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GAIA NAME: Glaiveknight
CHARACTER NAME: Adria Collins & Shrill
SECRET IDENTITY(hero/villian name): Grave
ALIGNMENT (hero, villian, innocent): Villain
SPECIAL ABILITY/TALENT:
MORTIS JAUNT - Adria can disrupt the fabric of reality, creating a temporary hole into a zone of death. From there, she can teleport to anywhere she wants to. Both exit and entrance in the physical world are heralded by electronics going haywire and sudden spread of shadows.
MORTIS MUTATE - Adria can take on a demonic form, exhibiting fangs, claws, and wings. In this state, she has hightened strength, speed, and duribility, but she can't use her MORTUS JAUNT, and Shrill can't use his ETHER CLAW.
ETHER CLAW - Shrill can temporarily separate his limbs from Adria's body, and reach out to nearby enemies. Since he's non-material, he can attack the soul directly, bypassing armor and supernatural toughness.
PAST: Adria grew up in the more impoversed portion of Timberwood. Her childhood was tough, and she eventually got into a gang called the Joseph Divine. For several years she worked as a minion to the gang, and helped in several robberies, kidnappings, and extortion missions. All that ended when the gang was exterminated by Feral, a hard-core take-no-prisoners style superhero. Adria was left for dead along with the rest of the Joseph Divine gang, in the collapsed rubble of their former headquarters. It was there, in a state somewhere between life and death, that she met Shrill. The matchup couldn't have been better; Shrill wanted a willing host body in inhabit, and Adria wanted to live. The two fused, and Shrill took over, using their newfound powers to get Adria's body to safety. Eventually, once Adria's wounds had healed, he let her take over again.
Adria saw it as a sign of fate that she had met Shrill and survived. Heroes had tries to kill her and couldn't, she was destined for greater things. Adria hunted down Feral, and showed him the same mercy he showed her. Suffice to say, he did not survive.
Shrill for his part, is many people. Whomever he originally was is lost in time, but at one point, he was a single living person. When he (or she) died, instead of moving on, the soul came back from the dead, and eventually sought out a new body, either a dead one or a willing living one. Any living soul he shares a body with fuses with Shrill upon death, the two becoming one. Over the centuries, Shrill has been warriors, doctors, scientists, magicians, thieves, and common people.
When Adria eventually dies, her soul will fuse with Shrill, permanently becoming part of him. He will eventually seek out a new body, as he has been doing for the last 3000 years.
PERSONALITY: Adria is cynical and cold. She's fully aware of her sexuality, and will use it to her advantage when she sees fit. She makes snap judgements about people, and it takes a lot for her to change her opinion. Often times, she plays with people she intends to kill, trying to force them to act violently. This way, she can kill them and say it was self defense. Shrill, despite being dead, is ironically the more human of the two. He is wise and understands the motivation and ideas of both heroes, villains, and the common man. Having been originally one of them, Shrill has great faith in humanity, and is capable of showing compassion for the race as a whole. However, he holds no worth in the life of an individual, and has little remorse in slaughtering thousands, in the name of "helping" millions. He is sometimes content with simply waiting out an obstacle or opponent, seeing as sooner or later they will eventually die, and he keep going.
APPEARANCE: Grave
WEAPONS: A pair of switchblades shaped like straight-edge razors, an Uzi, and a large scull-decorated claymore from one of Shrill's previous lives.
MINIONS?: none
HIDE OUT: Although they don't use it as a "hideout," Adria owns a vault in the industrial district, mostly for storage purposes.
OTHER: Though he is generally invisible, Shrill sometimes manifests as a distorted shadow behind Adria, or a small non-material creature on her shoulder.