to her never being around and her moodiness. She hopes her current fame will do her good, and hopes that when she returns home from China, she'll be more popular to the boys.



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HENSHIN: "Venus Power, Make-up!"
In a flurry of orange and yellow ribbons and stars, she'll soon transform into the pretty suited sailor soldier, Sailor Venus. With orange shoes matching her skirt and sailor top as well as the center of her chest bow and the arm cuffs to her gloves, the front bow is a blue that resembled Minako's eyes, and the back bow is a light yellow-orange. Hair kept loose with Venus' signature red bow smack in the center - it feels wrong otherwise, doesn't it? Sailor Venus is ready for battle.
ATTACK: "Crescent Beam!"
Her main attack for the time being. Venus extends her right arm upward, all fingers bend into a fist sans her index finger which is pointed upward. Two small crescent moons are side by side behind her finger but disappear as she quickly continues to move. She brings it down and bends her left arm so her hand comes to rest on the inside of her right elbow, and points her right index finger at the enemy where the bright yellow beam shoots out from.
VENUS: While Alicia is rather irritable and aloof, Venus...is not. At first, she seems more interested in the change of pace in her life but that quickly changes. She focuses in on her job and mission and stays true and serious to it, making sure to always do what is needed.

Minako and Alicia have a few things in common. Minako was to volleyball what Alicia is to gymnastics. Alicia daydreams, loves to play video games, can sometimes...be rather spacey. She desires to be known and a star - and feels she's done that. It seems Minako thinks so, too.

It started when she found out she was going to Beijing. Alicia told her parents and they...were less than delighted. It broke her heart, her spirits, and broke her hope of feeling loved by them. She often cried herself to sleep just because she wanted to feel accepted and wanted, needed and loved. It was then when it started. Dreams of a girl with long blonde hair with a big red bow telling her that she needed to wake up, that she needed to realize who she was and what she was destined to be. That was how they started and it left Alicia waking up in confusion. The dreams then progressed and Alicia found herself fighting side by side with this girl - yes, fighting. She couldn't tell who she was fighting or why, but while she was kicking and punching, the blonde was throwing attacks that had Alicia pausing just to watch. She had these dreams every single night for weeks. It was when she met Art, her math teacher, that the dreams took a horrifying turn.

She was fighting with the blonde, and when it seemed they won...she was tackled by a monster and held down. She didn't know what it was doing to her but it hurt, hurt like hell and all she could do was scream and cry out. It felt like forever but she saw the blonde and a tall man beside her...just watching. She was horrified. Why wouldn't they help her? Why were they just standing there? "Wake up, Venus." ...what???

Alicia would wake up from these dreams, gasping for breath, sweat dripping down her face. The man...kind of looked like Art, just, not. It scared her. Why was she having dreams with her tutor? Her tutor and this blonde...a blonde that looked so familiar it was uncanny. Even in Beijing, she was having these dreams that every night were becoming more and more like nightmares. What could it all mean?

Maybe what she needs isn't a new family or independence, but a psychiatrist.


basics
FULL NAME: alicia nicole rybak
NICKNAMES: lish, lishy, alishy
AGE & BIRTHDAY: sixteen, october 30, 1992
ETHNICITY: french, german (father's side), spanish, italian (mother's side)
ALLIANCE: senshi
AIM: stands for love
SCHOOL: new york high school
GRADE: 11th, junior
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: gymnastics at nyc elite gymnastics, ballet at the school of american ballet
RESIDENCE: an apartment on the upper west side
FAMILY: mother, maria de la vega-rybak; father, edward rybak; sister, carly rybak.
OCCUPATION: none currently
REINCARNATION OF: sailor venus, aino minako
APPEARANCE: Standing at 5'5", Alicia has chocolate brown eyes, and dark brown hair that she keeps wavy with side bangs. Parts of her hair are lighter, reddish-brown highlights. She has pale pink lips that she lightens up with chap stick and lip gloss. Natural tan skin from the Spanish and Italian background she has. Alicia dresses...well, however she wants. Sometimes she's dressed up all fancy, other times she's casual, other times she looks like she's ready for bed all day. She doesn't put herself in the stereotypes - she dresses how she sees fit and doesn't care what others think of her attire or accessories. What matters to her is that she looks good, which is why it takes her an hour to get her hair the way it is on a daily basis. When it comes to the light make-up she uses, it's only ever M.A.C. She's incredibly picky.