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Myka Shepherd the basics full name ♦ Myka Cherry Shepherd nicknames ♦ Cherry, Cherrybomb age ♦ Sixteen birthday ♦ October 21, 1998 occupation ♦ Student school ♦ Phalanx Home species ♦ Human ability/power ♦ Shadow Manipulation how the ability works ♦ Myka can manipulate shadows. Kind of. The shadows need to be preexisting and must stay out of direct light. If met with too much, the shadows she controls will very easily dissipate, just like normal shadows. Controlling these shadows also requires a bit of focus, else they may break from her grasp and return to their standard form. Though not exactly exhausting, her power does require energy, and the larger the shadow the more energy it requires to manipulate. In addition, Myka has this sort of trick that she does where she cloaks herself and/or others in shadow, effectively making them invisible, so long as they’re in a dark space. Which is really helpful when she’s doing something illegal. However, Myka’s shadows are still just shadows, and cannot prevent her from being detected by sound or scent or anything else. Also, the dark is cold. Really cold. It’s hard to avoid shivering when she’s cloaked. gender ♦ female, she/her sexuality ♦ pansexual the appearance face claim ♦ Charlotte Free height and weight ♦ 5 feet 7 inches & 123lbs identifying features ♦ Pierced ears, a small little stick-and-poke tattoo of a tree on her wrist overall appearance ♦ Myka Shepherd is what some might call willowy; she’s long and she’s thin, and she moves almost like she’s floating on the wind. Though naturally blond, her shoulder-length hair is almost always dyed pink, whether it be hot or baby, the full length or just the tips. Her eyes are a particular shade of blue-gray that seem paler in the light, and she likes to refer to them as “the silver bullets.” As for dress, Myka doesn’t really care all that much. She likes comfortable, so she wears a lot of jeans and boots and old band shirts. She does have a soft spot for jewelry, and likes her rings and bracelets and necklaces. the personality likes ♦ Action movies; music; animals, especially dogs; the color blue; expensive things; space dislikes ♦ Romcoms; the color yellow; crowds; country music; waiting; rich people strengths ♦ Independent; problem solver; imaginative weaknesses ♦ Impulsive; reckless; can never be serious dreams ♦ She’s gonna buy a penthouse with one big glass wall with a gorgeous view of the city, yeah? Maybe she’ll buy a couple dogs to keep her company. And she’s gonna live up there and forget about all the problems down below. fears ♦ Anything that isn’t solid ground; she also has a deep existential fear of being forgotten once she dies. overall personality ♦ If there’s one thing Myka doesn’t have enough of, it’s time. The way she sees it, this world moves too fast for her or anyone else to slow down for anything. There simply isn’t enough time in the world to think every little thing through or to let everyone be your friend. She knows what’s right and what’s wrong, so when she sees something wrong she acts. She knows how she feels about someone, so she lets them know. She doesn’t like sitting still at all; if she isn’t moving, she’s losing momentum. Despite this, she’s an idealist, and believes that everyone has some good in them. She’s surprisingly quiet and reserved, for her appearance, and prefers to stand on the edges of crowds. She doesn’t have a lot of friends, but when she does meet someone she cherishes, she’s as loyal as a dog to them. the history father ♦ Elijah Shepherd, died at 31, mechanic mother ♦ Audrey Shepherd (nee Bellerose), 40, bartender/waitress siblings ♦ Lana Shepherd, 22, college student; Nico Shepherd, 18, cashier important people ♦ Katherine Bellerose, aunt, 37, owns a bar hometown ♦ Alton, Illinois overall history ♦ Myka Shepherd was the third and last child of small-town native Elijah Shepherd and his wife Audrey, born to the well-off Bellerose family back in New Orleans. But they’d married young, at 19 and 18, respectively, and had their eldest daughter soon after, and they weren’t exactly in the best of places to care for a decent-sized family. Elijah worked as a mechanic and Audrey as a waitress, and they survived, albeit well below the poverty line. They had food stamps and government subsidized housing and whatever other aid that Myka had been too young to notice, but they still struggled. But they were a close family, especially Myka and her father. He’d read to her every night before bed. And then Elijah died. He was test driving a car he’d just fixed up, just around the block, and someone else t-boned him at a stoplight. He was thirty one, and Myka was seven. Needless to say, it was a relatively traumatizing event for the family-- they all healed, of course, but to have more than half their income stripped away instantaneously was jarring. It wasn’t uncommon for the kids of the family to shoplift food after that point. Myka learned she’d been gifted shortly after her dad died. She’d had a fear of the dark since she could remember, always said she was scared the shadow monsters would get her. As it turned out, the shadow monsters couldn’t get her, at least not if she let them. Because she was, more or less, in control of them. All the nightmares she had were because she was unintentionally painting black pictures on her bedroom walls. She’d even scared her poor older brother on several occasions, too. And her mother didn’t even seem surprised. As it turned out, strange gifts like this ran in the family. The only real issue was that small-town Alton didn’t have any sort of safe harbor for gifted people to study, and Audrey herself hadn’t been blessed the same way her daughter had. But New Orleans offered plenty of options as well as family ties. So, reluctantly, Myka packed her bags and was shipped down to her dear old auntie’s doorstep in the French Quarter. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that Myka was a little angry with her mom’s side of the family-- they had all that money, while the Shepherds suffered, so Myka elected to go to school and live at Phalanx. the role player alias ♦ River age ♦ 16 pronouns ♦ she/her code ♦ ADMIN EDIT other characters ♦ if any |
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