Lol, @Argetlam350, she actually does have one on her shoulder! Well, more like between her shoulder blades, it's a fancy rendition of the Delacroix family crest (the modernized version of her last name, but the same family line). She also has an intricate fleur de lis just above her left hip bone.
Avra stands about five feet tall. Sheโs wiry and muscular. As the image indicates, she has circuitry implanted under her skin; her eyes are heterochromic thanks to the implants, the โcamera lensโ eye a pale silver, while the other is the natural rainstorm-gray color.
Species: Humanโฆ?
Sexual Preference: Heterosexual
Likes: Rewatching memories, traveling through time, sweet foods
Dislikes: Paperwork, her former job, paperwork, the concept of being tied to a time and soulmate, contemplating how terribly sheโs screwed up the space-time continuum.
Bio:
Avra was born on the 9th of April, 2654, aboard the Utopia, an internationally-funded space travel vessel. She was one of the first children born on-board, just two months after the launch from the international space station. She was also an oddity in that the date on her wrist was actually well before the date which she was born; something that had never happened before, as far as the experts knew.
She didnโt understand it for a while, until a few days after her twelfth birthday. Sheโd gotten into an argument with her best friend, an argument that lasted for several weeks. She wished that she could be anywhere else but there, forced to live with the tension, and she felt somethingโฆ shift, inside her.
When she opened her eyes from that she was on a dusty cobble streetโreal cobble. With a real sky, not a hologram, over her head. She looked up, and barely missed being hit by a horse-drawn carriage. With a start, she realized she must have been either dreaming, or somewhere not on the Utopia at allโฆ the thought scared her so badly that again she felt the shift in her gut and found herself kneeling in the middle of one of the hallways on board the Utopia.
Sheโd always wanted body modifications, despite her parentโs wishes. After this experience, it made her all the more determined to get some mods put in: a camera lens in her left eye and a plethora of sensors woven through her body, recording her thoughts, emotions, and also what she physically experienced; things like air temperature, composition, that sort of thing.
For a while, the only way she could do the โShiftโ, as she called it, was when there was some sort of emotional stimulus, like a fight or in moments of intense excitement. She gradually got better at it, to the point where she could Shift โon commandโ and control where and when she ended up. She started using her Shift ability to correct some misconceptions about history; being a first-person observer was certainly helpful. She found that she could only Shift back, never forward, from โpresent dayโ. Also, she was never able to interact with people; indeed, theyโd walk through her like she wasnโt there. She was truly an observer, unable to alter fate.
Then came the Day. The day that she couldnโt Shift back. She had gone to the place known as New York City, to the years of such primitive technology as iPhones and โsmartโcars. While she was there, she felt a horrible moment of disorientation, as though she had suddenly lost something important, and a feeling of emptiness, and then someone actually noticed her presence and started a conversation.
In a panic, Avra tried to Shift back to her home time, to find that she couldnโt. The reason was some esoteric metaphysical principle where the Utopia, having finally turned on the thrusters and accelerated past lightspeed, had separated from the linear course of time, and had thus separated from Avraโs ability to Shift.
She can still shift back further in time, but becomes intangible again. She cannot, for whatever reason, shift back to a time between where she is in New York and her time on the Utopia. Itโs as though some string of time finally snapped, and now sheโs somewhat stuck. Also, if she Shifts back now, people start worrying because she "disappears" for however long she stays in the other time.
Her technology still works, for whatever reason. Sona, her holo-pet, still records all the memory dumps from her camera and body sensor implants, and is still working well because it is solar-powered. Her tech does get some weird looks from people of the city, though.
As far as her mark, she seems unable to Shift to the date on which sheโs supposed to meet her โsoulmateโ and sheโs often too impatient to stay in one time for more than an hour or two. Though thatโs changed now that sheโs โstuckโ in NYCโฆ
(Former) Occupation: Historical Records Department, Observation Expert, Security Level 1. Erm, she helped ensure that the Utopiaโs Earth History textbooks are kept accurate, by going back through time to watch Earthโs development and ensure that the textbooks are accurate.
Country of Origin: The international grounds of the Utopiaโฆ er, she was raised in a Common-speaking householdโฆ Just call it โAmericaโ I guess.
Feelings about meeting their soul mate: Nervous and somewhat disgusted that she'll be confined to a time for good, lest she constantly go "missing".
She sounds really cool, and well-developed. I'm both impressed and excited to see how her story will continue, accepted!
Also, the implants and tech she has reminds me of the tabletop roleplaying game I play called Shadowrun, I don't know if you've played that, but it sounds like you might like it!
Please post all characters that I have accepted into the characters section, that way it is all neat and organized if potential new folks come along. If you made a second character, they should be edited into the post with your first character.
Everyone should have received a PM by now stating their character(s)' soul mate. If you want to keep it a secret until they meet in character, that is fine with me, but once they do meet in character, please update your character sheet with who your character's soul mate is (again, so it is nice and organized for newcomers).
We are still waiting for an intro post from @Teddiplier, @TheWildBunnii, @Urukhai, and now @RomanAria, and I believe that is all? I will be waiting until everyone has posted an intro post until I post again, but that doesn't mean everyone else has to. All I ask is that you don't rush it too much until everyone has posted an intro post, because I don't want people dropping because they feel left out. That being said, once everyone has posted, its fair game. I don't care how much people post in a day, because I prefer a fast-paced RP, but in an ideal world everyone should post at least once a day.
As always, if you have any questions, you can ask me on here or through a PM. The same probably goes for my co-GM, @Musoka, do you have anything to add?
