Darkshift

by **magevampyre** July 2nd 2015, 3:51 pm

Arienne Silver
From out of the darkness comes.

Basic Biography

Real Name: Arienne Silver
Renegade/Hero/Villain Name: Darkshift
Title:
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Race: Metahuman
Hair: Black
Eyes: Green
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 230 Lbs
Blood type: O-

The Looks

Arienne has long black hair, usually tied back. She is pale skinned and athletically built. She rarely wears makeup, but when she does its to dramatic effect. Her clothing style tends towards dark colours, especially black, and skintight although rarely overtly impractical. Her style often pushes into cyberpunk arenas. She has a tattoo of a dragon on her left shoulder and an ankh tattoo at the base of her neck.

Darkshift has little need of a secondary costume. When she doesn't want her identity known, she simply sheathes herself in black energy and takes on the appearance of nondescript humanoid shadow.

The Legacy

Personality:
Darkshift like's to pretend that nothing in the world gets to her. It doesn't matter that the world is going to hell, that people are dying every day or that the weak are being trodden upon by the strong. It doesn't matter if she doesn't have any friends because friends will inevitably betray her one day anyway so she's better off without them. Right?

Darkshift would never actually admit that she's lonely because that admits that she needs other people and the only thing people shown her is that they're amoral liabilities who will either take advantage of any good will given to them or cause mistakes to be made and failures to result. Kindness begets heartache or worse and thus is probably best avoided. It isn't that she thinks of herself as a bad person, just a person that wants to continue to survive and not be someone else's slave in the process.

Darkshift has little respect for the the law but almost as little desire to hurt anyone. Having lived a life of abuse and hardship, hurting someone without provocation is abhorrent her her. Self defense is one thing but to hurt someone who has done nothing more than simply exist? That's where evil lies and if she knows she'll never be an upstanding citizen she also knows she never wants to be evil.

History:
Arienne grew up in the downtown eastside of Vancouver, Canada. Her mother was a meth head and her father was a mystery. To say that her life wasn't easy would have been an understatement. Violence, poverty, neglect and drugs were the realities of her existence from her earliest memories. While she proved herself to be an astute mind when something held her interest, she didn't exactly excel in a formal academic environment. Her early life involved going from school to school as fights and minor illegal activities seemed to follow her wherever she went. At the age of 13 she was pulled out of her mother's toxic household and forced into the foster system; hardly an improvement upon her life.

Things changed at the age of 14 when a mugging at knife-point prompted Nightshade's innate abilities to manifest. In a moment fueled by terror and instinct, black energies erupted from her body and hardened in front of her, deflecting the knife aimed at her neck. A tendril lashed out and threw her would be assailant across the street at which point he decided that discretion was best and ran for his life. Shaken, afraid and deeply confused, Arienne didn't tell anyone about the incident and it was weeks before she felt calm enough to really analyze what had happened and what it all meant.

In the months following the incident, Arienne began to learn what she could and could not do with her newly discovered abilities. As she learned her physical capabilities, so to did she start to think about what they might mean for her life. No longer would she be forced to live in poverty or stay in the foster system. No, this meant a change of fortunes for her and she was going to make the most of it. At the age of 15 she fled her foster home and found herself a place to live that would take her money without asking too many questions. This began, for her, a life of minor crime mainly consisting of theft.

The Powers and Weaknesses

(All characters can be as powerful as they want, as long as they are balanced with proper weaknesses.)
Powers

Shifting Energetic Exoskeleton:Darkshift can manifest, shape, harden and control the energies within her. The energy is always pitch black and can be shaped into a variety of different forms including claws, horns, scales, tendrils, ect. The energy can be actively controlled or formed into something static and hardened. At most, it can extend outwards to a maximum of 10 ft from her body and can be hardened to something roughly equivalent to the strength of steel. If used to grab or lift, it has enough strength to lift and throw roughly 1000 lbs.

Fade to Darkness: More of a side effect of the unique nature of her energy, Darkshift can sheath herself in dark energy and become nearly invisible in darkness.

Pierce the Darkness: Darkshift does not require light to see.

Weakness(es)

Shifting Energetic Exoskeleton: Strength and effectiveness are based upon Darkshift's own energy levels. The more exhausted she is, the less she is able to do. This places limitations both on range and strength of her energies.

While the energy can shift into a variety of different forms, Darkshift can only ever add to what's all ready there and not subtract. Thus, she remains essentially humanoid and normal sized. If wings are created, she can only glide and not fly due to not being able to adapt the rest of herself to be light enough for true flight.

Fade to Darkness: The darker it is the harder she is to see. The natural reverse is that partial darkness only provides partial effectiveness.

Pierce the Darkness: Nightshade is completely color-blind. All colors are merely shades of grey.

RP Mechanics

RP Mechanic(s):

Items/Minions

Physical Priority
(You are to put these physical attributes in order from 1 to 4. 1 is the highest priority, 4 is the lowest.)
Agility: 1
Endurance: 3
Reaction: 2
Strength: 4

by **Forceaus** July 2nd 2015, 4:15 pm

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