Real Name: Tazaria "Taz" Zeltrona
Gender: Female
Species: Zeltron
Relation: N/A
Organization: Tazmanian Militia
Age: Unknown
Powers and abilities:
Tazaria is an alien part of the Zeltron species. The species possesses two biological traits of note. The first is that they all produce potent pheromones which enhance their attractiveness and likeability. The second is that they have a telepathic ability that allows them to project emotions onto others, as well as allowing them to read and even feel the emotions of others (made stronger/more accurate with touch). Additionally, Tazaria herself has a rare ability among her race, something referred to as "psychometry". Psychometry is the ability to read information, emotions and events of a space, item, or person (living or deceased) by touch. Taz is also an exceptional space pilot, combatant, and weapons expert.
BIO:
(This character is inspired by Zeltrons from the Star Wars Universe)
Tazaria and her species' home planet, Zeltros, is destroyed by Thanos and his army in an attempt to collect the final Infinity Stone (The Soul Stone). Unfortunately for Thanos, the stone was in fact not on Zeltros as he had previously predicted, thus leaving the destruction of Zeltros a complete waste and tragedy. Although hundreds of millions of citizens were wiped from existence in its destruction, many Zeltrons still managed to flee the planet before it imploded. As Zeltros was a major space port planet, many Zeltrons live off-planet - meaning although the home world has been destroyed and many lives lost, there are still a prominent population of Zeltrons throughout the galaxy.
After its attack and destruction, Tazaria, a prestigious militant, funded the a team of some of the best soldiers and military assets in the galaxy. Although the species had lost their war, they had not yet lost the battle. So long as Thanos was alive and plundering, evil had not been stopped and this chaos was yet to be over. In an effort to stop him and simultaneous exact revenge (and justice), Tazaria forms the Tazmanian Militia to combat Thanos, and seeks out an honorable friend, Thor of Asgard. Upon hearing the devastating news, Thor seeks council with the Avengers. The team agrees to welcome the Militia to Earth, suspecting Thanos will soon target Earth in his search for the Soul Stone (as well as the fact that Vision has the Mind Stone, too). Tazaria, known on Earth as "Zeltrona", then travels to Earth in promise to use her powerful Militia to defend and protect the Human race.
Alternatively, if we want to cross-over Zeltrona with Guardians of the Galaxy, instead of consulting with Thor, Zeltrona consults with an old-time friend, Rocket Raccoon (or Gamora - I can make that work too). Perhaps she seeks him out to offer to also offer him aboard the Militia (only to find out his has his own group, the Guardians of the Galaxy). Through this meet-up, Zeltrona would meet Star-Lord.
Appearance:
Zeltrons are different from Humans, notable from their skin color which varies from pink to red, as well as their hair which varies from red to blue. Zeltrona has pink skin with navy blue hair. Additionally, she has icy blue eyes that are often described as "mesmerizing" for their cracked and galactic
appearance. Zeltrona is also objectively attractive. She has a very voluptuous figure, even more so than Black Widow (busty, small waist, bigger behind, thick thighs, and fit arms).
Real Name: Fukayna “Kay” Kira
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Relation: Descendent of Ancient Egypt
Organization: N/A
Age: 20-25
Powers and abilities:
Fukayna, or known as Nephthys, harbours the magical powers of the Ancient Egyptian
Book of the Dead. Using an ancient relic (bracelet) only, she is able to control ancient magical powers that include, summoning the dead (spirits and physical bodies, too), using the spells of the book (healing, blessing, cursing), as well as other unidentified abilities.
BIO:
IN PROGRESS
Fukayna (fu-kay-na), also known as “Kay” or “K” for short, is a native Egyptian from Cairo. She is a descendent of Ancient Egyptian royalty however did not discover this until she dug into her family's history. After the death of her grandparents, she inherited all of their assets, which included a wide array of ancient artifacts and relics. One of these items was the
Book of the Dead along with a historical
gold cuff. Upon discovering the items in a sealed chest, the bracelet mysterious flung to her wrist and locked in place. From that moment forward, the cuff (and all of its magical properties) had bonded permanently to her. Kay was instantly sucked into a time warp, where she travelled back into ancient times. Although her stay in another world seemed to last years, in the real world, it only lasted several minutes. When she returned to reality, she would be a changed woman, now harbouring the abilities of ancient and mystical magic as well as the ability to read and understand the Book of the Dead.
Although Kay kept secretive of her new abilities and connection to her ancient past, over the years, word of this magical bracelet spread, now dubbing her “Nephthys”. Nephthys, a goddess of Ancient Egypt, was the protector of the dead. Kay was also raised as a Muslim, which is still prevalent although much of her philosophy has resorted back to the Ancient Egyptian religion.
Appearance:
When kay is using ancient magic, the color of the aura of her magic is normally a pink and purple hue. Her
eyes change to similar colouring. There are some variations, however, as not all of her magic is the same. Additionally, Kay has a rather glamorous eclectic sense of style, drawing inspiration from her ancient roots, artisan taste and modern goth blend.
IDEAS:
She's a character I can incorporate into nearly any scenario.
Because she wields magic, there may be an interesting opening to pair her with Doctor Strange. I'd like to follow the timeline of the film (saw the premiere) as much as possible, as the Marvel Cinematic Universe has begun to string together all Marvel related storylines and realms (quite nicely). In a plot with the magical dimensions explored in Doctor Strange, the magic Fukayna bears would be a particular mystery to Kamar-Taj. There would be, among the vast library of magical knowledge, only a single book on the Ancient Egyptian world. The book would be vague, only mentioning the history of the magic, including the Book of the Dead (thought to no longer exist). It would state that the magic from the Book of the Dead died thousands of years ago alongside the ancient relic used to harbour it. I'd like for Doctor Strange to have read this and for his interest in the Book of the Dead to have piqued. When reports suggest it's existence, he tracks it down in a search for more magical knowledge.
Other ideas welcome, as well!
Real Name: Lucina “Lucifher” Vartanian
Gender: Female
Species: Human-Demon
Relation: Spawn of the Afterlife
Organization: N/A
Age: Unknown -
Powers and abilities:
Lucina was resurrected from the dead leaving her with newfound demonic abilities. Her powers are nearly limitless, and completely supernatural in essence. Lucina is capable of moving objects with her mind (like a poltergeist), creating mind-altering illusions, and seeing and communicating with the dead. Her most cunning tool is the ability to into the past, including seeing into someone's mind (their memories, their thoughts, their darkest fantasies and secrets, etc.) and reading the past memories of a room. As a result of this ability, she is capable of absorbing the knowledge of anyone's mind, leaving her to possesses incredible amounts of information (intelligence). She is also capable of inflicting mental and emotional horror as well as an immense amount of emotional-physical pain. All of her abilities, she refers to as, “haunting”.
BIO:
Lucina was born a normal human, and lived a seemingly normal life until she was killed by police at just 19 years old. On the night of her death, police received a frantic call from Lucina's mother. Her mother, wailing to police about her murderous daughter, claimed that her and her other children were being held hostage by her eldest daughter, Lucina. Deeply religious, she claimed Lucina was possessed by the devil himself and had violently murdered her father. Police rushed to the scene to secure the perimeters, but Lucina was psychotic and out of control. Failed attempts to negotiate with her lead police to break down the door up in arms. They found a horrific and bloody scene, the father having been evidently tortured and murdered. Lucina was covered in blood and verbally unresponsive, clutching on to a butcher knife as she paced the living room in distraught. Her mother lay crouched in the corner of the room, clutching on to her two younger children, Nazani (9 years old) and Azad (13 years old). When police approached the two children, Lucina snapped and dove for the officer. In a state of survival, the police officers opened fire, shooting over a dozen rounds into Lucina until she dropped dead.
Nearly 10 years following her death, her brother Azad (13 at the time, now 23) wrote a novel recounting the events titled “In The Wake of the Devil”. Still very religious, her mother refuses to speak of the traumatic event while her brother continues to advocate that she was possessed by an evil entity. Her younger sister, Nazani (9 at the time, now 19), however, has since become completely estranged with her family, wanting nothing to do with both her mother and her brother who continue to demonize Lucina's memory rather than move on with their lives. Out of the three, Nazani is the most traumatized, however has refused countless attempts by police at an interview. However, years of research has lead investigators to believe that there is more to this story than just a teenager-gone-mad (Lucina) and that something had triggered the event that no one is willing to talk about.
Lucina was dubbed “Lucifher” by her victims and detectives who have been investigating for her for years. The term Lucifer coins from the Fallen Angel Lucifer who later became known in Christianity as the devil himself. The twist on the spelling is as a result of her female gender “her”, as well as a tribute to her first name, Lucina. Ironically, Luciana means “light and moon”, a stark difference to the darkness she breeds around her. I have yet to decide when I want Lucina to resurrect (whether she would have resurrected from the dead the same year or in later years). Regardless, she will have not contacted any member of her family or past life, and they would otherwise not know of her existence. However, the police would be figuring it out, as reports of someone of strikingly similar features (as well of images for this basis) would be surfacing.
Appearance:
Lucina's resurrection has left her with various demonic deformities. Her
eyes have a black sclera and her irises have been stripped of their blue color, leaving them grey with a ring of red around the pupil. Additionally, her once black hair has turned a grey in color. Her skin is freezing cold to the touch, and her complexion is colorless. Some other optional features:
Sharp teeth,
sharp claws and/or black hands (black limbs). To hide her apperance and as a theatrical performer, she wears gothic
stage attire which covers her face. She will also wear more scantily clad
gothic dresses (with a face veil), as well.
I'm thinking she ends up 'wanted' by police, either in connection with the previous murder of her father, or perhaps they even want to use her as a “medium” in their efforts to solve crime scenes and cold cases. They could perhaps think she is a mutant and want to have her "cured" with the Hope Serum, or even they don't truly believe she's demonic like all of these witnesses claim her to be. So they send someone to investigate these reports.
She's also the lead singer for a band called "
Hellbent". I'm using the music of Pretty Reckless' album "
Going To Hell" as a sound claim. Lucina/Lucifher would perform at underground rock clubs in and around New York.
Real Name: Serena Galanis
Gender: Female
Organization: Mercenary and Spy
Age: 25-28 years old
Powers and abilities:
Absolute seduction, via touch, voice/ speaking, and especially singing. Serena is capable of controlling people (powers most often used on men) once they are under her spell. She has three forms, her human form (appears normal), her true form, and her aquatic form. She uses her human form to purposely hide her true self, in which she has black hair, white glowing eyes, and smokey blue skin. Her true form also transforms into an aquatic creature automatically in water, which comprises of a mermaid-esque fish tail, webbed fingers, fins and spikes over parts of her body. Additionally, Serenia has exceptional underwater eyesight, and is capable of breathing underwater for extensive periods of times (without the need to come up to the surface).
BIO:
Serena is dubbed “Sirenia” for sharing many characteristics to sirens from Greek mythology. She is Greek in ethnicity and also said to carry a dark curse that has been passed down from her mother. Although her file with SHIELD classifies her as an “enhanced” or “mutant”, she herself does not believe she is either. Her parents have preached that she is the product of the underworld, and not their true child. They believe she is the progeny of Hades, sent to the mortal world to collect the souls of the dead. Serena's parents also claim that she has a spiritual connection to the dead, and that she can communicate with those who has passed – an ability Serena denies and which there is very little evidence of. Due to her parents religious and mythological obsessions, Serena was shunned and disowned from her parents. They believed she was inherently evil, and saw her as a curse and burden. They abandoned her as a teenager and coincidentally later drowned in a tragic cruise ship accident.
Current Day:
Serena Galanis is a well-know and infamous mercenary and spy. She collects information and pawns it off to the highest bidder to turn an enormous profit. She has been labelled many titles from enemies, anything from a snake to a parasite, simply for her exorbitant ability to slither her way into any territory to collect valuable information. She is exceptionally talented in her trade and has mastered the art of disguise. This same technique also makes her great at tracking. Upon seducing her victim, she is able to easily manipulate them into either giving her the information she needs, or connecting her to the resources required to retrieve it. Victims normally awake from a daze once she is done, normally having little recollection of their time under her spell. Most have also reported feeling “sea sick” (nausea, dizziness, swaying) despite not being on a boat or near water.
Name: Liliya Romanova
Nick Name: Lilly
Spy Name: Rusalka
Gender: Female
Relation: Sister of Black Widow/ Natasha Romanoff (born Natalia Romanova)
Accent: Russian
Organization: KGB, HYDRA and now KRAKEN
Age: 22
Powers and abilities:
Liliya, also known as agent Rusalka, is a Russian-born spy and assassin bred by an organization called KRAKEN (Hydra-based). She is trained by Madame B in a new program (similar to the Red Room Academy) called Operation Ursula. From this program, Liliya gained high skills in ballet, acrobatics, tactical intelligence, spyware, mixed martial arts, and hand-to-hand combat. She is also immersed in extensive weaponry knowledge, and is capable of using nearly every gun and explosive on the market. She is additionally trained to pilot a multitude of aircrafts, including but not limited to helicopters and planes. She operates under an alias “Rusalka” and is responsible for the deaths of many people (and the fall of many organizations).
BONUS/ OPTIONAL:
I can add the option to have her enhanced. This can be discussed.
BIO:
Shortly after Natalia Romanova's graduation (now Natasha Romanoff), the Red Room Academy was shut down by SHIELD and other leading oppositional organizations. Though, despite the devastating loss of the Soviet Union, and with political transformations of Russia, Madame B was determined to continue her work. Once the fall of the KBG was unavoidable, Hydra used its political tactics to spread further into Russia, and to propose Madame B, the head of the Black Widow program, an offer she couldn't refuse. The offer was a child, a little girl, no older than 5 or 6 years old.
“What am I to do with this pest?” She spat at the Hydra representative. “Train her like the others? I have no academy, I have no teachers. Red Room is nothing, now.” With bright green olive eyes, freckled cheeks, and magnificent red locks that were braided over her shoulder, Madame B gnarled at the child.
He stared at the Madame for a hard moment as the child's shoulders slouched inward in a tell-tale sign of insecurity. “I am surprised a woman of your intellectual superiority would fail to notice such a striking resemblance.”
Madame's mouth opened to retort back at the suited man, but her eyes fell to the youngling once again. Her breath caught in her throat as she came to such an unlikely conclusion. “Do you take me for a fool?” Her voice had diminished to a soft hiss. “This is no child of Natalia. That is impossible.”
“You're right, she is no daughter of Natalia.” He paused. “She's her sister... Liliya Romanova.” From that moment forward, Madame B's eyes widened, and Liliya's whole world changed.
With the KBG dissolved and Russia's Secret Service now under Hydra's wing, a new organization formed: KRAKEN, named after the legendary sea monster. From this newly formed Hydra organization, Kraken, a new spy program emerged: Operation Ursula. Named after the infamous Sea Witch and Disney villain from the children's classic, The Little Mermaid, Kraken viewed Liliya as their little innocent, redheaded Ariel. To them, the child was a naive mermaid and impressionable child who could be manipulated and brainwashed. And so, from the early age of 6 years old, Liliya was enrolled in the unforgiving Ursula program. From this program, meant to replicate the Red Room Academy, agent Rusalka was born.
Rusalka, named after the Russian water nymph creature, has been taught by Madame B and other dangerous professionals that her greatest asset was her ability to seduce light-willed and weak-minded men. Among Liliya's early years of mercenary missions, she became notorious for her ability to swoon and seduce men of all shapes, sizes, races, and ages. Smart, dumb, fat, skinny, it didn't matter. If they had a penis, she could use them, abuse them, fool them in every way imaginable. Russian gangsters labelled her “the siren of Russia”.
By the age of 18, she had already successfully assassinated several dozen people and was single-handedly responsible for the fall of many organizations.
OPTIONAL:
You have the choice of having Rusalka (Liliya) clear-skinned OR with a big tattoo on her back.
The tattoo she would adorn on her skin is this beautiful
octopus. Aside from this, she would have no other tattoos. Her only piercings are her ears. Again, this tattoo is completely OPTIONAL.
PERSONALITY:
Liliya is extremely intelligent, and subsequently, very witty. She is very philosophical in her spoken language, and often uses metaphors to portray deeper meaning to her speech. This sort of dialogue is what has made her so mysterious and alluring to men. Liliya also has a defiant attitude which is reflected in many aspects of her being. For example, she disregards many social and societal norms because she loathes when people conform without sufficient reasoning. She tests these norms by pushing boundaries, such as getting really physically close to someone when she is talking to them, or doing something just to get a reaction out of them. Similarly, she is extremely psychologically manipulative and aware; she has enough education in human behaviour, psychology, medicine and biology to be a psychiatrist (had she had formal institutional schooling). This knowledge reflects directly in how she uses her body, her words, and her ideas to read people, brainwash them, and in many cases, even torture them. Although very young, her childhood consisted of intense training and schooling, and virtually no playtime. Despite her stunning beauty, Liliya is very much emotionally broken. Having been unfortunately nurtured by Madame B, a definite psychopath, Liliya has a difficulty feeling empathy and compassion for people. Her upbringing has severed her ability to form proper bonds, which has also lead to an enormous lack of trust with literally every single person she comes in contact with. She is a character who will need someone to essentially teach her how trust, be compassionate, and ultimately... how to love.
ADAPTATION:
Liliya and Natalia have an age difference between of them of nearly 10 years. Because Natalia's parents are ambiguous in both the MCU and the comics (they are presumably killed in Stalingrad and Natalia is recruited as an orphan therein after in the comics), I'd like to have it that Nat was made to believe her parents were killed in a car accident when she was just a child. Nat's younger sister, Liliya, is said to have been killed in the same accident at 14 months old. However, once Nat abandons the KGB with the aid of Barton, she soon discovers (with the work of SHIELD) that her parents were actually murdered and that she was kidnapped and recruited into the KGB. She learns, through extensive research, that in fact her sister's death had been faked and that she was rumoured to have been also kidnapped.
In this roleplay, Nat would have been looking for her lost sister, Liliya, for several years (but to no avail). It isn't until an unrelated mission with SHIELD uncovered that a normally-masked Russian assailant is actually a redheaded female. A picture of her is captured and stored under the file name “RUSALKA” until further notice. With Rusalka becoming a growing problem, SHIELD dispatches an agent to capture or eliminate her. The agent fails in his mission, though does manage to draw blood from the infamous Rusalka spy. While imputing the blood sample in the SHIELD database, and unsuspecting MATCH is discovered. Rusalka's DNA tests positive to SHIELD's very own, Natasha Romanoff. With a dead-set match, SHIELD call in Nat to deliver the news. The good news, they found her sister. The bad news, she's a dangerous spy, bearing strikingly similar tactics, skills, and techniques used by Russians from the Black Widow program. SHIELD, concerned that the Red Room Academy has resurrected in another form elsewhere in Russia, informs Natasha that, despite being her sister, Rusalka was on SHIELD's Most Wanted list. Nat, overwhelmed by this information, secretly vows to save her sister from Russian intelligence, regardless of orders from SHIELD.
Although forbidden to stay out of the investigation, as it is a conflict of interest, Nat hacks into SHIELD and retrieves all of their information on RUSALKA in order to investigate herself. Rusalka, now off the grid since the last confrontation with a SHIELD agent, has been MIA for months. With a seemingly dead trail, Natasha travels to Russia to get more information. Within a couple of weeks (through using her skills to gain intel from the Russian mob), she soon discovers that Rusalka is an agent for an underground Intelligence service known as KRAKEN. She shortly realizes that Kraken is revival of the KGB's Red Room and also running under Hydra's wing.
Where the roleplay will take place:
It will take place after Natasha travels to Russia and discovers Kraken and it's Hydra-based program that is eerily similar to Red Room. Depending on who you'd like to pair Liliya against, this story can take different routes.
Real Name: Jadzia Gajos
True Polish Pronunciation: Yah-jah
Current American Pronunciation: Jahd-zee-ah
Gender: Female
Accent: Polish accent when speaking English
Organization: HYDRA
Age: Over 85 years old (appears in her 20s)
Powers and abilities:
Jadzia is an enhanced bionic human with an impeccable immune system and an extraordinary healing factor. Jadzia has became notorious for her two cyborg legs, which possess immense strength, speed, and agility. She is an expert in mixed martial arts and a lethal combatant; knowledgeable in many guns and weapons.
Examples of her bionic abilities:
- She can obliterate someone's skull with just one kick (similarly, a kick to the chest would instantly kill her enemy).
- She can jump off the roof of a skyscraper and land on her two feet without any injury to herself (the ground takes a hit).
- She can run up to 60 miles her hour (100kmph).
BIO:
Jadzia Gajos is a Polish native who was born sometime before the Second World War. Originally of Jewish faith, she was recruited as a teen by the Nazi Regime and was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. There she fell victim to the many maniacal experiments of Josef Mengele, intended to achieve their Final Solution. Mengele, dubbed the "Angel of Death", subjected Jadzia to brutal torture and radiation. Despite his efforts, Jadzia was incredibly resilient to all of his experiments. Josef became obsessed with Jadzia, convinced that the key to the Nazi mission for the ultimate Super Soldier lay within this young woman's genetics. Jadzia was enrolled into a Nazi scientific program, where she spent the next year undergoing intense biological and physical testing. After a breach in security left the lab vulnerable, Jadzia took the opportunity to outwit the guards in an attempt at escaping. She ran frantically onto the tracks of Auschwitz, with gunfire licking at her feet as she moved further away from the camp. Unfortunately, there were too many Nazi soldiers and she ended up outnumbered. Realizing she could not escape this hell, rather than being taken back as a guinea pig, Jadzia decided to take her life. Before the men could grab her, she threw herself in front of Auschwitz's on-coming train, where she was instantly struck and blacked out. Although Jadzia's lower half was chewed between the tracks and the iron wheels of the train, she miraculously survived the suicide. The accident left her amputated from upper thigh and down; rendering her completely legless and unable to walk. Having barely survived, Jadzia was left paralyzed and comatose. Despite her now useless and mangled body, Josef's obsession only grew. Rather than believing her genes create a Super Soldier, he now believed she WAS a Super Soldier.
Determined to turn his efforts into success, Mengele fled Auschwitz before its liberation, taking with him all of his work and the comatose Jadzia to an off-site base in Soviet Russia. With the help and funding of HYDRA, Josef continued his work with Jadzia, who was renamed Proxy SS (Agent Schutzstaffel). There Josef worked for HYDRA developing a line of cybernetic prosthetics that would eventually be implanted onto Proxy SS as leg replacements. Unfortunately, the project stalled, as Jadzia, against popular belief, hadn't awoken from her coma. She was eventually pronounced brain dead in late 1945 and frozen until further notice. The project turned from Jadzia to Sergeant James Barnes, who had been found unconscious and armless. The research previous reserved for Jadzia was turned over to Barnes, who became the new leading obsession and Super Soldier possibility. James Barnes' experiments were successful, and he was implanted with his infamous cybernetic arm. He was brainwashed through electric shock therapy and used as HYDRA's personal assassin.
Current Day:
It wasn't until decades later, where many scientific and technological advances occurred, was the Proxy SS program revisited. There, under the newest wave of HYDRA, Jadzia was defrosted and revived from her coma. Under HYDRA, she received two cybernetic prosthetic legs and was trained to be an assassin and a weapon. She too, like Barnes, was mentally controlled by the HYDRA organization through the use of ECT (electroconclusive therapy). For several years, the ECT proved effective in leading Jadzia into a life of ruthless mercenary work. With two nearly indestructible bionic legs, Proxy SS was a force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately for HYDRA, Proxy SS became resistant to the treatment, and began to rebel against their efforts to control her. In a means to lock Jadzia back down to HYDRA's philosophy, the organization tortured Jadzia, even tattooing her neck, as a symbol of ownership. The intricate tribal tattoos served as a figurative collar; a constant reminder that Jadzia was not a human being, but a robot and a machine - Property of HYDRA. The organization used the tattoo and her piercings as a way to degrade her, and to punish her into conforming with the HYDRA values. In a last ditch effort to take over her mind, HYDRA implanted a device that connected to both her spine and brain. It was used to brainwash her further, as well as kept as a fail-safe (killswitch) if ever she were to become uncontrollable.
Name: Dahlia Xun Li
Origin: Chinese-American
Age: 18-25
Organization: N/A
Powers/ Abilities: Dahlia is a mutant (or “enhanced”) that carries the X-gene capable of allowing her to manipulate and control glass materials. It is unclear why the X-gene has manifested itself specifically to glass (rather than any other subject), though it is widely assumed that Dahlia has not unlocked her full potential; and thus, there is suspicion that she may also be able to control other man-made substances. Dahlia is able to move and dislodge glass, similar to how a telekinetic would any object, though at a much more fierce and accelerated pace. She can break it apart and similar, put it back together with little to no imperfections. However, Dahlia is unable to control her abilities when angered; particularly when her heart rate begins to exceed 150 beats per minute.
BIO:
Dahlia is of both Chinese and American descent. Her father immigrated to the United States from China where he met Dahlia's mother, a Caucasian woman from Boston, Massachusetts. Dahlia's mutation was suspected even as a baby. As a child, when Dahlia became frustrated, upset, or injured, strange events would unfold. All mysterious incidents, such as windows, vases, cups, televisions, and etc. cracking or shattering, shared one common denominator; they are all made with glass. At the beginning, her parents could not make logical sense of the events, and by the time Dahlia turned 10 years old, her mother was convinced that she, or the house, was possessed by an evil spirit. When proof of the x-factor mutation hit media spotlight, Dahlia's connection with glass became all too clear. She wasn't demonic, she was a mutant. Dahlia's parents, both scientists, agreed to stop at nothing to find a cure for their daughter. Her father, a geneticist, and her mother, a cytologist, began pouring their life savings into research behind trumping the X-Gene. They helped fund the project behind the Hope Serum, lead by a geneticist and mutual friend, Dr. Kavita Rao.
Nevertheless, Dahlia remained under constant supervision despite her parents' undying support. However, Dahlia's mother became pregnant, and just before entering full term, there was a domestic altercation between Dahlia's mother and father. Dahlia became frightened at her parent's incessant yelling and subsequently, became uncontrollable. She let out a scream that shattered all the windows in the house like an explosion. Rather than the glass just falling to the floor, it formed into a barrier surrounding her before jutting forward towards her parents. Although her father was critically injured, Dahlia's outburst left her mother and unborn sibling dead. Practically shredded by the wave of broken glass, the bloody scene was a horrific sight. By the time Dr. Rao developed the cure, it was already too late. Two innocents were dead, and Dahlia was out of sight, and out of mind.
Post Incident: Dahlia's father, Dr. Xun Li, required a 2 month induced coma to heal from his wounds, and by the time he awoke, his daughter was missing. Dahlia was taken into custody by social workers and government officials while he was being treated, as she had no other known family to take her in. While under the care of the government, Dhalia was kidnapped by a trusted caretaker, who knew of her mutation and wished to exploit it. She was sold illegally to an underground black market group who sought to use her powers to their advantage. Little did they know, that Dahlia was a destructive, lethal force to be reckoned with. Although the troupe tried to train her enough to help them commit high-end robberies, it ended with everyone, except Dahlia, dead. She was found on the streets by another mutant, who referred her to Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, previously the School of Gifted Youngsters, where Professor X and his team flew to Boston to transport her to the X-Mansion in New York. There she learned to better control her powers, though, still struggled to maintain stability when angered. In her early teens, Dahlia became frustrated with her lack of recent progress. After an incident left the whole house in glass-shattered shambles, Dahlia ran away and was recruited by a band of ex-Xavier mutants who had also left the facility due to poor progress and connection. Since the age of 15, Dahlia has been off the X-Men's radar, even though they have attempted to bring her back.
Dahlia is a modern-day low-level criminal who uses her abilities to commit crimes such as basic theft, car theft, house and business burglary, and most recently, major bank robberies. She wears a heart rate monitor watch on her wrist at all times. When she is aggravated, upset, or afraid, she uses the watch to regulate her response. Although indicative of her distress, the watch cannot accurately predict her responses to different physical stressors. Similarly, Dahlia avoids any sort of excessive physical activity. Although it does not trigger a loss of control, it does make it easier for her to lose control of her abilities if she were to be met with any sort of high emotional crisis. For example, having a heart rate of over 150 alone does not cause her powers to explode. Rather, an accelerated heart rate combined with emotional stress (and even physical pain) would.
OPTIONAL Current Day: Over the past few months, after the failed attempts at retrieving the Winter Soldier, HYDRA searches for a new soldier; a new weapon. They discover Dahlia (who they then dub "Black Dahlia") and and convince her that they can cure her of her uncontrollable powers with a special suit. Desperate for solutions, she agrees to joining their organization. They instantly begin to test her, torture her, and control her mind to turn Dahlia into the weapon of mass destruction they've always wanted. They place Black Dahlia in a technologically engineered
suit that is internally connected to her heart, her muscles, her spinal cord, and especially, her brain. The suit allows them to take complete control of her body and mind, in which HYDRA uses her as a puppet of mass destruction.
Name: Zahirya Dren
Gender: Female
Species: Alien/ Not Human
Organization: N/A
Age: Unknown
Powers and abilities:
Zahirya is an alien female who's abilities are all based on her species. Zahirya has all five of her senses exceptionally enhanced. She has the vision of a hawk, the smell of a wolf, and the hearing of a bat (including echolocation). She has nearly double the amount of taste buds as the average human, making her ultra sensitive to foods. She can also use her enhanced sense of taste and smell to identify proteins, minerals, and other materials. Similarly, Zahirya is capable of smelling pheromones on people, as well as other undetectable human scents and chemicals that allow her to interpret a person's feelings, intentions, and moods. Due to the unique design of her wings, legs, hands, and feet, she is an extraordinary climber, leaper, and glider. Her legs allow for increased agility and speed when in combat. Her heightened senses allow for incredible detail in her surroundings, giving her prime instinctively combatant abilities (she knows who's around her at all times and can sense people and animals from a mile away). Lastly, Zahirya possess superhuman intelligence.
* Photos of her body - see below *
BIO:
Zahirya has very little recollection of her origins. She suffers from severe amnesia, a condition believed to have been caused by a mixture of electric shock therapy as well as physical head trauma and mental trauma. The only thing she knows for certain is that she is not human. She is an extraterrestrial who does
not possess human DNA (although the DNA is similar). How she got to Earth is unknown.
She was rescued by Black Panther (or a crew run by him) from an awful organization (can be HYDRA or other) who used torture and scientific experimentation to exploit her genetics and abilities. When rescued, Zahirya was in terrible condition. Her muscle tissue had deteriorated from the abuse and she had suffered such bad radiation at the hands of the facility, that the toxins of the experiments left her body hairless, and her head bald. Luckily upon her rescue, she was intensively rehabilitated (at T'Challa's facility we see at the end of Civil War – same one Bucky is being held) and her body began to quickly heal. Her muscles regenerated and her hair even grew back. The experiments left her badly scarred; her back, spine, forearms, and hands having been subjected to countless repetitive injections. Despite the trauma she has face, she still remains optimistic and uses her experiences and superior intelligence to remain wise, noble, and loyal.
Physical Appearance:
Although Zahirya is a unique original character, I did use Dren from the film Splice as inspiration and as a physical model for Zahirya's body. The photos below are from the film plus some color manipulation. You'll have to use your imagination to combine the skin patterns of Zahirya, her face, and now, the body of the character Dren from the movie. Zahirya will have the same collapsible wings, as well as the same tail, hand, legs and feet of the character Dren.
Wings -
Full Body (Naked)
ADAPTATION:
The roleplay would ideally take place post-therapy, after she's completely recovered and is released and given clearance by the medical team to live life freely. Since she was rehabilitated and treated by Black Panther's team and at his facility, she would perhaps be living there where she could come in contact with Steve, Bucky, or other Canons (since they are linked and involved with Black Panther now, due to his kind services for Bucky).
She could also be transferred to the Avengers facility as part of an agreement between T'Challa and Stark. She would perhaps be transferred to help her reintegrate into mainstream society. She would be very naive of the human world - and although an exceptionally fast learner, would be fairly lost in this foreign society.
BONUS: I'm currently craving to have her attend some sort of high-status, formal gala or event of some sort. She would wear a soft pastel colored
dress that is loose/flowy enough for her to walk in (with her alien leg physique) but still sexy enough to show some skin (with open back and sides concept).
Mutant Name: Naiades
Real Name: Naida Ezerins
Gender: Female
Species: Human Mutant
Organization: N/A
Age: 19-23 years old
Powers and abilities:
Naida is a mutant who has the ability to create, control, and manipulate water (H2O) - including anything that contains H2O. She can also turn her body into pure water. The limit to this ability is still unknown. Naida can control even the smallest drop of water up to a huge amount, like lifting the contents of a lake right out of its crater. Because Naida can also turn herself into water, she does not need water to be present for her to utilize her abilities. This makes her potentially dangerous, especially if she decides to use her water form to drown an opponent.
BIO:
Naida was born in Latvia to a Russian mother and a Latvian father. Her mother named her Naida, after the Greek word Naiad, which means “water nymph”, since she went into labour with Naida while on the boat/ out to seas. She grew up in Latvia where she became fluent in both Russian and Latvian, as well as learned English in school as a third-language. Naida immigrated to the United States after her mutation came to fruition when she was a young teen. Her mother mother sent her to America so that she could study and train at Xavier's Mansion/ School for Gifted Youngsters. However, shortly after she dropped out of Xavier's school and ran away because she didn't get along with other students. By the time Professor X and the X-Men could find her, she had already been lost to a bad organization lead by a dangerous mutant (a powerful mutant and member of the Hellfire Club). Under this man's manipulation and rule, Naida was appointed her mutant name, Naiades.
From then on, Naida is usually referred to as her mutant name Naiades. Her two names mean and represent "water nymphs" from Greek mythology and folklore. Naida is very picky how people pronounce her two names. Because the names are of Greek origin, many people butcher the pronunciations. She is very particular with it, and if someone pronounces her names wrong (which happens all the time), she is quick to point it out. For example, most people pronounce her name as [Nai-dah], when really, in Russian, it is pronounced
[Na-ee-dah]. Similarly, most people think her mutant name Naiades is pronounced [Nay-ads] when in actuality it's pronounced
[Nay-ah-deez] (like the Greek name Hades). The two links provided offer recordings of the pronunciations in case you wanted to hear them.
Although she has done many bad things, including torture people for information, at heart, she is just a lost soul who got in with a bad group at a young age. Years later, she is looking to go straight but doesn't know how to escape her mentor.
Additional Information:
- Because Naida is a Latvian immigrant, she will have a Latvian accent.
Because she learned English in school early on, her accent is very slight. You can find two examples of Latvian females and their accents in these links:
Link 1 -
Link 2
- Naida is a gifted dancer, and her favorite pastime (and a way she deals with stress) is dancing naked in her water form.
- Naida is a peculiar character. She is non-conforming when it comes to society's standards of decency so she is often seen as inappropriate. For example, she dances in the nude. And she doesn't care if people walk in on her or not. She doesn't go out of her way to cover up. So, if she's showering, she'll just walk to her room naked without a towel if she wants to - not really regarding whoever else lives in the house. The degree to her inappropriateness though is up for discussion.
- She's also a bit hard to get along with at times because she is very set in her ways, very independent, and can often be a hot-head. Did I mention she swears? A lot. (can be toned down if requested)
Name: Verena Schmidt
Nick Name: V (Vee)
Relation: Johann Schmidt (father), Sinthea Schmidt (twin sister)
Origin: Nazi Germany
Age: Unknown
Organization: SHIELD / HYDRA
Powers/ Abilities: Verena is an enhanced human. She developed her abilities as a child after being repeatedly exposed to the Tesseract at the hands of her father, Red Skull. Throughout the experiments, Verena developed heightened senses and an immunity to most illnesses. She is also capable of regenerating at superhuman levels (slow aging). Despite this, Johann was unable to unleash/unlock her true power - the ability to absorb, manipulate, control, and use electricity.
BIO:
Verena was born to Johann Schmidt, although no one except for herself and a few other HYDRA informants. She was tested on as a child when her father noticed she had a particularly strong resilience to pain. With the Tesseract in his possession, he began experimenting on his daughter in attempts to bond the Tesseract to her body and mind. Although Verena was born during the Second World War, she has little to no recollection of most of her life. She does not remember her past, except for the last few years. She awoke from a coma in a HYDRA-run hospital facility, where Alexander Pierce took her under his wing and tried to fill in the blanks/ information Verena was missing. He fed her lies, and glorified the HYDRA values and goals. He manipulated her into believing in the HYDRA ideology, and became Pierce's personal spy among SHIELD. Disguised as a non-HYDRA/ non-corrupt SHIELD agent, she has been known to hack and retrieve information about agents and the organization for HYDRA. Despite this, Verena grew suspicious of his lies, and began to secretly try to piece together her past while also giving HYDRA what they want (essentially two-timing). During her self-investigation, she discovers that she is the bastard child of Red Skull, and that she had a twin sister named Sinthea who died.
Verena can be paired with the Winter Soldier (Bucky). Pierce, knowing Verena was electrically-sensitive, kept his facility containing and experimenting on Bucky, separate. The reason for this was simple: in order to control the Winter Soldier, Pierce must subject Bucky to electric-shock therapy to keep his memories suppressed and his mind controlled (Verena knows about the Winter Soldier, but did not know his true identity or that he was being shocked). When Verena discovers the facility holding Barnes, she immediately senses the electric-shock therapy to which she could not only feel Bucky's pain, but could hear him screaming. The feeling causes her to become enraged, and for the first time in her life, her powers become triggered and she unleashes the wrath of her abilities.
Name: Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova
Nick Name: Anya
Title: The Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
Origin: Imperial Russia
Age: 116 years old (appears to be 17-18 years old)
Organization: N/A
Powers/ Abilities: Anastasia is a human mutant, though the extent of her abilities are unknown. Anya appears to have the ability to manipulate, create, and control oxygen in the air. Through this ability, she is highly capable of killing people through oxygen deprivation. Similarly, those who are around her have reported “breathing better” and feeling more alive, and healthy, as the oxygen around her is pure, and free of pollutants. Additionally, Anya is capable of turning herself into air; a form that initially appears life a foggy, smoke-like silhouette – but which disintegrates into air (invisible). This can be used to mist herself away from situations, making her difficult to harm. Anastasia stopped aging when her powers catalyzed in 1918, making her appear to be only 17-18 years old. She also has heightened healing ability, though it pales in comparison to mutants such as Wolverine and Sabretooth.
IDEA/ BIO:
Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova was born to the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, Tsar Nicholas II. She was the youngest of his 3 daughters, and the elder to his youngest child, his son. During the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Tsarist autocracy was dismantled which led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. As the autocracy was overthrown by socialists, Anastasia and her family were plunged into civil war – requiring the immediate evacuation of their royal home. The imperial family was initially under the impression that they were being protected by Bolshevik guards, though on July 18th, 1918, Yurovsky and his men (the guards) entered the room holding the family, and shot them all to death in a gruesome open-fire.
Anastasia escaped death when her mutant powers were catalyzed during the event. Little did the Bolshevik men know, the Romanovs had hidden their diamonds and jewels in the corsets of their daughters. The corset initially saved Anastasia's life, acting as a bullet-proof vest. Her siblings and parents, unfortunately, were left to lie in their blood in a smoke-filled room. The horrific sight and emotionally-intense trauma sent her X-Gene into overdrive, unleashing a wrath within her. Anastasia sucked the life out of the guards, suffocating them and causing their organs and eyeballs to explode. Yurovsky, horrified, attempted to shoot her again, but Anastasia evaporated into thin air – never to be seen again.
In “Yurovsky's Note” to his superiors, he reports that all of the imperial family have been successfully killed and discarded. Anastasia's body had never been found, despite reports that she and her family had all been massacred and disposed of. Anastasia was the sole survivor.
ADAPTATION:
I would like to incorporate that Anastasia is Natasha's (Black Window) ancestor. Although there is no correlation of this in the comics or MCU, I think the fact that they share the same last name and the fact that Natasha is also Russian can add a unique dynamic to the story.
Natasha Romanov, in an effort to learn more about herself and her past, tracks her lineage in Russia. She discovers that she is the predecessor of the royal Russian family. Through this research, she also realizes that the body of her ancestor, the Duchess Anastasia, was never recovered despite reports that she was dead. With exceptional digging and through piecing together unsolved SHIELD files, she suspects that Anastasia was actually an enhanced human that she escaped the Tsarist attacks (I'm thinking she discovers a lost/secret journal entry of Yurovsky who survived the incident and wrote about how Anastasia was “superhuman” and that she “disappeared into thin air”.
Name: Zyphirya X10666
Gender: Female
Organization: N/A
Age: Unknown
Powers and abilities:
Zyphirya has many enhanced senses as a result of nuclear evolution, including advanced hearing, smell and sight. Her hearing is equivalent of that of a owl and vision as sharp as that of an eagle, allowing her to see up to 8 times as far as humans. Zyphirya also possesses great agility, speed, and flexibility. She is a skilled acrobatic, using her physically superior traits to defend herself and/or escape from capture when necessary. Additionally, Zyphirya possesses genius-level intellect. She is a mastermind in software, technology and weaponry.
BIO:
* This character and plotline follows a sci-fi and post-apocalyptic theme (which will be hauled into the modern-day world) - see below! *
Zaphyria is a descendant of modern-day humans (Homo sapiens). She is a human classified as "Homo sapiens nuclei", a generation of humans who survived the nuclear war on Earth and a catastrophic alien invasion. Zyphirya is an Earth-bound human from over 200 years in the future. In this post-apocalyptic era, the human race has been enslaved by a new dominant species known as the Kong. After a devastating THIRD World War turned nuclear and left Earth in ruins, the Kong used the planet's vulnerable state to launch their own galactic battle. Using Earth as a virtual battlefield, the Kong invited other technologically superior species to use Earth as a universal pit-stop and war-ground. The invasion and subsequent domination reduced the planet to further ruins, littering the planet with waste and radiation. As a result of all of the mayhem, Homo sapiens had become nearly extinct, losing their status as the dominant species on Earth and soon thereafter becoming enslaved by the Kong. The Kong, an intellectually, physically, and technologically superior race, micro-chipped every human and forced them into labor and poverty. Degrading them to a communist and dictatorship rule, most Homo sapiens died and those who did survive all of the torture and radiation actually faced genetic evolution over a period of two centuries.
In Zyphirya's future-Earth, she has been the only human to successfully deactivate her micro-chip without causing the chip (implanted in the brain) to detonate and explode. Possessing incredible intelligence, she is labelled as a "virtual terrorist" and sentenced to death. Despite her scheduled execution, authorities are unable to locate her, as her chip is terminated and she is no longer traceable as a result. Additionally, Zyphirya threatens the Kong with technology that could destroy all of their control on Earth, claiming that she has manufactured weaponry that could change the course of history, and restore human rule on Earth. In an effort to escape capture, Zyphirya ends up sneaking into a Kong-run facility where she comes across and strange glowing cube. Ignorant to its properties, Zyphirya accidentally triggers a portal that sucks her directly into the past - PRESENT DAY EARTH.
VICE VERSA OPTION: I will also include the option of having any Marvel/DC/OC super hero character (you'd like to play) accidental launch himself through a portal that brings him, instead, 200 plus years into Zyphirya's FUTURE Earth. This option can be discussed!
Name: Dr. Sofiya Vaillant
Gender: Female
Organization: Clinique Soleil des Enfants (Children's Sun Clinic)
Age: 25-29
Powers and abilities:
Dr. Sofiya Vaillant has no superhuman abilities. She does, however, possess a lot of medical and psychiatric knowledge, having completed med school and thereafter specialized in psychology and psychiatry. She is knowledgeable in many languages, including Hebrew, Yiddish, French, English, Russian, and German. She also comes from a long genetic line of doctors and scientists.
BIO:
Dr. Sofiya Vaillant is a medical doctor and psychiatrist. She has a specialization in working with children, to which she started her own practice in France known as Clinique Soleil des Enfants (Children's Sun Clinic in English). The name "Sun" comes from Sofiya's maternal grandfather's name Anatoly, which means "sunrise" in Russian. Dr. Anatoly Sokol, her grandfather, was also a doctor and pscyhiatrist, having made grave sacrifices in the Second World War in order to protect his daughter Serafina (Sofiya's mother).
Sofiya is of both French and Russian background. Her mother was a Russian Jew born into the Soviet Union and her father was a Parisian Frenchman. The two met after Sofiya's mother fled Russia to start a new life in Paris, France. Sofiya's maternal grandfather (father to Sofiya's mother) - Dr. Anatoly Sokol - was a well-known psychologist and mental genius. In the Second World War, he was taken hostage and imprisoned by German forces for his Jewish heritage. His wife, also Jewish, was captured and sent to Auschwitz where she later died of typhoid in the labor camp. Sofiya's mother - Serafina Sokol - however, survived the war by being used as a source of blackmail by Germans. Because Sofiya's grandfather was a brilliant man, his intellect was used to the benefit of Nazi Germany, operating under HYDRA. Dr. Sokol was given two options 1) watch his daughter be raped and murdered before his eyes or 2) help HYDRA create super-soldiers. He agreed to the second option, with the confirmation that his daughter would be well-cared for (and she was). Throughout the rise and fall of HYDRA, Dr. Sokol used his psychiatric and medical expertise to build psychological programs used to control soldiers. One of his most complex projects created the
Red Book - commonly used to control and manipulate the Winter Soldier (Bucky).
Despite the fall of Nazi Germany marking the end of World War II, HYDRA only continued to blossom, albeit in secrecy, in the German and Russian underworld. Managing to free his daughter, Serafina escapes to France where she seeks refuge. However, her father, Dr. Anatoly Sokol, is unable to escape. Although his death was never confirmed, it has long been suspected. In his last few years of life, Dr. Sokol worked effortlessly to reverse much of the damage he has created. He created something he referred to as an "antidote" to the programming, claiming in many of his personal diaries/journals that it was contained in the "Blue Book". For years this Blue Book and these secret diaries were unknown to the world. That is, until one day, when his granddaughter (my character) Sofiya goes on a trip to Russia in an attempt to unravel some of the mysteries of the past. She finds the diaries, many of them untouched and unread, and knowing the danger behind their value, hides them away. She reads them in secrecy, discovering that this "Blue Book" is in existence, and learning in grave detail the madness behind HYDRA, the Winter Soldier, and the infamous Red Book.
Personality and Appearance:
Sofiya is your typical intellectual book nerd. She spent most of her life with her nose between a book and little time doing stereotypical girly socialization. Although best friends with a childhood friend named Genevieve, the two are very different in both lifestyles and appearances. Although Sofiya is a simple girl, never wearing makeup or paying much attention to fashion, Genevieve was a supermodel in France, indulging in the luxuries of high-end fashion, superstar wealth, and glam. The two remain close through contact over phone and text, despite Genevieve frequently travelling. Despite her best friend's glamorous lifestyle, Sofiya was not influenced by her socialite charisma and party energy. Instead, she remained dedicated to school, quickly becoming a doctor and then psychiatrist, all before the age of 29. She prefers comfort over beauty, and prefers a good book to any tv show. Although casual-professional in her clothing, Sofiya does not own much fashionable/high-end couture. Additionally, Sofiya has a large scar running from left nostril down over her lips and on to her chin. Although the injury healed, it did require 150 stitches and caused minor facial paralysis/ nerve-damage over her lip. Despite claiming that the scar was as a result of a fall, Genevieve, her best friend, knows deep in her gut that this is a lie. To this day, despite having obtained the scar several years ago, not a single person knows the real reason for the injury except for Sofiya.
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