app for thisavrou

[coercive]

OUT OF CHARACTER
Player Name: Brandi
Are you 16 or older: Yes.
Contact: spectromagic
Current Characters: N/A
Tag: Laura

IN CHARACTER
Name: Laura / X-23
Canon: Logan
Canon Point: End of the movie
Age: 11

History: Here

Personality: Look at this precious child.



You'd never guess that she was filled with anger and was capable of killing groups of men like a tiny feral warrior. And you'd definitely never think that she was able to sever a man's head, hold it in her bare little hands, and throw it at the man that's hunting her. But this precious lamb is able to do all that and more. She fights and kills what she thinks are bad people, in order to protect herself and stay alive. After having been born and raised in a facility, Laura's still learning what's right and wrong. All she's ever known was being forced to be violent, and she's been through a hell of a lot. She was subjected to surgery when she was young in order to give her an adamantium skeleton and claws. She was pushed to attack and kill, resulting in her becoming a feral child. When the switch was pulled on her program she was supposed to be terminated. But she escaped with the help of the nurses at Transigen, and now she's determined to make a life for herself outside the walls of the facility she was raised in.

And if people get in the way of that, she will dismember them and put their severed heads on spikes. Because she's going to be free, and she's not going to let anyone turn her into their weapon. Laura fights for herself, and for those that need protecting. She also holds a promise she made to her father very seriously: that she won't let herself become what they made her to be. It would be easy for someone that's been through so much to shut down and set the world on fire, but Laura's proving that she's incredibly resilient and a hero beneath that top layer of surliness.

Because this angelic child is not out only for herself. Despite all that she's been through, she's determined to protect all the other children that were also raised in the facility with her, as well as Logan. She could be selfish and a villain but she chooses not to. The points we see her fighting and killing in the movie, it's to defend herself or those she cares about. When talking with Logan about her nightmares at night, she admits that the people she kills are "bad people". She has a developing understanding about right versus wrong, but a lot of what she knows comes from struggling to survive. Eventually she'll have to face the things she's done and come to terms with them, but her mind probably isn't in the right place to really do that right now. She's still got a long way to go thanks to all the other trauma she's been through before she can really get into thinking about morality.

Laura's never been allowed to express emotion until recently. She's never felt safe to feel emotions. But with Logan, she was able to find a safety net that allowed her to feel and show what she felt. As she traveled with him and got to know him, he taught her that there were emotions other than anger and fear. She didn't always have to act like a caged animal, that she didn't have to turn into the killer that she was created to be. Laura's still learning about things like free will and choice, and if she wants to stroll into a gas station and steal cans of Pringles and sunglasses? She'll do it with a smile on her face. She still needs someone to guide her through the rights and wrongs of interacting in society, but even Lucifer himself might be in danger's way trying to correct her. She isn't exactly known for her patience or her receptive responses to criticism of her behavior.

Something else she isn't known for? Talking. This little bean has a beautiful Spanish accent and she can easily switch between Spanish and English while speaking. But she doesn't really talk unless she trusts someone. It's easy to think that Laura doesn't have anything to say, but that's not true at all. She has plenty to say and lots on her mind; she's a very intelligent girl that's observant of everything around her. She just doesn't think most people are worth speaking to, because she doesn't know who she can trust. Once she trusts someone though, she'll freely state her mind and it's hard to get her to stop bossing you around. So it's probably a good idea to not let her get too comfortable around you, or else you might wind up being shouted at in Spanish by an 11 year old.

Communication is something that she struggles with, because she's never been exposed to the world outside the facility she had been kept in until recently. She doesn't understand affection because she never really received it growing up, except from the nurses in secret. But she does understand love, and understands what it is to care for someone, and her friends that she was raised in Transigen with are her driving force for much of the movie. She desperately wants to reunite with them and help them get to safety, and fights to not only get back to them, but to keep them safe once they end up being intercepted. She shows her care for Charles Xavier in attempting to make sure he gets his medicine, as well as mourning his death along with Logan. When her father dies, she is seen actually crying, and allows herself to call him Daddy. She buries him, and turns his cross marker around to form an X. Laura is perfectly capable of love and expressing it, but it's hard for her to communicate and show it fully.

Basically: She's a strong, complex, well-rounded, and powerful girl that should not be underestimated because of her age or the fact she kills grown men that are three times her size while wearing a rainbow unicorn shirt.

Setting: Laura honestly will be pretty indifferent to things for a while. She won't care that she isn't back on Earth, because her mission of getting her friends to safety will be complete. She will just have buried Logan, and therefore will feel like she really doesn't have anything on Earth tethering her there. To be in Thisavrou will mean getting a second chance at life, and hopefully one where she isn't constantly hunted.

As Laura connects with the other mutants in game, she'll find more of a purpose for herself. She can learn from them, and can form relationships that will teach her how to socialize and how to function outside of being a weapon. She'll also be able to meet a wide variety of people who aren't mutants, and will get to learn things from them as well.

But since she's used to having a sense of purpose, Laura will want to find some kind of job she can work pretty early on. A big goal for Laura's development during her time in game will be to get her to learn how to navigate and express her emotions, as well as let her have a chance to be a kid every now and then. But really, she'll be eager to explore a place that isn't Earth. That will be her primary goal, besides reuniting with her good old dad.

Abilities/Skills: To make this as quick and easy as possible: Laura is a tiny and less hairy Wolverine. She can heal and has the same adamantium skeletal system. She has two claws that come out from each hand and a single smaller claw that comes out of her feet. She's incredibly feral in nature and has animalistic traits such as : heightened senses (smell, sight, etc), reflexes, agility, flexibility, and strength. She's much stronger and faster than any child her age and size has any business being and will not hesitate to kick anyone's ass.

Strengths/Weaknesses:

Strengths: Disturbingly proficient at fighting/killing, enhanced senses, fast and agile, freakishly strong, quick thinking because she always has to be calculating and planning for her own safety, loyal when someone earns her trust, fiercely protective of those she cares about, curious and quick to learn about things, persistent & stubborn, the ability to take on a task and not stop until it's done, sweet shoplifting skills, can steal and drive a car at 11, she can actually be really gentle beneath that gruff exterior as long as she cares about you.

Weaknesses: No patience for anything ever, doesn't trust others easily, has one hell of a temper for an eleven year old, prone to yelling in Spanish at someone until she gets her way, can't express her emotions without resorting to yelling or feral rage, communication can be a challenge (she won't really talk to someone unless she thinks she can trust them), no idea how to just be a kid who isn't a manufactured weapon, has a lot of nightmares that can keep her from sleeping at night, she's also killed a lot of people so that may weigh on her eventually (someday...maybe).

Items: The clothes she's wearing and a backpack containing some various items (some X-Men comics, some case files from Transigen, and a rubber bouncy ball.

SAMPLES
Network Sample:
[It takes her weeks to work up to actually bothering to post something. It isn't that she isn't curious about other people, but she just doesn't get technology. Filtering out the noise and onslaught of text that the network provides her with is overwhelming to her still, so Laura takes it slow and tries to figure everything out on her own.

And on the day she finally feels like she has something to say to others, she does it with a cautious sort of curiosity. There's a lot of intense staring at first, but eventually she gets around to talking. ]

Is there a school here? There are many things I want to learn -

[She pauses, glancing off screen at something.]

Many things. I need someone to teach them.

[She covers the video feed with her hand, making it go black. Her voice can be heard saying something muffled in loud whispers to whoever's just approached her off screen. It's obvious she's arguing with someone. There's a frustrated growl before the video abruptly ends.]

Prose/Action Sample: Death wasn't an option that she had ruled out yet. Not that someone like Laura had put much thought into it, not after she realized she had been born as a number instead of with a name. Someone like her wasn't meant to expect anything except disappointment. So she supposed that her introduction to dimensional travel through the Ingress was about par with the rest of her life experiences so far.

Her primary goal here was to track down the Wolverine, since she had caught his scent right after the initial disorientation from the Ingress left her. He was here, though she had no idea how. A place that could pull her in so randomly must be able to pull others from various times too, she thought. And it was with that hope that she tried tracking him. But she quickly found that her senses weren't as enhanced just yet, and she wondered if it was possible to go hack and scream at the Ingress. But it had already pulled her in. Denial was futile, and Laura had accepted her place here with outward indifference.

What she couldn't accept was the fact that she couldn't sniff out and track down an alcoholic old man with blood poisoning. He had reeked of the metal that was placed in both of their bodies by force, and yet she couldn't place a trace of him here. It made her grit her teeth and turn dark, intense eyes on everyone that crossed her path.

She was standing at the entrance to a job agency, intently studying everything. The city itself had been observed enough that it was background noise now. What interested her were the people here. Anytime someone would pass, her nostrils would flare as she sniffed at the air. Curiously, she'd stare up at whoever entered and left the building. Whenever someone would speak to her she'd growl low in her throat and bare her teeth. Something about the distant look in her eye seemed to unnerve whoever approached her into leaving.

Most children would be dismayed by being so alone in a place they didn't know. To Laura, this new world was her playground. She had so much to discover here and she recognized that, but a soldier like her understood that she needed to have a purpose. And finding that purpose was going to be a challenge. So eventually she grew tired of observing others and made her way into the supposed job agency, walking confidently up to the large counter she barely could see over.

"Job," she bluntly insisted in her thick accent. She still hadn't realized that language was universally translated here. "I want one. Dámelo."

It was a request, but her tone of voice spoke of her lack of patience and the fact that she was stubborn enough to not leave until she got her way. She was barely tall enough to see over the counter to glare, but that didn't mean that she was easily distracted. Even if it took hours of insisting, she'd leave here with something to fill her time. Someone needed to give her credit, she thought. A week ago, and she would have run in and impaled the woman at this counter and just taken over her job. At least now she was asking.

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