Post by Rosemary Thorne on Dec 16, 2019 5:18:41 GMT
ROSEMARY THORNE
FULL NAME: Rosemary "Rose" Althea Thorne
CODENAME: Nightshade
FACE CLAIM: Ruby Rose
AGE: 27 years
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: Unaffiliated vigilante
ALIGNMENT: Lawful neutral
CODENAME: Nightshade
FACE CLAIM: Ruby Rose
AGE: 27 years
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: Unaffiliated vigilante
ALIGNMENT: Lawful neutral
Personal
SEXUALITY: Bi (monogamous)
GENDER: Nonbinary
PRONOUNS: She/they
ETHNICITY: White
GENDER: Nonbinary
PRONOUNS: She/they
ETHNICITY: White
Double Life
ABILITIES:
SKILLS:
WEAKNESSES:
- Plant Manipulation: Rosemary is able to manipulate plants and wield them as weapons. She's able to cause them to grow larger than their original size or even shrink. She can manipulate a seed into growing to an adult plant.
- Plant Communication: She's able to communicate with plants to get her thoughts across to them. However because plants can't talk, they can't verbally respond to her.
- Plant Empathy: Playing hand in hand with her communication ability, she's able to sense how plants are feeling.
SKILLS:
- Biology: She has a Master's and Bachelor's degree in biology and works as a biologist for the Astaria Institute of Health & Technology.
- Combat: She's skilled in some basic combat.
- Botany: While getting her degrees, she minored in botany.
WEAKNESSES:
- Only Human: Rose's abilities don't make her immortal or invulnerable and thus she's as vulnerable to harm as the average non-powered person.
- Physical Toll: Depending on the strength she uses her power at and how much she pushes her limit, her ability often takes a toll on her body. This can range from headaches, physical pain, a bloody nose, coughing up blood, vomiting, and even passing out.
- Plants: Her ability is to simply control plants and cannot make the plants any sturdier than they already are. Thus the plants she's manipulating are as vulnerable as they would naturally be and once destroyed or killed, she has to find a new plant to manipulate.
Appearance
GENERAL: Rosemary stands at five feet and nine inches tall. She has short dark brown hair and light hazel irises. Her skin is an ivory shade. She has several tattoos scattered across her body. She dresses in whatever clothes she likes in the moment or feels comfiest in. She has piercings on her ears, nose, and tongue.
COSTUME: Nightshade's costume consists of black with both dark and light green accents. She wears a trench coat, sometimes tied closed, over a tank top. Her pants are black with a belt looped around her waist. She wears steel toed combat boots on her feet and gloves on her hands. Her mask is one that covers her whole head, made from a breathable fabric with white where her eyes are.
COSTUME: Nightshade's costume consists of black with both dark and light green accents. She wears a trench coat, sometimes tied closed, over a tank top. Her pants are black with a belt looped around her waist. She wears steel toed combat boots on her feet and gloves on her hands. Her mask is one that covers her whole head, made from a breathable fabric with white where her eyes are.
Personality
Rosemary is a scientist first and foremost. She's quizzical and looks at things from a scientific perspective in order to solve problems or even attempt to prevent the problems. She's calculating but soft and kind. She looks at life and most challenges as if they were a puzzle and she's simply searching for some missing pieces.
Her primary focus as Nightshade is to protect people. She's protective, especially over those she cares about but also over people she doesn't even know, believing all life deserves a chance to live. She's fierce in everything she does, from crime fighting to science to loving. She's dedicated and hardworking as well as stubborn. She also has a sarcastic side and isn't afraid to crack jokes or quips to lighten the mood.
Her primary focus as Nightshade is to protect people. She's protective, especially over those she cares about but also over people she doesn't even know, believing all life deserves a chance to live. She's fierce in everything she does, from crime fighting to science to loving. She's dedicated and hardworking as well as stubborn. She also has a sarcastic side and isn't afraid to crack jokes or quips to lighten the mood.
History
Rosemary was born to a middle class family and grew up in Astaria City, Oregon. She had a happy and relatively normal childhood with her mom and dad, growing up as an only child. She went to and graduated from the local university with a degree in biology and a minor in botany. A year after she graduated, when she was twenty-three years old, she applied for a scientist job at the Astaria Institute for Health & Technology. She managed to get the job and thus get her foot in the door.
Unknown to her, however, the Institute was a front for the organization known as the Cabal. Working at the Institute didn't automatically mean she'd joined the Cabal, but it did mean she wasn't always given the full information on the tasks they handed her or the experiments they asked her to attempt. One such experiment was with an odd orange chemical. She'd stayed late at the Institute one night, trying to figure out what the chemical was made of and suspicious of the fact that no one could or would tell her.
Then the accident happened. An earthquake struck, shaking the building violently and throwing her to the ground. Several viles of the chemical fell from the table she'd been working on and crashed right onto her, the glass cutting her skin and allowing the chemical to seep into her blood. She managed to admit herself into the hospital, but they found nothing wrong with her. She filed a report with the Institute but nothing was done.
Later that week, she found herself bedridden and violently sick. She was certain she was going to die. Instead when she broke her fever, she found that she felt odd but wasn't sure what was wrong. She later discovered, while in her lab by herself, that she had gained the ability to manipulate and communicate with plants, as well as sense how they're feeling. It wasn't until a year after that that she dawned the identity of Nighshade.
Unknown to her, however, the Institute was a front for the organization known as the Cabal. Working at the Institute didn't automatically mean she'd joined the Cabal, but it did mean she wasn't always given the full information on the tasks they handed her or the experiments they asked her to attempt. One such experiment was with an odd orange chemical. She'd stayed late at the Institute one night, trying to figure out what the chemical was made of and suspicious of the fact that no one could or would tell her.
Then the accident happened. An earthquake struck, shaking the building violently and throwing her to the ground. Several viles of the chemical fell from the table she'd been working on and crashed right onto her, the glass cutting her skin and allowing the chemical to seep into her blood. She managed to admit herself into the hospital, but they found nothing wrong with her. She filed a report with the Institute but nothing was done.
Later that week, she found herself bedridden and violently sick. She was certain she was going to die. Instead when she broke her fever, she found that she felt odd but wasn't sure what was wrong. She later discovered, while in her lab by herself, that she had gained the ability to manipulate and communicate with plants, as well as sense how they're feeling. It wasn't until a year after that that she dawned the identity of Nighshade.
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credit to Laura of Adox
