Post by Asteria Marquis Valentine on Jul 4, 2015 12:08:40 GMT -5
Basics
Name: Asteria Marquis Valentine
Nicknames: Scarlet Vampire of Marquis
Age: 17
Birthday: November 12
Grade: 12
Power:
- Psychic Chain Constructs: She is able to manifest chains out of thin air. They are made out of psychic energy and can manifest in different variations with widely varying sizes and shapes. Their ends can either be barbed or spiked to impale or anchor onto targets. Their durability is dependent on her mental strength and willpower. Their maximum known toughness is known to be as hard as titanium when she's in absolute focus on a single construct. Multiple constructs reduce the power, as it requires her to split her focus. Her range is limited, only being able to manifest them for up to 30 feet away. Within that range, she is able to manifest them from an anchor point. However, they become less durable the farther the chains manifest from her. The chains are not incorporeal and acts like a solid physical object.
- Telekinesis: Because of her weaker than average physical strength, she uses her mental prowess in order to compensate. The range of her telekinetic ability shares the 30 foot range of her constructs. Within this range, she can influence objects as if she was physically interacting with them. Physical strength greater than her mental power or a higher level of energy can easily break free of her hold. At maximum, she is able to lift as much as an average weightlifter with her telekinesis.
- Telepathic Radar: At a maximum range of 60 feet, she is able to sense the active thoughts around her vicinity. However, this does not mean that she can read someone's mind. Although it is a form of telepathy, it only allows her to pinpoint the location of one's active thoughts. Those who she spends more time with are identifiable to her as she gets more used to the signals brought out by their mind. However, anyone she has spent little to no time with are unidentifiable to her.
Member Group: Prefect
Canon or not: Non-Canon
Appearance:
Asteria kept the look of elegance as she grew up. With long, straight and flowing red hair and smooth fair skin maintained with a secret method, she gives off an air of high class. However, what shows in her amber eyes is an unfeeling and otherworldly gaze, as if she was constantly thinking of something heinous when she sees someone. Her body has quite a frail stature that reflects her mostly sheltered life of pampering.
Her outfit, as she joined the prefects, tends to be militaristic in fashion. She normally wears a military cap along with a matching jacket and skirt. She wears long stockings and boots. Her preference seems to be from her desire to be looked at as a person of authority at all times. Although she has a very elegant yet commanding gait to her motions, she is usually seen sitting down or in a more relaxed position.
Personality
Overall Personality:
Asteria sees herself as nothing less than a goddess' embodiment in mortal form. That is the very essence of her personality. For the time being, she calls herself an empress or a mistress until she can prove herself worthy of being a goddess once more. She thinks highly of her kind, the gifted, and treats normal humans as nothing more than livestock. As she has lived comfortably all her life, she is apathetic to any cries of suffering and grief that others speak of to her. This gives her very little regard towards human life. Gifted are necessary to propagate her life goals, so she does value their existence. Generally, she acts cold towards others, yet he keeps a certain elegance to the way she speaks. Of course, as she has a very high view of herself, she appreciates those who show submission and respect towards her. Once someone disrespects her, however, the opinion she has on them quickly turns bitter.
Another very prominent trait of hers is her ambition. To her, being the heir and essentially ruling her family's island nation of Isle Marquis is easy enough, so she thought of the long run and she wills for her family's nation to spread and rule more than just the small island where she resides. Her education is extremely impressive and of some of the highest pedigree, and she reflects that in her everyday life and her way of speaking. However, she does suffer physically as she disliked any sort of intense physical training and her idea that superior intelligence and dominance in battle can destroy mere brute force.
In battle, she immediately sees herself as superior and thinks that she has the upper hand. As this can work to her advantage in a way that she is not limited by fear, it's a double-edged sword in that she can severely underestimate her opponent. However, this is not to say that she cannot adapt as she consistently studies her opponent's moves on the fly. Her powers reflect her style of battle, with her chains aiming to control the battleground and dominate the opponent by restricting their every move as she simply sits and watches their turmoil. She refuses to kill if she sees some use she can gain from her opponent. Instead, she asks for their loyalty. To her, a powerful servant is much more useful than one that's dead.
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History
Family Members/Guardians:
- Vivian Marquis Valentine: Mother (Alive) Gifted side of the family
- Philippe Valentine III: Father (Alive) Offered as a gift at his youth in exchange for alliance
- An unnamed gifted Head Maid and at least a hundred other servants both human and gifted, some of them former hired assassins
History:
The small country of Isle Marquis formed from the earliest sign of gifted blood within Asteria's family tree. A long time ago, the first of the gifted Marquis was shunned and accused of witchcraft and was set for execution in the island once secluded from the eyes of the outside world. However, the execution turned for the worse as the executors themselves were the ones to face death from the hands of the one they were planning to execute. Through this feat that was then considered a miracle by the common folk of the island, she became the first queen of the now matriarchal country. As time passed, the family of Marquis became intoxicated by the power they held over the commoners that reside under their rule. In order to maintain their reign through fear and power, they meticulously chose the next heirs of their family line. Because of this, many of the offspring birthed by the queen of that time were sacrificed if they did not show any sign of gifted blood.
Asteria's mother Vivian Marquis seemed like the desperate point that showed a chance of the family's blood becoming no more. As they have always believed that being gifted was a blessing of the gods and not a biological anomaly, Vivian's blood became too diluted and the chances of a gifted being born was next to none. In a fit of desperation, she ordered her envoys to find nobility from every smaller monarchy close to their country to be brought to her. The offer was to send their finest men to the country of Isle Marquis to marry the queen. If they did not produce gifted offspring, they were to be mercilessly slain. If it was a stroke of luck or the hand of fate working itself, a young man by the name Philippe Valentine III became the one to successfully produce a child with the sign of having the power the Marquis family desired. Thus, his country was spared and an alliance was formed as he took Vivian's hand in marriage.
The childhood Asteria lived was one of glamour and luxury, as she was the one to secure another generation of their family's rule. She was given the finest teachers to educate her, and the finest food and clothing that her country had to offer. However, as word of her mother's atrocities began to spread, an uprising was meant to begin. Traitors and assassins from their own people and from different countries began to make attempts to eliminate Asteria in order to end their family's rule. Because of this, her heart became cold and she believed that the common folk were simply envious of her power and the gifted abilities that she believed was given to her as a sign of her ascension from humanity itself. As she grew, she trained both her mind and her powers as a gifted. However, her body remained frail, a hurdle she never really paid heed to, as she thought that her powers and superior intellect was enough to overcome her weaknesses.
When she was of age, she insisted that she become the kingdom's disciplinary enforcer. She learned of many methods of pain and torture, including how to break one's mind and turn them truly loyal. As more assassins came to end her life, she asked her mother that instead of execution, they were to be brought to her. After many arguments and disagreement, she won her mother's favor and the captured assassins were given to her to do as she pleased. Although they expected a merciless and painful death, she instead gave them a warm welcome and offered them safety and comfort within their mansion as her personal servants in exchange for their absolute loyalty. If at first they refused, they were shown Asteria's personal "reform area", where older captives were kept and tortured for days on end until they died. The question is then asked once more if they wanted to swear their loyalty instead of suffering like the others. At this point, most of her captives agreed and they were turned into one of her many personal servants.
Asteria's method of taking care of assassins turned her into one of the most powerful members of the Marquis family, as she had amassed many servants capable of giving their life to protecting hers at her beck and call. She also spread fear by sending envoys of threatening nations back after taking them on a tour of her reform area and her servants' disciplinary chambers. Many of the envoys came back with horror stories of her servants being so brainwashed to the point that they will slay their own former allies and family at her command. They also told of a story that was never proven to be true, but due to her atrocities, the envoys believed as fact. In order to further paint her image as a terrifying monster, she spread the story that she would take prisoners from wars that her army would fight and personally slay them one by one, bathing in their blood as she did. Because of that, she garnered her name as the Scarlet Vampire of Marquis.
As her influence spread further and further, she eventually got an invitation to attend an academy where there were ones similar to her, gifted with powers that can even compare to gods. Although her mother saw it as a threat, she saw it as an opportunity. Hastily, she accepted and promised that she would return with allies beyond their imagination. She wanted to go to Ashford in order to find like-minded individuals who would not only want to see their kind rise above humanity, but also ones who would help her in her dream to turn her small country into a powerful kingdom.
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