[center][h3][b][u]Name:[/u][/b][/h3][/center]
Sophia Ward


[center][h3][b][u]Age:[/u][/b][/h3][/center]
56


[center][h3][b][u]Gender:[/u][/b][/h3][/center]
Female


[center][h3][b][u]Personality:[/u][/b][/h3][/center]
Sophia is a world-weary, sarcastic, bitter and cynical woman, having been around and having seen a lot of the darker side of the world. She still carries her callous and amoral nature as a professional criminal and murderer, but it was been dulled and worn by time. She feels a self-centered regret at the wasting of her life, but no remorse for the evil of her actions.

[center][h3][b][u]Anima:[/u][/b][/h3][/center]

[b]Maelstrom Discharger[/b]

An Anima created from the Soul of an Entity that lived in an abandoned powerplant in the Outskirts. The Gun uses charge to shoot powerful attacks. It uses energy-type "bullets" (akin to rays/lasers) and can be used to do a lot of things energy related- Put up an energy shield that blocks incoming attacks, or discharge for small, low-cost blasts or even large hyperbeams. Attacks are elementally aspected- You can change between electricity, fire, and pure energy. The colour of the weapon changes accordingly (yellow -> red -> blue). Charge is gained over time or by manually charging it with aether cells (akin to ammunition)

[hider=Maelstrom Discharger][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/420465721085001735/1017780886265151509/Anima5.jpg[/img][/hider]


[center][h3][b][u]Alignment:[/u][/b][/h3][/center]
True Neutral


[center][h3][b][u]Picture:[/u][/b][/h3][/center]
[hider=Sophia Ward, age 32][img]https://assets.3dtotal.com/5---14254-portfolio-10669.13wl8m.image.6pq.jpg[/img][/hider]


[center][h3][b][u]Backstory:[/u][/b][/h3][/center] 
Thirty years ago, the illegal Anima trade looked very different to today. It was large, powerful, and based from the 2nd Pillar rather than the 5th, as crime bosses were rich and unabashedly ashamed of their wealth. Sophia was the youngest daughter of one of these families, but when she was merely thirteen, her family was killed and she and her sisters were taken in by the killers. Sophia buried her resentment. She had never felt loved by her parents in the first place. The only thing she was ever truly rewarded for, were results, and her new employers gave her praise for a good job much more readily than her own blood ever did.

She remained loyal, and worked hard, rising up in influence, standing and reputation until she was a Lieutenant, with her own men directly underneath her. Sophia had a good brain for organized crime. She made alliances, could turn on the charm when needed and twist somebody's arm when it called for it. But her main strength was her sheer ruthlessness. She killed any who crossed her or her men in cold blood, including Agents.

This reputation had it drawbacks, as she became one of the most wanted targets during the crackdown on the Organized Crime of the 2nd Pillar. She was eventually caught, arrested and though they could never tie her to any murders, got twenty years for the few criminal exploits they could prove.

Sophia served all twenty years with no complaints. Now a free woman, given one of the cheapest apartments of the 2nd Layer, and no job, she wondered what the future had in store for her. But on her third night as a free woman, she came home to find her door unlocked and a black orb in the middle of her living room...