[@The Ghost Note] Most of the changes are in Psychology & I added a lil bit to her abstraction on how much control she has over the shadow atm [hider=Tuyen Thị Đoàn][center][img] https://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjE0Mi5kZDcyZjMuVkhWNVpXNGd4SkJ2dzZCdS4w/you-wont-bring-me-down.regular.png [/img] [i](Đoàn Thị Tuyen)[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/otLhx61.png[/img] [h1][color=MediumOrchid]╚══════════════╝[/color][/h1] [i]"Just smile! You don’t know when things will get worse."[/i] [color=MediumOrchid][h3][ [b]19[/b] | [b]5’2”[/b] | [b]South Korean & Vietnamese[/b] | [b]She/Her [/b] | [b]118 lb[/b] ][/h3] [h1][i][Uncertainty][/i][/h1][/color] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eziJc3h04CU[/youtube][/center] [color=MediumOrchid][h3][u][b] APPEARANCE [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"Maybe I’m kinda pretty… Maybe."[/i] [indent][indent] Tuyen is a bit on the shorter side, but not that small in the grand scheme of things. Her mother was smaller. She has a bit of a stocky build – a little bit wider than most her height, though she’s lost some weight from events that happened not too long ago. She is fairly flat, and her body has more subtle curves that are only noticeable in certain clothes and can be easily covered by slightly baggier clothing. Tuyen is actually quite pretty if she would have more confidence in herself, and has started to recognise that a bit. She has begun wearing a little bit of makeup to enhance this even if she still doesn’t entirely believe it. Tuyen’s hair is a dark brown-black, more brown in warmer lights. She’s let it grow out now so that it falls to about midway down her back. She will often tie or braid it back so it stays out of the way, but will also leave it loose if she isn’t doing anything important since it’s generally fairly straight and unmessy. It frames a round face with a relatively soft nose and undefined lips. Her eyes are a very dark brown and fairly large, adding to her rather cute but also often nervous appearance. Her skin is a medium golden-brown, inherited from her Vietnamese father – as many of her features are. She has very little of her mother in her aside from her hair. Tuyen doesn’t have a particular style of clothing anymore, per say, beyond nice clothes that she feels suits her. While she still likes to wear skirts with plain tops, she has much more variety and is often found in more practical clothing or dresses when she’s feeling especially nice. She tends to prefer shades of purple, blue and pink but she isn’t very fussy when it comes to colours. Tuyen has two sigils. One is located on her chest right above her right breast. It's a featureless silhouette-like figure of herself that's all black, but it's in a poised stance with a hand in the air, ready to stab. Instead of the knife being in the sigil's hand, it's in the silhouette's chest. The second is [url=https://p.kindpng.com/picc/s/40-409329_lotus-flower-black-and-white-hd-png-download.png]a black and white lotus flower on her wrist.[/url] [/indent][/indent] [color=MediumOrchid][h3][u][b] PSYCHOLOGY [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"Right back to being just as happy as I was before. And by that, I mean hiding all my insecurities and pretending to be okay."[/i] [indent][indent][indent] [color=MediumOrchid][b]MAIN GOAL ⫻[/b][/color] If Tuyen is honest, she’s unsure what her goal is anymore. She still wants to become a published author somewhere down the line but that seems even harder to achieve now. So her current goal, really, is to rediscover herself. Work on her self confidence [color=MediumOrchid][b]PHILOSOPHY ⫻[/b][/color] Tuyen believes in helping others - especially with all the supernatural shit that she’s been through. She strongly believes that she, as someone who’s got experience in it, has to be there to try and help with other problems that might come up - helping beat the next bad guy that appears. She still believes in putting on a brave face and smile, even if it’s just an illusion - because you shouldn’t worry other people over personal matters. She believes that being positive around others is important and will almost always put others feelings, and happiness, above her own in an attempt to not bring them down. [color=MediumOrchid][b]SEXUALITY ⫻[/b][/color] Gay, something she accepts but isn’t open about. [color=MediumOrchid][b]FEARS ⫻[/b][/color] Never truly being able to be herself or discovering what she wants to do in life, forever being aimless. This comes hand in hand with her continued fear of failure - no longer that she’ll constantly be compared to her cousin, but that she’ll never get anywhere in life. She also fears all the supernatural that may now be out there - and what will happen when more and more people begin to awaken. [color=MediumOrchid][b]REPUTATION ⫻[/b][/color] None, Tuyen’s a newcomer to Araminta. [color=MediumOrchid][b]FLAWS ⫻[/b][/color] As much as she’s improved a bit, Tuyen’s lack of self confidence is still one of her biggest flaws. She’s no longer the girl to take all criticism without questioning it and she doesn’t hate herself as much as she did before. However she is still plagued with self doubts and her insecurities. She may have come to accept some things she previously couldn’t, such as her sexuality, there are still many things about herself she dislikes. This is not helped by the presence of her Shadow - which may not torment her in such a dramatic fashion anymore, but is still always bringing up deep feelings of dread in an effort to stop her from ever truly accepting herself. Still, she’s taking steps forward in accepting herself even with the massive setback that it is. Along with this she is very private about her problems, unlikely to tell anyone when she has a hard time. She likes to put on a brave face until she can’t anymore. She also has some form of trust issues after everything that happened - very few people she’d trust (most fellow survivors of the glutton group), and even fewer that she’d talk to about her problems. This is added to by her not always trusting that something is real, having gotten too used to seeing shadow created illusions in her everyday life. [/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=MediumOrchid][h3][u][b] BACKSTORY [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"I won’t let my family control me anymore."[/i] [indent][indent] [/indent] Tuyen was a bit of an accident. Her mother was a farmer hill native, with parents who moved over from South Korea to set up business. Her father, on the other hand, was a postgraduate student who had moved over from Vietnam to study. The two hit it off and hooked up after a little too much to drink, resulting in Tuyen. It was safe to say her mother’s parents weren’t too happy about the child out of wedlock. Things didn’t get much better after her birth – her mother had always been poorly and the pregnancy took its toll on her, meaning she passed away when Tuyen was only a few months old. Her father did everything to try and raise her himself – including submitting to the whims of her mother’s family. Tuyen doesn’t have many memories of this time, but what she has are happy ones. Tuyen was only four when her father disappeared without a trace. His name was added to the list of people in Farmer Hill who had just gone missing and everyone went on without saying anything. Tuyen was taken in by her mother’s brother and his wife, since they had a son just a bit older than her. After this her life wasn’t anything spectacular. She got on very well with her cousin, Min-Jun, even as they became very different as the years proceeded. She was always in his shadow – she couldn’t live up to her aunt and uncle’s expectations. She couldn’t be as smart as Min or as perfect as Min. She pretended she didn’t care, especially to him, but deep down it slowly chipped away at her self confidence. It didn’t help that they disapproved of what she was good at. Still, Tuyen pursued her dreams and managed to get a place to study English Literature and Creative Writing at the college. Here she’s managed to get out of her cousin’s shadow just a little bit, easily making friends in different circles from him. After murders that happened during a camping trip Tuyen was haunted by her shadow and constant hallucinations. Still, she joined a group of fellow students in investigating – discovering that this was some kind abstraction she had. During the fight with Scott her shadow manifested physically – allowing her to help finish him for good. But like all the others she wasn’t prepared for what was to follow and barely made it out alive. Things continued to go more and more downhill as they tried their best to defeat the Glutton. Eventually through working together, though not without losses, they managed to defeat it. Through ascending Tuyen got to speak with her father again and gained some semblance of confidence in herself, accepting parts of who she was. After it was defeated Tuyen made the decision to strike off on her own, refusing to move with her Aunt and Uncle. She ended up offering to help Justin with his next “adventure”, and surprisingly he accepted, so she set off with him to Araminta. [/indent] [color=MediumOrchid][h3][u][b] SKILLS & TALENTS [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"Anyone looking for a Korean translator?"[/i] [indent][indent][indent] [color=MediumOrchid][b]Writing ⫻[/b][/color] Tuyen is good at writing, both fictional and non-fictional (like essays). Her main strength does come in fictional writing and novels. [color=MediumOrchid][b]Imagination ⫻[/b][/color] Tuyen’s imagination is quite something – you could say it was overactive. She gets ideas pretty easily, especially for stories. If it’s for something non-fictional, however, don’t expect something sensible. This is a double edged sword due to her abstraction’s tendency to show her things that don’t exist. [color=MediumOrchid][b]Supernatural Experience ⫻[/b][/color] While she’s definitely no expert, Tuyen was among the group that helped beat the Glutton - and through it she gained a good amount of experience about the supernatural. Certainly puts her above most normal people. [color=MediumOrchid][b]Languages ⫻[/b][/color] Due to her parents, Tuyen is fluent in Korean and Vietnamese. She speaks Korean better than Vietnamese but makes sure to keep them both up, though they’re secondary to English. [/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=MediumOrchid][h3][u][b] ABSTRACTION [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"Your shadow doesn’t have its own free will? Well, that must be nice...."[/i] [indent][indent][hider=The Shadow - Tuyen’s Abstraction] [color=MediumOrchid][b]TYPE ⫻[/b][/color] Awakened [color=MediumOrchid][b]ABSTRACTION ⫻[/b][/color] The Shadow, the ability to create a shadow-like entity spawned from negative thoughts and emotions that otherwise tortures her. [color=MediumOrchid][b]ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻[/b][/color] Linked directly to her negativity, and other such dark thoughts, Tuyen has her own doppelganger that takes the shape of a shadow. This Shadow is a sentient being that near constantly taunts her, and tortures her with the deep down feelings of dread and insecurity that she has inside of herself. It has two states; inactive and active. In its inactive state, nobody but Tuyen is able to see it (Not even the Awakened can see it without certain abilities), and it actively protects her from psychic intrusion by filling the intruder's mind with screams. It can cloud Tuyen's vision by creating illusions, and fooling her into believing things that are not there, or hiding things. With enough focus, Tuyen is able to ward off the Shadow for a period of time, and get some peace - but it'll always return. While active on the other hand... it manifests in the physical world. It's [i]default[/i] appearance is of a black, inky, version of herself, but one of the basest abilities of the shadow is the ability to manipulate its own shape with the only limit being that it cannot get larger than twelve feet. It can either keep its form as a shadow of Tuyen, or it can become some horrific monster, whatever is spawned from her imagination. The Shadow is capable of interacting with reality, from reaching over and grabbing objects, to attacking. It's fairly strong, too - it's strong enough to throw a fully grown man around like it's nothing, and flip over a car with sheer brute strength. The Shadow will either manifest on it's own, or if Tuyen is able to plead with it. Normally, the being is only interested with tormenting Tuyen, and will do as it pleases, but if she is able to convince it, maybe it'll assist her. It has some semblance of self preservation and will protect her if necessary. [color=MediumOrchid][b]LIMITS ⫻[/b][/color] Tuyen's shadow, first and foremost, cannot move away from her. It's effectively clung to her body, and is as mobile as she is. This also means that she's effectively it's weak spot. Again, as stated in the description it can get up to ten feet tall, strong enough to pose a threat, and is able to near-limitlessly change its shape. Tuyen cannot control the Shadow - unless she learns to get over her insecurities, and her fear of failure. Otherwise, it'll do as it pleases. At the moment, Tuyen’s control over the Shadow wildly varies due to steps taken to accept herself. On good days where she feels confident about herself she can dispel and ignore its tormenting, allowing her to control it [i]mostly[/i]. On average days she can sometimes control it or convince it to help and on the bad days, well, it won’t listen at all - and instead the tormenting is worse. It is more focused on its tormenting now due to Tuyen’s work to get over her insecurities. Along with this it now will often allow Tuyen to think that she can control it due to her self improvements… only to take the control away. [color=MediumOrchid][b]WEAKNESSES ⫻[/b][/color] As stated before, the shadow is her own worst enemy, and only wishes to torture Tuyen. It's as much of a detriment (possibly even more) as a strength, and will do anything in its power to keep her from knowing her worth. Tuyen will have to conquer her inner-doubts in order to defeat it, and control it. The two of them are linked together, and both receive the same damage. If the Shadow gets injured, the same wound will appear on Tuyen (Wherever the location of it's anatomical equivalent is). It's possible for the Shadow to receive damage that'll kill Tuyen, or be disabled. Also, the Shadow merely manifesting is a drain on Tuyen, and will cause her to feel more and more exhausted the longer it's out. Until she can't take it anymore, and the Shadow will go inactive. [/hider] [hider=Self-Healing - Madeleine’s Abstraction] [color=MediumOrchid][b]TYPE ⫻[/b][/color] Awakened [color=MediumOrchid][b]ABSTRACTION ⫻[/b][/color] Self-Healing, an abstraction that Tuyen got from Madeleine (born from her thoughts of coming back to life) - this repairs all her wounds and “resets” her to a certain point. [color=MediumOrchid][b]ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻[/b][/color] An abstraction that reflected Madeline’s thoughts that she came back to life, which Tuyen has learned to use through her own thoughts that she escaped what she assumed was an inevitable death at the hands of the Glutton. It gives her the ability to heal at an accelerated rate and heals any injuries she gets, even as small as a paper cut, by engulfing them in a blue light until it is healed. The amount of time taken depends on how severe the wound is. Since it is not Tuyen’s abstraction, and she still doesn’t entirely understand it (refusing to look at the girl’s memories where possible), this subconscious healing takes longer than it did for Madeleine. A stab wound would take around twenty minutes to heal, while a broken bone would take hours and larger a day or more. Very small wounds don’t take long to regenerate, up to at most a few minutes. Unless a wound will kill Tuyen she'll be able to heal from it. The abstraction also heals attacks to the mind or emotions, but this is rarely a problem due to Tuyen’s own abstraction protecting her from mental attacks. [color=MediumOrchid][b]LIMITS ⫻[/b][/color] Obstruction is the biggest limit to her self-healing. If there was an object in the way, then Tuyen can’t heal it until the object is removed. Speed is also the other limit; there wasn’t a limit to how much Madeline could heal at a time, but only how quickly she could do it. This is extra limiting for Tuyen, since she heals at a slower rate. In addition, Tuyen can still be knocked out, suffocated, etc. [color=MediumOrchid][b]WEAKNESSES ⫻[/b][/color] Fire is a big weakness, as it also disrupted her healing ability. When in the presence of fire, her healing slows down - and if it's an injury caused by fire, she actively can’t heal it any faster than any other wound. The process of healing is also a painful one, that makes her feel twice the amount of pain as she heals.[/hider] [/indent][/indent] [color=MediumOrchid][h3][u][b] OTHER [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"I sure hope whatever we find isn’t as bad as the Glutton..."[/i] [/hider] Hopefully will get that Vanburen character done by tomorrow [s]after rp posts[/s]