[b][color=ForestGreen]Updated[/color][/b] [indent] WIP [hider=Marijn Driessen] [center][img] http://txt-dynamic.cdn.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjcyLjBkNzI0NS5UV0Z5YVdwdUlFUnlhV1Z6YzJWdUlBLCwuMQAA/happyhanneke.regular.png[/img] [img]https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/130e1e13-8e5d-4bb7-958c-6d66f21d3dbb/da5yd6n-5bcc0f74-a93b-4fd2-bade-8144c371ad87.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOiIsImlzcyI6InVybjphcHA6Iiwib2JqIjpbW3sicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvMTMwZTFlMTMtOGU1ZC00YmI3LTk1OGMtNmQ2NmYyMWQzZGJiXC9kYTV5ZDZuLTViY2MwZjc0LWE5M2ItNGZkMi1iYWRlLTgxNDRjMzcxYWQ4Ny5qcGcifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6ZmlsZS5kb3dubG9hZCJdfQ.G39J_e4rjNAotW0iHmDtdBRuhL4Zbbh9selZW03c7SU[/img] [h1]╚══════════════╝[/h1] [i]"I’ve realised that actually I do care, a lot."[/i] [h3][ [b]18[/b] | [b]5’4”[/b] | [b]Dutch[/b] | [b]They/Them[/b] | [b]112lb[/b] ][/h3] [h1][i][Cautious][/i][/h1] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sHOWVgJ11Q[/youtube][/center] [h3][u][b] APPEARANCE [/b][/u][/h3] [i]"Quote about appearance here."[/i] [indent][indent]Marijn, or Rien (pronounce Reen) as they generally go by, is pretty average in a lot of ways. They stand at a fairly average height with a fairly average weight and blue. They’ve got a very androgynous look to them; slight curves, but nothing special. It’s something easily fixed by a binder if they want to. Most of the time they don’t bother – people struggle to figure out what their gender is by appearance anyway (which is what they aim for). They’re pretty unnoticeable, honestly, which is added to by the lazy smile that’s almost permanently stuck to their lips. In a contrast to their rest of their appearance Rien’s hair is the kind of thing that stands out. It’s currently dyed a grey-white with black undertones. Naturally their hair is properly blonde – which only makes it all the easier to dye. It’s rare that Rien’s lets their hair become its natural colour. They don’t really have much reason for this outside of liking how it looks. It’s kept very short at the backs and sides with a fringe that falls over their forehead messily. Their eyes are a deep blue in colour with grey hints. Their skin is fair verging on far too white. They just can’t seem to get a tan no matter how hard they try. Rien has a fairly slim face, with a smooth jawline. Their nose sits evenly between their eyes, a bit on the large side (in their opinion). As said previously, their body is pretty flat. It’s not particularly feminine or masculine – rather somewhere in between. This is added to by the baggy shirts they wear, topped off with jeans and denim jackets. They're not super fashionable but they do put in some effort. Rien also has a fair few tattoos. One of the more predominant ones is a circuit board design going down the majority of their left arm. They’ve also got one on their chest (roughly above their heart) of a treble clef, with the name Katja Driessen written through it and ‘I still hear your music’ written below it in Dutch. They have a [url=https://img00.deviantart.net/8ab4/i/2013/096/9/1/tribal_paint_brush_by_vic_e_f-d5o1qbx.jpg]paintbrush, placed on their right shoulder[/url] that they always keep covered up. [/indent][/indent] [h3][u][b] PSYCHOLOGY [/b][/u][/h3] [i]"Quote about personality."[/i] [indent][indent][indent] [b]MAIN GOAL ⫻[/b] To grow stronger so that they won’t lose anyone that they’re close to anymore. To be able to live for themselves again, rather than constantly feeling like they have to live the life their twin sister could never have. [b]PHILOSOPHY ⫻[/b] After what happened with the glutton, Rien went through a massive shift in her life outlook. They believe in protecting others from the dangers that they can’t protect themselves from. They believe that as someone who has experienced the Extra-Normal they have a duty to protect those who cannot from it. They believe they should care about others well being without getting too attached. Rien still believes in distancing themselves from others, because if you get too close to others you will get hurt in the end. [b]SECRETS ⫻[/b] Rien’s first secret is the battle with the Glutton that happened in a different time. They keep their abstraction a complete secret from all but those who also fought the Glutton, because they already know about it. Even from people who are also Extra Normal. [b]SEXUALITY ⫻[/b] Pansexual [b]FEARS ⫻[/b] Losing those that they care about, just like they did their twin sister and those that were lost during the glutton. Having to watch people die in front of them again. They never want to lose anyone again. They fear attachment. [b]QUIRKS ⫻[/b] Constant shrugging. [b]FLAWS ⫻[/b] The fact that they are unattached and unwilling to form more than surface level connections with most people. [/indent][/indent][/indent] [h3][u][b] BACKSTORY [/b][/u][/h3] [i]"Quote about past."[/i] [indent][indent]Marijn grew up in the Netherlands, predominantly in the city of Utrecht. They were born to a single mother and with a slightly younger twin sister, Katja. Their mother passed away when they were both quite young, too young to be properly affected by it, from illness – she had always been poorly. The two were put into foster care and jumped between families. They always managed to stick together and as a result had a close bond. At ten Rien and their sister were adopted by a relatively young couple who could not have children of their own. The two flourished under proper parents, with Katja especially growing attached. They were both very artistic and would often sketch or paint together. Rien even took up an instrument so their sister wouldn’t be alone in learning the violin – though they much preferred sketching. Growing older Katja got more and more sickly, before getting diagnosed with a degenerative disease and given only a few years to live. This, unsurprisingly, hit Rien hard. They really counted Katja as their only friend or family – so what would they do when they lost her. It was at the age of fifteen, just a few weeks after their birthday, that Katja passed away. Rien tried to continue living normally – that’s what their sister would have wanted after all. But it was difficult to draw without her there and to pretend to care about anything anymore. So they just didn’t, deciding that growing attached would only get them hurt. They stopped doing traditional art in favour of digital, because it wasn’t quite as painful, and discovered their skill at computer science – throwing themselves into it. Their adopted parents decided it would be best to start fresh in the hope that it would help. They entirely upped and moved country, all the way to the USA and Farmer Hill. It was easier for Rien there, to pretend things hadn’t happened and to just live their life. They worked hard, though, to get accepted into Grand Ridge Academy as they graduated – and got a place to attend studying Computing Science. After the camping trip that went wrong, Rien was as shaken as the rest of them – and came out of it able to bring their drawings to life. They tagged along with the others while trying to figure out what was going on but ultimately didn’t really contribute. They did stop Billy from (maybe?) throwing Rita into the wall, providing a drawn animal instead. Blah blah other glutton stuff and past it. [/indent][/indent] [h3][u][b] SKILLS & TALENTS [/b][/u][/h3] [i]"Quote about skills."[/i] [indent][indent][indent] [color=ForestGreen][b]Computing Science ⫻[/b][/color] Rien is good with computers, but especially focusing on software – they can program in a few different languages quite well (Java, Python, C, HTML/CSS mostly). They do video game programming a lot but also for more practical things, making some money off designing websites for other people. They can also do a bit of low level (assembly) code. [color=ForestGreen][b]Art ⫻[/b][/color] Rien has a natural talent for art and once considered pursuing it as a career. However they’ve given it up entirely since they left Farmer’s Hill. [color=ForestGreen][b]Dutch ⫻[/b][/color] Rien is fluent in Dutch, as it's their first language. They speak it better than they do English and it's the language they use when at home with their adoptive parents. Along with this they speak a bit of German, enough to get by. [color=ForestGreen][b]Extra-Normal Experience ⫻[/b][/color] They helped defeat the Glutton and since have tried to learn what they can about the Extra-Normal, protecting others from Apparitions where they can. [/indent][/indent][/indent] [h3][u][b] ABSTRACTION [/b][/u][/h3] [i]"Quote about supernatural here here."[/i] [indent][indent] [b]TYPE ⫻[/b] Awakened [color=ForestGreen][b]ABSTRACTION ⫻[/b][/color] Artistic Animation, the ability to create things from drawings. This abstraction is currently useless to them, as they refuse to draw. [color=ForestGreen][b]ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻[/b][/color] Animation is maybe not the best way to describe it, because Rien cannot really create living things (normally). If Rien draws some kind of object and focuses on it they can essentially make it come out of the picture / create it. It’s created exactly as it was drawn (so black and white comes out black and white). It’s also the size that is was drawn on that paper, so if Rien draws a tiny mug they’ll get one just like it. Unsurprisingly the abstraction manifested from their love (or former love) of art. [color=ForestGreen][b]IN THE PRESENCE OF THE MOUNTAIN ⫻[/b][/color] In the presence of the mountain the first thing enhanced is the size of the things Rien can make. They’re not limited to the size of the paper, but can rather make things bigger than how they were drawn. They can also actually draw and bring into the world living beings (as long as they actually exist) – so they could draw a plant and bring it to life, or a cat. [color=ForestGreen][b]LIMITS ⫻[/b][/color] In other for Rien to manifest an object out of art, they physically have to reach into the painting and pull it out, all while focusing on it. Almost like they were pulling something from another world. Which can make pulling an object out on the fly difficult, as they can't just rip it out. Or they'll damage the painting. The only way they can manifest from a distance is in the presence of the mountain (around eight meters). Once manifested, the object has all the properties of it's real life counterpart (A sword would be hard and sharp, water would flow around and be wet,). So by all means, it's "real." Which means it can be destroyed by any other means, and it may not be that useful to manifest. Though, Rien has to draw the object at least somewhat realistically - or it'll crumble to pieces upon being manifested. [color=ForestGreen][b]WEAKNESSES ⫻[/b][/color] Manifesting art drains the "color" out of Rien. In a literal and metaphorical sense. They'll literally start to lose the color out of their body and clothes until they are black and white. On the other sense, they'll gradually begin to lose their emotions, and ability to feel anything pleasurable. In the most extreme cases, they'll be a hollow, emotionless, husk, that cannot taste, smell, or feel anything good. In addition, water is the primary counter to their manifestations. If exposed to water, they'll gradually lose shape and then fall apart. Getting submerged would completely destroy them. [/indent][/indent] [h3][u][b] OTHER [/b][/u][/h3] [i]"RANDOM QUOTE."[/i] [indent][indent]Nothing[/indent][/indent] [/hider] [/indent] [hr] [color=ForestGreen][b]Previous: Vivid Recollections[/b][/color] [indent][color=ForestGreen]Season 1[/color] [hider=Marijn Elian Driessen] [center][h1][img] http://txt-dynamic.cdn.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjcyLjBkNzI0NS5UV0Z5YVdwdUlFUnlhV1Z6YzJWdUlBLCwuMQAA/happyhanneke.regular.png[/img][/h1] [img] https://orig00.deviantart.net/ab60/f/2015/264/9/4/monster_prince_by_spookihope-d9aeim2.png [/img] [h1][color=ForestGreen]╚══════════════╝[/color][/h1] [i]"I honestly don’t care what anyone else is doing."[/i] [color=ForestGreen][h3][ [b]18[/b] | [b]5’4” [/b] | [b]Dutch[/b] [b]They/them [/b] | [b]112lb[/b] ][/h3] [h1][i][Uncaring][/i][/h1][/color] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrIccKyFldQ[/youtube][/center] [color=ForestGreen][h3][u][b] APPEARANCE [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"Yeah, my hair isn’t naturally this colour, isn’t that pretty obvious?"[/i] [indent][indent]Marijn, or Rien (pronounce Reen) as they generally go by, is pretty average in a lot of ways. They stand at a fairly average height with a fairly average weight and blue. They’ve got a very androgynous look to them; slight curves, but nothing special. It’s something easily fixed by a binder if they want to. Most of the time they don’t bother – people struggle to figure out what their gender is by appearance anyway (which is what they aim for). They’re pretty unnoticeable, honestly, which is added to by the lazy smile that’s almost permanently stuck to their lips. In a contrast to their rest of their appearance Rien’s hair is the kind of thing that stands out. Dyed bright blue (like in your face bright), it’s obviously not their natural colour. Naturally their hair is properly blonde – which only makes it all the easier to dye. It’s rare that Rien’s lets their hair become its natural colour. They don’t really have much reason for this outside of liking how it looks. It’s incredibly curly natural and they just let it stay like that. They keep it relatively short with the fringe cut so it just doesn’t fall in front of their eyes. Their eyes are also blue and quite a vivid shade, but not unnaturally so like the air. Their skin is fair verging on far too white. They just can’t seem to get a tan no matter how hard they try though they do have a sprinkling of freckles across their face. Rien has a fairly slim face, with a smooth jawline. Their nose sits evenly between their eyes, a bit on the large side (in their opinion). As said previously, their body is pretty flat. It’s not particularly feminine or masculine – rather somewhere in between. This is added to by the baggy shirts they wear, topped off with jeans and denim jackets. Their not super fashionable but they do put in some effort. They’re almost always found wearing some kind of hat – probably a black beanie. Rien also has a fair few tattoos. One of the more predominant ones is a circuit board design going down the majority of their left arm. They’ve also got one on their chest (roughly above their heart) of a treble clef, with the name Katja Driessen written through it and ‘I still hear your music’ written below it in Dutch. Apart from tattoos their skin is relatively unmarked by scars. [/indent][/indent] [color=ForestGreen][h3][u][b] PSYCHOLOGY [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"I like to think that I’m pretty normal. But honestly, I couldn’t care less."[/i] [indent][indent][indent] [color=ForestGreen][b]MAIN GOAL ⫻[/b][/color] Rien’s goal is to get to a point where they live a comfortable life, probably working in computing or something. But honestly they don’t really have a solid goal in life. [color=ForestGreen][b]PHILOSOPHY ⫻[/b][/color] Rien’s outlook on life is to live it without caring for what other people think, without putting too much effort into it. They think it’s better to just not give a fuck rather than make a big deal out of anything. They also think that getting too close to people will just get your hurt and it’s better just to look out for yourself. [color=ForestGreen][b]SECRETS ⫻[/b][/color] With a very not caring attitude Rien has few secrets. Their biggest one is something pretty minor to other people, but probably the fact that they actually try very hard at and enjoy their subject – computing. They don’t want other people knowing they actually put effort into anything. They also don’t like talking about their family, but they don’t make much of an effort to hide it. [color=ForestGreen][b]DESIRES ⫻[/b][/color] Rien just wants to live life as carefree as possible, enjoying their time. Whether that is playing video games at home or getting drunk at parties it doesn’t matter as long as they have a good time. [color=ForestGreen][b]SEXUALITY ⫻[/b][/color] Pansexual. Rien doesn’t particularly care about gender when it comes to dating. [color=ForestGreen][b]FEARS ⫻[/b][/color] Rien fears losing anyone that they get close to, so they just don’t get close to anyone. They also fear disappointing their twin sister and the wishes she had for them. [color=ForestGreen][b]REPUTATION ⫻[/b][/color] Though they’ve only been in town for a couple of years Rien’s reputation is pretty much of someone who is lazy, carefree and occasionally makes trouble. They’re not particularly looked upon fondly by those of the older generation (what with being so open about their gender and sexuality) but have a decent reputation at the academy. [color=ForestGreen][b]PET PEEVES ⫻[/b][/color] People who butt into other people’s business or are too full of themselves and thus try to push their opinions onto other people. [color=ForestGreen][b]QUIRKS ⫻[/b][/color] Rien shrugs a lot, especially in the middle of conversations even where there is no need to. [/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=ForestGreen][h3][u][b] BACKSTORY [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"I try not to think about my past, honestly. Why should it matter to anyone else?"[/i] [indent][indent]Marijn grew up in the Netherlands, predominantly in the citty of Utrecht. They were born to a single mother and with a slightly younger twin sister, Katja. Their mother passed away when they were both quite young, too young to be properly affected by it, from illness – she had always been poorly. The two were put into foster care and jumped between families. They always managed to stick together and as a result had a close bond. At ten Rien and their sister were adopted by a relatively young couple who could not have children of their own. The two flourished under proper parents, with Katja especially growing attached. They were both very artistic and would often sketch or paint together. Rien even took up an instrument so their sister wouldn’t be alone in learning the violin – though they much preferred sketching. Growing older Katja got more and more sickly, before getting diagnosed with a degenerative disease and given only a few years to live. This, unsurprisingly, hit Rien hard. They really counted Katja as their only friend or family – so what would they do when they lost her. It was at the age of fifteen, just a few weeks after their birthday, that Katja passed away. Rien tried to continue living normally – that’s what their sister would have wanted after all. But it was difficult to draw without her there and to pretend to care about anything anymore. So they just didn’t, deciding that growing attached would only get them hurt. They stopped doing traditional art in favour of digital, because it wasn’t quite as painful, and discovered their skill at computer science – throwing themselves into it. Their adopted parents decided it would be best to start fresh in the hope that it would help. They entirely upped and moved country, all the way to USA and Farmer Hill. It was easier for Rien there, to pretend things hadn’t happened and to just live their life. They worked hard, though, to get accepted into Grand Ridge Academy as they graduated – and got a place to attend studying Computing Science. After the camping trip that went wrong, Rien was as shaken as the rest of them – and came out of it able to bring their drawings to life. They tagged along with the others while trying to figure out what was going on but ultimately didn’t really contribute. They did stop Billy from (maybe?) throwing Rita into the wall, providing a drawn animal instead. [/indent][/indent] [color=ForestGreen][h3][u][b] SKILLS & TALENTS [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"I’m good at the two things I put effort into, unsurprisingly."[/i] [indent][indent][indent] [color=ForestGreen][b]Computing Science ⫻[/b][/color] Rien is good with computers, but especially focusing in software – they can program in a few different language quite well (Java, Python, C, HTML/CSS mostly). They do video game programming a lot but also for more practical things, making some money off designing websites for other people. They can also do a bit of low level (assembly) code. [color=ForestGreen][b]Art ⫻[/b][/color] Rien is very talented at art. She used to excel in traditional art, especially pencil sketches and oil paintings but hasn't done that for a while. Instead she now specialises in digital art using the graphics tablet she has for her computer. [color=ForestGreen][b]Dutch ⫻[/b][/color] Rien is fluent in Dutch, as it's their first language. They speak it better than they do English and it's the language they use when at home with their adoptive parents. Along with this they speak a bit of German, enough to get by. [/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=ForestGreen][h3][u][b] ABSTRACTION [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"Just one more reason for me to not want to draw anymore..."[/i] [indent][indent] [color=ForestGreen][b]SIGIL & LOCATION ⫻[/b][/color] [url=https://img00.deviantart.net/8ab4/i/2013/096/9/1/tribal_paint_brush_by_vic_e_f-d5o1qbx.jpg]A paintbrush, placed on their right shoulder[/url] [color=ForestGreen][b]ABSTRACTION ⫻[/b][/color] Artistic Animation, the ability to create things from drawings. [color=ForestGreen][b]ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻[/b][/color] Animation is maybe not the best way to describe it, because Rien cannot really create living things (normally). If Rien draws some kind of object and focuses on it they can essentially make it come out of the picture / create it. It’s created exactly as it was drawn (so black and white comes out black and white). It’s also the size that is was drawn on that paper, so if Rien draws a tiny mug they’ll get one just like it. Unsurprisingly the abstraction manifested from their love (or former love) of art. [color=ForestGreen][b]IN THE PRESENCE OF THE MOUNTAIN ⫻[/b][/color] In the presence of the mountain the first thing enhanced is the size of the things Rien can make. They’re not limited to the size of the paper, but can rather make things bigger than how they were drawn. They can also actually draw and bring into the world living beings (as long as they actually exist) – so they could draw a plant and bring it to life, or a cat. [color=ForestGreen][b]LIMITS ⫻[/b][/color] In other for Rien to manifest an object out of art, they physically have to reach into the painting and pull it out, all while focusing on it. Almost like they were pulling something from another world. Which can make pulling an object out on the fly difficult, as they can't just rip it out. Or they'll damage the painting. The only way they can manifest from a distance is in the presence of the mountain (around eight meters). Once manifested, the object has all the properties of it's real life counterpart (A sword would be hard and sharp, water would flow around and be wet,). So by all means, it's "real." Which means it can be destroyed by any other means, and it may not be that useful to manifest. Though, Rien has to draw the object at least somewhat realistically - or it'll crumble to pieces upon being manifested. [color=ForestGreen][b]WEAKNESSES ⫻[/b][/color] Manifesting art drains the "color" out of Rien. In a literal and metaphorical sense. They'll literally start to lose the color out of their body and clothes until they are black and white. On the other sense, they'll gradually begin to lose their emotions, and ability to feel anything pleasurable. In the most extreme cases, they'll be a hollow, emotionless, husk, that cannot taste, smell, or feel anything good. In addition, water is the primary counter to their manifestations. If exposed to water, they'll gradually lose shape and then fall apart. Getting submerged would completely destroy them. [/indent][/indent] [color=ForestGreen][h3][u][b] OTHER [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"I don’t really have anything else to say."[/i] [indent][indent]Nope[/indent][/indent] [/hider] [color=ForestGreen]Season 2[/color] [hider=Marijn Elian Driessen] [center][h1][img] http://txt-dynamic.cdn.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjcyLjBkNzI0NS5UV0Z5YVdwdUlFUnlhV1Z6YzJWdUlBLCwuMQAA/happyhanneke.regular.png[/img][/h1] [img] https://orig00.deviantart.net/ab60/f/2015/264/9/4/monster_prince_by_spookihope-d9aeim2.png [/img] [h1][color=ForestGreen]╚══════════════╝[/color][/h1] [i]"I can't ignore everything that's going on, not like I used to."[/i] [color=ForestGreen][h3][ [b]18[/b] | [b]5’4” [/b] | [b]Dutch[/b] [b]They/them [/b] | [b]112lb[/b] ][/h3] [h1][i][Uncaring][/i][/h1][/color] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik6tJqjMds8[/youtube] [hider=Old Song] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrIccKyFldQ[/youtube][/hider][/center] [color=ForestGreen][h3][u][b] APPEARANCE [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"Yeah, my hair isn’t naturally this colour, isn’t that pretty obvious?"[/i] [indent][indent]Marijn, or Rien (pronounce Reen) as they generally go by, is pretty average in a lot of ways. They stand at a fairly average height with a fairly average weight and blue. They’ve got a very androgynous look to them; slight curves, but nothing special. It’s something easily fixed by a binder if they want to. Most of the time they don’t bother – people struggle to figure out what their gender is by appearance anyway (which is what they aim for). They’re pretty unnoticeable, honestly, which is added to by the lazy smile that’s almost permanently stuck to their lips. In a contrast to their rest of their appearance Rien’s hair is the kind of thing that stands out. Dyed bright blue (like in your face bright), it’s obviously not their natural colour. Naturally their hair is properly blonde – which only makes it all the easier to dye. It’s rare that Rien’s lets their hair become its natural colour. They don’t really have much reason for this outside of liking how it looks. It’s incredibly curly natural and they just let it stay like that. They keep it relatively short with the fringe cut so it just doesn’t fall in front of their eyes. Their eyes are also blue and quite a vivid shade, but not unnaturally so like the air. Their skin is fair verging on far too white. They just can’t seem to get a tan no matter how hard they try though they do have a sprinkling of freckles across their face. Rien has a fairly slim face, with a smooth jawline. Their nose sits evenly between their eyes, a bit on the large side (in their opinion). As said previously, their body is pretty flat. It’s not particularly feminine or masculine – rather somewhere in between. This is added to by the baggy shirts they wear, topped off with jeans and denim jackets. Their not super fashionable but they do put in some effort. They’re almost always found wearing some kind of hat – probably a black beanie. Rien also has a fair few tattoos. One of the more predominant ones is a circuit board design going down the majority of their left arm. They’ve also got one on their chest (roughly above their heart) of a treble clef, with the name Katja Driessen written through it and ‘I still hear your music’ written below it in Dutch. Apart from tattoos their skin is relatively unmarked by scars. [/indent][/indent] [color=ForestGreen][h3][u][b] PSYCHOLOGY [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"I don't think I can be as carefree as I used to be."[/i] [indent][indent][indent] [color=ForestGreen][b]MAIN GOAL ⫻[/b][/color] Ironically they've got a solid goal now, and that's to destroy or reseal the glutton (preferably the former). Fuck it for taking so many people. Also to, y'know, make it out alive. [color=ForestGreen][b]PHILOSOPHY ⫻[/b][/color] Rien’s outlook on life is to live it without caring for what other people think, without putting too much effort into it. They think it’s better to just not give a fuck rather than make a big deal out of anything. They also think that getting too close to people will just get your hurt and it’s better just to look out for yourself. [color=ForestGreen][b]SECRETS ⫻[/b][/color] With a very not caring attitude Rien has few secrets. Their biggest one is something pretty minor to other people, but probably the fact that they actually try very hard at and enjoy their subject – computing. They don’t want other people knowing they actually put effort into anything. They also don’t like talking about their family, but they don’t make much of an effort to hide it. [color=ForestGreen][b]DESIRES ⫻[/b][/color] Rien just wants to live life as carefree as possible, enjoying their time. Whether that is playing video games at home or getting drunk at parties it doesn’t matter as long as they have a good time. [color=ForestGreen][b]SEXUALITY ⫻[/b][/color] Pansexual. Rien doesn’t particularly care about gender when it comes to dating. [color=ForestGreen][b]FEARS ⫻[/b][/color] Rien fears losing anyone that they get close to, so they just don’t get close to anyone. They also fear disappointing their twin sister and the wishes she had for them. [color=ForestGreen][b]REPUTATION ⫻[/b][/color] Though they’ve only been in town for a couple of years Rien’s reputation is pretty much of someone who is lazy, carefree and occasionally makes trouble. They’re not particularly looked upon fondly by those of the older generation (what with being so open about their gender and sexuality) but have a decent reputation at the academy. [color=ForestGreen][b]PET PEEVES ⫻[/b][/color] People who butt into other people’s business or are too full of themselves and thus try to push their opinions onto other people. [color=ForestGreen][b]QUIRKS ⫻[/b][/color] Rien shrugs a lot, especially in the middle of conversations even where there is no need to. [/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=ForestGreen][h3][u][b] BACKSTORY [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"I feel like my past is coming back up again, with a risk of repeating. I want to avoid that and not lose someone again."[/i] [indent][indent]Marijn grew up in the Netherlands, predominantly in the city of Utrecht. They were born to a single mother and with a slightly younger twin sister, Katja. Their mother passed away when they were both quite young, too young to be properly affected by it, from illness – she had always been poorly. The two were put into foster care and jumped between families. They always managed to stick together and as a result had a close bond. At ten Rien and their sister were adopted by a relatively young couple who could not have children of their own. The two flourished under proper parents, with Katja especially growing attached. They were both very artistic and would often sketch or paint together. Rien even took up an instrument so their sister wouldn’t be alone in learning the violin – though they much preferred sketching. Growing older Katja got more and more sickly, before getting diagnosed with a degenerative disease and given only a few years to live. This, unsurprisingly, hit Rien hard. They really counted Katja as their only friend or family – so what would they do when they lost her. It was at the age of fifteen, just a few weeks after their birthday, that Katja passed away. Rien tried to continue living normally – that’s what their sister would have wanted after all. But it was difficult to draw without her there and to pretend to care about anything anymore. So they just didn’t, deciding that growing attached would only get them hurt. They stopped doing traditional art in favour of digital, because it wasn’t quite as painful, and discovered their skill at computer science – throwing themselves into it. Their adopted parents decided it would be best to start fresh in the hope that it would help. They entirely upped and moved country, all the way to USA and Farmer Hill. It was easier for Rien there, to pretend things hadn’t happened and to just live their life. They worked hard, though, to get accepted into Grand Ridge Academy as they graduated – and got a place to attend studying Computing Science. After the camping trip that went wrong, Rien was as shaken as the rest of them – and came out of it able to bring their drawings to life. They tagged along with the others while trying to figure out what was going on but ultimately didn’t really contribute. They did stop Billy from (maybe?) throwing Rita into the wall, providing a drawn animal instead. [/indent][/indent] [color=ForestGreen][h3][u][b] SKILLS & TALENTS [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"Oh yeah, I'm sure my coding skills will be a big help now."[/i] [indent][indent][indent] [color=ForestGreen][b]Computing Science ⫻[/b][/color] Rien is good with computers, but especially focusing in software – they can program in a few different language quite well (Java, Python, C, HTML/CSS mostly). They do video game programming a lot but also for more practical things, making some money off designing websites for other people. They can also do a bit of low level (assembly) code. [color=ForestGreen][b]Art ⫻[/b][/color] Rien is very talented at art. She used to excel in traditional art, especially pencil sketches and oil paintings but hasn't done that for a while. Instead she now specialises in digital art using the graphics tablet she has for her computer. [color=ForestGreen][b]Dutch ⫻[/b][/color] Rien is fluent in Dutch, as it's their first language. They speak it better than they do English and it's the language they use when at home with their adoptive parents. Along with this they speak a bit of German, enough to get by. [/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=ForestGreen][h3][u][b] ABSTRACTION [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"Y'know, I could have a worse abstraction."[/i] [indent][indent] [color=ForestGreen][b]SIGIL & LOCATION ⫻[/b][/color] [url=https://img00.deviantart.net/8ab4/i/2013/096/9/1/tribal_paint_brush_by_vic_e_f-d5o1qbx.jpg]A paintbrush, placed on their right shoulder[/url] [color=ForestGreen][b]ABSTRACTION ⫻[/b][/color] Artistic Animation, the ability to create things from drawings. [color=ForestGreen][b]ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻[/b][/color] Animation is maybe not the best way to describe it, because Rien cannot really create living things (normally). If Rien draws some kind of object and focuses on it they can essentially make it come out of the picture / create it. It’s created exactly as it was drawn (so black and white comes out black and white). It’s also the size that is was drawn on that paper, so if Rien draws a tiny mug they’ll get one just like it. Unsurprisingly the abstraction manifested from their love (or former love) of art. [color=ForestGreen][b]IN THE PRESENCE OF THE MOUNTAIN ⫻[/b][/color] In the presence of the mountain the first thing enhanced is the size of the things Rien can make. They’re not limited to the size of the paper, but can rather make things bigger than how they were drawn. They can also actually draw and bring into the world living beings (as long as they actually exist) – so they could draw a plant and bring it to life, or a cat. [color=ForestGreen][b]LIMITS ⫻[/b][/color] In other for Rien to manifest an object out of art, they physically have to reach into the painting and pull it out, all while focusing on it. Almost like they were pulling something from another world. Which can make pulling an object out on the fly difficult, as they can't just rip it out. Or they'll damage the painting. The only way they can manifest from a distance is in the presence of the mountain (around eight meters). Once manifested, the object has all the properties of it's real life counterpart (A sword would be hard and sharp, water would flow around and be wet,). So by all means, it's "real." Which means it can be destroyed by any other means, and it may not be that useful to manifest. Though, Rien has to draw the object at least somewhat realistically - or it'll crumble to pieces upon being manifested. [color=ForestGreen][b]WEAKNESSES ⫻[/b][/color] Manifesting art drains the "color" out of Rien. In a literal and metaphorical sense. They'll literally start to lose the color out of their body and clothes until they are black and white. On the other sense, they'll gradually begin to lose their emotions, and ability to feel anything pleasurable. In the most extreme cases, they'll be a hollow, emotionless, husk, that cannot taste, smell, or feel anything good. In addition, water is the primary counter to their manifestations. If exposed to water, they'll gradually lose shape and then fall apart. Getting submerged would completely destroy them. [/indent][/indent] [color=ForestGreen][h3][u][b] OTHER [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"I don’t really have anything else to say."[/i] [indent][indent]Nope[/indent][/indent] [/hider][/indent]