[hider=Cecily] Cecily Jansen [b]Age:[/b] 18 [b]Gender:[/b] Female [b]Rank:[/b] Conscript [b]Gift:[/b] Manipulation of Electricity Since birth Cecily has had the ability to control and conjure electricity. As she has grown she has learned to control it better and her power has increased, but she is still learning. She can redirect electricity, cancel it out, and conjure it out of nothing. Thus she has the ability to disable, reactivate, and recharge electric devices and machines at will. Her most powerful ability is her ability to lung a bolt of electricity, manifesting itself like a miniature lightning bolt from hands. As a consequence of her powers she is immune electricity of all kinds, and not merely her own. [b]Loyalty:[/b] Erubescian; herself [b]Description:[/b] Cecily has fair yet pale complexion that is marred by a life of poor skincare and hard years, blemishes dotting her face on closer inspection. She holds a long head of black hair which she has never cut in her life, going as far down as her knees. She holds a pair of striking bright blue eyes. Her hands hold marks and coalesces, a reminder that she has not lived a life of comfort. She is almost always in her uniform, a simple leathern combat outfit, with her rifle and her sword always close by her side. [b]Personality:[/b] Normally Cecily holds a muted personality, remaining quiet and with an overly serious expression which never seems to fail. She is all too aware of how small and fragile her place in society is. Though never meek or timid she says little to others. Towards her superiors she is cooperative and disciplined, but never says a word more than is necessary. She comes off as cold. Cecily is prideful to the point of arrogance. Though she certainly has talent, she consistently overestimates herself. She believes that in the power of her own skills, and believes in her own potential. She holds in contempt all those who she believes have done their best to keep her back and prevent her from rising to her proper place. She will not hesitate to look down on those she deems lower than herself. On the other hand she holds jealousy and hatred for her rivals, and is incredibly insecure of her failures and ignorance, and hates above all the feeling of powerlessness. Cecily has made few friends, which is fine with her. Perhaps it is due to her arrogance that Cecily is as bold as she is. She believes that with time and effort she can overcome any challenge. She is eager to prove herself to her superiors in order to gain promotion and is scarcely worried that her own abilities would not be sufficient to complete the task. Her pride prevents her from admitting defeat unless she is forced to. Once she has committed her mind to something Cecily is remarkably durable and willing to withstand bodily harmed. She is dangerously tenacious. Cecily is highly self-centered with tendencies towards amorality, which perhaps does not make her the ideal soldier for Erubesco. Currently she is intent on proving herself and advancing through the ranks. She can have an alarming lack of empathy for the plight of others, and has harmed and killed others in the past with a clear conscience. Even so, she isn’t above all acts of kindness. [b]Skills:[/b] Cecily is skilled in hand-to-hand combat as well as in swordplay. A former thief, Cecily has learned how to be quiet and quick on her feet. She is also knowledgeable in a number of basic survival tools, such as farming, knitting, cooking, and the hunting of small animals, all of which Cecily participated in when she was young. [b]Weaknesses:[/b] Cecily’s electricity conducts well with metal, but against poor conductors of electricity like wood and plastic she is mostly powerless. Water will also disrupt the flow of her electricity, and make her unable to do anything other than cover herself with it. Her arrogance is also a disadvantage. When she is winning a fight she may think herself to have an overwhelming advantaging, and will not mind playing with an opponent to humiliate him. [b]Brief History:[/b] Cecily was born to an unassuming family, known to no one. The daughter of serfs, Cecily’s earliest memories are of her tilling the land. Her early life was relatively calm, and she enjoyed the song and merriment that seemed to surround life. Yet she toiled for long hours seven days a week, even as a child, and lived in poverty. Sickness took her father when she was eleven, and they became poorer. She was left alone with her siblings when their mother abandoned them when Cecily was only thirteen. She had gone to meet a man who had said would give her a well-paying job and was never heard from again. Cecily has always assumed she ran off with the man and abandoned her children. Cecily joined an orphanage with her fellow siblings. It was not a bad place. However, Cecily never felt at home there. It was here that Cecily first began to feel ambitious. By fifteen she slowly showed signs of cruelty and uncaringness, and she felt very unsatisfied with the path her life was taken. She heard of the tales of great heroes and kings, and she wondered why it was that she could not join them. When she was sixteen she left the orphanage, and left to find her destiny. It did not as she planned. However, she was taken in by a gangster. He cared nothing for her, and used her without a care for her own thoughts, but he also saw potential in her, and trained her how to hold a weapon and how to shoot a gun. She escaped just before she turned eighteen, and promptly joined the Erubesco army as a mere commoner recruit. It wasn’t what she wanted, but it was a start. [/hider] [hider=Riza] [b]Full Name:[/b] Riza Khan [b]Age:[/b] 28 [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Rank:[/b] Agent of the Homeland Protection Sector [b]Gift:[/b] X-Ray Vision Riza has the ability to see through things and structures of a reasonable thickness. [b]Loyalty:[/b] Liberty [b]Description:[/b] Riza is tall, standing over six feet. Ethnically Hazara, he has tan skin. Though he has a thin appearance and a gaunt-looking face he is actually fairly muscular. He normally wears his Homeland Protection Sector uniform, and even his casual clothes are fairly nondescript proper-looking clothes. [b]Personality:[/b] Riza has a pleasant demeanor, yet can be disturbingly dismissive about many things that seem important for people. He usually wears a smile, except in the situations where it is demanded he be completely serious, and usually maintains a pleasant attitude. This is not merely a disguise, either. His seedier actions do not conflict with his cheerful attitude in his own mind. Riza is steadfastly loyal to Liberty, believing it to be the greatest system that there ever has been and shall ever be, and because of that it shall succeed where the human states failed. For the cause of furthering Liberty he will do almost anything. If, however, he thinks he receives an order that he thinks is contradictory to Liberty he will go over his commanding officer and ensure his superiors to validate the order. Riza is a cynical person. However, for Riza cynicism must not be mistaken for pessimism. Riza has no patience for pessimists. To him they are nothing but lazy whiners who find excuses for not working hard. Riza is a cynic because he thinks that there is a certain way that the world works, and no amount of hope of wishful thinking will ever change that in the long-run. He thinks that it was their optimism that caused the fall of humanity, their insistency that their own whims and opinions could triumph over the truth and their black and white morality. In reality, says Riza, there is only one way that the world can function without inevitably falling apart, and that is the way of Liberty, where all are one and desire is purged from the soul. For Riza cynicism is the acceptance that morality, if there can be such a thing, is not black and white, and terrible deeds must be done for paradise to be achieved. This was something humanity could never accept, so they failed. [b]Skills:[/b] Riza Khan is intelligent and observant, a skill that Riza relies on often alongside his Gift, perhaps even more so. His profession requires as much. Also a top-grade military fighter, he has honed his body into a weapon. He is skilled in military martial arts and hand-to-hand combat as well as with firearms, and his skill is elite in these. [b]Weakness:[/b] Riza has a non-combat Gift, meaning that his Gift has little use in regular combat. [b]Brief History:[/b] Riza’s family has fought for the cause of the Gifted since the very beginning, if it can be called a beginning. When the Gifted appeared in force a hundred years ago a Khan appeared for the fight. Since then every Khan worth his salt has fought as a soldier of some type for the cause of the Gifted. When Liberty was formed the Khan family fought for them. The recent years have been cruel to the Khan’s however, and now Riza is the last of them. Born into one of the sprawling Metropolis’ of Liberty, Riza had the simple upraising afforded to most of Liberty’s citizens. He had a complex relationship with his parents, and was quite rebellious for Liberty. However, the system successfully groomed him. He claims he had an epiphany that inspired in him utmost loyalty in Liberty. Her parents were glad for him, claiming that his rebellion was simply his passion misdirected. After cleaning up his act he joined the Liberty Special Forces. He excelled in training and went on to serve with distinction. He was recommended to the Sector of Homeland Protection, where he went to serve as an agent. It does not bother him that he does not participate in the war against Erubesco, as he has seen that there is another, equally important secret war against the dissidents and traitors of Liberty. He has been assigned and accomplished missions of assassination, counter-intelligence, clandestine human intelligence, and police raids. [/hider]