Name: Chris (short for Chrysanthe).
Age: Though she's hundreds of years old, she's only technically lived for 17 of those.
Birthday: Dec. 16th.
Gender: Female
Orientation: Pansexual
Species: Modified Faun (technical horns, hooves, hands)
Category: Student
Grade: 11
Appearance Description: From the waist up, she's pretty normal-looking for most standards, the only things being out of place her horns, ears, and of course the metal plating up her hands and scattered across her chest. The metal is all bronze, with lime lines running up and down, much like a motherboard's design. She's got a rather olive-toned complexion from her line of descent, and bark-brown hair, long and braided for easier management, winds around her hips and hangs down in her bangs. She's got big doe-like brown eyes that have an almond shape to them, and a smattering of freckles across her cheekbones and down the fleshy parts of her arms completes her look. Speaking of her arms, they're kinda hairy and some hair will gather at her elbows.
Down below is where it gets weird - her lower torso, from just under the navel, is completely covered in soft brown fur that tufts everywhere around her hips, and her feet are cloven, with shiny bronze horseshoes on the bottoms. One of these legs, if you look close enough, is scarred with a big slash.
Chris isn't picky about what she wears. This could be anywhere from a t-shirt to a tank top and sweater to (rarely) a summer dress to even a dress shirt. Never pants - she has fur for that, and besides that, she always needs her legs to be free so she can run if she needs to. No shoes either.
Personality Description:
ESTP - The Entrepreneur
ESTP personalities love to be the center of attention, which rings true for Chris as well - she loves attention and talking to people about most subjects. She can just... walk up to someone, strike up a conversation, and keep it going until she gets bored (usually philosophical stuff will bore her right the heck out). Chris isn't really a think-before-you-act sort of person, both due to her nature and due to her upbringing; she likes to correct her mistakes as she makes them and dives headfirst into whatever she's doing. However, that mindset doesn't suit well to school, so she absolutely hates school with a passion. Not much of the work is hands-on like she likes, and none of it is really useful to her anyway, in her eyes. It's not that she isn't smart, but she just isn't suited to most lecture classes, which is why she enjoys Powers class so much.
Chris also picks up the little things in people's routines - shifty eyes, downcast nods, etc - and calls them out. While this cements her as very observant, she doesn't have that much regard for sensitivity. She's, to put it simply, a blunt person through and through, which makes it hard sometimes to make connections.
Positive Traits:
- Bold
- Perceptive
- Direct
- Sociable
Negative Traits
- Insensitive
- Defiant
- Unfocused/Unstructured
- Impatient
Active Abilities:
Electro
Due to experimentation, Chris has the power to conduct up to 40 volts of electricity at a time, via her hands. Any more than 40 volts will fry her alive like it would a human. This allows her to connect to power sources and siphon electricity from them (i.e if she sticks her hand in a power outlet, she can have up to 40 volts of electricity flow through her arm to the other hand and charge something, for instance.) It can't be used with any other power. She mostly uses this to charge her devices.
I Am Flower
She can control local flora around her (5 ft. radius in all directions.) Anything outside her radius is unaffected. This can be a single flower on a stem/vine/whatever, all the way up to one (1) tree, provided the part she's trying to control isn't more than 5 ft above her. Chris can make it grow twice as fast as normal, manipulate the vine/stem of a plant to move in most directions, and fine-tune to move only one part of it, but she can't make it wither, reverse the growth, or harm it in any way. If the plants she is controlling are hurt/damaged, she also takes as much damage.
Passive Abilities:
Floral Print
When she expresses strong emotion (e.g fury, depression, joy), tiny versions of a corresponding flower will bloom on her person. This mostly manifests in her hair, antlers, and occasionally her arms, but in extreme cases, it can lead to growth on the cheeks, lips, and eyes. After she has calmed down, the flowers will wilt and crumble harmlessly off of her skin.
Weaknesses:
Fake Horns
The experimentation process managed to royally fuck up her horns' capabilities. For one, she gets migraines from the plates on them, especially if Floral Print is active. Secondly, they're a source of her connection to the god Pan, so since they're plated and modified, she can't contact Pan or any other god anymore, which leads her to question who she is sometimes. And thirdly, they're super heavy. Like... really heavy. This causes strain on her neck, which can be a pain to work out. And if they get hurt and break? Oh boy. That's going to hurt her more than anything else will. Probably will kill her.
Faun Physiology
Her physiology is kind of a pain in the ass. She's got cloven, metal-plated hooves instead of feet, so while she might be fast, she's at risk for trips slips and falls which can damage her horns and hips more than a normal human would be. Additionally, these stupid faun legs have no shifting ability, so she can't hide in plain sight among humans unless she pulls a Grover. Which she is not. She has some standards. Finally, they're more prone to fleas and the like. Ew.
Taste
Chris doesn't really have a sense of taste anymore, and her sense of smell is a bit affected too since smell and taste are intertwined. She can't taste anything. She's tried - put on the most outlandish spices and peppers on her food - but she can't taste anything, really, unless it has a really high Scoville rating.
Common Magical Items:
Simple Language Charm (Greek)
Biography:
Katepsygmena (literally "frozen flower deer") was born hundreds of years ago into a Dionysian band of satyrs and fauns. She grew up in a very carefree environment, but it was mostly peaceful and happy, except for the occasional dispute with other faun or satyr groups. Later, when she was 7ish, she would discover that these disputes were about the Greek gods they worshipped, both Dionysus and especially Pan, disappearing due to lack of belief in the ancient world. Most of her community of satyrs, in an attempt to find them, were sent every which way trying to find them. Katepsygmena was one of them, following her parents' footsteps. She eventually wound up on an island off the coast of what is now Cyprus, separated from her parents (who took on Cyprus themselves but left her off the coast for safety). She was only ten, so as you can imagine she was very curious and not at all careful and long story short, she got herself into a spot of trouble.
See, she'd met a demigod son of Hephaestus, which would have been great... if he wasn't also a follower of Circe. Being young, she had accepted his claim that he knew where Pan and Dionysus were. Which, of course, turned out not to be true. The demigod asked her to become his "assistant", explaining what he was looking for, and Katepsygmena tentatively agreed, figuring she'd have quite a story to tell Mamma when they came back. Well, they didn't, because she didn't. Instead, she spent the next five years playing assistant, which really meant "test subject". The demigod gave her the byname Eksi ("six") and set about trying to change her nature. Which meant changing her to be an electric faun, rather than one aligned with Pan. It didn't go so well. He changed her horns, hooves and hands, installed wires, and even managed to fuck up her sense of taste with chemicals. Through it all, he'd be very binary with his actions - for the entirety of his installations, he would be cold, cruel, and clinical; the rest of the time was spent on rehabilitation, observation, entertainment (mostly for him) and recreation, in which he'd be surprisingly kind and caring for her. She didn't know which version of him was real.
She didn't have to decide, because one day, after 5 years and a few months of trying to escape her position, she finally found a way to sneak out. Using all of her modifications, she was able to escape and fled, leaving only a confused, angry note to him. She ran until she couldn't anymore, and sought shelter in a large pile of yellow flowers in a forest without time.
As time went on, the forest slowly but steadily lost its magic. Instead of fully stopping time, around 2001 it lost most of its time-stopping ability and merely slowed time, less and less until it had lost all its power and most of its hold on Eksi.
Cut to 2005, where a logging company scouted the area before a clean-cut on the now-normal forest. One of the searchers found her and took her in, both worried and awestruck at their luck. Giving Eksi a new byname, after the yellow flowers she'd been found on, the searcher let her rest until she awoke, confused and afraid about the world. The searcher was truly benevolent, but could only tell Chris about her new name before Chris panicked and tried to flee again. This time, the searcher had brought a Scout to pick her up, and she was brought, kicking and screaming almost, to Dark Crystal Academy.
The first week was hell. So was the third. And the sixth. But she slowly got used to the world she now knew, though she hated school with a passion. She fell back into her Dionysian upbringing and caved to the party life.
Well, that is, until everything froze again on June 23rd, 2007, at 10:37 AM.
Resources:
- Housing (firstly with DCA, now presumably with Starlight)
- Provided resources from Starlight Academy (allowance, phone, etc etc)
Additional Information: Just some random facts about her:
- adept at the pan flute & can play a lot of tunes on it
- fluent in Ancient Greek along with Modern Greek.
- once had a connection with the Greek Gods, but doesn't anymore.
Age: Though she's hundreds of years old, she's only technically lived for 17 of those.
Birthday: Dec. 16th.
Gender: Female
Orientation: Pansexual
Species: Modified Faun (technical horns, hooves, hands)
Category: Student
Grade: 11
Appearance Description: From the waist up, she's pretty normal-looking for most standards, the only things being out of place her horns, ears, and of course the metal plating up her hands and scattered across her chest. The metal is all bronze, with lime lines running up and down, much like a motherboard's design. She's got a rather olive-toned complexion from her line of descent, and bark-brown hair, long and braided for easier management, winds around her hips and hangs down in her bangs. She's got big doe-like brown eyes that have an almond shape to them, and a smattering of freckles across her cheekbones and down the fleshy parts of her arms completes her look. Speaking of her arms, they're kinda hairy and some hair will gather at her elbows.
Down below is where it gets weird - her lower torso, from just under the navel, is completely covered in soft brown fur that tufts everywhere around her hips, and her feet are cloven, with shiny bronze horseshoes on the bottoms. One of these legs, if you look close enough, is scarred with a big slash.
Chris isn't picky about what she wears. This could be anywhere from a t-shirt to a tank top and sweater to (rarely) a summer dress to even a dress shirt. Never pants - she has fur for that, and besides that, she always needs her legs to be free so she can run if she needs to. No shoes either.
Personality Description:
ESTP - The Entrepreneur
ESTP personalities love to be the center of attention, which rings true for Chris as well - she loves attention and talking to people about most subjects. She can just... walk up to someone, strike up a conversation, and keep it going until she gets bored (usually philosophical stuff will bore her right the heck out). Chris isn't really a think-before-you-act sort of person, both due to her nature and due to her upbringing; she likes to correct her mistakes as she makes them and dives headfirst into whatever she's doing. However, that mindset doesn't suit well to school, so she absolutely hates school with a passion. Not much of the work is hands-on like she likes, and none of it is really useful to her anyway, in her eyes. It's not that she isn't smart, but she just isn't suited to most lecture classes, which is why she enjoys Powers class so much.
Chris also picks up the little things in people's routines - shifty eyes, downcast nods, etc - and calls them out. While this cements her as very observant, she doesn't have that much regard for sensitivity. She's, to put it simply, a blunt person through and through, which makes it hard sometimes to make connections.
Positive Traits:
- Bold
- Perceptive
- Direct
- Sociable
Negative Traits
- Insensitive
- Defiant
- Unfocused/Unstructured
- Impatient
Active Abilities:
Electro
Due to experimentation, Chris has the power to conduct up to 40 volts of electricity at a time, via her hands. Any more than 40 volts will fry her alive like it would a human. This allows her to connect to power sources and siphon electricity from them (i.e if she sticks her hand in a power outlet, she can have up to 40 volts of electricity flow through her arm to the other hand and charge something, for instance.) It can't be used with any other power. She mostly uses this to charge her devices.
I Am Flower
She can control local flora around her (5 ft. radius in all directions.) Anything outside her radius is unaffected. This can be a single flower on a stem/vine/whatever, all the way up to one (1) tree, provided the part she's trying to control isn't more than 5 ft above her. Chris can make it grow twice as fast as normal, manipulate the vine/stem of a plant to move in most directions, and fine-tune to move only one part of it, but she can't make it wither, reverse the growth, or harm it in any way. If the plants she is controlling are hurt/damaged, she also takes as much damage.
Passive Abilities:
Floral Print
When she expresses strong emotion (e.g fury, depression, joy), tiny versions of a corresponding flower will bloom on her person. This mostly manifests in her hair, antlers, and occasionally her arms, but in extreme cases, it can lead to growth on the cheeks, lips, and eyes. After she has calmed down, the flowers will wilt and crumble harmlessly off of her skin.
Weaknesses:
Fake Horns
The experimentation process managed to royally fuck up her horns' capabilities. For one, she gets migraines from the plates on them, especially if Floral Print is active. Secondly, they're a source of her connection to the god Pan, so since they're plated and modified, she can't contact Pan or any other god anymore, which leads her to question who she is sometimes. And thirdly, they're super heavy. Like... really heavy. This causes strain on her neck, which can be a pain to work out. And if they get hurt and break? Oh boy. That's going to hurt her more than anything else will. Probably will kill her.
Faun Physiology
Her physiology is kind of a pain in the ass. She's got cloven, metal-plated hooves instead of feet, so while she might be fast, she's at risk for trips slips and falls which can damage her horns and hips more than a normal human would be. Additionally, these stupid faun legs have no shifting ability, so she can't hide in plain sight among humans unless she pulls a Grover. Which she is not. She has some standards. Finally, they're more prone to fleas and the like. Ew.
Taste
Chris doesn't really have a sense of taste anymore, and her sense of smell is a bit affected too since smell and taste are intertwined. She can't taste anything. She's tried - put on the most outlandish spices and peppers on her food - but she can't taste anything, really, unless it has a really high Scoville rating.
Common Magical Items:
Simple Language Charm (Greek)
Biography:
Katepsygmena (literally "frozen flower deer") was born hundreds of years ago into a Dionysian band of satyrs and fauns. She grew up in a very carefree environment, but it was mostly peaceful and happy, except for the occasional dispute with other faun or satyr groups. Later, when she was 7ish, she would discover that these disputes were about the Greek gods they worshipped, both Dionysus and especially Pan, disappearing due to lack of belief in the ancient world. Most of her community of satyrs, in an attempt to find them, were sent every which way trying to find them. Katepsygmena was one of them, following her parents' footsteps. She eventually wound up on an island off the coast of what is now Cyprus, separated from her parents (who took on Cyprus themselves but left her off the coast for safety). She was only ten, so as you can imagine she was very curious and not at all careful and long story short, she got herself into a spot of trouble.
See, she'd met a demigod son of Hephaestus, which would have been great... if he wasn't also a follower of Circe. Being young, she had accepted his claim that he knew where Pan and Dionysus were. Which, of course, turned out not to be true. The demigod asked her to become his "assistant", explaining what he was looking for, and Katepsygmena tentatively agreed, figuring she'd have quite a story to tell Mamma when they came back. Well, they didn't, because she didn't. Instead, she spent the next five years playing assistant, which really meant "test subject". The demigod gave her the byname Eksi ("six") and set about trying to change her nature. Which meant changing her to be an electric faun, rather than one aligned with Pan. It didn't go so well. He changed her horns, hooves and hands, installed wires, and even managed to fuck up her sense of taste with chemicals. Through it all, he'd be very binary with his actions - for the entirety of his installations, he would be cold, cruel, and clinical; the rest of the time was spent on rehabilitation, observation, entertainment (mostly for him) and recreation, in which he'd be surprisingly kind and caring for her. She didn't know which version of him was real.
She didn't have to decide, because one day, after 5 years and a few months of trying to escape her position, she finally found a way to sneak out. Using all of her modifications, she was able to escape and fled, leaving only a confused, angry note to him. She ran until she couldn't anymore, and sought shelter in a large pile of yellow flowers in a forest without time.
As time went on, the forest slowly but steadily lost its magic. Instead of fully stopping time, around 2001 it lost most of its time-stopping ability and merely slowed time, less and less until it had lost all its power and most of its hold on Eksi.
Cut to 2005, where a logging company scouted the area before a clean-cut on the now-normal forest. One of the searchers found her and took her in, both worried and awestruck at their luck. Giving Eksi a new byname, after the yellow flowers she'd been found on, the searcher let her rest until she awoke, confused and afraid about the world. The searcher was truly benevolent, but could only tell Chris about her new name before Chris panicked and tried to flee again. This time, the searcher had brought a Scout to pick her up, and she was brought, kicking and screaming almost, to Dark Crystal Academy.
The first week was hell. So was the third. And the sixth. But she slowly got used to the world she now knew, though she hated school with a passion. She fell back into her Dionysian upbringing and caved to the party life.
Well, that is, until everything froze again on June 23rd, 2007, at 10:37 AM.
Resources:
- Housing (firstly with DCA, now presumably with Starlight)
- Provided resources from Starlight Academy (allowance, phone, etc etc)
Additional Information: Just some random facts about her:
- adept at the pan flute & can play a lot of tunes on it
- fluent in Ancient Greek along with Modern Greek.
- once had a connection with the Greek Gods, but doesn't anymore.
