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Name: Revu
Are you over 18?: Yes
Contact: Plurk (whippoorwill), Discord (revuvuzela#6927), PM
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Character: Rey
Canon: Original from a published series (Project SERAPHIM)
Canon point: Book Three, Seraphim PINION, Chapter 38: You Always Hurt the Ones You Love + after prismatica’s endgame
OU or AU?: Prismatica CRAU
Age: 98 years old (appears to be in her late-20s)
Species: Synthetic humanoid

AU clarification: If there was one obstacle that Rey ever had to contend with in Prismatica, it was her immense intimacy issues. Due to past trauma, the very notion of not only being expected to be physical with others but practically being required to felt like a cosmic joke. For this reason, Rey had spent much of her time in this world often pushing her own limits, to the point where she had nearly lost limbs and died. After too many close shaves and a few mediations, she had somewhat come to adapt her new circumstances in time.

But it was a slow process. For nearly a year Rey had avoided connecting with many others, living on the streets and surviving via couch surfing, breaking and entering, and camping out in the wild or sleeping in the park. She had even made some poor choices involving a brothel in an effort to “get over” her problems.

It went over about as well as you could expect.

Leaving some room for improvement, after a year Rey had learned to open up a little more. Even allowing herself to be more intimate with a couple friends and discovering a few new things about her sexuality. She isn’t entirely sold on the idea of letting others in just yet, but it’s a work in progress.

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Disposition: As a living weapon tailored for war, Rey was never quite what you would call “emotionally stable”. Prone to risks and dangerous outbursts, her violent nature is kept at bay by the influence of much older memories. These feelings are deep-rooted into her being, yielding to a personality that’s pigheaded and difficult to accept change.

As part of the mechanism which had kept her somewhat compliant, all of Rey’s past identities were initially programmed to believe that she is human, rather than a biomechatronic soldier. Having been implemented with many memories over the course of nearly a century, Rey has thought herself to be the daughter of drunks, drug addicts, murderers, dead beats, and human traffickers. Anything to isolate herself from any desire to connect with anything remotely resembling familial attachments, or even begin to question it, she was made to believe this to be her truth. Though she had been designed to fight with soldiers as a soldier herself, she doesn’t share any patriotic convictions, which often alienated her from forming close bonds with potential comrades.

Her ways of expressing affection is less than conventional. When she perceives someone as weak, she becomes fiercely protective in a way that can come off as unintentionally condescending or humiliating to the other person. If she perceives that person to be strong, she has no reservations about leaving them in harm’s way, or allowing them to be in danger. It’s kind of her way of showing that she has faith in their abilities to survive; Rey’s faith is dangerous.

Though there are not many things that Rey seems to enjoy in life, she does have a notable fondness for music and opera. Seeing as it had been the one thing to soothe her during her moments of psychopathy, the music is the calm to her storm. She also has a liking for recreational games and food. Just food. She spent like all her lives without a proper sense of taste, so now that she has it, there isn’t a flavor in the world that she takes for granted.

When all her senses and past memories had been restored, Rey dealt with the greatest pain she had ever imagined. It was nothing like a gut wound or being blown to bits (although she had plenty of memories of dying such deaths). It was much worse than that. What she underwent was regret, anger, emotional anguish that had been locked in her data-mind. Although she has been “rehabilitated” and has interacted with society now, it’s safe to say that there are certain hazards that bring her stability to question.

If history has been any indicator, Rey has always exhibited a nature that borders on self-destruction, going so far as to hardly acknowledge her own self as a living, valid being. This has unsurprisingly caused those close to her a great deal of frustration. This mentality was not only a product of the years she had spent practically quarantined from most social interaction, but reliving old memories that had since gone array and the fact that she is a vessel carrying several memories, some debatably her own, others being fabricated identities. While she is internally still at war with acceptance her own personhood, her self-destructive tendencies have changed with her mission-driven mentality. When charging senselessly into a fray, it is not to destroy herself but to defend others so that they may survive.

Similarly, at the point in the canon Rey is coming in from, she had been faced with a need to atone for the things she’s done (her present self as well as past incarnations). After a series of reckless displays, it isn’t until one particular intervention that told her enough was enough. That she needs to stop living for the sake of others and work on trying to confront her own bullshit. Paradoxically, Rey is selfish in her supposed selfless acts of martyrdom, fringing on possible suicidal inclinations. Although she is still trying to reconfigure her lifetimes’ long bad habits, given time she may understand.

Under pressure: After decades of memory wipes, Rey now remembers how many times she had willingly gone into suicide missions/death traps, dying repeatedly and being transferred into new bodies. Through the emotional trauma, it is also because of these experiences that Rey is better at handling stressful situations than most. She is quick to action and isn’t prone to hesitate in the heat of conflict. Having never lived a life of luxury before, she hasn’t been lamenting the loss of her old life.

Given that the last thing she remembers in her world ended with her in the custody of a sadistic synthetic woman named IV, who wishes nothing more than to cut Rey open to see what makes her “heart” tick, she has never expressed a keen interest in returning home. Her biggest challenge has always been figuring out how to navigate social norms under different situations. This also came to light during her time in Prismatica, as Rey had come to acclimate to her new setting (despite her issues) to the point where the notion of returning home terrified her. As such, she is difficult to settle in one place for long, living in the constant anxiety that she brings destruction wherever she goes.

Because she has already experienced showing up in another world already (and under similar expectations), Rey will also be quicker to adjust to her new circumstances.

Condition upon arrival: Healthy but cranky, and planning to hold off on accepting literally any of the government’s conditions for the time being.

Abilities:
Composition: Rey’s flesh and blood and fibers are cloned from a genetic “father” and “mother” donor. Due to the immortal strain of cells belonging to her father, Rey has a natural ability to heal significantly faster than a human. Broken/fractured bones will mend within a matter of hours to days, but she is unable to regenerate lost limbs without surgery or reattachment.

Scientifically speaking, those who are born with these cells are no longer considered human but a species called Lucyton cleri, but this term hasn’t really caught on.

Brísingamen: The Brísingamen is an energy stored within Rey’s heart that supplies her bionic physiology. Her skeletal structure is made of fervidium alloy, a type of iridescent metal that can burns with immense heat once activated by the Brísingamen. This energy can unleash heat particles in the air, causing anything within her vicinity to burst into a raging inferno. She can likewise manipulate these particles to create heatwaves and send fire hurling as far as 300 feet. She is capable of controlling her own body heat, from being able to cauterize wounds to igniting flame.

When using the Brísingamen, red glowing veins pump through wherever she is directing the energy (i.e. her arms). Utilizing it at its fullest capacity (say, the rate it would need to burn a person alive) results in her skin heavily secreting a black, oily substance called samandrine. It’s pretty gross.

Here They Come to Snuff the Rooster: Military training exceeds well beyond a typical soldier. Skilled in various weapons, from long-ranged firearms to melee and close-quarters combat. Her specialty lies with assault and sniper rifles, handguns, bayonets, and combat knives. Also has some basic first aid. Rey carries the knowledge of nearly a century’s worth of combat experience. Her lives spent as highly skilled snipers, soldiers, and special operatives carry over to her present self.

Built Ford Tough: A superhuman endurance and agility allows Rey to be heavily adept in traversing through environments via rolling, dodging, vaulting, and climbing. She has a significantly high strength and pain threshold, which can be noted from her well-toned physique. As mentioned above, Rey also possesses a bionic physiology, which contribute to her brute force. The fervidium alloy in her skeleton makes her heavier than she appears (approximately 140 kilograms).

Jack Of All Trades: Combat isn’t the only experience that her many memories have imbued her with. Thanks to her various lives, Rey is skilled in some mechanics and engineering, allowing her to understand and deconstruct machinery and complex robotics. She is also streetwise and knowledgeable in her world’s history.

Between her varied identities and the linguist in her, she is multilingual as well. Fluent in English, Spanish, Zulu, Dutch, German, Russian, Gaelic, Italian, Arabic, and Hebrew.

Inventory: Nothing but the clothes on her back (bye bye, all her Lunatia swag) and the dogtags of “R. Schuyler” around her neck

Gembond: Ruby
Gem Location: Over her heart, because it’s ironic as hell and she’ll hate it

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Sample: TDM link.

Notes: Abridged history synopsis. Extended history/setting.