Anna stands at five feet six inches and weighs in at one hundred and twenty four pounds. The first facial feature you’ll recognise of her are those highly distinctive turquoise eyes that she possess. Her face is heart-shaped, her nose pert, and her lips a healthy shade of pink. In times of happiness, darling little dents of delight appears on her youthful visage, the dimples ever present whenever any form of smile or grin makes itself known. Her shoulder-length hair is a rich shade of turquoise that may appear to be a lighter or darker hue, depending on the lighting conditions.
Her locks are normally worn down unless she is involved in activities that require ease of movement. Her skin is fair and creamy and boasts a hint of golden undertones and is unblemished without any sign of physical scars. If she was to be asked about her favourite feature, her eyes would win without any further hesitation on her part. Focused and expressive, her eyes are like windows to her soul, and carries a message even when her lips doesn’t. Her figure is pear-shaped with her fair share of muscles gained from her highly physical lifestyle as a snowboarder. Her bust is of a moderate size, and her hips slightly curvier than average. Her clothing is pretty subdued but still fashionable. Despite her wealth, she does not chase after brands, and she does not give off the impression that she's the daughter of a billionaire. Blouses, skirts and pants of dark hues are most common.
-✶ IN DEPTH ✶
personality
Stubbornness has always been a big part of her life, and the young girl had been chided many a time by her elders for being so unnecessary strong willed. When she was young, she had always proven to be an especially talkative and bubbly child who was very much someone who loved talking. Her peers used to often say that she could possibly even coax the spots off a leopard. That may not be necessarily true, but the girl was certainly not a quiet or negative one by any means.
Being brave and adventurous has been something Anna has never lacked from a young age. Being afraid of hardly anything, and highly inquisitive, she would be keen and curious enough to try everything and give it at least a go. Always chipper and energetic, there’s hardly any downtime with her, and she’ll always be going off doing something, or on route to doing some crazy activity. It isn’t wrong to say that she leads a hyperactive lifestyle and loves getting her hands dirty and involved..
She enjoys other people taking an interest in her activities and sometimes don’t even mind them getting into her space. Of course, that’s on the condition that they don’t intrude on her principles and freedom and she hopes they return in kind. She enjoys lending a hand and sharing their experience, especially with the people they care about. She may act all tough, but she’s actually a real softie. She’s not one quick to anger. It’ll take quite a bit to anger her, but once she does, you’re in for it. A highly emotional individual, she is also known to be incredibly passionate about what she believes in.
superpower
Neon Manipulation | Neokinesis
Anna can absorb, shape and manipulate neon, a colourless, odourless, and inert mono-atomic gas that glows a bright magenta when an electric current is passed through it. Using this ability, she is able to transform herself into neon to move around and react at superhuman speeds, jump large distances or even run up vertical surfaces like walls.
As she grows more familiar with her techniques in her new powers, she will find that she will be able to use these abilities in more advanced ways such as augmenting her kicks and punches with powered neon energy and firing off neon-powered blasts of energy. Currently, she is still getting a hang of her basic powers, and is still very much limited to the transforming into neon and moving and reacting at superhuman speeds aspect of her ability. In times of distress or nervousness, this can trigger her ability, turning her into bright magenta glowing swirls against her will. Being from New York City, which is very much a neon concrete jungle, everyone she walks near a neon sign or light, she also inadvertently absorbs some of the neon energy that remains within her body to use or expelled at a later date.
Weaknesses - Cannot her control of shifting as of yet and is often triggered by high states of emotional activity. - Overwhelming absorption of neon energy gives her a headache without knowing how to properly manage it. - She is unable to create this energy of her own and needs to absorb and store her own reserves of neon energy.
backstory
Anna was born in Saint Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia on a rather chilly morning still several hours too early before the sun would rise to take its throne in the sky. It was said that on this very day that she was born, the snow in the city reached a new record, rising at least five feet above its usual height. Some would say that her being born of this special day gave her a set of chocolate brown eyes that went along perfectly with her creamy complexion and her hair a rich brown, the colour of cocoa. A year after she was born, her younger brother Anton was born. Born into an extremely wealthy family, the two children had everything they desired. Vladimir Sukhinov was one of the richest oil tycoons in Russia and money was not a problem for the family growing up. Despite the riches, the two of them did not grow up spoiled as they were taught to behave with respect and humility to all.
The two siblings were very sports-oriented and got involved in snow sports very early on as Vladimir was a big fan of skiing himself. The family would go on numerous holiday trips to the luxurious ski resorts where Anna would learn snowboarding to her heart's content. Being very involved in their sports of choice, the two siblings entered in their respective competitions and while Anton did not fare as well as his sister, the one thing they shared in common was that they always had fun no matter what place they finished at. Anna fared very well in such competitions and was regarded as one of the top ten best young snowboarders in the country at the age of fourteen. In a bid to focus on the American market, Vladimir moved his family over to New York City to focus on his New York company headquarters, and Anna and Anton were forced to very reluctantly leave their best friends and all the other people they knew and loved behind to start a completely new life in the United States of America.
Thinking that a sense of change would be good for the children, Vladimir and Alina decided to not enrol them in a prestigious private school and instead opted for a rather ordinary high school called Midview High. Anna did her best to adjust to the new culture and as time went on, she slowly began to get used to the American way of life.The virus brought upon a terrible tragedy to the family. Despite trying their best to ground and restrict their children from going out, Anna and Anton still eventually fell prey to the contagious virus that was catching everyone by storm. They were the only ones in the family to catch the virus. While Anna may have successfully fought off the virus after a nail-biting ordeal, her younger brother was not so lucky. He would eventually fall as one of the many casualties the virus would claim, and Anna was left as the family's only child with the death of her brother.
Anna was never quite the same again after that. She would occasionally be spacing out at certain times of the day as she struggled to cope with the grief of losing the dear brother she had been so close to. Time healed most wounds, and while she is no longer in grieving and or as depressed as she once was, the girl still carries the emotional scars with her to this very day. She tries to live her life the best she can in the loving memory of Anton. She knew he would be delighted to see her thriving through adversity. It was in the midst of her grieving period that Anna discovered her powers. She noticed how in times of heightened emotional states, the world would go into slow motion as she is able to do things she would normally not be able to do like running at superhuman speeds or running up the walls of buildings in a non-corporeal form.
She also noticed that she was able to absorb energy from the many neon signs in the city and turn this energy into something she can convert and use for her super speeds and probably more once she figures out how. Only time would tell.
✶ THE SURFACE ✶-
extracurricular activities
Back in Russia, Anna used to be a competitive snowboarder and has won several competitions to her name. Now in America, she still snowboards, but no longer as competitively as before. Now she also includes gaming and cooking and she also operates a Youtube channel where she does Vlogs and other assorted lifestyle and cooking videos.
supporting cast
Vladimir Sukhinov - Father (52) Alina Sukhinova - Mother (47) Anton Sukhinov - Brother (17) (deceased)
other
Imagine Dragons - Warriors The time will come, when you will have to rise Above the best, and prove yourself
Thirteen honestly didn't know how or what to feel. The woman with the number nine tattoo had gone on a shooting spree and fire five times before anyone else had a proper chance to react. Heads exploded as one of the girls got decorated and redecorated with blood and gore simply just being too close to the poor fools that had their heads blown to smithereens. Another one of those shots hit a guy in the arm, and the last shot missed. At the rate she was going, Thirteen didn't think that the woman was even going to miss. It didn't look like she would.
One of the soldierly-looking guy stopped his fellow comrade from escalating the conflict further by grabbing his gun down, acknowledging the fact that they were now outnumbered and out skilled. A smart move. Hell, Thirteen still didn't know what the hell was even going on.
Thirteen didn't really have much to think about anything else as a sharp crack filled the air as the girl could see what looked like fog..or what that smoke crawl its way into the narrow congested room that was now filled with both the living and the dead. As more of that fog filled the room, visibility in the room dropped rapidly and soon enough she was even having problems seeing right in front of her. All she could see was the rough outlines of the people in front of her, and the thought of getting lost in here frightened her greatly. She did not want to get lost here alone.
@Symphoni How comfortable is Pepper in following her encoded programming? Is she happy being a police officer just because someone programmed her to want to be one, or does she occasionally find herself wanting to fight against that program and follow her own path?
She is comfortable in following her encoded programming. She does not have any desire to be anything other than a police officer at the current moment, but with a continuous evolving mind, who knows what will happen in the future? Things do happen.
@Symphoni Is she capable of developing new coding and evolving her core programming, or is she stuck the way she was made?
She is capable of learning and evolving her core programming based on reactions(learning new things, reacting to changes in people's behaviour feedback and environment), but there will still be certain personality traits that will remain dominant and resistant to change, just like in most humans.
Sorry for the long wait, but my character is finally done!
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𝙽𝚊𝚖𝚎:
JPNR - 0496 / Pepper
𝙰𝚐𝚎:
22 Years Old
𝚂𝚎𝚡:
Female
𝙰𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗:
The Europa Policing Authority; Blacklight
𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎:
Appearance wise, Pepper is indistinguishable from a normal human. Her resilient steel alloy frame is covered in the highest grade and quality of synthetic skin, tissue and hair. Her creators has gone to great lengths to customize her to their liking, modelling her to the likeness of his deceased family member who they'd been unable to get over. Her visage is adorned with a pair of sky blue eyes and rosy plump lips. Her locks a rich shade of giner and her skin tone is fair and unblemished, the artificial skin doing a fantastic job of appearing eerily lifelike. Her build is slim and athletic with a modest amount of curves guided by popular social trends among youngsters of the generation observed at the time. During working hours, she is dressed compliantly with EPA's dress code and while off duty, she prefers to dress simply in dresses or turtleneck sweaters paired with skirts or pants.
𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢:
There were several key personality traits ingrained in her core programming when her creators first created her, most if not all of them were lifted of her actual human counterpart. From her bravery, her tenacious fighting spirit, to her unreserved bluntness, these were all qualities that the creators' inspiration and model possessed. She was also made to be always eager to serve, perhaps a little too much to the point of being overzealous for they had thought that such a quality that would only make her more acceptable to others.
Emotions are still something she struggles with, as feelings are something she has never really managed to get a grip on. She may feel the same emotions as a human, but she suffers from the knowledge that she will never be human or know what it is like to have a childhood. Believing in the goodness of the world, a set of good morals were also a key part of her programming, a key factor that would prove to be highly useful in her career in the EPA. Part of her morals code includes her inability to lie, so she always tells the truth.
BRAVE • BLUNT • TENACIOUS • OVERZEALOUS
𝙱𝚒𝚘:
JPNR - 0496's whole story originated from the idea of one man and his son. Now, if it had been just an ordinary man dreaming or reminiscing of better memories of days long past, then just would have turned out to be very different. But Richard Blackwell was not an ordinary man. He was a highly successful and wealthy entrepreneur who had stakes and close relations with both Blacklight and the EPA. The vast connections he had built up over the years has allowed him to earn numerous profits that had more than inflated his already loaded coffers. He may have plenty of wealth, more than he even knew what to do with, but Richard was not a happy man.
His only daughter was gravely ill, and for all the medical advancements in the present world, there seemed to be no cure or hope for the poor young girl. Death soon eventually claimed her and Richard and his young son Maxwell had no choice but to let her go for she no longer belonged in the land of the living. The wealthy entrepreneur may have let go of her body, but he certainly had no intention of letting go of her memory. He began working secretly on a project, roping in his son as well as they began to develop ideas for their secret project. When the project began to advance beyond just simple concepts and ideas, the pair began teaming up with the best in the industry, spending untold expenses in the pursuit of their goal. Their goal in mind?
Create an android version of the very same family member they had lost but never forgotten. She was to be a grown up version of what Pepper would have been had the girl had the opportunity to grow up. Those who used to know the girl was shocked at the uncanny resemblance, swearing that it was as though she had not died all those years after all. Alas, if only that were true. JPNR-0496 personality was identical to the model, from her tenacious fighting spirit to her unreserved bluntness. She was pretty much a clone in many ways, but one single stuck out. JPNR-0496 didn’t know what it was like to have a childhood.
The android never had the chance to experience childhood, let alone the one that the young Pepper used to have. These key memories were lacking from her, and while the android could see them, she could never really feel them. One of Pepper’s wishes was wanting to be a police officer when she grew up, and now JPNR-0496 would be continuing that dream for her. Joining the ranks of the EPA officers as soon as she was able to, she continues to serve with determination, conviction and absolute loyalty.
𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚝:
District 5
𝚆𝚎𝚊𝚙𝚘𝚗(𝚜):
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𝙰𝚛𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛:
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A light but resilient breastplate that does a decent enough job in stopping light arms fire and common stab wounds. The breastplate is made of self-hardening carbon steel nanotubes that tighten upon high impact. Stronger and more reliable than old issue kevlar vests thanks to technological improvements, there have been complaints on how uncomfortable and heavy the breast plate gets when worn for long periods of time despite significant weight improvements made on the armour. When needed, shoulder and knee plates made of similar material can also be worn for added improved protection.
𝙲𝚢𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚜:
Her metal frame is covered with high-grade top of the end synthetic flesh, tissue and hair, enabling her to look highly realistic and indistinguishable from your average human. Her inner machinery parts are composed of those found in similar high-end models that are extremely durable to kinetic damages and its associated stress. Funded and created by a wealthy businessman and his son, they spared no expense when it came to recreating an android version of the family member they had lost.
» Secondary Power Generator/ Multipurpose Regulator
This upgrade serves as a secondary power source in the event that the main power source is interrupted or disrupted by either an internal fault or external sabotage. It also functions as a Multipurpose Regular enables her to hide her transmission and electronic signatures, allowing her to travel off-grid undetected which is especially important for stealth and reconnaissance operations.
» EPA Hacking and Data Interface Port
Sanctioned and approved by EPA laws, This unit is able to interface and gain access and establish a connection to various data ports and electronic system to sync the data information with her central processing system. This allows her to gain insider knowledge through the sharing of information and knowledge much faster than an average human would take to read or digest the data. Eliminating the need for an external tool and storage medium, this unit acts as both tool and storage, simplifying and shortening the time needed for any hacking or data transfer. This upgrade functions similarly to the existing EPA's Eurohack module and has been streamlined to fit in with an android's system. Because of the high-frequency interfacing with unknown systems, the unit also has a top-of-the-range firewall security system that has one of the highest security rates in the market.
» DETECTIVISION™
The aptly named DetectiVision™, developed and manufactured by EuroCorp, is an evidence detecting system contained in a chip embedded at the base of her neck. It tracks, points out and files away evidence into the unit's personal database via video, still images and audio, and manifests itself through an optical display projected over her retinas. It can also pick up on body language, helping inform her whether someone’s lying, and is connected to the EPA’s EuroNet database, able to display information such as arrest records and send out an APB on the fly. It’s controlled via a small detachable wristpad.
𝙰𝚌𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝 𝙱𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎:
More than enough to live a comfortable life in the upper middle districts.
Thirteen had been following the group, the rest of the branded lot along with their guards passing through an abandoned hallway, in some laboratory. It had to be abandoned with all these dust and dirt and, and the state of disarray the place was in from all the wires hanging about, and the unstable electricity that constant flickered on and off. If this place wasn’t really abandoned, then they had to have the worst cleaning crew in all of existence. She wasn’t really a fan of the number thirteen, but it was the only sign of her identity, the number that had been tattooed into her right arm, and she was stuck with it now whether she liked it or not.
While they walked, Thirteen gave a look around at the strange bunch they had here, a bunch of young ones escorted by armed military-like guards. She was also pretty sure that she was the youngest of the lot. If not, she certainly did looked the part anyway. The tension in the air was palpable, and Thirteen was highly certain someone was bound to snap sooner or later. It was only a matter of time at this rate. That moment came way sooner than she had expected when all hell broke loose.
The woman with the green dyed hair, “Nine” grabbed a gun from one of the guards and began promptly shooting him in the head, which caused a confetti of blood and viscera as those nearest to the poor fella got decorated in his vital fluids. Now all of the guards began pointing their guns at all of them because of what Nine here had done.This was not good. Not good at all for any of them. She didn’t know what else to do now so Thirteen simply watched and waited to see what the next move was before acting. 'One' did mention about reacting not acting, no?