[hider=Adéla Láska] [b]Name:[/b] Adéla Láska [b]Alias/Nickname:[/b] Lilac [b]Appearance:[/b] [hider=Pictures] [img]http://pre01.deviantart.net/c149/th/pre/i/2013/297/d/7/squad_by_patryk_garrett-d6rnvn4.jpg[/img] [img]http://img08.deviantart.net/75c2/i/2014/306/1/0/paradise__i_am_coming____by_kimonas-d3lf6cs.jpg[/img] [img]http://orig14.deviantart.net/b913/f/2012/261/6/f/seventh_devil_by_saharaam-d5f49vf.png[/img] [img]http://pre11.deviantart.net/1104/th/pre/f/2017/065/1/c/ryan_wright_by_cyberaeon-db1fcku.jpg[/img] [img]http://orig03.deviantart.net/e2ca/f/2017/020/2/7/shione_by_cyberaeon-daw34zj.jpg[/img] [/hider] Adéla wears the dilatant armored base of her armor fairly often, though just as commonly she walks around fully armored or clad in simple daytime clothing without much in the way of protective value. Her eyes are a deep amber and she wears a faint hint of similarly colored eyeliner to compliment them. Her body is well toned and muscle is evident througought and gives the impression of power, which shows through in the way she strides briskly when she walks. Despite her brush with death months ago, she has recovered, and has a full figure with fair, healthy skin and silky raven hair. [b]Age:[/b] 136 [b]Race:[/b] Human [b]Personality:[/b] Classified. [hider=Biography/History:] She rarely discusses it with those she does not trust completely. Even basic details like her birthplace are kept under lock and key. What she has divulged, solely to a small handful of high level members of the Tower, essentially amounts to being raised in foster care, her parents apparently having given her up for it for unknown reasons. At the age of eighteen she had been set out into the world with no preparation and subsequently floundered for over twenty years, even going so far as to work as a prostitute in order to feed herself. However that was not all she had done, and in her downtime she would dabble with technology, showing an almost innate skill with it. This was mostly a gimmick that was occasionally acknowledged with a nod and a grunt before forking over money for some time alone with her. Until, that is, one customer happened by who took more than a passing interest and, after paying for his time with the remarkably young looking woman (who was by this time in her 40s, inexplicably having not visibly aged a day past her early 20s, the whole reason she had managed to stay at a relatively respectable establishment. Or at least, as respectable as a brothel could be) asked if he could take her off their hands. Ostensibly for his own personal attendant, but the man happened to be an weaponsmith in the Stygian Blade, and had taken a keen eye to the modifications she'd made to an old low end pistol that made the gun run as if it was brand new and under a much higher price tag. And so Adéla started her nearly forty year long stint in the Stygian Blade. Beginning as simply a weaponsmith, albeit a phenomenally skilled one, she soon showed an aptitude for backroom deals and shady business, and began to rapidly climb the ranks of the organization. However, the more she learned, the less disillusioned she became, and soon began working with other similarly bitter individuals to foil the SB's plots. One success, though only partial, saved countless lives. As the SB plotted to bomb a major landmark, let first responders and concerned citizens flock to the scene to help, and then detonate an even larger bomb to kill thousands within a multi block radius and bring down the landmark at the same time, while using the explosions as a distraction to steal high profile artifacts, she and other members of the organization, ill content to see such large scale slaughter, plotted against them, saving untold lives in the prevention of the detonations. However the thefts still occurred, the persons in place there conspicuously absent in their assigned roles. As such - their counter organization began to splinter, distrust festering among them. At least some of that distrust was justified, because Adéla's role in the prevention of the bomb plot was uncovered, betrayed by a former colleague, though she didn't know who. On a routine skirmish with rival factions, she was caught off guard as her own squad unloaded their weapons into her back, her second in command personally kicking her apparently lifeless body in the face. Miraculously, she didn't die, a fact that will never not perplex her. Instead, she lay in an open concrete pit lost in the concrete jungle for over four months as her body healed itself, with no way to contact help, and no way to leave until she could at least do more than weakly crawl. Living off of contaminated water and rats, by the time she managed to drag herself out, she was essentially an emaciated skeleton. Normally she would pride herself on her looks, long silky hair, full figure, and so on. None of those have fully or even mostly recovered. However her muscle did, thanks to the muscle augmentations, and she was able to move around just fine after getting enough to eat. On the street, with no options, she drifted, enduring further horrors in her bid to claw her way back into some form of decent living, finding herself as a beggar, a street thug, and many others - fending off sexual assault became a daily routine, and the city never seemed to cease in its attempts to find new methods to wipe her from the surface of the earth. Eventually, she had accumulated a reputation again, acquired new kit, and requested entry to the ranks of the Tower of Stars, serving with them for years on end and rising to the rank of Knight-Captain. [/hider] [b]Reason for recruitment:[/b] Money. [b]Strength of Will:[/b] Greater [b]Magic: [/b] Thus far, she has shown to be completely incapable of magic. [b]God relations:[/b] None so far. [hider=Tech:] [list] [*] [b]Carapace Model 40 Modular Graphene Armor System[/b] - Graphene, the wonder material that never stops giving. This armor is composed of several interlocking 8mm thick plates of graphene composed of almost twenty million layers of the material bound with sealing agents and other structural integrity boosting additions - shockingly strong for their size. The armor incorporates a shear-thickening dilatant base and self-repairing nanotube weave over which the nigh indestructible plates are placed. Underneath this base is a gel padding designed to negate as much energy transfer as possible from a hit on the armor, minimizing damage to the wearer. The armor is incredibly protective and augments her skill at resisting incredible damage, she has seen it shrug off direct impacts from full powered battle rifles. This suit has been modified with a compact cold fusion power core and high strength servos, essentially turning it into a suit of power armor. [*] [b]Machina Model 52 Nanoblade[/b] - A brutal weapon roughly a meter in overall length, with about 30 centimeters devoted to the handle and its components. The nanoblade operates on a principle far different from a typical vibroblade - instead of microvibrations increasing cutting power, the cutting edge of the weapon is in fact moving back and forth at the molecular level. The weapon will shear through most materials with enough force behind it. And if the power pack somehow runs out it can still be used as a good old fashioned sharp stick - albeit infinitely more complex than a regular steel sword. [*] [b]Mars IV Pattern Railgun Revolver[/b] - Savagery in the palm of your hand! The Mars IV is what some might call overkill, and others might call a broken wrist. Designed with relatively compact rugged firepower in mind, the Mars IV answers the call. Eight shots of pure carnage and a kick like a mule. The weapon operates using a standard railgun principle, using the Lorentz force to accelerate a projectile to incredible speeds. Unlike many energy based weapons in this era, the weapon does not have an internal power pack, and gains its fearsome raw power and kick from its used of self contained capacitor-projectile charges. 10mm in diameter, these charges provide one shot per projectile, and consequentially an increase in energy delivered to the target that can be at times measured in orders of magnitude. The weapon is reloaded by breaking open the action and inserting the self contained eight shot capacitor-projectile revolving “magazine”. Excess energy from the shot is also used to cycle the next round and to activate kinetic dampeners to prevent the weapon’s recoil from tearing its user’s arm off. Capable of firing several varieties of rounds from standard anti-personell tungsten slugs to fragmenting “Carnage” rounds to electromagnetically charged capacitor shots designed to damage or disable powered armor and similar systems. [*] [b]Mars XII Pattern Hybrid Plasma Rail Rifle[/b] - The Mars XII Pattern is an interesting hybrid of plasma and rail weapon merged into a rugged and heavy duty frame to form a reliable and terrifying all-purpose battle rifle. Operating on a modified version of the railgun mechanism, the weapon still uses the Lorentz force to propel a projectile along magnetically conductive rails at extreme velocities. Where the Mars XII differs from the norm is in its use of a hybrid superheated liquid metal projectile and superheated plasma to deliver a one-two kinetic/directed energy punch. The weapon operates by arcing a powerful volt of electricity through an aluminum slug and various inert gases surrounding it, melting the aluminum and actually vaporizing a small portion of it, as well as superheating the gases and converting them into electrically conductive plasmas. Things proceed relatively normally from there, as the weapon as the weapon contains the projectile via electromagnetism and then uses the Lorentz force to accelerate the plasma/molten metal projectile along a pre-ionized flight path (pre-ionized by a laser fired nanoseconds before the projectile leaves the weapon. Without it the plasma would conflict with the atmosphere and essentially turn the weapon into a suicidal flamethrower.) to its intended target. The weapon is notorious for being able to punch straight through armors designed to halt kinetic weaponry or plasma weaponry, and delivering the devastating twin effects to the squishy bits inside. [*] [b]Nanobionic Strength and Enduance Enhancements[/b] - We can make her faster, stronger, better, we have the technology. Except this technology leaves few if any traces visible to the naked eye. Muscles are enhanced by the presence of nanites which work themselves into the myofibral tissue, working with the body and boosting strength enormously as well as drastically increasing the ability of the muscles to function at high intensity for long durations of time, a vital ability in combat. The nanites are also capable of actual physical modification of the muscle itself with nanotube augmentation of the myofibrils and sacromeres themselves, and modifying the tissue to supply the augmentations with the proper energy to operate. The end result is muscle tissue capable of feats of superhuman strength for superhuman durations of time. It also enables her to easily fire the Mars IV Revolver. Unfortunately as with all augmentation, metabolism skyrockets and the user must consume far more food. [*] [b]Nanobionic Regeneration[/b] - You don’t need to be made better, faster, and stronger if your body is capable of bringing itself back from the brink of total annihilation with no outside assistance. While total reconstruction is energy intensive and lengthy, it is possible. But the nanobionic regeneration nanites’ main purpose is not to salvage someone from the brink of death, their purpose is mainly to heal more minor injuries on the battlefield, such as lacerations, gashes, and other flesh wounds. Even some gunshot wounds can be relatively quickly healed compared to recovery without, though those still take considerably longer. The regenerative nanites work by, as well as stimulating fibrin production and platelet relocation, actively aiding in the healing of various injuries. They’re even capable of independently diagnosing internal bleeding and working quickly to repair damage to prevent situations from going critical. [*] [b]Smartphone [/b]- Because even when wading through the blood of your foes, sometimes you want to take a break and look at cat pictures when there’s no Wi-Fi around. [*] [b]Laptop [/b]- A laptop. Not as slim as the laptops others might carry around, this laptop is far bulkier, but also far tougher and packs just a bit of excessive computing power. [/list] [/hider] [b]Possessions/items/property: [/b] Very little. She has begun replacing things, but is still lacking in personal effects after the SB disposed of everything of hers. Notable among these is her former sidearm, ‘Old Reliable’ or myriad other names - a similarly monstrous hand cannon to her current, but fully tailored to her and keyed to her genetic structure. It was taken as a trophy - but would only be useful as a paperweight to any but her. She would like to get it back. [b]Skills:[/b] [list] [*] Combat Marksmanship - Adéla may not be a laser precise instrument of long range death, but she can reliably hit her targets in the heat of battle with plasma and lasers whizzing overhead. [*] Endurance - Where part of the “Revenant” aspect comes in, Adéla can endure incredible punishment before going down. [*] Engineer - While Adéla lacks impressive hacking skills she more than makes up for it with her skill at modifying the physical world. All of her weapons have been refined and tweaked by hand and she is quite capable of learning the internal workings of something on the fly. [*] Intelligence - Adéla may be a frontline armored heavy, but she also sports a razor keen mind. [*] Manipulative - Adéla didn’t get to where she got in the Stygian Blade through pure merit, just as much backroom intimidation and backstabbing went on to elevate her to a lofty position within. Almost high enough to find out what she wanted. [*] Interrogator - Her long time with the Stygian Blade has ensured Adéla is quite adept at torturing the information out of people, and enjoying it too. [/list] [b]Misc: [/b](Anything else the character sheet doesn’t seem to include that you think is important to the character) [/hider]