Character's full name: Amber Thirsis
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: N/A
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Birthday: January 3, 1995
Nationality/ Ethnicity: Caucasian American
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: New York, NY
Appearance
Hair color and style: Long and white.
Eyes: Completely black eyes.
Height: 5’
Build: Slender
Visible mutation: Eyes and hair
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: None
Other features: Because Amber rarely exposes her skin to sunlight, she is incredibly pale
Everyday clothing style: Because of her extreme sensitivity to sunlight, Amber is almost always completely covered in fabric, including veiling her face. At first glance its similar to middle eastern veils, but done for the purpose of hiding her sensitive skin from the sun rather than hiding herself from the eyes of others.
Uniform: (if applicable)
Sleepwear:
Miscellaneous clothing:
Character
Personality: In the past, Amber was a painfully shy and sheltered individual, however that has changed. She isn’t the talkative sort, preferring her actions to speak in place of her words. Despite her quiet nature, however, she does not consider herself a loner. Family is important to her and to her; family is who you make your family and not who is related to you by blood.
Amber has lost much of her naive trust in others and in the world in general. People have to prove that they are trustworthy; they do not get the honor of that assumption immediately but once proven, they are worth being loyal to until and unless they do something so horrible that loyalty can no longer be offered. Trust is a gift that goes both ways and isn’t something that should be easily given or taken away.
Honesty is something Amber holds in the highest regard. Whether she likes or dislikes a person, she believes in stating it in bold and simple terms and expects others to do the same. A natural predator has no need of deceit and nor does she; it is a human failing and one she wants no part of. The mind of a predator is something she has embraced to its fullest and if her humanity isn’t something she has fully rejected, it is something that is firmly behind that of the predator within in terms of its importance to her and her sense of identity.
Hobbies/ Interests: Having little else to do at the orphanage, Amber has developed into quite the book worm, reading anything from fiction to fantasy to any manner of non-fiction. She also greatly enjoys museums and art galleries, though she has had little chance to experience them first hand.
Job or part time job and description: None
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Being alone. Amber yearns for acceptance and the thought of being alone and unwanted her entire life causes her unbearable distress.
Special talents: Amber is an excellent violin player.
Morality
Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: If someone were to ask Amber what she thought her own morality was, she would have stated that she is neutral. To the hunter, morality is irrelevant and it is a matter of pack and survival. Ask anyone else, however, and Amber would probably be put rather prominently on the bad side of neutral as she has lost most of her compassion for humanity.
Mutations
Mutation description: Undead Dinosaur Shifting: Amber is able to change into undead dinosaurs. In order to do so she imprints the essence of such a creature by handling a remnant of the creature, usually a fossil. These forms are identical to the original save for the following differences. The dinosaurs shifted into are like the newly dead. They are cold to the touch and their colors are muted and dull. When cut they bleed slow, thick, black blood. From a distance the forms may look alive, however close up it is unmistakable that the dinosaurs are not entirely alive. When choosing which forms Amber is able to shift into, dinosaur is used in the colloquial rather than scientific sense. Thus she is potentially able to shift into any of the great reptiles of the Mesozoic era, including land, sky and sea reptiles.
Imprinting a form and shifting work in the following manner. When Amber imprints a form, she is essentially infusing herself with the necrotic energy from the long dead target. Accompanying that necrotic energy is an echo of what that creature used to be. Thus the necrotic energy comes with a sort of shape or memory of the dinosaur’s past life. Shifting into a form has two components to it. The first is the echo that was taken, which serves as a sort of blueprint for what she’ll look like once shifted. The second is the necrotic energy itself, which serves as the fuel that allows her to shift. The necrotic energy and the echo are related, the echo dictates the way in which the necrotic energy infuses her system and once the necrotic energy has completely infused her system, she shifts forms. However, because necrotic energy is death tainted energy, the most she can ever achieve is an undead or unliving version of what the creature once was.
Strengths: There is a great amount of versatility in this power given the wide variety of dinosaurs available. In addition, Amber can remain in her smaller forms indefinitely.
Weaknesses: First, in order to gain a new form Amber must actually handle a fossilized remnant of the desired creature. Once a form is gained she must spend a month to gain full familiarity with the form. Over the course of the month, familiarity and control will gradually increase.
Forms can vary in size from about the size of a rat to about the size of a modern elephant (about 3 tons). She cannot shift into anything smaller or larger than these creatures.
While shifted Amber cannot speak. Also, clothing does not shift with her.
Shifting forms takes about 30 seconds, during which time she is vulnerable. Shifting into dinosaur form is incredibly painful because her flesh, muscle and organs shifting and changing. Shifting back to human form is equally painful. Amber cannot shift from one form directly to another without first returning to her human form.
Amber’s black eyes do not change when she shifts forms. Thus she is recognizable always by her eyes.
In human form Amber is incredibly sensitive to sunlight. Being out in direct sunlight is uncomfortable and slightly painful, even 10 minutes in direct sunlight can result in burns and the longer she remains in the sun the worse and more painful these burns become. As such, she is forced to keep her entire body veiled while outside during the day.
Current Forms:
Deinonychus 
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Compsognathus 
Styracosaurus 
Pterodaustro 
Plesiosaurus 
Mecistotrachelos apeoros 
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Power Growth: 05/12/2013
Undead Physiology - As ever more amount of necrotic energy enter and are stored in Amber's body, her physiology has begun to change to reflect something death tainted. Her blood flows slower than normal, she has more resistance to heat and cold and has a reduced need to breathe.
Strengths: The changes within Amber have made her all around more resilient. She can hold her breath far longer than a natural human, suffers less from minor to moderately severe wounds due to her blood flowing slower and she can survive comfortably in a wider range of environmental conditions than a normal human might be able to.
Weaknesses: Amber's resistance to temperate extends 10 degrees Celsius on both the hot and cold end of the spectrum. Thus, for purposes of suffering ill effects from heat or cold and for determining what manner of clothing is appropriate for the weather, it takes an extra 10 degrees. Effectively, 30 degrees Celsius feels closer to 20 degrees and -30 degrees Celsius feels closer to -20 degrees.
Amber can hold her breath for a maximum of 8 minutes, which is approximately 4X the length of time a natural human can hold their breath for.
Amber's blood flows 1/4 the speed of a normal human's blood. Thus, if she takes a wound that bleeds she will bleed at roughly 1/4 the rate a regular human would. Her blood has become viscous and thick, taking on a darker almost black appearance. Because the blood is thicker, it also clots easier and faster than that of a natural human. If a major artery like the femoral artery in a human is cut, it takes approximately 1 minute for that human to pass out and several minutes for that human to die from blood loss. Were Amber to take a similar wound, it would take her approximately 4 minutes to pass out and 12 minutes to die from blood loss.
Due to the increasing amount of necrotic energy in her system, Amber’s body has begun to change. Her skin has become an emaciated grey-yellow and has taken on an almost mummified appearance, much like that of a corpse that has dried out in the sun. Her body has begun to resemble something no longer alive, her veins becoming bright blue and visible under almost translucently pale skin. Her bone structure is visible under her skin, making her appear almost anorexic and her hair has taken on a straw-like texture. If touched, her skin has is slightly cold with a dry, papery texture.
In shifted form, Amber is also more obviously unnatural and undead. Scales and feathers are patchy and faded and she holds a similar emaciated appearance.
Amber is no longer able to digest processed foods. She is able to eat raw foods or cooked foods, so long as the cooking remains natural. Anything with artificial colour, flavour or any kind of preservative she is not able to digest. This includes such things as boxed cookies, chips, frozen dinners, ect. Eating such foods will cause her to become violently ill. She still maintains the same requirements regarding amount of food as anyone else but is now limited on what she can consume in order to meet these requirements.
A faint hint of decay follows Amber wherever she goes. For those with a normal sense of smell, this is barely detectable and hideable through perfumes. For those with an enhanced sense of smell, it is unmistakable.
Fighting Style: n/a
Explanation: Amber really has no experience fighting. Its never come up and she’s never bothered to learn.
Pros for fighting style: She is rather good at running away from danger.
Cons for fighting style: If she’s unable to run away then she is pretty much defenseless.
Faction Allegiance
The X-men/ The Order/ The Kabal/ Other/ Unaffiliated
Unaffiliated
History Of Your Character:
Amber doesn’t remember either of her parents. She never knew her father at all and her mother gave her up for adoption at the age of 4. As such she has only the vaguest recollections of her mother and those tinged with the naive optimism and love of a very young child. This lack of a family that she so very nearly had has shaped the entirety of her life and her outlook on life. Everywhere around her she sees those with loving mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers and wishes desperately that she could have a family of her own. No one ever told her why her mother left her to the orphanage and this sense of abandonment and unworthiness haunts her.
Two things in her life set Amber apart from everyone around her. The first, of course, was her lack of family. In the orphanage, of course, such a lack was not uncommon. What was uncommon, however, was her lack of being adopted into a new family despite being an easy tempered child. There were others with problems finding families, but in every instance they were trouble makers, dangerous to themselves and others. Amber wasn’t like that.
The second thing that set Amber apart, the reason she was so difficult to adopt, was her extreme albinoism. Even a few minutes of direct exposure to sunlight was enough to redden her skin, and much more than that would cause her extreme pain. The only way she has ever been able to go outside, as normal children are want to do, was to cover her entire body with thin, light fabric, leaving only a slit for her eyes uncovered. This gave her an exotic almost middle-eastern appearance but also served to further isolate her from all those around her. It also served to start the rumors that she might be a mutant, though there was no further evidence of such a reality.
Most of Amber’s brief life has been relatively uneventful. She lived within the orphanage, mostly solitary but having few conflicts with her peers or supervisors. She was also a good student, near the top of her class but never quite at the very top. In her spare time she mostly read books of all sorts and practiced her violin, her one and only prized possession. She never became particularly close to anyone, however, others considering her to be unapproachable and strange.
Amber has only recently discovered that her albinoism is a symptom of the fact that she is, in fact, a mutant. Shortly after her 15th birthday she went on a rare school vacation to a local dinosaur museum. During the course of that trip her class was able to handle several fossils, including those of a deinonychus and compsognathus. She felt, upon the first touch of the deinonychus claw a thrill of energy shoot through her and again when she touched the compsognathus claw. After the second jolt of energy she refused to touch anything else for the entire trip.
It wasn’t until the next morning, however, that she came to realize that something drastic had happened to her, beyond just feeling strange energy running through her system. When she awoke no one would look her in the eyes and she saw fear on the faces of the children around her. Looking into a mirror revealed what had changed: her eyes, once pale blue, were now entirely black. Her iris and the whites of her eyes had been entirely engulfed by her black pupil. The change made her even less approachable by the other students and she felt increasingly isolated. She was a mutant with all of the disadvantages of being a mutant and none of the advantages; she had no powers.
Amber had long ago all but given up on any prospects of actually being adopted and finding a proper home and now that she was a mutant those final lingering hopes died within her. It was therefore something of a shock when one of her guardians came down telling her that there was someone there to see her and that she would be leaving the orphanage. That someone turned out to be a large, intimidating red mutant that introduced himself as Abyss and led her to Sanctuary’s golden doors.
For approximately 2 years Amber remained in New York, living at Sanctuary with her adopted family. She never meant to leave and the departure itself was complete dumb luck. Simply put, after a curious expedition, she had fallen asleep in mecistotrachelos apeoros form and ended up in a suitcase. Upon awakening she found herself on a plane and, once that plane landed, discovered she was in Brazil. Not knowing the language, having no food or money and now knowing anyone around, she fled into the rainforest. Knowing the only way to survive was to shift and hunt the natural way, Amber changed into deinonychus form.
For nearly a year Amber remained in the Brazilian rain forest, surviving as best she could as a deinonychus. In the beginning she would shift back to human form occasionally but as the weeks turned into months she stopped returning to human form and, eventually, forgot her human self entirely. For half a year she lived, completely and fully, within the mind of a deinonychus; she was, for all intents and purposes, a preternaturally cunning Mesozoic hunter in the modern era, praying upon anything she could get her claws and teeth into.
Amber once again discovering her human side might never have happened if the same dumb luck that had gotten her to Brazil in the first place hadn’t found her and helped get her out of there. Researchers were rare but not unheard of in her territory and in this particular instance, she came upon one alone. Stalking this particular human was easy with his dull senses and lousy reflexes and it was very little challenge for Amber to sneak up on him. Once in position she dashed out of the shadows and jumped, sickle claws extended. Instead of sinking claws and teeth into flesh and tasting warm blood on her tongue, however, a strange thing happened. She collided with the person, pale fleshy feet hitting fabric and mouth hitting air. It was only afterwards, after a great deal of anguished confusion, that she realized what had happened. The anthropologist was an Adapted and once she entered his field, she reverted to human form because she wasn’t a raptor at all, but rather a mutant. After that it was a matter of calling up her adopted father, Abyss, and arranging to return to New York.
Roleplay
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Sample RP: It was early when Amber pulled herself out of bed, around 6 if the glowing red numbers on her alarm clock were any indication. She normally got out of bed early mainly because so few of the other children did and she valued her solitude. It gave her time to read and study and do all of those things that she enjoyed doing that seemed to be so antithesis to what most children and teenagers enjoyed. She had never been an athlete and had little interest in music or television. No, books were her passion, books and learning. School was a pleasure to go to, or at least she could foresee a world where it would be a pleasure if only the teacher’s didn’t insist on teaching to the lowest of the class rather than the highest. She sighed to herself. Maybe one day she would be fortunate enough to enter a school that actually taught interesting subject and had challenging material.
Amber quietly put on her clothes and grabbed the piece of fabric that served as her veil and robe. It was thin and sheer, light purple in color. When she went outside she wore it atop her regular clothing, wrapping it around her body in a loose fitting robe and wrapping it more closely around her head and face so that only her eyes were visible. The sun was her enemy, had been since she was a young child. She had been born an albino, her skin so pale and white that the merest touch of the sun caused it to burn and blister. It was something she had always had to deal with and, she suspected, was the reason she had never been adopted into a good family. She had been living at the orphanage for as long as she could remember, abandoned by her parents as an infant and, despite the fact that she never caused any trouble and was a very good student, had never been adopted. Because she was unhealthy and thus unfit for adoption. Because she was unfit to have a family.
Amber walked down the hallway into the kitchen where she fully intended to make herself a bowl of cereal and then begin reading a rather lengthy vampire novel she had recently picked up from a local thrift store. There were few people around, as expected. She didn’t notice the first fear filled glance that was directed her way nor the second. She probably wouldn’t have noticed the third either except the third came from one of her guardians (her favorite if she had to choose) and she opted to approach Amber directly. “Dear, I think you should go to the bathroom and look at yourself in the mirror.” The middle aged woman’s voice shook just a little although she struggled not to show it. Amber nodded obediently, not quite afraid but certainly apprehensive. What could be the problem that would worry her guardian so much as to cause her voice to quiver?
A minute later Amber found herself in the bathroom, door closed and locked securely behind her. It didn’t take long for her to realize what had bothered her guardian: Her eyes, once a pale and completely normal blue, were now completely black. Not only had the iris disappeared into the pupil, but the whites of her eyes as well were not completely nonexistent. Looking into her own eyes was like looking into the depths of an endless void.
Amber didn’t feel fear at the revelation; after all, her eyes couldn’t hurt her, though maybe she should have. No, what she felt was a far more profound sorrow. Her life, never particularly easy and always isolated, was now so much more complicated than it ever had been before. She could hide her skin from the sun, but how did she hide eyes that made her out to be evil? She knew about mutants, of course, had read books on them and knew they weren’t evil, but also knew that many others wouldn’t see things the same way. To make matters worse she didn’t have any powers, or if she did she hadn’t discovered them yet. It was just like her life to have all of the negatives of becoming a mutant and none of the positives. People would think she was some kind of freak or monster and she wouldn’t even have a power that might make it worth while. Her chances of adoption, distant echoes though they were, were now officially zero. Quietly she curled up on the floor and cried to herself.
