[OOC] The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP

[Archmage MC]

Letter Bee said
Light and Bio-Beast wouldn't have told him about Val in the timeskip?

Unless asked, Light probably wouldn't. Shes mostly in her own little world.

I'll post tomrrow, too tired to think of a post atm. lol.

[NarcissisticPotato]

Name: Scarlett Evermore
Alias(s): Sweet Dream
Age: 22
Affiliations: Mercs or Corps

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Description:

Scarlett

Standing at about five foot, ten inches, Scarlett has refined her body to a heightened state of fitness. With enough training to rival a fair amount of special forces around the world and natural beauty, her complexion and the way she dresses would make one think that she's a hero fighting for law and order but in reality, that couldn't be more untrue. Honestly, most people are often misled to believe that she's not a Merc because her personality usually reflects that belief - most of the time, she's inappropriately whimsical. Unlike other Mercs, Scarlett purposely dresses to stand-out from a crowd for no apparent reasoning. Her hair is a deep shade of violet that goes pretty well with her light grey eyes. All in all, you're definitely not going to miss her!

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Powers:
Dreamstate:
There is precisely two Metas on the face of the planet that can create what has come to be called, a 'dreamstate'. Unlike all the other Metas who can access dreams and steal information from them, these two Metas can actively create dreams which they can inhabit or use for their own purposes. These two Metas are obviously, Scarlett and the infamous Nightmare, her father.

This engineered space can be weaponised, often being used by the architect to force itself into another's dream and using this new access to steal information or overload the dreamer's mind. Her father had been known to permanently inflict brain-damage on some victims but she is nowhere near his abilities, considering he is bordering SS-class and she's only a B-class. Unlike her father, however, Scarlett doesn't wish to crush someone's consciousness with her powers; that would just ruin all the fun! Instead, she steals valuable information such as desires or wishes and uses it to her advantage. The trick is making someone believe that she is capable of gifting these desires to them. A good but distinctly difficult trick, might I add.

The disadvantages to this power is that it requires a crucial amount of concentration to do so and it can be immensely testing if the subject is awake as this requires her to drag them into the 'dreamstate'. Any damage to her inflicted in this realm is usually virtual but on more than one occasion, she has emerged from the state to find herself in quite a bit of pain and covered in mysterious cuts and bruises.

Charm:
When you've spent as much time navigating people's deepest wishes and desires as Scarlett has, you begin to acclimatize yourself to how the mind works with lust and desire. Scarlett, with a little use of power, has mastered these techniques and has become quite a charming individual. For example, if she wants to persuade someone then she would simply imbue some of this power into her words and they would be nodding their head in agreement in no time! Of course, this works with anything that she has an input on and thus, the weakness is that it only works on those who would be susceptible to this power and that she cannot directly alter someone's decision, just make her side of it appear to be very worthwhile.

The most obvious use of this would be for spying as she can make most people lust for her given some time and a little breathing-space. Once you have someone craving you, it's pretty easy to get them to confess whatever it is you're looking for. Obviously, this can get pretty pesky when she, on occasion, accidentally charms an individual and has to deal with said consequences.

Skills:
As mentioned earlier, Scarlett has received enough training to qualify as a combat-ready Meta. She's mastered one or two martial arts, including Muay Thai, and has even tried her hand at going to tournaments for things like MMA. The desire to learn these forms of combat was born from the want to make her father proud and it only drove her to points were normal humans would give up. Apart from fighting, she has limited social skills and lacks the ability to form meaningful relationships so she generally never talks about feelings or anything squishy like that.

Equipment:
Nothing of note really - she will occasionally arm herself with a small gun and she is very capable of using this but she's not the sort of girl who goes out to kill people everyday. Generally, her powers are enough to get her by and if not, hand-to-hand combat is much more preferable.

Ranking: A-B?

Brief History:
Life can be very difficult when you're a widowed single father, trying to care for a young daughter who constantly demands to know where her mother is and when she's coming home. Her mother never came back though, and her father only darkened as the months went by and the sickness eating away at their relationship grew stronger. Scarlett was unlike a lot of girls her age, who worried about boys and if their butt looked too big in a particular set of jeans. She worried about her father, primarily, and if he would ever just try end it all and leave her well and truly alone.

In an attempt to brighten him up, she took up defensive courses and soon moved onto martial arts, which did honestly begin to build some bridges between them. He could finally be proud of her, or at least that's what she thought, so she continued on down that road. Things brightened up for them - her dad learned to move on with his life and even found new love.

Things, as things normally go, did not want to stay the same. When the first wave of powers hit, her and her father were one of the few that went under the radar upon gaining their powers. It was very hard to notice the gifts they possessed, after all. Gifts, however, quickly turned to curses and their lives became difficult. Her father used the dreams to retreat back into his own private world were things were the same as they used to be. Very slowly, he unhooked himself from reality to the extent that he could barely even recognise his own daughter from the virtual one.

Then the first string of murders emerged - her father could increase the power and the quality of his 'dreamstate' but only if a certain sacrifice was made. An eye for an eye; a dream for a dream. Then one day, her life turned upside down. Her father was splattered all over the news, branded as a homicidal-maniac who needed to be put-down. He would have too, if it wasn't for the fact that Avalon became operational. Scarlett had no choice - they would find out about her powers too when they came looking and they would lock her up too. So, she did the natural human thing and she ran away from it all.

Theme song

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Just for some information, Nightmare is currently residing in Avalon but he's not in the sleeper facility. I'll reveal more later but one could definitely compare him to Cerberus.

[Letter Bee]

Very good profile, NP!

[RoflsMazoy]

Would her charming thing work on an asexual person?

[Aura]

And on top of it I like posting things about like people's confusion and drama so cutting out the whole part where Val gets found out and transforms back is just cutting out the whole part I like of role playing. I like the interaction between the characters more then the action.

[Letter Bee]

Understood; I'll edit my post, then.

[NarcissisticPotato]

RoflsMazoy said
Would her charming thing work on an asexual person?

No idea O.o honestly, I don't intend for her to be stealing secrets from everyone but just a select few! Mostly, she'll be working with Loki for a while so those powers will be obsolete unless she takes a fancying of him!

[Yog Sothoth]

Where are the mercenary characters?

[Kangutso]

Question, has Isabella(War Queen) used her power to change anyone in the IC yet? PC or NPC.

[Letter Bee]

Sorry for the delay! And, she's changed a few NPCs, who would appear later.

[Damo021]

Now that thngs are back to normal I shall continue back on my character if ou guys are accepting still :)

[AcerRo]

We are

[NarcissisticPotato]

Damo021 said
Now that thngs are back to normal I shall continue back on my character if ou guys are accepting still :)

New characters are always welcome!

[Teal]

NarcissisticPotato said Scarlett Evermore

This is a good character, but in a strange twist of fate, I've been thinking of creating a secondary character which could deflect some of Scarlet's abilities way before. I have his CS in a MS Word doc. I was thinking he could make an appearance in the third Arc, or at least until I get rid of Bojangles. I guess I gotta remove some of his abilities then.

[AcerRo]

Send bojack after me and I can get rid of him. I'd say us but I don't know if Roze is still around.

[Teal]

Bojack is gonna inspect the crime families alone, so I'm going to use this as an opportunity to have him make a heroic stand and then die.

Also, I'm pretty sure Roze is around, just not as active.

[NarcissisticPotato]

Teal said
This is a good character, but in a strange twist of fate, I've been thinking of creating a secondary character which could deflect some of Scarlet's abilities way before. I have his CS in a MS Word doc. I was thinking he could make an appearance in the third Arc, or at least until I get rid of Bojangles. I guess I gotta remove some of his abilities then.

What abilities, precisely and in what ways does he counter it? Honestly, I don't really mind because Scarlett was mainly created to further the story and help the heroes, strangely enough. Still, she does offer some more firepower to Aperture's Arsenal! As long as this character isn't just making Scarlett useless, I'll be fine with it!

[Teal]

NarcissisticPotato said
What abilities, precisely and in what ways does he counter it? Honestly, I don't really mind because Scarlett was mainly created to further the story and help the heroes, strangely enough. Still, she does offer some more firepower to Aperture's Arsenal! As long as this character isn't just making Scarlett useless, I'll be fine with it!

It doesn't make her entirely useless, no. I am trying to introduce a horror inspired character and his main trait is that he has to give himself an organ transplant every 12 hours as a result of his organs crumbling down. We're not talking only one specific organ here; we're talking a total inner body makeover. His brain, his heart, his lungs - he replaces everything in a period of one hour or so. How he does that, it's explained in the CS. Naturally, after several organ transplants, he lost touch to his humanity and can't be dragged in the dreamstate, nor can he be charmed. I think she can extract information from him, but because his brain isn't his own, he'd extract someone else's information. She can still kick his ass in close combat, I guess, so there's that.

But yeah, I think I should tone down his abilities.

[NarcissisticPotato]

Teal said
It doesn't make her entirely useless, no. I am trying to introduce a horror inspired character and his main trait is that he has to give himself an organ transplant every 12 hours as a result of his organs crumbling down. We're not talking only one specific organ here; we're talking a total inner body makeover. His brain, his heart, his lungs - he replaces everything in a period of one hour or so. How he does that, it's explained in the CS. Naturally, after several organ transplants, he lost touch to his humanity and can't be dragged in the dreamstate, nor can he be charmed. I think she can extract information from him, but because his brain isn't his own, he'd extract someone else's information. She can still kick his ass in close combat, I guess, so there's that.But yeah, I think I should tone down his abilities.

No that sounds fine to me! It also sounds like a very painful process and I don't know if Scarlett would even want to charm him, considering he would be covered in scars. I'm guessing he cannot remember anything for more than 12 hours ,then?

[Teal]

Yes, his memory is automatically erased when he finishes transplanting. Without wanting to spoil much, his only purpose in life is to survive and the one thing he knows best is combat, so basically he is very similar to an organic machine. He doesn't take sides to fulfill his goal, even if it might benefit him. His target will be Aperture.