[OOC] Academy 218: Why

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Yeah, we're still accepting.

[FernStone]

@Mr Allen J here's the post with the third character (since I can't post it anew because phone haha)

And as those two are accepted, I post a third xD Admittedly this is the last. There's a possibility she may be problematic power wise? I'm unsure but I ran with the idea I had and I'm willing to change if need be.

Max Diaz

Basic Information

Name:

Maxine Ivanna Diaz 'Max'

Age:

18

Gender:

Female

Appearance & Attire:

Often found wearing a somewhat violent expression Max can be rather intimidating, even at only 5'3" tall. There are certainly rare occasions where she does not look as if she is about to kill all those around but those are, well, few and far between. Max looks reasonably strong for her height. Her raw strength is something that she works on through training in combat and doing a lot of exercise. She is certainly physically fit and this is something that is often obvious when people she her. While she is certainly not overweight, most of her weight coming from the muscles she has, she couldn't be described as skinny. She has an unfortunate lack of curves, something that she herself doesn't care about. Her chest isn't quite flat but in certain clothing it's difficult to tell if anything is there. Max certainly doesn't have anything near the ideal feminine body, often looking somewhat more masculine. She pulls it off, however, and has no issue with the lack of curves. She isn't look for people to be attracted to her anyway.
Max's hair is a dark brown in colour. The left hand side is practically shaved, styled as an undercut. The rest is swept over to the right and often covers her eyes. At the front this falls to her chin and at the back it goes just past the nape of her neck. Sometimes she'll have her hair slightly dyed. The ends of it are currently a reddish colour from the last time she dyed it but the rest is it's natural colour. Her hair frames her incredibly dark brown, almost black eyes. Her eyes are turned up slightly and somewhat narrow. Her face is slightly oval shaped with surprisingly soft lines. Her skin tone is an olive tanned tone thanks to her Latin American/Hispanic heritage. She has thick, dark eyebrows and medium sized lips. All of this together means that her facial features look a lot more feminine than her body does. However she only rarely wears makeup, and in when she does it tends to be very dark. She has quite a few visible scars on both her face and arms, all from fights. There are quite a few that are also hidden by any clothes she wears.
Max tends to wear clothes that are a mix of blacks and reds, with the occasional other dark colour or white thrown in there. She tends to go for some combination of ripped jeans, tank tops (or any top really) along with a leather jacket and boots.

Hairstyle

Something like this:

Skills/Talents:

Fighting: Max is good at hand to hand combat and street fighting. She got most of her training from criminals and as a result fights dirty. She knows how to use weapons like a knife in combat if needed.
Deception: Max is a pretty good liar, good to spinning a tale and getting people to believe her. This helps with all sorts of things. It can help make people believe she's harmless and often makes it all the easier to steal from them, or something similar.
Gymnastics: Though she doesn't necessarily look it Max is pretty flexible due to doing gymnastics at a young age, and continuing it for a bit in her early teens. She kept up this flexibility and can do all sorts of fancy things such as handstands and forward flips. It's not a skill she uses much anymore, though.
Gardening: Max rarely admits it but she has something of a talent for growing plants and flowers. She enjoys it as well but tends to keep it secret because it seems like it isn't a tough enough hobby for someone like her to have. Even so she tends to have one or two plants wherever she lives, though she goes for more dangerous varieties.

Brief Backstory:

Max's parent's relationship was built off of something akin to a love story. Her father was a metahuman part of a small gang and her mother a devout Christian. She put her love for him over her religious views, and he gave up the gang life to raise a family. As a result both were somewhat ostracised from their sides of the family.
Even so Max grew up in a loving household. She was surprisingly close to her four year older brother, Sal, and the two of them spent most of their time play fighting (in a friendly way). Along with this Max spent a lot of time with her cousin, Rori (Roisin at the time), though she could tell that things were tense between her mother and her aunt.
Max always knew of the existence of metahumans due to her father and brother being registered as them. Her brother was one of the few born a metahuman with inherited powers, with the super-system power of regeneration. Max was always slightly jealous because she felt that she was normal without a power.
At the age of ten Max was forced to up and move, leaving behind her cousin that she had grown close to. She has never been sure of the exact reason but thinks it was something to do with the fact her brother and father were metahumans. They moved to Black Fall and lived here relatively happily until Max was twelve, and her brother sixteen.
The family got in a tragic car accident that resulted in the death of both Max's father and mother. Salvador survived due to his regeneration and Max seemed to survive for the same reason. It was assumed that their father suffered injuries he couldn't recover from. The two of them were sent to live with their uncle on their father's side, who left them mostly to their own devices having never wanted kids.
Max and Sal both fell into a bad crowd at this stage, though Max was mostly tagging along with her older 'cool' brother at this point. After beginning a life of crime they joined a minor metahuman gang. It was here that Max discovered the truth about her powers. She didn't have regeneration, rather she weakened another's power and temporarily gained it. This was why her father had died. The power she had made her a valuable member of the gang. It was here that she learned to fight and steal. By the age of fourteen she was regularly involved in street fights, doing drugs and participating in all sorts of gang activities. She miraculously managed to stay out of NEST's radar, being completely unregistered. However her, and a few others around her age, were caught doing minor crimes and noted down by the police force due to this.
By sixteen Max had changed into a somewhat more violent person, though she had always had this streak in her. She had hooked up with people of both genders and was enjoying the gang lifestyle far too much. The gang she was in was growing more prominent and coming to the attention of the authorities. A raid on gang owned buildings resulted in the arrest of a lot of the members, including Max's older brother. It was sheer luck that she wasn't caught.
She continued to live the same life, just more cautious, but missed her brother (not that she would admit this). Now in a different metahuman gang, due to her reasonably valuable power, she and a small group slipped up when out to kill a member of a rival gang. They were caught and all arrested. After spending a short period of time in prison, being questioned about the whereabouts of other gang members, she was brought to NEST to have the nature of her power tested.
It was at this point she was given the option of joining the academy scheme. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Better to live in relative freedom than in jail for years on age. She took the opportunity and it was by pure coincidence that her cousin was at the academy she was sent to, Academy 218.

Power Information

Power Class:

Power

Power:

In simple terms Max has the power to weaken another's power and temporarily 'steal' it (however their own power is not disable so it is more minor replication).

Power Weakening

Max's power means that she can choose to weaken the power of another. This may mean that it does not last for as long as it normally would, does less damage, that they can't get to their maximum potential or other similar things. In general it is only weakened for a few hours, at most a day (which takes a lot of energy). She can control the amount a power is weakened if she concentrates hard enough.

Power 'Stealing'

When Max weakens a power she can also replicate this power temporarily. This means she gains a power almost identical to the person's who she weakened. However it is also much weaker than the original users and she only keeps this power temporarily. The most she has kept a power is two days. This does mean that she can use any other person's power, however, as long as she manages to weaken their own. She seems to be able to 'steal' a power of any class.

Limits:

Can only weaken a power so much. She the more she weakens one person's power the more she will struggle to weaken another. The longest she can weaken someone's power for is a day at a push.
She only temporarily 'steals' powers. The rarely keeps it for more than two days meaning that she has to be constantly weakening other powers if she wants to use them and people are hardly okay with this. She seems to only be able to steal up to four, maybe five, powers.
She has to have skin to skin contact to weaken/steal someone's power. The longer this contact is kept the more she can weaken their power.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

The fact that she has to have skin to skin contact is a weakness. This leaves her vulnerable as she weakens her targets power and means she has to get close to them in the first place which is not always a viable option. This can leave her in all sorts bad situations.
She doesn't necessarily know what power someone has or how to use it meaning she can end up with a power completely useless to her. She doesn't have a very long time to learn how to use it either.
The more Max weakens others power the weaker she gets physically, often leaving her vulnerable. This goes to the point where she falls unconscious. Her movement will often slow, she will get hungry, thirsty and tired and have a difficult doing anything if she weakens others powers too much.
Along with this Max gains the weakness of whatever power she steals.

Relationships

Family:

Felipe Diaz - Father (Deceased, Regeneration)
Naomi Diaz - Mother (Deceased)
Salvador Diaz - Older Brother (Regeneration)
Breandan Aherne - Uncle
Elizabeth Aherne - Aunt
Roisin Aherne - Cousin (Bird Transformation)
Aiden, Saiorse, Eva and Conor Aherne - Cousins

Dynamics:

Basically your character's relationship with other characters.
Rori Aherne | Mostly Good | Friend / Cousin | "It's been ages since I spent time with Rori, but they've hardly changed. Still so damn optimistic and I'm not sure I like that." |

Other

• Personality wise Max is pretty violent and gets angry pretty easily. This doesn't mean that she's necessarily unfriendly. She's incredibly flirtatious. She doesn't put up with shit and isn't going to be sympathetic about people's problems, or get emotional and cry or something like that.
• Max picks fights and gets in trouble far too often. She doesn't really care about the rules - they're just there to be broken after all.

@FernStone

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@FernStone Only thing I have to ask is that you choose either weakening powers, or replicating them. Since both are strong on their own. However, you're free to give whatever power you choose for her a buff.

[Tokara]

Copen Aders

Basic Information

Name: Copen Aders

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Appearance & Attire: Copen is quite an attractive young man. He is tall at 6’2”, and lithely muscular. His skin is pale and free from blemishes. He has honey-blond hair that sticks up in points when not styled (which takes him a bit of time; he’s fairly vain) and pale blue eyes. His eyebrows and eyelashes are a slightly darker shade of blond. Copen is European (German), and his features are sharp in his longer-than-average face. His nose is straight, with no bend to it, and his pale pink lips are thin. He has a sharp jawline that is slightly squared. Copen’s best feature is probably his smile – not necessarily because his teeth are white, but due to its easygoing nature and appearance that matches his. His preferred sense of fashion is a little older than him, and he has a preference for dark jeans and button-up shirts with desert boots. He carries himself slightly stiffly, with a straight back and purposeful stride. Copen is usually ever-smiling and laughing – quite the happy chappie.

Skills/Talents: Copen is fairly influential and flirtatious. He is especially skilled at persuading women, knowing how to work his baby blues and winning smile. He is comfortable in more formal settings and is knowledgeable about etiquette due to his upbringing. He used to be a track and field competitor, until high school (where girls became far, far more interesting and gym was more beneficial to him). His best events were the high and long jump, due to his height. He speaks German and English fluently, and also has a good grasp on French. Copen can play the piano.

Brief Backstory:
Copen was born into a wealthy German family in Berlin. He grew up very privileged in large homes, and was taught etiquette and manners from an early age. He was an only child and spoiled rotten by his parents – he went through a particularly bratty stage in middle school, but grew out of it and into a well-mannered young man. At the age of 14, his family moved to the United States in order to further his father’s business (technology for hospitals). Although he was good at English in his class in Germany, it was a large culture shock. He had to persevere to become fluent in English, but it paid off eventually.
He discovered his powers at age 16, while drinking underage with some friends (he’d developed a taste for it at a young age; his parents had allowed him small sips of beer from their glasses when he was young). The beer wasn’t seeming to have an effect on him anymore. Being an idiot of a teenage boy (as usual), he decided instead to pretend to be drunk. While stumbling about in the penthouse in New York, he tripped – and fell through the window. It wasn’t a tall building, but there was still a distinct splat, crack, and screams when he hit the ground. His skulls broke open and his face was smashed, and he laid there for a good ten minutes while he thought he was dying. But as the ambulances arrived, they found him in a pool of blood – yet miraculously unharmed.
The onlookers started buzzing about how he was a Metahuman, and he was whisked away after a check-up by his father’s PR team. This couldn’t happen again. He became rebellious toward people, eventually lashing out and clocking a bodyguard that wouldn’t leave him alone. He realized his strength when his punch made a small crater in the man’s head. Being soft-hearted, he immediately froze up and started screaming for help. NEST whisked him away after determining him to be a danger, and the man did not make a complete recovery, suffering brain damage. He suffered extreme guilt due to this, and begged to be trained to master the monster he saw inside of him.

Power Information

Power Class:
Super System

Power:
~ Regeneration – Copen can heal from injuries sustained. This takes a varying amount of time, depending on the injury – a scratch might take a few seconds, while a stab wound could take several minutes. It takes energy from him to do so (and can make him very hungry). Wounds still hurt like hell, and he hasn’t used the ability very often in his life (he doesn’t think it’s very useful).
~ Super Strength – Copen has a higher muscle density than most people, meaning that his lean muscle is far more effective than that of typical people. He is extremely strong, and often doesn’t know his strength. His strength even extends to his grip, and the force with which he walks (sometimes he kicks up a bit of sand, his only indication of too strong a stride).

Limits:
Copen’s regeneration is not very quick. If his injuries are severe, he runs the risk of losing too much blood before the wound closes. He also cannot regenerate a lost limb. His strength is stronger than that of an average gym-goer, probably in line with most Olympians, but not inhumanly so. It is more of an enhancement than a super power, and other people could reach his level with extreme dedication and practice.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:
Copen’s regeneration renders normal medicine weak. When he gets sick, he usually has to get better by himself – although his body might heal the damage, it doesn’t get rid of the sniffles or coughs or nausea. He once suffered a three month long flu, before proceeding to down three whole bottles of medicine every day for a week after snapping. It worked. Copen is not violent by nature, and is unlikely to enter into conflict unless forced by superiors or circumstance. This means that he might not use the power very often. In addition, his healing is slow – he could lose too much blood before the wound closes.
Copen is often unaware of his super strength. Despite being a very touchy-feely person who loves hugs, he forgets about his power and can unintentionally hurt people (he once cracked a friend’s ribs, for example). This makes him very unhappy as he hates hurting those he loves. As mentioned above, he is also quite a pacifist and doesn’t like to use his strength to hurt people if he doesn’t have to. When he remembers his strength, he can be scared or hesitant to touch others. This is especially true when it comes to girls – although he is a true ladies’ man, he is afraid of breaking their bones due to their (generally) lower bone density.

Relationships

Family:
~ Heike Aders [Mother]
~ Rolf Aders [Father]

Dynamics:
N/A… So far.
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Other

~ Copen is quite friendly and a little flirtatious when it comes to the ladies. He is also chivalrous, which was drummed into him from an early age. He is a bouncy and happy person, ever-smiling but also quite vain. He’s used to the ‘good life,’ and luxuries.
~ He's a bit of an idiot. Sometimes he doesn't completely read when people want to be left alone, and can be very annoying to others. He's quite loud and rambunctious, but in a good-hearted sort of way.
~ Copen eats a lot.
~ He has a strong German accent.

[FernStone]

@Mr Allen J sure thing, I wasnt sure if the power would be okay anyway but by then Id already written it up. Is replicating okay? Then I don't have to change the backstory. I'll try edit that tonight but not sure I'll.

Edit: in terms of replication would you want it so she can only replicate one class, like how Wendy's replication is?

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Mr Allen J sure thing, I wasnt sure if the power would be okay anyway but by then Id already written it up. Is replicating okay? Then I don't have to change the backstory. I'll try edit that tonight but not sure I'll.

Edit: in terms of replication would you want it so she can only replicate one class, like how Wendy's replication is?

@FernStone

Replication of powers is fine. And it's up to you whether or not she's specific to one class.

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@Chicogal The one thing I want to know is how much he can actually lift. Oh, and there's already a character (Jessica) with super strength.

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Anyways, I think Imma get around to closing the RP soon. I think we're getting more than enough people.

[Tokara]

pfft i know nothing about heavy shit

I looked up Olympic records and put him a bit under. 150kg? Is that okay?

@Mr Allen J

EDIT: Hmm I'm having trouble thinking of something suited to him that would also cause him to randomly become violent... Do you have any ideas at all? Some element [not literally lol] that you feel is missing/untapped?

[Mixtape Ghost N]

I looked up Olympic records and put him a bit under. 150kg? Is that okay?

@Chicogal

Yeah.

EDIT: Hmm I'm having trouble thinking of something suited to him that would also cause him to randomly become violent... Do you have any ideas at all? Some element [not literally lol] that you feel is missing/untapped?

@Chicogal

Roids. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Shikaru]

@Mr Allen J I had edited Serena a while ago, but I'm not sure if you missed when I said I did or not. Do you want me to repost her or just tell you which page she is on?

[Tokara]

@Mr Allen J

x'D

So is the super strength okay, or...?

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Mr Allen J I had edited Serena a while ago, but I'm not sure if you missed when I said I did or not. Do you want me to repost her or just tell you which page she is on?

@Shikaru

Just repost her.

@Mr Allen J

x'D

So is the super strength okay, or...?

@Chicogal

The strength is totally fine. He is accepted.

[Tokara]

Yay! I'll put him in the proper character thread and post my intro. :3

[Mixtape Ghost N]

And with that, we are officially closed. If you have already submitted interest, then you may still submit a sheet.

People who are already in can make a second character, tho.

[Shikaru]

Yay, I managed to break BBCode that worked in my previous post somehow...*headdesk*

EDIT: Fixed..dunno what happened..weird.

Serena Jones

Basic Information

Name:

Serena Jones

Age:

14

Gender:

Female

Appearance & Attire:

At first glance you'd easily mistake Serena for a boy, she doesn't really look feminine in the least no matter which angle you look at her from. She is 5'3 and 85 lbs, she sports an athletic build that has hints of muscle tone thanks to her ability. She is without a doubt a full blooded American hailing from Florida, she also has the slight tan to prove it. She has a slight southern accent and dresses like a tomboy. Her fashion consists of caps to cover her ears up, jeans, and t-shirts with sneakers. She mostly wears blue or orange, those being her favorite colors. She is typical seen carrying around a small dark orange rucksack filled with beef jerky, slim jims, and the like. Of which she is usually seen eating.

Her brown hair is cut relatively short in jagged layers, it hangs to about the bottom of her neck. On the top of her head on either side she sports short pointed cat ears, a side effect of her first attempt at shifting into her lion form, she has yet to figure out how to remove them. She usually wears her bangs over her right eye.

She has dark green almond shaped eyes, her pupils are slit like a predatory cats, and a rounded face. Her nose is rounded and rather small, possibly too small, and it tilts up ever so slightly into a tip. Her lips are rather thin and her ears are rounded and fairly small.

She has extremely sharp teeth, more prominently pronounced are her canines, that are built for tearing meat from bone just like a lions are. I don't reccommend putting fingers near her mouth if she is hungry.

Skills/Talents:

Street fighting, and she's pretty good at it, at least she thinks so.

She is also incredibly agile and nimble, able to outlast most people in the stamina department.

Brief Backstory:

Ever since she could walk she was definetely a tomboy, whereas other girls her age including her sister would rather sit inside and play with dolls, she was often seen outside climbing trees or rough-housing with her two brothers or the neighbors..and winning. She was always stronger than other kids her age and even those a bit older than her, no one was sure why or how and simply passed it off as part of her 'active lifestyle'. Her powers awakened noticeably when she was 9 and suddenly grew extremely sharp feline-esque claws and nearly accidentally maimed her older brother. She wasn't really sure what happened, nor did she know how to control it, but she did find it kinda cool despite harming her brother.

Nothing was done and she wasn't really blamed, it was common for accidents to happen when a metahumans powers revealed themselves. Instead she was simply told to be more careful from then on and try not to get into so many fights. Yea, because that would ever happen...If anything she used it to her advantage and eventually learned how to partially control her powers over the next five years. She found not only was she stronger than most other people her age and some older, she could hear, smell, and see better. As she practiced her powers more her eyes took on the characteristics of that of a predators, wherein the pupils were slit.

Eventually, however, the use of her powers was taken notice from NEST and her parents were instructed to send her to Academy 218 before she got too out of hand. Her parents sadly agreed that it was what was best for their daughter.

Power Information

Power Class:

Super System: Biological

Power:

Serena takes the whole 'heart of a lion' thing a bit too literally. She is, more or less, a humanoid lion with the ability to shift into one, her extra set of ears are proof of such.

Lion Shifter

Exactly as it says on the tin but partially more complicated. No, she is not technically a were-lion, though in theory it's the same concept. She is, without a doubt, still mortal as well. She is able to shift her own nails into extremely sharp feline-esque claws that are able to slice up skin fairly easily, she has learned to be able to do this at will and the change takes little more than a few seconds.

She is also decently strong, able to lift roughly 145 lbs easily, as well as durable. It'll take more than a simple punch or two to knock her out or put her out of the fight. That said, knives and bullets effect her just as much as anyone else. Further describing her bite, she can bit down on anything she can fit her mouth around at 650 psi just like a lion. Seriously, don't put your fingers near her mouth when she is hungry.

Her senses are heightened far beyond that of a normal human, allowing her to see almost perfectly in the dark, have a heightened sense of smell and hearing, as well as having a heightened spatial and kinetic sense.

She is also decently fast, outpacing most humans, meta's that specialize in speed however are much faster. Her main ability, that she chooses to use as least often as possible, is the ability to turn into a full grown lion. This only further enhances her fighting ability, it grants no added benefits beyond being as strong and as fast as a lion.

Limits:

This is more of a self imposed drawback than anything, Serena makes an effort to fully transform as least as possible due to the sheer amount of pain felt afterwards when she reverts to human form. Not to mention having to buy new clothes is annoying.

Shifting is not instantaneous, it takes roughly 20 seconds to shift into a lion and one minute to shift back into a human.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

Despite being durable, Serena is not on par with Superman by far. While, she will take more blows than the average kid her age and some average people, she is still a kid with a small frame. She will go down fairly easily, and go down hard.

She is extremely vulnerable for several minutes after shifting back into human form from the sheer amount of pain felt from her bones breaking and reforming themselves back to her human frame.

She is, of course, limited to close quarters combat unless of course she manages to get her grubby little paws on a ranged weapon. In that case, shit gets real...most likely for her as she has never fired a gun.

Relationships

Family:

Jackson Jones- Father
Maryanne Jones- Mother

Elizabeth Jones- Younger Sister
Jeremy Jones- Older Brother
Claude Jones- Younger Brother

Dynamics:

She is one of the newer students, so no one.

Other

• She is without any doubt a tomboy, no pretty dresses and short skirts for her. She is rude, sarcastic, and condescending. She is always looking for a fight and will gladly challenge anyone despite their age, she enjoys it. If you're lucky to get on her good side, you'll find she can actually be nice when she wants to, even though she doesn't show it initially at first. She is also extremely rebellious and has a hard time following orders or rules, she feels they only apply to the 'normal' people.

[FernStone]

@Mr Allen JPower's changed for Max. I may need to add a bit more for the weaknesss, but if so I need some suggestions since I'm a bit tired thus doing badly there:

Max Diaz

Basic Information

Name:

Maxine Ivanna Diaz 'Max'

Age:

18

Gender:

Female

Appearance & Attire:

Often found wearing a somewhat violent expression Max can be rather intimidating, even at only 5'3" tall. There are certainly rare occasions where she does not look as if she is about to kill all those around but those are, well, few and far between. Max looks reasonably strong for her height. Her raw strength is something that she works on through training in combat and doing a lot of exercise. She is certainly physically fit and this is something that is often obvious when people she her. While she is certainly not overweight, most of her weight coming from the muscles she has, she couldn't be described as skinny. She has an unfortunate lack of curves, something that she herself doesn't care about. Her chest isn't quite flat but in certain clothing it's difficult to tell if anything is there. Max certainly doesn't have anything near the ideal feminine body, often looking somewhat more masculine. She pulls it off, however, and has no issue with the lack of curves.

Max's hair is a dark brown in colour. The left hand side is practically shaved, styled as an undercut. The rest is swept over to the right and often covers her eyes. At the front this falls to her chin and at the back it goes just past the nape of her neck. Sometimes she'll have her hair slightly dyed. The ends of it are currently a reddish colour from the last time she dyed it but the rest is it's natural colour. Her hair frames her incredibly dark brown, almost black eyes. Her eyes are turned up slightly and somewhat narrow. Her face is slightly oval shaped with surprisingly soft lines. Her skin tone is an olive tanned tone thanks to her Latin American/Hispanic heritage. She has thick, dark eyebrows and medium sized lips. All of this together means that her facial features look a lot more feminine than her body does. However she only rarely wears makeup, and in when she does it tends to be very dark. She has quite a few visible scars on both her face and arms, all from fights. There are quite a few that are also hidden by any clothes she wears.

Max tends to wear clothes that are a mix of blacks and reds, with the occasional other dark colour or white thrown in there. She tends to go for some combination of ripped jeans, tank tops (or any top really) along with a leather jacket and boots.

Hairstyle

Something like this:
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Skills/Talents:

Fighting: Max is good at hand to hand combat and street fighting. She got most of her training from criminals and as a result fights dirty. She knows how to use weapons like a knife in combat if needed.

Deception: Max is a pretty good liar, good to spinning a tale and getting people to believe her. This helps with all sorts of things. It can help make people believe she's harmless and often makes it all the easier to steal from them, or something similar.

Gymnastics: Though she doesn't necessarily look it Max is pretty flexible due to doing gymnastics at a young age, and continuing it for a bit in her early teens. She kept up this flexibility and can do all sorts of fancy things such as handstands and forward flips. It's not a skill she uses much anymore, though.

Gardening: Max rarely admits it but she has something of a talent for growing plants and flowers. She enjoys it as well but tends to keep it secret because it seems like it isn't a tough enough hobby for someone like her to have. Even so she tends to have one or two plants wherever she lives, though she goes for more dangerous varieties.

Brief Backstory:

Max's parent's relationship was built off of something akin to a love story. Her father was a metahuman part of a small gang and her mother a devout Christian. She put her love for him over her religious views, and he gave up the gang life to raise a family. As a result both were somewhat ostracised from their sides of the family.

Even so Max grew up in a loving household. She was surprisingly close to her four year older brother, Sal, and the two of them spent most of their time play fighting (in a friendly way). Along with this Max spent a lot of time with her cousin, Rori (Roisin at the time), though she could tell that things were tense between her mother and her aunt.

Max always knew of the existence of metahumans due to her father and brother being registered as them. Her brother was one of the few born a metahuman with inherited powers, with the super-system power of regeneration. Max was always slightly jealous because she felt that she was normal without a power.

At the age of ten Max was forced to up and move, leaving behind her cousin that she had grown close to. She has never been sure of the exact reason but thinks it was something to do with the fact her brother and father were metahumans. They moved to Black Fall and lived here relatively happily until Max was twelve, and her brother sixteen.

The family got in a tragic car accident that resulted in the death of both Max's father and mother. Salvador survived due to his regeneration and Max seemed to survive for the same reason. It was assumed that their father suffered injuries he couldn't recover from. The two of them were sent to live with their uncle on their father's side, who left them mostly to their own devices having never wanted kids.

Max and Sal both fell into a bad crowd at this stage, though Max was mostly tagging along with her older 'cool' brother at this point. After beginning a life of crime they joined a minor metahuman gang. It was here that Max discovered the truth about her powers. She didn't have regeneration, rather she weakened another's power and temporarily gained it. This was why her father had died. The power she had made her a valuable member of the gang. It was here that she learned to fight and steal. By the age of fourteen she was regularly involved in street fights, doing drugs and participating in all sorts of gang activities. She miraculously managed to stay out of NEST's radar, being completely unregistered. However her, and a few others around her age, were caught doing minor crimes and noted down by the police force due to this.

By sixteen Max had changed into a somewhat more violent person, though she had always had this streak in her. She had hooked up with people of both genders and was enjoying the gang lifestyle far too much. The gang she was in was growing more prominent and coming to the attention of the authorities. A raid on gang owned buildings resulted in the arrest of a lot of the members, including Max's older brother. It was sheer luck that she wasn't caught.

She continued to live the same life, just more cautious, but missed her brother (not that she would admit this). Now in a different metahuman gang, due to her reasonably valuable power, she and a small group slipped up when out to kill a member of a rival gang. They were caught and all arrested. After spending a short period of time in prison, being questioned about the whereabouts of other gang members, she was brought to NEST to have the nature of her power tested.

It was at this point she was given the option of joining the academy scheme. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Better to live in relative freedom than in jail for years on age. She took the opportunity and it was by pure coincidence that her cousin was at the academy she was sent to, Academy 218.

Power Information

Power Class:

Power

Power:
Power Replication

Max has the ability to replicate the powers of others. This replication is not specific to one class, however there are some she struggles to replicate more than others. She seems to find the super-system class the easiest to replicate. She can replicate up to four powers it seems, however they each must be of a different class. So for example she could not replicate two different super-system powers. In terms of choosing whether she can replicate a power, this varies. She has gotten to the stage of control where she can pick and choose whether she replicates a power if it is of the super-system class. However not for the other classes. Any new powers she gets will replace the one in the 'slot' of its class of power, essentially replacing that one. If she does not use a power for a long time she will lose it, in a way. This means she has to use each in a reasonably regular basis.

On top of this she can only use one power at a time. Which power she can use seems to be reset dependant on her sleep - she needs to sleep a certain amount of time to change what power she is using. However there are some limits to this - she must have used the power that she is currently locked into to then change it. This means if she does not know how to use a power she will be stuck with it until she can work out how to do so.

Current Powers Replicated:

• Regeneration: (Super-system Class) From her father Max has the ability to regenerate. This allows her to heal wounds that she sustains at a reasonable rate, and she can repair bones and muscle damage at a faster rate than most others. This allows her to survive things that other's wouldn't necessarily be able to.
• Telekinesis: (Cerebral Class) Replicated from a member of the gang she was part of before being nabbed by NEST, this is the one that Max tends to stick in since she's reasonably comfortable with it. However it isn't that powerful. She can move one object of a medium wait (say, a chair) and two that are light (for example knives). This takes a decent amount of concentration it is obvious she is the one moving them. She can only pull and push the objects rather than changing their form, such as bending them. However she is working on getting better at this and will probably learn more the more she uses it.

Limits:

She has to have skin to skin contact to replicate someone's power. The longer she holds this contact the more powerful a version of the power she replicates.

She doesn't necessarily know what power someone has or how to use it meaning she can end up with a power completely useless to her. She doesn't have a very long time to learn how to use it either.

She can only have up to four powers, each of a different class. These are replaced by class so she only ever has a power of one class. She cannot always choose whether she replicates someone's powers or not. Along with this she can only use one at the time, and this changes after she has slept for eight hours AND used the current power she is locked into. However if she replicates a new power she switches to using the one rather the previous one.

She is also limited by the power. Regeneration wise there are only so many wounds that she can heal, and often she can only fully regenerate the smaller ones. For telekinesis she is limited to ten feet away from her, and objects of a medium weight. She needs to concentrate to do more than one small object and breaks in her concentration cause her to lose control.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

The fact that she has to have skin to skin contact can be a weakness. This leaves her vulnerable as she weakens her targets power and means she has to get close to them in the first place which is not always a viable option. This can leave her in all sorts bad situations.

She can only change power after using the one she currently has. This means if she does not know how to use a power she is stuck with it until she can figure it out.

Using powers of others is quite taxing on her body. While the powers themselves need no fuel they use up a lot of the essential nutrients she has within her body. Using the powers will cause Max to begin to both dehydrate and starve, meaning she must eat and drink a lot more than normal while using them. If she does not eat or drink she will grow weaker, her reactions slower. This will eventually push her to death by starvation/dehydration if she keeps using her power.

Along with this Max gains the weakness of whatever power she steals.

Regeneration Weaknesses: Incredibly painful to do, does not regain any lost blood ect. She cannot regenerate massive wounds meaning that any life threatening wounds would kill her. While the wound is healed her body still suffered the damage, leaving her weaker after regenerating.

Telekinesis weaknesses: Must concentrate to be able to keep using the power. Tiring mentally on her and doing it for too long will cause blinding headaches and migraines, and often put her in a bad mood and make her tired.

Relationships

Family:

Felipe Diaz - Father (Deceased, Regeneration)
Naomi Diaz - Mother (Deceased)
Salvador Diaz - Older Brother (Regeneration)
Breandan Aherne - Uncle
Elizabeth Aherne - Aunt
Roisin Aherne - Cousin (Bird Transformation)
Aiden, Saiorse, Eva and Conor Aherne - Cousins

Dynamics:

Basically your character's relationship with other characters.
Rori Aherne | Mostly Good | Friend / Cousin | "It's been ages since I spent time with Rori, but they've hardly changed. Still so damn optimistic and I'm not sure I like that." |

Other

• Personality wise Max is pretty violent and gets angry pretty easily. This doesn't mean that she's necessarily unfriendly. She's incredibly flirtatious. She doesn't put up with shit and isn't going to be sympathetic about people's problems, or get emotional and cry or something like that.
• Max picks fights and gets in trouble far too often. She doesn't really care about the rules - they're just there to be broken after all.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Telekinesis weaknesses: If she cannot see the object she is moving she cannot move it thus it is easy to break the line of site.

Same applies to pretty much all the characters.

Also, can you put spaces in your sheet? The lack of spacing between paragraphs hurts my soul.

Also (X2), "line of site" lol

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@Shikaru She's a tad better - but keep in mind what I said about fighting "bigger kids".

[FernStone]

I'll edit that out haha

Apologies - I editted the spaces on Rori's when I moved it over. I write it in word and it's stupid formatting means it looks like spaces there and it upsets me to double space it there, then I always forget <.< xD

I did say that I was tired :P

[Shikaru]

@Mr Allen J Again, as I said before, I don't intend on having her be the ultimate fighter, just like to fight. In-fact, she was made to be less powerful than my other two characters intentionally. That said, does this mean she is accepted?

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@FernStone@Shikaru Both your characters are accepted.

[FernStone]

Thank you! :)