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Recollections: The Coven [COMPLETED]

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Recollections: The Coven [COMPLETED]

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Recollections: The Coven [COMPLETED]

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"Hi Nina," Maya rolled her eyes at the other girl, even as she gave a slight smile. "You sure can... once all this shit is sorted."

As she finished speaking she just about managed to shut her eyes before Agatha threw what was essentially a flashbang into the middle of the room, glad that she was far enough away to avoid most of the effects of the ringing that came with it. She cracked her eyes open again after a few moments and huffed, standing up and indicating for Nina to go with her over to the table the other's were gathering around. She grabbed a stool with a slight sigh.

“I have to agree with getting things done quickly,” Maya commented after Agatha talked even as she pulled out about six containers and plopped them onto the table. She then tipped her bag upside down to let a bunch of cheap wooden chopsticks, the kind you get from takeaways, clatter out of it. She’d somehow managed to acquire (steal) a far too large number. “But, you know what they say about eating with an empty stomach… Well I’m certainly not going to do it. Since the pizza kinda got destroyed,” she side eyed Emily, “it’s good I brought some too, yeah?”

She pushed one of containers over to Nina, who'd already asked for food, before grabbing a pair of chopsticks and proceeding to stuff the rice rolls she’d made into her mouth. Honestly, she was hungry and wanted this meeting to be over so she could go outside, where it was nice and sunny, rather than being cooped in here.

"I'd rather go outside, honestly," she commented, feeling Nina's gaze on her looking for her support without looking up from her food. Then she frowned slightly, something niggling on the back of her mind that she felt she should know. "Maybe not the beach, though?" She shrugged and went back to eating.

It was when Kayla appeared that Maya actually bothered to look up, raising an eyebrow. She then clapped her hands together with a wide grin. “You’ve got business? Then it must be something interesting! Let’s get on with all the stupid shit we need to do first so we can hear about it.”

Recollections: The Coven [COMPLETED]

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Maya hummed quietly as she rolled up to the old casino what she deemed fashionably late, not that they really had a set time to meet up. She swung a plastic bag containing tupperwares filled with gimbap - because there was no better way into everyone’s hearts than homemade food (and to help offset her bitchiness). Not to mention she’d made way too much for herself and it was a shame to waste any food.

She was entirely unsurprised to hear the sounds of absolute chaos from within as she kicked open the door, raising an eyebrow at the sight of the Griffin absolutely rampaging through the casino. But honestly Madison seemed to have it covered. No biggy, this was a regular occurence in their group anyway. It had stopped throwing her off after the first time. Then her gaze slid to the pizza ruined on the floor.

“Now that’s a fucking tragedy,” Maya commented, head slightly tilted as she looked down at the other girls near the pizza. She held up her bag with a grin. “Lucky for you all, I also brought food! It’s ok, no need to thank me, I know I’m great. It’s my mother’s own recipe and everything, all the way from home.”

A lie, because her mother hadn’t cooked a single meal in her life. But Maya had learned to cook from their housekeeper so she guessed it was basically the same thing, right?

She made her way around the chaos and plopped herself on a couch, twisting around to swing her legs over the arm of it and lounging out comfortably. She kept the bag on her lap - cause like hell was she going to put her hard work on a table and risk it being destroyed in the rampage. They’d already lost enough food for the day. And at least when it was with her she could defend herself (and her precious food) from whatever forces may try to collide with her.

Relaxed even with the crashing going on around her, Maya threw her head back to glance at Emily with a smirk. “Never thought you’d be the cause of such a mess, we really must be rubbing off on you.” She tilted her head. “Why don’t we sort out this shit so we can, I dunno, start the meeting.” And finish it so they could all just chill and hang out.

Even as she said it, she didn’t bother to get off her ass to help.

Recollections: The Coven [COMPLETED]

I'm gonna work on my relationship table tonight or tomorrow!

@RogueFox What you put for Maya makes perfect senseee, Maya will probably find Elise quite boring but not be super actively mean to her

Recollections: The Coven [COMPLETED]

Myeong-Suk Choi, “Maya”

Choi Myeong-Suk “Maya”

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"Fuck anyone that tries to control me."

[ 21 | 5’2” | South Korean | She/her | 91lb ]

[Spite]

APPEARANCE

"Yes I’m pretty, no I won’t date you."

At first glance Maya is on the shorter side, even though she’s of average height for a Korean woman. She’s very pretty with a delicate sort of look to her. This is very quickly destroyed by the expression on her face - often some for a disgust or displeasure. She has what many would call a resting bitch face, though unlike many it’s because she's probably internally bitching about you. She is rarely found without makeup on, with the minimum of lipstick and eyeliner at all times (but often a full face). She has a naturally defined jawline even as the rest of her facial features are rather soft.

Maya has skin of a tanned, light brown colour with yellow undertones often offset by blush across her cheeks. Her eyes are dark and delicate. Her hair falls midway down her back and is naturally black but currently dyed a lighter, more orange brown. It is naturally fairly straight but she often curls it or leaves it in braids overnight to do the job for her. Her ears are pierced at the lobe and she often wears dangling earrings of various forms.

Her body is naturally slim, with a reasonably sized chest even if she is lacking in curves elsewhere. She’s not got much weight to her, both in muscle mass and fat due to a naturally high metabolism and not exactly being the kind to work out. Maya tends to follow the fashion from back in Korea, often found in more cute styles of dresses or combinations of flowing shirts and skirts / shorts. Her colour preferences are pastel colour, pinks and blues but she has a varied wardrobe.

Maya speaks with a noticeable accent due to English being a second language to her, and only living in an English speaking country for three years (though she is fluent). She has a sound wave sigil on the back of her neck.

PSYCHOLOGY

"I know I can be hard to get on with but I really don’t care."

MAIN GOAL ⫻ Graduate University and then live the life she wants - preferably with a well paying job, loads of fun and friends to hang out with. Her other main goal is to get revenge on her ex and all the friends that turned on her. She also deep, deep down wants to be recognised by her parents.

WHAT THEY WANT OUT OF THE COVEN ⫻ First of all Maya is looking for companionship, because she’s suddenly alone and without friends. Second she’s looking for something fun tklighten up her now boring life. Third she wants to be able to get revenge on her ex and any others that might harm or control her in the future - and a group of wannabe witches seems like a pretty good place for that.
PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Live for yourself and fuck what others think. She also believes in living fast and loud, filling your life with all sorts of things you enjoy even if they’re not the best for you. She believes that you shouldn’t let others control you and should do exactly what you want with your life, even if others think its a bad decision. She’ll actively encourage people to live for themselves rather than others, but also has a bad habit of talking down those who don’t.

SECRETS ⫻ Maya hides how desperate she is for attention and companionship that she lacked growing up. It was this that led her to her previous relationship, something she also keeps a secret from others.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Pansexual, with a preference for girls. Maya isn’t fussy about gender when it comes to dating. She's incredibly open about it.

FEARS ⫻ Violence. Maya fears physical violence due to her previous relationship and will automatically flinch if someone raises a hand to her.

REPUTATION ⫻ Maya doesn’t have much of a reputation in Tampa aside from being a foreigner who hasn’t lived there long. Within her university she has a negative reputation - someone who went along with a bad crowd only to shun them all. In the Coven shes known as someone whos loud and opinionated, and likes to wind others up.

FLAWS ⫻ Maya is incredibly stubborn and spiteful and absolutely refuses to do what she’s told. She’s been controlled enough in her life, but this means often she’ll do the complete opposite of what someone asks her to do - even if that’s also negative for her. She’s also very argumentative and fairly insensitive which means that she can be quite hard to get on with, and she actively sabotages her own friendships by being a bit of a bitch. When she’s enjoying herself she’s good company but as soon as she’s bored or disagrees with someone, she’s not good to be around at all. She also has severe trust issues with men now due to her last relationship.

BACKSTORY

"Pretty standard affair until I moved over here, honestly."

Maya was born in Seoul, Korea to a businessman father and a university professor mother. She was brought up in a strict, no nonsense household where “fun” was equal to educational activities and most of her time was spent raised by a nanny rather than her very absent parents. She was three when her younger sister, Eun-Ji, was born. It didn’t make many changes to her life - just even less attention from either parents.

The rest of her childhood wasn’t anything special. She went to school, made a few friends and got chewed out whenever she obtained anything short of perfect grades. She acted out a few times in an attempt to get attention from her parents only for it to fail. So instead she turned to taking it out on her younger sister, who she had a bad relationship with, and other people in her class even as her anger and dislike for her parent’s grew. But still, she kept herself top of the class with the slight hope they might recognise her. She both complied and rebelled as she grew up, neither of which had much effect on the attention she got.

It was when she reached the end of school that she finally rebelled against her parents - by getting into and accepting a place for University in Florida doing chemical physics. It was a long shot from where her parents had wanted her to go - in fact she turned down a place at Seoul National University. She didn’t particularly care about the academic credentials of where she was going, all she knew was that she wanted to get away from her parents.

So she moved to Florida, choosing to go by the English name Maya in the hope that it would further distance her from her family. Going to America gave Maya exactly the change she wanted - even if it wasn’t really good for her. She fell in with what many people would see to be the bad lot with whom she partied, drank, smoked and did a lot of drugs. Even with this she was the envy of all her new friends as she somehow managed to keep her high grades. But she was enjoying herself far more than she ever had before, even relishing in the way people outside of her group told her she was throwing her life away (and continuing to do it anyway).

It was after just over a year in America that she got her first boyfriend, Dean White. It was pretty great - they skipped class together and with their friends and had a lot of fun. However the longer they were together the more controlling Dean got. He started policing who Maya saw and hung out with, growing especially envious of her friendships with other men (which she thought was ridiculous considering she was pan). This spiralled into loud shouting matches between the two that went on and on… until they ended with violence.

From then on Dean got control he wanted through fear, because there wasn’t anything Maya could do against him when he threatened her physically. Her life was taking a sudden downwards spiral as he isolated her from the rest of the group - she only got to spend time with them when they were all together, all while he spread rumours that she didn’t actually like hanging out with them.

After months of this treatment something inside Maya finally snapped during one of Dean’s particularly violent rages, awakening and emitting an explosive burst of sound energy. This was enough to shove Dean back from him and injure him, partly from how hard he slammed into a wall. With a sudden newfound power she told a very dazed and angry Dean that she never wanted to see him again, before running away.

Now with no friends and some strange magic that she had no idea about, Maya was at a loss for what to do. It was during her time locked up in her studio flat browsing the internet that she found other people talking about Extra-Normal happenings and the talk of a Coven forming. With no one else on her side and nothing better to do, Maya decided she might as well join - maybe it could bring a little fun back into her life.

SKILLS & TALENTS

"Being at the top of my class is easy, impressing my parents isn’t."

Korean ⫻ Maya is fluent in Korean, as it’s her first language and she speaks it better than she does English.

Academic Intelligence ⫻ Always top of her class growing up, Maya is incredibly academically gifted and continues to get good grades with ease. However this intelligence is only for academics (she’s certainly not street smart). She makes sure to keep her grades up to keep her parent’s happy - as much as she dislikes them, she likes the money they send her. She’s especially good at her degree field, chemical physics, and maths.
Photographic Memory ⫻ In a way coming hand in hand with her intelligence, Maya has a photographic memory meaning she only needs to see things once or twice to remember them.

ABSTRACTION

"Being noisy is pretty fun."

TYPE ⫻ Awakened

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Sound Blast, the ability to release damaging blasts of sonic energy.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Born from her spite and constant need for arguments, Maya can emit blasts of sound waves that cause physical damage to people and objects. She is able to do this in two ways. The more powerful, but less controllable, way is a burst of sound in a radius around her emitted from her entire body itself. This is powerful enough to break materials such as wood and to badly damage (non supernatural) humans. Along with this it’s powerful enough to push back whatever it hits, as if they were hit by a “physical” force of sound waves. It also cause temporary hearing loss at best, severe hearing damage at worse. The other way is focused through her hands, a less powerful burst that can be targeted. This requires far more concentration and does not cause as much sheer damage or pushback but it doesn’t affect everything in a radius as the other way does.

LIMITS ⫻ The Emotional-Field around Extra-Normal beings prevents them from receiving the full brunt of the damage. They may be launched back but they'll still retain their hearing... well, they'll get it back eventually. The area of effect blasts of sound has a range of ten meters, while the focused blasts have a range of around thirty meters. However, the blasts lose damage the further out they go - so their max effective range is around half their max.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ Using the sound blasts has the side effect of killing her own hearing for a few minutes as she'll only hear ringing. The focused blasts will do it for a minute or two, while the area of effects blast will remove her hearing for quite longer. In addition, the sound blasts interfere with her sense of equilibrium and her balance will go to trash while she's using her ability. Also, the more focused sound blasts have a recoil that'll physically throw off her balance.

OTHER

"This better end up being fun."

Isla Douglas

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"You wanna know more about me? Well, let me tell you..."

[ 21 | 5’6” | Iranian [Scottish] | She/her | 114lbs ]

[Dishonesty]

APPEARANCE

"I don't think I'm dressed for the weather here..."

Smug smile nearly always on her lips, Isla exudes confidence in her physical appearance. She has a slim body with lean muscles and reasonable curves, even if she’s a bit lacking in some areas. She has a nice figure when she wears form fitting clothes and she knows it. She has a gentle, oval shaped face with a well defined jaws. Her nose is rounded and lacks any definition at the bridge, smoothing up towards her dark brown eyes. She almost always wears eyeliner and eyeshadow around them along with red lipstick on nicely defined lips. Her skin is a warm brown in colour, lighter than expected for her origins due to a lack of sun while growing up.

Isla is never found without her yellow, knitted beanie on her head. It covers the natural dark brown roots of her hair, which she has dyed a golden blonde. It’s long and curly, something she rarely bothers to tame as it falls midway down her back. Even though Isla is confident in her looks she rarely makes an effort to wear nice clothes that show it off. She’s almost always found in a baggy hoodie and black skinny jeans, preferring combinations of bright oranges, yellows and reds. Only when she’s feeling especially good, or wants to make a good impression, will she wear something more form fitting - most likely the same skinny jeans and low cut, tight shirts.

One of the most shocking things about Isla is her accent, which is clearly Scottish (Glaswegian specifically). She tones it down when around people who aren’t from there, but it’s still clear and will often get thicker as she gets angrier. Isla’s never actually spent a day in her life in Iran so contrary to her appearance she’s more Scottish than anything.

PSYCHOLOGY

"If I’m being honest..."

MAIN GOAL ⫻ Isla’s main goal right now is to get enough money to find a way back home. Aside from this, she just wants to live her life having fun and spending time with others, living each day as it comes to it fullest. Deep down, she wants to be able to actually stop lying and start being honest to herself and others. She also used to want to go become a Vet but never got the grades for it and doubts she could ever achieve their goal. But she doesn’t really have a solid goal.

WHAT THEY WANT OUT OF THE COVEN ⫻ Since she got stuck in Tampa, Isla trawled the internet and managed to find out about the coven (and watched a few videos of them). She figured that her best of getting by in a strange city was to join a group of witches. From the coven she’s mostly looking for companionship in a strange place, help getting home and maybe a place to stay.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Always look out for yourself, and don’t let anyone else know the real you. Isla basically believes in lying to make it and to be included and that you should cover up the worst parts of yourself. She has a sense of companionship and believes groups are better than individuals, but would still choose self prioritisation.

SECRETS ⫻ The fact that almost nothing she tells others is the truth, and that most of what they know about her is lies. How insecure she actually is.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Bisexual. Isla has had relationships with both men and women in the past, and is comfortable with this.

FEARS ⫻ Isla fears being found out for all her lies. She also fears not being liked by anyone and being excluded.

REPUTATION ⫻ None, since she just arrived in Tampa.

FLAWS ⫻ Isla is a pathological liar for a start, and very little that she says is entirely honest. With her dishonesty comes a certain expectation that others will be the same and she isn’t very trusting of others. Contrary to her relaxed attitude, Isla is actually often on edge and in anticipation of something happening. She’s also fairly insecure, something she covers up with her lies and bright persona and attempts to fit in. She also has a really annoying habit of going on and on when talking.

BACKSTORY

"You’ll never believe how I got here."

Isla never knew her birth parents: her mother passed away giving birth to her and she didn’t have a registered father. However, this wasn’t a particularly sad thing for the girl - she quickly got adopted in her birth country of Scotland by a couple who couldn’t have their own child. Her adoptive parents weren’t particularly well off but they provided her with everything she could need. They were great parents and brought her up well.

Unfortunately for them Isla fell in with a bad crowd in her highschool years. She started hanging out on the streets, stealing and fighting and smoking. She wasn’t exactly the ringleader but she participated pretty heavily in the theft side of things. It was when with this group that Isla first started lying, discovering that it was easier to gain people to her side and get what she wanted by being dishonest.

It was when she was seventeen that things took a turn for the weirder. One day she messed up when she was staying over at a friend’s in Edinburgh, and let her friend egg her on to steal from a really fancy high street shop. But eyes were already on her as soon as she entered because she clearly looked out of place, and she got caught as soon as she started pocketing stuff. One minute she was staring at a shop worker, tension high as she waited for the consequences, the next she was in the back alley outside and hit by a vision of someone she’d never been before.

This woman introduced herself as Isla’s biological mother, who explained to her that she had been an Adept - and so was Isla. She explained to her exactly what this meant and about the powers that Isla had now inherited. In this vision she told the teenager a bit about herself and how to use her newfound abilities. This left Isla confused about suddenly discovering a world of Extra-Normal she’d never known about before.

However it didn’t change her life much, beyond giving her something else to practice and making her even better as a degenerate teenager. She kept it secret and went through her life, graduating highschool and going to college for stonemasonry, before getting an apprenticeship in that.

Then, very recently, Isla ended up waking up in a strange boat in a place called Paradise. This led to grouping up with a bunch of strangers and going through quite a few crazy (horrible) adventures, which included watching one person get bifurcated and then finding out a little girl was behind it all. Once all was said and done the girl opened a portal to take them back home… only Isla ended up in Tampa, Florida.

SKILLS & TALENTS

"Oh, this is yours?"

Theft ⫻ Isla has been stealing since she was in early highschool and it’s a skill, and bad habit, she’s never broken. Her main skill lies in stealing from shops or of other things just left lying around, picking it up without others noticing. She also has experience with stealing directly from people (and their pockets) - but how well this goes is heavily dependent on how perceptive the person she’s stealing from is.

Lying ⫻ Due to basically being a pathological liar, Isla is very good at lying. Most of what she says is believable, and most of what she says is lies (well, the twisted truth). She’s not perfect, lacking an amazing memory, so she does sometimes mess up consistency wise - but overall it’s hard to tell when she’s lying or when she’s telling the truth.

Street Fighting ⫻ Isla spent most of her highschool years and beyond hanging out with unsavoury characters, some of which were pretty good fighters. She picked up a few tricks from them from the tumbles she got into - she could take people without any fighting experience easily but would get beaten by those who are trained. She tends to fight dirty and always carries a foldable knife with her, just in case.

Understanding Scottish ⫻ Alright, most may not think of it as a skill in any form but Isla is pretty proud of her ability to understand the thicker Scottish accents and slang. Not to mention she can easily read and translate Scottish twitter for others so it's a win win.

Stonemasonry ⫻ A pretty niche skill and what Isla went to college for. Useless outside of her job of helping regenerate old buildings.

ABSTRACTION

"One minute I’m here, the next I’m not."

TYPE ⫻ Adept

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Purple lux. Channeler: her beanie (hand knitted by her adopted mother).

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻

Blinking ⫻ Short ranged, fast teleportation. She can teleport to someone she can see at that moment, within reason (if she was in an endless field she could only teleport a certain distance - but if she was in a room she could teleport all around it). This can be used in quick succession and frequently, being her most used and practice spell. Essentially she can “blink” around the place.

Long Range Teleportation ⫻ Isla can cast longer range, more traditional teleportation. She can teleport to somewhere she has visited before within a reasonable range.

Movement Stopping ⫻ Isla can stop something, or someone, that is currently in motion. For example if someone was running she could make them suddenly come to a stop. She can also, with a greater difficulty, stop a very specific movement - such as someone who is about to punch her, she could stop the movement of their arm. This is the spell Isla has used second most after blinking.

Telekinesis ⫻ One of the spells that Isla only recently figured out and has been trying to practice. At the moment Isla can move around nearby objects - causing them to levitate them, pulling them closer to her and the like. Her control of the speed of the object's movements is shaky at the moment. She can’t do much more than that yet.

LIMITS ⫻

Blink: Isla can teleport around fifteen feet at a time and can chain blink around three times before it gets too tiring and has to catch her breath. The whole thing drains her stamina.

Teleport: Isla can teleport up to sixty meters to a place she has visited before... but she can only do it once an hour as the experience is very straining and tiring on her body. She can bring people but that just makes it even more tiring.

Movement Stopping: Isla can only stop the movements of one object at a time within a ten meter radius, but it doesn't work effectively on Extra-Normal beings. She can use it on them, but the more she uses it on them, the more resistant they become. She can hold the spell for up to a few minutes atm.

Telekinesis: Isla's control over objects is very rudimentary and she can't do anything fancy at the moment. She can only manipulate one object a time up to a limit of one hundred pounds, also she can only do it in a six-meter radius.

WEAKNESSES ⫻

Blinking: Blinking causes some disorientation and throws off her balance, rapidly blinking will cause her nausea and will probably fall over due to disorientation.

Long-Ranged Teleportation: The spell is very taxing and teleporting will probably cause her to be stunned for a bit.

Movement-Stopping: Movement Stopping greatly slows her down. Like she's walking through thick honey as long as the spell persists.

Telekinesis: The usual; headaches, nosebleeds, etc etc.

OTHER

"I’m out."

Isla’s real name is actually Arabella, but she hates that name with a passion and hasn’t gone by it in years.

Maya's Relationship Table

Character name	Opinion
Emily / Babylon	Fuck, I don't think I've seen anyone with a stick so far up their ass! I can't believe she tried to claim to be the leader and then told everyone that she beat up the not really FBI! All she did was run away. But, it was hilarious to see her take a taser up the ass - she deserved it. Pissing her off never gets old.
Madison	I'm fairly certain Madison doesn't like me at all, but whatever I don't care. Can't say I have strong opinions on her anyway... Maybe we could get along if we tried, but whatever.
Claudette	I honestly can't remember if I've had a full conversation with Claudette. She doesn't seem bad but honestly she's kinda boring.
Kayla	Y'know Kayla may wind me up occasionally, but otherwise we get on really well. We're totally on the same wavelength when it come's to messing with all the others. Honestly she's probably the person I like the most (and I'm even willing to share my porn collection with her). Even if she's a little more serious now with the whole leader business.
Izzy	Wow Izzy is pretty! She's probably one of the more tolerable ones, because things are fun when she's around. I especially like her habit of handing me alcohol - who would say no to free drinks?
Quinn	Wow she is full of herself, while somehow being one of the weirdest of us all. We don't talk much.
Nina	Nina's cute... but don't tell her I said that. Honestly, I found Nina pretty annoying at first but she painted me! And it was honestly beautiful. Since then she's kinda grown on me, not that I'd let her know how much I enjoy her company. She's still annoying sometimes but she's good company. She's far too nice, though, and it could get her in trouble. Not that I'm worried about her or anything... But everyone likes her, I think, so she won't have a lack of people jumping to her rescue.
Herik	Is it even legal to be that tall? I'm pretty sure he could break one of my bones with one finger, thank god he's far too nice to do that. If I'm honest, not that I'd tell anyone, he terrified me at first. I'm still on the fence, and I wouldn't say I trust him even if I know that's partly down to... my past issues and not him. He ain't done anything to warrant that. He's pretty fun to be around, though, so I'm tryna get past it.
Alyssa	She really went above and beyond when it came to the raid. I mean, she tasered that absolutely massive guy! Not to mention that she handled the situation with that bitch their leader pretty well. I have a newfound respect for her... though I somehow think she doesn't have the same for me.
Molly	I hardly know her, but I heard she's not really her and that's... just weird.

Recollections: The Coven [COMPLETED]

@FernStone How did you pull this off?

Accepted.

@Ghost Note

Honestly absolutely no idea

Sweet, shall add to the character tab!

Recollections: The Coven [COMPLETED]

@Ghost Note here's the finished first character, wow didn't know I had the ability to write a sheet in one evening

Myeong-Suk Choi, “Maya”

Choi Myeong-Suk, Maya

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"Fuck anyone that tries to control me."

[ 21 | 5’2” | South Korean | She/her | 91lb ]

[Spite]

APPEARANCE

"Yes I’m pretty, no I won’t date you."

At first glance Maya is on the shorter side, even though she’s of average height for a Korean woman. She’s very pretty with a delicate sort of look to her. This is very quickly destroyed by the expression on her face - often some for a disgust or displeasure. She has what many would call a resting bitch face, though unlike many it’s because she's probably internally bitching about you. She is rarely found without makeup on, with the minimum of lipstick and eyeliner at all times (but often a full face). She has a naturally defined jawline even as the rest of her facial features are rather soft.

Maya has skin of a tanned, light brown colour with yellow undertones often offset by blush across her cheeks. Her eyes are dark and delicate. Her hair falls midway down her back and is naturally black but currently dyed a lighter, more orange brown. It is naturally fairly straight but she often curls it or leaves it in braids overnight to do the job for her. Her ears are pierced at the lobe and she often wears dangling earrings of various forms.

Her body is naturally slim, with a reasonably sized chest even if she is lacking in curves elsewhere. She’s not got much weight to her, both in muscle mass and fat due to a naturally high metabolism and not exactly being the kind to work out. She’s normally found in loose, flowing dresses of pastel colours or oversized sweaters and skirts or shorts.

Maya speaks with a noticeable accent due to English being a second language to her, and only living in an English speaking country for three years (though she is fluent). She has a sound wave sigil on the back of her neck.

PSYCHOLOGY

"I know I can be hard to get on with but I really don’t care."

MAIN GOAL ⫻ Graduate University and then live the life she wants - preferably with a well paying job, loads of fun and friends to hang out with. Her other main goal is to get revenge on her ex and all the friends that turned on her. She also deep, deep down wants to be recognised by her parents.

WHAT THEY WANT OUT OF THE COVEN ⫻ First of all Maya is looking for companionship, because she’s suddenly alone and without friends. Second she’s looking for something fun to lighten up her now boring life. Third, and most importantly, she wants to be able to get revenge on her ex and any others that might harm or control her in the future - and a group of wannabe witches seems like a pretty good place for that.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Live for yourself and fuck what others think. She also believes in living fast and loud, filling your life with all sorts of things you enjoy even if they’re not the best for you. She believes that you shouldn’t let others control you and should do exactly what you want with your life, even if others think its a bad decision. She’ll actively encourage people to live for themselves rather than others, but also has a bad habit of talking down those who don’t.

SECRETS ⫻ Maya hides how desperate she is for attention and companionship that she lacked growing up. It was this that led her to her previous relationship, something she also keeps a secret from others.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Pansexual, with a preference for girls. Maya isn’t fussy about gender when it comes to dating.

FEARS ⫻ Violence. Maya fears physical violence due to her previous relationship and will automatically flinch if someone raises a hand to her.

REPUTATION ⫻ Maya doesn’t have much of a reputation in Tampa aside from being a foreigner who hasn’t lived there long. Within her university she has a negative reputation - someone who went along with a bad crowd only to shun them all.
(What is your character's reputation in Tampa, the Coven, and/or beyond?)

FLAWS ⫻ Maya is incredibly stubborn and spiteful and absolutely refuses to do what she’s told. She’s been controlled enough in her life, but this means often she’ll do the complete opposite of what someone asks her to do - even if that’s also negative for her. She’s also very argumentative and fairly insensitive which means that she can be quite hard to get on with, and she actively sabotages her own friendships by being a bit of a bitch. When she’s enjoying herself she’s good company but as soon as she’s bored or disagrees with someone, she’s not good to be around at all. She also has severe trust issues with men now due to her last relationship.

BACKSTORY

"Pretty standard affair until I moved over here, honestly."

Maya was born in Seoul, Korea to a businessman father and a university professor mother. She was brought up in a strict, no nonsense household where “fun” was equal to educational activities and most of her time was spent raised by a nanny rather than her very absent parents. She was three when her younger sister, Eun-Ji, was born. It didn’t make many changes to her life - just even less attention from either parents.

The rest of her childhood wasn’t anything special. She went to school, made a few friends and got chewed out whenever she obtained anything short of perfect grades. She acted out a few times in an attempt to get attention from her parents only for it to fail. So instead she turned to taking it out on her younger sister, who she had a bad relationship with, and other people in her class even as her anger and dislike for her parent’s grew. But still, she kept herself top of the class with the slight hope they might recognise her. She both complied and rebelled as she grew up, neither of which had much effect on the attention she got.

It was when she reached the end of school that she finally rebelled against her parents - by getting into and accepting a place for University in Florida doing chemical physics. It was a long shot from where her parents had wanted her to go - in fact she turned down a place at Seoul National University. She didn’t particularly care about the academic credentials of where she was going, all she knew was that she wanted to get away from her parents.

So she moved to Florida, choosing to go by the English name Maya in the hope that it would further distance her from her family. Going to America gave Maya exactly the change she wanted - even if it wasn’t really good for her. She fell in with what many people would see to be the bad lot with whom she partied, drank, smoked and did a lot of drugs. Even with this she was the envy of all her new friends as she somehow managed to keep her high grades. But she was enjoying herself far more than she ever had before, even relishing in the way people outside of her group told her she was throwing her life away (and continuing to do it anyway).

It was after just over a year in America that she got her first boyfriend, Dean White. It was pretty great - they skipped class together and with their friends and had a lot of fun. However the longer they were together the more controlling Dean got. He started policing who Maya saw and hung out with, growing especially envious of her friendships with other men (which she thought was ridiculous considering she was pan). This spiralled into loud shouting matches between the two that went on and on… until they ended with violence.

From then on Dean got control he wanted through fear, because there wasn’t anything Maya could do against him when he threatened her physically. Her life was taking a sudden downwards spiral as he isolated her from the rest of the group - she only got to spend time with them when they were all together, all while he spread rumours that she didn’t actually like hanging out with them.

After months of this treatment something inside Maya finally snapped during one of Dean’s particularly violent rages, awakening and emitting an explosive burst of sound energy. This was enough to shove Dean back from him and injure him, partly from how hard he slammed into a wall. With a sudden newfound power she told a very dazed and angry Dean that she never wanted to see him again, before running away.

Now with no friends and some strange magic that she had no idea about, Maya was at a loss for what to do. It was during her time locked up in her studio flat browsing the internet that she found other people talking about Extra-Normal happenings and the talk of a Coven forming. With no one else on her side and nothing better to do, Maya decided she might as well join - maybe it could bring a little fun back into her life.

SKILLS & TALENTS

"Being at the top of my class is easy, impressing my parents isn’t."

Korean ⫻ Maya is fluent in Korean, as it’s her first language and she speaks it better than she does English.

Academic Intelligence ⫻ Always top of her class growing up, Maya is incredibly academically gifted and continues to get good grades with ease. However this intelligence is only for academics (she’s certainly not street smart). She makes sure to keep her grades up to keep her parent’s happy - as much as she dislikes them, she likes the money they send her. She’s especially good at her degree field, chemical physics, and maths.

Photographic Memory ⫻ In a way coming hand in hand with her intelligence, Maya has a photographic memory meaning she only needs to see things once or twice to remember them.

ABSTRACTION

"Being loud means I'll be the centre of attention."

TYPE ⫻ Awakened

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Sound Blast, the ability to release damaging blasts of sonic energy.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Born from her spite and constant need for arguments and attention, Maya can emit blasts of sound waves that cause physical damage to people and objects. She is able to do this in two ways. The more powerful, but less controllable, way is a burst of sound in a radius around her emitted from her entire body itself. This is powerful enough to break materials such as wood and to badly damage (non supernatural) humans. Along with this it’s powerful enough to push back whatever it hits, as if they were hit by a “physical” force of sound waves. The other way is focused through her hands, a less powerful burst that can be targeted. This requires far more concentration and does not cause as much sheer damage or pushback but it doesn’t affect everything in a radius as the other way does.

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OTHER

"This better end up being fun."

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Recollections: The Coven [COMPLETED]

Are we doing multiple characters? It's cool if the GM is okay with it, personally I'm not the biggest fan of it as it tends to get the character tab flooded quite quickly. Plus, it always sucks when a person nabs a character idea you really wanted to play, when they already have another character... ^{_{You greedy bastards.}}

@Cleverbird

Up to three characters according to the character creation rules, I plan to make two cause I have the ideas for em but hopefully won't step on someone's else territory idea wise