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PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Kathrine
ARE YOU 18 OR OLDER?: Yes
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chocolateisbrainfoood / spkathrine[@]gmail.com
CURRENT CHARACTERS: None!
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Felicia “Cici” McCready (codename: Sidhe)
CANON: n/a
CANON POINT: While on mission, scoping out the area around the workplace of a suspected Super thought to speak to animals telepathically. She's flirting with his coworker on his lunch break.
CHARACTER AGE: 20
HISTORY:
Setting Information
Felicia McCready was born to an older “Evangelical” couple in Paskatawan, Oklahoma. Barely a year after she was born, Felicia “grew” angel wings. Her parents called on the Pastor Lucas Roman and he told them that she was a gift from God they would have to prepare to serve Him when the time came. In the widespread, rural town, the obsessive adhering to religion and the words of their religious leaders is not only tradition, but ingrained into their community’s culture. It’s a fairly isolated area of the state and could be considered cult-like in its religious indoctrination. Felicia was raised in seclusion and made to read the Bible several times a day along with her homeschooling studies to “learn the Word she was meant to teach.” This left her feeling removed from the world outside and she learned quickly that if she wanted things, she had to play the role her parents expected of her. She did not do this because she believed in God as they did, but because it was what she was told to do.
And then she learned about Supers and more doubt was sown. Her parents had spoken about the demons who were “pronouncing their sin” all over the country and she wondered if she was truly an angel and not one of “the abominations.” Around the time she turned ten years old, she discovered that her parents owned a computer which was locked in a tiny office she wasn’t meant to enter. She would sneak into this room while they were away (as the house had deadbolts on the outside she could not unlock herself to keep her from leaving when her parents were not home) and taught herself how to use it, which gave her a very different view of the outside world than she’d ever had before. Because of her parents’ behavior as she grew up, she learned how to play various roles as it suited her, being the perfect “angel” to get their attention and praise, and also to hide what her true motives were. More and more often she wanted them gone from the house so she could surf the internet and go into chatrooms by lying about her age so she could meet people. Google, AIM, and Skype became her best tools.
She still played the role her parents expected of her, but as she got to explore the outside world through the web, Felicia wanted less and less to do with the world within her own home and the community they insisted she was meant to preach to. Pastor Roman groped her wings when she was 15, which led to her beating him unconscious and having a huge fight with her parents. During this fight she was so angry and wanted to get at them so much that her wings temporarily transformed into ones more leathery, clawed and bat-like. Her parents swore she had been possessed by the Devil and Felicia used their terror to escape and run away. It wasn’t easy as she had never used her wings to fly before, so she ended up hitchhiking much of the way north, but not all of those offering to help her were as nice as she thought they were at first. One night, out of exhaustion, she tried to land on the road where the lights were and almost got hit by a car.
The driver, Yul Walken, was a nice guy, mid-20s and offered to give her a ride the rest of the way into Chicago, Illinois. She spent a week with him and he even gave her his gold credit card with a $5,000 limit and told her she could find him at DELTA. Felicia spent the next six months running up bills on his credit card and buying as much technology as she could. After that, she found the closest regional DELTA office, walked in and demanded to be allowed to see him. From that point on Felicia was a part of DELTA and she found out the truth about what else the agency was involved in. They trained her in using her abilities, studied them to try and better understand how they worked and this is how they discovered they were not real wings, but energy constructs that took on the physical form of wings.
A year later she was assigned to work on Yul’s own team, the Omega Squad, under the codename Sidhe, which was a more covert team that would investigate unusual activities and track down Supers that were considered high-risk or potential threats. Felicia was never very good at the “covert” aspect of their missions, but she always worked very well as a good diversion to what the rest of the team was doing. It was hard not to pay attention to the girl with the angel wings and her cover as a DELTA spokesperson meant most people didn’t ask questions about why she was in particular locations. There were several offers to transfer her fulltime to the Theta Squad (public relations, spokesmen, and media manipulation team), but she refused. Omega was like a new family to her and she enjoyed being with them, but really, she didn’t want to be separated from Yul who was like a surrogate big brother.
That is, until the mission where a rogue Super (William Baker) who was planning to use his powers to manipulate his way into Harvard University (he didn’t have the academic brains to get there on his own, but telepathy and mind control sure do work to a guy’s advantage), went drastically wrong. They had just intended to bring the young man in for questioning, but not knowing he was a full on telepath, the team was slowly pitted against each other in the few days they spent around him, to the point they were at each other’s throats. If it wasn’t for Yul taking an attack from Felicia, their teammate Kali would have been decapitated. Instead he was severely injured and temporarily paralyzed from the waist down and their other teammate John Archer was killed. It took Yul off the team and Felicia was on mandatory leave for two weeks while they made sure there were no lasting traces of the Rogue’s influence in her mind. During that time, she accepted the standing offer to be transferred to Theta Squad.
Her new team was less drastic and more widespread. The Theta Squad works all over the country and has alliance teams with other groups in countries across the world. She got to be in the limelight and make nice with her new teammates. She even struck up a sexual relationship with Samuel Akens, who was pretty much the posterboy sweetheart of the team, because his visual empathy was disrupted by her energy constructs and he couldn’t read her as he did everyone else. For a while, they had been stationed in Los Angeles, California, working to promote the new Unity in Support Center opening there to promote the usefulness of Supers in society and how non-enhanced humans could relate to them.
It was during a promotional stop in California that Cici went out clubbing one night, alone, and crossed paths with Eva Maria. Eva (calling herself Mary) recognized Felicia as a Super, but had really been there to bring in the boy Cici just so happened to be dancing with, another Super with high connections. Eva used her powers to induce Cici into helping her get the boy out of the club and into the car waiting to take him away, then proceeded to bring Cici in, too.
What would follow was months of Felicia and Eva working together, much of them underwraps to avoid Cici being caught out by D.E.L.T.A., tracking down other Supers to bring in for use by the shady side of the Medical and Research Knowledge on Supernatural Abilities Organization (known as M.A.R.K.O.), that Eva worked for. Cici's disappearance was never fully disclosed to the media, although there was mention of a "family" emergency she was dealing with (a way to avoid saying she was missing, particularly since Felicia never spoke of her childhood on camera with any honesty for people to fact-check it). In the beginning it was Eva's powers that kept Cici loyal and willing to do nearly anything asked of her (by Eva), but after a while it wasn't even needed because Cici had fallen completely for Eva (although whether or not this is a lasting side effect of Eva's abilities being used on her for so long, Cici honestly would rather not know).
More detailed history
PERSONALITY:
Felicia does not consider herself a religious person, now, but her parents were fanatics living in a rural town in Oklahoma. Religion was very strong in the tiny, widespread community. She was raised being told she was an Angel of God and isolated for it, to the point that now she goes out of her way to talk around any kind of philosophical or religious topics. She lost her faith, but won’t judge others for having it…too much. Just keep it away from her and everything is good. She’s more than likely to make a joke or dismiss those topics and come up with something else to talk about, doing it in such a way that some find it funny, while others may feel easily ignored. She doesn’t care as long as she gets the result she wants. Even if she comes across melodramatic in the process. Given all the soap operas she watches, she kind of takes it as a compliment.
The irony of Cici’s rejection of faith is that is still plays a soul deep role in how she views the world. For all that she was disillusioned by her childhood and what she learned about Christianity’s less than clean history, she cannot give up that ingrained need and desire to believe in a higher calling, something beyond herself that she can give into and know it’s the right thing. She tells herself that it’s dumb and just residual thoughts or feelings from the “brainwashing” she went through as a child, but truly she wants to believe. It’s why Eva’s powers worked so well on her, because Cici, despite having some training against mind control after the Harvard Incident, still has that core part of her that the virtues connect with.
That’s why Felicia will insist she did not join D.E.L.T.A. for protection or even because she wants to do the “right thing” and protect humans from dangerous Supers. She’ll say that is a good thing, but not really her concern. She’ll swear it was because she wanted to control her own destiny and decided what to do with her own life. Yul Walken was one of the first people to show her that she was running away from life rather than taking control of it. In the week they spent together while he was on a mission in Illinois, he taught her a lot about what it meant to a person with free will, and she had been so sure she had proved she could be independent when she had run away from home six months before. And so a few months later, she used the card he had given her and walked right up to one of the regional DELTA offices and demanded to speak to him and only him. That’s how she had learned to handle things. Be upfront, don’t let anyone stop her from what she wanted and be willing to do what it took to get it.
After Yul was injured and pulled from the Omega Squad, Felicia was confused and felt adrift. She didn’t know what to do with herself. Because while she did believe in free will and making your own destiny, she had put Yul on a pedestal and used him as proof that this was the right way, this was the right road for her to walk. He had become her moral compass and evidence that “faith” in a higher power was pointless, never realizing how much of that same faith she had put in him. She had glorified him unintentionally in her own head and the Harvard Incident was proof enough of how fallible both of them were. Free will left Yul a cripple and their other teammate dead, so it obviously wasn’t as great as she’d been selling it for the last three years.
Now Felicia was faced yet again with having to make her own choices entirely of her own free will, but was filled with doubt about how right that was. So she requested a transfer to Theta Squad, and ran. Some of the others called her a traitor and she had felt a little bad about not even telling them about her transfer until the day she left, but Felicia doesn’t hold herself back because of guilt. She needed to leave if she was ever going to make sense of her own life and the reminders weren’t helping her at all.
For all that Cici will say she doesn’t believe in fear—that it’s for those too afraid to make their own destinies—the truth is, she fears being wrong more than anything. She fears making that one wrong choice that will damn her soul in a way she can never undo. She might say she doesn’t believe in God, but that niggling fear of Heaven and Hell being true and her spending eternity in damnation is one she just can’t shake. She wants to make her own destiny, but she also wants to know she’s not making the wrong destiny. She also doesn’t acknowledge the other things that she is truly afraid of, such as her feeling of losing people close to her and the fear of being alone. Instead she plays these off as being less than what they are, as if like is more of game and she still has a million lives to lose before Game Over, which is one of the ways she played off moving on when she left Omega Squad for Theta.
She’s not a bad person, but Felicia knows she also isn’t a selfless person. She spent most of her life being told that she was made by God to serve him and worship him and lead others to Him, to the point that now that she is in charge of her own life, that’s her number one priority. She only takes orders from people she trusts, only gives that trust to people she thinks worth her time. She throws herself into sex because it makes her feel free and forget a lot of the doubts in her own head (sex can’t be bad if it feels that great, right?), and feeds her need for attention better than anything else ever had.
Or so it was until Eva came into the picture. At first it was just her powers, as they played on that need in Cici to put her faith in something or someone, but by after a month or two, Cici had fallen so in love with Eva, in the way being with her made her feel, that her powers weren’t even needed anymore. She is one hundred percent committed to Eva and whatever cause Eva may have, to the point that even though she knew Eva wasn’t being honest with her about her identity, it didn’t rank high enough for her to argue about it. She’s aware that there is a chance Eva could still be using her powers on her, could be tampering with her and making Cici want to love her, but the truth is she doesn’t care. The feeling she has with her is the peace of mind and belonging--knowing you are on the right path in life--she’s been searching for ever since she ran away from home and she isn’t giving it up. In the end, it’s the blind faith of love that she has given into more than she ever could religion.
Not that loving Eva has stopped her from being the attention-seeking brat that she is. She has an obsessive need to have the latest hand-held technology. The newest iPhone? She had it pre-ordered six months in advance. Fanciest looking multi-media player? Got the Beta and then upgraded when the final version came out. Felicia has to stay connected. She needs access to the internet and Twitter and all the people following her blog. Internet has been important to her for so long that she doesn’t know what to do without it.
Even though she has to have access to the internet, Felicia loves talking to people face to face just as much. She may crave that attention, but she has to be in control of it. She doesn’t like people having the advantage in any situation, except for when it comes to Eva. She can’t even stand people touching her wings. It makes her feel like they are touching something deep inside her and she is more than likely to punch someone rather than just telling them to let go. Yul is one of the only people who gets away with it without bodily harm because he feels comfortable and safe. But other than that she is fairly affectionate and doesn’t mind hugging and kissing people, even just for the hell of it, as long as she is the one taking the lead. Flirting is a game to her and it’s only fun if everyone wins.
ABILITIES: Felicia’s wings are not real wings, although they do allow her flight capabilities. They are excess energy her body releases that takes the construct form of wings like that of an angel. That is why she is capable of using the energy in the wings and firing the feathers like projectiles. It is also why she can fly using them despite her muscles and skeletal structure not being strong enough to maintain flight on their own. The form of the energy is controlled by her mental state, but due to her upbringing they remain looking like angel wings. The most she has been able to do with them consistently so far is flatten them against her back when she wears long coats so they don’t appear as noticeable.
She has not yet been able to consciously alter their form beyond that (and any subconscious change is temporary), but it is something she is currently working on. Color on the other hand she has mastered and she can alter them to any shade or design that she can visualize. The energy in these wings has the ability to cut through steel and even bedrock, but only to a certain depth, and can also be used like miniature explosives. The energy regenerates after 10 minutes or so and the feathers “grow” back. If she uses too much energy, the wings can become more intangible, transparent, unable to keep her in the air, and she needs to consume more calories and protein to build her energy back up.
The wings feel to others in whatever way they feel to Felicia herself, and so the feathers feel like the softest down possible while the bones feel strangely fragile for being so large, but do not break no matter the pressure put on them. Because it is her own body’s energy, when someone is touching her wings, she is able to sense their intent and emotional state, like a very low grade touch empath. It makes it very uncomfortable for her, to the point she hates it when most people touch them. The energy is also disruptive to those with visual based abilities, like infrared or the ability to see auras, but only in regards to her and whoever may be standing in front of or behind her.
SINS & VIRTUES:
Lust for her uncontrollable desire for more in her life that she hasn’t been able to satiate, whether by knowledge, sex, good deeds, or anything else. Sloth for her rejection of faith, spiritual stagnation, and her not acting against Eva’s wishes as often led to people being kidnapped and used for experimenting. Greed because she always wants new technology, new clothes, more entertainment, as these are what she never had as a child, but this also falls into Gluttony, because of her being greedy, she overindulges in material things to the point that it’s excessive and wasteful. She’ll spend thousands of dollars a year on stuff she uses once or twice, and knows she’ll be getting rid of in three months, or food she eats just a bite out of for the sake of trying it. And then there is the fact she could probably be considered a sex addict, getting off on the physical, mental and emotional highs that sex causes (especially good sex). Pride is also a problem for her, not so much because she sees herself as better than others, but she does take a great deal of pride in her appearance, her skills, and the view that she is someone worth paying attention to point she comes to expect it. She puts effort into these things and knows she is good at them, to the point of overconfidence and conceit, and anyone undercutting that will get what’s coming to them, in her opinion.
For virtues, Kindness is at the top, because she’s does want to be kind and gives to others and has done a lot to help others and make their lives better in the past (such as a charity fund she has set up for a girl’s shelter). She can be diligent in that she puts a lot of effort into her work (and her pranks), and doesn’t accept second rate performances from herself or anyone else. When Felicia decides on a course of action, she throws herself completely into it. Charity also fits, as her love for Eva is selfless and all-consuming, to the point she would sacrifice anything for her.
SAMPLES
Sample #1
Sample #2 (Set in MidSyn)
NAME: Kathrine
ARE YOU 18 OR OLDER?: Yes
CONTACT:
CURRENT CHARACTERS: None!
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Felicia “Cici” McCready (codename: Sidhe)
CANON: n/a
CANON POINT: While on mission, scoping out the area around the workplace of a suspected Super thought to speak to animals telepathically. She's flirting with his coworker on his lunch break.
CHARACTER AGE: 20
HISTORY:
Setting Information
Felicia McCready was born to an older “Evangelical” couple in Paskatawan, Oklahoma. Barely a year after she was born, Felicia “grew” angel wings. Her parents called on the Pastor Lucas Roman and he told them that she was a gift from God they would have to prepare to serve Him when the time came. In the widespread, rural town, the obsessive adhering to religion and the words of their religious leaders is not only tradition, but ingrained into their community’s culture. It’s a fairly isolated area of the state and could be considered cult-like in its religious indoctrination. Felicia was raised in seclusion and made to read the Bible several times a day along with her homeschooling studies to “learn the Word she was meant to teach.” This left her feeling removed from the world outside and she learned quickly that if she wanted things, she had to play the role her parents expected of her. She did not do this because she believed in God as they did, but because it was what she was told to do.
And then she learned about Supers and more doubt was sown. Her parents had spoken about the demons who were “pronouncing their sin” all over the country and she wondered if she was truly an angel and not one of “the abominations.” Around the time she turned ten years old, she discovered that her parents owned a computer which was locked in a tiny office she wasn’t meant to enter. She would sneak into this room while they were away (as the house had deadbolts on the outside she could not unlock herself to keep her from leaving when her parents were not home) and taught herself how to use it, which gave her a very different view of the outside world than she’d ever had before. Because of her parents’ behavior as she grew up, she learned how to play various roles as it suited her, being the perfect “angel” to get their attention and praise, and also to hide what her true motives were. More and more often she wanted them gone from the house so she could surf the internet and go into chatrooms by lying about her age so she could meet people. Google, AIM, and Skype became her best tools.
She still played the role her parents expected of her, but as she got to explore the outside world through the web, Felicia wanted less and less to do with the world within her own home and the community they insisted she was meant to preach to. Pastor Roman groped her wings when she was 15, which led to her beating him unconscious and having a huge fight with her parents. During this fight she was so angry and wanted to get at them so much that her wings temporarily transformed into ones more leathery, clawed and bat-like. Her parents swore she had been possessed by the Devil and Felicia used their terror to escape and run away. It wasn’t easy as she had never used her wings to fly before, so she ended up hitchhiking much of the way north, but not all of those offering to help her were as nice as she thought they were at first. One night, out of exhaustion, she tried to land on the road where the lights were and almost got hit by a car.
The driver, Yul Walken, was a nice guy, mid-20s and offered to give her a ride the rest of the way into Chicago, Illinois. She spent a week with him and he even gave her his gold credit card with a $5,000 limit and told her she could find him at DELTA. Felicia spent the next six months running up bills on his credit card and buying as much technology as she could. After that, she found the closest regional DELTA office, walked in and demanded to be allowed to see him. From that point on Felicia was a part of DELTA and she found out the truth about what else the agency was involved in. They trained her in using her abilities, studied them to try and better understand how they worked and this is how they discovered they were not real wings, but energy constructs that took on the physical form of wings.
A year later she was assigned to work on Yul’s own team, the Omega Squad, under the codename Sidhe, which was a more covert team that would investigate unusual activities and track down Supers that were considered high-risk or potential threats. Felicia was never very good at the “covert” aspect of their missions, but she always worked very well as a good diversion to what the rest of the team was doing. It was hard not to pay attention to the girl with the angel wings and her cover as a DELTA spokesperson meant most people didn’t ask questions about why she was in particular locations. There were several offers to transfer her fulltime to the Theta Squad (public relations, spokesmen, and media manipulation team), but she refused. Omega was like a new family to her and she enjoyed being with them, but really, she didn’t want to be separated from Yul who was like a surrogate big brother.
That is, until the mission where a rogue Super (William Baker) who was planning to use his powers to manipulate his way into Harvard University (he didn’t have the academic brains to get there on his own, but telepathy and mind control sure do work to a guy’s advantage), went drastically wrong. They had just intended to bring the young man in for questioning, but not knowing he was a full on telepath, the team was slowly pitted against each other in the few days they spent around him, to the point they were at each other’s throats. If it wasn’t for Yul taking an attack from Felicia, their teammate Kali would have been decapitated. Instead he was severely injured and temporarily paralyzed from the waist down and their other teammate John Archer was killed. It took Yul off the team and Felicia was on mandatory leave for two weeks while they made sure there were no lasting traces of the Rogue’s influence in her mind. During that time, she accepted the standing offer to be transferred to Theta Squad.
Her new team was less drastic and more widespread. The Theta Squad works all over the country and has alliance teams with other groups in countries across the world. She got to be in the limelight and make nice with her new teammates. She even struck up a sexual relationship with Samuel Akens, who was pretty much the posterboy sweetheart of the team, because his visual empathy was disrupted by her energy constructs and he couldn’t read her as he did everyone else. For a while, they had been stationed in Los Angeles, California, working to promote the new Unity in Support Center opening there to promote the usefulness of Supers in society and how non-enhanced humans could relate to them.
It was during a promotional stop in California that Cici went out clubbing one night, alone, and crossed paths with Eva Maria. Eva (calling herself Mary) recognized Felicia as a Super, but had really been there to bring in the boy Cici just so happened to be dancing with, another Super with high connections. Eva used her powers to induce Cici into helping her get the boy out of the club and into the car waiting to take him away, then proceeded to bring Cici in, too.
What would follow was months of Felicia and Eva working together, much of them underwraps to avoid Cici being caught out by D.E.L.T.A., tracking down other Supers to bring in for use by the shady side of the Medical and Research Knowledge on Supernatural Abilities Organization (known as M.A.R.K.O.), that Eva worked for. Cici's disappearance was never fully disclosed to the media, although there was mention of a "family" emergency she was dealing with (a way to avoid saying she was missing, particularly since Felicia never spoke of her childhood on camera with any honesty for people to fact-check it). In the beginning it was Eva's powers that kept Cici loyal and willing to do nearly anything asked of her (by Eva), but after a while it wasn't even needed because Cici had fallen completely for Eva (although whether or not this is a lasting side effect of Eva's abilities being used on her for so long, Cici honestly would rather not know).
More detailed history
PERSONALITY:
Felicia does not consider herself a religious person, now, but her parents were fanatics living in a rural town in Oklahoma. Religion was very strong in the tiny, widespread community. She was raised being told she was an Angel of God and isolated for it, to the point that now she goes out of her way to talk around any kind of philosophical or religious topics. She lost her faith, but won’t judge others for having it…too much. Just keep it away from her and everything is good. She’s more than likely to make a joke or dismiss those topics and come up with something else to talk about, doing it in such a way that some find it funny, while others may feel easily ignored. She doesn’t care as long as she gets the result she wants. Even if she comes across melodramatic in the process. Given all the soap operas she watches, she kind of takes it as a compliment.
The irony of Cici’s rejection of faith is that is still plays a soul deep role in how she views the world. For all that she was disillusioned by her childhood and what she learned about Christianity’s less than clean history, she cannot give up that ingrained need and desire to believe in a higher calling, something beyond herself that she can give into and know it’s the right thing. She tells herself that it’s dumb and just residual thoughts or feelings from the “brainwashing” she went through as a child, but truly she wants to believe. It’s why Eva’s powers worked so well on her, because Cici, despite having some training against mind control after the Harvard Incident, still has that core part of her that the virtues connect with.
That’s why Felicia will insist she did not join D.E.L.T.A. for protection or even because she wants to do the “right thing” and protect humans from dangerous Supers. She’ll say that is a good thing, but not really her concern. She’ll swear it was because she wanted to control her own destiny and decided what to do with her own life. Yul Walken was one of the first people to show her that she was running away from life rather than taking control of it. In the week they spent together while he was on a mission in Illinois, he taught her a lot about what it meant to a person with free will, and she had been so sure she had proved she could be independent when she had run away from home six months before. And so a few months later, she used the card he had given her and walked right up to one of the regional DELTA offices and demanded to speak to him and only him. That’s how she had learned to handle things. Be upfront, don’t let anyone stop her from what she wanted and be willing to do what it took to get it.
After Yul was injured and pulled from the Omega Squad, Felicia was confused and felt adrift. She didn’t know what to do with herself. Because while she did believe in free will and making your own destiny, she had put Yul on a pedestal and used him as proof that this was the right way, this was the right road for her to walk. He had become her moral compass and evidence that “faith” in a higher power was pointless, never realizing how much of that same faith she had put in him. She had glorified him unintentionally in her own head and the Harvard Incident was proof enough of how fallible both of them were. Free will left Yul a cripple and their other teammate dead, so it obviously wasn’t as great as she’d been selling it for the last three years.
Now Felicia was faced yet again with having to make her own choices entirely of her own free will, but was filled with doubt about how right that was. So she requested a transfer to Theta Squad, and ran. Some of the others called her a traitor and she had felt a little bad about not even telling them about her transfer until the day she left, but Felicia doesn’t hold herself back because of guilt. She needed to leave if she was ever going to make sense of her own life and the reminders weren’t helping her at all.
For all that Cici will say she doesn’t believe in fear—that it’s for those too afraid to make their own destinies—the truth is, she fears being wrong more than anything. She fears making that one wrong choice that will damn her soul in a way she can never undo. She might say she doesn’t believe in God, but that niggling fear of Heaven and Hell being true and her spending eternity in damnation is one she just can’t shake. She wants to make her own destiny, but she also wants to know she’s not making the wrong destiny. She also doesn’t acknowledge the other things that she is truly afraid of, such as her feeling of losing people close to her and the fear of being alone. Instead she plays these off as being less than what they are, as if like is more of game and she still has a million lives to lose before Game Over, which is one of the ways she played off moving on when she left Omega Squad for Theta.
She’s not a bad person, but Felicia knows she also isn’t a selfless person. She spent most of her life being told that she was made by God to serve him and worship him and lead others to Him, to the point that now that she is in charge of her own life, that’s her number one priority. She only takes orders from people she trusts, only gives that trust to people she thinks worth her time. She throws herself into sex because it makes her feel free and forget a lot of the doubts in her own head (sex can’t be bad if it feels that great, right?), and feeds her need for attention better than anything else ever had.
Or so it was until Eva came into the picture. At first it was just her powers, as they played on that need in Cici to put her faith in something or someone, but by after a month or two, Cici had fallen so in love with Eva, in the way being with her made her feel, that her powers weren’t even needed anymore. She is one hundred percent committed to Eva and whatever cause Eva may have, to the point that even though she knew Eva wasn’t being honest with her about her identity, it didn’t rank high enough for her to argue about it. She’s aware that there is a chance Eva could still be using her powers on her, could be tampering with her and making Cici want to love her, but the truth is she doesn’t care. The feeling she has with her is the peace of mind and belonging--knowing you are on the right path in life--she’s been searching for ever since she ran away from home and she isn’t giving it up. In the end, it’s the blind faith of love that she has given into more than she ever could religion.
Not that loving Eva has stopped her from being the attention-seeking brat that she is. She has an obsessive need to have the latest hand-held technology. The newest iPhone? She had it pre-ordered six months in advance. Fanciest looking multi-media player? Got the Beta and then upgraded when the final version came out. Felicia has to stay connected. She needs access to the internet and Twitter and all the people following her blog. Internet has been important to her for so long that she doesn’t know what to do without it.
Even though she has to have access to the internet, Felicia loves talking to people face to face just as much. She may crave that attention, but she has to be in control of it. She doesn’t like people having the advantage in any situation, except for when it comes to Eva. She can’t even stand people touching her wings. It makes her feel like they are touching something deep inside her and she is more than likely to punch someone rather than just telling them to let go. Yul is one of the only people who gets away with it without bodily harm because he feels comfortable and safe. But other than that she is fairly affectionate and doesn’t mind hugging and kissing people, even just for the hell of it, as long as she is the one taking the lead. Flirting is a game to her and it’s only fun if everyone wins.
ABILITIES: Felicia’s wings are not real wings, although they do allow her flight capabilities. They are excess energy her body releases that takes the construct form of wings like that of an angel. That is why she is capable of using the energy in the wings and firing the feathers like projectiles. It is also why she can fly using them despite her muscles and skeletal structure not being strong enough to maintain flight on their own. The form of the energy is controlled by her mental state, but due to her upbringing they remain looking like angel wings. The most she has been able to do with them consistently so far is flatten them against her back when she wears long coats so they don’t appear as noticeable.
She has not yet been able to consciously alter their form beyond that (and any subconscious change is temporary), but it is something she is currently working on. Color on the other hand she has mastered and she can alter them to any shade or design that she can visualize. The energy in these wings has the ability to cut through steel and even bedrock, but only to a certain depth, and can also be used like miniature explosives. The energy regenerates after 10 minutes or so and the feathers “grow” back. If she uses too much energy, the wings can become more intangible, transparent, unable to keep her in the air, and she needs to consume more calories and protein to build her energy back up.
The wings feel to others in whatever way they feel to Felicia herself, and so the feathers feel like the softest down possible while the bones feel strangely fragile for being so large, but do not break no matter the pressure put on them. Because it is her own body’s energy, when someone is touching her wings, she is able to sense their intent and emotional state, like a very low grade touch empath. It makes it very uncomfortable for her, to the point she hates it when most people touch them. The energy is also disruptive to those with visual based abilities, like infrared or the ability to see auras, but only in regards to her and whoever may be standing in front of or behind her.
SINS & VIRTUES:
Lust for her uncontrollable desire for more in her life that she hasn’t been able to satiate, whether by knowledge, sex, good deeds, or anything else. Sloth for her rejection of faith, spiritual stagnation, and her not acting against Eva’s wishes as often led to people being kidnapped and used for experimenting. Greed because she always wants new technology, new clothes, more entertainment, as these are what she never had as a child, but this also falls into Gluttony, because of her being greedy, she overindulges in material things to the point that it’s excessive and wasteful. She’ll spend thousands of dollars a year on stuff she uses once or twice, and knows she’ll be getting rid of in three months, or food she eats just a bite out of for the sake of trying it. And then there is the fact she could probably be considered a sex addict, getting off on the physical, mental and emotional highs that sex causes (especially good sex). Pride is also a problem for her, not so much because she sees herself as better than others, but she does take a great deal of pride in her appearance, her skills, and the view that she is someone worth paying attention to point she comes to expect it. She puts effort into these things and knows she is good at them, to the point of overconfidence and conceit, and anyone undercutting that will get what’s coming to them, in her opinion.
For virtues, Kindness is at the top, because she’s does want to be kind and gives to others and has done a lot to help others and make their lives better in the past (such as a charity fund she has set up for a girl’s shelter). She can be diligent in that she puts a lot of effort into her work (and her pranks), and doesn’t accept second rate performances from herself or anyone else. When Felicia decides on a course of action, she throws herself completely into it. Charity also fits, as her love for Eva is selfless and all-consuming, to the point she would sacrifice anything for her.
SAMPLES
Sample #1
Sample #2 (Set in MidSyn)