PROFILE

[poreiavian]

STATISTICS

NAME Loma Shade
AGE 20-something, trapped in sweet 16
DOB Unknown

HEIGHT 5'5"
BUILD Petite, slender
HAIR Platinum blonde
EYES Orange

FIRST IMPRESSION
Delightful, flighty, cynical, eccentric, judgmental, determined. Do not trust what it is on the surface, as the inside rots away to the madness.

APPEARANCE

AVIAN

HUMAN

ABOUT

Hailing from Meta, a planet eighteen light years away from Earth, Loma is an Avian - a bird-like alien - in depression. All her life she has lived on the planet Meta, a planet that hosts many aliens after something known only as the Cray Expansion came to her home planet and caused most of her species to migrate. Loma's biological parents failed a parenting test, which left her an orphan to be later adopted by bureaucrats, looking to mold her into the model Metan. But from a young age, Loma fiercely rebelled against authority and the norms that were forced upon her, even at the cost of being ostracized by most of society. She skipped school, stole anything that shined, and even sneaked into clubs and indulged in drug use. Mostly she was bored. Apathetic and depressed, unable to find anything worth caring about - including herself.

In her university days, two things entered her life and changed her. The first was an Earth sitcom, Life with Honey, that was beamed into Metan satellites by happenstance. For a while the sitcom launched a fad craze for Earth in society, but like all fads it went away in time. For Loma it became a lifeline, a look into a world not her own, and one she wanted desperately to be part of.

The second was Rac Shade, a Metan poet who lectured one day in her university about his journey to Earth and the Madness that he rode in on. Loma became instantly engrossed in his poetry, reading whatever she could find, and especially became taken with the Madness that he spoke of and sought to learn as much as she could. But then Rac Shade disappeared with the Madness, never to be heard from again, crushing her spirit - and making her all the more determined to leave Meta.

She dropped out of university, too jaded and listless to continue, and began finding roofs to sleep under with many different lovers. Unable to keep a job, and running up debts with bad people, Loma continued digging herself into a hole that she could only going further into. Then one day, her current lover Lepuck Ledo learned of her obsession with Rac Shade and sought to impress her by showing off a display with the only remaining M-Vest he once owned, his Madness Coat. Knowing the power it had from her extensive research, Loma convinced Lepuck to bring her into the museum after hours, not telling him her intent to steal it. And steal it she did, hitching a ride through the power of the Madness to eject her spirit out from her body and transport it light years away to Earth.

She arrived in a small suburban town on the East Coast of the United States, where she sunk her spirit into the body of 16 year old comatase patient Megan Boyer. Since then she has been living on Earth as a teenage human girl, learning the ins and outs of human society, experiencing life in a new body, with new emotions, new colors and new troubles. Now she is not simply Loma, but Loma Shade, the determined successor to Rac Shade. The Changing Girl.

PERSONALITY

In everyday conversation, Loma looks like a delight. She's eccentric, a flighty cynic and always up for adventure. It's easy to see how she could always get along in most social circles, because she isn't outwardly bad. At heart she's a good person, but lost in her own little world and way. If she wants something, she goes at it with full force and can't be contained. She lacks inhibition, and sometimes that can be a good thing. It's the voice in your head that tells you "hey, maybe you shouldn't do this crazy reckless thing." Either Loma never had it, or she always chose to ignore it.

This leads her to act in self-destructive ways, and not always consciously. She keeps people at a distance, afraid to open up, always wanting to run rather than stay. Getting close to others means letting them see who you are, the real you, and Loma doesn't like who she is. So she changes, always, filling the void of her heart with shiny things, beautiful poems and silly sitcoms that solve everyone's problems in under thirty minutes. Anything to escape a reality she doesn't feel attached to. And anything "not worth her time" her becomes her favorite thing - television, movies, music, poetry, anything and all things that make it impossible for her to be alone with her thoughts.

Underneath all her bravado, under the often selfish attitude, and the constant need to feel something other than boredom, Loma is a lonely creature. She left her entire life behind on a whim without thinking of the consequences, took over another person's life, and sees the world through her own warped visions because it's something to attach and latch to. Loma prides herself on being free and her own being, but she has to - she's never had a flock, never had a family that understood her, never had friends whose hearts she didn't break. She goes from one thing to the next because it's all she knows how to do, and so she continues on.

What Loma must come to learn is that people are good, and want to care about each other. She is not convinced of the good will of others, having been betrayed when she did trust, and that is her downfall. To connect with other living breathing people, and not just with the television box where a happy housewife in New Mexico lives, and not the poet who she spoke with for five seconds and never again. Loma must change, and not just to escape the last she thing was.

ABILITIES

Madness is never made entirely clear. It is a powerful energy that bends and shapes reality through emotion, desire, dreams and fear, but whether it is cosmic or magical in nature is left mysterious. What is defined is that it is toxic, and most people exposed to it are driven insane at best and are killed by it at worst. Only those who wear Rac Shade's M-Vest, created to control Madness, are able to safely harness the power. But "safely" is a bare minimum.

With Madness, Loma can create hallucinations - both singular and localized - and changing existing reality into something new. She can bring creatures to life, change old to young, generate powerful blasts of destruction energy, and bring dreams and nightmares to life through the strength of her emotions. The Madness is severely weakened at the moment and yet it is growing, through Loma and through those she interacts with, and experiences the effects of being induced with the energy through constant hallucination imagery.

She's used to it.

HISTORY

HISTORYINFO

PLAYER INFO

PLAYER Marion TIMEZONE EST Contact PM | canarycry CANON DC Comics, Young Animal: Shade the Changing Girl

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