Post by Elei-Ailani Ora on Mar 8, 2017 13:24:39 GMT
Elei-Ailani Ora
FACE CLAIM: Chloe Bennet.
♦ THE BASICS ♦
AGE: 24.
GENDER: Female.
ORIENTATION: Unsure.
POSITION: Power Trainer/Self-Defense: Instead of teaching people to control their abilities or hone them, she teaches people how to use their abilities for self-defense.♦ THE ABILITY ♦
POWER: Paralysis Inducement
Elei-Ailani has the ability to immobilize targets both completely and partially - rendering her target without movement and sensation, through making motor functions and muscle movement unavailable. Which in turn will make her targets freeze on the spot or crumple to the ground. Her power works best when there is skin to skin contact, though, she can also render her targets immobile through intense focus.
LIMITATIONS:
- As long as Elei is touching someone, there is no limitation to how many she could use her power on, though, as you can imagine, actively using a touch-based power on more than, well, the amounts of limbs she has, is rather difficult. When it comes to using her power through sheer focus, she is limited to two people at the same time; stretching it any further than this would lessen the effect of her power and render it useless.
- The effects of her power will always wear off. Once her touch or focus has been removed, her targets will eventually regain full movement and sensation. The longer the link, the longer the effects will last once the connection have been broken.
- Her ability only works on sentient beings, such as humans and animals. She cannot use her ability on electronics or the like.
- Whether or not awareness is maintained while her ability is connected is entirely up to the individual contact. Some may go into shock, fall asleep or stay fully awake.
- Elei's power can be activated, which means that it's not constantly on. However, if distressed or highly emotional, her power might turn itself on as a self-defense mechanism.
- Her ability is in no way deadly or harmful. Her targets might feel a tingling-like sensation, much like a limb feels like when falling asleep.
- Because her ability works on the body and not the mind, willpower or psychic shields won't make people immune/resistant, though it might make it easier for the target to remain aware.
SIDE-EFFECTS:
- Elei suffers from terrible blood circulation, so her hands and feet are often cold. Her limbs also falls asleep easily and starts to tingle, which causes her to feel restless quite easily.
- High metabolism and fatigue. Elei needs to eat a lot and often, otherwise she'll feel fatigued and weak. She also suffers from hypoglycemia: her body doesn't produce enough sugar on its own, which means that she'll often feel dizzy, nauseous, shaking and get random heat strokes.
- Although her power needs to be activated, the nature of it has caused Elei to (a small degree) dislike skin-to-skin contact. The more she has adapted to her power over the years, the bigger the need for "personal space" has grown. This also plays into the fact that her power often acts out on its own merits when trying to protect the host. Sudden or unwanted contact might cause her power to activate from her subconsciousness.
♦ THE FREEFORM ♦"Good morning, Miss Ora."
A young woman, almost 5'6, though not quite reaching the milestone with dark brown hair and matching eyes steps through the door. Her facial expression stoic. "Good morning, ma'am," she replies in turn before taking a seat.
"Elei-Ailani - that's quite the unique name, no? Can you tell me a little more about it?"
The young woman attempts at a smile before speaking. "Elei means honorable, while Ailani means chief - my parents idea of a joke." She shrugs, as if the joke doesn't really affect her.
"Well, it's rather pretty. Polynesian, isn't it?"
"Yes," she replies, nodding in turn. She pauses, looking at the woman before her and then continues. "My father is half Chinese and half American, whereas my mother was born in Hawaii - where I grew up."
"When and where were you born?"
"Honolulu, Hawaii. April 18, 1992,"
"I see. You're awfully accommodating with these questions. I'm used to people being a little more..."
She laughs. "Yeah, well," she shrugs. "I guess the army taught me to respect my superiors." She shrugs once more. It doesn't really appear to phase her.
"Ah, yes. The army..." the woman interviewing her says, smiling. "You joined at eighteen, right? After being at Bellefonte for seven years, yes?"
"That is correct."
"Tell me a little more about it."
"Which?"
"Both."
"Well, I manifested at eleven - paralyzed my own mother. That was fun." Sarcasm has always been her forte. "Recruiters showed up about a week or so later and off I went to Bellefonte in America."
"What did you miss the most about Hawaii?"
"Surfing."
"Surfing?"
"You don't exactly find any oceans around Montana," she smiles easily. The interviewer laughs.
"What about the army? Why did you join?"
"I can't tell you why I joined - or rather, give you a good reason. It just seemed right at the time and well, fresh out of graduation, eighteen years old and I wanted to see the world. It didn't exactly pan out that way."
"How so?"
"Well, after meeting with a recruiter and getting all the paperwork out of the way, I had to go through the ASVAB and MOS. After that I had to go through the MEPS - once all of these had been completed, it was pretty clear to my field was with the bustling lives of the army medics." She shrugs lightly.
"I see," the interviewer nods, looking down at a piece of paper. "And now you find yourself applying for a job at Bellefonte. How come?"
Once again the young woman shrugs. A habit she isn't quite aware of herself. "I've always been a restless soul. I enjoy change, but I also enjoy familiarity. Hawaii doesn't have much to offer me anymore, so Bellefonte was the only place I could really come back to." She looks down at her hands, turning them upside down and back again. "But I didn't want to be just another face in the crowd."
"That's why applied for a new training program? Tell me a little more about it."
"Well, most power trainers focus on teaching people how to control and hone their abilities. What they don't teach is how to use powers to defend yourself. I feel that with my army experience and the way my own powers work, I'd be a good fit. I might be able to help someone."
"That's a very interesting take on it. I don't think I've actually seen any trainers do that myself. So..." the interviewer pauses, tilting her head. "So you'd be sort of a self-defense power trainer - a mix of both, I mean?"
"Well, not exactly. It's less focus on what to make of your arms and feet, and rather how to best use your power - whatever it is - in a situation where you'd need it in order to defend yourself, but," she chuckles, "if anyone wanted me to teach them how to knock someone out cold, I probably wouldn't object.
They both laugh.
"I'm not going to lie, though. I'm going to give my students hell," she adds, a playful smile forming on her lips. "We're not in kindergarten anymore."♦ THE PLAYER ♦
USERNAME: Mel.
AGE GROUP: 25.
EXPERIENCE: A few years now.
WHERE DID YOU FIND US? Magic.
