Post by Adele D'Alteau on Nov 28, 2009 12:33:43 GMT -5
Full Name: Zosime Maigny
Age: 79
Civilian or Special: Special
Brief Power Description: Florakinesis/Potency
Florakinesis: Zosime has the ability to affect the growth of plants or any other such matter that grows from the earth. He can cause plants and flowers to grow quickly and can bend them to his will, using them defensively or offensively as weapons (such as constricting a leafy vine around someone's neck or bending a tree branch to wallop someone in the head). For the most part, he uses his ability in a more passive sense around his garden in the south of France to maintain self-sufficiency by growing his own vegetables and selling flowers which he has grown. In his retirement, selling flowers has turned out to be quite a productive business.
Limits: In order to use the ability, he must have access to the plant through visual means. He cannot create plants out of thin air (i.e. make a vine whip grow from his hand or whatever). He cannot magically make plants grow from the earth. Despite his secondary ability, he needs to have access to seeds to make plants grow. Additionally, he cannot manipulate dead plant matter; the plant must be living and attached to the earth.
Potency: Zosime can also affect the potency of certain types of organic matter. With this ability, it is possible for him to make the already-existing elements in the ground more potent and more conducive to sustaining life. He can also use this ability to make various substances more potent, such as by increasing the potency of the alcohol in an alcoholic beverage (from beer to gin, for example).
Limits: Potency does not work on people. He cannot use this ability to affect the chemical levels in someone's mind. It can only be used on "inert" organic substances and chemicals. In order for him to access this ability, he must know what element needs to be made more potent (e.g. nitrogen in fertiliser) in order for the ability to affect anything. He must also have physical, hands-on contact with whatever it is that he is trying to make more potent. For example, if he is trying to make the ground more fertile for a flower to grow and wants to increase the level of nitrogen in the earth, he would need to place his hand on the earth he wished to make more potent.
Brief Description of Character: Zosime looks like a miserly, daunting figure, but in reality he is a very warm, forgiving person with a heart of gold. He always tries to aim to please, and will always put the needs of others high above his own. Zosime is a hard worker who has had to fight for mostly everything in his life, and has come out stronger for having done so.
He stands at about 1.65 m and is a bit portly and overweight due to a life full of good food and drink and insufficient exercise in his later years. His face is covered with wrinkles, and his nails are usually caked with dirt. His hands are calloused and look like a true workman's hands. Zosime's hair is thinning and gray with age, as is to be expected. But for an old man, he is still rather strong, and keeps up his strength by tilling his garden daily.
Brief Description of History: Zosime was born 78 years ago on 21 Dec. on a farm in the Alsatz-Lorraine region of France. Most of his formative and growing years were spent attending the local school and working on his parents’ farm. He joined the French Foreign Legion in his 20s, which was where he met his wife Marguerite who was working as a nurse at the time. He never went to university, but he did do a fair amount of seeing the world while in the service.
He was with the Legion in Algeria in 1954 where he was injured in the line of duty. He was hit in the arm with shrapnel which caused irreversible nerve damage and left him unable to properly handle a firearm. Due to his injury, he was discharged from the service and was allowed to return to civilian life.
Zosime married Marguerite soon after, and a year into their marriage, had a daughter whom they named Evelyn.
Currently lives in: Saint Tropez, France
How do they know your character: Zosime is Adele’s maternal grandfather.
Affiliated with: None
Celebrity Claim: Alan Arkin
