Welcome to Gaia! ::

Negaverse Alias: General Cinnabar

Challenge: All will be devoured. There is no escape.

Youma Ability:

Youma Absorption - Cinnabar activates her ability by biting into a full youma. This causes them to dissolve into a black, oily cloud that she then swallows. While absorbed, the youma gives her a physical boost, upping her strength, speed and defense. After ten minutes, her body rejects the youma and its regurgitated; slightly drained, but undamaged. This ability comes with a ten minute cool down. While her body is recovering, any attempt to eat another youma will result in getting violently ill as her body rejects the absorption.

Claws and Fangs - Cinnabar no longer has a weapon like a human agent. Instead, her teeth are slightly more fang-like and she has retractable claws on her fingers. They're fairly hard and strong, but not unbreakable.

Former Subordinates/Team:

- General Jet
- Eternal Chrysocolla
- Corrupt Noctua
- Lieutenant Chalcopyrite *
- Lieutenant Violane *
- Lieutenant Idrialite *
- Captain Cerussite (currently Squire Emrys) *

* Corrupted by Cinnabar



Hobbies:

Hand to hand combat - Ariel regularly visited a gym to work out and participated in classes that teach combat. She likes the exertion and the need to think on her feet, and she loves the feeling of laying the smack down on someone else where its socially acceptable. Her favorite forms are mixed martial arts and Krav Maga. If its full contact, no padding or equipment, she loves it.

Hand guns - For when fists just won't do. Ariel got herself a permit to carry because of her job. She regularly visits a shooting range to keep her skills razor sharp and has a good knowledge of brands and types. She loves the tactile feel of breaking a skull with her hands, but nothing can really beat the powerful feel of a gun. 99% time, though, her handgun is filled with rubber bullets.

Bounty Hunter - Ariel works as a bail enforcement agent for a local bail bondsman to recover fugitives that have eluded bail. She gets a cut of the bail after recovering whomever it is and bringing them back, which she shares with her team. Despite being a badass, she does need back up, so she works with two other agents the bail bondsman assigns to her. They change periodically, so she hasn't formed a real deep report with any of them. She does tend to work fairly closely with the local police and has a pretty decent working relationship with them.

Kitties - Probably the one and only soft thing about Ariel is her love for cats, especially kittens. She fosters cats before they go on to forever homes and volunteers at local shelters when she has the time. No matter how much of a hard a** she might be, she just has a soft spot for the warm, fuzzy little things.



Virtues:

Passionate/Self-assured - She doesn't bother to hide the way she is and it lets her put everything out there, into everything she does. She does what she says she'll do and does it well, to the fullest extent of her abilities. She is what she is and she is perfectly happy with that, whatever her flaws or virtues, and she expects everyone else to accept that. Her emotions are usually quite visible and they tend to run hot.

Fearless - Ariel does not back down from a challenge and some of the things that would make other people baulk, barely make her blink. She knows what she wants and she goes and gets it. This can be a good thing, in that she doesn't shy away from hard work, difficult tasks or odds that are stacked against her. She won't back down from a fight she needs to win or let herself be scared away from something she wants by someone else. Fear is not to be indulged.

Faithful/Protective - Her loyalty might be hard to win, but once you have, she is loyal to the end. For those she leads, she will protect unflinchingly and for those she follows, she does so without question and to the best of her abilities. She will back any decision you make, good or bad, and support you despite the odds against you. The only thing that can break her loyalty to her comrades is being betrayed by them.



Flaws:

Cruel/Sadistic - Ariel enjoys inflicting pain and watching others suffer. This can range from caustic remarks and sarcasm to actual physical injury depending on the situation. Hurting someone else makes her feel powerful and more worthwhile, as twisted as that is. She enjoys fighting, both for the adrenaline spike and the chance to beat down someone else, but she isn't stupid enough to let it over rule her common sense. The only exception to this is animals, as odd as that sounds. She abhors abuse to them, probably because they don't truly understand and can't really fight back.

Fearless - Having no fear becomes a flaw when its taken too far and more than once, Ariel has proven that she will take on things any normal person would have known better than to do. She is not afraid to stand up to superiors that are far above her station and she will jump into fights that anyone could tell you she wouldn't win, that it was the height of stupidity to try. Lack of caution has lead to some serious injuries in the past, and most likely a bad reputation with people she really needs on her side rather than against her.

Proud/Haughty - Ariel knows she is a badass, and unless you can somehow prove that it's not the case, she just naturally assumes she is better than you are. She might not treat her allies like dirt, but unless you've got rank on her, she's probably talked down to you more than once and is not ashamed of it. She is aware of her weaknesses or faults as a person, but she has a hard time admitting they might hinder her or be detrimental.

Family:

Ariel doesn't talk to or about her family if she can help it.

Father: Aaron Mishnah (deceased)
Ariel's father was a sucessful businessman and ran a company in the manufacturing business. They own multiple factories and trucks for shipping. Last year, he died mysteriously and the family has been doing their best to cover it up and keep it out of the media. Murder is bad for business.

Mother: Jessica Mishnah-Goldbloom
Ariel's mother is a house wife and socialite. She spends most of her time organizing parties and charity work, and generally being good PR for her husband's company. She was scandalized by Ariel's inability to fit in her social circles and has a hard time understanding her black sheep daughter. She took her husbands death very hard and has immersed herself in the social scene even deeper, relying on the superficial to distract her.

Brother: Jeremiah Mishnah
Ariel's younger brother, he's 25 right now and attending law school. Of all the family, he's the one she was closest to and the one that understood her the best. They haven't spoken in years though, not since Ariel's descent into drug use.

Sister: Rachel Mishnah
Ariel's older sister, she's 30. She has all of her mother's charm and her father's ruthless business sense. She made Ariel's life something of a hell at home, constantly picking on her for not fitting in. She took over her father's company when he died and has been doing famously well with it. She's a real hard a** b***h, surprisingly something she has in common with her sister. They have not talked for years.



Interesting Facts:

- Cinnabar displays a lot of behavior one would associate with a cat and can produce most of their sounds. She can purr and growl and chuff. Its rumored cat n** can now get her high.

- Because of the youma Cinnabar merged with, she now lives in a constant state of hunger. The only time she is not hungry is when she has absorbed a youma and it returns when she releases it. This hunger is not appeased by food and she has a normal human stomach. If she gives in to the hunger and eats to much, she risks getting sick. She can ignore this hunger to an extent, especially if she has something to distract herself, but there are moments when she can't resist it. In these instances, absorbing a youma is the most effective action.

- Because of her ability to absorb youma, most don't like Cinnabar much. They obey her because she's a general, but its grudging and they run away if they can. Its possible that intelligent humanoid youma may feel any number of ways, but being absorbed is highly unpleasant, so its fairly natural that it would get her a bad reputation.

- Ariel also owns a taser for her work and zip strips. Her taser is the kind you have to get up close and personal to use, but its meant to give her an edge when she can't get enough space to use her gun and her fists aren't cutting it. The zip strips are cheap, effective handcuffs. Cinnabar no longer uses other weapons. She's all the weapon she needs, really.

- She owns a cherry-red, crotch-rocket motorcycle. A hold over from her human life that she still enjoys from time to time. Completely superfluous, when you can teleport, but the speed is fun.

- She currently has four cats in her apartment that she's fostering. Zeus, Hera, Mistofolees and Sally. Sally is a huge calico Maine Coon, Mistofolees is a tuxedo boy, and Zeus & Hera are short haired tabbies. Cinnabar no longer fosters or keeps pets.

- Ariel's family is Jewish and have been for generations. She even has a little silver star of david on a necklace. However, Ariel is barely religious at all. She gave up most of that when she became estranged from her family and has let her spiritual life languish.

- Her family's business is named Mishnah Pride. Its highly likely other people have heard of it as its local and successful, it's factories employing tons of local people. Her family name may be recognizable because of this, even though Ariel will deny having anything to do with them. She finds it embarrassing.

- Ariel is pansexual, BUT because of the traumatic experience with her old boyfriend, views men as untrustworthy. In general, she has a low opinion of males and a female chauvinism. Getting along with men is not her best skill.

- She is probably the opposite of a prude... she likes to party, flirt (or more) and drink, but she will not touch drugs of any kind.

- Not something she talks about, but because of her past pregnancy and the complications involved with it, she is not sure she can ever have children. Its something of a sore point and she has trouble around kids because of it. She's torn between wanting and hating them. Cinnabar is pretty sure she can't have children at this point. Not a big loss.

- Dude, what is up with her eyes? The change from white to black sclera is an outward sign of the inward mental changes Cinnabar has gone through. When Cin was merged with her youma, she had been attacked by it and partially absorbed. The energy she got through promotion gave her what she needed to overpower the youma's consciousness and seize control. Throughout her time as a captain, her and her youma shared the same body but were otherwise completely separate entities. She could feel his awareness in her mind and he sometimes affected her actions and mannerisms (though most of the time he slept or was passive). With her promotion to general, Cinnabar underwent a last struggle with Baal and defeated him, finally absorbing his consciousness. They are no longer two beings, but one merged one, combining two minds, personalities, and drives into a single being. It remains to be seen how much of Baal will manifest in Cinnabar, as she was the dominant mind, but you can be sure that she is not entirely the same person she used to be and her eyes reflect that.



About the Mineral:

Cinnabar is the common ore of mercury.

Cinnabar is generally found in a massive, granular or earthy form and is bright scarlet to brick-red in color. It occasionally occurs in crystals with a non-metallic adamantine luster.

Generally cinnabar occurs as a vein-filling mineral associated with recent volcanic activity and alkaline hot springs.

Cinnabar has been mined since the Neolithic Age. During the Roman Empire it was mined both as a pigment and for its mercury content, and it has been the main source of mercury throughout the centuries.

To produce liquid mercury (quicksilver), crushed cinnabar ore is roasted in rotary furnaces. Pure mercury separates from sulfur in this process and easily evaporates. A condensing column is used to collect the liquid metal, which is most often shipped in iron flasks.

Because of its mercury content, cinnabar can be toxic to human beings. Though peoples in ancient South America often used cinnabar for art, or processed it into refined mercury (as a means to gild silver and gold to objects) "the toxic properties of mercury were well known. It was dangerous to those who mined and processed cinnabar, it caused shaking, loss of sense, and death...data suggest that mercury was retorted from cinnabar and the workers were exposed to the toxic mercury fumes." Overexposure to mercury, mercurialism, was seen as an occupational disease to the ancient Romans, "Mining in the Spanish cinnabar mines of Almadén, 225 km southwest of Madrid, was regarded as being akin to a death sentence due to the shortened life expectancy of the miners, who were slaves or convicts."

Cinnabar has been used for its color in the New World since the Olmec culture. Cinnabar was used in royal burial chambers during the peak of Maya civilization, most dramatically in the Tomb of the Red Queen in Palenque (600-700 AD), where the remains of a noble woman and objects belonging to her in her sarcophagus were completely covered with bright red powder made from cinnabar.

The most popularly known use of cinnabar is in Chinese carved lacquerware, a technique that apparently originated in the Song Dynasty. The danger of mercury poisoning may be reduced in ancient lacquerware by entraining the powdered pigment in lacquer, but could still pose an environmental hazard if the pieces were accidentally destroyed. In the modern jewelry industry, the toxic pigment is replaced by a resin-based polymer that approximates the appearance of pigmented lacquer.