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Name: Rosaria Voronin
Hero Name: Spectral
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Family: None
Occupation: Freelance Song Writer
Appearance: Young adult female standing at 165cm (5'5") with black hair slightly over the shoulders in length, one bang covering her right eye while the left is held back with a hairpin. Left ear pierced with an earring. In general she prefers to wear clothing with muted, low saturation colors in an effort to not stand out. Grey, black, and white are tones that can typically be attributed to her. She is rather thin, and of middling height considering her heritage.
Her physical appearance when engaging her powers is quite drastically different with most of her physical body turning into a dark shadowy form with a skull for a head, whereupon her real identity is practically fully concealed. She stands at 180cm (5'9") in this form.
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Superpower: Shadow Form
Rosaria is able to turn into a shadowy form that made her partially corporeal, yet also not fully ethereal. As she only had this power for about a week, her control of this power is still quite limited.
In more details, the strengths and weaknesses that this power confers to her can be listed as the following:
1. Partial Corporeality: She is significantly less affected by physical effects while in this form. For example, a punch or any other physical impacts will have a significantly reduced effect on her; a blow to the face by a sledgehammer that would have killed a person of her stature turned into a glancing blow instead in regards to its effect.
On the other hand, this also meant that any physical strike performed by her will have its effect just as muted. She is far from ideal when it comes to tasks requiring physical exertion, even if it is as simple as pushing a slightly heavy object.
・Additional Notes:
- She is still able to hold objects and wear clothes in this form as she is not completely incorporeal.
- When it comes to interacting with objects of incorporeal or immaterial nature, the effects of this form is reversed instead.
2. Shadow Merge: She is able to merge into body of shadows to practically hide herself completely.
Additionally, while merging with a body of shadows, she is able to move around it freely and rapidly.
As far as limitation goes, the body of shadows need to be at least as big as around 50cm (20 inches) in diameter for her to be able to merge into it. Furthermore, if the body of shadows is erased for whatever reason while she is in it, she will be forcefully ejected and left debilitated for a few seconds.
・Additional Notes: Any articles of clothing she is wearing and object she is holding can be made to merge to the shadows along with her. However, she is unable to take other living being to merge to the shadows with her.
3. Temporary Immateriality: If she concentrated hard enough, she is able to very briefly turn completely incorporeal. This means she is able to very briefly phase through objects. At her current level of control of this ability, it is possible for her to maintain this for only a single second. As such, in application, she is theoretically able to phase through a thin door but not a thick wall.
This does not come at no cost however. As mentioned above, she need to concentrate hard to do this. Additionally, this ability is quite exhausting to use, giving her a significant sense of fatigue and tiredness every time she use it.
・Additional Notes: Unlike her other abilities, she is currently unable to turn other object to become immaterial along with her, adding another possible complication to using this ability.
In more details, the strengths and weaknesses that this power confers to her can be listed as the following:
1. Partial Corporeality: She is significantly less affected by physical effects while in this form. For example, a punch or any other physical impacts will have a significantly reduced effect on her; a blow to the face by a sledgehammer that would have killed a person of her stature turned into a glancing blow instead in regards to its effect.
On the other hand, this also meant that any physical strike performed by her will have its effect just as muted. She is far from ideal when it comes to tasks requiring physical exertion, even if it is as simple as pushing a slightly heavy object.
・Additional Notes:
- She is still able to hold objects and wear clothes in this form as she is not completely incorporeal.
- When it comes to interacting with objects of incorporeal or immaterial nature, the effects of this form is reversed instead.
2. Shadow Merge: She is able to merge into body of shadows to practically hide herself completely.
Additionally, while merging with a body of shadows, she is able to move around it freely and rapidly.
As far as limitation goes, the body of shadows need to be at least as big as around 50cm (20 inches) in diameter for her to be able to merge into it. Furthermore, if the body of shadows is erased for whatever reason while she is in it, she will be forcefully ejected and left debilitated for a few seconds.
・Additional Notes: Any articles of clothing she is wearing and object she is holding can be made to merge to the shadows along with her. However, she is unable to take other living being to merge to the shadows with her.
3. Temporary Immateriality: If she concentrated hard enough, she is able to very briefly turn completely incorporeal. This means she is able to very briefly phase through objects. At her current level of control of this ability, it is possible for her to maintain this for only a single second. As such, in application, she is theoretically able to phase through a thin door but not a thick wall.
This does not come at no cost however. As mentioned above, she need to concentrate hard to do this. Additionally, this ability is quite exhausting to use, giving her a significant sense of fatigue and tiredness every time she use it.
・Additional Notes: Unlike her other abilities, she is currently unable to turn other object to become immaterial along with her, adding another possible complication to using this ability.
Skills:
1. She is quite competent as a song writer.
2. She possessed extraordinary attention to details, meaning she is more likely than most others to spot differences, unusual details, and notice when something is out of place.
3. She is also decent at using knives to defend herself. This began as a fascination to bladed objects due to her suicidal mind whereupon she would be slashing herself. but as she got better, she turned this fascination into actual proficiency in using knives for fighting.
Equipment: Nothing particularly notable aside from her favorite Russia-made NR-40 combat knife.
Personality: She is a rather quiet person with a rather gloom outlook on things. Thinking negatively comes very naturally to her, typically seeing things in a glass half empty way. When she is down in the dump, this is taken to an even worse level with her becoming rather nihilistic and sarcastic in response to just about anything. Her life experience had left her not entirely of sound mind, and she suffered from hallucinations both visual and auditory. In time she came to be able to discern between what is real and what is not, but she still humor her hallucinations at times by responding to them. This, in fact, became a significant part of why she decided to use her powers for good despite everything that had happened.
If there is a bright side to her personality, it is that she simply does not fake it when she smiles and when she is otherwise being positive for once. There is no deception at all in her rare expression of happiness. She cannot afford to fake something that is now so rare and precious in her life.
Biography: For much of her life, Rosaria's story wasn't a particularly notable or unusual one. Born to a family of Russian immigrant, she grew up in a normal, middle class family with her parents and her older brother where her parents always tried their best to provide for their children. All in all, her childhood was without a doubt a good one compared to those less fortunate than her. A good childhood that enabled her to pursue her passion of writing songs to share with the world.
Unfortunately, things took a turn for the worse during the 18th year of Rosaria's life. Her mother and older brother were involved in an aviation accident while traveling abroad. The plane they boarded had a malfunction which ended in it crashing into a mountainside and killing everyone onboard. Investigation into the accident revealed no foul play; the simple and cold fact was that it was truly just a cruel misfortune: An accident without a perpetrator. For Rosaria and her father, that was even worse than if there had been foul play. After all, it also meant that there wasn't really anyone that they can blame for it. Except for themselves for letting the two board that plane on that day, even though of course nobody could have predicted it anyway.
Regardless, this drove her father and Rosaria both into a deep and enduring depression, and the family soon enough fell into poverty. It was especially harsh for Rosaria, young as she was. Unable to cope with everything, she quit school and instead resigned herself to doing nothing but mourning and blaming herself for being utterly powerless to do anything to change what had already transpired. Then, a misguided action by Rosaria's father made things even worse. Losing his wife and son, and seeing her daughter in a shattered mental state made him very very desperate. In his mind, he wished to at least make things right for Rosaria. So he got in contact with unsavory characters, staged a bank robbery, and then went and got himself killed during the heist. Unsurprisingly, this practically broke Rosaria even more the moment she became aware of what had happened.
Soon after that, Rosaria committed three consecutive suicide attempts which all ended in failure, be it due to sloppy preparations or by lack of will to go through the attempt. She stopped trying after that, although thoughts of suicide continued to plague her mind even to this day.
Suicidal thoughts were not all that ailed her due to her traumas. She also started having hallucinations of her now deceased family members, both seeing them in her sight from time to time and also hearing their voices calling out and talking to her. For a long time, she struggled to accept this condition, her troubled mind finding it extremely difficult to separate reality with her hallucinations. In time however, in something that can be said as a twisted form of luck, the hallucinations instead became something that allowed her to go on with her life. She became accustomed to them enough that she can naturally recognize the hallucinations for what they truly were. Yet at the same time, she found a semblance of normalcy in responding to those hallucinations. After all, it was just like speaking to her dead family members. If fooling herself and pretending as if the hallucinations were real can make her feel better, she saw no reason not to do exactly that. Heck, the hallucinations even encouraged her to pursue her old passion of writing song and the few hobbies that she had. What was once an ailing curse was turned into a coping method by the troubled young lady.
Several years passed since then. Rosaria had came to become a fledgling freelance song writer that were able to make a decent living out of it. She was still the exact opposite of her cheerful nature from before the accident, seeing the world as bleak and horrible, but at least she was living decently nonetheless. Of course, guilt and regret never left her mind. If only she can change what had happened, she would do so without a second thought. She still lamented being a powerless individual, a nobody with no way whatsoever to truly make a difference in the world...
Then, that one event happened. A meteor falling from the sky, fascinating yet seemingly of no concern whatsoever to Rosaria's life. She didn't even really bother to care about it, seeing no reason to do so. She still wouldn't have bothered if not for the fact that she woke up one day, walked to the bathroom of her small private apartment room, and then saw a black half-transparent skull-faced apparition staring back at her from the mirror. That didn't even faze her at first, as she thought it was just her hallucination taking things to the next level, but then she realized that it wasn't a hallucination at all. She would know, she'd gotten really good at discerning reality from her hallucinations after all.
It didn't take long after that for gears to start moving inside Rosaria's head. She started experimenting with it, trying to see what she can and cannot do, what she can and cannot control about this weird thing going on with her. Could it be that she had somehow finally gained a way to be someone who mattered? Someone who can actually make a difference in the world in ways that would have been impossible before? She hesitated, wondering if she should even bother... But then it was the hallucination of her family members who pushed her to finally make a decision. They encouraged her, told her that this is a chance to make things right. Told her that this world could use someone like her to make things better.
So she decided to heed them in the end because she got nothing else to lose anyway. The world's a hell hole that was probably not deserving of heroes... But yeah, there's no harm in trying either. Might as well live and die a hero than live and die a nothing.
And the chance to start, it seems, came at just the right timing. The Precious Metal Vault is being robbed, and it's time to be a damn hero.
Anything Else: I used to have a decently good team of Electric Pokemons that I played competitively with back in high school.
