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Post by Rebecca on Aug 31, 2020 19:59:59 GMT -4
Annika Turgenev BASIC INFORMATION Alias: None.
Player Name: Rebecca
Faceclaim/Series: Mikasa Ackerman - Attack on Titan
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Affiliation: Civilian; Government Assigned
Height: 6ft; 1.82 meters
Weight: 196lbs; 89kg
Hair/Style: Dark brown; cut short to neck
Skin/Scars: Fair and rough skin; faded scars around knuckles and hands
Eyes: Intense eyes; blue-grey
Notables: Muscular body, flexible
APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY Appearance: POSITIVE✔ Dedicated
✔ Observant
✔ Patient NEGATIVE✖ Intense
✖ Highly critical
✖ Assertive LIKES✔ Salted pork
✔ Quiet places
✔ Discipline DISLIKES ✖ Complacency
✖ Disrespect
✖ Sourdough Personality:Annika is, by all accounts, an incredibly focused workaholic; almost to an unhealthy degree. Serious, no-nonsense and highly alert, she tends to immediately attempt to resolve security issues wherever she sees them. However, her previous experience with leaks, corrupt officials and various assassination attempts has made her distrustful of the motivations of others, indeed her cynicism has almost a physical weight. If she views complacency or incompetence, it's hard not to feel her withering gaze on your back.
In her private life however, she prefers the quiet, spending time in her own home and only really venturing out along routes she has deemed secure. As such, one could easily describe her as paranoid, yet in her business it's a situation of better safe than sorry. Even her home is secured against potential invaders. Indeed, when people look at her they seem someone who is perhaps hyper-vigilant, seeing even the most minor offense or infraction and judging someone accordingly.
It would surprise those people to learn, however, that she is not a believer in punishing everyone for every minor mistake. If anything, she is a believer in karma. She may give someone a hard time for it in the moment but generally if someone has realized a mistake, they will be aware of it in the future and attempt to avoid it. Most do not have malicious intent, she just has to be on the look out for those who do.
With her new job at U.A., she believes that the kids there need to learn how important it is to stay safe and protect themselves considering the vulnerability they display on a near daily basis. HISTORY Intolerance breeds hatred.
With hatred, comes instability.
With instability, comes insecurity.
Growing up in port city of Vladovistok in Russia to a young student couple, Annika had a rather hectic childhood. Considering her father was Japanese by nationality and her mother Russian, Annika was granted dual citizenship after a great deal of administrative tension between the Japanese embassy and the Russian government. By the time she was six, Annika was living part-time in Russia, part-time in Japan, learning both languages as she went. The family must have thought their messy legal problems were behind them now that they'd secured such an arrangement.
And then they discovered Annika had a Quirk.
They'd never noticed before, even Annika hadn't. It took one fateful gym class in middle school to finally reveal it. A game of dodgeball in fact. Annika struck a ball hard enough to not only burst the rubber but also require the poor child she hit to need facial reconstruction surgery. Like she had done many times before, Annika was forced to move schools. Considering the wounds from the Atsugi Disaster were still fresh in the minds of the Japanese populace, they thought that Russia was the safer place to stay.
Moving to Moscow, Annika enrolled in a prestigious Academy there to perhaps increase her standing a little. Russia had no real system in place where citizens had to declare that they were Quirkers yet, at least not officially, so everyone once again assumed Annika was a Quirkless child until she accidentally destroyed a door by pulling on it too hard. The Academy were not happy people but intervention from the government allowed her to keep her place.
By chance, a government official had heard the story and saw potential for Annika where he hadn't seen it before.
At this point in any story, one would assume this man recommended Annika for some hero project; instead, he more or less maneuvered Annika's entire school life to force her into becoming his personal protection straight out of high school. It paid well, but this was by no means what her parents had in mind for her. They protested and... well, were ignored. Annika didn't want this either but what choice did she have?
Soon after, the man she was working for was elected to be a representative for Russia to the UN. Seeing the political opportunity to make a statement by bringing along not only a Quirker but also a Russian-Japanese woman who had 'chosen Russia' in his words, Annika moved to Brussels. Barely 19, she was already working under a hard taskmaster, learning the ins and outs of security detail. Had the rest of the UN known about this they most likely would have protested; hell if most of the Russian government knew about it they'd have probably protested. Yet here she was, forced to be this man's pet security dog.
Resigned to her fate, Annika knuckled down and did her work and surprisingly developed a certain appreciation for the job even if she hated the man she worked for with a passion. The Head of his security detail however seemed to see what was going on and would often be the only person to treat her not like a trained monkey or just some woman political icon for their patron to throw around. He helped her as best he could within the bounds of his power, really pushing her, truly testing her limits.
Attempts were made on her charge's life several times. One high profile case was thwarted directly by Annika kicking the car they were about to enter across the street just as it was about to explode from a car bomb. With Russia's growing political influence, the man she was protecting was starting to be seen as a symbol. As he grew more paranoid, so did Annika. Many sleepless nights were had planning and protecting him at his every move, even as his behavior become more and more errative. She did her duty, until the end.
He died, one night.
Heart failure, most likely brought on by stress and panic attacks. Nothing Annika or the rest of the security team could have prevented, yet something she felt responsible for regardless.
The security team stayed in Brussels, in a sort of limbo for several months while a new representative was chosen. In that time, Annika's father that she hadn't seen in person in years, tragically died in some Quirk-related incident in Japan. A giant zombie invasion, apparently. In an attempt to both escape her failure and be closer to her grieving mother, Annika requested a transfer to Tokyo, which thankfully the Head of Security approved.
After working standard security detail at the Russian embassy in Toyko for a few weeks, she received a call. The first ever Quirk Academy, U.A., was looking to up their security after the same incident that had taken her father's life. Without hesitation, she applied for the job.
It wasn't long before Annika Turgenev stepped through the gates of U.A., now a staff member, determined to get to work. |
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Post by Rebecca on Aug 31, 2020 21:08:21 GMT -4
Annika Turgenev QUIRK INFORMATION Moscow Mule
(Super Strength) Type: Mutation Rank: C Description:Annika's Quirk is, quite simply, an incredibly powerful but condensed musculature and she is quite open about this fact. There is nothing glorious or fancy about it, nor anything particularly complex besides the sheer number of muscle fibers in her body and how much control she has over them. Every part of her muscle structure is corded with thousands of small but incredibly efficient strands of muscle tissue, including her heart, which can pump many times harder and faster than a normal human's. Indeed, it has to, in order to keep blood flowing around all of this new tissue.
This translates to lifting, punching and running power far in excess of a normal human; though without the imposing physique of someone like Red Horn, which keeps her nimble and quick. Indeed her Quirk is not particularly obvious at first glance, her body appears to be that of just a rather muscular woman, a level of training any woman could reach with enough time and the right regime.
These muscles still do require upkeep, like any regular set of muscles, however she does retain her muscles without training for a lot longer than regular people. Of course 'a lot longer' does not equate to 'forever', so she will often have to spend her time off training her body just to be on the safe side. Benefits- Kazan Krusher - [ Strength/Damage/Burn ]
The meat of Annika's Quirk, this refers to her ability to both lift objects and the strength by which she strikes targets. Currently, she is capable of lifting up to 3'200kg, or roughly the equivalent of an adult male hippo and is capable of punching clean through hard metals. Due to her training in mixed martial arts, she is also proficient in chokeholds and stretches; if applied to a target these couple apply the same amount of damage over time.
- Vladovistok Valkyrie - [ Durability ]
In addition to extreme lifting potential, her Quirk gives her muscles an incredibly high tolerance to physical trauma. Many have compared punching her to being lunch striking iron when she clenches; in addition to an unnaturally high pain tolerance.
- Leningrad Locomotive - [ Speed ]
In addition to her arms and chest, Annika's enhanced musculature also applies to her legs, giving her speed equivalent to the standard run speed of a leopard (~90km/hr), usually done in large lunging bounds.
Exhaustion and Weakness:The unfortunate thing about Annika's Quirk is that she has no fascia web around her muscle structure; which at first is technically a good thing. The fascia web is normally a web of tissue that surrounds the muscles, limiting their growth and protecting them. Annika does not have this vital component of her muscle structure, meaning when she strains her muscles too hard (usually by exhausting herself), she feels the sensation of burning across her entire body as her muscles are likely to tear.
This also means muscle damage is often much more difficult to heal and takes a lot longer than normal to return to function, as well as being more susceptible to infection. Other than that, the standard weaknesses seem to apply to her. Cold will often shock her muscles into tightening and she is especially susceptible to nerve damage as a result of electrical attacks. COMBAT ABILITIES St. Petersburg PugilistRank: C - [ Martial Arts ] Effect:Perhaps unsurprisingly, Annika is an incredibly capable fighter, trained in Muay Thai kickboxing and amateur wrestling throws, holds and stretches. In Russia she was known as a particular talent, winning many national MMA tournaments. Samara SharpshooterRank: C - [ Range ] Effect:Highly experienced in firearms usage, Annika is capable of accurately hitting targets between 25-30m, usually with pistols and handguns but she is also capable of utilizing rifles. Novogorod NimbleRank: D - [ Mobility ] Effect:Trained in pursuit and arrest similar to a law enforcement officer, Annika is capable of using her incredible muscles to track down and chase down potential threats over any obstacle and using any shortcut available. This is effectively equivalent to parkour and gives her incredible climbing ability. Omsk OxenRank: D - [ Stamina ] Effect:With her incredibly powerful heart, Annika is able to more efficiently pump blood and oxygen around her body to give her staying power far in excess of a normal human. She can exert herself to her limit for up to 5 posts before tiring. Not One Step Back!Rank: D - [ Weakness Resist ] Effect:With her unique musculature and excessive training, it is very difficult to reduce her strength, even if she still does feel the pain of whatever is being done to her, Annika's determination and strength of will wins out in the end. SPECIALIST ABILITIES Secure, Contain, ProtectRank: C - [ Security Knowledge ] Effect:Being a former UN Security Advisor and very highly trained and experienced in her field, there are few people in the world who know as much about security systems and procedures as Annika. This extends to tactical defense plans, including protection against sieges, building breaches and protecting hostages and goes into much more depth than even SWAT training. You're a Sharp OneRank: D - [ Enhanced Senses ] Effect:Being alert for any danger is a very important part of Annika's job and she is known for having incredibly sharp hearing and spacial awareness, able to accurately calculate the relative location and distance of a threat just from hearing it up to a range of 18m. Hot PursuitRank: D - [ Drive ] Effect:Having to drive some UN representatives and important folks out of some sticky situations, Annika has learned quite a few tricks in her time. She is a very capable and effective driver, both for pursuing targets and for escaping danger. Sherlock's Russian CousinRank: E - [ Investigation ] Effect:While generally not her department, Annika nonetheless is often called upon to investigate security breaches or potential hazards and has a decent amount of experience doing so, often picking out things the ordinary person would miss. Generally however, she would just leave it to police detectives or underlings. LIFE SKILLS Tyumen TailorRank: F - [ Tailoring ] Effect:Surprisingly, Annika is fairly effective at tailoring due to her father's old business, often repairing or adjusting her own clothing. In the past she has designed clothing when she's had the time but these days her skills are more along the lines of the practical, rather than artistic. |
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Post by DrTentacles on Sept 16, 2020 21:26:35 GMT -4
Provisionally approved, got a few further staff questions below for workshopping
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Post by Rebecca on Sept 18, 2020 19:42:44 GMT -4
Considering U.A. itself was technically infiltrated by a villain (albeit by technicality) and with the publishing of a list brazenly calling for the kidnapping of U.A. students it'd only be natural for the PSC to want to hire an experienced security professional. Not only to advise the PSC on the protection of high-value targets, assets and general security but also to establish an official security team for the school that is there as a safeguard against villains.
1. They give any villain attempting to infiltrate or attack U.A. an antagonist, similar to the Foe Folio. Such plots should obviously not be encouraged though, which is why all of the security team that villains encounter should be fairly high level.
2. That being said, it also presents an opportunity for the more obedient students (like the Disciplinary Committee) or the more rebellious students. For the DC it gives them someone to learn from, someone to report to, someone to assist enforcement of the stricter school rules such as preventing the entry of the press.
For the rebellious students, it gives them an antagonist or even someone from which they can learn the error of their ways. Rebellious students should get to have their fun as well.
In general, Annika's presence at U.A. gives a sense of structure, a proper security force to protect an incredibly vulnerable and valuable asset to Japan. I want to clarify though that Annika is not there to solve small rules disputes and punish students, the onus for that still falls to the teachers; Annika's team is there to detain those who would seek entry to the school, cause harm to the students or prevent students from breaking laws if they are witnessed in the act.
As such, Annika does not take away from the authority of teachers. She's not there to be the 'U.A. Police'; she's there to protect the students. She doesn't care, however, if people don't see it that way or think she is ultimately unnecessary. After all, you don't see what you prevent.
She would most likely mobilize the Disciplinary Committee as a secondary security force but as I said before, she would act separate from them. She can offer advice, guidance and training but the DC is there to assist teachers in enforcing school rules and Annika wouldn't interfere with that.
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