Ermine

Bioshock anyone?

Same, Knights of Songbird.

Personajele Mele

*Maya, Android Sorceress
Aesa, Dwarf Barbarian
Yobi, Kitsune Trickster
Cathran, Half-Elf Fighter

Personajele Mele

Ego Illam Quae Perierat
*Praefecta
Pilot Origin; Former Combat Pilot
Age:
- Origin: 436 years
- Sapience: 2 years
- Physical Autonomy: Less than a year
Species: Artificial Intelligence, Android



Appearance
Eyes: When they are exposed, her irises are pink, and are clearly synthetic in nature up close.
Hair: Black, synthetic, some has clearly been replaced over time, giving a wide variety of textures and qualities.
Skin: Pale, even lighter than in that picture; it's dark in the cockpit.
Lithe and Sleek.

Skills and Abilities
She is easily the best, most reactive pilot in the known universe; however, she is still new to her humanoid body. Her HUD doesn't identify threats as well in this form, as well, despite the highest quality sensor suite available to her, as it was made to identify ships, not people. She can detect and identify other synthetics, including "dumb" machines, like prostheses. She is a masterful engineer, having what she calls "machine empathy." She is not trained for physical combat with her new body.

Personajele Mele

Oriana

Appearance:
Female
-Shoulder length, wavy, brown hair, separated and tied into four even sections by teal ribbons.
-Eyes are two different colors; one pale blue, one dark brown. They were originally both blue, but she modified one magically.
-Is a whopping 4'9"
-Weighs 101 lbs.
-Age: 19

Description:
Oriana has soft features, except for her almost manly jawline (still feminine, but almost manly). Her eyes show a lot more seriousness than she means to, as she is quite playful. She is relatively strong (really, not very strong; can only lift about half her own weight on her shoulders), but the muscles don't show.

She wears furs and skins, with the occasional leather if she can afford it. These are usually caked with mud from living in the forest for so long. Under these furs, she wears a very feminine outfit, but it's not practical to wear it alone unless she's in town. Every once in a while, she'll wear a very fancy dress, but made from furs and leather, complete with corset.

All of her time in the forest has given her numerous scratches and her magic has earned her the title of The Forest Witch to townsfolk in the surrounding towns. This isn't something she disapproves, either. In fact, she's aided their opinion by charming men, entering their homes, and then igniting them with more magic. The demon possessing her flesh and appearing as a moving tattoo isn't exactly a reason to not be afraid.

While her magic is strong and quick, it is also unpredictable. She can rely on the demon to make it more predictable, but at the cost of a significant deal of power. She can enhance the demon's magic a little by dancing, creating a prolate spheroid of magic around her. This limits range to within just a few feet from her in any direction, but it is stronger; however, it's still not nearly as strong as her unpredictable wild magic.

Strong negative emotions, however, cause a frightening release of magic, harming friend and foe alike. The ground beneath her boils, her hands release a suffocating and poisonous fog of pure magic, her eyes glow brightly, and the ends of her hair pour out smoke. Excitement and positive emotions have a similar effect in that her eyes glow and her wrists release wisps of magic, but nothing comes of it except the rare, spontaneous tongue of flame.

History:
Oriana was born to a traveling family. They were deeply religious and also deeply afraid of uncontrolled, unschooled magic. When the clan found out about her magic (disastrously, with a wagon of the caravan erupting in flame) not long after she began puberty, she was abandoned in the forest with only a knife and her clothes. She took the name of the goddess to to whom the shrine she was abandoned at in the forest was devoted to disconnect herself from her family. She was provided with everything she'd needed in terms of food, water, and shelter by the people who visited the shrine and her occasional scavenging. The deeply religious regard her as an avatar of the Goddess Oriana, as she looks almost exactly like images of the goddess appear, but all others fear her for her magic.

She later found she wasn't the only member of her family to be abandoned like this; her great grandfather, Rowlous, had been, as well.

Eventually, the nobles in charge of the towns she was attacking decided to stop giving her credit for the kills, calling it a plague. She didn't complain, since it meant she could kill at a quicker pace, as diseases are stronger than superstition.

Personality:
She's a little on the crazy side and trusts nearly no one. The locals in nearby towns believe her to be a "Forest Witch" who "charms men and kills them in the woods, where she steals their souls." This is only a partial truth however; she charms men, kills them in their homes, and steals their money to buy food and new clothes when hers deteriorate.

She's not completely crazy, however; she just does what she wants when she wants how she wants to do it. Mind you, that does mean she spends a lot of time jumping through the trees and killing people who are hunting her, but they clearly deserve it.

However, despite her antisocial and untrusting nature, she does not like being alone; loneliness means it's harder to survive. However, having lived in the woods and more or less becoming feral, she cannot integrate with normal society and were she to find a lover, they would have to be as wild as her.

Personajele Mele

Alice316, 19 years
Qualities and Flaws: Stunted Growth (Size she was at 12, but not full neoteny, as she has developed otherwise)

Faction: Akara (Offshoot of the Nardath, own a biodome off the coast of an ocean, and are protected from the outside, though they send people out to bring back more people to diversify the gene pool within, or some helpful piece of technology (or information on how to make it). Laws inside dictate each family must have one child, whether it's theirs or not. Some people even bring back just a child to bypass the law. Alice316 is one of the ones who was sent out. Think Quarians from Mass Effect for a similar idea with the pilgrimages and insular society.)

Left arm tattooed with gears, springs, and other clockwork, while right arm is tattooed with mossy stones, vines, and leaves. Back blends both, and also has А316юл3щ54 (A316yul3sch54 in Russian alphabet) tattooed down her spine at an angle so that it can be clearly read when she lies down on her left side. Her face has text on it as well: 앨릿 (Korean: "Alice") is written on her lower left eyelid, and under that is སྙིང་རྫེ་ (Tibetan - nying-je: "compassion"), written sideways again, like the one on her back, both in dark black ink. Her thighs have the same tattoos their corresponding arms have. Her feet are tattooed with tribal designs that look vaguely like the underlying bones. Each of her irises glows with a faint blue-green light, though not enough to be useful with night vision, save for reading things a foot away, at the most. Her hair is a dark shade of brown with hints of auburn, and is in a pair of long pigtails and wearing a cat ear headband in exactly the same color as her hair, in addition to the white ribbons holding the pigtails. What flesh on her isn't tattooed is almost unnaturally pale; she views this as a perfect canvas for art.

Her facial features are sharp, but not so much as to look like a bird, and fairly wide. Combined with her large eyes and small jaw, this makes her look mildly like a cat. She wears brown-tinted goggles with a black strap, a black tank top under a layer of ballistic armor, and well-fitted pants with key points armored with ballistic plates, and chain mail hanging loosely behind her knees. The chain mail is coated with rubber to reduce noise, but not so much as to make it easy for her to sneak up on an alert opponent. While she carries a katana, which hangs loosely from a thin belt behind her, this is mostly for show. She also carries a light pistol with a scope on top, a silencer on the end of the barrel, and flashlight/laser sight combo duct taped underneath, but again, this is primarily for show.

Her real weapons are her bare hands, as well as her arms and legs; her skeleton is ceramic laced and titanium coated. Since this was done before she finished growing, she is only 4'6", and despite her heightened metabolism and resulting 22" waist, she is still 157 lbs. Her reflexes are enhanced, as well, by means of internal wires, batteries (recharged by a patch of solar-sensitive synthetic skin at the base of her cervical bones), and processors, but as this is a newly developed, untested technology, she has occasional tics and spasms. The same system both amplifies her tactile sensitivity in her hands and dulls it everywhere she's tattooed (except her face, which still maintains normal sensitivity). That is, in fact, the primary purpose of the tattoos. It only dulls any pain, however, so she can still feel injuries enough to know they've happened.

Current effects of all tech enhancements: Jitters, random tics and spasms (especially when in direct sunlight for extended periods of time), bones are much denser and harder to break, numbing/sensitivity.

Katana and pistols are not primary weapons, and she has never actually trained with them, but she has some martial arts (subdual combat) training and stealth training (so she can feed herself, essentially).

Back with a new name

I like Jorick...
...be good.

The Dragonborn has arrived (once again)

Feed said
My the eight divines smile upon you traveler.

BURN THE UNBELIEVER.

Well, Well

Hello, Meghan. I knew a Meghan once. Just once. A lot of Megans. And other spellings. But Meghan was adorable.
Helps your first impression with me. You can call me Alice. If you want. No reason to, I suppose. Ermine's a perfectly good name.

I don't think I know you from the old site, even though 2 years ago is WELL within the time I was on the old site (4 years...should have been Jan 2010 or thereabouts).
But I could be interested in meeting you, and hopefully RPing with you.

Hello World... again

I see "Inara," "shiny," and "aiming to misbehave." This aligns with certain interests I may have. I shall re-welcome you, even though I don't recall you from the old site. (I was kitakaze/Puss/Catherine).

Bioshock anyone?

Still pretty interested. That's a good sign, I guess.
Still not committed, but it seems good so far, so once I see a few characters, I'll decide if I want to join this.
Will it be open to join at any point? I may join later on, even if I decide against it early on.