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Individual
Character's full name: Alina Donik (Uh-lee-na)
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: Ali, Lina
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Birthday: February 9, 1994
Nationality/ Ethnicity: Croatian/ Italian
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Appearance
Hair color and style: Dark brown, long and straight
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5’ 4’’
Build: Thin, but muscular, a swimmer
Visible mutation: Changes color of skin when she is trying to blend into her surroundings, she also has a suction-cup like material on her finger tips that taste
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: Pierced ears
Other features: Nice smile with very straight teeth
Everyday clothing style: Casual and stylish, but comfortable
Uniform: (if applicable) none
Sleepwear: An overly large t-shirt and shorts
Miscellaneous clothing: Usually wears black
Character
Personality: (How you character behaves, social tendencies, quirks, etc.) Alina is a happy-go-lucky type of person, all bubbly and excited by life. She can buckle down and get work done when she needs to (she’s kind of brainy), but still likes to have plenty of time to hang-out and have fun and do leisure activities. Partying and swimming are both considered leisure activities. She listens to what other people have to say and can always keep their secrets. She likes to be “in-the-know.” She hates being out of the loop and gets frustrated when she thinks people are keeping things from her. She will research and dig until she has the truth.
Hobbies/ Interests: Enjoys going to parties, sailing, reading, writing stories, painting, napping
Job or part time job and description: She’s a high school student, but helped her dad with his fishing business in Dubrovnik
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Afraid of spiders and anything with eight legs… that isn’t an octopus
Special talents: (not related to mutation) She is an excellent swimmer and sailor
Morality
Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: good
Mutations
Mutation description: Octopus shifter (partial and full) - She can change into an octopus at will. She does not change into a specific species of octopus, but rather a conglomeration of many different species. The form she takes is always consistent and she doesn’t acquire new forms. She has a big bulging head, two giant googly eyes, and eight slimy tentacles with suckers. Since she has a combination of different octopuses, she has distinguishable features from certain species. Her suckers are blue (Giant Pacific Octopus), her under tentacles are red/orange (Pacific Red Octopus) and her skin is red/brown with white spots as her natural color (Long-Armed Octopus). Her tentacles are very thick (Common Atlantic Octopus) and her eyes are very high up on her head. Her head is rounded, which is very common for most octopuses. She is about 15 feet long from head to tentacle. The tentacles themselves are 12 feet long. The shifting process begins when her bones dissolve and become the hard mantle. The gills form and her skin becomes stretchy. Finally, she sprouts four more limbs and her existing limbs become longer and grow suction cups on them. If Alina chooses, she can shift partially. She can choose to grow gills or tentacles as limbs, or both. She can choose to have one tentacle arm, or up to four. Her gills that she would grow would always be on her neck and they always come in pairs, but she can choose the number of tentacles that she can grow. The whole process takes about a minute.
Strengths: When Alina is an octopus, she has all the same defense systems of other octopuses. She can change the color of her skin to match the surroundings, even copying textures and patterns. All octopuses are venomous, but only one species is deadly to humans, the Blue Ringed Octopus. If she were to eat while in octopus form, she can bite and paralyze her prey. She has a sac filled with ink that can be dispersed at will to help in the escape or predators. If she were to bite a human in octopus form, the human would feel a stinging sensation, but they wouldn’t die. The venom would flow through the blood and filter out in the kidneys. There is no need for an antidote. The venom stings for a little bit, but it disappears on its own. Lastly, she can autotomize her tentacles, which is similar to that of lizards. She can detach her tentacles to aid in escape from predators. She becomes a fresh octopus each time she shifts, so she can automatically regenerate her limbs when she shifts. As a human, the limb loss doesn’t translate. She shifts into the exact “condition” she was before shifting. But, she gets “phantom pains.” When she loses a limb as an octopus, she has a strange sensation of the limb as a human. She can feel as if the limb is there as a human, even when it’s not. Same thing with injuries. If she is injured as an octopus, she feels a glimmer of the injury, even though it doesn’t translate forms. It feels very strange.
Weaknesses: When in octopus form, Alina cannot stay on dry land for more than a few minutes. She can only maintain octopus form for about an hour or two and it becomes more tiring to her body and mind the longer she stays in the form. It takes a toll on her as a human when she shifts back from an octopus. She becomes groggy and sore and needs at least three to four hours to fully recover. The side effects will gradually decline as time goes on. The tiredness goes away and she will gradually become stronger as time progresses. As Alina’s strength and mutated control increase, the “side effects” and fatigue decline more rapidly.
Secondary Mutation description: As a human, Alina has some octopus attributes. She has glands of ink throughout her body. She can expel the ink from her pores, but has a difficult time controlling when, where, and how much of the ink comes out. It is greatly affected by her emotions, and squirts out when she is scared, surprised, angered etc. Eventually, she will learn to control her ink to squirt out of only certain areas of the body, such as her hands, and to only expel a certain amount of ink at a time. It is a defensive maneuver rather than offensive. The ink is black and has a range of roughly six feet.
Alina can also change the color of her skin. She can become red, orange, yellow, black or brown in varying shades. This camouflage is only activated when she is trying to hide or feels threatened in some way. Although she doesn’t change into the exact same color as her surroundings, it is extremely helpful in concealment and helps her to blend in better. She has a heightened sense of touch and can taste with the pads of her fingers like an octopus. She also has three hearts, two which pump blood to her lungs and one that pumps blood to the rest of her body. All three hearts are located in the upper left side of her chest.
Alina’s blood is also different from a normal human. Instead of the normal, iron-rich hemoglobin that carries oxygen throughout the body, Alina’s blood contains the copper-rich protein hemocyanin for transporting oxygen. In cold conditions, hemocyanin rich blood transports oxygen more efficiently than hemoglobin rich blood. Hemocyanin also dissolves in the plasma instead of being carried along with the red blood cells, and contains copper, therefore giving the blood a blue color.
Strengths: Her inking ability is a good defense system, when it works in her favor. She can blend into some of her surroundings when trying to hide. She has a very efficient circulatory system in water and cold temperatures when her three hearts/copper-rich blood work the best.
Her skin becomes tinted when she tries to blend into her surroundings, like a tan of varying shades. This ability is tied into her emotions and is only activated when she feels threatened and wants to hide (feeds off of nervous energy). The effect lasts as long as she is trying to hide.
Her fingers look like normal human fingers, except the pads function like the suckers on an octopus’s tentacles. Like when a snake smells with its tongue, she gets a hint of the flavor of things that she touches or holds.
Weaknesses: There are many disadvantages to Alina’s power. She has a difficult time controlling her ability to ink, and she has to keep her emotions in check at all times. She only has a limited supply of ink, and when it runs out, it takes several hours (around 8) to get full up again. And her ink stains badly. It is nearly impossible to wash off of clothing, so she ruins a lot of her things. She can wear black freely because the ink is also black and you can’t really tell. It stains skin also, but can come off with lots of soap, water, and scrubbing.
Because her blood is copper-rich, she gets tired easily and feels lazy in hot weather or conditions. Hemocyanin is not as efficient in carrying blood to the rest of the body during vigorous activities, so she feels out of breath quickly when she tries to run or play sports. She also has constant high blood pressure and a quick pulse because her three hearts constantly work overtime to compensate for the low levels of oxygen being pumped to her body.
Her skin cannot copy the patterns or textures of her surroundings.
Her hyper-sensitive skin is a near constant source of annoyance. She has to wear loose fabrics that breathe and are soft enough so they don’t chafe her skin. She uses a special lotion to help cope with it.
Fighting Style She doesn’t really have one. Her mutation is more defensive and limits her physical capabilities of fending off an attacker, so her strategy is to ink then run and hide.
Strengths: defensive, distraction, ink stings in the eyes
Weaknesses: poor runner
Faction Allegiance
Unaffiliated/ X-men/ Order/ Kabal: unaffiliated
History Of Your Character:
Alina is the middle child of three children. Her older sister, Sanja, is 18 years old and is attending a university in Italy. Her younger brother, Alexi, is six years old and is living with their mother and step-father in New York. Alina’s mother, Bianka, is a painter and her father, Jakob, is a fisherman. They divorced when Alina was 14 and her mother moved to New York with Alexi and remarried a handyman named Bryan Ross. Her father stayed in Croatia and raised his two daughters and continued his fishing business. Alina was very fond of her mother and the split upset her. Her father was often gone on long fishing trips, and she was often lonely. She and her father both agreed that she should be around people, so he sent her to New York to live with her mother for a while. She could finish her schooling there too.
Alina discovered she was an octopus shifter when she was 12 years old. Her father was taking her out on his boat when a storm came and she was thrown overboard. She was tossed out to see and couldn’t get back to shore, despite being an excellent swimmer. After fighting the storm for almost a day, she fainted. The next thing she knew, she was on a rock and she felt different. She looked around and her eyes had changed. She raised her hand, but it wasn’t a hand anymore. It was a tentacle. She freaked out, to say the least, but calmed down when she realized that she was still her, but in a different form. She swam back in the direction of the shore and found her father’s boat, searching for her. She tried to imagine herself as a human again, but it took a long time for her to figure out how to shift. She was then rescued and she began to realize that she was different in other ways in addition to changing into an octopus.
Roleplay
Where did you learn about this site?: Katrina and Kai (are my older sisters)
Do you have any other existing characters, if so who: None (formerly Cameron)
Sample RP:
“…All liquids must be in clearly marked containers of three ounces or less that fit inside of a single, quart sized, clear, plastic, zip-top bag…”
The strange female voice with the British accent repeated the same announcement for the fifteenth time. At this point, Alina could dictate the announcement perfectly. The airport security was very tight and a little intimidating. Alina had everything in order, but the burly guards still made her nervous. At least now she was here, in New York, after an uncomfortable 10 hour flight with all her luggage accounted for. At least she could be thankful for that.
The problem was that her mother was late. As usual! Must be a painter thing, getting absorbed in her work and losing all track of time. No sooner had Alina thought this, than a small green car pulled up next to the curb she was sitting at. Her mother came out of the driver’s seat and rushed forward.
“Alina! Baby!” she gushed, giving her a warm hug. “Look at you! You’re all grown up!”
“Hello Momma,” Alina managed to gasp.
Suddenly a tiny voice squeaked from behind the car, “’Lina?”
Alina quickly detached herself from her over-zealous mother and got a good look at the little boy who had just appeared from the backseat.
“Alexi?” She gasped. He had grown so much since the last time she had seen him, almost two years ago.
Alexi ran forward and collided with Alina, almost knocking her over. She could tell he was crying and tried to cheer him up.
“What has Momma been feeding you?” she exclaimed. “Last time I saw you, you were this big!” She held her hand about a foot off the ground.
Alexi smiled through his tear. “Na-uh!” he said angrily. But he was content to stay attached to her side.
“Look at you! You’ve grown into a beautiful young lady.” Her mother said with a smile. Alina blushed and threw her bags into the trunk, slamming it shut when the bags were secure. It was then that Alina noticed another person had gotten out of the car and was standing there awkwardly. Before she could say anything, her mother blurted out, “Amore mio, this is Bryan, my husband.”
Before she had time to reply an airport security officer stalked over and informed them all to keep moving. The little family piled into the car and drove off. Alina gawked at the wonderful city that seemed to sprawl on forever. There were so many people! She had never seen so many people piled into one place before, all rushing different places. She was practically glued to the car window and didn’t seem aware of anything else in the mortal world. The only thing that snapped her out of her day-dream state was Alexi’s non-stop, rapid fire questions about Croatia and father and Sanja. He talked continuously, Alina didn’t have a chance to get any of her own questions voiced, let alone answered.
Traffic was terrible! Especially around the airport. It took them an hour to make a half-hour drive, with Alexi babbling the whole way. He took full advantage of that time to fill her in on everything that she’d missed. All about New York and the apartment Momma found and his room and his friends and how he was starting school in the fall and… and… and…
The mood was still tense and awkward, despite Alexi’s chattiness. Alina didn’t know what to say to either her mother or her new step-father. She didn’t know how to act, either. Everything seemed very confusing. It was a lot of “firsts” for one day. And to top it off, she was exhausted from her flight and the day was relatively warm, leaving her feeling rather lazy and sluggish.
“Lina? Can we go swimming tomorrow? I wanna play with your tentacles!” Alexi continued his verbal barrage.
Oops! Alina saw Bryan freeze up. It was bad. Momma had obviously not told him that she was a mutant. She would have a lot of explaining to do, and she just didn’t have the energy now.
“Alexi, your sister is very tired. Why don’t we let her rest for a while in peace?” Her mother asked, pleasantly.
She saw his face pucker, but Alexi kept quiet. For the moment at least. When they finally arrived at Alina’s new home, she was practically a zombie. She hoisted her bags over her shoulder and was lead upstairs to her room. She barely had the strength to crawl into her pajamas before she collapsed on her bed. She hadn’t realized that she was so tired!
The last thing she heard before she completely conked out was…
“Tentacles?!”
Tomorrow’s problem…
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