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Character's Name, Age Kijani Ryane. 20
[indent][indent]Story: Kijani was born to two wealthy, brilliant people who happened to dislike each other. Her conception was essentially an accident, and her parents married out of propriety rather than love. She grew up cared for by a nanny while her parents worked and ignored her, except when they wanted to dress her up and trot her out for parties like a little trophy.
Her school days were strained. While her grades were always top class, whenever there came an event or show for her parents to come to, they were always “busy” and failed to attend. The most painful of these was a ballet recital when she was 10.
Kijani's abilities come from an old genetic kinesis quirk in her mother's bloodline that skips every few generations. Where before the women with power were labeled as "witches" and "weirdoes", today they are "metahumans". When her powers manifested, her parents were quite pleased. One more thing to make their daughter “special” on paper. However, this alienated her classmates, most of which did not have powers or chose to openly show them.
Her nanny was fired in Kijani's early adolescence, leaving the girl without a friend entirely. She spent her time alone, dancing, devouring knowledge, and developing her power to greater strength. When she was eleven, she was kidnapped off the streets and held for ransom by an organization known as the Alpha Continuum.
After about a month, she escaped and made it home to her parents. From that day on she was never quite the same. She promised herself she’d never let that happen to her again, no matter what it took. Kijani pretty much raised herself after that, while her parents worked. She became an emancipated minor at the age of fifteen, took her inheritance from her parents, and used it to start living life on her own terms.
For the first few years she traveled the world. She spent several months touring Europe, learning languages and absorbing culture. She spent a year in China, training extensively, and banishing the softness of a rich life from her spirit and body. Once she returned to America, she started work on becoming who she truly wanted to become. Having taken 'knowledge is power' as an almost-literal mantra, she began to make a name for herself, stealing secrets and gaining information for the highest bidder. Currently, she works as an informant, and no one knows that the pretty girl working in the local library is actually a wealthy, highly trained genius.
Appearance: Kijani is about 6 feet tall with dark skin, black hair in dreadlocks and has golden yellow eyes. She usually wears tailored business suits and bespoke shoes, and usually wears makeup. On casual days, it’s designer jeans and expensive sneakers. She does wear jewelry, favoring gold over silver. She also hides dime romance novels in her designer purses.
Sexuality:Straight.
Relationship Status Single, open to dating
Likes (optional):Books (especially fantasy novels), dancing, music, wine (she has a very good fake ID)
Dislikes (optional):Rain and cold weather, “stupid” people, the color white in excess (like completely blank walls), the smell of bleach.
Powers/Abilities: Describe your character's powers. Don't forget to describe the limitations of these powers as well.>list]
[*] Paperkinesis: Kijani has the ability to manipulate paper, and control it’s density. She can turn an index card into a razor sharp blade, a book into a brick, and newspaper into armor. She is limited only by her imagination, and distance. Every bit of paper within 50 feet is her plaything, from pages to paper towels.
[*] Specialized Fighting style She also has a lot of grace on the battlefield, her primary talent being evasion and misdirection. Her fighting style is a blend of Tai Chi and Capoeria- moving with the flow of the fight, never stopping. Kijani’s self-invented style flows from move to move, never breaking stride even when she falls or is hit, it simply becomes another move in the dance. Aside from her power and training, Kijani is pretty much human. Cut her, she bleeds. Shoot her, she dies.
[*] PolyglotWhile it’s not necessarily a superpower, Kijani has a gift for languages, and currently speaks English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. She is working on Japanese and sign language.
[*] Information programming Kijani has a specialized computer program that she created herself, that builds information profiles on all sorts of subjects. If it can be known, she is determined to find it.
Recruiting: Black Widow found Kijani through a slip up she made with her computer programming. Some research led her to the area Kijani lived in, and she confronted the young woman directly. Natasha came bearing advice, an offering, and a warning. The advice was how to fix the programming mistake. The offering was to join the team. The warning was that if she didn't, she'd likely be in prison within 5 - 10 years.
Subplots: -Kijani has been a solo act for some time, and isolated longer than that. She might need some help learning to "play with others".
-She wants to take down the group who kidnapped her, but first the team will have to drag that trauma into the light.
