Post by Surge on Sept 4, 2010 7:09:08 GMT -5
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
MAY I INTRODUCE
MAY I INTRODUCE
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With a thousand lies, and a good disguise.
Hit ‘em right between the eyes, hit ‘em right between the eyes.
When you walk away, nothing more to say.
See the lightning in your eyes, see ‘em running for their lives.
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Me in a Nutshell
Hit ‘em right between the eyes, hit ‘em right between the eyes.
When you walk away, nothing more to say.
See the lightning in your eyes, see ‘em running for their lives.
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Me in a Nutshell
Characters full name: Noriko Ashida
Nicknames: Nori, Surge
Age & birthdate: 21, July 14th
Gender: Female
Affiliation: X-men
Sexuality: Straight
Face Claim: Yuna Ito
How I look Now
Hair: Nori has long dark blue hair, it was once short but she has sense grown it out and keeps it shaped around her face. Sometimes it will lay in waves while other times it stays completely straight.
Eyes: Nori has pretty almond shaped brown eyes, they will glow a bright electric blue when she is using her powers.
Look Description Nori stands at a slight 5’9” stature and weighs a healthy but light 140 lbs.
Done it Myself: Nori has both ears pierced once on each side.
It just Happened: Nori has a scar on her left ankle from when she fell out of a tree as a child. Her only other unusual feature is her bright blue hair, which she dyes.
More in Depth?
Personality:
Nori is a very stubborn and straight forward kind of girl, she‘s brutally honest most of the time and this tends to get her in trouble with authority or others of opposing opinions. She‘s not one to be mean with her explanations but she won‘t pull any punches when it comes to telling you the truth, sometimes the truth does hurt but she believes it‘s better to come to term with it then be in denial. Her attitude can sometimes lead her to actually get into fights as she is not one to back down if someone is willing to start one with her. She has even went so far as to go against or back talk someone of a higher status then herself if she believes that they are wrong without worrying about the consequences in the end. She really means well but she just doesn’t believe that there is any room for naivety in today’s world with all of its dangers. Such things never did her good when she was younger and she doesn’t want to see others disillusioned by the same things only to be let down. She’s also quite confident in herself, enough so that she sometimes jumps into situations that she cannot get out of because she will convince herself that she can handle it.
Even though she is extremely reckless with her own safety when it comes to others Nori will do whatever it takes to keep them safe, she is very protective and loyal. She has a natural born talent for taking leadership roles and is likely to be a dominant voice in any group she is apart of. Despite being the voice of reason with everyone else she’s also likely to be the mischief maker of the group, but only when it comes to her own safety is she reckless and wild. She’s grown out of such things as childhood pranks but she still causes a bit of trouble when she can, be it going out for joyrides or heading out to clubs she can usually find trouble wherever she goes even if she didn’t make it. She usually refrains from getting her friends mixed up in said trouble but she won’t blatantly ignore something that is happening if she knows it is wrong. However if her friends are dragged into the fight she is likely to go out of her way to keep them from getting hurt or she will harbor guilt for a few days if they do despite how small their injuries may be.
Nori can also be called a blatant feminist, despite coming from Japan and a very traditional and strict family Nori doesn‘t believe women are any less qualified then men. She prefers to see women in positions of leadership and power rather than stuck at home raising babies or doing housework. She‘s very passionate on this subject and sexism is not something you want to use around her unless you‘d like a good dose of electricity in your diet. She herself isn‘t sexist so boys and girls all the get the same treatment from her, she believes that if women want equality then they should show they are just as tough as men. This leads her to get into plenty of fights with men far bigger than herself, whether she wins or not varies on the situation but if it‘s against a human it‘s almost too obvious who would win that fight.
As a side effect to her powers Nori is what you’d call a night owl or an insomnia, all of the energy inside of her keeps her awake at night. She can go days without sleep and not tire but when she does sleep you‘re not going to be able to wake her up until she‘s damn well ready to wake up. She even claims she can hear the electricity humming inside of her when she lays down or goes silent and its not often you see her dwelling in silence for just that reason. She’s learned to control her electricity so that she can easily listen to an iPod or go into crowds without shocking someone so if she can get away she’ll usually head somewhere where there is loud music and something entertaining to do until morning or close to morning. She’d be a club rat if she thought she could get away with it but with a bunch of telepaths roaming the school and Cerebro in the basement she knows she’s not likely to get away with anything like that.
The last and most obscure part of her personality would be that she is responsible when the need arises. She may not seem like she takes things very serious but when something needs done or she is put in charge of getting something done she will stick with it to the end. She realizes the importance of some things and takes any position she is given very seriously sometimes supplanting all of her other traits simply to carry about her duties to those around her. This also contributes to her natural leadership as a whole.
Mom’s name: Yuki Ashida
Dad’s name: Sasuke Ashida
Siblings names: Keitaro Ashida
Other important relatives: None.
What I can Do and Can't
Powers:
-Electrical Absorption- Noriko is constantly absorbing electrical energy from the environment around her. She can absorb static electricity from the air, electrical outlets, appliances, storms, any electrical particles at all around her will be absorbed by her making her like a living breathing battery. Nori can’t control this absorption and often when she enters a room can cause the lights to flicker without meaning to, to regulate this power she is forced to wear a pair of specialized gauntlets on her hands.
-Lightning Blasts- Nori is able to channel the stored electrical energy in her body into her hands or her body. If she chooses to shoot this energy through her hands it will take the form of a bolt and have much more accuracy, this is usually used when fighting a solo opponent or when she is in a large crowd or group to avoid hurting her team mates or innocents. If she chooses to channel the power into her body she can release a large blast like area of electricity however it can only extend thirty feet from her body and can cause damage to anyone who is in that radius be it friend or foe. She rarely uses this unless in a dire situation as she doesn’t want to injure anyone by accident, usually she will do this as a last resort or if she is surrounded by foes.
-Superhuman Speed- Nori can channel her energy into short burst of superhuman speed. She doesn’t hit any of the mach speeds but she can easily outrun a vehicle. She can only do this for a short period of time before she has to let her body recharge again.
Abilities: Nori is bilingual meaning she can speak both fluent English and fluent Japanese. She lived in Japan until she was 13 with two very strict parents meaning that her speech is well taught and proper when speaking Japanese. However when she speaks English she is prone to using slang and sometimes mixing the two dialects if she isn’t paying attention.
Weaknesses: Noriko’s weakness is also her strength, her power. If she does not discharge the energy inside of her on a regular basis or she absorbs too much energy at once it can cause a mental overload. This mental overload can cause her to speak too fast either in English or Japanese, sometimes a jumble of both it can also cause her thoughts to scatter, and cause her powers to go out of control until she discharges the energy. Absorbing too much energy could be simply sticking her near something with a lot of electrical output or it could be caused by pent up energy if she is not allowed to release her powers on a regular basis. Another weakness would be using her rebellious streak against her, Nori is very susceptible to reverse psychology, tell her not to do something and she will do it just to spite you. She never thinks about whether this would be playing directly into your hands or not and instead acts on impulse.
What Happened to Me
Noriko “Nori” Ashida was born in Tokyo, Japan on July 14th to Sasuke and Yuki Ashida. She would be the younger sister to a delighted Keitaro Ashida with whom she would grow close to as they both grew up. Nori wasn’t a spoiled child by any means and neither was her brother Keitaro, their parents were both very strict and traditional when it came to their children. This meant that while Keitaro was taught to be the man of the house learning to fight, Nori was left with her mother to learn the art of being a housewife. This meant cooking, cleaning, and doing a multitude of other boring tasks that the young girl saw in no way befitting of a girl like herself. When she was able to get away with Keitaro he would often teach her what he had learned in his lessons with their father for the day and then the two would play together doing things unbefitting for a young lady such as climbing trees or catching frogs in the mud. During one of these play sessions Nori was climbing a Sakura tree, racing Keitaro to the top when she got too excited and managed to fall out of the tree breaking her ankle and cutting it to the bone on the way down. She still holds a scar from this incident but it didn’t stop her climbing trees once she was healed up, although her parents greatly restricted her playing area once they found out how she had done it.
As Keitaro and Nori grew so did their bond, the two were inseparable but as Nori grew more headstrong and wild Keitaro grew more level headed and compliant. He was often her voice of reason when it came to her regular antics, and his being the only advice she accepted he often kept her out of trouble. Nori accompanied her brother everywhere, the two even taking up Kendo together but Nori was never allowed to be an official member due to her parents strict rules on how she should act and she was forced to pretend to be taking cooking classes. When not with her brother Nori was often found playing video games and the like, her favorite games having to do with anything interactive to burn her energy off. Even before her powers manifested she was a very active and hyper girl, often going for walks late at night when she couldn’t sleep unbeknownst to her parents. Keitaro would sometimes accompany her to keep her safe, at least that is what he said, but really she guessed it was just more to enjoy her company and listen to her vent. Nori was able to keep her parents somewhat complacent, she wasn’t turning into the daughter they wanted her to but Keitaro was always willing to stick up for her and try to reason with them and at least calm them into ignoring her. She didn’t know what she would do without him, and so far he was one of the only things keeping her at her home, both on her end and her parents.
All of this changed however when she turned 13 and her powers manifested, they chose the worst place to do so as well. In her home. She was watching T.V. with her brother as they did when their parents weren’t home and they weren’t expected home until late when unexpectedly they arrived. The two scrambled to turn off the television but weren’t quick enough as their father entered, unwilling to blame it on Keitaro he took it out on Nori and proceeded to yell at her and berate her. The young girl had heard it all before but she was getting sick of it and before she knew it her eyes had begun to glow and the lights flickered, her family lapsed into silence but her anger had finally broken inside of her. She probably would have shocked her father to death that day had she not let off a random bolt and hit the television causing it to explode in a shower of sparks and startling her enough to calm her powers. Her father of course was furious and appalled to have a mutant as a daughter, and disowned her on the spot saying that in his eyes she no longer existed. Her mother being the obedient wife she was had nothing to say on the matter and only Keitaro still spoke to her but it wasn’t long before he was forbidden to do so and Nori was forced to be locked in her room day and night. She decided that despite the fact that she would miss her brother she refused to be treated as an animal and promptly ran away, she managed to stow away on a boat that was shipping goods to the US and arrived in New York not long after.
She remained homeless up until she was 16 and first laid eyes on Xavier's school, seeing her own kind grouped together under pleasant circumstances gave her hope and she made the decision to join the school without hesitation. Her powers were so erratic that she was likely to hurt someone around her so it was seen as a necessity that she be given a place at the school to learn how to control them and keep her and others around her safe. Not long after this a pair of gauntlets was designed for her that was made to regulate her absorption of electrical energy and keep her from overloading and having her powers rage out of control. When she first arrived Nori was of course surly and as likely to talk to you as to shock you but with constant cajoling and friendly treatment she finally settled in and became a somewhat fun, if slightly hard headed, girl.
The very Real you
your name: M or Honey
your age: 19
experience: 5 years.
contact: PM or AIM (WingsLikeAshes)
how you found us: Proboards Directory
writing sample:
The delicate frame of the blue haired Asian girl flew to the side like a rag doll as she dodged a fiery chuck of metal. No smile graced her face today only a grimace marred her pretty features as she took shelter behind a half destroyed wall and watched as more craters appeared around her. She could almost feel the heat coming from them and she winced as one slammed into the wall at her back causing dust to fall around her and make her cough. The wall was holding but she needed a plan of action quickly if she was going to come out of this on top, she suddenly spun out of cover just as another fragment of rock struck her cover and turned it into a pile of rubble where she had once sat. She hissed and gritted her teeth before unleashing a strong bolt at the oncoming sentinel, it was struck in the chest directly and the metal creaked to a halt making her grin in triumph. That had been easy, she really was quite the fighter if she didn‘t say so herself. She turned away only to hear a crunching noise and when she dared look over her shoulder it was to see a car hurtling towards her head. Her mouth dropped open in an almost comical look of surprise before she threw herself to the side and narrowly avoided becoming a pancake.
“How the hell did it…” she again had to pull herself up and move as another car was thrown her way but the unruly sentinel. She gritted her teeth and her eyes scanned over the machine looking for any weak point, “you‘re all on your own here Nori” she reminded herself before spotting a slight crack in the armor on the sentinel. It wasn’t very big and it was so high up that she doubted she could reach it unless she let the thing grab her or at least get close to grabbing her but it was the best shot she had at ending this whole thing. She pushed a piece of electric blue locks that had escaped her ponytail behind her ear before taking off in a dead sprint towards the machine that towered over her. When she saw it’s hand coming down she channeled her energy into her legs and the burst of speed she put on easily dodged the slow descent of it’s open hand that reached for her. She darted up its wrist and scrambled haphazardly along its metal arm trying her best to shimmy to the crack while it swatted at her with it’s free hand. The scene was of course kind of funny from an outsiders perspective, it looked like the sentinel was trying to swat a Nori sized fly from its arm while she continued to hold on for dear life and climb towards it’s back where the crack was. If she could just get her hand inside of that crack she could overload the systems and then she’d be home free. She grinned when she finally made it to his back and plunged her hand in “Haste la vista baby” she said quoting an old movie she’d seen and started to charge her powers.
‘Run halted, sequence overridden’ The mechanical voice of a woman spoke out and she groaned as lights flickered on and she was dropped to the floor. She had just been about to win too! She released her hair from it’s ponytail to look a little more intimidating and narrowed her eyes at the approaching figure that had just entered through the doors. She let her hands settle on her hips but she pointed one finger towards the floor and let off a bolt that effectively scorched the floor next to her. “What’s the big idea?” she snapped before her eyes picked out the features of Logan approaching her, her face instantly reverted into something less hostile. One it wasn’t wise to back talk Wolverine unless you had a death wish, and two he was one of her favorite people in the mansion whether he liked it or not, she was continually trying to get him to stop calling her kid but she guessed to him everyone was a kid. “Oh Logan it’s you, I was just practicing…again” she said and her smile was actually strained. He’d probably noticed that she’d been in here a lot lately, this week would mark another year she was away from her brother so it was only to be expected that she was a bit on edge. No doubt he and the other teachers remembered her last outburst on this particular week the preceding year and she was trying to avoid giving anyone a bloody lip this time.