Rayna Hale
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:06 pm
IRC Nickname: Rayna
Name: Rayna Hale
Alias: none
Age: 20
Date of Birth: 6/9/1990
Hometown:Phoenix, Arizona
Height: 5 feet 8 inches
Weight: 135
Hair Color: Black (Very dark brown in some lighting.)
Eye Color:Hazel
Nationality/Race:Caucasian
Occupation: unemployed
Personality Profile: Rayna is a self professed introvert. She can sometimes be antagonistic but isn't so much uncomfortable around people as uninterested in the world around her. She will often be seen lost in her own thoughts or hobbies to the exclusion of much else.
Physical Description: Slightly taller then average with a thin frame. She has some athletic tendencies but never does enough to really build muscle mass.
Character Picture (Optional):
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Mutation/Powers:
Primary : Ability to redirect the momentum of a moving object on touch; Even larger objects can be deflected or otherwise redirected in any chosen direction as long as she can see them coming and physically touch the object. (works by proxy in a limited fashion. She can influence whole objects that are made of component parts and use her powers when contact is being made through clothing, however she cannot, for example, stop something by touching it with a long stick.
Secondary :
Tertiary :
Drawbacks/Weaknesses/Side Effects : Rayna's power is reliant on her ability to actually see, touch and react to whatever she wishes to influence. If she doesn't have enough time to react, cannot see the object, or the object is unable to be physically touched, she cannot change it's motion in any way. Larger objects around the level of a speeding full sized bus can prove to be very fatiguing to redirect, and anything around the level of a train or larger then that is impossible for her to do much against.
However the amount of time that is required touching the object to influence it is not a limit. As long as she is trying to influence the object and the object is moving slow enough to see, her will will be enacted on it the instant it makes contact, and before the object does anything such as cause injury to her.
How do you believe this character's powers will further develop in the future? Rayna will start out fairly new to her powers. Unskilled in their application under pressure. Requiring both more time to react to something before she can effect it and fatigued by using her powers on very large or very fast moving objects. As she becomes more skilled with her powers she will become more practiced and comfortable with large scale application of her powers, however her weaknesses and limits stated above are hard coded into her power's nature. She may be able to learn to put herself into situations where the limits are less of a problem, but she will never lose those limits.
Background: Rayna was never really a self starter or a people person. She kept to herself in high school and only had a few friends. She had an uneventful life and a decent relationship with her family.
Her cynical nature, however, meant sometimes her mouth got her into trouble. When one of her occasional antagonistic comments pissed off another girl enough to throw her entire weight behind a punch her powers manifested.
As she caught the girl's punch with her palm, rather then simply stopping the punch or perhaps being knocked back by the weight of the blow, Rayna's power turned the momentum of the punch directly backward, breaking the girl's arm in two places. Rayna, having felt nothing but a light tap on her palm, quickly lied to cover it up, saying she had moved out of the way and the girl had punched the wall behind her.
For the next few years she never mentioned it to anyone. Testing it herself (thanks in part to the help of a handy dandy tennis ball launcher) sometimes. Mostly she just went about her buisiness as a layabout and minimum wage gas station clerk. For her own reasons never admitting the truth to anyone and never using her powers for any personal reasons.
Then one day she was nearly run down by a drunk driver on the street, and in the heat of the moment she tried to use her powers to save her life. The end result was backhanding the front of the car to the side so that it ran into a nearby storefront instead of her. She told the police that the driver swerved to avoid her and he had no memory of the incident from his night of binge drinking. Thus she was not questioned further and the driver got off with a few years in prison, a large debt to the store owner, and a mild concussion.
Rayna meanwhile dropped everything, packed a small bag of personal effects, and took a bus to Salem to approach Cobalt Academy for help.
Quirks, Extras, Random Character Facts: Rayna often talks and emotes in a detached fashion but can become rather intensely passionate about some issues. She seemingly has an interest in alternative fashion and clothing but doesn't seem to have the dedication to be fully interested in appearances. Being an Arizona native, she rather dislikes the cold.
Name: Rayna Hale
Alias: none
Age: 20
Date of Birth: 6/9/1990
Hometown:Phoenix, Arizona
Height: 5 feet 8 inches
Weight: 135
Hair Color: Black (Very dark brown in some lighting.)
Eye Color:Hazel
Nationality/Race:Caucasian
Occupation: unemployed
Personality Profile: Rayna is a self professed introvert. She can sometimes be antagonistic but isn't so much uncomfortable around people as uninterested in the world around her. She will often be seen lost in her own thoughts or hobbies to the exclusion of much else.
Physical Description: Slightly taller then average with a thin frame. She has some athletic tendencies but never does enough to really build muscle mass.
Character Picture (Optional):
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Mutation/Powers:
Primary : Ability to redirect the momentum of a moving object on touch; Even larger objects can be deflected or otherwise redirected in any chosen direction as long as she can see them coming and physically touch the object. (works by proxy in a limited fashion. She can influence whole objects that are made of component parts and use her powers when contact is being made through clothing, however she cannot, for example, stop something by touching it with a long stick.
Secondary :
Tertiary :
Drawbacks/Weaknesses/Side Effects : Rayna's power is reliant on her ability to actually see, touch and react to whatever she wishes to influence. If she doesn't have enough time to react, cannot see the object, or the object is unable to be physically touched, she cannot change it's motion in any way. Larger objects around the level of a speeding full sized bus can prove to be very fatiguing to redirect, and anything around the level of a train or larger then that is impossible for her to do much against.
However the amount of time that is required touching the object to influence it is not a limit. As long as she is trying to influence the object and the object is moving slow enough to see, her will will be enacted on it the instant it makes contact, and before the object does anything such as cause injury to her.
How do you believe this character's powers will further develop in the future? Rayna will start out fairly new to her powers. Unskilled in their application under pressure. Requiring both more time to react to something before she can effect it and fatigued by using her powers on very large or very fast moving objects. As she becomes more skilled with her powers she will become more practiced and comfortable with large scale application of her powers, however her weaknesses and limits stated above are hard coded into her power's nature. She may be able to learn to put herself into situations where the limits are less of a problem, but she will never lose those limits.
Background: Rayna was never really a self starter or a people person. She kept to herself in high school and only had a few friends. She had an uneventful life and a decent relationship with her family.
Her cynical nature, however, meant sometimes her mouth got her into trouble. When one of her occasional antagonistic comments pissed off another girl enough to throw her entire weight behind a punch her powers manifested.
As she caught the girl's punch with her palm, rather then simply stopping the punch or perhaps being knocked back by the weight of the blow, Rayna's power turned the momentum of the punch directly backward, breaking the girl's arm in two places. Rayna, having felt nothing but a light tap on her palm, quickly lied to cover it up, saying she had moved out of the way and the girl had punched the wall behind her.
For the next few years she never mentioned it to anyone. Testing it herself (thanks in part to the help of a handy dandy tennis ball launcher) sometimes. Mostly she just went about her buisiness as a layabout and minimum wage gas station clerk. For her own reasons never admitting the truth to anyone and never using her powers for any personal reasons.
Then one day she was nearly run down by a drunk driver on the street, and in the heat of the moment she tried to use her powers to save her life. The end result was backhanding the front of the car to the side so that it ran into a nearby storefront instead of her. She told the police that the driver swerved to avoid her and he had no memory of the incident from his night of binge drinking. Thus she was not questioned further and the driver got off with a few years in prison, a large debt to the store owner, and a mild concussion.
Rayna meanwhile dropped everything, packed a small bag of personal effects, and took a bus to Salem to approach Cobalt Academy for help.
Quirks, Extras, Random Character Facts: Rayna often talks and emotes in a detached fashion but can become rather intensely passionate about some issues. She seemingly has an interest in alternative fashion and clothing but doesn't seem to have the dedication to be fully interested in appearances. Being an Arizona native, she rather dislikes the cold.