Post by Elena Strike on Mar 1, 2019 13:58:09 GMT -4
ELENA STRIKE
BASIC INFORMATION
Hero/Vigilante/Villain alias: Blue Blitz
Player Name: Keiran
Faceclaim/Series:Shinobu / No More Heroes 2
Age:20
Gender: Female
Affiliation: Storm Knights
Height: 1.8m (5'11")
Weight: 68kg (155)
Hair/Style: White (bleached from black), styled into a large afro.
Skin/Scars:Medium-Tone Brown. No visible scars.
Eyes: Right Eye - Brown, Left Eye - Blue. Almond-shaped.
Notables: She deliberately styles her hair to cover her left eye, as it appears to flicker like fire at all times. When her Quirk is about to be activated, her left eye will glow strong enough to shine through her bangs. See below for more.
Player Name: Keiran
Faceclaim/Series:Shinobu / No More Heroes 2
Age:20
Gender: Female
Affiliation: Storm Knights
Height: 1.8m (5'11")
Weight: 68kg (155)
Hair/Style: White (bleached from black), styled into a large afro.
Skin/Scars:Medium-Tone Brown. No visible scars.
Eyes: Right Eye - Brown, Left Eye - Blue. Almond-shaped.
Notables: She deliberately styles her hair to cover her left eye, as it appears to flicker like fire at all times. When her Quirk is about to be activated, her left eye will glow strong enough to shine through her bangs. See below for more.
APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY
Appearance:
Tall, lean, and made of muscle, Elena is quite an appealing young woman. Her features stand out with dark, full lips and large eyes that are usually painted with vibrant reds, violets, and even deep blues; though that's to say nothing about the absolutely brilliant head of white hair she keeps styled in an enormous afro atop her head. It's clear she puts a lot of effort into her appearance. She wants to stand out, wants to be unique...yet, not too unique, as she hides the only part of her that looks distinctly inhuman: her left eye, which glows and flickers like blue flame.
Like that eye, when she manifests her Quirk, Elena becomes a being entirely made of blue fire, burning brightly and brilliantly, her features and figure completely engulfed in flame. In this form it is neigh impossible to recognize Elena at all.
For the most part her fashion sense is as bold as the rest of her appearance; bright, punk-rock style clothes chosen specifically to match with her choice of jewelry, make-up, and heels that give her already impressive height an even higher reach. She stands out on the street, be it for her hair, her fashion, or simply her stature.
POSITIVE
✔ Independent, Brave, Energetic, Cheerful
NEGATIVE
✖ Naive, Impatient, Reactive, Bullheaded
LIKES
✔ Games of Any Sort, Jewelry, Bad Jokes, Jogging, Uniqueness
DISLIKES
✖ Rain, Feeling Inadequate, Silence, Vermin (Bugs, Rodents, Etc.), Cruelty
Personality:
Elena is something of a mess at this current point in time, emotionally speaking. While she puts a lot of work into maintaining her looks and physical health, she doesn't spare very much time to process her own feelings or consider her well-being.
She's incredibly impatient and cannot sit still for too long without anything to do. Thankfully, "anything to do" can be even small things, such as playing with her phone or a hand-held game system, talking with another person, or listening to music. However take away her little distractions and Elena becomes more than a bit snappy and irate, and will bite the head off of anyone who demands she sit down and sit still for too long. She rushes into danger, too, without any care for herself. Be it something like running through traffic when the light is red to catch a purse-snatcher, or even something small like jumping from one balcony to another instead of using the hallway; Elena is not a rational woman when there's something she wants to do. The quickest route, even if not the safest or smartest, is hers to take.
Past her impatience and lack of better judgment, though, there is a somewhat naive person that sees the world with too much contrast. Evil is evil and good is good, with very little room for in-between. However that only applies to hew own views. Elena burning a thief's hand with her quirk is good, despite it breaking the law, because the thief was stealing from somebody, which is bad. Heroes who save civilians at the cost of a villain escaping are fine, but the bestheroes would have stopped the villain at whatever the cost. It's this mindset that keeps Elena from trying to become a legitimate hero; why bother doing what's "good" when she's doing what's "best" for everyone? Despite this, though, Elena would never kill another. She would burn them bad enough to incapacitate, if she had to, but murder is evil.
Tall, lean, and made of muscle, Elena is quite an appealing young woman. Her features stand out with dark, full lips and large eyes that are usually painted with vibrant reds, violets, and even deep blues; though that's to say nothing about the absolutely brilliant head of white hair she keeps styled in an enormous afro atop her head. It's clear she puts a lot of effort into her appearance. She wants to stand out, wants to be unique...yet, not too unique, as she hides the only part of her that looks distinctly inhuman: her left eye, which glows and flickers like blue flame.
Like that eye, when she manifests her Quirk, Elena becomes a being entirely made of blue fire, burning brightly and brilliantly, her features and figure completely engulfed in flame. In this form it is neigh impossible to recognize Elena at all.
For the most part her fashion sense is as bold as the rest of her appearance; bright, punk-rock style clothes chosen specifically to match with her choice of jewelry, make-up, and heels that give her already impressive height an even higher reach. She stands out on the street, be it for her hair, her fashion, or simply her stature.
POSITIVE
✔ Independent, Brave, Energetic, Cheerful
NEGATIVE
✖ Naive, Impatient, Reactive, Bullheaded
LIKES
✔ Games of Any Sort, Jewelry, Bad Jokes, Jogging, Uniqueness
DISLIKES
✖ Rain, Feeling Inadequate, Silence, Vermin (Bugs, Rodents, Etc.), Cruelty
Personality:
Elena is something of a mess at this current point in time, emotionally speaking. While she puts a lot of work into maintaining her looks and physical health, she doesn't spare very much time to process her own feelings or consider her well-being.
She's incredibly impatient and cannot sit still for too long without anything to do. Thankfully, "anything to do" can be even small things, such as playing with her phone or a hand-held game system, talking with another person, or listening to music. However take away her little distractions and Elena becomes more than a bit snappy and irate, and will bite the head off of anyone who demands she sit down and sit still for too long. She rushes into danger, too, without any care for herself. Be it something like running through traffic when the light is red to catch a purse-snatcher, or even something small like jumping from one balcony to another instead of using the hallway; Elena is not a rational woman when there's something she wants to do. The quickest route, even if not the safest or smartest, is hers to take.
Past her impatience and lack of better judgment, though, there is a somewhat naive person that sees the world with too much contrast. Evil is evil and good is good, with very little room for in-between. However that only applies to hew own views. Elena burning a thief's hand with her quirk is good, despite it breaking the law, because the thief was stealing from somebody, which is bad. Heroes who save civilians at the cost of a villain escaping are fine, but the bestheroes would have stopped the villain at whatever the cost. It's this mindset that keeps Elena from trying to become a legitimate hero; why bother doing what's "good" when she's doing what's "best" for everyone? Despite this, though, Elena would never kill another. She would burn them bad enough to incapacitate, if she had to, but murder is evil.
HISTORY
Elena was born in northern Spain, deep in the heart of a bustling city. Her mother and father were both Quirkless, but not against the Quirker movement. While they were both what many would consider "quiet, respectable people", Elena was more than a handful, and would oftentimes cause trouble at school for her mother or father to have to deal with. She got sent home with notices quite a lot. Still, her parents loved her, and she loved them as much as a child who was always in trouble could. Things shifted, however, when in the spring of her seventh year her arm suddenly burst into bright blue flame. Her teacher did the only reasonable thing and doused her with the fire extinguisher, and after passing out, Elena woke up in the hospital with her terrified parents demanding answers from the doctor.
Elena's Quirk was identified as the ability to transform herself, or parts of herself, into pure flame. Since she was young this could not always be controlled well. Sometimes she would sneeze and her legs from the knee-down would turn into fire, burning through her pants and sneakers and whatever she was sitting on. On more than one occasion she burnt a particularly hard homework assignment by accident--and far more often then those she'd burn them on purpose and say it was an accident. Her parents, though not anti-Quirk, discouraged Elena from using her Quirk at all. Fire was too dangerous for a girl her age. They may have meant well, but their actions began to make a rift between them and Elena that never healed.
After one particular outburst from Elena's Quirk torched another student's arm, her family relocated to a new city closer to the heart of Spain, and a now secondary-school aged Elena was forced to make brand new friends in a new city at an age where everyone is cagey as can be. Fortunately for her she found some; mostly outsiders, troublemakers, and, unsurprisingly, fellow Quirkers who were pushed out of the more accepted social circles. Nobody among them had a Quirk quite as dangerous as Elena's own. Most of them were cosmetic mutations or small, simple emissions.However, due to the incident that caused their move and her parent's growing strictness, Elena herself was not using her Quirk for anything more than tiny tricks and lighting a few illegally bought cigarettes.
For a few years that was just how it was. One of her closer friends, one that had a fish-like mutation and scales all over, asked her often why she didn't use her Quirk for more. She could do so much with it. Perhaps even be a hero, like the vigilantes spoken about on the news. But Elena laughed those ideas off. She didn't want her parents to tighten their hold on her anymore than they were already.
And somewhere deep down she was scared of hurting anyone else, accidental or not.
Then there was a shooting. It was a shock across the news: one of the peaceful pro-Quirk marches in the capital had been fired upon by radicals, killing three but injuring dozens more. Elena had not been in attendance--her parents refused to let her go, despite some of her friends leaving to do so. Among the dead was her friend who'd asked her why she didn't try to be a hero. She'd only been sixteen years old.
Elena's perspective changed overnight. She was no longer scared of hurting people with her Quirk; or rather, she was no longer afraid of hurting those who deserved it. With blind fury she snuck out of her parents home and went to the arrested shooter's home, having taken all the information given out by the news, and burned the place to the ground. Nobody was inside, but the act of arson was still a crime, as was the use of her Quirk to do so. Elena avoided arrest simply by the virtue that her figure, when engulfed in flame, was unrecognizable to any witnesses.
But her parents recognized it.
The fight when her parents confronted Elena was one that woke the neighbors and frightened alley cats. While they threw demands and threats and desperate attempts to get her to understand just how reckless her actions had been, Elena screeched that their forced inaction on her part had left her friend to die. What was she supposed to do? Let the law throw a murderer in jail? He deserved to burn for what he'd done, and without his body to do so to, then his belongings could melt and turn to ash for what he'd done to her friend. Her parents didn't agree. They kept telling her what she'd done was a crime, that she had to go to the police and turn herself in, that it was the only way for her to at least receive a lighter punishment. They didn't understand. How could they, when they were "normal"?
Once again Elena ran away from home, narrowly avoiding pursuit by hiding in one of her other friends' homes, and sleeping under bridges and on the street when they weren't able to hide her. She lived like this until a greater chance for escape presented itself: one of her surviving friends from the protest was leaving for Japan--where his family was from--to escape his own survivors guilt and, hopefully, be safer from future attacks. He helped to hide Elena among his belongings until they were on a boat headed south, and once they were on Japanese soil, she stayed with him for two years in a small apartment paid for by his unaware parents still living back in Spain. In that time she's learned the language and, even without her high school diploma, has managed to get a job as a hostess. It makes decent money.
But of course hosting isn't what she's really doing for a living. Whenever she's not working--or avoiding the police since she has no real visa--she's become the Blue Blitz, a vigilante hero seeking to help others and burn out the evil of the world.
If only it were so simple.
Elena's Quirk was identified as the ability to transform herself, or parts of herself, into pure flame. Since she was young this could not always be controlled well. Sometimes she would sneeze and her legs from the knee-down would turn into fire, burning through her pants and sneakers and whatever she was sitting on. On more than one occasion she burnt a particularly hard homework assignment by accident--and far more often then those she'd burn them on purpose and say it was an accident. Her parents, though not anti-Quirk, discouraged Elena from using her Quirk at all. Fire was too dangerous for a girl her age. They may have meant well, but their actions began to make a rift between them and Elena that never healed.
After one particular outburst from Elena's Quirk torched another student's arm, her family relocated to a new city closer to the heart of Spain, and a now secondary-school aged Elena was forced to make brand new friends in a new city at an age where everyone is cagey as can be. Fortunately for her she found some; mostly outsiders, troublemakers, and, unsurprisingly, fellow Quirkers who were pushed out of the more accepted social circles. Nobody among them had a Quirk quite as dangerous as Elena's own. Most of them were cosmetic mutations or small, simple emissions.However, due to the incident that caused their move and her parent's growing strictness, Elena herself was not using her Quirk for anything more than tiny tricks and lighting a few illegally bought cigarettes.
For a few years that was just how it was. One of her closer friends, one that had a fish-like mutation and scales all over, asked her often why she didn't use her Quirk for more. She could do so much with it. Perhaps even be a hero, like the vigilantes spoken about on the news. But Elena laughed those ideas off. She didn't want her parents to tighten their hold on her anymore than they were already.
And somewhere deep down she was scared of hurting anyone else, accidental or not.
Then there was a shooting. It was a shock across the news: one of the peaceful pro-Quirk marches in the capital had been fired upon by radicals, killing three but injuring dozens more. Elena had not been in attendance--her parents refused to let her go, despite some of her friends leaving to do so. Among the dead was her friend who'd asked her why she didn't try to be a hero. She'd only been sixteen years old.
Elena's perspective changed overnight. She was no longer scared of hurting people with her Quirk; or rather, she was no longer afraid of hurting those who deserved it. With blind fury she snuck out of her parents home and went to the arrested shooter's home, having taken all the information given out by the news, and burned the place to the ground. Nobody was inside, but the act of arson was still a crime, as was the use of her Quirk to do so. Elena avoided arrest simply by the virtue that her figure, when engulfed in flame, was unrecognizable to any witnesses.
But her parents recognized it.
The fight when her parents confronted Elena was one that woke the neighbors and frightened alley cats. While they threw demands and threats and desperate attempts to get her to understand just how reckless her actions had been, Elena screeched that their forced inaction on her part had left her friend to die. What was she supposed to do? Let the law throw a murderer in jail? He deserved to burn for what he'd done, and without his body to do so to, then his belongings could melt and turn to ash for what he'd done to her friend. Her parents didn't agree. They kept telling her what she'd done was a crime, that she had to go to the police and turn herself in, that it was the only way for her to at least receive a lighter punishment. They didn't understand. How could they, when they were "normal"?
Once again Elena ran away from home, narrowly avoiding pursuit by hiding in one of her other friends' homes, and sleeping under bridges and on the street when they weren't able to hide her. She lived like this until a greater chance for escape presented itself: one of her surviving friends from the protest was leaving for Japan--where his family was from--to escape his own survivors guilt and, hopefully, be safer from future attacks. He helped to hide Elena among his belongings until they were on a boat headed south, and once they were on Japanese soil, she stayed with him for two years in a small apartment paid for by his unaware parents still living back in Spain. In that time she's learned the language and, even without her high school diploma, has managed to get a job as a hostess. It makes decent money.
But of course hosting isn't what she's really doing for a living. Whenever she's not working--or avoiding the police since she has no real visa--she's become the Blue Blitz, a vigilante hero seeking to help others and burn out the evil of the world.
If only it were so simple.
