Tala Solis

Tala Solis, known as the Guarded Mathematician, is a curious and thoughtful girl who sees the world through math and logic. She seeks to understand the world around her, and hates that which she doesn't understand, most prominently her own repressed sexuality.

Tala appears in the roleplay Total Forum Drama: Pirates, as well as the SYOC story Total Drama Knightfall. A more fantasy-oriented adaptation of her is used in the roleplay Magical Fiction Heroes, where she goes by the alias of Skyblaze.

## General Information

### Quick Stats

Gender: cis female

Sexuality: lesbian

Stereotype: The Guarded Mathematician

Age: 17

Likes: Logic puzzles (sudoku is her happy place), calculus, quantum physics, swimming and the beach, birds, nonfiction books, sappy pop music, silence, people that share her interests, deep intellectual or philosophical conversations

Dislikes: Unsolved mysteries and scarelore, cold temperatures, bugs, being called a nerd, wasting times, being emotionally vulnerable, being condescended, being deceived, physical exertion

### Physical Appearance

Tala is a Filipina girl of about average height with brown eyes and straight black hair that falls to her shoulders. She has a stockier and heavy-set build with a slight pear-shaped figure. She’s not overweight, but not the most physically fit either. She typically wears a dark gray hoodie with a red short sleeve shirt underneath it, blue jeans, and black and white sneakers. She carries around a book of sudoku puzzles or some other notebook.

One of her alternate outfits includes a t-shirt with a design of *i* (as in the imaginary number) squared with the text "get real" below it. Feline thinks she's so funny.

### Personality

At first glance, Tala is a thoughtful, quiet, and somewhat aloof individual. She is a very intelligent and cerebral person with a strong desire to understand the world around her. She is interested in all things related to math and science, and tries to justify everything with a logical explanation. She is slow to trust others and will be devastated if her trust is broken, but loyal to any friends and allies she does make. She has a tendency to keep to herself and hide her feelings, as she's really quite sensitive and doesn’t deal with emotions and tense social situations well. However, she will stand up to herself if she’s being pushed around. She is also very cynical and speaks bluntly, and though she usually means no harm, her snarky nature can deter people from interacting with her.

Tala can come across as self-absorbed sometimes because she is very single-minded, and when she's thinking about a new problem it can be hard to get her attention. She is most comfortable and confident when she gets into the zone solving a puzzle, and finds great pride and satisfaction when she is able to learn something new or apply her knowledge to a new problem. The inverse of this is that she can become irritable when a theory is disproven or a plan isn’t working as expected. She has a hidden mischievous and playful side, especially around those she's close to, and is the type of person who would spring an obvious trap or poke a metaphorical (or literal, knowing Total Drama) bear just out of sheer curiosity.

Tala hates anything that she doesn’t understand, from a mysterious spooky voice declaring itself the king of Manoria, to her own confusing feelings for those of the same sex that go against all logic and human instincts. As for the latter, she can sometimes say things that would be considered homophobic as she has internalized “gay=unnatural” and tried to squelch her own feelings. Though when it comes to interacting with someone she has a crush on, or talking about sexuality or relationships in general, she pretty quickly becomes awkward and flustered, and will try to withdraw as soon as possible. She is normally a pretty level-headed person who doesn’t get angry easily (or at least doesn’t outwardly show it), with a cutting remark delivered in monotone being the extent of her outbursts.

### History

Tala was born into a working-middle class family of Filipino-Canadian immigrants.  Her family had always been chaotic, as she was right in the middle of five siblings, making her a little distant from the rest of her brothers and sisters. She did well in school, and was a bit reserved but had a couple of close friends. She spent most of her free time just exploring on her own—poking around in the dirt, drawing fractals and patterns, and trying to burn ants with a magnifying glass—and quickly realized that there was math in everything and she wanted to study it when she grew up.

In her freshman year in high school, she met a girl named Peyton in the grade above her, who was confident, self-assured, and a proud lesbian. One thing led to another, and Tala began to question her own sexuality with Peyton’s encouragement, despite the whole idea of liking the same gender going against every instinct of hers (not to mention the laws of physics in the universe as we know it). And then one day, in a moment of weakness, in a quiet corner of the school, they kissed.

And someone took a picture of it. It was anonymously leaked on social media, and soon Tala had been outed to her whole school. Thankfully, she was able to hide it from her parents, dismissing it as bullying and lies. Tala has ghosted Peyton ever since, despite her not being involved with the picture being shared, and withdrew from others in general. And when confronted, she preserved herself in the only way she knew how—she blamed it all on Peyton, saying she was framed and trying to convince others she had been straight all along. But she’s grown tired of slogging through school and wanted to escape from the judgement and having to always hide and justify herself. She wanted something new, something big like Total Drama.

## ForumDale: The Curse of Silent Mary

### Relationships

* Enemies
	+ Sam "Trash" Taring (played by Gold)
* Acquaintances
	+ Christopher (played by Omakin)
	+ Mick (played by Awesome)

## Total Forum Drama: Pirates

### Summary

* Tala arrived with the first wave of campers at the very beginning of the RP
	+ Her arrival was delayed due to her boat breaking down (her RPer was afk).
	+ She quickly formed a friendship with Ashley and Jeremy, though has still not learned the name of the latter. They went to the beach together and decided that they were going to search for treasure, which Ashley theorized to have been hidden on the island.
	+ She had a nice chat by the campfire with Sam
* In the secret activity, her secret was that she was outed when she was fourteen
	+ She denied that it was actually true, saying that she was "framed", and stormed off afterwards
	+ Nadia and Historia tried to go after her but she mostly blew them off
	+ After the activity, she talked with Ben, who was also upset by his secret and they bonded over being cynical and antisocial
	+ Despite initially being baffled by Omakin's eccentricities and snapping at him during the secret activity, she ended up forging a friendship with him despite their (many) differences.
* During the island exploration event, she explored Skull Rock (which she dubbed Cranium Cave) and the abandoned mine
	+ She was kind of annoyed by Brittany for having a bad attitude yet not offering to help or participate in any way
	+ She was also annoyed by Gold, Dude, and Jerome bickering and ripping the map
	+ Seriously, Omakin was probably the only one who didn't piss her off
	+ She went down after them to explore the hole anyways
* When the second wave of campers came, she mostly hung out in the background
* During the beach party she vibed and did Sudoku
	+ She hung out with Ben again, and they made small talk and consciously avoided talking about the secret activity

### Relationships

* Friends:
	+ Ashley (played by Tom)- Tala's first friend, they met through a mutual curiosity for finding treasure on the island
	+ Ben (played by Sam)-
	+ Jeremy (played by Nathan)- fellow treasure hunter, though she is sometimes exasperated by him
	+ Nadia (played by Omakin)
	+ Omakin (played by Omakin)- they have very different personalities and outlooks, but have come to respect each others' perspectives and appreciate each others' company
* Enemies
	+ Mick (played by Awesome)
	+ Jeremy's lie detecting parrot (played by Nathan)
* Acquaintances
	+ Historia (played by Nathan)- acquaintance, mutual friend through Nadia
	+ Jerome (played by Awesome)- acquaintance, refers to him as Not-Jeremy as an extension of the Dude gag
	+ Sam (played by Sam)- acquaintance

## Total Drama Knightfall

### Summary

Tala doesn't understand anything in this world and she *hates* it.

## Magical Fiction Heroes

### Summary

In this universe, Tala is a thirteen-year-old girl bestowed with the power of the dragon Fictini Peril, from the Wings of Fire series, taking on the persona of Skyblaze.

### Powers

Using Peril's power and her artifact, a pair of dark sunglasses with the lenses in the shape of flames, Tala can transform into Skyblase. Her superhero costume consists of an orange shirt with white sleeves and black pants. She also wears a long black cape with vein-like patterns of fiery orange running along it, and black fingerless gloves. Her sunglasses morph into black goggles with two horn-like protrusions coming out of the back, mirroring Peril's horns. Her hair is tied back in a ponytail with an orange ribbon.

Her weapon is a black baton with glowing veins of orange flames running through it and a handle wrapped in black leather. It is mostly used as a melee weapon.

Her special move is called Ignition. Tala wraps herself in her cape and it sets on fire, engulfing her entire body in flames and creating a blast that burns everything around her. The blast also propels Tala into the air, and she can use her cape to control her descent to some degree, though crash landings aren't uncommon.