Post by Sammy Yoon on Jun 28, 2009 17:10:00 GMT -5
i n t r o d u c i n g . . .
Samantha Hana Yoon ///
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Full Name~ Samantha Hana Yoon
Gender~ Female
Age~ Twenty-two
Birthdate~ April 4th
Location~ Phoenix, AZ
Faction~ Heroes
Celebrity Claim~ Yoona Im
Play anyone else?~ Not yet
m i n d . . .
what's in my head?
/// SPECIAL ABILITY
Samantha is gifted with the power of Tychokinesis, or the ability to manipulate the probability of an event or a result of an action. At will, she can significantly increase or decrease the probability of any event that she can visually observe. While it is unknown as to how this ability has evolved from the average human body, it is suspected that she is subconsciously altering the stochastic fields at an extraordinary level of detail and coordination.
Stochastic fields, represented in quantum mechanics as an unpredictable probability of an elementary particle to spin "up" or "down", is hypothesized to be the fundamental unit of everything in the known universe. While the uncertainty of the direction of the spin accumulates into the astronomical scale of possibilities of events in the universe and make events generally unpredictable, Samantha is most likely controlling the direction of the spins in a deliberate and coordinated manner that allows her to predetermine the outcome of an event with significantly reduced uncertainty. Further research at this point regarding her ability is impossible, as the stochastic fields themselves are not completely understood by the scientific community.
When she was 16, Samantha had abruptly discovered that she also possesses the power of gyrokinesis, or the ability to manipulate the gravitational field of her surroundings. This newfound ability allows Samantha many application of the power, from temporarily granting a person (including herself) incredible jumping power to causing severe nausea and even internal injuries. The science behind this is also unclear at this point, except that the process does not involve increasing or decreasing a subject's mass and/or density. It is being hypothesized by her father that Samantha is applying her tychokinesis to the gravitational field for unknown reasons.
As gravitational fields are generated by a quantum elementary particle known as "graviton", it is most likely that Samantha's control over the "spin direction" of all the elementary particles has become more sophisticated to influence a specific type of particles (graviton). The choice of graviton over other fundamental force-generating particles is suspected to be natural affinity caused by genetic heritage.
As gravitational fields are generated by a quantum elementary particle known as "graviton", it is most likely that Samantha's control over the "spin direction" of all the elementary particles has become more sophisticated to influence a specific type of particles (graviton). The choice of graviton over other fundamental force-generating particles is suspected to be natural affinity caused by genetic heritage.
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/// ABILITY LIMITS
Samantha's tychokinesis is only limited to events and actions that she can understand and visually witness the cause and effect relatively clearly and completely. Larger events, including ones that spans multiple stages of cause and effect and lengthy time-frame, are immune to her power, as she cannot fully understand all the implications of the numerous causes. In addition, a person's choice is never under her power's jurisdiction; she cannot, in any way, make it 'probable' that someone will make such decisions directly. Samantha also needs to concentrate hard in order to employ this ability in any situation where odds are greater than 1:10, and the greater the odds, more focused she must become. Finally, because she can only increase the probability of an event (albeit dramatically), there is no absolute guarantee that using her tychokinesis will yield desired result - especially if the odds are too great. Her odd-limits are estimated to be around 1:100, and repeatedly using it in a short span of time will cause severe exhaustion (which is why she can't use this ability during tests extensively without her parents finding out about it)
Her gyrokinesis is limited by the range of 50 yards, and while she can weaken the gravitational field with ease she cannot strengthen them without effort. Currently she can achieve up to 10 g-force with ease (where an affected person will have difficulty moving and feel nauseous), and it becomes exponentially harder as she tries to strengthen it further. She has only achieved a dangerous g-force strength at the initial development of her gyrokinesis (estimated to be in the range of 30~50 g-force), and has lost consciousness for several days because of it. In addition, she can only influence the gravitational field generated by Earth, and cannot shift the direction of the field.
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/// PERSONALITY
Many people who have met Samantha will say that she is a very warm and cheerful person, the type that ends up taking care of everyone in her social group and becoming a proverbial 'Giving Tree'. And while her usual demeanor justifies such evaluation, her motivation for acting such a way lies in her very strong (perhaps desperate) need to fit in and be liked by others rather than sympathy. Thus, she becomes very easily attached to people who expresses their approval of her and becomes easily offended when receiving criticism (though her need to be liked demands her to hide her displeasure). Despite this need for others' approval, she can be quite self-sufficient and independent, suggesting that the needy trait is a fairly recent development.
Her desire for confirmation of acceptance is confusingly conflicting with her pride in her intellectual prowess, and sometimes her need to feel superior to others can win over her need to be liked. It is most likely that her eagerness to aid others is a form of showing off rather than a genuine compassion or even the desire for approval. Her tolerance for what she considers is stupidity is frighteningly low, and this makes her very self-critical when she herself makes a mistake. This, combined with the juxtaposing pride and the inherent low self-confidence causing her need for approval, can become a powerful depressant.
Because of her parents who have nurtured her tychokinesis from her childhood
and gyrokinesis when it developed during her late-teen period
, Samantha sees her powers as a secret asset to be used in her life as her parents had with their own powers. On a deeper level, however, Samantha is troubled by the complete lack of subtlety of her new power to manipulate gravity, and her view that she has somehow become lesser due to having this power may have led to her self-conscious personality. The way she feels about her two powers are very visible; when she is using tychokinesis, she is glowing with pride and excitement, while using gyrokinesis often leaves her solemn, irritable, and lethargic. In fact, the prospect of physical danger is probably the only scenario where she'll even use gyrokinesis voluntarily outside the training with her parents.
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Likes~
- Ethiopian food, especially lentil-related
- Reading newspapers and news magazines
- All forms of traveling
- Watching soccer matches
- Ginger Ale
Dislikes~
- "Overtly" critical people
- Sweet foods (afraid of cavities)
- Her own mistakes
- Cinnamon (allergic)
- Dentists (because they're too lazy to open on weekends)
Strengths~
- Very smart and academically inclined
- Has a warm demeanor and attractive appearance that disarms and befriends strangers
- Very motivated and diligent work/study habits
- Good at problem-solving
- Very self-sufficient and independent
Weaknesses~
- Always looking for confirmation of acceptance from people
- Can become very self-critical and consequently depressed
- Can become arrogant about her intelligence
- Her need to be liked can be easily used to abuse her kindness
- She is very weak to flattery (especially concerning her intelligence), and is therefore very easy to manipulate.
Skills~
- Pretty good soccer player (midfielder)
- Rapid calculation, especially involving probability
- Good rote memorization skills
- Biology major at the university (Just graduated)
- Can play violin (not at a professional level)
Hobbies~
- Playing the violin
- Watching soccer matches, unfortunately on TV and not at the stadium
- Playing soccer
Habits~
- Flipping a quarter whenever she has one (and always getting tails)
- Rushes off to the restroom or a mirror every time she hears "strange noises" from her mouth while chewing
- Rolls quarters on her fingers when not flipping them
Flaws~
- Acrophobia - she won't be using the temporary jumping power herself any time soon
- Has a very irrational fear of her teeth breaking off due to a childhood accident.
- Severe allergy to cinnamon (will be hospitalized if consumed in significant amount)
b o d y . . .
caught in your sights . . .
Age~ 22
Celebrity Claim~ Yoona Im
Sexual Preference~ Heterosexual (bi-curious?)
Ethnicity~ Half-Korean & Half-Japanese
Hair~ Black, kept in a straight perm and reaches just past her shoulder
Eyes~ black
/// APPEARANCE
Samantha is a very attractive girl with a slightly lower-than-average height. Her mostly silky black hair is kept in a straight perm and reaches below her shoulder. The way her almond eyes are shaped makes it look as if her eyes are always smiling, regardless of what she is actually feeling. She smiles a lot, whether it be a friendly greeting or even when she is feeling awkward or embarrassed, and her smiles are transparent enough to convey what she is feeling to even the casual observer. Her near obsession with her dental health has kept her teeth completely cavity-free and healthy, and the porcelain crown that has replaced her right front tooth is not noticeable without careful observation in close proximity.
She is about 5'4'' tall, and playing soccer since she was in middle school as a hobby has kept her body fit and slender. She walks briskly yet gracefully when she is by herself, but she will most likely match both pace and style to whoever she is with when in company. She pays good attention to what she is wearing, and though she does not necessarily follow the latest trend, she picks her clothes very carefully and deliberately. She favors light colored blouses with jeans, and tend to dress in layers more than necessary due to her being slightly more sensitive to cold weather.
s p i r i t . . .
this is where i come from . . .
Faction~ Heroes
Birthplace~ Scottsdale, AZ
Mother~ Julie Yuko Yoon (nee Fujikawa), 48, superhuman hearing (accuracy)
Father~ Sean Yungmin Yoon, 51, Elucidation
Siblings~ none
Spouse~ none
Children~ none
Other Family~
(Paternal grandfather) Hongsam Yoon, deceased,
Agrokinesis - ability to make plants grow rapidly
(Paternal grandmother) Minja Song, deceased,
Mammal Omnilingualism - ability to communicate with mammals
(Maternal grandfather) Tohru Fujikawa, 76,
Plant Empathy - ability to encourage plants to grow and detect any illness or challenges faced by the plant
(Maternal grandmother) Hanako Masayoshi, 69,
tychokinesis and gyrokinesis
Hongsam and Tohru are both farmers, and were part of a cult-like rogue branch of determinism-heavy Pentecostals with a 100% evolved human congregation in Montana. The Yoons and the Fujikawas, both first generation immigrants and with a son and a daughter respectively with a similar age, became good friends, helping each other at their farms with their abilities. The only odd one out was Hanako, who Tohru claimed had no powers. However, when the church finally found about Hanako's ability to manipulate probability, there was uproar throughout the small community. The church leaders eventually decided that Hanako was an abomination for disturbing the determined outcome of the future with her ability, and decreed that she should be executed by the congregation. Trying their utmost to protect their friends, Hongsam and Minja lost their lives in a desperate fight, and Tohru managed to escape with Hanako, Julie, and Sean and moved far away to Wisconsin. Sean was treated like a family by the Fujikawas, and eventually married Julie.
Though they believe that the cult-like Pentecostals is now defunct, they are actually thriving and are seeking both Hanako and her descendants in order to eliminate any possibility of raising questions toward determinism.
/// HISTORY
Samantha has been raised in a surprisingly sheltered and loving environment given the circumstances. Her father, who was born with elucidation and has employed it successfully and secretly to have a successful career as an astrophysicist, and her mother, who has superhuman hearing and has used it to her advantage as a music critic, encouraged Samantha to pursue development her power of tychokinesis when it emerged at age 3 - from a very large bag of jolly ranchers that they kept around the house, she pulled out the favorite flavor (lemon) 23 times in a row without looking. After confirming the nature of her power through dice and a deck of cards, both Sean and Julie played an active role in helping Samantha develop and control her powers, as their parents had for them with theirs. Their approach toward their powers was simple - it is a natural asset that one should use freely and liberally to better one's life, as long as it is done secretly and discreetly.
School was a breeze for intelligent, pretty, and curiously lucky Samantha, and save for one incidence where she tried to use her tychokinesis on a multiple-choice exam and fainted from consequent exhaustion, and one unfortunate accident during P.E. involving a volleyball game, one of her friend's enthusiasm for the sport, her unfortunately placed elbow, and Samantha's right front tooth, her school years went on without any glitches. Because her ability was not applicable in most facets of school life, she lived without being really self-conscious about her abilities, using it only during a school raffle or when she went to the State Fair with her friends. She became slightly neurotic about her teeth, and made it a habit to obsess over her dental health insistently.
Until a few months after her 16th birthday,
Samantha lived a rather convenient life with only typical teenager's woes serving as her worries.It was a rather hot day in July when the 16 year old Samantha discovered her gyrokinesis. The ability emerged suddenly, abruptly, and uncontrollably, and she screamed in great pain as her mind's gyrokinetic output skyrocketed to a level that she could not handle. The two-story house that the Yoons had in a Scottsdale residential area collapsed almost instantly from unimaginable gravitational strain, and Samantha became unconscious for several days. While the doctors assumed it was due to head trauma from the collapsing building, her parents guessed that it was due to her inability to control the newly emerged power and going past her current limit. After spending several months in the hospital being treated for various injuries from the 'accident', Samantha had her first serious fight with her parents. Both Sean and Julie wanted Samantha to work on controlling and developing her newfound power, but Samantha wanted to suppress it or let it atrophy for being too dangerous and blatant. Eventually she gave in, and reluctantly began to work with her father on maintaining control on her gyrokinesis. Luckily for her, it appeared that the incredible level of g-force generated during the power's emergence was a one-time thing, and she was able to return to normal life after spending a year recuperating from her injuries and gaining control over her abilities.
Choosing to stay close to where her parents were
in case her gyrokinesis went out of control again
, Samantha went to a local state university while majoring in biology and began to work towards getting accepted to a medical school. Aside from the weekly training of her powers done during the weekends at her parents' house, Samantha's college life went by without any strange incidents. Her hard work and intelligence paid off, as she was accepted to a prestigious medical school in Minnesota while graduating with honors. Choosing to take a sabbatical year to prevent any burnout syndrome, Samantha went to Las Vegas with her friends the week after graduation and got 'curiously' lucky again there. After running into some trouble with the casinos and proving her 'innocence', Samantha headed back home to Phoenix, where her life will change completely...
c r e d e n t i a l s . . .
what do you bring to the party ?
/// PLAYER INFORMATION
Name or Alias~ sleepyjulie
CBox Name~ sleepyjulie
Contact Info~ via PM
Age~ 21
Years of RP Experience~ might as well be first time...
How Did You Find Us? rpg directory
/// SAMPLE RP
The dizzying light of the chandeliers, video pokers, and various electric signs along with the deafening noises of a crowd and the almost-monotonic ringing of the slot machine was too much even for Sammy, who considered herself quite an urbanite. Wearing a rather simple and elegant cocktail dress with a pale pink shade, she looked like she belonged in such a busy environment despite her disorientation. She couldn't help but notice that the ecstatic and shocked faces of the winners were decidedly outnumbered by stern and tense faces of those who were going to have a bad night.
One particular man, whose desperate eyes told story of a stereotypical Vegas tale involving stupid decisions and shockingly rapid accumulation of debt, was struggling to put in what appeared to be one of his last coins. Smirking slightly, Sammy stopped and looked intently as he dropped in the coin and pulled the lever. 'I'm sure the casino can afford to lose a few thousand bucks...' She concentrated, remembering from her gambling guide book that the odds of each reels hitting a specific icon was about 1:64. She knew she had to split her influence one reel at a time, or the odds would be too great for her power to overcome. As the reels came to stop one by one, Sammy blinked and moved on to the next one to stop. A stunned silence followed as the man in front of the machine remained motionless, shocked beyond belief at what had just happened.
Sammy walked away, satisfied with herself, and toward the roulettes where the application of her power was slightly easier. She learned last night that playing blackjack with her powers employed was asking for disasters, and later found out that the casino was using 8 decks at a time. Poker was out of question as she could barely understand the rules, and craps had too many players involved for the game for her manipulation of probability to be effective. "Determinism be damned, I guess..." she muttered as she arrived at the table.
As the bets were opened, she placed all of her chips on 4 while smiling innocently. "My birth date." she commented as the dealer smiled back politely. As the metal bearing was dropped and began to bounce around the rapidly spinning wheel, Sammy looked on intently and began to focus. As the ball comfortably rested in the small slot marked as 4, she smirked at first then began to gasp in a pretend surprise as the dealer announced the winner. "Oh wow!" she exclaimed, "I can't believe I've won!" Looking around in pretend excitement and happiness, she was greeted with friendly (and some more than just friendly) smiles by others around the table.
"Um... how about 19?" She placed all of her winnings on a single number again, making some people raise their eyebrows. "Miss, you don't have to put all of your bets on one number again." One of the fellow gamblers, who seemed to be around Sammy's age, leaned over and advised her while giving off what was probably his most dashing smile. Suppressing her urge to break out into a laugh, Sammy pretended to be shocked and worried. "Oh no! I didn't know that! But the bet is already off..." She looked at the spinning wheel again with great concentration, and the ball landed at 19. '37 to 1? Piece of cake.' She thought smugly as she began to cheer loudly to show a pretense of innocence.
"You're very lucky today, miss." The dealer said cordially as Sammy took her chips, and she once again had to stop herself from snickering at the comment. "Yeah, I'm just having a lucky day." She said happily as she put a single chip on red. "This is okay, right? I better not push my luck anymore." She commented while smiling to the guy who had 'helpfully' advised her about the rule of the game. Sammy could tell that this was going to be a fun night.
Did you read the rules: The rules? My dog ate them. Honest.