General Information

Name: Syn
AKA: Sophi
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Place of Birth: Mousehole, Cornwall, UK
Inoculated: Heavily exposed to something similar.

Personality: Syn is primarily capricious, quirky and whimsical. She is prone to being playful, absent-minded and somewhat inattentive. On the flip side, she can exhibit flashes of maliciousness almost arbitrarily. Upon her transformation Syn found the world of humans somewhat ridiculous and until now at least, has had little concern for prolonged periods of seriousness. She believes the world would be significantly less antagonistic were people to adopt this characteristic.

Encountering those who would care for her, Syn displays a deep level of affection, devotion and trust. Unfortunately, these Syn has not met this type of person for several years and her other side has become more dominant. Faced with those who would hurt or otherwise annoy her, Syn displays an often disproportionate level of persistent and almost unshakeable malice.

As one would expect of her, Syn loves the more simple pleasures of life, and in particular of stargazey pie. A lover of a warm fireplace, a comfortable chair and someone to share these things with, Syn has lead a somewhat disappointing life. Following her transformation she has started to appreciate more the arts, primarily music from the romantic period, minimalistic art and progressive rock.

History: What has happened in your character’s life that has made them into the person they are today? Write about all the important events in their lives, both good and bad. *Please be as detailed as possible, more likely than not this is the best chance people have to really get to know your character*

Born to a lovingly comfortable upbringing in Mousehole, Syn never had a worry in the world nor a plan for the future. Though the world around her seemed like a whirlwind, she remained unconcerned in her pampered life. It was her extreme misfortune that she was captured without a warning and taken away, screaming and flailing, to be experimented upon.

Syn remembers little of anything before she escaped from the labs, but does recall the screaming. Treated with a chemical not dissimilar to serum 43, she began to change. While the others around her died painfully, quickly or otherwise, Syn clung on to life by her claws. One day, she turned into a black haired human girl, tore a hole in space and disappeared.

While her mental capacity had increased dramatically, the unexperienced Syn was confused and lost in the surreal world of humans. Suddenly aging and living as a human, Syn realised she had been given an extremely rare gift and used her powers to scrape through life as best she could.

Syn's luck finally turned round when she was adopted, initially in her true form, by a benevolent, elderly widow. She was given a proper upbringing, education and a loving environment once more. As in retrospect seemed somewhat inevitable, Syn returned one day to a murdered lady and a squad of mercenaries. At that moment, a twisted and sadistic seed was planted in her young mind. Minutes later, 6 extra corpses were lieing shredded throughout the house and Syn had disappeared, along with a small armoury.

Significantly better prepared to live on her own, yet significantly less naive and innocent, Syn feels broken, but unprepared to give up and die.

Physical Information

Visual Appearance

Physical Appearance: Pitch black, thin and scruffy cat. Penetrating stare and malignant eyes.

Weapons Built in claws, they're retractable and everything!

Inoculated only

Alternate Form Human girl. Arguably Syn's primary form now, as she ages in human years and spends most of her time as one. As a human she uses the alias 'Sophi'.

Physical Appearance: Of south east asian appearance, with an eerily pale skin. Her hair is pitch black and between transformations can fluctuate from long and flowing to short and neat. She is of a thin body structure, exaggerated by the slight appearance of malnourishment.

Weapons Syn possess a small, hidden armoury of stolen weapons. This includes modern shotguns, rifles, automatics and sidearms, but Syn usually sticks with a pair of ornately decorated revolvers and a short sword.

Clothing and Armor: Having become increasingly eccentric of late, Syn favours two costumes.
1. A black top hat, a black pinstripe suit, grey blouse and waistcoat and black leather shoes.
2. A gothic style black dress.

Abilities In either form Syn can temporarily create a pair of holes in space through which objects appear to teleport. She can move through these easily as a cat, and with only a little more effort as a human. She can see through these holes to the other side and fire bullets through them, resulting in a potential swift demise for those who manage to annoy or endanger her enough to put them beyond a mere tirade of bad language. While these holes are generally only created within a small area around her, Syn has learned to remotely access an otherwise unreachable cave which she uses as an armoury, hiding place and last resort home.

Other Information
Faction: Syn is not a member of any faction and following her two escapes has successfully dropped off the radar. Syn has worked in the underworld but has not kept any allegiances or left many clues to her identity or existence other than a trail of bodies.
Bonus Section: Just wondering if this would be allowed

my only question is how she learned human language?

Her owners spoke to her to the effect of "YOU'RE A KITTY, AREN'T YOU?" and she learned from there.

Hmm, although it's a good base there seem to be some problems I'm seeing with it, especially as she's an animal, not a human. Some are simple, and others maybe not so. Sorry if it seems picky.

-She currently appears to be in the UK, reading the bio. How does she get over to the Bridger Wildness where the RP is located?
-You claim she was exposed to something similar to te serum. When? By who? Why? At the moment the plot seems to be running on the idea that a select few faction can grant the abilities, and it's somewhat recent, at least perfection. Involing another group might cause complications etc, as well as how early they seem to have a working serum, especially as in the UK they're unlikely to be affilitated with Ovid, Ari, or McFarland.
-You say her mental capacity increased? How? Again there were discussions about whether or not the serum would do that with animals, as the brain is an unexplored science etc. Kia (my char) got hers due to having telepathic abilities, and due to the closeness of human minds, gained one akin to them gradually. It's also how she learned the language, as animals don't appear to think naturally in languages.
-The idea of a 15 year old girl, even with basic superpowers, being able to take out six heavily armed (its seems) men. Also is there a reason for the old lady being killed?
-The final thing, somewhat linked to the first one, is that she currently has no part in the story. All the other characters are linked to McFarland somehow, escapees, Stark Ops, etc. It might be difficult for you to join in as everyone already has a place.

...Wow. That seems a lot. Sorry. It's mainly me and my picky ways, I'm just trying to point out flaws.
As I always say, Lithas, or anyone one else with more authority is fine to come along and completely get rid of what I've said, it's just my opinion.

I just made her for the sake of it, don't worry about being too mean about it.



There's been an indefinate amount of time since whatever in her history happened. Since then she's had considerable time to mope about. All else fails, as a cat she doesn't really care about whatever those mad scientists are doing and would happily sit in the corner eating fish for the entirety of the RP.



Left blank so that I don't contradict anything. I'm sure Ovid and friends aren't the only ones who are working in this area though?



Hey, animals have increasingly begun to look like they have their own proto-languages. If you really want a good explanation, perhaps her 'real' form was changed by this serum to be human, but retained the ability to turn back into her original form?



Well, she has spent most of her kittenhood jumping on tincy mice and twitchy bugs, can see anywhere without exposing herself and kill people behind cover before they even know she's there?

The old lady was killed because nice people don't exist anymore. Maybe they didn't want evidence of Syn's existence?



She just wants to have a warm fireplace to curl up beside, is that too much to ask for? ;_;

If people are actually ok with the character, most of it could change anyway and she could suddenly be a super-cat from Asia from McFarland's labs or something.



Don't worry, I didn't put much thought into making it a viable character. I was just wondering whether people would tolerate a somewhat silly character, but apparently I'm not the first to have an animal turn into a human :/

Even if it's not accepted at all that's fine since I spend most of my time in an office at the moment, which wouldn't be ideal. I also have a month of being in Asia with no internet, which wouldn't be very good either.

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Left blank so that I don't contradict anything. I'm sure Ovid and friends aren't the only ones who are working in this area though? [/quote]

I see. The main thing is the time difference. As said it eems you'r happened a lot earlier, which if they had, whats he point of McFarland/Ari doing it etc. However that's my opinion again, it could be possible to fit it.




Hmm thats an intriguing suggestion. Still not sure if the extra intelligence will have been adde with it. Possible something you'd need to discuss with others.



Yeah, but wasn't that as a cat? Huamn bodies are quite different to convert skills too...again it's just opinion, and something others will need to decided on. 2-3 might be a bit more believable.



Well that could work I guess, but could do with more details.





Lol. BUt yah, you might need to change things to fit, maybe even the 'animal to human' part.


Thats good, and because you've said that is why I've given so many suggestions, something I normally wouldn't do. If you want, do tell me to mind my own buisness.

And yeah as for the Animal to human, it was an idea with a lot of thought put in, generating a discussion on two seperate thread after I brought it up, which is one of the reasons I've brought up some faults with it, comparing to things brought up in those threads (Mainly the intelligence thing)

To be honest, most of it was me seeing how far I could get before mentioning that she was a cat. After that it went quite downhill.

-Hmm. IT WAS HORZINE. *carved up by fleshpound*

-If people don't like it that much I'll remove the human intelligence and she can just be a cat with a human body~

-Thought so. Other idea I thought of was being able to move (and see) in a fourth spatial dimension, allowing her to see/move past solid objects, disappear, have her hands and guns be the only part touchable etc. It's still completely broken but much more interesting. If anything it would be tempered by the fact that she severely lacks in motivation to do anything other than for herself. Kind of like she got loads of bonus stat points by taking all the negative personality and teamwork perks~

Don't worry about negativity, it was just a few minutes of procrastination and was never intended to actually fit in at all.

ps: physicist high five!

I like the idea, and I could even just accept a hand-wave that whatever chemicals gave her the transformation and powers gave her human-grade intelligence.

The power is where I have real problems though. I can not let a power this huge go unchecked. I'm willing to let it happen, but the amount of energy that it would use would be equivalent to sprinting the distance (though by rights it should be far greater). Anything over 50 yards would leave you gasping for breath, and anything over 150 yards would leave you barely able to move. Past 200 yards you would be unconscious from exhaustion.

There are also some issues with the weaponry section, are you implying that Syn is proficient with all of the weapons she took from the mercenaries? Shotguns, rifles, revolvers, assault rifles, pistols and swords? To gain any level of adequate proficiency with that array of weapons would take years of practice.

On the powers, would you mind if I changed it to the fourth dimension movement/vision thing? If you imagine the fourth dimension being like a corridor with walls made out of jelly so that the further she moves from where everything else is, the harder it gets?

As for guns, she isn't proficient with them (aside from either the pistols or sword I guess?), she's just stolen a lot of stuff.

Again, I just think that power is too much.

What if objects in the normal world project into the fourth dimension according to how old they are so that she would only be able to go and see through objects that are new?

Abilities: Syn and her constituent parts, through mechanisms largely unknown, have become subject to quantum uncertainty on a macro level. When nobody is looking, Syn can seemingly teleport, diffract through gratings and otherwise become inextricably energetic. While being able to teleport sounds useful, it has taken a long time for Syn to be able to consciously use it semi-controllably, and even then it took more practice to not observe herself and collapse her quantum state while doing so.

lol Schrödinger's cat theory.

What would the range of the teleportation be? Also, does being monitored electronically affect it, such as by a security camera, or is it only if there is an actual person watching? Reminds me a bit of the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who. When observed they turn to stone, but if no one is looking can move incredibly fast.

Got to be a conscious observer. If not, no record of her even being there~

I'll make some backups for when Lithas inevitable rejects that one too.

Abilities: Syn first learned she had an elemental affinity for cake while passing by a Labour party rally. Enraged by the simpering, corrupt, left wing jackasses, her anger gained physical form in a gigantic scone and promptly crushed the offending member of parliament. Originally somewhat downcast with her somewhat silly abilities, Syn eventually learned to appreciate their dramatic versatility. Whether slowing or drowning her enemies in trifle, unleashing a cataclysmic rain of rock cakes or merely serving delicious sponge cake for tea, Syn never ran out of uses for her power.

I had another idea involving a pocket dimension but I've forgotten it and will have to remember it later.

That would be a little bit peculiar, since it prompts the question of what this magical thing called "consciousness" is, and how it affects her quantum state.

From a mechanical standpoint, a biological eye converts light into electrochemical signals which are stored in the neural networks of a brain. Similarly, a technological camera converts light into electrical signals which are stored in the transistors of a computer. If the former blocked her teleportation ability but not the latter, I would be stumped as to why that could be.



That is a most excellent idea.

I like the Schrodinger's cat ability. Quintessential cat, disappearing when you're not looking... I think this one has reasonable limitations, though you would need to specify range of travel, conditions of arrival, her awareness while transporting... Good base power, though.

That said, CAKE. You probably meant to be silly and express frustration, but CAKE. You should use that power, even if Lithas okays Schrodinger.

If she does take the cake, I look forward to the discussions of how it's scientifically viable.

We can conjure panthers, why not pastries?