i can make the bad guys good for a weekend (__ghoul) wrote, @ 2015-08-16 19:45:00
'cause we're young and we're reckless, we'll take this way too far, it'll leave you breathless or with a nasty scar
FREDERICKS, NANDI
BASIC INFORMATION
FULL NAME: Nandi Bridgette Fredericks ALIASES: Charlize Rossouw CURRENT AGE: 28 DATE OF BIRTH: May 18th, 1987 GENDER: Female BIRTHPLACE: Johannesburg, South Africa HOUSING: FORMER LOCATION: Las Vegas, Nevada MARITAL STATUS: Single CURRENT OCCUPATION: Agent in Training, concessions clerk at Lightbox Cinema FORMER OCCUPATION: Prostitute? Stripper
APPEARANCE INFORMATION
HAIR COLOR: Naturally black, dyed white EYE COLOR(S): Green HEIGHT: 5'1 WEIGHT: 110 LBS DISTINGUISHING MARKS: The closely cut bangs, and spiky white hair, she dresses in often over sized or closely fitted clothes of bright colours PERSONAL STYLE: She wears loosely fitted hoodies, over large t shirts, and skinny leg jeans often paired with either flat sneakers or wedge heels. Nandi likes colourful clothing, things that will catch the eye, and often puts clips and bows in her hair, gaudy jewelry paired with every day out fits. Toned down is not really a word that is in Nandi's vocabulary and she is always going at top speed, always over the top. PLAYED-BY: Yolandi Visser
MUTATION INFORMATION
TRIGGER: Hatred CLASS: Ranked 3 ABILITIES: SONIC SCREAM is Nandi's primary ability, and it allows her to generate vocal sounds of a much higher aplitude than that of a normal human. Sonic scream is a deafening, even crippling, ability and can deafen targets, and immobilize them. Nandi can change the amplitude of her screams, from sharp and short bursts, to longer and harsher ones.
SUPERHUMAN SPEED A secondary ability that gives Nandi superhuman speed, which allows her to move faster than a motorized vehicle and she can move from one spot to the other in a blur that can not be seen by a naked eye, but she can choose to move her fingers or arm individually.is the ability to move at speeds faster than a normal human. Nandi can reach up to 480 miles per hour if she builds up speed, although she starts out at a slower pace initially.
ECHOLOCATION her third ability and which is coupled with the others. Nandi can project her sonic scream at a frequency that will allow her to bounce the sound waves from one object to another. She can use this to find items within two hundred yards of her present position by reflected sound waves. While she can use this to a lesser degree when not moving at superhuman speed but while she is it is at it's best; the reflected sound of the quick movement bounces from objects and back to her.
SUPER HUMAN STRENGTH the last of her abilities. Nandi's strength is increased beyond ordinary, and it allows her to lift objects that weigh considerably more than she does. To twist, crush and manipulate metal and other objects comes easily to her, although because of Nandi's low rank, she has little control over this and will often ruin things without meaning.
SPECIAL SKILLS: Nandi can speak Afrikaans and English, but that is it.
IN-DEPTH PERSONALITY
Nandi is many things; a manipulator, deceptive, even a catty bitch but what she boils down to in the end is an escapist. Never has Nandi actually handled an issue, she turns and runs from it, skirting around the difficulties that lay in wait for her in life. Booze and drugs are her main means to turn her back on a problem, a habit that she developed during her youngest years and something which she has only learned not to fall back at the smallest of things because of moving form her dealers and into a community with support. Nandi is not willing to admit to her own short comings, rather preferring to smile her way through situations and laugh anything that is ill suited to her off.
This is the reason that she is where she is in life. Nandi would make a good girlfriend, wife and mother if she only was mature enough to face that she is not the best thing that the world has to offer but her ego is a self propelled means to keep herself from drowning in the depressing state of the world. If she can flirt her way through a conversation, nit pick comments from you, go shopping or clubbing that is exactly what she will do and it is perhaps because of this that she makes a good friend. She enables those around her to be their best when they are at their worse.
She is a very free woman, wanting fun and acceptance, which is why she rarely will make a real argument out of what anyone says but if she feels threatened Nandi will not lay back and take it, rather she will snap back with her own powers and then turn to someone stronger to have her back. Nandi happens to be a sly and vindictive woman all the same and if you slight her more likely than not, she will find some way to get back at you and this is typically done through destruction of material objects, which she often seems to hold above people. Nandi is a woman whom cares about her looks and will spend hours preening and working on her hair and makeup until it is perfect and although she behaves to be a very morally free woman often kissing and flirting with anyone she finds remotely interesting, she will not jump into bed with just anyone. Because, thanks to the community, that is not something Nandi needs to do anymore.
IN-DEPTH HISTORY
PARENTS: Lerato and Andile Fredericks SIBLINGS: Chipo Fredericks OTHER RELATIVES: A lot of extended family
There is not much to say about the Frederick's: Lerato and Andile met as young children and ended up marrying young in life, she remained home when they had their first daughter Chipo while Andile went to work. Nandi joined the family in May 18th, 1987 and was always quite the bundle of trouble for Lerato, with Chipo trying to help their mother to take care of the new baby and the house. She was a mischievous child, often doing the exact opposite from what her mother wished her to do and this was a quality that would remain with Nandi as she grew up in the suburbs of Johannesburg. Her father was a very hard man, and would often discipline the small girl for her antics while Lerato would shuffle off, pretending it was not happening. It was the only way they really saw to deal with her when she began to properly get in trouble around the community.
Nandi did not anticipate life changing for her at all, yet it all did rather suddenly one day. She had grown infatuated with an older boy in her school and one day brought him home to hang out while her father was at work, knowing that Chipo and Lerato had gone to her aunt's to visit and that she and the young man would have some time alone. Nandi did not expect Andile to arrive home early, and when he came in to find his fourteen year old alone with a boy, he became enraged and began to yell at she before pushing the class mate from the home.
It was only when he struck her across the face that Nandi first experienced true hatred, which triggered her mutant abilities for the first time. Without meaning to, Nandi's shouts turned to shrill shrieks; glass began to break just as Andile collapsed to the floor. Nandi was horrified by what had happened, by what she had just done, and fled from the home with the belief that she had just killed her father in some way.
Nandi was never the most mature of child, always trying to be a grown up when she was no where close, and this was why she hid herself away after the altercation with her father, afraid that the police would be after her. This was what pushed her into altering her appearance for the first time, cutting her hair and dying it. Nandi begged for the first year she spent on the streets, but after realizing that she could barely afford to feed herself by doing this, the young girl turned to prostitution at fifteen.
It was during these years that Nandi began to fully experience and experiment with her abilities; she was learning that it was not just a freak accident, and curiosity was getting the best of her. This was not all that difficult for Nandi, as she was often triggered by the men that picked her up, and her abilities would hit her hard and fast.
Living in South Africa was not easy for a young girl on her own, whom was living on the streets, and after six years Nandi was ready to get out after she was attacked by a volatile john. She had found a man that acted as protection for her, pimping she and other women out, and Nandi saw him as her way out.
Nandi might have struggled with her powers but she had come to realize that she could run really, really fast and that she could break things that once would have baffled her. Nandi was strong and fast, and this was one of the best things which could have happened to her. She subdued the man, before breaking into the safe kept in the back of his home, cleaning him out before she ran away from once again: her last trip before leaving was to a counterfeiter she had met through the pimp.
She paid him to make her fake documents that allowed her to leave South Africa under another name, and it was less than a week later that she was in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nandi might have had money remaining, but she took a job as a stripper in a cheap club, the first one she could find employment in, to attempt to blend in. Not wanting to draw undue attention to herself as a foreigner after everything that she had done.
She spent some time hiding out, but gradually Nandi grew comfortable within Nevada and she was certain nothing could come of her time in South Africa. She had been in America for two years before she drew attention to herself as a mutant; after losing control of her abilities while on the stage, Nandi expected something, anything, to happen yet only silence followed. She had moved from the apartment she rented, with no plan to return to the club.
It was when she was en route to another town that she was stopped by another person, a man claiming to be a mutant that forced her into his car and drove her from the convenience store that Nandi had stopped off at. He explained what she was, a mutant, and that she was going to draw the sort of attention she did not want to herself by exposing her powers publicly.
This was how Nandi learned of Suzanne Vaughan. She was leading mutants in hiding away from the public eye, and although Nandi hated the idea of hiding, of being quiet and pretending to be someone she was not once again, it seemed like the only thing she could do at this point. She left with them, moving into the faux religious community and this is where she stayed for the last few years until Suzanne made the final push of bringing them to Snow mass.
She followed the mutant community to Crestwood, wanting to remain with the group of people whom she had grown close to through the years. Nandi has found work within the cinema, and has entered training as an agent at Crestwood; she is entirely happy to just be here for now, and has finally begun to settle in.
WRITING SAMPLE
A third person sample, minimum of 300 words, and it must be of the character you're applying for. This is not required after your first character. If you need, here are some suggested prompts: Write about your character's discovery of their abilities. Write about an ability training session. Write about them trying to control their abilities in public while triggered. Write about their first day walking into Crestwood.
OOC INFORMATION
PLAYER NAME: Cal PLAYER CONTACT: You must list at least ONE form of contact, whether it be AIM, email, or a contact post. TIMEZONE: