Post by Genevieve Stärke on Jun 13, 2018 21:46:47 GMT
★ GENEVIEVE STÄRKE ★
Played by: ViviFaceclaim: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Asuka Langley
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Weight and Height: 5'10, 135 lbs
Occupation: Cadet
Appearance
(TW: self harm)Jenny is tall, and while she has some curves, it’s clear when she wears tighter clothing that she’s right on the tipping point of becoming underweight. She has long red hair, and like her twin brother, she's missing one of her eyes. She often has a poor skin tone and dark circles from an unhealthy life style, but she does her best to use makeup to cover any physical signs she might be unwell. The young woman carries herself with a sense of purpose and dignity, keeping her back straight and her gaze steady. However, when she believes she’s not being watched, Jenny often appears exhausted and resigned.
She has a plethora of scars, some from fights or injuries, others from her habit of self harm. The latter are mostly located around her upper thighs, some on her stomach, and very few on her forearms as those are difficult to hide. The ones on her arms are faded and can’t be easily seen unless you pay attention and she lets you get close enough to look. Jenny dresses somewhere between boyfriend style and grunge, though she occasionally opts for more mature feminine garb in formal settings or when she’s trying especially hard to look more spritely. Her clothing choices are usually on the loose side in order to make her gaunt figure less apparent.
Persona
(TW: self harm, substance abuse)Jenny is level-headed and perceptive, choosing to weigh her options and think about her actions before making a move. Impulses aren’t something she really gives into even under pressure, as she values logic and worries she might put others in danger if she doesn’t think things through properly. While she does have her own emotional struggles just like everyone else, she’s quite skilled at hiding and subduing them.
She is a fiercely protective young woman, and while this can pertain to friends, it’s on another level with her family. Ever since she was young she felt the need to protect her siblings. While her whole family suffered, herself included, she was furious with herself for not being able to keep them together. It could be seen as irrational, but she often blames herself and wants to take every opportunity in the present to make sure her siblings have only the best and are treated with respect. Her protectiveness can be detrimental to herself at times, as she is willing to set her own needs and well being aside for the ones she deeply cares about.
Jenny values kindness, honesty and loyalty as she believes there simply isn’t enough of it in the world. In turn, she does her best to be kind, albeit in subtler ways since she isn't really one to be sappy or bubbly. She also takes care to be patient with others, and tends to clam up and leave wherever she currently is when she’s angry to make sure she doesn't act on it. Since honesty is also something she values, it pricks her conscience to tell lies. It also feels wrong for her to put her troubles on others, so she often battles herself as to whether she should lie about her well being or risk bringing others down in her own suffering. Jenny’s value for loyalty ultimately stems from her dedication to her family. Backstabbers, traitors, and negligent parents/family members anger her to no end.
Jenny is extremely hard on herself, and while this doesn’t mean she expects perfection, she simply tends to readily accept blame in many situations, even if it doesn’t entirely make sense to do so. The one ‘good’ thing about the fact is that it drives Jenny to better to want to better herself, rather than give up.
While the redhead might appear like she has everything together to someone who doesn't know her better, she struggles with trauma and emotional turmoil that seem almost insurmountable. Anger, pain, self-hatred, trauma from a life that showed her no mercy—it stirs inside of her constantly. She does her best to subdue it, but that just makes breakdowns all that much worse.
Jenny’s poor self-image and lack of self worth have led her to spiral into some terrible coping mechanisms. She’s struggled with self-harm for years, and while she has her moments where she’s been clean for certain amount of time, there’s always the fear that she’ll fall back into it. She always does. It began in anger and disgust for herself, but continues to be a mix of that anger as well as a desire for emotional release or a distraction from the thoughts that constantly claw at her brain.
She also struggles with substance abuse, and while it offers her a temporary escape, it’s never quite enough. She needs to have a constant supply just to feel secure, running out sends her into a panic. After being on all sorts of illegal substances near constantly, being without it leaves her in a dangerous state both physically and mentally from withdrawals. There are points where the thought of her next dose is the only thing that gets her through the day, and when she has the opportunity, she can go through spells of isolation where she lets her addiction take control in an attempt to wash everything away, even for a short time. Drinking is a problem as well, albeit on a smaller scale than substance abuse. Some might drink socially or just for the buzz, but she’s only in it to get drunk and often drinks by herself.
While Jenny at least pays some attention to hygiene and looking presentable when she’s in public, she takes terrible care of herself. It’s rare that she eats enough in a day, often forgetting, but also occasionally avoiding food on purpose. When she does sleep, its either not enough, or far too much as just another way to escape reality. There are points where she spends whole days in bed, not getting up to eat or shower.
In spite of her tendency to isolate herself, Jenny longs for emotional connections with other people. She’s felt very alone at many points in her life, so the times she tries to get better and force herself out of her room are driven by a desire to have a normal life with friends, family, and perhaps even a love. Usually she feels pretty hopeless, but there are those rare shining moments where she believes that perhaps she could be something more with a little push.
There were four children in the Stärke family. The oldest was Adelheid, then came Genevieve and her younger twin brother Macht, and finally Marko. It seemed the world was against them from the start, and for a while, all they had was each other. The four were orphaned, but Adelheid was adopted quickly enough to avoid hardships. The other three remained together for as long as they could, where Genevieve did her best to protect her younger brothers. The other children would mistreat her at times, but she didn’t care. Her brothers were who mattered. Her twin was frail and often pushed around by the other kids, and she hated to let the youngest out of her sight. Without their parents or their oldest sister, she decided it was up to her to make sure they’d all be okay. Perhaps she was too young to realize it, but that was far too big of a task for such a small girl.
While seeing her brother mistreated angered her, she wasn’t one to lash out wildly in anger. Instead she’d come up with subtle but cruel ways to get back at the children who would harm her family. It could be anything from pouring murky water on them from above and disappearing before they could find out who did it, to attempting to mix things into their food to make them sick. Over time, she’d build up enough anger to piece together more violent plans, but they were carefully constructed. The most she got away with was dragging a knife across a particularly cruel boy’s thigh in the middle of the night, but the staff caught on to the young girl’s antics. They formed a distaste for Genevieve, keeping a close watch on her and doing their best to find a family to take her off their hands as soon as possible.
Eventually Genevieve was adopted and she begged her new family to take her brothers with them, but they weren’t ready for such a commitment. At the time, she felt her only purpose was to protect them, so it was a soul crushing defeat. It seemed she’d finally been given a more normal life. Something she’d wanted for a while, in fact, she dreamed about it every night. But her brothers were by her side in those dreams. When she was a bit older, she attempted to find them again but it was like they disappeared.
Things took another turn for the worst later on, and Genevieve was stolen from her adopted family to be experimented on. She was constantly terrified and in pain, everyday she begged for god to just take it all away. Part of her wondered if this was her long deserved punishment. What happened next was a blur, but Jenny eventually woke up from a coma and had to go through a long period of physical therapy. Some time after this, she was relocated to the Astraeus Institute.
Skills and Weaknesses
Intellectual Curiosity: Jenny seeks to understand why and how things work
Perceptive: Jenny's sense of perception is far above the average human beings, allowing her to perceive things normal people can't and giving her an impeccable memory.
Medical Knowledge: Due to her sense of perception, Jenny has been able to learn valuable medical skills in a short amount of time and at a young age.
Self-destructive: Jenny has some dangerous habits that control her life in some aspects, and she often pays little attention to her own well being.
Hard on herself: She always takes the blame and expects too much out of herself.
Weak: Jenny isn't very strong or durable.
Gifts
The Sentinel: Jenny can emit a versatile black smoke-like energy that can be manipulated to form different shapes such as tendrils that could be blunt or sharp in nature, or a number of other things. The energy can also be used to charge movements, or simply float float harmlessly around her. However, the most notable use of this energy is its ability to protect others at her own cost. By making contact with an individual, some of the dark energy transfers to them, boosting their highest stat by one tier for two posts and lowering the same stat on Jenny for the same amount of time.
Omnilingualism: Jenny can speak, read, write, understand and communicate in any language on earth, including computer codes, sign language (even lip-reading), and backwards speech or writing with little to no training. Languages she's never heard/seen before require a reference before she's able to understand and communicate in it.
Technomancy: Jenny has a supernatural connection to technology, allowing her to affect it with her mind. She’s able to do a number of things including hacking interfaces without using technology, accessing signals, entering the internet, taking control of technology in enemy bases such as cameras and drones, and sensing the presence/proximity of technological constructs.
Statistics
Str: C | Agi: B | End: B | Per: S