Post by Serenity Nashimura on Jun 20, 2011 2:52:34 GMT -5
Kerry "Serenity" Nashimura
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DID WE CREATE A MODERN MYTH
[/color][/font]DID WE IMAGINE HALF OF IT[/center]
ALIASES: Ripped Shadow, S, Shadow, etc.
AGE: 23
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
ALIGNMENT: Villain
OCCUPATION: Thief
APPEARANCE: Standing at 5' 7" and weighing 135 lbs, Serenity could pass for someone in their late teens. She is naturally thin with a runner's body and is slightly toned, able to lift her own weight. She is Caucasian with a slight olive tone and has a round face. Her brown hair flows down to her shoulders in layers with streaks of blond running through it. Her eyes are a bright blue with hints of gray and she always seems to have a smirk resting on her lips. Her villain outfit consists of a black mini skirt, black and red shirt with skin colored leggings, elbow length black gloves, and three inch heels. Lastly, she wears a black and red mask.
PLAY BY: Kelly Clarkson
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WHAT HAPPENED THEN, A THOUGHT FOR NOW
[/color][/font]SAVE YOURSELF, THE SECRET IS OUT[/center]
-The color purple
-Running, feeling the wind in her hair
-Unlike most people, she prefers an extremely noisy area, where she cannot hear herself think.
-Rock and techno music for the same reasons
-She doesn't do it often, but she enjoys talking with other people, but usually only when they share a similar sense of humor to her
-Shiny things such as diamonds
-Leather
DISLIKES:
-The color white
-Being in a very quiet room with nothing to distract her
-The Voice in her head (Kerry)
-Her parents
-People who can't take a joke
-The cops
-Her real name
STRENGTHS:
-The ability to "get back up," so to speak. She can take whatever the world throws at her and manage to stick through it. It's more of a, "F*** you world! What now?!" move more than anything
-As long as there is any sort of light in a room, she can use her shadows
-Able to lift her own weight
-Thanks to all the memories she has absorbed, she knows how to work a great many things
WEAKNESSES:
-Can get killed or hurt like a regular person (bullets, knifes, etc.) but she's not about to go down without a fight
-Her mind isn't the sharpest or even the most sane
-Freaks out in new situations or when her past is brought up
-Slightly schizophrenic and bipolar
-When she reads someone's memories, she has to sort through or they will cloud her mind. She usually lets them do this though, so as to silence the Voice (Kerry)
-When a situation gets too out of her control, she tries to run away
-When in Total Shadow Control for too long, she starts using too much energy and her body begins to shut down. Extended time in TSC results in unconsciousness
PERSONALITY:
-Rude, quick tempered, hard to understand
-Laughs things off, sarcastic as all hell
-Quick to judge, clever, independent
-If you do something nice for her, she'll repay the act
-Crazy, talks to herself a lot
-Wishes she had been born without powers, or at least without villain parents
-Can be easily manipulated with words that make her feel guilty or shameful
-Prankster
-Hates that she gave into the villainous side of herself but still enjoys doing it
-Likes to fight when the situation is to her advantage but if she has no control or is losing quickly, she tries her hardest to run away
POWERS & ABILITIES: Serenity controls shadows and memories.
Shadow Control: She sends out her shadow and captures up to ten people at a time, stopping all movements.
Shadow Portal: She gathers the shadows and it can create a portal. Takes a significant amount of energy and concentration. Can only move up to 20 miles away and up to seven people can go through at a time.
Shadow Gun: Gathers shadows and creates a gun made of shadows. Shoots bullets into a person's shadow. Whatever part of the shadow that it hits (arm, leg, foot, etc.) is hurts. i.e. If she shoots your shadow leg, then your leg hurts as if you had been shot but no blood or wounds show. Takes a great amount of energy and concentration.
Ripped Shadow: She parts all the shadows in area, revealing her enemy's shadow. Her hands go into a praying position then she pulls her hands apart, causing the enemy's shadow to split, making them to feel the pain of being pulled in half. For normal people, this move can knock them out or in some cases, kill them, because the brain cannot understand that the body itself isn't being split in half.
Total Shadow Control: A defense mechanism built into her powers that activated when she was in near death situations. It is when the Voice (Kerry) takes over. Her eyes (pupils, iris and whites) turn completely black, her mouth stretches into an inhumanly large grin and she can do much more with her shadows, such as make them form weapons other than her gun, energy bursts, etc. Serenity has no control over her body or actions when in Total Shadow Control.
Memory Reading: If Serenity touches someone's bare skin, she can read all their memories in an instant.
Memory Warp: Using a lot of power, more than her Shadow Portal, Serenity can warp the memories of someone. She must have skin contact and no resistance from the person through the whole memory warp or else it will fail.
Nightmare Memory: Serenity drags the bad memories someone has and brings them to light, forcing the person to think about them. It usually brings a person to their knees, facing their worst memories.
When Serenity reads memories, if she doesn't sit down and sort through them, they get jumbled up with her own memories. But if she sorts through them, it gives the Voice a chance to talk. So, she has to constantly sort through memories and get new ones, all so she can tune out the Voice. Villain though she may be, to her, she feels the Voice is everything evil and cruel that lives in her and it scares her.
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TO BUY THE TRUTH AND SELL A LIE
[/color][/font]THE LAST MISTAKE BEFORE YOU DIE[/center]
FATHER: Paul Nashimura (Living, In Jail)
SIBLINGS: None
OTHER IMPORTANT PEOPLE: Rachel "Raven" Roth - Best friend and 'partner in crime'. Raven's been with her through the good times and the bad and Serenity couldn't trust anyone more.
ORIGIN: New York City, New York
HISTORY: Kerry Nashimura was born on July 6th in New York City, New York. Her parents were the minor villains known as 'Nightmare' and 'Nightfall', or Paul and Lynn Nashimura. Neither adult wanted a child, but they had Kerry anyway, believing that she would inherit their powers and succeed them. Inherit their powers, she did. Nightmare'd had only a slightly power over people's memories while Nightfall could make a room or area darker. They were villains who relied on fear and theatrics to steal, making their victims think they were more powerful than they seemed.
Kerry was seven years old when she first got her shadow powers. The first thing she was able to do was the capture another person's shadow and make it do what she wanted. From there, it escalated. Her parents were ecstatic. They vowed that that very night, Kerry would go with them, to help them rob a bank. Being the naive girl she was, and having been taught by villain parents, Kerry thought this was a wonderful idea.
Paul and Lynn let Kerry go into the bank alone, first, because she her powers weren't fully controlled or very powerful at the moment. She was to act like the civilians, but able to watch her parents do their work. But it all went downhill. The police had gotten a tip that Nightmare and Nightfall were going to strike and quickly had the place surrounded, the moment the two villains stepped into the building. They had to take desperate measures. Paul and Lynn set about to shooting the cops and many of the civilians in the bank.
Kerry had never been so terrified. She didn't know anything about death or blood or how a person screams when they die. She sat in the corner, crying. A police officer saw her and ran to help her, thinking her another civilian. Nightmare shot him in the back as he got closer. The man fell at Kerry's feet, blood leaking out from the wound. The dying man slowly reached out a hand to Kerry. That night was also the night she received her memory powers. The seven year old read the memories of the police officer. The views and memories of the man conflicted with all that she had learned and hours later, when her parents had killed almost everyone and taken the money they were after, they found her still in the corner, rocking back and forth and crying.
When she was eleven, Kerry ran from home. She hated her parents then and vowed to never be like them, to be a hero or at least someone who helped people. As she was leaving, she figured she might as well have a new name, since she was starting a new life. Having heard the Serenity prayer recently and enjoying the lines, "Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time," she decided that her new name was Serenity. With that, she walked away from her life, home, and name.
Serenity traveled from town to town, learning more things and meeting new people. At the time, she didn't enjoy reading memories because it reminded her of that night when she was seven. So, she started wearing gloves at all times, covering her skin. But that changed when she was fourteen.
She was working at a convenience store, having lied about her age, and her boss was yelling at her. He was constantly yelling about little things. After weeks of this, she could honestly say she hated the man. Then it spoke to her.
"You could always kill him~" cooed a voice from nowhere. The next thing Serenity knew, she was standing in the middle of the destroyed convenience store, the manager dead at her feet. She ran. She didn't know where the Voice had come from but it scared her. It was dark and dangerous, like her parents.
"You cannot run from me, Kerry. I am the strong part of you and-" It was then that she ran into someone, and read their memories. She apologized and kept running. But as the memories flashed before her eyes, she realized the Voice wasn't talking.
Serenity finally realized that the memories of others took up so much of her concentration that the Voice couldn't talk to her. So, she quickly began reading as many memories as she could. But this backfired on her. With each set of memories that she read, her sanity began slipping away. It was only when she sorted through the memories that she got her sanity back to normal. Now, she is constantly on the knife's edge, always a step from insanity but managing to somehow stay sane.
When she was sixteen, she heard a report that Nightmare had been finally been arrested and Nightfall had been shot down by the police. She went to the trail and watched her father get sentenced to a life sentence in jail.
When the registration and the Keene Act happened, Serenity simply rolled her eyes. She didn't register and didn't 'hang up her cape'. It was soon after that Serenity finally gave into temptation and became a villain. She keeps her deeds small though, stealing little things and trying to keep casualties at zero. She is now living in New York City.
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SO DON'T FORGET TO BREATHE TONIGHT
[/color][/font]TONIGHT'S THE LAST, SO SAY GOOD-BYE[/center]
AGE: 17
EXPERIENCE: Five years of roleplaying, online writer and Beta
OTHER CHARACTERS: None as of now
WRITING SAMPLE:
Serenity lay atop a large, Queen size bed, one arm thrown over her eyes. It was quiet in the room, the only sound being that of the fan on the ceiling slowly turning. The woman wasn't sleeping but she wasn't fully concentrated on her surroundings either. Mentally, she was re-playing some of the memories she had stolen from a man a few days ago, trying to distract her mind. But she had already sorted through the memories, and they weren't proving to be much of a distraction.
After a few minutes, she rolled over on her side, tucking her hands under her head. Her eyes were trained on the black outfit she donned whenever she went out as Ripped Shadow. She felt like it was mocking her, sitting there, proof of how she'd fallen. Fallen for the life of a villain, even though she'd always swore she'd never be like her parents.
She rolled off the bed and walked towards the outfit. The black and red mask stared up hollowly at her. She gingerly picked it up and placed it on her face. Then she turned towards the mirror. Immediately, she froze up. In the mirror, a smile was stretched on her face and the eyes staring at her were completely black.
"You really are your parents' girl, aren't you?"
Serenity gave a shriek and dropped the mask. But the girl in the mirror still smiled and stared blackly. "You're just as bad as they were. Liar, thief, murderer," accused the Voice.
"Shut up!" cried the shadow user. "You don't know anything about me!" The mirror cocked its head to the side, the grin growing grotesquely large. "Oh, but I do, Serenity. I know everything about you. Because I am you." Then, it reached a hand towards her.
Serenity turned and ran out of her apartment, trying to ignore the laughter coming from inside her head. "Run, run, run, all you like. You can't get rid of me that easily. Serenity turned a corner in the hallway and ran into someone. The man she slammed into fell to the ground with a huff.
"Watch where your goi-" Serenity cut the man off but placing her hand against his face. They both remained frozen for a few seconds as Serenity absorbed the memories of the man. As she did so, she used her Nightmare Memory and threw every bad memory the man had back at him, all at once. The man's eyes just rolled up and he fell to the ground, unconscious.
Serenity stood in the hallway, watching the memories fly across her vision. Like all the memories she had read, as it ran, it took a bit of her sanity away as well. She stared off into space, eyes glazed over. At least she couldn't hear the Voice anymore...
After a few minutes, she rolled over on her side, tucking her hands under her head. Her eyes were trained on the black outfit she donned whenever she went out as Ripped Shadow. She felt like it was mocking her, sitting there, proof of how she'd fallen. Fallen for the life of a villain, even though she'd always swore she'd never be like her parents.
She rolled off the bed and walked towards the outfit. The black and red mask stared up hollowly at her. She gingerly picked it up and placed it on her face. Then she turned towards the mirror. Immediately, she froze up. In the mirror, a smile was stretched on her face and the eyes staring at her were completely black.
"You really are your parents' girl, aren't you?"
Serenity gave a shriek and dropped the mask. But the girl in the mirror still smiled and stared blackly. "You're just as bad as they were. Liar, thief, murderer," accused the Voice.
"Shut up!" cried the shadow user. "You don't know anything about me!" The mirror cocked its head to the side, the grin growing grotesquely large. "Oh, but I do, Serenity. I know everything about you. Because I am you." Then, it reached a hand towards her.
Serenity turned and ran out of her apartment, trying to ignore the laughter coming from inside her head. "Run, run, run, all you like. You can't get rid of me that easily. Serenity turned a corner in the hallway and ran into someone. The man she slammed into fell to the ground with a huff.
"Watch where your goi-" Serenity cut the man off but placing her hand against his face. They both remained frozen for a few seconds as Serenity absorbed the memories of the man. As she did so, she used her Nightmare Memory and threw every bad memory the man had back at him, all at once. The man's eyes just rolled up and he fell to the ground, unconscious.
Serenity stood in the hallway, watching the memories fly across her vision. Like all the memories she had read, as it ran, it took a bit of her sanity away as well. She stared off into space, eyes glazed over. At least she couldn't hear the Voice anymore...
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