Application: pradeda
Your Name: Amanda! :O
Contact: Best reached by IMing me at iunx. Or you can PM me at anaismi.
LiveJournal: anaismi
Timezone: GMT -5
Do you have other characters in this game? Nope. >;)
Character
Name: Storm (Ororo Munroe)
Fandom: X-Men (movie canon only)
Age: 30
Physical description: Here.
Background: Here.
Point in Story: The beginning of X2: X-Men United.
Personality: Movie-canon Storm differs from the Storm in the comic book universe in a lot of ways. Just about the only similarity between them is that they're both the stand-in mother figure for their respective teams; no matter the 'verse, Storm looks out for her students and colleagues with a maternal, protective instinct and keeps them together and grounded, whether they're grieving or they're anxious. That's about where the similarities end.
Storm is reticent across all three movies in which she features. She offers little information about herself, thus making herself something of an enigma. She does not seem overly chatty, on the other hand leaning closer to the taciturn side of the spectrum. When she does offer input, her wit is usually wry or humorless altogether. If you try her patience, then she has very little of it to offer to you.
She displays anger toward organized religion; unlike the Storm from the comic books, she seems to be agnostic or atheist, skeptical and distrusting of any kind of belief system. Her personal attitude is that God will save no one; only anger can drive a human past his or her limits and help a person survive. She also has a strong resentment for those who are intolerant of others, most specifically for "normal humans" who fear mutants like Storm for their powers.
She is resilient, far from the type to wear her heart on her sleeve. She hardly expresses her emotions unless they are positive ones. Since she's no ray of sunshine--indeed, the name "Storm" is pretty suitable for her considering she's a very stormy woman, prone to self-loathing and cynicism--this means she is low-key unless she's offering words of comfort or encouragement.
She's intelligent, or she must be; with four or five languages under her belt one could say she has a knack for linguistics. She leans toward deductive reasoning rather than ruling with her emotions. At the Xavier Institute, she teaches history and social studies.
Powers/Abilities: Storm can control the pressure and temperature of water vapor in any ecosystem's atmosphere, which allows her to "control weather." She can do the following:
- Form clouds or mist
- Move clouds
- Generate lightning
- Generate wind
- Create or stop rain
- Turn rain to hail or snow
Since pradeda takes place on a spaceship, where there's very little atmosphere for her to manipulate, her powers are probably useless here. At the most, maybe she'd be able to generate a cold mist. (In X2 she is shown as being able to create mist and wind while inside a building, but anything else would require an outside atmosphere.)
...And she can fly the X-Jet (the Xavier Institute's official airplane!) so maybe she's trained in aviations.
Items you're bringing with you: The keys to the X-Jet. Again, pretty useless.
Samples
First Person POV (Network Post):
I can't make sense of it. I just can't. I've never been here before, not of my own volition, and I sure as hell haven't been abducted in my sleep. You're not going to convince me otherwise. Nor are you going to convince me that there isn't a single member of this ship's original crew still on board the craft. I refuse to believe we spontaneously arrived on this ship without human intervention. The only question left is why.
So whoever you are, I'm reaching out to you. Whoever you are, whatever your reason, I'm here. Talk to me.
Third Person POV (Log Post):
Storm leaned over the computer's holographic keyboard and pushed a wisp of silvery-white hair out of her eyes, deep in concentration. Though she had never seen a computer quite like this before, she had managed to turn the thing on and access unprotected files. This ship, apparently, was called the Aura Star Pradeda, and was part of a terraforming project, something she had only ever heard about from Hank McCoy's favorite science fiction novels, back at the Xavier Institute. But the ship was at a standstill. Files written by an unknown crew member documented a cluster-wide epidemic, a DNA harvesting of unaffected specimens, and now a black hole whose vicinity the Pradeda was trapped within. Storm didn't know much about the specifics of black holes, but she did know that if the ship wound up pulled into its event horizon, then it would never be able to escape. And that was looking like a strong possibility right now.
Ororo ran her hands through her hair, quietly containing her distress with a forced serenity obtained only after years of practice. She stepped away from the computer and took a few steps in concentration to calm herself. Think, she told herself. How could a vehicle like this escape the nearby black hole? Escape velocity. If someone more learned than she could figure out the speed at which the ship needed to move in order for its gravitational pull with the black hole to negate itself, then the ship would be able to break free. But unless someone on board this ship knew the exact mass of the ship, there was no way to determine its escape velocity.
Someone more learned than she would know. Someone like that had to be on this ship. If she was here...
Hurriedly, Ororo turned around and walked briskly out of the room. She needed to find someone. There probably wasn't much time left to waste.
Contact: Best reached by IMing me at iunx. Or you can PM me at anaismi.
LiveJournal: anaismi
Timezone: GMT -5
Do you have other characters in this game? Nope. >;)
Character
Name: Storm (Ororo Munroe)
Fandom: X-Men (movie canon only)
Age: 30
Physical description: Here.
Background: Here.
Point in Story: The beginning of X2: X-Men United.
Personality: Movie-canon Storm differs from the Storm in the comic book universe in a lot of ways. Just about the only similarity between them is that they're both the stand-in mother figure for their respective teams; no matter the 'verse, Storm looks out for her students and colleagues with a maternal, protective instinct and keeps them together and grounded, whether they're grieving or they're anxious. That's about where the similarities end.
Storm is reticent across all three movies in which she features. She offers little information about herself, thus making herself something of an enigma. She does not seem overly chatty, on the other hand leaning closer to the taciturn side of the spectrum. When she does offer input, her wit is usually wry or humorless altogether. If you try her patience, then she has very little of it to offer to you.
She displays anger toward organized religion; unlike the Storm from the comic books, she seems to be agnostic or atheist, skeptical and distrusting of any kind of belief system. Her personal attitude is that God will save no one; only anger can drive a human past his or her limits and help a person survive. She also has a strong resentment for those who are intolerant of others, most specifically for "normal humans" who fear mutants like Storm for their powers.
She is resilient, far from the type to wear her heart on her sleeve. She hardly expresses her emotions unless they are positive ones. Since she's no ray of sunshine--indeed, the name "Storm" is pretty suitable for her considering she's a very stormy woman, prone to self-loathing and cynicism--this means she is low-key unless she's offering words of comfort or encouragement.
She's intelligent, or she must be; with four or five languages under her belt one could say she has a knack for linguistics. She leans toward deductive reasoning rather than ruling with her emotions. At the Xavier Institute, she teaches history and social studies.
Powers/Abilities: Storm can control the pressure and temperature of water vapor in any ecosystem's atmosphere, which allows her to "control weather." She can do the following:
- Form clouds or mist
- Move clouds
- Generate lightning
- Generate wind
- Create or stop rain
- Turn rain to hail or snow
Since pradeda takes place on a spaceship, where there's very little atmosphere for her to manipulate, her powers are probably useless here. At the most, maybe she'd be able to generate a cold mist. (In X2 she is shown as being able to create mist and wind while inside a building, but anything else would require an outside atmosphere.)
...And she can fly the X-Jet (the Xavier Institute's official airplane!) so maybe she's trained in aviations.
Items you're bringing with you: The keys to the X-Jet. Again, pretty useless.
Samples
First Person POV (Network Post):
I can't make sense of it. I just can't. I've never been here before, not of my own volition, and I sure as hell haven't been abducted in my sleep. You're not going to convince me otherwise. Nor are you going to convince me that there isn't a single member of this ship's original crew still on board the craft. I refuse to believe we spontaneously arrived on this ship without human intervention. The only question left is why.
So whoever you are, I'm reaching out to you. Whoever you are, whatever your reason, I'm here. Talk to me.
Third Person POV (Log Post):
Storm leaned over the computer's holographic keyboard and pushed a wisp of silvery-white hair out of her eyes, deep in concentration. Though she had never seen a computer quite like this before, she had managed to turn the thing on and access unprotected files. This ship, apparently, was called the Aura Star Pradeda, and was part of a terraforming project, something she had only ever heard about from Hank McCoy's favorite science fiction novels, back at the Xavier Institute. But the ship was at a standstill. Files written by an unknown crew member documented a cluster-wide epidemic, a DNA harvesting of unaffected specimens, and now a black hole whose vicinity the Pradeda was trapped within. Storm didn't know much about the specifics of black holes, but she did know that if the ship wound up pulled into its event horizon, then it would never be able to escape. And that was looking like a strong possibility right now.
Ororo ran her hands through her hair, quietly containing her distress with a forced serenity obtained only after years of practice. She stepped away from the computer and took a few steps in concentration to calm herself. Think, she told herself. How could a vehicle like this escape the nearby black hole? Escape velocity. If someone more learned than she could figure out the speed at which the ship needed to move in order for its gravitational pull with the black hole to negate itself, then the ship would be able to break free. But unless someone on board this ship knew the exact mass of the ship, there was no way to determine its escape velocity.
Someone more learned than she would know. Someone like that had to be on this ship. If she was here...
Hurriedly, Ororo turned around and walked briskly out of the room. She needed to find someone. There probably wasn't much time left to waste.