Aria Mackenzie - Payback

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NICOLE MACKENZIE

FULL NAME: Aria Velda Mackenzie
CODENAME: Payback
FACE CLAIM: Dylan Conrique
AGE: 16
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: Unaffiliated
ALIGNMENT: Neutral

Personal

SEXUALITY: Bisexual demisexual
GENDER: Cisgender Woman
PRONOUNS: She/Her
ETHNICITY: 

Double Life

ABILITIES: Bounce Back

Aria's ability is to use the powers of other people.  If someone uses a power against Aria, her body stores it up.  She can then use the power, but only with as much power as was used against her.  For example, if someone shot a bolt of lightning at her, she'd only be able to shoot a lightning bolt back, not start an electrical storm.  Or, alternately, she could shoot a bunch of really small lightning bolts. 

Her body remembers all the powers that have been levelled against her.  If she gets hold of a similar power again, she's able to use it with more efficiency as expected of something she is becoming more practiced at.  Her body also remembers all the powers used against her in her lifetime. 

SKILLS:

It should be noted that while she knows moves from the martial arts and weapons styles listed, she may not know what the art is called, as she was trained in it and expected not to ask questions.

- various martial arts, including Judo, Karate, Aikido, Hapkido, Boxing, Combat Hopak, Glima, Sambo and Systema

- various weapon arts, including Bojutsu, Jojutsu, Gatka, Fencing and a few different styles of archery

- can switch from one martial art to another fluidly, and also has the ability to change the way she is fighting and presenting herself entirely.  This makes her as an opponent difficult to predict.

WEAKNESSES:

- She wants to make someone proud so badly that she will do almost anything.  There's a lot a sixteen year old will do when they're desperate and have superpowers.

- She can only use the equivalent amount of energy that was levelled at her in the first place.  Even if she splits it into smaller bits, she can only use what equals what was levelled at her. 

- A brand new power will take more getting used to for her, and her accuracy and imagination as to how to use the power will be less effective.

- She has to rely on adults for many of her needs.  So she has no hope of being independent in her mind.

- Any mention of her sister might put her into a mental health spiral, or a breakdown.  Well...just the mention might not, but if you relate her sister to her, it will happen.

- She is greatly greatly lacking in knowledge about the outside world as a result of her upbringing.

Appearance

GENERAL: Give us a description of their physical appearance. Do they have any tattoos, birthmarks? Also include their sense of style, the types of clothes they're likely to be seen in, how they walk or how they carry themselves. A minimum of ONE paragraph goes here.

COSTUME: If applicable, give us a description of the costume they wear - be it while crime-fighting, bank robbing, or whatever they decide to use their powers or skills for. This can be a detailed description or just a list of the clothes they wear as a costume - include colors.

Personality

Paint us a picture of how they act, behave, etc. Include their likes and dislikes. Tell us what makes them tick, what motivates them. Tell us all about their mind! If they have a mental illness, you may include that here (Note: a mental illness isn't a personality, we're not stating that it is). At least TWO paragraphs.

History

Aria was born on June 27, 2006.  She was one of a pair of identical twins, and that's where her trouble started.  Well, to understand let's give a bit of background.

Her father ran a military contracting company that went international.  It was based in Adaira, and was widely known for being very successful, also having a reputation for technology and medical research.  And perhaps that went to his head.  Gold diggers targeted him, and he embraced them.  He ended up being married twice before Aria's mother.  The first one disappeared mysteriously after a year of marriage.  The second got a divorce one month after their marriage.  Finally, Aria's mother.  A bright young scientist.  Honestly, no need to be a gold digger but student loans to a foreign university are no joke okay.  After a bit, she genuinely fell in love with him.  And 11 months into their marriage, she was pregnant. 

What follows is completely off the record and not known to the general public.  Aria's father had chosen the young scientist because of a history of twins in her family.  And when she conceived, he secretly experimented on the child.  Just like he had with his first wife.  By this time, he had a fair amount of knowledge about it.  However, it didn't work on the first child.  She miscarried, probably largely due to the drugs that were untraceable by normal methods.  No-one thought to look for illegal drugs in a fetus.  They tried again, and this time she was pregnant with twins.  She was so very happy for it, and so was he.  But for completely different reasons.  Once again, he experimented.  And this time, it didn't result in a miscarriage.  The babies adapted to the drugs somehow.  Don't ask me how, I'm not the mad scientist.  Turned out they were identical twins too.  Aria's father, the absolute asshole Michael Mackenzie, decided opportunity was knocking on his door.

When Aria's mother, Dae Jeong, gave birth to the twins, it was a birth behind a screen.  Michael bribed everyone in the room.  And that's how poor Dae was told that only one of the twins had survived.  Aria meanwhile was sequestered away secretly by her father.

Give us some information on their lives prior to them joining the site. At least TWO paragraphs. Tell us their stories. How'd they grow up? When did they get their powers and how, are they emotionally sound? And when I ask emotionally sound, I'm not talking about whether they're an audio manipulator. When you're writing this, ask yourself what other people would want to know about your character.

Player

OOC NAME: Exxie

PRONOUNS: They/Them

OTHER CHARACTERS: Too many.

SOURCE: I'm a creator mwahahaha

credit to Laura of Adox