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Legendium -> RE: Overspark Quest OOC (5/1/2014 5:16:25)
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Okay, I definitely like my character. I didn't read every single post in this thread, so I'm prepared for my character to conflict with certain aspects.
EDIT: I've just realized that my character's backstory is very similar to Chazero's. >.< I didn't copy, I swear!
Name: Maquinista Bosque
Age: 19
Appearance: Maquinista is a dark haired girl of medium height. Her skin is a rather deep shade of tan due to spending plenty of time outside in the sun for her research. Her eyes are a dark (almost black) green, the color of the jungle. Her hair is usually tied back in a ponytail so as not to get in her way in either the laboratory or the field. She dresses practically most of the time, changing her attire to fit whichever biome she's researching in. However, in Geartown, she usually wears a white tank-top and jogging pants. In her laboratory, she usually has protective goggles and a white lab coat.
She has a variety of weapons to choose from, but she prefers not to have guns. She's more of a spear person, using her hunting spear as both a walking stick and a weapon. But she also keeps a small pistol and bullets on her belt at all times in the case of an emergency.
Personality: Maquinista is work-driven. Her work is her hobby, and it shows. She will stop at nothing to solve a problem, taking various approaches to the same solution so as to understand it best. For her, the answer is not as important as finding it is.
When it comes to interactions between others, she can seem rather distant. She's an introvert at heart, due to her not having much free-time to socialize, but from what we can tell about the relationship between her mentor, she is very loyal if you take the time to get to know her. And just because she's an introvert doesn't mean she's unfriendly. She just doesn't like a friendship to run too deep until they've been friends for a long time.
Job: Maquinista is currently in the last year of her apprenticeship to Arthur Fice, who most people just call Art. They're bionics engineers, a profession which is rather new to Geartown because there was no nature to observe before the portals opened. They constantly make long trips to the outside to look at animals and see how they can improve inventions.
Hobbies: Exercising, sifting through some of the oldest documents on wilderness survival left in Geartown. Seriously, she's devoted her life to her work. She loves her job and has fun doing it. No need for hobbies in her case.
Skills: Wilderness survival, swimming, climbing. Plus the skills needed for her job, i.e. laboratory skills, animal analysis, etc. She's decent with her spear, but she's a terrible aim with her pistol. However, her knowledge of animals and their weaknesses gives her the edge in fights with them.
Family and friends + The story so far:
Maquinista's mother passed away during childbirth, and her father never got over it. Eventually, he committed suicide two years later. Maquinista was taken in by her last living relative, her great-aunt, until she passed away due to natural causes when Maquinista was ten. Her aunt was like her grandmother, and it's thanks to her that Maquinista became interested in science, since her great aunt was a chemist. After her great-aunt had passed away, she was just about old enough to start an apprenticeship. However, most people have enough trouble with apprentices without having to house them, so Maquinista could not get apprenticeship with any of the more common scientists who practiced crafts which interested her.
No, it was a desperate person who took her in.
Arthur Fice was the first person to explore the field of bionics when the portals opened. Naturally, he was very little known and desperate to pass on his craft. So when he found another wayward soul who, like him, was often rejected, he took her in immediately. They got to know each other very well over the course of the apprenticeship, and Art was like the father she never had. Through life-threatening experiences in the field to astounding discoveries in the lab, the relationship they built up was like that of a parent-child. And so, now in the last year of her apprenticeship, Maquinista is considering what she will do afterwards.
Maquinista first learned about her Overspark at age 13 when she nearly feel to her death from a cliff. She had been observing a certain species of flying squirrel from in the trees, when her foot slipped and she nearly tumbled to her death. However, the skin between her arms and legs expanded, becoming similar to that of a flying squirrel and slowing her fall enough to save her. When she landed, she fainted from physical exertion, waking up back at camp.
Personal Objectives: Her biggest goal when she leaves to start her life on her own is to build various field labs to make life easier for herself and the next generation of nature engineers. Aside from that, she wants to continue her research, though she doesn't know what inventions she wishes to specialize in yet. Her apprenticeship merely gave her a basis of everything.
Overspark: Mimicry, the ability to assimilate and emulate the characteristics and abilities of other creatures, as well as vegetable life. The use of this power requires the acquisition of a “fresh sample” obtained by contact with a living organism, as dead animals and plants can't be assimilated. However, once a sample is acquired, Maquinista can replicate that organism's characteristics as many times as necessary. A nifty little perk of his power, is that it can transmute any equipment she might be carrying with her, so she doesn't have ruin her clothes or discard her inventory during each transformation. She's also immune to all natural poisons, so she can assimilate them and use them without any risk to her health.
Overspark Skills:
*Level 1 – Basic Mimicry. At this level, Maquinista is restricted to one organism mutation at a time. So, while she could acquire both the talons and wings of an eagle, she can't transmute a turtle shell at the same time. And while she can't transform into a perfect copy on a different organism just yet, she can transform any part of her whole body, and even grow extra temporary limps in case of them being necessary.
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