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Post by mailynnclarke on Dec 3, 2010 3:08:05 GMT -5
Mai Linn Clarke Character Play-by:Tia Carrere
name: Mai-linn Clarke
age: 21
gender: Female
orientation: Bi
race: Shifter;Rat
birthplace:
current location: Port Angeles, WA
occupation: Ex-Pirate/Assassin for Hire
personality: The easiest way to describe Mai-linn’s personality is to call her a sassy bitch. And when she does get called a bitch, she takes it as a compliment. She has a rebellious personality from being babied by her parents. She does not like to be babied just because of her condition. She’s a big girl and she can take care of herself, she has made that greatly known. If Mai wants something bad enough she will go to just about any length to get it. She has a firm mindset that if she wants something, she will get it, even if force is the only means of obtaining it. Force is not something she is scared of.
Mai-linn is also very confident. She knows how to use her body to get what she need or wants. She believes strongly in herself and does not let anyone put her down. Mai is not one for taking orders well and there are few people in the world that she will listen to their orders. Those that know her and that she will follow also know that she will back talk them. She’ll still follow the orders and do as asked but not without trying for the last word. Some may consider her stuck-up for not taking orders well but she’s not. She doesn’t think of herself as better then anyone, just more confident in her own actions then most people.
detailed history: Mai-linn was born into an average family. Parents living a simple life on the edge of a large town and all that. Mai was their first and last child. Mai was born with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis (CIPA). This is a condition that causes Mai to not feel pain, heat or cold. She also does not sweat. It is rare for a child to live past the age of three with this illness. Mai has survived longer, a lot longer. She is greatly free willed and strong to have pushed through the tough early years in her life. Mai’s parents feared having another child with the same condition and of something happening to Mai if they left her alone.
Mai’s parents babied her right up until she rebelled. Mai was homeschooled for the fear of being hurt at school and it going unnoticed. Everyday her mother would check her over at least five times a day. It wasn’t that Mai’s body couldn’t heal, she just never noticed it if she was hurt, no matter how bad. By the age of eight Mai had truly grown tired of all of her parents babying. She had grown up fast for her age and on the night of her ninth birth day she left home.
She was a bit scared with being on her own but her mother had taught her how to look after herself very carefully. Mai wandered away from the town where her parents lived, not wanting to be around them. She got as far away as she could, as fast as she could. She ended up at an orphanage out along the shore. She skipped out on going to school and went down to the docks. She would rather work and do something active all day then sit in a boring classroom. When she had been homeschooled the only thing she ever enjoyed was science.
Mai went about staying down by the docks till she was fourteen. The workers around the dock had grown to know her and accepted her help. She was strong for a girl of her age. When Mai turned fourteen she went off to find a ship to work on, having grown tired of America. She wanted to be somewhere different. She finally found a ship that would allow her on after a few months and off to Asia she went.
The first year of her new life in Asia she worked on ships again, she was a little bit more accepted for her work here than in America. Growing tired of working on ships she left the yard to find another interest. She wanted to learn more about the chemistry of things and such, the problem was finding someone to teach her. Wandering into a town about seventy miles from the shore she met a man. This man took her in and he soon found out that she was not an ordinary girl.
He had once been a great mercenary, skilled in many different weapons. Seeing the twinkle in Mai’s eyes as he told her stories of his past he decided to teach her what he knew. He let Mai pick a weapon to learn and he also taught her how to fight. In the time that Mai trained with this man she made a friend for life. The young man was her age and they practiced everyday with each other. The two became close and Mai at one point thought something more might come from it but pushed the thoughts away. She feared having someone care for her after the way her parents had treated her.
After almost three years with Brad and their trainer, they had both learned all they could from him in hand to hand combat and blade skills. Mai was proud of herself for what she had learned but she still wanted more. When the old man passed, he left half of everything he had to her and half to Brad. Not having much use for his other weapons she sold them off, keeping the knives and kanta she had been taught with. She talked with Brad and wished him the best of luck in his travels. She would always remember him and wondered if they would ever meet again. Now with a large amount of money and newly learned skills she made her way back to the town by the shore. There she settled into a simple place. She had learned to live without much, just her blades, food, water and shelter.
Settling in the town she slowly began to make a name for herself. She enjoyed her work as a mercenary, not just for the money but for the joy she gained from ending a life. Feeling that last breath escape from someone’s mouth, and her hand being the one that stole that breath. It just made her giddy as a kid in a candy shop. Mai spent two years living this life but she wanted more. The thoughts of science and chemistry still pulled at the edges of her brain. She set about searching for someone to teach her. When she finally found the perfect teacher she learned all she could, never having to sit in a classroom and always having hands on work made the learning easy. Her teacher happened to be a fellow mercenary who specialized in poisons.
Mai learned from him and took the knowledge to heart, mixing her own poisons, and always keeping a few of her favorite mixtures with her. Never knew when she’d have a call for a job.
Mai went about living in the same place and using her new skills combined with her old ones of blades and hand to hand combat to become a greatly known mercenary. When she was 18 she was hired onto Jexius’s crew. She thought about it for only a moment and went along with him. She even gave him most of the money she had collected over the years. The only thing she wanted was room and board, along with new supplies when she needed them.
She settled into the crew, still being the stubborn, independent and sassy bitch she had grown up to be. She reluctantly followed Jexius’s orders. It was a tough time for her to get through the first few months but she learned that she was able to get away with her back talk as long as she did what it was that was asked. Mai rather enjoyed her life as a pirate with Jexius and his crew, though there was one girl she was not able to get along with. She knew it from the first moment she set eyes on Chase that there were going to be problems between the two of them.
When Jexius and the crew docked in Port Angeles, WA, Mai bid the crew good-bye and went off into the town to start a new adventure. She has now been in town for a month and has finally settled on a small home set on the outskirts of the town. The years have been starting to wear on her and she is beginning to wonder about finding a new path to follow, or at least a somewhat straighter one.
fears: Being found out; Having no work;
strengths: her shifted form(makes for quick escapes); skills with blades; confident
weaknesses: Her condition; her shifted form a rat; allergic to strawberries
likes: Killing; Back talking; guys; sweets
dislikes: Being babied; being ordered around; Vampires; most new technology
facial appearance: Mai-linn’s skin tone is that wonderful tanned color that not only comes from her background but also from spending a few years under the heat of the sun. Her dark black brown hair falls in gentle waves down to the middle of her back. Her hair is usually pulled back, she does this from the years of having to pull the thick mess out of her face, not only to be able to work but to insure that she did not overheat. Her chocolate brown eyes twinkle whenever she is deep in thought or carrying out a task that involves her specialty. Her lips are somewhat full and a lush pink color without lipstick. She wears make-up rarely, though she has begun to wear it a bit more since being off the ship.
clothing:Varies on what she’s doing; ranges from dresses when the situation calls for it(a rare occasion) to jeans and a tee when around town to her black leggings and tight black tee for jobs. She mostly is seen in the jeans and a tee though.
build: Slender, strong, stands at about 5’7”
marks/scars: tattoo on her left shoulder (crazy-tattoo-designs.com/dagger_tattoo.jpg)
species appearance: 
powers: Because of Mai being a shapeshifter she has the added strength and speed. These have helped her in her original power. Before she joined Jexius she had spent time with a man where she gained extensive knowledge of blades. Her increased speed and strength make causing a lot of damage and ending a life with her blades a lot simpler and quicker. With the added strength and speed also comes a great sense of smell. She can smell a person from a mile or so away and she can also pick out specific scents in a crowd.
Being born a shifter made living with her CIPA simpler. She heals with inhuman speed though this does cause problems when she breaks a bone though. The bone must noticed and set quickly before it begins to heal. Along with these increased attributes, Mai has the ability to turn into a rat when she pleases.
The powers that relate to Mai’s rat specifically allow her to feel death as it surrounds a person. This power allows her to sense when vampires are about, as long as her mind is clear. Mai has never really understood this power and never focused on concurring it. This power is one that nags at the back of her skull but to truly us it she must first let her mind relax to pinpoint the person with death surrounding them.
These powers of being a shifter are combined with the skills that made her the mercenary she is. The skills she had before were her blade skills and her amazing hand to hand combat skills.
Weapons
• Her teeth and claws obviously
• A set of four silver daggers with nickel plated handles that she keeps tucked in black leather sheaths along her body
• A set of two silver knives that she keeps at her sides. The handles of these are steel and painted black.
• A steel katana that she keeps in her home but does take out from time to time
She keeps all of her knives sharp and ready for use.
Mai also keeps three vials of poison in her bag at all times.
your name: Dana
age: 20
how long have you been roleplaying?: 7
how did you find us?: know Lisa
codeword:
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