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Living Weapon
- Posts:
- 49
- Group:
- Arbiter
- Member
- #49
- Joined:
- Apr 11, 2008
- Proficiency
- AP Boost
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¤ General Info ¤
Spoiler: click to toggle Name: Clothos Aurion Meaning: Clothos was one of the Moirae from Greek mythology, the three goddesses that control fate. Clothos weaves the threads of life, Lachesis measures them and decides when they die, and Atropos cuts the threads. Together, they controlled the fates of every living being, from mice to the gods themselves. Age: Irrelevant Date of Birth: December 25 Gender: Female Affiliation: Arachnos Harbinger
¤ Appearance Info ¤

Spoiler: click to toggle Eyes: Indigo. They often look somewhat blank, as though she is slightly detached from the present moment, but there is a spark of intelligence that kicks in whenever something catches her interest. Her eyes alone do more to set her expression than the rest of her face; the difference between aimless blank and focused intelligence is drastic. Hair: Violet; most of it is shoulder length with a few strands being slightly longer, but in the back it is tied in an extremely long braid that goes down the entirety of her back. Skin: Most of her body is unscathed, but her chest, stomach, and back are covered in scars that she takes great trouble to cover. Clothes: An unusual combat uniform that is reminiscent of an ornamental dress uniform; it has several odd designs and symbols that seem abnormally ornate for a normal uniform. She has no idea if any of the symbols are important in any way, but the outfit allows her total freedom of movement in combat while retaining a modicum of modest, as compared to nearly anything else she could find, so she wears it day in and day out anyways. Since this is anime, it never gets dirty, stinky, or anything else you'd expect from clothing worn at all times when awake. Physique: She doesn't really look out of the average, neither especially thin nor overweight, but is both frighteningly strong and extremely fast as a direct result of the Genesis Solution experimentation. Her control over her power is fairly poor, though, and she has a tendency of over- or under-estimating the difficulty of tasks, usually to the tune of something breaking or her tripping over her own feet. As with everything else about her, the severity of this issue ramps up as she becomes more stressed and essentially vanishes when she is completely focused on a task. Height: 167cm Weight 52kg Other: This tattoo is on the back of her neck, peeking out over the collar of her uniform. It is a relic of the Genesis Solution experimentation, and while she does not go well out of her way to cover it up, she never brings attention to it.
¤ Other Info ¤
Spoiler: click to toggle Personality: Her personality, eroded though it may have been by testing, is generally upbeat; she is pleasant to be around and rarely gets legitimately angry. Odd for a Team Rocket member in general and an Arachnos Harbinger in particular, but her rank is more due to her abilities than her conscious mind - she generally does her best to get along with people, dislikes brutality in general and loathes unnecessary cruelty with a passion, and really just tries to fulfill her role with a minimum of bad PR to Arachnos as a whole. That is not to say that she is entirely pleasant, as the drastic changes wrought in her mind and body via the Genesis Solution have left her a competent if battle-scarred soldier, but she doesn't generally like to utilize her abilities more than absolutely necessary.
Yes, it is a Pollyana view on life, and entirely incongruent with what one would expect from an Arachnos Harbinger. She is far from the perfect leader, and frankly, was offered the position more out of a combination pity and respect than truly earning it - something which, unsurprisingly, has earned her the ire of many of the Harbingers who actually had to earn their position the long way. She is vaguely aware of this fact and tries not to further exacerbate the issue by failing at fulfilling the duties of her position. As a result, she acts as professionally as possible when on a mission and tends to speak tersely and concisely when giving orders, unconsciously mimicking what she has seen from other Harbingers.
However, she is fundamentally unable to empathize with other human beings; beneath her pleasant veneer is a certain lack of caring that bleeds through to her interactions with others. Her pleasantries are not an act of ill-willed deceit; she simply cannot put any real feeling into them.
{Yes, it's intentionally a bit vague. There's a hell of a lot more to her than that, but I'd like to save some of the more interesting/abnormal stuff for character development/site plot progression, and this gives a general idea of how she acts in a professional sense, aka what to expect when she's running a mission}
Speech: Clothos generally speaks crisply and clearly, not liking to have to repeat herself. She rarely raises her voice in anger, but her tone changes audibly and she tends to become somewhat snide or insulting in her comments when someone or something annoys her enough. However, despite her general emotional estrangement, it is ludicrously rare that she outright loses her temper - that emotion simply does not go that far, another result of the tampering.
Talents/Flaws: Clothos, as might be expected of her designation as a bioweapon, is both tremendously strong and on the upper barrier of human agility, and her reflexes are on par with her enhanced abilities. She has an immense degree of experience in fighting and acrobatics and can hold her own in nearly any fight, but is tremendously unreliable. After the experimentation on her brain and subsequent cascade failure of the project, she is very prone to being controlled by her emotions, has a tendency to lose focus easily even in the middle of combat or otherwise strenuous situations, and generally makes worse and worse use of her abilities as they situation calls for them more; she deals extremely poorly with stress or diplomacy. However, when able to keep her focus, generally as a result of her emotional charge being entirely congruent with her conscious mind, she is generally able to keep a fairly solid level of control over her movements.
Her other talents are somewhat more limited given her past; she is relatively competent at identifying safe and unsafe foods, capable of shorter-term survival in the wild, and while far from an excellent cook, can at least usually follow the cookbook's instructions. She has very little experience with other human beings and tend to be unsure of what exactly to do around them, though she is fascinated by them - she's never been "just normal," but is curious as to what it is like. Compound it all with a fairly poor attention span, and mix together for one serving of Clothos.
Likes: Most things. She's fairly easily amused, sad as it is, and doesn't harbor ill will to anyone outside of the Genesis Solution members - something she is extremely reticent about speaking of. The reprogramming also gave her a tendency to enjoy the pain she causes, but her conscious mind generally does its best to deny the pleasure.
Dislikes: Essentially anyone involved in the Genesis Solution, going hungry, and what she is. She's not prone to long emotional rants about it and never discusses the matter with others, but she does harbor a certain degree of self-disgust and envies normal human beings.
Known Family: Lachesis Aurion - youngest sister Atropos Aurion - younger sister
(She doesn't know either of their faces, merely the names)
Dream: Arachnos took her in after being labeled a failed bioweapon and essentially saved her from being deleted, so she serves the organization with fanatical loyalty. What remains of her memories reminds her occasionally of the two sisters she never knew, but she is satisfied to simply serve Arachnos, body and mind, until her inevitable death.
¤ Battle Info ¤
Spoiler: click to toggle Fighting Style: She was created as a bioweapon, and as a result of massive illegal experimentation, she was essentially recreated and reprogrammed as the perfect weapon; fast, strong, competent at a simply unfair number of styles of combat, a capable marksman with numerous weapons, and given the training to use them all effectively. Unfortunately, her conscious mind often gets in the way of the unconscious; she is prone to losing focus at the most inopportune of times and has difficulty judging the appropriate amount of force to put into any action, generally leading to abysmal failure as often as not.
However, when not making a mockery of the amount of money spent on her, she struggles to live up to what she was intended to do, and is an extremely effective killer. Near-inhuman speed coupled with immense brute strength gives her a distinct advantage in most hand to hand fights, but she has absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of Pokémon, and frankly, being really strong doesn't help much when you're going to get plastered by an Onix anyways. Needless to say, her Pokémon has had to learn how to function without her usually-detrimental input. On the occasion that her emotions are not called into play, or more commonly are completely congruent with the mission she set out to do, Clothos is far more capable of controlling her actions and attacks and nearly lives up to her status as a living weapon.
For combat, she generally relies on her body, but occasionally uses one of several garrotes she keeps stashed away in various locations of her uniform. She is a competent marksman but rarely uses firearms of any variety; not only are they fairly rare to begin with, but Exire essentially has a "shoot on sight" policy for armed civilians, and getting shot for carrying a gun around is not near the top of things to get killed for.
Proficiency: Broker
¤ Biography ¤
Spoiler: click to toggle Biography: Going to gradually reveal this through RP/later site plot stuff. All that really needs to be known know is that she is a failed attempt at a human bioweapon, is far more loyal to Arachnos proper than TR as a whole, and doesn't have "issues." She has so many damn issues, she's got a full fucking subscription.
¤ Pokémon ¤
Spoiler: click to toggle  "Akuma" Extra Information: Given that Clothos only recently acquired him and has done little or nothing to train him, Akuma isn't particularly attached to her but is loyal out of principle. However, he very quickly learned to ignore her specific orders in battle and go off of whatever general tactics she previously taught him or he has figured out on his own. When not being dragged into Pokémon battles, he often acts as Clothos' wingman of sorts in melee, covering whichever side she doesn't already have under control.
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