Kayla De Villiers

Kayla De Villiers (Character roleplayed by Sugar)

**Kayla De Villiers** is a Time Traveller of South African and French-Spanish descent. She was raised in Namibia as the daughter of two people in traveller families, unfortunately they were without the ability their family names were known for. She's struggled with the curse of displacement since her first time jump.

## Biography

### Early childhood

Kayla De Villiers was born to Alizea Castillo and Cornelius De Villiers, two people from well known families with the traveller trait. Alizea and Cornelius were not carriers of this trait, neither were their parents, or their grandparents. In both of their immediate families the traveller trait had become an old rumor. It was nothing more than a myth, a story that was passed down through the generations. Kayla was the lucky recipient, the first in a very long line of those without it.

Her ability went unnoticed at first, by all accounts she was a normal human child. Kayla was unable to use the ability to time travel with or without trying for a number of years. She jumped time twice when she about six years old. Once when she'd gotten lost in a department store while shopping for clothes with her mother. And again, for the second time, later in the same year when she'd gotten sucked underwater while she was playing at the beach. She's struggled with the curse of time displacement since her very first time jump.

She's not fond of the abilities she's got because she lacks a serious amount of control over them. She always feels as if she is either being pushed or pulled through her own timeline. She never knows where she is going to end up, be it the future or the past. She can never tell how long she'll be forced to stay there, it could be hours or decades. She's been trapped in time before and it has done its damage to her young mind. She's lived entire lives that were erased when her age resets in her original timeline.

### Olympus Academy Years

She'd be more of a burden if she hadn't met a student from Olympus Academy. It was an accidental jump that landed her a few hundred years in the past. Luckily for her there are more than a few supernatural beings that time works differently for. That one hundred years was barely the blink of an eye for an immortal being. At the Academy she's found very little to keep her grounded and mentally present. She feels like she's waiting for her next time jump. In her opinion that's all her life will ever be, a game that's either on pause or unpause.

## Physical description

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**Species:**
Time Traveller

**Gender:**
Female

**Height:**
5' 9"

**Hair colour:**
Brown

**Eye colour:**
Green

**Skin colour:**
Light

## Personality and traits

She was once optimistic, courteous and a little bit reckless. Before she started battling a never-ending war with time itself, she was fun-loving and bubbly. She's become a shell of her former self, she's possibly even suffering from depression. She doesn't appear to enjoy much of anything anymore. A good way of describing her is like one of those grey clouds hanging over an otherwise glorious sunrise. The old Kayla is still there, she's buried inside somewhere. She comes out sometimes, with the hint at a smile or the start of a laugh. It's something that happens so rarely it's hard to tell if she means it or not.

She doesn't try to be sociable, she'll pretend to be deaf to avoid a conversation. She's not much of a people person, she's not very fond of people in general. She's constantly in some sort of mood that most people aren't willing to waste their time putting up with. She's either angry and confused or sad and mean. She does prefer that people give up on her, that way she hasn't got to be friendly with anyone. She doesn't even try to remember things anymore. It's hard for her to recall facts, she's constantly writing things down somewhere, everywhere. She has trouble differentiating the past/future from the present. It's given people a certain impression of her that she can't seem to shake. People tend to think she's dumb, and she feels like they're right.

## Etymology

* Kayla: Meaning meaning "laurel, crown".