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Portia and a friend, Dispea
Portia (SD)
Portia (face)
Age: 19
Gender: female
Species/Race: Claims to be half-human, half-elfish.
Height: 5'7"
Build: what is average for a human woman.
Coloration : pale skin (but not ghostly-pale), and black hair.
Eye Color: pale grey-green.
Clothing / Armor: varies from day to day. She usually dresses in black, and prefers selectively revealing garnments to all-out skanky outfits.
Overall Appearance: Her true identity is unknown, but Portia appears to be a young woman of the humanoid variety.
Her ears are about five inches long, tapered to points at the top, and they stick almost straight up from the side of her head, poking through her hair. Aside from the fringe, her hair is about three inches long on the top and shaved to stubble on the back and sides. Her eyes are slightly sunken, and where some other elves have almond-shaped eyes that turn up at the edges, hers seem to sag downwards, which often gives her a wall-eyed appearance. The sad look of her eyes is counter-balanced by her eyebrows, which seem to be permanently set in a frown.
Portia has two tattoos- one, on her right shoulderblade, which consists of the words "sad girl" written in black. The other is a black scorpion on her small of her back. She usually moves as though she is stalking someone... She can be elegant and graceful, but seems to prefer being stealthy and paranoid in her countenance.
Occupation / Class: criminal
Affiliations: She apparantly has a family in her home realm- a father, siblings, and an absentee mother.
In the dream, Portia has forged a few friendships, and many aquaintances. She has also (through somewhat mysterious circumstances) carried and given birth to a child by Abyssi. The child's name is Genya, and he is roughly a year old now.
Accessories: She wears a single hoop earring in her right ear, in gold or silver. She also carries a few weapons- two sturdy sidehandle batons (a.k.a. tong-fa or tonfa), a switchblade, and nondescript handgun produced by one of the manufacturing companies native to the Dream. She recently aquired a car- a beat-up, dark blue Stanza.
Pets: Portia has a Balinese mynah bird that was given to her by Abyssi.
Abilities/Skills & Power Level:
Open-Channel Telepathy- Although not a mind-reader, Portia can recieve and transmit telepathic communications with others. She cannot transmit to people who are psionic duds or are shielded from ESP, though.
Superhuman Physique- Portia is not human, and she enjoys greater speed and strength than a human of her size would typically have. How much stronger she is has yet to be demonstrated.
Witch's Blood- Portia's family history is steeped in magic, but Portia herself only knows a few very basic magic tricks....
-She can conjure a small flame from her fingertips. Enough to light a cigarette or a campfire.
-She can detect lost items like money or keys, in otherwise cluttered or grassy environments, with a sensory radius of about ten meters.
-She can determine whether a door or a chest is locked without physically jostling it, and has a decent success rate in detecting nearby booby-traps.
You're Not Here- Portia's real body is being held hostage, in her home city of Asgard. The Portia people see up and running around is a technologically facilitated psychic projection, almost like a hard-light hologram. She is maintained by her own psionic ability, the ability of some ESPers at the facility from which she is projected, and the work of several complex Psi-Amp devices. The end result of this /is/, that the body-double she's in can't really be injured in the same fashion a "real" person can. However, she is by no means indefatigable, and still feels pain.
Weaknesses: A powerful enough EMP, electromagnetic interferance, ESP-shielding or entrapment in a Faraday cage are sufficient to interrupt or knock-out her connection to the dream. This isn't fatal, but can be a major inconvenience. She can be immobilized with enough pain. She may be addicted to cigarettes, and can be observed chain-smoking. Her family history is one of insanity, and Portia herself is somewhat neurotic and prone to depression. (Portia's current state, as far as general canon goes, is still unsettled. For any other scenarios, though, she can now be safely defined as mortal flesh and blood.)
Special Effects: Portia's aura is unusual, to those who can see such things. Although she has little training in any sort of magecraft, her body's energy patterns show the same corrosion and taint of death-magic that you'd expect to see in a powerful necromancer.
Description of Personality: You don't need to talk to Portia to get the impression that she is very mean- her perpetual pout and glaring expression speak volumes. Although she hasn't said much to this effect, you may get the impression from her derisive looks that she dislikes anthros, humans, and just about everything else that there is...
Brief History: Mostly undisclosed.
She has mentioned having a mother, a father, and some siblings who are still alive and living in her place or origin- a city she calls 'Asgard'.
According to what she has told people, she has been sent to the dream by an undescribed organization, for purposes of investigation. She claims that they are holding her real body hostage, and have placed her in a false 'body-double' so that they can control her.
A brief and character revealing answer to the question, "What is your ambition?": "..."
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