Post by Arlaye on Apr 4, 2008 11:32:32 GMT 1
This is really crap at the moment I'll do more later. Also this character won't be in use until a) Irina or Sheba dies or b) I get impatient and make Irina/Sheba inactive.
Name: Arlaye ______ (I never did give her a surname. Suggestions welcome.)
Age: 20, but she has spent two years frozen, so she is really only 18.
Gender: female
Orientation/Sexuality: straight. She prefers friendships to relationships though.
Alliance: she is not officially a part of Light's Nemesis but she shares a lot of their views.
Appearance: She is of average height, with dark eyes and long dark hair. There is a distinctly unhealthy look about her, as if she's been ill for a long time. Typically she wears jeans and some sort of top or t-shirt, nothing too fancy.
Personality: Arlaye has an apathetic sort of attitude: she doesn't really give a damn about anyone. She was forced to be this way when her once-harmless powers mutated and turned her into a public enemy - it is not her real personality. On the inside she is a thoughtful, day-dreamy type, fiercely loyal to her friends. She has a few vices: coffee, food and defying authority.
Powers: Her body turns to liquid mercury. If you punched her, she would just kind of splat everywhere, then all of the liquid would gather together and reform into her body. This bit is hard to explain. I will post an example in roleplay sample. She can turn other objects to mercury and back (clothes and such) but it takes a bit too much effort to turn anything much larger. Her breath causes mercury poisoning, but most of Souzetsu is either immune or vaccinated against it, unless they moved there within the last two years. Muraki has the antidote at any rate.
Weaknesses: Her big weakness has always been extreme temperatures. If she gets too hot she will vaporise and can't go back to human shape until it cools down. If she gets too cold she will freeze solid in whatever shape she's in.
History: Arlaye was born in a small, very conservative town. So nobody really wanted to know her when it turned out that she was different. She could do strange things, turning herself into water and back. Her parents packed her off to a school for the gifted and she hasn't seen them since.
At school, Arlaye honed her ability and met a lot of gifted people including Muraki, Vi and Eolyn. However it was all about to go to pieces.
During an ordinary class one day, her teacher innocently decided to test her powers and see how versatile they were. He used the liquid metal mercury, curious to see what would happen. But Arlaye's power suddenly turned deadly; she absorbed the mercury and started giving off poisonous fumes which spread through the air and infected anyone who breathed them. She was told that she should die in order to save everyone around her, but escaped before anyone could persuade her to do it. It was not up to her to save them, but up to them to find a way to survive.
She was eventually stopped and is now locked away in a frozen vault as a life-sized statue of solid mercury.
Roleplay Sample: these are some examples of how her power works
Arlaye moved through the trees as quietly as she could, scanning the forest. The person she was chasing was gone. 'It must have disappeared again,' she thought to herself.
Without warning, something grabbed her from behind. Hands reached across her face, clamping over her mouth. Surprised, Arlaye tried to elbow it when something hit her over the head, hard.
The impact was enough to activate her ability, she involuntarily burst into a million shining droplets of water. They scattered across the forest floor, quickly soaked away by the damp earth.
Her headset fell empty onto the ground. Re-forming, she found looked around to find that the forest was gone. She was back at school.
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The wave of energy smacked her right in the throat. She instantly shattered into a wave of sparkling water droplets, all flying backwards and landing all over the desks and up the wall behind her.
The water quickly began to run off the desks, pooling in one spot. It gathered and began to take colour, growing taller and shaping itself into human form. Just a few moments later, Arlaye stood there, completely dry and unharmed. She grinned again. "Ta-da!"
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She stood in the center of the floor, stared calmly ahead at the mirror and looked her reflection in the eye. Suddenly her whole body began to melt away, drops falling from the ends of her fingers, running out of her hair and down her back. Water advanced across the floor, running along the bottom of the mirror. When her body could no longer support itself she landed on the floor with a splash, instantly disappearing into the puddle.
The spreading puddle gleamed under the lights for a few seconds. Suddenly the puddle began to retreat, gathering in the middle of the room. It flowed up from the floor, becoming coloured and forming a human figure. Arlaye stood straight once more, her hair and clothes completely dry. She glanced around at the floor, glad to see that it was just as clean and free of water as before.
Name: Arlaye ______ (I never did give her a surname. Suggestions welcome.)
Age: 20, but she has spent two years frozen, so she is really only 18.
Gender: female
Orientation/Sexuality: straight. She prefers friendships to relationships though.
Alliance: she is not officially a part of Light's Nemesis but she shares a lot of their views.
Appearance: She is of average height, with dark eyes and long dark hair. There is a distinctly unhealthy look about her, as if she's been ill for a long time. Typically she wears jeans and some sort of top or t-shirt, nothing too fancy.
Personality: Arlaye has an apathetic sort of attitude: she doesn't really give a damn about anyone. She was forced to be this way when her once-harmless powers mutated and turned her into a public enemy - it is not her real personality. On the inside she is a thoughtful, day-dreamy type, fiercely loyal to her friends. She has a few vices: coffee, food and defying authority.
Powers: Her body turns to liquid mercury. If you punched her, she would just kind of splat everywhere, then all of the liquid would gather together and reform into her body. This bit is hard to explain. I will post an example in roleplay sample. She can turn other objects to mercury and back (clothes and such) but it takes a bit too much effort to turn anything much larger. Her breath causes mercury poisoning, but most of Souzetsu is either immune or vaccinated against it, unless they moved there within the last two years. Muraki has the antidote at any rate.
Weaknesses: Her big weakness has always been extreme temperatures. If she gets too hot she will vaporise and can't go back to human shape until it cools down. If she gets too cold she will freeze solid in whatever shape she's in.
History: Arlaye was born in a small, very conservative town. So nobody really wanted to know her when it turned out that she was different. She could do strange things, turning herself into water and back. Her parents packed her off to a school for the gifted and she hasn't seen them since.
At school, Arlaye honed her ability and met a lot of gifted people including Muraki, Vi and Eolyn. However it was all about to go to pieces.
During an ordinary class one day, her teacher innocently decided to test her powers and see how versatile they were. He used the liquid metal mercury, curious to see what would happen. But Arlaye's power suddenly turned deadly; she absorbed the mercury and started giving off poisonous fumes which spread through the air and infected anyone who breathed them. She was told that she should die in order to save everyone around her, but escaped before anyone could persuade her to do it. It was not up to her to save them, but up to them to find a way to survive.
She was eventually stopped and is now locked away in a frozen vault as a life-sized statue of solid mercury.
Roleplay Sample: these are some examples of how her power works
Arlaye moved through the trees as quietly as she could, scanning the forest. The person she was chasing was gone. 'It must have disappeared again,' she thought to herself.
Without warning, something grabbed her from behind. Hands reached across her face, clamping over her mouth. Surprised, Arlaye tried to elbow it when something hit her over the head, hard.
The impact was enough to activate her ability, she involuntarily burst into a million shining droplets of water. They scattered across the forest floor, quickly soaked away by the damp earth.
Her headset fell empty onto the ground. Re-forming, she found looked around to find that the forest was gone. She was back at school.
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The wave of energy smacked her right in the throat. She instantly shattered into a wave of sparkling water droplets, all flying backwards and landing all over the desks and up the wall behind her.
The water quickly began to run off the desks, pooling in one spot. It gathered and began to take colour, growing taller and shaping itself into human form. Just a few moments later, Arlaye stood there, completely dry and unharmed. She grinned again. "Ta-da!"
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She stood in the center of the floor, stared calmly ahead at the mirror and looked her reflection in the eye. Suddenly her whole body began to melt away, drops falling from the ends of her fingers, running out of her hair and down her back. Water advanced across the floor, running along the bottom of the mirror. When her body could no longer support itself she landed on the floor with a splash, instantly disappearing into the puddle.
The spreading puddle gleamed under the lights for a few seconds. Suddenly the puddle began to retreat, gathering in the middle of the room. It flowed up from the floor, becoming coloured and forming a human figure. Arlaye stood straight once more, her hair and clothes completely dry. She glanced around at the floor, glad to see that it was just as clean and free of water as before.