Post by Ariadne on Aug 23, 2012 23:31:01 GMT -5
Super Identity and Secret Identity: Ariadne Abney, The Architect
Alliance: Unaligned, wherever her team goes she follows.
Gender Preference: Female
Age: 23
Birthday: 9th of September
Personality: Ariadne is a very logical person who is driven mainly by intellectual curiosity. Her involvement in the dream business is largely because she can't resist the opportunity to be a part of something that is, in her view, pure creation.
Ariadne has a tendency of asking questions as they come to her mind. She's blunt and doesn't mince her words when she wants to know something and she's impulsive in a sense that she lets her curiosity take her wherever it wants. This was how she became a part of a group of dreamwalkers in the first place.
Appearance: Ariadne has long dark brown hair that falls in waves naturally. She usually leaves it down, but sometimes she'll pull it up when studying. Ariadne has a petite build and this often gets her mistaken for an undergrad or a high schooler.
Her style tends to lean towards stylish, yet somewhat academic clothing typical of most college graduates. While never very formal, her outfits are never sloppy either unless she's alone in her apartment. Ariadne has a penchant for the color red and is always wearing at least one item of red clothing. This is most noticeable with her "costume" as the Architect. She doesn't have to hide her identity often considering what they do, they literally do in their sleep. But when meeting with clients, she has a large red cloak with a hood that covers most of her face. She has many of these and she can abandon them whenever she needs to make a quick getaway into a crowd.
History: For a long time, Ariadne has had loose control over her powers. In fact, for the longest time she viewed them as lucid dreams. Of course, there were times where she shared her dreams with people physically nearby her (namely her parents) but it never seemed like a big deal. It was something she grew up with.
Ariadne fell in love with art and creating things at a young age. As she grew older, she went through many different phases of designing, drawing, writing, photography...until she finally stuck with architecture. Designing whole entire buildings and watching blueprints fly from the page into reality appealed to her.
Ariadne did not gain full control over her powers until she was hired by the team of other dreamwalkers she works with now. A professor recommended her to a team of dreamwalkers, similar to her, who needed someone to design dreams. At first, she only needed to build maze layouts which would then be translated by another team member, but her ability to enter dreams as well was quickly realized by the rest of the team. They took her on for the Fischer job and it was a success.
After that, Ariadne simply returned to her studies. She would help the team whenever they needed an architect and eventually it became an official arrangement by default. "Architect" eventually became the name she gave to clients and she's been working in extractions ever since.
Secret Identity: Ariadne is an architecture student. She used to do small odd jobs wherever she could for tuition, but the dreamwalking is covering that nowadays.
Power: Ariadne's power is dream manipulation. In the waking world, she designs dreams that she later brings into her mind or the mind of others. This is (usually) for extraction purposes: people are far more likely to spill trade secrets when they're dreaming. However, Ariadne has no interest in furthering the cause of either side of the mutants. To her, this profession is merely a way to extend her creative side in a way that not even architecture would allow her. This means that she rarely goes and manipulates the dreams of others when she's not on a job, save for her own and her team members (and even then, it's only because they work together.)
Ariadne's specialty is building dream worlds: while she can perform minor manipulations within the dream world, she avoids it because of the numerous times she's either been 1) crushed to death, 2) stabbed, 3) had to jump off of a building, 4) etc. due to unauthorized changes. She has a difficult time manipulating her own image or manifesting items.
Ariadne has a hollowed out bishop chess piece that she uses as a totem. This is basically so she is able to know whether she is in a dream or not. Only she knows the specific weight and center of gravity of the piece.
RP Sample:
It was July and Ariadne was beginning to forget the feeling of winter. The heat had deprived her of her scarf and blazer long ago, and now she felt the need to slip off the boots and socks.
She did so staring out the window of her small apartment, the kind that graduate students live in because it’s all they can afford on their own. Not too long ago, she would have dropped the books and wandered outside the city, taking in the tall modern buildings and the understated grandness of the older, more historic buildings. She would end up so far away from her apartment complex that she’d need to hail down a taxi in order to get home before it got dark.
That was before though. Slowly, she closed the architecture book she had been studying from and shut her eyes, thinking about a cold forest. She wouldn’t be able to tell what time of day it was, because it would be completely white from the snow.
She felt the warm air wrap around her as she ceased fidgeting (a common thing while studying) and imagined the cover of trees blocking out most of the sun, leaving just enough light so she could see where she was going, but not enough to be blinding against the snow.
She imagined a small cottage about the same size as her apartment because drowsiness was taking over and the warmth was slowly disappearing, replaced by a chill and the small of pine trees. Her eyelids fluttered open and she was in the forest, standing barefoot on the oak steps of the cottage she imagined.
Ariadne laughed and it condensed in the air, white fog. She looked down at her clothes---maroon corduroy and a red cotton shirt. A beacon of red in a world of black and white.
Grasping at her bare arms, she turned back to the cottage. She would need more clothes if she were to explore her dream world for more than a five-minute nap.
Other: WHOOO making up last names. Um, just throwing this out there, but I think it would be totally cool if the dream worlds that the Inception teams go into are the canon worlds. Of course, this is totally up to anyone who ends up being a part of any dreamwalking plots.
Of course, all dreamwalking plots will be discussed ahead of time, save for when the dream team is just hanging out...in their sleep. There will be no sudden drugging people at random.Password?: Clark Kent Superman Clark Kent Superman