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Santa Celia: Coast to Coast

Nicole

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Nicole plastered a smile over her face as she heard the door open behind her, standing up and turning around to greet what must be her last customer of the day. Her smile brightened again as she recognized Archie, sheepishly standing in her doorway.

"Archie! Back again? I was just about to close up shop, but it's not like I have anywhere to be. Come on in, I'll make some coffee and we can talk." Nicole tossed the rag she was using over the counter, curving it a little in midair to make sure it landed in the sink, and crossed behind the bar herself to start up her coffee making machinery. "Let me guess, you need another set of clothes? I swear, the way you go through them you'd have to be ruining them every night. If you told me what you were doing with them I could make them to last, you know?"

She glanced up at Archie with a pointed look as the tools of her trade whirred to life, as if trying to see into his head. Soon enough she dropped her gaze back to her task, dragging two clean mugs from the dish drawer. She picked two of the largest she had, since she figured it was going to be a long night, and Archie didn't seem like he was planning on calling it a night himself.

@JunkMail

Santa Celia: Coast to Coast

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𝒟𝒾𝓃𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒞𝑜𝓇𝓃𝑒𝓇

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Time of day: Night
Weather: Rain

Nicole glanced out the window of her store, watching the rain fall on the sidewalk outside. She paused in cleaning the table she was working on and cast her gaze over her shoulder, looking over the rest of the store. There were no customers inside, either in the small cafe area or the larger clothing store. The only other person in the building was Gabriel, working with one of the machines behind the bar.

"Gabe, go ahead and head out. I'll take care of cleanup. I don't think anybody else is coming in tonight. You can take tomorrow off too, if you want. I got a special order today, so I'll probably be working on that." Nicole smiled at her only employee. Gabriel nodded and set down his rag.
"I'll see you Friday then," he muttered, grabbing his bag and umbrella and heading out the door. Gabriel was always quiet when it was just the two of them, preferring to stay silent if nothing needed to be said. Nicole kept smiling as he left, only letting her expression drop when she was sure nobody could see. Heaving a sigh, she went back to cleaning the tables, not bothering to lock the door yet.

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The shop was called The Woven Roast, a relatively small corner store on the Valley edge of Santa Celia. It was family owned, going back two generations, well liked by it's regulars and completely unknown to everybody else. Recently, it had gone through a rebranding, the Cafe side of the business taking a back seat to Nicole's specialty clothing store. With her power an open secret, Nicole wove special traits into her wares, creating scarves that warmed themselves when tied, or shirts that stayed cool in any weather. She even advertised for special orders, if somebody wanted something not on the shelf. The new direction had driven away some of the store's regulars, but with the money she was making now, Nicole could afford the loss of business. Her real target customers were the type that often needed maintenance on their outfits, so she could be sure she wouldn't be running out of money soon.

Santa Celia: Coast to Coast

Taylor

_______________________________________________ Nicole Marie Hanson _______________________________________________ 1993-12-20 | 24 | Caucasian _______________________________________________ Single | ♀ | Predominately Hetero _______________________________________________ College (2 Years) | Coffee Shop Owner/Tailor _______________________________________________ Physical Profile ___________________________________ [+] //Basics: • Height | 5' • Weight | 102 lbs • Build | Petite • Hair Colour | Blonde • Eye Colour | Green Miscellaneous Items ___________________________________ [+] //Notes: • Lightweight, Hard stuff only | It doesn't take much alcohol for Nicole to call it quits, though she tends to sober up quickly once she does. Many people are surprised at her choice of drink, as the only alcohol she enjoys are whiskey and rum. //Paraphernalia: • Cerberus Whip | A pet project of Nicole's, this whip is an experiment on using her abilities offensively. The entire weapon is made of toughened, weighted cloth, and woven into the last three feet of the rope is a thread that burns on contact with skin. The idea is to wrap the burning part around an exposed limb, but she hasn't had the nerve to try it on anybody.

Appearance Details ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Nicole is very small, and is often mistaken for someone much younger than she is. She tries to compensate for her youthful appearance by wearing her hair in a bun, using glasses instead of contacts, and wearing bulky clothing like sweaters and scarves. She wears only light makeup, if any at all, and has no tattoos or piercings. Her slender figure and small stature lead many to refer to her as 'cute', though she insists she is mearly average. Personality ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ On the surface, Nicole is very bubbly and cheerful, bordering on airheaded. She greets everyone with a smile or motherly concern, whichever is waranted, and always has time to listen to someone talk about their day. Behind closed doors, however, Nicole tends to focus on her own failings, percieved or real, and slowly loses any desire to do things. Left alone for long enough, Nicole will become less and less active, eventually performing only the neccessary day-to-day tasks she must. Lately, this has become less of a problem as she has a store to run and customers to see to, but occasionally her old habits resurface.

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Nicole was born in Santa Celia, where her parents ran a small coffee shop that had just enough regulars to keep the doors open. She lived a fairly idylic life, helping her parents out in the shop when she could and spending time with her friends or at school. She discovered she had powers when she was 14, when she was fussing over a frayed seam on one of her shirts and managed to accidentally unravel the whole thing, then managed to get herself completely tangled in the resulting pile of thread. It took her parents two hours to rescue her, durring which there was an inevitable panic, then a conversation about how this had happened and finally a caution from her parents to keep herself safe and not get herself in trouble. From then on she experimented with her powers in secret, managing to make it to the end of high school without any major issues. Just as she began college, however, news stories began to circulate about people with extraordinary abilities alternately committing and stopping crimes. By the end of her second year, Nicole decided she was tired of keeping her abilities secret, and moved back home to take over her family store, adding her own touch to the business by opening a specialty clothing store, where she could sell clothing with a bit of extra function or, for a higher price, certain specialty orders. After all, she reasoned, if there are going to be superheroes, somebody is going to have to make their suits.

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_//Abiliites:

Thread/Cloth Control | Nicole has full control over the movement of thread in her vicinity. She can move it precisely enough that she can weave thread into high quality cloth, and can extend her awareness into the thread to manipulate it on a much finer level than modern machinery.

Fabric Modification | Nicole can imbue thread and cloth with special properties, from extra durability or fire resistance to glowing or color-changing. This process takes more time and energy than simply manipulating the cloth.

Limitation(s) | Nicole's Thread Control is very short range, only extending about five feet from her body. Moving thread with any precision requires focus, almost to the point of trance, so anything more than broad movment is dificult outside of a controled environment. Changing the properties of cloth takes even more focus, and leaves her weak after any serious work.

Weakness(es) | Nicole has very low combat ability. Physically she is below average for a normal human, and her powers have almost no direct combat application.

_//Skills:

Clothes Making | Nicole is very skilled at making clothing using her power. The variety and quality of her work is on par with some major clothing manufacturers.
Cooking | Nicole spent most of her early life learning to cook and work in a kitchen helping out her parents.

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To be determined.

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Santa Celia: A Superhuman Vigilante RP

I dunno. It was like, 15 pages long at the time so I didn't argue.

Santa Celia: A Superhuman Vigilante RP

I mean specifically because it was too long for an interest check. I'm very careful about posting in the right places. Ever since the... event...

Santa Celia: A Superhuman Vigilante RP

I feel singled out then... last time I did an int check I got told it needed to be moved...

Santa Celia: A Superhuman Vigilante RP

I can understand it, it expresses interest and compliments the creator, but also makes it clear that they won't be joining us.

This is getting almost unreasonably large for just an interest check. I would reccomend putting together an OOC for everyone to gather in before the mods take notice.

Santa Celia: A Superhuman Vigilante RP

I considered it and decided I like magic, so I'm writing up a recipe list for potions.

Santa Celia: A Superhuman Vigilante RP

I'd like it to be at least a bit superpowery, but I'll consider it.