βLook a little deeper, life doesn't linger on the surfaceβ
Selene Emira Mason
βAgeβ
Visual Age: 17
Factual Age:19
βAppearanceβ
Hair: Long black hair to her waist. Kept cut in a long style and very rarely ever put up.
Facial Hair: None
Eyes: Brownish amber, sometimes appearing black. Tend to appear calculating and indifferent.
Build: Slender, mildly toned. Muscle toning isn't really visible.
Skin Tone: Selene is very fair skinned, getting only the slightest of tans when she's outside.
Height: 5"5
Weight:132 lbs.
Voice: Soft. A honey like appeal is created when she speaks.
Handed: Right.
Body Markings: The celtic symbol for eternity can be found on her right wrist, just above her pulse.
Scar Tissue: None
Unique Body Features: Her eyes flash purple under use of her particular ability.
Selene's dark hair and piercing eyes are her most prominent features. Her hair often hangs over her face, covering the slightly luminescent irises. Her eyes retain their murky amber color until she is focused intently on her task. At that point they shift to a brilliant violet. Selene generally holds a naturally relaxed posture, tending to lean on one foot or the other. She typically keeps to a simple, comfortable, and slightly preppy attire in muted colors. Selene always wears a pair of soft boots, dark brownish black in color, and buttoned up the sides with silver buttons facing inward.
βSexualityβ
Heterosexual
βPersonalityβ
Motivation: Surviving from one day to the next.
Fears: Large Bodies of Water, Confined Spaces, and Darkness.
Goals: To help people in her same situation avoid a bad ending.
Positive Traits: intelligent+ soft spoken + reserved
Negative Traits: Shy - Prone to Anxiety Attacks -Pessimistic.
Selene prefers to stay out of direct confrontation when she can. She was raised as a single child in the home of her mentally ill mother, making her unstable herself at times. Being typically reserved, she doesn't have many friends or companions, preferring to prevent unnecessary connections. Selene is far from the rebellious nature commonly found among the vigilantes on the run from city officials, but believes in equality and justice. Selene also suffers from periods of anxiety in which her ability becomes uncontrollable and causes her to lash out in random ways; ranging from physical attacks to general defensive moves. She keeps her distance from other people because of her anxiety; something that can be set off with various triggers. Extreme stress, pressured situations, physical confrontations, confined spaces, and places of total darkness will send her into a frenzied attack. Stress, Confinement, and darkness seems to be the most frequent causes of her attacks, though with the lynching laws being in place, Physical Confrontation has become one of her largest concerns. Through all else, Selene's biggest goal is to protect people; more from herself than anything else.
βLikesβ
- Writing
- The sound of pianos playing
- Birds, particularly drawing them.
- Drawing
- Long walks in the sunshine.
βDislikesβ
- speaking in front of people
- leadership roles
- excessive noise levels
- numbers
- being left alone during stressful situations.
βRelationshipsβ
- Friends: Selene has no obvious friendships because of her inability to connect with people. However, she has a string of important contacts through her time as Miasma that help her assist vigilantes that need help getting things, or need to spend time in safe houses.
- Family: Having not known her father, Selene was left with two sisters, a brother, and her mother. Her mother is deceased, but her sisters, Claire and Elizabeth, live in a neighboring city. The two of them were never close to Selene as they were over ten years older than she was. Upon the discovery of Selene's abilities they disowned her. Selene's brother, Lucas, is only four years older than she is and hasn't been around since he turned 18 and left. His whereabouts are unknown.
βPowerβ
Energy Manipulation- Selene possesses a rather unique ability to manipulate energized particles in the air around her. She can change their base characteristics: manipulating their density, shape, and concentration. This gives her the ability to both attack and defend easily. Selene's power has wired her brain to sense charge particles and can also help her find directions based on positive and negative charges. She uses intense periods of mediation and focal exercises to give her the reaction time to be able to use her ability quickly. Her nickname, Miasma, comes from the dark magenta hue energy takes when she influences it. This makes her ability more detectable than most, but also gives her a quality of intimidation. Selene's energy manipulation is what makes her anxiety attacks dangerous, as the particles around her react as negatively as she does. The only way to counter balance this is with an indirect charge of energy charged with the opposite field of what she has projected. Selene has two special abilities that she can use. Magnetism, a special power that allows her to revert energy charges in metals at an extreme rate for a short period of time; and Combustion, a phase where Selene can revert charges quickly enough to cause a small explosion. Both take an intense amount of focus, and cannot be used on command.
βEquipmentβ
Selene keeps her smartphone on her at all times. She also has a variety of magnets that she uses to assist her ability.
βStrengthsβ
- An internal compass, due to her ability.
- The balance of energies and charges in her ability prevent her from being disoriented by illusion based attacks.
- Her ability can be used from any distance with enough focus and energy available.
- energy is present in all spaces, preventing her from being limited on her ability.
- Her quiet nature causes people to look over her frequently, and underestimate her.
βWeaknessesβ
- Combustion and Magnetism require total concentration, allowing for a weak spot when they are attempted.
- Energies are differently balanced, and can be difficult to morph.
- Her ability can be disabled with the right combination of reverse charges.
- Too many charges in one space will throw off her accuracy.
- Strong bursts of high pitched frequencies will physically hurt her due to her sensitivity to changes in energy.
[size=90]βHomeβ
Selene lives in a reasonably sized apartment on the richer side of town. It's spacious enough for one permanent resident and one guest but is still equipped with modest luxury's such as a sizable kitchen, a master bath, small study, and a cozy guest room. It is located in a lesser known area, and gives her a small amount of privacy.
βHistoryβ
Selene was raised in a family of five. Her mother, Marrisa Mason, was a single parent, having separated from various partners just before each of her children were born. Because of this, Slene and her siblings are not fully related. Marrisa suffered from severe schizophrenia, and often inflicted abuse upon her four children as a result of her hallucinations. Though none of her siblings had any lasting effects of this abuse, Selene's anxiety attacks are a result of this damaged childhood. When Marrisa committed suicide, Selene was left under the care of her oldest sister Claire. She was only twelve years old at the time. It was around this time Selene began experience mild headaches that would last for several hours at a time.
At age 16, Selene's headaches worsened, lasting for days at a time and leaving her bedridden. Dizziness and fatigue accompanied the pain. After several months of the headaches, Selene developed irritability whenever she would come out of these spells. She began to lash out at her sisters, blaming them for her brother leaving and for their mother's death. Her anxiety worsened and increased in the frequency of attacks. She had just turned 17 when her ability began to show. During an anxiety attack set off by a lecture from her sister, Selene mistakenly lashed out with a burst of magnetism. The surge of power caused a small silver knife to swing loose from its holder and bury itself in the wall above Claire's head. This was the event that encouraged both of her remaining siblings to practically disown her. They left Selene alone in the apartment they had bought away from their mother's home and moved out of the city, sending money for the sister they didn't acknowledge to live off of. This, along with her shifts as a waitress in a cafe catering to those with special abilities, is how Selene gets by. She is relatively unknown throughout the city. She is, however, well known in the underground networks of the city for her willingness to assist people in getting supplies and finding new hideouts.