[hider=Ziggy Stardust] [center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8c/10/bb/8c10bb15dc6cb420da0841e49a3fdea4--glow-effect-great-power.jpg[/img] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo]Space Oddity[/url] [color=4E4E4E]┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓[/color] [h1][img]https://i.imgur.com/VLi8d4r.png[/img][/h1] [sup][b]“[/b]Ground Control to Major Tom.[b]”[/b][/sup] [color=4E4E4E]┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛[/color][/center] [right][sub][h1]✶ [i]B[/i]ASICS ✶[sup][sub][color=2E2C2C]-[/color][/sub][/sup][/h1][/sub][/right] [hr] [sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]full name / nickname(s)[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent]Stardust "Ziggy"[/indent] [sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]gender / sexuality[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent]Male?[/indent] [sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]occupation[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent]Student / government property[/indent] [sub][h1][sup][sub][color=2E2C2C]-[/color][/sub][/sup]✶ [i]I[/i]N DEPTH ✶[/h1][/sub] [hr][indent][sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]personality[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] We are all stardust. But Stardust is not us. He's not human. And he doesn't really understand us. Because deep down, he's barely human. He looks like us, in a way. But he's too smooth. His skin is like ice. And yet, he's hot on the inside. He's full of emotions, boiling and frothing about like a hot cauldron ready to burst. He's like a child. His empathy though, is heightened. Some say it's because of the crystal and how it preys on others. Some think it's just natural. But he feels the pain of others, and their joys. In a way, he may not even understand his own emotions, but rather how others feel. Considering his mostly enclosed life, he tends to live a pretty orderly life. Everything has a place, a purpose, and a time of use. In a way, disrupting his organized life schedule only makes him angry, and causes him to lash out against others. Controlling his emotions though, is difficult. [/indent] [sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]superpower[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent][b][u]Ziggy Particles Embodiment[/u][/b] Referred to at the Ziggy Stardust particle. But more formally just referred to as Stardust because Ziggy can't be said with a straight face. The Stardust particle is a unique material from the depths of space. Nobody really knows exactly where it comes from, but it's almost organic. Not fully organic. Living crystal is the best way to describe it. It's almost like a parasite, that latches onto proteins, and like a virus it begins to attack and destroy the connection of the protein strands. One could say it's digesting it. The crystal grows and spreads as it breaks apart protein strands, and spreads over the human body. Stardust, is made of the Stardust particle. His body formed entirely from the crystal, giving him an alien physiology. While he does seem to have parts of the human body (brain, hearts, organs) he lacks a stomach. And instead seems to rely completely on a meat based diet, which is needed to sustain his crystalline body. Stardust can generate on command crystals from his body, which he can use to tear through dirt, stone, and other such things. The crystal itself is considered up there with diamonds as one of the hardest materials, giving Stardust that same kind of near indestructibility. The crystal is known to have a few weaknesses though. Particularly powerful vibrations can cause the crystal to crack at the right frequency, and incredibly heat (upwards of 2800 degrees Fahrenheit.) can cause the crystal to become brittle. [hider=Pros/Cons] Pros: - Durable Crystal makes up the basis of his body. - Crystals can be grown, or projected from his body, creating projectiles or barriers. - The crystal grows as it breaks apart proteins (Meat) so a cut will cause it to start growing on the infected tissue. (Think flesh eating crystal.) Cons: - Vulnerable to extreme heat. (Makes the crystal brittle.) - Vulnerable to sonic vibrations. (Causes it to crack.) - Requires a constant and heavy meat based diet. (Growing too much crystal without eating enough protein is bad for his health.) Side Effects: - Glowing body parts - Doesn't have traditional human skin. (Skin is more smooth, like glass, and is composed of crystal.) - Can absorb the crystals back into his body. - Meat based diet. - Doesn't sleep - Only one of his kind [/hider] [/indent] [sub][sub][h3][color=white][i]backstory[/i][/color][/h3][/sub][/sub] [indent] 25 years ago, NASA launched the ship, the USS Stardust into the sky above. Space, a short trip to the moon and back. And then it vanished. Transmissions cut out, and they were never seen again. For 20 years, the fate of the three astronauts onboard was a mystery, with only speculation regarding their fates. Until one day, the USS Stardust crashed into the ocean, and the three astronauts on board were discovered. All three dead. Preserved by a layer of crystal that had formed over their bodies. In a way, it seemed, parasitic. Drawing life from the corpses. For over a year the bodies were kept in a lab, to be studied and analyzed. It was Decembers 25th when it happened. The bodies began to move, and from their three separate rooms, they moved towards each other. As if they were seeking each other. Until all three bodies met, and began to merge. The heat from the fusion was like a furnace, billowing heat through the facility. But it was over in a minute, and suddenly, there was only one. A single entity, like a child in a way. A perfect human, but not really. It had a mind. It had a heart. But it was different. Crystal grew from its body, as if to protect it. It was cold to the touch, and seemed to study everything around it. For four years 'Stardust' as he was called lived inside Area 52. Where he learned to be human. Until finally, it was decided to release him into the world. With Operative Mother as his contact to the government and military, he was set out into Centerville. To be a hero of sorts. To test his powers, by helping America. Until he was ready. [/indent] [/hider]