[hider=Aurora Novalik]
[u][b]Basic Information[/b][/u]

[b]Name:[/b]
[INDENT]Audrey Novalik[/INDENT]
[b]Nickname/Alias/Etc:[/b]
[INDENT]Aurora, Aura[/INDENT]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[INDENT]Female[/INDENT]
[b]Age:[/b]
[INDENT]46[/INDENT]
[b]Height:[/b]
[INDENT]6' 3"[/INDENT]
[b]Weight:[/b]
[INDENT]170 lbs[/INDENT]
[b]Home District:[/b]
[INDENT]Greencrest Heights, White Coast[/INDENT]

[b][u]Appearance[/u][/b]

[b]Hair Color:[/b]
[INDENT]Auburn[/INDENT]
[b]Eye Color:[/b]
[INDENT]Light brown[/INDENT]
[b]Ethnicity:[/b]
[INDENT]Russian[/INDENT]
[b]Physical Appearance:[/b]
[INDENT]Standing proud and tall, Audrey is the image of a woman past her prime. Her build is that of a strong, well built woman athlete but after a few years of neglect. Her muscles are still toned and strong but she hasn't used them actively for a while, resulting in a physique that although appears to be strong, she's weaker than she appears. Her teeth are yellowed slightly from all the cigarettes she smokes, as are her fingernails. Her face is composed, though more often than not he default expression is a scowl with a cigarette clasped between her lips. She has a small forehead, sharp chin and a crooked nose from how much it's been broken and reset. Her knuckles are calloused and scarred, and she walks with a very slight limp. Crows feet adorn the corners of her blue eyes, and they're often at a slight squint, as if silently judging whoever she looks at. Her hair is longer now, streaked with white, tied into a short ponytail with not a single stray hair falling over her face.

Ten years after Verthaven, Audrey sports more than a few scars, notably one that crosses her face and connects both her ears together across her nose. Her knuckles are forever scarred, marred with the stripes and rugged, badly healed tissue that came with her pounding on her apartment walls, tearful and guilty over the death of her friend.[/INDENT]
[b]Attire:[/b]
[INDENT]More often than not Audrey can be found dressed in a simple t-shirt of any design and/or colour, along with a pair of blue jeans and either shoes or sneakers. Her work clothes are that getup paired with a cream coloured apron with her cafe's logo emblazoned on the front and a baseball cap, usually either cream coloured or dark green. She has a faded blue digital watch on her right wrist and has a plain silver wedding band on her left ring finger. A pair of old dogtags hangs from a short silver chain round her neck.[/INDENT]

[b][u]Personality[/u][/b]

[b]Innate & Outward Personality:[/b]
[INDENT]On the outside, Audrey is tough. A rough, tough, "never take shit from no one" cafe owner who runs her business with an iron fist and a stalwart plan; albeit one that works and rarely, if ever, fails. She takes pride in her work and puts her time and money in her cafe, her food and her drinks. She enjoys the smiles on her customers' faces, and goes to great ends to please. Her loyalty to her employees and friends knows no bounds, and so does her language. Though she doesn't show it, she does care for her friends rather dearly, even if she's rough around the edges with them.

On the inside, Audrey is rather broken. Ten years from Verthaven and the scars that were made after her friend Marcus' death have healed, barely. The Verthaven Disaster wrecked her livelihood, her original cafe called the Haven, and killed her friends and employees Marcus Rowland and John Cole Sykes. Caught right in the middle of disaster, she didn't have the time to recover from the shock of her cafe being razed to witness Marcus and John being torn to shreds by the demons. The scars still cry inside her, and even though it's been more than a decade, the pain still lingers. She's healed, though, and determined not to let the same thing happen to them ever again.

On the job, she doesn't smoke, but she takes regular breaks to light up one to calm herself down if things are getting rough. Other than that, her mannerisms both on and off the job are that of a friendly, if rough-and-tumble, woman who is looking for some relaxation at the end of every stressful day.[/INDENT]
[b]Hobbies/Interests:[/b]
[INDENT][list][*]Appreciating nature[*]Soft orchestral music[*]Cooking[*]Exercising[/list][/INDENT]
[b]Skills/Talents:[/b]
[INDENT][list][*]Coffee making[*]Cooking[*]Multi-tasking[*]Kickboxing (former welterweight)[/list][/INDENT]
[b]Prized Possession:[/b]
[INDENT]A silver necklace, on which hangs a pair of dogtags, a locket and a very small USB drive. One tag has the name "M. Rowland" engraved on it, with "B+, NKDA, Christian" on the other side. The other tag has "US Army, 24th Infantry Battalion" on one side, and the single word "Marrow" on the other. The USB drive is a tiny one, unused, with the initials "JCS" on it.[/INDENT]
[b]History/Bio:[/b]
[INDENT]Audrey was born not in America, but in Russia, in the stark, cold of Moscow City. Growing up, she had a healthy dislike of learning, instead putting her time and focus into sports and fitness, stuff that she, young and naive, believed was more visibly important than studying. Her grades barely got her through school as it was, but her strong presence in her school's wrestling team more than helped her along the way. After she graduated, she was approached by a teacher from a kickboxing school, offering to teach her in the ways of fighting to eventually become an instructor at the same school, an offer she eagerly accepted. The school, of course, gave her many a bruise and lots of aches and pains, but it gave her a sense of fulfillment to go along with the suffering. Audrey eventually took part in her first ever kickboxing tourney and won third place; an achievement frowned upon by her teacher but who nevertheless praised her for her accomplishment.

As the years went by, she took part in more and more tournaments, until the Russian Kickboxing Federation recognised her as a rookie in the national standings and decided to place Audrey in her first ever major national championship. She quickly learned, however, that going to the nationals was way above her skill level, and it was with a heavy heart that she accepted her defeat and elimination during the qualifying rounds. The loss only fueled the eager fire within her and she trained ever harder, determined to win.

Around this time was when she met her to-be-husband, Brian Novovich. The man was an American-born Russian who'd flown to Moscow to participate in an annual friendly for expats and foreigners to fight against locals. During the friendly they fought against each other, and after the match was over they fell for each other quite readily. She'd lost, but the pain she felt was way less than the love she'd found for Brian. He suggested that they move to the States, where the competitions were more lively, and she agreed.

Fast forward ten years, during which they had a daughter, named Catherine, they almost filed for divorce due to fallings out between them, and Audrey lived in a small apartment above her cafe, the Haven, in Union Hills, just near the beach. Her former glories, kickboxing and athletics all behind her, she lived alone and tended to her cafe. Her husband and daughter lived elsewhere, out of State entirely, though they kept in semi-regular contact. She'd refused to leave Verthaven even after Brian had found out she was a metahuman, even after the horrendous events that had occured within the city involving people like her. He took her daughter and left out of concern for the family's safety, and she'd never seen them since. This was around the time her cafe attracted two metas who became her employees and subsequent friends; Marcus Rowland, a rowdy athlete and adrenaline junkie, and John Sykes, a quiet, soft-spoken computer nerd. Their friendship was just what she'd needed to keep the cafe aloft, and to keep her internal struggles intact. However, all that changed when Verthaven became a battleground between the government and the terrorist metas. She and her friends were caught in the middle, and when the dust settled, Marcus and John were dead. Her cafe was in ruins and her life was at an end. She prevailed where many others did not, however, and survived the initial disaster and the subsequent botched evacuation effort. When the Shield went down, she upped stakes and ran to Baybridge.

Once in Baybridge, she did the same thing she did in Verthaven: set up a cafe, albeit now in a more built up part of town instead of a beachside property. She now lives in an old apartment just a block away from her cafe, keeping watch yet again as the situation in her new home city changes from day to day. Her cafe, and by extension her tendency as a meta, attracted four new meta employees and people whom she considers good friends.[/INDENT]

[u][b]Relationships[/b][/u]

[b]Family:[/b]
[INDENT][list][*]Markus Novalik, father; [i]deceased[/i].[*]Arty Novalik, mother; [i]deceased[/i].[*]Brian Novovich, husband; [i]alive, estranged[/i].[*]Catherine Novalik, daughter; [i]alive, separated[/i].[/list][/INDENT]

[b]Friends:[/b]
[indent][list][*]Marcus Rowland, former employee and good friend; [i]deceased[/i].[*]John Cole Sykes, former employee and good friend; [i]deceased[/i].[/list][/indent]

[b]Dynamics:[/b]
[indent]WIP[/indent]

[b][u]Abilities[/u][/b]

[b]Power Class:[/b]
[INDENT]Elemental[/INDENT]
[b]Power:[/b]
[INDENT][list][*]Smoke control; Aurora is able to control smoke in all its forms: dust storms, exhaust smoke, cigarettes, from fires, etc etc. She is able to disperse whatever particles are within the cloud into her surroundings or condense the cloud into a thick, murky mass that blinds and affects the respiratory system of anything caught inside it. She is also able to "grab" smoke to wield it as a weapon akin to a whip, using its semi-solid nature to harden her smoke whip or chain whenever it impacts something for maximum damage.

She is also able to turn her body into a semi solid smoke form, wherein physical attacks cannot hit her, instead they pass through the smoke that makes up her body. She is able to travel through air ducts or vents with this side of her power, along with being able to mask herself in a cloud of smoke if a source of it is present.[/list][/INDENT]
[b]Limits:[/b]
[INDENT]The power is limited to only herself. Sustaining her smoke form takes stamina, and she cannot maintain it for more than a few minutes straight without having to stop before she passes out.[/INDENT]
[b]Weaknesses/Drawbacks:[/b]
[INDENT][list][*]Because her abilities are very reliant on smoke, she [b]requires[/b] a source of smoke somewhere about her person or in her immediate vicinity in order to function at 100%. As such, she usually is seen smoking a cigarette or cigar, but catch her out near the ocean without a stick or a place where smoking is forbidden, and she's very much powerless. The constant smoking has also affected her respiratory system (gee who would've thunk it) and stamina as a result. She has a persistent cough, and cannot sustain any strenuous activities for more than a few minutes at a time without having to catch her breath.
[*]If she gets wet, she will be unable to transform into smoke, though that doesn't stop her from manipulating it.
[*]Wind affects her smoke form more than she cares to admit it; though she is able to maintain consistency of her smoke form in a gust of wind, she will experience difficulties in fighting the wind flow. In ventilation systems, her movements are virtually limited to where the wind blows.[/list][/INDENT]

[b][u]Other:[/u][/b]
[INDENT]None[/INDENT]
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