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Application
Player Information
Name: Tex
Pronoun: Him
E-mail: texside-at-google's mail service
Other Contact: texside on Plurk, IRC, etc.
Character Information
Name: Chisaki Andrews
House: Trenton Corporation. Chisaki has lineage from a minor House formerly based out of England, House Cadwell; House Cadwell had its numbers decimated in the Crimean War, where they perished in a disastrous charge against Russian forces. Cadwell broke up, with members moving in with relatives and to other Houses. They draw their magic from light. When they do so, they darken their surroundings, creating longer shadows and can even generate pitch black areas. They are capable of drawing in magic and storing it, but doing so will cause shadows to deepen and a twilight haze to hang over them as long as they do it. Sunlight provides a better return on investment, but they can absorb moonlight and artificial light, too.
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
Birthdate: January 24, 1980
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Physical Details
Hair Color: Teal, if on the darker side of teal. It's natural. It was a good hint that she was a secret wizard.
Eye Color: Dark red; it's ostensibly brown. It's another good hint that she was a secret wizard.
Height: 5'2"
Body Type: Slim.
Appearance Notes: She isn't much of one for fashion. Chisaki tends to wear plain blouses and shirts, and has a thing for single color windbreakers and zip-up hoodies. She usually wears jeans and sometimes shorts. She is half-Japanese, half-Anglo, and this is fairly clear when looking at her.
PB: Misaka Mikoto, A Certain Scientific Railgun.
Life Details
Background: Chisaki never met her parents. Theirs was an ill-advised one night affair, between a minor mage who was mostly a drunk unwelcome in magical circles, part of the fallen and disgraced House Cadwell, and her father, a Japanese-American businessman that committed an indiscretion against his wife. Her mother was horrified when she got pregnant and decided it best to pretend the child never existed after she came to term. She would be... annoying to deal with, especially if her relatives got word. And so, she did the unthinkable among mage society: she gave the child up into the mundane adoption system, after giving them the father's name and number.
He gave Chisaki her first name, but said he couldn't take her -- and to never contact him again. And so, she spent her early years in the custody of the State of California. Chisaki figured out she had magical powers at a very young age. No one believed her, of course, but she showed a small proclivity towards pulsing that was unnatural: she could make objects stick to things. Between that, blue hair, and red eyes, kids in the orphanages, schools, and foster homes she entered realized she was different.
It didn't go well for her. At first, she was just hurt. Then it flipped something in her head and, at age seven, she declared her new philosophy on life while punching a boy in the face: "Fuck that!" She put on a tough act and challenged anyone who gave her trouble; she used the trick to make things get stuck a little much, and yelled at and fought with kids who teased her about her eyes or hair. This act hid the fact that she started to believe what people said about her: maybe she was weird or... wrong, somehow.
She never expected to be adopted out, but shortly after her ninth birthday, David Trenton turned up and did just that. Trenton Corporation tracked down the rumors of her mother's secret illegitimate child and connected them to the rumors about a girl who could make basketballs stick to the wall for no reason. She was amazed to find out the truth, that she came from a secret bloodline of mages, and that Trenton saved her.
The person that shaped her most in Trenton wasn't a mage. They found that she had excellent hand-eye coordination, so they put her under the tutelage of Marcus McIntyre, a former Army sniper who worked as a contractor with Trenton. They realized that she had great potential as a bodyguard, a soldier, or an assassin, so they started training her in marksmanship while they trained her to use magic.
In a way, the two were great as a pupil-mentor pair. They were both short fuses, who tended to be grumpy, and he could help her. Marcus, however, also had a grudge against mages; he fought against several Vietnamese members of House Patisse in the Vietnam War, and lost more than a few friends against them. He couldn't help but see mages as something wrong, something that shouldn't be there. That attitude (and some subtle racism against Asians) leaked into his interactions with Chisaki. It reinforced her tendency to privately hate her powers and think there was something wrong with her. When, as she got older, she realized she was training to kill people, she decided it was what she deserved.
She was ultimately grateful to Trenton, though, mostly because she was told she got it good compared to the other kids in the foster system she came out of (and, as she got older, this seemed to be true: a lot ended up with less than ideal lives). The strict structure benefited her, too, channeling the anger and tension she felt into more useful territories than lashing out.
Being sent to Paracelsus Academy was a mixed blessing. Her opinion of "real" school was negative, from early childhood experiences. More than that, she isn't sure about these long-lived magical beings (of which she is a member). Are they really human, with that sort of power?
But, on the other hand, she wants to see how the others live.
House Politics: Chisaki is mercenary about the whole thing. She expects to be a gun-for-hire when she is older, and that she will need to kill members of Houses at Trenton's orders. She thinks a healthy distance is one way to handle it -- which means she should see it as just business. She tries to do that, but it is hard to not chafe. House politics have ruined a lot of lives, she thinks, and shaped people in a lot of ways.
So part of her hates all of the Houses, but especially the ones that flaunt their power. She doesn't much like House Vorinsky or House Weatherford, because they liked to show their power off; similarly, she thinks House Almagoras got what was coming to it. She has a slight prejudice against House Patisse, thanks to her tutelage under Marcus. He told a few stories about what the North Vietnamese members of that House did.
Personality: Chisaki doesn't like herself very much. She keeps this hidden, because why would she advertise it? But it informs a lot of her decisions and actions. She thinks that her parents never wanted her, and leaped to the conclusion that it was because she was different; because, for her father, she was a mage, and because she wasn't enough of a mage for her mother. She looks at her identity and doesn't see where she fits into the world, something that training in Trenton inadvertently reinforced, and feels like it must be her fault.
But, moping and angsting too much is not her way to deal with this feeling.
Instead, she is grumbly and generally disagreeable. Chisaki never did very well at getting along with other people; she is hotheaded and loud, and she is also unfortunately easy to annoy. When she is annoyed, she tends to lash out; she will snap and complain, and she doesn't quite care enough if people get their feelings hurt, especially if she is blunt in making an observation about how others behave.
She has a defense mechanism of standing up and engaging in disproportionate response; she isn't as angry as she was when she was little, but a casual insult can still make her yell at someone, and she can escalate things too far.
This isn't to say that Chisaki is incapable of having fun. Far from it! She likes to put on a tough girl act, but part of that means playing pranks and acting on impulses that seem fun. She will try most things once; she will also try to be friendly and chatty in more casual situations. It's just easy to make those casual situations turn into her becoming angry and snappish all of a sudden.
She is also, well, awkward. She doesn't know how to open up to people or connect to them. Even in Trenton, she was something of a loner; a girl who was trained by Marcus, who never quite made a lot of friends. Sometimes, she does really stupid and ostentatious things to get attention -- and, she reasons, because acting like an amusing idiot is more likely to make people laugh or like her. They wouldn't like it if they knew she wasn't sure what to do or how to talk to people.
The result is that she is sometimes cocky and boisterous. She has no problem pretending that she is the best! Chisaki even believes it, especially in terms of athleticism ("I can kick an Enhancer's ass!"), marksmanship ("I'll hit him before he knows I exist!"), and her own intelligence ("I'm so fucking wise that Socrates asks me for advice!"). But this ego hides the fact that she doesn't know how to talk to people.
She doesn't want people to find out what she is like, or that she is scared of herself. Unfortunately, being angry, impuslive, and expressive tend to result in this coming out. When she gets depressed or angry, she tends to shut down and run away; she makes up stories about how people must hate her and that they will abandon her. If she doesn't like herself, how could they?
Flaws: Chisaki is angry, and when she gets angry, she can be hurtful. She will belittle people, insult them, and sometimes needlessly be personal in an attack because she is worked up. Put simply, sometimes, she can be a bully.
She also has a bad self-image, as discussed above.
Finally, Chisaki has a skewed moral compass. She doesn't think she's really a good person -- on her worst days, she wonders if knowing magic really makes her a person in the first place -- and that it's regrettable she is being trained to murder people in foreign countries with a sniper rifle... but what she deserves, too. She can excuse some very heinous, immoral behavior because she wasn't good enough to deserve better in the first place.
Not liking herself has become an excuse to take the easy way out, do whatever Trenton wants, and sometimes, that's bad things.
Magic and Skill Details
Magic and Skills: Chisaki's first school of magic is Pulsing. She specializes in manipulating gravity, and all of her pulsing is directed at that. The major thing she can do is shift the direction of gravity for herself and others. This includes trapping people -- binding their limbs or bodies to various walls, floors, and objects -- or making herself able to walk up walls. She has worked on doing this in the long-term, too; she can, for instance, put her bed on the ceiling and sleep in it all night.
This comes at a price. For one, Chisaki cannot even do basic telekinesis. She never really worked at it -- the most she can do is diminish gravity's effect on an object, but she can't really make something fly in a straight line. She also has no time manipulation sills at all.
Her second school of magic is Channeling. Chisaki uses air and earth magic, with a similarly narrow focus. She is better with air magic; here, she is good at making and cancelling wind currents, and can make wind bursts strong enough to send someone flying. She also is good at summoning fog and mist, and making areas hard to see in. She uses earth magic mostly to make platforms, blocks, and bridges -- for example, she cannot really make rocks to shoot at someone, but can make impromptu handholds, stairs, and ladders to climb up a wall -- or a bridge between two rooftops.
Her skill is marksmanship. Chisaki's magic is built around killing people with guns. She is best with a sniper rifle; her ideal is to use gravity to fix herself to, say, the side of a building, use air currents to neutralize any impacts on her shot (and cancel the air resistance), and then blow someone's brain out from two miles away. However, she is an amazing shot with a pistol, too. Trenton has provided her with a sniper rifle and a sidearm, and sends her ammunition every month.
She has learned to use Channeling to make magical ammunition out of air; it can leave a bruise, but lets her shoot people in practice sessions without inflicting ore serious injury.
Name: Tex
Pronoun: Him
E-mail: texside-at-google's mail service
Other Contact: texside on Plurk, IRC, etc.
Character Information
Name: Chisaki Andrews
House: Trenton Corporation. Chisaki has lineage from a minor House formerly based out of England, House Cadwell; House Cadwell had its numbers decimated in the Crimean War, where they perished in a disastrous charge against Russian forces. Cadwell broke up, with members moving in with relatives and to other Houses. They draw their magic from light. When they do so, they darken their surroundings, creating longer shadows and can even generate pitch black areas. They are capable of drawing in magic and storing it, but doing so will cause shadows to deepen and a twilight haze to hang over them as long as they do it. Sunlight provides a better return on investment, but they can absorb moonlight and artificial light, too.
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
Birthdate: January 24, 1980
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Physical Details
Hair Color: Teal, if on the darker side of teal. It's natural. It was a good hint that she was a secret wizard.
Eye Color: Dark red; it's ostensibly brown. It's another good hint that she was a secret wizard.
Height: 5'2"
Body Type: Slim.
Appearance Notes: She isn't much of one for fashion. Chisaki tends to wear plain blouses and shirts, and has a thing for single color windbreakers and zip-up hoodies. She usually wears jeans and sometimes shorts. She is half-Japanese, half-Anglo, and this is fairly clear when looking at her.
PB: Misaka Mikoto, A Certain Scientific Railgun.
Life Details
Background: Chisaki never met her parents. Theirs was an ill-advised one night affair, between a minor mage who was mostly a drunk unwelcome in magical circles, part of the fallen and disgraced House Cadwell, and her father, a Japanese-American businessman that committed an indiscretion against his wife. Her mother was horrified when she got pregnant and decided it best to pretend the child never existed after she came to term. She would be... annoying to deal with, especially if her relatives got word. And so, she did the unthinkable among mage society: she gave the child up into the mundane adoption system, after giving them the father's name and number.
He gave Chisaki her first name, but said he couldn't take her -- and to never contact him again. And so, she spent her early years in the custody of the State of California. Chisaki figured out she had magical powers at a very young age. No one believed her, of course, but she showed a small proclivity towards pulsing that was unnatural: she could make objects stick to things. Between that, blue hair, and red eyes, kids in the orphanages, schools, and foster homes she entered realized she was different.
It didn't go well for her. At first, she was just hurt. Then it flipped something in her head and, at age seven, she declared her new philosophy on life while punching a boy in the face: "Fuck that!" She put on a tough act and challenged anyone who gave her trouble; she used the trick to make things get stuck a little much, and yelled at and fought with kids who teased her about her eyes or hair. This act hid the fact that she started to believe what people said about her: maybe she was weird or... wrong, somehow.
She never expected to be adopted out, but shortly after her ninth birthday, David Trenton turned up and did just that. Trenton Corporation tracked down the rumors of her mother's secret illegitimate child and connected them to the rumors about a girl who could make basketballs stick to the wall for no reason. She was amazed to find out the truth, that she came from a secret bloodline of mages, and that Trenton saved her.
The person that shaped her most in Trenton wasn't a mage. They found that she had excellent hand-eye coordination, so they put her under the tutelage of Marcus McIntyre, a former Army sniper who worked as a contractor with Trenton. They realized that she had great potential as a bodyguard, a soldier, or an assassin, so they started training her in marksmanship while they trained her to use magic.
In a way, the two were great as a pupil-mentor pair. They were both short fuses, who tended to be grumpy, and he could help her. Marcus, however, also had a grudge against mages; he fought against several Vietnamese members of House Patisse in the Vietnam War, and lost more than a few friends against them. He couldn't help but see mages as something wrong, something that shouldn't be there. That attitude (and some subtle racism against Asians) leaked into his interactions with Chisaki. It reinforced her tendency to privately hate her powers and think there was something wrong with her. When, as she got older, she realized she was training to kill people, she decided it was what she deserved.
She was ultimately grateful to Trenton, though, mostly because she was told she got it good compared to the other kids in the foster system she came out of (and, as she got older, this seemed to be true: a lot ended up with less than ideal lives). The strict structure benefited her, too, channeling the anger and tension she felt into more useful territories than lashing out.
Being sent to Paracelsus Academy was a mixed blessing. Her opinion of "real" school was negative, from early childhood experiences. More than that, she isn't sure about these long-lived magical beings (of which she is a member). Are they really human, with that sort of power?
But, on the other hand, she wants to see how the others live.
House Politics: Chisaki is mercenary about the whole thing. She expects to be a gun-for-hire when she is older, and that she will need to kill members of Houses at Trenton's orders. She thinks a healthy distance is one way to handle it -- which means she should see it as just business. She tries to do that, but it is hard to not chafe. House politics have ruined a lot of lives, she thinks, and shaped people in a lot of ways.
So part of her hates all of the Houses, but especially the ones that flaunt their power. She doesn't much like House Vorinsky or House Weatherford, because they liked to show their power off; similarly, she thinks House Almagoras got what was coming to it. She has a slight prejudice against House Patisse, thanks to her tutelage under Marcus. He told a few stories about what the North Vietnamese members of that House did.
Personality: Chisaki doesn't like herself very much. She keeps this hidden, because why would she advertise it? But it informs a lot of her decisions and actions. She thinks that her parents never wanted her, and leaped to the conclusion that it was because she was different; because, for her father, she was a mage, and because she wasn't enough of a mage for her mother. She looks at her identity and doesn't see where she fits into the world, something that training in Trenton inadvertently reinforced, and feels like it must be her fault.
But, moping and angsting too much is not her way to deal with this feeling.
Instead, she is grumbly and generally disagreeable. Chisaki never did very well at getting along with other people; she is hotheaded and loud, and she is also unfortunately easy to annoy. When she is annoyed, she tends to lash out; she will snap and complain, and she doesn't quite care enough if people get their feelings hurt, especially if she is blunt in making an observation about how others behave.
She has a defense mechanism of standing up and engaging in disproportionate response; she isn't as angry as she was when she was little, but a casual insult can still make her yell at someone, and she can escalate things too far.
This isn't to say that Chisaki is incapable of having fun. Far from it! She likes to put on a tough girl act, but part of that means playing pranks and acting on impulses that seem fun. She will try most things once; she will also try to be friendly and chatty in more casual situations. It's just easy to make those casual situations turn into her becoming angry and snappish all of a sudden.
She is also, well, awkward. She doesn't know how to open up to people or connect to them. Even in Trenton, she was something of a loner; a girl who was trained by Marcus, who never quite made a lot of friends. Sometimes, she does really stupid and ostentatious things to get attention -- and, she reasons, because acting like an amusing idiot is more likely to make people laugh or like her. They wouldn't like it if they knew she wasn't sure what to do or how to talk to people.
The result is that she is sometimes cocky and boisterous. She has no problem pretending that she is the best! Chisaki even believes it, especially in terms of athleticism ("I can kick an Enhancer's ass!"), marksmanship ("I'll hit him before he knows I exist!"), and her own intelligence ("I'm so fucking wise that Socrates asks me for advice!"). But this ego hides the fact that she doesn't know how to talk to people.
She doesn't want people to find out what she is like, or that she is scared of herself. Unfortunately, being angry, impuslive, and expressive tend to result in this coming out. When she gets depressed or angry, she tends to shut down and run away; she makes up stories about how people must hate her and that they will abandon her. If she doesn't like herself, how could they?
Flaws: Chisaki is angry, and when she gets angry, she can be hurtful. She will belittle people, insult them, and sometimes needlessly be personal in an attack because she is worked up. Put simply, sometimes, she can be a bully.
She also has a bad self-image, as discussed above.
Finally, Chisaki has a skewed moral compass. She doesn't think she's really a good person -- on her worst days, she wonders if knowing magic really makes her a person in the first place -- and that it's regrettable she is being trained to murder people in foreign countries with a sniper rifle... but what she deserves, too. She can excuse some very heinous, immoral behavior because she wasn't good enough to deserve better in the first place.
Not liking herself has become an excuse to take the easy way out, do whatever Trenton wants, and sometimes, that's bad things.
Magic and Skill Details
Magic and Skills: Chisaki's first school of magic is Pulsing. She specializes in manipulating gravity, and all of her pulsing is directed at that. The major thing she can do is shift the direction of gravity for herself and others. This includes trapping people -- binding their limbs or bodies to various walls, floors, and objects -- or making herself able to walk up walls. She has worked on doing this in the long-term, too; she can, for instance, put her bed on the ceiling and sleep in it all night.
This comes at a price. For one, Chisaki cannot even do basic telekinesis. She never really worked at it -- the most she can do is diminish gravity's effect on an object, but she can't really make something fly in a straight line. She also has no time manipulation sills at all.
Her second school of magic is Channeling. Chisaki uses air and earth magic, with a similarly narrow focus. She is better with air magic; here, she is good at making and cancelling wind currents, and can make wind bursts strong enough to send someone flying. She also is good at summoning fog and mist, and making areas hard to see in. She uses earth magic mostly to make platforms, blocks, and bridges -- for example, she cannot really make rocks to shoot at someone, but can make impromptu handholds, stairs, and ladders to climb up a wall -- or a bridge between two rooftops.
Her skill is marksmanship. Chisaki's magic is built around killing people with guns. She is best with a sniper rifle; her ideal is to use gravity to fix herself to, say, the side of a building, use air currents to neutralize any impacts on her shot (and cancel the air resistance), and then blow someone's brain out from two miles away. However, she is an amazing shot with a pistol, too. Trenton has provided her with a sniper rifle and a sidearm, and sends her ammunition every month.
She has learned to use Channeling to make magical ammunition out of air; it can leave a bruise, but lets her shoot people in practice sessions without inflicting ore serious injury.