- Invitation Status
- Look for groups
- Looking for partners
- Posting Speed
- One post per week
- Slow As Molasses
- Online Availability
- Varies
- Writing Levels
- Advanced
- Adaptable
- Preferred Character Gender
- Male
- Female
- Nonbinary
- Transgender
- Genres
- Fantasy, Modern Fantasy, Horror, Light Romance, Sci-Fi Fantasy, Fandoms (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Marvel/DC)
FINALLY GOT IT UP! *dies* If I need to change anything at all, please let me know.
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NAME
Artemis "Ari" Smith
AGE
28
SEX
Female
APPEARANCE
Ari stands at a mean 5'7" with pale skin and golden brown short hair. She's known for never letting her hair grow past her ears--even if she has to cut it herself. She generally wears a rather unforgiving expression, although she certainly has a sense of humor. Ari likes to keep her wardrobe to the basic whites, greys, and blacks, although she sometime throws in a splash of color for the hell of it. -
PERSONALITY
Calculating and logical, Artemis tried to abandon the "dead weight" of emotions from an early age, believing them to be inhibitions to the rationale of the human mind. She failed spectacularly, especially with her penchant for an irritation towards the general populace. She has little tolerance for anyone she doesn't like, and she won't take pains to cater to idiots (i.e. almost everyone). She's arrogant and pretentious, although she has the good trait of being unfailingly loyal to those whom she trusts.
Among her friends and family, she tends to open up a bit, as if a great weight has lifted off her shoulders (surprise: she's secretly insecure as hell). She's known to even crack a few jokes--although they're still laced with sarcasm most of the time. However, if anyone were to break her trust, they would likely never earn it again. She holds grudges like nobody's business. Although she considers herself an honest woman, many people claim that she has the nasty habit of bending the truth for her own benefit. They aren't entirely wrong. Cunning and shrewd, she's willing to do what she thinks it will take to achieve her goals, even if it means stepping on a few "idiots" along the way.
HISTORY
Artemis "Ari" Smith began life with everything handed to her on a silver platter stained with blood. Dramatic, right? Well, it wasn't quite that way for her. Before she was even born, her older sister Diana (her eccentric parents had an odd obsession with the goddess of the hunt) was brutally murdered. Her parents, wealthy and now paranoid, demanded that their second daughter be trained to defend herself. And she was. Not that she ever complained, as she considered it to be a useful skill as life went on.
Her father, a wealthy businessman, and her mother, a world-renowned scientist, both encouraged Ari towards "success," perceiving their daughter's intelligence from an early age. Perhaps it was all their pressure for perfection that warped her sense of reality. Who knows? Regardless, they had high expectations and so did she. She didn't "play" like other kids, either studying or training in self-defense. Ari never really minded, although she would have liked to have a friend.
Life went on. She got accepted into one of the best pre-law programs in the country. Her parents were so proud. Of course, college is the place where sheltered kids suddenly learn about the world, and this reality was no different for the privately-tutored Artemis Smith. Suddenly, she was in with the wrong crowd, as people saw her status and wealth as the proverbial gold mine. Before she knew what she was getting into, Ari was going to parties and getting wasted every weekend. By the time she fully realized the repercussions of her actions, she was in a jail cell for underage drinking and getting bailed out by her furious father.
She shaped up after that, focusing her energy on school like she had meant to do in the first place. She succeeded with flying colors, getting accepted into Harvard Law School. By then, her parents basically pretended her semester of partying never happened, and she was content for it to stay that way. After all, they had mercifully used their connections to keep the incident far, far away from her record. How could she complain?
What her parents didn't know, however, was that alcohol had gotten a rather nasty foothold in her life. Although legally able to drink by the time she became a law student, she knew--in the back of her mind--that she was becoming dependent on it. Too arrogant to really admit her problem, however, she's so far ignored it. It would all be fine as long as she finished law school.
Then the damn Calamity That Wasn't decided to fuck with everything. In the second semester of her first year, it came and went. And so did any sense of normalcy. Within a few days, she realized that her sneezes caused lightning to strike during a thunderstorm, and she could adjust the temperature by a few degrees at will. Her mother was already working with scientists to uncover the mystery of these Powered individuals.
By the time Ari worked up the courage to reveal her powers, PRIT was already well underway. Through the family connections, she was almost instantly sent to them, and she accepted. Partially for her family's sake but mostly for her own. She'd always thought there had to be something more exciting than being a damn lawyer.
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SKILLS--Self-defense: Her father, being (rightfully) paranoid as he was, forced her to learn how to defend herself from an early age.
--Drinking: Although not the best of skills, it's worth mentioning that she can hold her liquor rather well. But she's still a burgeoning alcoholic.
--Logical: She's a natural problem solver.
--Educated: Before everything went to hell, Artemis had been in the middle of law school.
--Connections: Through her parents, she's more than a little connected in the scientific and business world. In fact, it was through her mother that she first got introduced to PRIT.
ABILITIES
Atmokinesis: able to manipulate and control the weather, although currently bound by pre-existing conditions (i.e. she cannot create a blizzard in the middle of summer, but she could manipulate lightning in a thunderstorm)
**may possibly be able to manipulate weather outside of pre-existing conditions in the future**
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