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OOC
Name: Katy
Age: 24, I promise!
Contact details: plurk @ go play zelda, dropbox here
Characters already in Systemwide: just reserved Emma here!
BASIC PROFILE
Name: Emma Swan
Age: 31
Canon: Once Upon a Time
Appearance: Emma is a fairly attractive woman. She has blonde hair that she keeps long, sometimes curled, sometimes straight, sometimes however it decided to behave at the time because she doesn't have the patience to deal with it. She's going to miss her hair in reality. She has green eyes, and pale skin. She's of average height at 5'5 but seems taller from confidence and how she carries herself, and a heel in her boot doesn't hurt either. Emma has an athletic build, slim more than curvy, though she has thicker, muscular thighs and legs. She has a tattoo of a flower on her inner left wrist.
Image
Extraction point: S4, E11
OVERVIEW
Personality: Emma was raised in the foster system, and it has done a number on her sense of trust. She also feels a sense of abandonment and lack of self worth after her parents gave her up. This act has left her with hidden insecurites and believing she was unwanted for most of her life, and has convinced her that she is better off alone. She is somewhat of a loner, learning that it's safer depend on herself because everyone else will let her down. She has serious trust issues, due to not only her experiences in foster care but compounded by some not-so-smart relationships, the worst of which resulted in her incarceration. In some cases when she is worried about a betrayal, she will attempt to cut away first to avoid the inevitable. Unfortunately she can burn a lot of bridges this way. She keeps people at arms length and it can be very hard to get close to her.
She is a skeptic at its finest. It seems her motto is 'I'll believe it when I see it', and in some cases, not even then. Especially with fanciful and unbelievable topics, like magic, or an entire town being fairy tale characters, she almost steadfastly refuses to believe it, even when presented with some damning evidence. This is only compounded by an infuriating stubborn streak. Sometimes the truth can be staring her right in the face, and she will still have trouble accepting it. This is likely to cause her a great deal of trouble initially after coming out of her Matrix.
Emma also seems to fear to prospect of being needed and relied upon. When Henry first came back into her life, she was very uneasy. She wasn't sure how to be a mother and did her best to keep him at arm's length. Even now that they are close she constantly feels guilt for giving him up and not being able to be a perfect mother to him. Despite being uncomfortable with responsibility, Emma has taken plenty of it on, in fact she seems to feel that she owes an entire town happy endings because she is the "savior". She will put the needs of others above herself, and often focuses on impending disaster over personal things. She is always waiting for the sky to fall, and well? She's not very often wrong. She expects things to go wrong, because in her experience, they almost always do.
She doesn't open herself up often, but when she does, she cares and she cares quite intensely. She is protective of the people she cares about and will do anything for them. She has quite a strong moral code but if she needs to, she will cross it to protect and help the people she loves. Even those she loves the most can have trouble getting through to her when she's upset. She will protect herself even from those she is close to, because she's lived behind emotional walls so long she isn't really sure how to let them down.
Emma is a fighter, and she works hard for what she wants. She is determined and won't give up when she sets her mind to something, no matter what it takes. This can work in her favor but it can also work against her, especially when she is fighting for something that she probably shouldn't fight for. In most cases, she is very strong and confident, and other people seem to respect her for it. She naturally draws people behind her because of her confidence and willingness to take charge.
She does tend to keep a guard up, but there are signs of when she unravels and her walls start to falter. Bursts of anger at inanimate objects such as roses, taking apart mechanical devices with seemingly no functionality flaws, or avoiding things that are upsetting her are all things to look out for. When Emma does break and shows emotion it is heavy and sudden, and it takes her a little bit of time to rebuild the walls she uses to protect herself.
All together, Emma is a strong and loving person. However, she has scars from her past, and sometimes she makes it quite difficult to get close to her. However, she has a strong sense of what is right and will always do her best to help those that need it, no matter the circumstances.
Matrix: Wikilink
Emma's Matrix, on the surface level, is modern earth, 2014. It follows our current reality fairly well, or at least it is easy to assume so. It has normal 21st century technology, including cars, computers, plenty of medical advancements, and more; it is much like our day to day existence. Most of Earth is perfectly normal, with a great host of supposedly fictional worlds featured in books and movies and things to that end.
However, in Emma's Matrix, plenty of those stories are actually real. They are real people from different worlds and existences. The Enchanted Forest, for example, is a much different world than Earth is. There is very little advancement in technology and medicine, and it is ruled by magic instead of invention. It is inhabited by humans and mythological creatures alike. This is just one of many worlds; we see one devoid of any color, featuring Dr. Frankenstein, which features dated understandings of science compared to modern earth, or Wonderland, a fantastical world of talking caterpillars (which do not exist in the Enchanted Forest, for example) and massive plants and magic cakes and slightly disrupted rules of reality (wherein losing your head doesn't result in death). Each world has different rules and different understandings.
While Emma was born in the Enchanted Forest, a magical place, she didn't linger there long. Because of a curse her parents sent her to safety, sending her alone (or so they thought) to the Land without Magic, or, earth. Most of Emma's Matrix focused on earth, and a fairly normal and unspectacular existence, though not a very happy one. She was an orphan and her experiences in foster care involved disappointment after disappointment. More or less, magic doesn't exist on earth... Emma being the one exception. Even before she realized who she was, she had magic in her. Because she was raised in a world that did not have any magic, she didn't believe in it and didn't think anything of it, but the fact is that Emma is a rare instance of magic existing in a Land without.
Later on in her history, magic was brought to earth, though it was kept in the bubble of Storybrooke. The curse was broken, she found her family again, and she was set on a path learning to be a daughter, a mother, and a savior. Much of her life revolves around discovering what it means to be these three things.
Real World: Emma has been extracted for a handful of months and is trying to make sense of the fact her entire world was not reality. She carries a lot of hurt and uncertainty about the relationships she built in the Matrix because she is left questioning if any of them were real. Most conflicting is the one she made with her son, Henry. She wants desperately to know if he is really her son, and she wants to save him and the other connections she made from being trapped in the Matrix.
However, that is a very large goal and she is only one person. While she will continually fight to have a chance to save the people she loves, she is rather stuck acclimating to the new world as she knows it, and adjusting to how different it is. It took a great deal of time just for her to recover from her time in the Matrix and accept a new reality. She wants to be able to have Henry back with her one day, and she wants to bring him to a world that will be as safe as possible. She has slowly but surely started to become more active in life, and is still getting her footing in a lot of ways but she's a hard worker and is working hard to earn her place and hopefully a spot on an extraction team. She needs to learn, to get to the people she misses, and hopefully save them from what they don't realize is killing them.
Though, often Emma wonders if she'd really be saving them.
ABILITIES AND SKILLS
Anomalies:
- True Love Magic. Emma is the product of true love and this resulted in her being given very powerful magic that is inherent within her. It can exist even when there is no magic in the world, because it is from inside of her. Her magic can do all sorts of remarkable things. We've seen a whole range, including (but not limited to): pyrokinesis (starting campfire, lighting candle), teleportation (only of items), barriers (Gold's shop), telekinesis (Bridge with Regina), absorption of magic (failsafe), burning skin (shortlived effect to make Zelena release Henry), manipulating clouds (covering the moon), making magic mirrors (to see Ariel in a different world), and more.
Emma's magic does have some unconscious effects. When someone tries to take her heart or damage it in some way, it will send out a blast of energy, strong enough to incapacitate (Cora). During times of extreme pain/emotional stress, Emma's magic will affect electricity/make lights flicker (childbirth).
It is important to note that Emma is very intimidated by her own magical abilities and very rarely defaults ot them. She'd much rather use her conventional skills than attempt to use magic. She has little practice and little confidence so just because she has vast magical ability, doesn't mean she'll use it. In fact she has lost control of her magic before, which does make her even more reluctant to try and use it. Moments of great emotional strain can cause her to lose control, which is something she is very determined to avoid.
Skillset:
- basic fighting skills
- survival skills
- lockpicking
- lie detecting "superpower" (gift in reading tells)
- knowledgable with a handgun
- some training with a sword
Upload Capabilities:
SAMPLES
SAMPLE 1 (nongame)
SAMPLE 2
It didn't feel real.
Weeks (maybe months? they all blended together) of a painful existence, poking and prying acupuncture and literally learning to walk, rehabilitation to actually function in the world she'd been thrust into; it still didn't feel real. Blearily eating horrible paste for sustenance, rebuking any information handed her, Emma lived mostly in her head. Like one day she'd wake up in her bed with sunlight filtering through the blinds like it always did with her family puttering around downstairs and she'd shake all this off as some horrible nightmare. Emma kept falling asleep, like that was some sort of key to waking up and going back to the reality she so keenly missed.
If this wasn't a dream, then she'd prefer to think she'd just genuinely lost it. She'd rather be insane than believe that everything she'd ever had, everything she'd ever experienced, had only been some shitty simulation to keep her complacent. Her life had started out terrible, but she'd gained so much. She had a son, she had a family, she had a home, and 'reality'? Reality wanted to take that all away from her, make it all pointless. She'd suffered too much, fought too hard, for all of it to be pointless.
She'd so masterfully kept her wonderful delusion until she saw it. She didn't remember what, exactly, brought her to the surface, just the hollow ache that took over her when she saw the utter destruction of everything. If anything, it should be the nail in the coffin, why her new existence couldn't possibly be real. Instead, it was sobering and grounding, looking out over that ruined landscape and knowing that all her foolish fears and concerns of being a savior had been just as unrealistic and ridiculous as they'd seemed once. Emma Swan was no savior, no matter what a simulation had tried to convince her.
She was just one person in a sea of lost souls, and nobody was going to come to save them.
OOC
Name: Katy
Age: 24, I promise!
Contact details: plurk @ go play zelda, dropbox here
Characters already in Systemwide: just reserved Emma here!
BASIC PROFILE
Name: Emma Swan
Age: 31
Canon: Once Upon a Time
Appearance: Emma is a fairly attractive woman. She has blonde hair that she keeps long, sometimes curled, sometimes straight, sometimes however it decided to behave at the time because she doesn't have the patience to deal with it. She's going to miss her hair in reality. She has green eyes, and pale skin. She's of average height at 5'5 but seems taller from confidence and how she carries herself, and a heel in her boot doesn't hurt either. Emma has an athletic build, slim more than curvy, though she has thicker, muscular thighs and legs. She has a tattoo of a flower on her inner left wrist.
Image
Extraction point: S4, E11
OVERVIEW
Personality: Emma was raised in the foster system, and it has done a number on her sense of trust. She also feels a sense of abandonment and lack of self worth after her parents gave her up. This act has left her with hidden insecurites and believing she was unwanted for most of her life, and has convinced her that she is better off alone. She is somewhat of a loner, learning that it's safer depend on herself because everyone else will let her down. She has serious trust issues, due to not only her experiences in foster care but compounded by some not-so-smart relationships, the worst of which resulted in her incarceration. In some cases when she is worried about a betrayal, she will attempt to cut away first to avoid the inevitable. Unfortunately she can burn a lot of bridges this way. She keeps people at arms length and it can be very hard to get close to her.
She is a skeptic at its finest. It seems her motto is 'I'll believe it when I see it', and in some cases, not even then. Especially with fanciful and unbelievable topics, like magic, or an entire town being fairy tale characters, she almost steadfastly refuses to believe it, even when presented with some damning evidence. This is only compounded by an infuriating stubborn streak. Sometimes the truth can be staring her right in the face, and she will still have trouble accepting it. This is likely to cause her a great deal of trouble initially after coming out of her Matrix.
Emma also seems to fear to prospect of being needed and relied upon. When Henry first came back into her life, she was very uneasy. She wasn't sure how to be a mother and did her best to keep him at arm's length. Even now that they are close she constantly feels guilt for giving him up and not being able to be a perfect mother to him. Despite being uncomfortable with responsibility, Emma has taken plenty of it on, in fact she seems to feel that she owes an entire town happy endings because she is the "savior". She will put the needs of others above herself, and often focuses on impending disaster over personal things. She is always waiting for the sky to fall, and well? She's not very often wrong. She expects things to go wrong, because in her experience, they almost always do.
She doesn't open herself up often, but when she does, she cares and she cares quite intensely. She is protective of the people she cares about and will do anything for them. She has quite a strong moral code but if she needs to, she will cross it to protect and help the people she loves. Even those she loves the most can have trouble getting through to her when she's upset. She will protect herself even from those she is close to, because she's lived behind emotional walls so long she isn't really sure how to let them down.
Emma is a fighter, and she works hard for what she wants. She is determined and won't give up when she sets her mind to something, no matter what it takes. This can work in her favor but it can also work against her, especially when she is fighting for something that she probably shouldn't fight for. In most cases, she is very strong and confident, and other people seem to respect her for it. She naturally draws people behind her because of her confidence and willingness to take charge.
She does tend to keep a guard up, but there are signs of when she unravels and her walls start to falter. Bursts of anger at inanimate objects such as roses, taking apart mechanical devices with seemingly no functionality flaws, or avoiding things that are upsetting her are all things to look out for. When Emma does break and shows emotion it is heavy and sudden, and it takes her a little bit of time to rebuild the walls she uses to protect herself.
All together, Emma is a strong and loving person. However, she has scars from her past, and sometimes she makes it quite difficult to get close to her. However, she has a strong sense of what is right and will always do her best to help those that need it, no matter the circumstances.
Matrix: Wikilink
Emma's Matrix, on the surface level, is modern earth, 2014. It follows our current reality fairly well, or at least it is easy to assume so. It has normal 21st century technology, including cars, computers, plenty of medical advancements, and more; it is much like our day to day existence. Most of Earth is perfectly normal, with a great host of supposedly fictional worlds featured in books and movies and things to that end.
However, in Emma's Matrix, plenty of those stories are actually real. They are real people from different worlds and existences. The Enchanted Forest, for example, is a much different world than Earth is. There is very little advancement in technology and medicine, and it is ruled by magic instead of invention. It is inhabited by humans and mythological creatures alike. This is just one of many worlds; we see one devoid of any color, featuring Dr. Frankenstein, which features dated understandings of science compared to modern earth, or Wonderland, a fantastical world of talking caterpillars (which do not exist in the Enchanted Forest, for example) and massive plants and magic cakes and slightly disrupted rules of reality (wherein losing your head doesn't result in death). Each world has different rules and different understandings.
While Emma was born in the Enchanted Forest, a magical place, she didn't linger there long. Because of a curse her parents sent her to safety, sending her alone (or so they thought) to the Land without Magic, or, earth. Most of Emma's Matrix focused on earth, and a fairly normal and unspectacular existence, though not a very happy one. She was an orphan and her experiences in foster care involved disappointment after disappointment. More or less, magic doesn't exist on earth... Emma being the one exception. Even before she realized who she was, she had magic in her. Because she was raised in a world that did not have any magic, she didn't believe in it and didn't think anything of it, but the fact is that Emma is a rare instance of magic existing in a Land without.
Later on in her history, magic was brought to earth, though it was kept in the bubble of Storybrooke. The curse was broken, she found her family again, and she was set on a path learning to be a daughter, a mother, and a savior. Much of her life revolves around discovering what it means to be these three things.
Real World: Emma has been extracted for a handful of months and is trying to make sense of the fact her entire world was not reality. She carries a lot of hurt and uncertainty about the relationships she built in the Matrix because she is left questioning if any of them were real. Most conflicting is the one she made with her son, Henry. She wants desperately to know if he is really her son, and she wants to save him and the other connections she made from being trapped in the Matrix.
However, that is a very large goal and she is only one person. While she will continually fight to have a chance to save the people she loves, she is rather stuck acclimating to the new world as she knows it, and adjusting to how different it is. It took a great deal of time just for her to recover from her time in the Matrix and accept a new reality. She wants to be able to have Henry back with her one day, and she wants to bring him to a world that will be as safe as possible. She has slowly but surely started to become more active in life, and is still getting her footing in a lot of ways but she's a hard worker and is working hard to earn her place and hopefully a spot on an extraction team. She needs to learn, to get to the people she misses, and hopefully save them from what they don't realize is killing them.
Though, often Emma wonders if she'd really be saving them.
ABILITIES AND SKILLS
Anomalies:
- True Love Magic. Emma is the product of true love and this resulted in her being given very powerful magic that is inherent within her. It can exist even when there is no magic in the world, because it is from inside of her. Her magic can do all sorts of remarkable things. We've seen a whole range, including (but not limited to): pyrokinesis (starting campfire, lighting candle), teleportation (only of items), barriers (Gold's shop), telekinesis (Bridge with Regina), absorption of magic (failsafe), burning skin (shortlived effect to make Zelena release Henry), manipulating clouds (covering the moon), making magic mirrors (to see Ariel in a different world), and more.
Emma's magic does have some unconscious effects. When someone tries to take her heart or damage it in some way, it will send out a blast of energy, strong enough to incapacitate (Cora). During times of extreme pain/emotional stress, Emma's magic will affect electricity/make lights flicker (childbirth).
It is important to note that Emma is very intimidated by her own magical abilities and very rarely defaults ot them. She'd much rather use her conventional skills than attempt to use magic. She has little practice and little confidence so just because she has vast magical ability, doesn't mean she'll use it. In fact she has lost control of her magic before, which does make her even more reluctant to try and use it. Moments of great emotional strain can cause her to lose control, which is something she is very determined to avoid.
Skillset:
- basic fighting skills
- survival skills
- lockpicking
- lie detecting "superpower" (gift in reading tells)
- knowledgable with a handgun
- some training with a sword
Upload Capabilities:
Anomalous Skills: 4
Martial Arts: 1
Projectile Weaponry: 1
Technical Skills: 0
Wild Card: 4
Martial Arts: 1
Projectile Weaponry: 1
Technical Skills: 0
Wild Card: 4
SAMPLES
SAMPLE 1 (nongame)
SAMPLE 2
It didn't feel real.
Weeks (maybe months? they all blended together) of a painful existence, poking and prying acupuncture and literally learning to walk, rehabilitation to actually function in the world she'd been thrust into; it still didn't feel real. Blearily eating horrible paste for sustenance, rebuking any information handed her, Emma lived mostly in her head. Like one day she'd wake up in her bed with sunlight filtering through the blinds like it always did with her family puttering around downstairs and she'd shake all this off as some horrible nightmare. Emma kept falling asleep, like that was some sort of key to waking up and going back to the reality she so keenly missed.
If this wasn't a dream, then she'd prefer to think she'd just genuinely lost it. She'd rather be insane than believe that everything she'd ever had, everything she'd ever experienced, had only been some shitty simulation to keep her complacent. Her life had started out terrible, but she'd gained so much. She had a son, she had a family, she had a home, and 'reality'? Reality wanted to take that all away from her, make it all pointless. She'd suffered too much, fought too hard, for all of it to be pointless.
She'd so masterfully kept her wonderful delusion until she saw it. She didn't remember what, exactly, brought her to the surface, just the hollow ache that took over her when she saw the utter destruction of everything. If anything, it should be the nail in the coffin, why her new existence couldn't possibly be real. Instead, it was sobering and grounding, looking out over that ruined landscape and knowing that all her foolish fears and concerns of being a savior had been just as unrealistic and ridiculous as they'd seemed once. Emma Swan was no savior, no matter what a simulation had tried to convince her.
She was just one person in a sea of lost souls, and nobody was going to come to save them.