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Full Name: Vera
Nicknames/Aliases: V; Siren; Flower of the Wastelands; The Lost Angel
Age: 20
Gender: female
Gift: voice manipulation and "charmspeak"
Loyalty: She lives for herself and for Koto, her family.
Description: Anyone who sees Vera would describe her as purely beautiful, so much that they will never think she is an Ashlander because of her looks and complexion. Her fair skin, bright blue eyes, and long pink hair are her defining features.
Personality: Vera is very much the opposite of the stereotypical Ashlander traits: she is always calm, soft-spoken, and graceful. People often mistake her as emotionless because she always wears a "poker face"-like expression and is both honest and straightforward. Despite all these, she is a courageous, brave, and loyal woman to the people who will love and accept her as their own. Overall, she is a very kind person and will stay that way until she is faced with a person who intends to hurt her loved ones. If she does, her beautiful face and angelic voice will be the last things you'll see and hear in your life.
Skills: Vera has the power to freely manipulate her voice in any way she wants: she can copy the voice of other people, animals, and even sound effects such as explosions, gunfire, static, thunder, and more. She can determine illusions and psychic-induced hallucinations from reality just by listening to their voices, as she can determine which is real from the fake ones. Offensively, she can use her Gift as a supersonic cry that blows people away from her and be deaf and dazed for a short time. If her voice is raised on a higher module, she is able to crack glass and destroy stones to rubble.
Additionally, Vera can persuade people into doing her bidding by just talking to them; it also applies to when she sings. Her talent in singing is a more powerful medium for her persuasion because everyone likes a good music. It is also advantageous for her when in combat as singing is a fighter that will least expect in battle, taking them by surprise and making them unable to defend themselves mentally. The more the listener is infatuated by her, the more they are susceptible to her persuasion.
Life as an Ashlander is hard and rough on its own. People who live in the wastelands are cunning and will do anything to survive, making them highly unpredictable. Because of this, Vera has learned to read people based on their mannerisms, expressions, gestures, and especially the difference in the tone of their voice. She is very agile and quick to adapt to the enemy and their battlefield, though she really prefers to avoid any pointless bouts as much as she can. She is also a skilled thief thanks to her charming beauty and Gift, making her the least person you would mistake as a burglar.
Weaknesses: In order to copy a person's and an animal's voice as well as a sound effect, she actually has to hear them personally. Of course, the biggest weaknesses of her Gift are when the person she's tricking with cannot understand the language she is speaking, wearing earphones or other objects that can block out sound, deaf, mentally on guard, has a huge amount of willpower, or is either too intelligent to outsmart or too dumb to understand what she is saying. Ultimately, in order for others to believe in what she's saying, she has to believe it herself as well. One example is ordering her loved ones to kill themselves: she can't make them do the act as Vera herself is against with what she's making them do, making the persuasion ineffective and useless. In fights, she is really weak against opponents who are physically stronger and bigger than her.
Lastly, Vera may be able to persuade the mind, but she can never persuade the heart.
Brief History: None.
That's what Vera thinks of whenever she wants to remember her past. No matter how hard she tries, she's always drawing a blank. Along with the effort of remembering comes the feeling of uneasiness: she finds it really odd for her to completely forget her childhood even though she has good memory herself. In this age where the Gifted is the majority of the population of the whole world, she drew a conclusion that whoever did this to her is afraid of what Vera knew in the past. However, she's also baffled that she can remember her name, a song, and her birthday. Once a year, a comet comes close to the earth, illuminating the night sky with its pink and golden lights. It always happens in a specific day in a year but Vera can absolutely tell that the day the comet would come is her birthday. She does not know if these things were forgotten by the doer to erase or left it mercifully for her to remember, but she knows deep in her heart that these three valuable possessions of hers will the keys to unlock her past.
Since she was young, she would always sing her heart out whenever she is alone venturing in the middle of the night. Those who can hear her song but cannot see hear can tell that the singer is in grief, longing for something she couldn't achieve, or has lost something valuable in her life. Those who heard her spoke about their experiences to others until the rumor of a 'lost angel' has been spread all over the Ashlands. Until this day, no one knows who and how The Lost Angel looks like. Those who have seen Vera but have no knowledge of her Gift described her as being as beautiful as a blooming flower in a desert which is also how people started calling her the 'Flower of the Wastelands'.
Even as a child, she knew how harsh and cruel life in the Ashlands can be. She learned to trust and be attached to nobody since that "incident". That all changed until she met Koto Wolfram. They were hostile to each other at first, but it seems like Fate willed them to meet again. In time, they became inseparable. She has found loving and acceptance in Koto that she didn't get from anybody. At last, her wish to have a family came true, and she will do anything in her power to protect her family.
