[hider=34] Name - Given: #34: Emerie Merriam Prefered: Emerie, Merriam Accepted Nickname/s: Emerie Numer Designation: 34(called this by most in the lab, however will use her name while writing her POV and 34 when writing my other characters' POVs) Gender - Female Pronouns: She/her Age - 15 Species - Mermaid Classification(Realm Wise) - Ocean Powers - Unknown. She doesn’t appear to have any, but water still responds to her, even though she denies using any abilities. Personality - Emerie has zero chill. She’s chaotic and annoying, sometimes becoming abusive and abrasive. The only real way to get her to chill is to sedate her if you can get close enough to do so without getting injured by her antics, as she has a relative fear of needles and will harm anybody who comes at her with one. As well as her chaotic nature, everything is a game to Emerie- and I mean [i]everything[/i] Looks - When not in the water, Emerie appears as a regular human girl with tan skin that never seems to burn, even when exposed to flames. She has straight long brown hair that sometimes has streaks of blonde depending on how long it’s been since she’s been in the water. On land, she wears olive green shorts and a sky blue T-shirt, but never shoes or socks. Well, she wears one sock, on her right foot. This sock covers tiny cuts that are scattered around her ankle and lower leg area. When she’s in water, or water has gotten on her, she bears a sleek golden-scaled mermaid tail. When in her mermaid form, she wears a rather childish ruffled pink bathing suit top, even though it's clear she doesn't mind how childish the top is. Weapon/s Of Choice - Emerie’s only weapon is being an absolute pain in the ass.(pardon the profanity but it’s accurate) And a knife she stole from the scientists that nobody except her knows about, but that’s for when she finally decides to escape if she chooses to. Strengths - Emerie’s annoying personality means that she can get what she wants. The memories of her brother mean that she will not let her spirit be crushed by any of the experiments, and she treats them like games; this means that she often defeats the objective of researchers before they can even identify how while having them play right into her hands. Weaknesses - If somebody can get close enough to tie her ankles together, she cannot form her tail. This poses a danger to her when in water. However, if her wrists are tied together, she is completely unaffected. Each time that Emerie almost escapes, security questions her and she willingly shares the exact way she escaped. This means that, due to her inability to defeat the truth serum used while interrogating her, escape becomes closer and closer to being impossible. Religious Standings - Null Employment In Human World - Null Family Tie Status - ??? Significant Other - Null Mother - ??? Father - ??? Sibling/s - Ivan Merriam. Male merman. Younger brother. Place of Dwelling - Under the sea before she was sold off by her parents. Now in a small cell at the lab. Realm/s of Residency - Human Assorted Details - Emerie often will find ways around the experiment the researchers/scientists are trying to run, be it through being an uncooperative brat or using the materials given to her to actually complete the objective they gave her in a way they probably wouldn't expect. Her favorite game is the maze that slowly submersed itself, surprisingly. You'll meet that later if we get there. >:} Short Backstory - Emerie was sold by her parents when she was 5. Not much is known about her past life except that she had a brother named Ivan Merriam. She's one of the longest surviving merfolk at the facility, having been there for ten straight years and attempting escape multiple times. Her first few years at the facility were spent alone, being studied behind bars. But after a while, a few scientists decided to give her a change in environment and allow her to engage more with others on occasion. The positive changes in her behavior this brought eventually got her to her current situation; she currently is housed in a forever guarded enclosure with a small pool in the corner where she can entertain herself. The guard's face is familiar to her, but she is unable to place it due to her memory being wiped upon arrival, even though there was a malfunction and she didn't lose everything. Now she just plays games with researchers, providing inaccurate results and sometimes even sabotaging experiments. They used to punish her, but they've given up. The only reason she hasn't been terminated is because the results she provides are too curious to give up and show a level of maturity rising then declining again depending on her mood. Fandom - Mako Mermaids(OC) [/hider] [hider=Ivan Merriam] Name - Given: Ivan Merriam Prefered: Ivan Accepted Nickname/s: Ivan Gender - Male Pronouns: he/him Age - 14 Species - Merman Classification(Realm Wise) - Ocean Powers - Unknown. Ivan Personality - Ivan is mostly void of emotion, having been a guard and it really not helping that he lost his sister when he was 4, and has no recollection of his past life, except for his sister and his abusive parents. Looks - Ivan is your typical human male with tan skin, similar to his sister’s. He has short brown hair and perfect ocean blue eyes. He lost his merman form as he neglected to use it after losing his older sister. Weapon/s Of Choice - Ivan carries a tazer, a small pistol that fires blanks, a pistol that fires actual bullets, and a few other weapons. Strengths - Ivan is extremely stoic, meaning that he is essentially immune to a subject’s complaints. This provides to his lack of empathy. Weaknesses - Despite being stoic, he immediately responds to praise or reprimands- breaking character sometimes. If annoyed enough, he will eventually divulge information that some might find useless but may or may not be important… depending. Religious Standings - Null Employment In The ORF - Guard Family Tie Status - Unknown Significant Other - Null Mother - ??? Father - ??? Sibling/s - Emerie Merriam/34. Female mermaid. Unaware of relationship. Place of Dwelling - The ORF Realm/s of Residency - Human Ocean Assorted Details - WIP Short Backstory - As a child, he was sheltered by his sister from his parents’ abusive nature, but often was forced to watch Emerie be punished for things he had done. He never ran, as he knew what would happen if he did. Even though the two were only a year apart in age, his sister behaved like an adult around him- if only to protect him, as he found out later. When he was 4, his parents sold Emerie and turned their abuse on him. He finally escaped the abuse when he was 7, after three years of neglect, etc. He ended up in the hands of the very same facility his sister had been sold to years ago. He was recruited as a guard when he gave his name, and explained his situation. That’s where he’s been for the last 7 years, fully unaware that Subject #34 was actually Emerie Merriam… his sister. [/hider]