Post by JejuneN on Oct 16, 2018 0:57:53 GMT
"Despite everything, it’s still you."
- [Nightshade]
☆Personal Information☆
Full Name: Coraline Li
Codename: Nightshade
Title: Daughter of Darkness
Age: 22
Gender: Female???
Race: Human??
Ethnicity: Chinese
Orientation/Sexual preference: Asexual Panromantic
Blood Type: Shadow
☆Appearance☆
General Appearance: Coraline is a rather average looking person with black hair and brown eyes. Pretty and perhaps a bit too slim, lending an overall feel of fragility, but nothing overly special. Indeed, she tends to get lost in the crowd on occasions. Her clothing does not aid in that manner, as her style can be best described as simply: ordinary, and modest. Think turtlenecks and jeans, sweatshirts, hoodies, sneakers, etc. Nothing to stand out if possible, other than an ever present pair of sunglasses.
Once the glamour drops however, her inhumanity is brought to light. Her whole skin is tinged a dark grey, almost black, interspersed with shadowed veins that are closer to the surface. This is especially noticeable at the eyes, where the veins are most visible and hence, fully black. She also gives off an otherworldly aura which tends to terrify other people. She isn’t supposed to exist in this world, and people can tell. Hence, seeing what she does and what she is gives most people a very off feeling.
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 104 lbs
Eye color(s): Dark Brown
Body build: Delicate
Hair color(s): Black
Hair style: Long and Straight
Complexion: Pale when glamoured, gray when not.
Discerning Features: A tattoo of a magic circle covering her whole back.
☆Personality☆
General Personality: Coraline is a rather bright person so to speak, displaying massive amounts of curiosity and enthusiasm in most parts of life. She loves to learn new things, and tends to throw herself wholeheartedly into her new obsession before tiring of it and moving on to something shinier. This combined with her intelligence makes her a jack of all trades with tons of random knowledge stuffed into her head. On the other hand, she is a bit of a know-it-all and rather stubborn in her opinions when she thinks she’s right. As one may expect, she also veers towards book smarts rather than street smarts, and hence, doesn’t always have the best judgements on people and situations.
However, most people wouldn’t know this from first meeting her, as there is a timid side to her. She is rather anxious, fearing what others think of her as well as constantly doubting her own capabilities. So in situations where she doesn’t feel comfortable, she tends to be rather quiet, shrinking in on herself. Once she opens up though, the fire within her awakens and she can become rather loud and admittedly obnoxious, especially if the topic of her current passion is brought up.
She is also very compassionate, finding great joy in helping others and making others happy. She is fiercely protective of those she loves, and despite flashes of pessimism due to her anxiety, in the end, she is an optimist at heart. Coraline truly believes in the overall good and endless potential of humanity with a rarely dampened ferocity and hopes to aid in the protection of that in all she does.
Most prominent personality trait: Traumatized
Best traits: Friendly, Compassionate, Intelligent
Worst traits: Anxious, Rash, Stubborn
Likes: Hot sauce, strong flavors in general, books, routine, learning new things, being useful
Dislikes: Cruel people, being drawn into anything deemed abnormal, herself and her powers, quiet nights, darkness
Fears: Herself and her powers, hurting others
Goals: Figure out what to do in life
Habits: Bouncing her legs, meditation, self harm
☆Character Information☆
Current faith or religion: Agnostic
Current superstitions/quirks: Doesn't like walking under ladders due to a bad experience.
Alignment: Neutral Good
Marital status: Single
Occupation: Graduate Student
Family: Unnamed mother and father.
☆Power/Abilities☆
Powers and Abilities: Power 1: Shadow Manipulation
At the most basic, her abilities are shadow/darkness manipulation. She can mold and change the properties of the darkness around her rather effortlessly, allowing rather novel ways of attacking, defending, and transportation.
Power 2: Shadow Sense
They don’t have night vision so to speak, but more just a highly precise and intuitive understanding of anything happening in shadows/darkness around them. This also allows her to feel the location and presence of shadows/darkness. The range is generally around 10 feet but in continuous shadows/darkness, it extends to however large that area is or at the very least, larger than their usual range. (For an example, at night, their possible range is extremely far.)
Power 3: Nonhuman Physiology
With their death and subsequent transformation, their body has been rather drastically changed. Instead of blood, what runs through her body can best be described as shadow stuff. Due to this, everything about her has a decidingly grey, blackish tint to it, belying her now inhuman nature. She is now much more durable than before, with wounds being automatically sealed by the shadow stuff flowing through her.
She can also no longer sleep and everyday sensations have become duller than before, especially in the light. Taste, sight, touch, smell, and even sound. Whether this is due to her new physiology, or because in comparison to her new senses, everything else just feels weaker, is unknown. Pain is also deadened, and they can use the shadows within their body to augment their speed and strength.
Indeed, they are no longer even bound to human form, able to turn into a living shadow that can become incorporeal at will. At lesser extents, they can simply blend into shadows, giving an extra layer of stealth to their movements.
Power 4: Shadow Step
She can enter what is left of the primordial darkness oozing between universes. Theoretically, this allows her to travel anywhere (and when) she desires.
Weaknesses: Weakness 1: As to be expected, anything she creates is rather susceptible to light, dissolving away at speeds depending on the intensity of the light as well as her concentration on keeping the construct going. The more intense the light is, the more damage they can do to their constructs. Those that are left out in the day (and even at night due to starlight and such) slowly start to dissolve, melt, and vaporize into the light. Also, creating darkness is pretty hard and generally it just isn’t worth the effort to do so.
Weakness 2: As one can imagine, a large and precise range is cool but can also be extremely overwhelming, distracting, and even gross. In smaller ranges it’s much easier to control what is being sensed vs a mile long range that can very easily become a sensory overload and cause them to pass out just to preserve their own sanity. Also the understanding generally requires movement, textures, or even an energy pulse.
Weakness 3: With this, since she is basically held together by shadows now, she is rather sensitive to light: especially at the eyes where veins are more exposed, hence the sunglasses. The skin areas are generally alright though unless it’s a particularly bright day. The light becomes even more dangerous when she is in her shadow form, being one of the few things that can cause massive pain now (and also probably kill her). So it’s probably a good thing that she can only maintain a purely inhuman form only temporarily: up to 5 minutes with straining.
The other thing that can easily cause a lot of pain is regenerating her actual body. The wounds aren’t actually healed, the shadows simply acting as a very effective band aid that is unfortunately also very susceptible to light. Thankfully, healing is a rather speedy process since the shadows just stitch their body back together. Unfortunately, the process is as said, extremely painful, with what could be months or even years of healing compressed into seconds to minutes. With her senses as deadened as they are, damage can unknowingly build up rather fast.
Weakness 4: This is a very tiring action, no matter the distance. She also prefers to never use her ability to travel between universes and dimensions because it terrifies her in its immensity and what it symbolizes. [Once per thread]
Skills and Talents: Intelligent and creative, skilled researcher, capable of basic martial arts (kung fu)
Equipment: Binding + Glamour Seal – Taking the form of an intricate tattoo on her back, this seal lowers her power levels and with it, the general aura she gives off. It also hides her inhuman appearance and more inhuman movements. This glamour is very powerful, able to trick all five senses on normal human beings. However, it can’t fool machines, so under mechanical surveillance, she’d have no pulse or body temperature.
Collapsible Staff – Completly collapses when not in use. When activated, it snaps open.
The staff is hollow, providing another source of darkness to manipulat and is easily found online.
Costume – Consisting of heavily tinted goggles, slight armor, a cape, utility belt, etc. The fabric portions are fireproof and opaque to light and the armor portions as well as the soles of the boots are shock absorbing.
☆History☆
Current residence: NYC [Harlem]
Birthplace: NYC
Memorable Figures: Unnamed cult, Leon Trabocchi
General History: For all intents and purposes, Coraline should have been born a perfectly normal (insignificant) child with a perfectly normal (insignificant) life and with a perfectly normal (insignificant) death. However, whether by fate or by chance, she was stolen from the hospital to be used in a ritual meant to bring upon the end of the world as most knew it. Once again, due to either fate or serendipity, she was saved. The police crashed in during the ritual, foiling whatever plans they had for the baby sleeping in the middle of a spell diagram drawn in blood. The cultists were seemingly all captured and the kidnapped child was safe. So after the usual media circus that happens after such an event, life went on.
Her parents moved from New York to escape the attention and traumatizing memories, ending up in a small town in Utah. There, she had a perfectly normal childhood. She attended school, was enrolled in extracurriculars, and made friends. All the usual things.
Then, she turned 14. Turns out, the ritual did do something to her: It gave her powers. And being who she was, she decided she would become a superhero with them (ignoring that she was in a rather small town with very little actual crime). Her attempts at practicing in secret spread rumors, and those rumors soon gained the attention of the very same cult that had taken her on the day she was born. They stole her away once again except this time, she died, sacrificed in an attempt to free the thing that had been put inside her. Except, they didn’t account for two things: A friend, and that the thing had merged with the human it had been put inside (or perhaps, there was never truly a person, just the thing).
She doesn’t quite know what she is, or what she is meant to do now. In present times, she clings to normality, attending college in the city of her birth and hoping to find meaning in all that has happened. Still, she wants to help. However she can.