Appoline "Lin" Meian

[Appoline Meian]

The Basics

Name: Appoline Meian

Nicknames: Lin (this is an oddly long story)

Age: 16

Orientation: Unexplored

Desired Rank/Job: Student

Powers: Lightning Reflexes - Appoline's power manifests as a near-precognitive set of reflexes, allowing her to react to things instantly as they happen. She can effectively read her surroundings and actions happening nearby much like a well-trained martial artist can read their opponents. Her power is entirely instinctual and can often lead to her overreacting to accidents or over-correcting her own mishaps. Oftentimes bumps, bruises, and pulled muscles/muscle cramps are the downfalls to such an ability.

Play By: Keiko Kitegawa

The Details

Hair Color: Black with a white forelock (piebaldism)

Eye Color: One light brown, one dark blue (heterochromia)

Any Piercings? One in each earlobe

Any Tattoos? None

Any Scars? None

General Appearance: At first glance, Appoline appears to be a normal Japanese school girl. She’s about 5’1”, has long black hair and fair skin, and is slight of build from both heritage and gymnastics training. Her face is soft lines, and her body has yet to fully curve into womanhood. However, due to a rare genetic disorder, she’s not that normal when one looks past the surface. Her upturned eyes are two different colors, and a forelock of white sticks out from her normally dark hair. Aside from those rather odd things, she appears normal and tries diligently not to dispel that illusion.

Having been raised in Japan, Appoline is comfortable with uniforms and the like, preferring to wear long skirts and jackets than jeans and tee shirts. Given that Hammel has not used uniforms since the 1960’s however, she generally dresses in a similar style regardless – white or navy blue long pleated skirts, matching vests and jackets, conservative blouses, and tall socks with comfortable dress shoes. If she’s ever asked to dress up, she’ll wear a traditional yukata or kimono; she rarely ever dresses down, however. The only time close is when she performs gymnastics and wears sportswear – however, she views that as a school requirement and doesn’t think of it as her choice. Ergo, it doesn’t bother her.

Personality: Appoline is outwardly shy and does everything that she can NOT to be noticed. She is very embarrassed about her odd colorations and will immediately close off from anyone that mentions them. She speaks little and seems to be in her own little world most of the time, preferring to be by herself than with anything symbolizing a group. She rarely enjoys team projects, and would much rather have her nose in a book or be practicing her gymnastics than talk in front of a classroom.

Under the surface, however, Appoline has a very dominating personality, being very forceful in her desires and opinions, albeit in a very respectful and polite manner. She is passive-aggressive in very subtle ways, and will often dislike noisy people on principle. She was raised to be a polite and dignified Japanese woman, and just because she keeps her head down doesn’t mean she’s not strong. She rarely intimidates people and would rather mask a threat behind ‘what if’s’ than say it outright. She can be manipulative and calculating, but that’s all hidden very well beneath the shy surface everyone else sees.

Despite all this, the eldest Meian girl really just feels alone. She doesn’t want to hurt anyone, and she certainly doesn’t want to be a meta (her parents can keep that ‘honor’, thank you very much). She honestly wants to have friends, though being picked on in school led her to be jaded and introverted as a defense mechanism. If caught off-guard by genuine thoughtfulness or a true expression of caring, she doesn’t know what to do and becomes a blushing ball of nervousness. She doesn’t believe that she should be loved, and certainly avoids the topic of children (she wouldn’t dare curse another generation with her genes). Ergo, she has never really explored her sexuality or romantic preferences – she doesn’t find them fitting her predicted lifestyle.

Your Vices

Likes: Sketching and charcoal drawing, gymnastics, kendo, traditional Japanese ceremonies, cream buns, mochi, her father’s cooking, moon cakes

Dislikes: Apples (allergic), chocolate of any kind, noisy people, snoops, gossips, the indiscriminantly flirtatious, herself

Strengths: Anything involving dexterity or coordination, sketching from life, being polite in any circumstance, reports of any kind (she’s an excellent student)

Weaknesses: Cooking, taking the initiative, speaking in front of people, telling people what she wants, being blunt

Fears: Her parents’ issues coming back full force, losing her temper, her parents’ powers killing them (i.e. her dad ceasing to exist entirely or her mom taking lethal harm from a patient)

Secret: She has a secret fondness for sci-fi and fantasy stories, especially ones with characters that represent what she wants to be. She also perhaps identifies a little more with River Tam than she really wants to.

No one at Hammel knows about it (aside from the resident nurses and the headmistress), but Appoline is near deaf due to the genetic disorder she is afflicted with (the same one that colors her hair and eyes so). The disorder is known as Waardenburg Syndrome, and while she has very few serious side effects it is mostly due to the restorative nature of her mother's powers. It is likely that before she turns thirty she will be completely deaf. She currently wears hearing aids to help the process, and thus wears her hair long and down to hide the already barely noticeable devices from view.

Family Ties

Father: Vincent Meian

Mother: Dr. Nakia Meian-Kenjutsushi

Siblings: Cassiopeia Meian

Any Other Important People: None

History

Appoline was born in October of 1996 as the oldest child of Vincent Meian and Nakia Kenjutsushi. For a while, nothing seemed to be the matter with her, and her father was simply happy to have another person to focus on while he retrained himself to have mastery of his abilities. However, months later, Appoline's eyes began to change colors (as babies eyes are wont to do), though not in a usual way. Her eyes became heterochromatic - two different colors representing the broken genomes of her DNA. While this was unusual, her parents payed little mind to such things and continued about their lives. They even managed to miss that her hair - which had started coming in black like her father's - also grew a stark white forelock that never pigmented.

It was only when their daughter turned two that her parents noticed that something was wrong. Unless she was looking at them directly, Appoline would never respond to anything they said or did. Her mother did a check-up on her, only to realize that her daughter was practically deaf. With her own medical knowledge and bare recollection of her mother, Nakia took Appoline to the hospital where she worked and had some tests run on her. Sure enough, she was diagnosed with Waardenburg Syndrome; a rare genetic disorder that had skipped Nik due to her albinism and remained recessive in her brother. Now having a diagnosis, she reevaluated how she needed to care for her daughter and started over. Cassie was born less than two years later.

Nothing terribly unusual happened while Appoline attended public school. She was a good student who kept quiet and caused no disruptions in class. She took gymnastics and found that she quite enjoyed it, though she secretly enjoyed her father teaching her kendo more.

One day, while practicing on the floor mat, Appoline slipped and fell, the impact knocking her hearing aids from her ears and dazing her. Her teacher ran to her to help, but the girl couldn't hear him. Trying desperately to communicate this and being unable to, she was forced to go to the hospital for a suspected concussion. (Her mother later explained to the school about her hearing problems and no such incident occurred again). Her classmates found out about her hearing problems, however, and many of them had been there as she was trying to speak to the teacher and unable to hear herself. This lead to a rather cruel amount of teasing and bullying from the other students... but like a good girl, Appoline endured. And really, the teasing never got to her that much - she just started ignoring people. After she turned twelve, her reflexes started getting better, but no one really noticed the change. Not even her.

Her powers manifested very clearly in a similar circumstance the summer before she turned thirteen. Appoline's middle school gymnastics tryouts were in progress and she wanted to make the team. Thus, she ignored (though still heard) her classmate's taunts and teasing; she would be offbeat because she couldn't hear, balancing with messed up ears, childish things as such. When she was practicing on the balance beam, however, a particularly cruel bully threw a small object at her (a stress-relief ball, she later found out). Appoline's powers kicked into full gear and spun to avoid being hit and lost her balance. As she fell (much to her peers' shock), she twisted in the air like a cat and grabbed the beam, flipping herself back onto the device as if nothing had happened. Totally confused by the chain of events and wondering why she was facing a totally different direction, she looked around at her classmates and teachers, seeing only wonder (and not a little fear) in their faces.

After she returned home, she told her mother what had happened and was tested. She was positive for the meta-human gene, and like her parents before her she was sent to Eisai. Her parents, however, seemed ill-at-ease with this and had been learning (with their daughters) English, so that once her father had finished his contract with Eisai they would move to the United States. Her parents never told her why they were doing this, but she accepted it nonetheless. It wasn't as if she had friends to leave behind anyway.

Now in Vermont, Appoline simply wants to start over and blend in with the crowds at Hammel. Though, knowing the school's history and seeing some of the students, she finds that seeming to be both much harder and far easier than she could imagine.

Roleplay Example

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[Appoline Meian]

Here's the Basics...

Name: Appoline Meian
Age: Nineteen
Member Group: Student

Just an update...

Appoline Meian has always been a distant individual - cripplingly shy and prone to being bullied, she finds it easier to simply not call attention to herself if she can help it. While this has not changed exactly, in the two years her father has been gone, something... unusual happened. Something was different.

Appoline has become almost cold recently, refusing to speak for the most part unless spoken to directly by someone with authority. Her silences have become almost angry, and her posture always tense. She rarely draws anymore, and has abandoned her club activities to spend more time at home with her sister. Theoretically. Her grades have stayed high enough to promote graduation near the top of her class, but her powers are still wildly out of control, enforcing her attendance at the Institute with little sign of changing.

Now that her father has returned, Appoline has yet to return to her previous wallflower state. Perhaps this is a new side to the once shrinking violet?