Post by Tanah on May 26, 2008 17:09:42 GMT 7
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Name: Tanah Mercede
Age: three hundred (twelve in human appearance)
Alias: none
Custom Title: .Flightless Child of Heaven.
Nationality: none
Hair Color: pale blonde, almost white, that literally glitters under the light
Eye Color: glassy red
Height: 5'0"
Weight: 110 lbs
Appearance:
Body: Tanah’s hair is long (reaching midway her back), slightly wavy with bangs. It is silky and abundant and it glitters. It is comparable to a girl whose hair was accidentally poured on by fine silver glitters. Her face is smooth and flawless, comparable to a sculpture in marble. Her face is oval and softly angled, with plump cheeks those of a Boticelli angel. Her forehead is not too wide, her nose thin, her lips pink, small and pouty. Her eyes are almond red and have plentiful of lashes and her eyes have certain brightness in them. Tanah possesses a pinkish white complexion. She has a young body—shapeless and slim. She has slender limbs with clear nails.
Strange parallel marks of crosses (the left, upright; the right, inverted) are at her upper back where wings are popularly believed to sprout from. Each of her ankles has an anklet. However, one can observe that instead of locking one end of the anklet to the other to close the accessory, both ends of the anklet are pierced through the skin of the hind of her ankle.
Fashion: Tanah is a fine specimen for any kind of clothes except for very loose attires. She goes along with sleeveless to long sleeved shirts. However, she has a liking towards short lower attires. This liking often rotates around shorts, skirts and knee-length pants and dresses. Her shoes are usually sandals, flip-flops and Chucks.
Her hair is tied according to the weather. When it’s hot, she uses clamps to keep her hair up. When it’s cool, she keeps it untied—beautifully cascading like waves of sunlight. When it’s rainy or windy, she alternates with braids, pony and pigtails.
She isn’t into cosmetics and extra accessories.
Alice:
Alice of Sacrificial Defense
The Alice of Sacrificial Defense is a defense type of power. The Alice is currently automatic and is basing it’s activation on the perception of threat of the user since Tanah has not yet mastered control over her power.
When Tanah perceives an incoming threat (however small as long as she knows she will get hurt), her A.S.D. (Alice of Sacrificial Defense) initiates a very powerful pulling force that draws free objects towards Tanah to create a randomly made shield. The shield can be created on whatever direction the threat is coming from. The effectiveness of her power depends on her current vitality and level of exertion.
Definition:
Free Object- any object not planted to something stable and unmovable. For example, a cap is a free object. But if the cap is placed under a car tire, it is not free. However, since the car is not implanted on the ground itself, the car may or may not be (depending on Alice exertion) pulled into the makeshift barrier as well. Thus, the cap can be pulled towards Tanah, too.
Vitality- this is influenced by her human weariness. For example, she is tired after doing so much for a day. Her fatigue will affect the power of her Alice, thus, making her power weak.
Level of Exertion- the amount of power she uses.
Limitations:
Space and Time- The barrier can be made an inch to two meters from the user. That means a far threat can not be stopped from a distance. Also, the Alice can only draw objects within a ten meter diameter from all directions. A.S.D. can be activated continuously for five minutes at most. After that, it stops and she can use it again after ten minutes. (Time subject to change depending on the exertion and vitality) The greater the exertion and the lesser the vitality, the lesser the time limit—the distance of influence remains unchanged.
Another point to remember is, the time to create the barrier depends on the weight of the objects being dragged. If a bus is used to become a barrier, then it'd take about more than thirty seconds to pull it from a few meters away.
Activation- the A.S.D. can not be activated unless a feeling of threat and the direction of threat are known. If the user feels that the threat is everywhere, the Alice creates a spherical barrier.
Pulling force- the A.S.D. can pull any free object within the range of the power. If level of exertion is great, it can draw a bus and objects with such weight to her. At average, she can pull a car. At low level exertion, she can only pull small objects. The A.S.D. can not pull stable, embedded objects such as roads, trees, buildings and such.
Control- the A.S.D. activation can not be controlled yet by Tanah. However, she can control the level of exertion.
Side Effects:
The initial side effect of going over the limit of usage is weariness followed by the emerging of her wings. This means that the wings tear through her back, causing injury and exsanguination if not attended to immediately.
Personality:
Tanah is very open minded, positive, happy going, sweet and friendly. She is playful and patient and very curious about people around her. She delves in knowledge as past time and is very appreciative about the tiniest thing in life. Tanah is confident and decisive. However, she can also be assertive when countered. Her temper is volatile whenever she sees violence and whenever she feels demons near her. She is naturally a sin hater who tries to talk the sinner out of the deed. She seldom cries but she isn't a great in physical pain endurance. So, she easily backs off when she sees herself bleeding.
Tanah loves dancing for she is endowed with gracefulness.
Background:
It was one usual day in the year 1705 when the heaven was in sudden distress. An angel was slain in an encounter with a demon encouraging a human to sell his soul to the hell dweller. While the tragedy caused a downpour of rain, the heavenly beings decided to rouse one of the souls kept within the chambers of the skies. And thus, a soul that appeared as mist enclosed in a bubble-like ball was freed and it took the form of a child whose hair glittered like it bore specks of stars. She opened her red eyes and muttered, “By heavens I am named Tanah."
In the heavens, there was no malice. Tanah was a child of innocence who explored her home naked and shameless. She was a happy child, playful and friendly. She was ever curious about the world she was born to protect so she spent her time watching the life under the heavens whenever she grew tired of playing. She was, after all, the youngest of all angels there and playing with the mature ones quickly bored her at times.
“What is it like down there?" The child-angel always asked the older ones.
“It’s full of irony." One would say. “The humans are happy, yes, but they are also saddened and pained by their sins."
Twenty years went fast and yet the face of a child remained possessed by the beautiful girl. She was raised a knowledgeable girl, strict about sinfulness in the world. It was also after those twenty years when she was spoken to by an adult angel about what she wanted to be.
“Tanah," the older angel started when she found young Tanah lying on her stomach, “have you thought of what you wish to be?"
The child looked up to the adult. “Want to be?"
“Yes,"she nodded, “angels take different paths to be of better protector of the dear creation. Some become the fenders of the devil. Others remain in the heaven, overlooking everything. Others extend their help to those angels who are astray and seek to get them back. Others change their form to mingle with the world. And most have gone down to earth to be humans' personal guardians."
“What do you think I should be, then?" Tanah asked while looking down on the crowded structures at the surface far from the heavens.
“I can not tell, dear. You feel the urge to be someone." The angel nodded once more.
Tanah took another look of earth and thought about how she wanted to know more about the world and about pain and humanity. She mused for minutes, eyeing whatever she saw through the clouds. “I want to be a guardian angel."
For she knew, she had superiority over humans with her power. With her power, she could protect them and still be out of reach for she feared their humanity for some reason. Humans are often unpredictable. They can love and kill without a thought.
“But before you do become one," she smiled, “you better learn to fly."
And fly was something that burdened young Tanah.
When she had reached twenty-five human years, she started her formal training of controlling her wings to emerge from her back. It was torturous to see a child on her knees, embracing her nude, young flesh as a pair of internal material tried to protrude through her supple skin. She would bleed and cry but that was all part of the process. For three years only the top fold of her wings cut through her back. The slow progress alarmed the adult angels who matured and had their wings used faster than Tanah.
On her thirtieth human year, Tanah, after a day-long perseverance, finally forced her wings through the bloody cuts on her back. The witnesses clapped with joy when the child-angel showed her wings but when they drew closer, they stepped back in shock.
The blonde beauty was on her knees and elbows, clutching the ground with small white hands. She was panting but overwhelmed with the feeling of success. “I did it..." She half-whispered and half-cried. Her tame red orbs searched for affirmation from the witnesses who surrounded her but their faces were far from joy.
“…?" Tanah pushed herself to a sitting position and stared at the angels who crowded her. “I’ve done it." She said with confusion.
“Tanah, child." One muttered before clasping her hands into prayer.
The confused young one’s eyes bore fear. She stretched out her wings and the looked at them.
She shouted in horror.
Her wings were only bones wrapped by seemingly withering white skin. She could see the very frame of the structure of angel wings. It was as if she had bat wings with no webbed effect. Hanging from the wing frame were sparse and fine white feathers that appeared to have been plucked unmercifully from the branches. In other words, she had featherless wings.
When the child-angel cried, heaven cried with her and there came another downpour of rain.
It took no time for the adult ones to calm Tanah, assuring her that maybe she wasn’t ready and told her to try once more another time. She placed her faith on their words and tried once more after another year, and another, and another until she reached her fiftieth year. And still, she bore no feathers. She could not fly.
“But how could I be a guardian angel if I can not fly down to earth?" Tanah often murmured sadly to people who spoke to her. “I don’t want to stay here." But she knew that whatever she said would not affect anything. She believed her fate was sealed as an over-looker—an angel who simply stayed in heaven. She remained in her child form for almost three hundred years in the heavens, sadly watching the flow of time under the skies.
However, the stagnant, prosaic life of hers made a drastic turn one autumn when she was alone staring off into the dizzying lights of the buildings of earth. Tanah was humming to herself when she caught sight of a devil making his way to the busy intersection of a city somewhere in Japan. Immediately, she knew what he was to do. From the heavens she could hear the thought of a man alongside the road. He was thinking of committing suicide, not minding if his self-annihilation would cause greater death if accidents would occur.
No one was there to stop the demon. She couldn’t let that happen for deep within her the longing of being a guardian angel stirred. Without further rationality, she ran and jumped from the heavens towards the human. Wind was rustling against her star-lit like hair and her beauty was comparable to no angel at that very moment—the moment when she smiled after hundreds of years of loneliness because she couldn’t fly.
Tanah’s speeding up, she knew it. And instinct told her to release her wings and break her fall. Once more, through her perfectly healed back, her wings sprouted with pain still. She was propelling downward so with all her might she stretched her wings and flapped. However, it was futile--she knew.
She neared the ground for she saw herself falling parallel to the buildings. She was invisible to all.
“No!" Tanah screamed. Her wings--they were dead as ever.
The angel whose flight made a glittery trail in the skies ended her fall, hitting the cold cement. She didn’t feel any pain but something else was wrong. She stood up, utterly baffled, and found herself beside the man who planned to commit suicide. He stared at her.
“He sees me?" Tanah muttered to herself and apparently, the man heard her.
“…what?" the man muttered. He found her extremely odd.
Her mission came to mind. She looked around to fend the man from the demon but the creature of hell was not in sight. This troubled her more.
“The child, she appeared from nowhere." She heard people speak around her.
“Get her a coat for God’s sake!" a woman yelled behind a bench.
Soon, more and more people came to crowd around her, pointing at her like she was some alien. Tanah was confused—people shouldn’t be able to see her. She eyed the man who was to kill himself and saw him utterly puzzled by her presence as well.
“Child, why are you naked?" a lady came forward and placed a coat over her shoulders. When Tanah turned in alarm, everyone held their breath as if waiting for some kind of suspense. “Where are your parents?"
They can see me! Tanah walked back as if in fear of what might happen to her. An angel must be invisible to humans for they are powerful and subject to mercy and care they can be much influenced.
Tanah took more steps back, her bare feet hitting the road.
“Stop the child!" a man yelled and extended his hand to hold her arm but Tanah suddenly grew fearful of being conquerable by human. When she was an angel, she wanted to take care of them for she knew that she was superior and she had the power to come to their aid. However, she felt she was subject to harm now that she was not in her heavenly state. She knew of man’s folly. She knew them well.
Fear was seen in her almond eyes. She didn’t know that she had so much attention because she was too beautiful, like she had come straight from someone’s dream. Moreover, her hair glittered like it had the stars.
“The child! The child!" The crowd chorused.
Tanah didn’t know that she was in a busy road. All she wanted was to get away. She didn’t care about the cars coming her way for her eyes were upon the man who was trying to hold her. “No," she muttered, “no!"
In a flash, cars and random objects flew to her direction. They did not hit her but they formed some kind of wall in between her and the man. The man immediately stopped and fell on his behind as a towering wall of trash cans, cars, benches and other materials stuck together to block his way. He was even more perplexed at the sound of crying from the humans who were forming the barrier as well.
On the other side of the barrier was Tanah, surprised and blank. She didn’t know what to do next either. She stared at the great wall dividing her and the human. She gulped.
She could feel energy rising in her and soon, without apparenty control over her energy, the barrier collapsed before her. Her power over it wavered finally.
Tanah stood in shock as the bloody humans were helped by the crowd. No one knew what happened and for a few seconds, everyone forgot the naked girl whose confusion had brought her to tears.
She knew she had to return to heaven. There was something awfully wrong. Tanah's red eyes turned to a direction when suddenly, her arm was held by a man whose eyes could not conceal a certain intensity. Beside him was a woman who nodded at her.
"Alice user."
She stared and tugged. Humans were scary.
"Come," the woman held her as gently as she could and the three, amidst the chaos around them, fled.
It was soon, as they ran and hailed a cab leading away from the scene, that Tanah, an angel that she was, realized the good naturedness of the couple who took her from the crowd. However, she did not understand why she felt like losing her heavenly graces bit by bit. She was troubled and with her innocence and truthfulness, she whispered, "I need to go back to heaven."
In a matter of minutes, they arrived at an apartment and there, Jean and Dan Mercede, a childless couple, explained to the bewildered child that they took her for she is an Alice user. Tanah needed more explanation before she understood that in the human world, some are exceptionally gifted and they are called Alice users. Jean is a Wind Manipulator while Dan is a Telepath.
Jean was particularly afraid that the girl might be taken to hostile places or might be killed if they didn't take her with them.
"What's your name, child?" Dan asked.
"...Tanah." The child-angel is a real beauty. Her pale hair made pretty waves around her face as she eyed them with questioning red orbs.
The couple immediately knew what to do with the girl who they soon adopted and called Tanah Mercede. They sent her to Alice Academy.
Family History:
Jean Mercede - Alice user - 37 - alive
Dan Mercede - Alice user - 40 - alive
Extras:
Approval Status (Mod 1): Gackt.
Approval Status (Mod 2): Gackt.
Approval Status (Mod 3): Not yet approved
Approval Status (Admin): Iwase Ken
Class Section: Not yet Approved
Combination Class Section: Not yet Approved
Dangerousness: Not yet Approved
