Character Sheet
Name: Procella Ilma
Age: 19
Appearance:
Procella is petite and thin-framed: ironically, the kind of girl who looks like one strong breeze would send her tumbling over. She's maybe 5'2 and perhaps 120 pounds, soaking wet. With a twenty pound weight strapped to her back.
Procella is pale, but not unnaturally or freakishly so: she's a pretty kind of pale. In fact, if you can get over the aura of timid, timid, shy, shy, oh-please-don't-let-anyone-see me that envelopes her every word and action, she's a rather attractive girl. However, she draws so little attention to herself no one's bound to notice.
In fact, that's really the kind of person Procella is. Decent. If you notice she's there. The small framed girl stays at the back of rooms, darts out as soon as a meeting is over. Intentionally does average on tests to avoid being recognized. Are you getting a clear mental image of her in your mind? You shouldn't be. You shouldn't notice Procella's there.
She's got a round face and blue-grey eyes. I hate to say it, I really, really do, but damnit if they aren't the same shade as storm clouds. So more of a darker grey, really, than blue. Her hair is black and shiny, usually masking her face. She's the one that always has to keep pushing her hair back. She isn't very up to date on 80s fashion, but normally settles for a pair of rain boot and blue jeans, along with a poncho over whatever she's wearing.
She also gets cold easily. Procella's usually shivering or wrapped up in her poncho, another jacket, etc.
Started in:
-Bull's Gap, Tennessee
Power:
I must admit some inspiration from MGS:
- Spoiler:
Raiden, Act V. Youtube "I am lightning" if you are not a MGS fan.
Procella, quite simply put, is a hurricane. She is a hailstorm and a maelstrom and a tsunami and a forest fire. She is not the butterfly landing on a flower whilst the sun shines. She is not a fucking deer prancing its way across a meadow. She is the carcass of a dead beast on the road and the carcass of a totaled car flipped over next to it. Despite her meek personality and unimposing figure, Procella has quite a bit of firepower.
Of course, she isn't very adept at controlling it.
Procella, you see, is almost plagued with bad weather. Her mere presence causes the weather to atrophy. This normally isn't too severe. After an hour or so, grey clouds begin to form within a half mile radius of her. If she becomes very upset or panicked, things worsen far more quickly. Within minutes a sky can be black and howling with thunder. It has caused several meteorologists to be fired.
Of course, she wasn't totally aware she had a power at first. Probably didn't help she spent a few years of her life in Seattle.
These weather fluxes are not like most mutants, where she can actively guide lightning bolts into people and such. It's less in her control, although she has a vague grasp of it. She can keep people from being harmed more easily from lightning, but freezing rain and hailstones are your own damn problem.
In short, beware of inclement weather near this chick. Fog thick enough to swim in. Hailstones the size of baseballs. Lightning, brighter and hotter than the sun. Tornadoes, even.
She is looking to leave the East Coast due to hurricanes but doesn't want to be in Tornado Alley either.
Whether it is a byproduct of years of experience or merely a part of her power, she is unaffected by weather. Hailstones miss her completely. Rain does not even register when it hits her. She is aware of fog, but can see through it easily. Strong winds do not affect her any more than a cool breeze would.
Finally, you know how people with scars or arthritis can tell when a storm is coming? She causes that effect by being in their presence.
She also smells of sweet ozone. This may seem like a contradiction, mainly because I've honestly never smelled ozone, but it seemed like something that'd go with her character. It is faint.
Bio:
There are three types of people in life. There are people who get wronged and get pissed. There are people who get wronged and don't care. And there are people who get wronged and get upset. Procella is the last one.
She is very easily spooked and her status as a mutant didn't exactly help (fortunately, once she overcame her guilt and moved to a big city, it wasn't like anyone could pinpoint it on her. It was more of a freak occurrence than her spitting fireballs or flying, so no one really knew it was HER so to speak. Just that the weather was strange). However, the constant fear of being found out plagued her. The paranoia ate away at her for months, years on end, as did the guilt. Every car that crashed in fog. Every person struck inadvertently by lightning. Every house burned down. Every dog that howled in fear when thunder rolled across the landscape.
She ran away. She moved somewhere else and the storms followed. She ran further. No matter how far she went, when she'd pass out on the side of the road or in the house of someone who'd take her in (this was the 70s and she's the cover girl for "Please take pity on me"), she'd wake up to thunder or the sound of rain beating against the windows, calling to her.
For a while, Procella just sat outside, in the middle of a field, watching lightning arc across the sky and rain fall down to her. Endlessly. It was as if Zeus was courting her. She has never gotten a really good look at the stars because of the storms she brings on, which saddens her.
Procella grew up troubled, if you didn't catch that. She never stayed in a city for very long, but merged rather easily into bigger high schools for the few months she was there. There, she could disappear easily and just work for a few months until the storms intensified, she freaked, they got worse, and she'd run. Procella has gained a bit of resourcefulness and independence from all this.
She finally explained the situation to her parents, via a letter. Surprisingly, even given the anti-mutant sentiment, they were okay with it. She'd been gone for several years and they thought her a victim of a cult or other strange occurences of the 70s, and were glad to know their little girl was okay, if troubled. She has kept writing them, although her mutantism is not discussed. Never know when you'll have a nosy mailman.
Procella wound up in Bull's Gap because it was the place she happened to stop when her legs gave way and her stomach longed for food. Thus begins our story, or at least Procella's involvement in it.
Personality:
She's never formed very solid connections with people outside her family. Animals fear her, because they can sense the storms about her, and as such she can't even befriend a puppy. Rather than make her out as a Woobie, however, she isn't totally depressed. Just scared and trying to live a decent life when her condition would rather her not. She doesn't want to stay anywhere for too long and wind up killing someone, destroying a city, and so it's a nomadic life for her. Eventually she'll see the world, provided she doesn't destroy it first.
Procella is, at heart, a good person. Her shyness gets in the way of this. She isn't the type to stick up for someone who's being bullied because she's just too afraid. However, she's a very caring person, and despite her years on the streets (not like that) she's still very gullible to an innocent seeming person and a genuine cause. She has faith where others have cynicism and prefers flight over fight.
Procella doesn't have much of a temper, she's fairly even-keeled. Just even-keeled on the scared end of the spectrum. She is easily spooked and has some major anxiety issues over her guilt and fear, however she does her best to keep these under controls. Freaked out Procella means more storms, you see.
Equipment:
A compass and a map sealed within a plastic bag (it is still stained by water, however). More out of a quirky sense of humor than anything, she has an umbrella which she often gives to people caught in her storms, and a few blankets and some spare clothes in her duffel bag. She also keeps some spare cash and, as much as she hates it, a knife to try and ward off anyone who'd fight her.
Normally, she'd just run. The torrential downpour really helps one get away.
Other:
I do not reccomend climbing large buildings or being near large metallic objects when interacting with her.
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