Little Bird

Umbra: The Abyssal Connection

Working on my character sheet (finally). Are we capping at three abilities? I had planned for four, but I can either nix one or I'll try to roll them together as a package.

The School Of Special Skills and Talents- Applicants Accepted Now

Julia Strauss

Julia stretched her legs, pushing against the grated cage that separated the rear and front seats of the police cruiser. It had been a longer drive than she had been on before, coming upstate from West Chester County, and the State Police, naturally, didn't care for the comfort and legroom of the people they detained, even if those people were only barely legal. The officers riding in the front seat threw a cautionary glance her way her toes rattled the cage. "Sorry," she said. "Kinda cramped back here, ya know?" Both officers turned their attention back to the road ahead without acknowledging her comment. Julia rolled her eyes, and tried to peer through the gap between the seat in front of her and the side of the car. It wasn't much, but she could see just enough through the front windshield to not feel completely trapped.

Why they were still treating her like a threat, she had no idea; even the court judge had deemed her incident two years prior an accident; it was her other misdemeanors that had ultimately earned her the room in juvie. "You know," she mused to the two stoic police in front of her, "that if I really wanted to make a break for it, I'd have already zapped both of you." A light crack popped from her left index finger; she had her issues with control, but she had been getting better, and supposedly the place she was going would help her refine that. Both men gave her another side eye, more annoyed than before.

"Just be quiet," said the driver. "And sit still. We're just about there." He pointed ahead.

Through her limmited line of sight, Julia made out the emerging structure: a large, sprawling brick building on an emaculate lawn, with grounds that stretched a good distance in every direction. As the squad car drove closer, she could see that other students, and possibly teachers, were beginning to convene and make their ways into the school. As they drove further down the main driveway, Julia could see more than a few faces eying the car. Some were surprised to see the police coming through, while others wore expressions that suggested that it wasn't the first time someone had arrived in such a fashion; she guessed that the unfazed ones had been around the school a while longer, and had likely seen just about everything.

The car came to a smooth halt outside of the main entrance, were a cluster of students had gathered. Julia's door swung open, and the officers pulled her from the vehicle. Both wore neoprene gloves, similar to what a lineman would wear. The driver uncuffed her hands, and pulled her forward until she was standing in front of them, facing the building. "So agressive," she spat. She shook off the soreness and patted herself off. "You just gonna stand there then? You got me here; job done, mission accomplished."

"Not until we see you walk through those doors, the driver said, his partner nodding in agreement.

"Fine then." Julia turned her attention to the man standing by the school's entrance in time to hear his name. 'Dr. Andre Saunders,' the head of the school. She knew the name. The people at juvie had told her that it was Dr. Saunders that had smoothed out the arrangement for her to attend here; they had also told her she'd best thank him, as he might have spared her an exteneded sentence into prison after she had turned eighteen.

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Two students stepped forward from the crowd receiving their class schedules, and passing through the threshold and out of sight. As the second student reached the Dr. Saunders, Julia began weaving her way to the front of the crowd. The thought of the officers eying her up any longer motivated her to the front the mass, where she inadvertently cut off another student as she approached the principal. "Julia Lee Strauss," she said firmly. "And thank you for inviting me to come here," she would add as she took her schedule. She slipped through the front doors into the grand foyer, watching the cruiser pull out from the corner of her eye.

She emerged quickly into the foyer, coming to an immediate stop as a pair of her peers seemed to have had a collison of sorts. A female student was ripping into a guy for not paying attention to where he was going; she recognized both of them as the students that had gotten their schedules just moments prior. "That's one way to meet people, I guess," she chuckled as the girl stormed off.

The School Of Special Skills and Talents- Applicants Accepted Now

anybody posting IC soon?

@Varshanka

I'll post for Julia soon

The School Of Special Skills and Talents- Applicants Accepted Now

So are we all intended to be new student? I totally thought of this as a high school age setting... or is it a mixed bag?

Either way, I had it in mind for Julia to have been attending th school already, rather than a new student. I can work with it either way though. Although I might age her up a year or two and edit her bio to address years between her incident and starting school.

The Misfit Crew (ver. 2.1)

Cait gave a shrug and an agreeable nod Anita's direction. "All I'm figuring, She fell into a hushed tone, "is if we're trying to keep off the government's radar, we might as well head somewhere where they're less concerned with who's going out than they are about who's coming in. They're so wrapped up trying to keep 'illegals' out that they probably won't think much of a truck of people heading south." Her sentiment hung in the air without much more disucssion as Vincent stood up and injected himself into the conversation between the customer and the man working the diner.

She remained seated, but turned to observe. The guy working certainly didn't seem happy to be asked about his personal matters by a stranger; otherwise he seemed amicable, and divulged the situation to Vincent without much argument. Cait drifted her attention to the customer sitting nearby. He looked suspiciously focused on Vincent. Cait's thoughts traced back to the black SUV sitting in the lot outside; it had looked newer and more pristine than the Jeep parked nearby. She nudged Anita, subtly directing her attention toward the customer as well.

((I'm back to action. I apologize for going silent; I was in a bit of a rough place until recently. @Hyyde322 @Bacon @Daxam))

The School Of Special Skills and Talents- Applicants Accepted Now

Julia

Julia Lee Strauss

Age 18

FC: Hunter Schafer

Appearance

Julia is taller than average for a young woman, standing at 6' even. At 140lbs on weigh-in, she carries a slim, modestly toned physique, and boasts a competent athleticism to go with it. She is of a healthy Caucasian complexion with a slight hint of tanning. Her facial structure is of an ambiguous, androgynous nature, edging and sometimes blurring the line between feminine and masculine. She's a natural blonde, though the precise hue fades to a dirty blonde or light brown closer to the scalp; dyed, light purple highlight streaks accent her natural color. She's typically preferable to keeping her hair longer, extending past shoulder length, though she'll occasionally cut it shorter, and isn't bashful about trying new styles. Julia's eyes are a vivid blue color, and take on an electric glow when her power flares.

Personality

A broad and colorful expanse of quirks and traits marks Julia's persona. It can be a challenge to truly pin a shortlist of qualities to her, and she's vehemently objectionable towards having herself placed into a box, and unapologetic about anything that she is or comes off as. She feels with intensity whether in joy, woe, and the spectrums beyond and in between. Rarely one to mask or hide behind facades, she makes it abundantly clear what she's feeling and, sharply so, what she's thinking. She pursues with utmost vigor that which she needs and wants in any given time frame. She is headstrong, and particularly stubborn when she gets herself worked up.

Ability

Electrokinesis. The ability to generate and control the spectrum of electricity, encompassing existing currents, and static or ambient charges. Julia can produce and direct discharges akin to lightning, disrupt and redirect electrical flows through conduits, short out electronic systems with EMPs, and charge her body to act as a human taser. She possesses the capacity to absorb electricity, rendering her own element effectively useless against her. A yet under-refined prowess for the manipulation of bio-electric signals and impulses gives way to a limited ability to enhance physical performance through hyper-stimulation of muscles, organs, and sensory functions; at baseline, Julia is gifted with an enhanced ability to process and react to stimulation as both a necessity and by-product of her electrikinetic powers.

Her powers extend, to some degree, into the sphere of magnetism as a closely-tied force to electricity. While this does not gift Julia a significant control over such materials as ferrous metals, it does grant her the modest applications of levitation and flight by way of controlling the electromagnetic field surrounding her body. She has demonstrated signs of being able to create defensive fields, though they tend towards dispersing other manners of energy projections rather than outright stopping physical strikes, ballistics and the like; even so, these may deter proximity through discomforting sensations similar in nature to being in an MRI machine.

Backstory

A New York local, Julia was born and raised in Mt. Vernon, New York. Hers was a life of surprising independence, even as a youth. Her parents were absent, both wrapped up in their work, which left Julia largely to her own devices. Untroubled by, in fact relishing in the liberties this bestowed upon her, Julia drifted in the manners the best suited her interests and goals. Though not particularly delinquent, she was nonetheless an adrenaline junkie in search of times wild and good; this alone landed her in a few snags with the law.

One such incident precipitated her arrival at the School for Special Skills and Talents. In a moment during which the NYPD was apprehending a then 16-year-old Julia, the officer setting her into the squad car was suddenly on the receiving end of a moderate electrocution. When he recovered, he noted the surging of electricity that surrounded the young Julia. After a length of legal procedures, Julia was ordered by a New York state Judge to serve a two-year sentence in juvenille detention. Upon her release, she was to attend special school, where she would be both monitored closely, out of the way of the general public, and would be able to learn to better control her unique abilities.

Umbra: The Abyssal Connection

I apologize for my absence. The long story short, I had an emotionally taxing experience [💔] while I was away a few weeks ago and have been pretty messed up over it trying to bounce back.

That being said, if I'm still welcome, I'm feeling more enough like my better self to get back into the swing of things.

Username Change Request

<Snipped quote by Wayward>

You can do name changes yourself now in profile settings.

@Kuro

Oh snap.

What a time to be alive. Thank you friend.

Username Change Request

Requesting that the powers that be allow me a name change.

The Deadname: Wayward

The Livename: Little Bird

"What Did They Do To Us?" - A Mysterious Supernatural Escape RP!!

I should have time later tonight. Been traveling a bit but I've got nothing going on after reaching my destination