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F U L LXN A M E
Jaycen Jamala Apollyon
N I C K N A M E (S)
Jay (preferred), JJ (only close friends)
B I R T H D A Y
August 3rd (Leo)
A G E
27
B L E S S E D B Y
Sekhmet, Goddess of War, Disease, and Healing
G E N D E R & S E X U A L I T Y
Genderfluid/Doesn’t care || Homosexual
E T H N I C I T Y
Greek and Russian
H O M E T O W N
Atlanta, Georgia
H E X
#941200
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H E I G H T & W E I G H T
6’1’’ || 180 Pounds
A P P E A R A N C E
If someone were to sum up Jaycen in one word, that word would be intimidating. Her stature certainly doesn’t help, leading her to towering over most people, but her time in the Marines shaped her figure. Long gone are her slight but soft feminie curves, instead she is more rugged and square with broad shoulders and thick limbs. Since leaving the Marines, she has maintained a strong physique, given the gym is one of the few constants she can cling to. So she’s muscular, but not overly so; just fit enough to be considered in peak physical shape. If her size and height don’t intimidate people, it's her facial expression. Her eyes are sharp and intense, with her golden brown irises shining in most light. Jay is stricken with one of the most powerful resting-bitch-faces of all time. In fact, this is her expression 90% of the time, given she doesn’t tend to emote much. This, in turn, makes her hard to read; she could be happy and look exactly the same as she was pissed off moments ago.
From her time in the service, Jay has both scars and tattoos. Her largest tattoo is a floral blackout sleeve on her right arm; she got it to hide some of the ugly tattoos she disliked when she was younger. The only tattoo she has retained since being discharged is a pretty basic depiction of the Marine Corp logo and motto. Her most recent tattoo is a tiger’s face on the back of her left calf. As for scars, she has some minor cuts on her arms and legs, and two bullet scars, one on her right thigh, and the other on her left shoulder.
C L O T H I N G & G E A R
Being in service for so long instilled some habits into Jay. She rarely sports open-toe footwear, often defaulting to her favorite work boots the majority of the time. Her fashion sense is very utilitarian, with clothes that are comfortable and affordable, like jeans, button ups, slacks, and t-shirts, but regardless of what she wears she always looks put together and neat, and her style tends to lean more masculine. Her dark brown, upper-back length hair is most commonly found in a braid or bun to keep it out of the way.
As for what Jay keeps with her at all times, there isn’t much. She tends to travel light, usually with some kind of multi-tool or pocket knife, her cell phone, and some accessories for taking care of her dog. She doesn’t open carry, but she does have a pistol in her apartment kept in a locked safe. However, there is one thing she has with her at all times, and it's her service dog Achilles, or Chili for short. He is a large pitbull who’s head reaches just below her waist, with tan and white fur, bright blue eyes, and cropped ears, and he always has his “service dog” vest on. Despite the fact that Chili looks just as intimidating as his owner, he is a big sweetheart with a naturally calm disposition, but he takes his job seriously and isn’t easily distracted. Chili is there to ground Jay in case she has any PTSD episodes, along with checking her apartment every time they arrive at home, guarding her from behind, retrieving medication or items should she need them, and turning on lights if she can’t.
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L I K E S
The quiet - Being alone - Animals of all kinds, especially dogs and big cats - A smooth whiskey - Sparring - Cleaning firearms - Going to the shooting range - Planning out new tattoos - Hot chocolate - Fruity desserts - Pretty ladies - Drawing - Medium-rare steak - Traveling - Video games of all genres - Well lit rooms - Camping - Being in control - People who don’t pry - Learning about the human body - Swimming and the beach - Cold weather
D I S L I K E S
Surprises or anything startling - Large crowds - Being talked over - Overly excitable people - Judgemental people - Bigots of any kind - Darkness - Feeling trapped - Not having Chili with her - People who pet Chili without asking first - Being told what to do - Losing control of herself and her emotions - Her PTSD episodes - Bitter foods - Forced social settings - When she dissociates
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Jay, in most cases, is cold and brittle. If her appearance is intimidating, her personality reinforces that. Although not standoffish or quiet, she is often regarded as unexpressive. Her face remains flat as she speaks, with her icy gaze traveling from person to person as she addresses them. Somehow, Jay manages to keep herself guarded while also being assertive; she will speak her mind without prompting. In fact, she’s not afraid of any attention or scrutiny, and she thrives under whatever amount of pressure is put on her. Most people that work with her say she has a “bad attitude”, mostly because she’s aggressive and analytical to an intense degree and she takes shit from nobody. She is fantastic at reading people, and the moment she can sense someone challenging her or lying, she will point it out. Most people are surprised by how witty she is, but there’s a directness to her retorts, even if she employs sarcasm. She wants everyone to know that she is scared of nothing and nobody, and that she thinks she’s smarter than those around her. She doesn’t necessarily believe she’s inherently better than everyone else; Jay just knows her strengths and is confident in them. She’s confident in herself. Years in a high stress, high danger environment ensured that. If she wasn’t confident with herself in the field, she and her fellow Marines would die. This carried over even after leaving the service.
In fact, much of the person Jay is today is because of her time spent in the Marines. All of her just seems neat and orderly, ranging from her home to her handwriting. Her posture is impeccable, and all of her movements are measured and assertive. She regards authority figures with respect, always using the correct titles and honorifics, as long as she believes they have earned their position. People who do not deserve her respect will not be treated as such, and people who disrespect her will be met with the hostility they deserve. And when her brain is no longer the answer, she is not afraid to resort to violence should the need arise. In combat, she is brutal and swift; most cocky people tend to be unable to back themselves up, so she’s won the majority of her engagements.
However, Jay’s time in the service has done more than shape her demeanor. After many traumatic events, Jay was officially diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) less than six months after being discharged. PTSD comes in many different types and forms. For Jay, her most prominent symptoms are hypervigilance, dissociation, and psychosomatic episodes in the form of panic attacks. When she enters a building, her eyes are immediately scanning for exits and points of defense. In her own home, she cannot relax until she knows every room has been checked, every window is locked, and every door is secure. Chili helps her with that by providing an extra set of eyes and protection in her blindspots, along with quickly looking for intruders every time they return home. When she starts an episode, Jay has learned how to hide it, but she gets stuck in her own head. More often than not, she dissociates, her eyes glaze over and she becomes unresponsive. On occasion, she can devolve into a full blown panic attack. Chili can sense when the episodes are about to start, and he helps ground and distract Jay, hopefully before they get bad enough that she has to leave wherever she is and isolate.
All of this, of course, is Jay at face value. Even if she may be her genuine self at all times, to say she is guarded would be an understatement. She hasn’t “let anyone in” in years. Her mind has associated many emotions as weakness, so she blocks them out as fast as they pop up. Even if she acts like nothing scares her, expressing genuine happiness and love terrifies her. She worries it will get herself or someone she cares about killed, or if she does finally let someone in, they will use her. As a result, the ways that she conveys she cares about someone are unorthodox. She can become oddly protective of people, especially those who appear smaller and weaker than her. She does not tolerate those who use others for their own gain, and she will stand up for people without being asked to. She often does acts of service before everything else, wanting to be helpful to those around her. But, if anyone asks about it, she will deny it outright.
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H I S T O R Y
Jaycen Apollyon was born to two doctors. Her mother, a trauma surgeon, and her father, a veteran turned pediatrician. Her life was simple, easy. Money was never a problem, and Jaycen thrived in school. She had a sister, Phoebe, five years younger than her, and the two of them were as thick as thieves their entire lives. Everything was going well; Jay already picked some colleges to apply to for their pre-med programs. And then, her world fell apart. When she was home, studying for her first round of SATs, her parents and sister were in a freak car accident. A drunk driver t-boned them at an intersection. Her mother and father died on impact, but her sister, she held on for a while. A couple of weeks in a coma until a seizure took her late at night. Jay was only 16.
For the first year, she was bounced between homes. With no immediate family able to take her in, and nobody wanting a kid that would turn 18 in less than a few years, she was never able to settle. Only a few months after turning 17, Jay enlisted in the Marines, just like her father did in an attempt to get away from all the lawyers and families that didn’t want her. She spent a few months at Parris Island before officially joining the Marines. There, she excelled. The numbness had long since settled in her body, and while being able to turn off emotions, she made the perfect soldier. By 21, she was offered a position in the Marine Forces Special Operations Command; higher stakes, higher salary, more recognition. Jay said yes. She became a Marine Raider not long after, meaning she was on an elite team sent out to eliminate targets.
Jay’s time as a Raider is what affected her most. Spending weeks, months with a small group of people, deep in enemy territory, and having to do this process over and over… She changed. Her team was made up of ten people, all of them men except her and another woman, Charlotte. Jay bonded with Char; it was rare for women to be on an elite force like this. They crossed a few boundaries they shouldn’t have. Char was the first person Jay let in since the death of her parents and sister. On one mission, the team was split into two groups. Char and Jay were separated, and after coming back together a week later, Char was… different. Distant, easily angered, and every time Jay got close Char flinched away. It took weeks, but eventually Jay found out what happened to her. [TW: SA and suicide for the remainder of this paragraph] The four men on her team suddenly attacked her. They caught her off guard, sexually assaulted her, and threatened to kill her if she told anyone. Only a few weeks later, Jay found Char’s body; an apparent open and shut case of suicide.
For their next mission, the last one Jay would ever go on, she requested to be sent in alone with those same four men. It was slated to last a week, but three days later, Jay requested evac, alone, with a bullet wound in her shoulder. She told them all four were killed in the line of duty, and she barely escaped with her life. Of course, that’s not what actually happened. Jay killed all of them, somewhere deep in that desert, and burned their bodies. One had actually shot her, but that just made the entire thing more believable.
Due to her injuries and the result of a psych eval, Jay was honorably discharged. Now, with the support from the government and the money left behind from her parents, Jay decided to pursue what she should have years ago. She enrolled at LindenWood University, a place far, far away from her home city, in hopes of finding a change of pace. She got Chili about a year ago, and he has been exactly what she needs to adapt to civilian life once again. She hopes to one day be a surgeon just like her mother was.
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T H EX B L E S S I N G
Lion Physiology || Once Jay is taken as the host of Sekhmet, she will first be gifted with Lion Physiology. Lions are one of Africa’s apex predators, and they have the physical capability of maintaining that position. Jay’s senses will be heightened to an extreme degree, with her strongest sense shifting from sight (that of humans) to hearing (that of big cats). She will be able to see in the dark, detect the slightest of movements with her sight and her hearing, and her sense of smell will be sharp enough to track anything that exudes a scent. Along with her senses, her remaining corporeal abilities will be intensified. She will possess the strength of ten men, along with having lightning quick reflexes, enhanced flexibility, and the ability to leap more than a dozen feet into the air.
This shift in her physiology will manifest in physical traits as well. After becoming host, Jay will be gifted with the tail of a lion, sprouting from her tailbone. This will give her an enhanced sense of balance, however, if the tail is broken, her new sense of balance will be hindered. Along with a tail, a new, additional pair of ears will grow on the top of her head. Like a lion’s ears, they can swivel a full 180 degrees, giving her the ability to pick up on sounds that are behind her or out of view. At will, she will be able to grow claws from her fingers and toes, and lengthen her canines. With these canines, and the new bite force that came with her abilities, she will be capable of piercing through armor and obliterating even bone with a single bite. Those are the larger, most combat capable changes, but a few minor ones will also be present. In harsh light, her pupils will shrink to slits. She is capable of roaring, and like lions, it can be heard from several miles away. Some animalistic instincts will take the forefront of her consciousness, like licking her wounds, sniffing others to remember their scent, scent marking objects or people, responding to things with growls, etc.
Berserker Empowerment || Should the need arise, for a period of time, Jay is able to channel more of the power of Sekhmet and enter a Berserker state. When in this state, all of Jay’s physical capabilities are immensely enhanced. Her strength is increased, allowing her to lift hundreds of tonnes of weight or cleave through anything in her path. She is fast, almost impossibly so for her size. Her already heightened senses and reflexes are dialed to one hundred. And, most important of all, her body retains an almost impossible durability. Damage from blades or bullets will bounce off of her. This is not an infinite, impenetrable durability; flames and electricity are her biggest weakness, and attacks with immense force and pressure will still get through her defense. However, another benefit of her Berserker state ensures that she feels no pain. In fact, she doesn’t feel much at all. The only thought in her mind is to kill everything that stands in her way; a byproduct of allowing Sekhmet to essentially influence her every thought and action.
Her Berserker state is an impressive weapon, and when wielded properly, Jay is able to bring down armies on her own. But as powerful as it is, it comes with equally immense drawbacks. The biggest one being the strain it has on her physical form. Having the strength of a god explode out of a mortal body takes its toll on said mortal body. Assume the form for too long, and Jay’s body will deteriorate from said strain. Her blood vessels will start to burst, then muscles will tear, bones will break, and eventually organs will rupture. Her minor healing can help with most of it, repairing damage as it’s created, until it becomes too much for said healing. However, because she cannot feel pain, there is a risk of Jay not knowing she’s gone too far until it’s too late. While in her Berserker state, because she is so focused on killing everything in her path, her mental capacity is lowered. It's almost as if she blacks out and Sekhmet takes over, the perfect killing machine but nothing more, with no relationships or thoughts that matter. She may turn on friends and loved ones if they attempt to stop her from doing what Sekhmet wants, which is to kill as much as possible and fulfill her endless bloodlust.
Minor Healing || Jay is able to perform minor acts of healing. When on herself, her healing capabilities are much higher than on others. On others, she can close wounds, heal bruises, and stop bleeds, along with curing minor illnesses like viruses and infections. However, on herself, she can also heal broken bones and minor internal damage, but ruptured organs and removed body parts are impossible to fix. All of her healing is utterly exhausting for her to perform, and without her Berserker state, she cannot do multiple acts of healing.
S T R E N G T H S
Due to her time in the Marines, even without the blessing of Sekhmet, Jay is a capable fighter, both in close quarters and in range. And she’s won almost every engagement she’s been in; if she hadn’t, she wouldn’t be alive now. She is analytical and observant, and she can make quick decisions that many would consider tough or impossible. Her knowledge of the human body is extensive for a Freshman pre-med student, mostly because of her parents’ professional fields, and the fact that she took field medic training in the Marines and EMT training after she was discharged. Due to her intimidating presence, it’s not hard to frighten people, either into what she wants them to do, or away from her friends. She is a strong speaker, capable of speaking clearly and concisely, even under duress.
W E A K N E S S E S
Most people would consider Jay cold and unapproachable, meaning she has trouble forming close bonds and relationships. She doesn’t necessarily have a short temper in most cases, but there are a few things that can cause her to fly off the handle. And, even if she isn’t necessarily outwardly angered, Jay is fast to resort to physical violence if she sees no other option. Her PTSD affects almost everything she does. Chili and medication has managed to keep a handle on it, but she does have bad days. Many things can trigger her, and if Chili is taken away, she can devolve into a full blown episode or flashback. Because of her staunch independence, Jay will not ask people for help, even if she desperately needs it.
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