player information ● name: Deanna ● age: 30 ● contact: PMs mostly, plurk is rainbowbles, but it's rarely used ● other characters: None
character information ● name: Mantis ● canon: Guardians of the Galaxy MCU ● canon point: End of Vol. 2 ● age: Mid-20’s-ish (I’m supposing, she was once a larva)
● abilities: She has empathic abilities, allowing to her to sense and even feel the emotions of those she touches. Mantis also has the ability to alter the emotions of others via touch, including the inducement of sleep, or compliance, but her powers have limits and are only temporary. She is also hardy in terms of an ability to withstand injury and maintain balance.
● strengths: Aside from the previously mentioned abilities, Mantis possess a certain (somewhat newly discovered) moral strength of character, and a strong desire to learn and grow beyond the rather isolated life she has thus far lived. She is generally non-threatening, if that could be considered a strength, and very forgiving. Mantis is also usually willing to capitulate to most any authority figure or authoritative figure in her vicinity (though this can of course be a double-edged sword). In general, she’s pretty delighted with any new experience (which is a lot of them), and eager to be helpful. ● weaknesses: Mantis is shy and completely socially unexperienced, as well as unexperienced with any world outside of the planet she grew up on. As such she’s prone to obliviousness and mistakes, and often the point has a tendency to escape her, but she makes a genuine effort. She’s not really the best at expressing herself verbally, and as the nature of her most-prominent abilities would suggest, Mantis can be pretty emotional.
● job skills (optional): She’s good at helping to calm minds and help people sleep? On the other hand, she’d probably be pretty terrifying as a counselor or a therapist. Is there a market for subduing people? She would totally offer sleep therapy sessions. That’s not creepy at all.
● network sample: good morning!!! i had very strange dreams and when i woke there were funny noises next door did the noises make the dreams? i wonder.. how were your dreams?
what is a hamster?
● prose/action sample: [There is a strange excitement vibrating through her, and Mantis lets loose an involuntary giggle and feels the wind whipping her hair back over her shoulders as she leans out over the edge of the balcony wall and stares down at the sea of greenery that engulfs everything. There is so much here, so many beings, so much life - real life – not the life Ego created for himself but true, organic life.
She finds it invigorating, surrounded by it all. So many people, feeling so many different things, and Mantis wants to feel them all. The head-rush of it all, the abundance of freedom and choices she now possesses is so far from what she has always known that Mantis can’t control the nervous, fluttery, nauseous feeling that accompanies it]
I might be sick! [she exclaims cheerfully to no one in particular, the sound of it somewhat drowned out by the rumble of a SkyTram speeding by. It is kind of a new feeling, and also one Mantis isn’t sure is entirely her own, but if she starts to question that, she might really be sick. She hardly knows what to do with herself, though she supposes, exploring would be a first step. She endeavors to meet at least one new person, and perhaps try not to get herself killed on her first day.]
Mantis | MCU - Guardians of the Galaxy | Not Reserved
● name: Deanna
● age: 30
● contact: PMs mostly, plurk is rainbowbles, but it's rarely used
● other characters: None
character information
● name: Mantis
● canon: Guardians of the Galaxy MCU
● canon point: End of Vol. 2
● age: Mid-20’s-ish (I’m supposing, she was once a larva)
● (canon) background: Here
● abilities: She has empathic abilities, allowing to her to sense and even feel the emotions of those she touches. Mantis also has the ability to alter the emotions of others via touch, including the inducement of sleep, or compliance, but her powers have limits and are only temporary. She is also hardy in terms of an ability to withstand injury and maintain balance.
● strengths: Aside from the previously mentioned abilities, Mantis possess a certain (somewhat newly discovered) moral strength of character, and a strong desire to learn and grow beyond the rather isolated life she has thus far lived. She is generally non-threatening, if that could be considered a strength, and very forgiving. Mantis is also usually willing to capitulate to most any authority figure or authoritative figure in her vicinity (though this can of course be a double-edged sword). In general, she’s pretty delighted with any new experience (which is a lot of them), and eager to be helpful.
● weaknesses: Mantis is shy and completely socially unexperienced, as well as unexperienced with any world outside of the planet she grew up on. As such she’s prone to obliviousness and mistakes, and often the point has a tendency to escape her, but she makes a genuine effort. She’s not really the best at expressing herself verbally, and as the nature of her most-prominent abilities would suggest, Mantis can be pretty emotional.
● job skills (optional): She’s good at helping to calm minds and help people sleep? On the other hand, she’d probably be pretty terrifying as a counselor or a therapist. Is there a market for subduing people? She would totally offer sleep therapy sessions. That’s not creepy at all.
● network username: mantis!
(exclamation included)
● network sample: good morning!!!
i had very strange dreams and when i woke there were funny noises next door
did the noises make the dreams? i wonder..
how were your dreams?
what is a hamster?
● prose/action sample:
[There is a strange excitement vibrating through her, and Mantis lets loose an involuntary giggle and feels the wind whipping her hair back over her shoulders as she leans out over the edge of the balcony wall and stares down at the sea of greenery that engulfs everything. There is so much here, so many beings, so much life - real life – not the life Ego created for himself but true, organic life.
She finds it invigorating, surrounded by it all. So many people, feeling so many different things, and Mantis wants to feel them all. The head-rush of it all, the abundance of freedom and choices she now possesses is so far from what she has always known that Mantis can’t control the nervous, fluttery, nauseous feeling that accompanies it]
I might be sick! [she exclaims cheerfully to no one in particular, the sound of it somewhat drowned out by the rumble of a SkyTram speeding by. It is kind of a new feeling, and also one Mantis isn’t sure is entirely her own, but if she starts to question that, she might really be sick. She hardly knows what to do with herself, though she supposes, exploring would be a first step. She endeavors to meet at least one new person, and perhaps try not to get herself killed on her first day.]