Individual
Character's full name: Tses (pronounced Tess) Isiksenn
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: None
Gender: Female
Age:22 29
Date of Birth: December 17, 1990
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Chicago
Nationality: American
Ethnicity/ Cultural Heritage: Swiss
Appearance
Hair color and style: Dirty blond, choppy, shoulder length. Styled in half pigtails
Skin Tone: Pale Caucasian
Eye Color: blue
Height: 5'4"
Build: Skinny but muscular
Visible mutation: None
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: Very scarred from years of battle. She has a scar on her spine came when she was breaking into a building back when she was a thief and a hacker, and she fell off the third story; she sliced her back open when she hit the fire escape. She has burns from a time when her house burnt down and her sister was trapped inside. She ran in to get Kelarii out, but then she couldn't fit through the window and the building collapsed on her. The burns are mostly on her arms and legs.
--Her legs have more thin scars from like glass, and she has a thicker one on her stomach from getting stabbed in a street fight. She also has two from gunshot wounds, one in her leg and one on her left shoulder. The shoulder just grazed her and the leg it actually hit her.
-- The only one on her face is a tiny little one on her right temple. The rest start about her collarbone on the front, and a few tiny ones on the back of her neck that get more numerous going down.
-- Her knuckles have scars from punching people and cracking her knuckles, if you can imagine that.
-- Although these aren't scar, they are distinguishing marks you should be sure to note: Her ears are pierced 3 times on each ear. She usually wears a different colored earring in each ear. No other piercings though. (You may also look at her reference image:
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Other features: None
Everyday clothing style: Wears combat clothing with a baggy white shirt over, a skirt, fishnets, gloves, and covers almost all her skin but her face.
-- Black undershirt with GREY long sleeves. Two tear drop shapes cut out above her hips with GREY inside them.
-- A baggy over shirt that ends at her elbows. The RIGHT sleeve is black. The rest is white.
-- Black fabric that wraps from her mid arm all the way down and around her hands.
-- A white skirt with BLACK flames down the LEFT side.
-- Fishenets on the rest of her legs
-- Black combat boots, with lots of buckles and velcro straps, as well as lacing. (see reference image:
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Uniform: None
Sleepwear: Baggy t-shirt just past her knees
Miscellaneous clothing: None
Character
Personality: Tses is an angsty, bitter individual and she doesn't trust people. She keeps to herself, and things that relationships weaken you. Anti-social, Tses is witty, cat-like, and charismatic only when it benefits her.
Hobbies/ Interests: Tses enjoys working with computers, and is a very talented hacker. She likes mind games, and other things she can outsmart people with.
Job or part time job and description: Tses is a 'gun for hire' type person. She works for whoever pays her, stealing information, files, and blackmailing people for money. She isn't afraid to get in fights, but she likes working smarter not harder.
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Tses doesn't like getting close to people. She likes being the only person she has to look out for. Her fears are loosing someone close to her, so she tries to never let anyone in that position.
Tses is also afraid of doctors. She refuses to ever get medical help and it sometimes makes her injuries worse and harder to heal.
Special talents: Very good with technology, password hacking and breaking and entering.
Morality
Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: Other. Tses is on whatever side benefits her most. Not looking to harm people, but not going to put her own neck on the line. The only person she ever looked out for was her sister, who she has now cut ties with.
Mutations
Mutation description:Tses uses moonlight to create explosive energy. It starts out as more of a static type force that hovers around her hands, but when she condenses this into orbs it gets its power. The 'energy' has a green glow to it, and puts of small amounts of light. This energy cannot condense anywhere other than the palms of her hands, and the furthest from her hand she can create one is 4 inches.
Tses can set a 'timer' on her orbs, but they have a 60 second range, give or take a few moments. It's not an exact science, because she controls it by feeling (like if you were to compress a spring really tightly. You can feel it resisting more the harder you press, but you can't tell exactly how big the recoil will be, just measure in 'bigger', 'smaller'). Tses can 'hold' the orbs for about a minute, but any longer and she risks them blowing up in her face.
Tses usually only creates one orb at a time, and uses them strategically, controlling their size and energy levels. But she has been known to make as many as five in one hand. The disadvantage is that with each additional orb she makes in unison, the less control she has over them as a whole. The most she can make is 10, and their combined force is the same as her largest would be. The only tactical advantage would be throwing them behind her and having a better shot at hitting a moving target. Her ‘glowing’ energy stays with her until it’s condensed, and allowing it to appear around her hands doesn’t drain from her energy supplies. However, its only real use is an intimidation factor.
Her powers are strongest at night when the moon is available to ‘feed’ energy off of, but will work during the day if she a) has energy stored or b) the moon is visible. During the day, she can only create small 1 inch orbs, but at night she can generate enough power to create more golf-ball sized ones. They have explosive power, but at most, she can bust a hole in concrete big enough to crawl through, but only on a night when the moon is highly visible.
Geek StuffTses’s powers feed of the moon’s unique albedo: its reflective qualities. The combination of particles on the surface of the moon create an energy she can absorb and condense. Although the light is reflected FROM the sun, the moon’s surface changes it, making it unique for her powers.
The moon is only visible an average of 12.5 hours a day, which leaves her with light available to ‘recharge’ only about half the time. When the moon appears during the day, her powers are weaker, verses nights that make her stronger. Her powers are dependent on moon cycle, distance from the sun, and time of day.
Tses spends much of her time outdoors at night for this reason, to take advantage of the moonlight, storing it for later. Stored energy has a 24 hour limit for her to use it, and it gradually drains away. This leaves her with a period durning the New Moon where her powers are almost inaccessible.
Strengths: Explosive energy is manipulable enough to centralize and compress into explosive orbs. Can break concrete, or bend steel at its strongest. Uncondensed energy doesn’t drain from her energy supplies, and the glow can be stronger or weaker depending on the moon phases.
Weaknesses and Limitations:Tses’s powers are weaker during the day and in buildings, without the moons energy to recharge them. Her ‘green glow’ cannot damage anyone, it only has a mild static feeling and a light glow to it. If Tses’s palms are blocked by objects, her energy orbs cannot condense, and if she tries forming an energy orb but cannot release it, she can damage her own hands.
Tses can create the energy, but if she loses concentration or 'lets go' of it, she can be impacted by the blast. (Think of how pyrotechnics can control fire but if they lose concentration they can still get burned by it). On New Moons, or if Tses spends too much time indoors, she is virtually powerless.
Power Growth: 12/9/13Tses’ body has fused with the moonlight she absorbs, and as such, she has developed a light based/energy form. This form is static energy, the same as her green ‘glow’, and functions much the same way. While expanding light does not consume energy, her light form does, taking a small chunk of energy with each transformation, the same way a small explosive would. It is useful to get away from danger and in battle situations, where she can let a blow pass through her.
If she were to walk through someone the most they might feel is a light tickle. Yet unlike her ‘static’ green energy, her full body light form takes concentration to maintain, and the longest she can hold the form for is ten minutes at a time.
WeaknessesTses’ body relies on sunlight the same way her powers do now. Rather than just lacking power during new moons, she is physically ill and lacks the ability to function without light. If over expelling her powers, she can ‘starve’ her own body of its energy. Power usage cannot be as frivolous because the consequences are more extreme.
Power Growth: 2/16/2020Tses has slowly gained the ability to use her moonlight to hypnotize and lure people. It functions in two different ways. The first is just a green glow concentrated to her eyes. When making eye contact, she can influence someone to listen and be more inclined to do what she says. For instance: if someone were causing problems in a building, she could gain eye contact and tell them they would like to leave now. A susceptible mind would turn around and walk out.
Much like any mind control scenario, a strong will can resist, especially if it is anything that would be dangerous or harmful to the person. Subtle suggestions are the most effective. Being told to turn around and leave a room will almost always work, while an instruction to hit yourself would likely never take effect. The hypnosis will start fading when either a) the individual overthrows the suggestion or b) the suggestion is fulfilled. Broad instructions like ‘leave and never come back’ would fade over the course of 24 hours, much like a medication being removed from the body.
The second way this power can be used is a full body aura. Tses cannot give a specific suggestion this way, she can only ‘lure’ someone to follow. In line with her will-o’-the-wisp roots, the light Tses produces becomes intensely attractive, and forces people to follow it. The weaknesses of this form are the same as the eye hypnosis: it is possible to fight, especially if you don’t want to go where she is leading. Individuals that are already susceptible/intoxicated or otherwise prone to suggestion won’t be able to resist, while a very sober and strong character can quickly abandon her deception.
Physical Abilities:
General Physical Capabilities: Tses is very lean, strong, and flexible. She is good at hand to hand combat, and because her powers are weaker at times, she doesn't fully rely on them, but strengthens her other human abilities as well.
Fighting Style: Tses has a mixed martial arts plus military style fighting. She was trained to live on her own and fight from a young age, and is very good at self defense and offensive fighting.
Fighting Style Pros/Cons: Tses fights to disarm her opponent, and much of her fighting style is ineffective against mutants (you can't really disarm someone whose weapon is part of them)
History of Your Character
Tses grew up in rural Chicago with her younger sister, and their abusive father. From a young age, her father favored her sister, and rejected Tses. Tses stuck around however to make sure her sister was never harmed. Their father drank and gambled, and eventually made a few enemies that wanted him dead. One night, these enemies set the family home on fire, and Tses barely got her sister out the window and to safety. The home collapsed, however, and buried Tses in burning rubble. Tses was hospitalized, and no one thought she would make it, while her sister was placed in foster care.When Tses pulled through, she ran away before she too would get placed in the government's care, and decided to set out on her own.
When Tses was 13, she discovered her powers. Living on the street, she was attacked by a group of boys and her explosive powers deflected their assaults. Tses was found by another mutant who took her in, and taught her how to use her powers to her advantage. She learned hand to hand combat from her mentor (a mixture of military and martial arts style fighting), and learned to be a thief in order to survive without a home. Her mentor was never really a friend, however, always just someone who needed another pair of hands to get money; they had a mutual distrust and distance. By the time she was 18, Tses felt she gained what she could, left her mentor for New York to make her own living. Once there, Tses was recruited by anti-mutant organizations to help turn in her own kind. By working with them, she learned basic hacking skills, and used the combination of her abilities to track down younger mutants.
Now 22, Tses has a small apartment, and pays her way through life taking one project then another to get by.
Roleplay
Where did you learn about this site?: Friend, character name is Locke
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: No
Sample RP:It was a full moon outside, and Tses was energized by the familiar glow. Tonight was a special night, and she was retrieving information for a client who was offering enough money to get her by for the month. As she made her way down the alleyway, she felt the darkness holding out its energy, willing her to take it like it was water for her to drink, but for the moment she let it go, focusing on the task at hand. With ease, Tses climbed the fire escape, and swung up to the roof of the building above her head. From there, she stealthily made her way through the darkness, ears perked for any sound of danger.
Since she began her data retrieval jobs, she knew there was always a danger, especially working against her own kind.
When mutants were required to register their powers, she often turned in mutants to save her own skin. But now, she took the occasional job to identify them to nosy neighbors and more dangerous enemies. It didn't bother her any more than it did blackmailing or stealing; she had to survive somehow, and if it was at someone else's expense...
Well, they needed to be more careful.
With light steps, Tses made it to the rooftop door, and lightly cupped the door handle with her hand. Reaching out for her powers, she felt the energy around her constrict, and willed it into the keyhole. The result was a small but satisfying explosion. Quietly, she opened the door, and slipped into the building below. The security system was silent, thanks to her preplanned hacking, and now all she had to do was get to the office, and retrieve the file. There was only one problem:
Tonight wasn't going to be that easy.
