Post by Adele D'Alteau on Nov 28, 2009 12:32:04 GMT -5
Full Name: Marguerite Maigny (nee Prideaux)
Age: 77
Civilian or Special: Special
Brief Power Description: Auma Manipulation
Auma Manipulation: By manipulating the energy field around a person, Marguerite is able to alter their emotions. She can make a sad person happy, a happy person angry, and so on. This ability has proven to be quite useful over the years while she was working as a nurse. Her ability also helps her to sense someone’s emotions so that she is able to diffuse potentially hazardous situations such as violent arguments.
Limits: Marguerite must be in close physical proximity to the person whose emotions she wishes to alter. This physical proximity is necessary for her to strike an emotional tie between her and her subject. While she does not necessarily need to be in physical contact in order for her ability to work, physical contact makes the effects of her ability more immediate.
Her ability is only temporary. She cannot take a suicidal person and make them happy for the rest of their life. She can make them feel better until they no longer feel suicidal, but after not being exposed to her for a while (figure a few days), the effects begin to wear off.
She cannot use her ability to persuade people, make people attracted to each other, or anything like that. Also, her ability doesn’t work on herself (i.e. if she’s upset, she can’t give herself a hug and make herself feel happy).
Brief Description of Character: Marguerite is a very genuine and warm person who feels that it is always in her best interests to keep her home open to others in need. She does her utmost to make people feel comfortable and necessary. Her personality is a bit bawdy and unconventional due to her brief stint in the film business where she was exposed to various strong characters. She has an optimistic outlook on life, and one cannot help but be happy around her.
She is 1.54 m tall (in heels), but has a personality that could fill a room from floor to ceiling. Marguerite’s hair alternates from dark brown to black depending on what she decides to colour it when her roots start showing. She is generally a very classy-looking lady, even when weeding the garden while wearing her gardening gloves, and being knee-deep in manure. Depending on where she is going, she tends to dress fairly casually, or in clothing that can take a beating such as denim jeans or thick cotton shirts.
Brief Description of History: Marguerite Prideaux was born on 13 May on her family’s dairy farm on the outskirts of Paris. Once she became a teenager and was able to more or less venture out on her own, she was quickly attracted to the lights and the life in Paris where she took up a brief career in starring in the black and white movies that were all the craze in the 1950s.
She soon grew bored with living the rather selfish life of being involved in the theatre industry and instead decided to become involved in the French Foreign Legion where she worked as a nurse. Her ability manifested while she was in the Legion serving in Algeria in 1954, which was also where she met Adele’s grandfather, Zosime.
Following Zosime’s release from the service due to an injury he’d suffered, the two of them married almost immediately once they returned to France and had a daughter whom they named Evelyn.
Currently lives in: Saint Tropez, France
How do they know your character: Marguerite is Adele’s maternal grandmother.
Affiliated with: None
Celebrity Claim: Vanessa Redgrave
