[hider=Athena Cashmore][h2][color=#8950e9]▲[/color] Athena[/h2] [center] [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/973958884991590401/989992597319720970/unknown.png[/img] [center][color=#8950e9][h3][i]It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.[/i][/h3][/color] [color=gray][b][i]– Harry Truman[/i][/b][/color][/center] Athena Emberly Cashmore [color=#8950e9]╟[/color] September 12th (22) [color=#8950e9]||[/color] Caucasian [color=#8950e9]||[/color] Female [color=#8950e9]||[/color] Bisexual [color=#8950e9]||[/color] Single [color=#8950e9]╢[/color][/center] [indent][color=#8950e9][sub][b][h3]⋙: A C A D E M I C S[/h3][/b][/sub]____________________________________________________________________[/color] [color=gray][u]A P P L I C A T I O N P R O C E S S[/u][/color] [indent][b]|| Written test || [/b] Athena aced the exams. She clearly prepared a great deal despite this test being mostly a formality for someone with her background. Her decision-making skills displayed strategic excellence and an aptitude for teamwork. She is best described as painstakingly pragmatic, but without losing empathy for her fellow man. [b]|| Practical test ||[/b] Athena displayed great in-the-moment decision making and intelligence. Her ability to organise and direct others is impeccable. She may have helped others succeed where they would’ve otherwise failed by facilitating teamwork amongst the examinees. While not physically strong, she was quick on her feet and capable of holding her own when she needed to. [b]|| Written essay topic ||[/b] Athena took perhaps a rather unconventional approach to these essays. Instead of picking a conventional topic, Athena took a number of historical failures of heroes and analysed the mistakes made in the management and coordination behind the heroes. [b]|| Video supplement ||[/b] [color=#8950e9]”Look, any person with even a modicum of intelligence knows the hero they make an action figure of is just the frontman. Any team worth their salt has a leader who stays back and makes sure everyone else works smoothly. The grease on the wheels that makes sure they don’t fuck up and lose their precious followings. Companies know they need directors who tell their heroes where they need to be so they can put those awesome skills on display. I don’t need credit, I need [i]results[/i].”[/color] Athena smirked. [color=#8950e9]”But I’m sure companies nowadays know how to make a mastermind marketable.”[/color] [/indent] [color=gray][u]S C H O O L[/u][/color] [indent]Crystal peak[/indent] [color=gray][u]Y E A R[/u][/color] [indent]Senior[/indent] [color=gray][u]C L A S S I F I C A T I O N[/u][/color] [indent]Mental[/indent] [color=gray][u]O C C U P A T I O N[/u][/color] [indent]Warden at crystal peak[/indent] [color=gray][u]L I V I N G A R R A N G E M E N T[/u][/color] [indent]Campus Castle [/indent] [color=gray][u]I N T E R N S H I P S[/u][/color] [indent]Athena has done two internships in her time with crystal peak. Both were with Guardian Eye. Her first one was mostly with their strategy and communications department. For the second she actually received extensive battlefield training. This is where she learned to use most of her military equipment fully.[/indent] [color=#8950e9][sub][b][h3]⋙: R E P U T A T I O N[/h3][/b][/sub]____________________________________________________________________[/color] [indent]Athena is imposing, and often intimidating. She always seems to be judging you and your worth. Perhaps it’s because she knows what you were doing last night. There is a reason Will is the more popular of the two. She is ruthlessly efficient and effective at what she does. Even if not everyone likes her, everybody [i]respects[/i] her. People do like to do group projects with her, though. You’re pretty much guaranteed a high score. [/indent] [color=#8950e9][sub][h3][b]⋙: P O W E R S[/b] [sup][b]& F I G H T I N G S T Y L E[/b][/sup][/h3][/sub]____________________________________________________________________[/color] [color=gray][u]A B I L I T I E S[/u][/color] [indent] [b]Expert weapon user:[/b] She is particularly well instructed in weapon-based martial arts. She is also a trained marksman. [b]Telepathy:[/b] Athena is a powerful telepath, capable of receiving and transmitting great amounts of information over large distances. [hider=applications] Mental detection: Athena passively reaches out with her mind to detect the minds of others in a very large radius around her. She can recognise minds like one does faces or voices. She can skim a mind to attain basic information; such as a name, a face and surface level emotions. This works instinctively when paying attention to a person or their mind, much like reading a face by looking at it. She can focus to increase the range of her detection to incredible levels. If she is given some identifying information about a person, she can use this to find the mind of that specific person. She is capable of sending telepathic messages to anyone she can detect. Mind wandering: Athena can project a part of her consciousness elsewhere. She can either appear within someone’s mind or dream, or she can astrally project herself. Her astral projection is visible only to those who she chooses, or those who have the ability to detect minds. She can not use her powers from her projection’s location. Mental network: Athena can create and uphold mental networks between herself and others, linking their minds to each other with herself as a relay point. People within the network can telepathically communicate with each other.This communication overcomes language barriers, and can even establish communications with things otherwise unable of speech. She can establish a mental network with any mind she can detect. Information manipulation and transfer: Athena can create complex mental images and information structures (tables, maps, ect) in her mind which she can transfer. Within a mental network, she can also freely transfer information from herself and others such as sensory information, emotions, knowledge and memories from one person to another. Psionic protection: Athena possesses a very powerful psychic shield, protecting herself fully from mental attacks and manipulation. This shield also prevents her from being detected by other psionic abilities. With mental networks, she can extend this shield to others. Psionic inundation: One of her few offensive techniques. Athena can harness harmful psionic blasts to attack the mind of her enemies directly. Usually this is only enough to momentarily stun or disorientate a foe. But with enough exertion this can cause great mental damage and even unconsciousness. Psionic weapons: Athena can focus her psionic inundation into a phantasmal weapon. These weapons are weightless and do no physical damage, but greatly harm the target mentally when they pass people. They are capable of incapacitation and even death if enough damage is dealt. These weapons also destroy psionic shields. Mind reading: Athena can read the mind of others, perceiving their thoughts, emotions and intentions. The closer she is to her target, the deeper she can delve into the mind, and the greater detail of information she can retrieve. Athena primarily uses this in combat in a predictive manner, learning where and how opponents are going to move before they do. Mind manipulation: Although largely neglected and untrained, Athena is capable of altering the mind of others. She can inject, suppress or augment certain memories. Injected memories are crude, and can not be mistaken for real memories. But they do not leave the forefront of your mind, like an annoying splinter. Any alterations disappear after about 24 hours. Shared mind: An ultimate technique of sorts. When in a mental network, she can completely leave her body for a time, leaving it behind as if she’s sleeping. She can then enter the body of someone she is in a network with. She perceives everything they do through their senses, but she can not control the body in any way. She is privy to all of this person’s thoughts and vice versa. This person can temporarily use all of Athena’s skills and knowledge as if it were their own. Athena is also capable of using her telepathic abilities from this body, as if it were her own. [/hider][/indent] [color=gray][u]L I M I T A T I O N S[/u][/color] [indent] Use of her psionic blasts become more difficult the further away they are. The further away they are, the less energy efficient her abilities become under this circumstance. These abilities are at their most efficient when she is directly touching a person. She is relatively low on options if confronted with long range combat. These abilities are also blocked by psionic shields Her mind reading and inundation becomes less effective the more people she has to target. She is at a disadvantage when forced to combat multiple opponents. Her physical abilities are not beyond that of any other trained human. This, combined with the relative lack of range in her combat techniques, makes direct combat a risky endeavour. She is a glass cannon, relying on dodging her opponents to stay in the game. She has a difficult time against any supe who can move faster than her or who makes dodging difficult. Perhaps more awkwardly, her mind can literally wander off when she's unfocused. Although this is mostly under control nowadays, this can still happen while she's asleep. She accidentally wanders into other people's dreams on regular occasion. Her support and detection abilities have no real weaknesses. But by nature of being support abilities, they are completely reliant on her team. No amount of mental communication will help someone who doesn’t communicate. [/indent] [color=gray][u]C O M B A T[/u][/color] [indent]Athena’s at her best commanding the battle from the back lines. Keeping track of opponent locations, coordinating her allies and providing them with tactical information and advantages. She is invaluable in large-scale operations and can make large teams operate far beyond the limits of normal teamwork. She can also provide long-ranged combat support if she has the right weapons. In direct combat, she relies on her skill with weapons to bring her opponents down. She probes the mind of her opponent to predict their moves to know where to strike and where to dodge. She uses psionic blasts to create openings where she can. [/indent] [color=#8950e9][sub][h3][b]⋙: A P P E A R A N C E[/b] [sup][b]& P E R S O N A L I T Y[/b][/sup][/h3][/sub]____________________________________________________________________[/color] [color=gray][u]D A I L Y L O O K S & S T Y L E [/u][/color] [list][*][b]Hair:[/b] Brown, shoulder length, usually left down [*][b]Eyes:[/b] Brown [*][b]Height:[/b] 1.7m [*][b]Body Type:[/b] Slim, but clearly toned through years of physical training [*][b]Clothing Style:[/b] Classic and elegant. Dark colours and whites. Wears a watch with her perso-assistant, Noctua. [*][b]Makeup Wise:[/b] Mostly natural looking with perhaps some strong eyeliner. Reserves some heavier make-up for the right occasions. [*][b]Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings:[/b] Earrings, quite a lot of them[/list] [color=gray][u]S U P E L O O K S & S T Y L E [/u][/color] [indent]Athena’s suit is highly militarily specialised. It is a lightly armored suit, balancing mobility, protection and functionality. Thicker armor plating covers the vital areas and arms. Most of her suit is emblazoned with owls, her symbol. The colors are mostly purple and black. Features: [b]Hi-tech Visor:[/b] Athena has a visor attached to her helmet with several advanced functions. It houses a perso-assistant called Noctua that can perform requests for Athena, such as search functionality both online or in authorised databases. The visor features a built-in scope and zoom functionality and mapping software that works based on visual input. [b]Weapons:[/b] Athena is equipped with weapons tailored to her powers. Her primary weapon is a long-range precision rifle that can fire bullets created by her psychic powers. She also has a side-arm that does the same thing for a shorter range. Finally, Athena has a staff for close-range combat that is capable of delivering electric shocks on impact to incapacitate enemies. [/indent] [color=gray][u]P E R S O N A L I T Y T R A I T S [/u][/color] [indent]Athena is a leader, radiating authority and charisma both. Her confidence is unyielding and her mind sharp, which makes her an inspiring figure that naturally takes the leadership role in a team. She relishes in tackling difficult challenges and doesn’t back down easily. She is a great tactical mind and efficient to a tee. She always had a plan ready for the moment. Although she is adaptable enough to abandon her plans should the situation invariably change. Her internships have taught her not every situation can be planned for, after all. She enjoys having a team of people to work with, and she strives to do right by anyone she works with. She can appear quite hard on the surface, demanding of others to work as hard as she does, but underneath is a caring soul who will show compassion and empathy when needed. With her powers she has seen plenty of times what happens when she pushes someone without giving them the emotional support they need, and she has taken these lessons to heart. Athena believes strongly in her own values, and isn’t afraid to speak up for what she thinks is right. She’d rather convince and motivate others than try to manipulate them to their cause through underhanded means. She believes a good leader needn’t lie or cheat or manipulate minds to get people to follow them. Though she is not without flaws. Her self-confidence can come across as arrogant. And she can seem rather condescending if you don’t share her views. She can be difficult to work with. She assumes control and expects people to fall in line. It is perhaps a bit overly arrogant of her to expect people to get in line so easily. Therefore, she tends to clash with people who challenge her authority. Athena tends to suppress her own emotions, particularly the negative ones, trying to maintain a perfect air of reliability, the pillar of people. To show the weaknesses others do would make her weak. And who would look to her for guidance if that is the case? She is also entirely too curious for her own good. Her power warps her sense of privacy to some extent. When it is easy for you to find people and listen in on them, the willingness to learn more can be quite overbearing at times. Sometimes she may end up listening in on something she shouldn’t have. [/indent] [color=gray][u]F E A R S[/u][/color] [indent]Loss of autonomy. Being in a family of mentalists does that to you. [/indent] [color=#8950e9][sub][h3][b]⋙: F A M I L Y[/b] [sup][b]& R E L A T I O N S H I P S[/b][/sup][/h3][/sub]____________________________________________________________________[/color] [color=gray][u]L O V E D O N E S [/u][/color] [b]D I R E C T F A M I L Y[/b] [indent] Father: Damian Cashmore (youngest brother of the Cashmore family) Hero name: Mind blank Ability: [abbr=Amongst other things, Damian can use his mental abilities to go invisible and create illusions. He can also generate weapons from pure mental energy that kill without leaving a trace. He can take the memories of his victims through his weapons.]Psionic assassin[/abbr] Mother: Marianne Cashmore Ability: [abbr=She is capable of communicating and transferring information over very long distances using her mind.]Telepathy[/abbr] Younger brother: Atlas Cashmore Ability: [abbr=Atlas is capable of exerting great amounts of force with his mind.]Psychokinesis[/abbr] Younger sister: Irene Cashmore Ability: [abbr=Irene can exert influence over people’s emotions. Notably, she is capable of pacifying people.]Emotion manipulation[/abbr] Cousin: William Cashmore Friends and confidantes for longer than either of them can remember. Together they survived the trials and tribulations that come with being a Cashmore nowadays. Few things are scarier in the senior class than a Cashmore team-up. Cousin: Matthew Cashmore Athena likes Matthew. And even though he shares her sentiments, she unfairly associates him with his father too much. Still, she tries to suppress this bias. Cousin: Alyssa Cashmore TBD Aunt: Melissa Blake Will’s mother, but might as well be Athena’s second mom at times. Big inspiration. Uncle: Alexander Cashmore Nobody likes Alexander Cashmore[/indent] [b]R E L A T I O N S H I P S[/b] [indent]TBA.[/indent] [color=#8950e9][sub][h3][b]⋙: H I S T O R Y[/b][/h3][/sub]____________________________________________________________________[/color] [color=gray][u]Y O U R L I F E S O F A R[/u][/color] [indent]Athena had never been born had her father not sold his soul to the devil. Well, Alexander Cashmore [i]technically[/i] wasn’t the devil, but he sure as hell was the closest thing to it that Athena had ever met. Because only the devil would take advantage of a brother’s woes over losing a loved one, a childhood sweetheart that he was set to marry. And after Damian Cashmore, not publicly known as Mindblank, an obscure hero who mainly worked from the shadows, had tried to forget his sorrows with gambling, there was Alexander to help… for a price. A geas, a mental contract that could not be disobeyed. Damian accepted, perhaps still remembering his brother as the man he had once been. But Mindstorm had not been the hero he once was for a while. And so the hero Mindblank became an agent of Cashmore global and its tyrannical CEO, erasing competitors and stealing secrets from their minds. And then came the arranged marriage between him and Marianne Goldwyn, from an equally prominent mentalist family. All arranged by Alexander and the Goldwyn patriarch. Neither party was truly happy with it. But disobedience was simply not an option. The only option they had was to enjoy their cage together. Well, so they were ordered, anyway. Athena was the oldest child of this union, and two more followed before Alexander told them it was enough. Damian and Marianne never wanted a family like this. Their children were a living representation of their hell, the bolts that locked their cage. Their responsibility to raise through command rather than love. An anguish that Athena felt all too well as her mind sought out her parents’. An anguish that her parents tried not to show, because they didn’t blame their children and wanted to give them a better life than what they had. As a Cashmore, Athena was subjected to rigorous training to be worthy of her “noble” heritage. At least here she wouldn’t suffer alone, for her cousins and siblings were subjected to just as much gruelling exercise. Athena was never given another option. She would get into Crystal peak and become a hero. Athena wanted nothing else. Because if nobody else was going to bring justice, she was going to have to do it herself. [/indent] [color=#8950e9][sub][h3][b]⋙:A N Y T H I N G E L S E [/b][/h3][/sub]____________________________________________________________________[/color] [indent]Sadie Soverall, #8950e9 Athena is the head of the chess club and a nationally accomplished player. 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