Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2014 1:44:30 GMT -5
S T U D E N T
Full Name: Midnight Winters
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Power(s): Midnight has the ability of Earth manipulation. This means that she can lift rocks and dirt from the Earth without touching it, and also hurtle them around at very fast speeds. The ease with which she lifts Earth depends on the size of the Earth piece she is lifting, for example, she would struggle a lot more to lift a piece of Earth the size of a car than she would to lift a computer sized piece of Earth (though she can still manage). However, she lacks the control to hold up a lot of small objects, such as small pebbles into a large mass (like a car). The smallest size of objects she could manage to lift them all together into a car size would make every rock about the size of her head. She can lift multiple smaller objects, just not too many at a time, as she founds it easier to lift less bigger objects, then a lot more smaller objects, due to her limited control. The amount of small pebbles she could hold up simultaneously would add up to roughly the mass of a bike. She can also create cracks in the ground and 'open up' the Earth to create a hole.
Appearance: Midnight has naturally light blonde hair, but she normally dyes it with unnaturally colored streaks such as pink, green and blue. She likes to wear black eye liner, and sometimes a lot of it, but that's about it as far as makeup goes, unless there's a special event. She's quite slim, and relatively short for her age, standing at 5'1. Leila is pale in complexion, with dark, almost black eyes. She feels her eyes are her best feature, being big and framed with thick lashes, and it is usually the first thing people notice about her, especially with the eyeliner she wears. They are, however, the only feature on her face she really likes, with a childish-seeming button-nose and lips that seem forever quirked up at the ends, hinting at amusement, even when she isn't laughing or smirking.
Though small, due to her love of Physical activities, Midnight is surprisingly strong, with no fat on her body.
She usually wears loose, easy to move in clothes, and would choose cargo pants or shorts over a tight skirt any day. She tends to avoid girly patterns such as floral ones, and does not follow the typical 'teenage girl fashion', disliking the movement restriction tight clothing provides. She likes hoodies that are way too big for her. She doesn't, however, mind wearing dresses or skirts, as long as they're not so tight that they restrict her movement. Additionally, on a day-to-day basis, she would usually wear darker clothes, with a slightly punkish or emo style, and has been mistaken for a white girl playing at being rebel, however, she is not, and simply likes the clothes. Her day-to-day clothes, of course, never restrict her movement, she always makes sure of it.
Personality: Midnight is quite a loud, confrontational person who holds firmly to what she believes in. She is fiercely loyal, perhaps as a result of her contemplating the fact that she was probably abandoned (though she can't know for sure, because she has amnesia), and despises bullies with a passion. She is proud of the fact that she is a New Zealander, and is annoyed at anyone who tries to make fun of it. She has a tendency to stick up for the underdog, and often gets into fights sticking up for people who won't do so themselves.
Though she would never admit this to anyone, part of the reason that she feels the need to stick up for others so much is because it helps her hide her own insecurity of not knowing her past. She feels that if she is helping others, she can drown out how she feels when she is alone and has too much time to think. She has a very short attention span, and is not good at all with academic studies. Being rather free-spirited, she loves the outdoors and all things physical, being quite competitive also. Midnight always tries to keep herself busy, whether it's by helping others, practicing her ability in solitude, or simply going for a very long run. This is so that she does not have the time to think of how she no true family, or memories of her childhood, and of her amnesia and how she was, most likely, abandoned (as, even with advertisements, no one came to claim her). For, if she allows herself to think of this, she gets really sad and lonely, feeling betrayed and abandoned by whoever it was that was caring for her before she lost her memories, and torn between wanting someone to see through her tough façade, and not wanting to bother anyone.
Midnight gets angered easily, especially if you tease her about her past. However, if she respects you and you do something to anger her, she will try her best to understand why you did what you did. She is a little too trusting, and people have, in the past, taken advantage of this to ridicule her. In spite of the fact that she can feel so down, she wants to believe in the good in everyone, hoping deep down that somehow, if she is a good person, the people who most likely abandoned her will find her and want her back, though she knows that the chances of this are virtually zero.
Midnight's one main goal in life is to be an amazing fiend, and try to make heaps, to make up for all of the time lost before her amnesia. She wants to be seen as someone super loyal who others can lean on, because that is what she herself wants, someone who would do that for her. So, she figured, if she feels that way, surely there are many more apart from her that do also.
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Weaknesses: Midnight has a weakness of being too trusting. In the past, this has lead to people taking advantage of this and befriending her, only to betray her. Additionally, there is the fact that she is so hot-tempered. This makes it easy for people to provoke her, and has resulted in her getting into a lot of fights in the past. Finally, there is the fact that Midnight needs to be within at least five meters, with nothing separating her and Earth, to be able to use her ability. This means that, say, if she was in an enclosed wooden room with no open windows or Earth, she would not be able to use her Earth manipulation. To add to that, there is her amnesia, which means her life experience she can remember is very limited.
Strengths: Midnight is fiercely loyal, and so the friends she makes definitely stay around value her a lot. Additionally, she is physically very fit, and has gotten into a lot of fights, so she is very good at combat. Finally, there is the fact that she stands up for the underdog, and despises bullies. Because she has no qualms in fighting for her beliefs, Midnight is generally looked upon as quite a ' strong-willed' person.
History/Family: Midnight is around sixteen years old. She is not exactly sure of her true age, for she suffers from amnesia, and cannot remember anything before the age of roughly thirteen. The people that found Midnight in New Zealand looked long and hard for any possible relations, posting adds in the newspaper, asking around, and Midnight even appeared in the news, but no one ever came to claim her, so she was adopted by an elderly couple, who had no children of their own.
Soon after she was adopted, she found out about her ability. She was walking home from her new school, and was cutting through an alley when some boys from her school caught up to her. Being the naturally friendly person that she is, she chatted with them, but then they started to get a bit pushy. Soon, they were full out shoving her to the ground and mocking her. Angry with how mean they were being, Midnight told them to stop. Quietly at first, but when one of them went to kick her, a piece of earth shot out of the ground and hit him square in the chest. He was knocked back winded. Shocked, the other two boys froze for a second, but that was a second too long; two pieces of earth slammed into them hard, knocking them against the alley wall. The one that had gotten hurt first tried to attack Midnight again, but a hole, but a shallow hole opened up in the ground below him, as deep as his knees. It then closed on his legs, crushing them, then opening up again a moment after the damage had been done. In shock, Midnight fled home, running the whole way and never looking over her shoulder.
She never told her adoptive parents about the incident, not wanting them to have second thoughts about adopting her.The boys, however, did try and accuse Midnight of doing it, though she denied it. In the end, nothing was done against Midnight, as it was concluded that she had no way of doing that. Not once was it thought that she might have been one of the rare gifted humans in spite of the boys' insistence, for the boys were known for lying, and being gifted is very rare. At school, all of the friends she had made avoided her because of the incident, and some people confronted her about it. In defense, she would try to lie and say she did nothing, but they would persist and keep bothering, which led to Midnight getting a fights. A lot of fights. In spite of her friendly personality, she developed a reputation in school as a violent scary girl, and eventually ended up changing schools to escape the harassment. It was a new start for Midnight, and thankfully, it worked.
One day, some strange men with stranger accents arrived at Midnight's doorstep. Asking to speak to her parents, they spun a tale of how she was being offered a prestigious sports scholarship at a far away private school, for Midnight absolutely excelled in Physical activities, and after showing some documents, a lot of paperwork, and waving some money, Midnight was whisked away.
In Character sample: Midnight watched as the other girl removed her arm and foot guards, then walked to the middle of the gym, where some mats were laid out. Happy that she would get a chance to fight, Midnight pulled her multi-coloured hair into a low side bun, which would be harder to grab in a fight, and kicked off her shoes. Finally, she walked to meet the lady. She didn't like shoes when fighting; they slowed her down. At least when fighting wolves, they prevented her feet from getting chewed off, but for some reason, Midnight very much doubted this woman would try to take a bite at her feet. Stretching her arms out, Midnight smiled. "Shots," she said to the other woman, another typical New Zealand word, that was the same as a loose way of saying thank you. "Well, let's start."
Midnight immediately took up a fighting stance, twisting sideways slightly so that her body was a smaller target to hit, her fists held up, on close to her cheek and another extended more. She had never taken proper martial arts classes, but back in New Zealand she had had friends who were black belts in karate and jiu justu, and they had helped her a lot to hone her fighting abilities, being relentless teachers, though good, loyal friends.
As she had stepped back, Midnight sized the other lady up. She was taller than herself, and looked slightly older too, though still young and in very good shape. Immediately, Midnight zeroed in on the other's solar plexus, ribs, throat and knees. They would probably provide her the best chance of getting in an effective hit, but other areas could work also. She analysed this in barely a second, before Midnight ran in and leapt off of the mats, twisting her hips to attack with a flying roundhouse kick that, as she twisted right around, used her other leg to come back in a hook kick. It was a very fast attack, and as Midnight wasn't sure of the woman's speed, she deemed it a good attack to start with.
OOC: The sample was from another site, just edited it a bit to fit this particular character, hope that's ok =)