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Alias: Cami Age: 32 Sexuality: Heterosexual Height: 165cm Weight: 68kg Hair: Brown, wavy hair that's usually tied up Eyes: Bright sea-green Skin & Scars: Smooth skin
Details
Cami's appearance can be described as bright and a variety of colors are usually seen from top to bottom.
To start off, her rich, wavy brown hair drapes halfway down to her back, minty patches placed promiscuously throughout. Part of her fringe might curl down in such a way that it covers her left eye, but Cami prefers to keep it out of the way. She also keeps it tied up in the back and on the right side, not for any practical reasons but because it looks nice. She also has minty patch on one of her eyebrows.
Her eyes are vibrant and share the same minty color as the patches on her hair.
Cami favors wearing dresses over anything else, as they are comfortable and easy to move in. Important straps and ribbons are wrapped around her waist and shoulders to keep her clothes in place. Cami also usually wears tight pants, so as to hide her modesty, just in case something unfortunate were to happen. However, while Cami loves to wear dresses, her wardrobe isn't just limited to them thanks to her job as a clothesmaker.
Camicia was raised to treat others the way she wished to be treated, as such, it has become her nature to be as kind as possible to everyone around her, even if she was treated in a way that could not be described as particularly stellar. In fact, she is so kind that some less savory folk would probably try to take advantage of her kindness if they saw the opportunity to do so. However, she is no pushover, as she can also be stern when someone is doing something awful or criminal, which would lead her to try to push them onto a more righteous path.
Camicia also values organisation very highly. She keeps all her belongings in a neat pattern such that she can quickly discern from memory which is where. She also has any information she needs on paper neatly filed, like lists or designs for pieces of apparel. Her love for organisation is almost like an obsession, and anything out of place would trigger something within her and unleash her less pleasant, foul-mouthed side.
When she is angered beyond belief, which hardly ever happens due to her insane patience, she becomes increasingly vulgar in tone. Though, Cami does keep her tongue in check, so it is only a rare occurrence that has only ever happened three times.
History
For as long as she could remember, Camicia's always been able to count her blessings. She was born into poverty, being a result of her parents messing around before being flaked on by her father, leaving her foolish yet tough woman of a mother to raise her. Fortunately, the two of them were able to escape their destitute situation, thanks to Camicia's mother's hard work, and Camicia hitting the Vel lottery of being able to produce string. Camicia would provide the string, and her mother would painstakingly weave it into clothing that they sold together.
Unfortunately for her mother, Camicia would often ask about her father, and the child only grew more curious when she admitted that she didn't know that much about him either. He clearly wasn't responsible enough to raise a child, but who knew how many women had fallen prey to his deceptive charm.
As Camicia grew older, her skill in sewing and weaving clothes quickly surpassed that of her mother's, especially since she much more free time to fill with creating apparel to sell. However, at some point, she found that spending her days in a room pulling threads got duller and duller, and decided to search for something much more exciting.
Cami dipped her toes into a variety of things, starting out with the things that her mother did as often as clothesmaking, like cooking and cleaning. She enjoyed those, but they didn't have the 'excitement' that she was looking for, so she was made to search outside of her household. Cami was not particularly the outgoing type, due to her mother warning her that the outside was not safe for a young girl such as herself. Unfortunately for her mother, teenagers usually weren't very prone to listening to their parents' warnings, and so she would sneak every so often whenever she had the free time.
As a sheltered child, Cami was very interested in the rest of Haven, her home city. She would roam around, stopping at every little thing that would entertain her, but not for too long so as her mother wouldn't find out.
She was surprisingly good at keeping her mother out of the loop, as she never found it until a week later, when an incident occurred. During one of her secret strolls, a bandit had jumped out in front of Cami from one of the alleyways, seemingly out of breath. He didn't seem like he was going to rob her, which would've been a fruitless effort as she didn't have any money anyway. Instead, he pushed past her, nicking her with whatever weapon he had in hand. It turned out, the bandit was trying to escape something, as a raptor-like creature leaped out of where the bandit had just emerged moments earlier. The raptor was quick, immediately stepping past Cami and trapping the bandit between its claws.
Cami hardly had time to process what was happening, when the cut she received immediately demanded her attention. She was worried that her mother would ask how she got wounded and find out that she had been disobeying her.
Using her Vel, Cami wrapped some cloth around the cut to prevent it from bleeding any further, hoping that by the time she got back, she could pass it off as a cute accessory. Once her wound had been tended to, her focus turned to the raptor. It was larger than her, and held an intimidating air to it. She was scared for the bandit, as she thought that he was going to be eaten. And after he had been devoured, it was her turn next.
At that moment, more people emerged from the shady alley, dragging what looked like more bandits. As it turns out, a group of wannabe Enforcers were protecting the area from bandits and thieves, and the raptor was just their leader using his Vel. Undoing his ability and returning to his more human-like form, Cami couldn't help but be completely enamored by his looks. His blonde, wavy hair, and beautiful emerald green eyes had completely robbed her of her ability to focus. The way the feathers and scales of his raptor Vel formed hypnotizing patterns along his forehead, cheek, jaw and neck separated him from the rest of the men that she had seen. Cami couldn't help but notice while she was shamelessly staring that he had cuts and wounds all over him. In fact, the entire group shared those cuts and wounds, which she assumed they had all gotten from their earlier fight with the bandits.
Being the kind soul that she was, she offered to patch them up like she did to herself, so that the wounds didn't worsen until the group managed to get more professional help.
From that point on, Cami had made her very first friends. When she had the opportunity to sneak out, she would assist them on their self-assigned 'missions' to patrol the outskirts of the town and take down any criminals who decided that any travelers wandering in and out were easy pickings.
Of course, her mother eventually found out, but the group had done a splendid job at protecting the town to that point that she trusted the group to take care of her daughter. It was no good to keep a teenager holed up in a house anyway.
But her complacency soon came back to bite her, because a few weeks later, Cami came home feeling incredibly upset and also sick. It was immediately became clear to her, and also horrified her, that her daughter had done something immensely irresponsible. She had fooled around too much with the leader of her enforcer friends and had gotten pregnant.
Cami herself felt the extreme guilt and terror that racked a teenage girl when she gets herself pregnant. Fear of being confronted by her mother and of having to give birth to a baby that she didn't know how to take care of.
Upon her finding out, Cami's mother was coldly calm. Cami assumed she was absolutely fuming, but she couldn't be sure because she didn't show it. However, the words that she said were unreasonably harsh, upsetting Cami far beyond any kind of grief she had ever felt before. She locked herself up in her room to bear with her physical and emotional pain alone.
Her friends noticed a few days later that Cami had almost disappeared, and the leader was scared that she didn't want to see him anymore for a certain reason. He requested his teammates to help him search for her, though it took them a whole week later to finally locate her house, since she never revealed to them where she lived. They only managed to find her by sheer chance, when she was spotted wistfully staring out the window of the second floor. Of course, she immediately closed her curtains in hopes of not being seen.
The leader decided to confront Cami himself, and knocked on the door in hopes to get an answer to why Cami had disappeared. When a friendly-looking woman answered the door, he asked if this shophouse was where Cami lived. Immediately, the woman's expression became more hostile, but she was still polite in the way she called Cami down for the visitor.
When Cami refused by ignoring her, her mother asked the boy how close we was to her daughter. She knew Cami had a group of friends, and that there had to be a reason why only one of them tried to visit her.
When the boy fumbled around in trying to explain his relationship with Cami, Cami's mother deftly told him that she was pregnant. The boy was taken aback, knocking on himself that he should've realised sooner. However, Cami's mother was taken aback as well, when the boy proclaimed that he would take full responsibility. For someone so young and irresponsible, he was quite mature in how he handled his mistakes. Cami's mother was glad that her daughter had found a much better man than she did. She sent the boy up, where he and Cami reconciled and officially became lovers.
The child, a boy, was born healthy and vibrant, taking more after his father by sharing his reptilian features. His father was proud, and his mother didn't mind, still loving him regardless.
Theirs lives were much less eventful from then on, but that didn't mean that it wasn't still hectic. Cami, found raising a child to be quite difficult, and also found herself rolling her eyes at her own mother's smug attitude towards her. She was glad, at least, that she didn't have to raise her child alone.
The boy was mischievous, and often got into trouble, which often caused Cami a lot of worry and grief. Her son loved to pull pranks, which caused much ire to his victims considering how difficult he was to catch, thanks to the Vel he inherited from his parents.
Unfortunately, he wasn't so good at hiding his face. A bunch of less subtle folk had found him walking around with his mother, and decided to try to get their revenge then. The boy immediately recognised them and tried to quickly get both his mother and himself to safety. Cami couldn't keep up with her son, however, which slowed them down enough to the point where they were surrounded. The boy was too small to fend off the number of men that surrounded them, even with his Vel, which left Cami with nothing to do but hope clutch her son tight and hope someone would come to their aid.
Cami had never felt more despair when she felt her son so violently ripped out of her grasp and taken away to God knows where. She tried to follow, but they almost immediately got out of sight, getting her off their trail with laughable ease. Cami felt no choice but to turn to her husband, who, upon learning that his beloved son had been taken from them, seethed with fury. Cami could swear that, at that moment, his raptor-like features that she found so beautiful looked demonic.
Cami hated how useless she was in being able to protect her child, but there was nothing she could do, but hope that her husband was successful in rescuing him.
The week after her husband had gone out with his group of now enforcers was a painstakingly long one. As the days passed, worry festered in her heart, building up until one day, a knock came on her door. A pair of enforcers that she didn't recognise stood outside the doorway, both with solemn expressions on their faces. They clearly didn't want to be there, but the fact that they were made one thing very, very clear. And it broke Cami's heart into hundreds of thousands of pieces, with those pieces breaking into hundreds of thousands more.
However, Cami did not grieve for very long. This was not to say that she wasn't saddened over the loss over her husband and friends, but because the one thing that wasn't for certain was that her son was dead. Only the bodies of her husband and his group of enforcers were found, so that meant that her son could still be alive somewhere. After burying her husband and friends, she quickly set off on a journey to find her son.
Cami only took what she thought was necessary, thanked her mother for all she had done for her and said goodbye, and left, with only her son's assailants' faces as a clue to lead her to them. She couldn't waste any time as, as a second spent dallying around was a second which her son spent alone, without his mother, and the thought of that could only make her shiver.
Post by Camicia Mareverde on Dec 20, 2019 13:13:46 GMT
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Vanta Weapon Rank: 0
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Fabrication
Vel Rank 1 - Emitting
Power
Fabrication gives Camicia the ability to produce string from her skin, and then pull onto that string to create more, as if she were pulling on a bundle. The most convenient place for her to pull string from is her hands, but she pull string from about anywhere where there's skin. One could pull for several meters before the string would stop being produced, and would require a blade to cut off, as pulling too hard might cause some damage to where the string was being produced and would pull Camicia with it. Cutting the string itself does not cause damage to Cami.
In it's current state, this Vel would not be useful in combat due to the it's inability to create strong strands and it's slow and manual production of what it can produce, which is string. However, it definitely sees much more use in daily life, as Cami uses it to create cloth for her livelihood, and can also be used to make useful, yet uncommon tools such as rope.
Disadvantages
Just like any other bodily function that produces something, Fabrication requires energy to use. Creating string is easily comparable to creating muscle tissue, where one requires energy from respiration to do so. However, the structure of string is much simpler than that of muscle, as it does not need to be able to contract and relax like muscles should. As such, creating string does require too much energy to create an abundance of. There is still a limit in creating string, though it may take Cami some effort in reaching it. Once the limit is reached, string would no longer be produced, and instead muscle or skin would replace where the string would normally be.
The quality of string is affected by what Cami eats. If her diet is poor and doesn't provide her with much nutrition, her string declines in quality, as such being able to snap apart with just the most minimal of effort. If her diet is healthy and balanced, her string becomes much more durable, able to even create a rope which could bind a person were she to create enough of it.
It is also impossible separate the string from her skin without a blade or a sharp edge, as pulling harder would just bring out more string until a certain limit point.
Post by Camicia Mareverde on Dec 20, 2019 13:15:07 GMT
Military Abilities
Tessere
Star Rank: ★
Description: When Cami was young and just learning to be a dressmaker, she used to cut herself quite often, and sometimes far deeper than a small blade or needle should be able to manage. Fortunately for her, she would heal quite quickly from her Vel creating string within her body to pull itself together so that she could regenerate.
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Talents
Dressmaking
Star Rank: ★
Description:
Thanks to her Vel, and her mother's decision on making good use of her Vel, Cami has grown familiar with making dresses, gowns and blouses. She has spent most of her life making beautiful clothes for women, despite how cheap they are. Though Cami specialises in sewing clothes for women, she is capable enough to make clothing for men as well, both simple and intricate.
