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Apollo

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a character in “Project Atlas”, as played by Vix

Description

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“Kicking ass and taking names -- It's my thing.”




The Basics




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Full Name
Astrid Rebekah Torres

Aliases
Her government given codename is Apollo. Her friends/acquaintances call her Astro, Bekah, or Tori. Her superhero friends call her Firefly. Clint calls her Luminesca.

Gender
Female

Age
24

Ethnicity - Species
¼ Brazilian, ¼ Cuban, ¼ Swedish, ¼ Ukrainian - Superhuman

Occupation
Art has been waiting tables and cooking at a small diner in the Bronx called “Deb's” since she was 15 and has been street performing since she was thirteen. She currently still works at Deb's and busks as well as her superhero gig. She makes side money by selling cover albums on iTunes. She was formerly an amateur boxer and underground MMA fighter.






What's on the Outside




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Hair & Eye Color
Her hair is naturally blonde though she is prone to dying it various different colors and her eyes are a bright shade of green.

Height & Weight
5'2" & 120lbs

Tattoos & Piercings
As far as tattoos, she has a bar code on the back of her neck and a short score of music wrapping from her left shoulder to just before her elbow. On the underside of her left wrist is a sword and bow making an "X" over a shield with "True Justice" underneath it. The left side of her torso sports a large Yggdrasil with the roots sprawling down her thigh. Like so. She also has tattoos on her Left arm, right arm, & left foot. Her piercings include three in her earlobe, an industrial piercing, a tongue piercing, navel, her right eyebrow, her nose, and “angel kiss” piercings in her lip.

Scars
Her figure is adorned in a number of faded scars from fights and beatings as a child and teen. The only scar that she has above her neck is a horizontal scar on her right cheek.

Character Color
#DD00FF






What's on the Inside




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Personality
{Bold, Daring, Adventurous, Outgoing, Kind, Warm, Thoughtful, Creative, Intuitive, Ruthless, Rough, Cold, Vengeful}

Just like a coin, there are two sides of Astrid. The initial Astrid is very amiable and finds it easy to approach others, though she is wary around most humans nowadays. She's your typical sweetheart, often throwing people off because her type of sweet is a rare thing these days. She would offer a total stranger her jacket if they were cold or perhaps a slice of pie if they seemed sad. Despite being so forward and friendly, she still manages to give off a bashful vibe towards those who don't know her well enough. Once a person has earned the right to be called her friend, they aren't just a witness to her outgoing and whimsical mannerisms, but they become involved and she's more open.

She's the type of girl who prefers spending time with her friends over solitude unless she needs some time to think. She's almost always with someone though, even if she's just reading a book or writing a new song. She's never still for too long, having to do something that keeps her moving. Because of this, she often prefers to be outside entertaining. Whether she's in the middle of the mall, a 7/11, or the street, she has no problem bursting into song, dancing, performing acrobatic stunts, acting out a scene from Hamlet, or breaking out an instrument. She's not really an attention-whore, as some would misunderstand. She just likes to see a smile on people's faces while being able to express herself and her talents. She's very proud of her talents, though not overbearingly so to the point where she has to point it out in every conversation or display them to anyone who hasn't seen yet. In actuality, when it comes to performing in front of others, she tends to only do it to cheer them up or busk. She's never actually uploaded any videos of herself performing from home – All videos of her performing are from her busking. She'll only perform socially at the request of others and prefers that she's not the center of attention outside of busking.

Express yourself is a phrase that she's highly familiar with. Art is her life and her passion, easily told by the tattoos and piercings adoring her body. One of her pet peeves is being judged (herself and others) for tattoos and piercings. She literally has a rebuttle for anything and everything that a person might try to argue about in a conversation against body art, as she's been approached more than once (like so many others) by people (mostly old people) with reserves against body art. She's very proud of the ink that she's put on her body and finds herself often doodling more onto them every now and again when the inspiration hits her. She frequents tattoo shops to observe the work of others (maybe now and again to do some work of her own for some cash) and isn't against sitting in an art museum for hours to stare at a painting or sculpture to wonder what the artist was feeling. She wishes that every artist had her ability to make others feel as they do when they perform or paint, thinking that more people would truly appreciate art if they could.

Most people doubt her capabilities as a superhero because of her whimsical nature in and out of battle. She's comfortable with waltzing around her opponent with taunting dances and giggles, cheesy comic book one-liners being dropped with every hit she throws. She doesn't seem to take fighting very seriously. She's already got a reputation for posing for the nearby media in the middle of a fight. However, when it comes to battles where innocent lives are at stake she's a bit more serious and far more deadly and cold. She becomes ruthless and calculating with an almost evil nature. She's been forced by the government to attend anger management classes three times a week to help keep her in check.

Hobbies
※ Working out ※ Playing instruments ※ Writing ※ Composing ※ Modeling ※ Reading ※ Cooking ※ Cleaning ※ Baking ※ Listening to music ※ Raiding comic book shops ※ Parkour ※ Skateboarding ※ Raiding record shops ※ Raiding thrift stores ※ Uploading new songs and videos ※ Busking ※

Habits
※ Humming ※ Writing on her hands and upper arms ※ Tattooing herself ※ Reciting facts ※ Quoting songs, poems, and books ※ Quoting movies ※ Just quoting in general ※ Scratching her hands when she's nervous ※ Babbling when she's hiding something from someone she cares about ※ Cooking when stressed ※ Not looking where she's walking ※

Likes/Loves
✔ Music ✔ Art ✔ Combat ✔ Vlogging ✔ Writing new songs ✔ Reading ✔ Hanging out in Stark Tower ✔ Watching Stark and Banner work ✔ Spying on Captain Rogers while he works out ✔ Candy ✔ Organic food ✔ Eating pure sugar ✔ Subs ✔ Seafood ✔ Steak ✔ Flying ✔ Her truck ✔ Her pets ✔ Tolerance ✔ Salmon ✔ Free running ✔ Movies ✔ Quoting ✔ Kids ✔ Busking ✔

Dislikes/Hates
✘ Self-important people ✘ Bologna ✘ The smell of Pinesol ✘ Black licorice ✘ Watching horror films alone ✘ Watching war films alone ✘ Being without her stuffed panda ✘ Disorder ✘ Nihilism ✘ Bigotry ✘ Dogmatism ✘ Beef stew ✘ Most stew in general ✘ Feeling useless ✘ Black licorice ✘ Advanced darkness ✘ Needles ✘ Doctors ✘ Being examined or stared at ✘ Being all alone ✘ Emoty night skies ✘ Itchy clothes ✘ Centipedes ✘ Loose clothes ✘ Sweaty pits ✘ Fighting ✘ Yelling ✘





What Makes Us Special




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Strengths and Weaknesses

Powers – Attributing to her initial mutation she has a certain degree of control over light and an ability referred to as performance art intuition. She has the ability to generate, bend, shift, focus, scatter, and generally control light to various degrees and effects. From weapons to steps to shields, Astrid can solidify the light photons and manipulate their shape and density to aid her. She uses this for flight often, creating a “surfboard” under her feet and using her control over light to move herself. By energizing the light photons and directing them, she can create an offensive and powerful blast and even create lasers to sear her targets. Astrid sees the world around her in extreme HD and literally doesn't miss anything around her. It's pretty useful for noticing nervous twitches in suspects as well as spotting things from far away. Though, she's not Superman; She can't see clear across a city. She can individually pick someone out in a crowd from half a mile away. Astrid can bring about an area of darkness through repelling or simply absorbing the light photons around her or her target. Through scattering and stretching and bending light photons, she can cast about an area of absolute light, allowing for no shadow and even no visibility, possibly blinding people temporarily or permanently.

Rather than creating illusions in someone's mind like a telepath, she can make something that is solid and real. Sort of. Whether it's a walking, talking person or a large building. Of course, she needs empty space to create the illusion; She can't make a wall lead into a room that isn't there. The difference between her holographs and visual illusions is that the holographs are impalpable and the illusions are solid. Astrid's ability to generate light comes from the light inside of her. Literally. Photons of light are integrated to her every molecule. Even her boogers glow. Lovely imagery right there. Anyways. When not too worn out, Astrid can manage to become light. Her body fades away and her clothes drop and she becomes light. She can still hear and see and smell (she has yet to figure out how that works out) but she is intangible – For as long as she needs to be. In addition to her ability over light, she is well noted for her “Art Intuition”. Her combination of mastery over light and art is what earned her the codename Apollo. While one might not think that being able to master various art forms without trying is hardly much of a power or even out of the ordinary, the fact that she can sway people's emotions and thoughts through her work is quite a power. Hardly an aggressive power, but it has its uses. It's rather entertaining as well.

Physical Conditions – An attribute of the genes injected into her as a child is her incredible physical abilities. At her peak she is able to lift and throw two tons without straining too much, running at speeds above that of even the finest human athlete and her reflexes surpass that of even the most fit felines. Astrid's musculature produces considerably less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of a regular human being so she can exert herself at peak capacity for about ten hours before fatigue begins to impair her. Her body is much more resistant to physical harm than the body of a human being. She is capable of withstanding great impact forces, exposure to temperature and pressure extremes, powerful energy blasts, and medium caliber bullets. Astrid's bodily tissues have about one and a half times the density as the bodily tissue of a human being. As a result, she is actually much heavier than she appears. This increased tissue density also contributes somewhat to her physical strength and endurance. She had grown into the body of a twenty-one year old by the age of twelve and has not physically aged since. Despite her body's resistance, Astrid can be injured like any other. However, her metabolism enables her to rapidly regenerate damaged bodily tissue with greater speed and efficiency than a human being is capable of. Injuries such as slashes and punctures can heal within minutes whereas broken bones can heal within a few days. However, she is not capable of regenerating severed limbs or missing organs.

Education – She's never gone to college, believing in self-study. She speaks English, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

Combat – She's a 5th degree black belt in Muay Thai and a formidable boxer, a former Bantamweight Youth World Amateur Champion.

Domestic – Her domestic skills include cooking, familiar with many recipes through surfing the web. She is also a frequent traceuse. She's never had formal training but her mutation allows her to excel naturally in various forms of art.

Weaknesses, Disabilities, & General Flaws
Physical – She knew a hero once upon a time who could heal and who also didn't know about Astrid's healing factor. She had broken her arm and the young mutant tried to heal her while Astrid's own body was in the process. Doing so didn't work out so well and now when her left arm is hit with enough force it goes numb for days.

Oddities – She cannot sleep. She might get tired, but she cannot sleep for any longer than three or four hours a day. It's on the last seven days of every month when she just shuts down, her body entering a state of self-preservation as she recharges completely. It's these seven days when she's at her weakest. You could throw her done a flight of stairs and she still wouldn't wake up. She can stave off that sleep for a few days if she must, but she'll sleep for every day that she missed.

Mental & Emotional – She is mildly schizophrenic with a dash of PTSD, a sprinkle of paranoia, and a hearty helping of dysphoric mania. She thinks that she's a little crazy, unaware that her nightmares are slivers of memories and her mental disorders stem from those memories that slip through.

Medical – She is allergic to asparagus, peanuts, paprika, codfish, poppies, bush daises, carnations, copper, and papayas. She also has a marijuana, sugar, and alcohol addiction. She is incapable of ingesting any non organic food or drink without growing violently sick.

Secrets
⋆Her scars
⋆Her abilities
⋆Her addictions
⋆Her inability to digest processed foods

Fears/Phobias
☠Dying in her sleep
☠Fire
☠Being left alone
☠Being captured and experimented on





What's Done Is Done




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Biography

Place Of Origin
Queens, New York City, New York
Bronx, New York City, New York

Birth Date
March 21st, 1993

History
Astrid was born when a Hispanic butcher harbored and soon married an immigrant from the Ukraine. Out of this relationship came two children: Astrid and Ásbjorn. Now, these two children absolutely adored their parents, though they were more inclined to their mother. But their happiness wouldn't last for too long, as they were soon thrust into a world of darkness and abuse. See, Freya had grown weary of her husband as he soon began "finding Jesus". It countered her own religious beliefs and he began to look at their children in a way that made her uncomfortable. Not to mention that her life had grown stale and her husband lazy. And so she told her children that they were leaving - She was going to take them elsewhere with the man that she had been seeing for a few months. She hadn't had the chance before Edgar killed his wife and abandoned his children. After shooting Freya in the head in front of the children, he beat them until they were a bloody mess and drove them out into the middle of the woods where he left them. Why would he do that? Because Edgar had always been an unstable man. His new religion didn't balance him out -- It only allowed him to claim a righteous cause for kill an adulterous wife and beating disobedient children. So. For seven years they suffered daily emotional, mental, physical, verbal, and sexual abuse. Or at least Astrid did. Ásbjorn was nine when he died from untreated pneumonia. It was damn near a miracle that she didn't catch it as well.

She was eighteen when she moved out of Xavier's and got her own apartment in the Bronx, continuing to work at a small diner that she had been working at when she planned to move out – Busking wasn't going to pay her new bills.

Extra
※She doesn't use manmade weapons. Her choice of weapon is a small sphere of light that she can morph into what she wants though she doesn't fight (yet). She also has a number of instruments, but she mostly uses her violin.※

※She has two vehicles – Her civilian vehicle is a 2008 GM Sierra while her other is a “surfboard” made of light.※

※She always wears locket like her brother's containing a picture of herself, her brother, and her mother.※

※She has a Samoyed-Pomeranian mix named Bastille, a Corgi named Talisman, and a Sugar Glider named Jade.※

※She always has her phone, her iPad, or laptop with her if not all three for the purpose of mixing new songs and making new beats.※

※She keeps a handwritten journal in which she records her songs, poems, nightmares, dreams, and art.※




So begins...

Apollo's Story