VINDICO, Lumis Helial Melaney, (+anima)

[LUMIS (Ender)]

[atrb=border,2,true] [bg=FFFFFF] ---------------------------MEMBER FILE #893--------------------------- Lumis Helial Melaney Where's Your Heart? Leave The Sun Behind - Into The Night Follow Me We Ride -----------------------To Faultier Is Not An Option Tonight, Laying Down Our Last Sacrifice TYPE: Non-canon original NAME: Lumis Helial Melaney AGE: 18 GENDER: Female SEXUALITY: Heterosexual, but borderlining on Bi. RACE: Lumis is indeed a +anima and is a bat-type, specifically a vampire bat. While in +anima form, she is seen with dark leathery wings coming from her back and claws formed at the fingers and toes. Both the toes and the index fingers seem especially pronounced, seemingly designed for the gripping of surfaces. This allows her both the capability of flight and clinging to places with little-to-no loss of equilibrium. Lumis also forms both a pair of capable bat-like ears and puncturing fangs. She has sonar, which gives her a reasonable account of an area and what's in it via the receiving and interpretting of sounds and vibrations. The use of the fangs is clear. Vampire bats wound living creatures by puncturing them with their teeth and lick the blood for a meal. Lumis is able to subsist the same way, though this would be more of a 'snack'. She does see well in the dark, but does not depend on her vision because she's inherited a bat's sensitivity to light. Otherwise, she is a nice-looking Caucasian with light-blue eyes and not-too-short black hair that covers the right eye (unless she's hanging upside-down). Her mark is under the left armpit, and looks almost like the pentagram sign of the devil...except that it's the basic face of a bat, and purple. SUMMARY: A stalwart and reasonable girl that rarely holds a grudge, but will kill and drink blood as though it were perfectly natural. -----------------------------------------------This Is A Wasteland, Make Your Move FACTION: Vindico THE CHOICE: In Lumis' eyes, this became a 'no choice situation' once she changed into a +anima. It wasn't a matter of what she wanted. She was able to conceal her true nature to others, but as soon as she became close enough to a human that she might be exposed, she realized it was time to go. In her usual manner, Lumis doesn't harbor really any ill-will towards people, but she recognizes that if the people she knew and loved were on the side that wants to kill her...she has to join the other side. There is no middle ground here. She stops fighting when they stop trying to kill her. Therefore, she joined Vindico, who want basically the same thing. In cases like this, it may seem like she has no opinion, but Lumis stated hers when joining... "This is where I need to be. This is what I have to do." THOUGHTS ON +ANIMA: While there is strictly no neutral ground in this war, Lumis appears to be as close as you can get to it. Because she has no apprehensions towards +anima or - in fact - being a +anima, she is by default generally alright with their existence. In truth, she likes her own state of being for simple pleasures like walking on a ceiling or hearing a tune from a distance and being able to hum it verbatum. She has no problem with human beings OR +anima, really, so the whole conflict between them seems out of place and wasted in her opinion. Her entire desire to fight on the +anima side is based simply on the danger to her. She will never betray the cause, but her motivation is that since she is +anima, she must side with +anima because, in many cases, this is impossible with human factions. JOB: She takes the role of most fighting and tactical-related uses that are possible with her. That is, if they need her for something and she is capable of doing it, she'll get to it. The basic job here is the fighting. See an enemy? Take it down and make it quick. This extends to other job capabilities, sub-categories relevent to her skill-set. The first one was obvious, an assassin. Someone who barely flinches at the sight of blood? Send her after specific people. Since she would also watch people's backs as well, the notion of security and bodyguard quickly followed. In times less action-oriented, she would also be carded into scouting and observation. Her hearing, her mobility, and even the fact that her mark isn't in an obvious place made her ideal for this. The scouting is especially good for the fact that she liked to explore even before her change. INVENTORY: Sunglasses, because she's sensitive to light even in human form somewhat. Reserved WEAPONS: A medium steel scythe (size between a full-sized scythe and a kama), light and balanced enough to be used with one hand and a shaft long enough to effectively wield it two-handed as well. It is able to be disassembled and concealed, though it's pretty solid once put together. ------------------------------Our Last Time, To Make Stars Collide Right Before Your Eyes RELATIONSHIPS: Solis Melaney: - Mother - Clothing Designer, location unknown Calvin Melaney: - Father - Tradesman, location unknown Kamino: - Will not say - Will not say HISTORY: It goes like this... Because Lumis doesn't often talk about herself too personally, preferring to be vague on details so she won't have to deal with the reactions...you probably won't actually hear about it in so direct a manner as this. Nevertheless, here we are. Now, you wouldn't say that Lumis comes from a rich family, but with both parents working for a living with reasonable expectancy of a decent salary, it wouldn't be too harsh to say that Lumis was comfortably well-off. But then, her father was going to retire in a few years - or said so when she was about twelve - so...she had opted to find something she was good at. This way, when the inevitable retirement happened, she would be ready. She tried a few things, one of them revolving around her love of travel and exploration. So, she considered becoming a spelunker, and actually attempted to map out a few caves. It was on the third one that something went wrong. This one was especially twisted and labyrinthian, and she soon became lost. The light she had brought soon ran out and she was then completely out of luck, stranded in the dark with no means to return to the surface. Lumis continued to feel around for hours, a growing apprehension in her. People had died this way, starving or falling to their deaths in some unknown chasm. In fact, she thought she was near one several times, and was paralyzed with fear for minutes on end in these cases. Her eventual salvation was one that neither she nor anyone personally witnessed. (She would have, herself, but it was dark.) She had to rely on the feel of it, and the sound of it before the world underground became clear. She'd heard a noise...and it was a bat. One, then several, and more... She felt them closing in around her, but it wasn't that at all. It was her change that occurred. Her senses were alive! She could see, she could hear, she could understand! Her egress from the cave was none too difficult after this, and she was hit with a certain confidence in herself. Once outside, though, she recognized that she had changed. In this sense, though, the change reassured her that she had no reason to fear, only to adapt to things. Since it was possible to return to a human form, and that her mark - it didn't take long for HER to find it, at least - was in a non-obvious place, Lumis made no attempts to show that she was one and continued to live normally because nothing immediately interfered. The reason she concealed so carefully and so vehemently was because Dignitas was very active in this area. No, this was not where she took her leave and joined in the fight. It was some years later...over a matter more personal. She mentions the name "Kamino" sometimes, but then clams up almost immediately. It's implied that maybe she could've had a life without conflict or fighting if she'd kept to herself, but acting in such a way was suspicious in of itself, and if she were to become close to someone... Sometimes, there are no choices. Only necessities. ----------------------------------Cut Me Open, You'll Find What You've Been Looking For SEE THE LIGHT: Exceptionally good listener. The friendly stoic. Reasonable in conversation. Battle-capable. Mostly reliable. FEAR THE DARK: Doesn't like it when people shout. There's a resident creepy vibe about her in that she isn't apprehensive about blood or killing. Tends to be less reasonable while fighting. Not exactly good at cooking, cleaning, or fixing anything aside from her scythe. It's a well-known fact that while she's loyal, she's not motivated by the cause of the group itself. She joined because it was a necessity to here own well-being. GIVE IT TO ME: Exploring/Spelunking. Singing (and she's actually quite good). Sharp things, and thus also messing with them. Blood, not as a requirement, but it CAN substitute food and drink. Hanging upside-down (because she got use to it). GET IT AWAY: Lakes and oceans. People who are badly off-key (and she can tell). Getting looks from people who don't like her playing with sharp things. Certain vegetables (like...cabbage). Anything that makes her lose her grip. IN MY NIGHTMARES: Seeing Kamino...and having to fight him. Going blind or deaf. Losing her +anima self. IN MY DREAMS: Ending the war in a manner satisfying to her needs (i.e. no one will try to kill her). Seeing Kamino again in peacetime. If not either one of these things, finding someone or something to replace them, somehow. ----------------------And All The Faces That Said They Loved Me, I Gave My All For Your Life

OOC NAME: Ender

AGE: Unimportant.

GENDER: Male

HOW YOU FOUND US: I saw an ad at AHS.

SERIES STATUS: I haven't read a blessed thing of the series. If this goes well, I'll take it as a recommendation.

OTHER CHARACTERS: Not here.

ANYTHING ELSE: I consider this place a challenge. Let's see how I do.

FACE CLAIM:

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[TEARSOFNIGHTFALL]

Nice job, a very well done and detailed character~