Gaben, Jaina - Reset

[Jaina Gaben]

JAINA GABEN

FULL NAME: Jaina Gaben
CODENAME: Reset
FACE CLAIM: Cara Delevigne
AGE: Physically 16, technically 32
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: N/A N /A
ALIGNMENT: Civilian, currently

Personal

SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her
ETHNICITY: White

Double Life

ABILITIES: Reset has a unique healing factor. Incredibly powerful, it only activates roughly within a minute of midnight local time, and restores her body to the state it was in at roughly midnight on her sixteenth birthday, seemingly no matter the state her body was in at the current time. This takes approximately five minutes, whereupon she returns to consciousness (if rendered unconscious) with all her memories intact. Currently, she hasn't discovered something that can kill her permanently.

SKILLS: Over the years, Jaina has developed a few skills. She's learned how to pick locks and is able to do so very quickly. Sneaking out of morgues and other locations that she finds herself reset in is another necessary skill she's developed, as well as navigating the paperwork to get new ID after being declared legally dead, although to her great frustration they never take her at her word when she says when she was born.

WEAKNESSES:

Aside from resetting each night, she is completely human, and can be damaged and hurt or even killed, albeit only temporarily, as far as she is aware, just the same as any other human being.

Jaina resets wherever the majority of her body, or whatever is left of it,  is when the phenomenon occurs. This can put her in awkward situations where she is killed again almost immediately upon resetting. It is entirely possible she could get trapped in a loop of just dying and resetting over and over again if her body isn't moved to a better place.

Jaina is not immune to pain. Every time she dies she feels all the pain possibly associated with it, and remembers it and what it feels likes. Jaina does not have any ability to heal or regenerate aside from that brief, rapid period of time around midnight.

Jaina is trapped at the physical age of sixteen, and every time she gets a new official ID (every so often she feels the urge to try to live a normal life and get everything legally restored again)  the powers that be insist on checking her physical age. This gives her many problems, being technically a minor when it comes to her physical and legal age. She's unable to hold an apartment or take out a loan on a vehicle, in fact she's barely able to get a driver's license. This is a constant source of frustration for her.


Further, her mind, while she retains all the memories of her experiences, is physically unable to grow past the point of her reset, so her maturity and mentality are always limited to what is possible for a sixteen year old girl. Yes, a sixteen year old girl who has been through decades worth of trauma, but a sixteen year old girl nonetheless.

She isn't particularly strong or skilled in many things, having mostly focused on trying to find a way out of her "curse" across the years since she discovered her abilities, aside from some skills needed to just function and live and prevent unintentional death-resets. She can't hold down a job, and is basically homeless, due to not having parents and essentially having her identity reset every few years because she's become legally dead again.

Appearance

GENERAL:

Jaina stands at a modest 5' even, with a petite frame and blonde hair that falls to her shoulderblades. Her complexion is exactly the same as it was on her sixteenth birthday, which she is grateful was clear and light. She's attempted to get piercings and tattoos, but it has always gone away with her nightly reset, much to her chagrin. She focuses on wearing simple, comfortable clothes, not caring much about how she looks anymore unless she needs to specifically impress people. Sometimes, she will just steal clothes from local clotheslines, but she's begun to save caches around town for when things get problematic with a reset.

COSTUME: N/A

Personality

Jaina is a very introverted, nearly almost constantly depressed girl.  Even with her small frame she hunches in and tries to keep to herself, but she won't hesitate to mouth off at someone if they give her reason to. She could be described as surly and self-centered, caring mostly about just trying to find a way to either finally grow up or just die.

She doesn't have any friends or family, her parents having died and friends being a difficult thing to maintain when you're perpetually sixteen, and her attitude towards others generally hasn't helped. She has layers of trauma that have obscured what was at one point, almost twenty years ago, a very sweet and caring girl. It's possible she may get back to something resembling that, but while her body may never show scars, her mind and personality have been irreparably changed by her experiences.

History

Jaina's life was pretty normal until her sweet sixteenth birthday. Born to perfectly average human parents, Jerry and Annalise Gaben, she had your typical upbringing. In the 80s.

The morning of her sixteenth birthday, something changed. A latent power kicked in, and her body began to restore itself to the state it was in that morning. Now, this went unnoticed for a few weeks, until Jaina's period was late. And then not just late, completely nonexistent.  Medical examination discovered she wasn't pregnant (which would have caused quite the religious stir, as she hadn't gone past first base with anyone, a fact that was verified by the doctors), and further examination showed nothing.

Until exploratory surgery was attempted, and the cuts healed overnight, vanishing entirely. As time went on, Jaina would discover that she had ceased to age, and anything that would happen to her body would reset overnight to the point it was at the morning of her sixteenth birthday.

Now, the people around her tried to tell her that this was a good thing. She'd never age! She'd stay young and healthy forever! But Jaina struggled with the downsides of this gift. She watched her friends get older and move on to other lives while she always seemed like a sixteen year old girl.

When she reached her eighteenth birthday, she and her parents were in a horrible car crash, and she discovered that her ability apparently included restoring her to life. Everyone else, including the drunk driver that caused the wreck, died in the fiery disaster, but Jaina woke up around midnight at the local morgue perfectly fine.

Now parentless, homeless, and legally dead, she became incredibly depressed and suicidal. She tried, and continues to try,  many different methods of ending it all, with the end result simply being waking up the next night perfectly healthy and whole, remembering everything. She tried restoring her identity, only to get put in the system as a new person with a new date of birth, locking herself into the age of sixteen again. And again.

Today, she can be found on the streets of Haven, making do, trying to scratch out some comfort before her next death and reset. Without any friends or family, she struggles to understand what the point to all this is, and if there is even a purpose for this endless trap of existence she finds herself in.

Player

OOC NAME: You know me. I'm the King. J. The KingJ.

PRONOUNS: He/Him

OTHER CHARACTERS: I've got eleven now. Timothy Smith , Nihilo , Alice , Tayla Smith , Ophelia Courtney , John Elsven , Bradley Alans , Morgan Faye , Gael Asturias , Riley Jackson

SOURCE: I made the place. You walk on my land.

credit to Laura of Adox

[Aaron]