Post by Acacia-Green on Dec 17, 2016 12:29:40 GMT -7
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ACACIA-GREEN
ACACIA-GREEN
[attr="class","appsubname"]a new path to be carved
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[attr="class","appheading"]GENERAL INFORMATION
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Merfolk
Merfolk
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25
25
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Female
Female
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SigDigs
SigDigs
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Hetero-romantic asexual
Hetero-romantic asexual
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Artavia
Artavia
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None, really
None, really
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?
?
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[attr="class","appheading"]PERSONALITY
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One word to describe Green could be ‘bright’, or perhaps a better word would be ‘obedient’. She is very driven and constantly tries to learn new things. Father says she gets smarter every day, and maybe someday she will be half as clever as he is. She wants to please Father and she strives to make him proud, and when he tells her to do things she will drop everything to complete the task he has assigned. She does this without thinking, and feels that it is normal. Obedience to one’s parent is a quality that is stressed in all of the books she has read, anyway.[break][break]
Father encourages her to learn and become smarter and better all the time, and says that a day without learning is a day wasted. If she were to be taken aside and asked what she liked to do, her answer would be to read and practice magic and play chess, and sometimes going out to run errands. There is little else that she does with her time. She is generally quite pleasant, and her voice is soft. There is gentleness to her in both personality and appearance.
One word to describe Green could be ‘bright’, or perhaps a better word would be ‘obedient’. She is very driven and constantly tries to learn new things. Father says she gets smarter every day, and maybe someday she will be half as clever as he is. She wants to please Father and she strives to make him proud, and when he tells her to do things she will drop everything to complete the task he has assigned. She does this without thinking, and feels that it is normal. Obedience to one’s parent is a quality that is stressed in all of the books she has read, anyway.[break][break]
Father encourages her to learn and become smarter and better all the time, and says that a day without learning is a day wasted. If she were to be taken aside and asked what she liked to do, her answer would be to read and practice magic and play chess, and sometimes going out to run errands. There is little else that she does with her time. She is generally quite pleasant, and her voice is soft. There is gentleness to her in both personality and appearance.
[attr="class","appheading"]APPEARANCE
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Green is slight and physically frail in build. She stands at 5’5 and her skin is a pale, sea green. Once, her hair was a vibrant nest of colours, like a sea of tropical fish or coral, but over time is has been fading and turning white. She wears it up in a loose bun to keep it from her face while reading. [break][break]
Despite her lackluster physical build, Green’s eyes hold a sharpness to them that bely a different kind of strength, and she has a pretty smile that lights up her face. Her legs however are monstrous creations that even she doesn’t enjoy looking at, and she always wears opaque nylons and long skirts to cover them.
Green is slight and physically frail in build. She stands at 5’5 and her skin is a pale, sea green. Once, her hair was a vibrant nest of colours, like a sea of tropical fish or coral, but over time is has been fading and turning white. She wears it up in a loose bun to keep it from her face while reading. [break][break]
Despite her lackluster physical build, Green’s eyes hold a sharpness to them that bely a different kind of strength, and she has a pretty smile that lights up her face. Her legs however are monstrous creations that even she doesn’t enjoy looking at, and she always wears opaque nylons and long skirts to cover them.
[attr="class","appheading"]HISTORY
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Before she was caught, Green had no name. She lived in the ocean, far from all terrestrial beings and hidden away even from other merfolk by strong abjuration magic. They were the last of their kind, her tribe. The only merfolk in the world to have fish-like tails as opposed to webbing on their arms or legs. They lived a quiet life, a pleasant life, but Green was always a little more curious than the others. And everyone knows what curiosity does. One day a ship was passing through the waters, and she could see it even though she was very deep. She wanted to be closer, and in doing so was caught in a net. From there things were hazy with fear as she was transported somewhere cold, white, and away from the sea. [break][break]
Unlike the other test subjects in the ACACIA project, Green wasn’t a prisoner of war. Her race of merfolk were thought to be extinct, or to have over time developed into modern merfolk, and though stories spoke of beautiful women and men with full tails as though of fish, none had been seen for centuries. When she had been caught, she was immediately brought to scientists, for ‘observation’, to learn more about this ancient race. She didn’t want to talk, and so it was for the sake of ‘scientific discovery’ she was placed in the ACACIA project.[break][break]
She was scared, and alone, and she had never seen humans or other terrestrial races before being captured, and she wanted to protect her friends and family and others of her kind from the same fate as her, so she fought. She fought as hard as she could, trying to escape imprisonment, avoiding answering any questions, regularly attacking those who came too close when she was not restrained or sedated. Not that she did much damage, as even then she was a small, weak girl.[break][break]
Eventually though, a successful implant was developed and things changed after that. She couldn’t understand why, but she had to answer the questions when they were asked by one man, Dr. Thomas Dunn, and though she tried to fight against it, tried until her head hurt and her nose bled, eventually she couldn’t fight it anymore. One session wasn’t enough. She would answer only a small amount of questions and only give a minimal amount of information, just enough to satisfy the command enough that she could hold her tongue. Each day they brought her for questioning she fought back against it, each day losing the fight and revealing information about where she was from, what her people were like, how they had remained undetected for so long… [break][break]
She never stopped fighting though, and each day she was left with a bleeding nose, or a tremor in her hands, or a headache that stabbed and burned. She would rather die than betray her people, but she could not kill herself while held prisoner and she could not resist answering the questions she was asked. It was agony. [break][break]
In addition to the questioning, Dr. Dunn seemed to find great interest in her tail. Or rather, in the question of whether her tail, if operated on correctly, could be transformed into a pair of functional legs. It was frowned upon at first, but he managed to silver-tongue his way into getting the operation approved, likely under the guise of a living autopsy to discover whether her tail really was like a fish, or if it held some secret known only to merfolk of her kind.[break][break]
At first, it was a failure, and in addition it was agonizingly painful for Green. He did end up slicing her tail cleanly in two, and over time began to reconstruct it using ‘spare parts’, bones and skin from ‘donors’ that he stitched and sewed and attached and re-attached. When it was discovered exactly why he had wanted to operate on her in such a way, he was ordered politely but firmly to cease his actions as they were deemed inhumane even for this project. Green had two appendages that could have appeared to be legs, perhaps, but were nowhere near functional, at the time he was asked to cease.[break][break]
The day she had her first seizure marked the beginning of the end for Green, or rather the girl she was before becoming ‘Green’. They tried interrogating her again the next day, and the result was the same – she fell into a seizure before she could give them any answers. To her, this was finally it. She knew she would die, and she was happy for it. After so long imprisoned, separated from her family, held out of the water until she thought she would die from it, she was finally going to be free, and she would no longer be able to bring harm to her people.[break][break]
In a way, she did die. Not as permanently as she would like, and not like ACACIA-RED, who actually did die from the implant, but she would never be who she was again. After the death of Red the project was continued, but over the next few weeks her and the others began to lose their memories. They began having. seizures without prompting, and bleeding from their ears, eyes, noses. Their brains and bodies were falling apart[break][break]
Green lost every part of herself to the implant. In fact, it could be argued that she had the worst response to the implant out of all the test subjects, second only to Red of course. It came to be that she could barely function on a basic level; she couldn’t feed herself, she didn’t know her name, she couldn’t understand even the most basic of questions or commands. It was thought she was brain-dead, and the project was stopped and labeled as a failure. As a mercy, Green was to be killed. There was no life for her now. Even if she could regain her brain function somehow, her tail had been mangled beyond repair.[break][break]
The other subjects were spirited away and released anonymously into the world, their memories lost to the experiment, but Green was not killed as instructed. Instead, the good doctor stole her away to his own personal lab, and continued working on her in secret. It started with fixing her mangled tail and transforming it into two grotesque limbs that could be called legs. In the end they were a mishmash of skin and bones stitched together until they could even somewhat function. Under a pair of pants they may pass as only slightly misshapen, but unclothed they were sickening. Over the years since then they have healed somewhat and most of the swelling has gone down, until they almost look normal if they are covered. With a few ‘upgrades’ and fixes they are functional, though sometimes they cause her pain to this day. The scars have healed now, and the legs may look slightly more like legs under pants or a skirt, but they are still hideous to look at without clothes.[break][break]
The legs were one problem, a physical one, but her mind was an entirely different battleground. It was blank, seemingly useless, perhaps never to function again. A newborn babe would be better taught than her. But Thomas Dunn liked a challenge, and he liked to feel powerful, and he did not like to fail. He took a sick pleasure in trying to bring her back from the brink, slowly bringing new life to her broken mind and shattered psyche. [break][break]
It was slow and difficult, but eventually, she was able to take basic care of herself – she could feed herself and she seemed at least to understand his words, though it was some time before she herself could speak again. The doctor had her call him Father, and in a sick way that was exactly who he was to her. Eventually, she was a functional creature once again. She had learned how to walk on her sickening new legs, and she could speak and understand. She could follow orders. She had, in her memory, known no one but Father, though he spoke often and lovingly of the other ACACIAs to the point she felt as though she knew them as well.[break][break]
One day, a woman she did not know found her in the lab, and then she was spirited away to a new place where she has been ever since. Father wants her to be smart, and so he gets her to read books and play chess, to answer questions and solve problems. Sometimes, he will tell her to practice chess for hours and hours while he is busy with other work. Sometimes, she will read the same book five, six, ten times until she can repeat every word. Now that they are somewhere new, Father will sometimes send her on errands too, and she enjoys the opportunity to leave the lab and see other people and the outside world, though she feels a little agoraphobic sometimes after so long spent indoors around no one but Father. [break][break]
She never disobeys him, and she would never think to do so. Father loves her dearly and wants her to be the best person she can be. He encourages her practice of magic, which she discovered she had a talent for shortly after the woman she did not know had found her in the lab. She strives to make Father proud, and is often more harsh on herself when she disappoints him than he is on her. Life has been simple for Green, and she likes it that way. He leaves sometimes, and sometimes for very long, but she knows he loves her more than anyone in the world, and she loves him more even than that, for he is her entire world. [break][break]
Sometimes, recently, she has had dreams where she is floating, and when she looks down she sees shimmering green scales. She likes these dreams, though sometimes they make her head hurt, and sometimes she wakes up feeling sad for a reason she cannot understand.
Before she was caught, Green had no name. She lived in the ocean, far from all terrestrial beings and hidden away even from other merfolk by strong abjuration magic. They were the last of their kind, her tribe. The only merfolk in the world to have fish-like tails as opposed to webbing on their arms or legs. They lived a quiet life, a pleasant life, but Green was always a little more curious than the others. And everyone knows what curiosity does. One day a ship was passing through the waters, and she could see it even though she was very deep. She wanted to be closer, and in doing so was caught in a net. From there things were hazy with fear as she was transported somewhere cold, white, and away from the sea. [break][break]
Unlike the other test subjects in the ACACIA project, Green wasn’t a prisoner of war. Her race of merfolk were thought to be extinct, or to have over time developed into modern merfolk, and though stories spoke of beautiful women and men with full tails as though of fish, none had been seen for centuries. When she had been caught, she was immediately brought to scientists, for ‘observation’, to learn more about this ancient race. She didn’t want to talk, and so it was for the sake of ‘scientific discovery’ she was placed in the ACACIA project.[break][break]
She was scared, and alone, and she had never seen humans or other terrestrial races before being captured, and she wanted to protect her friends and family and others of her kind from the same fate as her, so she fought. She fought as hard as she could, trying to escape imprisonment, avoiding answering any questions, regularly attacking those who came too close when she was not restrained or sedated. Not that she did much damage, as even then she was a small, weak girl.[break][break]
Eventually though, a successful implant was developed and things changed after that. She couldn’t understand why, but she had to answer the questions when they were asked by one man, Dr. Thomas Dunn, and though she tried to fight against it, tried until her head hurt and her nose bled, eventually she couldn’t fight it anymore. One session wasn’t enough. She would answer only a small amount of questions and only give a minimal amount of information, just enough to satisfy the command enough that she could hold her tongue. Each day they brought her for questioning she fought back against it, each day losing the fight and revealing information about where she was from, what her people were like, how they had remained undetected for so long… [break][break]
She never stopped fighting though, and each day she was left with a bleeding nose, or a tremor in her hands, or a headache that stabbed and burned. She would rather die than betray her people, but she could not kill herself while held prisoner and she could not resist answering the questions she was asked. It was agony. [break][break]
In addition to the questioning, Dr. Dunn seemed to find great interest in her tail. Or rather, in the question of whether her tail, if operated on correctly, could be transformed into a pair of functional legs. It was frowned upon at first, but he managed to silver-tongue his way into getting the operation approved, likely under the guise of a living autopsy to discover whether her tail really was like a fish, or if it held some secret known only to merfolk of her kind.[break][break]
At first, it was a failure, and in addition it was agonizingly painful for Green. He did end up slicing her tail cleanly in two, and over time began to reconstruct it using ‘spare parts’, bones and skin from ‘donors’ that he stitched and sewed and attached and re-attached. When it was discovered exactly why he had wanted to operate on her in such a way, he was ordered politely but firmly to cease his actions as they were deemed inhumane even for this project. Green had two appendages that could have appeared to be legs, perhaps, but were nowhere near functional, at the time he was asked to cease.[break][break]
The day she had her first seizure marked the beginning of the end for Green, or rather the girl she was before becoming ‘Green’. They tried interrogating her again the next day, and the result was the same – she fell into a seizure before she could give them any answers. To her, this was finally it. She knew she would die, and she was happy for it. After so long imprisoned, separated from her family, held out of the water until she thought she would die from it, she was finally going to be free, and she would no longer be able to bring harm to her people.[break][break]
In a way, she did die. Not as permanently as she would like, and not like ACACIA-RED, who actually did die from the implant, but she would never be who she was again. After the death of Red the project was continued, but over the next few weeks her and the others began to lose their memories. They began having. seizures without prompting, and bleeding from their ears, eyes, noses. Their brains and bodies were falling apart[break][break]
Green lost every part of herself to the implant. In fact, it could be argued that she had the worst response to the implant out of all the test subjects, second only to Red of course. It came to be that she could barely function on a basic level; she couldn’t feed herself, she didn’t know her name, she couldn’t understand even the most basic of questions or commands. It was thought she was brain-dead, and the project was stopped and labeled as a failure. As a mercy, Green was to be killed. There was no life for her now. Even if she could regain her brain function somehow, her tail had been mangled beyond repair.[break][break]
The other subjects were spirited away and released anonymously into the world, their memories lost to the experiment, but Green was not killed as instructed. Instead, the good doctor stole her away to his own personal lab, and continued working on her in secret. It started with fixing her mangled tail and transforming it into two grotesque limbs that could be called legs. In the end they were a mishmash of skin and bones stitched together until they could even somewhat function. Under a pair of pants they may pass as only slightly misshapen, but unclothed they were sickening. Over the years since then they have healed somewhat and most of the swelling has gone down, until they almost look normal if they are covered. With a few ‘upgrades’ and fixes they are functional, though sometimes they cause her pain to this day. The scars have healed now, and the legs may look slightly more like legs under pants or a skirt, but they are still hideous to look at without clothes.[break][break]
The legs were one problem, a physical one, but her mind was an entirely different battleground. It was blank, seemingly useless, perhaps never to function again. A newborn babe would be better taught than her. But Thomas Dunn liked a challenge, and he liked to feel powerful, and he did not like to fail. He took a sick pleasure in trying to bring her back from the brink, slowly bringing new life to her broken mind and shattered psyche. [break][break]
It was slow and difficult, but eventually, she was able to take basic care of herself – she could feed herself and she seemed at least to understand his words, though it was some time before she herself could speak again. The doctor had her call him Father, and in a sick way that was exactly who he was to her. Eventually, she was a functional creature once again. She had learned how to walk on her sickening new legs, and she could speak and understand. She could follow orders. She had, in her memory, known no one but Father, though he spoke often and lovingly of the other ACACIAs to the point she felt as though she knew them as well.[break][break]
One day, a woman she did not know found her in the lab, and then she was spirited away to a new place where she has been ever since. Father wants her to be smart, and so he gets her to read books and play chess, to answer questions and solve problems. Sometimes, he will tell her to practice chess for hours and hours while he is busy with other work. Sometimes, she will read the same book five, six, ten times until she can repeat every word. Now that they are somewhere new, Father will sometimes send her on errands too, and she enjoys the opportunity to leave the lab and see other people and the outside world, though she feels a little agoraphobic sometimes after so long spent indoors around no one but Father. [break][break]
She never disobeys him, and she would never think to do so. Father loves her dearly and wants her to be the best person she can be. He encourages her practice of magic, which she discovered she had a talent for shortly after the woman she did not know had found her in the lab. She strives to make Father proud, and is often more harsh on herself when she disappoints him than he is on her. Life has been simple for Green, and she likes it that way. He leaves sometimes, and sometimes for very long, but she knows he loves her more than anyone in the world, and she loves him more even than that, for he is her entire world. [break][break]
Sometimes, recently, she has had dreams where she is floating, and when she looks down she sees shimmering green scales. She likes these dreams, though sometimes they make her head hurt, and sometimes she wakes up feeling sad for a reason she cannot understand.
[attr="class","appheading"]ABILITIES
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Abjuration Magic[break]
Merfolk are often naturally gifted with Abjuration magic, and Green is no different. She has had to re-learn most of it since the incident, but has become quite efficient at minor spells and even a couple of more advanced ones. It is her hope to one day become an expert abjurer.
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Amphibious[break]
Green can breathe underwater just as well, if not better, as she can breathe air. She doesn’t know this though, as the only water she has encountered since the incident is bathwater.
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Intelligent[break]
Father encourages Green to study in every spare moment. She is incredibly clever and is able to learn things quite quickly, and has a lot of random knowledge that the average person would not have, as she spends literally almost every waking hour studying or practicing chess or otherwise learning new things, unless Father has suggested for her to do something else.
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Dim sight[break]
Merfolk are adapted to see easily in the darkness underwater, and even with very limited light Green can see as well as anything. If there is no light at all though, she is just as blind as a human would be.
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Abjuration Magic[break]
Merfolk are often naturally gifted with Abjuration magic, and Green is no different. She has had to re-learn most of it since the incident, but has become quite efficient at minor spells and even a couple of more advanced ones. It is her hope to one day become an expert abjurer.
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Amphibious[break]
Green can breathe underwater just as well, if not better, as she can breathe air. She doesn’t know this though, as the only water she has encountered since the incident is bathwater.
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Intelligent[break]
Father encourages Green to study in every spare moment. She is incredibly clever and is able to learn things quite quickly, and has a lot of random knowledge that the average person would not have, as she spends literally almost every waking hour studying or practicing chess or otherwise learning new things, unless Father has suggested for her to do something else.
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Dim sight[break]
Merfolk are adapted to see easily in the darkness underwater, and even with very limited light Green can see as well as anything. If there is no light at all though, she is just as blind as a human would be.
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[attr="class","appheading"]Fortuna-RPG
