Name:; Daphne Xanis (Yes. Xanis. Deal with it.)
Nicknames:; None!
Age:; 18 years old
Birthday:; November 8th, 1992
Sign:; Scorpio
Blood Type:; O
School:; Former Meadowview student, current DCU transfer.
Favorite Foods:; Cinnamon rolls, pasta of any kind, corn dogs.
Hated Foods:; Bananas, cooked veggies that are not totally crisp like peas, and any meat not chicken, steak, or ham.
Hobbies:;World of Warcraft -- Sorry, you can’t get rid of this one! Being associated with Audrey forced her to change servers but her love for the Horde remains full and blossoming. Aware of her ironic love for Sylvanas she still harbors it nonetheless. Her Sylvanas statue from Jada Chamberlyn is a prized possession that sits on her desk in a position of honor. Not even Elzo is allowed to touch it! It’s a hobby that’s been reduced to a few hours a week but nonetheless it is
going strong.
Going Fast -- No really! Between wheedling Elzo into stealing Marlo’s bike for a quick trip down the highway or forcing him to put the top down on his sporty little car, Daphne likes going
fast. This also goes for running across town as fast as she can, leaping from roof to roof, and even running down the street purposefully late so that she can push herself to fly faster and harder through the crowds. It’s not really living on the edge sort of fast, or taking things so quick that they’re foolish. She just likes being speedy and moving as fast as she can. It’s a weird thing to enjoy, but Daphne isn’t the most normal girl anyway.
Numbers -- This is her one true passion in life, and they are like a second language to Daphne. She is absolutely gifted in any form of mathematics, though unfortunately it doesn't stretch too far over in other academics. Sciences do come easier to her than other things, but sadly her grasp of poetry and literature is miserable at best. But you betcha that she will be the girl laughing uproariously at the most obscure math jokes on XKCD! Sometimes, when alone, she will sit and simply enumerate in one of her various notebooks, thinking of how the numbers could fit together - theoretical mathematics.
Virtues:;Emotional Corking -- Not to be mistaken for simply being emotionless, Daphne is simply practiced at not spewing the full force of her emotion everywhere unless she wishes to, in most cases. She would be internally screaming at you and all you might see is a thin smile and a polite request to ******** off. Something that the young woman prides herself on is the fact that she does not usually let anyone see her cry. In fact, in general, Daphne does not cry unless it is very late at night and she does so quietly with little mess or noise. She views this as her greatest asset, and when things get emotional she clings to the reason and control that her mind provides.
It does however make it sometimes hard to relate to Daphne or even think she’s being very serious about things. She has the capability to be very serious and give proper levity to a bad situation. It’s just that sometimes it’s not easy for her to handle such emotions and she tries not to. Easier to laugh than cry, isn’t it?
Just Do It -- With the loss of her Negaverse support had born inside of the former Audrey Collins the need to just get things
done. Life is short and you just need to reach out and do things instead of debating about them for weeks at a time. How much better off would they all have been if she had just gone with Castor to Cosmos originally. Would Tanz be how she is now?
Could she have saved the world instead of crying over it in her bedroom and waiting for the right moment? Daphne doesn’t know and she doesn’t want to sit around thinking about it and waiting to find out! She lives now for every moment, in the moment, with a verve for life that she tries to impress on everyone around her. Yeah sure she can plan a good plan and there are
some things she’s willing to sit around and wait for.
But not many! The time to live is now, and she’s going to do it! Want to come?
A Sense of Humor? I’ve Got Five! -- Pulling herself from her shell has been a slow and excruciating process for the young woman but thankfully, even after everything, Daphne still has a glorious ability to be playful. Lewd jokes? Bring ‘em on! Want to pull an amazing prank on that hated professor? She’s game! Though she’s not really much for telling jokes there is nonetheless an incredibly ironic and wry cloud that she moves through.
Daphne loves to laugh! This sense of fun and timing has her taking most things in stride as long as they’re not aimed directly at her. If you’re lucky she’ll just deflect onto something else, otherwise, beware. She’ll try and launch that sense of acerbic humor right at you like a javelin and use it for evil. So if you’re remotely intelligent and want someone fun to hang out with look Daphne up! Odds are you’ll have a good time!
Flaws:;Denial is a River in Egypt -- Even though this has caused Daphne grief in the past, she still sometimes cannot help but rationalize things in the most roundabout, guilt-free ways. She can’t hide from her time in the Negaverse but when it comes to her former comrades doing things she can’t quite reconcile with her shiny new set of morals? Well it’s obviously Beryl’s fault! Or Metallia’s fault!
She is a good person so her friends
must be good people beneath it all. Of course people in the Negaverse don’t enjoy killing people! Why would they? It’s not like
she ever did! Even though she totally did. It doesn’t always work and there are nights full of screaming night terrors to testify to it as well as deep pits of despair that Daphne finds herself crawling out of with Elzo’s help.
But the lies help.
The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions -- Generally, sometimes even when acting as Lina, the bluenette almost always has the best intentions...for herself. They just tend to backfire in the worst possible ways without any urging on her part! It never quite occurs to Daphne that just because something is good for her doesn’t mean that it’s good for everyone else. Simply put that while Daphne thinks she is a caring, lovely person she’s one of the more selfish creatures you could possibly meet. Everything she does is almost always related to ‘how does this work for me’ first and foremost.
Becoming Lina Knight without even wondering what would happen to her friend Tanzanite or really, any of her Negaverse connections is the most selfish, best intentioned thing she’s ever done that has backfired horribly. Castor is blissfully happy and so is she...for five minutes. Then it sank in that she lost everything and her family was put in jeopardy because of this.
DE-FENSE, DE-FENSE -- In spite of her denial and emotional control, beneath all of that incredibly defensive exterior is someone who is actually incredibly turbulent. Daphne feels very strongly about almost everything around her. It could be something as small as an annoying pen click or something as huge as the man she loves. It could be anything or anyone but usually it’s from someone questioning the lies she’s telling to herself or the integrity of her cause being questioned. She feels so strongly that the feelings have to be suppressed or they are dangerous.
Poking at her weaknesses in any area tends to make her snapping, angry, and generally defensive. She can laugh at you all she wants but when you start back into that territory Daphne becomes a bit of a hypocrite and closes up like a clam. Keep pushing and odds are she’ll let you know exactly how she feels at top volume and with an intensity that might be a little bit scary. After all, a girl can only take so much!
Note on being a former Negaverser:; This deserves its own place, because it does not fit in any neat little category and is something that needs development.
Because of the sacrifice of her human identity, Daphne realizes more and more the terrible things she did as Linarite and can no longer hide from them. It makes it very hard for her to put that mute button on her emotions and more often than not the cap comes flying off and hits those closest to her in ugly ways. There is no more time to live in a bubble of denial and when Cosmos ripped aside the fog of the Negaverse, the truth was revealed in all its horrible glory.
It’s now Lina Knight’s personal goal to show this light to
every Negaverse agent. To save them, without realizing that maybe they don’t
want to be saved.
Challenge:; Now I can see the truth.
Weapon:; A
scouter. It’s unique powers are that it can both physically see a powered character’s power aura as well as translate it into a number that can be recorded for later use. With use of energy she can also track any aura around her for 500 yards. Once that person powers down, however, she loses them and couldn’t tell who was on the other side of the wall since suddenly...no one is!
This is limited generally to about two minutes of tracking before she runs down out of power, seeing as how Lina also has to keep up with the hiding or fleeing target which also expends her natural energy.
It sees auras through any smoke, fire, walls, etc however magical glamours like Zinkenite’s crystal glamours do not work. She simply sees the aura and realizes something is wrong. As if she couldn’t feel it anyway!
Magic:; Interference. While expending energy and keeping her opponent's head framed in the ‘target’ area of her scouter, Lina Knight can fill that person’s head with white noise akin to the retro AOL connection noise in the awful days of 56k. The effect diminishes the further she is from you and is useless after twenty feet. Useful for distracting someone from their own thoughts or so much that they’re more concerned with the awful noise than listening to anything you have to say!
This doesn’t really last for more than thirty seconds or you might actually go deaf or kill yourself. She doesn't want that! Thirty seconds is the
max and is only if she can keep you framed for the entirety of the thirty seconds which is going to be not easy if you flail!
It’s this.
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