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Personality: Tell us about your character's personality. This should be at least 2-3 paragraphs.

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Childhood: Tell us what kind of childhood your character had. If they were one of the Umbrella Academy's thirteen how did they feel about Hargreeves' cold parenting? How would they have felt about being a superhero team? If they grew up elsewhere tell us about their origin story/family/upbringing.

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Player Name: Gann
Contact: redlionspride @ plurk, RedLionsPride#9087 on discord, or PM journal
Other characters here: Ben Hargreeves & Liz Sherman

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Character Name: Liz Sherman
Played By: Selma Blair
Original Canon: Hellboy (2004)

Personality: Liz is a closed off woman who has had a lot of problems growing up. She feels like a freak or a monster and tends to stick with her own kind, which has lead her to working for the BPRD (Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense). Even then she tends to feel a bit out of place. Like nowhere is right for her. Not with the monsters nor with the humans.

Because of her insecurities she has a few times entered herself into a physiatric ward to lock herself away from others in hopes to keep her head under control. Because of her mental connection to fire she has had a few bad incidents and it’s pushed her further from friends and family.

She comes across as closed off or blank, disconnected even, but she is a caring woman who will be loyal to those she befriends. She isn’t easy to scare and she tends to be as tough as nails in a bad situation, but she’s still soft when it comes to things like children or those who are being bullied.

When she needs time alone she will zone out just by simply staring at a wall or off into space. Relaxing as thoughtlessly as possible. That or she will thrust herself into her work to try and ignore the world.

She’s loyal and friendly if not a bit distant.

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Special Abilities; Pyrokinesis, the power to mentally control fire. She can mentally generate fire, projecting flames from her hands or having it surround her body in a protective cocoon. She has hurt people before with this power and has an aversion to it because of it. She has some trouble with the ‘bigger stuff’ than she does with little things. She’s able to manifest large amounts of fire around her, burning everything in a large radius around her but if it’s too large she will pass out, thus she sticks to smaller things.
Skills; She has good hand to hand fighting skills, control with firearms, paranormal training and standard Agent Training. It’s left her very good at fighting as needed and she has a knack for paranormal things. She can see ghosts and spirits and knows what trinkets will help with that.

Childhood: Liz was born instantly to her mother who had been trying to have children for years and couldn’t. The pregnancy was instant and Liz appears in the world on October first of 1989. Considered a freak of nature, her father moved their family right after. This became a trend throughout her childhood, moving from city to city, at first because of his job, but later because of her powers. Because of their constant moving it was hard for Hargreeves to find her to buy, and even if he had, her mother wouldn’t have let her go at this point.

At age seven her bed and teddy bear were found burned. Later volleyballs at school exploded around them. When chased by two girls and picked on, her hands exploded into fire that she couldn’t put out no matter what she tried. They moved again. She was placed in Catholic School where Father Jones gave her a small crucifix, but that didn’t help her either.

Her parents fought constantly, and soon split up, leaving her with her mother. They did their best to not place the blame on her but Liz feels a constant guilt for their troubles.

At age 11 the world went up in a blaze of fire. She doesn’t remember how or what happened but the court yard she was playing in had caught on fire, and the fire around her was intense and large. It killed fifteen people, as well as her mother. She was devastated by the body count, the loss of her mother and the incident.

She went from institution to institution for a few years until someone realized she was one of the 42. At which point she was directed to Hargreeves place at age 12 but he held no interest in her. Instead she ran away when given the chance and lived on the street for some time.

At age 17 she was picked up by Professor Broom, who took her in and promised he wasn’t going to force her on a team or training of any kind, but that he wanted to help her understand her powers. She wanted nothing to do with it until one Hellboy came in and proved he was fireproof and willing to be around her. That she wasn’t just abnormal but one of the Freaks like the rest of them. She bonded well enough with Hellboy and ended up working for the team for years, thought she was in and out of employ with them as she started to feel the need to be ‘normal’ slink back in.

After the Pittsburgh incident (she exploded a very large area and killed so many people) she shut down again, locking herself into her shell once again. Agent Myers tried to convince her to come back, but instead she convinced herself she had to go find others of the 42. Others like her. Maybe instead of being one of the monsters or freaks, she could be one of the wonder babies of the 42. Or at least try and understand them better.

She keeps the BPRD as secret from others, as it’s a secret government organization, so that might not come up often. Though she will say she is a paranormal investigator.

Present Occupation: Agent with the BPRD, currently on hiatus for mental well being.
Present Residence: New Jersey, though she’s traveling a bit to look for others of the 42.

Anything else we should know? Her family is all dead, other than her extended family in the BPRD. Which she keeps secret.

Edited 2019-04-22 01:02 (UTC)

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