Clemence "Sin Eater" Papadopoulou
Jul 12, 2016 17:51:42 GMT -7
Post by Sin Eater on Jul 12, 2016 17:51:42 GMT -7
Name: Clemence Papadopoulou
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Occupation: Fulltime super
Face Claim: Caren Hortensia from Fate/Hollow Ataraxia
Appearance:
Sin Eater has a deceptively youthful appearance due to her aging having been halted upon the emergence of her powers. She embraces this effect by wearing the uniform of one of Malachite Isle's private junior high schools, even while on Keeper business. Otherwise, she tends to favor dressing in layers, regardless of the weather, to hide the bandages she wears over whatever wounds she has at the moment. She has a gymnast's build, standing at just under five feet but with enough lean muscle to carry her own weight and then some. Her complexion is flawless, and she doesn't wear make-up except as part of a disguise.
Skills:
Psychoanalysis - With her powers highly unsuitable to combat, Sin Eater has learned to survive by playing her rivals' human qualities against themselves, sniffing out mental weaknesses and insecurities with unnerving precision.
Acting - Sin Eater has the poise and self-control to put on whichever demeanor she judges to be most useful at the moment. As she switches from helpless victim to bloodthirsty attacker in the blink of an eye, it's hard to figure out what she's truly feeling.
Music - Specifically, keyboard instruments. She also has a latent talent for composition and a rather pleasant singing voice, though none of these have seen any use in years.
Academics - Rarely, when Sin Eater can be baited into light conversation, she'll demonstrate a wide breadth of knowledge on literature and history. If she actually attended school, she'd no doubt be a model student.
Cooking - Even more rarely, Sin Eater demonstrates some impressive cooking skills. She has a repertoire that includes cuisine from all over the world, with a bit more focus on hearty home cooking. She's capable of making a tasty dish even without relying on her power to remove the flaws from whatever she cooks.
Self-defense - The product of a couple of years of focused study, Sin Eater has developed a defensive fighting style that borrows a lot from boxing. Even with her flawless physique, she has a hard time against larger, more muscular people (let alone those with hand-to-hand-focused superpowers), but she's still a master of drawing fights out as long as possible to either seize an opportunity to escape or delay until help can arrive.
Personality:
Sin Eater maintains a veneer of cheerful civility so thin that it's hard to see why she bothers. She almost always uses a pleasant tone of voice, but her words have cruel barbs hidden among them. If the barbs fail to produce the desired effect, then she escalates, speaking more and more harshly and sometimes dropping the cheerful act entirely. Rather than relying on petty insults, she much prefers to deride things the subject cares about, question principles they hold dear, and dig for ways to provoke cognitive dissonance in general.
This makes Sin Eater an exceptionally unpleasant person to deal with. She is completely disinterested in making actual friends, and while she plays the Keeper game of traded favors and alliances quite well, even her allies eventually grow to dread dealing with her. She seems to care much more about getting reactions out of people than she does about any practical concerns, and while she's clearly capable of controlling herself in order to play the part of a hapless civilian, she's far too eager to drop that facade and let her true colors shine through.
Her actions are no less cruel than her words. She has no regard whatsoever for human life or happiness. The only thing stopping her from becoming a prolific mass-murderer is the utter non-lethality of her power. Even then, she has killed people with her bare hands before, sometimes for as little reason as wanting to see the reactions of their loved ones. She avoids killing supers, but only so as not to jeopardize her alliances with Keepers who are more focused on strengthening Emerald City against the dragon threat.
Sin Eater is driven by an overwhelming curiosity regarding the nature of the human condition. She wants to understand what makes other people behave the way they do. Right and wrong have no meaning for her in the face of this motivation. People have more enlightening reactions to cruelty than to kindness, to being hurt than to being healed, to adversity than to comfort. Thus, she acts in such a way as to bring these about. She has also developed a twisted enjoyment of others' suffering, but that generally isn't enough on its own to motivate her.
In pursuit of these motives, she displays an absolute disregard for the consequences, not only to others, but also to herself. Her power always brings her back to life, so she doesn't fear violence. She has alliances with detection-power Keepers, so she doesn't fear being imprisoned and hidden away. Her experiences have utterly desensitized her to physical and emotional pain, so she doesn't fear torture or losing anything precious to her. In short, there are no ways to impose meaningful punishments upon her, so she does as she pleases.
If one were forced to use a positive word to describe Sin Eater, "honest" would be an acceptable choice. She lies when it suits her, but she finds it boring. Her philosophy is that people's reactions to untrue information are inherently less enlightening than their reactions when faced with the truth of the world. This has the side effect that those who deal with her regularly know her words to be sincere, which only increases the weight of her cruel assessments.
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Occupation: Fulltime super
Face Claim: Caren Hortensia from Fate/Hollow Ataraxia
Appearance:
Sin Eater has a deceptively youthful appearance due to her aging having been halted upon the emergence of her powers. She embraces this effect by wearing the uniform of one of Malachite Isle's private junior high schools, even while on Keeper business. Otherwise, she tends to favor dressing in layers, regardless of the weather, to hide the bandages she wears over whatever wounds she has at the moment. She has a gymnast's build, standing at just under five feet but with enough lean muscle to carry her own weight and then some. Her complexion is flawless, and she doesn't wear make-up except as part of a disguise.
Skills:
Psychoanalysis - With her powers highly unsuitable to combat, Sin Eater has learned to survive by playing her rivals' human qualities against themselves, sniffing out mental weaknesses and insecurities with unnerving precision.
Acting - Sin Eater has the poise and self-control to put on whichever demeanor she judges to be most useful at the moment. As she switches from helpless victim to bloodthirsty attacker in the blink of an eye, it's hard to figure out what she's truly feeling.
Music - Specifically, keyboard instruments. She also has a latent talent for composition and a rather pleasant singing voice, though none of these have seen any use in years.
Academics - Rarely, when Sin Eater can be baited into light conversation, she'll demonstrate a wide breadth of knowledge on literature and history. If she actually attended school, she'd no doubt be a model student.
Cooking - Even more rarely, Sin Eater demonstrates some impressive cooking skills. She has a repertoire that includes cuisine from all over the world, with a bit more focus on hearty home cooking. She's capable of making a tasty dish even without relying on her power to remove the flaws from whatever she cooks.
Self-defense - The product of a couple of years of focused study, Sin Eater has developed a defensive fighting style that borrows a lot from boxing. Even with her flawless physique, she has a hard time against larger, more muscular people (let alone those with hand-to-hand-focused superpowers), but she's still a master of drawing fights out as long as possible to either seize an opportunity to escape or delay until help can arrive.
Personality:
Sin Eater maintains a veneer of cheerful civility so thin that it's hard to see why she bothers. She almost always uses a pleasant tone of voice, but her words have cruel barbs hidden among them. If the barbs fail to produce the desired effect, then she escalates, speaking more and more harshly and sometimes dropping the cheerful act entirely. Rather than relying on petty insults, she much prefers to deride things the subject cares about, question principles they hold dear, and dig for ways to provoke cognitive dissonance in general.
This makes Sin Eater an exceptionally unpleasant person to deal with. She is completely disinterested in making actual friends, and while she plays the Keeper game of traded favors and alliances quite well, even her allies eventually grow to dread dealing with her. She seems to care much more about getting reactions out of people than she does about any practical concerns, and while she's clearly capable of controlling herself in order to play the part of a hapless civilian, she's far too eager to drop that facade and let her true colors shine through.
Her actions are no less cruel than her words. She has no regard whatsoever for human life or happiness. The only thing stopping her from becoming a prolific mass-murderer is the utter non-lethality of her power. Even then, she has killed people with her bare hands before, sometimes for as little reason as wanting to see the reactions of their loved ones. She avoids killing supers, but only so as not to jeopardize her alliances with Keepers who are more focused on strengthening Emerald City against the dragon threat.
Sin Eater is driven by an overwhelming curiosity regarding the nature of the human condition. She wants to understand what makes other people behave the way they do. Right and wrong have no meaning for her in the face of this motivation. People have more enlightening reactions to cruelty than to kindness, to being hurt than to being healed, to adversity than to comfort. Thus, she acts in such a way as to bring these about. She has also developed a twisted enjoyment of others' suffering, but that generally isn't enough on its own to motivate her.
In pursuit of these motives, she displays an absolute disregard for the consequences, not only to others, but also to herself. Her power always brings her back to life, so she doesn't fear violence. She has alliances with detection-power Keepers, so she doesn't fear being imprisoned and hidden away. Her experiences have utterly desensitized her to physical and emotional pain, so she doesn't fear torture or losing anything precious to her. In short, there are no ways to impose meaningful punishments upon her, so she does as she pleases.
If one were forced to use a positive word to describe Sin Eater, "honest" would be an acceptable choice. She lies when it suits her, but she finds it boring. Her philosophy is that people's reactions to untrue information are inherently less enlightening than their reactions when faced with the truth of the world. This has the side effect that those who deal with her regularly know her words to be sincere, which only increases the weight of her cruel assessments.