Nakala Lenora Phillips

N/A

Female

18

Nakala, as much as she hates the concept, usually draws attention to herself the very minute she walks into a room for a variety of reasons. For starters, the fact that she's tall. She has inherited her height from her mother - along with a variety of other things. She stands tall even above the boys at six-three and even has a deeper than average voice. Along with the fact that she's a bit more muscular than average, she can be quite intimidating. The girl carries herself with weight and confidence and makes every action of her matter. What sucks for her is that she's nowhere near as feminine as she wishes she was. However the girl is curvy, and she still hits the gym and her time in the dance studio has done wonders for her. Usually, she has her hand on her hips or her waist as she walks. The girl is African-American and proud of it, she has extremely dark skin, thick lips, and afro-textured hair that she keeps in dreads.

Nakala is a very strong-willed and determined human being. She takes a lot after her mother and the way that she was raised, and she was raised to be a strong woman, full of spirit that takes nothing from nothing. However, one difference that she has from her mother is that she has far better social skills, and is not ridiculously prideful as she was. Nakala herself is a very caring and loving human being who sometimes lets her pride cloud her judgment at times. Nakala herself only focuses on what's in front of her and hardly has time for distractions. She's less concerned with putting on fronts as she is with her immediate friend group and advancing herself. So rarely you'll see Nakala drawing unnecessary attention to herself or dressing flashy. However that isn't to say the girl is completely anti-social, she's perfectly fine talking to people. However, Nakala is extremely impatient and at times and that lead to her saying and doing things that alienate herself from friends.

Nakala's mother was quite interesting, her name was Michelle Gallus and she was a Floridian woman born in Tampa that, after manifesting at a young age drifted into the woods. After a few weeks, she was picked up by a traveling circus which she lived with for a while until she went to academy 002, and eventually joined KINGFISHER in its prime. She took the callsign, Scary Monster, and preformed numerous raids against the likes of REAPER and other Metahuman threats. On the side, she met a man named Bryan Phillips and the two eloped, got married and soon enough Nakala was born. Bryan wasn't anything impressive, he owned an auto-garage, while Michelle worked as pretty much the primary breadwinner. There a slight bit of tension between the two because Michelle was more or less making way more than Bryan.

Well, Nakala was born and raised in Black Fall, Pennslyvania. She wasn't the overtly social kind of gal at first, she kept to herself growing up. Her mother taught her how to be independent of a young age, and taught her how dangerous the world was and how tough she had to be. She taught her skills she needed to be self-sufficient, including socially. Often the girl was responsible for getting herself to and from school and staying home by herself until one of the Phillips got one. However, she had one friend that she stuck through from kindergarten onwards; Olivia Clarke. This girl was her best friend and the two had more experiences together than anyone else because the two were inseparable. Nakala, throughout school, made friends with many people from Black Fall, most notably Amanda Blackmore. This was enough for Nakala, personally, but she found herself making more friends incidentally by taking up her interest in dancing. It, at first, was an after school thing eventually it evolved into a passion. She became so skilled at dancing throughout her younger years that it became a competitive thing for her - even going to different cities for the weekend just to compete!

Soon enough, Olivia manifested a type-blue power. It was the ability that gave her instinctive knowledge of biology that puts her above even the top minds in the field. The girl went insane with power as she created a new life, made cures for diseases, and other such things. Nakala told her to slow down... but then Olivia made her a pet raptor and Nakala was silenced for a while.

Things changed for Nakala in 2014, when all hell broke loose in Verthaven and Michelle was sent there for backup. It was a nasty stressful time for the Phillips family as Bryan wanted Michelle to come back before she gets killed or something and all the bad things they heard about the war against REAPER. Then it got nasty when the shield came up and the Devil of Verthaven damn near wiped out the city. They lost contact with Michelle and they assumed the worse... until it all blew over and it was revealed that Michelle survived. Except for the fact that she had lost her arm, and the insane amounts of PTSD she had from the incident. All the rampant violence and murder that took place took a toll on Michelle and she became an alcoholic wreck.

That hurt the Phillips family in more ways than one given their primary breadwinner was taken out of the picture. She got a huge check for losing her arm, but it wasn't long before the money was starting to dry up and Nakala had to take up odd jobs to help support the family. She had less time to hang out with her friends and live her passion but she managed to get a job at the dance studio. It was a small job as an "assistant instructor", which was the owner of the studio throwing her a bone.

Then the punches kept coming as Nakala eventually lost her closest friend, her emotional support. Nakala cleared her schedule and they went to a house party and Olivia went missing. At first Nakala thought she went home, but eventually, she wasn't home and everyone was getting suspicious. Nobody knew where she was and there were several police reports put out but nobody could track Olivia Clarke. Things felt a little strange to Nakala as Livvy was only separated from her for only a short period and nobody knew where she was? Well, she launched her investigation into what had happened and it turned up no leads, and it seems the police were content with giving up. After all, Metahumans disappear from Black Fall all the time? What makes Olivia anymore special than them.

Nakala eventually suspected REAPER was involved, but she didn't have a clue about how to go about it... until she found it. It was a red Delta Crystal that she had found while rummaging through Olivia's things. It gave her an idea, a very stupid and risky idea, but an idea nonetheless. After scouring the dark web for information, she eventually found someone who'd get her in contact with REAPER, and arranged a meeting. She arranged it for the very outskirts of town in the middle of the night - it was tense, but she showed up nonetheless. Nakala met with a REAPER agent who introduced herself as Davis... then he came.

Abel.

She was terrified of the tyrant, being REAPER's boogyman and the one responsible for the Verthaven disaster that scarred her mother. However, she tried to stay strong and stand her group. They had known who Nakala was and was expecting a trap but she stood strong and demanded to know information on Olivia Clarke. The information they insisted they didn't have, she tried to press them on it but Abel simply demanded the crystal. Against all logic Nakala refused and Abel moved to take it from her and her power manifested at that exact moment.

Sparks of green lightning hit Abel and covered him in plants which... did nothing to stop him as he simply tore out of it, grabbed her by the wrist and yank the crystal out of her hand. Defeated and terrified as she dangled from his powerful grip, he left her with the parting words:

"If you want to know what happened to your friend; look inward, there are other threats than REAPER around."

Cryptic as always, he left with the crystal and his compatriot... leaving Nakala to wonder what was next. The first thing she did was go the hell home and not tell anyone what happened, it was for the best. the next thing she did was research powers and realized that she had a type-red ability, with some testing she found out the exact nature of her power. The third thing she did was lie out of her ass about how it naturally manifested, just because she didn't want to tell her mom about how her stupid decision almost got her killed by the world's scariest man.

Eventually, she came out to her mother and Michelle arranged for her to get sent to Academy 003, where Nakala wondered if there were any clues to Livvy's whereabouts here.

Type-Red

Nakala has a strange power that seems to be a mixture of plant manipulation and electrical manipulation. She can produce dark-green electricity like energy that looks and moves much like actual electricity but does not shock or burn on contact. It travels the speed of lightning and will more or less instantly reach its destination, but does not conduct whatsoever. What it does instead produces plant life when it comes in contact with any unplanted surface and causes an explosion of random plant life (From fruit-producing plants to bushes) that'll continuously grow as long as Nakala keeps pumping energy into it. She can also produce a continuous stream of electricity and can also charge up for a massive thunder-bolt that'll cause a huge explosion of plant-life if it comes in contact with a surface. This power doesn't have too many direct uses, but she can produce plenty of this botanical-lightning and can drastically change the environment of an area given time. She can turn an area into a raging jungle if she has time, and this will allow her to produce barriers, bridges, and perhaps even fruit. If the lightning strikes a person it won't cause any damage to them other than causing plant growth on their being that can probably easily be torn off. The ability has a side-effect of putting insane amounts of oxygen into the air just by creating the lightning. Also, if the lightning comes in contact with seeds it'll cause a sudden and explosive growth.

Nakala has a secondary ability to support her primary, and it's a more direct plant manipulation. Nakala is unaware of the fact yet but she subconsciously produces small amounts of the energy where ever she goes and that gives her a connection to all plant life in the area. Which means she can sense plants and communicate with them subconsciously... of course plants can't talk, but she can detect their health state. However if a plant suddenly dies she'll know (more on that later), so that'd give away if someone is sneaking up on her. The primary usage of this ability is that she will be able to influence plant growth while she's creating it. In the way of a more traditional plant manipulation ability - she can shape and manipulate plants long as she's linked to it and creating it. So she can use plants to create barriers, attack people, and that kind of jazz.

Nakala can create as much energy as her stamina allows her. Besides, it has a range of around eight meters and going past that range will cause it to immediately disperse. However, her power has two catches to function at it's maximum; sunshine and environment. Nakala needs the sun to be touching her skin or else the plant growth will be stunted, which cuts her effectiveness in half indoors. Also, she has trouble producing plant life on artificial surfaces such as concrete and metal.

First things first, the plants are weak against anything that'd normally damage plants such as ice, fire, toxins, etc, etc. The primary weakness of the power comes from the oxygen-producing quality, it fills the air with so much oxygen that even a slight spark can cause a huge flame. A huge flame that'd most likely set Nakala on fire because she's in the center of it. The other problem is that excessive amounts of oxygen is toxic and will cause nausea at best.

Andrew James Lahti

Andy (family’s), clicker (internet handle), A.J.

Male

17

A.J. is a nice looking guy. He is thin with a pale completion. His hair color is noticeably bright red, cut short on the sides and longer on top. He does not have much facial hair potential at this point.

His vision is not perfect, and wears glasses when he has to.

He has a scar on his left shoulder and arm from a hockey injury.

A.J. wears button down Oxford shirts with medium starch or sweat shirts normally with a hockey team logo. He will wear dockers and has some nice clothes.

Andrew is a socially easy to get to know kind of guy. He likes people and likes to predict what type of person they are. He has a competing side that come out at times. He hates to lose at something he thinks is important. If he does not think it is important he won’t put 100% effort. He knows that this has effected him negatively in the past, but it also worked for him at times. He wanted to be a surgeon like his father then two things happened. The first was the hockey accident took some of his fine motor control. The second was a bad experience of playing doctor with two neighbor girls. Listening to his father complain about medical politics and dealing with insurance has kind of turned him off to being a doctor.

A.J. is willing to take off the gloves and brawl a bit. He would prefer not to fight.

Secretly (okay, not to secretly) he would like to bulk up some.

Acting - A.J.’s parents got him into acting to keep him busy in the summer, he enjoyed it and has been doing so for many years.
Gymnastics -
Sneak -
Stage magic -
Sewing

What happened in your character's past that shaped them into the person they are today? Why they are here? You can gloss over events you'd rather reveal in-character.

Type-Yellow, Type-Red, Type-Blue, Type-Green, Type-White, or Type Chromatic.

Thoroughly describe your character's power, and all strengths (Don't link or copy/paste from powerlistings, tho).

The difference between limits and weaknesses is that limits is a restriction. Something like range that your character can overcome. Might not be necessary depending on the power, but for stronger powers, I'd like to see some strong and clearly defined limits.

List anything an opponent can take advantage of, or any negative side effects. Stronger the ability, the more I want to see here.

[FIRST NAME REDACTED AT REQUEST OF STUDENT] Ashton Miller

Female

18

Being tall, blonde, and a little on the pale side, Lilly tends to attract some unwanted attention. She has broad shoulders and a little more muscle on her body than you’d expect, though she’s a little proud of managing to keep her stomach relatively flat. Her chest, on the other hand… is also pretty flat. Her lower body is well-proportioned, though, with full legs and a nicely-rounded rear.

Her facial features are a bit strong, but can still pass well as feminine, especially from behind her glasses. She has thick, pretty blonde hair that she’s grown out to waist length, that she usually keeps in a low ponytail. She has vibrant green eyes, which are usually magnified by her eyewear. She still has a deep voice for a woman and a small telltale bulge on her neck, both of which she will do her best to hide.

Lilly usually dresses almost completely in black, with a small black leather jacket worn over a t shirt that invariably has some strange pop culture logo or another slapped on. She likes to wear tight black jeans with a decent pair of boots, and loves to wear scarves, or just about any form of neck covering for that matter. She has black-rimmed glasses that she tends to switch out for sunglasses when she can, and likes to keep a beret around, though it tends to conflict a little with the large pair of headphones she keeps around her neck almost constantly. She’s also rarely seen without her laptop, which at this point is almost entirely covered in stickers depicting various logos, butterflies, and fictional characters, occasionally spouting strange slogans such as “No gods, no masters” and “Be gay do crimes.”

Lilly is, in general, an altruistic person who doesn't hesitate to offer a helping hand and tries to be understanding of any perceived faults. However, she's also someone with a strong sense of justice, and has a strong distaste for discrimination, oppression, and the ruling class in general. This is all kept in check by a lack of confidence and a somewhat shy disposition that prevents her from doing anything too drastic. She feels most comfortable either in solitude or behind some kind of front, usually as an artist. She has a huge artistic streak and appreciates just about any form of self-expression... Even the really weird ones...

If you’re looking for a storied history or an important family line, you’re not going to find it here. Lilly comes from an unassuming working class family in Illinois and had a relatively normal upbringing alongside her big sister and the odd pet or two. Well, as normal as it gets for a weird geek who tended to get into the occasional fight or so. She got better eventually. Things started to change again in high school, though, as she started growing up in a more physical way: She hated her voice. She hated her body. She needed a fix.

She needed the power to change.

In some of the more obscure, chaotic parts of the internet, there was the occasional odd shady post about strange superpower-granting serums available for… voluntary testing.. Usually dismissed as a hoax, trick, shitpost, or the feds, but Lilly kind of felt like she wanted to die every other day anyways, so win-win for her? She went with her gut and got in touch with one.

Lilly made some crummy excuse on going on a trip to pick up some audio equipment before she left home. She had some trouble making it all the way out to the city and finding the location, but she was more resourceful than she gave herself credit for. It was scary, going into an unmarked building at strange hours of the night, but no one tried to kill her. They gave her serum, she ended up manifesting, and they did some tests, took some blood, they slid a couple hundred her way to make sure she never told anyone about any of this…

And everyone got busted by the feds.

Lilly didn’t even get the power she wanted. She didn’t even get to keep her hush money. She felt like things couldn’t get any worse. A silver lining did come out of it, though: If she spilled the beans on everything that went down and participated in the Academy Program once she got out of high school, they would consider abstaining from putting any of this on her criminal record. Not like she wasn’t being forced to attend anyways, but still. Her parents were more than happy enough to force her to pick up some sort of post-secondary education instead of sitting around the house and blasting weird music.

In the meantime, though, Lilly decided to turn her life around. Got on hormones, got more serious about her music career (and even finally managed to get a few good gigs), and generally tried forcing herself into a more positive outlook. Superpowers or no, she was going to make her life her own, and go into that academy as a new woman.

Type-Blue

Lilly possesses a rather strange variation of telekinesis: She can create glowing, light producing structures, but due to either psychological limitations or flaws in her serum, she can only visualize and form objects as long as there’s an equal amount of contrasting shadow to give them form, with the durability and strength of the creation depending on how strong the shadows are in the area around her, topping out at around the strength of steel at a quarter of a given thickness and bottoming out at useless and borderline ethereal. She would be at her strongest around a spotlight. She has control over the color of her creations by controlling the frequency of the light itself. They can be created either in floating fixed positions or as objects she can wield through her own strength.

Lilly’s powers have a radius of about eight meters, and is fairly inefficient: average lighting conditions usually only allow for a couple of simple and relatively small objects at a time, such as knives, swords, shields, and small platforms. She needs at least a little bit of light to see what she's doing while she's making something to get herself started, though after that she can use the light from the first creation to make more.

Outside of her powers, Lilly also has rather poor physical stamina, and is liable to feel woozy from extended physical activity if not given a snack break.

Lilly’s primary weakness is that she is extremely dependent on her environment. Her powers stand a good chance of being completely nullified by flipping the light switch. In total darkness or even just nice, even lighting, her powers are completely useless.