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Individual
Character's full name: Versula Aldwyn
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: V, La (Nicknames) Spirit Bear (Codename/Alias) Moksgm’ol (By her mother and older brothers)
Gender: F
Age: 25
Date of Birth: 12/24/1988
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: British Columbia
Nationality: America/Canada
Ethnicity/ Cultural Heritage: English, Ukrainian (on her fathers side) and North American Indian (on her mothers side)
Appearance
Hair color and style: Black, thick and wavy but usually brushed straight and tied into a tail.
Skin Tone: Naturally pale
Eye Color: Dark hazel (mix of blue-grey, brown and green)
Height: 5’5’’
Build: Physically fit, though a bit skinny
Visible mutation: Bear Mutation
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: Has a scar over her stomach from a surgery when she was a baby
Other features: (if applicable)
Everyday clothing style: Your average t-shirt and jeans, though for anything formal she does have one formal outfit that consists of a shirt, cover top piece, and a long skirt. Normal shoes are running shoes though formal ones are fancy-type boots that are actually comfortable.
Uniform: None
Sleepwear: Comfortable pants and a t-shirt, often one that she won’t wear normally out in public
Miscellaneous clothing: Wears a ring tied to a leather cord as a necklace given to her by her grandmother (on her father’s side)
Character
Personality: Versula has always had this temperamental, calm appearance to anyone and everyone outside of her family and whatever friends she gains. She gives off the presence of someone who really just doesn’t care for most people, and decides who should see otherwise by observing them and their personality if she can. Its a trait that went unnoticed however, until she started to develop her powers when she was twelve. However once you do get to know her better, you will be bombarded with concern and care seeing as she takes care of “her own”, or her family. In reality, she doesn’t make friends, she makes family wherever she goes, even if it is only in her own mind and not in the minds of others.
Versula also has a temper, but keeps it well shut behind a door she very rarely lets open. She doesn’t like conflict, and doesn’t get mad or angry about many things. In her mind, there isn’t much to get truly angry about. However she can get easily frustrated or annoyed, which she often won’t voice but will make known through not vocalizing or through body language. However most of her communication methods are through body language with vocalization to back things up. This helps when interacting with bears, seeing as she, in some twisted way, is half bear now. However around humans she finds that talking more in lengthy sentences is not really her thing.
Hobbies/ Interests: Cooking, Drawing, Listening to music, Storytelling
Job or part time job and description: Will decide through RP
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Has a phobia toward snakes, concern for her family a lot, even though they tell her that she doesn’t need to be.
Special talents: Multilingual, able to speak both English, Ukraine and Nisga’a (a Native American language)
Morality
Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: Neutral - Wishes to do what she can for her family, even if it means being a good few hundred or thousand miles away from home. Even though she has very few friends, she’ll do what she can for them to, yet outside of that grouping, she prefers to stay to herself, letting the rest of the world work itself out.
Mutations
Mutation description:
BEAR MUTATION/SHIFTER
Bear form - Versula is able to take the form of a Kermode bear, a subspecies of black bear living only in British Columbia that one out of every ten bears are born white. Not albino, but white. Her form, like the ten to thirty percent of the population, is also white. Some traits and features of the bear has leaked over into her human form, never able to simply go away. Also, like a disease or blood mutation that humans can sometimes get, whatever children that she may have in the future, and their kids, and their kids and so on, will have her bear mutations as well. Whether they’ll have all white fur or if one to three out of every ten black furred, there would be one white like in the actual bear population itself.
Bear to Human - Some of the traits that have leaked over into her human side would be her diet. Kermode bears eat a variety of things, being omnivores, but a few that has kept with her human side is the salmon, berries and other fruits. She’s also likely to eat a lot more than she normally otherwise would during Autumn, and may not eat for days or even weeks on end during the winter, being that winter is bear hibernation time. a few other things would be her appearance. Its not much of a change, just the fact that her eyes are shaped and wired differently to work like a bears normally would, and that where her human ears would normally otherwise be, bear ears replace them.
Strengths: When in bear form, she has all the strength and speed (running up to 55 mph at top speed) of that form, all the sensory input backed up with her human brain and intelligence. When in human form, while not anywhere near are strong as her bear form, as slightly stronger than she otherwise would be.
Weaknesses and Limitations:
Her sight in both forms is that of a bears. Not human, not a combination of both. Just a a bears. That means she has good vision, nearly as good as a humans with great night vision, but while human the eye shape of the bear form she takes doesn’t go away. Nor do the ears. Which means that unless she can either hide them or somehow explain them to other people, she sticks out like a sore thumb. Like putting a sign over her head saying “Hey, look over here! I’m a mutant!” Yeah, that’ll go over real well. Also the fact that that even though she gets the sight of the bear in both forms, her other senses in human form stay human, as well as most of her strength and speed. She can go a little faster, and lift a bit more weight than what her size and weight would normally allow, but that’s about it.
Another limitation of sorts, related to her behavior (not necessarily her personality though) of all things, is something that should be made known. While she’s social amongst her family and even other black bears if she were to come across one, she’s reluctant to interact with humans or even other mutants outside of that. She’s a good climber too, often sleeping in a tree rather than in some apartment that hadn’t been used in a while. Her diet lets her eat raw fish, but other meats have to be cooked like normal. Upon new things coming into her space, she’ll often be a bit weary, or even afraid depending on what it is, until a few seconds or minutes later her curiosity will get the better of her and she’ll investigate it. And then there’s the hierarchy thing that bears have, based on age, size and temperament. Mature adult males at the top, with females and subadults (teenagers) and then cubs the bottom. This can, unfortunately due to bear instinct, act up in certain situations and show that she isn’t all...human anymore. At least not in thinking.
Physical Abilities
General Physical Capabilities: Strength, Reflexes, Speed
Weaknesses: Endurance/Stamina and Flexibility
Fighting Style: Instinct
Fighting Style Pros/Cons: Instinct - Normally good for quick getaways and hold her own against the occasional human who didn’t think twice, isn’t so good when fighting other mutants.
History Of Your Character
Versula Aldwyn was born in British Columbia, Canada. Her two older brothers, Ulrich and Alderic, who were not only three years older than her, but identical twins on top of it. They were the “overprotective” big brothers of the family and they took their job seriously. Even if Versula got on her brother’s nerves a lot, and they on hers, they still loves each other all the same. Her family was a happy one, that is until shortly after her little sister came along. Esper, as her mother had decided to call the new child, was born tiny, like she was, but also with “a curse” or birth defect as her father tried explaining it to her mother.
Esper was blind. Versula had been five, her brothers at eight. The children didn’t know what to do except help their baby sister in whatever way they could. To help her past the blindness that had robbed her of seeing the world. Versula’s mother was distraught for the whole next year, but pushed her way through it. Yet it didn’t come without consequence. Her mother treated her youngest child with all the care she could deliver, leaving their father to take care of her other children. Ulrich and Alderic assumed the roles of caring for their younger sister, as well as watching over Esper when they could, seeing as their mother doted on her for the first six years of her life and wouldn’t let the twins nor Versula near her at times.
It had to stop at one point though. And that point came with not only a fierce argument between the two parents, but also afterward when Esper had asked if she could play with her older sister, or try to get her older brothers to teach her something fun or cool. The mother of four had snapped, not in an aggressive way, no she’d had never meant to be mean to her children at all, but broke down there and then on the floor, weeping bitterly all the emotions she had kept locked inside the past years.
Their mother had tried asking their father for forgiveness first, yet all he said was that forgiveness in this case was not something that should be asked of him, as he was not the one that she had wronged. So she pulled her other children aside one day and asked them, receiving it almost immediately from Versula. Versula was the forgiving type after all. Yet the twins had been harder to convince, though they too, came around after a few days.
A year later was when Versula had awakened her mutant powers. She’d been walking in the forest one day, releasing any annoyance, frustration, stress or other emotion while she did so, letting her surroundings calm her. It, quite honestly, came out of nowhere, perhaps brought on by her on the edge of being a teenager, or some other reason. Verula never really found out. But one moment she was a normal person, walking along and minding her own business, and then the next she was on all fours, growing fur, a snout, etc at a rapid pace so that she couldn’t even feel pain. The only sound made was a loud crack! Then it was over.
She’d been terrified at first, finding herself to look much like the Spirit Bear in the legends her mother would tell her and her siblings at night before they went to bed. Legends of how the Raven was the one to create the world, and as it turned the world from an icy wasteland to the green it was today, that the Raven went to the black bears and made it so one out of every ten would carry the bright white of the snow that once was. Her father never believed these legends. He was Christian, and had taught his children what he knew. Versula had taken to it easily enough, so had her brothers, but Espa, at this point, was still too young to understand fully.
For the first month or two, she’d kept this particular power a secret from her parents, getting used to it and trying to understand it better. Once her powers began to leak into her human form, she’d told them. Her mother, like how it was with Espa, had been worried and caring for her for a while, but this time it was on a lesser scale and for less time. Versula’s father had more or less fainted, but took the news well enough. Her older brothers had been all “you’ll be able to beat up the guys yourself now.” and took to letting her wrestle with them should she want to. Espa had been the unfortunate one. Being blind, she couldn’t see her older sister’s power. Yet Versula made it up to her when she’d transformed and let Espa play with her bear form sometimes.
When she was around twenty years old, after getting what high school education she could that would pass American standards, she moved to New York, hoping to learn more about her powers and perhaps make a little bit of a difference there, even if she’d rather just stay out of all the fighting going on. She hopes to make friends, yet after five years she made little progress. She called her family perhaps once a week, or once every two weeks if she can. Her job situation is...poor at best. Some people were uncomfortable with her working with them or in their business, others were okay with it, but what jobs she could keep, were either kicking her out because of mutant fights in the area for fear that she’d do the same, or were “destroyed” in said fights. She finally got a job at as a Librarian...person. Someone who puts the books back where they should and helps to show other people where certain sections of books are. It wasn’t the best, seeing as even though she didn’t need a house or apartment, or needed to eat cooked food all the time, she did however, need other basic needs like hygiene, so had an apartment anyway solely for those reasons.
Roleplay
Where did you learn about this site?: Found this through X-Gen
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: None
Sample RP:
“Versula!” The twelve year old visibly flinched, thankful for the barrier that the door to her room provided for her. She’d been all ready to tell them about her mutation. All set and ready, whatever their reaction, but now she couldn’t bring up the courage to face any of them. “Versula!” The child ground her teeth, locking them in place to the point where her teeth ached.
“Yeen as gun!” Giving a sigh and releasing her teeth from the painful position she’d put them in, the child walked out of her room, having come into the house late the previous night and had gotten a scolding for it.
“Ee’e?” She asked, moving into the kitchen to where her mother was making breakfast for all of them while making sure her hair was pulled back enough to show the creamy white bear ears that took the place of her human ones.
“Versula.” Everything just stopped in that moment, the twelve year old mutant was sure of it. “What happened to you hon?” Her father asked.
“I’m a mutant momma, dad. I’m a mutant.” Her mother’s eyes were as wide as dinner plates, she could see that much as clear as day.
“Moksgm’ol.” The mother of four whispered solemnly, her eyes showing worry and caring.
“Momma. I’m still me. I-its not like with Espa, okay? Please don’t be like you were with Espa.”
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