----Basic Information----
Mind behind the Character: Sorbet Shark
Name: Arete
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Personality: Arete is quiet, serious, and often blunt when speaking to others. Those who don't know her tend to get the impression that she is intentionally rude but she tends to blow people off or speak up without intending on being rude. It just happens with her. She is a fierce fighter and hates to admit defeat. This can usually lead to her fighting tooth and nail with stronger opponents and doing whatever she can to win. Arete has a deep hatred for the Machinists and anyone who associates themselves with them in any way.
History: Arete was born in the Upper Cities of the Machinist Order. Her father was a well known doctor and scientist while her mother was an engineer that helped build and improve the cities within the headquarters. She had a very well off upbringing and lived a pretty good life with little worry in the Upper Cities. She learned to read upper level books rather quickly, learned multiple languages, and of course she learned about the evils of non-humans. These bits of knowledge were quickly debunked in private by Arete's mother who had had a past outside of the Machinist's and viewed non humans such as weapons as necessary and not above nor below other humans. Arete was told never to repeat what her mother told her to her classmates, teacher, or even her father who was very much devoted to Saint Clara.
One night, when Arete was seven, she woke up to her parents arguing and rather loudly at that. Unbeknownst to Arete, her father had found out about her mother's personal views. Views that opposed those taught to the Machinists. He was enraged but her mother managed to dismiss him. Of course, that wasn't the end of it. Tension built in the family for days on end. Her father became more and more distant towards Arete and her mother until he snapped.
A week later, Arete was woken up by her mother and dragged out of bed. She was told to pack whatever she could and that they had to leave. Arete's mother ignored whatever questions Arete had and continued pushing her to hurry. Late at night, Arete and her mother fled the Upper Cities, moving down to the Lower Cities. Then the reason they were running came. In a blink of an eye, Arete's mother was shot dead and Arete was pinned to the ground by her father and a few more people that Arete could not see, only hear. At first, a female voice said to kill Arete too since she was obviously corrupted by her mother but after a few small pleas from her father, a new fate was decided. Arete lost her arms that night and was never to show her face in the Upper Cities again.
For years on end, Arete struggled to survive on her own in the Machinist Dumps, coming close to death multiple times. A few surprisingly generous souls she met managed to help her make manageable prosthetic arms that she could use to get by. Over time, Arete began doing her best to learn about Augmentations and how to build on more to her prosthetics to make them more useful in everyday matters and even fighting.
By the age of 13, Arete was a force to be reckoned with in the Dumps. She was eventually called upon by some of the communities in the Dumps to take out enemies and became a well known hit man for the dumps in exchange for technology she could use for her arms and food.
Eventually, the anger that she felt for the place she lived boiled over. She was tired of living the way she did. Tired of the fact that those that harmed her and her mother were most likely just sipping whine right now and enjoying life, blowing off the fact that they had killed a mother and cut off a child's arms and left her for dead. Arete didn't want to die the way they wanted her to. She wanted out. After a few months of planning, she came up with a decent escape plan. After finding a weak point in the ground of the dumps, Arete used that as her way of escaping, creating a hole in the weakened metal and jumping through it while the headquarters was at a temporary stand still.
After escaping, Arete continued working as a bounty hunter in exchange for goods and services. She continued upgrading her augmented prosthetics until they were a force to be reckoned with by not just humans but demons and witches alike.
At 15, she found the Lumen Hunters and decided to join them, figuring it was better to work as a group than alone and she has worked with them ever since.
----General Information----
Race: Human. Ex-Machinist
Family: Mother- Deceased, Father-Unknown
Occupation: Bounty Hunter
Augmentation(s): With spare tech she gathered over time, Arete created her own augmented prosthetics. They aren't purely augmented against a certain being but to sum it up, Arete is able to rival weapons, witches, and even kishin with her arms and is also able to take hits. Arete, through unknown events, managed to get her hands on a special high tech augment that is supposed to make her immune to any and all mind control abilities. This combined with the fact that she is rather determined and stubborn would make it difficult for even Saint Clara to inflict mind control abilities onto her.
----Abilities and Techniques Information----
Mark of Lumen
Each member has this ability, its shown from the symbol placed on their body. Arete's is placed on the back of her neck. This mark allows the Lumen to locate each other as well as talk to each other telepathically, of course for any of these effects to work they must be within a 100 feet of each other.
Busters
- The large gauntlets that travel with Arete are controlled by her prosthetics. They can detach from the prosthetics and levitate where ever Arete wants them to go. They don't weigh much but can pack quite a punch thanks to the metal she used to make them.
Plasma Wavelength
- The blue aura her prosthetics give off is her wavelength. She is able to focus her wavelength into the prosthetics and create shockwaves, forcefields, and energy orbs.
Sucker Punch
- Arete launched her gauntlets at an enemy and then launches a large shockwave. This speeds up the gauntlets immensely and can result with severe damage if the enemy is hit by the gauntlets.
Plasma
- The metals in her prosthetics react with her wavelength, resulting in her "hands" becoming literal plasma that can melt metal, rock, etc.
Enhanced Speed and Agility
- Speaks for itself. Arete can move much faster than a normal human.
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----Miscellaneous----
Hobbies:
- Enhancing her prosthetics
- Gardening
-Reading
-Shadow Boxing
Likes:
- A good fight
- Interesting new tech she has yet to see
-Bounties
Dislikes:
- Machinists or anyone associated with them
- Losing
-Her dad. She really dislikes him.
Dreams & Aspirations:
-Traveling around the world.
- She has this secret dream where she lives a relatively quiet normal life in a cabin in a forest somewhere with a family. She would never tell anyone that though. Ever.
Other:
-Arete has zero issues with non humans despite growing up in an environment that revolved around speaking of hate against them. She sometimes even prefers the company of non humans more than other humans.
-"Saint Slayer" is a direct reference towards her hatred to the Machinists. And what better way to state your dislike than have a nickname that implies that you wish to kill the Machinists' leader.
