Genosha App
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huntsthehuntersPLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Dorian
AGE: 21
PREFERRED PRONOUN: "He/him/his"
EMAIL ADDRESS: dorianisms@gmail.com
AIM USERNAME: dorianisms
PLURK: nope
OTHER CHARACTERS: nope (but am apping Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls as well)
DID YOU RESERVE? yup
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Helena Bertinelli
ALIAS: Huntress
CANON: DC Comics (pre-new 52)
AGE: 31
GENDER: Lady
OCCUPATION: History/Italian teacher, sometime vigilante
AU BACKGROUND: Helena Bertinelli had an idyllic childhood for eight years. She was born and raised in a wealthy Italian Catholic family in Gotham City, New Jersey. Old money, as far as she knew (or thought about it, which wasn't much--she was after all at an age where her most pressing concern was whether she could talk dad into getting her a pony). This all changed very abruptly when, about six months after her eighth birthday, a pair of gunmen broke into her family's house as they were sitting down to dinner, and shot every last one of them in cold blood--except Helena herself. Compounding the trauma was the fact that this incident served as a trigger for her latent empathic mutant powers, meaning she felt the emotions of her entire family as they were slaughtered.
After this event she was shipped off to Sicily to be raised by her aunt and uncle (and their son, Sal). Unbeknownst to his parents, Sal began teaching Helena how to use the weaponry stored in the family barn, as a way to help her feel more secure and ease her (empathy-amplified) nightmares. By the time she was in her late teens she was proficient in both unarmed combat and the use of a crossbow, as well as having at least passing familiarity with most other common weaponry. As her adolescence continued she also began developing her empath powers, though in secret--she had the vague sense they were something her family wouldn't want to know about.
Helena went to university to study history, and found herself drawn to specifically the history of the mafia (the university in Palermo having the best Mafia Studies program in the world). It was there that she discovered her own family were an infamous mob presence, both in Sicily and back in the United States. Once she knew, much of her childhood made a lot more sense--Sal had been careful to shelter her from the worst of her family's doings. Her putting the pieces together thanks to her education coincided with a widespread police crackdown on the mob presence in Sicily, a crackdown that led to Sal and his parents being arrested. Without a place to live once she finished school, she used her newly-received inheritance (it had been held in trust until she turned 21) to return to Gotham, where she began work both as a teacher and as a costumed vigilante--taking the name Huntress and tracking down the truth about what happened to her parents all those years ago.
Fast forward through working with Barbara Gordon, run-ins with Batman, etc. Where we deviate from comics canon is after the events of Cry For Blood. In DC canon, Helena doesn't technically kill the man who ordered the hit on her family all those years ago. Certainly he dies and she potentially could have prevented it, but she doesn't violate the code of the Bat and so is (tentatively) welcome to continue working in Gotham.
Not so this time. Helena tracks down her family's killer (a former friend of theirs, fellow mob bigwig, and her biological father), and she kills him. Knowing she's not going to be welcome in Gotham any longer, she flees for the one place she knows to be accepting of mutants with questionable pasts--Genosha.
PERSONALITY: ohoho HOO boy. Helena has trust and anger issues, to put it mildly. She is torn up because of her family's death, but she hates the Mafia on principle and by extension knows her father in particular probably did a lot of things that would, by her own moral code, mean he deserved to die. She is in general not opposed to killing the "bad guys", an attitude that's got her in trouble with the Batman, Gotham's main moral authority for costumed heroes, more than once--a fact she doesn't really give a shit about, or at least pretends not to (privately, his respect would mean a lot to her, but she's not willing to sacrifice her beliefs for it). She's deeply religious and proudly identifies with her heritage as a Sicilian--the years she spent there were the best of her life, and felt right in a way nothing really has before or since. She's ruthless, but controlled, except when it comes to people hurting kids or women--nothing else pushes her rage buttons quite like that, and it's led to her doing things she probably otherwise wouldn't have (though she doesn't regret them, exactly--people who abuse kids don't really deserve to keep all their teeth, right?). She can be deeply compassionate about the people she cares about, although it's difficult to gain entry to that elite group (unless you are a child; children earn their place by default)--her empathy powers mean that she knows what it's like to be hurting, and if she cares about someone she will stop at very little to protect them from that.
APPEARANCE: Longish, black hair. Dark skin for a white person, as is often the case with Sicilians (though she wouldn't usually be mistaken for nonwhite). She wears very fancy clothes--why not, she can afford them--and a small silver crucifix. She's tall and lean; well-muscled, but people don't usually notice right away because of how femininely she presents. Her makeup is always impeccable and she wears heels that are high enough to be fashionable but low enough to not impede her movement too dramatically.
POWERS: Empathy-based! She can feel others' emotions and has been able to since she was a small child. Starting in her late teens when her powers began to intensify, she discovered she can also to a limited extent influence people's emotions--not to the extent of controlling them, but she can push someone from irritation to anger, or disappointment to tears.
RP SAMPLE: Helena flicked her hair back from her face, a little irritably. It was about time to get it cut, but with midterm season right around the corner--plus her night job--she hadn't had the downtime to go to her preferred salon. She had an appointment for the spring break, she'd have to hold out until then. She shuffled the papers on her desk into a neat pile then tucked them into her bag as she straightened up with a sigh of relief. Finally, the weekend, and she'd have some time to relax. Well, if grading two dozen mediocre essays on the foundation of Genosha as an independent state counted as relaxing. At least she could do it in the bath.
Walking down the path from the classroom building to her apartment, she heard some sort of commotion from the field nearby. It was a little late for students to be doing anything legitimate....she had better look into it.
She passed a small copse of trees and entered a clearing where two upper-year girls--recent transfers, by the look of it--were menacing a younger kid. That one, she recognized. Sixth-grader, some completely inoffensive power--some of the bullies liked to prey on what they thought of as "easy pickings". At least until they learned what the teachers here were capable of. "Hey you two! Knock it off, yeah?"
The bigger of the two flipped her off, not even deigning to respond verbally. Definitely new girls...vafanculo! "I said cut it out!", Helena called again, setting her attache down on the ground next to her and subtly adjusting her stance.
----
Ten minutes later she picked up her case, dusted it off and walked over to the younger girl. "Everything all right? If those two bother you again, you just tell me, yeah?". She was rewarded by an enormous, orthodontia-augmented smile.
She took the hand of the child and began walking her toward the student dorms, as behind her the stunned (but unharmed) bullies reflected on how on earth the prissy history teacher got so good at hand-to-hand combat.
ANYTHING ELSE: nooooo
NAME: Dorian
AGE: 21
PREFERRED PRONOUN: "He/him/his"
EMAIL ADDRESS: dorianisms@gmail.com
AIM USERNAME: dorianisms
PLURK: nope
OTHER CHARACTERS: nope (but am apping Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls as well)
DID YOU RESERVE? yup
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Helena Bertinelli
ALIAS: Huntress
CANON: DC Comics (pre-new 52)
AGE: 31
GENDER: Lady
OCCUPATION: History/Italian teacher, sometime vigilante
AU BACKGROUND: Helena Bertinelli had an idyllic childhood for eight years. She was born and raised in a wealthy Italian Catholic family in Gotham City, New Jersey. Old money, as far as she knew (or thought about it, which wasn't much--she was after all at an age where her most pressing concern was whether she could talk dad into getting her a pony). This all changed very abruptly when, about six months after her eighth birthday, a pair of gunmen broke into her family's house as they were sitting down to dinner, and shot every last one of them in cold blood--except Helena herself. Compounding the trauma was the fact that this incident served as a trigger for her latent empathic mutant powers, meaning she felt the emotions of her entire family as they were slaughtered.
After this event she was shipped off to Sicily to be raised by her aunt and uncle (and their son, Sal). Unbeknownst to his parents, Sal began teaching Helena how to use the weaponry stored in the family barn, as a way to help her feel more secure and ease her (empathy-amplified) nightmares. By the time she was in her late teens she was proficient in both unarmed combat and the use of a crossbow, as well as having at least passing familiarity with most other common weaponry. As her adolescence continued she also began developing her empath powers, though in secret--she had the vague sense they were something her family wouldn't want to know about.
Helena went to university to study history, and found herself drawn to specifically the history of the mafia (the university in Palermo having the best Mafia Studies program in the world). It was there that she discovered her own family were an infamous mob presence, both in Sicily and back in the United States. Once she knew, much of her childhood made a lot more sense--Sal had been careful to shelter her from the worst of her family's doings. Her putting the pieces together thanks to her education coincided with a widespread police crackdown on the mob presence in Sicily, a crackdown that led to Sal and his parents being arrested. Without a place to live once she finished school, she used her newly-received inheritance (it had been held in trust until she turned 21) to return to Gotham, where she began work both as a teacher and as a costumed vigilante--taking the name Huntress and tracking down the truth about what happened to her parents all those years ago.
Fast forward through working with Barbara Gordon, run-ins with Batman, etc. Where we deviate from comics canon is after the events of Cry For Blood. In DC canon, Helena doesn't technically kill the man who ordered the hit on her family all those years ago. Certainly he dies and she potentially could have prevented it, but she doesn't violate the code of the Bat and so is (tentatively) welcome to continue working in Gotham.
Not so this time. Helena tracks down her family's killer (a former friend of theirs, fellow mob bigwig, and her biological father), and she kills him. Knowing she's not going to be welcome in Gotham any longer, she flees for the one place she knows to be accepting of mutants with questionable pasts--Genosha.
PERSONALITY: ohoho HOO boy. Helena has trust and anger issues, to put it mildly. She is torn up because of her family's death, but she hates the Mafia on principle and by extension knows her father in particular probably did a lot of things that would, by her own moral code, mean he deserved to die. She is in general not opposed to killing the "bad guys", an attitude that's got her in trouble with the Batman, Gotham's main moral authority for costumed heroes, more than once--a fact she doesn't really give a shit about, or at least pretends not to (privately, his respect would mean a lot to her, but she's not willing to sacrifice her beliefs for it). She's deeply religious and proudly identifies with her heritage as a Sicilian--the years she spent there were the best of her life, and felt right in a way nothing really has before or since. She's ruthless, but controlled, except when it comes to people hurting kids or women--nothing else pushes her rage buttons quite like that, and it's led to her doing things she probably otherwise wouldn't have (though she doesn't regret them, exactly--people who abuse kids don't really deserve to keep all their teeth, right?). She can be deeply compassionate about the people she cares about, although it's difficult to gain entry to that elite group (unless you are a child; children earn their place by default)--her empathy powers mean that she knows what it's like to be hurting, and if she cares about someone she will stop at very little to protect them from that.
APPEARANCE: Longish, black hair. Dark skin for a white person, as is often the case with Sicilians (though she wouldn't usually be mistaken for nonwhite). She wears very fancy clothes--why not, she can afford them--and a small silver crucifix. She's tall and lean; well-muscled, but people don't usually notice right away because of how femininely she presents. Her makeup is always impeccable and she wears heels that are high enough to be fashionable but low enough to not impede her movement too dramatically.
POWERS: Empathy-based! She can feel others' emotions and has been able to since she was a small child. Starting in her late teens when her powers began to intensify, she discovered she can also to a limited extent influence people's emotions--not to the extent of controlling them, but she can push someone from irritation to anger, or disappointment to tears.
RP SAMPLE: Helena flicked her hair back from her face, a little irritably. It was about time to get it cut, but with midterm season right around the corner--plus her night job--she hadn't had the downtime to go to her preferred salon. She had an appointment for the spring break, she'd have to hold out until then. She shuffled the papers on her desk into a neat pile then tucked them into her bag as she straightened up with a sigh of relief. Finally, the weekend, and she'd have some time to relax. Well, if grading two dozen mediocre essays on the foundation of Genosha as an independent state counted as relaxing. At least she could do it in the bath.
Walking down the path from the classroom building to her apartment, she heard some sort of commotion from the field nearby. It was a little late for students to be doing anything legitimate....she had better look into it.
She passed a small copse of trees and entered a clearing where two upper-year girls--recent transfers, by the look of it--were menacing a younger kid. That one, she recognized. Sixth-grader, some completely inoffensive power--some of the bullies liked to prey on what they thought of as "easy pickings". At least until they learned what the teachers here were capable of. "Hey you two! Knock it off, yeah?"
The bigger of the two flipped her off, not even deigning to respond verbally. Definitely new girls...vafanculo! "I said cut it out!", Helena called again, setting her attache down on the ground next to her and subtly adjusting her stance.
----
Ten minutes later she picked up her case, dusted it off and walked over to the younger girl. "Everything all right? If those two bother you again, you just tell me, yeah?". She was rewarded by an enormous, orthodontia-augmented smile.
She took the hand of the child and began walking her toward the student dorms, as behind her the stunned (but unharmed) bullies reflected on how on earth the prissy history teacher got so good at hand-to-hand combat.
ANYTHING ELSE: nooooo
