[center][h3]Character Information[/h3][/center] [b]Character Name[/b] [indent]Colette Penning[/indent] [b]Alias[/b] [indent]Prototype 0011 “Severa”[/indent] [b]Age[/b] [indent]24[/indent] [b]Race[/b] [indent]Human[/indent] [b]Sub-Race[/b] [indent]Cyborg[/indent] [b]Gender[/b] [indent]Female[/indent] [b]Occupation[/b] [indent]N/A[/indent] [b]Height[/b] [indent]5'1”[/indent] [b]Weight[/b] [indent]115 lbs[/indent] [b]Hair Color[/b] [indent]White, though closer to gray than pure white[/indent] [b]Eye Color[/b] [indent]Black[/indent] [b]Visual Appearance[/b] [hider][img]https://i.imgur.com/lotkTNQ.jpg[/img][/hider] [b]Written Appearance[/b] [indent]Slender, practically albino in complexion, and dressed in tight black accompanied by flowing white, Severa gives off a stark impression. Her face is most often one of pain and paranoia, very seldom shifting, and not at all personable. [/indent] [b]Personality[/b] [indent]Though her highly reserved, quiet bearing might make her seem unremarkable at first, Severa exhibits an exceptionally violent personality. She displays no hesitation at all to attack when she deems it necessary; neither does she give any sort of disinclination toward things others might consider horrible or disgusting. More vitally, perhaps, she's completely desensitized toward violence. She is fearless in a more technical than literary sense; she does not feel fear, but she will act in a manner that would best unsure her own survival in a fearful situation. In fact, her own survival is her modus operendii. Severa is pragmatic, intelligent, and selfish. Though quick to commit acts of violence if provoked, she prefers to avoid confrontation. Her preferred fighting style is assassination--keeping out of sight until an opportune moment arises to make a decisive strike. All this is, of course, conditioning based on her experience in VR Training. The real Colette is judgmental, haughty, and sometimes rash, but a deeply empathetic and caring person. All of this has, however, been buried very deep. Because of her near-total lack of real world experience and socialization she is extremely awkward around other people, and while paranoid, somewhat curious and quite naive. Somewhat like a child, she takes things at face value, and has seen enough abnormality to believe almost anything in a literal sense[/indent] [b]Background[/b] [indent]Born into money, Colette and her brothers Alistair and Vernon lived a carefree life of luxury for their whole childhoods. As kids of stars often do, they exhibited a few odd quirks -the most noticeable being egocentricity- but for the most part they lived ordinary if spoiled lives. That began to change, however, when their parents' careers in the acting business tanked. They knew theirs was a cutthroat industry, but neither could have imagined how far they would fall. When the money began to dry up, the difficulties began. With no small amount of self-absorption themselves, Colette's mother and farther turned their frustration and despair on one another and their children, and the kids' early teens saw them develop into problems at school. Putting their natural talents to use, the three siblings spent their free time putting others down in order to feel better about themselves, unable to put anything in the void their parents left. It came to be that when the three and a handful of 'friends' were arrested for breaking into, vandalizing, and stealing from South Capital's Movie Headquarters, nobody was surprised. However, instead of spending time in juvenile detention, doing some community service, and returning to their lives, the three siblings were left to rot. Not a peep was heard from their parents who, having fallen out of the limelight, were no longer subject to the public's scrutiny. After a week behind bars, an ordinary-looking bus appeared with the words 'Child Services' emblazoned on the side. The detention center's current crop of fourteen undesirables shuffled aboard, and that was that. They did not, however, arrive at their intended destination. The bus descended into a private parking garage, where the confused kids were herded into a strange facility. After all were crowded into a small white room, the door locked behind them, and through vents in the ceiling a yellow gas poured in. Colette's head span, she hit the ground, and the world went dark. Kept unconscious by IV drip, every child was inducted into the experiments of Dr. Naru Long, a disgraced scientist gone into hiding to work as an experimental arms manufacturer. The surgeries commenced one-by-one, each unwilling volunteer outfitted with cybernetic enhancements before being plugged into the VR Training system—a virtual world of nightmares. There, alongside the others, Colette was forced to survive a literal hell of horror for ten years. She learned how to use her new powers quickly, but it took far longer for her personality to change. Faced with gruesome imagery and the necessity to sneak and slaughter or die every single day, she became number and number as her instinct grew sharper and sharper. Eventually, she lost all memory of her past self, and truly became Severa. On occasion she crossed paths with a fellow test subject, unaware that the brief spots of hope and company were often false, for those that died were replaced by artificial intelligences made using their minds at their last 'save point' before their expiration. In the real world, Severa and her surviving allies had grown from childhood to adulthood and gone through several sets of augmentations, perfect soldiers lying in waiting. The procedure remains ongoing, the cyborgs kept in stasis while their consciousnesses continue to suffer, under the watchful eye of Dr. Long.[/indent] [center][h3]Weapon & Techniques[/h3][/center] [b]Weapon[/b] [indent]N/A[/indent] [b]Power Level[/b] [indent]910[/indent] [b]Techniques[/b] [indent]Accelerotation – Severa's onboard weapons system is a highly advanced, prototype remote particle acceleration system using state-of-the-art electromagnets and spinning energy meant to emulate the ki-based destructo disk technique. In each of Severa's palms is an “Accelerotation Engine” which, after starting to spin, accelerates the particles in front of the palm in a vortex to create a high-speed sawblade with exceptional cutting power. Depending on the particles available in front of her palms, she can create sawblades with different compositions. These spinning blades can be slung through the air, and thanks to the rapid and precise activation/deactivation of her electromagnets, orbit around her, return to her if slung, and generally fly in circular patterns. The end result is an elegant and deadly close-to-midrange weapon, best at blitzing through the defenses of slower targets[/indent] [hider=Leitmotif] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYf-EsadU7I[/youtube] [/hider]