Hmm. I think I overcomplicated this.

[hider=Avra Strachan]
Name: Avralyn “Avra” Strachan

Age: Nineteen

Gender: Female

Appearance/Looks: [hider=Avra][img]http://i.imgur.com/VMB9hL3.png[/img]
Avra stands about five feet tall. She’s wiry and muscular. As the image indicates, she has circuitry implanted under her skin; her eyes are heterochromic thanks to the implants, the “camera lens” eye a pale silver, while the other is the natural rainstorm-gray color.[/hider]

Species: Human…?

Sexual Preference: Heterosexual

Likes: Rewatching memories, traveling through time, sweet foods

Dislikes: Paperwork, her former job, paperwork, the concept of being tied to a time and soulmate, contemplating how terribly she’s screwed up the space-time continuum.

Bio: [hider=somewhat long bio]Avra was born on the 9th of April, 2654, aboard the Utopia, an internationally-funded space travel vessel. She was one of the first children born on-board, just two months after the launch from the international space station. She was also an oddity in that the date on her wrist was actually well before the date which she was born; something that had never happened before, as far as the experts knew.

She didn’t understand it for a while, until a few days after her twelfth birthday. She’d gotten into an argument with her best friend, an argument that lasted for several weeks. She wished that she could be anywhere else but there, forced to live with the tension, and she felt something… shift, inside her.

When she opened her eyes from that she was on a dusty cobble street—real cobble. With a real sky, not a hologram, over her head. She looked up, and barely missed being hit by a horse-drawn carriage. With a start, she realized she must have been either dreaming, or somewhere not on the Utopia at all… the thought scared her so badly that again she felt the shift in her gut and found herself kneeling in the middle of one of the hallways on board the Utopia.

She’d always wanted body modifications, despite her parent’s wishes. After this experience, it made her all the more determined to get some mods put in: a camera lens in her left eye and a plethora of sensors woven through her body, recording her thoughts, emotions, and also what she physically experienced; things like air temperature, composition, that sort of thing.

For a while, the only way she could do the “Shift”, as she called it, was when there was some sort of emotional stimulus, like a fight or in moments of intense excitement. She gradually got better at it, to the point where she could Shift “on command” and control where and when she ended up. She started using her Shift ability to correct some misconceptions about history; being a first-person observer was certainly helpful. She found that she could only Shift back, never forward, from “present day”. Also, she was never able to interact with people; indeed, they’d walk through her like she wasn’t there. She was truly an observer, unable to alter fate. 

Then came the Day. The day that she couldn’t Shift back. She had gone to the place known as New York City, to the years of such primitive technology as iPhones and “smart”cars. While she was there, she felt a horrible moment of disorientation, as though she had suddenly lost something important, and a feeling of emptiness, and then someone actually noticed her presence and started a conversation.

In a panic, Avra tried to Shift back to her home time, to find that she couldn’t. The reason was some esoteric metaphysical principle where the Utopia, having finally turned on the thrusters and accelerated past lightspeed, had separated from the linear course of time, and had thus separated from Avra’s ability to Shift.

She can still shift back further in time, but becomes intangible again. She cannot, for whatever reason, shift back to a time between where she is in New York and her time on the Utopia. It’s as though some string of time finally snapped, and now she’s somewhat stuck. Also, if she Shifts back now, people start worrying because she "disappears" for however long she stays in the other time.

Her technology still works, for whatever reason. Sona, her holo-pet, still records all the memory dumps from her camera and body sensor implants, and is still working well because it is solar-powered. Her tech does get some weird looks from people of the city, though.

As far as her mark, she seems unable to Shift to the date on which she’s supposed to meet her “soulmate” and she’s often too impatient to stay in one time for more than an hour or two. Though that’s changed now that she’s “stuck” in NYC…[/hider]

(Former) Occupation: Historical Records Department, Observation Expert, Security Level 1. Erm, she helped ensure that the Utopia’s Earth History textbooks are kept accurate, by going back through time to watch Earth’s development and ensure that the textbooks are accurate.

Country of Origin: The international grounds of the Utopia… er, she was raised in a Common-speaking household… Just call it “America” I guess.

Feelings about meeting their soul mate: Nervous and somewhat disgusted that she'll be confined to a time for good, lest she constantly go "missing". [/hider]