Mahz been on vacation for half a year, I wonder if he'll come back from his Mahzquest - youtube.com/watch?v=ygI-2F8… - where could be Mahz be now? Find out next time on Mahzquest.
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All I ask is that people communicate these things.
“Humans leave an impressive amount of stuff lying around.”
Alias: Nightquake
Age: Ageless - but if a number satisfies you my human appearance is 25, I have been on Earth for 4 years and 1 day
Gender: I do not even know where to begin with such a question, I am a Primordial Void being. I do not think my anatomical structure actually matches that of a human considering my lower half is primordial matter. But I’d like to be called a He for the sake of clarity and to make it easier for the mortal beings in Rogue X. Serenity Notes; Say that next time. You didn’t need all of that. Umbra scribbles underneath; Say what? Serenity Notes; That you prefer he. You do not need to explain every time someone ask what to call you. Umbra: Huh. That does seem much simpler.
To begin to even describe what Umbra looks like is dependent on understand what Umbra actually is. And no one really is for certain what he is. He appears to be some Primordial Voidless being from his ribcage down.
The shadows at his feet are not in fact shadows, but said to be some kind of dark matter like substance and it’s a lot more solid than what you’d consider looking at it’s wispiness. The chimeric void creature appears from the neck up to be entirely human.
A narrow featured young man, with the only significant difference is the simple fact his hair is wispy and shadowy, almost like embers on top of his head. But it is also soft like hair as well. It’s rather uncertain to determine what kind of material it is.
Much like his anatomy is an odd thing to consider. He has a ribcage, a heart, and lungs to breathe. But if anyone were to have a powerful enough X-ray to pure into his body, he has arteries that are only circulating shadows or some kind of dark matter throughout his body.
He wears often a long black robe, that almost represents priest vestments, but with odd doom and gloom accessories when not projecting his bottom half most see this as a long black coat, the end of his coat being actually his body when not manipulating that part of his body. But he doesn’t bother with shoes because there is nowhere to actually put any feet, considering his lower half is an odd black mass that is quite solid despite looking like a shadow and acting like a shadow.
As for height, his standard stance would make him at least 5’8”, which doesn’t seem very tall, but no one is for certain how tall a primordial being is suppose to be. Or if they really have a height. His weight cannot be given because honestly there is no way of measuring something like that.
His cadence is very sotto voce that is in a very quiet voice, and it is often very monotonous because Umbra doesn’t know how to express emotional inflection very well. It’s also not very pleasant to listen too despite its chilly breeziness to it because it is often toneless.
Personality Strengths
Sagely
Being a Primordial Void has its perks, he has the memory of the earliest universe. Which honestly sounds odd and hard to imagine for any human being. But his wisdom is near limitless, at least when it comes to advice giving and the history of the earth.
Being a Primordial being means that Umbra can hear the voice of the universe. He remembers things that others could not. He holds the knowledge of the gods and he holds knowledge of the most ancient human beings because his body is made of such scattered things he has a lot of scattered information.
But Umbra is sort of out dated. He can tell you a lot about the history of the world, give you sagely advice, and seems to have some kind of universal knowledge. But Umbra is limited in just ancient history. It is a bad idea to ask him about modern world things because he doesn’t have any information about those things.
Asking him what outfit you should wear, or asking him about the most modern, current Human world you should honestly know more than him about.
Idealistic
Except not preachy. Because Umbra’s memories are scattered through an expansive amount of time, he can have some rather idealistic points of view. But it counter balances Serenity’s natural realistic point of views. He’s the one who keeps the group striving for something, even if it might be idealistic, he believes that there needs to be ambassadors for change.
Maybe that’s also his idealism speaking when he believes that they can be the ambassadors for change. While he is realistic about his idealism and doesn’t get carried away, he remembers many different eras of time, and thus he tries to adopt older views in a more modern view.
Being influenced by the modern world for four years has at least allowed him to see that his idealistic nature might need to be routed into different views. Umbra is not so idealistic that he won’t listen to anyone else. Mainly because he’s not self righteous like that.
He has a willing acceptance to learn and admit when he is wrong. But he tries to keep people to strive for more than simply the status quo.
Easy-going
If Serenity is overbearing and controlling, Umbra is quite the opposite. He takes everything at his own leisure and allows others as well. He’s not necessarily lazy, he simply takes his time. He’s efficient by being careful and detail oriented.
Not much really gets to Umbra, he seems unphased by a lot of things and doesn’t seem to persuaded by emotions or to get carried with emotions. It is easy then to simply write Umbra off as slow and lazy, but he is none of those things. He’s never so easy-going he will slack off. And he’s not slow because he’s lazy.
He has a very my pace attitude. Which makes projects, Serenity thinks that should be done in several hours, take Umbra a few days because he takes time to consider everything all at once.
He lets the others do whatever they want as long as it doesn’t impact someone too much. Or impact him in anyway that actually might get him upset. If you want someone to say yes to your insane ideas, it’s probably Umbra who will let you do it. Riko, can I cut up the curtains to make a cape. Umbra, if you’re going to do that make sure the curtains still look nice afterward.
Fearless
Being an ancient primordial void means that Umbra has little fear in the face of danger. He doesn’t sweat, but he really can’t sweat anyway he doesn’t have sweat pores to actually do that. [Umbra that’s just a word phrasing it doesn’t mean you actually sweat. Huh I didn’t consider that] It means that he boldly throws himself into the fray without the fear of death or the fear of feeling any pain.
He does things with a reckless abandon. Which can be his double edge sword.
In the most positive circumstances it means that Umbra will not flee or show cowardice when the team needs it most. Watching him stand in the face of an unrelenting enemy makes the others fight alongside with him with the same mental toughness Umbra shows.
In the worse case circumstances, it’s either an enemy Umbra will someday be unable to face, and get himself actually hurt. Or he may be leading the team astray with his idealist, fearless, recklessness because he forgets they do not have his fortitude.
Personality Flaws
NonHuman Ideals
Being what he is Umbra has a difficult time expressing certain things to people because not all of his concepts are comprehendible as something human. He is wholeheartedly still something in between humanity, and all of his concepts and ideas are often vaguely abstract concepts of pataphysics. In which he conjures imaginative solutions to complicated problems because he has no concept of a true morality.
This doesn’t make him morally ambiguous. He has morals, but they are constructs of a scattered abstract memory. He is more morally abstract. How he defines good, is at its purest imaginative concept of what good is. He doesn’t define it by any other values.
Human tact on needless values to their morals. Good is selfless, sacrifices for others, good is altruistic. For Umbra Good is simply the abstract feeling of Good. What feels good is good, there needs to be no other values. Bad is selfish, harms the innocent. Bad is bad because it feels bad. Why try to define it further than that?
Because of that Umbra has some very simple, but complex abstract code of ethics.
Further I’d like to add, that the ideals or ideas that Umbra thinks are not due to some kind of faith or belief. As he lacks that kind of concept, it’s why he is so willing to hear out what others have to say. Instead most of the abstract ideal concepts that come to his mind is something he was simply born with. “Born” with. They are the imprint of a millennia of ideas that has spanned across the universe as ideas, beliefs, and concepts long before others. He has a primitive, older structure of thought.
Inability to Emote
Umbra doesn’t emote. He lacks the concept to emote. Or humanize. He can, but it’s often a falsehood because he can only imitate behaviors he sees others express. But he doesn’t necessarily feel the way a human feels.
Umbra emotes, just not in the way a human could emote. While technically he doesn’t verbally emote or show displays of emotions, he is an empathetic being. He can Sense and Share information. But he cannot necessarily feel them.
This makes it difficult for the others, despite not entirely being human themselves, but with human conditions connect to Umbra. Because Umbra is beyond even their understanding of humanity. It’s hard to connect with the thing that doesn’t express or humanize in the same way as you.
Nonexistent Reality
In all tense and purposes Umbra does and does not exist in this reality. Being from somewhere, but nowhere means that he is exist and doesn’t exist in this reality. Because of this Umbra is difficult to follow all the expected rules of him. Mainly because the way his mind thinks means he either doesn’t catch on the rules he is suppose to follow or feels above having to listen to them because he feels they have no value in his mind’s reality.
Into the Fray
Beyond all the complications of what his existence is and the way he thinks, Umbra has no sense of danger. Actually he sort of sometimes craves it. But danger in its purest form. He’s not an adrenaline junkie because he doesn’t produce adrenaline.
He’s often the one to take the most risk and jump into the fray recklessly. He enjoys the excitement in the purest form of what that means to him.
Warped Reality
More worrisome, while Umbra may not entirely exist in our reality, but may exist in our reality it does tend to affect him. While he has shown no signs of insanity, it does take a toll on Umbra mentally to be shaped and influenced by multiple realities at once.
It makes his mind a little skewed times. At its best, he’s just oblivious, half the reason he lets people do things they shouldn’t around him. Sometimes he gets a little mental confusion or forgets rather easily what he was doing. Maybe one of the reasons for a number of oddities in his behavior because of how clueless and air headed he can be.
At its worse he can be grouchy, have a violent temper, and be aggressive. And it’s most worrisome, though no one has seen him at this point, it’s maddening and hard to control his purest desires of violence and aggressive behavior.
Primordial Void Child
To even begin to understand Umbra’s powers you must understand the history of the Primordials. The Primordials that live alongside Earth’s dimension, whether or not you can enter the Void, are often the keyholders of concepts or entities. In an essence they are the reasons why concepts like Mercy, Justice, Good, Evil, Compassion, Charity, etc. exist in the first place.
And some scientist theorize that somewhere there must be a Primordial as to why Mutants even exist or even the concept of such an entity. Though that’s all an untested theory and no one can touch or enter the Void because they would be completely strip of their reality or existence in the world because the Void is made of some kind of scattered time, scattered matter. It is the pieces left of Humanity and Earth’s creation. Which is how a Primordial constructs itself through the random leftover parts of things.
How a Primordial being Ascends into a God Like state is a complicated and honestly slow process that has not been witnessed until now. Normally there is One Primordial being that is the sole embodiment of a concept or entity.
When this concept changes or this concept dies. The Primordial “dies”. But reality is the Primordial is being reshaped to take on the new concept of the idea that died because it is changing. They call a Primordial being reborn a Void Child. In a Celestial sense Umbra is still in a state of infancy, even if he doesn’t look like an infant.
In a sense Primordial’s are dual reality beings. Partly influenced by a Celestial calling. They can hear the Murmurs. The Murmurs are the voice or maybe the feeling of the universe. It is almost like a small whisper or really a sense of something that guides them to a reason. But they are also influenced by our reality somewhat. In a way they actually influence our reality, but we define in what way they do so.
With that explanation out of the way, we can delve into what it means to be a Void Child for Umbra and what that allows him to do.
Primordial Physiology
A Primordial without a concept or without an entity are often black and shapeless. As Umbra is now. They take on the shapes of the things that surround them. People. The darkness they knew from before they existed. They have no concept of a true self, and don’t remember who they were before this. They simply hear the Murmurs and know their purpose.
In the shortest terms possible a Primordial main physiology is Embodiment. It will eventually take on the shape of the concept or entity that it will some day Ascend to. A Primordial’s main existence is to Ascend after it Embodies its main concept. Told to it or maybe felt by it upon sheer existence.
Umbra’s is Justice. This is the reason he can use the powers he uses because his main Embodiment and someday his Ascension will be through some new Concept of Justice he is learning from those around him. It is why Umbra is not preachy about his ideals, because he understands fundamentally he still needs to learn. While he will someday influence the way our reality and beliefs work by his mere existence, the people around him shape what that Embodiment will look like in the near future. Though no one has to worry about Umbra’s ascension because ascension takes hundreds if not thousands of years to ascend.
It is often a Primordial’s existence that influence some conceptual story of mythology. Even if the Gods are given the credit, the stories and concepts would not have been told if not for the Primordial’s existence and assistance in the human plane as Void Children.
Mendacity Sensing
Because Umbra doesn’t feel, but sense the world it is very hard for him to not understand other people’s intentions. In layman’s terms, it simply means that he can sense when someone is lying to him or being untruthful. He doesn’t know what they are lying about, but he can sense their lies. This is very useful in discussions when working with Howard/Meat.
He cannot sense the reason behind the lie, and it is difficult for him to determine someone’s truthfulness if their mind is altered. Either through psychic screening despite Umbra’s abilities not being psychic based or through something mind altering like being drugged or brainwashed or mind controlled.
Codes of Justice
Umbra has a primitive form of law creation, he can construct laws to bend others to the boundaries of the rule. When the rules have been set the victim has no chance of escaping them unless they abide by the rules. However, he can only define laws of his embodiment and those are laws of Justice. Furthermore, the conditions of these abilities must be fairly specific or there is a way for the victim to find easy work arounds them.
Beyond that, his Codes of Justice are limited to a small radius surrounding him about a 10 ft circumference surrounding him inside a small force field created by Umbra’s Embodiment aura. Once an opponent steps into the limited range, Umbra is free to set his own rules on his opponents. Rules such as; if the fight is unfair you must surrender. This is particularly handy when they have one opponent and there are a few Rogue X members working together.
Primordial Form
Umbra is still in all tense and purposes a Primordial. Sure one that is still understanding the world, and one that has not ascended yet. But there are special occasions when a Void Child transforms into their true Primordial form. The Form they may take during Ascension.
Umbra cannot transform willingly in his Primordial Form though. As he has not Ascended and there is no way for him to access this ability alone. However, there are special occasions when Umbra does transform into his Primordial Form. Often these are of greater Celestial Events, such as a Lunar or Solar Eclipse. Or other greater Celestial Events that may spark life into Umbra. - [consider the rarity of these events]
In this form he has the ability to create black holes from his body, sucking anything into his body, and crushing them from existence like they are a tin can. But he also has the ability to create the opposite a white hole, while a black hole sucks things in, a white hole spits things out. He can access whichever reality he would like to do so. No other time does he have this ability. And it is probably when he is the most vulnerable. When sucking something inside of him, it scatters his body and when the black hole is closed he spends a few slow minutes reforming his primordial shape.
Materialized Guardians
Because Primordial beings have some influence over creation, Umbra has the ability to manipulate Guardians from his lower half of his body. These Guardians fight for him, or beside him really and are useful for a variety of attacks.
At current Umbra can only shape two beings from his body. And because it takes up Umbra’s body, the more he materializes a guardian, the less of him there actually is to maneuver around. Because of this he can only truly summon one guardian at a time. But one guardian is better than none.
The Cannon
So named because of it’s shape. Is like a puppy dog, but a laser for a mouth in Umbra’s words. The Cannon can release a laser beam. Or real a conceptual laser beam, for all intensive purposes it behaves like a laser beam, and looks like a laser beam. But it is not a real laser.
After being shot by the laser witnesses will see that the opponent has not actually been shot by the laser. Well they have been that’s why they are on the floor screaming in pain, and yelling their skin burns. But they have no marks, or haven’t been melted or burnt to a crisp. As it is the concept of a laser, not a real laser.
Slither
So named because of the way it moves. Umbra was not very creative when designing these names. The slither flies around the battlefield, and slashes at its opponents. But just like the laser and the conceptual beam, these are conceptual slashes. In the opponent's mind they have been slashed and see blood from their wounds.
Everybody else is watching them like a mad man trying to desperately to stop bleeding not actually there. Slither does have one more capability which is wrapping its tail around an opponent to immobilize them.
Umbra despite what he likes to think is not impervious to damage either. When he materializes his guardians, his body is no longer as physical and he is weak to sound and other vibrations. Beyond the fact that he is weak against those with gravitational abilities. And weak against extreme force pressure of any sort. He is also affected by light matter.
He doesn’t seem to do well with high heat either. And isn’t fairly physically strong himself. His human half still feels slight pain, though dulled since he’s a shadow vein bloodstream monster. And he can be banished to a different reality like anyone else can.
He can also still be mind controlled. And he has no defense against psychic attacks.
Major Skills
Omnilingistic
Being the Celestial being that he is and some day with the goal in mind he represents the concept of Justice for all, knows every language on Earth. He can read, write, and speak these languages whenever he needs to do so.
Remembering Details
An elephant never forgets, and a Primordial being definitely doesn’t forget. He has the expansive knowledge of the Universe, but he holds onto abstract concepts and their details very well. With this in mind Umbra is very good at remembering details. He can tell when the can he left behind has been placed just an inch elsewhere, he can tell when something isn’t quite right about the details of a room, and is fairly good at putting those things together to create a more detailed picture.
Tracking
Because of his skill in remembering details, he has learned to utilize it for different functions as well. You want someone to find or you need to find a secret book that can open a backroom to a secreter room, then Umbra will most likely be able to find it.
Also since he senses people, he can easily figure out a signature, if he has gotten a clear idea of what they feel like to him. No stone is left unturned for Umbra. Once he has been sent out to track someone or find something his attention to detail has him thoroughly scour the area for clues.
He can tell the freshness of tracks. When someone’s unique signature has been there last. The dust left by the other books versus the one that has been used the most often. And so and so forth.
Minor Skills
Voice Impressions
Well only in a technical sense. Umbra can imitate the voices of people he has heard through his body. It’s more like an echo or playing back a recording than a traditional voice impression. But still very useful, when he either needs Serenity’s scolding voice, but lacks one himself.
It’s also useful in other ways as well. If you need to get past a password that requires voice activation, Umbra’s impression or really recording is an exact match to the other individual so it’s hard to tell it’s just some strange sound from the shadowy mass of a Primordial Void Child.
Also entertaining to do actor impressions.
Flower Arranging
He finds it relaxing. Or whatever the feeling of relaxing is for himself. He likes the bright colors. And he senses it makes him feel a pure form of happiness. He will not accept anyone changing around his flower arrangements and he will notice if there has been a change.
He seems rather protective over the amount of work it takes for him to arrange each flower arrangement. If anyone ever visits his little pocket dimension where he spends most of his time, you will see that is a garden of different flowers. He likes the shapes as well.
Interior Design
Who do you think designed the front entrance of the apartment? Or the lounging room? It certainly wasn’t Serenity. He used his attention to detail to choose the colors and paint the walls. He’s the one who aligned everything in an order he found acceptable.
Equipment and Weapons: None. Where would they go anyway? If I need anything I'll put it in Serenity's bag.
History:
I wish upon a star, with all my heart to bring my papa back to me.
Existence is a fickle thing. To explain would be impossible. Because a thousand stars do not know the concept of existence. He isn’t even sure if he really existed when he came to this world. Or if he exist now. He is still a child. He knows this. He is still an infant in the eyes of the stars. But is existence forming memories? Or bonds? He’s not so certain of either answer to the question. He first came to this world in a beautiful garden. Someone was speaking. Making a wish. A little girl. Emily.
She gasp.
“Are you a monster?” she ask the strange black mass that fell from the sky, that she had thought was simply a falling star.
“No I do not think I am,”
“I can hear you, but you have no mouth,” in her eyes all she saw was a quivering mass of shadows. She reached out to touch it. It was warm and comforting to the touch, which surprised her. It was alive. But it was not.
“Do I need one?”
“I don’t think so, what are you if not a monster?”
“A star,”
“Stars don’t talk,”
“I came from there. Somewhere. I am not sure where I came from. But I am definitely a star being,”
“Say star, can you grant my wish?”
“I do not have the power to grant wishes. But I sense this disappoints you in some sense, what did you want to wish?”
“My mommy and daddy, are gone. Can you bring them back? So I don’t have to live with my aunt,”
“I do not have the power of resurrection, I am sorry.”
She watches the shadow begin to build a structure, up and up. Till he is a tall person wearing a black robe. He is very handsome with white, wispy hair, almost like a cloud the way it moved, but it was also hair like. His eyes were almond shaped and very piercing.
“Did I do this right?” he asked looking at his people shape.
“I think so,” Emily told him, “How did you do that?”
“A memory of encouragement,”
Emily stared at him, she didn’t quite understand. Neither did he. A child in this universe. A child on this Earth.
It didn’t last long. He wish he could tell fanciful stories of spending more time with Emily. They had one night together. Her room was soft colors, she had created herself guardians out of her toys. She was seeking comfort. He sensed this. He wanted to give it to her. Maybe not want, but sensed he should. He spent the night with her. Watched over her. She fancied him some kind of guardian. But he was not her guardian.
Her aunt seemed sad. Her husband seemed depressed. There was an air of grief in this home. There was not anything he could. Even being a Void Child, he could only hear the Murmurs and knew there was a Primordial Concept of Grief somewhere out there. He then perhaps hoped that their grief would dissipate.
He wondered for a while. Being called to different people. And sensing them when they needed him. He felt a need perhaps to help them in some way. But, what was he meant to aid humanity with? Grief was not his concept. Hope was not his concept. Comfort was not his concept. He was not an entity, he was a thing between human and primordial.
He was a child who knew nothing. It was a maddening reality, that he could not have a concept. He searched for two years to find a concept. To define a concept. But he knew not of the steps to find this concept or its Ascension.
Until the murmurs directed him to someone who was like him. Someone in between. They had burning Justice.
“Who are you?” he asked.
They laugh.
“I could ask you, the same question, who the strange half shadow, half man is”
“I am a Void Child,”
“I am an in betweener,”
“What is your name?”
“What is yours?”
“I have none,”
“Well, then we’re alike in more ways than one I suppose,”
“You might have my Concept,”
“Oh? That’s a little odd. Did I take your luggage at the airport?”
“No, I am a Void Child, I came into existence 2 years and 3 months ago, I must find my Concept so I may ascend some day,”
He smiles.
“Want to help while finding that concept?”
“With?”
“A project of mine,”
“Hmm, what is this project?”
“I am calling them Rogue X, we’re superheroes, but the true kind, well they’re superheroes, I am just the money bank,”
“And while I help this Rogue X, I find my Concept,”
“Quick at least. That’s the idea,”
“I find this agreement acceptable,”
He never knew though at that time, that he would find his Concept working with Rogue X. The Murmurs reinforced this. They told him that this was his concept.
Other Information:
Umbra doesn't have a room in the apartment. Instead he spends most of his time in a pocket dimension in his "own shadow" to escape the way reality affects him sometimes and the way he affects reality around him.
“I do not see why I was turned down the opportunity. They told me I wasn’t as marketable as Rogue. She’s some weird goth chick with two tone hair colors. And I am a pretty girl. What are they trying to say about me? Am I that average? Ugh, it’s just so frustrating. I could make people happy. Instead I hear she banged Wolverine. Or maybe I am misrepresenting the story.”
Age: 24
Gender: Female - Proudly
Alias: Blue Swallow [the bird. And no I won’t accept being called Captain Sparkles. And the next person who calls me Captain Sparkles should rethink their life decisions]
My natural hair color is brown, my eyes are light brown, my bust and waist size are none of your business, my weight is none of your business that’s only belongs on legal documents and if you steal my ID to find out I will give you an Indian rash so bad you’ll want to stop drop and roll, my height is 5’5 without heels and 5’6” to 5’7” depending on what heels I choose to wear. I am not single. I am not looking to date you.
I like to get dressy and flashy. But sometimes I try to keep it subtle. Everyone else doesn’t think I am subtle enough. I am not fucking Cloak. My power is already loud and the enemies can see my coming, so it’s not really important if I hide in the shadows.
As for the things I like to wear when I am just hanging out, going to work at the studio, or trying to live an ordinary life without it being really that ordinary. It depends on the day, the colors I feel, the way the music sounds in my head. The way the melody plays in my head. Rythym. Beat of life. Here are some examples of the things I chose to wear on an average day.
Casual Everyday Wear
Stuff I like to wear on an average day and I am either running around doing errands because some of the people in the apartment cannot be seen outside because, have you seen the way some of them look like. Or I am taking a class. Hanging out with friends that are not these people. I love them, but I need to get away sometimes.
*But let's be honest and say all the outfits are interchangeable and I can wear them to any event I want
Business and Business Casual
Things I wear when I need to do something important. An interview. Or other things of that sort of thing. I want people to think of us as professionals, even we honestly are not.
Date Night
This is me and Timothy time. And I dress specifically for him. No one else. You may look, but it’s not for you.
Blue Swallow
Do I think I am being vain? Look everybody in this world has a mask. We all chose to wear one to cover up the things we don't like about ourselves. People question whether or not I am serious about this job because of the way I dress when I fight. They don't think I care or don't think I was made out for this job. But they all don't know what feeling the eyes of the world on you means, they all don't know the weight of the world on your shoulders, and they definitely don't understand what it's like to look normal, be average, and everyone treat you like you're an ordinary woman, but you don't feel like an ordinary woman on the inside because you have a secret they don't.
I don't have wings, I don't have green skin, I don't have scales. I'm just a woman. I am not special, but I am special. I choose to wear what I wear because I am proud to be a beautiful, average, wonderful weirdo.
I want to be the world’s pain, the world’s happiness, and love as well as it’s hatred. Music brings people together. And there is not one type of music. There are many types of music in this world.
I basically switch between costumes regularly. All you need to do is I have two types of costumes. One of them is just ordinary business. The other is that you have done something to royally piss me off.
Light Heroine Costumes
A Traditional Swallow
Everyone needs that traditional classic heroine outfit. It's the traditional super hero outfit, but I spiced it up with a little bit of Serenity magic.
Modern Take on a Heroine
I can't be condemned really for trying something new, can I? And it makes people happy. And I want to make the world happy and full of color.
Dark Heroine Costumes
Please keep in mind I used the term dark in a cheeky manner. I am not going to go out and murder people. Might kick a baddie in the groin, but it just means that I am really serious and am not going to mess around with a prick.
Glam Swallow
She's in your face. She's going to make you pay for what you have done. Prepare yourself, she's about to make you feel the world's anger.
Dynamic Swallow
You're a fuck head. You're more than a prick. And I am going to make you eat your words.
Personality Strengths
Mothering -
Serenity is not very nurturing mother, but she is still very much mothering. She makes the team is properly fed, looked after, taken care of. She might be that hovering mother who makes sure everyone has what they need, but it makes her a rather dedicated mother because of it. She gets things done and is very efficient at these things because she cares that much.
For some older than her she simply a little or older sister depending on the age difference, for the youngest members, or the most infant like she is a very caring, devoted mother. Who do anything for the people that she genuinely loves and cares for. Even when they annoy her sometimes, she will always make the sacrifice for her children and family.
Upbeat -
Do not mistake her upbeat attitude as blindly ignorant optimism. She’s a positive realist. She doesn’t delude herself into thinking things will get better when they are worse because that doesn’t solve problems. How she tends to deal with stressful situations around here is by keeping an upbeat attitude.
Though she honestly doesn’t do it in the way that gets an eye roll out of everyone and then they ignore her. She’s not an idiot and anyone who mistakes her for being an idiot is going to be sorry that they did. She’s not going to tell you think about a silver lining or it can’t get worse or stay positive.
She’s going to say, yeah, things are fucked right now, but sitting on our asses and not doing anything to fix it is just as fucked or isn’t going to solve the problem. If we don’t like then let’s go and change it to make it better. We need to stand up now. And then later on we can lick our wounds. I’ll make hot chocolate and we’ll sit on the couch drinking hot chocolate.
And even she can have a moment or two when something disastrous happens and she doesn’t know the proper response to it. She’s not some creepy positive feeling robot.
Opinionated -
While it can be a double edge sword in her case, Serenity is not afraid to tell you what she thinks of you. She also tends to have a sailor mouth when doing it. She doesn’t keep quiet. And refuses to keep quiet. If she agrees or disagrees she’ll let you know. There is no, not knowing what Serenity means because she’s clear on what she means.
She speaks straight forwardly. No hints. No subtlety. She lacks the tack to be that subtle about it. And sometimes her words are not enough and she’ll physically let you know what she thinks.
Confident -
But not arrogant. The reason why Serenity can stand up so fiercely, or look at a horrible situation with such certainty is because she is confident in herself. She is confident in her judgment of others. She is confident to make the right decisions when they need to be made. When she says, I am confident it will work. It means she is a hundred percent certain that it will work.
Personality Flaws
Vain -
But only really a little bit. There’s no real reason for someone to own so much makeup and so much clothing and change their costumes based on their mood. But she’s not so obnoxiously vain it’s narcissism.
She spent most of her life trying to prove that she was an ordinary girl like the rest. Only to not really fit in with them. And feel like an outcast. When she was found to be a mutant, she went to the Xavier School of the gifted. But there were people with tails, green skin, who shot lasers from their eyes, who breathed fire. She was too ordinary for them and didn’t really fit in with them either.
She always felt a little out of the loop. And she covers it up with her mask. Not a physical one made out of fabric, but one that has to do with layers of clothes or choosing the makeup she does to reflect something inside of her.
Opionated -
Mentioned before in her case it can be a double edge sword. Because she doesn’t attempt tact, she has a habit of going off on the wrong people. Too easily jumping the gun and telling someone how it is, when it really isn’t how it is. This is often the reason why few are so willing to hold a lasting friendship with her. But those that truly know her. Love her. And understand her know she means nothing by it, sometimes she means nothing by it. Sometimes she means something by it based on false information or a false understanding of what the person has done or said.
Controlling -
Yeah she’s the leader, but she could learn to let go just a little bit. She seems overbearing and with her can do attitude, she can be hard to convince to let someone else take over the reigns. You see this often when she is in direct conflict with Umbra. As he is technically a secondary commander when either she is around, or there are many threats at once and the Avengers, X-men or whomever are gone.
She has trouble letting others show what they might bring forth. Maybe because she’s a little bit of a perfectionist, but she also often takes the burden of failure on herself. If anyone was hurt, lost or something were to occur she’d be the one bare the responsibility even if it were not her actions that resulted in the problem at hand.
She simply wants to do her best. Show her best. Which makes her overreaching and overbearing to some. She’s learning to give the reigns up, but often takes them back if she’s someone steer to close to an edge. It’s also probably the mothering nature in her not wanting to see them fail.
Overbearing -
Did we mention she can be overbearing? While she often needs break from the others. Sometimes the others feel they need a break from her. She’s controlling and doting, maybe too a fault sometimes. And tries to get everyone to do the best they can. She can be sort of in your personal space or she ruptures your personal space bubble trying to force you to do something you don’t necessarily want to do all based on her whim or desire.
She tries not to do it too much. But her extroverted nature makes her seek people for comfort.
Powers:
There seems to be a fine line between a savant or genius in music and someone who is a superhuman in music. Everyone else gets to spray acid, throw fireballs, manipulate gasoline. I am one hell of a dancer and singer, and I am going to make you regret thinking it makes me weaker than anyone else.
Enhanced Musicianship
While her powers developed later in life, as most Mutant’s powers do end up display their full potential during puberty, Serenity was still unnaturally gifted in music, dancing, and singing. She didn’t just understand notes, it was like notes and music passed through her and she somehow could feel the music. Like music had life.
As a little girl she was hailed a prodigy in music, and between the ages of 6 and 11 before puberty she was in many contest, many plays and talent shows at her school. She was hailed as being the next best singer, musician, and dancer of her age group.
Enhanced musicianship is not necessarily directly a power, but it encompasses under it several applications for Serenity and they are;
Performance Art Intuition - in a nutshell it simply means she possesses immense natural skills in the performing arts, but is limited to singing, dancing, and creating music. She’s tried to draw and other avenues and she fails in those sets of skill.
Music Empowerment - when Serenity comes into contact with music she draws power from the rhythm, melody, harmony and beats, which makes her inhumanely strong, and fast. But not Flash fast or Quicksilver fast, simply faster than the average human and stronger than the average human allowing her to lift and launch people in the air with a relative ease. When the music is going, she has enhanced reflexes, which makes her notice a person’s attack patterns more. But if there is no music, then Serenity is as weak as her ordinary human self.
Superhuman Dancing - When Serenity is dancing she is stronger than the average human being, able to lift others up with relative ease with a super punch or super kick, or a super dance combo. This doesn’t require music for her to perform these feats with just her dancing, but if she wants more benefits than she needs to tamp into her musical empowerment to gain more like speedier reflexes, and faster timing. But her superhuman dancing is also limited to when she is dancing.
Her musical empowerment manipulation isn’t just to give her extra power in battle. But she also has an ability known as empowerment manipulation. In the shortest terms possible, she is able to control time in sink with any piece of music she touches.
During the break she can slow down time. During a fast portion she can fast forward her actions or rewind her actions or the actions of others. And she can combine these things in any variation she likes. It simply needs to be perfectly timed with the rhythm of the music. This ability requires music to perform this ability.
Major Skills
Human Metronome
While this may sound like a power, it is not. It is something Serenity has learned her whole life being as musically trained as she was. Before her enhanced musicianship was founded to be a power, she was encouraged and enabled to pursue music. She got the best training a middle class family could find, she played in school. And because of this, it’s easy for her to keep count of music in her head almost as if it were instinct.
Musically Trained
As a child Serenity was encourage to pursue her musical pursuits. When a power at first looks simply like genius levels of musicianship, only to later be found out it is a power leads some to believe Serenity cheated all those years. Either way Serenity has worked hard to be where she is today without it being necessarily not just her power, but a trained skill. Serenity is sometimes called in by friends or through connections of friends to Choreograph dance moves for upcoming music videos. When she was very young she took classes in urban hip hop, jazz, Broadway, and break dancing.
But Serenity also Orchestrates her own musical composition. Owning a record label with her boyfriend and recording songs. Except that she isn’t really widely known and has to live with the fact that she may never be a big star.
She also can Sing professionally as well. She often writes and sings her own music.
Leadership Training
She feels she is qualified for the job as a leader because she’s the only one who has been trained in leadership. How does she figure this? Because in her college courses she was required to take either a business management class or an economy class. She chose business management class. And they had a whole entire section on leadership, and trust exercises.
Minor Skills
Seamstress
Who do you think makes my costumes? Me. I am the best seamstress in at least Rogue X. You got a hole in your cape, I’ll fix it. Have a little patch in your knee it’s fine I brought my fabric first aid kit. No one should go in this world without something beautiful to wear. Nor should they always chose to look homeless.
Laundry
There is a proper way to do laundry and there is an improper way of doing laundry. Being musically trained and going to the concerts she did or tournaments she did. Serenity has learned how to take care of different fabric in the wash. But anyone who thinks she’ll just do their laundry free has to pay her ten bucks up front.Twenty if the clothes are exceptionally dirty. Exception Riko.
Charismatic Scolding
If you don’t think this is a skill, then you do not know Serenity. On a good day when they are fighting a simply misguided villain she often gets them to stop their activities merely by scolding them sternly for their actions. Many feel so bad after her strong talking to they turn themselves in.
It’s also the voice she uses to get things done in the apartment. She is not a house maid and makes sure everyone in Rogue X keeps their area clean.
Weapon: None too much to carry
Equipment:
Casual Purse
This is my everyday purse, it carries my phone in it, my communicator, the color of the lipstick I am wearing that day to freshen up, my eyeshadow, if I am taking Riko or Chibi with me I usually carry them little snacks or quick lunches because I am a good caretaker. It also has my notebook in it, some pens, and my wallet.
Ipod and one of those wireless speakers you can play music portably
Blue Swallow's Emergency Bag
If anyone calls it my mom bag again, we'll see whose laughing the next time someone isn't prepared. I genuinely carry in this bag;
-Packed Lunches or snacks depending on the mission -Water bottles have to stay hydrated in battle -A first aid kit -A first aid fabric kit, okay its a small sewing kit, but this can be a lifesaver as well -My Ipod and Portable Speaker -Any relevant data for the mission -A pair of handcuffs
History:
Was I treated well? Well yes. Have I never seen anyone close to me die before? Well yes too. But that doesn’t mean you get to discount the things I have been through. I have felt ridicule, I have felt mocked, and like I haven’t belonged. You don’t need scales to feel that way.
To some I am the spoiled bitch who was born on October 25th, who had a mommy and daddy who loved her so why is she here at this school with people like us. I am of course talking about the School for Gifted Youth. I could tell you why, but people like you just laugh in my face when I tell the story.
When I was young I was just thought of some kind of genius. Unlike you my powers started out subtly. It was understanding music. I didn’t just hear music or didn’t read notes. I felt music. I felt what the artist was trying to convey, I felt or saw the story the artist wrote into their notes. My parents just thought I was some gifted young girl so they encouraged me.
Helen, my mother, and Lloyd, my father, weren’t very rich. We lived comfortably middle class, but they did everything for their precious little girl. Even my little brother, Jayden, had a hard time competing with his older sister who was a genius I think that’s why he resents me so much these days.
I won contest. I won trophies. They were all taken from me. I was revoked the title of Junior Musician Champion because when my powers began to develop more everyone called me a cheater. They said I did it on purpose. My reputation was ruined.
I didn’t get to keep any of my accomplishments of my childhood. Does that make me seem materialistic? Or selfish? Maybe. But I put in the training. The hard work. How was I supposed to know? I was a child. I didn’t know anything was wrong till puberty hit. Then when I danced the world could slow down, or move faster.
I enjoyed it. But my parents disowned me, they saw me as a disgrace. And Jayden resented me. I could feel all his disdain for me. And I understood because he was a brilliantly gifted young man as well. When I came to the school of the Gifted Youth I thought things would change.
I thought I’d be accepted into the group. I wasn’t. Very few accepted me because my powers were too average. Or there wasn’t anything special about me. I felt alone. I was fifteen, alone, and not even sure who I was. Few gave me the benefit of the doubt. Few gave me the opportunity to show them who I was.
And yet I still worked my ass off. I still put in all of my effort. I worked harder than most because I was considered not as talented as the others. I admired people like Anna/Rogue, or Scott/Cyclops. When I was twenty, I was young and excited, but I saw all they could do. I wanted to be that. I wanted to be that woman on the screen everyone loved.
That must make me sound like a narcissist. I am not. I just, I wanted to help. I wanted to good work. I wanted to make the world a better, happier place, and all my hard work meant nothing. I remember walking up to Xavier.
I remember begging on my hands and knees to be a part of the X-men. I’ll never forget what he told me that day,
“I am sorry Mrs. Grier, but to be an X-men is for the most exceptional in this school. I would not want you to needlessly throw your life away. There are so many paths and avenues you could take to achieve the same goals, to help people,”
“I do not want to just help people, I want to be a hero that helps people!”
He sighs.
“I do have an opportunity for you. I was uncertain if I should help this mysterious individual out, we know so little of him. But we do need, or I am willing to send an individual to help a new group form here in New York. If you are willing,”
“What is this project?”
“Rogue X”
“I’ll do anything!”
Little did I know it send me to a little apartment in Brooklyn and I was about to lead the strangest group of heroes to do the work people like the X-men or Avengers couldn’t do. Or I really should say, wouldn’t do. Was it above their pay grade? No I’ll tell you what it was. A little secret no one knows. The Avengers and X-men are all faked. Not fake fakes, but Xavier and Nick Fury choose the most marketable, most flashy heroes, the most attractive to fund themselves and politics.
They weren’t any different from anyone else. They just wanted the good looking people to make them money. And make people feel safe.
I don’t want to be that type of hero. I don’t want that for Rogue X. If we’re going to make people safe, we’ll make them safe for real. If we’re going to help people, we’ll help them out for real.
The perks of a dual life is I have met the love of my life, Timothy. You know him. He’s the geeky one who runs around and makes sure everything is okay at homebase. He’s helped out with the intercoms, he’s helped out with the computer system and security of this place. He’ll tell you he isn’t brilliant, but he’s brilliant in my eyes.
About my parents. I don’t want to talk about it. They don’t want to talk to me. Fine I don’t want to talk about them.
And Jayden. I hear he has powers. I also hear he is hanging out with the wrong crowd. I don’t. I haven’t been able to find him. He ran away from home after his powers erupted. Our parents were distraught that both their children were mutants. I hope I can find him, someday.
Could you kindly remove the character out of spoiler tags? I like to comb through sheets as a GM and when looking for something specific tend to like Ctrl F.
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