Post by Holly Hock on Aug 11, 2019 20:30:55 GMT -5
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“My wrath is like a rain of thorn, my mercy is a blossom in spring”
[attr=class,char-name]Holly “Caretaker” Hock
“My wrath is like a rain of thorn, my mercy is a blossom in spring”
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Date of Birth: March 21st, 6 AV
Species: Human
Romantic Orientation: Asexual
Aura Color: Dark Magenta
Height: 152 cm
Weight: 57 kg
Color Naming Rule: Holly's name is a not so subtle reference to the Hollyhock, a brightly coloured flower which are often various shades of pink.
Semblance Name: Wildgrowth
Rank of Semblance: B
Semblance Type: Manipulator
Primary Category: Hazard/Survival
Secondary Category: Combatants/Destruction
One Sentence Summary of Semblance: Holly Hock has the manipulation semblance of Wildgrowth which allows the wielder to both grow and control existing plant-life, as well as harden them to be used in combat.
Description of Semblance: When Holly touches natural plant-life, she is able to use her semblance to influence it. Activating her semblances causes a magenta glow to appear around the plant she touches. More mundanely, she can make plants she touches to grow fruit or blossom within moments while it would normally take weeks or months. She has an advanced control in the specific size and attributes of what she grows, making a specific fruit very large or incredibly sweet, for example. For the purpose of combat, she can control grass, vines, trees, and other plants as long as she can touch them.
For instance, if she stands with her feet on a grassy plain, she can influence the approximate size of half a football field (45-50 meters) She can make the grass grow in length, strengthening it to make it as resilient as carbon steel, and then entangle her enemies to restrain their movement by wrapping it around their limbs. Or neck. If she touches a tree, she can make it slam foes till they stop moving altogether with its branches, which are toughened to be as strong as carbon steel. The bigger the plant, the more costly it is for her aura to control.
Drawbacks of Semblance: Wildgrowth has two major drawbacks. First, Holly needs plants for it to work. They can be seedlings placed in some earth but loose seeds themselves do not work. Holly also needs to touch the specific plant type she wants to influence. If she stands with her feet on grass, she can only control the grass and no other plants she isn't in contact with. For example, if she was touching one tree, she cannot also control the tree next to it unless she can reach it with her hand.
Weapon Name: Sentimental Stranglers
Rank of Weapon(s): E
Category: Combatants/Destruction
Description of Weapons(s): Holly has two arm extensions made from stringy vines around her arms that she uses in combat. Simply controlling them enough to keep them on her arms and moving them around costs the girl a negligible amount of aura. Using them actively in combat in which they need to be hardened does stat beginning to drain her aura. The total amount of vines Holly carries on her body are a length of 12 meters, and while her semblance could control more, actively fighting with this is on her person is not something she is proficient with.
[She cannot use her semblance for straight attack rolls in PVP, only for defense and as a damage enhancer. All damage to opponents in PVP is done primarily through Weapon and Martial Arts stats)
Name of Non-Combat Ability: Green Thumbs
Rank of Non-Combat Ability: D
Category: Social/Noncombat
Description of Non-Combat Ability: Beyond the use of her semblance, Holly has extensive knowledge about plants in general. This includes crops, flowers, trees, and a wide variety of other plant life that she has studied. Even without her semblance, she knows how to set up small scale farming operations and teach others how to agriculture. Even in inhospitable places.
Name of Non-Combat Ability: Scroll-Master
Rank of Non-Combat Ability: F
Category: Social/Noncombat
Description of Non-Combat Ability: Despite growing up without a lot of technology, Holly quickly mastered the use of her scroll and became rather excellent in using the device as intended. She can search for information rather quickly, and she can do almost every basic on the device with one hand.
Name of Combat Ability: Guttersnake Massacre (Martial Arts)
Rank of Combat Ability: E
Category: Combatants/Destruction
Description of Combat Ability: Holly utilizes two vines as her weapons, which she uses as gloves even in her daily life. Some people claim she has an injury under them, while others claim she doesn’t have hands to begin with.
Name of Combat Ability: Hobo Herbal Healing (Healing)
Rank of Combat Ability: E
Category: Social/Noncombat
Description of Combat Ability: Trained by some mysterious teacher, questionable self-learning books she had in a prior life, and further training in the ways of sewer herblore, Holly has learned the basics of keeping your organs inside your body under stress. Augmented by her new collection of herbal remedies and medicines, she has gotten to be quite proficient in keeping people alive in the worst of circumstances.
Name of Combat Ability: Tunnel Rat (Acrobatics)
Rank of Combat Ability: F
Category: Hazard/Obstacle
Description of Combat Ability: Holly is an adequate crawler of sewer walls and ceilings, using every adequate surface within the tunnels for up to 5-7 meters at a time.
Name of Combat Ability: Strength of Will (Stamina)
Rank of Combat Ability: E
Category: Hazard/Survival
Description of Combat Ability: Despite not being the greatest physical powerhouse imaginable, through sheer determination and guts Holly is able to keep standing and keep active longer than you would have guessed.
Name of Combat Ability: Greensense (Unique Signature)
Rank of Combat Ability: F
Category: Social/Noncombat
Description of Combat Ability: Holly’s ability to sense touch through her plants as an extension of herself. As long as she is connected with a plant, Holly is able to ‘feel’ through it as if she had touched something with gloves on. Heat, cold, and pain can be easily sensed, while details become harder the more precise, they are. This gives her a great sense of perception in her immediate surroundings as long as it concerns touch, as well as a greater sense to shape plant-life by the heightened connection. This ability is limited to the length of a telephone pole (5 to 7 meters).
Name of Ultimate Move: Nature’s Wrath
Rank of Ultimate Move: F
Category: Combatants/Destruction
Description of Combat Ability: Holly’s Ultimate ability allows her to push her semblance to its maximum potential. Without needing to have immediate contact, Holly is able to influence plant life within the length of a small room (5-7 meters). Beyond forgoing the touch-gate requirement, this use of this ability also allows Holly to alter a plant’s natural appearance drastically and swift at the cost of her own well-being. An apple growing thorns, a cactus growing roots and walking, or a tree growing wooden arms and grabbing someone is not out of the question. The durability of the plants is lesser than if Holly would have a direct connection, and is only as strong as wood. Like...most plants are at most.
Primary Drive: Holly’s primary drive is creating a community of people living in the sewers of the Wind District, providing a safe and pleasant home in which you could even raise a family.
Fears: Her deepest fear is rejection, and she will go through great and terrible lengths to ensure that her followers and friends do not abandon her and her vision. Beyond this, she seems to have a fear of going outside of the sewers, snakes, and blood.
Style of Self-Expression: Holly Hock has two modes. On the one hand she is The Caretaker, who acts like a mother would do towards her children. She feeds them, provides them with a home, and gives them love and warmth. When the needs arise, she is the leader of the Sewer Stranglers who has no quarrels with doing everything she can to safeguard the drifters who pledged their loyalty to her, scaring or harming whoever enters the sewers with the intent to hurt them. In a darker twist, she also enforces peace within her own community harshly when the mood strikes her. She can act petty and cruel when someone deserves it in her eyes, mostly when they personally slight her.
Most Important Thing: The one thing that Holly finds the most important is that the love she gives is accepted and returned. When she gives an apple to someone who seems hungry, and he rejects it rudely or with harsh words directed towards her, the girl would not be beyond punishing this man severely and in the open. All the while saying publicly that all of this justified punishment could be avoided if they had simply accepted her kindness and love.
What good is an elaborate backstory when the person who it applies to has died?
Holly Hocks was a student at Haven Academy, she came from a far away island called Mato-Mato, and she liked plants so much she created a club for them! She sometimes said the wrong things, and was generally weird in the things she did. But her heart was in the right place and she was honestly mostly just a lonely girl trying to find her place in strange world that was far colder and more uncaring than she was used to back home.
She apparently had a troubled relationship with a depressed schizophrenic student and partook in the disastrous rescue expedition to Rochdale. While getting some treatment from staff that helped her hold herself together, over time though, those quirky moments changed into more and more violent and excessive outbursts. Harassing some fellow-students, posting weird political ideas on online fora, and other peculiar behaviour. Still, there wasn’t anything that could have easily be pointed at to predict the destruction she would unleash during the White Nights Festival of 26 AV.
The official details of the event remain vague and contradictory, but what remains consistent in the telling is that a Haven Student named Holly Hock committed an act of terrorism. She was a disgruntled and disillusioned opponent of the Peasant Party and its role in recent governmental policy. She protested the party’s leadership before the attack. She used her semblance to cause major property damage at the festival and assault the unwitting public, some of which succumb from their injuries later in the hospital. In the ensuing struggle bystanders intervened, and Holly Hock was lawfully dispatched. The terrorist was declared death in absentia, and posthumously convicted for her crimes. The charges were terrorism, second-degree murder, assault, misuse of a semblance in a public space, disorderly conduct, and vandalism.
A tale with a beginning, middle, and end.
…
Within the sewers of the Wind District there is a monster, according to a new urban legend on the internet. Anonymous sources claim that police officers, maintenance workers, and truth-seekers have sighted something lurking in that extensive network of pipes. Most accounts keep to witnesses hearing a strange voice, finding peculiar vines in tunnels, and sightings of shapes moving in the shadows. Official reports claim that there are neither Grimm nor people living in the tunnels, and that the public should not believe such fake conspiracy theories posted by delinquents and fearmongers.
While always a criminal offense, all unauthorized access to the sewer system is now expressly forbidden to ensure that youths don’t injure themselves on trying to find this urban myth.
…
Squatter’s Square has been a recent addition to the ailing community of drifters and bums that call the sewers of the Wind District their home. The winding tunnel network has been a home to outcasts who for some reason thought that the Ground District was just a bit too habitable for them. Living in ramshackle dwellings made from waste materials in abandoned tunnels, these hobos eke out a meagre existence plagued with disease, hunger, and other health defects.
While those dwellings still exist, many inhabitants of the sewers found their way to Squatter’s Square. There is food there, and enough to drink, even some medicine and comfort. Someone called The Caretaker seems to run the place. Promises that appealed to many who have nearly nothing. A little bit of sunshine underground.
…
Don’t go to Squatter’s Square. Don’t. They trap people in the wall who speak against Her. The tunnels near it attacked the police. They throw the deceased in a hole that leads straight to hell. They worship a monster who feeds Her followers with one hand, while strangling those who displease Her with the other. The police raids to drive us out were brutal, but at least those cops were honest in that they don’t want us here. Get out of the sewers while you can. Go to the Ground District. Go anywhere other than here. Flee while you still have the option before She or Her followers come for you. They won’t give you that choice. They will choke the life out of you…
 | [attr=class,title nomargin]Age 20 [attr=class,title]Gender Female [attr=class,title]Faction Sewer Stranglers [attr=class,title]Tier Sophomore [attr=class,title]Face Claim Morgiana (Magi) [attr=class,title]OOC Name Corranis |
[attr=class,main-title-left unaffiliated]Character Traits
Date of Birth: March 21st, 6 AV
Species: Human
Romantic Orientation: Asexual
Aura Color: Dark Magenta
Height: 152 cm
Weight: 57 kg
Color Naming Rule: Holly's name is a not so subtle reference to the Hollyhock, a brightly coloured flower which are often various shades of pink.
[attr=class,main-title-right unaffiliated]Combat And Inventory
[attr=class,title]Semblance
Semblance Name: Wildgrowth
Rank of Semblance: B
Semblance Type: Manipulator
Primary Category: Hazard/Survival
Secondary Category: Combatants/Destruction
One Sentence Summary of Semblance: Holly Hock has the manipulation semblance of Wildgrowth which allows the wielder to both grow and control existing plant-life, as well as harden them to be used in combat.
Description of Semblance: When Holly touches natural plant-life, she is able to use her semblance to influence it. Activating her semblances causes a magenta glow to appear around the plant she touches. More mundanely, she can make plants she touches to grow fruit or blossom within moments while it would normally take weeks or months. She has an advanced control in the specific size and attributes of what she grows, making a specific fruit very large or incredibly sweet, for example. For the purpose of combat, she can control grass, vines, trees, and other plants as long as she can touch them.
For instance, if she stands with her feet on a grassy plain, she can influence the approximate size of half a football field (45-50 meters) She can make the grass grow in length, strengthening it to make it as resilient as carbon steel, and then entangle her enemies to restrain their movement by wrapping it around their limbs. Or neck. If she touches a tree, she can make it slam foes till they stop moving altogether with its branches, which are toughened to be as strong as carbon steel. The bigger the plant, the more costly it is for her aura to control.
Drawbacks of Semblance: Wildgrowth has two major drawbacks. First, Holly needs plants for it to work. They can be seedlings placed in some earth but loose seeds themselves do not work. Holly also needs to touch the specific plant type she wants to influence. If she stands with her feet on grass, she can only control the grass and no other plants she isn't in contact with. For example, if she was touching one tree, she cannot also control the tree next to it unless she can reach it with her hand.
[attr=class,title]Weapon(s)
Weapon Name: Sentimental Stranglers
Rank of Weapon(s): E
Category: Combatants/Destruction
Description of Weapons(s): Holly has two arm extensions made from stringy vines around her arms that she uses in combat. Simply controlling them enough to keep them on her arms and moving them around costs the girl a negligible amount of aura. Using them actively in combat in which they need to be hardened does stat beginning to drain her aura. The total amount of vines Holly carries on her body are a length of 12 meters, and while her semblance could control more, actively fighting with this is on her person is not something she is proficient with.
[She cannot use her semblance for straight attack rolls in PVP, only for defense and as a damage enhancer. All damage to opponents in PVP is done primarily through Weapon and Martial Arts stats)
[attr=class,title]Non-Combat Abilities
Name of Non-Combat Ability: Green Thumbs
Rank of Non-Combat Ability: D
Category: Social/Noncombat
Description of Non-Combat Ability: Beyond the use of her semblance, Holly has extensive knowledge about plants in general. This includes crops, flowers, trees, and a wide variety of other plant life that she has studied. Even without her semblance, she knows how to set up small scale farming operations and teach others how to agriculture. Even in inhospitable places.
Name of Non-Combat Ability: Scroll-Master
Rank of Non-Combat Ability: F
Category: Social/Noncombat
Description of Non-Combat Ability: Despite growing up without a lot of technology, Holly quickly mastered the use of her scroll and became rather excellent in using the device as intended. She can search for information rather quickly, and she can do almost every basic on the device with one hand.
[attr=class,title]Combat Abilities
Name of Combat Ability: Guttersnake Massacre (Martial Arts)
Rank of Combat Ability: E
Category: Combatants/Destruction
Description of Combat Ability: Holly utilizes two vines as her weapons, which she uses as gloves even in her daily life. Some people claim she has an injury under them, while others claim she doesn’t have hands to begin with.
Name of Combat Ability: Hobo Herbal Healing (Healing)
Rank of Combat Ability: E
Category: Social/Noncombat
Description of Combat Ability: Trained by some mysterious teacher, questionable self-learning books she had in a prior life, and further training in the ways of sewer herblore, Holly has learned the basics of keeping your organs inside your body under stress. Augmented by her new collection of herbal remedies and medicines, she has gotten to be quite proficient in keeping people alive in the worst of circumstances.
Name of Combat Ability: Tunnel Rat (Acrobatics)
Rank of Combat Ability: F
Category: Hazard/Obstacle
Description of Combat Ability: Holly is an adequate crawler of sewer walls and ceilings, using every adequate surface within the tunnels for up to 5-7 meters at a time.
Name of Combat Ability: Strength of Will (Stamina)
Rank of Combat Ability: E
Category: Hazard/Survival
Description of Combat Ability: Despite not being the greatest physical powerhouse imaginable, through sheer determination and guts Holly is able to keep standing and keep active longer than you would have guessed.
Name of Combat Ability: Greensense (Unique Signature)
Rank of Combat Ability: F
Category: Social/Noncombat
Description of Combat Ability: Holly’s ability to sense touch through her plants as an extension of herself. As long as she is connected with a plant, Holly is able to ‘feel’ through it as if she had touched something with gloves on. Heat, cold, and pain can be easily sensed, while details become harder the more precise, they are. This gives her a great sense of perception in her immediate surroundings as long as it concerns touch, as well as a greater sense to shape plant-life by the heightened connection. This ability is limited to the length of a telephone pole (5 to 7 meters).
Name of Ultimate Move: Nature’s Wrath
Rank of Ultimate Move: F
Category: Combatants/Destruction
Description of Combat Ability: Holly’s Ultimate ability allows her to push her semblance to its maximum potential. Without needing to have immediate contact, Holly is able to influence plant life within the length of a small room (5-7 meters). Beyond forgoing the touch-gate requirement, this use of this ability also allows Holly to alter a plant’s natural appearance drastically and swift at the cost of her own well-being. An apple growing thorns, a cactus growing roots and walking, or a tree growing wooden arms and grabbing someone is not out of the question. The durability of the plants is lesser than if Holly would have a direct connection, and is only as strong as wood. Like...most plants are at most.
[attr=class,main-title-left unaffiliated]Character Information
[attr=class,title]Vitals
Primary Drive: Holly’s primary drive is creating a community of people living in the sewers of the Wind District, providing a safe and pleasant home in which you could even raise a family.
Fears: Her deepest fear is rejection, and she will go through great and terrible lengths to ensure that her followers and friends do not abandon her and her vision. Beyond this, she seems to have a fear of going outside of the sewers, snakes, and blood.
Style of Self-Expression: Holly Hock has two modes. On the one hand she is The Caretaker, who acts like a mother would do towards her children. She feeds them, provides them with a home, and gives them love and warmth. When the needs arise, she is the leader of the Sewer Stranglers who has no quarrels with doing everything she can to safeguard the drifters who pledged their loyalty to her, scaring or harming whoever enters the sewers with the intent to hurt them. In a darker twist, she also enforces peace within her own community harshly when the mood strikes her. She can act petty and cruel when someone deserves it in her eyes, mostly when they personally slight her.
Most Important Thing: The one thing that Holly finds the most important is that the love she gives is accepted and returned. When she gives an apple to someone who seems hungry, and he rejects it rudely or with harsh words directed towards her, the girl would not be beyond punishing this man severely and in the open. All the while saying publicly that all of this justified punishment could be avoided if they had simply accepted her kindness and love.
[attr=class,title]History Freeform
What good is an elaborate backstory when the person who it applies to has died?
Holly Hocks was a student at Haven Academy, she came from a far away island called Mato-Mato, and she liked plants so much she created a club for them! She sometimes said the wrong things, and was generally weird in the things she did. But her heart was in the right place and she was honestly mostly just a lonely girl trying to find her place in strange world that was far colder and more uncaring than she was used to back home.
She apparently had a troubled relationship with a depressed schizophrenic student and partook in the disastrous rescue expedition to Rochdale. While getting some treatment from staff that helped her hold herself together, over time though, those quirky moments changed into more and more violent and excessive outbursts. Harassing some fellow-students, posting weird political ideas on online fora, and other peculiar behaviour. Still, there wasn’t anything that could have easily be pointed at to predict the destruction she would unleash during the White Nights Festival of 26 AV.
The official details of the event remain vague and contradictory, but what remains consistent in the telling is that a Haven Student named Holly Hock committed an act of terrorism. She was a disgruntled and disillusioned opponent of the Peasant Party and its role in recent governmental policy. She protested the party’s leadership before the attack. She used her semblance to cause major property damage at the festival and assault the unwitting public, some of which succumb from their injuries later in the hospital. In the ensuing struggle bystanders intervened, and Holly Hock was lawfully dispatched. The terrorist was declared death in absentia, and posthumously convicted for her crimes. The charges were terrorism, second-degree murder, assault, misuse of a semblance in a public space, disorderly conduct, and vandalism.
A tale with a beginning, middle, and end.
…
Within the sewers of the Wind District there is a monster, according to a new urban legend on the internet. Anonymous sources claim that police officers, maintenance workers, and truth-seekers have sighted something lurking in that extensive network of pipes. Most accounts keep to witnesses hearing a strange voice, finding peculiar vines in tunnels, and sightings of shapes moving in the shadows. Official reports claim that there are neither Grimm nor people living in the tunnels, and that the public should not believe such fake conspiracy theories posted by delinquents and fearmongers.
While always a criminal offense, all unauthorized access to the sewer system is now expressly forbidden to ensure that youths don’t injure themselves on trying to find this urban myth.
…
Squatter’s Square has been a recent addition to the ailing community of drifters and bums that call the sewers of the Wind District their home. The winding tunnel network has been a home to outcasts who for some reason thought that the Ground District was just a bit too habitable for them. Living in ramshackle dwellings made from waste materials in abandoned tunnels, these hobos eke out a meagre existence plagued with disease, hunger, and other health defects.
While those dwellings still exist, many inhabitants of the sewers found their way to Squatter’s Square. There is food there, and enough to drink, even some medicine and comfort. Someone called The Caretaker seems to run the place. Promises that appealed to many who have nearly nothing. A little bit of sunshine underground.
…
Don’t go to Squatter’s Square. Don’t. They trap people in the wall who speak against Her. The tunnels near it attacked the police. They throw the deceased in a hole that leads straight to hell. They worship a monster who feeds Her followers with one hand, while strangling those who displease Her with the other. The police raids to drive us out were brutal, but at least those cops were honest in that they don’t want us here. Get out of the sewers while you can. Go to the Ground District. Go anywhere other than here. Flee while you still have the option before She or Her followers come for you. They won’t give you that choice. They will choke the life out of you…
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