Re: SBS Notice Board
I have decided that Mikhail isn't turning out the way I had wanted to work him out to be, and is essentially a dead end character. Therefore, I am most likely going to remove him, however I DO intend to bring a new character in. Some people may recognize parts of the concept for my character, if so, awesome.
That being said, I have severely dropped down much of how the concept was originally thought to be to fit here. All I need at this point is a reply from Nunu on if this character is alright to go or if I need to change anything before using her. Special Thanks go to Copper for helping me with the first stage of critique on the character, and to Chibi for the last name generating.
Name: Aya Morioka.
Age: She appears to be 18 or 19 years old, but she has no idea how old she really is, having been trapped in stasis until a year ago.
Description of character: Aya stands about 5 foot 9, and weighs around 150 pounds. She has piercing green eyes and semi-short white blond colored hair. Her extremely attractive features don't truly tell the real story, as she appears to be half American and half Japanese, and her name would suggest this. However, Aya is not even human really.
Background: Aya is in fact the missing link in the evolution of the Ancients, and their descendants, the Alverans. She was left behind by the Ancients when they abandoned our own dimension long ago, so long that there is absolutely no record in their relics left behind of this woman. She remained in stasis for countless generations, her body never aging due to the advanced technology keeping her alive. She is the first of a line of those who would ultimately become the Alverans, Siphon's people. Aya is not aware of the Alverans however, only that she was once part of a great empire in this galaxy, and went into stasis to preserve at least one of their evolving kind until a terrible enemy was defeated. She was awakened when the power supply for her pod ran out, and the automatic protocols revived her to spare her life. She made her way to the surface, and was stunned to discover that the planet was inhabited not by her own kind, but rather by a more primitive race. Now, six months after this, she has learned that there may be another like her in the area of the Gosamer Falls school, perhaps one who can help her either escape, or adjust to living amongst humans. With nothing better to do, Aya has made her way here, looking to become enrolled in the school for now, if nothing more than to learn more about the race she will be stuck with having to be around for the rest of her natural life span.
Aya isn't sure how long she would live for naturally, nor of her true age, so she goes with what others have told her, that she looks only about 18 or 19 years old. She knows she must be much older than this, though internally she isn't thanks to being in stasis for so long. Once she accepted the idea of living amongst humans as her new life, she began to develop her own personality, and is quite a charming woman.
Aya is quite well aware of her powers, and what they are capable of. After realizing just how potent some of her spells were on the humans of this planet when she was attacked by a group of people, she was hesistant to use them again, but knew that some of them she would need to stay alive here. She deeply sealed away the majority of her power, to the point
where not even she can revive them. She kept 8 of them, some for defense, some for healing, and some for attacking if she absolutely must do so. Aya prefers in most cases to incapacitate and retreat from battle, as she is fearful of killing an innocent.
To begin with, as she has not garnered a school outfit yet, Aya wears the original clothing she was in stasis with, as well as a beautiful necklace with Ancient carvings on it. To most it would appear to be something unsual, though not of eye raising proportions. However, some might recognize the symbols for what they are, a very old form of writing, and if spoken aloud, one might almost swear that it sounded familiar. The Necklace itself is actually home to a small device capable of translating languages into her own language, and allowing her to learn other languages. For whatever reason, she has little to no trouble with English, though any other Earth language with the exception of Latin and Sumerian are totally alien to her, and she has difficulty understanding or translating due to the age of the device.
Powers: She isn't super strong, she isn't super fast. However, Aya does have a fairly wide selection of abilities she can use. For the purposes of being easier to describe, she refers to them as "spells" but they are really an extension of her own advanced body's natural abilities.
Powers:
Aya gains her power from manipulating the power of mitochondria inside her and ocassionaly other people's body's. This gives her a relatively wide selection of abilities to use however the more she uses these the more adverse effects she suffers due to the lack of energy in her mitochondria (something akin to her life force). Commonly these are lethargy, muscle fatigue and body wide aching, eventually resulting in her collapsing unconscious if pushed to hard. To actually use these abilities they often require a short charge up period before they are released to align the mitochondrial energies properly.
Pyrokinesis
Mitochondria are capable of releasing their energy as sheer heat, although this may be channeled into various forms. At its most basic the heat can be released directly into the environment, causing a wave of fire to flash out from her (Aya can burn up to about 8 meters around her). Alternatively the energy can be stored as a ball which can then be launched at a target, exploding on impact (the fireball dissipates after about 25 meters). Currently Aya has a small amount of trouble controlling the release of this energy when under stress and tends to let portions of it steam off. As such, if she is under duress, she unconsciously begins to burn things around her. At her current level of power none of these abilities are particularly lethal to a normal person.
Combustion
Aya is capable of letting off a burst of energy that agitates the mitochondria in other beings bodies so that they release a flash of their energy. The result of this is the person briefly erupts in flames, which although being too weak to even burn cloth, occurs throughout the persons entire body. Almost all flesh beings in the universe have a measure of mitochondria in them and hence even aliens are susceptible to this ability.
Necrosis
With this ability, Aya saps the energy of her targets mitochondria, resulting in lethargy, muscle fatigue and body wide aching (the same things Aya feels if she uses her powers to much). This only lasts a few minuets at best but during that time the target will find activities quite difficult.
Plasma
Harnessing the power of her mitochondria, Aya lets out a blast of electrostatic energy at everything in a small radius (about 2 meters). The discharge is quite capable of knocking a large person over with relative ease as well as temporarily (a few seconds at best) imparing muscle function. Also due to its electrical nature it is capable of short circuiting electrical objects.
Because this is a mitochondrial ability it has a tendency to home in on other beings with mitochondria, dispersing itself evenly amongst them (even if those beings are airborne) and is not susceptible to grounding by conventional means.
Metabolism
Aya can use her mitochondria to grow her body back to its original form. Although this will not quickly replace a lost limb, it will however heal injuries faster than normal (not instantly) as well as gradually purge itself of disease and poisons. As a side effect of this rapid healing it is quite difficult to incapacitate her while this is in effect, as the early stages of unconsciousness are repaired. The process of using this ability also seems to give off a feint blue aura.This ability requires a small conscious effort to maintain it.'
Healing
Aya lets off a large burst of mitochondrial energy to heal herself. Her body undergoes a short period (about 60 seconds) of rapid cellular reproduction, capable of reparing most wounds within a matter of minute (although missing body parts are to large to repair). This is an exceptionally draining ability and Aya is incapable of using it consecutively.
Antibody
This ability forces the mitochondria to arrange themselves in such a way that they physically resist external change. The result of this is that Aya's entire body becomes roughly a third tougher than it normally is.
Energy
With this ability Aya uses the power of her mitochondria to enhance change on an object connected to her for a fraction of an instant (about .05 seconds). For example, if used on a bullet during firing, it gains much more velocity from its propellant. This ability is not as useful for objects that do not have a specific instant of change, like a baseball bat which gains its power from a long swing. Despite its short duration this power is very draining to use. Also another beings mitochondria blocks the use of this power, meaning it cannot directly effect another persons body.
Final Note: Aya IS in fact mortal, like Siphon she is capable of ascending, but unlike him she has not been there yet. She is hesitant to use her attacking powers on humans for anything but warning or incapacitation purposes, though if pushed too far she will not hold back.
Special Thanks to: Copper for several ideas, Squid for several ideas of his own, Chibi for help with the last name, and Nunu for help with altering the wording of this to be more readable.
Edit: Character has been approved by Nunu via AIM. Thanks!
