Basic InformationName: Ava Singh
Nickname/Alias/Etc: N/A
Gender: Genetically: Female
Biologically: Varies
Age: 23
Height: 5’6”
Weight: 120 lbs
Home District: Central Valley
Appearance Hair Color:Black
Eye Color:Hazel; inner ring of iris is green, outer rings is a light brown.
Ethnicity:Half Indo Caribbean, Half Egyptian, with diluted Latino and African ancestry from her Caribbean father.
Physical Appearance:Naturally, Ava is extremely racially ambiguous, though not to the point where she would ever be mistaken, for, for example, Caucasian (though a few have asked her if she was Italian). Her skin tone is a nice, smooth, light tan in color; sometimes her cheeks appear to be lightly freckled. This freckling is the result of a personal preference, and is Ava manipulating the pigmentation of her skin to produce the effect. Naturally, however, her skin is relatively freckle free, though she does have one or two moles.
Her hair is jet black, and she has shaved sides, with short, sweeping bangs.
Ava has medium sized, but pronounced and perky lips, and a thin, elegant, feminine face that tapers down to a cute nub of a chin.
Her soft, almond eyes are a green and brown hazel, wherein the inner rings of her eyes are a pronounced light army green, and the outer rings are a soft, rich brown that is pleasant to look at. She is very medium. Medium nose, round and button like; medium eyes, though startling in color; medium boobs, and a medium butt.
She is average in height, and walks with confidence, though the confidence may, at times, be feigned. Her face is usually soft and friendly, and all together attractive enough to instill some sense of calm in the people around her. She's got one of those faces that make people want to smile, and it's not unusual for strangers to randomly look at her and smile (both decent strangers, and creeps).
Because of her powers, Ava's physical appearance is subject to change. It should be noted, however, that this appearance is her 'true' form, so to speak. She was born this way, and genetically, these are the features that her unaltered genes naturally express.
Ava has tattoos, and they're all fake, and all pigment manipulated. These tattoos vary in design, and vary in location in her body. There have been days where she's been covered from head to toe in tattoos, and other days where she's been blank as can be, a clean slate for tattoo artist.
Attire: Ava likes to roll in style. She's not very hipster; her exotic looks and choice of clothing are often reminiscent of models. She did have that one aesthetic punk phase, but she's since moved past that. Because she has a job, she can still often be seen in more official type clothes.
PersonalityInnate & Outward Personality:Like many people, there are two sides to Ava's coin. Ava, in the years leading up to the present, has often worked varying jobs, requiring different skills, under the guises of a multitude of self-created characters. As a result, she's developed a few ways of dealing with people that may make her personality insanely difficult to decipher.
The real Ava is smart, gentle, laid back, and sweet-tempered. Overall, this Ava is rather attractive, both in appearance and personality. This Ava shines best when she is with her trusted friends. Ava believes strongly the power of relationships, be it romantic or platonic, and so, with those she views as being 'close' to, she is extremely kind, gentle, caring, and loving. She will go out of her way to help these people in whatever way she can, even taking time out of her own personal time to attend to the needs of those she truly feels close with. Because she has such a laid-back personality, her friends enjoy hanging around with her. She provides a sense of familiarity and comfort to those whose bonds are the strongest with her. In turn, she tends to feel the same away about those people, believing they provide her with the same things she offers them.
A multitude of jobs and romantic interests of a variety of genders and backgrounds has turned Ava into quite the charmer. What she does is fish people in; she compliments them and makes them feel good, and when the time is right, she captures them. Ava considers this charm to be...modifiable. She's apt at adjusting her flirtatious compliments to suit the liking of whoever she's trying to attract, but this talent doesn't usually shine unless Ava is on the job at the strip club, where pretending to be interested in somebody is a big pro. Because she is quite the successful flirt, Ava has gained an insane amount of confidence. This confidence shows in the way she carries herself, and the way she addresses people. She's not afraid to approach people, and, so long as it isn't in a creepy way, loves to be flattered by people approaching her.
Ava while outwardly friendly, has a very neutral way of viewing others; she tries to figure you out first, and if she can't, things tend to stay relatively cool between herself and the object of her fascination.
Ava runs an in between appearance that makes her attractive and popular with queer woman. Her appearance itself is an amalgamations of characteristics not often put together; her pretty, feminine features, mixed with her relatively punky hairstyle, and her charming personality, but sometimes tomboyish nature, can make her a "chick magnet," so to speak. It's funny, in her opinion, but she feels her haircut has a lot to do with the perceived image of her not quite falling into the butch or femme categories. The reality of it is, she's quite feminine, and prior to cutting her hair, was your regular ole' basic fem girl. The haircut, man, the haircut does wonders.
Ava would call herself a "lowkey" tomboy. Her interests as a child laid in playing with dinosaurs, and remote controlled cars, and video games, and, while she doesn't often pick up the remote of a console anymore, those experiences have molded a part of her personality that's geared towards the rough and tumble parts of life.
Because she is so integrally apart of a scene where strippers and prostitutes are common (and commonly harassed), Ava's personality has been shaped by the experiences she had with these women, and the experiences they've had and shared with her. She can be highly defensive of these women, and highly defensive of women in general. She's seen prostitute moms tough it out on their on, working a job they know they're hated for just to put dinner on the table. She's seen women get harassed, and worse has happened to girls on the street, some of whom she has known.
Ava does have a bit of an independent streak. While she may, at times, view it as her duty to check up on those women and friends she cares about, she does not often believe the reverse situation is required. That is, while she appreciates, she doesn't like the idea of friends and family stressing out over her well-being. Part of it is consideration. She just doesn't want people stressing out over her problems. But part of it is stubborn independence, bred by her parents divorce. Ava, for the latter part of her young life, has grown up believing she can live without her parents. And lucky for her, she's been successful enough in her endeavors not to depend on them too much. But this success has made her proud and aloof in regards to her independence, to the point that she might not pick up the phone if she thinks you're checking up on her too much.
She lives by a "myself and my loved ones" kind of code of conduct, where she judges situations based on the morality and level of relationship she has with the people involved. While she will certainly not stand for deplorable things happening to people, including people she doesn't like, if she has no choice, or feels it would needlessly put her, of the lives of her loved ones, in danger, she tends to abandon the situation. This often throws her into conflict, as she has a relatively 'good' moral compass. She's just trying to take the most logical route, and if that route says she's gotta let things be, that there is no other option, she'll let things be. But rest assured, she will look for the other option, and she'll look hard, before she gives up.
Hobbies/Interests:Most prominently, Ava sculpts and draws. These hobbies help to refine the creation of the many personas she has made for herself, some of which are in use, others of which remain dormant. Those she reserves for what she believes to be the inevitable perfect future opportunities. It can be a little unsettling for some to enter the sculpture room, where most of Ava's sculptures reside. The detail and realism can throw people off, though Ava finds them to be quite beautiful. The characters personalities are often reflected in the positions they are sculpted in, and the faces they are making. Little details are usually scribble on hastily painted outlines.
Skills/Talents: - Drawing
- Sculpting
- Writing
- Impersonation/Acting
Ava was born to what some would call an oddball family. Both her parents were standouts in the backgrounds they came from. Her father, a mostly Indo-Caribbean man with some Latino and African ancestry, was the first of his brood of siblings to strike out from their cozy home in the Caribbean and attempt to make a living within the star spangled borders of the United States of America. He earned the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in business in his home country, then migrated to America, and went on to become a seven day taxi driver. Here was the point in his life at which he lost most of his faith, and stoutly turned his back on religion. He has, subsequently, only rarely returned to the Caribbean, and Ava is unfamiliar with most of her relatives.
Ava's mother, Aaina, a, at the time and the age, relatively attractive Egyptian woman ran away from her parents. Having lost her faith much earlier than her husband (and coming from an Islamic background), Ava's mother hailed from a strict and abusive family. Her choices within Egypt were limited, and, at her first chance, she fled her home country. What Ava's parents had in common was nothing; what Ava's mother desires was a greencard. And what Ava's depressed, sex deprived father desired was a companion.
Cue their marriage and welcome into the world, Ava, firstborn of the Singh family.
Ava expressed her powers from a very early age. They're assumed by her parents to have manifested around the age of five, where her two siblings would often been the suspicious culprits of all, if not, most, of Ava's crimes. Her ability to change the structure of her appearance was clearly an innate and complicated one; so complicated, it seems almost unfeasible for a baby, as Ava was, to be capable of executing such meticulous changes in appearance. And yet she did; she similarly displayed a high level of cunning (not unusual for children at that age), and was quick to peg off self-created problems on her sisters.
Of course, she eventually grew out of this (for a brief period of time), with her parents stern and meticulous reprimanding of her wrongs. Ava was almost immediately enrolled into The Academy Program, which she, for the most part, loathed. Which, was not unusual. She found other students to sympathize with, other students, who, like her, disdained being enrolled in a program where their difference from the rest of the world was so highly emphasized. And so began Ava's desire to prove her good behavior to her parents.
It took years. And entire chunk of her childhood flew by within the Program. Of course, that isn't to say she hated every second of every minutes she was enrolled in what she called the Academy of freaks. There were the good days and the bad days, the ups and the downs. Ava, as any other normally social child is prone to do, made friends, established strong bonds, grew up with people to hang out with and have fun. It's just, the latent desire to attend 'regular' school stayed with her for most of this period.
Ava transferred to a regular public school when she would have been in her second year of high school. Her parents had deemed her behavior controllable enough that they had less of a fear of her wielding her powers for ungodly reasons. Public high school was a defining period in Ava's life. While she had been exposed to all sorts of characters previously, high school was where her adult personality developed, molded by friends, foes, and experiences.
Ava had been relatively aromantic as a child. "Crushes" for some reason, had just not been an integral part of twelve year old Ava's life. Fast forward to high school Ava, and crushes seemed to change her world forever. Ava's sexuality bloomed, for one reason or another, in high school. She had her first male crush, and then subsequently discovered she was bisexual with a female crush that just would not go away. Her bisexuality marks a pointedly depressed phase in her life, where she often came into internal conflict with herself about what was 'right' and 'wrong'.
Ava proceeded to then be a very average student in school, having to juggle with her, her oddball sexuality, the pressure of classes, and the strain of what seemed to be her parents impending divorce. It was at this point of her life that Ava, for the first time, clearly saw the discordance in her parents relationship. The strained effort that went into them getting along with each other, the frequent fights, and weeks of a lack of communications.
Ava's parents relationship problems culminated in a divorce, which ripped her family apart. She end up in primary custody of her mother; occasionally, she and her siblings would spend weekends with her father. She counts it as one of the most stressful period of her life.
Seventeen year old, Ava, however, didn't retreat into a shell. Here marks the somewhat punk, somewhat wild, phase of her life. She became a jack of all trades, using her powers in less than positive ways. She went drinking when she really shouldn't have, and slept with good looking and decent men who would have freaked the fuck out had they known the age of the girl they were sleeping with. She spend a copious amount of time in the Las Palmas Strip, becoming familiar with its people and its culture. She also developed strong, strong bonds with other girls, bonds whose effect are prevalent on her life today.
Senior year of high school, she cleaned her act up as best as possible. Maintaining a continuously average grade, and graduating at the median of her class, Ava considered returning to the Academy to pursue a college education there. It certainly seemed easier, more relaxing, for tired Ava, who was quickly coming upon the full swing of stressful, young adulthood.
Ava pursued a double major in Art and English. Her powers had imparted on her and liking for creativity, and besides that, those had been the fields she excelled in. She choose to attend school at the Academy, but pursued a social life outside of the Program, opting to pursue mostly non-meta relationships. She toyed with polygamy, and while settling with preference for monogamous pairings, has been known to engage in occasional multi-people relationships.
She lives a double life. She works as an editor for the local newspaper (not what she thought she would be), and is slowly building her way up in her job. On the flip coin, she works as a stripper for a club in Las Palmas Strip. The stripper is under the guise of a completely different appearance and name, effectively keeping both her identities separate and without conflict.
Due to the location of her less "decent" job, Ava has had plenty of encounters with the local prostitutes, and fellow strippers, all of whom she tends to look upon with affection.
RelationshipsFamily: Aaina Singh - Her mother.
Ram Sing - Her father.
Olivia Sing - Middle sibling, twenty years old.
Sarish Singh - Youngest siblings, seventeen years old.
Dynamics:WILL BE CHANGED AS RP GOES ON/RPERS APPROACH ME
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AbilitiesPower Class:Super-System
Biological
Power: Ava's power are...complicated. At its surface, the most basic explanation of Ava's powers is the ability to change her appearance, within the realm of relatively humanoid features. For instance, Ava cannot so extremely morph the anatomy of her skeleton to say, turn into a wolf, or panther. She can grow an unseemly amount of hair (and, inversely, become hairless), but she cannot change too extremely the basic anatomy of her body. Ava can mess with the expression of her genes, though not with her basic makeup. She can change and maintain the form of something else; she is able to imitate the form of another person (but must have meticulous references of them to get a person down perfectly), and conversely is able to create her own human, from features she chooses to mix. These self-created works of art are sculpted by her imagination, and are often times much easier for her to remember than the imitation of another human being. She is able to manipulate the melanin levels of her skin, resulting in the ability to change the pigmentation of her skin.
She can also, to a very limited point, change the function, or form of some of her body parts. She can create half-formed claws, though the proteins are distinctly different from those found in animals with claws, and therefore make her claws less durable than those found within animals to whom claws are natural. She can manipulate her reproductive organs, and create an imitation of the male reproductive system. She can produce gills, and to some extend, webbed feet. However, the function of either is...negligible, since at any given time, they're prone to not working. The more distant she get from basic mammal or human features, the more difficult it becomes for her to manipulate the ones she has. She can also change the shape of her teeth, though she claims this to be one of the most painful of all things to transform.
Limits:Everything is in percentages. Her body has a natural limit to the amount of cells it can produce and support; she can add on additional cells, but the production is limited to the addition of 60% of the cells presently has. (so for instance, her body can be composed 160% cells). Beyond that stresses her body, and the farther you get, the more she risks ashing.
Ava has to become fit through hard work; she's had to do her own body building. She cannot, with her biological manipulation, produce a body that is more muscular than the one she already has. When taking on the guise of a male, her cells can only produce the male equivalent of the percentage of the muscle mass she had as a female. During these psuedo male transformations, her testosterone is pumped up, she gets a minuscule amount of added muscle mass. This can make it difficult to impersonate people that are too much bigger (in either wide or height) than she is.
Her manipulations are not perfect, except for those self-created ones, and even then, she may mess. As previously mentioned, in order to form a near exact replicate of another human, she must have meticulous references of them. So for instance, while the picture of a person's face may allow her to mimic their face, she would not be able to more perfectly mimic, for example, their body type, or any markings, or the shape of their genitalia, or the elegance (or lack of elegance) of their hands, without seeing images of those body parts. Furthermore, images can only help her produce approximate look alikes. 3d models are the most helpful in these cases; however, those are difficult to come by. Concerning her self-made creations, the various sculptures she's created help to keep those creations as perfect as she can get them to be.
Weaknesses/Drawbacks: The greatest weakness to Ava's power is the amount of pain she experiences during transformations. This pain can vary with the extent of the transformation. For instance, the changing of pigment color is usually not painful. But the reorganizing of facial bone structures can cause her a significant amount of pain, and full body transformation can be cringe worth depending on the extent that the body's cells are multiplying. The most painful things are teeth, and a transformation into a more masculine body. This varying severity of the pain often make Ava restrict her transformations to private rooms, where people cannot take her by surprise.
