{"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” }
-Khalil Gibran
Yellow Flicker Beat: Lorde || Blank Space: Taylor Swift || Elastic Heart: Sia || She's A Genius: Jet || Do It Like A Dude: Jessie J || Wildfire: Tinashe
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"Nothing you need to concern yourself with."
Alacia Jasmine Chung
|{Nicknames}|
Lacey {Most common; preferred}; Lace or CC {Common; mostly by friends}; JC {Common; only in reference to her vlogs}
|{Code Name}|
Firecracker
|{Citizen Number}|
#34982310
|{Age}|
18
|{Gender}|
"Oh, you're hilarious! Know what's funnier? Your face blown off."
Female
|{Sexual Orientation}|
Demisexual|| Panromantic
|{Zodiac Sign}|
Aquarius
|{Role}|
"Let one more of these fuckers call me fresh meat. Just one."
Controlled Power
|{Occupation}|
Vlogger|| IT Specialist
{"You saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath.” }
-George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire
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▪Paces when angry and resorts to throwing various items when she feels helpless in her rage. ▪▪▪Always has her earphones on, even when she's not listening to music. ▪Prefers to call it "potty" rather than bathroom. ▪When she is arguing with a person, no matter what height they are, she stands on her tip-toes to maintain eye contact. She even gets to jabbing her thumb into their chest when trying to drive her point home. ▪Quirks her lips to the side when she is casting judgment. ▪Is always watching people, waiting to pick up on ticks or habits of theirs that she can use to her advantage, particularly for pickpocketing purposes. ▪Feels stressed out when she doesn't have her laptop or phone, and needs to have them near her to feel like she has some semblance of control. ▪Constantly maintains eye contact for fear of showing weakness.
|{Talents || Strengths || Skills}|
⚘Cunning ⚘Survivalist{Is not a trained fighter, but makes up for it with a mean left hook, surprising headbutts, and sharp kicks} ⚘Pickpocketing ⚘All things related to technology and the internet. Lacey is an excellent hacker and even great with computer graphics, which is why it is so easy for her to override systems and keep people from recognizing her voice when she does her podcasts or vlogs. ⚘Unassuming ⚘Persuasive {At times} ⚘Independant
|{Flaws || Weakness}|
⚘Impulsive ⚘Extremely stubborn ⚘Does not know when to back down ⚘Manipulative {Only when she needs to be} ⚘Vindictive and holds grudges ⚘Sometimes she cannot be serious during a serious situation. For instance, if someone told her they loved her or were threatening her life, she would probably laugh, not because she finds it hilarious but because she doesn't know what to say or doesn't want to appear afraid.
|{Powers}|
Volatile Constructs: The user can create and launch bombs, explosives and other volatile constructs that have various yields, ranging from small explosions to near-nuclear blasts. These bombs may be composed of energy, element, biological matter, or simply normal bombs.
|{Power Limitations}|
The user of this ability not immune to its effects, meaning that Lacey creating a bomb too close to herself can result in her death depending on the ferocity. Likewise, the bombs or explosives generated only have the potential of her emotions. If Lacey is simply feeling mischievous or her intent is to simply frighten, then her bombs won't be as large. However, in extreme situations such as a few years back, her explosives can generate catastrophic results. It is unclear how much damage she can really do. Also, she can only generate up to five small bombs at a time due to any more causing a headache, and a larger explosive takes up energy.
|{Fears}|
øBeing bound or tied up {It makes her feel extremely powerless} øBecoming too attached to anyone øDepending on someone else for survival øNot feeling like she's in control of herself øBeing buried alive
|{Secrets}|
✤The fact that she isn't who her records claim she is. Alacia Chung was just something she made up to put in the record books. The only ones who might still have a bit of information of her real self are the Mutant Project officials. ✤Lacey is one of the few who actually know what happened with the explosion that killed Jarek Hunt's father. After all, she was the one that caused it. ✤For all of her seductive antics and ways of getting what she wants, Lacey has never actually had sex.
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{"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.
My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”}
-Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice
From the first glance, Lacey is very much unassuming. She would be the typical young woman at an internet café or even the bookstore, too enthralled in whatever was blaring in her earphones or what was on the screen of her laptop. She's quirky and seems to connect with people quite easily, though more on a surface level considering how elusive Lacey can be. After all, for all her seeming effervescence (which isn't as much a lie as it is a survivalist strategy, Lacey doesn't seem to have too many actual friends nor actual enemies. She does good at not coming off as a threat or as unapproachable in case a particular interaction garners her a slight alliance or gains her some kind of advantage in life, whether that be a new place to stay or someone to count on during dire situations. Which can happen when you consider the fact that she owns a vlog and podcast meant to eradicate the Mutant Project and incite mainstream public concern with how mutants are being treated. After all, despite how much Lacey likes to pretend that she doesn't care, she is far more compassionate than she will admit. No matter how distant or nonchalant she may try to act, Lacey cares, even about the man down the street on the park bench with barely anything to eat because he's a mutant and homeless, and not many care about either.
At her core, Lacey is still a girl wanting a home and wanting to belong somewhere due to the fact that her family was ripped from her at a young age, and no one would adopt her. However, being both cynical and an optimist leaves her a bit distrustful of people. Lacey will always believe that there is something better, that there are still people out there with actual human sincerity and concern for each other. However, until it is proven, she watches everyone like a hawk and will always be looking out for herself since, to be honest, that's all she's had. Herself and knowing that she needed to live. She doesn't have some long term goals or anything like that, but at the end of the day, Lacey is a survivalist. She does what she needs to in order to survive. Whether that means fixing computers or retrieving documents like she's an IT Specialist when she hasn't been to school since she was fourteen, then so be it. If it means flirting with the police officer to keep her van from being towed and also somehow getting the ticket he would have prescribed for her out of his grasps, then that's the game she's going to play. She can manipulate when she needs to, seduce when necessary, and evade when it is necessary while also keeping any and everyone at a distance in case they wish to do her harm. Lacey has been independent too long to truly admit to needing anyone or their help, but it never means that she doesn't want it. She's just never felt safe enough to truly and fully trust anyone, and when she has, it usually leads to betrayal or something happening to that person, and Lacey always feels either guilty or self-deprecating afterwards for letting her guard down. And for all that unassuming aura that she has on a regular day, for a girl that is five feet and three inches, Lacey has a temper that cannot be easily controlled. Especially when provoked or when she feels trapped in a corner. Again, Lacey is a survivor. She may not win the battle or the war, but she damn well will fight until the end. Just don't expect a sarcastic little sprite like this to back down any time soon. You'd be surely mistaken and have to deal with the smart mouth she hides behind small smiles and mischievous brown eyes.
{"If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.” }
-Shannon Alder
|{Likes}|
▲Having the last word ▲Technology ▲Listening to music ▲The art of kissing ▲▲Chinese food ▲Getting under someone's skin ▲Laughing and people who can genuinely make her laugh ▲Pranks ▲Double Fudge Brownie Ice Cream ▲Flirting ▲Adrenaline rushes ▲Spicy Foods ▲Hacking and computer graphics ▲People who have genuine optimism ▲Seeing genuine relationships ▲Chocolate-chip pancakes ▲Chai tea
{"I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist.” }
-Gena Showalter, Seduce the Darkness
|{Dislikes}|
▼Unnecessary drama ▼The government and the Mutant Project ▼Slanderers and liars ▼Computer viruses and malware ▼Crying in front of people ▼The idea of never finding someone who could love her or having a real family ▼Feeling responsible for someone else ▼Coffee ▼Not belonging {even if she acts like it doesn't bother her} ▼Abandonment ▼Internet Explorer ▼Boredom and people who bore her ▼Having to lie ▼Feeling trapped ▼Abuse of any kind ▼The 'blue screen of death'
{"Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.”}
-Unknown
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Wonsan, Korea {Age: 0 - 3 yrs. old}| Norfolk, Virginia {Age: 3 - 6 yrs. old}|District of Columbia {Age: 6 - 11 yrs. old}| Hyattsville, Maryland{15 - 18 yrs. old}
|{Family Tree : People of Importance}|
Biological Mother|| Myong Bae Cho Hee|| 34 {When she died}|| Deceased
Biological Father|| Myong Dae Ho|| 37 {When he died}|| Deceased
Biological Brother & Sister|| Myong Chun Hei & Myong Young-Soo|| Eighteen months {When they died}|| Deceased
{"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” }
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Myong Soo May, or Lacey's true identity before it all had to be wiped away, was meant to have a much easier life. Or, at least as easy as she could have had considering both of her parents were a part of the North Korean branch of The Humanly with her father holding the role as "Second." Naturally, May was too young to understand any of this and when she was three, both of her parents were wanted on counts of terrorism, so they ended up leaving Korea for America. May wouldn't remember her homeland and even now, barely remember how to fluently speak Korean, only small phrases. But America didn't fair that well either because by the time May was six years old, both Cho-Hee and Dae-Ho were killed in an attack on a secluded Humanly base that belonged to the United States branch. Cho-Hee had both of her youngest children and May with her at the time in the infirmary, and made May run out into the woods with a few Humanly sympathizers who had visited the base, not knowing that that would be the last time she would see her eldest daughter. From that point until May was around ten, she was in foster care.
At first, she didn't want to be adopted. May had wanted her mama and papa, and didn't want some new family. She wanted her mama because Cho-Hee had promised to show her how to really use her powers and May only knew them for small pranks, which she wasn't against. In fact, in the orphanage, she was a constant prankster with the nuns, constantly throwing the tiniest of bombs underneath desks. Back then, in line with her innocence was the most menial way of using her powers, firecrackers. They were harmless really and May had yet to learn that her powers would have her ostracized. She was in a house filled with children who did hold the hatred for her kind like those of the outside world and the orphanage held a good number of Humanly sympathizers. It was when she was eight that she would experience her first show of hatred. May still didn't really want a new family, but she was tired of losing her friends to families so she figured that if she was nice enough and stopped doing as many pranks, she might be able to get adopted. But family after family shunned her and it wasn't until one of the nuns explained that May understood: she would never be adopted. Not by a regular family and it was extremely rare for a Humanly family to come by. So, she learned to keep to herself. Getting too close to some of the other kids warranted abandonment because they would be adopted over her, so May showed out even more. More pranks, more pushing people away. Until she got caught by one family who called her a "danger" to the other children, resulting in the government taking her away. This would be May's first encounter with the Mutant Project.
She was ten at the time of her capture and would be with the organization for an entire year, undergoing various tests. They wanted to figure out a way to use her powers, May was constantly trying to find a way out. She would get beaten, though not as severely as some of the older mutants. It was after a bad beating that she would meet Dr. Hunt, father of Jarek Hunt, though she would never meet the son. She would hear about him since Dr. Hunt tried establishing her trust, telling her about his life and how he thought she was too young to be trapped in a dark cell. He had spoken of a few other scientists, one who was his best friend, and how they wanted to get the Humanly out of here, and possibly with the Humanly branch that they were aware of. May didn't know who the Humanly were, just that she wanted out and that Dr. Hunt was nice. He fed her better than the guards would want to and he would make excuses to get her out of experiments, and even the brainwashing treatment. It would be after her eleventh birthday that that plan would be put in motion. A good number of the captured mutants would be taken to various sectors of the lab facility for different experiments and tests, May included, and it would be then that the scientists planned to drug the guards, and then get them out. They were mostly all kids, so it would be easier to get them out. However, one of the scientists broke at the last minute and told one of the higher-ups and all hell broke loose. The Mutant Project's guards and hitmen opened fire on any mutant that did not return to their cells and the scientists, killing more than half of the staff members. Dr. Hunt and his friend were both shot, though the latter was lost somewhere amidst the firing and May, to this day, has no idea if he survived or not. Dr. Hunt, however, had been in the middle of wiping the system clean of a good number of records for the mutants, May's being the last one he could get his hands on before he realized they were trapped. Locking the office doors, he struggled to convince her to leave him behind and only could when he told her that he had lost too much blood anyway, and would be bound to die when the officers got to the office. So, he begged her to get rid of the last bit of evidence of the torture that went on in the facility by doing the one thing she had never done: blowing up the entire facility. It was because of the intensity of her guilt and horror that she accomplished the task after escaping. It would also be the secret only she and a few of the surviving mutants would be able to keep.
After that, Lacey was created and learned to live on the streets. She remembered the address of one of the nuns and got help occasionally, like with getting into school. But in the following years, she would never finish her education. Didn't see the need. The library was useful and Dr. Hunt had gotten her interested in technology, so finding various books on computers were things she did on her spare time. Which was a lot of the time. In the next few years, she would steal, lie, and evade government officials, all the while building on computer skills that would get her involved somewhat with the Humanly organization. No one recognizes her name and that's how Lacey would like it. In fact, she barely recognizes herself as a Humanly member but an associate, helping in tracking information and hacking databases if needed. The podcasts and blogs started as her way to get more people involved and aware of what really goes in government facilities, or when they say they are getting the "mutie freaks" off the street. Of course, because she lives in her van and keeps up a hard-to-crack firewall on the devices that she has stolen, it was hard for anyone to ever really track her. However, Lacey was caught only because one of the mutants that had been captured with her back in the day were brainwashed without her knowing, and tricked her. To say she's pissed is an understatement, and the biggest one yet.
Character Thought || #985D5A
Face Claim || Chloe Bennet