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Firefly; Firey Insect Queen
Topic Started: Jul 8 2012, 07:43 PM (1,077 Views)
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Brotherhood of Mutants
Canon/Original:

Original

Codename:

Firefly

Real Name:

Octia Vesik

Nicknames:

Serenity [stage name], Octy, Insect queen, glow worm

Age:

17

Gender:

Female

Appearance:


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Standing at 5'5" and 110 pounds, Octia is a beautiful young woman easily able to be a European model if she so chose to (and was allowed to eat more then a glass of water and half a cracker while doing so). Her eyes are a solid mirror like violet color with no pupils and has a small spattering of freckles below her eyes and across the bridge of her nose. She has naturally black hair but dyes it multiple colors, cuts, and styles it exotically constantly. She sports a full hour-glass figure, her chest reaching a small C cup while her hips are a little wider then average.

Her ears are pierced several times, three times each lobe, a conch piercing and industrial bar in her left ear and two helix piercings in her right. She also has a Labret and Monroe piercings. She also has a tattoo on her chest and another on her back between her four wings and her left arm is covered in a full tattoo sleeve. But her most noticeable body modification would be the corset piercings she has running up the both of her sides and the backs of her legs.
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But the most noticeable thing of all about this young girl is her physical mutation. Four large insect like wings resembling those of a dragonfly sprout from her back and reach out to a 9 foot wingspan. And if looked at closely a small short pair of black antennae could be seen ending just behind her hairline and that her pupil-less eyes are compounded like an insects.

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(a look at her wings from behind)
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(a better look of how she looks now)

Clothing:

Octia is extremely fashionable, always wearing a tasteful amount of makeup. Though her wardrobe is not the same as your average 17 year old girl. Octia lives with and works for a traveling steam punk fair, As such she can almost always be found in the newest steam punk fashion and rarely if ever found without at least a few pieces even when out and about outside of the fair. Though when in the mood for a change she can be found in Gothic-esque rave style outfits, to say the least is that her fashion sense is far from the average mainstream. A good example of the kinds of outfits she is normally found wearing-
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(Octia posing for a poster for a friends clothing store)

Equipment: As a performer Octia's equipment is high grade meant for constant everyday use. Her whip is specially crafted meant to be used on things much sturdier then the average whip and to be used in tandem with her abilities. Posted Image
Her throwing knives as well are custom made meant to fit in with the theme of the fair but still be fully functional. Posted Image
But in practice and during other occasions she prefers to use a simpler set where any damage or loss matters less. Posted Image

Powers:

Insect traits: Octia's x-gene has granted her four insect like wings sprouting from her back granting her the ability to fly. She also has compound eyes similar to that of a dragonfly and a pair of short thin antennae sprouting just behind her hairline. She also is Bio-luminescent, Her freckles, tips of her hair, and fingernails all able to glow a neon teal and do so depending on her mood. Her body is also enhanced to deal with the rigors of high speed flight. She is able to fly at incredibly fast speeds and is highly maneuverable. currently the fastest she has ever been clocked doing was about 150 mph with an average speed of 70-80 mph. Her eyes allow her to see slightly better in low-light and high speed conditions, being able to see twice as far as an average human say in the dim glow of her bio-luminescence.

thermo-chemical infusion: Ocita has the ability to emit massive amounts of heat from any point of her body or infuse anything she is holding with the same heat. The amount of heat she is able to produce is tied directly to how hard she is able to flap her wings. Meaning with just a few quick flaps she is able to have what she's holding emit the same amount of heat as a curling iron left on for about two hours. Or if flying top speed having the same item emit enough heat to act as military grade thermite. Her average speed though allows her to emit enough heat to melt steel. While the item is held it is immune to the heat she infuses it with also once she stops flapping her wings the heat will begin to slowly dissipate.

Insect communication: She is able to create a telepathic bond between herself and most types of flying insects which gives her mental control over them. The ones she has discovered she can do this with so far have been fireflies, dragonflies, Damselflies, wasps, and beetles. She is only able to create a link with those types on insects within 300 yards of her. She is also limited in how many she can actually link with at a given time, at this time the mental stress she is able to handle and still function on her own while linked is with about 60-70 insects 100 max if she is doing nothing else. This ability also seems to have an odd secondary affect when in use. It seems to mask her thought wave patterns and mental signature causing them to mimic the insects she has created the Psychic bond with, making it difficult for her mind to be scanned or detected by telepaths.

skills: Octia having trained every day most of her life in what one could call the circus arts with some of the best in the business is extremely skilled with both the whip and throwing knives as well as several acrobatic skills all of which has granted her Olympic if not peak level agility and dexterity . She is also an accomplished juggler and has even begun to learn how to eat and breath fire. Besides Estonian her native language she can also speak Swedish, Russian and German. And while she can understand English she does have some difficulty speaking it as she didn't pay it much attention while being taught.

Weakness:

Insect traits: Besides the obvious disadvantages of having physical mutations, as would be expected Octia's wings aren't all that durable only able to sustain light damage before the wing would be considered unsuitable for flight which would greatly hamper her speed and maneuverability or depending on the damage ground her immediately. Her eyes are very sensitive to bright light and sudden flashes say from a flash grenade has an even greater chance of causing permanent damage to her if left unprotected. Just like insects she is also very susceptible to the cold especially the membrane of her wings, if frozen there is a chance they could crack or crumble. Also if gotten wet she would have to wait for her wings to dry before taking flight again. Her antennae just like any other sensory receptor are extremely sensitive and any damage received to them could cause serious complications.

thermo-chemical infusion: Being that this ability is tied completely to her ability to flap her wings. If there is something preventing that or hindering her from flying, like a low ceiling it will limit the amount of heat she could produce depending on the situation. She is also limited on how often she can use this ability as depending on the amount of heat she wishes to exude requires her to fly faster which puts a greater strain on her body limiting her flight time and could cause her to collapse from exhaustion. And while she is immune to the heat and flames she creates she is not immune to the heat and flames created by others or once the item begins to burn of its own accord.

Insect communication: As stated She is only able to communicate with the insects that are already within the area so say she is in the middle of time square or the ocean there would be very little or nothing at all for her to call on. Also the insects are limited by their intelligence, if used for scouting or some other detail oriented task nothing other then the most simplest answers could be conveyed and more then one insect performing the task would give her nothing but mindless chatter. Also the minor mental defense this ability gives her works only when she is actively using this ability and is only of any real use when she is mentally linked to multiple insects as otherwise her mind is easily found by a simple process of elimination. though once found the ability doesn't protect her from other forms of Psychic attacks.

General: Octia suffers from an extreme case of claustrophobia most likely developed from when she was locked and buried under a bunch of blankets in a tiny linen closet in the orphanage for a better part of a week. The condition is so bad she will not willingly go anywhere she cannot spread her wings. She also has no skill fighting hand to hand what so ever that coupled with her body piercings makes being in close quarter combat extremely dangerous for her and even a glancing blow struck in the right spot could cause her serious injury.

Personality:

To the people she doesn't know or trust, Octia can come off as uncaring and just a little haughty or in some cases down right rude. As someone who has spent as long as they can remember traveling the whole of Europe and only spending a short amount of time in each place the thoughts and feelings of new people she meets means almost nothing to her least she deems them useful in some way. As for the small circle of family and friends, she is a fun loving, slightly flirtatious and determined individual who can be counted on in a pinch. She is also aware of her looks and prefers to show off then hide away actually being a bit of a tease from time to time. Her attitude towards humans though is nothing but hatred having no love for them what so ever save for the select few that work at the fair with her and her family and will normally take any opportunity to show her disdain for them.

History:

Octia was born to a young mutant/human couple who lived in a small town not far out of kohtlajarve and closer to the shores of Lake Peipus. Her father being a pure blood Estonian human while her mother was a mutant of Hungarian descent who had come to Estonia to escape persecution. Her father was well aware of Octia's mother being a mutant and cared very little for that fact the two living a very happy life together. Octia was born with her physical mutations though her other abilities wouldn't show up until the young girl hit puberty.

Even though her parents we're worried about their daughter being treated poorly and harassed for being different, they were determined to have her lead as normal a life as possible. So when Octia was 2 she was enrolled into kindergarten and her first day of school would be the day everything changed for her. On that day anti-mutant activists, tired of the family "flaunting" their obviously mutant daughter around town decided that it would be best if they were rid of them once and for all and planted a bomb beneath their home. The bomb being set to go off shortly after her father left for work to kill both the "filthy" mutant child and mother and blame the father for the act. Though they didn't plan for Octia to leave that morning with her father to go to school, having only last minute found a school willing to accept her. Their home exploded while the girl was still waving to her mother standing on the porch.The police were on sight almost instantaneously having been "Tipped off" to the crime. The last thing she can remember is being forcibly ripped from her fathers grasp and carried away as her father was arrested for the murder of his wife.

She was then placed in an orphanage far from her home and while she wasn't necessarily mistreated there she was far from being properly cared for. The social workers at the orphanage wanted nothing more then to avoid any incidents or give the city a reason to turn on them they kept Octia and the one or two other mutant children confined to their tiny rooms as often as possible. For five years of her life Octia was neglected and shunned, locked away from almost all interaction with others besides the harassment she suffered at the hands of the non-mutant children and left to pretty much fend for herself. Until one day she was adopted by a very young mutant lesbian couple out looking to "save" a mutant child from the abuse they were subjected to within the orphanages, she was happy to go with them.

The couple worked for a traveling Victorian age Renaissance type fair (though over the years it has changed, falling in with the quickly growing steam punk culture becoming one of the larger traveling steam punk shows in Europe) living with a small troupe of mutant performers. Suffice to say it was a difficult environment to raise the young Octia not to mention she did almost nothing to improve the situation. Determined to do as she pleased and having become very independent the young girl would constantly wander away from her home school teachers and the people tasked to watch her finding the sights, smells, and sounds of the fair more enjoyable then the families small trailer parked in the camp ground.

About the time she turned ten, Octia having decided early on that she wished to be apart of the fair spending all her time learning everything she could from the troupe of performers her family traveled with and almost completely abandoning her home schooling was also the same time the girls powers began to surface. Having become more then just a competent flier over the years she began to feel a horrible burning sensation every time she flew. And every night she was awakened by what she could only describe as a million voices talking in her head. Her foster parents did everything they could to help the girl taking her to see both doctors and therapists though nothing they did helped. One afternoon, tired of going for doctor visit after doctor visit while being made to stay inside in between, decided it would be better if she sneaked out to play with her friends who were having a water balloon fight at the time. As she played Octia noticed the pain she felt while flying vanished and that every balloon she threw burst-ed into a cloud of steam and hot water.

After a little experimentation the young girl discovered that the harder she flapped her wings the hotter the water became. One of the performers having been sent out to collect the children for dinner noticed this and suggested that if she could master this power it could be used to put on quite the act, spurred on by this advice young Octia trained even harder doing her best to master both sides of her new craft determined to be the star in her own act. Even though she had discovered one of her powers there was still another that plagued her unable to find the source of the voices. Until one night unable to take the noise in her head ran from the trailer into a nearby field filled with the glow of fireflies and began to scream for the voices to stop. After catching her breath what she did notice surprised her, All the blinking lights that had filled the field not seconds before had all gone dark after realizing what that meant controlling the problem was made simpler.

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Genoshan citizen/brotherhood hopeful

RP Sample:

Its Lysek I can provide one as needed

Code:

'sherbert fountain'

Previous RP Experience:

plenty!

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it looks good to me and is unique and a first for me after all I do not anyone on the boards who are part bug lol. Just make sure you get in all your claims and you still needs one more stamp before you can start posting.
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Accepted! Tremendously detailed, like the body modification tidbits.

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