Game: Floating Pern
Area: Zeroth Weyr
Position: Candidate
On-Site Profile: Jericho
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Name: Jericho
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Position: Candidate
Past Ranks: Holdbrat, Refugee
Gender: Female
Sexuality*: Pansexual
- Note that all sexualities are fluid or basically pansexual, due to ness's own sexual mindset. All characters are at base pansexual; they could go for anyone based on personality over gender. Some of them may lean, and have a gender preference. Some may be more bisexual. Bigenders, transgenders, and other genders may not be an issue on pern, so that aspect may not be an issue. Point: Personality over sexuality, which is why they will be listed as Pansexual with a potential lean.
Looks
Jericho's mutation haven't really touched most of her body. She's fairly standard in build— scrawny and small from having too little to eat, but otherwise normal. She's about 5'3", with a pointed face and delicate features. Her eyes are large and green, and her hair is blonde: she keeps it shorn short. A strange side-effect of the disease which remained in place are black splotches all over her skin which look like bruises, but they're a defect in appearance only. Otherwise, she has pale skin.
Personality
Jericho has been touched by her past life. She's very similar to a scared dog: slow to trust, jumpy, and wary. She's scared of her own abilities, though she's gained more control over them as time has worn on, and she's not used to being around people. She's lived by herself for so long, and it's desperation and hunger that brought her back to the civilization. She's rather nervous, especially in crowds or indoors.
That said, she's not a little bundle of fear. She's a strong female, who ordinarily would be quite overbearing and boiling over with independence if not for the nervousness brought about by her own circumstances.
Jericho is defiant. Even when nervous, she'll face down a challenge with a spark of anger in her eye. She rushes into challenges headlong and tackles them through momentum alone— though, really, having the ability to make shit explode helps a lot. She's both brave and courageous, and while her nerves may make her hesitate, it's not for very long. She gets more strength, it seems, the more impossible the task she has to face down is. She'll take hits, of course— usually mentally or emotionally— but she'll pull through or die trying.
Jericho is willful. She's strong-minded and strong-willed, all of her opinions are deeply held, and she's tenacious in following down something she wants or something she's set her mind to. She's a little bit too reckless sometimes— she jumps without thinking, and it can get her into trouble. She's reactionary, out of habit.
Jericho is independent. She doesn't like being told what to do, and pulling rank on her is only offensive. She's used to answering entirely to herself. She hates being manipulated, and hates doing anything unless she explicitly wants to. Giving incentive would reduce friction diplomatically— and she will take reasons such as "it would really make x happy if you," or "Help person y by…" Please and thank you go a long way. It's not that she doesn't want to do anything, it's that she wants to be the one making her own decisions.
She's restless; she's used to action. She doesn't trust quiet periods in life; they make her nervous. She'll seek out entertainment or something if things are too dull, simply because being bored makes her nervous. She's afraid something horrible will happen, and things will go to shit if she allows herself to be bored too long.
Life to Jericho is a fleeting creature. She knows that it's fragile, and that terrifies her. She doesn't want to go out, and she certainly doesn't want to go out having spent the entire time being too nervous to get anywhere. She frequently says that she'd rather not be the person who sits on their deathbed going, "I should've…", she wants to be the person who's put out violently on their back, thinking "Way to suck that lemon." She lives life for the sake of living life.
Jericho is toothy, in the sense that she "Will bite"- will react in a fight- and rather gritty at times. She's protective, and somewhat possessive— anything she considers hers she will fight to the death over. She won't hold it that close, all the time: she's not that breed of possessive. She'll simply leap at the throat of anything which threatens stuff that's HERS. She can and will be violent if the need occurs. You know why? Blowing shit up is fun, and useful in a fight. She's very loyal, almost blindly so, to anything that manages to win her trust.
Jericho has a lot of momentum. She does everything with the full weight of her personality behind it. She's passionate, and throws everything she has into anything she does that's worth anything. She gets caught up in moving forward, sometimes, unable to stop. she can be vicious, but she can also be very sweet.
Jericho is a fairly social creature. It has wounded her to be so alone for so long. She is gregarious and friendly, and she likes talking to people and being around people: she's most comfortable around a small group of those she trusts, and she rather hates being alone. Of course she can be alone, but she never liked it- even if now she's uncomfortable in groups. It's the stranger factor that unnerves her there. She does need people and she enjoys having them around- she's just uncomfortable, now, having forgot a lot of social graces and being plunged into a group when she's been alone so long. If she finds her footing, she will ease into it well.
She's very sweet to those she likes, and she's prone to show affection by doing thoughtful little things for people or bringing them small gifts.
History
Jericho was born only a year before the disasters began, and only a few years before they became commonplace. she was lucky in two ways: first, that she was born early enough to have reached an age where she could walk when shit hit the fan, and because she was born in a hold which stayed stable for long enough to hit the age of 10 before she was forced to become a refugee.
Her family held out for as long as they could, unwilling to give up their ancestral land. It was theirs, they had worked for generations to live there, they didn't want to just roll over and admit defeat! but in the end they had to, and only her mother left: her father stayed behind and was never heard from again.
When the plague happened, her mother succumbed, and she almost did— surviving weeks after her mother had died in the same stinking, fetid room. She had lapsed into a coma, and woke to find her mother's corpse, having succumbed to the illness after her daughter had gone unconsious for the last time. This was a hard blow, and twice so because Jericho was now totally alone in the world.
In her frustration, she destroyed everything in the room— and in doing so first discovered her abilites. She blew out a wall in the room with her tendency to make things explode, and immediately fled, not knowing it had been her own power to cause the explosion.
It took her about a week to figure out that she was causing the explosions, and that the discolorations on her skin weren't about to go away. It bothered the girl, then entering puberty: she would never be pretty, or attract boys or girls. But then again, there weren't many girls or boys to attract. Terrified of her own abilities, she'd fled into the wilderness to keep things.. safe. Whether it was her or others she was protecting is unclear.
She stayed there for awhile, living off of her own abilties. She learned the hard way to control her new skill: mostly through hunting and self-defense. There are a lot of monsters out there, the least of which are whers and wild animals. Hunger and danger combined to give her a good, if desperate, cling to her own abilities.
Mutation
The one physical side-effect to Jericho's mutations is odd discolorations across her skin which look like bruises. They are not bruises and offer her no discomfort or issue: they're just splotches of strange color.
Outside of that, her mutation is purely energy: literally. Somewhere between electricity and light, she can generate colored charges of electricity and direct them places. She can also make things explode in multicolored bursts of light and fire (The fire's normal fire color— it's just a side effect of making shit explode, not anything she does intentionally.) The mechanism behind the explosion is unknown— possibly she supercharges it with the electricity, or something. Whatever it is, the stuff that explodes usually gets hot enough to catch fire.
When it first emerged, JEricho had a lot of issue controlling this mutation, but now she has it reigned in. It seems not to be connected to emotions— pissing Jericho off won't set her exploding anything around her. That said, pissing her off may choose to make everything near her explode— but that's an issue with self-control, not the mutation itself.
She was recently discovered running, half wild, out on the beaches by a greenrider. That rider's dragon deemed her an appropriate candidate, and when none were to be had. She was more then happy to go wherever someone was offering her a warm meal, so no desperate measures needed to be taken.
Family
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Active threads
- The Art Of Blowing Shit Up (Weyrbowl/ Zofia)
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An: Australian shepherd
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Started as: candidate
Starting Age: 15
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-Jericho
scared dog- slow to trust, jumpy, wary. scared of own abilities. not used to being around people. nervous, esp in crowds or indoors. strong, not a bundle of fear, ordinarily would be overbearing. independent. defiant. face down challenges. rushes into challenges headlong. brave, courageous, nerves make her hesitate so she runs forward. gets strength from impossible tasks. pull through or die trying. doesn't like being told what to do. answers to herself. hates being manipulated, hates doing anything unless wants to. does things for incentive- and "making person x happy" is incentive. likes people being courteous to her. wants to make her own decisions. restless. used to action, doesn't trust quiet. seek entertainment if things are dull, bored makes her nervous. life is fleeting- tries to push through nerves and take it by reigns. live life for sake of living life. toothy, will bite, will react in a fight, gritty, protective, possessive, anything she considers hers will fight over. can and will be violent. loyal, almost blindly. momentum. full weight of personality in everything she does. passionate. throws everything she has into things. caught up in moving forward. vicious, sweet. social, being alone wounded. gregarious and friendly, after nerves. likes talking to people. most comfortable in small group, hates to be alone. now uncomfortable in groups, so adjusting will be hard. sweet to those she likes, affectionate, shows it through small favors and gifts. reactive, stubborn.
