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We'll admit this is short and sweet. It's first come first serve for the characters, we don't want doubles of a character running around, though PB's, as long as we don't have 400 of the same face running around it's cool. You will be alerted as soon as we can about getting your application. And as soon as the team of mods look it over you'll be informed of your acceptance. If denied, we'll give you a chance to add in details that we think need a little brushing up on and a shot to try again. If you fail that time I'm sorry you won't be able to app that character to the game, though feel free to try another character. |
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Name: Nicky
Are you over 18: God I hope so (32)
Contact: Aim: notmannotelf,
‡ Character Information ‡
Character Name: Lei Corbeau
Canon: Original Character
Background:
Lei’s father was Louisiana native, her mother was Chinese American, the two having met while in college. When her mother went back home he followed, not wanting to lose her. Both were there to study medicine, Jacob wanted to open a small clinic in the small town he was from, since the nearest medical facility was a good hour away. Mei’s interest was more to natural medicine, she wanted to try to find healthier ways of curing people without the chemicals, which almost had her laughed out of school.
When they left school both went back to his hometown. Mei continued her research, helping in the clinic when needed, the houseboat that the pair shared for the clinic and home soon had a deck covered with plants that were not only medicinal, but also decorative.
Lei was born ten months after they got married in a simple ceremony. Her grandparents and parents both doted over her.
When she was three her mother had the twins, Xian and Davy. Lei was protective over the pair from the start loving the idea of being an older sister. She wouldn’t let anyone she didn’t trust near the two. Sometimes this even included family and family friends. If she felt they were hurting her baby siblings she would kick and bite, much to her parents’ disappointment.
They were old enough Lei taught them to swim, the three of them would race to the neighbor’s houseboat about fifty feet away to play with them all the time. Jen and Micha, the neighbors kids were slightly older than Lei, and treated the trio like they were younger siblings. The five of them were inseparable all the way through school, Lei, Jen and Micha always seeming to instantly fall into the bodyguard role for the twins keeping bullies away from them. The twins themselves were smarter than the trio, and by the time they were in fourth grade they were helping Jen and Micah with their Junior high homework, helping the older kids understand the math and science. The twins would never out right do the homework for them, but could explain it in ways the kids could understand.
This help actually helped Lei when she started applying for colleges. Her little siblings at this time had surpassed her, both going to MIT. The thought of them out there on their own had her push herself more so she could get out of the bayou and somewhere where she could help them if they ever needed it.
When Lei got into college it was out of state, unlike her parents she wanted to go into law enforcement. While she didn’t get the best grades in her classes she made enough of an impression to get recruited into the FBI soon after graduation. The twins had gone into medicine as well as robotics. They said they were trying to build better cybernetics for soldiers who came back from wars.
Lei got letters and emails from them every now and then, mostly to tell her and the family that they were fine since they didn’t leave school much. The last time she saw them was her graduation from the academy. She didn’t know that the twins had pulled some strings to make sure their sister would be taken care of.
She was partnered up with an older man while stationed in Pennsylvania. The two worked on odd cases, most of them unexplained, Mike seeming to draw that kind of work to start with. Lei was kind of placed with him to keep an eye on him, which she didn’t mind, she enjoyed the work. Some of the cases were Mutant related, which caused Lei to look at her siblings in a different light, wondering if they possibly could be with their intelligence. Some of the case files had hinted that some possibly could work together as one person.
Two years as a Fed she got a call from Micha. The local police were accusing her parents of illegal activity. Didn’t help her brother and sister were missing as well. They had been out of communication for the last four months. Lei took it as they got wrapped up in some project. Taking leave she went to try to help her parents, figuring if the twins heard they’d jump on the first plane home to help as well.
Getting back home she saw a deputy throwing her mother’s plants, all of which were perfectly legal to grow, off the houseboat into the swamp. Her mother was trying to get them to stop. Lei stepped between the deputy and her mother, managing to convince him to bring her legal court orders for the charges against her parents. What she didn’t know is that her parents had managed to make enemies with one of the crime syndicates in the area by aiding someone of an enemy group when they had gotten wounded. Not that it would matter to her, she knew her parents treated the clinic as neutral territory helping anyone who needed it.
When the deputy came back he had fifteen people with him. She managed to get her parents onto the airboat telling them to get away, while she held her ground against them, in the process someone shot a gas tank blowing up the houseboat.
Lei woke up three months later, alive at least, but hospitalized. Her partner was waiting by her bedside when she woke, telling her that her parents had been killed. Her twin siblings had been found while she had been out. Both of whom were okay, and on their way to the hospital. Lei had also found out the explosion had caused enough damage to her right arm and both legs that they had been unable to save them. From her knees down her legs were gone, her arm was gone from her shoulder.
When Micha showed up with Xian and Davy the pair set to work showing why they had gone into hiding. The cybernetic limbs were still bulky, but the pair had been working on a government funded project, helping wounded soldiers replace missing limbs with ones that almost moved like the real deal. They had gotten permission from their bosses to use Lei as the first test subject if she agreed to it.
Took them an hour and a half of explaining for her to agree to it, it would give her a chance to still be able to do the work she loved to do, as well as get the men that had taken out their parents.
Took her a few months to get used to the new limbs; which could be removed if needed for repairs, it wasn’t soon after when the syndicate found where the trio happened to be hiding, someone had found out they were the reason that Lei was back on her feet. Lei despite her siblings wanting to protect her sent them ahead while she stayed back with her partner in order to try to get the group to stop following Xian and Davy. Micha went with them to act as a bodyguard and communication if needed, he had contacts with several underground groups that could keep the two safe until they managed to get back into their labs behind government security without the government having to step in too much more.
In return for protecting the twins Lei was asked to quit the FBI officially, though she was slipped into a small group who were specialized in dealing with situations that the FBI and CIA couldn’t handle. Officially she was a retiree. While with the new group she was given other training, and time to fully recover from her injuries. The tech of the group worked on perfecting the cybernetic limbs she now had, making them lighter, though she still set off alarms in government buildings.
Now she does odd jobs here and there doing her best to stay off the radar, though does make things interesting when dressing for the summer, after all chrome plating is a little noticeable if you wear a two piece.
Personality:
Lei has a soft spot for kids ever since she was young. She had seen too many kids come into the clinic because of someone hurting them she was determined to try to help as many as she could. She protects her siblings first and foremost knowing that they’re far too smart for living in the small town. If she’s working a case with kids she does her best to make sure they’re protected, even at times better than watching her partner’s own back. This causes problems sometimes, but so far they’ve made it through okay.
She takes her job seriously even though some of their cases have been ‘crack’ cases. She may not be protective over her partner, but she does have his back when he needs it. She does make waves with her superiors usually because she tends to do what’s right for innocent people and not what’s right for the Bureau or for police departments. It’s part of the reason why after her accident she was put in the special team, to try to keep the waves she made a little more under the radar.
When the accident happened she thought she lost everything with the disappearance of her twin siblings being a few months before hand. There was time she almost thought about committing suicide, only thing that stopped her from it was a phone call from Micha telling her that he had found the twins. By the time he and Jen arrived with the twins she had managed to pull herself together so as to not let them know how much her current condition was killing her.
Of course she wasn’t able to fully hide it from them, the twins knew her too well, and within two hours she was taken back into surgery, by the time she woke she had become a government project.
The new situation had her confused when she woke up, though since now she had to deal with getting used to a different weight, not to mention the off balance center she now had no thanks to her new arm. The twins apologized for it, after all they had used the prototypes in order to give her mobility back. It took a while but she’s now got almost as much mobility as she had before, though she’s still working on the faster speeds she can run at, stopping…. Can still be a bit of a problem.
Since the accident with her being unable to do things that she enjoyed as a kid, after all it’s a little hard to go swimming for as long as you’re used to with an extra hundred and fifty pounds. And even though they boost her speed and strength they’re not that useful trying to navigate a swamp for hunting or even fishing, she learned the fishing bit the hard way killing a fish as she was trying to remove the hook.
With the free time she has being taken off active duty, she’s been taking to learning more firearms, and some more hand to hand combat skills, learning to keep control over her robotic arm so that she doesn’t hurt anyone by mistake with it.
Abilities:
Naturally she's agile, and quick thinking.
With her cybernetics her speed and limited strength is enhanced. Speed's fast enough to keep up a fast pace of 25 mph for a burst of 20 seconds, the strength in her one arm is 5000 psi crushing strength. She's unable to lift more than normal weight due to her body still being mostly flesh and bone (Her skeleton is still organic despite the enhancements)
She's been trained in fire arms as well as some other hand held weapons, she favors a knife in a fight if she has to get close up.
Weaknesses:
Ever try swimming with weights strapped to your legs and one arm? Yeah not gonna happen.
Her family are another weakness, if she gets word that they're in trouble she'll be on the first plane to go get them.
The power cells that run her artificial limbs have a limited time limit. Usually it's at least a day, giving her time to get somewhere to recharge, but it could be a problem on a mission without a nearby outlet.
Metal detectors! Enough said.
Sample:
First meeting