[b]34. TIFFANY ZHANG[/b]

(Originally from Academy 003: Seeds of Change)
Inspired by: Stephanie Wang, Lea Lynton

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[color=hotpink][h3][b]⫸ B A S I C   I N F O R M A T I O N ⫷[/b][/h3][/color]
[i]"Pink makes everything pretty!"[/i][/center]

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[color=hotpink]▼ [b]| BIRTH   NAME : | [/b][/color]
[indent]Tiffany Zhang[/indent]

[color=hotpink]▼ [b]| ALSO   KNOWN   AS: |[/b][/color]
[indent]Tiff, sometimes. Mostly by close friends and family[/indent]

[color=hotpink]▼ [b]| GENDER : | [/b][/color]
[indent]Female[/indent]

[color=hotpink]▼ [b]| AGE : |[/b] [/color]
[indent]18[/indent][/indent]
[center][color=hotpink][h3][b]⫸ A P P E A R A N C E ⫷[/b][/h3][/color]
[i]"I don't dress up for boys. I dress up to stare at my reflection as I walk by store windows-duh."[/i][/center]

[indent][color=hotpink]▼ [b]| P H Y S I C AL   S T A T S : |[/b][/color][/indent]
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[color=hotpink][b]▸ HEIGHT : |[/b][/color] Five feet, four inches
[color=hotpink][b]▸ WEIGHT : |[/b][/color] 116 pounds
[color=hotpink][b]▸ ETHNICITY : |[/b][/color] East Asian (Chinese, specifically)
[color=hotpink][b]▸ HAIR   COLOR : |[/b] [/color]Black
[color=hotpink][b]▸ EYE   COLOR : |[/b][/color] Brown
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[color=hotpink]▼ [b]| PHYSICAL   DESCRIPTION : |[/b] [/color]
[indent]Tiffany's definitely not the most formidable of people, standing at five feet and four inches (though her impractically high heels give her at [i]least[/i] another four or five) and weighing less than one-hundred and twenty pounds. Her hair is thick and straight, and it is naturally a jet black color, though she's dyed it everything from red to blonde to pink (back when dyeing your hair with Kool-Aid was a thing, in middle school). When she was younger, Tiffany was pretty indecisive about her hair, and was constantly getting it altered, but she's kept her hairstyle consistent since her junior year of high school. Right now, it falls a couple inches past her shoulders. Tiffany thinks that it's too straight, but unfortunately, her hair doesn't hold curls very well. Tiffany has taken to getting up an hour earlier just to curl her hair...even knowing that by the end of the day, all evidence of her hard work will be pretty much gone.

Tiffany's features are rather doll-like and dainty, and her warm brown eyes are always usually cheerfully optimistic and/or mischievous. Her eyebrows are perfectly plucked, and her pale skin is [i]always[/i] flawlessly maintained via an extensive skin-care routine that Tiffany perfected in high school. Her face is somewhere in between "circular" and "heart-shaped", and her hands are rather small, though her fingers are long and slender (Tiffany attributes this to the hours of piano and violin she was forced to endure up until sophomore year). She is on the slimmer side and leanly muscular, thanks to years of ballet, Chinese dance, gymnastics, and cheer. 

On most days, Tiffany refuses to be seen in public without a full face of makeup on-foundation, concealer, mascara, lipstick and/or lip gloss, eyeliner, nail polish, highlighter, eye shadow; the whole shebang. Tiffany loves anything sparkly and anything pink, and she takes great pride in her [i]killer[/i] winged eyeliner. Tiffany's generally a pretty cheerful person, and it shows; there's always a playful spring in her step, no matter what choice of footwear she's got for the day, be it a pair of cute lavender ballet flats or seven-inch platform heels bedazzled with rhinestones.[/indent]

[color=hotpink]▼ [b]| ATTIRE : |[/b][/color]
[indent]Tiffany's personal style is very pink and very girly. She [i]loves[/i] everything sparkly, too, and she's always had a soft spot for florals. On a day-to-day basis, Tiffany likes skirts (especially those cute pleated high-waisted ones), crop tops, and loose, billowy cardigans, paired with heels and hoop earrings. When it's colder outside, Tiffany prefers longer skirts and dresses and/or skinny jeans with heeled boots, silk scarves, pea coats, and cute mittens/earmuffs...all in pink, of course. For special occasions, her go-tos are glitzy mini-dresses and sparkly stilettos.[/indent]

[center][color=hotpink][h3][b]⫸ P S Y C H O L O G Y ⫷[/b][/h3][/color]
[i]"If at first you don't succeed, fix your ponytail and try again."[/i][/center]

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[color=hotpink][b]▼ | PERSONALITY TRAITS : | [/b][/color]
[indent]Friendly, outgoing, energetic, welcoming, optimistic, determined, talkative to the point of being annoying, impulsive, a bit shallow and superficial, silly, slightly ridiculous, really extra, super girly, comes off as a bit of an airhead, loves everything pink and sparkly

[hider=In-Depth]At a first glance, Tiffany is unnecessarily focused on small, overly specific details and unbearably girly. She is bubbly and outgoing, and her friendly, cheerful disposition is well-liked by her peers, even if they do make fun of her for her propensity of wearing high heels everywhere she goes. Though Tiffany can be very prissy and a bit shallow or superficial, she doesn't have a single mean bone in her body. She can talk about anything and everything for hours on end. Some tend to find this incessant chatter exceedingly irritating, which Tiffany is not always the most aware of. She is a kind and sweet person at heart, and she refuses to say anything bad about other people as a general principle.

If Tiffany is not always aware of how much she talks, she [i]is[/i] quite aware of the feelings and thoughts of others. Tiffany is naturally people-smart and is good at picking up subtle hints that indicate shifts in emotions in others. She's a very good listener and always willing to offer comfort to other people. Empathetic, understanding, and cheerful, Tiffany is perpetually impeccably organized and ready for anything. She's a bit of a perfectionist with a stickler for keeping everything neat and organized. Tiffany has an infernal inability to keep her mouth shut on things that don't really matter, making her an incorrigible gossip.

Despite her rather silly tendencies, Tiffany is remarkably good at keeping track of and managing people. She has a knack for remembering names and faces, and for all her sparkly ways, she can sometimes be quite perceptive.[/hider][/indent]

[color=hotpink][b]▼ |  SKILLS : | [/b][/color]
[indent] » Running in high heels of any sort (and outrunning you while she's at it)

» She's a very good listener, despite her reputation as a ditzy airhead cheerleader

» Besides English, she also speaks Chinese and Spanish...sort of (she's been taking Spanish since sixth grade, so she's gotta be fluent, right????)

» Making anything and everything look aesthetically pleasing. [i]Especially[/i] her notes from class 

» Nimble and flexible and lithely strong from her years of cheerleading, gymnastics (both rhythmic and artistic), and dance. She's also quite good at tumbling; ya girl can effortlessly throw a round-off Arabian double-back handspring sequence while reciting every brand of make-up that she's every used

» Applying sparkly pink eyeshadow while checking Instagram while operating a motor vehicle. Does that count?[/indent]

[color=hotpink][b]▼ | BACK   STORY : | [/b][/color]
[indent]Tiffany's life has been, up until now, completely, utterly normal.

That's not to say that it was [i]boring[/i], of course. Tiffany had a ton of fun just being a normal girl at a normal school with a normal life. In fact, she [i]liked[/i] it-she liked being a cheerleader, she liked Starbucks runs before school and sneaking out at lunch to get Chipotle, she liked football games and homecoming and prom, she liked shopping with her friends on the weekends and, well, she could put up with school on the weekdays.

Tiffany's family was pretty normal, too-she had a sister, five years older than her, and a mom and a dad and grandparents and cousins, just like everybody else. Her mother was a translator; her father an engineer. Her family was, for all intents and purposes, perfectly run-of-the-mill.

When she was four or five, Tiffany's mom signed her up for Chinese dance lessons being held in their Maryland hometown, and Tiffany found herself liking it very much. Later on, she would add in a whole range of related activities-ballet, rhythmic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, jazz, lyrical, et cetera-only to give those up, one after another, as she got bored. 

The one thing she stuck with, however, was cheer. Something about the inherent energy in the sport appealed to Tiffany, and besides. Being a cheerleader seemed [i]so[/i] cool.

In high school, Tiffany joined the cheer team, and she loved every minute of it. Sure, there were times when it got stressful or tiring, but those were always outweighed by the awesome friends she made. The actual "school" part of high school wasn't [i]as[/i] great-Tiffany didn't necessarily flunk out, but she wasn't making the honor roll, either. Her teachers would always accidentally call her by her sister's name, which was made even [i]more[/i] annoying by the fact that she'd been valedictorian when she graduated, but whatever. Tiffany didn't really care.

Senior year, spring semester, was when Tiffany's life was turned upside down. It [i]should[/i] have been one of the easiest semesters of Tiffany's entire high school career-she had already chosen to go to school in Baltimore with a bunch of her friends, and she had [i]major[/i] senioritis and was [i]so[/i] looking forward to prom and beach week and then summer vacation ([i]finally[/i]) when the [i]incident[/i] happened.

Tiffany had been out camping in the mountains for spring break, with a couple of friends from school. Normally, she wouldn't have agreed to such a thing (the "I-haven't-showered-for-three-days" look is [i]so[/i] not her style), but one of her best friends had begged her to come, citing the fact that her ex would be there (and that she would totally need someone to vent to in case said ex did something, you know?), so Tiffany went, albeit a bit begrudgingly. 

On the third or fourth day, the group of high schoolers went hiking. What should have been a pleasant, relaxing hike turned into something slightly less pleasant and relaxing as Tiffany's BFF fled from the marked trail, in tears over something her ex said. Tiffany, of course, chased after her (ignoring her hair and nails for the time being, which came out of the entire ordeal [i]so[/i] messed up), and ended up catching up to said BFF. The two of them found a small cave-like opening in the rocks to sit and rest and catch their bearings, but Tiffany had just barely stepped foot into the cave thingymajiggy when she felt...[i]weird[/i].

Unbeknownst to Tiffany and her friends, the cave had contained a Delta-Crystal, though it wouldn't be until later on in the semester until her powers began to manifest. And when they [i]did[/i] manifest, Tiffany [i]freaked[/i], à la [i]White Chicks[/i] "I'm going to have a BF!". She didn't particularly want to be a Metahuman, thank you very much-she was supposed to have a normal life, even if it [i]was[/i] pretty useful to be able to use her newfound abilities to get her make-up done faster. 

When her parents realized what had happened, they were able to pull some strings to get her into one of the Academies meant specifically for Metahumans, since Tiffany's aunt on her mother's side worked for FAMA. Tiffany was not too happy to learn that, instead of going to college with her friends, she would instead be attending an Academy where she knew absolutely no one. But, of course, there was nothing that she could do about it. 

All Tiffany wants to do is finish school at the Academy and get back to her old life as fast as she can. Is that [i]really[/i] too much to ask? [/indent][/indent]

[center][color=hotpink][h3][b]⫸ P O W E R   I N F O R M A T I O N ⫷[/b][/h3][/color]
[i]"If you so much as touch my hair, I'm going to rip you apart and put cute stickers on your corpse. Do you know HOW long it takes to blow-dry these bangs every morning?!"[/i][/center]

[color=hotpink][b]▼ | POWER   CLASSIFICATION : | [/b][/color]
[indent]Type-Blue[/indent]

[color=hotpink][b]▼ | POWER   DESCRIPTION : | [/b][/color]
[indent][i]Telekinetic-Virus.[/i] (shoutout to [@Surtr Inc])
Tiffany was exposed to the Type-Blue energy, and thus it has gifted her with a form of telekinesis that's somewhat more unique than other kinds. She's capable of releasing telekinetic energy into the environment (which appears as a hot pink light) that travels five meters before it dissipates. While this energy is traveling, it "infects" nearby objects, illuminating it in a hot-pink color, and basically allows her to manipulate it like any other telekinetic would. Any object infected with the "virus" can be moved, and she can also exert some advanced techniques such as crushing, bending, etc - basically anything any other telekinetic can do. She can control several objects at once, or several extremely heavy object - long as it's under 650lb she can control it without straining herself. She can, at will, dispell the virus and spread another one, however she can "spread" the infection by having an infected object hit something unaffected - infecting it.[/indent]

[color=hotpink][b]▼ | LIMITS : | [/b][/color]
[indent] Tiffany, first and foremost, cannot control what exactly the virus infects, but she can subtly influence it or spread it manually. The virus lasts around ten minutes before it dissipates and she has to create another one - also she can only have one "infection" at a time. In addition the infection doesn't follow her, so if she moves she'll leave the infection behind. Attempting to move anything over 500 pounds will cause severe mental strain on her, however she can manipulate anything infected with the virus long as it's within her line of sight.[/indent]

[color=hotpink][b]▼ | WEAKNESSES : | [/b][/color]
[indent]Tiffany's power is connected to her body, mind, and spirit. Using it causes injuries to her body in the form of your garden variety nosebleed, to horrific headaches, and strained muscles. She'll basically have one hell of a hangover after a particularly drawn out battle, the typical telekinetic weaknesses. A counter to Tiffany's virus, or a way to dispell it, is high intensity energy - given that it's an energy of a mental sort, once the two collide they'll cancel each other out. [/indent]

[center][color=hotpink][h3][b]⫸ O T H E R ⫷[/b][/h3][/color]
[i]"I prefer to describe myself as 'delightfully difficult'. And it would just be easier if you agreed."[/i][/center]
[indent]Tiffany [i]loves[/i] sweet things; bubble tea, cancer-inducing Starbucks fraps, ice cream, Oreos, doughnuts...as long as there's sugar in it, Tiffany will [i]probably[/i] eat it. Her aesthetic consists of bright pinks and yellows and glitter and floral-print, topped off with a pair of suicidally-high heels, and she likes to decorate her notes and planner with cute stickers. She absolutely [i]adores[/i] stationery and pretty notes written in sparkly gel pens.

"Legally Blonde", "Clueless", and "The Devil Wears Prada" are three of her all-time favorite movies. Though "Tangled" and "The Princess and the Frog" are wonderful as well. TL;DR Tiffany is a extra as hell and completely prepared to bullshit her way through the Academy in short skirts and glitzy heels[/indent][/hider]