Post by Lilith on Jul 28, 2014 19:47:08 GMT -5
Lilith
Full Name: Lilitha “Lilith” Oakley
Age: 45
Civilian or Special: Special
Currently Located: Transient
Affiliated with: None
Celebrity Claim: Janssen, Famke
Relation to You: NPC
Lilith looks, and actually is, sweet enough. Although tall, she is not overpowering. Her smile is beautiful, and when she chooses to smile, there is a sort of uplifting quality to it, causing everyone around her to smile. Her initial appearance might give others pause - she has dark hair but bright eyes, and tends to wear dark clothing, and unconventional clothing at that, such as tall boots and cloaks. But she is approachable, and will gladly converse with you on any topic you wish. All while plotting to kill you, of course. She has an insatiable appetite for power, physical power, and since she can gain that power from your death, she would not hesitate to take a bit of life from you.
Death Energy Manipulation
In connection to her secondary ability, this allows Lilith to use the energy she gains from death and wield it as a weapon. Most often, she uses it in a form of decaying, stripping away at her opponents until they turn to muscle and bone and ash. She can also create energy beams, shields, projectiles, and constructs. This ability has grown much stronger with her secondary ability working in overdrive, collecting the deaths from the cholera outbreak, the famine riots, the battles, and other typical forms of death around her. Thanks to those, she is extremely powerful and can best just about any other ability. Using her ability does sap away at her own energy, however, and, although her increased power makes this less the case, she can only use this ability so far before she needs to rest. She also does have a limit to how far her ability to reach, which is currently about half a mile.
Death Empowerment
This ability is what drives Lilith and makes her what she is. It collects power from death and funnels it into her, fueling her. Any death will do, but disasters on mass scales are the most useful, as this ability can gather it all up at once. The limit here is also how far the ability can reach. This one is about a mile, which means Lilith must move quickly and be in the right places if she wants to use this ability effectively. Other than channelling into her primary, this ability cannot be used offensively or defensively.
A woman like Lilith should not have an ordinary background, but she does. She was born to a pair of fairly good parents, and was fairly good at schoolwork. Her younger years were quiet. In middle school, however, she fell on the wrong side of the popular crowd; her classmates began to call her “Lilith” instead of “Lilitha,” with the thought that Lilith was someone evil from the Bible. Rather than grow angry or defeated, Lilitha actually liked the name and took it on. From then on, whenever someone - preferably an under-grader - asked her name, she replied with “Lilith,” as long as her parents were not around.
High school should have been rough for Lilith, but she had already learned to ignore the pettiness around her. That actually gained her respect in many groups, including the popular crowd, and so she had very many friends of very many kinds. She did well enough that she graduated near the top of her class - thanks to some study help from her “geek” friends - and went to a nice enough college. A very ordinary childhood and very ordinary schooling.
She discovered her ability just after college. It started with plants; she could never grow any, and oftentimes, flowers died in her hands. She tried keeping goldfish but had the same problem. After April Fourth, she realized this must be some sort of ability, and began to experiment with it. A little death here and there, that no one ever noticed or guessed its cause. She felt herself growing stronger at those times, and she liked that feeling. She began to work on it more and more until she realized she could be caught by the police, who were investigating some of those deaths and starting to think it was the work of a Special. Those days, Specials had become the enemy, and she was not exactly looking to get arrested or support that idea.
However, as time passed, she figured out that the deaths did not have to be caused by her. She could work through intermediaries, or even just pick up on deaths near her. Plans began to hatch in her mind; growing from little schemes until she felt strong enough to start on her masterpiece: the decimation of an entire country. Specifically, the United States, her home country, and the most powerful in the world. She did like the challenge.
