❝My lips are the gun, my smile is the trigger, my kisses are the bullets, baby, label me a killer❞
❝The Basics❞
"I don't tell anyone my full name. Or not my real one at least. However, in your case, I suppose I'll make an exception." Nyx's real name is Nicolette Rose Shade. However, Nicolette was her mothers name, and she feels like she doesn't have the right to claim it, so she changed it. Legally, her name is still Nicolette Rose, but no one knows that but the police and she'd like to keep it that way. Instead she goes by Nyx [ pronounced nix ], or Fox as her first name. She'd considered changing her last name, but in the end decided to keep it. Should she tell you her real name, cherish it. It's a secret she shares with very few.
| Nickname |
"I have about a thousand nicknames." Nyx has more nicknames than she can count. Her criminal nickname is the Black Widow, but she also commonly goes by Fox, a name her brother gave her. Other common nicknames are Shade, or Shadow, due to her uncanny abilities to blend with the shadows. Others call her Nightshade, a play on her last name, seeing as the plant is beautiful, yet deadly. The gang seems to like coming up with nicknames for her, and the list is endless. She seems to obtain a new one everyday, and it can seem very confusing, but Nyx doesn't seem to mind. She'll answer to anything, as she actually quite enjoys clever nicknames. Her only rule is that you don't call her Nicolette, or Nyxie, as Nyxie is what her youngest sibling used to call her.
| Gender |
"All female baby, need proof?" Female, clearly.
| Age |
"Age is only a number of years you've lived, not how much experience you've had or what you've seen." Twenty-three years-old, young, but more than capable.
| Sexuality |
"I get around." Bisexual, but has a preference for males.
| Role |
"If you're not afraid of me, you should be." Black Widow
"All it take is one look in my eyes, and I've got you. You're mine." Nyx has shockingly blue eyes. They're the clearest, brightest shade of aqua possible, with a darker ring around the outside, framing them. They're quite captivating, and she likes to play them up with makeup that accents them perfectly, making them pop even more, if possible. Fox is a master of seduction, and for many, all it takes is one look in her aqua eyes, to be completely ensnared, as she's a pro at putting only what she wants into her gaze, projecting the emotions she knows you want to see, and hiding her true intentions and feelings.
| Hair Color |
"It changes a lot, due to my multiple disguises, but I have to say, I like my natural color the best." Fox often goes under cover when she's working, and, as such, she's dyed her hair about a thousand times. Despite this though, her hair is still as healthy as ever, for she was born with strong, thick hair, able to withstand the multiple tortures she puts it through, such as dying, bleaching, straightening, and curling. She also owns multiple wigs, all made of real hair, and look incredibly real on her, not at all faked. She prefers these to dying, as they are much less of a hassle, but when she's going in for a long-term job, she often has to dye her hair, as it's easier to keep up than a wig. Her natural hair color, is the purest black possible, not hint of brown in it whatsoever. She's quite fond of her natural color, and tends to keep it the most, however, when duty calls, she has no problem with changing her appearance. She'll never cut her hair either. Should a job call for short hair, it's a wig or she doesn't take it. She's never once cut her hair in her life, and prefers to keep it long, swaying all the way down to her hips, in glossy, ebony locks.
| Height |
"Being able to reach the top shelf isn't all it's cracked up to be." Model height, standing at 5'9", her tendency for high heels, only making this worse.
| Weight |
"I'm small, but quick as a jungle cat." Despite her height, Nyx is rather quite small, weighing a mere 135 lbs, however, don't let this fool you, she's anything but weak.
| Skin Tone |
"Depends on my disguise." Creamy, flawless, white, but she tans easily and never burns. Depending on her current disguise and hair color, she may tan, or she may not, though naturally, her skin stands in sharp contrast to her deep black hair.
| Distinct Markings |
"Yeah, I've got some tats. Don't look so surprised." Shade is quite fond of tattoos and piercings. To her, they're symbolic, and she's incredibly fond of symbols. When it comes to piercings, she has a small diamond stud in the side of her nose, representing her mother, though sometimes, she'll wear a flat piece of plastic, and put makeup over it so you can't even tell it's there. She also has her belly button pierced, as well as both ears. In her right ear, she has three cartilage piercings, each one for a bullet she put in her father. In her left ear, she has seven piercings, one for each of her siblings, though she takes some of these out for various jobs. As for tattoos, she has four. Her first, sits on the inside of her left wrist, in gothic font, reading: "Soul of a lion.", because lions are strong and courageous. Her second is on the inside of the other wrist, and reads, in the same font: "Heart of a panther.", because panthers tend to blend with shadows, and have an air of mystery about them, preferring to live alone. Her third tattoo, sits high on her thigh, and is an image of a black widow spider. Her final tattoo sits on her right ribcage, and is a picture of a a fox. When it comes to scars, Nyx has one along her right collar bone that nearly killed her, as well as a spliced right eyebrow, near her temple, though sometimes, she covers this by penciling it in. Other than this, she has various smaller, battle scars, but these two are the most prominent.
| Physical Description |
"Careful now darling, looks can be deceiving." Upon looking at Nyx, you would not peg her as a criminal, or a killer. The only crime you would suspect her of would be being too stunning, too captivating. The only evidence of her life of crime and turmoil, would be the scar at her collarbone, and the splice in her eyebrow, should she have it uncovered. However, most just overlook these imperfections. She's far too soft, and delicate looking to be involved in anything dangerous. She's a priceless artifact, in need of protecting.
However, this could not be further from the truth, and she likes it that way. She works hard to keep up her deceiving appearance, only allowing her gang to see the true her. The girl behind the glitz and glamour. She's got long, glossy hair, the color depending on her disguise, but always healthy, always perfectly styled, weather it be bouncy curls, beachy waves, or completely straight. When it comes to facial features, she has high cheekbones, captivating aqua eyes, and a prominent jawline. Her skin is smooth and flawless, her eyebrows arched perfectly, and shaped beautifully. Her right one, has a scar cutting it in two, right after the arch, near her temple, but this is easily fixed with a little eyeliner, penciling over the spot. Her nose is not too large, but not extremely small, and her eyes are always framed by professionally applied makeup, the color and amount depending on the occasion. Her lips are plump, and often, she paints on a deep, blood red, but sometimes, she goes for soft pinks, or clear glosses.
When it comes to body type, she's slim, and curvy, without being overly curved. She's tall, with long legs, and no fat on her, only muscle, but, unless demonstrated, you'd never guess at the strength and speed she's capable of. You'd see her as weak, small, and vulnerable, even though the truth is quite the opposite.
Finally, when it comes to clothing style, that all depends on her job. She fits her clothing to her target. She takes the time to know the kind of woman her victim likes, and then portrays it perfectly for him. Typically, her look is classy, yet slutty at the same time. This, though is all a facade. All of it. Even the makeup. While it's a part of her, and she admits, that she does love looking good, and takes pride in her appearance, the real her is a lot less... perfect. Her true clothing style is somewhat grungy, without being downright trashy. Around the gang, she's more likely to wake up, and walk around just as she is, though she still enjoys being thought of as sexy and perfect, she's less focused on it with the gang. She may not let them in completely, but they have the privilege of knowing that there is more to her, even if they don't know exactly what that it.
❝Not that it's your buisness, but...❞
"I like a lot of things, but let's face it. If I don't like you- you're fucked."
♥ Sex
♥ Her job
♥ The gang
♥ Dogs
♥ Power
♥ A good fight
♥ Flirting & teasing
♥ Looking good
♥ Being in control
♥ Parties & drinking
♥ Chocolate
♥ Wine & champagne
♥ Getting what she wants
♥ Sarcasm
♥ Winning
♥ Attention
♥ Fast cars
♥ Bad boys
| Dislikes |
"Baby, let me give you some advice. Don't get on my bad side."
✖ Being controlled
✖ Crowds
✖ Annoying people
✖ Needy people
✖ Being wrong
✖ Cats
✖ Storms
✖ Being used
✖ Being ignored
✖ Clingly people
✖ Rules
✖ Being told what to do
✖ Emotional people
✖ Weak people
✖ Her past
✖ Answering questions
✖ Being looked down on
✖ Lonliness, though she excludes herself
✖ Taking orders
✖ Being pestered/nagged
| Strengths |
"Tread carefully around me, or you'll be dead before you even realize what happened."
✔ Speed, balance, & grace, she's incredibly fast, being so small, with the agility and grace of a jungle cat
✔ Her silver tongue. She can spin words better than a spider spins a web
✔ Her intelligence. She's extremely clever, and quite manipulating
✔ Stealth, she's very sneaky, meaning you'll never even know she's coming until she's on you
✔ Deception, she's a master of deception, able to take on any role at the drop of a hat. Even her appearance is incredibly deceiving.
| Weaknesses |
"Where there is power, there is weakness. It's just a matter of finding it and hiding it."
✘ Size & strength, she's rather small
✘ Her history, she is haunted by her history, and should someone know how to push her buttons just right, could explode in a tornado of years worth of bottled up emotion.
✘ Her need to please those above her in rank, she'll drive herself to the brink of exhaustion to prove herself
✘ Her trust issues. While it allows her to keep the wrong people out, it can also keep her from allowing the right people in
✘ A good bet/dare/challenge. She will never turn down any of the three, and this could lead to some serious problems
❝Hold your head high, and your middle finger higher❞
"I don't need a weapon to kick your ass." Fox has trained herself to use anything and everything as a weapon. For her, she's never truly weaponless. Even a pen can be lethal in her hands. Though she does always carry a dagger and a couple of throwing knives on her, she doesn't exactly need them. She's an excellent fighter, good with a bow, and able to bring out the dangerous side of something as simple as a stick. When working, she usually wont carry any weapons but the weapon of speech. People are so gullible, and susceptible to a pretty face. She rarely even needs a weapon to get the job done. Sometimes, she'll carry a hand gun. She quite likes guns, but as she rarely needs them, and they're kind of hard to hide, she doesn't normally carry one, though she sleeps with one under her pillow at all times.
| Personality |
Sly [Slahy]
Adjective
1. Cunning, manipulative, or wily
2. Stealthy, insidious, or secret
3. Playfully artful, mischievous, or roguish
"Ever heard the term 'sly as a fox'?" Fox is not a girl you want to cross. She pretty much invented the phrase 'sly as a fox'. She's dangerously tricky, and quite a badass. She's cold, calculating, intelligent, and beautiful. There's a reason they call her the Black Widow, Nightshade, Shadow, Fox, and various other nicknames. She's not afraid to do what other girls wont to get what she wants, or do her job.
She's one of the guys in the gang. Typically, the gang thinks of women as weak, incapable, and only good for sex, but not Fox. Fox is an exception. No one dares cross her, or claim that she's not good enough because of her gender, for fear of angering her. She's quick and stealthy, silently plotting. She uses nothing more than her appearance and her silver tongue to manipulate everything and everyone around precisely to her liking. While she flirts, and sleeps around with a few members of the gang, they see her as good for much more than just sex. She's their secret weapon. Their informant. They send her out when they need information from different mafia's, gangs, or dealers. Why? Because she gets the job done quickly, and efficiently. She seduces her victims into giving her what she wants, pulling them into her web, and trapping them. Should they refuse, she's not afraid to step it up. She's not above torture, or killing.
Nyx is a tricky girl. She's hard to control, and the only reason she's hung around the gang for so long is because they allow her her freedom. She holds no alliances. Even though it may seem that she's with the gang, as she is for now, they know that if they're not careful, she'll leave them for the highest bidder. Still, she seems to be becoming more and more attached to the gang as time goes by, in a way she's never been attached to anything. She has a wandering heart, and is never really happy in one place for long. Sometimes she'll pack up an leave for months with no explanation, however, the gang is used to this, and it doesn't really worry them, because she always comes back.
Fox is also extremely mysterious. She's shared her history with no one, having just kind of "showed up" one day, and has been around since. No one knows where she came from, how long she'll stay or where she'll go next, but one thing's for sure, if she's with you, no matter how short a time, she's devoted to you and perfectly loyal.
She's cunning, and has several advantages. One being her incredible empathy. She can see into people. See what they want, what they fear, and what they need, and give it to them. She's a very skilled actress, and liar, able to bring the strongest of men to their knees with nothing but the power of words. She can spin words better than a spider can spin a web, and if she commits a crime, she leaves behind no evidence, no trace that it was her. She's the kind of girl, who let's you believe you're in control of everything, only to find out, after it's too late, that she's been playing you the whole time.
She doesn't let people in easily. It takes ages to get under her skin, and see behind her cunning sarcasm. She has major trust issues, and builds walls around herself to protect herself. Even the gang doesn't know the real her, as she goes to great lengths to disguise it.
Despite all this though, Fox has an intense fear of failure, and a need to please. She's never experienced love, and goes to great lengths to imitate it. She thinks sex and attraction are love, and knows nothing of affection, faithfulness, kindness, loyalty, and gentleness. You cannot give what you've never had, and Nyx has never been given love in her life. She needs to please those she's attached to, despite all her independence and ruthlessness, she's actually rather fragile underneath. Maybe not in the same way as others, for, when she's broken, she does her best to shake it off and pick up the pieces, but she does have a soft side. A side that wants nothing more than to learn how to love, and be loved in return.
In all, Nyx is a rather tricky girl. She's impossible to control, does what she wants, when she wants, is extremely dangerous, and yet, has a fragile side, no matter how small, or how much she tries to hide it. She's trouble, all wrapped up in a pretty package.
❝Fuck off.❞
"Me? In love? I'll assume that's a joke." Nyx doesn't do relationships. She does one night stands, and flirting. She seduces, and does her job, but she doesn't love. She seems to think sex is love, but it never feels right. Not like what they say it is in story books, and she's on the hunt for what true love is, despite how she tries to hide it, despite the fact that she says she's incapable of love. She's never been given love in her life, and you cannot give what you've never had.
| History |
"What is this? A share circle? Fuck off." Nyx's mother was young when she met her father. She was sixteen, working as a bagger in the local grocery store, poor, but pretty as could be. He was twenty-three, rich, and handsome. He had the world at his feet and nothing was going to stop him from getting what he wanted. His family hated Nyx's mother, Nicolette, but her father, Johnathon, didn't care. He wanted her, and what he wanted, he got.
She fell for him easily. Who wouldn't fall for a man with charm, and money? He could take her away from her miserable life. Give her options and happiness.
Unfortunately, fate had something else in mind. John only wanted her for her looks, and she wanted him for his money. The relationship was bad from the start. They fought often, and it got so bad, they knew they had to break it off. It would never work. But right around this time, Nicolette discovered she was pregnant. She was poor, and barely seventeen. When her father found out, he kicked her out of the house in disgust.
So she ran to John. She wasn't thrilled about the idea of spending the rest of her life with him, but he had money. He could support her and the baby. However, John's family thought differently, and they shunned him, ripping away his fortune, and forcing him out on the streets, without having ever worked a day in his life.
John was extremely angry with Nicolette, and soon, the strain of poverty overwhelmed him, and he grew impossible. He spent all his money on booze, and beat his wife endlessly, cheating on her constantly. Nicolette developed depression, but had no way of paying for the pills she needed. By the time Nyx was born, the household was already up to nine people. Nicolette, John, six older siblings (not all of them Nicolette's, though she raised them as though they were), and Nyx herself. A year later, Jessie, her younger sister was born, and the house totaled ten in all.
It was not a happy household. The children did not bond together and take care of each other, shielding their mother against their evil father. No, their father filled the children with hate and disgust. No one in the house got a long, and fights broke out often. From a young age, Nyx learned to fend for herself. If she wasn't always watching, an older sibling might steal her dinner, and she'd go hungry. Things were very tense in their house, and many of the children turned to drugs, violence, sex, and crime. Nyx was constantly having to defend herself against both her father, and her older siblings.
Then, when she was seven, her father finally lost it and killed their mother. He told the cops, she'd fallen down the stairs and hit her head, and they believed him. This was what pushed the children over the edge, and brought them together, for they'd all loved their mother deeply, and now, with her gone, their father had no one left to beat but his children, leaving the children no other option but to come together.
Two of them committed suicide in that year alone. The next year, two more died of drug abuse, and one in a gang fight. Leaving Nyx, her older brother, and her younger sister alone. The three of them became very close, and this was the closest Nyx ever got to actually loving someone. Her older brother gave her the nickname, Fox, and protected her and her younger sister from their father a lot. Her younger sister gave her the nickname Nyxie, as she couldn't quite say Nikki, and it kind of stuck.
When Fox was ten, her father killed her older brother for protecting her. When she was sixteen, he went after her sister.
This was the final straw. She was sick of him, and her hatred had reached it's boiling point. She came home to find her father hitting her little sister, knocking her out cold, and that's when Nyx raised her gun and shot him, three times in the heart.
Sadly, it was too late for her sister, as the blow that had knocked her out had given her massive head trauma, but Nyx was now free.
She ran, covering up her tracks as she went, and the possibilities before her, overwhelmed her. She could have done anything with her life, but she chose to walk on the wicked path, always having felt comfortable around criminals and gangs. She became lethal, and extremely wanted, both by multiple employers, and the police. They called her the Black Widow.
When she was nineteen, she came upon the Sanchez brothers, and has kind of just hung around them ever since. Her wandering heart causes her to pack up and leave for a month or two at a time, sometimes, but this doesn't seem to bother them, because she always comes right back. She's been with them for several years now, and is growing attached to them in a way she's never really been attached to anything. Don't ask her though. She'll deny it.
❝Theme Song❞
Eyes On Fire - Blue Foundation
I'll seek you out
Flay you alive
One more word and you won't survive
And I'm not scared
Of your stolen power
I see right through you any hour
I won't soothe your pain
I won't ease your strain
You'll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain
I'm taking it slow
Feeding my flame
Shuffling the cards of your game
And just in time
In the right place
Suddenly I will play my ace
I won't soothe your pain
I won't ease your strain
You'll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain
Eyes on fire
Your spine is ablaze
Felling any foe with my gaze
And just in time
In the right place
Steadily emerging with grace
Ahh, felling any foe with my gaze
Ahh, steadily emerging with grace
Ahh, felling any foe with my gaze
Ahh, steadily emerging with grace
I'll seek you out
Flay you alive
One more word and you won't survive
And I'm not scared
Of your stolen power
I see right through you any hour
I won't soothe your pain
I won't ease your strain
You'll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain
I'm taking it slow
Feeding my flame
Shuffling the cards of your game
And just in time
In the right place
Suddenly I will play my ace
I won't soothe your pain
I won't ease your strain
You'll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain
Eyes on fire
Your spine is ablaze
Felling any foe with my gaze
And just in time
In the right place
Steadily emerging with grace
Ahh, felling any foe with my gaze
Ahh, steadily emerging with grace
Ahh, felling any foe with my gaze
Ahh, steadily emerging with grace
