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《 H. E. R. O. 》

Skylar Ezra

Armoured

Name
Skylar Ezra

Code Name
Phantom
(Ex-Hero name: Phoenix)

Gender
Female

Age
25

Date of Birth
January 24th

Physique
Skylar is a woman that now stands at a height of 5’9, and encased entirely within a GEN1MKII Advanced Combat Suit. It covers her from head to toe, and it’s rumoured that if ever it was managed to remove the armour her skin would most likely be an extreme pale, however there is no actual separation any more between her skin and the armour save for her head. The skin on her face is now pale, and her hair has also been bleached white. She weighs 155lbs, which is quite light considering the armour that she is made up of, which causes belief that some internal parts of her body may have been replaced or removed entirely as the armour takes over full support of her body.

Blood Type
AB+

Occupation
Villain (ex-Hero)

Side
Villain (ex-Hero)

Affiliation
None (Previously affiliated with H.E.R.O)

Tier
B

Personality
Skylar used to be entirely one of the good-guys. She did things by the book, and was a cheerful and great person to be around. Now however, she is an uncaring, disconcerting and outright hostile individual to be around, with a disdain primarily toward Heroes caused by the Phantom program. She is willing to cooperate with other villains in order to accomplish her goals, which mostly revolve around the ambushing and dispatching of Heroes, however that doesn't make her easy to work with - Skylar is now somewhat mentally deranged, her former self seeming to just be locked away somewhere within her and replaced by something else entirely. Part of that effects her ability to hold back, and she often just wants to let loose, which can often just trod over her allies' plans if they don't prepare for the fact that she'll most likely do that. Sometimes, it isn’t clear whether it’s her speaking or the Phantom virus speaking for her.

Backstory
From the beginning of her life, Skylar knew that she wanted to be something that helped as a whole, rather than a mindless drone that sat at a desk and worked away to accomplish little for the large. Because of this, her goals fixated on either joining the military or joining the police; she settled on the latter as she preferred to help resolve problems on the streets and be actively involved in the process. She applied to join the police force before she had turned eighteen, and began training a day after her eighteenth birthday.

Throughout her police career Skylar was a model officer, and was recommended for the assignment of more specialised training and equipment after her assistance in the capture of a D-Tier threat. With a leaning toward a more Hero-supporting role, Skylar was given training for the use of a GEN1MKII Advanced Combat Suit, the planned newer and greater generation of the clumsy and barely used MKI suit, which was to kept for emergency use if a high level threat was detected. She was fitted for the suit, and trained in the theory usage of the suit while it's manufacturing was put in place, a process that took little over two months. She still didn't get to actually use or see the suit until the third month of the training, after the theory exam was passed, and gave a little more time for the manufacturers to fine-tune the prototype.

However, the problem occurred toward the end of the practical exam. Skylar would have passed the exam anyhow, but she created a new way of passing the exam; by the excruciating pain, uncontrollable screaming and spasms of her body caused by the suit almost melting itself into her, molding itself with her body to form not two beings but one. Nobody could tell why it had actually happened, but what they did know was that it had never happened before, and wasn’t happening after. It was a unique circumstance that left Skylar scarred by the memory alone.

However, she forced it not to change the way that she was. She tried to focus on the benefits of now being the suit, the benefits that the producers of the suit said should not be happening at all. She was stronger and faster, and her inners were now a biometal that increased her overall durability. She did not to eat nor drink as much, among other benefits. It was a large, unusual change to her life. That change grew even more unusual and new to her when she joined H.E.R.O, in order to utilise these new abilities for the better.

Within H.E.R.O, Skylar excelled in helping to ensure crime was kept off the streets and villains were contained. This, however, went downhill after a few years. She was dispatched alone to deal with a group of D-Tier thugs, which should have been a simple task. She quickly discovered that it was not the case however, and that the D-Tier thugs were just a ruse for an A-Tier villain, a trap made to lure in a Hero like herself to kill. Upon discovering what she was, the villain’s trap plan changed from killing to converting. She was immobilised and then worked on by the villain, who worked on her armour, touching and manipulating its computer and, in the process, her mind. The virus inserted into her computer overpowered her human brain and corrupted it.

The Heroes that came to help after getting no communication from her found the thugs and the villain, but not in any arrestable state. A review of the room’s camera footage showed that Skylar was now very much corrupted.

Power
Biomechanical: Skylar is much stronger, faster and more durable than normal humans. The outer shell of her armour is strong, but it digs deep into her, making her inners itself a mixture of metal and flesh. She still has all of her senses, however she now has the ability to adjust or disable them if she needs to, such as disabling her smelling or hearing, or even her feeling of pain if she so deems it necessary, and can increase these as well. Though now resistant to gases, she still requires oxygen to operate, and is still able to be injected with chemicals through injection ports on the upper arms of her outer shell, both bad chemicals and good chemicals.

The armour that Skylar is merged with also has many utilities of it’s own, such as weapons and equipment. A grapple hook, riot control gas and an enclosed gun in her arm is just a few of the utilities that it has to help any good officer contain a villain threat - or help a villain present themselves as a large threat.

Her ‘body’ is able to repair itself through the consuming of metals, which her body is able to break down and transfer to what needs to be ‘healed’. She is able to do this by cutting down the metal into tiny or powder form and disabling her sense of taste. Well, the disabling of taste is not necessary, however it does make it a lot easier to bear doing.

Skylar is also not alone. The Phantom virus speaks to her, acting as an artificial intelligence by the utilisation of her own, human brain as a carrier. The Phantom virus can help her to calculate, to plan and even to act if it so wishes. She works in tandem with it, for it's a part of her.

Skylar has several weaknesses. The most obvious threat to her is an electro-magnetic pulse, something to knock out her electronic parts. She can still operate without power, however she won’t be able to utilise the full power of herself, such as the adjustment of her senses or some equipment such as her grappling hook. The armour’s computer is somewhat shielded from EMP, so Phantom will have a reduced effect on Skylar from the computer, and so will hijack more of her brain instead, which reduces her overall efficiency.

Phantom itself is her largest weakness, because it’s what makes her truly evil. Removal of Phantom by any means will n̸͇͚̜̄ó̸̪t̶̥̑̐̔ ̵̖̲͎̓̽͋c̶̣͙̚ä̶̞̝̇̀ṵ̴̋s̷̩̉ẹ̷͓̅͜ ̵̡͕̬̉á̴̜̹̥̑n̵̡̽͊̄y̵̡̢͙͒̽ ̷̰͈̝̓̆̑ĕ̸̺̈́̐f̷̣͓̊́͗f̸͎̞͊e̵̦̦͒c̷̊͜͠t̵̼̝̍̀,̵̟͇̂ ̵͈̳̽͝a̷̜̩͊̽n̶̬̉̓ḑ̵̬͌ ̷̡̭̫̀̋i̴̱̺̳͊s̴̡̹̰̈͆ ̷̦̿ư̴̞̬͑s̶̲͍͐e̸͕͐l̶̬̮̅́͠e̸̦̖͊̒s̵̛̜͙̦͂̏ş̶̩̼̊ ̷͚̊a̷̘̘͛ͅn̸̳̐ḑ̴̗͑̋͘ ̵̢͖͕̀p̴̡̬͗o̴͇̯͋͒i̴͉͇̳͑͝n̷͚̹͓͐ṯ̵̞̏̚ľ̸̺̣͍e̴̤͔͊̓s̶̳̝͌̈s̸̫̓͐͠.

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Jade Farley

Name
Jade Farley

Hero Name
Hound

Gender
Female

Age
22

Date of Birth
12th of March

Physique
With ruby red eyes and flowing brown hair, Jade is a striking figure. She works to ensure that she is fit and slim, not wanting to fall into any kind of state where she doesn’t appreciate or maintain her own body properly. Jade has a height of 5’5, and a weight of 125lbs. Additionally, because of her power backfiring uncontrollably the first time she used it, she has a pair of large canine ears as well as a canine tail, both furred the same colour as her hair.

Blood Type
O+

Occupation
Hero (Full time)

Side
Heroes

Affiliation
H.E.R.O

Tier
C+

Personality
Jade is a calm individual that treats things playfully. She is a compassionate, kind young woman who places a lot of trust in her allies and in her friends. Jade believes that anyone is able to change, even the most evil, most vile of people, however she understands that even though they are able to change, it is more likely than not that they won’t change, and so she is not against putting someone down with force - she just prefers that they attempt to make the individual surrender first if that is an option. She can often be a little blinded, seeing someone as less of a threat than they actually are if they try to fool her, however she is smart enough to not be unprepared for such an encounter.

Backstory
With a fascination in the human mind, Jade believed that she was going to go into a field that involved psychology. She was entertained by how different everyone’s mind was, and how people were able to completely change themselves by their own will or by their experiences. It was absolutely fascinating to her, to the point where she started to perform extreme mental exercises on herself to push her mind to its limits, as far as it could go each time. She stimulated her mind in all sorts of ways, from pleasure to pain, until finally she had enough - of herself. That was when her Feral Mind first kicked in, causing her to violently tear through her own room and then, by extension, charge through her house. Her body changing didn’t help, she internally panicked as she went from a bird to a bull to a werewolf before she finally collapsed.

Jade ended up waking up in a hospital, with several new appendages, and without a home; it had apparently collapsed due to her charging through a wall at some point in an uncontrollable rage. It took a lot of time for Jade to adjust to her new abilities, as well as new parts of her ‘human’ body. It hurt her a lot to know she had gained such new features, and for the first few days after having gotten comfortable with her powers tried to get rid of them, and eventually just got used to them and started to like having them. She thought that the new set of ears and the tail suited her look.

Once the young woman was discharged from the hospital, with nowhere else to go, she ended up joining H.E.R.O. After all, she didn’t have anywhere else to go. She figured she may as well learn to use the abilities she had for good, as well as make sure she had people around her that understood, people that were at least somewhat like her in that they had powers, too.

Power
Animal Nature: Jade is able to transform into any animal that she wishes, including aquatic and avian animals. This power stretches slightly into the unknown world, allowing her to transform into such creatures as werewolves and phoenixes if she so wishes. As a supplement to this power she can also form natural alliances with and communicate with animals. This power alone is not of great significance, however Jade also possesses the ability to unlock the feral part of her mind, and enable a portion of it to overcome her natural mind. This significantly increases her speed and durability, however depending on how much of her feral mind she wishes to unlock can start losing focus on her actual goal and end up as little more than an animal in mind. This ability comes with no timer, however she can tire herself out of her feral mind, bringing her back to normal. Additionally, if she is put to sleep or knocked out, she is also knocked out of her feral mind, which locks itself back up. This ability also, if she unlocks too much of her feral mind, may cause her to lose perception on who her allies are and who her enemies are, causing her to attack both if she can’t discern the difference, or is pushed too far to care.

Jade's Relationships

Name of Person
Blake Ignatius von Brandt

Relationship Status
Crush

Relationship Description
"Wait, hold on, you want me to comment on that? Well, um... Damnit... No, stop please! Stop writing! What is that you're writing, nervous to provide an answer!? Give me that paper, don't you dare put that in the report! Let me restart!"

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Name of Person
Patricia Donnelly

Relationship Status
Friend

Relationship Description
"Well, she's pretty kind. To me, at least. I've seen her glare daggers at other people, but I think she's at least friends with me. Probably because I don't bother her too much."

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Name of Person
Starbright

Relationship Status
Significant Other - if she lived in Hell

Relationship Description
"Oh, I'm kind person. I'm calm, I'm usually quite cheerful. But when he's around? He's the villain, the villain to our eyes, and the villain to our ears. I appreciate those who partake in the art of music and being an idol for others, but to abuse their position as a Hero just to up their career? I'd say put him in Public Relations instead of the frontline, but he'd probably use that to his own benefit."

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Name of Person
Joseph Moore

Relationship Status
Aquaintance

Relationship Description
"He's... Alright. He's kind of the opposite to Starbright. Rune is lazy, but Starbright is always out posing for the crowds. On the other hand, Starbright is utterly useless, while Rune can be quite useful. When he wants to be. I envy his ability to lay around and still get paid for it."

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Name of Person
Ava

Relationship Status
Friend

Relationship Description
"We're both unusual in this world, though her more than I. The difference is that I'm not here by choice, and she is. The choice by those that should never have been made. A sentient being like herself should never have arrived to this world in the way that she did, and that choice was cruel by those who created her. What would have happened to her if H.E.R.O had not found her and picked her up, I do not know. And to me, that means she needs a friend more than anyone."

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Name of Person
Marcus Morgan

Relationship Status
Friend

Relationship Description
"Marcus is a decent person to be around. I do like him, and I'm grateful for how he takes care of Ava. She definitely needs him, and by the looks of it, he needs her, too."

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Jasper Farley

Name
Jasper Farley

Hero Name
Felix

Gender
Male

Age
17

Date of Birth
23 March

Physique
Jasper stands at a height of 5’4 and a weight of 134lbs. His eyes are a green-hazel colour, and he has brown hair. Jasper is quite fit and his body slim, and he has a brown feline tail as well as a pair of brown feline ears atop his head.

Blood Type
O+

Occupation
Hero and Online distance-learning high school student.

Side
Hero

Affiliation
H.E.R.O

Tier
C-Tier

Personality
While his sister is a lot more open, Jasper is more shyer than his older sibling. He does enjoy going out and he enjoys talking to people, but he doesn’t like even the minor amount of fame that comes with being a Hero if it means he’ll have even a small crowd of people circling him to thank him and congratulate him. Jasper tends to get flustered and a little embarrassed in situations like that, and if necessary, he will resort to hiding behind his friends, the people that he trusts the more. That doesn’t mean he isn’t confident often, though; he can definitely stand up for himself. But he’s better at standing up against evil than he is the innocent. Due to the difference in his Feral Mind compared to his sister’s, his Feral Mind has a slight effect on his natural, human mind, which gives him some feline tendencies, such as liking fish or occasionally needing to scratch something.

Backstory
The younger brother of Jade grew up closer to his sister than his parents. He had always felt like she was great to him, mostly because she had never harmed or hurt him in any way, and she was always an ear for him whenever he needed to talk about anything, even childish questions. Once he grew up, he figured out that it was her fascination that psychology that made her so compelled to listen to him, but that didn’t actually matter to him - at least her care for him was genuine. He didn’t have many moments where he felt upset with her.

Until Jade joined H.E.R.O. At that point, she completely had moved out and Jasper was forced to live with his parents. It wasn’t that he didn’t like his parents, it was more-so that he missed having his sister around. After a while he had begun to grow used to her being away, and by a year or two he was comfortable with her being as she was. Including her new features. He found them to be quite nice, quite interesting. Eventually, he ended up moving in with his sister, moving out of his parents’ house and into her’s, just to be close to her again.

And soon enough, Jasper broke just as his sister had done years ago. He snapped, breaking into a fit of rage and terror that caused him to transform in the same way that Jade had done - that remained only within the living room with the assistance of a furious older sister pinning him down with not just strength of her own but also a fully complete transformation, as opposed to the only partial transformations that Jasper was doing, and experience from her time as a Hero. The Feral Mind of Jasper lasted a long while, with it having a fresh grasp on his mind, however cooled down just as fast and leaving him with the same mark as his sister - a pair of animal ears and a tail. However, unlike his sister, his ones weren’t canine, they were feline.

The two spent weeks in experimentation, but grew puzzled. Jasper couldn’t transform his whole body into an animal like his sister could, only gain the features of some animals. At the same time, his Feral Mind was a lot stronger than his sister’s in what it provided him when he activated it, and had a lot more of a presence than his sister’s, seeping a little into his normal head and giving him feline-like tendencies sometimes. The only thing that was common between them both discovering their powers was that they both joined H.E.R.O after.

Power
Animal Nature: The way that Jasper utilises his power is much like his sister, however it has some differences. Jasper can obtain animal traits much like his sister, but while she has to transform into the whole animal, Jasper only receives a part - to his choosing - that he wants, such as their teeth or claws. If he pushes himself hard, he can obtain more than one animal’s features at a time (not counting his feline features). If he wants more or wants a second animal’s features easier, he can tap into the deep parts of his Feral Mind to do so, however that amount of Feral Mind being tapped into can put him on the edge of Ferality and the loss of his sane mind due to the Feral Mind of Jasper being more powerful than that of Jade’s. The weakness to this remains the same; it comes with no timer, however he can tire himself out of the Feral Mind or be knocked out of it by, well, getting knocked out. As a side effect, his Feral Mind has a slight effect on his natural, human mind, giving him slight feline tendencies.

Jasper's Relationships

Name of Person
Patricia Donnelly

Relationship Status
"I... I... She's a good friend." (Crush)

Relationship Description
"Y-Yes please, that works for me. I'm a bit too nervous to put her down as being my crush- Wait... _{we're onto the next question already? Oh no...}"

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Name of Person
Blake Ignatius von Brandt

Relationship Status
Friend

Relationship Description
"Blake seems nice, he's friendly. Plus, he seems to get on well with my sister. She keeps talking to me about him."

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Name of Person
Starbright

Relationship Status
Not a fan

Relationship Description
"He's too flashy, too odd for me. I couldn't even hang out with him if I wanted to, his fans would make a crowd, and I don't want to be in the middle of that."

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Name of Person
Brianna Hart (Brie)

Relationship Status
Virtual sister

Relationship Description
"She's not really my sister, but I see her as if she is. She's really kind to me, always there to lend a shoulder, and awesome fun to hang with. I just need to be careful not to get into trouble around her. Because of her."

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Name of Person
Jamie Stewart

Relationship Status
Friend

Relationship Description
"Jamie is nice. A bit dangerous to be around, but funny to witness the naiveness of sometimes. I'm not sure I could be with her alone, though. I might get caught in the middle of something that neither she nor I knows how to fix. After accidentally causing it."

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《 H. E. R. O. 》

Here's my villain. Will be working on my Hero shortly.

Skylar Ezra

Armoured

Name
Skylar Ezra

Code Name
Phantom
(Ex-Hero name: Phoenix)

Gender
Female

Age
25

Date of Birth
January 24th

Physique
Skylar is a woman that now stands at a height of 5’9, and encased entirely within a GEN1MKII Advanced Combat Suit. It covers her from head to toe, and it’s rumoured that if ever it was managed to remove the armour her skin would most likely be an extreme pale, however there is no actual separation any more between her skin and the armour save for her head. The skin on her face is now pale, and her hair has also been bleached white. She weighs 155lbs, which is quite light considering the armour that she is made up of, which causes belief that some internal parts of her body may have been replaced or removed entirely as the armour takes over full support of her body.

Blood Type
AB+

Occupation
Villain (ex-Hero)

Side
Villain (ex-Hero)

Affiliation
None (Previously affiliated with H.E.R.O)

Tier
B

Personality
Skylar used to be entirely one of the good-guys. She did things by the book, and was a cheerful and great person to be around. Now however, she is an uncaring, disconcerting and outright hostile individual to be around, with a disdain primarily toward Heroes caused by the Phantom program. She is willing to cooperate with other villains in order to accomplish her goals, which mostly revolve around the ambushing and dispatching of Heroes, however that doesn't make her easy to work with - Skylar is now somewhat mentally deranged, her former self seeming to just be locked away somewhere within her and replaced by something else entirely. Part of that effects her ability to hold back, and she often just wants to let loose, which can often just trod over her allies' plans if they don't prepare for the fact that she'll most likely do that. Sometimes, it isn’t clear whether it’s her speaking or the Phantom virus speaking for her.

Backstory
From the beginning of her life, Skylar knew that she wanted to be something that helped as a whole, rather than a mindless drone that sat at a desk and worked away to accomplish little for the large. Because of this, her goals fixated on either joining the military or joining the police; she settled on the latter as she preferred to help resolve problems on the streets and be actively involved in the process. She applied to join the police force before she had turned eighteen, and began training a day after her eighteenth birthday.

Throughout her police career Skylar was a model officer, and was recommended for the assignment of more specialised training and equipment after her assistance in the capture of a D-Tier threat. With a leaning toward a more Hero-supporting role, Skylar was given training for the use of a GEN1MKII Advanced Combat Suit, the planned newer and greater generation of the clumsy and barely used MKI suit, which was to kept for emergency use if a high level threat was detected. She was fitted for the suit, and trained in the theory usage of the suit while it's manufacturing was put in place, a process that took little over two months. She still didn't get to actually use or see the suit until the third month of the training, after the theory exam was passed, and gave a little more time for the manufacturers to fine-tune the prototype.

However, the problem occurred toward the end of the practical exam. Skylar would have passed the exam anyhow, but she created a new way of passing the exam; by the excruciating pain, uncontrollable screaming and spasms of her body caused by the suit almost melting itself into her, molding itself with her body to form not two beings but one. Nobody could tell why it had actually happened, but what they did know was that it had never happened before, and wasn’t happening after. It was a unique circumstance that left Skylar scarred by the memory alone.

However, she forced it not to change the way that she was. She tried to focus on the benefits of now being the suit, the benefits that the producers of the suit said should not be happening at all. She was stronger and faster, and her inners were now a biometal that increased her overall durability. She did not to eat nor drink as much, among other benefits. It was a large, unusual change to her life. That change grew even more unusual and new to her when she joined H.E.R.O, in order to utilise these new abilities for the better.

Within H.E.R.O, Skylar excelled in helping to ensure crime was kept off the streets and villains were contained. This, however, went downhill after a few years. She was dispatched alone to deal with a group of D-Tier thugs, which should have been a simple task. She quickly discovered that it was not the case however, and that the D-Tier thugs were just a ruse for an A-Tier villain, a trap made to lure in a Hero like herself to kill. Upon discovering what she was, the villain’s trap plan changed from killing to converting. She was immobilised and then worked on by the villain, who worked on her armour, touching and manipulating its computer and, in the process, her mind. The virus inserted into her computer overpowered her human brain and corrupted it.

The Heroes that came to help after getting no communication from her found the thugs and the villain, but not in any arrestable state. A review of the room’s camera footage showed that Skylar was now very much corrupted.

Power
Biomechanical: Skylar is much stronger, faster and more durable than normal humans. The outer shell of her armour is strong, but it digs deep into her, making her inners itself a mixture of metal and flesh. She still has all of her senses, however she now has the ability to adjust or disable them if she needs to, such as disabling her smelling or hearing, or even her feeling of pain if she so deems it necessary, and can increase these as well. Though now resistant to gases, she still requires oxygen to operate, and is still able to be injected with chemicals through injection ports on the upper arms of her outer shell, both bad chemicals and good chemicals.

The armour that Skylar is merged with also has many utilities of it’s own, such as weapons and equipment. A grapple hook, riot control gas and an enclosed gun in her arm is just a few of the utilities that it has to help any good officer contain a villain threat - or help a villain present themselves as a large threat.

Her ‘body’ is able to repair itself through the consuming of metals, which her body is able to break down and transfer to what needs to be ‘healed’. She is able to do this by cutting down the metal into tiny or powder form and disabling her sense of taste. Well, the disabling of taste is not necessary, however it does make it a lot easier to bear doing.

Skylar is also not alone. The Phantom virus speaks to her, acting as an artificial intelligence by the utilisation of her own, human brain as a carrier. The Phantom virus can help her to calculate, to plan and even to act if it so wishes. She works in tandem with it, for it's a part of her.

Skylar has several weaknesses. The most obvious threat to her is an electro-magnetic pulse, something to knock out her electronic parts. She can still operate without power, however she won’t be able to utilise the full power of herself, such as the adjustment of her senses or some equipment such as her grappling hook. The armour’s computer is somewhat shielded from EMP, so Phantom will have a reduced effect on Skylar from the computer, and so will hijack more of her brain instead, which reduces her overall efficiency.

Phantom itself is her largest weakness, because it’s what makes her truly evil. Removal of Phantom by any means will n̸͇͚̜̄ó̸̪t̶̥̑̐̔ ̵̖̲͎̓̽͋c̶̣͙̚ä̶̞̝̇̀ṵ̴̋s̷̩̉ẹ̷͓̅͜ ̵̡͕̬̉á̴̜̹̥̑n̵̡̽͊̄y̵̡̢͙͒̽ ̷̰͈̝̓̆̑ĕ̸̺̈́̐f̷̣͓̊́͗f̸͎̞͊e̵̦̦͒c̷̊͜͠t̵̼̝̍̀,̵̟͇̂ ̵͈̳̽͝a̷̜̩͊̽n̶̬̉̓ḑ̵̬͌ ̷̡̭̫̀̋i̴̱̺̳͊s̴̡̹̰̈͆ ̷̦̿ư̴̞̬͑s̶̲͍͐e̸͕͐l̶̬̮̅́͠e̸̦̖͊̒s̵̛̜͙̦͂̏ş̶̩̼̊ ̷͚̊a̷̘̘͛ͅn̸̳̐ḑ̴̗͑̋͘ ̵̢͖͕̀p̴̡̬͗o̴͇̯͋͒i̴͉͇̳͑͝n̷͚̹͓͐ṯ̵̞̏̚ľ̸̺̣͍e̴̤͔͊̓s̶̳̝͌̈s̸̫̓͐͠.

The Walking Dead - Hell on Earth

Jasper - School Bus - Jessalyn

@Belle

Jasper took a moment to stare down at the can of honest-to-god spaghettios, feeling a lot more relieved now that it was obvious that this wasn't some kind of trick that was being pulled on him, he knew nobody could afford to waste food. The offer that the woman made was almost completely influenced by her. She had given Jasper a can of food, and even a spoon so that he wouldn't have to eat it with his hands, and there was more food in the bus so she definitely wasn't lying that she could feed him. The bus was a shelter, something that would protect him from the rain if it came. The decision was practically rigged from the beginning.

Nonetheless, he still didn't give an affirmative response straight away, because he was eating the spaghettios like he hadn't eaten in days (which was mostly the truth). It was about halfway through that he stopped eating, realising that he had to actually say something in order to accept her offer. He starts to nod his head even as he's swallowing the latest mouthful, before replying, "Yes. I'll do it. I don't want to be out there any more, at least, not out there alone." He took a few moments, before asking, "What's your name? You never told me," and then getting straight back to the task of eating his food.

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Ashley - Mall Parking Lot - Scarlett

@wolverbells

Pretty young? I'm twenty-two, Ashley thought to herself, folding her arms over her chest. She supposed that maybe she was a little young compared to the woman in front of her, but she definitely wasn't a teenager. "I'm perfectly fine," she replies, letting herself listen to the woman, who identified herself as Scarlett, speak. The friendliness of Scarlett was something that worried Ashley a little, because she seemed too friendly. The only thing that Scarlett had going for her was the fact that she hadn't been some kind of stranded citizen that Ashley was lured to, and had been made to come to the mall through her own methods and apparently on her own. There was too much risk to make her do a massive loop around just to fool unsuspecting survivors.

The question about whether or not Ashley would like to accompany Scarlett to the mall was definitely something that shocked Ashley a little. Ashley needed to look somewhere for supplies, but was she really going to trust Scarlett enough to go to the mall together? It took a few moments, however Ashley nodded her head. It wasn't that she actually trusted Scarlett, but the matter of the fact was that if Scarlett really was looking to land Ashley in some kind of trap or trouble and Ashley walked away it was more than likely Scarlett or whoever she was with could just pursue her. It would be better to have a potential ally within the mall.

"Safety in numbers," Ashley says, perhaps a little monotone. It was true, to an extent. But numbers came with it's own disadvantages.

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Ashley - Mall Parking Lot - Scarlett

@wolverbells

After observing the pair for a moment, Ashley decided to move on. It did drag at her a little, for she did want to ensure the safety of both, however she knew that she couldn't just watch some survivors forever. She did need to continue on with her search, so she at least had found something that she could use, eat or drink. She took a few more moments to peek at the pair, before ducking her head back down. The walkers were ever closer, but Ashley was able to crawl her way between the abandoned vehicles, moving quickly as to not be seen. She didn't mind a bit of dirt on her cargo pants from crawling, she had enough of that in the past tackling felons to the ground. She was only worried about her police belt snagging on something, though it wasn't that huge of a worry. It wasn't bound to happen. Perhaps her nerves were just getting to her.

Once she was a safe distance away, Ashley climbed to her feet, dusting herself off a little. The parking lot of the mall was still quite large, so she wasn't out of it yet. She moved her hands to her belt, rotating it a bit so that it sat more comfortably, and double checked her holster to make sure her gun was not missing - which it wasn't, obviously. She wasn't sure why she was feeling so anxious, but she knew it would pass soon. She could dwell on it whenever she next laid down to rest or sleep. Ashley was worried that thinking about it now would just distract her in a place that was potentially quite dangerous. She made her way to the edge of the parking lot, figuring it would be better to walk there in case she needed to make a quick getaway, or had to hide behind any of the closer cars. She did notice that there seemed to be more walkers around, but they wouldn't bother her, they weren't too close to her and had better things to do. Like staring at the sky, the walls or the ground. Stupid walkers.

Ashley watched her surroundings, from the buildings to the walkers. For all she knew, she could spot a building that didn't look like it had a broken window, and so that would be a good place to search or remember for resting later. Her eyes caught view of a walker swatting in a strange way above it's head, and a touch of a smile appeared on her face before she realised it wasn't a walker at all. The 'swatting' she had spotted was actually a woman waving at her. Ashley debated moving her hand down to her holster, to prepare for anything - for all she knew this could be a trap.

She couldn't do that, however. She never could. To run into every situation like it's a bad one creates trouble where trouble may not be, that's what she had been told years ago. Still, Ashley took a moment to think about what she was seeing, before waving back at the woman and starting to make her way over carefully. "You know doing that is not the best of ideas, right?" Ashley says, as she grew closer. She stops, resting her hands on her belt naturally. "You'll end up shot if you wave at random people in these times."

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Jasper - School Bus - Jessalyn

@Belle

Jasper tucked his knees to his chest, staring at the woman and waiting to see what would happen. He could tell what he had said to her had some kind of effect from the way she had spoken afterwards, with her curse words and movements. After a few moments of watching her, his eyes cast to the ground. He was just unsure of what was going to happen, what she was going to say or what she was going to do. When she turned back around, his worries only grew from the anticipation. He hesitated once he heard the question that she asked, a little worried. It took him a couple of moments to tilt his head back up, to face her directly and answer her question.

"Jasper," the boy says, a little gingerly. "Jasper North."

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@Belle, sounds good to me.

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Jasper - School Bus - Jessalyn

@Belle

What the woman said was truthful, but for the wrong reason. Jasper had thought that the stuff belonged to someone, he just hadn't known if the owner was alive to care if the stuff was taken. Whether or not she was alive, if she hadn't turned up, he probably would have made it away with the supplies without even knowing if she really was alive or dead. Jasper wouldn't have had any reason to think about it, it would just be another batch of supplies, soon to vanish and need to be replaced. Such as life was nowadays.

Jasper watched as she squatted down to his level, and admittedly he was a little worried. He was under her control here, as there was nothing he could do. She wouldn't even need to grab her gun if he tried to move his hands anywhere, she could probably just grab his arms and hold them. That was if he was going to be making any moves like that - he didn't want to. She clearly wasn't trying to threaten him or hurt him, she was just a little bit intimidating with her gun and the adult authority that she held over him. His eyes quickly moved to his bag as it was picked up, watching it as if he didn't expect to see it again.

He found it perhaps a little morbidly funny that she expected him not to tell whoever he was with where he found the supplies. That slight, dark humour turned to misery after a few moments due to the realisation as to why it was so morbid - he didn't have a group, let alone a gang of raiders that would swoop in and take the rest. For a moment his mind flashed to his mother's lifeless eyes, and he quickly blinked away the image with a growing, sad frown.

"I..." He began, but was forced to stop as he choked up a little. He turned his head to the side to clear his throat and compose himself, trying not to think about the beginning. He wanted to tell her that he didn't have a group but he just couldn't work up the words, so he tried to reword it in his mind. "Do you think if I had a group, they would send me to find supplies?" The child asks. He shook his head, answering his own question. After a few moments, he says, quieter and with a little bit of an upset squeak in his voice, "I have nobody to tell where I got the supplies. You don't... Don't need to worry."

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@Belle, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope everything works out well for your mom.

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Jasper - School Bus - Jessalyn

@Belle

The gentle racket of Jasper's looting was enough to shroud any audible sign of the woman's approach, even as she entered the bus. He was delighted that he had managed to find such a stash, and he was determined to stuff as much of the food he could into his bag to help feed himself, to not have to go hungry at least for a day or two, perhaps a few more if he saved some of it. He couldn't find any ammunition, but he couldn't get that lucky. He would just have to find that somewhere else, if there was any left to find.

He had just slipped something into his backpack when he heard the woman's voice behind him. He almost fell over in surprise as he spun around, his eyes flickering up and down the woman. One of the first things that his eyes came to rest on was her gun in her waistband. That's probably where the ammo was, if this was her place - no, it definitely was her place, she was scolding him for stealing. His hand sort of twitched a little in the direction of his own sidearm, which was tucked into his own waistband a little uncomfortably, and equally as visible. He didn't want to try and grab it, because if she beat him to the draw...

It wasn't as if it mattered. Even if he beat her to the draw, all he could do was try to scare her off. And if she decided, out of bravery or something else, to try and kill him before he 'tried to kill her', it was game over. Worry broke onto his features, there was no way pulling his pocket knife would do anything, either. Still, he had to try something, he had to if he wanted to get away with anything. His hand moved a little closer to his gun, and then a little further away, as he contemplated it in his worried mind.

"I..." Jasper began, stuttering. "I-I'm sorry, I thought nobody lived here."

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Woo, got my first post out.