AV! Celeste
Individual
Character's full name: Selestina Isabel De Ward
Nickname: CC, Bombs, Bomber, Bombska, Hiroshima
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Date of Birth: 02/27/2000
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Nationality: Dual Canadian (mother)/American (father) citizenship
Ethnicity/ Cultural Heritage: European, primarily German/Latvian
Appearance
Hair color and style: Blonde, typically in a loose bun but with bangs over her forehead
Skin Tone: Caucasian, pale
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 5'8"
Build: Small/skinny, with small muscles.
Visible Mutation: She explodes. Literally.
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: She has several scars on her upper left shoulder – mainly from several bites and several claw marks from a wolf attack when she was 11 years old.
Other features: She usually wears fairly heavy makeup, mainly noticeable winged eyeliner
Everyday clothing style: Revealing dresses or blue jeans or shirts
Uniform: N/A
Sleepwear: Nothing?
Miscellaneous clothing: N/A
Character
Personality: Manipulative, ambitious, seductive. She does what she has to do to survive, whether that means blowing a building up, robbing someone, or helping an old lady across the street. She’s focused on her survival and rarely anyone else’s.
Hobbies/ Interests:
Animals: She volunteers frequently at animal shelters.
Kids: She feels for kids, especially ones with a sad history. She often will volunteer at orphanages or sick wards in the hospital.
Languages: She has learned English, French, Spanish.
Technology: She is frequently trying to get the most modern technology & learn how to use it in a variety of different ways – either for entertainment, to hack into organizations, etc. However, she isn't very good at it.
Job or part time job and description: Small ends and jobs of the less than ideal, brief stint as an escort to a richer clientele in 2016, shoplifter, drug seller, and now searching for new employment in NYC.
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Her sister will be a mutant and she’ll end up with the same fate
Special talents: Knows lots of languages
Morality
Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: Chaotic Evil – she does what she wants, when she wants, to get what she wants. She doesn’t really care about other people unless they’re benefitting her. Ultimately, she's just manipulative and excuses her behavior as a "need to survive."
Mutations
Mutation description:
She creates explosions through her entire body and/or fingers (without radiation.) The general appearance of the explosion (besides rubble and body parts,) looks like a small mushroom cloud from a nuclear bomb. There are two facets to her mutation:
Full body explosion: Her entire body explodes into a small mushroom cloud that is fairly lethal if you’re in its immediate range of 45 feet (massive burns.) The explosion is similar to a few grenades (3-5) going off at once (or, if you play Fallout, a mini nuke.) This can typically damage buildings, furniture, etc. It can also accidentally create fires. It can also temporarily damage vision within 50 feet if the individual looks at the blast. This will create a ringing effect in the ears within 55 feet.
Single Blast: She can shoot one of her fingers off to create a small, localized blast of 8 feet that also gives the appearance of a mini-mini-mushroom cloud. This could be similar to one grenade. This blast does not harm vision but can create a ringing effect in the ears if the individual has sensitive ears/hearing.
There is no radiation released.
Strengths:
Full Body Explosion: Well, she explodes. This creates a fairly large, powerful blast that can maim or kill individuals. This creates a safety zone around her. After the blast, her body has to have time to regenerate – the first 2-3 hours it is hard to kill her unless the air is sterilized.
Single Blast: It is similar to having 10 grenades available at her disposal. She can shoot them, maim someone (it’s not really enough to kill unless multiple hit someone.) Less destructive than her first power, but still relatively dangerous. While probably not enough to kill someone due to blast, it still can cause some pretty lasting damage - broken limbs, potentially blown off limbs, etc.
Weaknesses and Limitations:
Full Body Explosion: She literally explodes, as in her entire body explodes. She becomes air particles that slowly form back together after 24 hours. She regenerates in the same place – if there is no room for her body to regenerate in that location (say, the room collapses and there is a large rubble pile where she was standing) she won’t be able to regenerate and subsequently will die after 24 hours.
She loses all clothes, tattoos, piercings, makeup, etc. She is reset to her natural body right before the explosion.
She also feels the explosion – so while it’s quick, she feels as if she is placed in a very hot oven for a very brief moment. Her entire body is burning from the inside and outside. Once her body regenerates, she is usually sore and stiff for a couple days.
She can only do a full body explosion 3 times a weeks, maybe 4 if she has a lot of adrenaline. It will weaken her body to the point that she won’t fully regenerate if she does more and she will subsequently die due to lack of vital parts (such as organs that do not regenerate in time.)
She is unconscious and her body doesn’t ‘start up’ until the full 24 hours is over. At the end of the 24 hours, if a body part hasn’t regenerated, it can kill her due to lacking it (for example, if her heart hasn’t regenerated by the 24 hours, she’ll wake up and die fairly quickly.) She can be killed during the regeneration process (if her chest has been regenerated even though the rest isn’t there, someone could stab her heart and kill her, for example.) This leaves her entirely defenseless until she wakes up from her regeneration.
Once the 24 hours is up, if a body part that is non-vital still hasn't appeared, (such as a leg, for example,) it will still regenerate but at a much slower pace - it might take 6-8 months for a leg to come back if it's not fully regenerated within the 24 hour time period.
Also, the range for the blast is only 45 feet for maiming/potential death. It is only 50/55 for hearing/vision impairment that is temporary, and farther than that there is no ill effects.
Single Blast: She literally feels her fingers shoot off. This is extremely painful as she is feeling every muscle, bone, and skin rip off her body to the destination. She can only shoot a bomb up to 85 feet.
As such, she is usually sobbing in pain when she uses this power. This reduces her ability to see and defend herself, as well. She's also not very sneaky due to this.
She only has 10 grenades at any given time, (1 for each finger.) She still bleeds extensively once a finger has been discharged. She doesn’t have extensive blood circulation in her fingers, so while it isn’t fatal, it can leave her light headed and feeling unwell. It is also very gross as she bleeds through the empty socket, usually extensively.
It takes 24 hours for her to regenerate her fingers. She usually starts with her pinkies, but once she loses 2-3 fingers, she has a hard time doing just about any functions that require hands – writing, driving, opening doors, firing a gun, holding a knife, etc. While strong, it can leave her heavily disabled after a couple fingers go.
For both facets, it is important to note that if a finger/body part is cut off, or blown off, essentially any reason other than her power, she will not regenerate. Her body only regenerates if it’s due to her power activating.
Physical Abilities
General Physical Capabilities: She has above average strength, speed, and reflexes. Her stamina and flexibility is below average.
Fighting Style: She is more of a hit and run type of gal, but has no formal fighting style/training.
Fighting Style Pros/Cons: N/A
History Of Your Character
Selestina was born to an older man and a younger woman. Her father’s name was Jacob and her mother’s name was Maria. They met in Regina, Canada while Jacob was on a vacation from his work town of Williston, North Dakota. They married quickly, and had Selestina only 1 year after this marriage.
Selestina had a fairly nice childhood, all things considered. Her dad worked in the oil fields of North Dakota & in Canada. He would only be home on the weekends, though. Her mother was a nurse at the local hospital in Regina, usually working 12 hour shifts 5, sometimes 6 days a week. Her parents fed her, clothed her, and kept her safe as best as they could. Selestina spent her afternoons reading a variety of books, mainly fantasy, daydreaming of some far off place. Her life felt very routine.
When Selestina was 11 years old, a wolf attacked her in the backyard of her home. The wolf managed to get an extensive bite in her back, from which she screamed. She blew one of her fingers off which went into the wolf and exploded – this caused the wolf to squeal and run away, somehow alive. Her finger was gushing blood. Her parents ran outside and immediately transported her to the hospital. The next day, her finger had grown back and astounded doctors. They asked Selestina to show what happened again and she accidentally blew a small hole in the wall – while losing her finger again.
From here on, her parents despised her. They had another child, named Isabel, and did their best to forget about their first daughter. At first, Selestina tried to make them love her. She learned a lot, she excelled in school, but once she turned 13, she had enough. It was time for her to make a stand against them. She decided she despised them. She hated all people who were bigots. So, while her parents and her sister were away, she went full blast in her rage (the strongest that ever happened to her.) It destroyed her parents’ home and once she regenerated, she ran away after stealing some clothes from a neighbor’s house. Her safest bet was to end up in New York City to start over.
Once she arrived in NYC, her life turned to petty crime and shoplifting. She learned how to be an excellent shoplifter, how to sell drugs, and who to call if she ever got inside a pickle. She had a few connections with gangs and some mafia. She even managed to pick up some wealthy politicians in the area during a small stint as an escort, which she still has some sway over.
Selestina wasn’t sure where her life was going, but now that she turned 18, she had to figure out what her next step will be.
Roleplay
What’s your OOC alias?: amourmourant
Where did you learn about this site?: @.@
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: Celestina De Ward, Zelda Gray, Gwendolyn White
Sample RP:
She stared ahead on the subway train. She had chosen the farthest back corner, where the cameras couldn’t reach. She was waiting on someone. Unfortunately, she wasn’t sure who would be coming. Maxell didn’t tell her who would be coming to pick up the goods. She sifted through some items in her purse and let out a yawn as a teenager came and sat beside her.
“Do you have it, Hiroshima?”
Her code name. She knew it was the contact, then. She nodded, then gave the boy a glare. He was being too open. He never should have said her name. “Shut up,” she whispered to him. He nodded and stared ahead as a couple passengers moved past them. She pulled a small bag of ‘M’ out of her purse and dangled it near her knee before yanking it back into her purse. “Put the money through the slit in my dress. I’ll give it to you, then.” She didn’t look him the eye but she had a smile on her face.
He turned red but nodded. After he pulled out a few hundred dollar bills and slipped it into the slip of her dress, he held his hand out beside her. Selestina grabbed the drugs and dropped it into his hand. It wasn’t in her hands, anymore so she relaxed. He stood up and walked to the front of the subway train without saying another word.
