AND I NEED TO FINISH MY SHEEEETS. I have the history done, So [@Lady Selune], you should let me know if this flies~ [hider=WIP sheets!] [hider=Valentine "Belasý" Siskin (Blue, Sky-Blue)] [b]Alias:[/b] Mieli Meyer [b]Nationality:[/b] Swiss citizen, German-born [b]Age:[/b] 25 [b]Height:[/b] 5'8/173cm [b]Weight:[/b] ~150lbs/65kg [b]Appearance:[/b] Photo or written description. [b]Other Appearance:[/b] Tattoos, scars, interesting birthmarks, all should be included here. [b]Superpower:[/b] hydrokinesis [b]Skills:[/b] Skills that will be essential in the field that aren’t due to their superpowers. This is where you tell us if they’re a good shot, know 80 different kinds of edible roots, or are a master at all kinds of different languages. [b]Personality:[/b] What makes your character tick underneath their skull. You all know this. [b]Equipment:[/b] What gear do they have when they’re paradropped into France? Note that due to the method of insertion, this’ll be limited, and they’ll be wearing whatever they can scrounge, not a specific outfit, sorry.[/hider] [hider=Johan "Izkry" Siskin (Sparks)] [b]Alias:[/b] Izaak Meyer [b]Nationality:[/b] Swiss citizen, German-born [b]Age:[/b] 22 [b]Height:[/b] 6'1"/185.5cm [b]Weight:[/b] ~150lbs/70kg [b]Appearance:[/b] Photo or written description. [b]Other Appearance:[/b] Izkry has a faint but noticeable scar on his right temple just at the hairline, a memento of a childhood injury that needed stitches. [b]Superpower:[/b] technomancy/technopathy [b]Skills:[/b] Skills that will be essential in the field that aren’t due to their superpowers. This is where you tell us if they’re a good shot, know 80 different kinds of edible roots, or are a master at all kinds of different languages. [b]Personality:[/b] What makes your character tick underneath their skull. You all know this. [b]Equipment:[/b] What gear do they have when they’re paradropped into France? Note that due to the method of insertion, this’ll be limited, and they’ll be wearing whatever they can scrounge, not a specific outfit, sorry. [/hider] [hider=History] Johan and Valentine Siskin were born to Armin Siskin, a decorated German military officer. He enlisted prior to the first World War and served during most of it, quickly proving himself to be an exemplary soldier in combat. He was eventually promoted to sergeant, and greatly respected by his fellow soldiers. When his lieutenant and a number of other commanding officers died in a particularly vicious battle in late 1916, Armin found himself promoted to fill the vacancy while in the field, and eventually was elevated to captaincy. He was badly injured near the end of the war and honorably discharged. By then, much of his once-bright patriotism had dulled to disappointment and a desire for a quiet life. Valentine was conceived while her father was home on leave and born in July of ’16. Her little brother followed about a year after the end of the war. Even though the country was in a depression following the sanctions imposed by the victors, Armin always believed that better days would come. The family of four did not have much, but on the whole they were happy. When Val was six and Yohan three, a bully decided to pick on Yohan. They were out on a frozen river, and the ice was uneven. When the older boy pushed the child down, he hit his head hard on the edge of a large fallen tree limb sticking up out of the ice. Upon seeing the blood, Val was absolutely furious. She said something unkind, something threatening -- and the power she didn’t know she had broke the ice, sending both boys into the frigid water. She managed to grab her brother by the hood and keep him above the surface until someone could pull him out, but the one who’d been causing trouble went under. By the time they could get him out from under the ice, the boy had drowned. Things changed dramatically from that day forward. Val herself became an entirely different person. And within a month, armed men working for an unofficial military program to train powered children came to collect both the girl and her brother. Armin and his wife did not wish for them to go. He had no desire for his children to become soldiers, or tools for the government. A quiet life, that was what he wanted, both for himself and for his family. But it was not to be. The children were taken, and it was the last he saw of them for a number of years. The facility was nothing like the two were used to. Yohan adapted quickly, even though he didn’t really like some of what he was taught as he grew older. Valentine did not, refusing to speak to people, and refusing to use her power, even when the alternative was injury. She took far better to much of the military training, but on the whole she was seen as something of an uncertain asset, at best. Meanwhile, their father was livid. He had done his duty, had served his country -- had been nearly killed doing so, and yet now they wanted to take his children from him? Unacceptable. And while he had never once thought of speaking against the German government outside the privacy of his home, he had heard others blame everyone and everything for the trials they now faced. Quietly, discreetly, he contacted those he thought might be willing to help him. He knew there would be only one chance, and so he had to make /sure/ they would succeed. It was eight long years of plotting, planning, and quietly gathering what he and those he persuaded to join him would need. He managed to stay in occasional contact with his children by way of an uncertain guard he’d known in the war, who admired Hauptmann (Captain) Siskin der Polarfuchs, and sympathized with the man’s desire to get his children back. In very early spring of ‘31, Armin and his group made their move. The attack was swift, almost surgical, with the tactical brilliance that had earned Captain Siskin his nickname of Polarfuchs. A number of the team were killed, but they’d known there would be a poor chance of survival going in, and they managed to destroy a respectable chunk of the facility in the process. Val and Yohan were not the only powered children freed; Val had quietly figured out who there might be interested in leaving and she’d helped handle organizing things on the inside. The group made for the Swiss border on foot, by car, and by train. It was not an easy trip, but between the tail end of winter and the start of spring with its rain and mud, as well as Armin's understanding of tactics and misdirection, they managed to reach the border. Crossing was harder. The guards there had been alerted of the fugitives, and told to keep an eye out. An encounter with an unexpected patrol turned to tragedy, resulting in the death of one of the children and several of the adults. Armin, knowing that the group would be done for if the reinforcements called caught up with ten, entrusted the children to his former sergeant and a couple others. The remaining men he took to lay a false trail. It was the last time Val ever saw the man, and she believes him to have died, along with most if not all the others with him. In Switzerland, they met up with sympathetic locals who helped them link up with the powered community there. The adults went their separate ways, with the sergeant keeping the teens with him. They eventually settled near Geneva, in a small apartment, and with the consent of the teens all three enrolled in a nearby boarding school for youths like them. The sergeant though kind, never replaced her parents for Val, and Yohan barely remembered them. Both gained their nicknames at the school from a young man whose parents were Slavic Jews, Iskry for his power, and Belasý for her eyes. It was this man that finally convinced the young lady to learn proper control of her power. She never did learn to like it, but at least she could use it when she wished -- and more importantly, maintain control even when upset. As the Nazi party took power and threatened war with various countries, including Switzerland, Belasý wished to oppose them. She continued to practice her skill with firearms, and in CQC, things she'd never entirely given up since coming to Switzerland. She enlisted, her brother with her because he felt they should stick together. Because of their powers, they were assigned to a special unit of the Swiss army. Though mostly kept in reserve, Belasý's skill with a gun did find them sent to target high ranking officers or other significant targets from time to time, as well as participating in a few skirmishes on the Swiss-German border. When the call came for powered individuals, the pair were offered the option of joining, and Belasý immediately agreed, Izkry with her.[/hider][/hider]