@Mr Allen J I posted a third character, but you may have missed her while getting the IC up, if so do you want me to find the post with her in it again?
I didn't expect to go to sleep and come back to a ton of posts of an advanced roleplay ahaha
Rori had managed to find a spot to sit where it was somewhat quiet, but they still had good views. Even though there were a returning student, and often kept up permanent residence in the academy due to having no home back to, they were still making the boat journey back. Due to the fact that their cousin, Max, was starting at the academy (for reasons entirely unknown to Rori but they could guess) they had been given the opportunity to spend time with Max for a short while. It had been nice to catch up, and it had been far too long since they had last seen each other. They had both changed a lot in different ways.
Unfortunately Rori had lost Max on the boat. They had no idea where she had gone and had decided it was probably best to leave her to her own devices. There would be plenty of time to talk later. And anyway this was a good opportunity to spend a bit of time alone, or even talk to some of the others around. Rori was certainly not adverse to making some new friends from the new students. They did quite like people.
However it was always somewhat intimidating at first. A lot of the teenagers that were sent here had committed some kind of crime, and that did scare Rori somewhat. But that didn't stop them from looking around curiously at the others. It was difficult to do this slyly due to the limited motion in their eyes forcing them to move their head around. Their gaze came to find a few especially interesting looking individuals. They spent a little to long staring at one who seemed to have... an arm made out of wood?
Realising that looking for so long probably wasn't the best idea they moved their head to gaze out at the sea around them. Rori was pretty sure that they could see the academy in the distance... Well it was an almost definite. They did have very good eyesight.
Looking back around at the people on the same level as them, they tried to work out who it would be easiest to start a conversation with.
Synnove Ovesen
This was insanely boring. Syn couldn't say that she understood why she hadn't been allowed to bring her personal laptop along with her. Well that was a lie. It didn't have much power to it but she could use it to do all sorts of things. There was hardly internet when on a boat, however, and she wasn't planning on hacking again. At least not into high security places... That was what had landed her here at least. Something vaguely beneficial might come out of this, at least, in terms of her learning how to use her powers better.
But she could really do without the boat ride. She was sure this was a point where she was supposed to begin socialisation but one look at the others around her had pushed away any thoughts of actually acting upon that idea. There were far more valuable things she could do with her time. Unfortunately most of them were things she couldn't do at the moment. It wasn't really easy to make something when on a boat.
Huffing slightly she rummaged around in the pockets of the thick jacket she wore, which she had pulled on in preparation for the cold weather. She was quite thankful to find both a pen and mostly blank sheet of paper in the second pocket she tried. Smoothing it out in front of her she began to sketch out an idea that formed in her head, a vague planning framework for the next thing that she would program.
It was the best thing she could do to pass the time after all.
At first appearance Synnove seems as judging as she really is, expression always one that lets people know this. It gives her a somewhat unfriendly air though she doesn't mind that it puts people off. She stands at around 5'7" which puts her at a reasonable height, and weighs around 135lbs. She is slender, and clearly athletic. She spends a lot of her time working out and exercising meaning that she has a decent strength. She is clearly of European descent. The majority of her ancestors are Nordic; her father having moved over from Norway at a young age and her grandparent's on her mother's side having immigrated from northern Europe. This helps with her tall and slender look. She is quite long legged, a strength she tries to enhance, and relatively curvy. She is not incredibly busty however the curves that she does have go well with her overall height and slenderness. Her body is quite attractive and this is something that she appreciates, and knows.
Syn has long, platinum blond hair. This falls slightly further than midway down her back and has a bit of a wave to it. Most of the time it is found braided or tied back and she has been seriously considering cutting it all off so it no longer gets in the way. She has a very pale, quite white complexion. There is very little colour in her face and if there happens to be any it's probably been a day when she has bothered to put on makeup. Her eyes are a grayish-blue, rather light and icy in colour. Her face is reasonably long and thin. Set in it is a narrow and straight nose that goes up relatively high but doesn't look at all out of place. Her lips are also, somewhat unfortunately, thin a quite pale (unless she is wearing lipstick) as most of her facial features are. Her ears are more average, if slightly elongated. She is far from bad looking appearance wise, however.
Syn's dress style isn't particularly fashionable, though nor is it terrible and slobbish. On most days she will be found in simple, and comfortable clothes. She has a preference for jeans over most other things she would wear on the bottom half, though she'll wear shorts in warm weather. Is she is feeling particularly good, or wants to look nice, she might be found wearing a dress or a skirt. However this is often impractical. On the top half she wears tight tops and some kind of jumper if it is cold. She tends to go for an overall blue and purple colour scheme and tries to avoid colours that may make her look even paler than she already looks.
Skills/Talents:
Technology: Syn has quite an affinity for computers and engineering. She is talented in building computers and fixing them, along with the more software based side of programming and hacking (though she keeps this skill more secret due to the fact that is illegal). Along with computers she enjoys building all sorts of useful gadgets. If it runs on electricity she has an interest in it, really.
Athletic: Syn works out enough to be reasonably fit and has a decent stamina, though she couldn't take on someone who body builds and is not trained in fighting.
Intelligent: Syn has a natural intelligence that is mostly used for the technology she loves to build and play with. However she also has good problem solving skills and can easily come up plans, and do things such as mathematics.
Brief Backstory:
Synnove was born in Verthaven and grew up in the metropolis. Her parents were both hard working and middle class allowing Syn to grow up in a reasonably stable household. As an only child with busy parents she spent a lot of her younger years playing with the other children in the neighbourhood. She excelled in the school that she attended and found it rather easy, becoming slightly lazy as a result. As she grew older she struggled more to stay friends with people due to being somewhat mean and condescending (especially to those less intelligent than her). This meant that she spent less time with others and more time alone.
She began to tinker with thinks as she began to spend more time alone and it was from this that she found her love of building things. She would regularly find various discarded items around her house and build them into some kind of invention that she came up with. Her parents were happy to let her develop this skill and began to give her a small fund towards buying the parts she wanted. She saved this up to get a computer and started working with this, teaching herself the software side.
Syn was in her early teens when her power first manifested. A power outage in her house meant that she couldn't continue with a rather important project she was working on. Frustrated she accidentally hit her computer. Upon impact a small bolt of electricity moved from her fingers and into it, allowing it to work. In shock Syn decided to keep her power secret from her parents and worked on it alone.
She began to look more into information available on metahumans. Finding painfully little it was this that pushed her towards learning how to hack, something she excelled in (her power helped) and began to enjoy a little too much. She made the mistake of attempting to hack into databases held by NEST and didn't cover it up well enough. She was, to say the least, shocked when agents turned up on her door. Once they discovered she was a metahuman she was given an option: serve a prison sentence or take part in the academy program. She chose the latter and was put into Academy 218.
Power Information
Power Class:
Elemental (Energy)
Power: Electricty Manipulation:
Also known as Electrokinesis, Syn has the ability to create and control electricity in its most raw form. This allows her to shoot short distance electricity into objects and the like. It can be used to give conductive materaisl some form of electric charge. She can vary the strength of the electricity from a minor shock to a incredibly powerful (and possibly fatal) one. It can be used to paralyse people if needed. Syn most often uses it to power electronics, or recharge batteries. She can also manipulate electricity that is already existing and can easily cause anything that runs on electricity to short circuit by stopping the flow of electricity to it or overcharging it. She can also use it to produce heat.
Syn hasn't had much training with her power and thus is limited in what she can do. She has theorised that she may be able to create and manipulate electric fields but has yet to put this thought into action.
Electricity Resistance:
Syn is more resistant to external forms of electricity than a person would normally do and as a result small shocks are no bother to her, and she can survive more powerful bolts of electricity than most people can.
Limits:
Synnove has a limitation on the distance that she can shoot out her electricity. This distance tends to be quite short and it works slightly better at a closer distance. The further out it gets, the weaker it becomes. Along with this it can be blocked by non-conductive materials and is always blocked by electrical resistant materials, such as rubber. If it moves for a long distance it will naturally go for the most conductive material as well so unless Syn is concentrating it may divert from the path she wanted it to go. She sometimes doesn't have the best control over it and can cause electronics to malfunction accidentally.
Weaknesses/Drawbacks:
Syn's first weakness comes from using her power itself. Any electricity that she creates first flows through her before being outputted from her body. This means that she feels the effects of the electricity. This is negligible if she only uses small amounts of it as she is more resistant to the electricity. However the more she uses, and the longer the period of time, the more likely she is to cause damage to herself. This can include temporary paralysation, a lot of pain and if done too much it could cause death. As a result she has to be careful about how she uses her power, and when.
Along with this she is weak to water. If hit by water while using her power she will, in a way, short circuit causing her to be electrically shocked. Due to her power she is also slightly more conductive than a normal person would be meaning that in some circumstances her power may be bounced back to her.
Syn's use of electricity can disrupt her own electrical signals, which comes with a few downsides. This will often cause things such as twitching, slower reflexes and even a reduction in the control she has over her body. The intensity of this effect depends on how much she uses the electricity, how long she has used it for and how power it is. Often if she shoots a very powerful bolt of electricity she will be unable to react to anything after it, and has a lot of difficult controlling any of her body parts.
Syn tends to make quite a lot of snide comments and is not all that nice to people who act stupid or can't keep up with her intelligence wise. She also dislikes being shown up in this way
Bad at making friends, and can be quite off putting to other people
Almost always found building something, or on a computer
Basic Information
Name:
Roisin Anna Aherne 'Rori' 'Robin'
Age:
16
Gender:
Agender
Appearance & Attire:
Rori is pretty short, standing at around 5'1" or possibly 5'2". They aren't sure what they're exact height is. They are slightly lighter than average due to being quite skinny with a general lack of muscles. Rori certainly isn't athletic or strong looking, in fact they are really quite scrawny in that respect. Much to they're announced Rori is reasonably well sized at her chest, being around a C or D cup. Most people born female would be happy with this but it hardly helps with Rori's gender dysphoria. Most of the time Rori will be found wearing a binder to make her chest look a lot flatter. So in most circumstances Rori has a more gender neutral body and the lack of other curves helps this.
To help in having a more gender neutral appearance Rori has their hair cut short. It is in a somewhat messy style, not so short that strands don't fall across their face. Occasionally they will style it in some way but often it is just left in a mess as if they had just woken up. While naturally Rori's hair is a dark red-ginger in colour, a rather nice colour, they tend to have it dyed. This is due to them being somewhat embarrassed about the hair colour - they were teased about it at a younger age. At the moment it is dyed a dark blue. Their skin tone is fair and freckled, with a myriad of freckles covering their face. They have light brown-yellow eyes, slightly more yellow than they are brown. These are quite large and probably the most predominant facial feature. Their face is slightly round in its shape giving them quite a cute appearance and making them look a bit younger than you would expect. Cute is probably a good term to use to describe Rori, and the smile that is permanently across their lips makes them look really quite friendly.
On top of their more normal humanoid features Rori has a few that are not so humanoid. One unnatural thing about Rori is their eyes, though this isn't always obvious from a distance. They are more like a bird's than a humans and as a result does not blink with their eyelids but rather by a third hidden eyelid, the nictitating membrane. This isn't often noticeable however. Along with this various parts of their body are covered in a soft down-like feathers. These are a light reddish-brown in colour, similar to that of their natural hair. Most of the other bird features they have aren't easily visible.
Clothing wise Rori tends to wear outfits that are more gender neutral. You won't find them in a dress or a skirt any time soon. They most often wear baggy and concealing shirts, with a binder underneath, and more loose jeans or trouser(pants) and trainers. They are almost always found wearing the same dark green hoody. They predominantly dress in green, with some darker blues to match their hair along with black and white.
Skills/Talents:
Socialising: Rori is incredibly friendly and cheerful, if a bit shy, meaning they excel in social situations and find it easy to make friends. In general they are very easy to get along with.
Optimistic: Though not much of a skill, Rori can make the most out of a bad situation and isn't one to let what is happening get the best of them. This means they can help cheers others up and will keep calm if things take a turn for the worse.
Creative: Rori is good at both writing and drawing/painting and enjoys doing both. They often get inspiration for stories for the most random things. They always carry a notebook or sketchpad around with them and often will just start writing or sketching.
Musical: To add to their creativity Rori is quite musical. They play a few instruments, including the piano, clarinet, violin and Irish tin whistle. They also enjoy listening to music and have a good sense of rhythm, always open to pick up more instruments.
Brief Backstory:
Rori was born to a relatively large family. They were the fourth child born into the family, with an older brother and two older sisters. Their younger brother was born just a year after they were. Their parents were strict Christians and brought up all of their children to be religious as well. This wasn't something that Rori ever liked but they had to go along with it. Along with this their parents were incredibly anti-metahuman.
Even though Rori had little in common with their siblings they always tried to get along with them and most often succeeded. They got on best with their younger brother, Conor, though he was rather annoying. There was the smallest age gap between the two of them which helped. However the person Rori did got on very well with was their cousin, Max. The two families grew up near each other and Rori would spend a lot of time with their cousin. The two got on, though Max was a much less friendly and more troublesome individual than Rori.
However when Rori was eight there was a fall out between the two families. They were forbidden from seeing Max again and eventually Max and her family moved away to another city.
Rori lived a relatively normal life until they were twelve. It was at this point that they began to become aware enough to question they had been assigned at birth. Rori certainly didn't feel like a girl, felt uncomfortable within their own body and disliked being lumped in with either of the binary genders. They eventually came to the conclusion that they were neither. It took a lot of courage but they told their family. The result wasn't good. The only reaction they got was negative and then given the strict warning to never talk about it 'or else.' This was one of the more unhappy periods of Rori's life as they were forced to keep going under the name Roisin and as a girl.
It was shortly after this that her powers began to manifest. The change was subtle at first. Their eyesight changed - getting better. Then they stopped blinking and began to form light feathers across her body. They did their best to hide this even though they didn't know what was going on. Rori panicked a lot more when they first changed shape into a bird. Having no idea what was going on and panicking slightly they continued to try and hide it.
They were around thirteen when their parents walked in on them mid-change. It was safe to say Rori became more of a disappointment than they had been before. The fear on their parents faces was clear. For the next few days their parents said nothing. But Rori noticed the difference, and heard the private phone calls they made. Their parent's hatred for metahumans seemed to extend even to their child. Things took a turn for the worse when Rori overheard a conversation her father had on the phone that suggested they would send Rori away to have their powers removed and, if that wasn't possible (which is clearly wasn't), to have them killed.
Feeling even more scared than before Rori didn't have much choice but to pack a bag and run away from home. They lived on the streets for a relatively short amount of time before someone passerby noticed that they weren't your ordinary street kid and reported them to the NEST. It was decided that letting an untrained metahuman teen live alone on the streets wasn't the most sensible idea so instead Rori was introduced into the academy scheme. They have been there ever since and has gone back to their cheerful self, finally able to be who they want to be. As a result of not having a home to go back to they are permanent residents of the academy.
Power Information
Power Class:
Super-System (Bestial)
Power: Permanent Features
Rori has a few birdlike features that remain even when they are in a humanoid form. Their eyes are more birdlike than other humans. This gives them a much better vision than normal humans meaning she can see longer distances and colours in the ultraviolet spectrum just as birds do. However with this they struggle to move their eyes and often has to move their head around to look in other directions. Along with this they have light down-like feather covering a lot of their body - including along visible parts of their body like their arms and neck. This acts as an extra layer of clothes in terms of keeping them warm. They're bones are also lighter and stronger than most, like a birds, as if to allow for them to fly. However they have no way to fly as a human, so these just make her lighter than she looks.
Transformation
Rori can transform fully into a few forms of birds. As a bird they have all of the features of a bird and it is difficult to tell the difference from her and a bird. However she retains her intelligence and mind, so often if a bird is acting as a bird should not it is probably Rori. This comes with all the features of whatever bird she turns into. She tends to turn into the average bird for that type in terms of size, strength and speed.
Limits:
Difficulty rolling their eyes due to them being birdlike and as a result has to move their head more. their eyesight is better than normal humans but not quite as good as the best birds eyesight.
Rori is limited in the types of birds she can turn into. At the moment she can turn into a thrush (she tends to go for a robin), a kestrel, a hawk, a hummingbird, a duck and an owl. She can turn into any species from these sections. Along with this she can only make the change a few times per day unless she pushes herself.
Weaknesses/Drawbacks:
If they look into the far distance for too long they can strain their eyes meaning that their vision will go blurry and it is difficult for them to see anything.
Rori gets incredibly exhausted and ravenous after changing from their bird form back to their human form. This can easily be solved by eating a lot of food and a long nap. However if they don't get this they are prone to collapse without warning or faint from the fatigue.
Along with this the longer they stay in their bird form the more they takes on the characteristics of the bird. It is likely that if they remained as a bird for a prolonged period of time they will probably forget who they are and how to turn back into a human. This would mean Rori would be permanently stuck in the form of a bird.
Ruri also sometimes get stuck mid-change which is incredibly painful and traumatic. It can take them hours to get out of this state. Along with this they are often left in pain after the change and feel like they have limbs that they no longer have (such as wings).
Relationships
Family:
Breandan Aherne - Father Elizabeth Aherne - Mother Aiden Aherne - Older Brother Sairose Aherne, Eva Aherne - Older Sisters Conor Aherne - Younger Brother Felipe Diaz - Uncle Naomi Diaz - Aunt Salvador Diaz - Cousin Maxine Diaz - Cousin
Dynamics:
Maxine Diaz | Goodish | Friend/Cousin | "I still like Max, but she's really changed since I last saw her. It'll take a bit of getting used to." |
Other
Rori absolutely hates the name Roisin, and the only time they really get annoyed is when someone calls them by that name (or refers to them as a girl or boy)
The nickname Robin was one given to them by their cousin, Max, when they were younger due to Rori having red hair like a Robin's chest and being quite flighty/timid as a child
Personality wise Rori is very friendly, upbeat, cheerful and optimistic. They tend to like to joke around with other people and can often be quite teasing.
Rori's father is Irish, and moved over to the US as a young adult
Basic Information
Name:
Maxine Ivanna Diaz 'Max'
Age:
18
Gender:
Female
Appearance & Attire:
Often found wearing a somewhat violent expression Max can be rather intimidating, even at only 5'3" tall. There are certainly rare occasions where she does not look as if she is about to kill all those around but those are, well, few and far between. Max looks reasonably strong for her height. Her raw strength is something that she works on through training in combat and doing a lot of exercise. She is certainly physically fit and this is something that is often obvious when people she her. While she is certainly not overweight, most of her weight coming from the muscles she has, she couldn't be described as skinny. She has an unfortunate lack of curves, something that she herself doesn't care about. Her chest isn't quite flat but in certain clothing it's difficult to tell if anything is there. Max certainly doesn't have anything near the ideal feminine body, often looking somewhat more masculine. She pulls it off, however, and has no issue with the lack of curves.
Max's hair is a dark brown in colour. The left hand side is practically shaved, styled as an undercut. The rest is swept over to the right and often covers her eyes. At the front this falls to her chin and at the back it goes just past the nape of her neck. Sometimes she'll have her hair slightly dyed. The ends of it are currently a reddish colour from the last time she dyed it but the rest is it's natural colour. Her hair frames her incredibly dark brown, almost black eyes. Her eyes are turned up slightly and somewhat narrow. Her face is slightly oval shaped with surprisingly soft lines. Her skin tone is an olive tanned tone thanks to her Latin American/Hispanic heritage. She has thick, dark eyebrows and medium sized lips. All of this together means that her facial features look a lot more feminine than her body does. However she only rarely wears makeup, and in when she does it tends to be very dark. She has quite a few visible scars on both her face and arms, all from fights. There are quite a few that are also hidden by any clothes she wears.
Max tends to wear clothes that are a mix of blacks and reds, with the occasional other dark colour or white thrown in there. She tends to go for some combination of ripped jeans, tank tops (or any top really) along with a leather jacket and boots.
Fighting: Max is good at hand to hand combat and street fighting. She got most of her training from criminals and as a result fights dirty. She knows how to use weapons like a knife in combat if needed.
Deception: Max is a pretty good liar, good to spinning a tale and getting people to believe her. This helps with all sorts of things. It can help make people believe she's harmless and often makes it all the easier to steal from them, or something similar.
Gymnastics: Though she doesn't necessarily look it Max is pretty flexible due to doing gymnastics at a young age, and continuing it for a bit in her early teens. She kept up this flexibility and can do all sorts of fancy things such as handstands and forward flips. It's not a skill she uses much anymore, though.
Gardening: Max rarely admits it but she has something of a talent for growing plants and flowers. She enjoys it as well but tends to keep it secret because it seems like it isn't a tough enough hobby for someone like her to have. Even so she tends to have one or two plants wherever she lives, though she goes for more dangerous varieties.
Brief Backstory:
Max's parent's relationship was built off of something akin to a love story. Her father was a metahuman part of a small gang and her mother a devout Christian. She put her love for him over her religious views, and he gave up the gang life to raise a family. As a result both were somewhat ostracised from their sides of the family.
Even so Max grew up in a loving household. She was surprisingly close to her four year older brother, Sal, and the two of them spent most of their time play fighting (in a friendly way). Along with this Max spent a lot of time with her cousin, Rori (Roisin at the time), though she could tell that things were tense between her mother and her aunt.
Max always knew of the existence of metahumans due to her father and brother being registered as them. Her brother was one of the few born a metahuman with inherited powers, with the super-system power of regeneration. Max was always slightly jealous because she felt that she was normal without a power.
At the age of ten Max was forced to up and move, leaving behind her cousin that she had grown close to. She has never been sure of the exact reason but thinks it was something to do with the fact her brother and father were metahumans. They moved to Black Fall and lived here relatively happily until Max was twelve, and her brother sixteen.
The family got in a tragic car accident that resulted in the death of both Max's father and mother. Salvador survived due to his regeneration and Max seemed to survive for the same reason. It was assumed that their father suffered injuries he couldn't recover from. The two of them were sent to live with their uncle on their father's side, who left them mostly to their own devices having never wanted kids.
Max and Sal both fell into a bad crowd at this stage, though Max was mostly tagging along with her older 'cool' brother at this point. After beginning a life of crime they joined a minor metahuman gang. It was here that Max discovered the truth about her powers. She didn't have regeneration, rather she weakened another's power and temporarily gained it. This was why her father had died. The power she had made her a valuable member of the gang. It was here that she learned to fight and steal. By the age of fourteen she was regularly involved in street fights, doing drugs and participating in all sorts of gang activities. She miraculously managed to stay out of NEST's radar, being completely unregistered. However her, and a few others around her age, were caught doing minor crimes and noted down by the police force due to this.
By sixteen Max had changed into a somewhat more violent person, though she had always had this streak in her. She had hooked up with people of both genders and was enjoying the gang lifestyle far too much. The gang she was in was growing more prominent and coming to the attention of the authorities. A raid on gang owned buildings resulted in the arrest of a lot of the members, including Max's older brother. It was sheer luck that she wasn't caught.
She continued to live the same life, just more cautious, but missed her brother (not that she would admit this). Now in a different metahuman gang, due to her reasonably valuable power, she and a small group slipped up when out to kill a member of a rival gang. They were caught and all arrested. After spending a short period of time in prison, being questioned about the whereabouts of other gang members, she was brought to NEST to have the nature of her power tested.
It was at this point she was given the option of joining the academy scheme. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Better to live in relative freedom than in jail for years on age. She took the opportunity and it was by pure coincidence that her cousin was at the academy she was sent to, Academy 218.
Power Information
Power Class:
Power
Power: Power Replication
Max has the ability to replicate the powers of others. This replication is not specific to one class, however there are some she struggles to replicate more than others. She seems to find the super-system class the easiest to replicate. She can replicate up to four powers it seems, however they each must be of a different class. So for example she could not replicate two different super-system powers. In terms of choosing whether she can replicate a power, this varies. She has gotten to the stage of control where she can pick and choose whether she replicates a power if it is of the super-system class. However not for the other classes. Any new powers she gets will replace the one in the 'slot' of its class of power, essentially replacing that one. If she does not use a power for a long time she will lose it, in a way. This means she has to use each in a reasonably regular basis.
On top of this she can only use one power at a time. Which power she can use seems to be reset dependant on her sleep - she needs to sleep a certain amount of time to change what power she is using. However there are some limits to this - she must have used the power that she is currently locked into to then change it. This means if she does not know how to use a power she will be stuck with it until she can work out how to do so.
Current Powers Replicated:
Regeneration: (Super-system Class) From her father Max has the ability to regenerate. This allows her to heal wounds that she sustains at a reasonable rate, and she can repair bones and muscle damage at a faster rate than most others. This allows her to survive things that other's wouldn't necessarily be able to.
Telekinesis: (Cerebral Class) Replicated from a member of the gang she was part of before being nabbed by NEST, this is the one that Max tends to stick in since she's reasonably comfortable with it. However it isn't that powerful. She can move one object of a medium wait (say, a chair) and two that are light (for example knives). This takes a decent amount of concentration it is obvious she is the one moving them. She can only pull and push the objects rather than changing their form, such as bending them. However she is working on getting better at this and will probably learn more the more she uses it.
Limits:
She has to have skin to skin contact to replicate someone's power. The longer she holds this contact the more powerful a version of the power she replicates.
She doesn't necessarily know what power someone has or how to use it meaning she can end up with a power completely useless to her. She doesn't have a very long time to learn how to use it either.
She can only have up to four powers, each of a different class. These are replaced by class so she only ever has a power of one class. She cannot always choose whether she replicates someone's powers or not. Along with this she can only use one at the time, and this changes after she has slept for eight hours AND used the current power she is locked into. However if she replicates a new power she switches to using the one rather the previous one.
She is also limited by the power. Regeneration wise there are only so many wounds that she can heal, and often she can only fully regenerate the smaller ones. For telekinesis she is limited to ten feet away from her, and objects of a medium weight. She needs to concentrate to do more than one small object and breaks in her concentration cause her to lose control.
Weaknesses/Drawbacks:
The fact that she has to have skin to skin contact can be a weakness. This leaves her vulnerable as she weakens her targets power and means she has to get close to them in the first place which is not always a viable option. This can leave her in all sorts bad situations.
She can only change power after using the one she currently has. This means if she does not know how to use a power she is stuck with it until she can figure it out.
Using powers of others is quite taxing on her body. While the powers themselves need no fuel they use up a lot of the essential nutrients she has within her body. Using the powers will cause Max to begin to both dehydrate and starve, meaning she must eat and drink a lot more than normal while using them. If she does not eat or drink she will grow weaker, her reactions slower. This will eventually push her to death by starvation/dehydration if she keeps using her power.
Along with this Max gains the weakness of whatever power she steals.
Regeneration Weaknesses: Incredibly painful to do, does not regain any lost blood ect. She cannot regenerate massive wounds meaning that any life threatening wounds would kill her. While the wound is healed her body still suffered the damage, leaving her weaker after regenerating.
Telekinesis weaknesses: Must concentrate to be able to keep using the power. Tiring mentally on her and doing it for too long will cause blinding headaches and migraines, and often put her in a bad mood and make her tired.
Relationships
Family:
Felipe Diaz - Father (Deceased, Regeneration) Naomi Diaz - Mother (Deceased) Salvador Diaz - Older Brother (Regeneration) Breandan Aherne - Uncle Elizabeth Aherne - Aunt Roisin Aherne - Cousin (Bird Transformation) Aiden, Saiorse, Eva and Conor Aherne - Cousins
Dynamics:
Basically your character's relationship with other characters. Rori Aherne | Mostly Good | Friend / Cousin | "It's been ages since I spent time with Rori, but they've hardly changed. Still so damn optimistic and I'm not sure I like that." |
Other
Personality wise Max is pretty violent and gets angry pretty easily. This doesn't mean that she's necessarily unfriendly. She's incredibly flirtatious. She doesn't put up with shit and isn't going to be sympathetic about people's problems, or get emotional and cry or something like that.
Max picks fights and gets in trouble far too often. She doesn't really care about the rules - they're just there to be broken after all.
@Mr Allen JThat hm is slightly terrifying, but thank you :)
And as those two are accepted, I post a third xD Admittedly this is the last. There's a possibility she may be problematic power wise? I'm unsure but I ran with the idea I had and I'm willing to change if need be.
Basic Information
Name:
Maxine Ivanna Diaz 'Max'
Age:
18
Gender:
Female
Appearance & Attire:
Often found wearing a somewhat violent expression Max can be rather intimidating, even at only 5'3" tall. There are certainly rare occasions where she does not look as if she is about to kill all those around but those are, well, few and far between. Max looks reasonably strong for her height. Her raw strength is something that she works on through training in combat and doing a lot of exercise. She is certainly physically fit and this is something that is often obvious when people she her. While she is certainly not overweight, most of her weight coming from the muscles she has, she couldn't be described as skinny. She has an unfortunate lack of curves, something that she herself doesn't care about. Her chest isn't quite flat but in certain clothing it's difficult to tell if anything is there. Max certainly doesn't have anything near the ideal feminine body, often looking somewhat more masculine. She pulls it off, however, and has no issue with the lack of curves. She isn't look for people to be attracted to her anyway. Max's hair is a dark brown in colour. The left hand side is practically shaved, styled as an undercut. The rest is swept over to the right and often covers her eyes. At the front this falls to her chin and at the back it goes just past the nape of her neck. Sometimes she'll have her hair slightly dyed. The ends of it are currently a reddish colour from the last time she dyed it but the rest is it's natural colour. Her hair frames her incredibly dark brown, almost black eyes. Her eyes are turned up slightly and somewhat narrow. Her face is slightly oval shaped with surprisingly soft lines. Her skin tone is an olive tanned tone thanks to her Latin American/Hispanic heritage. She has thick, dark eyebrows and medium sized lips. All of this together means that her facial features look a lot more feminine than her body does. However she only rarely wears makeup, and in when she does it tends to be very dark. She has quite a few visible scars on both her face and arms, all from fights. There are quite a few that are also hidden by any clothes she wears. Max tends to wear clothes that are a mix of blacks and reds, with the occasional other dark colour or white thrown in there. She tends to go for some combination of ripped jeans, tank tops (or any top really) along with a leather jacket and boots.
Something like this:
Skills/Talents:
Fighting: Max is good at hand to hand combat and street fighting. She got most of her training from criminals and as a result fights dirty. She knows how to use weapons like a knife in combat if needed. Deception: Max is a pretty good liar, good to spinning a tale and getting people to believe her. This helps with all sorts of things. It can help make people believe she's harmless and often makes it all the easier to steal from them, or something similar. Gymnastics: Though she doesn't necessarily look it Max is pretty flexible due to doing gymnastics at a young age, and continuing it for a bit in her early teens. She kept up this flexibility and can do all sorts of fancy things such as handstands and forward flips. It's not a skill she uses much anymore, though. Gardening: Max rarely admits it but she has something of a talent for growing plants and flowers. She enjoys it as well but tends to keep it secret because it seems like it isn't a tough enough hobby for someone like her to have. Even so she tends to have one or two plants wherever she lives, though she goes for more dangerous varieties.
Brief Backstory:
Max's parent's relationship was built off of something akin to a love story. Her father was a metahuman part of a small gang and her mother a devout Christian. She put her love for him over her religious views, and he gave up the gang life to raise a family. As a result both were somewhat ostracised from their sides of the family. Even so Max grew up in a loving household. She was surprisingly close to her four year older brother, Sal, and the two of them spent most of their time play fighting (in a friendly way). Along with this Max spent a lot of time with her cousin, Rori (Roisin at the time), though she could tell that things were tense between her mother and her aunt. Max always knew of the existence of metahumans due to her father and brother being registered as them. Her brother was one of the few born a metahuman with inherited powers, with the super-system power of regeneration. Max was always slightly jealous because she felt that she was normal without a power. At the age of ten Max was forced to up and move, leaving behind her cousin that she had grown close to. She has never been sure of the exact reason but thinks it was something to do with the fact her brother and father were metahumans. They moved to Black Fall and lived here relatively happily until Max was twelve, and her brother sixteen. The family got in a tragic car accident that resulted in the death of both Max's father and mother. Salvador survived due to his regeneration and Max seemed to survive for the same reason. It was assumed that their father suffered injuries he couldn't recover from. The two of them were sent to live with their uncle on their father's side, who left them mostly to their own devices having never wanted kids. Max and Sal both fell into a bad crowd at this stage, though Max was mostly tagging along with her older 'cool' brother at this point. After beginning a life of crime they joined a minor metahuman gang. It was here that Max discovered the truth about her powers. She didn't have regeneration, rather she weakened another's power and temporarily gained it. This was why her father had died. The power she had made her a valuable member of the gang. It was here that she learned to fight and steal. By the age of fourteen she was regularly involved in street fights, doing drugs and participating in all sorts of gang activities. She miraculously managed to stay out of NEST's radar, being completely unregistered. However her, and a few others around her age, were caught doing minor crimes and noted down by the police force due to this. By sixteen Max had changed into a somewhat more violent person, though she had always had this streak in her. She had hooked up with people of both genders and was enjoying the gang lifestyle far too much. The gang she was in was growing more prominent and coming to the attention of the authorities. A raid on gang owned buildings resulted in the arrest of a lot of the members, including Max's older brother. It was sheer luck that she wasn't caught. She continued to live the same life, just more cautious, but missed her brother (not that she would admit this). Now in a different metahuman gang, due to her reasonably valuable power, she and a small group slipped up when out to kill a member of a rival gang. They were caught and all arrested. After spending a short period of time in prison, being questioned about the whereabouts of other gang members, she was brought to NEST to have the nature of her power tested. It was at this point she was given the option of joining the academy scheme. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Better to live in relative freedom than in jail for years on age. She took the opportunity and it was by pure coincidence that her cousin was at the academy she was sent to, Academy 218.
Power Information
Power Class:
Power
Power:
In simple terms Max has the power to weaken another's power and temporarily 'steal' it (however their own power is not disable so it is more minor replication).
Power Weakening
Max's power means that she can choose to weaken the power of another. This may mean that it does not last for as long as it normally would, does less damage, that they can't get to their maximum potential or other similar things. In general it is only weakened for a few hours, at most a day (which takes a lot of energy). She can control the amount a power is weakened if she concentrates hard enough.
Power 'Stealing'
When Max weakens a power she can also replicate this power temporarily. This means she gains a power almost identical to the person's who she weakened. However it is also much weaker than the original users and she only keeps this power temporarily. The most she has kept a power is two days. This does mean that she can use any other person's power, however, as long as she manages to weaken their own. She seems to be able to 'steal' a power of any class.
Limits:
Can only weaken a power so much. She the more she weakens one person's power the more she will struggle to weaken another. The longest she can weaken someone's power for is a day at a push. She only temporarily 'steals' powers. The rarely keeps it for more than two days meaning that she has to be constantly weakening other powers if she wants to use them and people are hardly okay with this. She seems to only be able to steal up to four, maybe five, powers. She has to have skin to skin contact to weaken/steal someone's power. The longer this contact is kept the more she can weaken their power.
Weaknesses/Drawbacks:
The fact that she has to have skin to skin contact is a weakness. This leaves her vulnerable as she weakens her targets power and means she has to get close to them in the first place which is not always a viable option. This can leave her in all sorts bad situations. She doesn't necessarily know what power someone has or how to use it meaning she can end up with a power completely useless to her. She doesn't have a very long time to learn how to use it either. The more Max weakens others power the weaker she gets physically, often leaving her vulnerable. This goes to the point where she falls unconscious. Her movement will often slow, she will get hungry, thirsty and tired and have a difficult doing anything if she weakens others powers too much. Along with this Max gains the weakness of whatever power she steals.
Relationships
Family:
Felipe Diaz - Father (Deceased, Regeneration) Naomi Diaz - Mother (Deceased) Salvador Diaz - Older Brother (Regeneration) Breandan Aherne - Uncle Elizabeth Aherne - Aunt Roisin Aherne - Cousin (Bird Transformation) Aiden, Saiorse, Eva and Conor Aherne - Cousins
Dynamics:
Basically your character's relationship with other characters. Rori Aherne | Mostly Good | Friend / Cousin | "It's been ages since I spent time with Rori, but they've hardly changed. Still so damn optimistic and I'm not sure I like that." |
Other
Personality wise Max is pretty violent and gets angry pretty easily. This doesn't mean that she's necessarily unfriendly. She's incredibly flirtatious. She doesn't put up with shit and isn't going to be sympathetic about people's problems, or get emotional and cry or something like that.
Max picks fights and gets in trouble far too often. She doesn't really care about the rules - they're just there to be broken after all.
Rori is pretty short, standing at around 5'1" or possibly 5'2". They aren't sure what they're exact height is. They are slightly lighter than average due to being quite skinny with a general lack of muscles. Rori certainly isn't athletic or strong looking, in fact they are really quite scrawny in that respect. Much to they're announced Rori is reasonably well sized at her chest, being around a C or D cup. Most people born female would be happy with this but it hardly helps with Rori's gender dysphoria. Most of the time Rori will be found wearing a binder to make her chest look a lot flatter. So in most circumstances Rori has a more gender neutral body and the lack of other curves helps this. To help in having a more gender neutral appearance Rori has their hair cut short. It is in a somewhat messy style, not so short that strands don't fall across their face. Occasionally they will style it in some way but often it is just left in a mess as if they had just woken up. While naturally Rori's hair is a dark red-ginger in colour, a rather nice colour, they tend to have it dyed. This is due to them being somewhat embarrassed about the hair colour - they were teased about it at a younger age. At the moment it is dyed a dark blue. Their skin tone is fair and freckled, with a myriad of freckles covering their face. They have light brown-yellow eyes, slightly more yellow than they are brown. These are quite large and probably the most predominant facial feature. Their face is slightly round in its shape giving them quite a cute appearance and making them look a bit younger than you would expect. Cute is probably a good term to use to describe Rori, and the smile that is permanently across their lips makes them look really quite friendly. On top of their more normal humanoid features Rori has a few that are not so humanoid. One unnatural thing about Rori is their eyes, though this isn't always obvious from a distance. They are more like a bird's than a humans and as a result does not blink with their eyelids but rather by a third hidden eyelid, the nictitating membrane. This isn't often noticeable however. Along with this various parts of their body are covered in a soft down-like feathers. These are a light reddish-brown in colour, similar to that of their natural hair. Most of the other bird features they have aren't easily visible. Clothing wise Rori tends to wear outfits that are more gender neutral. You won't find them in a dress or a skirt any time soon. They most often wear baggy and concealing shirts, with a binder underneath, and more loose jeans or trouser(pants) and trainers. They are almost always found wearing the same dark green hoody. They predominantly dress in green, with some darker blues to match their hair along with black and white.
Skills/Talents:
Socialising: Rori is incredibly friendly and cheerful, if a bit shy, meaning they excel in social situations and find it easy to make friends. In general they are very easy to get along with. Optimistic: Though not much of a skill, Rori can make the most out of a bad situation and isn't one to let what is happening get the best of them. This means they can help cheers others up and will keep calm if things take a turn for the worse. Creative: Rori is good at both writing and drawing/painting and enjoys doing both. They often get inspiration for stories for the most random things. They always carry a notebook or sketchpad around with them and often will just start writing or sketching. Musical: To add to their creativity Rori is quite musical. They play a few instruments, including the piano, clarinet, violin and Irish tin whistle. They also enjoy listening to music and have a good sense of rhythm, always open to pick up more instruments.
Brief Backstory:
Rori was born to a relatively large family. They were the fourth child born into the family, with an older brother and two older sisters. Their younger brother was born just a year after they were. Their parents were strict Christians and brought up all of their children to be religious as well. This wasn't something that Rori ever liked but they had to go along with it. Along with this their parents were incredibly anti-metahuman. Even though Rori had little in common with their siblings they always tried to get along with them and most often succeeded. They got on best with their younger brother, Conor, though he was rather annoying. There was the smallest age gap between the two of them which helped. However the person Rori did got on very well with was their cousin, Max. The two families grew up near each other and Rori would spend a lot of time with their cousin. The two got on, though Max was a much less friendly and more troublesome individual than Rori. However when Rori was eight there was a fall out between the two families. They were forbidden from seeing Max again and eventually Max and her family moved away to another city. Rori lived a relatively normal life until they were twelve. It was at this point that they began to become aware enough to question they had been assigned at birth. Rori certainly didn't feel like a girl, felt uncomfortable within their own body and disliked being lumped in with either of the binary genders. They eventually came to the conclusion that they were neither. It took a lot of courage but they told their family. The result wasn't good. The only reaction they got was negative and then given the strict warning to never talk about it 'or else.' This was one of the more unhappy periods of Rori's life as they were forced to keep going under the name Roisin and as a girl. It was shortly after this that her powers began to manifest. The change was subtle at first. Their eyesight changed - getting better. Then they stopped blinking and began to form light feathers across her body. They did their best to hide this even though they didn't know what was going on. Rori panicked a lot more when they first changed shape into a bird. Having no idea what was going on and panicking slightly they continued to try and hide it. They were around thirteen when their parents walked in on them mid-change. It was safe to say Rori became more of a disappointment than they had been before. The fear on their parents faces was clear. For the next few days their parents said nothing. But Rori noticed the difference, and heard the private phone calls they made. Their parent's hatred for metahumans seemed to extend even to their child. Things took a turn for the worse when Rori overheard a conversation her father had on the phone that suggested they would send Rori away to have their powers removed and, if that wasn't possible (which is clearly wasn't), to have them killed. Feeling even more scared than before Rori didn't have much choice but to pack a bag and run away from home. They lived on the streets for a relatively short amount of time before someone passerby noticed that they weren't your ordinary street kid and reported them to the NEST. It was decided that letting an untrained metahuman teen live alone on the streets wasn't the most sensible idea so instead Rori was introduced into the academy scheme. They have been there ever since and has gone back to their cheerful self, finally able to be who they want to be. As a result of not having a home to go back to they are permanent residents of the academy.
Power Information
Power Class:
Super-System (Bestial)
Power: Permanent Features
Rori has a few birdlike features that remain even when they are in a humanoid form. Their eyes are more birdlike than other humans. This gives them a much better vision than normal humans meaning she can see longer distances and colours in the ultraviolet spectrum just as birds do. However with this they struggle to move their eyes and often has to move their head around to look in other directions. Along with this they have light down-like feather covering a lot of their body - including along visible parts of their body like their arms and neck. This acts as an extra layer of clothes in terms of keeping them warm. They're bones are also lighter and stronger than most, like a birds, as if to allow for them to fly. However they have no way to fly as a human, so these just make her lighter than she looks.
Transformation
Rori can transform fully into a few forms of birds. As a bird they have all of the features of a bird and it is difficult to tell the difference from her and a bird. However she retains her intelligence and mind, so often if a bird is acting as a bird should not it is probably Rori. This comes with all the features of whatever bird she turns into. She tends to turn into the average bird for that type in terms of size, strength and speed.
Limits:
Difficulty rolling their eyes due to them being birdlike and as a result has to move their head more. their eyesight is better than normal humans but not quite as good as the best birds eyesight. Rori is limited in the types of birds she can turn into. At the moment she can turn into a thrush (she tends to go for a robin), a kestrel, a hawk, a hummingbird, a duck and an owl. She can turn into any species from these sections. Along with this she can only make the change a few times per day unless she pushes herself.
Weaknesses/Drawbacks:
If they look into the far distance for too long they can strain their eyes meaning that their vision will go blurry and it is difficult for them to see anything. Rori gets incredibly exhausted and ravenous after changing from their bird form back to their human form. This can easily be solved by eating a lot of food and a long nap. However if they don't get this they are prone to collapse without warning or faint from the fatigue. Along with this the longer they stay in their bird form the more they takes on the characteristics of the bird. It is likely that if they remained as a bird for a prolonged period of time they will probably forget who they are and how to turn back into a human. This would mean Rori would be permanently stuck in the form of a bird. Ruri also sometimes get stuck mid-change which is incredibly painful and traumatic. It can take them hours to get out of this state. Along with this they are often left in pain after the change and feel like they have limbs that they no longer have (such as wings).
Relationships
Family:
Breandan Aherne - Father Elizabeth Aherne - Mother Aiden Aherne - Older Brother Sairose Aherne, Eva Aherne - Older Sisters Conor Aherne - Younger Brother Felipe Diaz - Uncle Naomi Diaz - Aunt Salvador Diaz - Cousin Maxine Diaz - Cousin
Dynamics:
Maxine Diaz | Goodish | Friend/Cousin | "I still like Max, but she's really changed since I last saw her. It'll take a bit of getting used to." |
Other
Rori absolutely hates the name Roisin, and the only time they really get annoyed is when someone calls them by that name (or refers to them as a girl or boy)
The nickname Robin was one given to them by their cousin, Max, when they were younger due to Rori having red hair like a Robin's chest and being quite flighty/timid as a child
Personality wise Rori is very friendly, upbeat, cheerful and optimistic. They tend to like to joke around with other people and can often be quite teasing.
Rori's father is Irish, and moved over to the US as a young adult
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