Application: reccomence // Talia - Heralds of Valdemar

[thequeensown]

Your Name: Alma
Age: 34 in December!!
Contact: almalthia80 @ Gmail/AIM

Character Name: Talia
Character's Previous RP Journal: Same
Series: Fandom : Heralds of Valdemar

Elegante Application:
Official Acceptance and The App That Was Deleted For Some Reason

Previous game history:
Talia had one hell of a time on the good ship Elegante... not necessarily the best of times, mind, but one hell of a time. She arrived on the verge of death, like so many others (Thanks, Redd!!! xoxo ), and was found by Vanyel, Remy and Kevas and healed by (the relatively horrifying) AMU. She got used to not having her 'magical horse,' Rolan, and healed slowly from the loss of not just he, but her lifebonded, Dirk. Thankfully, she had a good many friends come forward to help her through this; one, Vanyel, that was of her own world (just a good long while before her own time), and another unlikely friend and future love, Kevas. The two healed from their losses over time and with the comfort and support of one another, found love.

Then, shit got weird(er)... Cranes, cardinals, and killer jelly tentacle monsters... and then The Golden Shore... Their efforts seemed hopeless as Redd and crew sacrificed themselves to defeat The End, but Kim and others steered the Boat until the Iceberg. Yeah, the hits kept coming. Everyone still living escaped the sinking ship and wound up on the Golden Shore... Their 'salvation'... Or so they thought. The End actually arrived before them and slaughtered anyone/anything remaining alive on the island. So, the survivors arrived on a desolate island with corpses everywhere and basically no food or fresh water.

There they 'lived' to the best of their ability burying their dead and nursing their wounds.

Character Changes:
Talia is a Herald first and foremost and so will always live by certain key elements in her life, including being self-sacrificing to a fault. Life on the Elegante and the Shore version 1.0 was harsher than anything she's ever lived through; and she's lived through a lot courtesy of Captain Redd's rescue. She lost her Companion when she was ripped from her world, and her lifebond, both which she suffered through. She fought against horrors both of her own mind and given to her from the Elegante itself and these occurrences took their toll on her. Coming straight off the island, Talia isn't going to be quite so inclined to believe that this is going to be 'happy ever after'. She's been jerked around before and is coming back without Kevas, which means she's lost her heart... again. All of this has hardened the empath a bit, let alone the physical hardening that life on the island brought with it... burying the bodies of your loved ones had an effect upon them, believe it or not. She's going to have to come to grips with having lost her family and friends, neither of which is going to be easy.

That loving, softer Talia is still in there... it just may take some time and effort to brim her out again.

Appearance:
Talia has a scar from temple to chin on the left side of her face, courtesy of the final battle with The End. Similar scars crisscross and fully encircle her torso, around her ribs and beneath her breasts, caused by the same barbed tentacles that scarred her face. She's far leaner than she's even been in her life, having moved into the underfed and malnourished category some time ago.

Abilities:
Empathy: the ability to read and influence the emotions of others. Talia is a STRONG mental projector and uses her Gift on circuits while acting as envoy and adviser to the Queen.

Mind Healing: focuses on the maladies of the mind and emotions, rather than the physical well-being of the patient. She can ease the transition of mental illness and will be able to break through deceptions or see if the mind has been tampered with. She can restore the mind, though it can take time and prove quite taxing.

Talia can heal with her mind and read emotions, but she can also hurt with these same gifts. She broke the mind of a man that was known to be a child molester and made him relive the pain and emotion of his victim. Warm and fuzzy, right? Now, in the book, this would only tire her a bit and she'd be up and moving.

She has been trained in combat by a master at arms and is more than capable with a sword/throwing knives/bow and arrow. She is slight of build so her physical fighting abilities are not as strong as some, but she is fit and will go down fighting rather than not. She is an able-bodied horse-woman and can do anything horseback; no really, try her. She is diplomatic and well-rounded, willing and able to do what must be done.

NERF'd version:
- Her Empathy will still work, but with the following changes: Similar to how Sookie from Trueblood picks up thoughts, Talia picks up emotions from those around her. However, now on board the Elegante, she will find not just some, but EVERYONE difficult to read and 'muted/fuzzy' to her unless they are either a really strong projector or deliberately aiming thoughts/emotions at her. (I will have a permissions post)
- She will still project strongly when she is not in control of her abilities, but only then (ie: unconscious, wounded, panicked and TRYING to be heard)
- Her Mind Healing will still work, but with the following changes: It will be far more difficult for her to tell if someone's thoughts have been tampered with (if she can tell at all). Though she will want to help everyone, she won't be able to. She will only ever have a success rate of 30% in healing a tampered mind (where she was 100%).
- She'll experience headaches more easily, especially if she tries to over-extend what the boat allows her to do.
- Please note that she can't read thoughts, but emotions only. Same with projecting, although Rolan could read her thoughts plainly.
- She'll still be awesome in combat, so long as she has a weapon to use, but is still physically not as strong as many. Her horsemanship skills also will not help her terribly on a boat, but she has them!

Items:
Not a whole damn lot... Clothing that is hanging on by a thread and likely much patched and altered for the hot beaches on the 'Shore', her crossbow (one set of bolts she continuously retrieved), and one scimitar that might look too big but she can handle just fine (thanks Kevas xoxo).

Preferred Quarters: Anywhere! Closer to Logan if/when he's accepted :)