Post by conduit on Jul 2, 2006 22:35:33 GMT -5
Name: Rayen Tandaka
Codename(s): Conduit
Affiliation: Mutant: No affiliation, undecided(potential X-men, will be appearing first on the Grounds)
Age: 23
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 155
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Appearance: Half Native American, half Japanese. The genetic mix makes her quite beautiful, caramel native color over more delicate asian features. Tall, slender, athletic build trained for endurance, agility, speed. Her black hair is straight, long, hanging to her hips. Depending on the utility of the situation she will wear it loose or pulled back in a single braid. Dresses very practically- jeans, well worn hiking boots, plain tshirts and a fading denim jacket.
Personality: Conduit is somber, serious, usually thinking about something she won't necessarily share. Even so, she is pleasant if there is time for pleasantries. Conduit usually has a place to go or something to accomplish when she is seen, and little will distract her from her task for long. Few have had the opportunity to discover it, but Rayen is a caring individual who has a soft spot for misfit types. She does not believe in good or evil, or for that matter, right and wrong- instead carrying a deep faith in individual choice, and invidiual responsibility.
Powers and Abilities:
Electrokinesis. Conduit can absorb, control, and intensify electricity. She retains no injuries from this contact, no matter the amount of electricity she absorbs, but can become fatigued if high wattage is involved.
Absorb: By touching or drawing electrical current towards her, she is able to pass that current out of her body once more. Small amounts may be retained, increasing Conduit's stamina for a brief time. Large amounts will exit her body, either under her control or via the easiest path.
Control: Electricity absorbed can be directed out of her body in current form. Generally this occurs through hands or fingers, but the current will take the easiest path if no path is consciously chosen. Current leaving her body will affect objects and creatures as normal: electrical burns, shock to biological systems(both positive and negative), electrical fires in overloaded mechanical systems, recharged batteries, etc. Weaker wattage is easy to control but difficult to pass through the system unless intensified. Stronger wattage will pass through the body quickly but is more difficult to control. Current will pass in an unconscious state but cannot be controlled.
Intensify: Conduit is capable of multiplying the wattage of a given current by a certain, static, percentage- small amounts become medium amounts, medium amounts become large amounts, etc etc. Consequently very high watts become dangerous very quickly. Alternately, she is capable of muting restricted amounts of current to little or nothing- but again, this is limited only to weak currents that are easy to control.
Disadvantages: Some absorption of current is beyond Conduit's control. Great sources of electrical current will become affected by Conduit's mutant nature. For example, coming within twenty yards of a hydroelectric turbine, central power station, or nuclear reactor will draw current through her body involuntarily. In these circumstances the current will as well be very difficult, though not impossible, to control. She will act like a lightning rod in a storm, the chances of her being hit are quite high, but due to the unpredictable nature of lightning it is nearly impossible to control as it exists her body.
Alternately, weaker sources of electrical current that come in direct contact with her skin- holding a flashlight, medical monitoring devices attached to the skin, touching a table lamp- will find themselves drained of a certain percentage of power. Conduit is unable to get a CD to run in a walkman she's wearing, cannot run an electric coffee grinder, or operate a vacuum cleaner. Unlike the phenomenon with high watts, however, she is easily able to overcome this draining quality by controlling the current and continuing the circuit via her body- so long as she is conscious in order to do so.
Limitations: Conduit's electrokinesis is limited to the control of existing electrical current. She cannot produce electricity on her own. Once current has passed out of her body, if it has left a circuit, she will have no further control over it. If it passes back into a circuit, she will retain control. She is unable to direct electricity in any other manner than to draw it into herself and direct it out once more. She would not, for example, be capable of forcing electricity out of a light socket and across the room to hit someone. It would have to be drawn into herself and then directed at the target.
Weaknesses: Normal human frailties. The disadvantages of her mutant power seem hefty enough.
History: Rayen Tandaka was born the daughter of an extremely wealthy casino owner and the Japanese trophy wife he met on vacation in Osaka. The child was two months premature, and spent quite a time in the intensive care ward hooked up to a variety of life sustaining machinery. It was never determined why during those four months in the preemie unit they had trouble with brown outs and shorts in the equipment. Eventually Rayen was ready to go home, much to the relief of the hospital who greatly feared disappointing one of the richest and most ruthless men in the city.
Their daughter was born within the first year of their marriage, but already there was trouble. Miyama Tandaka was an impressively intelligent woman, meant for a life far richer intellectually than financially. She resented the expectation to sit at home when she wasn’t shopping, socializing with other high-priced wives or on her husband’s arm.
Most of Rayen’s young life was spent with her mother, rarely seeing the unreasonably callous Mr. Tandaka but for certain nights they would spend as a ‘family’. Rarer still did she see her half brother Bandero, who seemed to resent his stepmother and the new child.
When Rayen was five years old, her mother left her standing in the lobby of her father’s casino, returning to Osaka. Rayen would never see her mother again. Her father only shunned her for being a reminder of the wife he had lost, so she learned to explore their large house under the care of a hired nanny.
Bandero, now 15, took sympathy on his abandoned half sister, and did his best to come around a few times a week to play with her or show her various things he was working on. One day he took her to the casino, down to the basement level where he’d been exploring the technology that kept the lights and water fountains and security systems running smoothly. It was a huge room with boxes of circuitry from floor to ceiling, and he opened up the cases, telling her how all of them worked. Rayen leaned back against one cabinet, listening intently, just happy he was spending time with her.
As Bandero turned to go he reached back to take her hand. The moment their fingers touched a band of electrical current nearly as wide as Rayen’s small body coursed through the center of her chest, knocking her head back against the aluminum cabinet. The current passed through her body at several points, jumping from her to Bandero- her older brother watched as white-blue electricity shot from her eyes, her shoulders, her fingertips. Rayen’s vision goes white just before she passes out, crumpling to the concrete floor of the basement.
Rayen woke up in a hospital bed, feeling fine. The doctor said it was a miracle she was alive. Her father was there, looking for the first time a little concerned whether she lived or died. Bandero was nowhere to be seen.
She wasn’t allowed to see much of her older brother from then on, and when he left to join the army she got little more than a hug and a goodbye.
Life went on as normal until the summer of her 16th year. Spending time with her friends in the city, she started to notice she was having car trouble. It didn’t seem to matter WHICH car she was in, the starter would stall or the lights would dim unpredictably. She couldn’t get any of the television remotes in the house to work. The refrigerator shorted out the moment she opened the door- it was one thing after another. She didn’t tell anyone about the odd occurrences.
One night while wandering through a park with her friends, they walked beneath an electrical tower. Rayen electrocuted a group of 12 teenagers, and in a panic, ran for her life.
With her mind in a whirl of fear and confusion, she ran through the city trying to get home. Undisciplined and frightened, stop lights crackled and burst as she hit the crosswalk button. Neon signs flickered to black, her fingertips tingling with unspent energy. She could see the electricity drawing to her from every direction, and thought for sure she would explode.
Running through her front door, she flipped the light switch.
Shortly after the destruction of the city’s power grid was blamed on tampering by the teenagers found near the electrical tower, Rayen received a message from Xavier. He invited her to come to the school. By then Rayen was too terrified to turn on the tv, let alone leave her house for some unknown locale. After a few days of thinking it over, Rayen left the city, and was never heard from again.
She went to her family's reservation lands, lived with people who knew her father, and mostly stayed away from all things electrical until she was convinced to at least give it a try. It took her years of work to learn to control current in a way that prevented her being a danger from others.
Sample post:
My Mosaneh taught me- you can blame the spirits for making you do something bad. But you can only blame yourself for letting them.
So I have learned to control them, the city spirits. I have learned how to invite them in and how to make them go again. I taught myself the things Mosaneh could not- about their home, circuits, wires, generators. I have managed not to do any further harm. Though harm… means different things, to different people.
“So you are going back,” the old man says. I have known him since I was a young, frightened girl, running away from the city to my father’s reservation. He is a hero here, but they do not understand. Mosaneh understands.
“I am going to find the school,” I say, packing extra clothes into a backpack. “You disagree?”
”No… I think you should find these people that are like you. Maybe if you make peace with them, you can make peace with your father.”
I look back at him, trying not to seem angry. It’s been years since I could be that disrespectful. “I will never make peace with my father.”
Mosaneh nods. “If you don’t wish for peace, then you won’t have it.” I know what he is saying but I don’t want to listen. It’s been years, too, since I’ve shut my ears to my elders.
I slip the pack over one shoulder and go to him, kiss his wrinkled cheek. “Thank you, teacher,” I say, and smile. “I’ll be back, I’m not sure when. But I will come back.”
He nods, but I know he does not believe me. As I turn towards the door, I look back at him.
And then I am gone.
Screenname: conduit
Email: reineke dot avery at gmail.com
IMs: Yahoo: vulpinist
RP Experience: Primarily white wolf world of darkness, LARP 9 years, MAFF vampire, changeling, freeform fantasy RP 5 years, journal-based fanfic 3 years.
Codename(s): Conduit
Affiliation: Mutant: No affiliation, undecided(potential X-men, will be appearing first on the Grounds)
Age: 23
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 155
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Appearance: Half Native American, half Japanese. The genetic mix makes her quite beautiful, caramel native color over more delicate asian features. Tall, slender, athletic build trained for endurance, agility, speed. Her black hair is straight, long, hanging to her hips. Depending on the utility of the situation she will wear it loose or pulled back in a single braid. Dresses very practically- jeans, well worn hiking boots, plain tshirts and a fading denim jacket.
Personality: Conduit is somber, serious, usually thinking about something she won't necessarily share. Even so, she is pleasant if there is time for pleasantries. Conduit usually has a place to go or something to accomplish when she is seen, and little will distract her from her task for long. Few have had the opportunity to discover it, but Rayen is a caring individual who has a soft spot for misfit types. She does not believe in good or evil, or for that matter, right and wrong- instead carrying a deep faith in individual choice, and invidiual responsibility.
Powers and Abilities:
Electrokinesis. Conduit can absorb, control, and intensify electricity. She retains no injuries from this contact, no matter the amount of electricity she absorbs, but can become fatigued if high wattage is involved.
Absorb: By touching or drawing electrical current towards her, she is able to pass that current out of her body once more. Small amounts may be retained, increasing Conduit's stamina for a brief time. Large amounts will exit her body, either under her control or via the easiest path.
Control: Electricity absorbed can be directed out of her body in current form. Generally this occurs through hands or fingers, but the current will take the easiest path if no path is consciously chosen. Current leaving her body will affect objects and creatures as normal: electrical burns, shock to biological systems(both positive and negative), electrical fires in overloaded mechanical systems, recharged batteries, etc. Weaker wattage is easy to control but difficult to pass through the system unless intensified. Stronger wattage will pass through the body quickly but is more difficult to control. Current will pass in an unconscious state but cannot be controlled.
Intensify: Conduit is capable of multiplying the wattage of a given current by a certain, static, percentage- small amounts become medium amounts, medium amounts become large amounts, etc etc. Consequently very high watts become dangerous very quickly. Alternately, she is capable of muting restricted amounts of current to little or nothing- but again, this is limited only to weak currents that are easy to control.
Disadvantages: Some absorption of current is beyond Conduit's control. Great sources of electrical current will become affected by Conduit's mutant nature. For example, coming within twenty yards of a hydroelectric turbine, central power station, or nuclear reactor will draw current through her body involuntarily. In these circumstances the current will as well be very difficult, though not impossible, to control. She will act like a lightning rod in a storm, the chances of her being hit are quite high, but due to the unpredictable nature of lightning it is nearly impossible to control as it exists her body.
Alternately, weaker sources of electrical current that come in direct contact with her skin- holding a flashlight, medical monitoring devices attached to the skin, touching a table lamp- will find themselves drained of a certain percentage of power. Conduit is unable to get a CD to run in a walkman she's wearing, cannot run an electric coffee grinder, or operate a vacuum cleaner. Unlike the phenomenon with high watts, however, she is easily able to overcome this draining quality by controlling the current and continuing the circuit via her body- so long as she is conscious in order to do so.
Limitations: Conduit's electrokinesis is limited to the control of existing electrical current. She cannot produce electricity on her own. Once current has passed out of her body, if it has left a circuit, she will have no further control over it. If it passes back into a circuit, she will retain control. She is unable to direct electricity in any other manner than to draw it into herself and direct it out once more. She would not, for example, be capable of forcing electricity out of a light socket and across the room to hit someone. It would have to be drawn into herself and then directed at the target.
Weaknesses: Normal human frailties. The disadvantages of her mutant power seem hefty enough.
History: Rayen Tandaka was born the daughter of an extremely wealthy casino owner and the Japanese trophy wife he met on vacation in Osaka. The child was two months premature, and spent quite a time in the intensive care ward hooked up to a variety of life sustaining machinery. It was never determined why during those four months in the preemie unit they had trouble with brown outs and shorts in the equipment. Eventually Rayen was ready to go home, much to the relief of the hospital who greatly feared disappointing one of the richest and most ruthless men in the city.
Their daughter was born within the first year of their marriage, but already there was trouble. Miyama Tandaka was an impressively intelligent woman, meant for a life far richer intellectually than financially. She resented the expectation to sit at home when she wasn’t shopping, socializing with other high-priced wives or on her husband’s arm.
Most of Rayen’s young life was spent with her mother, rarely seeing the unreasonably callous Mr. Tandaka but for certain nights they would spend as a ‘family’. Rarer still did she see her half brother Bandero, who seemed to resent his stepmother and the new child.
When Rayen was five years old, her mother left her standing in the lobby of her father’s casino, returning to Osaka. Rayen would never see her mother again. Her father only shunned her for being a reminder of the wife he had lost, so she learned to explore their large house under the care of a hired nanny.
Bandero, now 15, took sympathy on his abandoned half sister, and did his best to come around a few times a week to play with her or show her various things he was working on. One day he took her to the casino, down to the basement level where he’d been exploring the technology that kept the lights and water fountains and security systems running smoothly. It was a huge room with boxes of circuitry from floor to ceiling, and he opened up the cases, telling her how all of them worked. Rayen leaned back against one cabinet, listening intently, just happy he was spending time with her.
As Bandero turned to go he reached back to take her hand. The moment their fingers touched a band of electrical current nearly as wide as Rayen’s small body coursed through the center of her chest, knocking her head back against the aluminum cabinet. The current passed through her body at several points, jumping from her to Bandero- her older brother watched as white-blue electricity shot from her eyes, her shoulders, her fingertips. Rayen’s vision goes white just before she passes out, crumpling to the concrete floor of the basement.
Rayen woke up in a hospital bed, feeling fine. The doctor said it was a miracle she was alive. Her father was there, looking for the first time a little concerned whether she lived or died. Bandero was nowhere to be seen.
She wasn’t allowed to see much of her older brother from then on, and when he left to join the army she got little more than a hug and a goodbye.
Life went on as normal until the summer of her 16th year. Spending time with her friends in the city, she started to notice she was having car trouble. It didn’t seem to matter WHICH car she was in, the starter would stall or the lights would dim unpredictably. She couldn’t get any of the television remotes in the house to work. The refrigerator shorted out the moment she opened the door- it was one thing after another. She didn’t tell anyone about the odd occurrences.
One night while wandering through a park with her friends, they walked beneath an electrical tower. Rayen electrocuted a group of 12 teenagers, and in a panic, ran for her life.
With her mind in a whirl of fear and confusion, she ran through the city trying to get home. Undisciplined and frightened, stop lights crackled and burst as she hit the crosswalk button. Neon signs flickered to black, her fingertips tingling with unspent energy. She could see the electricity drawing to her from every direction, and thought for sure she would explode.
Running through her front door, she flipped the light switch.
Shortly after the destruction of the city’s power grid was blamed on tampering by the teenagers found near the electrical tower, Rayen received a message from Xavier. He invited her to come to the school. By then Rayen was too terrified to turn on the tv, let alone leave her house for some unknown locale. After a few days of thinking it over, Rayen left the city, and was never heard from again.
She went to her family's reservation lands, lived with people who knew her father, and mostly stayed away from all things electrical until she was convinced to at least give it a try. It took her years of work to learn to control current in a way that prevented her being a danger from others.
Sample post:
My Mosaneh taught me- you can blame the spirits for making you do something bad. But you can only blame yourself for letting them.
So I have learned to control them, the city spirits. I have learned how to invite them in and how to make them go again. I taught myself the things Mosaneh could not- about their home, circuits, wires, generators. I have managed not to do any further harm. Though harm… means different things, to different people.
“So you are going back,” the old man says. I have known him since I was a young, frightened girl, running away from the city to my father’s reservation. He is a hero here, but they do not understand. Mosaneh understands.
“I am going to find the school,” I say, packing extra clothes into a backpack. “You disagree?”
”No… I think you should find these people that are like you. Maybe if you make peace with them, you can make peace with your father.”
I look back at him, trying not to seem angry. It’s been years since I could be that disrespectful. “I will never make peace with my father.”
Mosaneh nods. “If you don’t wish for peace, then you won’t have it.” I know what he is saying but I don’t want to listen. It’s been years, too, since I’ve shut my ears to my elders.
I slip the pack over one shoulder and go to him, kiss his wrinkled cheek. “Thank you, teacher,” I say, and smile. “I’ll be back, I’m not sure when. But I will come back.”
He nods, but I know he does not believe me. As I turn towards the door, I look back at him.
And then I am gone.
Screenname: conduit
Email: reineke dot avery at gmail.com
IMs: Yahoo: vulpinist
RP Experience: Primarily white wolf world of darkness, LARP 9 years, MAFF vampire, changeling, freeform fantasy RP 5 years, journal-based fanfic 3 years.
