enodia

[maccool]

BASICS

name
Aoife (pronounced Ee-fa) Órlaith MacCool

alias
No

division
Exploration (primary)
Operations (secondary)

occupation
Explorer & Electrical Maintenance

age & dob
35, 15th March, pisces

pronouns
She/her

family
Dierdre Quinn (mother)
Liam Quinn (step-father)
Conor & Saoirse Murphy (grandparents) (deceased)

Brian MacCool (father) (deceased)
Jacob 'Black Jack' & Mairéad MacCool (grandparents) (deceased)

CONCEPT

The manic pixie eldritch monster girl from your nightmares.

POWERS

eldritch (monster) physiology;
aoife has an alternative form, that of a monstrous seven-foot tall moth-like creature with expansive, leathery wings covered in eyes, large horns, and a wicked pair of fangs. her exoskeleton acts as armor to protect her from damage, as well as enhancing her physical strength. in this form, she's trailed by wisps of eldritch energy that can act as an extension of her body. her emotions play a part in how these wisps interact with the world, encircling her if she feels nervous or lashing out if she feels angry. these wisps of energy also accompany her human form and she can take on other features of her eldritch form at will as well.

while she hasn't achieved this yet, her eldritch form has the potential to become much larger than just seven feet tall. by exerting additional energy, she can become tens of feet tall, reaching as large as thirty-five feet (approximately three stories) tall for a short time. these larger forms would be quick to exhaust her, however, and she would only ever be able to maintain her largest form for around ten or fifteen minutes.

fear inducement;
she's able to evoke fear in people. small fears, greatest fears, feelings of dread, irrational fears, primal fears, any and every sort of fear a person is capable of feeling, she can do it. her powers don't make her knowledgeable about what people fear, nor do they make her capable of materializing said fears. she basically works with how these fears make people feel and how that fear causes them to react.

slow aging; simply put, aoife ages at a slower rate than what is natural. as she gets older her appearance and bodily functions remain the same. she cannot stop herself from aging completely, she still gets hurt the same as everyone else, she heals the same, and she will eventually die, all of those things are the same as any normal person. she just takes longer to age than what is considered normal. currently, she looks the same as she did at 27 years old.

PERSONALITY

↑ confident. bold. adaptable. problem solver. openminded. creative. fast learner. fearless. loyal. independent. protective. secretly soft. resourceful. a secret romantic.

⇿ morally gray. will do what it takes to survive. says what she thinks. sentimental. loud, but introverted. always ready to run. perceptive. brave.

↓ hedonistic. crude. abandonment issues. impulsive. would rather fight it out than talk it out. problem with authority. rulebreaker. habitual liar. self-destructive. acerbic. secretive. violent. skeptical.

APPEARANCE

5'5", long. long arms, long legs, long torso, just long. and yet she somehow manages to make herself seem smaller than she is. she's a beanpole and has never managed to fill out, but she's learned how to make it work for herself. she has pointy features with wide lips and large ears that stick out. she wears her hair down either in loose waves, pin straight, or up in some sort of braid. she'll wear the basics when it comes to makeup nothing fancier than eyeliner, mascara, and lipstick. when on the clock she dresses practically but comfortably, with an emphasis on functionality. the rest of the time she's a fan of dark colors, short skirts and shorts, and tall boots. rarely will she wear heels. she occasionally wears glasses when she's working at the computer for long hours. always has at least one knife hidden somewhere on her person and treats them like an extension of herself.

HISTORY

1986; born in derry, northern ireland, to childhood sweethearts. before her first birthday, her father is killed, and leaves her mother alone to raise her. instead of taking on the challenge, her mother dumps aoife off with her parents and moves to belfast to look for work. eventually, she finds a new man to take up with and the two are married before fucking off to Texas to run his family's ranch.

1990s; though they were advanced in years, aoife's grandparents took on raising her the same way they raised their own five children. that is to say they didn't coddle her at all, her grandfather taught her how to hunt and fish, how to shoot and throw knives, how to play dominoes and gamble, and let her run wild on the scrap metal recycling facility and the landfill that he owned. her grandmother felt she needed other more practical skills, like sewing and cooking. they may not have had much in the way of money or other material objects, but they'd be damned if she didn't survive.

2002; by the time she's sixteen she's grown into more of a nuisance than her grandparents can handle. she gets kicked out of school and is arrested for fighting and breaking her ex-boyfriend's bedroom window. though her grandparents want to keep her, they could no longer handle her and fear for her future. so they ship her off to her mother in texas, much to the dismay of both aoife and her mother. surprisingly, aoife finds that she enjoys working on the ranch and she even enjoys living in texas. she still hates her mother, but her husband wasn't too bad.

2004; she's verging on eighteen when she gets her powers. seeing how liminals are being treated by IRIS prompts her to keep her powers a secret. she graduates high school without getting caught and in a surprise move, decides to attend college at UT-Austin.

2009-2012; she finishes school and gets her first adult job working for AMD in austin. she stays there for nearly four years before she's discovered to be a liminal. instead of resisting or making things difficult for herself, she reluctantly registers as a liminal.

2014;
after a few altercations she quits her job in austin and takes up a life on the road living like a nomad. she travels and does random jobs before making her way to vegas where she gets a stable job at an electronics repair shop and uses her natural skill (*cough* cheating *cough*) to make money for herself at the casinos.

2017; stays in vegas for a while before being approached by IRIS to consider joining, and not having anything better to do, accepts. she starts at the newly built Enodia Station as one of the original explorers and also takes up a job working on electrical maintenance.

2023; the station is shut down and aoife is left to waffle about until she finds a job working as a ranch hand at a ranch outside of colchester. it's a nice break but she doesn't hesitate to return back to the station when it's reopened.

NOTES

⇿ lives in a one-bedroom with her dog, jameson, and cat, pangur bán (aka tayto).
⇿ her dog is a large irish setter and her cat is some sort of weird maine coon thing that she got from the farm she used to work on.
⇿ practices a variety of martial arts, unarmed and armed. also does pilates, plyometrics, and barre.
⇿ other abilities include hand-to-hand combat (both with weapons and not), close combat, knife throwing, shooting, hunting and field dressing, fishing, ranch skills, and survival skills. she's a jack of all trades.
⇿ random skills include being flexible enough that she can get out of most restraints and handcuffs, and can also partially dislocate her joints. gambling, card counting, ballet, and Irish dance. driving fast, hotwiring and fixing cars, auto dismantling.
⇿ drives a beautifly restored red 1993 Land Rover NAS Defender 110 that she loves like a child.
⇿ has worked a variety of jobs including ranch hand, repair technician, knife thrower, and mechanic.
⇿ is forever irritated at the slow-aging thing. hates being carded.

OOC

brittany . CST . milena tscharntke . theghoulscouts on discord or dropbox

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