Post by Ninmast on Feb 21, 2007 22:06:18 GMT -5
Name: Nayra Sturiesk
Power Level: Low
Time Period: Modern/Near Future
Race: Terra-Talihin
Hair: Blue, Long
Eyes: Bright Blue
Clothes: Favors dresses that match her coloring, though she wears jeans and a turtleneck if a dress isn’t appropriate.
Equipment: None
Bio: Bright, cheerful, and always accepting and helpful, she is the daughter of Talihin Captain Ronhan Sturiesk.
* * *
Name: Daniel Hawkins
Power Level: Low
Time Period: Modern/Near Future
Race: Human
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Deep Blue
Clothes: Long-sleeved button-up shirt, dark slacks, trench coat
Equipment: Two laser pistols (Combat grade, not Surgery grade), Ionized boots that allow him to run on walls and, to a lesser degree, stick to them.
Bio: Those who hear of him think he’s an urban legend. Those who see him think he’s a loner. Those who fight him think he’s a monster. Those who know him know they’re all wrong.
* * *
Two different people, of two different races, from two different worlds, with one big secret between them: They’re one and the same.
When the Talihin invaded Earth, they did what they always did on an occupied planet. They wiped the memory of the inhabitants and altered them to make them Talihin when they could, and conquered with brute force when they could not.
Daniel, just a normal guy, was one of the people they converted at one school. But he resisted, so they had to force him in. He had gathered enough information on the machines, however, to know that it worked in conjunction with the mind of the individual, so he focused on his memories, held onto them with everything he had, and was determined not to lose them.
As a rule of thumb, to further encourage the new members’ development in Talihin society, new forms were chosen that were as far apart from the original, and in their opinion, more barbaric, native forms. So it was that the infant Terra-Talihin, Nayra, was brought into the universe. She was adopted by Captain Ronhan Sturiesk and his wife.
Nayra grew up a happy, normal child, but, while she came to love her family dearly, she still kept her memories to herself. As a child, her father told her stories about his days in the Talihin military, how he led a task force into a human facility that they were using as a conversion center to stop someone who had started a one-man revolt. He told her about the shot he had taken in the arm and showed her the scar that had disabled him and given his superiors no choice but to give him an honorable discharge, and about his brother and best friend, who had fallen right beside him in that same fight. Nayra could never seem to get enough of that story, though her father could never figure out why, especially when she always seemed so hurt whenever he told her the part about the two of them being hurt. But he told it to her as many times as she wanted to hear it.
As she grew older, and went through school, she was always at the top of her class, always seemed to be ahead of her peers, and often, in discussions, even seemed to catch her instructors off guard. At home, she picked up all sorts of hobbies, stretching from exercising often to tinkering with things in her room. Her parents were sure she’d be a top technician in the Talihin military, and they couldn’t be prouder. But joining the military couldn’t have been further from her mind.
She developed a full-body holograph device, a more compact, pistol-sized version of the standard military-issue laser rifles, themselves just recently developed by the Talihin military, and, most importantly, she developed a time machine. She used the holograph device to take the form of Daniel Hawkins once more, and took the time machine back to the day after the transformations occurred.
Daniel had been planning what happened for 15 years, and he had the entire thing perfected and memorized. First, he paid a visit to the Talihin that had fooled his entire school into the act in the first place. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing. Here, before her, was the boy she had converted just 24 hours ago. He tied her to her desk and finished strapping explosives about the room and the machines, and as he left the room, he set them off, an explosion filling the air behind him.
Soon, a task force was deployed to the area, as he knew they would be. And, though he hated it, he knew who would be leading that force …
As the shoot-out drew on, he slowly whittled their numbers down, one at a time, as he moved about the halls that he was so familiar with, until there were only two left. The captain caught him by surprise as he rounded a corner, and in reaction, he brought his guns up and fired, his beams piercing both of the biceps of his father-to-be and disabling him. As he stood there in shock, the captain’s brother rounded on him, but Daniel made sure to make this one different. He turned and fired, hitting him in the lower legs instead of the lethal shot he had almost immediately taken.
The deed done, he finished the building off and returned to where he had come from, but Nayra was so distraught, now that she had actually done it, now that she had actually shot her own father, that she threw the device away and swore that, now that all of her revenge was complete, that she’d leave that life in the past, where it belonged, and focused on the family she had.
But such was not to be. A rebel group of humans managed to find out who Daniel was, and blackmailed Nayra with the information, demanding her help and threatening to tear her family down with it if she refused. So she reluctantly brought Daniel to life once more, and continued the double life, though she always sought to leave it behind once more.
Name: Nayra Sturiesk
Alias: Daniel Hawkins
Age: 15, as Hawkins appears to be early 30s
Gender: Female, as Hawkins appears to be Male
Race: Terra-Talihin, as Hawkins appears to be Human
Alignment: Lawful Good, as Hawkins appears to be more Lawful Neutral
Power Level: High-tier Low (3)
Timeline: Near Future, but with time travel, can potentially take part in any time period
Appearance: Nayra is a beautiful, young noblewoman with blue hair going down to the middle of her back and matching gentle blue eyes, high cheekbones, a petite nose and a swooping swan neck. Matching her hair and eyes, she favors shades of blue in her wardrobe. Never wearing pants, and only wearing shorts when necessary, she prefers dresses and long skirts over all other styles of dress, and will pair them with dress slippers or buckled shoes as appropriate. Hawkins appears, not surprisingly, in stark contrast to her, however. Short, brown hair in a corporate cut tops his head, but his blue eyes are always hidden behind thick, one-way sunglasses, originally aviator's sunglasses, though as Nayra has integrated tech into them as a combat HUD, he has moved toward a more visor-like style. While generally true to the physical appearance of the real, original Danny Hawking, Nayra confesses to a small degree of romanticising of his features, resulting in a more defined chin, a stronger jaw line and similar minor tweaks. These are not enough to make him unrecognizable as the same person, however, and are unlikely to even be noticed unless they were standing side by side. Actually dressed rather sharply, Hawkins wears his signature brown trenchcoat, left open and fitted about the waist, over a buttoned, white dress shirt and black slacks. Originally, the slacks were accompanied by a thick, brown belt, but as the need for additional equipment arose, this was swapped for a combat utility belt with pockets and hardpoints. Finishing it off are his boots, nearly as signature to the mercenary as his coat and guns, armored, metal, shin-high boots with a thick, ionized sole.
Personality: Nayra is a very gentle soul with an immense dislike of violence. Though very brilliant, she feels trapped in her current role, like she doesn't have a choice but to continue Hawkins' existence as much as she'd like to bury him in the past forever. She feels (rightly) responsible for the state of civil war currently gripping her world and that she cannot just hang up her holsters and quit on it now. If she had it to do over again, she would have dedicated herself to her life as Nayra and never created her time machine or resurrected Hawkins. She'd focus on science and developing cures for diseases and wonderful new technologies instead of weapons and new ways to kill others. Hawkins is a spectre, always hovering over her life, that she is unable to exercise. Hawkins, by contrast, seems to hold little personality, or at least is immensely insular. Talihin profilers have described him as potentially sociopathic because of how he can take a dozen lives in the span of moments without even flinching at it. He refuses to get close to anyone and does not partake in acts of camaraderie among allies. Even when a hostage is involved, Hawkins has never been seen hesitating to fire, adding to the evidence of both his supreme accuracy with his weapons of choice and the idea of sociopathy.
History: Rewritten history to come when time permits.
Powers: Until becoming the Oracle, which does not happen until after she dies, Nayra does not possess any powers beyond tremendous willpower and high-genius level intellect. Even after becoming the Oracle, she STILL doesn't technically have the powers, herself. Rather, they are only there when the Songbird is possessing her, during which time she is not in control of herself or the powers. For the time being, for more information on Nayra as the High Oracle, please see her Epic/AU profile.
Equipment: Initially, she possesses only the hologram, pistols and boots. She later adds a heads up display to her glasses and an assortment of gadgets for more diverse situations.
Gate Switch - A remote device that allows her to trigger the Time Gate. It's one way only, however, and only serves a purpose when she has used the time gate to travel to another place and time. Using it opens a gateway directly back to the time and place at which she entered the Gate, allowing her to return. Its destination cannot be altered or used to independently open a new Time Gate.
Hologram - A holographic projector that hangs on her hip and projects the image of Daniel Hawkins over her. Besides being a disguise, because Hawkins is larger than her, it has a visual displacement effect. Shots for her extremities, most commonly her head, sail over the top or outside of the target, and shots that should be solid shots but are off center tend to graze her rather than strike true. While the projector adjusts for her movements, so that if she reaches for something, it doesn't look as if Hawkins is reaching over it, it is ultimately virtual and direct contact can become confusing for the other party. Nayra also has to be aware of her surroundings, for example not wearing the torso strap of a seat belt.
Twin Laser Pistols - The immediate advantages of these combat-grade lasers are obvious. They possess no recoil, which makes them more accurate, particularly for continuous fire. Their projectiles move at the speed of light, making them effective even against extremely fast or agile targets. They are nearly silent, producing noise only a fraction of a gunpowder-based firearm, and this because of the beam superheating the air it passes through. There are no casings to worry with and reloading is as simple as ejecting one power pack and plugging in another. However, they also do less collateral damage to the target, burning neat, clean holes that are mostly cauterized by the heat. This makes them somewhat less effective against flesh and blood targets unless the targeting is specifically for fatal injuries or disabling. Just shooting into the torso would typically require many more shots than a firearm and wouldn't stagger an opponent as well. Nayra utilizes these in the dual-wielding variant of Talihin Kickboxing, which focuses on maintaining firing lines even when engaged in melee and trains the warrior in gun katas that predict in order of mathematical likelihood where enemy units are placed in a given structure, allowing her superior performance against melee opponents, especially groups, and faster response times than she would otherwise be physically capable of, including engaging enemies she can't even see.
Ionized Boots - Signature of Hawkins, these unique boots serve two purposes. One, to protect the feet and legs, as Talihin Kickboxing emphasizes parrying and blocking with the legs to maintain firing lanes, and two, to provide an unorthodox method of approach. Because Talihin Kickboxing emphasizes targeting enemy positions in order of mathematical likelihood, being able to approach or attack from an unlikely vector was a necessary edge that has proven equally effective against any number of opponents since. These boots accomplish this with an ionized hull, not strong enough to hold Nayra in place, but strong enough to allow running on perpendicular and even, briefly, inverted surfaces.
Sunglasses - Originally a stylish way to conceal identity, Nayra has integrated a digital HUD into it that only the wearer can see. This allows multiple vision modes, target acquisition and tracking, IFF functions, satellite uplink for radar and mapping (where available) and a communications suite.
Gadgets - Nayra is skilled enough to engineer specialized gadgets for nearly any situation provided she has the time and materials, but some have been generically useful enough to carry with Hawkins at all times. These include smoke bombs, concussive flashbangs, additional power packs and medical sealant.
Medieval Gear - Most notably after becoming High Oracle, Nayra's loadout can't always be high tech. In such situations, she usually doesn't need or have access to her holographic projector, and thus doesn't worry with concealing her identity. Because she lacks access to her own gear or cannot use it for other reasons, she instead will wear a battle dress, lightly armored knee-high boots, twin hand crossbows and a longbow and quiver.
Weakness: Nayra is not superhuman in any way and possesses all pertinent human vulnerabilities. Though she is healthier than a comparable human being, she has no immunity to sickness, disease or poison, and though she has better low-light vision than a human, she has no innate special vision that a human does not possess.
Power Level: Low
Time Period: Modern/Near Future
Race: Terra-Talihin
Hair: Blue, Long
Eyes: Bright Blue
Clothes: Favors dresses that match her coloring, though she wears jeans and a turtleneck if a dress isn’t appropriate.
Equipment: None
Bio: Bright, cheerful, and always accepting and helpful, she is the daughter of Talihin Captain Ronhan Sturiesk.
* * *
Name: Daniel Hawkins
Power Level: Low
Time Period: Modern/Near Future
Race: Human
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Deep Blue
Clothes: Long-sleeved button-up shirt, dark slacks, trench coat
Equipment: Two laser pistols (Combat grade, not Surgery grade), Ionized boots that allow him to run on walls and, to a lesser degree, stick to them.
Bio: Those who hear of him think he’s an urban legend. Those who see him think he’s a loner. Those who fight him think he’s a monster. Those who know him know they’re all wrong.
* * *
Two different people, of two different races, from two different worlds, with one big secret between them: They’re one and the same.
When the Talihin invaded Earth, they did what they always did on an occupied planet. They wiped the memory of the inhabitants and altered them to make them Talihin when they could, and conquered with brute force when they could not.
Daniel, just a normal guy, was one of the people they converted at one school. But he resisted, so they had to force him in. He had gathered enough information on the machines, however, to know that it worked in conjunction with the mind of the individual, so he focused on his memories, held onto them with everything he had, and was determined not to lose them.
As a rule of thumb, to further encourage the new members’ development in Talihin society, new forms were chosen that were as far apart from the original, and in their opinion, more barbaric, native forms. So it was that the infant Terra-Talihin, Nayra, was brought into the universe. She was adopted by Captain Ronhan Sturiesk and his wife.
Nayra grew up a happy, normal child, but, while she came to love her family dearly, she still kept her memories to herself. As a child, her father told her stories about his days in the Talihin military, how he led a task force into a human facility that they were using as a conversion center to stop someone who had started a one-man revolt. He told her about the shot he had taken in the arm and showed her the scar that had disabled him and given his superiors no choice but to give him an honorable discharge, and about his brother and best friend, who had fallen right beside him in that same fight. Nayra could never seem to get enough of that story, though her father could never figure out why, especially when she always seemed so hurt whenever he told her the part about the two of them being hurt. But he told it to her as many times as she wanted to hear it.
As she grew older, and went through school, she was always at the top of her class, always seemed to be ahead of her peers, and often, in discussions, even seemed to catch her instructors off guard. At home, she picked up all sorts of hobbies, stretching from exercising often to tinkering with things in her room. Her parents were sure she’d be a top technician in the Talihin military, and they couldn’t be prouder. But joining the military couldn’t have been further from her mind.
She developed a full-body holograph device, a more compact, pistol-sized version of the standard military-issue laser rifles, themselves just recently developed by the Talihin military, and, most importantly, she developed a time machine. She used the holograph device to take the form of Daniel Hawkins once more, and took the time machine back to the day after the transformations occurred.
Daniel had been planning what happened for 15 years, and he had the entire thing perfected and memorized. First, he paid a visit to the Talihin that had fooled his entire school into the act in the first place. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing. Here, before her, was the boy she had converted just 24 hours ago. He tied her to her desk and finished strapping explosives about the room and the machines, and as he left the room, he set them off, an explosion filling the air behind him.
Soon, a task force was deployed to the area, as he knew they would be. And, though he hated it, he knew who would be leading that force …
As the shoot-out drew on, he slowly whittled their numbers down, one at a time, as he moved about the halls that he was so familiar with, until there were only two left. The captain caught him by surprise as he rounded a corner, and in reaction, he brought his guns up and fired, his beams piercing both of the biceps of his father-to-be and disabling him. As he stood there in shock, the captain’s brother rounded on him, but Daniel made sure to make this one different. He turned and fired, hitting him in the lower legs instead of the lethal shot he had almost immediately taken.
The deed done, he finished the building off and returned to where he had come from, but Nayra was so distraught, now that she had actually done it, now that she had actually shot her own father, that she threw the device away and swore that, now that all of her revenge was complete, that she’d leave that life in the past, where it belonged, and focused on the family she had.
But such was not to be. A rebel group of humans managed to find out who Daniel was, and blackmailed Nayra with the information, demanding her help and threatening to tear her family down with it if she refused. So she reluctantly brought Daniel to life once more, and continued the double life, though she always sought to leave it behind once more.
Name: Nayra Sturiesk
Alias: Daniel Hawkins
Age: 15, as Hawkins appears to be early 30s
Gender: Female, as Hawkins appears to be Male
Race: Terra-Talihin, as Hawkins appears to be Human
Alignment: Lawful Good, as Hawkins appears to be more Lawful Neutral
Power Level: High-tier Low (3)
Timeline: Near Future, but with time travel, can potentially take part in any time period
Appearance: Nayra is a beautiful, young noblewoman with blue hair going down to the middle of her back and matching gentle blue eyes, high cheekbones, a petite nose and a swooping swan neck. Matching her hair and eyes, she favors shades of blue in her wardrobe. Never wearing pants, and only wearing shorts when necessary, she prefers dresses and long skirts over all other styles of dress, and will pair them with dress slippers or buckled shoes as appropriate. Hawkins appears, not surprisingly, in stark contrast to her, however. Short, brown hair in a corporate cut tops his head, but his blue eyes are always hidden behind thick, one-way sunglasses, originally aviator's sunglasses, though as Nayra has integrated tech into them as a combat HUD, he has moved toward a more visor-like style. While generally true to the physical appearance of the real, original Danny Hawking, Nayra confesses to a small degree of romanticising of his features, resulting in a more defined chin, a stronger jaw line and similar minor tweaks. These are not enough to make him unrecognizable as the same person, however, and are unlikely to even be noticed unless they were standing side by side. Actually dressed rather sharply, Hawkins wears his signature brown trenchcoat, left open and fitted about the waist, over a buttoned, white dress shirt and black slacks. Originally, the slacks were accompanied by a thick, brown belt, but as the need for additional equipment arose, this was swapped for a combat utility belt with pockets and hardpoints. Finishing it off are his boots, nearly as signature to the mercenary as his coat and guns, armored, metal, shin-high boots with a thick, ionized sole.
Personality: Nayra is a very gentle soul with an immense dislike of violence. Though very brilliant, she feels trapped in her current role, like she doesn't have a choice but to continue Hawkins' existence as much as she'd like to bury him in the past forever. She feels (rightly) responsible for the state of civil war currently gripping her world and that she cannot just hang up her holsters and quit on it now. If she had it to do over again, she would have dedicated herself to her life as Nayra and never created her time machine or resurrected Hawkins. She'd focus on science and developing cures for diseases and wonderful new technologies instead of weapons and new ways to kill others. Hawkins is a spectre, always hovering over her life, that she is unable to exercise. Hawkins, by contrast, seems to hold little personality, or at least is immensely insular. Talihin profilers have described him as potentially sociopathic because of how he can take a dozen lives in the span of moments without even flinching at it. He refuses to get close to anyone and does not partake in acts of camaraderie among allies. Even when a hostage is involved, Hawkins has never been seen hesitating to fire, adding to the evidence of both his supreme accuracy with his weapons of choice and the idea of sociopathy.
History: Rewritten history to come when time permits.
Powers: Until becoming the Oracle, which does not happen until after she dies, Nayra does not possess any powers beyond tremendous willpower and high-genius level intellect. Even after becoming the Oracle, she STILL doesn't technically have the powers, herself. Rather, they are only there when the Songbird is possessing her, during which time she is not in control of herself or the powers. For the time being, for more information on Nayra as the High Oracle, please see her Epic/AU profile.
Equipment: Initially, she possesses only the hologram, pistols and boots. She later adds a heads up display to her glasses and an assortment of gadgets for more diverse situations.
Gate Switch - A remote device that allows her to trigger the Time Gate. It's one way only, however, and only serves a purpose when she has used the time gate to travel to another place and time. Using it opens a gateway directly back to the time and place at which she entered the Gate, allowing her to return. Its destination cannot be altered or used to independently open a new Time Gate.
Hologram - A holographic projector that hangs on her hip and projects the image of Daniel Hawkins over her. Besides being a disguise, because Hawkins is larger than her, it has a visual displacement effect. Shots for her extremities, most commonly her head, sail over the top or outside of the target, and shots that should be solid shots but are off center tend to graze her rather than strike true. While the projector adjusts for her movements, so that if she reaches for something, it doesn't look as if Hawkins is reaching over it, it is ultimately virtual and direct contact can become confusing for the other party. Nayra also has to be aware of her surroundings, for example not wearing the torso strap of a seat belt.
Twin Laser Pistols - The immediate advantages of these combat-grade lasers are obvious. They possess no recoil, which makes them more accurate, particularly for continuous fire. Their projectiles move at the speed of light, making them effective even against extremely fast or agile targets. They are nearly silent, producing noise only a fraction of a gunpowder-based firearm, and this because of the beam superheating the air it passes through. There are no casings to worry with and reloading is as simple as ejecting one power pack and plugging in another. However, they also do less collateral damage to the target, burning neat, clean holes that are mostly cauterized by the heat. This makes them somewhat less effective against flesh and blood targets unless the targeting is specifically for fatal injuries or disabling. Just shooting into the torso would typically require many more shots than a firearm and wouldn't stagger an opponent as well. Nayra utilizes these in the dual-wielding variant of Talihin Kickboxing, which focuses on maintaining firing lines even when engaged in melee and trains the warrior in gun katas that predict in order of mathematical likelihood where enemy units are placed in a given structure, allowing her superior performance against melee opponents, especially groups, and faster response times than she would otherwise be physically capable of, including engaging enemies she can't even see.
Ionized Boots - Signature of Hawkins, these unique boots serve two purposes. One, to protect the feet and legs, as Talihin Kickboxing emphasizes parrying and blocking with the legs to maintain firing lanes, and two, to provide an unorthodox method of approach. Because Talihin Kickboxing emphasizes targeting enemy positions in order of mathematical likelihood, being able to approach or attack from an unlikely vector was a necessary edge that has proven equally effective against any number of opponents since. These boots accomplish this with an ionized hull, not strong enough to hold Nayra in place, but strong enough to allow running on perpendicular and even, briefly, inverted surfaces.
Sunglasses - Originally a stylish way to conceal identity, Nayra has integrated a digital HUD into it that only the wearer can see. This allows multiple vision modes, target acquisition and tracking, IFF functions, satellite uplink for radar and mapping (where available) and a communications suite.
Gadgets - Nayra is skilled enough to engineer specialized gadgets for nearly any situation provided she has the time and materials, but some have been generically useful enough to carry with Hawkins at all times. These include smoke bombs, concussive flashbangs, additional power packs and medical sealant.
Medieval Gear - Most notably after becoming High Oracle, Nayra's loadout can't always be high tech. In such situations, she usually doesn't need or have access to her holographic projector, and thus doesn't worry with concealing her identity. Because she lacks access to her own gear or cannot use it for other reasons, she instead will wear a battle dress, lightly armored knee-high boots, twin hand crossbows and a longbow and quiver.
Weakness: Nayra is not superhuman in any way and possesses all pertinent human vulnerabilities. Though she is healthier than a comparable human being, she has no immunity to sickness, disease or poison, and though she has better low-light vision than a human, she has no innate special vision that a human does not possess.
