Post by Selene Campbell on Aug 12, 2014 3:11:56 GMT
Selene Campbell
Appears 25 | Magical Girl
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Appears 25 | Magical Girl
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ALIAS(ES): Witch: not so much a alias as it is a horrible nickname children used to (and sometimes still do) call her growing up.
BIRTHDAY: October 1st,
BIRTHPLACE: Chicago, Illinois
CURRENT: Bellewick, Washington
FAMILY:
• Mother: Rebecca Campbell, 47, Deceased
• Father: Benjamin Campbell, 46, Deceased
• Brother: Samuel Campbell, 18, Deceased
ALLIANCE: Neutral
POWER: Selene has domain over darkness and the dead, she is able to create ‘dark energy’ in the form of projectiles and shields. As a passive power she gains feline like eyes when transformed that allow her to see in the dark, making her feel right at home in her element while also having the ability to travel through shadows. Allowing her to quickly move from one location to another as long as there is a dark corner for her to emerge from (she has even used a persons shadow as a gateway)
When Selene first became a Magical Girl her powers were not meant for battle. Traveling through the shadows was fun and useful when it came to sneaking out to do her work but her darkness manipulation was limited to creating shields and barriers to protect herself. Meaning all of Selene's battling relied on using her scythe to destroy the shades that crossed her path. As she became stronger and started to come into her role she 'evolved' into the next state of her Magical Girl career and gained the ability to use her magic in a offensive way, allowing her to shoot dark energy at her enemies, giving her a bigger part to play in battles.
Becoming a offensive player so to speak was fun and gave her a greater confidence in her ability to protect the people of her city and she spent many years fighting along side others. It wasn't until Hades thought she may be ready for the next step that he reviled the true purpose of a Magical Girl and the responsibility they must take on. Becoming a Ultimate meant unleashing your full power and accepting the immortality that came with it, it was then that Selene learned her true purpose in all of this.
Being a Magical Girl of Death meant the responsibility of guarding the gates to the underworld and guiding the souls of the fallen to their eternal rest. It was a position of neutrality; death did not take sides, death was simply there to keep the balance while the other girls did the fighting. It was a hard thing to accept and even harder to step down from the active role she had taken in the fight against the Shades but she did and the willingness to accept this fate was the final test that her familiar had given her. Hades merged himself back with Selene to unleash her Ultimate form, giving her dominion over the dead and the power of necromancy, allowing her to call forth the spirits of the dead to protect her and attack if needed.
BLOOD TYPE: O-
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
FAMILIAR:
Hades: A large black cat with bright blue eyes that seem to look right into your soul and a deep sophisticated English accent that he likes to play off of, while the cat is very wise he really isn't fooling anyone that truly knows him (even if that is only limited to Selene) and it is something she doesn't let him live down. He is Selene's familiar and mentor and much to her dismay her best friend.
Hades is very much like your typical house cat, he is extremely lazy, choosing to lay around and nap most of the day away, only really stirring if he is hungry or wants something. Much also like a house car Hades thinks he is above everything and if he wants your attention he will get it. These days Hades doesn't see the need to follow Selene everywhere like he did when she was a young Magical Girl and he will come and go as he pleases, knowing that if anything were to happen to him Selene would sense it and come to his rescue. One of Hades pride and joys is a collar that was gifted to him back in the early 1900's by a kindred Ultimate from Egypt. It is styled like those the cats wore in ancient times, made from silver and decorated with ankhs and bat motifs to match his charge. In the center sits his own blue goldstone (the twin to Selene's) and he wears it proudly.
Selene and Hades have been together for so long that the mentor and student relationship has long since dissolved. The two of them will often bicker back and forth much like a old married couple and it isn't beneath either of them to purposefully hurt themselves (pinch their side or other childish things like that) so that the other will feel it or to fling insults and other slurs at each other...but out of love of course. While the two of them may fight and argue Hades is fiercely loyal to Selene, he knows the toll her duties take on her and he will often times volunteer to stand guard at the gates so she doesn’t have to. Just as Hades is loyal to Selene, Selene is loyal to Hades. While yes, neither one would survive without the other thanks to the bond but Selene knows that if it wasn't for Hades and his support she would never have made it this far and for this long.
Whenever Hades is threatened he will transform into a very large black panther so he can defend himself, doing so however takes away power from Selene so it is not something he will do often but sometimes it becomes necessary.
Hades and his collar
SCARS AND MARKINGS: A black crescent moon tattoo on her right wrist and a small bat behind her left ear, Selene also sports various ear piercings, having her left ear pieced twice and her right ear pieced all the way up to her cartilage with various hoops and studs.
UNIFORM: When not transformed Selene's everyday style doesn’t really have a niche, she has been called goth but that’s not really true, she has lived for so long and seen so many styles that sometimes they blend together. Sometimes she can't help herself either and will dig out a outfit from the old days and wear it, even if she tries to fall into the current trend of the time she is currently living in. She does have a soft spot for the goth and steampunk scene, it reminds her of her old life and with it being so acceptable and popular these days it is something she generally tends to lean to fashion wise.
Selene’s wardrobe is primary all black but she does have some other colors thrown in there but she will more often than not wear her signature colors of black and navy blue. Selene is not afraid to wear heals, having years of practice of combat while wearing heals kind of makes you a expect when it comes to walking in them. She prefers silver to gold will always have at least one piece of jewelry on her on top of her transformation cuff, it goes with her everywhere. She likes things with clocks, keys and bats on them and has a large collection of necklaces and other baubles dating back to her childhood.
When transformed her outfit is of a full skirt that stops just above her knees in a dark midnight blue. The skirt is split up the middle to show the thick tulle petticoat underneath and accented with a blue goldstone in the center, a pair of black steampunk inspired boots also protect her feet. Connected to the skirt is a black corset that hugs her chest and comes up to a lace trim that goes all the way up to her neck. Like the other Magical Girls Selene has a pair of vambraces (made of silver) where her stone of power resides safely in her right cuff and is decorated with smaller stones and bat wing motifs, she also sports a cape like the others made of the same midnight blue material as her skirt but unlike the others her cape is hooded and tattered and stops at her lower back. A bat wing clasp holds the cape in place.
Unifrom
Uniform 2
Stone: Blue Goldstone
Weapon: Scythe
DESCRIPTION:By all accounts Selene looks like your normal twenty something. She is of average height at about 5'5”, she has long raven black hair that reaches to the middle of her back that she styles in various ways: On some days its straightened, others its curled and sometimes she will just let it flow naturally or pull it back in a ponytail or messy bun if it becomes too much of a hassle. She has porcelain skin that she sometimes decorates with makeup. There is nothing that gives away her true age except for her eyes. On the outside Selene looks like she is around 24/25 but her eyes give her away and are one thing people immediacy notice about her and comment on.
A light, almost ice blue they hold knowledge that no one her apparent age should ever know and prolonged eye contact has been known to make people uncomfortable and many claim like they felt they were being looked straight through, that those eyes would bore into their soul and see things they didn't want seen. Selene is a old soul in a young body and it shows whenever you look into those strange eyes.
PLAY-BY: Ksenia Solo
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Fear: While many people are afraid of death and being alone those are things Selene deals with everyday and they do not bother her. She has no fear of death (what would a 'grimm reaper be if it was afraid of dying?) or being alone, in fact she prefers that later. What does scare her however, is having relationships with people. Being a Ultimate means immortality, it means out living those around you and she has lost so many loved ones in the past to the ravages of time and experienced that heartache of loss and betrayal so much in her life that she has built thick walls around her heart to keep people out and to protect herself from further disappointment.
Desire: She knows how contradicting this sounds but what she desires the most is the intimacy and companionship with another person.
HABITS: Selene has many hobbies, something one needs when you have lived as long as her and one her favorites is oragami, something about it is soothing and whenever she gets anxious she will pull out of a piece of paper (sometimes she carries the tiny squares with her, if not she will make do with whatever she can find: gum wrappers, napkins, so on) and begin to fold.
PET PEEVE: She hates when 'normal' people talk about 'fate' and 'how things are meant to be' or 'it's destiny' they have no idea how lucky they are to be able to choose what they do and don't do with their lives and she hates how so many of them take that for granted.
STRENGTHS:
• Unwavering: Selene is very set in her ways and is very determined to keep it that way. She understands that sacrifices must be made for the greater good and she is able to make the hard decisions that most could not.
• Refuses to take sides: While this may seem like a odd strength Selene counts it as one. She understands the importance of balance she knows that if she were to take up with any one side that it would tip the scales too much but, she is not above lending a helping hand every now and then to either side.
WEAKNESSES:
• Untrusting: Selene finds it hard to trust most people but that is nothing new. She has always had a hard time opening up to people and is very wary of any new comers to her life and the few times she did dare to open up and trust completely it had left her heart broken and nearly dead.
• Is too committed to 'duty': Selene takes her role very seriously and she often times lets that over shadow what she knows is right. Let's just say things would be a lot different in the world if she had listened to her heart and done what she knew to be right instead of following the Magical Girl code.
TRAITS: To those around her Selene is distant, never saying much to anyone and keeping to herself. She is friendly and polite to those she sees in everyday life and is fairly well liked but she refuses most friendships and only keeps a very small, very tight circle of them. It has been her experience that the people closest to you always end up hurt or dead in her lifestyle and she has seen too much death to want that fate for anyone.
Being a Magical Girl does not do anyone any favors with relationships either and every romantic interest in her life has only lasted a few months. They were all nice while they lasted but eventually they all end the same way. Each ex would get suspicious of her odd hours and coming and going at all times of the night and sometimes not coming back till morning or the next day with no explanation. Everyone of them had claimed that she was too secretive, that she hides to much from them and is always running off at odd hours of the night. That she refuses to open up and let them in. Always the same song and dance and all Selene can do is watch them leave without any protest. Which, in the end is for the better (something Hades likes to stress every time she has a breakup and constantly reminds her that he is the most important man in her life and that she doesn't need anyone else) Selene knows she doesn't need them but she wants them. Everyone deserves to be loved but...it's just not in the cards when your a Magical Girl. She thought she had love once...but that's another story.
The very select few people that do know Selene as a friend know that she can be very fun and goofy but her moods come and go, most people think she has some kind of social disorder and don’t question her sudden and sometimes long disappearances, figuring she just needed time to herself. In the end her best friend is her familiar as sad as Hades likes to think and something he mentions very often but he loves his charge and would do anything for her.
When it comes to her role as a magical girl Selene takes her job very seriously. Being the guardian of the gates to the underworld is a heavy burden, one she is glad to bare and she will protect the gates with her life. She likes to keep herself out of the mundane fights the others girls do, not liking the politics of it all and figuring that there is enough of them to handle the Shades that they don’t need her, not when she has another job to do but sometimes she will slip away and leave Hades at the gates while she watches or lends a hand to the newer, younger, and inexperienced girls.
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HISTORY:
At least two paragraphs of information on your character's history. Please keep on topic.
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NAME: Summer
EXPERIENCE: 8 or so years
CONTACT:Pm or Skype/YIM are the easiest
HOW'D YOU FIND US? Made it
CHARACTERS: Roxanne Barnes
RP SAMPLE: Erase if you do have other characters.
ANYTHING ELSE? Jobs while necessary are a hard thing to keep when your a Magical Girl, having to run off without explanation is never a good thing in the professional world and through her years Selene has gone through more than she can remember. Eventually she grew tired of being fired for her disappearances and absences and tired of the constant looking that she decided to become her own boss. For years now Selene has been working as a historian and antique dealer. She has built her own company that specializes in Victorian antiques and art and even dabbles in genealogy. Her company does quite well and it allows Selene to work from home and away from the main office in Seattle, relying on her employees to handle most of their accounts and only truly taking a interest in the big ticket clients.
On top of her day job Selene has taken it upon herself to be the Magical Girl Historian as it were. From her talks with the other Ultimates and her own digging around Selene has noticed that they have no definitive history and that there is really no record of any of them or what they are and what they can do. Using her connections in the Magical community Selene has slowly been putting together a master list of Magical Girls, their powers, their familiars and country of origin. She knows that her book will never be complete, so many of them have been lost through the ages and so many have died so suddenly that they were never known by others but at least this way others will not suffer that same fate. While her book acts as a directory of past and present magical girls it is also a 'how too' for any girls. With sections on each of the known tiers and categories of powers.