Penelope "Penny" Copper | 16 ("And 3/4's!")| Female

Appearance:
Penny stands at 5'1, and weighs a whopping 110 pound. Needless to say, she's thin. Her skin is rather pale, due to being half-Irish and half-German. She has soft, red hair that reaches near her elbows. She has a thin face with a slightly rounded chin. She has a few freckles on her cheeks. Her eyes are electric blue, but she is almost always seen wearing dark, red-tinted sunglasses that help her see better.

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Powers:

Superhumans Senses:
- Penny can see, hear, smell, and taste far beyond what other humans can imagine. Her ears are stronger than a bat's, nose stronger than a basset hound, eyes stronger than an eagle, and taste stronger than... something that tastes really well...

Weaknesses/Limitations:

- Hearing: Penny can hear, in extreme focus, up to 80 KHz (80,000 Hertz - In comparison to a bat's 78,000 Hertz), but she regularly functions at about 30 KHz (30,000 Hertz - Humans are limited to 20,000 Hertz). Due to this sensitivity, Penny can be overloaded by enough Hertz hitting her eardrums.

- Sight: Penny's eyes have what could be referred to as a "zoom feature." She can focus her vision to magnify things far away into what would feel to a normal human as 20/20 vision. The limit to which she can "zoom" is almost a mile and a half. Her eyes also perceive light and color far more vividly than humans. Due to this fact, she constantly wears red-tinted sunglasses that absorb much of the light. Her vision can be overstimulated and she can be dazed if a large amount of light is shone on her.

- Smell: While the sense of smell has no measurable unit, Penny's smell can be explained by comparison. A basset hound can pick up someone's scent, even if it is days old. She can single out a certain smell amongst an array of scents, and she can track it for days at a time. When she memorizes a certain smells, it becomes engraved into her brain until she makes an effort to release it. While the overload of smells is non-existent, foul smells make Penny vomit much faster than humans.

- Taste: Similar to the sense of smell, taste has no unit of measurement. However, to put it into perspective, the human tongue has around 10,000 tastebuds. Penny has almost 20,000. If a human were to eat a square of chocolate, their brain would emit a spray of a chemical called dopamine, which gives you a natural high. Penny, however, experiences a double-amount of dopamine when she tastes something good. Likewise her gag reflex is far more susceptible to bad tasting things.

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Personality:

Penny is very understand and empathetic, and therefore takes things with a large amount of patience. Since she can hear people's heartbeats and breathing patterns, she can tell when someone is frustrated, shy, scared, etch. Due to this, she doesn't easily get offended by others. Her patience however, is limited to how much she trusts a person. She can often be very skeptic, since her ears are a built in lie detector.

In her elementary and middle school years, she was bullied, so she has a soft spot for anyone being taken advantage of. Since she has become a confident person, she often stands up for people that are in need.

Due to her advanced senses, she has a superhuman case of ADHD, so she is often a little bit hyper, however she can understand when the time comes to settle down.

Backstory:

Penny grew up in Western Europe, the twelfth daughter of James (an Irish business man) and Anna (a German accountant) Copper, who thought it would be funny to name her based off of the metal copper (which pennies are made from). As the youngest of eleven children, Penelope early learned that siblings were horrible creatures. She learned quickly to label her things and claim what she wanted, less it be stolen by one of her significantly larger brothers.

While her father stood at 6'5, and most of her brothers near him, she and her only sister both stood on the lower end with their mother, and received a plethora of short jokes and dwarf comments. Her ninth brother, a particularly snotty little brat named Ben, often teased her by calling her a genetic malfunction (jokingly of course, since they had no prior knowledge of her malfunction).

Despite the rivalries between a dozen siblings, Penny understands the bond of family better than most people ever will. This lead to much protest (verbal, and physical) from some of her older, larger-than-most brothers, when she was taken away to TEF-149.

Growing up, Penny had always wanted to be a police officer and help people, just like her oldest brother did. When she was taken because of her malfunction, she came to the realization that she would be forced into the role, but it wouldn't be the job she wanted. Penny has a deep-seated hatred for the government, but understands why civilians fear them. She hates the government for using such untrue propaganda against Mals, leading the public to fear and despise them.

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Talents/Skills:

- Penny started playing guitar when she was 5, and she had become an exceptional player by 15. Her sister and brothers all play instruments as well, and they almost started a family band.
- She grew up doing gymnastics and acrobatics, so she is very flexible and athletic. Due to her hypersensitivity, she is super-aware of her surrounding, giving her literally superhuman reflexes. (Think of Daredevil, but better, though highly more susceptible to overloading.)

Quirks/Habits/Other:

- Penny, despite being thin, loves food, since the taste is twice as pleasurable to her.
- Due to her ADHD, she is mildly sporadic and tends to be very fun to be around.
- Penelope hates Cats. They poop everywhere and smell awful. End of Story.

TL/DR:

Penelope is a 16(and 3/4's) year old from a family of twelve children. Her malfunction enables her with unimaginably strong senses. She is fun, sporadic, and very kind, though she tends to be skeptic of people at first glance.

Appearance:
Nik is 5’6” and is average. The type of girl easily lost in a crowd, the type of face no one would remember easily. The only things a person might remember are her eyes. Two orbs that are pale blue almost to the point of being white. Her hair is long, shocking tumble of black and white, that she tries to keep in a ponytail but ends up always coming loose. Nikki’s clothes are black or dark blue nearly all the time, the only colour she sports is a white and blue scarf. Lightweight black canvas shoes are her main go to choice of footwear. She has two small tattoos on the back of her hands that look like swirling whirlpools of black and white. The black comes from ink; the white comes from the paleness of her skin which makes her look like she has been painted white. Her body is lean and skinny, a side effect of the energy needed to use her powers, and there’s nothing much except for muscle. Normally her face is a blank, bored look and she just stares at everything rarely blinking. She speaks with a British accent.

Powers:
Light and Dark
Nik has the power to control Light and Darkness. Her body to emit light from a dull glow to an overwhelming light similar to a floodlight. She can also absorb light, darkening the room till no one but she can see. For now the power is limited to her or if she is touching someone for a long time she can affect their vision, making it so they can or can’t see. If she tries very hard she can make herself invisible by bending the light around her but this uses a lot of energy and normally causes her to blackout. Producing light from her body can heat the overall area due to energy transfer (this is physics but im sure you all don’t want me to write about physics in a RP)

Weaknesses/Limitations: Autistic:
Nik doesn’t like people. She doesn’t like touching them, she doesn’t like being around them, she doesn’t like hearing them. When she gets touched by an unfamiliar person she will freak out and panic, if someone talks to her she will not speak or give them a one-word answer. She also is always fidgeting, playing with anything to keep her occupied. This sometimes makes it hard for her to concentrate as she has the attention span of a child. Emotionally she has the range of a teaspoon and struggles with what to show. Nik also has to eat a large amount of food and sleep a lot. Using her powers takes a large amount of energy and this causes her to blackout, a lot. Also prone to nightmares the only time a loud sound will escape her lips is when she starts screaming during the night.

Progress:

Personality:
Nik is quiet and an introvert. She’s smart but you would never guess it. If you were to look for her in a crowd check the back corners and you’ll normally find her watching people, plotting the best way to leave the crowd. She never had any friends growing up so trust doesn’t come easily to her. She is paranoid and always thinks there’s a double meaning, even in a simple “hi”. Her blank face mirrors her emotions so it is always hard to determine what she is thinking/feeling. But she is inquisitive. Her eyes will always be watching, observing and picking up information that she sorts in her mind but she will look like she is bored out of her mind.

Backstory:
Nik is the child of Mr and Mrs Averson. A wealthy English couple that cared only about business. The two of them started working in a company and soon rose to positions of power. When they married they teamed up and somehow became a big influence on the company, gaining seats of power. When they conceived Nik it was from the getting drunk at a party congratulating them about taking over two companies. Even when Nik was about to be born her mother was working, right until the point she went into labour. Even after she was born her own mother went back to work three days later. Her parents didn’t really give her much attention; they could pay people to do that after all. Born in 2006 she grew up in England for 14 years before moving to America.

The Company expanded its reach and soon Nik’s father was in charge of manufacturing weapons. The weapons in the Guards hands, the weapons people used to hunt Mals. Yeah, probably created by her father’s division. Her mother’s division was now the building and development of scientific labs and research into Mals and how to cure them, hide them or eradicate them. The force field around TEF-149, probably created by her mother’s division. Her parents were against Mals absolutely. They thought them an abomination that should be exterminated.

Nik grew up alone, the maids and butlers her only interaction with the world. Other than that she roamed the big family mansion, reading the various books in the library. Her tutor was the only one she really connected to but only then it was still and complicated connection. The tutor was great, they would have discussions about different topics, he would show her cool tricks like how to pick locks, and how to pick someone’s pocket. He was the only person she would talk freely to. It was her tutor that gave her the scarf she holds onto dearly. It was all going great and Nikki was showing signs of improvement in her social skills then her father learnt that the tutor was a sympathiser for Mals and promptly fired him. Nik was alone once more. The new tutor she got was much less friendly and much more boring.

She rarely saw her parents, and even rarer still saw other people. Only at parties her parents threw to impress others. She was expected to be there, the perfect child but she hated the noise that people created. When she could she would slip away or lurk in the background. Bored, alone and unable to express her emotions she took to using what her old tutor taught her and started stealing small things from around the house, from guests, even from the servants to liven her days up. Online she would learn about various topics, much more than her new tutor could teach her.

Then her parents had to move. She had spent fourteen years in England, at the family home but she didn’t care a bit. They moved to New York, into a large expensive apartment. The only time she showed any emotion during the move was when her parents told her she would be going to the local private school. She thought not having a tutor would be great and then she entered school. Large halls filled with people, Teachers that called on her. She hated it. She would slip out of school as much as possible and roam around the city. She had a bigger selection of people to take things from now and she grew her skills in pickpocketing.

It was a few days after her 15th birthday, 7 months before the Test that her powers developed and matured. It started when the power went out in her house. She was in her room, alone luckily, when her body started to glow. Freaking out she hid under the covers hoping it was the light coming through her windows, it wasn’t. She knew she would be Tested, she knew she would be found. She didn’t tell her parents, she knew they would just ship her off to a Training Camp earlier. Her powers started sporadically, occasionally flaring up. She got curious at what her powers could do. She started trying to control them, testing them and even trying to make them stronger.

On the day of the Test she was driven to school. While normally all the kids would be happy and talkative Nikki saw that it was grim silence that everyone showed that day. Uniform-clad guards stood silent and unmoving at the entrances. It was the one time Nik saw parents waiting at the gate after dropping off their children. She had already resigned to the fact she would be taken, she had even left a note should her parents even bother checking her room. It wasn’t much of a surprise when she came positive straight away.

Talents/Skills:
Picking: Locks, pockets, information. Nik has quick hands and an inquisitive mind. Because of her silence and ability to remain in the background she picks up information due to the fact people don’t realise she’s there.
Silence: she can be as silent as a ghost, and is most of the time. This allows her to get close to places and people without anyone realising she’s there, not that she’d want to get close to people.
Memory: Her mind is like a computer, she can remember the smallest thing and recall it quickly. She picks up new information and stores it away in her mind.

Quirks/Habits/Other: She chews her own hair. Swirls her finger over her tattoos a lot and strokes her scarf a lot. Anything to keep her mind occupied

TL/DR: An autistic girl that can control light and dark.