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Individual
Character's full name: Mindy Random
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: This is being considered…
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Birthday: 22nd November, 1992
Nationality/ Ethnicity: Canadian/ Caucasian
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Montreal, Canada
Appearance
Hair colour and style: Pale blonde; usually unhindered by anything, cascading down her shoulders and falling down to the small of her back. Sometimes, she ties it into one ponytail, and keeps the rest of her hair in check with hairpins and letting a few locks fall over her forehead.
Eyes: Baby blue
Height: 5 feet, 8 inches
Build: Willowy, to the point of looking delicate, quite curvaceous
Visible mutation: None
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: One piercing on each ear.
Other features: Glasses (Payne is nearsighted)
Everyday clothing style: Nothing too out of the ordinary; mostly T-back tops that fall just short of the waistline to reveal a little skin, and denim pants. She is rarely seen in skirts. Mostly wears tennis shoes, or such stuff that do not affect movement (like high heels).
Uniform: None, for the moment
Sleepwear: Simple, white sleeveless nightgown that falls to her knees.
Miscellaneous clothing: Bangles always come with her everyday clothing, and a pair of glasses either sits on her nose or hangs from her neckline. She most often always wears jackets. She is always found with earphones in her ears, connected to an iPod. A dog tag, on which is written ‘R.A.N.D.O.M.’, hangs from her neck.
Character
Personality: Mindy Random appears reserved, often keeping to herself and seemingly always engrossed in her own little world. She doesn’t take a liking to crowds, and is rarely ever present in one, except when it is a necessity. She is skeptic of others at first, but feels more at home among mutants. Humans rarely garner her trust.
On a more in-depth note, Mindy is actually more complex than this, a mix of emotional conflicts and ideologies. Although she avoids humans, and even has a fear for some of them, she does not consider them her enemies. Rather, they come close to being a necessary evil, something that needed to be protected, and often for one’s own harm. According to her, that’s a normal part of mortal life.
An insecure teenager, Mindy keeps mostly to herself, as she is afraid of betrayals, and doesn’t really know who to trust. She’s not really the ‘I’ve got so many friends’ type; in fact she’s often lonely, resorting to staying in her shell and painting her little personal world with music. If she finds someone she can call a friend (someone who either goes all out on her behalf, or sticks out their neck for her), she is loyal to the uttermost, and will confide in such a person.
Mindy seems to like combat, although she is not that trigger happy. It’s more or less a way to hide her insecurity. She keeps up a tough front in the face of danger, and is an impetuous fighter, although she still has the capacity to formulate strategies in combat. She often considers herself a super heroine, destined to save people and deal with the bad guys (courtesy of the many comics she delves into). Many times, she might come up against something almost too big for her to handle, but she’s the type to take responsibility and see it through to the end.
Outside combat, Mindy possesses none of the boldness described above. Around her colleagues, allies or the sort, she is quiet and shy. She rarely speaks her mind unless she is asked, or feels it is very necessary, and she is excessively bashful around boys her age, so she comically attempts to avoid them, and later on wishes she was bold enough to initiate conversation with them. She often thinks that she is skinny, but is scared of getting fat and is quite conscious of how others react to her figure. She is quite myopic, and wears her glasses often, making her look scholarly sometimes, or like a geek. When she is not reading, or looking for or at people, her glasses do not remain on her face.
Hobbies/ Interests: Reading, computers, cooking (she’s quite good at it), hanging out with whatever friends she has, acrobatics, listening to classical music.
Job or part time job and description: Freelance programming
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Failure and betrayal. Concerned about ‘not flunking’ around her colleagues, getting fat.
Special talents: Is cooking a special talent? Computer programming and hacking, acrobatics and keen sense of balance.
Morality
Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: Good. In as much as she can’t be described as very peaceful, she doesn’t fight without a good reason. She holds life sacred, and will never kill anyone willingly, even if it’s a human hell-bent on doing her harm. She also is likely to aid an enemy, if he was in a tight spot.
Mutations
Mutation description: Mindy has the ability to affect the forces of attraction and repulsion around herself, and to a very limited degree, other objects. She can influence such forces to cause objects to stick to her skin, can cause herself to stick to objects, as well as push objects away from herself just by a simple touch. She has discovered that she can also use her powers without having to touch, as long as the target object is close enough to be touched physically.
Her powers of attraction enable her to stick to virtually any surface, like an insect. Thus, she can climb walls, glass; name it, as long as the object can support her weight. Once an object or person is close enough to be touched, she can attract such a one to another object that is also close enough to be touched. She can enable someone else to stick to a wall, or the ground, so that movement becomes limited. A person with a higher amount of physical energy would be able to move, but using normal effort, it's not likely that the target can free him/herself. Her climbing powers require little concentration on her part, though she will drop off the object, once concentration is gone.
Her powers of repulsion can be manipulated to exert subtle or slow repulsions on an object, and as a result, she is capable of levitating herself for short periods of time, as long as she has the ground or some other object to repel herself from. Using this concept, Mindy can actually exert more Newtons of force on an object, more than a human can actually exert. By using repulsion as though it were some thruster, she can also lift heavy objects off the ground. In summary, her powers appear to modify her physical strength beyond the norm (though it doesn't). Mindy seems to like using this aspect of her powers, and as a result, she doesn’t put much concentration into lifting things. Nonetheless, the heavier the object, the more the concentration. She can lift weights up to 300 pounds.
The same way she can attract some other body with respect to another, as long as they are within touching distance, she can also repel them. Thus, she could force an assailant to ‘jump’, when he/she is up close, as well as thrusting such a person or object away from herself with force.
Repulsion also enables her to jump great distances, like leap from the ground to the roof of a bungalow. She considers this mode of transportation better than floating, as she must concentrate hard to keep herself aloft. With concentration, she can double the height of her jump, to a height of between 13 to 15 feet max.
With a little more effort, Mindy can channel her attraction and repulsion powers through objects, like cause a stick to shove someone back, or cause a wire to attach itself to a banister. However, the larger the volume, the weaker the effect. Mindy thus finds it easier to channel her powers through thin objects.
Strengths: Mindy has a very versatile ability. Her powers are quite helpful in tackling an enemy in close quarter combat.
Weaknesses: Her powers tend towards short range, giving her a grave disadvantage against long range opponents (unless she can close the gap). She cannot float, if she has no media to propel herself towards, or away from. She cannot use her powers involuntarily, for example, she can not hover in mid-air, or cling to an object, without giving it thought and concentration.
Secondary mutation description:
Fighting Style: Unconventional close quarter combat
Explanation: Just the average punches and kicks, coupled with a little ‘special move’ picked from a movie, or concocted for the occasion. Also, anything that can be picked up helps. This fighting style is mixed up with a lot of acrobatics and flexible maneuvers.
Pros for fighting style: Many possibilities in combat; the user is hardly limited to using a particular pattern, not to mention the high evasiveness of this style.
Cons for fighting style: Long range gets the upper hand here. Stamina is necessary to use this, or one might tire easily.
Faction Allegiance : Unaffiliated.
History Of Your Character:
Mindy was born into a peculiar family, as an only child. Her father was a normal human, but her mother was a mutant. Her father was one of the rare sorts of humans who did not discriminate against mutants. Like some of the ideological groups of mutants, he believed that a time would come when humans and mutants both would live peacefully on the earth, for they were all one. Mindy’s mother was of similar beliefs, and as a result, both parents brought up their child to hold life sacred, and do away with hatred.
Her father was an Olympic athlete, and her mother was a housewife, and even though the family sometimes had some tight schedules, they always had time for each other, to do things together. Her life was comfortable, for her parents were of the wisely investing sort (not to mention that her father had inherited a profitable estate that got in some good income) but they were strict on her, nonetheless. Mindy was an energetic child, and was easily drawn towards the acrobatic life of her father. She learned a lot of maneuvers from him, and many culinary skills from her mother. As she grew older, however, she saw that her calling seemed to be connected with computer systems, and thus, she desired to be a programmer. She couldn’t be said to have had a social life, as her family was always on the move. Occasionally, she saw the way mutants were treated, and even her mother was not exempt, when she was ‘found out’, but her mother always overlooked it, a trait that Mindy admired.
Eventually, her family settled down back in Canada, the country where she was born, in a quiet urban environment. There, she was able to complete her high school education without any breakages, though she sort of felt alone and out of place everywhere she went. Till this time, her powers had not manifested. One day, she was about crossing the street, when she suddenly discovered a child ahead of her. A van, being piloted by a drunk driver, was hurtling towards him, ignoring the traffic lights. She didn’t know why she bolted, ignoring the risk to her life. She had grabbed the boy and shoved him out of the road, onto the grass on the sidewalk, while she was ‘hit’ by the van. Everyone was surprised to discover that Mindy suffered only minor bruises, concussion and shock, whereas the speed with which the van was moving was supposed to kill her outright. The truth was that, in that moment of panic, her powers kicked in, repelling her forcefully away from the moving van. She finally discovered that she was one of the Homo superior species.
Her life changed drastically after this event. More people avoided her by default, since she was a mutant, though the parents of the saved boy would be ever grateful. It was at this time that she discovered that she wasn’t the only mutant teenager living in the area. Some other kids had even set up a vigilante group of sorts, and they invited Mindy to join them. They were an okay sort, and some of them were probably the first people Payne could call her friends. She was a passive member of their group, which did a lot of ‘criminal whacking’, though she kept it a secret from her parents. Since she lived in a small neighborhood, the kids in the vigilante group attended the same school in which she was. Her two friends were nicknamed ‘Lizard Sam’ (because of his mutation) and Chibi (twist of his name).
About two years later, some anti-mutant groups from neighboring communities began to cause trouble in the peaceful environment, which escalated into a riot. Mindy was surprised to see the large number of mutants who dwelt in hiding, come out and begin to protest. Some local authorities were called in to suppress the problem, but they were biased, and after some more misunderstandings, a few mutants were killed. Lizard Sam, unfortunately, was one of them. The little riot was exacerbated… into an urban war.
There were many more casualties after this, and by the time the fires of war died down, many had died. This event was the most painful of Mindy’s life, due to the loss of her friend, and Chibi’s family moved out of the area, so she was pretty much alone again. Her parents felt it in her best interests to send her to a college which wasn’t in the vicinity; perhaps that would get her mind off the tragedies. Mindy herself agreed with the idea, so her parents let her choose where she wanted to continue her study. Perhaps a place with much activity, that could hide strange abilities, was needful, and Mindy chose New York.
New York it was, then. She moved away from home, down to the ‘big city’, while her parents stayed back home to help rebuild their neighborhood. She found it easy getting accommodation and settling down, in a cozy, three-bedroom flat. In the big city, she was quite certain that her budding powers could help her hold her own in an unpalatable situation, though she doubted that there would be any much action where she was going. In fact, her idea was that her former environment had the largest number of mutants in the world.
She would find out how wrong she was…
Roleplay
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Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: None
Sample RP:
Mindy stretched her arms above her head… or should she say, beneath? She looked down at the floor, then back to her bare feet, which were somehow connected to the ceiling. Back to the ground, which was some feet away, and then her eyes rested on a black knapsack. Perhaps she could get it up to where she was, though she’d never succeeded before. Stretching towards it, she concentrated on the bag. Perhaps it would be different, this time.
No, it was not different. The black knapsack stayed where it was, rebelliously defying her mental urge to draw it closer. She wasn’t really disappointed; she never really expected it to work. With a gentle sigh, she let go of the ceiling and dropped towards the carpeted floor. In the last instant, she flipped gracefully, landing noiselessly on her four limbs, like a cat. She planted her palms firmly on the floor, and suddenly, the knapsack shot upwards from the carpet. Following its lead, Mindy jumped upwards, flipping halfway again, so that she was upside down once more. She caught the bag deftly, just as her feet touched the ceiling, and there she stayed.
A perfect move. Feeling satisfied and forgetting the first incident, she zipped the bag open and removed a black, glossy laptop. She let the bag drop back to the floor, while she settled into a cross-legged position. The world looked different this way, but it was kind of interesting to view. She opened the laptop and drew out her headphones from a pocket, drumming her fingers to a non-descript tune as the system underwent its booting.
Mindy slipped on her glasses and focused on the screen, headphones starting to play a stream of soft music. It wasn’t likely that she would forget that she was on the ceiling, but if she did, she could act fast to salvage the situation. Her laptop stayed stuck to her laps as she began doing some work. If not for her cascading hair, and the position of the other objects in the room, one could flip the room upside down, and would think that the ceiling was carpeted.
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