<span class="bbc_u">Identification</span><div class="floatright">(http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h363/Ladymartee/4e151b61565cf.jpg)</div><br/>Name:<strong>Melissa 'Missy Gold' Goldhirsch</strong><br/>Age:<strong>24</strong><br/>Height:<strong>5' 9"</strong><br/>Weight:<strong>148 lbs</strong><br/>Hair/Eye Color:<strong>Honey brown/ amber eyes</strong><br/>Ethnicity:<strong>Caucasian</strong><br/>Profession/University Program:<strong>Actress &amp; Guest professor/Theatre arts</strong><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">The Story</span><br/>Background: Missy Gold grew to fame as a child actress, starring in a series of blockbuster movies based around the fictional children’s character,<em>'Jane of the Jungle'</em>. All told she starred in six<em>’Jane’</em>movies, the first when she was only eight. The last was released when she was sixteen, after which the studio deemed her 'too old' to continue with the franchise. An attempt was made to develop a new franchise following the character as she made her way through the intricacies of a modern American high school, but the idea was shelved after a number of minor controversies surrounding the teenage starlet.<br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h363/Ladymartee/4df9b02940d14.jpg)</div>A wild L.A. party ended with several dozen photos being published in the tabloids, showing Missy engaging in public displays of affection with several much-older, married actors. It was rumored that Missy had indulged in both alcohol and recreational drugs, an allegation that was fervently denied by her people but nonetheless marred her up-‘til-then sterling reputation.<br/><br/>A year later an ex-boyfriend made a name for himself on the tabloid circuit by 'accidently' circulating various personal photos and explicit home videos of the two of them together, some of which she allegedly had no knowledge of. Again her reputation suffered and attempts by a public relations firm to salvage her image failed when Missy was secretly recorded, complaining about having to apologize for having a normal relationship and claiming the public<em>‘eats up celebrity apologies as if they actually mean something’</em>. In the wake of her brutally honest but poorly-received commentary, several planned movie role offers were rescinded or scrapped, and Missy entered a very dark chapter of her career.<br/><br/>In addition to the public fallout, Missy Gold was hit with a slew of legal issues when she turned 18. A series of accounting errors led to her owing millions of dollars in back-taxes from her earnings as a child. Her bodyguard backed into a public bus in New York City while trying to avoid paparazzi; 73 separate personal injury lawsuits were filed against Missy Gold and her employee in response. At the height of a very public breakdown Missy disappeared for eighteen months, leading to extensive speculation that she had entered a private lock-down facility for the treatment of severe substance abuse.<div class="floatright">(http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h363/Ladymartee/4b8fac4c4a4fc-1.jpg)</div><br/>At the age of 22 Missy once again appeared in the public spotlight: eschewing the silver screen in favor of the Great White Way. With a mind towards getting back to her acting roots and really connecting with the audience, she attempted to jump-start her career in the time-honored tradition of true thespians: on the live stage.  Unfortunately, the skills that served her so well before cameras did little to prepare her for the rigors of regular, daily live performances.  Audition after audition ended in rejection, until one well-regarded Casting Director pulled her aside and offered some advice:<em>acting lessons</em>.<br/><br/>It was brutal criticism for America’s former darling of the big screen, but after a long period of consideration and significant research into various possibilities, Missy decided to audit some stage acting courses at ESU. In order to make her true reason for being at the school less obvious, she agreed to serve as a special guest professor for the semester, offering short elective workshops on applied skills working in the Hollywood film industry.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Personality</span><br/><br/>Despite a boisterous onscreen image as Jane of the Jungle, Missy Gold is normally quiet and insecure in social settings; this is often misinterpreted as being aloof and haughty. As a result of her disastrous forays into the LA party scene, Missy now shuns the spotlight and avoids busy metropolitan areas in favor of quiet, relatively remote locales. She is most at ease camping out in the middle of the forest and sleeping under the stars, or backpacking alone through a national park where she is least likely to be recognized. As a child she was considered to be quick to anger, an assumption that has carried through her extended absence from the public spotlight. In reality, the trials of her teen years and her current issues have mellowed the former starlet, leaving her much slower to anger and far more contemplative.<br/><br/>Missy is very slow to trust due to the constant fear of her private life being leaked to the press, as well as concerns of being preyed upon for her money. While she is comfortable on her own, being by herself while around others makes her feel extremely lonely, sometimes to the extent that she will make poor decisions on whose company she keeps. Once she<em>has</em>grown to trust someone, however, she is fiercely devoted to them – again, sometimes to her detriment.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"> Miscellaneous Information</span><br/><br/>Has a serious addiction to coffee and will occasionally smoke when stressed, a habit she has been unable to completely kick. She keeps long hours but is surprisingly cheerful in the morning, even without much sleep. Her tolerance for physical pain is very low, and she has been known to faint at the sight of blood. Missy is deathly allergic to shellfish and as a result is a picky eater when out; she much prefers to stay in and cook instead. Her personal aesthetic is very spare: she prefers wide open spaces with little in the way of clutter or furniture. Country music makes her cry and when she laughs hard she nearly always ends up with hiccups. Missy is also terribly ticklish.<br/><br/>She collects rocks from the locations she visits; owing to her early film career her collection contains rocks from every continent, including Antarctica.<br/><br/>She has never watched any of her movies from start to finish, and hates the name 'Jane'.<br/><br/>Heaven's Gift:<strong>Harmony and Balance</strong><br/>Element:<strong> Earth</strong><br/>Heavenly Creature:<strong>Yellow dragon</strong><br/>Gift (Magic/Powers) - Missy's gifts are closely tied to the raw earth. Indoors or on pavement where she cannot touch the natural ground, her abilities are limited in scope and power. It is only when her bare skin can come in contact with living earth that Missy's full abilities are given free reign.<br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h363/Ladymartee/4b90d2b022228-1.jpg)</div>As a physical manifestation of balance and harmony, Missy's abilities are generally passive in nature. At the lowest levels, her presence can ease general anxiety in a group, or soothe and calm someone with a word or touch, to the extent that an individual may feel comfortable enough to reveal information they might not otherwise mean to. She can generate a shield to protect herself and one or two others so long as they maintain contact.<br/><br/>Once in contact with earth her abilities increase. Rather than simply soothing someone, Missy can perform more direct coercion. She is capable of shielding multiple people within a small radius without direct contact, and can maintain the shield for a longer period of time. As her powers develop, she'll be able to sense things through the ground up to elemental boundaries (like bodies of water)- in particular, she will be able to detect<em>unnatural</em>things that do not belong to the earth, and eventually will have the potential to manipulate earth itself.<br/><br/>