Individual Character's full name: Cosmina Anca Walker
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: Mina (Nickname from her biological father), Mute
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Date of Birth: 02/19/1982
Nationality/ Ethnicity: American, Mother was Romanian
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: New York City, New York
AppearanceHair color and style: Brown and worn just past shoulders.
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5’5”
Build: Just about average
Visible mutation: None
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: None
Other features: None
Everyday clothing style: Jeans and t-shirts mostly. Cosmina might mix it up with a pair of cargo pants or shorts every now and then.
Uniform: Not precisely a uniform but whenever she’s on a job Cosmina dresses in your typical all black. The clothing items are always well fitted but not so tight as to restrict movement. The shirt is almost always long sleeved. A black knit mask and gloves are added to the ensemble as well.
Sleepwear: Shorts and tank tops
Miscellaneous clothing:A few dresses and pantsuits for when she knows she’ll have to go undercover. These get updated each year even if she doesn’t use them
CharacterPersonality: Cosmina is very mercenary. To her money is the important thing and she’ll do what she has to in order to get it. Interestingly enough, despite her avaricious nature she’s a very upbeat and cheerful person. Unless she’s having cash flow issues Cosmina smiles brightly and is very friendly. She likes to meet new people and views most things on the bright side.
Cosmina is rarely serious except when she’s taken a less than legal job. Even then she’ll still sport a smile while doing whatever she’s been hired to do. When on the job she’ll put aside any personal feelings for whoever attempts to stop her. After all, it’s just business. However since Cosmina has never really had any relationships beyond acquaintances this has never been put to the test very thoroughly. On the subject of relationships Cosmina is thusly very novice. If someone were to befriend her or even just pretend to do so she would end up doing whatever that person asked of her. Cosmina doesn’t really believe in a romantic relationship ending happily. To her there are two sorts of relationships: those that are pretty much one night stands with no basis in love whatsoever and actual loving relationships that will always end badly and should be avoided.
All of that aside Cosmina’s happy go lucky personality is just a ruse. There is a normal person underneath all of that smiling and upbeat cheer. The personality beneath it is harsh and yet simple. The loss of her father at such an early age really did a number on her. She doesn’t really understand death. That lack of understanding is why she can do her job with no remorse. The concept of someone being gone forever doesn’t click for her. Cosmina half believes that if she lives long enough she’ll meet her father again.
Hobbies/ Interests: Roller coasters and flying.
Job or part time job and description: Professional Mercenary
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: The loss of all her money is a big fear for Cosmina. To her being poor equates to being powerless to do anything and she hates not being able to do something when the situation calls for it. She’s also pretty uncomfortable in hospitals and around health care workers in general.
Special talents: In order to work better with her colleagues on mission Cosmina learned to lip read so she could understand their concerns or orders without having to turn off her mutation. She’s also pretty good at dancing whether it’s a casual occasion or formal.
MoralityGood/ bad/ neutral/ other: -3.5 Bad or good for cash: There is no act too horrible for Cosmina to commit if she is paid well enough. The only thing that determines whether she will or won’t do something is generally money. Off job she mostly ignores other people’s problems unless she sees some way to make money off of it.
MutationsMutation description:Sound Cancellation: Cosmina is capable of cancelling out any sounds within normal human hearing range. She has worked extensively with this ability and has two manners in which she can use it. First is area cancellation. Within ten meters (32.8 feet) of Cosmina any sound that normal human ears are capable of perceiving is stopped. The second use of this ability is sound cancellation on an individual basis. The range on an individual cancellation goes up to twenty meters (65.6 feet). Cosmina can only hold an individual cancellation for up to four people/items/positions at a time.
Any cancellation can only be held for one hour at a go before Cosmina absolutely has to stop and rest. At thirty minutes the cancellation is no longer absolute and sounds are dulled incredibly but not completely stopped.
Strengths: Whether it is gunfire, an explosion, or an enemy calling for back up Cosmina can keep it from making a peep. Stealth becomes much easier when you no longer need to worry about making a sound.
Weaknesses: Sounds beyond normal human hearing range Cosmina can’t do anything about and all the quietness in the world won’t do a thing if she’s seen. She isn’t immune to her own power either so if she’s within a silencing effect then she can’t communicate or hear anything either. Just as silencing herself makes it much easier for her to sneak up on others it makes it so much easier for others to sneak up on her.
Secondary mutation description: Focused Sound Cancellation: Mina is capable of further manipulation of her sound cancellation. By placing herself within the area of the effect and focusing on her cancellation abilities again she trades off her eyesight temporarily to gain control over which sounds within that area are canceled and which are not. In other words she temporarily blinds herself in order to pick which sounds she mutes. While using this manipulation Mina hears every sound within the area of effect in order to determine which sounds she wishes to nullify and which to leave alone. Like her regular cancellations this too has a time limit as she is only capable of this fine manipulation for half an hour. Her sight returns when the time runs out or she ceases use of this power.
Strengths: - This sort of sound cancellation is much less noticeable and therefore less likely to raise alarm.
- Hearing all the sounds in a given area of effect can be quite useful for spying purposes
Weaknesses: - Loss of sight, no matter how temporary, is still the loss of a major sense
- The temporary sight loss causes minor long term damage to Mina's eyes that, given time, could cause permanent blindness.
- Even if she doesn't mute anything using this ability tires her out much more quickly than just muting the entire area and having done with it.
Fighting StyleExplanation: Cosmina has been trained in both guns and the French martial art Savate. She has had eleven years experience as a mercenary to perfect her techniques. As such she’s very dangerous in a conventional fight and can hold her own amongst mutants.
Pros for fighting style: Good at both ranged and close quarters fighting.
Cons for fighting style: Because her power is more of a support power she will always have a disadvantage to those that can use their mutant powers for attack or defense.
Faction AllegianceUnaffiliated
History Of Your CharacterCosmina’s mother was a Romanian immigrant and her father was a construction worker. When Cosmina was young her father came down with a form of cancer that would have been treatable if he had been able to afford the treatments. He suffered for two years before dying. Cosmina only understood that her father had died because didn’t have enough money. That would spark a lifelong pursuit of wealth. Her mother was not immune because some years later the woman remarried to a wealthy elderly gentleman.
He treated Cosmina well but she couldn’t stand the man. She felt as though he was trying to take her father’s place. He attempted to solve the issue by throwing the girl a lavish birthday party, thinking that she merely didn’t realize that he cared about her. Unfortunately it had the opposite effect. Cosmina hated the party so much she stormed out into the night. The young girl ended up near a bar full of noisy drunks. The party that night had spilled out into the parking lot and they were all talking, shouting, and what have you.
It irritated the already angry Cosmina. She stopped walking and turned toward them and yelled for them to shut up, except no sound came out. She couldn’t hear a thing. Not her own voice and not theirs either. It was astonishing and when Cosmina eventually returned home she expected her mother to be just as thrilled. That wasn’t the case.
The shock of her running away gave the old man, whose heart was already weak, a heart attack. However he wanted to remain near his family so he declined removal to a hospital and simply paid to have one of his rooms turned into a sick room. It was a perfect opportunity for the girl. She hated the man with a passion and if he died she and her mother would conveniently inherit his money. Cosmina took advantage of his weakness and removed the oxygen that was sustaining him. It was entirely too easy. Besides, it wasn’t as if she wouldn’t see him again no matter how much she might wish that were the case. Daddy was just taking a long nap. That’s what she was making the old man do. She took as many precautions against being caught as she could think to take when ending his life. Thus the case was eventually dropped.
After this her mother confined Cosmina to their house in an effort to protect her. Being cramped up like that did no favors for Cosmina. She had expected her mother to be happy for her. Cosmina had thought that she would be delighted that her daughter had a rare talent. Instead she was locked away. Her temper began to flare again. This time toward the woman that kept her hidden away from the world. Any compunction against killing her mother, which were few, were easily over ridden by anger and greed. The deed was easily done. Cosmina would apologize to her when she saw the woman again. She absconded with some half a million dollars that she had taken from the safe. With this money Cosmina ran to New York City and bought herself an abandoned warehouse. She turned this into a living space and then sought out some form of job.
Her solution was to become a mercenary. The power she had made her perfectly suited to stealth jobs and she dedicated herself to learning how to do just that. She sought out martial artists and marksmen who would teach her. Eventually she settled on a small studio that taught Savate. She spent many months there and the instructor was fond of her for her eagerness to learn and consistently bright demeanor. She still stops in regularly to spar. Once she thought she was sufficiently prepared she moved on to marksmanship. This she picked up from classes offered at gun ranges. What they didn’t teach her the years she would spend at the job would. Along the way she realized that life was too short to bother with being anything but happy, leading to her current outlook on life. Cosmina has now been in New York for eleven years doing whatever work its criminal element throws her way as long as they pay enough.
RoleplayWhere did you learn about this site?: The almighty Google did direct me to this location.
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Sample RP:The former warehouse was dark and quiet when Cosmina returned from her latest job. The moment she was inside she flipped a light on and stripped the black knit mask off of her head. It had been a simple job. Destroying a store whose owners had refused to pay her employer protection money. No one had heard a thing as she picked the lock and set the fire that would burn the place to the ground.
Her gloves came off next and went in a pile with the mask on the coffee table. They’d be put away with the rest of her gear before she went to bed but first she wanted a drink. The living space she’d created was laid out in an open floor plan so she crossed the room from the living area to the kitchen and dining area. Cosmina grabbed a bottle of water out of the fridge and took a drink. Ah, that was better. Now to get her things put away and sink into bed. She reclaimed the gloves and mask and headed to her bedroom, the one area in the place that she’d put walls around aside from the bathroom. Cosmina valued her privacy.
Due to the size of the warehouse she’d bought Cosmina had allowed herself what would normally constitute a bedroom for her closet. Mind you her closet held more than just clothes. Guns, lock picks, and all other sorts tools that were useful to her job were stored behind a rather sophisticated steel door of the sort one generally sees in banks. It was controlled via a keypad and only she knew the proper codes. The mask and gloves joined the rest of her outfits for illegal activities.
Cosmina retreated to bed shortly thereafter. She slept well and watched the news with breakfast the following morning. The reporter talked about her handiwork, stating that the police had no leads on a suspect yet. A smile formed around the bite of scrambled egg she’d just taken before she swallowed. What a perfect way to start the day.
