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Jocelyn Victoria Beatrix Harmon
| {Age} | 25
| {Species} | Human
| {Gender} | Female
| {Appearance} |
Joss is five foot even. Her gray-green eyes are long lashed almond shaped and look large in her classically beautiful face. She is athletically built but curvy. Her platinum blonde hair hangs in a straight fall to her waist, unless it is put up in a bun at the back of her head while she is working. She doesn’t often wear make up preferring not to bother with it unless it is for special occasions. Her normal everyday attire is what one would consider very nerdy chic.
| {Equipment and Personal Belongings} | If you walked into Joss ’ flat you’d see a very cozy version of a library. She has books that range from medical textbooks to the classic literary figures. Her furnishings are very comfortable and give off the vibe of a collage of eras mostly chosen for comfort and a fashionable rug somehow ties the whole room together perfectly. It echoes the colors in the furnishings and brings a sense of completeness to an otherwise hodge-podge of oddities. There is a den that has a desktop computer and a file cabinet that is locked next to it. The locked file cabinet contains her college papers and some notes from observation in theories that she has not had the courage to publish. She owns a Tai Chi sword that is her pride and joy and is kept in her room.
| {Physical Abilities} | Joss has studied extensively at Harvard to be a Geneticist. She was Summa Cum Laude in both high shool and college. She has a vast knowledge of Tai Chi having started learning the martial art when she was very young.
| {Superpowers} | Tonic’s abilities are a healing touch and a healing factor. Specifically she can isolate the body's own healing factor in someone and speed it up.
| {Limitations} | The healing does not mitigate pain from the injuries but as long as the subject is still alive; heart beating even faintly, she can heal them. Her healing factor can heal non-vital injuries within minutes but takes longer on mortal wounds. She is practically immune to poisons, diseases, and aging; which is reduced to a fraction of what it should be. Unfortunately it is also practically impossible for her to get drunk or high; she tried that route to deal with her nightmares. This also applies to fatigue poisons which gives her increased stamina and endurance. Which in turn allows her to run for longer periods of time, not faster just longer.
| {Personality} |
Strengths
- Great Analyst and Abstract Thinker – Joss views the world as a big, complex machine, and recognizes that as with any machine, all parts are interrelated. Joss excels in analyzing these connections, seeing how seemingly unrelated factors tie in with each other in ways that bewilder most others.
- Imaginative and Original – These connections are the product of an unrelenting imagination – Joss’ ideas may seem counterintuitive at a glance, and may never even see the light of day, but she will always prove remarkable innovations.
- Open-Minded – Joss couldn’t make these connections if she thought she knew it all – she is highly receptive to alternate theories, so long as they’re supported by logic and facts. In more subjective matters like social norms and traditions, Joss is usually fairly liberal, with a “none of my business” sort of attitude – peoples’ ideas are what matter.
- Enthusiastic – When a new idea piques her interest, Joss can be very enthusiastic – she is a reserved person, but if another person shares an interest, she can be downright excited about discussing it. More likely though, the only outward evidence of this enthusiasm will be Joss’ silent pacing or her staring into the distance.
- Objective – Joss’ analysis, creativity and open-mindedness aren’t the tools of some quest for ideology or emotional validation. Rather, it’s as though she is a conduit for the truths around her, so far as they can be expressed, and she is proud of this role as theoretical mediator.
- Honest and Straightforward – To know one thing and say another would be terribly disingenuous – Joss doesn’t often go around intentionally hurting feelings, but she believes that the truth is the most important factor, and she expects that to be appreciated and reciprocated.
Weaknesses
| {Place of Origin} | - Very Private and Withdrawn – While Joss’ intellectualism yields many insights into her surroundings, her surroundings are ironically considered an intrusion on her thoughts. This is especially true with people – Joss is quite shy in social settings. More complicated situations such as parties exacerbate this, but even close friends struggle to get into Joss’ heart and mind.
- Insensitive – Oftentimes Joss’ can get so caught up in her logic that she forgets any kind of emotional consideration – she dismisses subjectivity as irrational and tradition as an attempt to bar much-needed progress. Purely emotional situations are often utterly puzzling to Joss, and her lack of timely sympathy can easily offend.
- Absent-minded – When Joss’ interest is captured, her absence goes beyond social matters to include the rest of the physical world. Joss becomes forgetful, missing even the obvious if it’s unrelated to her current infatuation, and she can even forget her own health, skipping meals and sleep as she muses.
- Condescending – Attempts at connecting with others is often worse than Joss’ withdrawal. Joss takes pride in her knowledge and rationale, and enjoys sharing her ideas, but in trying to explain how she got from A to B to Z, she can get frustrated, sometimes simplifying things to the point of insult as she struggles to gauge her conversation partners’ perspective. The ultimate insult comes as Joss gives up with a dismissive “never mind”.
- Loathe Rules and Guidelines – These social struggles are partly a product of Joss’ desire to bypass the rules, of social conduct and otherwise. While this attitude helps Joss’ strength of unconventional creativity, it also causes her to reinvent the wheel constantly and to shun security in favor of autonomy in ways that can compromise both.
- Second-Guesses Herself– Joss remains so open to new information that she often never commits to a decision at all. This applies to her own skills as well – Joss knows that as she practices, she improves, and any work she does is second-best to what she could do. Unable to settle for this, Joss sometimes delays her output indefinitely with constant revisions, sometimes even quitting before she ever begins.
Joss is a little town country girl from Pilot Grove, MO. Her family owned a farm and she joked that she was probably related to half the town. It was a sleepy little town that really only had a corner store, a church and a pool. She was the oldest of four with two brothers behind her, two years and four years younger, and a sister seven years younger than her. She was fascinated with biology and learning everything she could. Her parents doted on her and encouraged her to excel in her studies so that she could escape the small town she grew up in.
| {Background} | Joss was always the smartest one in class. She paid attention and learned quickly. She was exposed to the “big city” when her parents sent her to her aunt and uncle for high school. Their idea of a better education than she was getting in a small town since they saw her thirst for knowledge quickly outpaced the limits of her surroundings. She graduated Summa Cum Laude in her highschool at the age of sixteen and was offered a scholarship to Harvard, among others, which she had her heart set on from an early age. She studied to be a Geneticist and graduated Summa Cum Laude at the age of twenty-three. She was quickly offered a position in Lexcorp with an outrageous salary. I mean who turns that down especially if your parents are struggling. So Joss took the job and has been working for Lexcorp for the past two years. The last six months since the “incident” she has started to question things in her life. Mainly due to the fact that a week after the “incident” as she was walking to her flat from work she saw a woman get mugged. The mugger pushed the woman down and had broken her wrist. Joss went over to help the woman and as she touched the woman the broken wrist healed. The woman brushed it off thinking she was mistaken that she hadn’t really broken her wrist, but Joss was shaken. A few weeks later she was working on a project and dropped a piece of glass and went to pick it up, cutting her finger as she did so. She removed the glass and watched as she healed from the cut within seconds. Quickly she cleaned up the glass and went home early. The only time she had in the past two years. It didn’t end there. Oh no. Joss apparently was in the wrong place at the right time again. This time it was one of the rare occasions that she was out. She was at a bar with some friends in Central City and her friend, Constance, decided that it would be a good idea to drive after drinking. Joss had drunk more than Connie but wasn’t feeling it. Connie pointed this out and told Joss that she was driving. Joss let her. Well Connie got them into an accident. Joss woke up with blood all over her and a metallic taste in her mouth. Connie was passed out and bleeding out. Joss pulled her from the car and in pulling her from the car started healing her. Connie woke up screaming due to the pain of the healing. When the cops and EMTs got there Connie was fine. The tree that they had hit however was not. It was said that it was a miracle that neither of them had been killed. Joss knew better. Joss knew she had changed. She just didn’t know how, why or how far this change went.
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