[OOC] The Star Children

[Bubsy 2]

Are you still taking new characters? I conveniently have a character lying around that I never got to use that would be perfect as a star child.

[Scarifar]

Yeah, just drop in a cs.

Also, I think I'll drop my reservation for a bounty hunter. Whoever wants that spot can have it.

[Bubsy 2]

Emma Rocha

Emma Rocha

Emma is a youthful girl with soft white skin. Her head is framed by a cascade of long and straight blonde hair that reaches down to the small of her back. She has a small frame, standing at a rather average 5'3". Emma has a heart-shaped face adorned with light green eyes, completed by a small upturned nose. Emma is pretty, but almost always appears far too tired for the amount she sleeps, her face marked by heavy bags beneath her eyes.

Gender: Female

Age: 19

Power: Umbrakenisis. A self-coined term for ability to control shadows. As of now her abilities aren't particularly useful- she can sap away light and propagate darkness, then manipulate that darkness. Given time she may very well develop the ability to give form to darkness, turning it to a solid object, and then controlling it.

Biography: Emma's condition might best be described as 'Chronic Apathy'. One might look at Emma and wonder how she could possibly have subsisted for so long. She seems to spend most of her time sleeping and the word 'initiative' seems to have escaped her vocabulary. She rarely puts a great amount of effort into anything, greatly preferring to put anything off to the last possible second. One might looks at her and draw the conclusion that she wasn't particularly intelligent. That, however, would be wrong.

Emma was born into a position of affluence, the only child of a pair of successful industrial magnates. It was later agreed by both of her parents that their child was a supreme disappointment and a huge mistake, so they never conceived again. Early in their daughter's life her parents thought they were blessed with an incredibly intelligent child, but it was not until she began school that they found out that this was not the case. Emma saw little point in schooling, having been handed everything she had wanted. She simply didn't think it mattered, since it didn't, and quickly found herself with failing grades. She would always get whatever she asked for, wouldn't she? After being expelled from her first school she found herself bouncing around several affluent academies, finding little success in any of them.

When she finished her mandatory schooling Emma's parents found that no college would take her, and that Emma would take no college. Emma was now effectively NEET. After that she spent all her time lazing around, not motivated to find a job or get back into school, as her parents were not motivated to motivate her. To them she was nothing more than a failure, and they let her do what she wanted. Emma didn't have to worry about money- her parents took care of that and servants prepared her meals, so she spent the next several years doing nothing of particular importance. She went outside sometimes, and did take care of herself to a minimal degree, but for all intents and purposes she had dropped off the face of the earth.

That, perhaps, might have continued if it wasn't for the powers Emma began to develop. Emma became lucid of her growing powers, and it didn't take long for one of her maids to notice her playing with the darkness. Soon enough her parent's would discover her latent abilities after firing one too many maids that reported the same unbelievable story, and soon enough Emma's parents decided that Emma had no place within their household. She was promptly sent away to college against her will.

Despite her glaring shortcomings Emma is a kind person. She is, in fact, quite friendly when she is in the mood for it. That is, as long as she isn't being 'bothered' by other people, and is instead the one looking for social contact. Indeed, when not found napping Emma is quite the charming young women, and is fairly eager to make friends... on her own terms. To those she can call a friend, Emma is quite loyal, and might actually be persuaded to 'try' when it comes to helping them.

[Letter Bee]

@Diggerton, approved.

[BreakingMe]

Lotus Snow (hunter)

Name: Elise “Lotus” Snow

Appearance:


Age: 26

Sex: Female

Power: n/a
- extensive weapons training due to her police career and family history
- high proficiency with on foot and vehicular chases
- krav maga practitioner

Short bio:Lotus was born to a family of law enforcement. Her father was a cop, her grandfather was a cop, and his father was a cop. From the time she was born, all she ever wanted to be was a cop. Her wish came true when she graduated top of her class at the police academy. She loved the experience of chasing criminals, relished in the idea of justice, and lived for the satisfaction of knowing it was her hand that put them there. Soon after her 23th birthday, Lotus met a man she would quickly fall in love with and marry.

Josh was everything she longed for in a soul mate. He was kind and passionate and loved her deeply. One night, Lotus received a call of a homicide within the vicinity of her home. When she arrived, she found her neighbor dead and her husband covered in burns. The only words he managed were “star child” before he died. Lotus was distraught. She pursued this phrase “star child” with every resource she had available to her.

Two months later, the chief of police called her into his office after a particularly exhausting day. Two government agents waited there for Lotus. They told her they had been tracking her star child research and asked if she was interested in finding these children for their organization, as a permanent job. She immediately jumped aboard.

[Narcotic Dollie]

I expressed interest in this earlier, but I'm getting a little bogged down and I'd hate to slow this story down, so I'm just letting you know I won't be creating a character. Sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused!

[Letter Bee]

@Narcotic Dollie, It's okay, as long as we know.

[Letter Bee]

@BreakingMe, I would approve, but the bio interferes with quite a few [SPOILERS].

I'll reveal them to you and RedXCross through PM.

[XxLyraxX]

Celeste

Celeste Amalthea Deimos

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Christopher Columbus

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Personal Information

Name:
Celeste Amalthea Deimos

Nickname:
Cel, Thea

Birth Date:
December 21st

Age:
15 years of age

Gender:
Female

Power:
Lie Detection- She has the power to be able to know when someone is lying to her.

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In The Mirror

In Depth Appearance:
Standing at 4’7, Celeste is a very petite and slender girl. She weighs around 95 lbs and isn’t very strong. Her hair falls well past her waist in a tumble of colorful curls. Celeste's physique could be described as slender and even so far as calling it petite.

Clothing Style:
Her clothes themselves mostly consist of sweaters that are a size too big and a mixture of pants, leggings, and skirts. She has a few tank tops and shirts with colorful designs and she tends to mix-and-match her outfits even if the colors clash. She has a few shoes though her favorite are a pair of paint-splattered converse that she tends to wear even if it doesn’t go with her chosen outfit.

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Delving Deeper

Likes:

• Reading
• Writing
• Watching the sunrise
• Animals
• Playing her violin. Sounds a bit like this
• Singing
• Drawing/Painting

Dislikes:

• Mean/Rude people
• Loud noises
• People judging others based off of looks
• People hurting animals
• Being made fun of

Phobia's:

• Acrophobia - the fear of heights
• Herpetophobia - the fear of reptiles
• Nyctophobia - the fear of the dark

Habits:

• Biting her bottom lip when nervous
• Her nose scrunches up when he disagrees with something
• Tends to blush and look at the ground when lying

Personality:
♦ Kind ♦ Shy ♦ Stubborn ♦ Caring ♦
Celeste is normally described as a kind and caring individual. She tends to put others needs before her own and won't hesitate to help someone if she feels they are in need of assistance. She also has her shy moments where she tends to look at the ground and not really talk to anyone. She gets nervous when meeting new people and doesn't speak much until she gets to know them better. Despite all of this, Celeste has a stubborn streak and will not budge if she sets her mind to something. She's not one to anger easily but once she is watch out because she can have quite the temper and is not afraid to give you a piece of her mind. Of course, afterwards she will be completely mortified by what she said and will apologize profusely to the person she grew angered at. If she thinks they deserve it that is. If she feels you completely had what was coming to you, not one word of apology will leave her lips though secretly she will still feel rather bad about it. Another trait of Celeste's is that she has a bad habit of bottling up her problems so the people around her will not worry. Even if she is having the worst day imaginable she will still put on a smile and say everything is fine.

Background:
Growing up, Celeste never knew her real father, the man having left when he discovered Celeste's mother was pregnant. When her mother's parents found she was pregnant at just 18, they disowned her and therefore it was up to her to raise Celeste all on her own. As Celeste grew older, she vowed she would protect her mother. However, despite her best efforts, when a man came along expressing interest in her mother Celeste was unable to do anything. The man, John he was called, had a steady job and seemed like a nice guy. Celeste's mother fell right into his lap. However, after they got married just a few months after meeting, John's true colors began to show.

No longer was he the smiling man who offered to take Celeste out for ice cream. Instead he wasted all their money on alcohol and ordered Celeste's mother around. This soon began to have an effect on her mother and soon their night-time readings drew to a close. Her mother smiled less and laughed even sparingly. Her mother would grow angry whenever Celeste would mention maybe leaving John and she didn't even bat an eye when John grew violent and took to abusing Celeste, both physically and mentally. Soon after that Celeste stopped talking and grew panicked if anyone tried to force her to talk. Every night Celeste prayed it was all a bad dream and it would all go away.

When Celeste turned nine everything changed. She had been at the park when a boy around her age came up and started talking to her. His name was Oberon. He didn't comment on the fact she didn't talk nor did he try to make her. He just jabbered on and on and the next day when she was once again sitting on the swings in the park the boy showed up, this time with a pad and a pencil so she could talk with him. Over the years the two became fast friends and he would patch her up when John fell into one of his drunken rages. When Celeste's powers began developing, Oberon didn't freak out and run away. Instead he told her how cool it was and offered to help her figure out how her power worked. They ran little tests, Oberon coming up with a lie and seeing if she could detect it. He became her anchor when there was no one else. They went to the same middle school however when Celeste showed a higher intelligence than her peers and skipped grades she feared she and Oberon would grow apart.

Thankfully that wasn't the case and even when she was leagues ahead of him in school he still remained faithfully by her side.

[Letter Bee]

@XxLyraxX, Approved.

[RomanAria]

Andromeda Thomson

Name: Andromeda “Andie” Renee Thomson
Appearance: Andromeda is quite short, about 4’10” tall, as her life of intense gymnastics would indicate. She’s quite muscular, with an athletic, rather than feminine, figure. Her face could be considered lovely, her skin pale and unblemished, cheekbones and delicate nose dusted with freckles. Her eyes are a luminous blue, set under thick eyelashes and well-maintained eyebrows.
Not entirely in keeping with this pretty face is her thick chocolate hair. It used to be almost down to her thighs, falling in gentle waves. Now she wears it in a boy’s cut, barely more than fuzz on her scalp, in support of her little sister.
Age: 17
Sex: Female
Power: She has enhanced speed/reflex times and flexibility. She isn’t aware that it’s a power, she just thinks she’s gifted.

Short bio: Andromeda is the middle Thomson child, with a much older brother Orion and her three-years younger sister Aurora. The children of an oncologist and an anesthesiologist, they were all pushed very hard into life sciences and medicine.

Andie didn’t want to be a doctor. She wanted to be a dancer. Her parents told her that she couldn’t make a living as a dancer… then, when she was three years old, she saw the gymnastics national competition. She told her parents that she wanted to try gym. They were skeptical at first but she kept begging them until they finally gave in and let her, starting when she was three. When she was six she made the Washington state team. By the time she was nine she made the national age group team and it was looking like she could make a run for the Olympics.

That was when Aurie got sick. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. For a while it didn’t look like she was going to live, despite the doctor’s assurances that 98% of all leukemia patients survived. And so Andie abandoned her gymnastics career to spend time with her little sister. Thinking she might only have a few weeks or months with her. It took a year of chemo before Aurie went into remission. Things were looking good for a while and it looked like both girls might be able to go back to living. And then the cancer came back. For six years it seemed like it’s been living in various extended-stay hotels while Aurie’s been at treatment.

Finally things have settled down a bit. Andie’s in her second year of college; she graduated high school at the age of fifteen (having done classes at an online academy), right around when Aurie was finally released from the hospital. She’s started getting back into gymnastics and finding that her skills have not deteriorated all that much.

Aurora Thomson

Name: Aurora “Aurie” Grace Thomson
Appearance: Aurora is even shorter than her sister, about 4’5” tall. But the similarities end there. Rather than a muscular build, she’s quite frail, often confined to a wheelchair because of how weak she is. Her skin is a sickly chalk-white color, her veins standing out darkly under it. Her eyes are still bright, though, icy blue and very attentive. Thanks to the chemotherapy she’s gone entirely bald, though she used to hide that fact by wearing a shoulder-length brown wig. Now she just doesn’t bother; even without any chemo for almost a year it seems her hair is unable to grow back.
Age: 14
Sex: Female.
Power: She doesn’t seem to have manifested an extra power yet, though it seems people tend to be swayed to listen to her point of view, if she wants them to be. (Her power is ultimately going to be telepathy, the ability to implant false memories and thoughts in people's minds.)
Short bio:
Aurie was always accelerated at learning. Reading by the time she was two, speaking three languages when she was three. She started playing flute, well, piccolo (because flutes were too big for her little hands) when she was three and a half.

Everything was all fine and dandy; she had just started kindergarten when she started feeling sick all the time. There were bruises under her skin for no reason, for she was never hurt by her siblings nor parents. She got nosebleeds a lot and seemed to always run a fever. After an episode of fainting, they took her to the doctor, and they told her she had leukemia. Her hopes of being a normal kid were crushed.

She tried to study as best as she could while in the hospital, and she even accelerated faster than normal (well, what else was she supposed to do while stuck in a hospital room for days on end, feeling too nauseated to walk or watch TV?) finishing with what was considered the third grade curriculum by the end of that year. The doctors told her she was in remission and everything seemed good. She went back to public school and picked up her instrument again.

Not three months later she was back in the hospital, the cancer having come back with a vengeance. On and on this cycle has repeated since then, until Aurie’s twelfth birthday. That was when the doctors last told her she was in remission, and she hasn’t had a relapse since.
She started college last year, at the same time as Andie, having petitioned and been allowed to get her GED (Her Make-A-Wish had been simply, “I wish to have my high school diploma before I die.”) back when it seemed like the cancer was terminal.

Currently, she takes classes online from Washington University (and takes band class in-person there as well.)

[Scarifar]

Just a slight nitpick on Aurora, that's not what telepathy is. Telepathy is simply the transfer of thoughts to and/or from others. What you are describing seems to be a form of mind manipulation.

[RomanAria]

@Scarifar Whoops. that's fixed now. Thanks

[Scarifar]

@RomanAria it still says telepathy.

Hell, I'm not even sure if this will be accepted. Powers like that are often rejected for obvious reasons.

[Letter Bee]

@RomanAria, Approved.

[TaliPaendrag]

Alexandria Kinsley

Name: Alexandria (Lexi) Jane Kinsley
Appearance:
Considering the fact that Lexi barely reaches 4'2” and that she weighs a measly 60 lbs, it's relatively clear that she's not going to be able to throw her weight around effectively in any kind of combat situation. It's also quite clear from her lack of any sort of defined musculature that she's certainly not going to have any kind of natural power to anything she tries to do to hurt someone.

Afflicted with albinism, Lexi's appearance can be quite... disconcerting at first, what with her bright red eyes, ghostly pale skin, and her snow white, shoulder-length hair. She usually leaves her hair down, as she just can't really be bothered to do more than just run a brush/comb through it when she gets up. Lexi’s typical attire consists of denim jeans or shorts and regular t-shirts without graphics, as she finds them to be rather irritating on her skin. Additionally, she typically just wears regular sneakers.
Age: 14
Sex: Female
Power: Telekinesis - Currently at the ability to move small objects (i.e. less than 50 lbs tops) in linear paths, or poke someone kind of hard.
Short bio: Lexi was born on February 29th as the youngest of four to the locally-renowned Kinsley family. Despite the fact that her family was quite well-off, growing up was rather difficult for Lexi. This difficulty was essentially due to the fact that Lexi always felt like the black sheep of the family due to the fact that her siblings were triplets born a whole six years ahead of her and the fact that she was freakishly intelligent, which became apparent very early on in her childhood because she and her siblings were home-schooled, allowing her to graduate at the tender age of twelve.

The feeling of isolation she felt was only compounded by the fact that Lexi has synesthesia, or confusion of the senses, which is a condition in which certain stimuli can trigger other senses, like a musical note corresponding to a specific color. Even though she knows it’s not normal, she’s rather grateful for the condition, as the sensations are virtually always pleasant and helpful in her music and art.

As Lexi grew up, she became better able to accept the fact that she was different than her family. She was even able to accept it as more or less a part of herself when her powers manifested the year before when she was trying to reach something on the counter and it just moved into her hand, practicing with them occasionally since.

Unfortunately, the confidence that she had developed in her identity was shaken a bit when she began taking classes at the community college, as most of the other students weren’t too thrilled to know that a middle-schooler was taking the same classes that they were and excelling with no difficulty. Because of this, they had a tendency to be rude and hurtful to the young girl every time she tried to socialize with them, the end result being a decreased willingness to take the initiative to try and get to know others.

Hopefully, this is acceptable. It's been a while since I last joined a roleplay, so forgive me if I'm a bit rusty. Let me know if anything needs changing. :D

[XxLyraxX]

@TaliPaendrag
The age range is 14+ and your character is 13.

[Letter Bee]

@Scarifar, Ah, didn't see this. Well, my own thoughts are that I assumed this would be changed to actual telepathy, or that mind control can be resisted by willpower.

@RomanAria

@TaliPaendrag, it would be acceptable if not for the hormone disorder; I don't think that someone with a five-year old's physique would make a good fighter, and there's going to be a lot of fighting.

Edit: And the age thing; sorry for being absent-minded, was playing Crusader Kings II.

[TaliPaendrag]

Sorry about the age thing. My bad. Hopefully everything's fixed.

[Letter Bee]

@TaliPaendrag, Accepted now.