@PlatinumSkink well, it's quite simple: I was trying to put "mad genius" in a plain english and ended up with a thick paragraphs of text. You just went and posted "good with technology" and that's that, simplicity itself. Now, the only problem is that if you'd be okayed, I'd look like a fool who wrote a wall of text for nothing.
@PlatinumSkink And here am I, having spent several hours trying to dot down a power of mad genius in the definite terms without it looking like arbitrary "do anything", look at your power and understand that I must look like a fool now, considering that I could have just written down something along the line of "could mess around with biological", if your thing here is the benchmark.
Also. Seeing how we're getting a lot of people, I would personally suggest splitting teams(if such would be needed that is) along the lines of "more/less direct", so we'd have a sneaky team and an in-your-face team and people could plan their moves accordingly, not worrying about teammate being "too loud" or "too fragile".
Name: Birth: Sophie Engebretsen Craft: Maria del Muerte Alias: Sawbones Age: 19 full years, approximately three months Gender: Female Appearance:
She appears as the, depending on the observer, either a girl in her late teens or a young woman in her early twenties, with features speaking of nordic descent, piercing blue eyes, and, depending on the lighting, either auburn, straw-blond or light brown curly hair of the shoulder-length. She's tall, lithe and athletic and moves with a grace and fluidity like that of a martial artist...or a dancer; however, careful observer might notice that her movement rhytm and range is not quite human, her gait creating an uncanny valley-like effect when she's not actively focussing on keeping up the appearances; her normal voice is clear and crisp, her diction is immaculate and carefully scrubbed of any trace of accent.
Personality: Meticulous, unethical, ambitious, observant, stoic. Powers/skills: Native power: - Enhanced intelligence: greatly enhanced analythical and lateral thinking, superhumanly enhanced practical thinking, to the point where the whole world could be seen as an intertwined grid of opportunities for useful action, every object a tool, a resource and an inspiration. - Photographic memory and greatly enhanced information perception and processing speed: she may not be capable to dodge a bullet or even a blade any better than a normal human by itself, but she will remember the grain of steel of the blade and the exact way the metal felt against her flesh, and her reading speed is terrifying; she's much more likely to notice and make sense of small details in the environment, too. - Enhanced creative intuition: her subconscious mind constantly supplies her with a stream of ideas - some of them pertinent to the situation at hand, some of them about other project she's engaged in, all of them are about wringing some creative if unintended use out of some object, improving on some object or procedure, finding a new application for an old methodology, etc.; while her imagination teems with all kinds of ideas, it seems to take an unusual inspiration in all things biological - self-organizing mystery of life fascinates her to no end and while ideas she gets in the other areas are fairly advanced and innovative in their own right, ideas she get about things that she could do with living world and areas directly related to it are true, bleeding-edge, breakthroughs, many of them are firmly ahead of the present level of scientific understanding, straying into the areas of improbable and, to the lesser minds, seemingly impossible. And those ideas are not limited to the half-understood, vaguely-formed concepts too - the longer she contemplates them, the longer she works on the particular idea, the more clear it becomes, until the whole thing blossoms in her mind like a fractal blueprint, her superpowered genius circumventing a life's work of a whole scientific departments in an instant. - Enhanced medical skill: the same power which grants her almost boundless understanding of the biological greatly enhances her ability for a practical application of that knowledge too, her body acting almost by itself once she resolves on a certain course of action, the power manifesting as almost-conscious "tips" as much as the intuitive feeling of "right" course of action to take. In practice it gives her improbable, bordering on(and in a lot of cases, going straight into the area of) supernatural levels of skills of manipulating the biological systems as well as in the fields directly related to the said manipulation. In practice that means that she's one of the best medics in the world, could competently and efficiently work in the pharmacy or variety of labs(biochemical, genetical, etc), manipulate pressure points to provoke wide variety of effects including anaesthesia, unconsciousness and such - comprehensive list would take too much space; up to and including reviving relatively intact and "fresh" corpses, though mental integrity of not-so-"fresh" corpses might suffer due to the deterioration of the nervous system. Learned: - Theoretical understanding of "necromantic" rites and practices, focussed on the mexican and south american traditions, as well as understanding on the various cults and traditions of mexican and south american origin - she learned those from her mentor. - Proficiency with "necromantic" rites and practices, especially those concerning the manipulation of "spirit" and balance of lifeforce and necrotic energy - while her theoretical knowledge is solid and comprehensive, she lacks natural affinity for this sort of magic, getting by on the transplants she grew from her mentor's biomaterial, so she's very limited in scope of the effect, often needing to compensate with the extensive ritual preparations and enmeshing together bleeding edge biological science and lifeforce-manipulation magic to produce effects which neither could easily achieve on its own; even as such, at present she's largely limited to the perception magic and manipulating flesh or a life energy of a single body at a time, the pinnacle of her mastery being her ability to surgically manipulate and even store parts of the person's very spirit in the specifically-prepared container. - She has developed(and continuously updates) her own martial art which makes the most of what's possible for her body, as well as many pressure points techniques(ranging from common "pain node strikes" to strikes to the nerve clusters to anaesthesise the limb or knock someone out, to series of strikes that while somewhat difficult to pull off, allow to incapacitate or outright kill someone with overpressure in their vital organs with little outward apparent damage). It's the most effective against unarmoured opponent; while it could be adapted to the opponents of nonstandard biological makeup, this would require some observation to get a hang on their most likely pressure point location, and it's somewhat difficult to use against opponents posessing an enhanced durability due to the difficulties of applying enough pressure in the short amount of time through it. While original and capable of literally punching someone into the unconscious, she's not very good as a martial artist by herself - those expecting trained opponent and possessing formidable level of training themselves would find it rather easy to counter her. - Apart from her power feeding her shortcuts, she possesses wide array of deep theoretical knowledge(mainly natural sciences and not nearly so deep knowledge about contemporary events in the world) and developed hands-on skills related to scrounging, repairing and modifying various equipment, from cars to electronics to precision tools and lab equipment and various chemical compounds, as well as operating it. - She's somewhat competent at a wide range of survival and self-sufficiency skills, including passable proficiency with light firearms(mainly pistol, though she's familliar with shotguns and could in theory try to shoot an automatic rifle) and ability to drive a car. She could even, in theory, pick a lock, though she has no idea how modern ones work. Augmentation: - She conditioned her body to stay in top shape regardless of her lifestyle habits, persisting at the level just below that of the talented athlete going through the stringent exercise regimen each day; as there's only so much you could do without overspecialisation and over augmentation, she traded theoretical peak of ability for versatility - while she's not nearly Olympic level in any physical pursuit in particular, she's significantly better than your average Jane in most physical aspects - stronger, faster, more persistent; she also fiddled with her metabolism to optimize it, so her body produces almost no waste now and she is able to comfortably live on one meal a day; if needed, she could stretch her rations for at least ten times the duration of an average person, and she could go without air for approximately a dozen minutes before she'd start suffering from deprivation; she's comfortable in all but the most extreme climes with minimum of the protective gear, and would not suffer from decompression sickness in the event of sudden pressure change, nor would her body deteriorate from the prolonged exposure to the microgravity. - She posesses hyperefficient immune system and could exert conscious control over her bodily functions; as such, she's greatly resistant to the point of being immune to the most poisons and diseases, and could work in the hot zone of the leaking nuclear reactor without succumbing to the radiation sickness(though she would still need to do repairs on her body later to avoid any long-term complications) or stop herself from bleeding out through a concentrated effort of will; her lungs could process water as well as air, though that would be rather unpleasant experience; her body regenerates lost tissues much faster than normal and without serious flaws - while by no means combat-rate "fast healing", her skin does not scar, her bones regrow without defects: she could heal stab wounds and broken bones in a few hours or even regrow lost hand or ruined kidney in a few days if she has access to ample food supply - medical attention would speed the process further and prevent formation of scars or need for re-breaking of wrongly-setted bone; her pain center has been modified so while she's acutely aware of pain she's feeling, it does not override her actions, nor does it weaken her body; she's implanted herself with additional glands producing various chemicals, including enhanced derivative of adrenaline and endorphines, and she could consciously trigger their release; her joints and ligaments are modified for a much greater range of motion: she could even, with some effort, turn her head fully 180 around her, or slip out of cuffs without dislocating anything. - She modified her eyes with an additional magnifying membranes, being able to see minute details even without specialized lenses; her vision range extends in the infrared spectrum and she's able to detect body heat; her scent range is more like that of the dog(with additional receptors being wired to her visual cortex to better comprehend the whole picture, giving her synaesthetic understanding of scents); she's able to percieve sounds in both ultra- and infra- ranges; while her enhanced perception is somewhat vulnerable to overloading, she installed protective membranes and neural dampeners that could be consciously activated, limiting her to the normal human range but protecting her senses from overloading. - Her touch and proprioreception sensitivity have been greatly magnified, along with the hand-to-eye coordination and precision of her small motions; she's wholly capable of competing with the numerical controlled machine tool in the ability to make precise adjustments now. As a side effect, she never suffers of vertigo and is always precisely aware of position of her bodyparts. - She implanted a pressure sac and a set of glands producing powerful odourless and colourless knockout gas in her abdomen. Normally it's empty, but she could start production of the gas at any moment, as well as release it in the air; she is, naturally, immune to this gas herself. - Carefully-cultivated chimeric marrow tissues grown from her own cells and cells of her mentor was implanted in certain areas of her skeleton along her lifeforce medians to enhance her affinity to the "necromantic" spells and make her presence more palatable to the certain emphemeral entities; while that by no means makes her especially talented(or just talented, really) or gives her notable affinity, it does allow her to not rely solely on the ritualistic implements and the tricks possible without any affinity whatsoever. Equipment: WIP Short Bio: WIP, short version could be found in the previous thread. Other:[if there is anything else to be known about your character then put it here]
Sorry guys, have to run, will finish that this evening or so.
