Post by Deon on May 18, 2007 21:41:51 GMT -5
Name: Dementia Kemik
Nicknames: D
Aliases: Bones (GWMSYO)
Age: 17
Marital Status: Dating (Seaheart)
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Weight: 48 kg
Height: 178 cm
More recent image in siggy; she multiplied her hair cells to grow out her hair and colored it, all for her masquerade ball hairstyle, and decided to leave it that way.
Eyes: Pale bluish-gray
Hair: Platinum blonde, almost white; very short length, with bangs that merge into her hair on the sides to frame her face. The ending strands are longer than her general body of hair and reach to her chin; her general body of hair is cut in many layers and comes to the middle of her cheek, just below her cheekbone
Face: She has a high forehead, small chin, protruding cheekbones, an oval/heart-shaped face
General Body Type: She's extremely thin and lanky with a lot of lean muscle, sometimes looks almost emaciated. She doesn't have much of a figure to speak of, unless you count protruding hip-bones. She has fair skin.
Clothing: She generally wears tight, stretchy attire that can form to her shape, whatever it may be. Her clothes are often full of patches, sewing and/or holes.
Powers: Plain and simple cell manipulation. She is able to manipulate, regenerate, create, control, and destroy any cell in her body. With this power, she can do things like force her bones out of her body by creating more to take up the space, even withdraw them entirely, as well as reshape them and her organs, rearrange all of her insides to bend into fantastic shapes while able to carry on life processes. Because of her rapid regeneration, she is able to recreate her organs, bones, and skin in an instant. However, she could only regenerate body parts if at least one cell was left to "clone," in a way. Such as, she could create more cells from the existing ones to regenerate her liver if most of it remained intact, but couldn't create a new one if the old one was ripped out. Now, her bones are many times more dense than the bones of a regular human and are extremely strong--almost impossible to break except by her own doing. Part of this is explained by the ability for her to retain intense amounts of calcium, phosphorus, boron, and vitamin D. Why her cells do this is unknown, but could possibly be an evolutionary trait. It is also due to the packing of cells in her bones that make them many times more dense than a normal human, due to the fact she uses her bones as a defense and attack system.
Weakness: She is a hemophiliac, but that is unrelated to her powers and was contracted genetically. Sharp objects really aren't her friends. Ironic.
Power related issues: Her skin is extremely thin because of the constant regeneration of the cells (those cells aren't intensely fortified like her bones), and breaks easily. She endures blood loss whenever a bone breaks her skin or a vessel inside her body, which causes obvious problems.
Personality: She isn't exactly a warm person. Once a true idealist, she has given up on the possibility of a better world and has become extremely cynical and hardened. She doesn't make friends very easily and prefers to keep to herself, because she sees everyone as being superficial and unchangeably, evilly human on the inside. She despises self-righteousness and people who think their actions are for the good of mankind, because she feels that selflessness is impossible, and the person exhibiting it always has some kind of ulterior motive for self-benefit. She stresses the eye blink that is the human life, and how no matter how much one does in their life they will always end in the same place: death. She treasures cold, hard, intelligence close to her own. Dementia often feels like she has the superior, enlightened mind because she is able to see the futility of human actions, the fallacy of emotions and happiness, and the evil that lurks in the hearts of every human.
History: Dementia was born as Sophie Devereux to a rich family in France. Her father was a politically-minded entrepreneur who owned a string of international, five-star hotels, and her mother was the daughter of a renowned Polish heart surgeon who had retired years ago due to a long-running disorder in the family that was carefully covered up from the press: schizophrenia. During her pregnancy with Sophie, her mother fell into a state of psychosis. She was put into a mental institution after birth.
Dementia lived as Sophie Devereux with her father for only four years. She had a hard childhood--her father was never home, she didn't get along well with other children, and she had a mind of her own. Her social life was so terrible, that she in fact was able to realize her powers after a child pushed her off of a tall jungle gym, and she snapped her elbow on one of the metal bars, breaking her arm and sending the bone through her skin. When she arrived at the hospital, the doctors found that the bone had regrown at record speed, merging into the one that protruded through her arm so that it was in a strange Y shape. It ended up having to be cut off with a powerful electric saw. After finally heading back to school after receiving hours of unwanted attention from curious doctors, her father pushed for her to be sent back to school. The very same day she returned, she was detained by the counselor and sent home for blindfolding, binding, and gagging the boy who had pushed her off the jungle gym and lock him in a closet she had somehow learned to pick with her finger bones. At this point, her father didn't know what to do and feared he couldn't properly care for the child. Her mood was darkening by the second, and she showed symptoms of early depression. Distraught and unsure, Sophie's father sent her to live with her maternal grandparents back in Poland to insure she would receive the best care possible. He had no idea about her grandfather's mental disorder.
Life in Poland for Sophie was not exactly the best experience of her life. She lived in an ultra-traditional family with an insane grandfather and an old-world grandmother who believed that Sophie was the sole cause of her daughter's psychosis and the progressively worsening state of her grandfather, that was actually due to Alzheimer's and the deterioration of his brain. She also claimed that Sophie was possessed by the devil, and that's what caused her uncanny ability as well as her evil tendencies. Every month, her grandmother would try to exorcise the "demons" from her body with a new ritual. At this house, she ceased being called her birth name and was given the name Dementia by her grandmother to reflect what she felt she had caused; she also assumed the surname of her grandparents.
Still, Dementia, being a woman, was educated by her grandmother in the tasks a woman should know how to perform well: cooking, cleaning, etiquette, singing, dancing, and sewing. Her grandmother also believed that the more she occupied herself with "pure" tasks such as these, the more the devil would be unable to stay in her body.
Dementia wasn't allowed to go to school to be with other children, nor do any sort of online home school program, because her grandmother thought modern technology was evil. She was barely even allowed to go out of the house. Her father sent her textbooks and tests by mail in order to make sure that she was receiving a good schooling. However, she was allowed to go to the library to supplement the core courses that the textbooks her father sent her covered. Being miserable at home, she practically lived there and got lost in its myriad of books.
Dementia spent most of her time reading on philosophy and human nature, and it is assumed that she got much of her world view from the ideas she absorbed from the authors that so influenced her. She looked up to them as the epitome of knowledge. She ceased writing letters to her father and spent her time completely engulfed in her reading.
Her father, meanwhile, was worried about the conditions that she lived in, especially when she stopped writing. He discovered the insanity of her grandfather and worried for her own well-being, though in reality he was barely ever around. He learned of the boarding school at Cassis sent her here to meet people endowed with their own unique abilities and possibly alleviate her mood.
Nicknames: D
Aliases: Bones (GWMSYO)
Age: 17
Marital Status: Dating (Seaheart)
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Weight: 48 kg
Height: 178 cm
More recent image in siggy; she multiplied her hair cells to grow out her hair and colored it, all for her masquerade ball hairstyle, and decided to leave it that way.
Eyes: Pale bluish-gray
Hair: Platinum blonde, almost white; very short length, with bangs that merge into her hair on the sides to frame her face. The ending strands are longer than her general body of hair and reach to her chin; her general body of hair is cut in many layers and comes to the middle of her cheek, just below her cheekbone
Face: She has a high forehead, small chin, protruding cheekbones, an oval/heart-shaped face
General Body Type: She's extremely thin and lanky with a lot of lean muscle, sometimes looks almost emaciated. She doesn't have much of a figure to speak of, unless you count protruding hip-bones. She has fair skin.
Clothing: She generally wears tight, stretchy attire that can form to her shape, whatever it may be. Her clothes are often full of patches, sewing and/or holes.
Powers: Plain and simple cell manipulation. She is able to manipulate, regenerate, create, control, and destroy any cell in her body. With this power, she can do things like force her bones out of her body by creating more to take up the space, even withdraw them entirely, as well as reshape them and her organs, rearrange all of her insides to bend into fantastic shapes while able to carry on life processes. Because of her rapid regeneration, she is able to recreate her organs, bones, and skin in an instant. However, she could only regenerate body parts if at least one cell was left to "clone," in a way. Such as, she could create more cells from the existing ones to regenerate her liver if most of it remained intact, but couldn't create a new one if the old one was ripped out. Now, her bones are many times more dense than the bones of a regular human and are extremely strong--almost impossible to break except by her own doing. Part of this is explained by the ability for her to retain intense amounts of calcium, phosphorus, boron, and vitamin D. Why her cells do this is unknown, but could possibly be an evolutionary trait. It is also due to the packing of cells in her bones that make them many times more dense than a normal human, due to the fact she uses her bones as a defense and attack system.
Weakness: She is a hemophiliac, but that is unrelated to her powers and was contracted genetically. Sharp objects really aren't her friends. Ironic.
Power related issues: Her skin is extremely thin because of the constant regeneration of the cells (those cells aren't intensely fortified like her bones), and breaks easily. She endures blood loss whenever a bone breaks her skin or a vessel inside her body, which causes obvious problems.
Personality: She isn't exactly a warm person. Once a true idealist, she has given up on the possibility of a better world and has become extremely cynical and hardened. She doesn't make friends very easily and prefers to keep to herself, because she sees everyone as being superficial and unchangeably, evilly human on the inside. She despises self-righteousness and people who think their actions are for the good of mankind, because she feels that selflessness is impossible, and the person exhibiting it always has some kind of ulterior motive for self-benefit. She stresses the eye blink that is the human life, and how no matter how much one does in their life they will always end in the same place: death. She treasures cold, hard, intelligence close to her own. Dementia often feels like she has the superior, enlightened mind because she is able to see the futility of human actions, the fallacy of emotions and happiness, and the evil that lurks in the hearts of every human.
History: Dementia was born as Sophie Devereux to a rich family in France. Her father was a politically-minded entrepreneur who owned a string of international, five-star hotels, and her mother was the daughter of a renowned Polish heart surgeon who had retired years ago due to a long-running disorder in the family that was carefully covered up from the press: schizophrenia. During her pregnancy with Sophie, her mother fell into a state of psychosis. She was put into a mental institution after birth.
Dementia lived as Sophie Devereux with her father for only four years. She had a hard childhood--her father was never home, she didn't get along well with other children, and she had a mind of her own. Her social life was so terrible, that she in fact was able to realize her powers after a child pushed her off of a tall jungle gym, and she snapped her elbow on one of the metal bars, breaking her arm and sending the bone through her skin. When she arrived at the hospital, the doctors found that the bone had regrown at record speed, merging into the one that protruded through her arm so that it was in a strange Y shape. It ended up having to be cut off with a powerful electric saw. After finally heading back to school after receiving hours of unwanted attention from curious doctors, her father pushed for her to be sent back to school. The very same day she returned, she was detained by the counselor and sent home for blindfolding, binding, and gagging the boy who had pushed her off the jungle gym and lock him in a closet she had somehow learned to pick with her finger bones. At this point, her father didn't know what to do and feared he couldn't properly care for the child. Her mood was darkening by the second, and she showed symptoms of early depression. Distraught and unsure, Sophie's father sent her to live with her maternal grandparents back in Poland to insure she would receive the best care possible. He had no idea about her grandfather's mental disorder.
Life in Poland for Sophie was not exactly the best experience of her life. She lived in an ultra-traditional family with an insane grandfather and an old-world grandmother who believed that Sophie was the sole cause of her daughter's psychosis and the progressively worsening state of her grandfather, that was actually due to Alzheimer's and the deterioration of his brain. She also claimed that Sophie was possessed by the devil, and that's what caused her uncanny ability as well as her evil tendencies. Every month, her grandmother would try to exorcise the "demons" from her body with a new ritual. At this house, she ceased being called her birth name and was given the name Dementia by her grandmother to reflect what she felt she had caused; she also assumed the surname of her grandparents.
Still, Dementia, being a woman, was educated by her grandmother in the tasks a woman should know how to perform well: cooking, cleaning, etiquette, singing, dancing, and sewing. Her grandmother also believed that the more she occupied herself with "pure" tasks such as these, the more the devil would be unable to stay in her body.
Dementia wasn't allowed to go to school to be with other children, nor do any sort of online home school program, because her grandmother thought modern technology was evil. She was barely even allowed to go out of the house. Her father sent her textbooks and tests by mail in order to make sure that she was receiving a good schooling. However, she was allowed to go to the library to supplement the core courses that the textbooks her father sent her covered. Being miserable at home, she practically lived there and got lost in its myriad of books.
Dementia spent most of her time reading on philosophy and human nature, and it is assumed that she got much of her world view from the ideas she absorbed from the authors that so influenced her. She looked up to them as the epitome of knowledge. She ceased writing letters to her father and spent her time completely engulfed in her reading.
Her father, meanwhile, was worried about the conditions that she lived in, especially when she stopped writing. He discovered the insanity of her grandfather and worried for her own well-being, though in reality he was barely ever around. He learned of the boarding school at Cassis sent her here to meet people endowed with their own unique abilities and possibly alleviate her mood.
