Iynx
From Handbook of the Union Universe
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| Iynx | |
| Player: @Iynx | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| Archetype: | Blaster |
| Level: | 50 |
| Primary Set: | Assault rifle |
| Secondary Set: | Energy |
| Epic Set: | N/A |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Allison Riaz |
| Identity: | Secret |
| Aliases: | Iynx |
| Species: | Demon |
| Date of Birth: | 09/21/1982 |
| Age: | 27 |
| Height: | 5'8" |
| Weight: | Confidental |
| Build: | Athletic |
| Eye Colour: | Brown |
| Hair Colour: | Black |
| Skin Complexion: | Brown |
| Distinguishment: | Large amount of arcane symbols tattooed on her skin. |
| Medical Status: | Flawless |
| Financial Status: | Wealthy |
| Religion: | Lutheran |
| Sexuality: | Celibacy |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Orphan |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Estonian |
| Ethnicity: | Mixed race |
| Legal Status: | Dual Estonian-Finnish citizenship |
| Place of Birth: | Roquetas de Mar, Spain |
| Education: | Magister in theology. Officer 1st class, combat diver. Magister degree in classical music. |
| Occupation: | Priest in Tartu, Estonia. |
| Group Affiliations: | N/A |
| Base of Operations: | N/A |
| Residency: | N/A |
| Known Powers | |
| Primary: Assault rifle Secondary: Energy | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Fluent in english, estonian, finnish, swedish and russian. Seasoned speaker and performer. Very good classical singer. Good pianist. | |
| Equipment | |
| Allison has a dimensional pocket, size of a large warehouse. She is registered owner of 67 firearms. Her dimensional pocket is not only a weapon vault, she stores also her scuba-gear, clothes, her car, make-up table and a full-size bed in there. She has virtually access to everything she ever needs, anytime she wants to. Practically, she doesn't need a home anymore. She has a dimension pocket. | |
| Awards and Collections | |
| Pocket-D matchmaker/relationship counselor. | |
| Licenses and Certificates | |
| European driving licence. Firearm licences (estonian, finnish and temporary US licence). Temporary hero licence. Green card. | |
| IC Accessibility of Article | |
| Most of this information is not accessible IC. Allison is not a US citizen, finding out details about her background is difficult, but not impossible. Longbow records tell that she is a very powerful superhuman and she has now temporary permit to dwell in US and carry hero licence, in addition to basic information of her nationality, military service, occupation etc. However, she is a familiar face to some for her appearances in television commercials and sunday services and billboards in the US. | |
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[edit] Affiliations
Allison Riaz is a priest in Tartu, Estonia and has her congrecation in there. As a quite successful model, she has modeling industry contacts mostly in Paris, France and in New York City, USA. (She does not have any modeling industry contacts in Paragon City.) As a charity worker she is also associated with several american televangelists.
[edit] Friends
- Marshall Alli has been on a date twice during her life. Marshall is the other of the two Alli has dated. A gentleman charmer trapped in a body of rodent mutant. Alli, however, knows of Marshalls noble heart.
[edit] Enemies
- An unknown fraction of the Circle of Thorns.
- Reverend Ferm, a clergyman / faith healer from Oklahoma.
[edit] Personality
Allison had a christian childhood, and she has grown to live with rigid rules, honesty and loyalty. She appears to be calm and gallant, not easily disturbed by anything. Her demeanour tells of great mental strength. Although she might seem little bold and smug, she really isn't. She respects people around her, and she believes that people's well-being is something she must take care of. She is a lone wolf personality.
[edit] Powers
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Allison is a soldier. She doesn't really need her demonic powers to be a combatant. In battle she often stays away from her enemies, pinning them down with her sniper rifle from afar. She seems to be ashamed of her demon half, and avoids using her strength at all costs. She does use her subtle demonic powers to aid her in combat: she keeps her accessories and ammunitions in her dimension pocket, she hovers and flies etc.
[edit] Additional Powers
[edit] Travel
Allison has always known how to hover in the air. She played with the ability as a kid, until her guardian nun told her not to do that. She has not been flying nor using any other demonic powers before she was attacked in New York city by Circle of Thorns.
[edit] Power Pool
Allison has common citizen military training combined with special training in combat diving and sniping. As an officer she is qualified to aid her team with her maneuvers and tactics. She has been studying references of her species, and now she is able to "heal" physical bodies of others. Recently, she also learned how to restrain her soul-eating ability. Not completely, but now she has more control. In fact, she is virtually capable of resurrecting someone with these abilities combined. All she needs is to be present when the soul detaches from the body, then snatch the soul, heal the body, and push the soul back into the body. In order not to give away her true species, she acquired some defect Crey tech healing apparatuses, and pretends to use them in order to hide her abilities.
[edit] Abilities
[edit] Notable mundane abilities
Allison is a combat diver and a sniper specialist. She has extensive studies in theology and is now a Lutheran priest in Tartu, Estonia. She has a degree in classical music, majoring singing. She can also play piano very well. She has had a career in modeling industry, and she is a seasoned speaker and hostess for television and live events. Allison can speak fluent english, estonian, russian, finnish and swedish. She can also read and write in latin and greek, although she probably doesn't understand spoken greek nor latin.
[edit] Demonic abilities
Allison is a demonic entity, she is virtually invulnerable. Even if somehow destroyed, her body would only flicker and vanish away, just to re-appear somewhere else without a scratch. From what she has found out of herself, she believes she should be able to render herself incorporeal at will, but has not yet tried that. She does know, however, that she is able to alter her body at will. And she has done that, and does that every time she masks herself as Iynx.
Her body is unbelievably strong when she wants to: she can throw people and trucks around and tear main battle tanks open with her bare hands. She is known to have punched a Carnival of Shadows Iron Strong Man 300 yards backwards with just one punch.
She is able to enter and exit her dimension pocket at any time.
Allison just recently found out what else she can do by altering her body at will: Allison found out she is able to accelerate herself so much, that she practically bends time and space. When her friend and someone very important to a friend of hers were about to be hit by deadly metal shrapnels flying at them, Allison accelerated herself, then moved so fast no-one saw what she did, and collected the shrapnels in mid-air into her own body, and slowed herself down. This ability is beyond super-speed: Allison can travel so fast she will travel backwards in time. Normally travelling this fast would affect the enviroment (exceeding light speed in earth atmosphere) but because Allison is not bound to the laws of physics, it just doesn't.
[edit] Vulnerabilities
Allison Riaz is a demon. A certain kind of demon. It is impossible to physically harm her. There is no mundane way to damage her. But because she is a specific kind of demon, she is very easy to exorcise, or even enslave, once you know what kind of demon she actually is. However, being prone to excorcism is not her only vulnerability. There are ways to exploit her weaknesses and combine them into something that could be used to hurt her. In theory, it is possible to kill her in a pillow fight. With a normal pillow. Once you know what to do and how to do it. As long as the combat keeps physical and her weaknesses are not exploited, she prevails. Thanks to her species, psionics and mental attacks are also totally useless against her. In order to hurt her, arcane knowledge is required.
[edit] Weaknesses
As a specific type of a demon, Allison has a lot of limitations, there are a lot of things she just cannot do. (Being a priest isn't one of them, so she can enter churches, hold crosses in her hand and praise the Lord.) These limitations could be exploited as a weapon against her, thus she keeps them strictly secret. Apart from her species limitations, her other main weakness is that she is used to mimic human. She does that involuntarily, even if she knows she doesn't have to do that. She has lived her life as a human. So even though she, for example, does not need to breath, her mind thinks she needs air. In case of fire and smoke, she starts to cough when exposed to smoke, and she might pass out if she doesn't get air. All this is because her mind still thinks she is a human. She should also be immune to alcohol, but because she has lived in a culture in which use of alcohol plays a significant part of life, she can get drunk. And pass out. However, other chemicals she isn't used to, are ineffective against her. For example, the Circle of Thorns tried to chloroform her, but it didn't work because Allison doesn't know how to react to chloroform. Then, the Circle of Thorns tried to gun her down with sedative darts, proving the effort equally ineffective. As a last resort they tried to taze her, but because she is immune to physical damage that effort was likewise ineffective.
[edit] Species heritage
Allison was sent from Spain to an estonian monastery for a good reason. Basically her demonic side was sealed off by prayers and tattoos. Her demonic traits are still partially restrained, even though she has removed some of her tattoos. But she really should stay away from dying people and mindreaders. Not for her own sake, but for theirs. She has not yet been able to control all her abilities, so she might accidentaly cause irrevocable consequences to wandering souls: she devours them without warning. That is why she often wears symbols and insignias to warn people not to pry in her head. And she trusts that people abide by the law, and don't try to infiltrate anyone's mind without permission. Recently, she has gained more control concerning this matter. Now, if prepared, she can restrain herself from devouring the soul and put it on hold instead, or just push the detached soul back where it came from.
[edit] Mimicking human
Allison has lived her whole life as a normal human being. Her species has been living within the human population for a very long time. Unless drastic measures are taken, there is no way to prove her anything else than a normal human being. She can be medically examined, and surgically operated, and there is nothing suspicious to find: studying medical records will not reveal anything exceptional. It is impossible to physically hurt her, but in a normal life situation, if she stumbles upon broken glass, she bleeds. If someone shoots her, a gunshot wound appears and it looks like she needs to be taken to a hospital immediately. But is she really hurt?
No she isn't. It's just a part of her facade.
In the middle-ages, if someone didn't bleed or get hurt, she would have been burned on stake as a witch. Or worse. It has been essential for her species to blend among the human population. If Allison is in her human form, it is impossible to tell her true species. Unless her limitations are exploited against her.
By the way, it seems that Allison ages. Apparently she is not immortal.
[edit] Half-demon form
Allison is able to revert herself in half-demon form. In this form, she is not her human self, but completely different species of magical origin, not conforming to laws of physics nor nature. She looks like she was cast out of black oil, her skin looks and feels wet, but she leaves no marks on any surfaces. She has visible veins on her skin, and they throb visibly. If she is in her half-demon form, it is possible to make an assumption she is a demon. In this form she wears a mask and uses a voice scrambler to alter her voice beyond recognition. The use of mask and the device isn't actually compulsory for her in this form, please consult me before assuming that just tearing off her mask in battle or de-crypting the scrambled voice using computers would be enough to bust her true identity. Allison goes by her alias 'Iynx' when she has altered herself in her half-demon form. (Allison is also able to revert herself in a full-demon form. She does not want to do that for obvious reasons.)
[edit] Character History
Age 0-18
Allison was born in Spain, and her parents were killed. Allison got orpahaged in a monastery, for some reasons were transferred into an estonian monastery in age of 2. She spent her next five years in Estonia, and then was sent to school in Finland. She was sent there with her guardian, an elderly nun. She applied and got double-citizenship (Estonian-Finnish) and qualifed school in age of 16. After she had finished her school, her guardian nun died. Allison volunteered to military service immediately after school. Got into combat diver school in Upinniemi and finished the school specializing in sniping. Then she moved to Helsinki to study classical music and theology.
Age 19-23
After year and a half of studying music and theology, she participated the local 'next top model' -reality television show. She was exotic looking, good-behaving nice girl with an interesting background and she got a lot of national attention. She won the show and got a kick-start in modeling industry, with a two year contract in Paris, France. With great efforts, she managed to continue her studies of theology during her day-job as a model. After these two years, she moved back to Finland to become a priest. However, she was given impression that the local council of bishops would not inaugurate her. Disappointed, she dropped her dreams to become a priest moved to the USA. In the USA she did several public relations jobs including hosting television shows, posing in advertises and taking part in charity work, mainly concerning the homeless and the orphans. She frequently visited different christian televangelists, making quest appearances in their television shows and begged people to show mercy to the homeless and the poor. She also continued her studies in classical music during that time.
Age 24-27
Allison travelled to Finland and completed her studies in classical music, and the same year she was called to military refresher training. She volunteered to take a temporary instructor job in the military, putting her public relationship jobs and modelling career on hold. After her temporary office in military, she was happy to hear she was called to approach the bishop council in Tartu, Estonia. The council approved her, and she became a priest. Now she had her congrecation and a permanent job, so she started to settle in Tartu. However, she had begun to remove her tattoos earlier, and their removal had had alarming consequences. She had questions, and she wanted answers. Based in Tartu, she started to research herself, mainly by phone, friends and hired help. She had to spend a lot of money in the research, so she agreed to another temporary modeling industry job in New York, USA. She was supposed to co-host a fashion show. And she was supposed to meet someone from Spain during the show. Everything was going fine, but then she got attacked by Circle of Thorns. During a live television fashion show. Obviosly, the Circle of Thorns tried to capture her, but Allison fought them off her, bare-handed. Only little television footage got on the air after the attack took place, but people might have seen that the Thorns tried to specifically capture Allison. What was not shown was that they failed miserably. Allison punched one of her attackers thru a window to a 33 floors dive down, and threw the other Circle of Thorns around until they either fled away, or were too injured to do anything else than bleed on the floor.
After the incident, FBI and FBSA had a little chat with Allison.
Now Allison carries a hero licence.
And a green card.
[edit] Gaming notes
-Allison is not an alcoholic. She is just half-finnish.
-Allison mimics human very well. When she is in her human form, there is no way to prove her anything else than a normal human being. There are ways to find out clues of her true species, but please, unless you have a good reason why you should detect her as a demon, don't. /tell first.
-Allison Riaz is potentially dangerous to people with psychic abilities. Allison is a kind of a walking soul abyss. If she is not prepared, she will devour the soul (i.e. conscious mind) of every mindreader trying to infiltrate into her mind. There is no way around it. And there is no way to undo it. If you are not comfortable with this, don't interact with this character. Or make up an In Character reason why your character will not be interested in infiltrating into her mind.
-Runaway Son by Mike Oldfield suits best as Allison's theme song.
-Allison's main purpose is to be a roleplaying character of social interaction. CoT -related plot of her origin is currently running, although the progress so far has been very slow paced. As a benefactor by her nature, Allison is keen to help people around her. But do take a note that she is invulnerable and ridiculously strong, she is practically invincible. Please take a moment to think do you really want an invincible demon to get involved in your plot.
[edit] Trivia
-The season Allison took part in the finnish 'next top model'-reality television show is infamous because of frequent trivial mishaps and misfortunes to the participants and to other people involved.
-She has spanish birth certificate, estonian-finnish citizenship and the US green card. For some reason she does not have spanish citizenship.
-She is surprisingly wealthy. For a priest.
-She was given the nickname 'Iynx' by the other girls in the monastery.
-The black outfit she uses when she masks herself as Iynx isn't really a costume. It's her ability to alter her skin tougher and thicker. Only the mask, tactical belt, gloves, boots and harnesses are real clothes and accessories.
-She is not world-famous supermodel everybody know. She is just a world class model. No super. No famous. She has been seen in several television commercials, outdoor billboards and televangelist sunday services, but she isn't a real celebrity. She is just a familiar face.
[edit] Updates / Recent activity
At the moment Allison Riaz is arrested on suspicion of incitement to ethnic group and vilification of a religion.
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