[hider= Elliot Barnett] [center][b]Full Name:[/b]Elliot Sebastián Barnett Nickname: Elli Age: 16 Gender: Male Gift: Metal manipulation [b]Loyalty:[/b] Vague; currently a prisoner of Liberty [b] Description:[/b] 5'10", with a lanky but fit build. He has black hair like his mother, but hazel eyes and lightly freckled skin. [b]Personality:[/b] He is relatively serious for his age, and feels the need to be the man of the house, in many ways. Now in Liberty custody as a candidate for reeducation, the once outgoing and rambunctious teen has become despondent and prone to lashing out. He is unsure where his ideology or loyalty stand; he believed in Liberty for most of his life, but his loyalty to his family is clashing against it. [b]Skills:[/b] Basic Libertian military training; Liberty-level gift training; is very fighty. [b]Weaknesses:[/b] Easily goaded into fighting; is only sixteen; will basically do anything followed by the phrase, "unless you're too scared." [b]Brief History:[/b] Elliot was a strongly rebellious child and teen, regularly getting into trouble in Liberty and using his father's elevated military rank to keep from running into larger troubles. After the death of his father and brothers in a recent attack on the nation, Elliot began feeling the weight of his duty. He threw himself into training with more dedication, and was determined to become a Liberty Agent like his family before him. He was the model teen. When Liberty lowered the draft age just weeks before his sixteenth birthday, Elliot's mother made the decision to flee. She enlisted the help of an inside organization to help drug her sons and smuggle them out into the Ash, where Elliot awoke, angry and confused. Unable to return for fear of his family's fate, Elliot lived with his mother, younger brother, Jimmy, and the family's stray Dog that had followed them out. They lived in an old human bunker for several months, surviving with the help of two sisters they had met in the Ash. A week ago, two "travelers" came upon them in the night. Elliot and his mother were both drugged by the men who later turned out to be mercenaries, and were forcibly returned to Liberty. He does not know where his brother or the friends they had lived with have gone to, but he stuck by his mother's story of claiming that Jimmy had died in the Ash. He is now held in the custody of the state, far from his mother and with no available news on the outside. [/center] [/hider] [hider= Agent Beretta] Full Name: Agent Beretta Nicknames/Aliases: Zhenya Barkov Age: 18 (estimated) Gender: Female Gift: High-frequency vision (UV and x-ray waves;) Momentum fixing Loyalty: Liberty, Homeland Protection Agent Description: A medium-tall woman with a strong, athletic build. She has wavy brown hair, deep purple eyes, and an intense brow. She speaks Liberty Standard English mostly fluently, but with a thick Russian accent. Personality: Beretta is devoted to her faction, and adequately subservient to those in power. While she has a quick mind for solving physical problems, she is often baffled by typical social situations. She enjoys being challenged, but other than this, seems unsure of her own will. Still a teenager, she can be excitable under certain circumstances. Skills: [i]Momentum fixing[/i]: Beretta is able to fix the momentum of an object within a given radius, forcing projectiles hurled to maintain their velocity against the laws of physics. She cannot change the direction of an object in motion, but she can force it to stay in motion, even when passing through solid bodies. She is also a skilled hand-to-hand combatant with excellent spacial reasoning skills. The combination of being able to both shoot and see through solid objects makes her a particularly potent assassin, and she is one of the most reliable markswomen in her class. She is seldom unarmed. Weaknesses: Less comfortable fighting in large, open spaces; less capable without her gun or a throwing knife; socially awkward and very unsure of herself; brain-damaged from oxygen deprivation during an accident as a child that left her language centers handicapped and prevented her from remembering her mother tongue Brief History: She doesn't know much of who she was before the age of twelve, when a Liberty rescue vessel found her and her older brother trapped in a wrecked, sinking plane in the Atlantic. She has no idea how she came to be on that plane, except that it was likely heading from Europe to North America, and that she was mute when Liberty discovered her. She learned to speak English with time, and was trained in an accelerated track as a Homeland Protection agent. Several weeks ago, she graduated her training and was selected to take part in an infiltration mission, along with Agents Riza and Mayday. [/hider] [hider= Commander Botrelle][center] [img] http://i.imgur.com/2I3knoKl.jpg[/img] Full Name: Knight Commander Lulu Vivianne Botrelle Nicknames/Aliases: Lu, The Maneater Age: 29 Gender: Female Gift: Nervous system manipulation Loyalty: Erubescan; Commander of Biological Enhancements and Warfare Description: Standing at a petite 4'11", and a more respectable 5'5" in heels, Lulu Botrelle could possibly tip a scale into double digits when soaking wet. She has sharp, almost vulpine features and quick emerald eyes. Her hair, long and platinum, is typically tied up into a neat bun. She carries herself with grace and confidence, and prefers business-wear that allows for clean, crisp lines. Personality: Motivated, sly, and charming, she typically knows how to find her way with people. Those who have worked with her are familiar with her "carrot and stick" style of management, though most who have seen the "stick" end are slow to cross her twice. Though nearly as vain as she is clever, she is known for getting what she wants, and completing tasks to the highest caliber. She is slow to trust, and slower yet to offer second chances. Skills: [i]Nervous system manipulation- [/i] Control over both the chemical and electric elements of the nervous system. She can trigger neurotransmitters, physically exploit neural pathways, and manufacture nerve impulses to simulate sensations and states in the body. Especially useful in situations requiring torture, but also practical for inducing paralysis or any other number of more subtle bodily changes. Additionally, she can sense people she's met before based upon their "nervous fingerprint," and pick up on subtle bodily cues such as pulse changes or tensed muscles. She is also a skilled socialite and liar, in addition to being extremely clever. She has an extensive knowledge of biology as well as human anatomy, and has the degree from the Erubescan Academy to prove it. She's not a bad shot with a gun, and seldom takes "no" for an answer. Weaknesses: She's small, and easily overpowered. Moreover, while she can sense multiple people at once, her powers diminish the more thinly they are spread. Her gift is most useful in one on one combat, and she would likely be overpowered if facing more than two opponents at close range. Moreover, she's very claustrophobic, and her lack of trust in others often leaves her trying to handle more on her own than seems humanly possible. Despite her emotional aloofness, she craves physical contact and has been known to take an array of partners to bed in any given span of time. Brief History: Born to a single mother who was ill-equipped to handle a dangerous offensive gift, Lulu had a rocky childhood. She went through several different boarding schools, but she was small and had an ill-controlled gift, both of which led to bullying. She worked twice as hard, or so it seemed, to have half as much- But the efforts paid off in the end. She was accepted as an Alchemist's apprentice at the age of fifteen, chosen by her useful gift in the given setting. She worked intensely on an experiment involving radiation in gifted subjects, despite the health ramifications, and was accepted into an accelerated officer's training track at eighteen. She passed through Basic Training with Kora Norrevinter and Derrick Avalon, both of whom remained her close friends in the years to come. She served in one active duty tours, but was ultimately deemed better suited for research and strategy. She became the youngest appointed Research Commander when she was promoted at twenty-six, most noted for her work on enhancing young subjects for improved function. Following an injury sustained during an attack on the Citadel proper, and a subsequent, suspiciously failed mission during which she was in command, she was placed under investigation for alleged crimes against the Crown. Her old friend, Derrick Avalon, had become the Commander of Investigation as well as the top interrogator at the Citadel, and was tasked with carrying out her "interview." Following the incident, she was cleared of all charges and reinstated. Though the whole affair was allegedly classified, there are more than a few rumors of exactly what she looked like when Avalon was done with her. She holds a grudge against both Avalon and the Crown for the mistake, though her loyalty appears unshaken.[/center] [/hider] [hider=Larke Sterling][center][img]http://i.imgur.com/ButC3f2l.jpg[/img][/center] [center][b]Full Name:[/b] Larke Charles Sterling [b]Nicknames/Aliases:[/b] Songbird [b]Age:[/b] 32 [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Gift:[/b] Healing & regeneration via life force transfer; flight (artificially imposed) [b]Loyalty:[/b] Erubescan, Prisoner (formerly Acolyte of Medicine) [b]Description:[/b] Standing a few inches over six feet tall, Larke has a medium athletic build and broad shoulders. More prominently, however, are his dusty-blonde, feathered wings, which extend several feet above his head and touch the floor at their tips, expanding to a full wingspan of over four times his height. His short, tousled hair is the same sandy shade as his wings, though it has grown more unkempt in his time as an Ash prisoner. His facial features are gaunt but not harsh, featuring soft blue-green eyes, and a broad jaw. [b]Personality:[/b] A smooth talker, but with a genuine heart of gold. He wants to see the good in the world, and will look the other way when the truth says otherwise. Despite being a prisoner, he does not feel wronger by Erubesco, and stands by the Kingdom and the principles for which it stands. [b]Skills:[/b] Medical training, basic combat skills, flight, practiced liar and socialite [b]Weaknesses:[/b] No elite combat training, overly trusting, addictive personality, voted most likely to bring a lawyer to a gun fight [b]Brief History:[/b] Larke was born into an aristocratic family of healers, and sent to medical school to become a doctor like his parents. He went alongside his childhood friend and high school sweetheart, Mina, who graduated at the top of his class. He could not handle the stress of emergency room and wartime casualties, however, and found himself turning to prescription painkillers to take the edge off. Once discovered, he was kicked out of the Citadel Academy, and disinherited. He turned to harder drugs and manual labor to maintain the expenses of his habit, but a series of tragic events led to the death of his father, the loss of his friends and family, and a hefty prison sentence with a stipulation of reduced time for working in the Erubescan labs. His first "job" was serving as a glorified lab rat, and he was sorted into the "Avian Initiative" by a lab official with a particularly ironic sense of humor. Funded by a wealthy socialite who had always wanted wings, the project aimed to modify the DNA and bone structure of a Gifted to produce functional wings. Performing the surgeries on someone with regenerative capabilities saved money on paying a healer, and so, Larke Sterling got wings. His next post involved actual lab work, where he served as a technician under Commander Green and Alchemist Oren Kovalenko in the laboratory morgue. While working under Green, Kovalenko was dispatched to retrieve Green's kidnapped daughter, Helena, from an Ashland terrorist group. When Kovalenko was also taken captive, upper command refused to waste another Knight going after her. Not worth much, and under the sole command of Green, Larke pleaded with Green for an opportunity to go and bring Helena and his friend, Oren, home. Such is the story of how Larke Sterling, former heir to the Sterling Estate and Lordship, came to be a prisoner of both Erubesco and the Wanderers. He now resides wherever the Wanderers are, kept under supervision and awaiting questioning regarding the nature of Helena's peculiar condition, as well as the inner working of the Erubescan labs. [b]Other: [/b] Have another art, by [@lorellequips] [img]http://i.imgur.com/dOcFSbbl.jpg[/img][/center] [/hider] [hider=Jimmy Barnett] [center] Full Name: James Carson Barnett Nicknames/Aliases: Jimmy Age: Four Gender: Male Gift: Metal manipulation Loyalty: Mommy Description: Curly black hair and brown eyes; toddler-y; probably has something in his mouth Personality: Really likes puffy cereal, and also really likes dogs. Jimmy is very good at hiding from strangers, as well as really, really liking dogs. That is, quite likely, his most valuable personality trait. Skills: High-speed biscuit eating; can melt most metal things; sometimes can also make those metal things into marbles and/or lumpy dog statues. One time, made a spoon into a toy car. Weaknesses: Cannot unmelt said metal things; also sometimes still has "accidents," but is working on it. Brief History: Jimmy was born in Liberty. His daddy and two older brothers left to go somewhere that Jimmy and Mommy and his other brother, Elli can't visit. Jimmy and Mommy and Elli and Doggie all left a while ago, and lived Outside in a hole with Crissy and Lydadada. Then some really bad men came and stole Elli and Mommy and everyone else went somewhere else, so Jimmy lives with Dog, now. He is learning how to be a good dog, too, but he still misses his family a lot. Dog is a pretty good dog, though, and she makes sure he has food. He ate a rabbit this one time, too. It was pretty exciting.[/center] [/hider] I have no clue why this hider specifically is awful but hey. [hider=My Hider] [center] [img] http://40.media.tumblr.com/66c6976cde4922c82d872db004794b40/tumblr_nsqmpayFta1uc1e40o1_500.jpg [/img] [b]Full Name:[/b] Doctor Mina Louise Aldridge [b]Nicknames/Aliases:[/b] Doc, The Good Doctor [b]Age:[/b] 31 [b]Gender:[/b] Female [b]Gift:[/b] Fine bioelectrical manipulation/suspension (Control over the micro-level electrical impulses in living things, able to be used for slowing bodily function to a "suspended animation" state, and stopping and starting the heart and other organs) [b]Loyalty:[/b] Wanderer (formerly Erubescan) [b]Description:[/b] 6’0”, with a lean-muscled figure and tawny skin. She has toffee-brown eyes and gentle, graceful facial features, framed by extremely long and often untamed natural hair. Her hair is typically tied back at her neck, but still difficult to keep a handle on. 

She most often wears a T-shirt, running shoes, and Erubescan military-issued pants. Hailing from the territory formerly known as Georgia, Mina speaks with a thick Southern accent. [b]Personality:[/b] Calm and collected, with a natural desire to nurture and care for others. She has no tolerance for nonsense, however, and it would be amiss to take her kindness for weakness. Also may fight you over your (wrong) opinion on sweet tea. [b]Skills:[/b] Medical doctor specializing in trauma care and field surgery, Erubescan schooling, basic military training, skilled markswoman. [b] Weaknesses: [/b]Gift requiring physical contact, strong moral code, severe post-traumatic stress disorder, which makes her prone to flashbacks and impulsive behavior during stressful combat. [b]Brief History:[/b] Born in the Erubescan agricultural district formerly known as Georgia, Mina was raised by her father and grandparents while her mother served as a medical officer in the war. Her family owned a small aquaponics farm, breeding both food fish and a crop of greens, as well as sturgeon for caviar. At the age of twelve, she was selected for her aptitude in the sciences and brought to the Citadel on a scholarship for schooling. Mina moved into Citadel city and lived with a host family (the Sterlings) from then on, partaking in an accelerated medical schooling track. She graduated as an M.D. at 25 and was promptly assigned to a military regiment as a front line doctor. She quickly found the work to be less noble than she had hoped for, and defected mid-mission after serving over four years on the front lines. Her life in the aftermath consisted of wandering the Wasteland with her stolen medical kit, tending to refugees and the factionless, and raiding bunkers and abandoned settlements for further supplies. She ran across the Wanderers several months ago, and was accepted into their group after her quick thinking and medical training saved Rei from life-threatening injuries that would not respond to gift-healing. While her positive demeanor won her favor among most of the group, her behavior during a recent attack left several wondering about the real nature of the good doctor’s past. She is close to many members of the little "family," and has taken up a semi-romantic relationship with Dutch Dalton, though she'll deny it when asked. She vouched for Larke's medical training and argued in favor of his life when he was captured, but has avoided interaction with the prisoners, as well as the subject of interrogation. [/center] [/hider]