Post by Cinder on Apr 21, 2018 18:22:29 GMT
Name: Lo Wai Han
Alias: Cinder (煤渣, Meizha)
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Affiliation: Rebel
Physical Appearance:
A naturally slight and unimposing youth, Wai Han cuts a fairly slender and overall unimpressive figure amongst the majority of China’s population at only 5'4". She blends in quite well if not for her outlandish attire, chestnut-colored hair and brilliant red-orange eyes. Her whole body is covered with scars that have faded to varying degrees from the abuse inflicted upon her throughout the years.
She has slim fingers and thin limbs, making her appear rather easy to push around, because she is. Her hands are covered in sickly red patches - these are the vents through which she channels her mutation. It's hard to tell if her sharp and angular teeth are a result of her mutation or just curious genetics, but her teeth resemble that of an animal's.
Lo Wai Han’s outfit consists of a simple off-white tank top, a small backpack filled with general-purpose items: such as band-aids, snacks, pain reliever, a laptop charger, and a change of clothes. She wears two belts, one of which with studs for no reason other than she likes them, and the other with pockets because her backpack isn’t enough for all of her pencils and hair ties that she never uses.
She wears baggy beige cargo pants, because, again, her backpack just wasn’t enough for her collection of lighters or whatever. On one foot, she wears a heavy-looking steel-toed boot, but the other leg is decorated with a spiked kneepad, a white-and-blue striped stocking, and a red sneaker.
Her face is protected by a custom-built respirator that vents smoke and ash out of her face and behind her, instead. It appears to be comprised of pieces of a gas mask, CO2 canisters, a half-face particulate, and other miscellaneous metal scraps.
Personality:
Lo Wai Han's personality could be best described as temperamental and intense. Her mood can swing from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other in a heartbeat and just as hard.
Since she has spent so much time alone, she almost prefers to keep to herself. Experience has drilled into her head that if someone is trying to be nice to her, they want something from her. There’s a chance to turn that around in Hong Kong, but old habits die hard.
She does what she feels she wants to, and doesn't really care about the results or those who get in her way.
Wai Han is a reserved individual, but that isn't to say she's shy, or avoids people. Rather, due to the effects of her mutation, she does not often speak. A single sentence is rare, and full conversations are all but unheard of. Her voice is slow and level, each word spoken carefully so as not to trigger a coughing fit.
Verbal confrontation is not her strong suit, since she usually succumbs to coughing fits whenever she raises her voice, but she is no stranger to using force and almost prefers to settle her differences with her mutation and her fists.
She has a thick layer of ice to break, but past it all, there is a very honest and vulnerable girl. Slow to trust, afraid to commit to relationships, rarely keeps friends for long. With her guard down, she can be seen with a relaxed and cheerful expression on her face, led by a soft smile and a slow-paced voice. Her dim expression, combined with her infrequent and slow speech often led others to believe she was slow. This is a girl who much more cunning than her appearance would imply. She's a drifter looking for a home.
History:
Lo Wai Han spent half of her childhood in Beijing. Her father was a powerful meta-human criminal known as Meltdown with a mutation that allowed him to burn through any object by heating it well past its melting point. His partner-in-crime and wife, a woman known as Miss Mist, had a mutation that allowed her control vapors in the air. They were active during the height of the Chinese Civil War, responsible for countless crimes, along with robbery, homicide, tax fraud, and so on. They had only one child - a girl named Wai Han.
She doesn't remember this part of her childhood very well. She doesn't have particularly fond memories, but she thinks they were better than what was to come.
Meltdown and Miss Mist's crimes caught up to them, and they were arrested when Wai Han was still young and learning how to control her power. Her last attempt to exercise her mutation sent a gout of burning ash into her eye, and she vowed to never use it again, lest she hurt someone other than herself. The young girl, believed to not yet be tainted by their villainy, was sent to a foster home - the first of many. The girl grew up moving from one spot to another all over the country. Foster parents kept her at a year or two at a time, but quickly passed her up, due to mounting issues with the other children.
Her meta-human status in a society of those that were still embittered by the Civil War turned her into a perfect target for their frustrations when growing up. Wai Han was left without support, due to her parents' absence, and took her abuse as it came. When her heritage came to light -- Wai Han, the child of two terrible villains -- she was shunned by her peers, leading to a despondent attitude and moody disposition.
One day, after being pushed too hard too many times, Wai Han ran away from her last home, in Hong Kong. She has been on her own for several years now, moving district to district in her trial to survive, picking up odd jobs here and there and picking pockets when she needs to.
Wai Han quickly resigned herself to being ostracised for the rest of her life, and adopted a politely submissive approach, keeping out of sight, learning to stick to the shadows. This gained her fewer enemies, but also fewer friends.
On one day just like any other, Wai Han found herself at knifepoint, a lone mugger catching her in an alleyway. He threatened to take away everything she worked so hard to protect - she couldn't just let him steal everything from her wallet to her respirator.
That day was the first time she actually wound up hurting somebody with her power. She clasped her hand over his mouth, pumped his lungs full of burning ash until he stopped coughing it back up.
Her entire life, she never understood why the whole world beat down on her, but she realized why in that moment: It felt good to hurt people.
The world that she tried so hard to understand was a simple place, after all.
Power:
Wai Han's mutation allows for the production of scorching-hot smoke and ash from her lungs and palms, with the temperature potentially ranging from sixty degrees to one-hundred and eighty degrees Fahrenheit.
The ash that Wai Han controls is able to be utilized in a number of useful and creative techniques, from abrasive streams of scorching smoke that are effective at close-range, creation of low-temperature smokescreens, particularly intense blasts of concussive ash, and so on.
Due to her incredibly high resting body temperature (over 180 F!), Wai Han can’t tolerate high temperature extremes, but flourishes in low temperatures. The inverse is true for her mutation, however: since she heats up in high temperatures, she can potentially channel hotter ash, and while she is much more comfortable in colder temperatures, it severely restricts how hot her ash can get.
Drawback:
While Wai Han is able to expel smoke and ash from her lungs due to her unique mutation, she is not able to breathe it back in lest she damages her own respiratory system. Wai Han's production of ash is also limited by her lung capacity; she can only produce so much ash until she winds herself from exhaustion. The longer a fight draws out in which Wai Han expels ash, the more exhausted she will become.
Due to a combination of her mutation and an unfortunate asthma, Wai Han often finds it difficult to breathe. She has to breathe carefully or risk succumbing to a coughing fit due to the constant agitation in her sensitive lungs, her mutation constantly churning out deadly ash that works more against her favor than for it.
The heat of Wai Han’s smoke comes from her own internal body temperature, which, while at an impressive resting state of nearly double the standard ninety-eight fahrenheit, can’t always reach that sort of heat. While her mutation has potential to be incredibly dangerous, it needs time and continued usage for it to reach those temperatures. She needs to warm up her mutation in any situation, but the longer she uses her power, the deadlier she gets.
When doused with water, (or even in rainy conditions) her mutation becomes worthless. Her toxic ash is no good as a weapon if the vents in her palms are clogged with water or if it just becomes ash mud the moment it leaves her palms.
Also, she can’t wear gloves.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Wai Han is determined to do one thing: free her parents from their imprisonment. She will stop at nothing to reach at goal, even if it means that she has to burn China to the ground to do so. Perhaps because she has to burn China to the ground, Wai Han is nothing if not determined, and will never be stopped. She will never allow anything to stand in her way, and mercy be with anything that does.
Wai Han’s self-destructive tendencies negatively impact her, and they come manifest as reckless behavior, her tendency to avoid responsibility, and her excessive need for recognition and approval. Also, she is very bad with people. She's more likely to accidentally offend someone while giving an honest compliment than she is with a scathing insult.
Likes/Dislikes:
+Hats
+Drop-crotch pants
+Pineapple on pizza
+The smell of burning
+Jokes at other peoples’ expense
+Her new kitten, Lu
-Moths
-Comment sections
-The taste of ash
-Herself, probably
-Jokes at her expense
-Dogs
Style Points: 0 (Incognito)
Alias: Cinder (煤渣, Meizha)
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Affiliation: Rebel
Physical Appearance:
A naturally slight and unimposing youth, Wai Han cuts a fairly slender and overall unimpressive figure amongst the majority of China’s population at only 5'4". She blends in quite well if not for her outlandish attire, chestnut-colored hair and brilliant red-orange eyes. Her whole body is covered with scars that have faded to varying degrees from the abuse inflicted upon her throughout the years.
She has slim fingers and thin limbs, making her appear rather easy to push around, because she is. Her hands are covered in sickly red patches - these are the vents through which she channels her mutation. It's hard to tell if her sharp and angular teeth are a result of her mutation or just curious genetics, but her teeth resemble that of an animal's.
Lo Wai Han’s outfit consists of a simple off-white tank top, a small backpack filled with general-purpose items: such as band-aids, snacks, pain reliever, a laptop charger, and a change of clothes. She wears two belts, one of which with studs for no reason other than she likes them, and the other with pockets because her backpack isn’t enough for all of her pencils and hair ties that she never uses.
She wears baggy beige cargo pants, because, again, her backpack just wasn’t enough for her collection of lighters or whatever. On one foot, she wears a heavy-looking steel-toed boot, but the other leg is decorated with a spiked kneepad, a white-and-blue striped stocking, and a red sneaker.
Her face is protected by a custom-built respirator that vents smoke and ash out of her face and behind her, instead. It appears to be comprised of pieces of a gas mask, CO2 canisters, a half-face particulate, and other miscellaneous metal scraps.
Personality:
Lo Wai Han's personality could be best described as temperamental and intense. Her mood can swing from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other in a heartbeat and just as hard.
Since she has spent so much time alone, she almost prefers to keep to herself. Experience has drilled into her head that if someone is trying to be nice to her, they want something from her. There’s a chance to turn that around in Hong Kong, but old habits die hard.
She does what she feels she wants to, and doesn't really care about the results or those who get in her way.
Wai Han is a reserved individual, but that isn't to say she's shy, or avoids people. Rather, due to the effects of her mutation, she does not often speak. A single sentence is rare, and full conversations are all but unheard of. Her voice is slow and level, each word spoken carefully so as not to trigger a coughing fit.
Verbal confrontation is not her strong suit, since she usually succumbs to coughing fits whenever she raises her voice, but she is no stranger to using force and almost prefers to settle her differences with her mutation and her fists.
She has a thick layer of ice to break, but past it all, there is a very honest and vulnerable girl. Slow to trust, afraid to commit to relationships, rarely keeps friends for long. With her guard down, she can be seen with a relaxed and cheerful expression on her face, led by a soft smile and a slow-paced voice. Her dim expression, combined with her infrequent and slow speech often led others to believe she was slow. This is a girl who much more cunning than her appearance would imply. She's a drifter looking for a home.
History:
Lo Wai Han spent half of her childhood in Beijing. Her father was a powerful meta-human criminal known as Meltdown with a mutation that allowed him to burn through any object by heating it well past its melting point. His partner-in-crime and wife, a woman known as Miss Mist, had a mutation that allowed her control vapors in the air. They were active during the height of the Chinese Civil War, responsible for countless crimes, along with robbery, homicide, tax fraud, and so on. They had only one child - a girl named Wai Han.
She doesn't remember this part of her childhood very well. She doesn't have particularly fond memories, but she thinks they were better than what was to come.
Meltdown and Miss Mist's crimes caught up to them, and they were arrested when Wai Han was still young and learning how to control her power. Her last attempt to exercise her mutation sent a gout of burning ash into her eye, and she vowed to never use it again, lest she hurt someone other than herself. The young girl, believed to not yet be tainted by their villainy, was sent to a foster home - the first of many. The girl grew up moving from one spot to another all over the country. Foster parents kept her at a year or two at a time, but quickly passed her up, due to mounting issues with the other children.
Her meta-human status in a society of those that were still embittered by the Civil War turned her into a perfect target for their frustrations when growing up. Wai Han was left without support, due to her parents' absence, and took her abuse as it came. When her heritage came to light -- Wai Han, the child of two terrible villains -- she was shunned by her peers, leading to a despondent attitude and moody disposition.
One day, after being pushed too hard too many times, Wai Han ran away from her last home, in Hong Kong. She has been on her own for several years now, moving district to district in her trial to survive, picking up odd jobs here and there and picking pockets when she needs to.
Wai Han quickly resigned herself to being ostracised for the rest of her life, and adopted a politely submissive approach, keeping out of sight, learning to stick to the shadows. This gained her fewer enemies, but also fewer friends.
On one day just like any other, Wai Han found herself at knifepoint, a lone mugger catching her in an alleyway. He threatened to take away everything she worked so hard to protect - she couldn't just let him steal everything from her wallet to her respirator.
That day was the first time she actually wound up hurting somebody with her power. She clasped her hand over his mouth, pumped his lungs full of burning ash until he stopped coughing it back up.
Her entire life, she never understood why the whole world beat down on her, but she realized why in that moment: It felt good to hurt people.
The world that she tried so hard to understand was a simple place, after all.
Power:
Wai Han's mutation allows for the production of scorching-hot smoke and ash from her lungs and palms, with the temperature potentially ranging from sixty degrees to one-hundred and eighty degrees Fahrenheit.
The ash that Wai Han controls is able to be utilized in a number of useful and creative techniques, from abrasive streams of scorching smoke that are effective at close-range, creation of low-temperature smokescreens, particularly intense blasts of concussive ash, and so on.
Due to her incredibly high resting body temperature (over 180 F!), Wai Han can’t tolerate high temperature extremes, but flourishes in low temperatures. The inverse is true for her mutation, however: since she heats up in high temperatures, she can potentially channel hotter ash, and while she is much more comfortable in colder temperatures, it severely restricts how hot her ash can get.
Drawback:
While Wai Han is able to expel smoke and ash from her lungs due to her unique mutation, she is not able to breathe it back in lest she damages her own respiratory system. Wai Han's production of ash is also limited by her lung capacity; she can only produce so much ash until she winds herself from exhaustion. The longer a fight draws out in which Wai Han expels ash, the more exhausted she will become.
Due to a combination of her mutation and an unfortunate asthma, Wai Han often finds it difficult to breathe. She has to breathe carefully or risk succumbing to a coughing fit due to the constant agitation in her sensitive lungs, her mutation constantly churning out deadly ash that works more against her favor than for it.
The heat of Wai Han’s smoke comes from her own internal body temperature, which, while at an impressive resting state of nearly double the standard ninety-eight fahrenheit, can’t always reach that sort of heat. While her mutation has potential to be incredibly dangerous, it needs time and continued usage for it to reach those temperatures. She needs to warm up her mutation in any situation, but the longer she uses her power, the deadlier she gets.
When doused with water, (or even in rainy conditions) her mutation becomes worthless. Her toxic ash is no good as a weapon if the vents in her palms are clogged with water or if it just becomes ash mud the moment it leaves her palms.
Also, she can’t wear gloves.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Wai Han is determined to do one thing: free her parents from their imprisonment. She will stop at nothing to reach at goal, even if it means that she has to burn China to the ground to do so. Perhaps because she has to burn China to the ground, Wai Han is nothing if not determined, and will never be stopped. She will never allow anything to stand in her way, and mercy be with anything that does.
Wai Han’s self-destructive tendencies negatively impact her, and they come manifest as reckless behavior, her tendency to avoid responsibility, and her excessive need for recognition and approval. Also, she is very bad with people. She's more likely to accidentally offend someone while giving an honest compliment than she is with a scathing insult.
Likes/Dislikes:
+Hats
+Drop-crotch pants
+Pineapple on pizza
+The smell of burning
+Jokes at other peoples’ expense
+Her new kitten, Lu
-Moths
-Comment sections
-The taste of ash
-Herself, probably
-Jokes at her expense
-Dogs
Style Points: 0 (Incognito)