[CHAR] Guards and Gifts

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"No matter how hard you try, you will never be good enough for at least one person. That's why you stop trying." - Ariella Reese Taraman

||Personal Info||

Name: Ariella Reese Taraman
Nick-Names: Ari, Ella, Elle, Reesey
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Place of Birth: Focal

Appearance:

||Relationships||

Sexuality: Heterosexual
Relationship Status: Nonexistent
Partner:Nope
Family: Martin Taraman, Lower Level Councilman (Father); Penelope Taraman, Lower Level Councilwoman (Mother)
Other: N/A

||Background||

Personality:
One of Ariella's biggest pet peeves is when they relate her back to the stereotypical "dumb blonde". Ariella is quite intelligent and she shows it often. She is quite gifted in math and science, two subjects that a lot of people do not relate to being with girls. She definitely does not flaunt her intelligence, but people can see that it shines through her. She is a fast learner and seems to be able to adapt to any situation that is thrown her way, whether it be emotional or physical.

Even though Ariella is quite smart, growing up with the friends she had, she is very much a party girl. If there is ever a party going on, she is at it, even if she is tired or drained from training. She is not afraid to shake what she's got and show off her body to everyone. She seems to have no shame whatsoever, but this can make her reckless. She is smart, book wise, but she does not have a ton of common sense, especially when it comes to guys and partying.

Ariella is a self-proclaimed badass, and, though people don't want to admit it, she pretty much is. She has a hard shell on her and doesn't make friends easily. She is a very impatient person and can't stand when people test her. She is quite competitive and doesn't follow orders very well. She prefers to give orders and be a leader, which is one of the reasons she was top in her class. She has a short temper but tends to keep other emotions bottled up inside of her and has yet to let any of them out.

Skills:
Ariella was top in her class, ranking first out of the twenty new Recruits. Her best class was Weaponry, and she is excellent with almost every weapon, minus a sword. She is skilled in hand-to-hand combat as well, and she can identify almost any Anomalous on sight. She is a fairly fast runner, a skilled gymnast, and an excellent swimmer. She has a beautiful singing voice and is very adept with music.

Biography:
Ariella grew up in the direct center of Focal, where most of everything happened. It is where the Council Center is, and the Guard Tower, or Castle as they called it, was only a fifteen minute walk from her home. Both of her parents were lower level Council members and she went to the best private school in the city, going from a young age. The private school she went to went from kindergarten all the way up until twelfth grade. She met loads of her friends there, and she was happy. At least for the first little bit.

As she got older, she began noticing that her friends wanted to stay over at her place more often. Whenever they went out, she was always stuck with the bill or always had to pay for movie tickets or anything that came their way. They always asked her for money and finally, after one of her friends asked her pay off a thousand dollar fine, she realized that her friends were only with her for her money. She immediately cut ties with all of her friends, dropping all connections with them, and became very much a lone wolf. She would still see them at school, but she would avoid them at all costs. This happened when she was a tenth grader in her private school.

After her incident with her friends, she tried to find some way to prove that she was not just a girl who was known for her parents' money. That's when she came across becoming a Guard. She trained and worked as hard as she could for the next few years, becoming the top student in her class, and finally, her twelfth year in school, her parents came home with a guest to tell her that she was finally to become a Guard, heading into the Recruiting process behind one of the oldest at what they considered to be a Year Four student, the latest one could become a Guard.

She went and lived in Castle, as all the Recruits did. The memory of her friends relying on her so heavily drove her to make herself become the best. Whenever they had a day off, she would be in training anyways. She became the top Recruit in her class and she chose that, after her tours, she would go and train the next batch of Recruits, working alongside her favorite teacher, Sky Carlson. She is now heading out to become a Guard and she is ready to prove to the world that she is not a bimbo with loads of money.

||Weapons||

Weapons of Choice: 76th Grande Pistol, and a BeTrek Automatic
Weapon Image:

||Supernatural Abilities||

Type of Anomalous: Mental Anomalous
Anomalous Powers:

• Telekinesis-This is her main power. She has the ability to pick up objects and move objects around her with just her mind. The larger the item, however, the much bigger strain on her mind.
• Teleportation- It is quite similar to the telekinesis, but she has to be able to see where she is going or have been to the area before if she wants to be able to teleport to it.
• Illusionist- She has the ability to change her appearance and make herself look like someone else. She has to have met the person before or seen them on the street to be able to do it.

||Other||

Other: None
Theme Song: "Confident" by Demi Lovato

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"It’s around then you realize you haven’t been piloting a mighty vessel, you’re not the captain of a boat; you’re just clinging to a piece of driftwood doing your best not to drown." – Noah.

||Personal Info||

Name: Noah
Nick-Names: Noe
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Place of Birth: Focal

Appearance:

||Relationships||

Sexuality: Heterosexual
Relationship Status: Nonexistent
Partner:Nope
Family: None
Other: N/A

||Background||

Personality:

Moving around and being somewhat raised by himself, Noah is not easily personable or likeable, though not for lack of trying. He has a submersed want to fit in, though he doesn’t actively think about or acknowledge this. He finds himself typically attempting to distance himself from those he grows closest too, as he fears what he does not know and that is genuine human connection.

While not having many friends, Noah finds himself at parties relatively often. Though there, he is much more of a wallflower and doesn’t speak to many people. He fights with a sort of melancholic sadness, he wants to approach the others at parties, but he doesn’t really know how. He is often mocked by some of the other trainees, as book wise he isn’t nearly as intelligent. Noah has never attended regular schooling and as such finds himself at a loss during normal lessons. However when it comes to common sense, Noah is incredibly intelligent. He can has immense amounts of empathy resonance and can almost always tell what someone intends to do before they do it. This has been ingrained in him during his childhood, suffering through abuse symbiotic relationships and also experiencing many fights.

Noah is an incredibly patient person, he has spent days waiting for people to give him money when he was on the streets begging and as such he doesn’t expect anything to come to him quick, let alone easily. Noah is somewhat competitive and finds himself constantly competing with his own standards and the standards of those who challenge him. He also finds himself ready and willing to stick up for those in need. This however, is juxtaposed to Noah’s lack of a strong amount of will. He follows orders when they are given to him and if he relies upon a paycheck he often doesn’t find a way out. In this instance, him taking up the guard he has found himself in a situation of debt. He owes his life to the man who put him in the guard and thusly has stuck with it.

Skills:
Noah is incredibly skilled with hand to hand combat and bladed combat. While he doesn’t have the best aim with a ranged weapon, he does have nearly godlike hand eyed coordination. He is able to read an opponent’s movement with so much detail that he can ‘read’ their muscles.

Biography:
Noah was born to a family that by his fifth birthday were already in the ground. His father, a guardsmen and his mother dying during childbirth. He has no memories of either of them, though he does contain a locket with both of their pictures which he keeps around his neck on a golden chain. Noah was raised at first by a foster family that ran a sort of business for single parents who were also guards. It wasn’t the worst place he had ever lived, certainly wasn’t the last. He found himself to be somewhat content while he lived there, if not slightly bored. Noah was a talented young man and eventually found himself seeking challenges, thrills, and adventure. When Noah turned ten years old he ran away, this is what Noah would now cite as the biggest mistake of his life.

Noah, for the next couple years lived in the outer ring. The center of Focal is where most of the higher classes lived. Noah was taken in by a gang of sorts. They were Anomalous. It was around this time that he was given a knife and taught how to rob someone. You went into a street, feigned a struggle with a man, you ran to hide in an alleyway and once your prey followed you to help or comfort you, you struck. Noah found himself able to take on bigger and bigger challenges the more he grew. He had a natural ability for dexterity and strength, doing much of the heavy lifting for this gang of Anomalous as he grew older. They abused him in every sense of the word however. If he ever failed a job he wouldn’t eat that night to compensate, spoke back and he’d get a broken jaw. It is for this reason that Noah is incredibly scarred, though not many notice as he tends to wear a long sleeve shirt with pants in order to hide this.

All gangs in Focal came to an end sooner or later and eventually a guardsmen raid took place. Noah had been out on the job at the time, must’ve mugged three people before he heard gunshots when he was returning to the safe house. He walked in, to this day he still doesn’t know why he just walked into a room with gunfire, had to have been shock. But when he was there he was immediately taken in as if he was a passerby. The necessary tests for whatever reasons, weren't performed on him to prove that he wasn’t Anomalous maybe because he showed no obvious signs, thusly he was taken in by one of the chief members of the Guard. He was given proper meals and training and as if he had just blinked, he was a member of the guard.

||Weapons||

Weapons of Choice: ‘Lucy’ (Noah’s combat knife)
Weapon Image:

||Supernatural Abilities||

Type of Anomalous: Mental Anomalous

Anomalous Powers:

• Hemokinesis- Noah was born with the ability to manipulate his blood in various ways such as shaping and solidifying it to form constructs e.g. a sword or shield. This ability is limited by his body's natural blood volume. His blood also has corrosive properties when injected into or sprayed against an opponent.
• Enhanced Perception- Noah's mind and senses process information at such speeds that time appears to have slowed down, allowing him to perceive what would normally be moving too fast to see and respond accordingly. This is limited by the fact that he has to be actively using it, otherwise he views time just as any other person.
• Adoptive Muscle Memory- Noah possesses the ability to to replicate movement after observation. After seeing any movement just once, Noah can perfectly replicate that action.

||Other||

Other: None
Theme Song: "Flaws" by Alice Kristiansen