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anexquisitecreaturePART 1 - Out of Character
NAME: Aria
AGE (must be 18 or older): well past 18
E-MAIL: dramatischer@gmail.com
PLURK: minorharmonics
TIME ZONE: GMT+8
PREFERRED METHOD OF CONTACT: plurk, email or journal PM is fine
PART 2.a - In Character Non-WH13/Eureka Canon Characters
Full Name: Raven Darkhölme, also goes by Mystique
Nicknames: none
DOB/Age: 38, but her genetic mutation has her appearing to be in her late teens to early 20s.
Birthplace: unknown. Her accent suggests the United States, but her surname suggests her parents were immigrants or descendants thereof, of likely Nordic or Swedish descent.
Gender: female
Sexuality: fluid
Species: mutant
Fandom: X-Men movie franchise, FC & DoFP 'verse
Journal: anexquisitecreature
PB: Jennifer Lawrence
Canon Point: The end of X-Men: Days of Future Past, just after shooting Erik - this is roughly ten years after the death of JFK, so it's probably 1973
Appearance: The ultimate chameleon, Mystique in her natural form has skin in a deep sapphire blue, with darker blue scales providing a protective armour. There are some that appear to be predominantly decorative on her cheeks and forehead, and heavier concentrations on more vulnerable areas of her body - her face, breasts, hips and buttocks. They also cover her vital organs. Her hair in this form is a rich, blood red, and her eyes are golden with very little of the whites visible. When not in her natural form, Raven's default appearance (presumably from the dormant genetics donated by her parents) is a fair-skinned blonde with blue eyes. Her mutation makes her appear young in both forms, and she's fit, toned and perhaps five feet seven inches tall. All of this can be changed whenever she chooses - gender, age, and species is not a barrier, and she can morph her body to appear to wear clothes if needed.
History: Raven first met Charles Xavier when she disguised herself as his mother scrounging for food. She was roughly nine years old. Overjoyed to meet someone else "different" like him, Charles revealed his own power of reading minds, he said she could stay with him and never be hungry again. Raven stayed with Charles when he graduated from Oxford. Raven and Charles displayed their abilities to a group of government agents, among them the Man in Black and Moira MacTaggert. Gathering a group of other mutants, including Erik Lensherr, Banshee, Alex Summers, Darwin, Angel Salvadore & Hank McCoy, they formed the original team of X-Men. Raven takes great joy in bestowing both Charles and Erik with their “X” names. A half-hearted attempt at seducing Erik as a result of an offhand comment made about her abilities leads him to tell her that her own natural form is beautiful, and that she’s an exquisite creature. It’s the first time someone ever outright admires her for who she is.
Instrumental in stopping the Cuban Missile Crisis and foiling the Hellfire Club's bid for world domination, the team was eventually split when Lensherr began to believe that humans would never accept mutants and opted to assert rule over them instead of waiting to be interred and executed. Raven, who had become something of a protégé to Erik (now Magneto), opted to join him and helped form the Brotherhood of Mutants.
She’s now proud of her differences, and chooses a life where she’s accepted, rather than encouraged to blend in.
Very little movie-verse information is provided for the year prior to Erik’s incarceration or a detailed timeline of the decade following it. It can be assumed that Mystique worked closely with Erik, as they’re not too far apart in age, and she’s one of the only members of the Brotherhood to evade capture. The other mutants who joined Erik in Cuba have been experimented on and killed by a man named Trask, and even more were drafted into the Vietnam War.
It’s now 1973, and there are two timelines that evolve from this point. In the first, Mystique murdered scientist Bolivar Trask in retaliation for the fatal experiments he conducted on mutants (among them Azazel, Emma Frost, Banshee and Angel). Unbeknownst to Raven, her actions inadvertently doomed the mutant race; Trask's death led to the government approving his Sentinel project and her subsequent capture allowed the government to access her DNA and use it to give Sentinels the ability to adapt to the mutants' powers. Furthermore, killing for the first time, as well as being subjugated to torturous experiments, caused Raven to embrace a new identity as a ruthless assassin.
This prompts an aging Professor X and Magneto, together with a handful of other mutant survivors in a dystopian future make a desperate, last-ditch attempt to change the world by changing the past.
The result is her current history. After freeing her fellow mutants from Trask's military agents by posing as an officer and sending them home from Vietnam, Raven's attempt on Trask's life was thwarted when she was stopped by Xavier and Lensherr, who learned about the consequences of Trask's death (the initial timeline) through Wolverine. However, new problems arose when Lensherr attempted to kill Raven to ensure the future would be changed. Raven escaped, but took a bullet to the leg, and her blood was obtained by Trask's scientists. It also exposed mutants to the world due to the presence of international media, there for the Peace Talks, and the attempted assassination and subsequent discovery meant Trask was given the go-ahead for the Sentinel project anyway.
Undeterred, Raven continued to pursue Trask and traveled to Washington, D.C. where he would be unveiling the Sentinels to the public. Xavier again tried to stop her from assassinating Trask, but Lensherr caused further conflict by taking control of the Sentinels. The ensuing chaos allowed Raven, who was disguised as a Secret Service agent, to sneak into an underground bunker with Trask and President Nixon. Though Trask's mutant detecting device gave her away, Trask stopped the guards from killing her because he needed Raven's DNA for the Sentinels.
The metal bunker was soon brought above ground by Magneto, who now sought to murder President Nixon and the rest of the men in the bunker on national television. He would be thwarted by none other than Raven, who non-fatally shot him in the neck and knocked him out. As Raven turned her gun on Trask, Xavier was finally able to convince her to let him live; the public had just witnessed a mutant prevent an assassination attempt and sparing Trask's life would prove not all mutants were dangerous. Raven dropped the gun, effectively saving the mutants from extinction. She then disguised herself as a soldier and escaped.
It’s at this point that she went to the Throne of Shadows game, and from there finds herself in The Warehouse.
Previous Game History: Raven has spent approximately three IC weeks as an unwilling guest of worryingly absent Nysgods, in a small castle-type place that had previously, she’d been told, been a spaceship. She accepted this at face value, because stranger things have happened.
Sadly, she was apped in as the game was winding to a close, so the place itself had little effect on her other than to open her eyes to the fact that time travel exists in more than just her world – because more than just her world exists. She discovered that differing time points meant that she’d been a captive of the Nysgods twice before, though she holds no memory of it, but others present do – and some of those others were people she knew, but not from when she knew them from. Her brother had become a bitter, broken man who kept to himself. This bothered her more than she’s willing to admit; despite being mad at him for never understanding why she was mad at him, he’s an important part of who she is, and she will always love him. To see him so changed by circumstances outside of the life she knew they’d already led had been disconcerting.
The other person she’d met was Erik. At home, they’d just shot one another and saved the world as they knew it, each in their own way. He’d been incarcerated for ten years prior to this, and though she was very much in his camp before JFK, a decade on her own made her grow up emotionally very quickly, and she’d been shocked that he’d made such a rash decision given he’d had all this time to think. The Erik she met in the fortress is the man she knew ten years ago, and had just killed his lifelong nemesis. Not only does he hold no recollection of the year between the day on the beach in Cuba and his imprisonment, but he’d had a relationship with a version of herself she doesn’t remember being while they were both guests of the Nysgods.
This bothered Raven for a few reasons, not least of which is that she doesn’t like being forced into a role she hasn’t chosen for herself. Another is that the relationship did start to bloom before Erik was arrested for the murder of JFK, but had clearly cooled in the decade following – and finally, he’d shot her, not three weeks prior. She’s been slowly relearning who he was, because it’s who he is, but it’s been very tentative because neither of them remember the same version of one another. Add to that the fact that her brother is practically a hermit and the Nysgods appear to have abandoned them all to their fate and there were chickens everywhere and no one can have so much as a steak knife, so she's positively itching to find a way out.
Personality: Raven wants acceptance. Before anything else, she wants to be able to walk on the street in her natural form, and not have people freak out because she's blue and scaly. Those things aren't her fault, nor are they things she chose to have happen to her. They're the result of a genetic mutation somewhere in her family history that manifested in her. She wants other mutants to not have to hide away, or live on the fringes of society if their mutation isn't a "pretty one", and she wants them to live as anyone else would, without fear of experimentation, discrimination, segregation… just like every other marginalised minority.
On the other side of that coin is her own uncertainty in her natural appearance. She's been hiding it for so long that it's become second nature to appear 'normal', and for a while, she even looked for a way to 'fix' her mutation… until she realised that it's an inherent part of her, and that the need to conform to other peoples' expectations of her physical appearance makes them shallow and insecure, not her. Hiding for most of her teen years and her twenties, it's not until her adoptive brother Charles meets a German mutant named Erik that Raven starts to accept that she's extraordinary, not weird.
A bundle of contradictions, Raven is outgoing and vivacious as a young woman, but the passage of time not seen between movies is at least a decade, and that span saw Erik (who'd become something of a mentor and lover) incarcerated, a war, and experimentation on the mutants she'd called friends before that whole mess with the missiles. That part of her is still very much present, but it takes a back seat to determination. The time on her own led her to hone her skills as what is essentially a secret agent - languages, knowledge of military life, government infiltration, espionage, and hand to hand fighting means that she's less Raven and more Mystique, the name she'd given herself upon discovering a group of mutants her own age. It's both a farewell to her old life out from under Charles' somewhat overbearing thumb, and in honour of her fallen friends.
Love is something that she both wants desperately and will never admit to. Growing up with Charles still left her without her own blood relatives. While he's been a brother figure to her for practically her whole life, she occasionally feels like she's a pet, or something for him to study, rather than a sister and a friend. He's the source of much of her own uncertainty over her appearance and actions, and at one point, she actively tells him that she's had enough of doing what he says she has to do. It clearly hurts her to do so, but it's a measure of her own determination to reach her own goals that she's willing to set aside that relationship to continue on her mission to assassinate Trask, who has been experimenting on her fellow mutants. Love is also something she's afraid of, because it's too easy to have it ripped away. She thought she could have loved Erik, once, but time has dulled that - along with the fact he tried to kill her. It's possible that whatever bond formed prior to his incarceration meant when it was her turn with the gun, she shot to wound, not kill. That, or she very pragmatically took the moment on national television to save the President, show that mutants can be merciful and not above the law, and left him for the appropriate authorities. This is more likely, and a façade, as she shifts forms as soon as she's out of public view to further her own ends. It's probable that she and Magneto do get over this little bump in the road, as later films have them on the same 'side' again.
Raven and Mystique are almost like different people. Raven is whoever she wants or needs to be, and takes a name to match; Mystique is a woman on a mission. Both are hiding crippling insecurity wrapped in a strong, gorgeous package, and both are looking for someone to simply accept her for who she is. Both want a world where mutants are not feared, and neither knows where she fits into it.
Special facts/special abilities about your character: Mystique's mutation allows her to shift her cells to physically replicate other living beings with her own flesh and bones. She can take on the full physical realism of anyone she sees with utter flawlessness, including changes to height, weight, and gender. It's a complete change right down to physical tics and vocal chords, even when she's never heard a person speak. Clothing is included, and generally forms part of her "skin" since it changes with her, though if she's spending long periods not blue, she wears actual clothes. This also lends the illusion of someone actually staying in the places she stays… and because there are times when taking things off that aren't part of her actual skin is necessary. She can only create copies of people she's seen, so when she's not blue, her blonde self does need things to wear.
Whatever is in her genes that allows her to do that also inhibits her ageing, and might have something to do with the changes being a renewal of her cells (though she doesn't have super healing powers). It may also be linked to her metabolism, which has her eating more than would be expected of a woman her size to remain her size. She can appear as young or old as she likes, but her natural state has her ageing much more slowly. A woman approaching her forties, she appears not more than 18 or 20 when she's not presenting as someone else. Primarily taking on human appearances, she can also be a cat, but not for very long.
Physically, she's strong and fighting fit, excelling in martial arts and fighting with her body rather than weaponry. She does have excellent marksmanship with handguns, as evidenced by her shooting Erik (in the neck, no less) to stun but not kill. Her tolerance for pain is quite high (she leaves the scene of a fight on foot with a bullet wound in her calf), and she has no body shame when fighting in her natural form, which is essentially nude.
What is arriving with your character? The clothes on her back (taken from her previous game - jeans and a plain white tshirt, military boots). Possibly a young dog, to be confirmed with another applicant. EDIT: confirmed; if both characters are accepted, she'll have a young Doberman named Mojo with her, too.
PART 3 - Writing Samples
1. First Person Writing Sample: here
2. Third Person Writing Sample: here
3. First or Third person Sample:
[A flash of blue and red flits into view, before everything is dizzyingly blurred for a second - then dark as night. A quiet susurration of curious fingertips over elaborate metal might be caught by discerning ears, but if not, most people should pick up what comes next.] …the hell is this thing? [American-accented, low-pitched and female, the voice is both perturbed and fascinated. It's followed by a strange rip-crackling sound and another wild blur of motion, and this time at least half the face of a pretty young woman with long blonde hair can be seen, her expression one of wary interest as she pokes at the Farnsworth, unaware she's visible to anyone watching. The view abruptly switches to the ceiling as she turns away to call to someone nearby.] --hey, Erik? Is this one of those random changes I heard such happy stories about?
PART 4 - Disclaimers
Was this character held for you? No.
Can this character be canon-punctured? No.
Required reading test for first time players apping a NON-WH13/Eureka character. Each required reading page has a hidden question on it - it's very obviously odd and out of place. Give ONLY THE ANSWERS from each page where designated below:
-- Premise Page: orange
-- Rules Page: it used to be both
-- FAQ Page: Jacob
-- Warehouse Info Page: green
-- New Arrivals Page 1: water with lemon
New Players Only - One last question, how did you find out about our game? Suggested by a plurk friend who is a current player.
NAME: Aria
AGE (must be 18 or older): well past 18
E-MAIL: dramatischer@gmail.com
PLURK: minorharmonics
TIME ZONE: GMT+8
PREFERRED METHOD OF CONTACT: plurk, email or journal PM is fine
PART 2.a - In Character Non-WH13/Eureka Canon Characters
Full Name: Raven Darkhölme, also goes by Mystique
Nicknames: none
DOB/Age: 38, but her genetic mutation has her appearing to be in her late teens to early 20s.
Birthplace: unknown. Her accent suggests the United States, but her surname suggests her parents were immigrants or descendants thereof, of likely Nordic or Swedish descent.
Gender: female
Sexuality: fluid
Species: mutant
Fandom: X-Men movie franchise, FC & DoFP 'verse
Journal: anexquisitecreature
PB: Jennifer Lawrence
Canon Point: The end of X-Men: Days of Future Past, just after shooting Erik - this is roughly ten years after the death of JFK, so it's probably 1973
Appearance: The ultimate chameleon, Mystique in her natural form has skin in a deep sapphire blue, with darker blue scales providing a protective armour. There are some that appear to be predominantly decorative on her cheeks and forehead, and heavier concentrations on more vulnerable areas of her body - her face, breasts, hips and buttocks. They also cover her vital organs. Her hair in this form is a rich, blood red, and her eyes are golden with very little of the whites visible. When not in her natural form, Raven's default appearance (presumably from the dormant genetics donated by her parents) is a fair-skinned blonde with blue eyes. Her mutation makes her appear young in both forms, and she's fit, toned and perhaps five feet seven inches tall. All of this can be changed whenever she chooses - gender, age, and species is not a barrier, and she can morph her body to appear to wear clothes if needed.
History: Raven first met Charles Xavier when she disguised herself as his mother scrounging for food. She was roughly nine years old. Overjoyed to meet someone else "different" like him, Charles revealed his own power of reading minds, he said she could stay with him and never be hungry again. Raven stayed with Charles when he graduated from Oxford. Raven and Charles displayed their abilities to a group of government agents, among them the Man in Black and Moira MacTaggert. Gathering a group of other mutants, including Erik Lensherr, Banshee, Alex Summers, Darwin, Angel Salvadore & Hank McCoy, they formed the original team of X-Men. Raven takes great joy in bestowing both Charles and Erik with their “X” names. A half-hearted attempt at seducing Erik as a result of an offhand comment made about her abilities leads him to tell her that her own natural form is beautiful, and that she’s an exquisite creature. It’s the first time someone ever outright admires her for who she is.
Instrumental in stopping the Cuban Missile Crisis and foiling the Hellfire Club's bid for world domination, the team was eventually split when Lensherr began to believe that humans would never accept mutants and opted to assert rule over them instead of waiting to be interred and executed. Raven, who had become something of a protégé to Erik (now Magneto), opted to join him and helped form the Brotherhood of Mutants.
She’s now proud of her differences, and chooses a life where she’s accepted, rather than encouraged to blend in.
Very little movie-verse information is provided for the year prior to Erik’s incarceration or a detailed timeline of the decade following it. It can be assumed that Mystique worked closely with Erik, as they’re not too far apart in age, and she’s one of the only members of the Brotherhood to evade capture. The other mutants who joined Erik in Cuba have been experimented on and killed by a man named Trask, and even more were drafted into the Vietnam War.
It’s now 1973, and there are two timelines that evolve from this point. In the first, Mystique murdered scientist Bolivar Trask in retaliation for the fatal experiments he conducted on mutants (among them Azazel, Emma Frost, Banshee and Angel). Unbeknownst to Raven, her actions inadvertently doomed the mutant race; Trask's death led to the government approving his Sentinel project and her subsequent capture allowed the government to access her DNA and use it to give Sentinels the ability to adapt to the mutants' powers. Furthermore, killing for the first time, as well as being subjugated to torturous experiments, caused Raven to embrace a new identity as a ruthless assassin.
This prompts an aging Professor X and Magneto, together with a handful of other mutant survivors in a dystopian future make a desperate, last-ditch attempt to change the world by changing the past.
The result is her current history. After freeing her fellow mutants from Trask's military agents by posing as an officer and sending them home from Vietnam, Raven's attempt on Trask's life was thwarted when she was stopped by Xavier and Lensherr, who learned about the consequences of Trask's death (the initial timeline) through Wolverine. However, new problems arose when Lensherr attempted to kill Raven to ensure the future would be changed. Raven escaped, but took a bullet to the leg, and her blood was obtained by Trask's scientists. It also exposed mutants to the world due to the presence of international media, there for the Peace Talks, and the attempted assassination and subsequent discovery meant Trask was given the go-ahead for the Sentinel project anyway.
Undeterred, Raven continued to pursue Trask and traveled to Washington, D.C. where he would be unveiling the Sentinels to the public. Xavier again tried to stop her from assassinating Trask, but Lensherr caused further conflict by taking control of the Sentinels. The ensuing chaos allowed Raven, who was disguised as a Secret Service agent, to sneak into an underground bunker with Trask and President Nixon. Though Trask's mutant detecting device gave her away, Trask stopped the guards from killing her because he needed Raven's DNA for the Sentinels.
The metal bunker was soon brought above ground by Magneto, who now sought to murder President Nixon and the rest of the men in the bunker on national television. He would be thwarted by none other than Raven, who non-fatally shot him in the neck and knocked him out. As Raven turned her gun on Trask, Xavier was finally able to convince her to let him live; the public had just witnessed a mutant prevent an assassination attempt and sparing Trask's life would prove not all mutants were dangerous. Raven dropped the gun, effectively saving the mutants from extinction. She then disguised herself as a soldier and escaped.
It’s at this point that she went to the Throne of Shadows game, and from there finds herself in The Warehouse.
Previous Game History: Raven has spent approximately three IC weeks as an unwilling guest of worryingly absent Nysgods, in a small castle-type place that had previously, she’d been told, been a spaceship. She accepted this at face value, because stranger things have happened.
Sadly, she was apped in as the game was winding to a close, so the place itself had little effect on her other than to open her eyes to the fact that time travel exists in more than just her world – because more than just her world exists. She discovered that differing time points meant that she’d been a captive of the Nysgods twice before, though she holds no memory of it, but others present do – and some of those others were people she knew, but not from when she knew them from. Her brother had become a bitter, broken man who kept to himself. This bothered her more than she’s willing to admit; despite being mad at him for never understanding why she was mad at him, he’s an important part of who she is, and she will always love him. To see him so changed by circumstances outside of the life she knew they’d already led had been disconcerting.
The other person she’d met was Erik. At home, they’d just shot one another and saved the world as they knew it, each in their own way. He’d been incarcerated for ten years prior to this, and though she was very much in his camp before JFK, a decade on her own made her grow up emotionally very quickly, and she’d been shocked that he’d made such a rash decision given he’d had all this time to think. The Erik she met in the fortress is the man she knew ten years ago, and had just killed his lifelong nemesis. Not only does he hold no recollection of the year between the day on the beach in Cuba and his imprisonment, but he’d had a relationship with a version of herself she doesn’t remember being while they were both guests of the Nysgods.
This bothered Raven for a few reasons, not least of which is that she doesn’t like being forced into a role she hasn’t chosen for herself. Another is that the relationship did start to bloom before Erik was arrested for the murder of JFK, but had clearly cooled in the decade following – and finally, he’d shot her, not three weeks prior. She’s been slowly relearning who he was, because it’s who he is, but it’s been very tentative because neither of them remember the same version of one another. Add to that the fact that her brother is practically a hermit and the Nysgods appear to have abandoned them all to their fate and there were chickens everywhere and no one can have so much as a steak knife, so she's positively itching to find a way out.
Personality: Raven wants acceptance. Before anything else, she wants to be able to walk on the street in her natural form, and not have people freak out because she's blue and scaly. Those things aren't her fault, nor are they things she chose to have happen to her. They're the result of a genetic mutation somewhere in her family history that manifested in her. She wants other mutants to not have to hide away, or live on the fringes of society if their mutation isn't a "pretty one", and she wants them to live as anyone else would, without fear of experimentation, discrimination, segregation… just like every other marginalised minority.
On the other side of that coin is her own uncertainty in her natural appearance. She's been hiding it for so long that it's become second nature to appear 'normal', and for a while, she even looked for a way to 'fix' her mutation… until she realised that it's an inherent part of her, and that the need to conform to other peoples' expectations of her physical appearance makes them shallow and insecure, not her. Hiding for most of her teen years and her twenties, it's not until her adoptive brother Charles meets a German mutant named Erik that Raven starts to accept that she's extraordinary, not weird.
A bundle of contradictions, Raven is outgoing and vivacious as a young woman, but the passage of time not seen between movies is at least a decade, and that span saw Erik (who'd become something of a mentor and lover) incarcerated, a war, and experimentation on the mutants she'd called friends before that whole mess with the missiles. That part of her is still very much present, but it takes a back seat to determination. The time on her own led her to hone her skills as what is essentially a secret agent - languages, knowledge of military life, government infiltration, espionage, and hand to hand fighting means that she's less Raven and more Mystique, the name she'd given herself upon discovering a group of mutants her own age. It's both a farewell to her old life out from under Charles' somewhat overbearing thumb, and in honour of her fallen friends.
Love is something that she both wants desperately and will never admit to. Growing up with Charles still left her without her own blood relatives. While he's been a brother figure to her for practically her whole life, she occasionally feels like she's a pet, or something for him to study, rather than a sister and a friend. He's the source of much of her own uncertainty over her appearance and actions, and at one point, she actively tells him that she's had enough of doing what he says she has to do. It clearly hurts her to do so, but it's a measure of her own determination to reach her own goals that she's willing to set aside that relationship to continue on her mission to assassinate Trask, who has been experimenting on her fellow mutants. Love is also something she's afraid of, because it's too easy to have it ripped away. She thought she could have loved Erik, once, but time has dulled that - along with the fact he tried to kill her. It's possible that whatever bond formed prior to his incarceration meant when it was her turn with the gun, she shot to wound, not kill. That, or she very pragmatically took the moment on national television to save the President, show that mutants can be merciful and not above the law, and left him for the appropriate authorities. This is more likely, and a façade, as she shifts forms as soon as she's out of public view to further her own ends. It's probable that she and Magneto do get over this little bump in the road, as later films have them on the same 'side' again.
Raven and Mystique are almost like different people. Raven is whoever she wants or needs to be, and takes a name to match; Mystique is a woman on a mission. Both are hiding crippling insecurity wrapped in a strong, gorgeous package, and both are looking for someone to simply accept her for who she is. Both want a world where mutants are not feared, and neither knows where she fits into it.
Special facts/special abilities about your character: Mystique's mutation allows her to shift her cells to physically replicate other living beings with her own flesh and bones. She can take on the full physical realism of anyone she sees with utter flawlessness, including changes to height, weight, and gender. It's a complete change right down to physical tics and vocal chords, even when she's never heard a person speak. Clothing is included, and generally forms part of her "skin" since it changes with her, though if she's spending long periods not blue, she wears actual clothes. This also lends the illusion of someone actually staying in the places she stays… and because there are times when taking things off that aren't part of her actual skin is necessary. She can only create copies of people she's seen, so when she's not blue, her blonde self does need things to wear.
Whatever is in her genes that allows her to do that also inhibits her ageing, and might have something to do with the changes being a renewal of her cells (though she doesn't have super healing powers). It may also be linked to her metabolism, which has her eating more than would be expected of a woman her size to remain her size. She can appear as young or old as she likes, but her natural state has her ageing much more slowly. A woman approaching her forties, she appears not more than 18 or 20 when she's not presenting as someone else. Primarily taking on human appearances, she can also be a cat, but not for very long.
Physically, she's strong and fighting fit, excelling in martial arts and fighting with her body rather than weaponry. She does have excellent marksmanship with handguns, as evidenced by her shooting Erik (in the neck, no less) to stun but not kill. Her tolerance for pain is quite high (she leaves the scene of a fight on foot with a bullet wound in her calf), and she has no body shame when fighting in her natural form, which is essentially nude.
What is arriving with your character? The clothes on her back (taken from her previous game - jeans and a plain white tshirt, military boots). Possibly a young dog, to be confirmed with another applicant. EDIT: confirmed; if both characters are accepted, she'll have a young Doberman named Mojo with her, too.
PART 3 - Writing Samples
1. First Person Writing Sample: here
2. Third Person Writing Sample: here
3. First or Third person Sample:
[A flash of blue and red flits into view, before everything is dizzyingly blurred for a second - then dark as night. A quiet susurration of curious fingertips over elaborate metal might be caught by discerning ears, but if not, most people should pick up what comes next.] …the hell is this thing? [American-accented, low-pitched and female, the voice is both perturbed and fascinated. It's followed by a strange rip-crackling sound and another wild blur of motion, and this time at least half the face of a pretty young woman with long blonde hair can be seen, her expression one of wary interest as she pokes at the Farnsworth, unaware she's visible to anyone watching. The view abruptly switches to the ceiling as she turns away to call to someone nearby.] --hey, Erik? Is this one of those random changes I heard such happy stories about?
PART 4 - Disclaimers
Was this character held for you? No.
Can this character be canon-punctured? No.
Required reading test for first time players apping a NON-WH13/Eureka character. Each required reading page has a hidden question on it - it's very obviously odd and out of place. Give ONLY THE ANSWERS from each page where designated below:
-- Premise Page: orange
-- Rules Page: it used to be both
-- FAQ Page: Jacob
-- Warehouse Info Page: green
-- New Arrivals Page 1: water with lemon
New Players Only - One last question, how did you find out about our game? Suggested by a plurk friend who is a current player.
