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Post by drakehensley on Feb 1, 2017 2:24:52 GMT -5
NINA GALETHREN
AGE 14 BIRTHDAY July 7th
SPECIES Gifted human ETHNICITY N/A
GENDER Female SEXUALITY Heterosexual
DORM Lyra
POWER Nina’s powers are completely based in electricity. She has the magical ability to create and project it from her body. Nina was born with these abilities. She has always emitted small and usually harmless electrical discharges from her hands when she is exceptionally emotional. She was born into the Galethren, a now-fallen doomsday cult. After she finally escaped the cult two years ago she has tried to resume a normal life. The cult, seeing her as some kind of a messiah due to her magical abilities abused the girl through her childhood in a foolhardy attempt to turn the emotionally unstable girl into some sort of weapon of the apocalypse. Instead, the insane cult only turned a mildly magical girl into a much more unstable one. As Nina grew her powers did develop further.
She discharges the electricity only through the palms of her hands and the areas that she discharges from seem to be immune to the power, if she touches anywhere else on her self during a discharge it will hurt her. She has no ability to control or absorb any other forms of electricity, it must be created by her. These discharges use Nina’s own energy to emit and are therefore incredibly tiring for her. She will frequently be found eating to keep her energy levels up. When she becomes incredibly emotional her powers can occasionally discharge without her wanting them to. If this happens too many times and her energy is drained she will pass out instantly and sleep for quite a while until her energy reserves recharge.
Her limited ability to control her powers allows her to manifest them in one of two ways which she has named ‘spark’ and ‘shock’. Shock is the more tiring of the two and drain Nina’s energy very quickly. Shock aligns the ions in the air and uses Nina and her target (Or whatever she happens to hit) as a conduit, effectively creating a very low voltage bolt of lightning between her and the impact object. The more energy she puts into the bolt or the further the target, the harder it is to effectively aim. For example, if Nina were to shock someone playfully at two feet away, it would take very little energy and always hit, but it would also only feel like a minor static electricity discharge to the one hit by it. Her weakest shock discharge has a strength of 100 volts for 1/16 second, roughly the equivalent of someone barely grazing a fairly weak power socket. These hits feel like weak static electricity and are pretty much as damaging. If Nina were to fire at a target thirty feet away that she was extremely upset at, then there is only about a one in five chance that she will even hit the target, taking into account that she can only discharge one or at most two of her strongest shocks before passing out makes this a somewhat ineffective weapon. Her strongest arc that she can maintain fires at 1,000,000 volts for 5 seconds. This sound impressive but that really isn’t, it’s about like hitting someone with a weak stun gun for five seconds. While certainly surprising, it won’t do any real damage and would at most slow someone down or allow her time to get away before they recovered (Provided that she can hit them). Nina has been known to occasionally shock herself with that voltage accidentally and actually pass out from exhaustion. Shock looks almost exactly like a small, bright white bolt of lightning being emitted horizontally.
Nina’s so-called ‘spark’ ability is interesting. While it delivers less voltage than shock, it can be held for a much longer time. Spark essentially act like shock, but instead of arcing far away to an object, it uses Nina’s fingers as the conduit. Due to her ability to generate the electricity, she can essentially hold a small electric charge in her hands. Spark can be contacted with a person or object and as soon as something gets in the way of Nina’s fingers, the conduit is changed to arc between her fingers and what she is touching. This ability is somewhat damaging to Nina and something that she rarely uses aside from some instances of utility or intimidation. (Nina once used it to start a small campfire). When she holds her spark between her fingers, the electrical discharges with steadily burn her fingers if she holds it for long enough or does it frequently. This effect sounds very and looks very similar to a melee stun gun being fired in the air without being in contact with anything. If Nina were to spark at the full power of a shock, her hand would simply go numb instantly and stop the discharge, therefore she can hold her spark for a longer time, but she cannot use it at as high of a voltage. Her smallest spark is once again at 100 volts for 1/16 of a second which seems to be the lowest amount of electricity that she can emit in the shortest period of time. She can repeat a low power shock almost indefinitely until she gets tired or her hand becomes too numb. Her maximum power shock that she has managed to do was held for 14 seconds at a power of 300,000 volts. It could effectively make part of someone’s body go numb, but Nina must remain in contact with them to do it. She is much more likely to burn herself or pass out before any sort of harm is done.
Nina has discovered that she can use her spark power to briefly power some objects. She keeps a small bag of 24 volt light bulbs in a small satchel that she can power for a very brief time until they burn out from her higher voltage.
APPEARANCE Nina stands at an awe-inspiring, impressive and intimidating five foot and one inch tall. She weighs roughly 100 pounds with a very small build that is just starting to fill out from her entering her teenage years. She has very small shoulders, hands and feet and is generally just really small. Nina’s hair is very dark brown to the point of almost being black. It is cut to cover about a third of her face and goes down to her shoulder blades in the back. Her face is round and freckled with two very large blue eyes, only one of which you can usually see that look back at you.
She has no piercings but she does have tattoos that identify her as a member of the Galethren cult. They consists of minimalistic black wings drawn on her back. Parts of them can be seen poking out from the edges of her top. Nina’s hands have permanent burn marks on her finger tips from using spark too much or injuring herself from her time with the Galethren. Nina wears a pair of tight black pants, a short sleeve leather crop top shirt and no shoes. She has a gold bangle on her right wrist with a blue gem. This item appears to hold some sort of sentimental value to her and seems like something that someone of her caste and upbringing would not be able to obtain. Nina carries a purple satchel that seems to contain all the items she owns, it is usually full of light bulbs, paper, pens, a small glass ball that seems to be about half full of sand, and a small stash of funds and food.
PERSONALITY Nina is a selective mute. After her childhood at the hands of the Galethren, she simply stopped speaking and has not resumed even in the previous two years of freedom that she has had. She communicates instead with a complicated series of hand gestures, facial expressions, and by writing things down on scraps of paper that she keeps in her satchel. Nina is never a mean person but is distrustful of others at first. She has had very few friends in her life and while she will open up to those who are nice to her she is an introvert. Many would see Nina as something of a rude girl if they didn’t realize she is a mute. Those who know of this find that she communicates effectively in many other ways and has a very active interest in the world around her.
Despite her small stature, Nina has an abnormally high metabolic rate. This is furthered by her energy draining electrical abilities. This has made her develop the habit of eating small amount of food nearly all of the time. She is rarely found without a sandwich or some candy or some other portable and easy to eat food item. Nina is a very kind hearted girl and generally pretty selfless to the point of almost being self-deprecating. She will share and gift what little she has to other people in the hopes of being accepted by them once she gets past her initial shyness. Nina usually reacts to stressful situations with extreme caution. While she rarely runs away unless she is in apparent danger, Nina will always be the last one of a group to approach or interact with something that she doesn’t know.
Nina’s hobbies include a passion for mildly shocking people and then acting like it wasn’t her. She also loves to do anything to express herself due to her lack of speech. She finds solace in drawing on her scraps of paper when she isn’t using them for speech and she loves to listen to music. Nina would like to take up a musical instrument but has never had the chance to practice with one, much less own one. Music can sometimes make her sad and likes to listen to all different kinds. Sometimes when people bring up sore subjects such as her inability to control her power or family she also can become quite sad and even shyer than usual.
WEAKNESSES Nina has difficulty coming to others for help with solving difficult problems and will often mull over them or exhaust herself with unintentional electrical discharges until someone offers assistance. If it is offered she nearly always takes it but until then she will try to solve problems alone. The weaknesses of Nina’s powers include her burning of her own fingers, her inability to hit her targets or even damage them if she does, and her passing out from overexertion magically. Her metabolism is so high that Nina even is prone to passing out if she doesn’t eat enough or is somewhere that she can’t get food for a long period of time. This combined with her tendency to wander around alone can be a bad combination for her that has caused mischief in the past. Her powers randomly discharging when she gets emotional is also a big issue because she can occasionally hurt other people or herself without intending to. These unintended discharges have been known to happen when she’s happy but more often they do when she is sad, stressed, angry, or very hungry.
STRENGTHS Nina’s true strength lies in her tiny frame. No matter how much she eats she never can seem to gain weight. Her tiny size and light weight allow her to hide and sneak very effectively. Not to mention that she doesn’t speak, these combined can make her nearly invisible in the right circumstances if someone weren’t looking for a child. Nina is exceptionally quick for her age as well, coming from escaping from the abusive Galethren, most other things that make her need to move fast are child’s play. She is a quick runner and very agile, at least for her age of course. Nina is a smart girl and is patient, she will wait for an opportune moment rather than be in a rush. This caution has helped her many times and is what she attributes to ultimately saving her life when the Galethren Cult fell and she escaped to start a normal life.
HISTORY Nina was born on the largest island of an unnamed archipelago. This island chain was the home of the Galethren Cult. From her earliest memory she was separated from the other children born there. Due to the large number of cultists (This island chain boasted a Galethren town and two small villages) the children were not raised by their parents but instead by groups of senior cultists. The simple ways of this cult were belied by their cruel ways of trying to bring about the end of the world and have a utopia that only they could live in even though they had absolutely no way to accomplish this goal. To keep their members pious and in line, they claimed to be doing the right thing when they abused Nina, saying that she was the harbinger of their salvation and that she would bring abound the end times. The cult inflicted physical pain and hunger on her in an attempt to increase her powers dramatically. Confused by this and not understanding why she was treated so badly, Nina retreated into her introverted shell and quit speaking. She was still taught like the other children, mostly in the ways of how to live, read, write and the staples of a basic education, hoping that if Nina weren’t their messiah that she could at least be an active and intelligent member of the cult.
During the short trip from one Galethren village to another, the boat transporting her was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island of the chain. The cultists all died in the wreck and only Nina survived. She met another man on the island who had also been caught in the same storm that had ruined her own vessel. The man, going by the name of Mah’lek was a Thief Lord from a far away land, turned into a messiah for the poor and needy. Mah’lek took Nina under his protection (While grappling desperately with his own personal issues with his own estranged daughter). Mah’lek and Nina explored and survived together for a time and eventually learned to effectively communicate. Mah’lek became easily able to translate for Nina and could easily understand the shy girl. Nina did not tell Mah’lek about the Galethren but he slowly figured out her past as he found other clues to the nearby cult. After uniting with several other survivors from various shipwrecks of the massive storm, Nina would join a group led by Mah’lek and a man named Kas’ralin to topple the doomsday cult.
Mah’lek was the only true father figure Nina had ever had and really her only true friend. After they brought the Galethren to its knees, Kas’ralin and Mah’lek parted ways. Mah’lek then gave one of his bangles to Nina and told her to hang on to it for him. He also told her that if she ever needed him that she could contact him though the magical glass ball full of sand and that he would come to her aid, wherever she was in the world. He then left her with the hopes that she would live a normal life and that he could somehow restore his own and atone for past mistakes, something Mah’lek knew he had to do alone.
Nina felt drawn to a place where she could learn to use her powers in a constructive and safe environment and found Foresta Academy where she hopes to enroll. Not to mention the island habitat is familiar to her.
IN CHARACTER SAMPLE Nina waves a short wave and gives a shy smile before grabbing a candy bar out of her tote and starting to munch on it* This girl had been to Foresta and even enrolled for a brief time nearly a year ago, it was between semesters and there was little happening, so she left to wander around the world. Something about this place always did appeal to her though and now she has returned to take up her studies once again. At least that is what you can tell from her shy smiles, complicated series of hand gestures, and finally short notes that she writes and hands you.
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Post by Seren on Feb 1, 2017 12:26:47 GMT -5
Accepted into Lyra!
Welcome to Foresta Academy.
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