araya, elena
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the breakdown
Full Name: Elena Morven Araya (e-LAY-na MAWR-ven a-RI-ya)
Nicknames: Lena (LAY-nuh)
Age: seventeen
Birthdate: July 18
Birthplace: Area 53
Gender: female
Sexual Orientation: omnisexual || burstromantic
Occupation: none
Role: superhuman #2
Hex Code: #821B17
Faceclaim: Alisha Boe
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the aesthetics
Default Expression: no matter Elena's intentions, her default expression always seems to have a rebellious note to it, with her defiantly set jaw and calculating eyes.
Posture and Aura: Elena never slouches, but her back isn't like a board. She has a rebellious and almost cat-like ambiance.
Tattoos, piercings, etc: Elena has a small, barely noticeable black semicolon tattooed on her right wrist.
Scars, markings, etc: Elena's skin is relatively unblemished for the most part.
Attire: if Elena had a choice, she's include either black, white, shades of gray, or khaki in every one of her outfits. Not because she wants to blend into the crowd, but because of what she can do with those colors. Elena also loves different fabrics; cotton is boring to her. She'd be the type of person who'd wear her own DIY jean shorts. A bit of jewelry is nice as well, preferably something shiny, with either gold or silver.
Accessories: Elena didn't have many accessories in Area 53, but once she escaped, she grew attached to a simple gold necklace chain.
Overall Presence: the presence Elena emits isn't exactly ordinary, per say. It almost seems brash, reckless, and rebellious, yet at the same time, you can tell that Lena knows what she's doing.
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the persona - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - perceptive ā„ energetic ā„ defiant ā„ direct ā„ impatient ā„ reckless
Elena is rather direct as well. Not exactly honest, per say, but she's blunt and says things without sugarcoating. This, coupled with her defiant nature, makes her seem like a troublemaker at times.
Patience has never come easy for Lena. She's quick to anger and despises waiting - her impatience for everything is clear. She wants things to happen, fast. Elena is suited for a fast-paced life which required quick on-your-feet thinking and constant energy, with is both a strength and weakness. Due to this trait of hers, Lena can be rather reckless - she has never really played it safe.
Quirks, habits, etc: Elena has a habit of cracking her neck absentmindedly. She has a tendency to stand in a military "at ease" position whenever she's standing up but has nothing to do.
Motivations: due to her personality, one of Elena's strongest sources of motivation is her hunger for freedom. She despises being chained down and forced into experiments she wants no part of - she thirsts for freedom, and is relentless when chasing it.
ā¬ freedom
ā¬ the idea of being able to control her powers
ā¬ being a smart-ass and getting away with it
ā¬ being in Area 53
ā¬ being used or manipulated
ā¬ being reminded that she could never really be in control
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the background
Obedience was a foreign concept to Elena.
Since the government couldn't trust her as much, they didn't allow her to practice her power as much as the others. Instead, the trained her in obedience, and other soldierly qualities, because her power, photokinesis, could be incredibly useful is battle. The government didn't want to lose that.
Lena learned to keep her mouth shut to stay alive, but she didn't exactly comply with helping the government. Because in the end, although she'd never admit it, Elena feared herself and her powers.
When a scientist approached her, along with two others, with an offer of freedom, Lena accepted without hesitation. Anything was better than Area 53.
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the miscellaneous
Capabilities: Elena can manipulate visible light - electromagnetic radiation that's visible to the human eye. She can manipulate the properties of light such as intensity, propagation direction, frequency or wavelength spectrum, and polarization, etc. The effectiveness of her power, however, strongly depends on her strength and understanding of the power. Currently, Lena's understanding of photokinesis is quite low.
Applications: Lena, if strong enough, can blind her enemies with her photokinesis (although she isn't strong enough, so she can't blind someone yet, as it's quite difficult). An easier application of photokinesis, though, is the bending of light particles. Although Elena is quite weak in this as well, it's her strongest area with her power. Bending light particles can create holograms and illusions, as well as make someone appear invisible. Elena can achieve this, although the success rate isn't high. Having photokinesis could also allow one to move at the speed of light, although Lena is far from that point. Elena can also practice photokinetic surfing, or using light to increase her maneuverability, although she's bad at it.
Limitations: of course, Lena's greatest limitation is that she's still quite weak, and is unable to achieve most of what her power can do. She's also unable to create light, and can only use light from existing sources. For the most part, Elena is limited by the laws of nature - gravity is stronger than her, and unless she gets strong enough, her light will bounce off of reflective surfaces. And since light is an extremely delicate element that's also constant, Lena has to be incredibly careful to keep everything in check. If she doesn't, drastic things will happen.
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Dominant Hand: left
Blood Type: O Negative