An empire of shapeshifters, the Erutins value their twin above all. Largely peaceful, they remain prepared for war.
Description
Basic Info
Race Shapeshifter
Occupation Dimensional Traveler Director; Independently Wealthy trouble maker. Tends to play the stock market very well, and makes plenty of money that way.
Class Warrior/Traveler
Social Class Greater Nobility
Member of The Hoverbike Gang: Gadget
Family Mate: Norrington; Dark: Snow; Children: Newborns Trent and Adalie Rachel, age 7 (adopted); Henry, age 9 (adopted); Zuri, age 11 Brother-in-law: Steph
Preferred Physical Appearance:
Age 275
Appears 24
Eye color blue almond shaped
Hair color blond and messy
Height 5'2" tall
Type of body Lightly muscled, lithe. She's very graceful in appearance if not action.
Skin tone and type Pale skin with the lightest of tans, not easily burned or particularly sensitive
Shape of face Hope has a classical heart shape face.
Distinguishing marks Two scars encircling her left wrist like bracelets
Predominant feature Large almond shaped eyes
Actual Form 
Measurements at age 289:
Height 9 ft 1.5 in
Body Length 18 ft 3 in
Tail Length 11 ft 7.7 in
Paw Length 13.25 in
Paw Width 8.8 in
Claw Length 8.2 in
Equipment
A Small charm bracelet on which each weapon has a charm to summon it from.
Offense
Plasma Pistol
Hope recently replaced her old plasma pistol, with a bright pink one with a heart sticker on it, having given her daisy covered one to a friend. Isn't it pretty?
Browning Hi-Power Practical 9 mm
Holding 13 rounds a cartridge, Hope decided it would be foolish of her just to know the low tech weapons of her home world. As a result, she learned how to shoot a basic pistol. She particularly enjoys using this weapon and her Saif together, though she does consider it a tertiary weapon. Hope managed to have hers made in a very cheery turquoise color.
Defense
Magic armor suit
Up against her skin, the armor suit conforms to whatever shape she has taken and is completely invisible. She is never without it, and it has the hardness of titanium but weighs about as much as a feather. This armor suit is using magic and technology weaved together carefully, though they can act separate in case of any jammer fields.
[size=200]Traveler Facts
Eyes when Transporting:
Random Things to Know
♪ Hope can only carry two others when transporting. This is a strong indication of magic levels in a Traveler. The strongest of mage's could only carry three passengers at once.
♪ Hope wears her aviator's goggles when porting to keep herself completely enshrouded in her armor, just in case she lands somewhere in the middle of a battle.
♪ Travelers use a mix of the technology of their Implant and their armor, along with their own individual magic to Transport between dimensions.
♪ Transporting is instantaneous and near instantaneous travel between dimensions. Teleportation is instantaneous or near instantaneous travel planetside. Warp is the fastest speed once in space, and utilizes generated wormholes so to be possible.
Standard Traveler Equipment
Aviator's Goggles
Lightweight, this are on her no matter her form. She hasn't been separated from her goggles for even a day since she became a Traveler and tends to bath with the precious things on. The reason for this is relatively simple. Inside the stitching of the goggles lay every item she actually owns. Each of the multitude of tiny stitches can carry up to 200 lbs in it, thanks to magic laid in the goggles at the time of stitching. As a result, while Hope always seems prepared, that simply isn't true. She just literally carries her home with her.
Implant
This allows Hope to quickly and easily speak and understand any language she comes across. It also contains both Tornsten's and Jorgenson's maps. When Hope is accessing her implant for anything other than language her eyes turn teal and remain that way until she ceases accessing it.
Thanks to a recent upgrade it also:
- Ability to look up all known information about any target, living and non living, including travel records, weak points, medical records, credentials, known history, even chemical composition of any object or living being - Traveller implant augmentation, including teleport rift tracking and the ability to reopen recent teleport rifts, remote view of teleport destination, full encyclopediatic array of information on all known destinations and locations, access to Shifter databases for said information is untraceable to the user's implant
Tornsten's Map
Maps the various planets in each dimension as discovered. Uses x,y,z coordinates, along with Planet name, or location name search. One on planet, latitude and longitude search can be commenced in order to find civilization of some sort, or a specific location.
Jorgenson's Map
Maps the many dimensions in existence that have been explored by shapeshifters. Includes possible planets held within, planets marked for exploration, and often the names of the explorers checking the dimension out at that time. Uses x,y,z,u coordinates. For instance, according to Jorgensen's map, the dimension Wing City is in is coordinates (x395, y52134, z182, u34) while Hope's home world coordinates are (x34,y76,z2,u53)
Weaknesses
Electricity in any form, including ambient electricity. This can cause her to lose the ability to understand a language and speak it. Luckily it self repairs, but until it's fixed, Hope is often stranded where ever she was at the time, as she can't access the maps and isn't confident rattling off coordinates.
Having the implant has also destroyed an capacity Hope once had to learn a language, including runes, so while she can use them, and recognize what rune is a trigger, she can't write or do any magic with runes.
During thunderstorms, it has a tendency to pick up on any messages sent via pretty much any wavelength, confusing Hope greatly as she can't tell the difference between these messages and people speaking.
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History
Personal History
Hope had lived multiple life times. When young she found herself madly in love with a mage whom she settled with. With him, and her adoptive family, she had quite a few adventures, making friends with vampires, gods, and demons alike. In time though, her then love died, and she disappeared. They had several children together by then, but without Pukak, she couldn’t continue on then. The children were all grown by then, and her grandchildren existed.
In that life, she had been adopted into vampire royalty, and was raised with a half-brother who she often fought with. She met her future mate at age 13, and proceeded to save him from an illness that caused him to fade. In time, she grew powerful enough to cause true harm, and lesser viewed this young woman as a goddess. But Hope was never a goddess, merely a dimensional traveler. Powerful, perhaps, but no goddess, despite her friendship with Sargonnas, a lord/god of hell.
In her next life, Hope took over from the deceased version of herself, who had died in a rebellion, with her memories suppressed, she knew no other life than that of her new one.
Over two hundred and sixty years ago, the High Priestess of Eiateila warned that her chosen one would be born shortly. She mentioned no else, knowing that was all that was needed. Three short months later, two twinsets were born to Feather and Stone. Rain and Thunder, and Snow and Hope. The High Priestess smiled and passed on the orders, and from ear to ear, it made it's way down to the Acolyte who named Hope, different from her siblings, if only to mark her out.
The Queen soon knew of this anticipated birth, and, praying to Eiateila, and seeking the advice of the other High Priestesses and all her advisers, and unprecedented decision was made. They would separate the two, knowing that the change the Goddess sought to create would only happen if change was first taught.
Their society was broken, half of it so heavily dependent on the other that it stopped them from advancing further. Parents were having new children with every season, casually abandoning the children they had just had to the care of older kids, if they even cared that far.
Abandoned children raised themselves, til they were older enough to make it to the public Academies. During this bad stretch of time, it's not uncommon for the Light twin to depends entirely on the Dark twin to provide, furthering their interdependence rather than trying themselves.
Academies only teach further interdependence, refusing to teach the entirety of both subjects to both sides of the twinset. Light's often know nothing of birth control, and Darks often do not care to inform them. Indeed, Lights are often taught sewing, and lace making, along with a variety of other topics meant to encourage nurturing. They often know no advanced maths or science.
Abuse is all too common, against children and in future relationships, though it is normally viewed as 'showing love' and 'protecting the Light from themselves.' Unfortunately, this social norm is highly distressing on the society itself. With the constant influx of new cultural information due to the colonization efforts, Lights are quietly beginning to question if this is right, while the Darks remain oblivious. But they are too frightened and timid to instigate the change.
Enter Hope, a Light without a Dark. Alone since childhood, she chose not to depend entirely on her brother Thunder to provide for her and her other brother Rain. Instead, she worked hard to provide for herself, and help provide for Rain as well. It was rough going, but she and the other two made it in much better state than most twinsets would.
The shocked matrons of the Light Academy had no 'extra-nurturing' or even healing programs to put the children on, and so Thunder was quickly shunted off to Dark Academy. However when Hope tried to follow, Thunder quickly advised them as her status as a Light, if an unorthodox one.
She fought for respect every step of the way as a child, as without a Dark, many Lights did not see her purpose in the world. The only support she had came in the form of Madam Gregor who encouraged her every step of the way. As the time for graduation grew closer, representatives came from every major and minor field in existence to the great Fair held in between the two Academies. As Light and Dark twinsets strolled throughout, each looking to the other for approval over every choice, Hope looked around and her loneliness hit her hard. Catching up to her brother, she spoke, ever so briefly, to them. Thunder and Rain would take the Warrior and Healer path. She was welcome to take the Healer path as well.
No. She realized as she looked around the fair in growing dismay. Thunder, Rain, most of her age mates had all already selected another twinset to mate into. She was alone, and she took a step back from them with a smile. She'd find something else. Thanks though.
As she wandered about the fair alone, garnering many strange looks for the simple fact that she had no Dark by her side, she made up her mind. Her twin was still out there, alive. She didn't know where. She couldn't possibly know where.
But there was a way to find out. So the young Light approached the Traveler's table and looked hem dead in the eye. “My name's Hope. I'm joining.”
There were arguments, and many attemptss to dissuade her, but there was nothing against it in the rules. So upon her graduation at age 15 from the Light Academy, Hope promptly went to the Warrior Academy. Ten years. Ten years she would have to endure just to become a Traveler.
Separated from Thunder the majority of the time, Hope endured the lack of friendship and the Darks either going ridiculously easy on her, or trying to bully her out of the Warrior Academy 'for her own good.'
Ten years of people falling silent as she got near, or being called not good enough, not strong enough and she was tired of the attitude of Darks. She refused to be molly coddled and when graduation came around, she gave herself no recovery time before heading direct to Traveler Academy.
There is was proven that Hope was not only good enough, she was more than a bit of a natural. The very first day, she not only had her implant placed inside her, she was up and moving, unlike the Darks she was surrounded by.
There were few Lights here, mostly to see to the comfort of the Traveler students, but none of them would have anything to do with this strange Light who refused to simply settle into the background.
Instead, Traveler's goggles on head, she flourished, as she found that both planetary teleportation and dimensional transportation came to her with an ease she had not expected. She learned new weapons, new tactics, even how to pilot a spaceship under her instructors hard gazes and as graduation came the woman, who had many friends among the Dark though they wouldn't let their Lights near her, realized that she no longer needed her twin. She was a Light among Darks, and doing amazingly just so.
Forty years of education had all been focused to one goal only, and she had just realized she didn't need it at all. This seemed to lighten the load on her shoulder tremendously, as the hardheaded woman realized that her search for her Dark would now take secondary status in her life. She had a job to do, and a life to live!
Rather than try and make friends and settle down in her own world, Hope threw herself whole heartedly into work, often staying I a dimension for many week, checking for more than one habitable planet as she did so. This dimensional explorer enjoyed her work and made friends in many many world, though all the friendships would be short lived, as she could never stay anywhere long.
As she rose rapidly through the ranks, she caught the attention of Darks who were appalled by her behavior as a Light, and sought to limit her as best they could. Finally, at 220 years of age, the happy go lucky woman took the position of Director of the Travelers.
The position quickly became in name only, as she was surrounded by old school Darks who didn't appreciate this Light leading them. These advisers ran the organization as Hope was told to stay in the field, they needed her there the most, to inspire cadets and Travelers alike.
So the Director continued to Travel and Explore, never taking a break, though her longing for her twin had grown steadily more intense. She was convinced she had been moved to some off-world unknown dimension to separate the two and quietly including a search for her sister in all her dealings.
It wasn't until she had come to her final dimension that she discovered a place to stay from more than a handful of weeks. And while there her twin Snowfound her.
The two compared notes on growing up, and discovered that there had been quite a bit of work done to keep the separate, and while Snow believed it meant that together they were fated to greatness, Hope herself wasn't too positive. She began to sniff around her network of discontented Lights, hoping that more information would fall into the ears of Light's who were too 'innocent' to understand the situation at hand.
Unfortunately by that time, Hope was already mired deeply in a dangerous conflict known as the Artifact War, and happily mired too. So as she and her twin adjust to each other, Hope takes part in a deadly War against Snow's wishes. She gave her word she would help, going so far as to carry an Artifact for a time to keep it safe. She would gladly do whatever it took to prevent such a travesty from occurring as having such an ultimate evil unleashed upon the Dimensions.
She cared for too many people to let that happen.
As the Artifact War goes on, Hope finds herself with her own issues. Assassins are after her, merely for existing. And now, with the responsibility of her new mate Kendra's safety and that of their adopted daughter Rachel, Hope finds her self worried about her involvement in the Artifact War and the assassins that she deals with regularly.
This would not help for long. As the artifact war waged on, Hope found herself out of the fights and in fights of her own. It was a time of revolution, and the revolution would not be a peaceful one. Many would die before the Erutin Revolution had finished, with Hope reluctantly leading it. In the end, the First Dark Talon would be comatose, leaving Empress First Light Wing to rule with only her husband by her side. With counter-revolutionaries quickly rising, Wing would be left to rule on her own for many years, and the Erutin Empire struck up many trading alliances as Wing led on her own, her husband battling those that wanted Talon's return.
In the meantime, Hope was struck a devastating blow. Kendra, her love, in the last battle of the revolution was taken from Hope, her memory wiped and relocated to another location, where Hope, desperate, could not find her. Their bond had been shattered.
Comatose for some time, Hope relied on her sister and brother in law to care for both her and the children. It was only her good friend and future mate that was able to finally shock her back to normal. The duo would grow closer, held apart by the dangerous nature of his job.
In the middle of their courting, Hope, embroiled in Erutin politics, adopted Zuri. And before they would finally be joined, Talon would be murdered, and the Erutin empire shattered in a horrific attack, neither linked, but two tragedies so close together so as to crush the Erutin empire.
Without a planet of her own to call home, Hope set up base on a beautiful, sparsely colonized planet where only Travelers existed. This they came to call their own, their own solar system. The doors in Hope's home would each lead to a different place, all very different planets and places that she and her growing family, as her fiance at this point had a young daughter named Bojangles, visited often.
Then came a magical day for Hope where her fiance was finally secure enough, finally safe enough they were able to mate. From their first union together, resulted in the newest members of the Anona family: Trent and Adalie.
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I do not own any of the pictures in this profile, minus the photo manipulation of Hope's true form. The image of the saif is from Wikipedia, the Armor is found here. The various weapons were found using Google search engine and the image of Hope was found using Google, then TwistedBrush Open Studio to Photo manipulate it. [/size]
So begins...
Hope Anona gracefully walks into the bar looking around it curiously. This looked like her sort of place! The blond tuck a lock of her pixie cut behind her ear and grins at the feel of her weapons bracelet brushing her cheek. Rumors had reacherd her of Gambit's Bar, and judging by the newness of it all, and the peace currently in the bar they were all true. A place for friends and fights, it was exactly what she was looking for.
Blue eyes scanned the bar and her free hand straightened the hem of her denim shorts. A cute, if slightly too small--for it had shrunk int the wash--tank top completed the look which managed to mix her femininity and her tomboy nature fairly well. The woman decides that perhaps a seat at the bar would be best if she was looking for friend. Tables and booths just seemed too secluded for that.
Hope Anona looks around the bar counter and sees Daemon and Falex both. Because of the physics of convenience, she's going to assume they are close enough to talk to at the same time. Cheerfully the blonde makes her way over to the two, standing between them and looked to the Bot. "Hi, can I have a A'shiko?" She beams, hoping the bot understood what she meant.
“
Looked up to Hope as she spoke, and finally to Daemon as well. He thought for a second what their scenerios could possibly be, but the girl that spoke up clearly seemed eager to be here. He decided to order while the bot thing was around... "Ginseng wiht tonic..."
”
Daemon Zagan nodded his thanks to the bot, before taking a swig of the whiskey. He then put a book mark in each of his books and tucked them away, glancing to the Hope person.
Hope Anona smiles and accepts the light blue drink, sipping it the a smile. She looks at the two men on either side of her and smiles. "Hi, I'm Hope!" He accent marks her as a local, as she had been careful to copy it with all of her expertise as a multi-dimensional scout.
“
Took another sip, and nodded. "Hello Hope..." He didn't know much about this area, especially regarding the people, and the culture. He didn't look at the girl, but he was giving her his full attention.
”
Hope Anona looks at it and frowns, searching her pockets before pulling out the appropriate currency. That was it. She needed a base here so she could clear her pockets of the sub-space spell and find things easier. She pays with bot with a bright smile, and looks to Falex. "It's a pleasure to meet you! I'm afraid I didn't catch your name though." She says, knowing perfectly well he never told her.
Daemon Zagan slowly nodded to the girl, his black eyes taking in his form. He wasn't quite sure what to make of her, yet.
“
Paused for a moment, what harm could be done by giving her his name. He shrugged practically unoticeably and decided. "My name is Falex Belondradi.... You may call me Falex." He took another sip, now listening to what Daemon was up to. It was jsut a natural reaction for him, as an assassin to be suspicious of everyone. He couldn't really help it, it became a part of his natural instinct.
”
Hope Anona smiles at him. "That's a lovely name! I do believe I like it." She says, then turns to Daemon. "And what's you name, mister?" she asks with a smile.
Daemon Zagan raised a brow slightly. "Daemon Zagan, demon first-class." He shrugged, raising the liquor to his lips.
“
Nodded to the woman, and sipped his drink more. He wasn't exactly tense, but he was alert of all that was happening about him. But what in the hell was a 'Demon first-class'?
”
Hope Anona bounces. "Oh! I know some demons. They're real sweethearts." Because only Hope would call an evil entity out to kill has a sweetheart. "They knew some of the best games!" She declares.
Mind you the games consisted of attempts to harm her while she fought them. But for Hope that was the best sort of game. "I'm a shape shifter myself."
Daemon Zagan raised a brow, glancing down to his glass. It suddenly seemed quite interesting. "Mhm."
“
"Hmm?" His confusion was clearly shown through that verbal expression. He had never heard of such a thing, except in legends and stories. 'Shapeshifters'.... This bar was quite odd, wiht people thinking that they aren't human. But little did he know, that hardly anyone one here, was human.
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Hope Anona blinks at the verbal non-comment. She seems to deflate ever so slightly before turning to Falex. "Well if he's a demon, and I'm a shape shifter, you must be something too! So what are you?" She chirrups to him perking back up.
“
Looks up to Hope and paused. "I am just a man... I have a hard time believing that you are capable of changing your shape, and no suhc demons dwell on this earth..." He was tlaking about HIS earth though, where people were VERY religious, but there was no definite proof of the existence of god, and the devil, and the whole bit.
”
Hope Anona laughs. "Oh here, let me show you." She volunteers. The woman disappears and a cat with Hope's rather odd charm bracelet around it's neck twines around his legs. Her clothes are in a small pile in the floor. The cat then changing shape into a mouse and then a dog before she shimmies back into her clothers and slowly changes back to a human shape. With all the practice of her many years, she manages to have her clothes in the correct places when she's fully resumed to form. "Ta Da! I can do pretty much any animal I know."
She had no clue that display could very well shake his world view.
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When she turnd into a cat, and walked around him, he kicked his chair back and fell back. He grunted, and looked up at her his eyes pearcing, and was ready to strike. He thought long and hard looking up to the woman, before he stood up and dusted himself off staying tense and defensive. "I see....."
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Daemon Zagan slowly glanced up to Falex, setting down his glass. "On your Earth.." He stood up, a pair of leathery wings slowly spreading from his back. "On your Earth, no one admits to our existence because no one can handle that we exist."
