Post by Betty on May 22, 2011 20:47:12 GMT -7
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Codename: Siren
Legal Name: Alessandra Marie Corleone
Alias(es): None
Nickname(s): Alessa
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Codename: Siren
Legal Name: Alessandra Marie Corleone
Alias(es): None
Nickname(s): Alessa
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 58 kg
Ethnicity: Caucasian, Italian.
Hair Color: Dark Chestnut Brown
Eye Color: Green
General Appearance:
Alessa is small of stature and small of build. At barely over five and a half feet she’s not going to be intimidating anyone with her size anytime soon.She has a prominent waistline and hourglass shape, sometimes accented by corsets and bodices. She is not overly endowed, though she does fill out a C cup rather nicely. She tends to accentuate her feminine wiles by dressing in form fitting clothing. She has a very feminie dress style, often described as slightly rockabilly, with a trendy flair. Her wardrobe varies between dark and pastel colors, corsets and bodices, laces, satins and silks, but mostly consists of skirts and dresses, with the occasional pretty pant suit or flirty pair of jeans.
She has a round face, with defined cheekbones. Her lips are plump with a natural soft red coloring. She has almond shaped eyes of a dark green. Her naturally wavy hair is a dark chocolate brown and tends to vary in length from a cute little bob around her shoulders, to hanging a few inches past her shoulder blades. She usually lets it hang naturally, or puts it up in a half twist or something similar. She loves experimenting with different hairstyles.
She has surgical scarring on the left side of her hip. She also has a tattoo of a pair of wings that span her shoulder blades.
ABILITIES
Mutation: Alessa has the power of single to mass hypnosis using just her voice. She has but to speak for the effect to work, however when she sings the effect seems to be stronger and typically takes longer for the effect to wear off. Any mutants or people with a heightened sense of hearing tend to be affected the fastest, and remain affected the longest.
Her power seems to be especially effective on males, whom can often be described as 'drooling puppies' when under her ‘spell’. Some have personally described the feeling as an ‘unusual sense of longing or desire’; that they’d ‘do anything she asked of them.’ It is because of these sensations that she has been referenced to the Greek legend of the Sirens, and where her mutant name "Siren" came from.
Out of shame and fear of her power, she tends to feign deafness so she isn’t expected to speak. Even though these days she typically uses more sophisticated means of communication, such as a text-to-speech computer, she still has a tendency to speak in sign language.
Power Weaknesses: She has to actually be present or within ear shot for her powers to be effective. For instance, if she is speaking over a phone, tv, or recorded message, there would be no effect on the listener. The same applies if she were to speak into a microphone; only those who could hear her actual voice and not just the projected sound would be effected. Now, most of these are just hypothetical situations mind you.
Also, if someone has great mental fortitude or telepathic strength, they would obviously be able to resist the effect for a period of time, but eventually, if unable to stop her voice, anyone can fall under her trance.
Fighting Skills: She has been trained in martial arts and several forms of swordfighting, including, but not limited to, kujitsu, jian and fancing, among several others. She is a practitioner of Tai Chi and Judo, in addition to some skill in Kung fu.
Alessa has a natural swiftness due to her small size, but no way does she even come close to any sort of super human speed. She depends more on evasion and defense, than confrontation and offense.
Physical Weaknesses: She broke her hip after an accident when she was twelve and that was when the martial arts and Tai Chi training came into play as a form of physical therapy; they just also had the added bonus of teaching her to fight and defend herself! The pain in her hip does flair up unexpectedly from time to time, especially when it’s cold or raining. Sometimes she still has to walk with a cane.
Other Skills: Apart from English, she speaks fluent Italian and French. She also knows two different forms of sign language; American Sign Language and Italian Sign Language. She also plays the harp. (To many peoples surprise cause they assume her deaf.)
RANKINGS
Feeble - No training or ability
Poor - Normal human ability
Typical - Natural ability; minimal training
Good - Some formal training
Excellent - Regular, formal training
Remarkable - Superior talent
Fantastic - Master of a form
Incredible - Extensive Training, Master of a form
Spectacular - Master of several forms
Amazing - Maximum human potential
Sensational - Enhanced Human potential, Extensive Experience
Monstrous - Superhuman potential
Awesome - Metahuman Potential, master of all racial and related forms
Unearthly - Superhuman with intensive training
Fighting: Combat ability, whether through training or due to natural ability.
• Swordfighting/Fencing: Spectacular: Master of several forms – She is formidable in several forms of swordplay; from Japanese Kendu/Kenjutsu(which is her most fluent form) to Classical Fencing. The cane she often carries is, in fact, a sword in disguise.
• Tai Chi/Martial Arts – Excellent: Regular, formal training – she is adept in martial arts and hand to hand combat, but she still has much she can learn.
Agility: Flexibility, balance, coordination, and reflexes.
• Remarkable: Superior talent - She is very quick, flexible and highly reflexive; mainly due to her training and small size.
Strength: Physical muscle power and brute force.
• Poor: Press up to 100 pounds – She can hold or lift her own weight if she has too, but typically she can barely press 90 pounds. She tends to rely on speed, reflexes and pressure spots and weak points of attack to disable an opponent.
Endurance: Constitution, aerobic fortitude, physical toughness, fitness
• Remarkable: Intensive exercise - She maintains an exercise and aerobic regimen among regular training and Tai Chi exercises.
Reason: Ability to think logically; intellect; learning.
• Fantastic: Multiple disciplinary, advanced degrees – She graduated from college with honors. She has two Masters degrees in the study of languages and education. She is continually seeking to better herself. She has a great thirst for knowledge.
Intuition: Intuitive, deductive reasoning, instinct, perception
• Good: Above-average intuition - She can usually sense when something bad is about to happen, which is why she tends to trust and follow her gut more than anything.
Psyche: Resolve, willpower, strength of focus; susceptibility to mental control or dominance.
• Good: Can resist ordinary mesmerism - Due to her practices in Tai Chi and in meditation, she has developed a bit of mental defense against minor telepathic attacks and intrusions. She can sense or feel when a psychic is trying to read her mind, but she is not quite yet capable of blocking them out. She needs further instruction on building up her mental walls.
Resources: Financial solvency, means and wealth
• Good: Professional, middle class - She works as an American Sign Language teacher at a local High School, as well as teaching a few pro-bono classes every week at a local school for deaf children. She also instructs a small class .
PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE
Sexual Orientation: Straight.
Personality: Alessa has a carefree and somewhat flighty type of personality. She’s intelligent, but tends to act like she’s not, excepting when she’s teaching. Some might call her free-spirited, others might call her nauseating.
Though, she does have a few unpleasant and dark memories from her past and childhood, she has strived hard at overcoming them and tries to look towards the lighter and brighter aspects of life.
She's always ready with a smile for whoever needs one, firmly believing that they are highly contagious; especially her 1000 watt smile. Some have called her disgustingly happy, and she likes to take that as a compliment. There is little else in life that can bring more enjoyment to her than actually enjoying life; taking the bad with the good and just living; which is what she strives to do.
She truly enjoys the simple things in life, like a fine cigar and a cold beer, and tries to take time to enjoy them. Sometimes she can find her life to be a little difficult at times, for she leads somewhat of a double life; the deaf but peppy High School teacher and the skilled and empowered mutant.
Though, she’s heard rumours about a group of mutants who not only serve to fight against those who abuse their powers against humanity and other mutants, but this group also protects the humans that are so against them. Such groups have always intrigued and fascinated her, but she has yet to make contact with any of them... Yet being the operative word. She doesn’t quite know where to even begin to try to find them...
Psychological Weaknesses: Due to a few traumatizing incidents in her childhood, Allessa has become a bit of a hydrophobic and climacophobic; in other words, she has a horrendous fear of water and stairs. Her home is only one story tall, and if given a choice, she will take an elevator over the stairs any day. If she were in a place where stairs were the only option to get where she needed to be, she just might simply choose to not go at all, or even try to scale the building as opposed to using the stairs. Damn the consequences. Sometimes she has to take medication, mainly to prevent unexpected panic attacks and such.
She tends to look for, and believe in the best of people, and this at times can make her a little TOO trusting.
Goals: Find a way to control her power. Further her language studies and travel abroad. And although it sounds sappy, she does hope one day to fall in love and start a family.
LEGAL INFO
Date of Birth: 16.01.1972
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Citizenship: United States of America.
Legal Status: Non-criminal. Previous ward of the state from ages 12 to 18.
Marital Status: Single
Base of Operations: Manhattan, New York
Affilliations: Teachers Association of New York
Education: MEd – Masters in Education, focusing on sign language and special needs children. And she has a BA in Language Studies.
Occupation: High School Teacher; Sign Language, and Italian.
Former Occupation(s): She worked part time at a floral and garden shop all through high school. Then, in college she took up the harp and played for small wages and tips in a snazzy five-star Hotel lounge.
EQUIPMENT
Costume: She doesn’t wear it that often, but it consists of a full length, sleeveless body suit. Most would think she’d have chosen leather but she opted for something more breathable and maneuverable. The black body suit she wears is made from a stretchy cotton, almost jean type material and it buttons up the middle as opposed to a zipper. Over the suit she sometimes wears a red corset and the ensemble is always accompanied by a black ankle length trench coat, knee high combat boots and fingerless riding gloves.
Equipment:
• Handheld Text-to-Speech PDA.
• Hidden sword cane.
• Samurai sword.
Transportation: She rides an old Russian Minsk she bought for a couple hundred bucks when she was a teenager. She’s learned to fix it up over the years by herself.
CONTACTS
Contacts: Old foster family.
Relatives: Cousins; Michael and Cassidy(they live in Italy.)
Enemies: None that she’s aware of.
HISTORY
Alessandra’s mother, Cara, was one of those Italian women who happily chose to give up her career to become a full time mother and housewife. Her father, Daamon, did not argue, though he would never hinder his wife’s decision should she choose to go back to school or to work. Alessa was born in Rome where she lived for two years until her father’s job sent them to America, New York to be precise. Alessa had a fairly normal childhood; loving parents, family, friends, three home cooked meals a day. Everything seemed almost perfect... So according to Murphy’s Law, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise when everything changed for the worse... At the age of six, Alessandra’s father suffered a fatal heart attack. Neither her nor her mother would ever be the same. With the death of her husband, Cara lost herself in a deep state of depression, binge drinking and drug experimentation. Daamon’s tragic death would also scare Alessa’s voice away and it would not return until some years later...
The following year, on the anniversary of Daamon’s death, Cara had come home slobbering drunk, and doped out of her mind. She sloppily went about her normal nightly duties, even down to giving Alessa a bath. In her state of intoxication and depression, however, the unthinkable happened when she attempted to drown Alessa in the tub. Cara managed to come to her senses before it was too late, pulling Alessa from the water amidst heart wrenching sobs and apologies... Though, this was an event that Alessa would eventually block out of her memories, never remembering it happened, when she’s around standing water she is prone to sudden, unexpected panic-induced flashbacks.
This tragedy would spur Cara to clean up her act, literally and figuratively. She went to meetings; rehab; the works. She even went back to school to finish the nursing degree she’d started before she got married. For a while they seemed like they would be ok. Alessa still wouldn’t speak a word, but both her and her mother began learning sign language together. It acted not only as a form of communication, but deep bonding between the two.
It wasn’t until James Sullivan came into their life that drama and tragedy would rear its ugly, and familiar head. Jim was a buyer on Wall Street; good career, finely dressed, pleasant to be around, well mannered, stable, clean... Cara was smitten and completely overwhelmed that such an amazing man would be interested in her; a 30-year-old, widowed RNA with a mute, ten year old daughter as baggage. Cara and Jim had a year long courtship before he proposed, where soon after the girls moved into his penthouse apartment in Manhattan.
It only took a few meager weeks after their nuptials for the real James Sullivan to make himself known. Jim turned out to be one of those men that needed to be in constant control of everything. He was always right, even when he was wrong, and he grew violent if told otherwise. He had to be in control; even of other people’s lives. It started with him making Cara quit her job at the hospital, then by sending Alessa to a ‘special’ school, even though she wasn’t a special needs child. Any argument or opposition, however, was met with beatings and threats of even greater violence. So, Alessa would attend St. Josephine’s School for Special Children. After only one quarter in attendance, however, the school contacted her parents for a conference, which Jim assumed the worst and boiled over in anger directed at his wife.
In this conference they questioned Cara and Jeff’s reasons for enrolling Alessa in their school. For all the teachers could find wrong with Alessa was that she didn’t speak, which was not a handicap in her case for she knew how to communicate very well by other means; sign language, writing, etc. In fact, they found Alessa to be quite an intelligent child. They even recommended enrolling her in one of their sister schools, an advanced preparatory academy. Jeff was terse the entire meeting, but not wanting to give his ‘darker’ tendencies away or raise suspicion with the sisters, he said they would consider it. Cara had her head down and said nothing almost the entire time.
When they brought Alessa home that night, the events following would alter her life forever.
(To be continued… Work in Progress…)