cosmiccowgirl — Roleplayer Guild

a tentative and hopeful search for "the bad batch"!


basic details
- 1x1, private/pms
- multi-paragraph, 3rd person
- romance, action, adventure
- 18+, (violence, dark/heavy themes, romance)
- would prefer not to double x'3

basic plot ideas
- could take place during the events of the last season of tbb or after (after the first ending, before the final scene with Hunter/Omega)
- I'm looking for someone willing to play Crosshair against my fem!oc <3
- my oc is a human whose younger sister is force-sensitive; the two of them were in hiding together after Order 66 but (via some incident I'm not entirely decided on lol) get separated. more info available via pms :3
- I was thinking about my oc potentially running into the batch when they pass through the planet she's on for whatever reason; maybe she attempts to stowaway on their ship, maybe she helps them out somehow, maybe she asks for their help, etc. or, maybe she runs into/helps Omega and Crosshair after they've escaped from Hemlock and are attempting to reconnect with Hunter and Wrecker. I'd love to chat about it via pms and figure out an actual plot lol <3

if anyone's at all interested or has questions, please don't hesitate to reach out! <3

Alriiiiigggghhhtttt here's a finally updated version! Changed the codename to suit her power a little more, also because I didn't want there to be any confusion between "Blackstar" and "Blackweb" lol. I changed up the history just a touch to reflect the changes to powers, and I made a note about her being in contact with the Rebel Army -- I was thinking she can be part of the outside forces involved in the jailbreak? Otherwise I wanted to leave it a little vague, because I don't think she's the type to totally commit to a group without fully trusting/knowing the leadership, but I also think she'd want to help out some fellow Gifted folks :>

Alaine Barrows
Basic Information

| Name |
Alaine Star Barrows

| Code Name |
starblade

| Date of Birth |
january 18th; 25 years old

| Gender |
female

| Sexuality |
straight/heterosexual

| Relationship Status |
single

| Race |
gifted

| Gifted Class |
beta (moderate threat)

| Allegiance |
loner/rebel army

| In-Depth Appearance |
Alaine stands at an average height of 5'6 and weighs something around 165 lbs. She's on the curvier side but tends to stay in shape for the most part, partially because she rarely has time to sit around idle. Her eyes are a pale grey-blue that can appear darker or lighter in different settings, with light brown/dark blonde hair that falls somewhere past her shoulders and is often pulled back in a half-up, half-down style. She has fair skin with a fair smattering of little scars from various incidents, both from her childhood and more recent years, none of which are overly prominent. She has a beauty mark just outside of her left eye, and a few random, dark freckles across her body. Generally she wears dull colors and simple clothes -- jeans, t-shirts, flannels, old jackets, worn cowboy boots. She loves a nice comfy sweater, but hasn't had the luxury of finding a nice snuggly one in a couple of years. She doesn't bother with makeup or jewelry, aside from a single, stainless steel ring full of miniscule scratches and scuffs and a friendship bracelet made for her by her sisters, which is usually tucked into a pocket rather than worn.

Who Am I?

| Personality |
♦ Loyal ♦ Rebellious ♦ Observant ♦ Vengeful ♦

Alaine is overall a kind, friendly, hardworking individual. She's naturally quiet and more of a loner, but in a group she does her best to make everyone feel comfortable and keep things running smoothly, if it's needed -- otherwise she tends to fade into the background and observe. Despite these quiet tendencies, she's more than capable of sticking up for herself. She's earned a reputation in certain circles as being tough, independent, and a bit of a vigilante, never one to back down from a fight when someone's honor or safety is on the line. She's fiercely loyal but has a hard time making good friends because she's had her loyalty taken advantage of before, and blames herself for several incidents that led her to believe she was better off on her own. Even though she tells herself that often, she still feels very lonely at times and wouldn't mind someone to be close to. 

She has a tendency to be protective over people she likes, or those that remind her of her younger siblings. Although she's patient in many ways she also has no fondness for arrogance, cruelty, and people who don't use their heads, and she's been known to keep a grudge (most significantly her grudge against the Hunter who killed her family).

| Likes & Dislikes |
✔ animals, flying, chocolate, stars, polaroid photos, the country
✘ crowds, alcohol, hot weather, constantly hiding, tomatoes, being restrained

Abilities and Skills
dark energy blades;; The ability to manifest "blades" made of some kind of dark energy is an ability Alaine has had since she was a child, although her blades were only a foot or less long until she was about twenty. She believes this power was influenced by her mother's genes, as her mother was a telekinetic of the psionic variety, known to produce and throw energy blasts from her hands. With concentration, Alaine is able to create two "blades" of energy around her hands and lower arms that, so far, can reach two feet from the center of her palm. They appear as triangular fields of dark energy that have a negative appearance and create an inverted/negative effect on her hands, arms, and anything that goes within the field of the blade. When used to cut or stab, these energy blades act much like a Star Wars lightsaber -- when interacting with organic matter they can cause heavy burns and tend to cauterize wounds, sealing in the damage so that the victim is more likely to bleed and burn internally than bleed out. She has been able to sever limbs thus far, as well as cut through many non-living materials (metal, wood, etc.).
Alaine is unaware of the full potential and limits of this power, having only started to put it to use during the past eight years. The strength and endurance of these energy blades depends on her mental state, as far as she can tell. While she can manifest them without a strong emotional feeling, they seem to last longer and become stronger when backed with a high level of emotion and/or adrenaline -- rage and desperation, most significantly. How easily she's able to cut through things is determined by similar means. She's not able to penetrate every obstacle, and depending on the thickness or material of an object it might take several strikes to cut through if she's able to damage it at all. So far, various metals have proved the least effected by her energy blades and take the most effort to damage. If Alaine is tired or unfocused enough, she can't effectively manifest or maintain her blades. 

notes;; Alaine has a more receptive mind when it comes to the telepathic or psychic abilities of others. Her mother taught her from a young age how to open or block her mind to psychic advances, and she often has a mental wall up that renders casual mind-reading unsuccessful (not so much more focused/powerful efforts to access her mind). She lacks the ability to initiate telepathic connections herself, although she's easy to maintain a mental connection with when she's not blocking it. Thanks to her mother's teaching, she's generally aware of when someone is trying to access her mind. 
This is not an a power or ability, more of a learned skill.

| History |
Alaine was born the oldest of six children to a humble family in Alabama, in the USA. Her parents were both Gifted, but they'd settled far enough in a rural area that they were largely out of the public eye. They chose to homeschool their six children to further protect them from unwanted discrimination and reporting, which overall worked out well until Alaine was about seventeen. Several of her siblings had begun manifesting powers while others were too young or seemed to simply carry the Gifted genes and not show any powers, and even in their rural surroundings it was hard to keep a Gifted family of eight from being noticed.

When Alaine was seventeen the government came knocking on the Barrows' door, demanding they turn themselves in for monitoring and observation in a controlled facility. Her parents, Roger and Laverne Barrows, refused to cooperate and attempted to fend off government-sent Hunters while allowing their children to escape.

They were unsuccessful.

Alaine, tasked with getting her siblings to safety, was forced to watch her parents be killed before her own attempts at protecting her young siblings were foiled, and the six Barrows children were brought under government supervision. Separated and "monitored" for three years, all but Alaine resisted to the point of death... or at least so she was told. Although enduring torturous experimentation herself, upon hearing her siblings were dead she flew into a rage, displaying a level of power she'd previously never used. Finding herself able to manifest two-foot, volatile energy blades in her extreme anger and pain, Alaine successfully broke free of her restraints, killing and injuring anyone who stood in her way. Her attempts to locate her siblings within the facility where she was housed proved fruitless, and she's since come to believe they really are dead.

Since her escape, she's been roaming on her own and traveling from one place to another, rarely staying for more than a few months and always in hiding. There was a year after her escape where she sought out and broke into government facilities in search of her siblings, but now she tends to avoid conflict where possible and focuses on helping other Gifted she comes in contact with. She's heard of the Rebel Army but isn't sure what to make of it, hesitant to join without being certain of their goals and motives.

While she doesn't actively seek them out, she's always on the watch for the Gifted Hunter that murdered her parents and had herself and her siblings captured. She's vowed to kill them if she ever finds them again.

Currently she's been visiting with the Gifted Rebel Army, and has made plans to help them stage a "jailbreak" of sorts at a large prison camp for Gifted.

| Family |
Parents; Roger & Laverne Barrows - deceased. Siblings; Brook, Grace, Ezra, Eli, Joy - assumed deceased. Used to have family pets, not sure where they are now or if they're still alive.

| Strengths |
>list>loyal, hardworking, resilient, brave, morally strong, realistic optimist, endurance, close combat

| Weaknesses |
rebellious, isolated, jealous, reckless, vengeful, reserved, heavy metals, restraints, mental exhaustion, long-range combat

The Other

| Theme Song |
Don't Give Up – Ursine Vulpine & Annaca
”Every time I fall 
I picture you by my side saying
'Don't give up now,
Pressure's on,
Hide and seek until they break you down'”

| Extra Information |
n/a for now <3

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