[center][h1][color=c455fc]Liana Washington[/color][/h1]

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[i]"Liana Washington, Marchand Security Team. Trickster, Shadowstep and Healer at your service!"[/i]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLEjlhyRTb0]"Ordinary" by [i]The Buzzhorn[/i][/url]


[color=c455fc][b]Full Name[/b][/color]
Liana Renee Washington

[color=c455fc][b]Nicknames/Aliases[/b][/color]
"Wonder Woman" (from Iraq), "Valkyrie" (from US)

[color=c455fc][b]Age[/b][/color]
29

[color=c455fc][b]Gender[/b][/color]
Female

[color=c455fc][b]Staff Role[/b][/color]
Security Staff (Contractor, though at this point she may as well be Full Time)

[color=c455fc][b]Primary[/b][/color]
[b][i]Trickery[/i][/b]
Liana uses the element of trickery in order to aid her in her line of work as an assassin and a mercenary. Over the years, she's been using this type of magic to make herself one of the sneakiest and deadliest out there, through a variety of ways. 

One of her most commonly used magical feats is the ability to conceal larger weapons and a large number of tools. Most assassins often resort to the use of knives or handguns due to their concealability, and often have to sacrifice power and range for it. However, Liana can conceal any kind of weapon and tool she pleases through the method of teleporting objects through concealable areas into places only she knows about. The weapons and tools she has is almost innumerable, ranging from knives to sniper rifles, whatever she needs for the job. However, while she can get any kind of weapon she has stored beforehand, she normally relies on a Type 56 (AK, listed below in Equipment) that she can augment to be silenced. Normally she carries it around openly so she can react quicker in an emergency, but when she has to, she can easily conceal it through concealment teleportation. 

One of her other go-tos with trickery magic is the forgery of just about anything. She carries a wallet full of blank cards so she can easily forge whatever she needs at a moment's notice, whether it would be a driver's license for that state, counterfeit cash, a permit for the AK she has slung to her side, or a badge for a government agency. This was her primary method of escaping from the authorities, as well as infiltrating them. Being an assassin with a moral code not to harm innocents, she's often pulling out fake IDs much more often than she pulls out her firearms. The forgery that she creates on something can only last for 24 hours, so while she can easily create huge stacks of counterfeit cash to pay for things, her enemies won't know that they got scammed until it is too late (she pays people she likes with real money she rightfully stole). She can forge other things, ranging from documents to checks, as well as entire signs.

Liana can cast other illusions, often times adding or removing features of herself in order to suit whatever situation she is in. She casts other illusions too, such as making herself appear different when infiltrating enemies that know her, or making her face blur with every camera she passes. She can make herself and others invisible as well, but that takes a bit of mental effort. Sometimes, whenever she is fighting in open battle, she likes to cast a spell to make her look like she's wearing 'war paint' on her face, as to make herself look more intimidating in battle. She can also cast an illusion spell on her weapons to add proper red-dot sights that only she can see in order to assist in long-range aiming with them. Among other things, she can completely silence her steps and her weapons, to remain absolutely silent and stealthy as possible. She can cast other minor spells in the trickery field, but those mentioned here are what she's pretty good at through lots of practice. 


[color=c455fc][b]Secondaries[/b][/color]
[b][i]Healing[/i][/b]
Liana has the ability to heal herself and others. This is one of the first magical abilities that Liana learned during her time as a muggle, and it was something that she developed over time. She used this ability and practiced it on herself any time she got herself into a bad scrape. By the time she went to Iraq to join the ISC, she had already learned how to (slowly) heal bullet wounds, and used her magical healing ability to keep her comrades alive and well through the hellish Iraqi warzone. She can heal broken bones and help people recover from something as big as explosions, but it takes some time and energy for her to do. 

[b][i]Shadow Step[/i][/b]
Liana's ability to step through shadows was something she learned in her early days of her career from an assassin who was quite good at it. However, while she uses it often to get around and infiltrate enemy areas, she is still intermediate at it, often having a little trouble getting through, and falling from ceilings. She can travel through the shadows to pass through walls and go through different floors, but she can only move through the shadow space for a certain amount of time before she would have to leave again (as she will be feeling quite sick if she moved around in there for too long). She often uses the shadow space to hide from the enemy, but again, can only remain in there for a short amount of time, up to about three minutes before she would need to take a breath again. She normally uses this ability defensively, or simply as a form of traversal. While Liana cannot use it to chase someone, all too often she uses the shadows to hide bodies and kill her marks, leaving them there to never be discovered again.


[color=c455fc][b]Equipment[/b][/color]
Liana normally carries a [url=https://www.alternet.org/files/story_images/ak.jpg]Modernized Kalashnikov Folding Automatic Rifle (AKMS)[/url] almost at all times, with the ability to conceal it whenever necessary.  When her AK is concealed, it is kept in a separate, buried safe full of spare AKs and other weapons that she can access at any time through her trickery magic. She has a separate ammo dump for magazines that can fire just about any kind of round she has prepared beforehand. Many of the rounds she fires are pre-enchanted rounds she purchased herself (such as armor-piercing, anti-magic, silver, non-lethal rubbershock, incendiary, explosive, electric, acidic, nerf foam). However, these rounds are pre-enchanted, so Liana would have to reload her weapon with the correct magazine in order to fire them. All of Liana's weapons she uses can be rendered completely silent at will, or reduce the sound to make it loud but not deafening. 

Liana has a depot of other things she can summon at will from underneath any piece of clothing, ranging from firearms to explosives. She often has a variety of tools on hand needed for just about anything, which could be cutters, flares, gas masks, oxygen, screwdrivers, or whatever someone like her would need on the field. Over the years, she's prepared a massive cache in an undisclosed bunker of things she might possibly need at some point, but she is limited only in what she can conceivably need. For example, she can pull out and distribute gas masks to herself and everyone else in an event of a chemical attack, but if someone asks for a special type of sword, she cannot summon it as she didn't even conceive it, and thus didn't get it and put it in her bunker.

[b][i]Weapons Depot[/i][/b]
[url=https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2lIawkeGdX0/maxresdefault.jpg]AKMS Assault Rifle[/url] [url=https://i.ytimg.com/vi/h05H49rnBas/maxresdefault.jpg](Folded)[/url] (7.62x39mm Soviet)
[url=https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1SR-ThTONkw/TkdBFK9ec7I/AAAAAAAAAW0/RQCDOPrrJPs/s1600/Dragunov+SVD.jpg]Dragunov SVD Sniper Rifle[/url] (7.62x54mmR)
[url=https://i.imgur.com/rary4q8.jpg?1]Custom M1911 Pistol[/url] (.45 ACP)

[url=http://www.vets4victory.com/images2/TabukZastavaAKs.JPG]Personalized Tabuk M70 (AKM) Assault Rifle[/url]
[hider=Weapon Details]A personal rifle that was issued to her when she was contracted to work for the Iraqi Security Coalition 6 years ago. It's her personal rifle that she holds very dear to her, complete with a heart carved on the left side of the wooden butt stock (with Arabic written inside of it) and around 192 small inked tallies on the right, all of them inked in black with 4 inked in red. It shows clear signs of wear, having been used for years. There's also an emblem stamped on the base of the butt stock, an emblem of an Arab-Kurdish coalition that fought against terrorists in Northern Iraq. Unlike all of her other weapons, this is kept in a personal display case with a picture of a woman named Sukaina in it.[/hider]


[color=c455fc][b]Description[/b][/color]
Liana can best be described as an African American woman with darker skin, but with the facial inflections of an Asian. She has some defined muscles that make her look a little tougher than most women her size, being at 5'6". However, the only muscles on display are often her arms as she wears basic grey T-shirts and skinny cargo pants that match whatever environment she is in (they aren't enchanted, she changes them everywhere she goes with her trickery). On top of the T-shirts she wears, she often wears a tactical vest with ballistic plates that match whatever environment she is in, often containing pouches that she can pull whatever she needs from. She wears combat boots at almost all times, and when needed, she can summon a Kevlar helmet or a baseball cap of any color pertaining to whatever environment she is in. She normally has her hair in braided pigtails (as pictured above), but she can change her black hair to whatever suits the occasion. She is often seen with an AK slung by her side, with an empty pouch or two to pull out whatever she needs.
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[color=c455fc][b]Personality[/b][/color]
Liana's a rather casual person, and thanks to her magical abilities she's accrued over her long career, she can afford to be. While she's casual in regards to herself, she still values the lives of others, and takes them and her particular line of work very seriously. Liana hasn't been around too many people, so she might act casual in the face of authorities as well. She might be quite cold (emotionally and literally) when on the job against enemies, any friend she does make she's absolutely loyal to. She has a soft spot for children too, and doesn't mind being around them at all. And despite her cold ways, she absolutely loves light-hearted stuff, and will gladly balance the darkness of her life with a little light, like song and dance. While she loves a good fight as anyone else, she's not the type to kill unnecessarily. She targets her marks and her marks only, and tries to minimize damage to others as much as possible. She will also go out of her way to help others, and has proven time and time again that while she has no room for enemies in her heart, it's because that room is reserved for those she cares about. However, thanks to her casting of forbidden magic in the past, Liana's murderous tendencies tend to be a little more pronounced these days.

[color=c455fc][b]Relationship[/b][/color]
Liana once had a lover during her tour in Iraq, but this lover, Sukaina, was killed by intolerant group of  Muslims who weren't particular to her homosexual relationship with Liana. While Liana does believe that Sukaina awaits Liana to come join her in the afterlife, she believes that Sukaina would've wanted Liana to move on, and find someone else to make her happy. As such, she's single, DTF and pretty lonely.

[color=c455fc][b]Skills[/b][/color]
[b][i]Magic[/i][/b]
Weapon Concealment/Teleportation
Equipment Summoning
Quick Forgery (Documents, IDs, Money)
Light Body Illusion (Changing facial appearance, concealment from cameras, brief invisibility)
Intermediate Healing
Casual Shadow Walking
Intermediate Shadow Hiding

[b][i]Mundane[/i][/b]
Journeyman Assassin
Journeyman Mercenary
Advanced Combat Experience (Urban and Desert Warfare) 
Mixed Martial Arts
Advanced Weapons experience in AKs and 1911s
Advanced Driving Technique
Advanced Communications
Intermediate Surgery (from Healing ability)


[color=c455fc][b]Weaknesses[/b][/color]
[b]Liana[/b] is just as human as anyone else, and has no magical defenses. She normally wears a tactical vest with ballistic SAPI plates that protect her from all kinds of kinetic damage, but other than that, she has every other shortcoming a human being would. 
[b]She[/b] is completely reluctant to hurt innocents, and will probably rebel against those who order her to do so. (She has a history of doing that.)
[b]No[/b] one really knows what her real name is, as Liana Washington is a name she gave herself when she began her career as an assassin. Knowing who she is and displaying it would be shocking, at the very least. 
[b]Liana[/b] loves animals (especially cute ones), and will probably lose her shit if she sees someone harming any.
[b]Liana[/b] also has a soft spot for children, and will try to make sure they stay out of harm's way.
[b]Liana[/b] often acts in self interest, and while she would totally help out friends if she can, she hasn't made any so far so it will be easy to persuade her to do things for herself.
[b]While[/b] she tries to take time to analyze a situation, pressure for time often puts her at a disadvantage where she makes a lot of mistakes, and can often lead her to use her more mundane abilities rather than powers she can consciously use to her advantage.
[b]Having[/b] grown up in the "Muggle World", she doesn't have much respect nor does she have much knowledge of the mage world at all. She will often underestimate the abilities her enemies, and treat them as the muggle targets she killed by the hundreds. She will also underestimate the ability of her allies, and treat them as the muggles she's fought alongside and protected during her tour in Iraq. 
[b]She[/b] can often over-analyze a situation, and become paranoid after put at a huge disadvantage. Having been the apex predator in her world, she doesn't react well to being dominated by a (metaphorically speaking) bigger fish. And will [i]certainly[/i] not react well to being dominated by an [i]actual fish.[/i]

[color=c455fc][b]Brief History[/b][/color]
Born and raised in New York City, Liana grew up in a rough environment that really screwed up with her mind, as well as her sense of morality. When she was 6 years old, she watched as her mother and brother were killed by a drive-by shooting, one that turned out to be sent to the wrong address. She grew up in a run-down foster home after that, and growing up, she worked towards her fantasy and dream of killing those responsible of murdering her family. No amount of therapists could stop her, and by the time she turned 14, she had made her first kill, on the driver of that car. It made her sick at first, but, she also [i]enjoyed it.[/i] The satisfaction if killing a man of evil was [i]fun[/i] for her, and she didn't stop killing since then. However, after killing everyone responsible for the death of her own blood, she decided that she wanted [i]more.[/i] As psychotic as she became, she still had a head on her shoulders, and knew right from wrong, knowing that spilling the blood of the good or the innocent will only cause more pain in the world that needed less, having experienced it first hand. From that, she dedicated her life to removing evil from the world the only way she knew how, and began her journey as an assassin when she turned 16. Since then, she has killed a variety of marks. Gang leaders, mafiosos, sicarios, criminals, the like. During her time in between jobs, she went under a strict training regimen, having learned from books and other assassins. The other assassins she worked under didn't last very long, for when she learned that they had murdered innocents, she used the skills they taught her against them. She learned her first magical techiniques from these assassins, and started to perfect them and learn her own as well. At one point, she was hired by a criminal gang to kill an NYPD police chief and his entire family, to which she responded by eliminating every single armed member of the group, and torturing their boss to death. Those who survived encounters with her named her [i]Valkyrie...[/i], after the women of Odin who brought the souls of the dead to Valhalla. But instead, it had its own twisted meaning in New York, for a woman who brought the souls of dead criminals to hell. 

Liana couldn't stay in New York forever, and the NYPD was starting to get a little tired of these 'unexplained killings' of the criminals that they were trying to put behind bars. From that, she decided to leave New York and go to Northern Iraq to work as a mercenary. She was quickly contracted by the Iraqi Security Coalition (a coalition of Arab and Kurdish militias in Northern Iraq) in fighting the Al-Saif terrorist group that has been plaguing the area, and Liana was more than happy to work with them. Liana found herself at home pretty quickly, and made many new friends, finding that Arabs and Kurds are much nicer folk to be around than Americans were. Briefly after she first arrived, Liana entered a secret relationship with a woman named Sukaina, who gave her the Tabuk rifle that Liana keeps to this day. While she would've loved to have had an open relationship, violence against homosexuals in Iraq was a little too much a risk for Liana to put Sukaina in. From there, Liana remained there for four years, using her time there to lay low and practice her magic, normally by infiltrating terrorist strongholds and practicing her telekinesis. While she had been good with all kinds of guns in New York, Liana learned how to use the AK and SVD effectively, becoming a very skilled marksman with both having practiced on hundreds of terrorists. Her ability to dispatch evil men with ease and constantly save her comrades from the cold embrace of death earned her the title of "Wonder Woman" amongst her comrades in the ISC, to the point where she was sometimes used in allied propaganda, with magic abilities being stuff of legend. The war quickly shifted in the ISC's favor, and Al-Saif got desperate, targeting civilians rather than ISC personnel. Liana, rather than using the terrorists for fun target practice, decided to eliminate them all before they can hurt anyone again. Casting a spell to read a man's mind to learn of the final fortress, Al-Saif was killed to the last man, with Liana slaughtering almost everyone in the final fortress with only her lover's Tabuk AK rifle.

After the Al-Saif fortress was conquered by ISC personnel, she wanted to celebrate her victory with her lover Sukaina. However, someone very close to Liana in the ISC ran his mouth off to his friends regarding Liana and Sukaina's relationship, and word spread to the unsavory folk in the local area, who didn't take too kindly to the existence of homosexuals under the eyes of God. Sukaina was found in her apartment by a group of eight men, who filmed her getting tossed off the top of said apartment building. Sukaina fell to her death, and Liana saw the video shortly after. For the next month, Liana tracked down and painfully murdered every single man responsible for Sukaina's death, having casted forbidden mind magic on her first two targets before going on a gorey killing spree on the other six. Having felt no peace afterwards, Liana wanted to go to new places for a more emotional reason. She returned to the United States to use her newfound experience to gain some more contract work, going back to her roots as an assassin. She did some odd jobs for the CIA for the next two years, and by the time she was 29, she had been all across America taking out bad guys the CIA no longer wanted to use. Her schedule soon freed up, and she started looking for different jobs, wanting to try something easier and a little more legal this time around. Looking to give security a try, she hoped to score big bucks as a risk management specialist, since she would now how to get into places and get out. Due to her extensive contract background, her credentials with the ISC, as well as her strict code of ethics, she was hired by Montana as a contractor for Marchand High's Security Team. After a rough two days and a contract signed, only time will tell if this is one of the biggest mistakes of her life, or if this becomes one of her biggest life experiences ever.

[color=c455fc][b]Other[/b][/color]
Liana is bisexual, with a preference for women. However, she can and will make exceptions for men, provided that they meet certain criteria with her. She is a woman who sits snug in between the alignments of True Neutral and Chaotic Good. She likes to drive around in a stolen and modified black [url=http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/3/2722/1161/31803080001_large.jpg]1995 Dodge Stealth[/url], because she likes the car, and loves how fitting the name is for her. She normally uses it to commute, but she uses whatever vehicle she can commandeer in emergencies. 

[sub]Face Claim: [b]Yvonne Houston[/b]
Disclaimer: ISC and Al-Saif are fictional entities in a fictional conflict based off of real life events.[/sub]

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[hider=Edit History]
[b]Edit 7/29/18[/b] | Totally forgot to add this, but there are a fuckton of edits here that I made today. Like a fuckton. Overhauled Liana's CS, definitely worth taking a look.
[b]Edit 7/30/18[/b] | Added new pics under "description".
[b]Edit 12/12/18[/b] | Redid Liana's backstory and character a little, changed her secondary and changed her weapons.
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