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Character's full name: Alice Rivers
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: Ally, Cheshire
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Date of Birth: 23/3/2000
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: London, England
Nationality: British
Ethnicity/ Cultural Heritage: Celtic

Appearance

Hair color and style: Short blonde hair, currently dyed a violent shade of blue
Skin Tone: Pale White
Eye Color: Pale Blue
Height: 5’8’’
Build: Lean but soft. Not particularly well muscled
Visible mutation: None
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: Pierced ears, part the ways up on both sides
Other features: Outsider tattoo from Dishonoured on her left shoulder, Sun bro on the outside of her right thigh with the words ‘Praise the Sun’ under it.

Everyday clothing style: Jeans, nerdy t-shirts and hoodies, some slightly more punky clothes as well. The kind of thing a teenager rebelling would wear.
Uniform: None
Sleepwear: Slightly too big t-shirt and shorts
Miscellaneous clothing: Various earrings, studs and rings. A wolf's head pendant she wears everywhere.

Character

Personality: On the face of it Alice is a typical rebellious teen, hating authority, stubbornly refusing help or advice and doing stupid things because she could. Because of this she can come across as selfish and mean, but in reality she’s really introverted and just uses all those things to appear confident and strong. Thanks to her upbringing she prefers isolating herself, playing games so she didn’t have to deal with the outside world. This has left her bad at dealing with people, making it hard for her to make, and keep, friends.

Like a typical teenager from the UK she swears far too much and has already started drinking. Most of these are simple coping mechanisms. Deep down, she’s just a scared girl who doesn’t know her place in the world and just wants somewhere to belong. Alice is generally a nice girl, even if she hides it. When she feels strongly enough about something, she will go out of her way to help people. One thing she does hate though, is people who try to control others. She had enough of it growing up and won’t tolerate it anymore.

She’s likes to think she's a jaded cynic, but she’s an optimist and is generally hopeful about people. Alice already knows what she wants to do for a living and has been actively working towards getting the qualifications needed. This has given her a certain sense of purpose, even if she doesn't yet know where life will ultimately take her.

Hobbies/ Interests: Gaming, on anything, in any way. Loves to work on computers and older tech. She spends a lot of time reading engineering manuals. Secretly wants to make videos online or work behind the scenes on those kind of channels. Has a secret passion for cosplay, but she isn’t very skilled at it, not being able to practice the necessary skills much.
Job or part time job and description: None
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: She will do anything to stay away from her grandmother. Thanks to her upbringing, she has a fair distrust of authority, the police especially. Can’t leave her current ‘quest’ undone for too long before she starts to obsess over it, especially if it’s a more mundane quest. It’s like she’s not making progress in her own life.
Special talents: Fantastic cook, she’s helped her mother with meals since she was a child. Decent understanding on the inner workings of computers and consoles, even able to do moderate repairs.

Morality

Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: Broadly good, if somewhat selfish. She’s a typical rebellious teenager. Likes to think she’s smart and tough, able to do all the bad things people her age want to, but won’t actually do anything really wrong.

Mutations

Mutation description: The Gamer - Alice power is basically a game menu and comes with a Heads up Display (HUD). It has everything an average HUD would have, health bar, stamina, hunger bar etc. It also has a minimap, ‘quest tracker’ and experience bars. Once her power formed, it has always been one, always in her sight. It has a list of her ‘skills’ and how proficient she is in them. Things like cooking, crafting, weapons styles etc. She can mess with the settings of the menu, but all that allows her to do is resize some elements, re-colour certain aspects and hide non-essential parts of the HUD. She can form ‘parties’ of 4 people (including herself), giving her their location on her minimap, as well as a health and stamina tracker on her HUD.

Strengths:

- It’s always on, so unless she meets an adapted or a mutant who can disrupt powers, she can’t ever be lost, can tell when she needs a meal or some sleep and will always know where she’s meant to be.

- Her mini map has a 25m range and shows the landscape, buildings etc.

- Thanks to her health and stamina bars, she has a fair idea of how much danger she’s in any situation, since she can quantify how much ‘health’ an attack takes off her.

- With the ability to see her skills, she knows every ability she’s picked up in her life, how good (or bad) she is with them and what proficiency level she is. (Novice, Dabbler, Journeyman, Master and Grandmaster)

- The parties she form give her the ability to co-ordinate and keep watch over 3 other people at once, without needing line of sight. This makes it a useful support skill, if she were feeling in a cooperative mood.

Weaknesses and Limitations:

- It’s always on. Always. It limits parts of her vision, affects her depth perception and her field of view. It can be very distracting at times and at night, making it harder to sleep. It might not project light, but looking at in the dark is fairly uncomfortable.

- The minimap doesn’t show people's locations, unless they are in her party. The map itself is more stylised than an accurate satellite image and it also doesn’t allow her to see the inside layout of any building she isn’t in. When inside, the map doesn’t extend outside, even if her range is larger than the building itself. Can’t see the layout of areas behind locked or closed doors either.

- A weird side effect of her power leaves her with an increased appetite. Her hunger bar drops at about the same rate as it would in a game, going from full to empty in 1 hour. This means she needs to take in more food in order to stay healthy. It does stop counting down during her sleep, letting her get full nights sleep. This doesn’t increase her weight gain, since the extra calories fuel her power, or at least that’s what she thinks. So far, as long as she eats to just fill the bar, she has normal weight gain/loss. Letting it run empty won’t instantly kill her, but it makes her very ill. After another half an hour without food she loses consciousness.

- The quest marker doesn’t tell her distances. It could be a block over, it could be a continent away, all it gives her is a direction. She can also only have one quest active at a time, so if she doesn’t clear it, she can’t gain any new ones. Quest can be anything from finding her long lost sister to missing milk from daily shop.

- Knowing exactly how skilled, or unskilled you are in everything you ever do has left her pretty jaded about learning anything new, without the discovery and joy of learning rather than it just being something else to grind out.

- To form a party she needs to be able to touch the person to add them. She can only form the party link with willing people and they can leave the party at any time they wish. If they stay outside her minimaps range for more than 20 minutes, she loses the connection. They connection is instantly severed if one of the members dies and she suffers a significant mental shock, rendering her unconscious or worse. If more than one were to suffer the same fate, the side effects would be much more severe.

- Her ability offers not physical or mental improvements whatsoever. Her health is simply a quantified show of how generally healthy she is and the skills aren’t learned any faster than a normal person.

Physical Abilities

General Physical Capabilities: Pretty average across the board for a teenager her age. Somewhat decent flexibility thanks to a few years of yoga.
Fighting Style: Dirty. Alice might not be trained but if someone tries to hurt her she’ll go for any and all tender points. That and running, very fast.
Fighting Style Pros/Cons: Anyone with even a basic level of training would easily beat her, but for garden variety thugs it can usually solve things.

History Of Your Character

Alice was born thanks to a drunken fling between her high society mother and a man who turned out be Serena’s father, making him also her Uncle. He had been married to her mother's older sister, a woman Alice never got meet, since she’d died before she was born. Her mother never gave her any information about the man, and she never asked. It just never mattered to her, the only person in her life that seemed to care was her grandmother who had more than a few harsh words about him.

She grew up relatively happy, spending a lot of time with her mum, cooking, laughing and exploring her own interests, even if her mother wasn’t treated very well by the family matriarch, she wasn’t actively harmed or pulled down by the woman. They were mostly left alone to go about their lives on the estate and as such, Alice had a pretty stable childhood, receiving a very good education along the way.

As she grew older, her mother's career started to take off, making her have to travel for longer periods of time, and spend longer stretches away from the family home. Unfortunately this left Alice mostly alone on the estate, her grandmother generally ignoring her. Thanks to this, she started to develop more than a passing interest in gaming, using it to distract herself from the loneliness and help deal with the growing burdens her grandmother started to place on her.

Once she hit puberty, she was more withdrawn than ever. On the face of it she was doing fine, getting good grades in schools and making sure her mum didn’t feel guilty about leaving her for such long periods, but deep down she wanted to be selfish. Alice barely interacted with friends outside of the digital world, spending most of the free time she had either playing games, or taking apart the tech she kept buying on cheap online auctions. It all came to a head when her mum’s job was going to take her out of the country for a few years. She wanted to cry and scream, beg her to stay, be a family again, but she played the part she had for years, acted happy and encouraged the career move, all the while dying inside. The next morning, she woke up with the HUD in her vision.

After an appropriate amount of freaking out, she told no one what had happened and went about her life as if nothing had happened, pretending everything was normal while learning as much as she could about, whatever this thing was. It didn’t take her long to find the limits of her power and it quickly went from a freak event, to something that was just there. The increased appetite was certainly a massive downside, since she had to take to stealing from the kitchens to stay functional. All the while she went through the process of puberty, finally catching the attention of her grandmother. So that was fun.

Now that she was becoming a woman, her grandmother finally seemed to think she was worth talking to, although their ‘talks’ usually revolved around what her responsibility as a Rivers was, how she was a part of their family and what her role would be in it. Alice pretty quickly started to dislike the old woman and her controlling attitude. This began her teenage rebellion, which she very quickly went full force on. Every time the matriarch tried to rein her into control, the worse she got. Piercing her ears, dyeing her hair, drinking, it all started to escalate until she received a bombshell. She was part of an arranged marriage. Somehow.

She didn’t remember much about the argument itself, only her screaming, the disapproving looks and something about having a sister. She didn’t remember the next few days, spending them in a blur of high strung emotions and terse talkings too from her grandmother. So she ran away, left to New York, to find her lost family.

Roleplay

What’s your OOC alias?: Khzar
Where did you learn about this site?: Razzledazzle (Serena)
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: Artair Hawke

Sample RP:

New Quest Acquired: Find Your Long Lost Sister

Even a week later she had still not wrapped her head around that revelation. Her entire life and no one had seen fit to mention a sister, much less tell her anything about the mystery woman. Her grandmother kept trying to force the arranged marriage issue, even after Alice had made it very plain her feelings on that issue. Or the fact he wasn’t quite her type, but that didn’t seem to matter to the old woman. There had been many arguments/screaming matches in the following days most of them culminating in her storming off and locking herself in her room. That and a few worried calls from her mother about why she was being difficult, because of course the old bat had only seen it from that angle.

The quest popped up every now and then, giving her a constant reminder that her life was screwed up completely. Why had it only shown up now? Why was it important for to find a woman she’d never met and frankly didn’t want to now, no matter how curious she was about her. Or how much she wanted to escape.

“Little lady, if you live in my house, you will do as I say, when I say it. There will be no more arguments, You will marry him, you will carry on our family legacy and you will smile while doing it.”

“I’m not some broodmare whose only job is to spawn brats for you and if you think for a moment I’m staying here now, with that threat, you can f--- off. I’m done.”

After a few more shouted comments, Alice had just stormed out, packed a bag and slipped out of the estate. The old bag didn’t want her to stay? Fine, she had a quest to complete.