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Character NAME: Physis
Canon & MEDIUM: Toward The Terra (anime)
Canon PULL-POINT: Between episodes 15 and 16, as she and Jomy are returning to the ship after Carina's funeral
Character AGE: Pushing 80 years old
Character ABILITIES: As a Mu, Physis has displayed many of the abilities under their general psionic umbrella.
- Telepathy
- Empathy
- Telekinesis
- Telekinetic Shields
- Longevity
- Teleportation (though in this case she was pooling her powers with others)
Most notable is the one ability she has that the others don't, Precognition. She often uses her tarot cards as a conduit for discerning the future, and though she can't read the cards themselves, she knows which is which as it triggers a vision during her readings.
Character HISTORY:
When their homeworld, Terra, had become uninhabitable due to pollution, humanity moved to the stars, developing a warp drive that would help them find a new home. To facilitate this, a system called Superior Domination was formed, a series of advanced AIs called Mothers who would oversee the progress of mankind, with Grandmother, their chief unit, remaining in the Terra's heart, working toward the planet's eventual restoration. They initiated a number of reforms in society, controlling reproduction so that all births were done in vitro, each child placed with foster parents until their fourteenth birthday when they would undergo their adult examination, wiping the early memories and readying the individual for re-education and placement within the SD system. It was a supposedly perfect system, leaving society to run with the efficiency of a machine.
But there was another element, the Mu factor, a mutation that sometimes arose in births that would manifest in psionic abilities. When a Mu was encountered in the adult examination, that person would be deemed inadequate and eliminated. The system had no place for something so unpredictable. But refugees of the Mu existed from the early days before it was decided they would need to be eliminated, who escaped the experimentation they were subject to and formed a hidden society of their own aboard their spaceship Shangri-La. They hid on Artemisia, the education planet where all young children were raised prior to their adult examination. Led by Soldier Blue, they would try to intercept Mu children before the SD system could discover them, adopting them as their own.
Station E-1077 had a very special purpose within this system. The computer there, Mother Eliza, was charged not with the typical in vitro methods, but in engineering a child of her own, a perfect human specimen to represent the best of Superior Domination's ideals. Eventually, this process would result in her success, Keith Anyan, but Keith was by no means Mother Eliza's first. She'd spent hundreds of years working with genetics, creating various "incomplete" specimens that failed to meet her criteria. These she would take what data she could from to improve her formula before disposing of. One of them was a blind girl who had the audacity not only to fail to be Mother Eliza's perfect human, but tested positive for the Mu factor on top of that.
Once she was removed from the test tube she'd spent her entire childhood in, it's unclear who thought to give Physis a deck of tarot cards, or why, but she certainly proved adept in their use. Enough so that the officers in charge of her care on Artemisia were afraid of her and labelled her a witch, and it was decided that she would need to be eliminated. Luckily, Soldier Blue found her before that could happen, intoxicated by the vivid image of Terra that Mother Eliza had programmed into her mind. When he brought her to Shangri-La, the only memories she had were dark and sorrowful, and so they agreed that he would erase them for her. In exchange for taking away her past, he granted her a portion of his own power to enhance her visions of the future, giving her a precognition she would use to guide the Mu from then on.
Fifty years pass and Blue is growing old. He's discovered a new Mu in Jomy Marcus Shin who is revealed to hold power equal to Blue's own, but in saving him Blue overextended himself and has fallen into a deep sleep, leaving Jomy as Soldier in his place. Unfortunately, the incident had put them on the military's radar, so they were being actively hunted with more enthusiasm on Artemisia. Their method of stealth would only last so long under these circumstances, so decision was made that they would have to leave the planet, that they would fulfill Blue's dream to return to Terra.
This would have been a better idea if they had any clue where Terra is. As it was, they spent twelve years wandering space, scouring various star systems in hopes that they would find the right one, and trying to avoid the forces of Superior Domination. Physis would suggest routes as she could, but for the most part they were more short term, like paths to avoid minefields that the navigators didn't even take. She could see Terra clearly in her mind's eye, but she didn't know the way to get there.
Four years into this journey, they tried to contact Superior Domination to try to extend the olive branch. They did this through an untested psychic transmitter. It was a bad idea, as the signal was so strong that it was received as a psionic attack at Station E-1077, leading to its closure. The Mu didn't realize this, they just thought the SD system was ignoring them.
By the time they'd looking twelve years, everyone was exhausted with the search, and the ship needed new supplies. Jomy presented the issue to Physis, and so she had a vision that directed them to the the seventh planet of the Sylvester system, where they would have the possibility of a future, some reprieve from the depths of space. Physis named his planet Nazca, and the Mu made a place for themselves on an old colony that humans had abandoned 150 years before.
After four years, the elders were restless to resume the search for Terra, but the younger Mu were content to live out their lives on Nazca. They'd made a home there, and some had even borne children of their own, discovering that natural methods of reproduction weren't nearly as illogical as the SD system had led them to believe. Physis herself had never set foot on the surface, not wanting to leave Blue's side as he remained bedridden on the Shangri-La. That changed when she felt the omen of an ill wind on the horizon, as Jomy bore the weight of the schism among his people. She asked him to escort her to the colony, as the parents of one of the newborns had asked her to be the godmother. She asked the infant her name and relayed it to the parents, it was incredibly silly.
She and Jomy went for a walk as he continued dithering about the generation gap when they received news of an invader in orbit around Nazca. The Members Elite, SD's special forces, had sent one of their Knights to investigate a number of incidents of malfunction and other weirdness that had occurred in the area, incidents that had resulted from the Mu defending against trespassing ships. When a dropship entered the atmosphere, Jomy intercepted it and the sole pilot was captured as the ship it came from retreated. The captive agent, Keith Anyan, was taken back to Shangri-La.
Thinking someone from the Members Elite must have the coordinates to Terra, Keith was submitted to mental probing, which is essentially another term for psychic torture. They couldn't penetrate his mental shielding, but they did find images of Terra broadcasting in the output, and not just any images of Terra. Keith's vision was identical to Physis', a fact she found deeply disturbing. Later that night, she visited him in his cell, looking for answers. Though the closest they came to contact was with their hands on either side of the shield wall containing him, he was unsettled to find her more capable of seeing his heart than his defenses should allow, visions of floating in a tank of water, something she'd have understood if her memories were intact. But, more than that, he could make the connection work the other way too, despite not himself being psychic, and pulled the route to the hangar out of her mind. Both left the confrontation more confused and disturbed than before.
The next day, Jomy brings one of the nurses from the surface, Carina, to visit so that her child's presence might throw Keith's defenses off. Tony, the firstborn of Nazca's children, doesn't enjoy the experience at all, and decides that Keith is extra dangerous and needs to be dead. He tries to clue Jomy into this, but Jomy doesn't recognize the voice as coming from a three-year-old and just gets creeped out. Right about then, a ship warps in searching for Keith, so his attention is diverted to that. Tony, three years old, decides that if Jomy isn't going to kill Keith, he'll have to do it himself, and wanders off to get his murder on. His mom freaks out and starts looking for him.
So, Tony, who is still only three years old, teleports into Keith's cell and blows it the fuck up. Keith is faced with a three year old who is attempting to murder him, and acts accordingly, throwing a sharp piece of debris right into a toddler's chest. You know, as you do. Carina can feel her baby take the hit psychically and starts freaking out even more as she continues the search more frantically. Physis comes to Keith's cell to find out what the hell happened and finds him lugging Tony, who is not dead but in a weird psychic baby coma, under his arm, and he decides to take her hostage too. It's just at this moment that Soldier Blue wakes up. He at this point has been sleeping for five times longer than Tony's entire life.
Carina encounters some security dudes checking out the wrecked cell and finds Tony's broach, through which she's able to channel memories of what happened in that room. Thinking Tony's dead, she literally explodes, killing those two poor security dudes and wreaking havoc as she wanders out the ship in an exploding haze. Blue is making his way through the hallways at a snail's pace, just kind of dragging himself through fifteen year's worth of muscle atrophy. Keith is sneaking through the hallways with Physis by the wrist, kicking security dudes he comes across about fifteen times and then making fun of them for being so weak. I'm not exaggerating, it looked just like this: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mehcxsgOjs1rsjkfl.gif
Anyway, Keith and Physis eventually reach the hangar, only to find that Blue has somehow beat them there with pretty old man psychic powers. He takes this opportunity to be witty as hell and deliver some choice lines while keeping himself on his feet solely through the sheer power of bravado. It wasn't unlike the climax of the Princess Bride, except that Humperdinck is way more of a babe this time around, and Buttercup is his test tube twin sister that neither of them even knows about. The analogy breaks down, I digress. Blue is going to shoot Keith with a psionic bolt and save the day, but it ends up diffusing against a telekinetic shield. From Physis. While the guy she just saved has his hand around her neck. Keith responds by throwing the baby and making a run for it. Blue catches Tony, but the dive took all the energy he'd mustered at that point, and he still had the misfortune of being old as hell and just waking up. Keith takes a ship from the hangar with Physis still in tow.
As this was happening, Jomy was trying to deal with both the enemy ship that was looking for Keith and tracking down Carina before she burns herself out and takes more of the ship with her. He's sadly unsuccessful on either, Carina dying from overexertion, and the ship getting out of firing range while Jomy was dealing with Carina because the pilot was secretly a Mu and the gunners were trying to contact him before shooting him down. That one's a long and mostly unrelated story, though. Only mostly because Keith uses the pilot's Mu abilities to move him to safety when he self destructs the escape ship before Jomy can catch him. Beforehand, he thanks Physis for saving him and she calls him the devil. But he says that since she has the memories of the devil, she must be a witch. She doesn't have anything to say to that.
Jomy saves her from the exploding ship and they descend to Nazca, where Carina's body is interred before they return to Shangri-La, visions of doom flooding Physis' mind as the humans return to gather their forces upon the Mu's newly discovered location.
Character PERSONALITY:
Physis is a woman of quiet strength. She's become accustomed to her role as an advisor, offering counsel not only on strategy, but spiritual guidance as well. Both her psychic abilities and her own intuition provide her a fair amount of insight into a person, a recognition of what's troubling them, and she does her best to alleviate that stress and suggest a way through it. Jomy, to her, was like a plane of glass, one she could see through to the core without skipping a beat, and so she served as one of his most trusted confidants as he grew into the role of Soldier. There was a care there that was almost maternal. He was still only a young boy who deeply missed his mother, and she being the most available person to help lift him to his proper place. She never doubted Blue's appointment of his successor.
And doubting Blue would honestly never occur to her. The two have developed a certain devotion to each other over the years, drawing strength from the other's confidence, their faith in the future. In her, he sees a goddess among Mu, her vision of Terra an inspiration to his dreams of their future. In him, she sees a knight, a gentle warrior who has promised to protect her, who gave her purpose. He took her vision and made it a goal, one she adopted alongside him, and while he lends his strength to keeping the rest of the Mu going, she lends hers to keep him going, to keep him grounded. During his long slumber, she spent much time at his bedside, even electing not to move to the surface of Nazca during their four years there in order to not put so great a distance between them.
One of the most significant things she's been provided is a safe environment. Sure, there was danger, but it never seemed to be one they couldn't overcome eventually. She had her main man Alfred attending her, and though he's perhaps a bit quick to her defense sometimes, theirs was a relationship of mutual respect. The future was laid out before her, and she was confident in her abilities to guide them to a greater joy, that the longing for Terra they were all born with, and her so much more vividly, would be fulfilled. That confidence isn't what it used to be, and Keith Anyan was what made the difference. The ill omens, the connection she felt to him that she still doesn't fully understand. It's difficult exactly to summarizes her feelings toward him. She wants to hate him, it would be much easier to, but she can't. He's like a part of her that she never realized was missing, and one she wouldn't be willing to see destroyed if she can help it, but a devil all the same.
After he had left them on Nazca, her doubts had become firmly rooted. Fears that she had led her family astray, that the possibilities Nazca provided were much darker than had been originally suspected, and that saving Keith had effectively signed the order on their destruction. Visions of doom now burden her thoughts, and her confidence in her abilities is cracked, nearly shattered. She doesn't know that she wants to see the future if it only holds doom for them all, and it's with this apprehension that she'll be arriving to Exsilium.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: I'd like to infuse her tarot cards. They act as a focus for her precognition already, but as they evolve they may deepen the range and clarity of her visions, expanding them not only to the future, but the past and present as well.
Character INVENTORY: She has a pink dress with straps made of gold and fancy earrings, also a deck of tarot cards. She probably also has shoes of some kind, but who knows because you will never see her feet anyway.
Also, if it would be alright, I'd like Rain, a telepathic Weeping Mouse from Mars, to come with her.
He looks like this http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/22800000/Rain-toward-the-terra-22879204-420-238.jpg
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
[ a video clicks on, showing a woman with long blonde hair sitting at a small folding table, spreading her cards across its surface in a diamond pattern, face down. her tablet seems to be suspended in mid-air by some indiscernible means, following her movements as if by its own sentience. or perhaps it's hers.
her long fingers reach from beneath the loose sleeves of her dress to take a card from the side, seeming to study it for a long moment, despite her eyes being shut the entire time. finally, she lays it back on the table, its face showing for all to see.
a dancing maiden bears two staffs as four faces, of various species watch her from the corners. xxi, the world. ]
This is Terra, is it not? What I've encountered isn't what I would expect, but I know the truth in my heart. [ and her hand moves directly there as she says it, her tablet moving to focus more fully on her. her expression doesn't change from a pensive frown, and her eyes still remain closed. ] I'm...surprised to find it this way. [ to that, she finally smiles, just a subtle curl of the lips. ] It is a long journey that brought us so far, back to this, our home. But that journey isn't finished, not yet. [ the camera pans out, she turns another card. two pillars with a weeping celestial body in the center. xviii, the moon. ] There is more to this arrival than it may seem, much is being asked of us. Clarity will be most important in this time.
If this is what is asked of me, I will be glad to help. [ the camera lingers on her final card, a woman seated with a horned crown. ii, the high priestess. the transmission ends. ]
Third PERSON:
The city was unlike anything she had ever visited before. She couldn't see it, of course, but she could tell that it was home to numerous people, the density of the thought waves she felt as she left the Initiative's housing buildings was testimony to that. Thoughts of desperation, of dire need and long suffering, but also thoughts of hope. The hope was important, and she let it fill her own mind as it passed through. Could she serve that hope properly, nurture it, guide it to its fulfillment?
She wasn't sure anymore.
It was odd, being among so many humans without being recognized for what she is. Physis was glad they couldn't feel her own heart, the apprehension she felt towards them, the fear that they could turn on her in an instant. Or worse, that she would see something in their future that would crush her hope.
It was all unfamiliar territory to her, both figuratively and literally, and so her progress down the path was slow, feeling her hands around in the open air. Rain was a few steps ahead of her, his thoughts informing her when the road wasn't clear. She needed this walk, a moment to explore the unknown, to build some rapport with this new home of hers. The situation was disorienting and troubling enough, and she wasn't sure she would adjust if she didn't take some steps toward it.
Suddenly, the air around her cracked as she felt something pass through it. She moved to face the feeling, but it had already gone from there, a thud sounding at her feet. Rain projected thoughts of vague warning, the fur on his back raising. Someone was calling to her, asking for their ball. "It's alright," she told Rain, before kneeling to feel along the grass for the object she'd felt a moment ago. It was spherical, larger than her hand could wrap around and made of leather, with stitching around it. Some kind of children's ball? The voice had sounded rather young.
She took it in both hands, holding it against her torso toward the small group she could sense to the side. Rain climbed up her dress to perch on her shoulders, looking on with wonder at their game. One of the children met her halfway, and she caught a sense of awe coming from them that surprised her, an apology and an expectation. Physis just smiled and handed the ball back, but she stayed there to "watch" a while. It seemed like such a small thing, children playing a game in an empty lot, but with the rest of the city thinking on the war around them, the feelings of worry for an uncertain future flooding the air, but for a moment like this to still take place set her mind at ease. This was one small part of that hope she felt in the undercurrent.
And she, too, hoped. She hoped that she could cling to this feeling longer, that she wouldn't damage it by seeing it contradicted. ...But only time would tell.
» ADDITIONAL NOTES
She's blind, if there are any kind of services available for network interface that would make it more accessible to her. Also, given her abilities, I'd love to know if there's anything I can do to capitalize on opportunities to have her predict upcoming events in game.
Player NAME: King
Current AGE: 27
Player TIME ZONE: EST
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» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Physis
Canon & MEDIUM: Toward The Terra (anime)
Canon PULL-POINT: Between episodes 15 and 16, as she and Jomy are returning to the ship after Carina's funeral
Character AGE: Pushing 80 years old
Character ABILITIES: As a Mu, Physis has displayed many of the abilities under their general psionic umbrella.
- Telepathy
- Empathy
- Telekinesis
- Telekinetic Shields
- Longevity
- Teleportation (though in this case she was pooling her powers with others)
Most notable is the one ability she has that the others don't, Precognition. She often uses her tarot cards as a conduit for discerning the future, and though she can't read the cards themselves, she knows which is which as it triggers a vision during her readings.
Character HISTORY:
When their homeworld, Terra, had become uninhabitable due to pollution, humanity moved to the stars, developing a warp drive that would help them find a new home. To facilitate this, a system called Superior Domination was formed, a series of advanced AIs called Mothers who would oversee the progress of mankind, with Grandmother, their chief unit, remaining in the Terra's heart, working toward the planet's eventual restoration. They initiated a number of reforms in society, controlling reproduction so that all births were done in vitro, each child placed with foster parents until their fourteenth birthday when they would undergo their adult examination, wiping the early memories and readying the individual for re-education and placement within the SD system. It was a supposedly perfect system, leaving society to run with the efficiency of a machine.
But there was another element, the Mu factor, a mutation that sometimes arose in births that would manifest in psionic abilities. When a Mu was encountered in the adult examination, that person would be deemed inadequate and eliminated. The system had no place for something so unpredictable. But refugees of the Mu existed from the early days before it was decided they would need to be eliminated, who escaped the experimentation they were subject to and formed a hidden society of their own aboard their spaceship Shangri-La. They hid on Artemisia, the education planet where all young children were raised prior to their adult examination. Led by Soldier Blue, they would try to intercept Mu children before the SD system could discover them, adopting them as their own.
Station E-1077 had a very special purpose within this system. The computer there, Mother Eliza, was charged not with the typical in vitro methods, but in engineering a child of her own, a perfect human specimen to represent the best of Superior Domination's ideals. Eventually, this process would result in her success, Keith Anyan, but Keith was by no means Mother Eliza's first. She'd spent hundreds of years working with genetics, creating various "incomplete" specimens that failed to meet her criteria. These she would take what data she could from to improve her formula before disposing of. One of them was a blind girl who had the audacity not only to fail to be Mother Eliza's perfect human, but tested positive for the Mu factor on top of that.
Once she was removed from the test tube she'd spent her entire childhood in, it's unclear who thought to give Physis a deck of tarot cards, or why, but she certainly proved adept in their use. Enough so that the officers in charge of her care on Artemisia were afraid of her and labelled her a witch, and it was decided that she would need to be eliminated. Luckily, Soldier Blue found her before that could happen, intoxicated by the vivid image of Terra that Mother Eliza had programmed into her mind. When he brought her to Shangri-La, the only memories she had were dark and sorrowful, and so they agreed that he would erase them for her. In exchange for taking away her past, he granted her a portion of his own power to enhance her visions of the future, giving her a precognition she would use to guide the Mu from then on.
Fifty years pass and Blue is growing old. He's discovered a new Mu in Jomy Marcus Shin who is revealed to hold power equal to Blue's own, but in saving him Blue overextended himself and has fallen into a deep sleep, leaving Jomy as Soldier in his place. Unfortunately, the incident had put them on the military's radar, so they were being actively hunted with more enthusiasm on Artemisia. Their method of stealth would only last so long under these circumstances, so decision was made that they would have to leave the planet, that they would fulfill Blue's dream to return to Terra.
This would have been a better idea if they had any clue where Terra is. As it was, they spent twelve years wandering space, scouring various star systems in hopes that they would find the right one, and trying to avoid the forces of Superior Domination. Physis would suggest routes as she could, but for the most part they were more short term, like paths to avoid minefields that the navigators didn't even take. She could see Terra clearly in her mind's eye, but she didn't know the way to get there.
Four years into this journey, they tried to contact Superior Domination to try to extend the olive branch. They did this through an untested psychic transmitter. It was a bad idea, as the signal was so strong that it was received as a psionic attack at Station E-1077, leading to its closure. The Mu didn't realize this, they just thought the SD system was ignoring them.
By the time they'd looking twelve years, everyone was exhausted with the search, and the ship needed new supplies. Jomy presented the issue to Physis, and so she had a vision that directed them to the the seventh planet of the Sylvester system, where they would have the possibility of a future, some reprieve from the depths of space. Physis named his planet Nazca, and the Mu made a place for themselves on an old colony that humans had abandoned 150 years before.
After four years, the elders were restless to resume the search for Terra, but the younger Mu were content to live out their lives on Nazca. They'd made a home there, and some had even borne children of their own, discovering that natural methods of reproduction weren't nearly as illogical as the SD system had led them to believe. Physis herself had never set foot on the surface, not wanting to leave Blue's side as he remained bedridden on the Shangri-La. That changed when she felt the omen of an ill wind on the horizon, as Jomy bore the weight of the schism among his people. She asked him to escort her to the colony, as the parents of one of the newborns had asked her to be the godmother. She asked the infant her name and relayed it to the parents, it was incredibly silly.
She and Jomy went for a walk as he continued dithering about the generation gap when they received news of an invader in orbit around Nazca. The Members Elite, SD's special forces, had sent one of their Knights to investigate a number of incidents of malfunction and other weirdness that had occurred in the area, incidents that had resulted from the Mu defending against trespassing ships. When a dropship entered the atmosphere, Jomy intercepted it and the sole pilot was captured as the ship it came from retreated. The captive agent, Keith Anyan, was taken back to Shangri-La.
Thinking someone from the Members Elite must have the coordinates to Terra, Keith was submitted to mental probing, which is essentially another term for psychic torture. They couldn't penetrate his mental shielding, but they did find images of Terra broadcasting in the output, and not just any images of Terra. Keith's vision was identical to Physis', a fact she found deeply disturbing. Later that night, she visited him in his cell, looking for answers. Though the closest they came to contact was with their hands on either side of the shield wall containing him, he was unsettled to find her more capable of seeing his heart than his defenses should allow, visions of floating in a tank of water, something she'd have understood if her memories were intact. But, more than that, he could make the connection work the other way too, despite not himself being psychic, and pulled the route to the hangar out of her mind. Both left the confrontation more confused and disturbed than before.
The next day, Jomy brings one of the nurses from the surface, Carina, to visit so that her child's presence might throw Keith's defenses off. Tony, the firstborn of Nazca's children, doesn't enjoy the experience at all, and decides that Keith is extra dangerous and needs to be dead. He tries to clue Jomy into this, but Jomy doesn't recognize the voice as coming from a three-year-old and just gets creeped out. Right about then, a ship warps in searching for Keith, so his attention is diverted to that. Tony, three years old, decides that if Jomy isn't going to kill Keith, he'll have to do it himself, and wanders off to get his murder on. His mom freaks out and starts looking for him.
So, Tony, who is still only three years old, teleports into Keith's cell and blows it the fuck up. Keith is faced with a three year old who is attempting to murder him, and acts accordingly, throwing a sharp piece of debris right into a toddler's chest. You know, as you do. Carina can feel her baby take the hit psychically and starts freaking out even more as she continues the search more frantically. Physis comes to Keith's cell to find out what the hell happened and finds him lugging Tony, who is not dead but in a weird psychic baby coma, under his arm, and he decides to take her hostage too. It's just at this moment that Soldier Blue wakes up. He at this point has been sleeping for five times longer than Tony's entire life.
Carina encounters some security dudes checking out the wrecked cell and finds Tony's broach, through which she's able to channel memories of what happened in that room. Thinking Tony's dead, she literally explodes, killing those two poor security dudes and wreaking havoc as she wanders out the ship in an exploding haze. Blue is making his way through the hallways at a snail's pace, just kind of dragging himself through fifteen year's worth of muscle atrophy. Keith is sneaking through the hallways with Physis by the wrist, kicking security dudes he comes across about fifteen times and then making fun of them for being so weak. I'm not exaggerating, it looked just like this: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mehcxsgOjs1rsjkfl.gif
Anyway, Keith and Physis eventually reach the hangar, only to find that Blue has somehow beat them there with pretty old man psychic powers. He takes this opportunity to be witty as hell and deliver some choice lines while keeping himself on his feet solely through the sheer power of bravado. It wasn't unlike the climax of the Princess Bride, except that Humperdinck is way more of a babe this time around, and Buttercup is his test tube twin sister that neither of them even knows about. The analogy breaks down, I digress. Blue is going to shoot Keith with a psionic bolt and save the day, but it ends up diffusing against a telekinetic shield. From Physis. While the guy she just saved has his hand around her neck. Keith responds by throwing the baby and making a run for it. Blue catches Tony, but the dive took all the energy he'd mustered at that point, and he still had the misfortune of being old as hell and just waking up. Keith takes a ship from the hangar with Physis still in tow.
As this was happening, Jomy was trying to deal with both the enemy ship that was looking for Keith and tracking down Carina before she burns herself out and takes more of the ship with her. He's sadly unsuccessful on either, Carina dying from overexertion, and the ship getting out of firing range while Jomy was dealing with Carina because the pilot was secretly a Mu and the gunners were trying to contact him before shooting him down. That one's a long and mostly unrelated story, though. Only mostly because Keith uses the pilot's Mu abilities to move him to safety when he self destructs the escape ship before Jomy can catch him. Beforehand, he thanks Physis for saving him and she calls him the devil. But he says that since she has the memories of the devil, she must be a witch. She doesn't have anything to say to that.
Jomy saves her from the exploding ship and they descend to Nazca, where Carina's body is interred before they return to Shangri-La, visions of doom flooding Physis' mind as the humans return to gather their forces upon the Mu's newly discovered location.
Character PERSONALITY:
Physis is a woman of quiet strength. She's become accustomed to her role as an advisor, offering counsel not only on strategy, but spiritual guidance as well. Both her psychic abilities and her own intuition provide her a fair amount of insight into a person, a recognition of what's troubling them, and she does her best to alleviate that stress and suggest a way through it. Jomy, to her, was like a plane of glass, one she could see through to the core without skipping a beat, and so she served as one of his most trusted confidants as he grew into the role of Soldier. There was a care there that was almost maternal. He was still only a young boy who deeply missed his mother, and she being the most available person to help lift him to his proper place. She never doubted Blue's appointment of his successor.
And doubting Blue would honestly never occur to her. The two have developed a certain devotion to each other over the years, drawing strength from the other's confidence, their faith in the future. In her, he sees a goddess among Mu, her vision of Terra an inspiration to his dreams of their future. In him, she sees a knight, a gentle warrior who has promised to protect her, who gave her purpose. He took her vision and made it a goal, one she adopted alongside him, and while he lends his strength to keeping the rest of the Mu going, she lends hers to keep him going, to keep him grounded. During his long slumber, she spent much time at his bedside, even electing not to move to the surface of Nazca during their four years there in order to not put so great a distance between them.
One of the most significant things she's been provided is a safe environment. Sure, there was danger, but it never seemed to be one they couldn't overcome eventually. She had her main man Alfred attending her, and though he's perhaps a bit quick to her defense sometimes, theirs was a relationship of mutual respect. The future was laid out before her, and she was confident in her abilities to guide them to a greater joy, that the longing for Terra they were all born with, and her so much more vividly, would be fulfilled. That confidence isn't what it used to be, and Keith Anyan was what made the difference. The ill omens, the connection she felt to him that she still doesn't fully understand. It's difficult exactly to summarizes her feelings toward him. She wants to hate him, it would be much easier to, but she can't. He's like a part of her that she never realized was missing, and one she wouldn't be willing to see destroyed if she can help it, but a devil all the same.
After he had left them on Nazca, her doubts had become firmly rooted. Fears that she had led her family astray, that the possibilities Nazca provided were much darker than had been originally suspected, and that saving Keith had effectively signed the order on their destruction. Visions of doom now burden her thoughts, and her confidence in her abilities is cracked, nearly shattered. She doesn't know that she wants to see the future if it only holds doom for them all, and it's with this apprehension that she'll be arriving to Exsilium.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: I'd like to infuse her tarot cards. They act as a focus for her precognition already, but as they evolve they may deepen the range and clarity of her visions, expanding them not only to the future, but the past and present as well.
Character INVENTORY: She has a pink dress with straps made of gold and fancy earrings, also a deck of tarot cards. She probably also has shoes of some kind, but who knows because you will never see her feet anyway.
Also, if it would be alright, I'd like Rain, a telepathic Weeping Mouse from Mars, to come with her.
He looks like this http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/22800000/Rain-toward-the-terra-22879204-420-238.jpg
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
[ a video clicks on, showing a woman with long blonde hair sitting at a small folding table, spreading her cards across its surface in a diamond pattern, face down. her tablet seems to be suspended in mid-air by some indiscernible means, following her movements as if by its own sentience. or perhaps it's hers.
her long fingers reach from beneath the loose sleeves of her dress to take a card from the side, seeming to study it for a long moment, despite her eyes being shut the entire time. finally, she lays it back on the table, its face showing for all to see.
a dancing maiden bears two staffs as four faces, of various species watch her from the corners. xxi, the world. ]
This is Terra, is it not? What I've encountered isn't what I would expect, but I know the truth in my heart. [ and her hand moves directly there as she says it, her tablet moving to focus more fully on her. her expression doesn't change from a pensive frown, and her eyes still remain closed. ] I'm...surprised to find it this way. [ to that, she finally smiles, just a subtle curl of the lips. ] It is a long journey that brought us so far, back to this, our home. But that journey isn't finished, not yet. [ the camera pans out, she turns another card. two pillars with a weeping celestial body in the center. xviii, the moon. ] There is more to this arrival than it may seem, much is being asked of us. Clarity will be most important in this time.
If this is what is asked of me, I will be glad to help. [ the camera lingers on her final card, a woman seated with a horned crown. ii, the high priestess. the transmission ends. ]
Third PERSON:
The city was unlike anything she had ever visited before. She couldn't see it, of course, but she could tell that it was home to numerous people, the density of the thought waves she felt as she left the Initiative's housing buildings was testimony to that. Thoughts of desperation, of dire need and long suffering, but also thoughts of hope. The hope was important, and she let it fill her own mind as it passed through. Could she serve that hope properly, nurture it, guide it to its fulfillment?
She wasn't sure anymore.
It was odd, being among so many humans without being recognized for what she is. Physis was glad they couldn't feel her own heart, the apprehension she felt towards them, the fear that they could turn on her in an instant. Or worse, that she would see something in their future that would crush her hope.
It was all unfamiliar territory to her, both figuratively and literally, and so her progress down the path was slow, feeling her hands around in the open air. Rain was a few steps ahead of her, his thoughts informing her when the road wasn't clear. She needed this walk, a moment to explore the unknown, to build some rapport with this new home of hers. The situation was disorienting and troubling enough, and she wasn't sure she would adjust if she didn't take some steps toward it.
Suddenly, the air around her cracked as she felt something pass through it. She moved to face the feeling, but it had already gone from there, a thud sounding at her feet. Rain projected thoughts of vague warning, the fur on his back raising. Someone was calling to her, asking for their ball. "It's alright," she told Rain, before kneeling to feel along the grass for the object she'd felt a moment ago. It was spherical, larger than her hand could wrap around and made of leather, with stitching around it. Some kind of children's ball? The voice had sounded rather young.
She took it in both hands, holding it against her torso toward the small group she could sense to the side. Rain climbed up her dress to perch on her shoulders, looking on with wonder at their game. One of the children met her halfway, and she caught a sense of awe coming from them that surprised her, an apology and an expectation. Physis just smiled and handed the ball back, but she stayed there to "watch" a while. It seemed like such a small thing, children playing a game in an empty lot, but with the rest of the city thinking on the war around them, the feelings of worry for an uncertain future flooding the air, but for a moment like this to still take place set her mind at ease. This was one small part of that hope she felt in the undercurrent.
And she, too, hoped. She hoped that she could cling to this feeling longer, that she wouldn't damage it by seeing it contradicted. ...But only time would tell.
» ADDITIONAL NOTES
She's blind, if there are any kind of services available for network interface that would make it more accessible to her. Also, given her abilities, I'd love to know if there's anything I can do to capitalize on opportunities to have her predict upcoming events in game.