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PLAYER INFORMATION
Grace // melancholise
lightflower@gmail.com (email) // orangeskids (AIM)
For contact, email or a PM is probably better, though, because I live in Asia and am thirteen hours ahead of PST. \o/
I also play Cassandra Cain and Koriand'r.
On RP: I'm easygoing and perfectly fine with slowtagging and even dropping threads -- sometimes RL's a bitch, and I know how that feels. If you have to drop a thread, just let me know and we can handwave the ending so at least we know what happened and can reference it in our respective characters' CR rather than leave it hanging! :D
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Karolina Dean, usually shortened to "K" or "Kar"
CODENAME: "Lucy in the Sky"
SERIES/SOURCE: Marvel 616 / Runaways
AGE: Sixteen
GENDER: Female
ROLE: Student
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BACKGROUND:
Karolina's history can pretty much be divided into "Stuff She Knows" and "Stuff She Doesn't Know".
"Stuff She Knows" includes that she is the only daughter of Frank and Leslie Dean, General Hospital stars touted as the perfect celebrity couple. Despite their fame, they've tried their best to give her a normal life, sending her to a regular school and keeping her safely away from the public eye and the tiniest hint of Hollywood scandal.
"Stuff She Doesn't Know" includes that her mom and dad, Frank and Leslie Dean, are secretly actually aliens. Specifically, exiles from the planet of Majesdane who have made their new home undercover on Earth. Which, of course, means she's an alien too -- something that probably won't go down well with her if or when she finds out. In addition, the Deans secretly control a substantial portion of the Los Angeles criminal underworld, directing much of the smuggling activities across California. Karolina probably wouldn't approve of that either.
But what Karolina doesn't know can't hurt her. For now.
Karolina grew up just outside Hollywood, but she lived a pretty normal life for a daughter of two celebrities (and criminal aliens). Her parents didn't spoil her and she was no different from any other upper-middle-class girl. She never had an inkling there was anything particularly special about herself until the day when she accidentally pulled off her medic alert bracelet -- this was a bracelet her parents had made her wear all the time ever since she was four, because she was "allergic to penicillin", they said -- and her mutant powers manifested.
At least, she thought they were mutant powers. She could glow, and the light that suddenly swirled around her body was iridescent with yellows and blues and pinks, and moments later she discovered she could fly too. What she did not know was that these powers were not the result of her having the X-gene, but part of her alien heritage.
Karolina was thrilled at first, especially at the being able to fly part, but then she became worried. In the face of growing anti-mutant sentiment all across the country, a genefreak wasn't exactly the best thing to be. Even if she was a sparkly rainbow genefreak. To her relief, she discovered that the bracelet could inhibit her powers, so that at least she didn't have to look different all the time.
When her parents -- secretly aliens, remember? -- discovered that she had found out she was superhuman, they were worried that she might dig till she found out about her true heritage and the secrets they were keeping from her. They allowed her to believe that the powers she had manifested had mutant origins.
Things might have continued peacefully in this way, had not Karolina confessed her powers to her best friend. This friend, not being as loyal a friend as K had thought she was, reacted with disgust and outed Karolina to the whole school.
Gossip and hearsay blew her powers out of proportion, and soon parents were complaining that the Dean girl was a danger to the entire student population. The local press jumped on the story, sensationalizing the furious debate over the treatment of mutants. Karolina's parents were forced to pull their distraught daughter out of public school.
Under fire from several directions and left with no other choice, they reluctantly assented to her enrollment in the Xavier Institute. They knew it was entirely possible that close examination of Karolina's powers by trained teachers might reveal that she was an extraterrestial, but it was the only school they could send her to.
She's pretty hopeful about being here. It's a new place, but she doesn't really have any friends left back home anyway, and she can always make new ones. It's a place where she can feel a little bit less like a freak and maybe figure out exactly who she is. Although the answer to that question is one that she might not, in the end, like very much.
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PERSONALITY:
For someone who comes from such nasty parents, peace-loving Karolina is a genuinely, sincerely good person. She's the kind of girl who rescues half-drowned kittens from gutters and helps old ladies cross the road. She makes decisions with her heart rather than her mind: her empathy and kindness compel her to alleviate suffering, for example by choosing to live as a vegan.
In groups, K often plays the peacemaker role, trying to smooth over tensions. She isn't a pushover, though -- she can be very passionate about the things she cares about, including environmental causes, veganism and charity work. She's more of a follower than a leader, but threaten her friends or her team, and she will fight back even if she's afraid. With those close to her, she is very affectionate; with younger kids or people she views as needing her protection, she can be very motherly.
That's not to say nothing can get her down. Under that sunny exterior, K faces a great deal of insecurity about her self identity. Most teenagers go through some angst trying to figure out just who they are growing up into, and K is no exception. On top of that she's been pretty badly hit by the discovery that she is a mutant (as far as she knows). She swings between two extremes: sometimes she loves her powers so, so much, and sometimes she just feels like a freak -- the latter sentiment not assuaged in any way by her peers' negative reactions to her being "outed" back home.
And she is slowly starting to realise that she isn't straight. She isn't quite ready to say "lesbian" yet, but she's...not-straight. She likes girls, and she worries about how people might judge her if they know. Being a freak sucks, and Karolina feels like she will never, ever manage not to be one. She hides this sentiment under a a bright smile and tries to be confident and self-assured, but it is something that haunts her constantly.
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APPEARANCE:
In her human form, Karolina is 5"9 and of light build, with blonde hair, blue eyes and a pretty smile. Her alien form is far more interesting: though her basic body structure remains humanoid, her body and her hair appear to be composed of liquid light. Her eyes glow from within and pastel rainbows chase each other over the surface of her fluorescent skin, making her look ~shimmery~ and ~magical~. When she moves, sparkles and wisps of light trail behind her.
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POWERS:
She's like a giant solar cell! She is able to absorb solar radiation, store it in her body and her blood, and convert it into a unique form of cosmic energy that she can then manipulate as she wishes. She hasn't really tried yet, but with training she can learn to do very useful things with it. Like blasting destructive beams of light, or lifting heavy things, or forming defensive shields, or grabbing people.
Karolina recharges this solar energy in sunlight, which means that it's possible for her to overexert herself at night and be forced to return to human form -- drained of all alien powers until daytime when she can absorb sunlight again.
She can also fly. (Presumably, she's lighter in her alien form. Or. Something. Science is for the weak!) The limits of speed and altitude have yet to be determined, but in alien form she's strong enough to carry people with her as she flies.
Her powers can be disabled by the "medic alert" bracelet her parents gave her, made of a metal which inhibits the abilities unique to Majesdenians. It comes on and off depending on whether she's switching to human or alien form.
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ANYTHING ELSE?:
History is retconnable for other Runaways. Especially those of the Xavin variety. 8D Although if anyone does app any of the other Runaways, it's perfectly possible to not follow the canon storyline too.
Also, note: her powers are alien. Not mutant. That means her bracelet (a pretty odd object, even on its own) doesn't work to inhibit other mutants' powers, and mutants with power-annulling abilities -- like Leech, or I think in-game not!Canada Matthew? -- will have no effects on her. I would imagine that, being an alien, her brain would feel different to telepaths too. All these anomalies added together are pretty much a beacon shouting I'M NOT A NORMAL HUMAN (OR EVEN A MUTANT)! So it wouldn't be too surprising if teachers or peers noticed.
:)
Grace // melancholise
lightflower@gmail.com (email) // orangeskids (AIM)
For contact, email or a PM is probably better, though, because I live in Asia and am thirteen hours ahead of PST. \o/
I also play Cassandra Cain and Koriand'r.
On RP: I'm easygoing and perfectly fine with slowtagging and even dropping threads -- sometimes RL's a bitch, and I know how that feels. If you have to drop a thread, just let me know and we can handwave the ending so at least we know what happened and can reference it in our respective characters' CR rather than leave it hanging! :D
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Karolina Dean, usually shortened to "K" or "Kar"
CODENAME: "Lucy in the Sky"
SERIES/SOURCE: Marvel 616 / Runaways
AGE: Sixteen
GENDER: Female
ROLE: Student
------------------------------
BACKGROUND:
Karolina's history can pretty much be divided into "Stuff She Knows" and "Stuff She Doesn't Know".
"Stuff She Knows" includes that she is the only daughter of Frank and Leslie Dean, General Hospital stars touted as the perfect celebrity couple. Despite their fame, they've tried their best to give her a normal life, sending her to a regular school and keeping her safely away from the public eye and the tiniest hint of Hollywood scandal.
"Stuff She Doesn't Know" includes that her mom and dad, Frank and Leslie Dean, are secretly actually aliens. Specifically, exiles from the planet of Majesdane who have made their new home undercover on Earth. Which, of course, means she's an alien too -- something that probably won't go down well with her if or when she finds out. In addition, the Deans secretly control a substantial portion of the Los Angeles criminal underworld, directing much of the smuggling activities across California. Karolina probably wouldn't approve of that either.
But what Karolina doesn't know can't hurt her. For now.
Karolina grew up just outside Hollywood, but she lived a pretty normal life for a daughter of two celebrities (and criminal aliens). Her parents didn't spoil her and she was no different from any other upper-middle-class girl. She never had an inkling there was anything particularly special about herself until the day when she accidentally pulled off her medic alert bracelet -- this was a bracelet her parents had made her wear all the time ever since she was four, because she was "allergic to penicillin", they said -- and her mutant powers manifested.
At least, she thought they were mutant powers. She could glow, and the light that suddenly swirled around her body was iridescent with yellows and blues and pinks, and moments later she discovered she could fly too. What she did not know was that these powers were not the result of her having the X-gene, but part of her alien heritage.
Karolina was thrilled at first, especially at the being able to fly part, but then she became worried. In the face of growing anti-mutant sentiment all across the country, a genefreak wasn't exactly the best thing to be. Even if she was a sparkly rainbow genefreak. To her relief, she discovered that the bracelet could inhibit her powers, so that at least she didn't have to look different all the time.
When her parents -- secretly aliens, remember? -- discovered that she had found out she was superhuman, they were worried that she might dig till she found out about her true heritage and the secrets they were keeping from her. They allowed her to believe that the powers she had manifested had mutant origins.
Things might have continued peacefully in this way, had not Karolina confessed her powers to her best friend. This friend, not being as loyal a friend as K had thought she was, reacted with disgust and outed Karolina to the whole school.
Gossip and hearsay blew her powers out of proportion, and soon parents were complaining that the Dean girl was a danger to the entire student population. The local press jumped on the story, sensationalizing the furious debate over the treatment of mutants. Karolina's parents were forced to pull their distraught daughter out of public school.
Under fire from several directions and left with no other choice, they reluctantly assented to her enrollment in the Xavier Institute. They knew it was entirely possible that close examination of Karolina's powers by trained teachers might reveal that she was an extraterrestial, but it was the only school they could send her to.
She's pretty hopeful about being here. It's a new place, but she doesn't really have any friends left back home anyway, and she can always make new ones. It's a place where she can feel a little bit less like a freak and maybe figure out exactly who she is. Although the answer to that question is one that she might not, in the end, like very much.
------------------------------
PERSONALITY:
For someone who comes from such nasty parents, peace-loving Karolina is a genuinely, sincerely good person. She's the kind of girl who rescues half-drowned kittens from gutters and helps old ladies cross the road. She makes decisions with her heart rather than her mind: her empathy and kindness compel her to alleviate suffering, for example by choosing to live as a vegan.
In groups, K often plays the peacemaker role, trying to smooth over tensions. She isn't a pushover, though -- she can be very passionate about the things she cares about, including environmental causes, veganism and charity work. She's more of a follower than a leader, but threaten her friends or her team, and she will fight back even if she's afraid. With those close to her, she is very affectionate; with younger kids or people she views as needing her protection, she can be very motherly.
That's not to say nothing can get her down. Under that sunny exterior, K faces a great deal of insecurity about her self identity. Most teenagers go through some angst trying to figure out just who they are growing up into, and K is no exception. On top of that she's been pretty badly hit by the discovery that she is a mutant (as far as she knows). She swings between two extremes: sometimes she loves her powers so, so much, and sometimes she just feels like a freak -- the latter sentiment not assuaged in any way by her peers' negative reactions to her being "outed" back home.
And she is slowly starting to realise that she isn't straight. She isn't quite ready to say "lesbian" yet, but she's...not-straight. She likes girls, and she worries about how people might judge her if they know. Being a freak sucks, and Karolina feels like she will never, ever manage not to be one. She hides this sentiment under a a bright smile and tries to be confident and self-assured, but it is something that haunts her constantly.
------------------------------
APPEARANCE:
In her human form, Karolina is 5"9 and of light build, with blonde hair, blue eyes and a pretty smile. Her alien form is far more interesting: though her basic body structure remains humanoid, her body and her hair appear to be composed of liquid light. Her eyes glow from within and pastel rainbows chase each other over the surface of her fluorescent skin, making her look ~shimmery~ and ~magical~. When she moves, sparkles and wisps of light trail behind her.
------------------------------
POWERS:
She's like a giant solar cell! She is able to absorb solar radiation, store it in her body and her blood, and convert it into a unique form of cosmic energy that she can then manipulate as she wishes. She hasn't really tried yet, but with training she can learn to do very useful things with it. Like blasting destructive beams of light, or lifting heavy things, or forming defensive shields, or grabbing people.
Karolina recharges this solar energy in sunlight, which means that it's possible for her to overexert herself at night and be forced to return to human form -- drained of all alien powers until daytime when she can absorb sunlight again.
She can also fly. (Presumably, she's lighter in her alien form. Or. Something. Science is for the weak!) The limits of speed and altitude have yet to be determined, but in alien form she's strong enough to carry people with her as she flies.
Her powers can be disabled by the "medic alert" bracelet her parents gave her, made of a metal which inhibits the abilities unique to Majesdenians. It comes on and off depending on whether she's switching to human or alien form.
------------------------------
ANYTHING ELSE?:
History is retconnable for other Runaways. Especially those of the Xavin variety. 8D Although if anyone does app any of the other Runaways, it's perfectly possible to not follow the canon storyline too.
Also, note: her powers are alien. Not mutant. That means her bracelet (a pretty odd object, even on its own) doesn't work to inhibit other mutants' powers, and mutants with power-annulling abilities -- like Leech, or I think in-game not!Canada Matthew? -- will have no effects on her. I would imagine that, being an alien, her brain would feel different to telepaths too. All these anomalies added together are pretty much a beacon shouting I'M NOT A NORMAL HUMAN (OR EVEN A MUTANT)! So it wouldn't be too surprising if teachers or peers noticed.
:)