Sorry if i overdid it with the BBcode, i just like playing with this sorta things, also let me know if the writing style if maybe too silly or something else than what you'd like, also sitll need to work on the history, and maybe some other small additions, if it's too OP or something let me know ;)
Description and/or additional pictures are welcome. Please give height and weight.
Talana has short, fiery-red colored hair, spiked up in like a flame. Doesn't take much to make it look that way, sometimes even with a bit of spit and 2-3 sturdy hand moves, this marvel of a hairdo can be easily fashioned...at least that's what Talana would do. Isn't she charming?
Behind her big round glossy peridot-green eyes, a childish, innocent look can be seen, but more often than not, there's more mischief and playfulness hiding under there than anything. She does like winking a lot, most of the time making people feel somewhat awkward.
Her pale white skin makes it look like she's shining when the local stars rays wash over her. She's not a fan of it tho, she'd love to be tanned, but all she gets is pink...nasty burnt piggy pink. Sooo she avoids extreme burning conditions as much as possible.
Her physique is quite well built, not too muscular, not too lithe, just nicely toned. She got that from all the running around, jumping, climbing and other acrobatics she used to do in her teens. Just...like...a monkeeey. She'd weigh about 140lbs, despite looking around 130lbs - the Licenti symbiotic makes her more grounded and heavier despite not looking like it - with a height of around 5'7''.
Talana enjoyes wearing leather, like...a lot of leather...for like...always and everything. No one would be surprised if even her panties were made of leather. Long sleeve leather jacket, mostly in darker colors, dark brown, black..stuff like that. Same goes with le pants and long black belted boots, oh and let's not forget about the always-need-to-have fingerless leather gloves, like i said all dark and leathery...very shmexy. Two pistols can be seen hanging from her belt.
As far as make-up and accessories go, she doesn't tend to wear a lot of make-up, the sweat usually melts everything into a beautiful modern art piece. In her left ear, 5 earrings can be seen.
All over her back part of the body, from the nape to her heels, a veiny/rooty like appearance can be seen, its main source being the spinal cord which is covered in a combination of a spiky(dull) and rocky chitin. That...is Tarkan, a Licenti, her lover, the two of them having formed a symbiotic bond in which they share the same Anima and Vis, aiding each other, feeding each other and taking care of each other.
As far as personality goes, one would call Talana the spontaneous adventurous sort. She does indeed like exploring places and things, people and scenes. She has moments of humbleness and kindness, other times, tho rare you can feel her observant gaze trying to gather information about her surroundings. She's an encouraging and trustful person.
Of course she can't all be good now can she? *wink* She's...not the most gracious of people, more often than not she's quite direct, saying what's on her mind with an obliviousness that might stun you, let's call that sincerity shall we? She can be rude and vulgar at times...I mean, she swears quite a lot, but that's just how she grew up, and she really does use spit to make her hairdo...majestic creature this Talana.
When she get's really curious, she will most probably get quite obnoxious and impatient, but that doesn't usually last too long since you can shut her mouth pretty easily with a bit of attitude. Despite being a worry wart, she's quite impulsive and doesn't always stop to think things through, which let's say made her life quite a roller coaster, always getting into mischiefs and troubles.
On a day-by-day basis, you will probably find Talana in a cheerful mood, being silly and playful. She's usually quite talkative - this also play a part in her obnoxiousness sometimes -, stubborn and fidgety in nature, one of her favorite traits being her loyalty.
GM's can use any element from Talanas history if they so desire
Talana grew up with only her father, her mothers whereabouts being always unknown. Her father was a political figure, not an important one, but still one that might pose a thread to the wrong people. Talana was a mischievous child causing troubles around the house and neighborhood, but her father always knew how to tame her wild side. As far as character goes, he taught Talana to be a good person all around and not take everything for granted but appreciate as many things as she can.
One day, everything changed, there was a heated discussion at their door, Talana couldn't understand what it was about, but there were 3 weird looking people, all dressed in black with shades and intricate looking tattoos on their faces and hands - or at least the small parts that were visible - and her father. Her fathers last words were "Don't worry munchkin, papa will be back later today *smiles thoughtfully*" and left with those 3 people. He didn't return that day, Talana didn't sleep through the night still hoping that her father will return any time. The next day, people similar if not same as those from yesterday came knocking, but Talana was too scared to open the door. Instead, she decided to jump out the window and run away as far as her legs let her. Later that day she found out her house was burn to the ground by "unknown factors" from a Prae mass media agency who put the blame on the Licenti, but coming from the Prae, who Talana didn't really like, she was skeptical about it. For 1 year she tried finding the culprits, but since she had almost no experience or skills in this sorta activities, she gave up hope. She drastically changed her look as to not be found by said people, and her name, who btw, used to be Sophia Fredrikson, now Talana Volko.
Talana became a street urchin, still mischievous, she learnt how to survive in the slums with the help of other street urchins composed from mostly humans and a few Licentia, who were taken care by a Licenti called Tarkan. He would help them survive and take care of them while in return they would bring him goods. This went on for 10 years until Talana was 20, when she could easily call herself a full trained thief and "escape artist" (as far as running away from problems go), having lots of connections and ears around the slums. She's one of the few that ended up staying with Tarkan to run "the business" taking in other unfortunate souls and teaching them "the way of the hobo", as Talana would put it often. Tarkan and Talana became very close over these years, Tarkan seeing her grow up to the woman she was at the time.
But tragedies seem to keep following Talana...one day, their underground hideout was ambushed by...again Prae authorities, pushing Tarkan and Talana to leave everything behind in a rush, helping as many of their urchins to escape as they could... unfortunately some were captured and some were even killed..in the end, all that remained was the 2 of them. Over the next few years, Talana and Tarkan got even closer, eventually ending in having a romantic relationship. You would find them constantly together, if there was a Talana, there would've always been a Tarkan. But on a fine day of Wednesday, Tarkan "proposed" to her, the proposition being ... you guessed it, a fusion, a symbiotic relationship between the two, Talana agreeing with tears in her eyes. Since then, they are literally inseparable..hihi <3.
Since their union, they decided to settle down in a... more or less, shabby apartment - which they didn't mind to be honest - where they did their best to stay out of trouble and most peoples eyes, but still held connections in the area. They even arranged a botanical vis garden inside their abode, to nourish themselves having become "vegetarians". To hide their symbiotic nature, Talana plays as if being controlled by a Licenti, something that is considered normal in these times, while in reality they became one and the same entity, talking through telepathy and aiding each other when necessary.
Due to their new form, they started training in combat. Thanks to Tarkans Morpheum sub-race and having specialized in elemental transmutation, Talana possesses abilities such as shape shifting certain limbs and changing some parts into different elements. Of course some of these abilities are still in training.
Through their connections, one day, a rumor about a resistance against the Prae has been flying around that made both Talana and Tarkan wish to seek out more information about it, their ultimate motive for doing this being, a bit of revenge for the problems the Prae caused to both of them, but also to prove that Licenti are not as bad as the Prae make them out to be, that, with racial hatred set aside, peaceful cohabitation can be achieved, they being the living example of this ideal.
Mental: Talana has no special mental capabilities, she's not the brightest tool in the shed, but she can get around most stuff, she can be resourceful but that's it. Oh and she can telepathically talk to Tarkan due to their symbiotic relationship...yeah, almost forgot that part.
Most of the time, Talana can get by on her own, but if at one point she faces danger that she or Tarkan feels like she can't handle, Tarkan steps in and takes control over her mind and body to protect her, putting Talana in a more feral, wild, predator state. While this is not necessarily a mental capability, it's a type of defense mechanism, but it has its down sides, when in predator state, she does get bonus points on reflexes, speed and senses, but she becomes a bit squishier since Tarkan shifted from offering defense to boosting her movements to be harder to hit, rather than being able to take a hit.
Physical: Because of their symbiotic bond, Tarkans Form enhances Talanas physical abilities when needed. Talana can, at will (after training a good while) pick a limb/pair of limbs to enhance, giving her an edge during a situation. For example, she can choose to enhance her legs for a faster running speed, higher jumps, more powerful kicks, she could enhance her arms for carrying heavier objects, punching harder and so on.
She has a naturally tougher skin, something along the lines of thick leather. While it won't really stop a bullet, it would resist a normal blade slash unless some force was put behind it, same goes to piercing weapons.
The predator mode envelopes Talana into an enhancement armor. This does not offer extra protection damage resistance wise, but asa i said before it offers her boost to dodge, speed, flexibility and senses, her eyes taking a beast like shape also making her see better in the dark.
When in predator state during Tarkans control, if not even this form can save Talana from certain death, Tarkan uses his last ability to encase Talana in a hard chittin coffin like structure, let's call it Cocoon state, which IS possible to be broken, but one would need a lot of time, effort and power to do it. This however puts Talana in a short mental coma for like half a week to a week until she awakens, mostly fully healed and hopefully out of danger. This ability however drains a lot out of their Vis, thus having to go trough a full days worth of hunting to get their Vis energy back, and as they progress, maybe even more.
Another thing Tarkan offers is Shapeshifting abilities. Due to his Morpheum heritage, Tarkan gives Talana the power to shapeshift her limbs into something more useful to a dangerous situation. Notable "shapes" would be spiky razor like blade (razors facing downwards also acting as hooks), a rocky chittin shield - i know i know, chitin here, chitin there, chitin everywere -, whose resistance could fend of a magazine of a gun but not much more than that, a tentacle like whip (something like kerringans hair) and other random spikesin her body, while this is still a thing in training, it does cause Talana some degree of pain.
A recent ritual that Talana thought for her shapeshifting abilities that might or might not work is to subject her "shapes" to different natural harming elements. For example she applies small doses of acidic substance, extreme cold materials, small fire, poison scratches to her shield shape in order to increase its rezistance to such conditions, but it's still a work in progress, the resistance to such elements would be around 10% let's say. As far as the blade goes, it bathes it in some sort of poison, harmless to the touch but it becomes a problem once it enters your system if wounded, in hopes of dealing extra harm to those who pose a danger.
Beside the ritual, Talana and Tarkan also train his..or now their elemental transmutation abilities, taking time in changing forms from chittiny to rocky, to liquidy and so on. This however takes a lot of time to focus, taking Talana around 7 minutes to fully transmute.
Magical/Technological: Talana likes TRAINZ, CHOO CHOO ... no, no, I'm just joking, she does have a bit of low-dark vision and can see in the dark as if it was really dim light, but only in grayscale. Alsp you could count the fact that she can use her 2 pistols, or just pistols in general at an acceptable level...not a sharpshooter but she can hit 6-7 out of 10 times.
@yoshua171 1. in a symbiotic relationship between human and licenti, could the licenti parasite part enhance the humans physical abilities to some degree e.g. faster reflexes, stronger arms/legs, kinda like a body suit but for different parts of the body at a time, not the whole body at once
2. also hopefully for the last time, a licenti cannot in any form pull energy/consume vis from the enviroment, only from living beings right?
3. as far as gods and deities go, who are they? do humans still believe in god and jessus christ? or older gods like greek/egyptian/a.s.o? what about the other races?
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