Post by Kelly Reynolds - "Seraph" on Jan 2, 2024 6:15:27 GMT
KELLY REYNOLDS
FULL NAME: Kelly Marigold Reynolds
CODENAME: Seraph
FACE CLAIM:Chloe Grace-Moretz
AGE: 19
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: Aegis, Cloak division
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
CODENAME: Seraph
FACE CLAIM:Chloe Grace-Moretz
AGE: 19
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: Aegis, Cloak division
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
Personal
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual.
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: She/her
ETHNICITY: Caucasian/European Ancestry
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: She/her
ETHNICITY: Caucasian/European Ancestry
Double Life
ABILITIES: Wings: Kelly has large, white, feathered wings on her back, sprouting out from shoulder blades that are different from most other human beings. Using these wings, which have a wingspan of six feet, in combination with her other abilities, she is able to fly.
Special Feathers - The feathers on her wings are not entirely like other bird feathers. Due to an oil excreted by her pinions, they are waterproof, and are highly resistant to shock and piercing. She can stop a knife with the feathered parts of her wings, although the parts that are less feathered are still as vulnerable as any other limb.
Lighter bones - Her family on her mother's side all have lighter bones. Rather than being hollow though, they're honeycombed inside for structural integrity.
Breathe - The bloodline comes with a larger lung capacity, but they also need less breath to do labour intensive actions too.
Enhanced Endurance - She could run a marathon so much easier than the average human, and it isn't just due to her lighter bones. Her family (on her mother's side) has developed enhanced endurance to help with their flights.
SKILLS: Dancer - Throughout her childhood, Kelly pursued ballet. This has given her a fluidity of motion that has come in very handy when it comes to her crimefighting efforts.
Cloak and Aegis Training - Kelly has undergone standard Aegis training, and further Cloak specialized training. As such, she is proficient in hand to hand combat, various firearms and melee weapons, and specialized stealth and power training to work effectively undercover.
WEAKNESSES: Lighter Bones are easier to break. While their honeycomb structure does increase their general structural stability as compared to a fully hollow bone, they are still weaker than a standard human bone.
Authority Pleaser: Kelly has an immense desire to please authority and parental figures and receive their praise and admiration. As such she will often toe the line and do things very much by the book while authorities are present, but will go and bend or break the rules when she feels that authority figures will not find out.
Unhealthy Coping: Kelly has a tendency to go and drink while underage in an attempt to cope with the actions she takes and/or has taken in the course of her crimefighting activities for Cloak.
Wing Persistence: Kelly's wings don't vanish when she's not using them, they stay on her back. She can fold them up, but they serve as a way to potentially identify her secret identity, or at least narrow down who she might be. In addition, the world isn't made for people with large wings on their back. Kelly constantly has to either modify her clothes or find backless variants to accommodate her wings, and she is prone to bumping them into things and have them bumped into.
Only Human: Besides her wings and additional endurance and lung capacity, she is only human and just as vulnerable to anything else that would harm a human being, and has all the same basic requirements to sustain life.
Special Feathers - The feathers on her wings are not entirely like other bird feathers. Due to an oil excreted by her pinions, they are waterproof, and are highly resistant to shock and piercing. She can stop a knife with the feathered parts of her wings, although the parts that are less feathered are still as vulnerable as any other limb.
Lighter bones - Her family on her mother's side all have lighter bones. Rather than being hollow though, they're honeycombed inside for structural integrity.
Breathe - The bloodline comes with a larger lung capacity, but they also need less breath to do labour intensive actions too.
Enhanced Endurance - She could run a marathon so much easier than the average human, and it isn't just due to her lighter bones. Her family (on her mother's side) has developed enhanced endurance to help with their flights.
SKILLS: Dancer - Throughout her childhood, Kelly pursued ballet. This has given her a fluidity of motion that has come in very handy when it comes to her crimefighting efforts.
Cloak and Aegis Training - Kelly has undergone standard Aegis training, and further Cloak specialized training. As such, she is proficient in hand to hand combat, various firearms and melee weapons, and specialized stealth and power training to work effectively undercover.
WEAKNESSES: Lighter Bones are easier to break. While their honeycomb structure does increase their general structural stability as compared to a fully hollow bone, they are still weaker than a standard human bone.
Authority Pleaser: Kelly has an immense desire to please authority and parental figures and receive their praise and admiration. As such she will often toe the line and do things very much by the book while authorities are present, but will go and bend or break the rules when she feels that authority figures will not find out.
Unhealthy Coping: Kelly has a tendency to go and drink while underage in an attempt to cope with the actions she takes and/or has taken in the course of her crimefighting activities for Cloak.
Wing Persistence: Kelly's wings don't vanish when she's not using them, they stay on her back. She can fold them up, but they serve as a way to potentially identify her secret identity, or at least narrow down who she might be. In addition, the world isn't made for people with large wings on their back. Kelly constantly has to either modify her clothes or find backless variants to accommodate her wings, and she is prone to bumping them into things and have them bumped into.
Only Human: Besides her wings and additional endurance and lung capacity, she is only human and just as vulnerable to anything else that would harm a human being, and has all the same basic requirements to sustain life.
Appearance
GENERAL: Kelly stands at 5'4", and is almost immediately dwarfed by the large wings on her back. These wings are covered with white feathers, and with her blond hair coming down just past her shoulders and delicate features, makes her look downright angelic. She tends toward wearing backless tops to accommodate her wings, usually in a color that doesn't stand out very much, often blacks and muted reds and blues. She tends to avoid white colors, because she feels like that would be just too on the nose. Skirts are right out without some kind of shorts underneath, because those wings aren't just for show, she puts them to use and rarely walks somewhere if she could fly. Torn jeans and leggings fit her aesthetic. She's very proud of her wings, and cares for her feathers as much if not more than she cares for her hair. Both her hair and wing feathers are immaculately clean as often as possible, and her hair is often pulled back into a single braid or ponytail unless she's going out on the town or on some fancy date, when she prefers to lean into the angelic look and let it hang loose.
COSTUME: Seraph's crime-fighting uniform is black with gold accents, and made of stab-resistant carbon fiber. While her outfit does have an opening on the back to accommodate her wings, it covers the rest of her body up to her hair. Opting to leave it free to avoid helmet hair, it is still able to maintain a proper seal for the respiratory system enabling her to filter toxins and carry additional oxygen for excessively high flights. Bullet-resistant padding and plating have been added to her chest, and additional shock absorption material has been put in place around her legs, feet, arms, and hands to protect her relatively fragile bones more. She wears a utility harness on her upper body containing, along with the standard Aegis gear, two handguns, two "cattle prod" combat sticks (essentially escrima sticks modified to have an electrical points on the end similar to a handheld taser), first aid gear, and extra ammunition, both lethal and non-lethal. On occasion she will employ a long distance sniper rifle, but that depends on the mission in question.
COSTUME: Seraph's crime-fighting uniform is black with gold accents, and made of stab-resistant carbon fiber. While her outfit does have an opening on the back to accommodate her wings, it covers the rest of her body up to her hair. Opting to leave it free to avoid helmet hair, it is still able to maintain a proper seal for the respiratory system enabling her to filter toxins and carry additional oxygen for excessively high flights. Bullet-resistant padding and plating have been added to her chest, and additional shock absorption material has been put in place around her legs, feet, arms, and hands to protect her relatively fragile bones more. She wears a utility harness on her upper body containing, along with the standard Aegis gear, two handguns, two "cattle prod" combat sticks (essentially escrima sticks modified to have an electrical points on the end similar to a handheld taser), first aid gear, and extra ammunition, both lethal and non-lethal. On occasion she will employ a long distance sniper rifle, but that depends on the mission in question.
Personality
Due to her upbringing and constantly hearing about her "Golden" older sister, Kelly has something of an inferiority complex, and desperately wants the approval of authority and parental figures around her. As a result, to them she often has a reputation of being a very goody two-shoes rule follower.
However, those who know her best know that she knows the rules so that she can bend and/or break them most effectively. She's a bit rebellious, but is very careful to hide it from authority figures. She likes to break the rules but only if she won't get caught.
She walks with a grace and poise thanks to her dance background, with a confidence that is entirely an act. She definitely believes in "Fake it till you make it" when it comes to believing in herself, and it's something she's working on. But its not something she'll let anyone know she's working on unless they're a very close friend.
She is generally quite sassy, and won't hesitate to speak her mind if she's among peers, which and will dunk on random strangers. She's also very loyal to those who have earned her trust and will fight for them, but can't conceive of someone betraying her. Those relationships are paramount to her, and having that sort of betrayal rocks her world.
History
Kelly was born to Bruce and Lila Reynolds not too long after Lila moved to Astaria from the nation of Adaira. While her parents loved her and Kelly never doubted it, she always felt like she was living in the shadow of her "golden" older sister, Kerry Grimaldi . Lila's daughter from a prior relationship, she wasn't born with the wings that were common in Lila's side of the family, and as such struggled in the Adairan clan's society. Lila left soon after having Kerry, without her, as the clan separated children from their parents almost right away, but that didn't mean Lila wasn't immensely proud of her accomplishments as she grew. Kelly grew up seeing pictures taken of Kerry from a distance, and hearing her mother talk about her in glowing terms.
As such, young Kelly worked her wings and ass off in an attempt to prove that she was just as good, if not better than her apparently perfect absent sister. She took up ballet early on, correctly assuming her light bones and wings would make her a natural at the activity. Throughout her childhood, she developed a reputation as a very good and proper girl, but never managed to, in her own eyes at least, break out of the shadow of her wingless sister, who had become all but an adopted member of the Adairan royal family. When authority figures weren't around, her peers knew her to be very willing to bend if not break the rules when it seemed safe, when it wouldn't tarnish her squeaky clean reputation with the adults.
When she turned 18, she joined Aegis, another attempt, although perhaps subconsciously, to gain the approval she felt she wasn't getting in favor of the sister she never met. Less than a year into her time there, The Phantom, the Pillar in charge of Aegis' spec-ops division Cloak, saw potential in her, and brought her under his wing (if you'll pardon the pun). As a member of Cloak, Kelly, under the code name of Seraph, does the work that is felt that wouldn't be proper for the regular Aegis Superheroes to be seen doing. On some level, she sees this as a natural outgrowth of her entire life growing up. Ultimately, she's proud that she's doing what's necessary to keep people safe, and hopes that even if she can't tell them about the details, her parents will appreciate that too.
Kelly's first time having to kill someone on the job was a moment that left her with mental turmoil. It's never an easy thing to have to kill another person, and for a kid just out of high school, that's a lot to deal with. Regular mandated therapy sessions with Colt, Aegis' in-house therapist, help, but by necessity he can't know everything that Cloak does. Kelly turned to alcohol, despite being underage, to help numb the trauma, and it's become at least a minor addiction for her. She carefully manages how much she has and when to preserve her image in the eyes of parental figures, but if Kelly isn't on the job for Cloak or at home doing chores, she can often be found having some drinks and looking for a hookup at the Drunken Dog.
Player
OOC NAME: KingJ. You know me, come on.
PRONOUNS: He/Him
OTHER CHARACTERS: A Lot.
SOURCE: I made the place.
OTHER CHARACTERS: A Lot.
SOURCE: I made the place.
credit to Laura of Adox
