lydyn

In Murky Waters

Don't worry too much. All of my RPs seemed to have dried up lately... but it hasn't been long enough to call off just yet, so I'm in a weird limbo state. This is my favorite so far though, so I hope we can pick it back up. :)

Maximum Comics: Dawn of Justice | REBRANDING - PLEASE STAY TUNED

Well, once @Ruby starts talking to me again or sends a PM or... something, I'll start posting. Just not 100% sure where she wants to start. ^.^

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Retired

Shayera Sanders

Alias: Hawkgirl

Race: Thanagarian // Gender: Female
Height: 5'5" // Weight: 123 lbs
Age: 24 // Hair: Red // Eyes: Blue
Affiliations: None
Occupation: Exile

Color Code: Sheyera Sander's Speech Color.

Backstory
Shayera was like any other Thanagarian child. She was given as much of her childhood as possible before throwing her to the wolves at the age of five. Beaten down with introduction to hand-to-hand combat, it didn't seem she was very gifted. In fact, many of her peers and instructors thought her as one of the weaker ones because of her more sensitive nature. However despite her more emotional state, she found a surprising inner strength that would often shock her peers time and again, while still somehow keeping hold of a somewhat more gentle aura.

As she continue to progress into teenage years, they were given a chance to finally learn melee weaponry after mastering hand-to-hand combat as best as one could by that age. Since Shayera had been somewhat lacking in the past and despite her will to push through, no one expected her natural talent for melee combat. So when she started to exceed her peers, she got reactions that ranged from praise when it came to the instructors, but contempt and jealousy when it came to her peers. This left her feeling alone and abandoned and if it weren't enough for a teenager, the fact that she had an eye for women also painted another target on her back for being ignored and teased.

Still, she pushed onwards because she had to. For those falling behind, they were exiled outside the cities no matter how much parents, family, or friends loved them - it was law. Yet the hardest part was to come towards her late teenage years. It was called mental training where you'd be subjugated to all forms of attacks: verbal, fear, anger, sadness, suggestions, manipulation, brain-washing, and even trained mind magic wielders. It was without say that this stage is where most students would fall out, however this was also the only stage you had a second chance to pass due to it's hardship and the fact that everyone was proven skilled and ready for combat.

It was not enough to say Shayera had passed with excellence. Instead, she was often praised as one of the truly gifted in being able to keep out outside influences - passing with flying colors at every turn. By this point and with given training before the tests, she had enough will to pull through anything and create barriers as if by second nature. Though some saw this as a double-edged sword when it came to her loyalty to the Empire, the Empire still saw potential in her.

At graduation (age 20), agents practically dragged Shayera away from her parents to attend special training. This was not training however and instead to proved to be previously 'illegal' experiments performed by the very same people that banned it's use. By using the most strong-willed students, for only they'd survive such an ordeal, they attempted to infuse Nth metal with Thanagarians. They did this by the use of nanobots and liquifying the semi-sentient, magical metal and hoping that one of the student's bodies might actually accept the transfusion.

By some miracle or perhaps fate, Shayera was one of the very few select to survive the process, it having secretly killed off hundreds of students due to rejections. What the Empire refused to acknowledge though was that Shayera's strong will was a double-edged sword that turned to cut it's master. With the use of her new found powers, she forced her way to an escape pod and launched out of their reach before they knew what had happened. The utter quickness of her escape was shocking and by the time they made it to the tracking program, she had already disabled the beacons on the pod.

Eventually the pod found it's way to Earth at the year 2005 and crashed a mere forty miles off of the coast of Themyscira. The isolated nature of Diana's island and protective magic net over it kept Shayera's pod from being read across the world as a potential threat. Though the world may have been largely ignorant of the Thanagarian's arrival, the Amazons saw this intrusion of their waters as a threat, giving Hawk Girl little chance to recover from the wreckage before being attacked.

Abilities
• Enhanced Strength: As a Thanagarian, she possesses naturally higher strength than any human. Though this isn't at the level of super strength. (Note: A later ability will augment this down the list.)
• Flight: All Thanagarians are winged creatures born from the subtleties of magic. Therefore can they not only fly as you might expect, but they may also sustain flight for long periods of time without flapping their wings.
• Minor Magical Resistance: Being born from small traces of magic, Thanagarians can resist minor spells easily, but are still subject to more powerful ones like many creatures.
• Enhanced Endurance: Thanagarians can take quite a beating compared to most mortals, but a sword will still cut through their skin, it just makes a noticeably less impact.
• Enhanced Sight: Seemingly Thanagarians take on the image of hawk-people and that isn't that far-fetched as they also have the eyesight of a hawk. This is up to 8 times sharper than a human, or having 20/2.5 vision (in other words, seeing something at 20 feet that a normal human has to be 2.5 feet away to see). Though this is more of a magical nature, seeing as their pupils don't grow larger to zoom in, but is rather aided by an innate magic.
• Nth Metal Infusion: Due to Shayera's unique condition, her body has been enhanced by an infusion of Nth Metal, a magically charged native metal of Thanagar. This allows her the use of super-strength (lesser than Wonder Woman and Superman), super-endurance/invulnerability (also lesser), regeneration, and tolerance to extreme temperatures.

Skills
• Melee Combat Mastery: Trained like many Thanagarians at the age of five, she has nearly mastered all forms of melee combat to where she is comfortable with any sort of given weapon. Even if the weapon is alien to her, she can quickly understand it's shape, size, and weight effectively. She prefers, however, a mace.
• Hand-to-Hand Journeymen: By mastering melee combat, she has sacrificed part of her usual training but is never-the-less skilled with hand-to-hand combat, at least enough to hold off an attacker until she can get another weapon in her hand.
• Advanced Battlefield Knowledge: Having grown up in a combat-focused culture, she has learned and been drilled in various warfare tactics, able to think quickly on the field as well as analyze her opponents movements.
• Iron Will: Shayera was especially gifted in the arts of locking one's mind from external influences and thus has a consistent defense against any mentally-charged attacks or even subtle attempts at breaking in. Even mind magic usually has a fair bit of trouble breaking through these walls.

Weapons
• Modified Nth Mace: From Thanagarian culture, it is a basic mace that has been modified to have more weight at it's top. However from other view points, it's surface has also been lined with Nth Metal, making it stronger, lighter (only to hold, does not effect impact), almost impossible to break, and magically charged.
• Nth Dagger: A basic dagger that's been lined with Nth Metal, giving it the same qualities as above as well as making it sharper. With effort (or enough strength) you could cut through other metals like steel.
• Nth Short Sword: Same as the dagger, but with a longer reach.

Character Goals
My character goals aren't complicated as of right now, but mostly speaking, I want to explore an interesting combination of having Diana and Shayera together. Beyond that very exclusive interaction, I want to explore Shayera's exile into an alien world, her coming to terms with her new infusion, and generally trying to find her place in the world. Potentially at a later time, it would be nice to explore the Thanagarian military coming to collect their 'property' as it were and possible reactions from other heroes at this point (hopefully she'd be a somewhat welcomed member in some way). Though these goals leave a lot of opportunity to 'go with the flow,' I think exploring important questions like this will be fun.

References
• Legend by Fire
• In Murky Waters

Maximum Comics: Dawn of Justice | REBRANDING - PLEASE STAY TUNED

<Snipped quote by lydyn>

Seems fine, I always preferred the science fiction route of Hawkgirl than the mythological fantasy route. I don't have any problems with it. GM staff? What'cha think?

@Lord Wraith@ErsatzEmperor

@Gowi

Just tag me whenever you guys decide. ^^ I could never keep up with this OOC anyways, not to mention half of the people ignore anything I say as it is. :p So I'll just stick to my subscriptions page.

A Knight's Scholar

Her eyes wandered slowly up to the skylight, snow white clouds lazily drifting by as if there wasn't a care in the world, the library full of silence and solitude. Not many people visited the library on a whole, leaving it as a quiet workplace for the Sylph, though it sometimes reminded her how dull her life had become. Gianna leaned back forward, her gaze falling on a document she was being paid to copy and sighed. She was fine doing this as a living - it gave her plenty of time to read and study all the books in the library, but at times it was just boring to copy words - she imagined that almost anyone would agree. She supposed she just wished that something more exciting would come along or more accurately, something more meaningful would pop into her life. She wanted to do something that meant something so she could be proud of herself, at least more proud than being a decent scribe.

Brushing her black hair back with her hands, she went about scribing more, figuring it was almost best to get it done as soon as possible so she had time to read. Her fairy-like wings fluttered slightly to shake herself, to make herself a bit more alert than before, in hopes she could get the task done. There wasn't much to Gianna's life as it was, besides her off time in which she'd tried and explore the ruins and cave systems around the capital city. Even then, she hadn't be able to find anything extraordinary about any of them besides a few odd bits and pieces of ancient texts that had been long forgotten.

Gianna paused for another brief moment, reflecting on something that had occurred some time ago. The thought of exploring forgotten sites always reminded her of her magic, at least these days it did. She knew magic was not of the norm among the populace as a whole and even while people marveled or feared those with magics, Gianna in a way still felt unique - she knew her type of magic was not so common place within the magi circles. After all, most people put up emotions that related to danger or wanting to help their fellow when magic flared, giving most magic users some sort of offensive or defensive magic. Gianna on the other hand, had simply been extremely frustrated at not knowing what something meant... and felt determined to figure it out when her magic flared. Magic that related to knowledge - not much offense or defense in that, was there?

Shaking it off, Gianna sighed and just hunched back over her work, letting her wings drop slowly into a more relaxed position...

A Knight's Scholar

This is an RP based in the Ebonfort world, involving @lydyn and @Twhirtley.

Starting Date and Time: Crimsia 27, 300 DM
Starting Location: Ebonfort Library
CS URLs: Gianna Ember

Ebonfort

I apologize if any of this upset you, I know my intention was never to pressure you, only to provide another perspective. So if I did upset you, I do apologize sincerely. As I said, it is your character and you're free to do, or it do, whatever you please with her.

@Twhirtley

You didn't pressure me and you didn't specifically upset me either. It was just pointed out that if I want a character to be in an event, I should just do so whether they'd be useful or not. They're probably right, but I became too frustrated by not getting a simple yes or no to that question that I believe my feelings would now hinder any ability to role-play this scenario. Gianna won't be missed anyways - no one knows her. :p

Ebonfort

You can do whatever you'd like but here's my two cents.

The only thing you need to ask yourself is "Would my character be here?"

If no, don't join.

If yes, join and have your character do whatever is natural. If they fight, then fight. If they run and hide, do that too. It's not about fitting the character to the story, but putting them in and seeing what they do.

@Twhirtley

After talking to several people on chat and thinking about your reply, I've decided it's best I not get involved. I'm far too emotional to be of any use writing anything for this event. Sorry for wasting your time with silly questions. Hope everyone has fun.

Ebonfort

@Twhirtley

^ She doesn't have to be there for any official purpose. An event like that would have tons of spectators. It seems to me that it would almost be like when they had gladiators in the Coloseum. Many businesses would shut down and other events would be postponed because anyone who was "loyal to the empire" would be expected to be there to support it. It might even be socially unacceptable for someone to skip the event unless their job was absolutely essential to the running of the kingdom. I'm not sure to what extreme the kingdom is militaristic/patriotic, but according to the intro on the IC page with the whole "might makes right" and such, I would think that a normal person would feel a bit of pressure to show up to support the knights.

@Drache

The point wasn't so much whether she'd be there or not, but rather if she'd do any good in the support group. Essentially it comes down to this; does she run away like everyone else would to hide in her inn room because of the screams (which I still have no clue what these things are) or will there actually be a benefit for her having joined a group investigating / chasing these creatures? I mean, besides her knowledge of things (though I don't know if she'd know about screamers?), she can scout from the air... but so could our little fairy healer. xD

Maximum Comics: Dawn of Justice | REBRANDING - PLEASE STAY TUNED

@Lydyn Hmm, where are you on that Hawkgirl thing? I wanted to play Hawkman, with Carter Hall being former JSA and Katar being current. I know the original versions of the Golden and Silver Age characters, its a lot like The Flash and Green Lantern reboots. Carter was the Golden Age Hawkman, the Egyptian who reincarnated with his lover time and again. Katar was the silver age Hawkman, a Thanagarian policeman who came to Earth before staying. We could place the generations and differences to build a consistant universe without melting the two characters together if you'd like. And if you went with the younger Hawkwoman/girl, like you mostly are now, you wouldn't be drawn into the reincarnation/romance subplot.

@Nightrunner

Not entirely sure what you mean by, 'where am I with the Hawkgirl thing.' I already wrote out her entire CS and it has absolutely nothing to do with that silly Egyptian reincarnation nonsense. And yes, it's mostly silly since I really don't do straight relationships - mostly because I can't relate, therefore it's not fun for me. :p (The actual romance is honestly quite nice.) The rest of it, I didn't quite follow... I mean... do what you want with Hawkman? I just know them getting together has a chance of about zero, unless Hawkman is someone a woman. ^.^'