Poppy Buffy Summers

[Poppy Summers]

The Basics

Name: Poppy Buffy Summers
Nicknames: The Slayer (close friends or family only)
Age: Fifteen
Orientation: Demisexual, panromantic
Desired Rank/Job: Student
Powers: Shadow Manipulation.

Will eventually have the ability to control shadows, using them to perform brilliant displays of shadow puppetry. There is the potential for the shadows to expand, shrink, and become just tangible enough to grasp and move things potentially so much so that they can be used to detain or hold. At the very onset, however, this is not the case. The shadows merely writhe, moving eerily as if of their own accord.

The obvious draw backs to this are: shadows depend on a light source. In true total darkness Poppy is left powerless. What's more is that, for all that she enjoys being outside Poppy is sensitive to light. She has a prescription for contacts and glasses to help.
Play By: Kilo Kish

The Details

Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Any Piercings? Lobes
Any Tattoos? None
Any Scars? None
General Appearance: Wide brown eyes, filled with the promise of mischief look out from an oval face framed in the chaotic curls of natural hair. Poppy has a wide nose, full lips with an easy smile, and clear skin tone that she has her mother to thank for. The teen wraps herself in colour - the brighter the better, and will happily trade with her fellow students for the things she likes.

Still growing, Poppy promises to be at least as tall as her mother when she reaches the apex of her height. For now she’ll be content with 5’5 confident that there are another three inches in her future.

Bearing the confidence of her mother, Poppy sits with a straight posture: shoulders back, and head up to face the world. There is little that she’s truly afraid of, and it shows. Between her vibrant clothes and her easy smile she’s all together an averagely pretty girl.
Personality: A self assuredness seems almost draped around her shoulders. There’s a confidence not only in her attitude, but in the way she walks. Quick to smile, faster to laugh at something she finds funny, Poppy’s an easy going sort. There’s not much in her life that has proven difficult.

Blessed (cursed?) with her father’s attention span, Poppy will pick up projects with every intention of seeing them through to the end. However, if she does not prove immediately skilled or show that she’s going to improve quickly, said project will fall into the back of her mind as something new and shiny appears on the horizon.

Thankfully she didn’t inherit her father’s money management, and seems to have a solid head on her shoulders when it comes to finances. She has a good head for maths and had kept a second accounting book for her mother with the books at Sole Mates Shoes both as practice and for fun. Her paternal grandfather encouraged this particular behavior and it became a means of spending quality time with him.

The type of girl to bring home any stray or perceived to be hurt and or lonely creature, the backyard became a temporary refuge/trap for cats, dogs, birds, squirrels, whatever she could get her hands on. She would declare they needed a place to be loved and why shouldn’t it be their house? Thankfully she’s mostly out-grown this behavior, but will stop to give love to any dogs or cats she sees.

Nosey Curious, Poppy likes to know what’s going on with her immediate social circle and beyond. She doesn’t always do anything with the information but she likes knowing just the same. Though not always using her best judgement she has been known to read an unguarded journal until her conscience reminded her that those sorts of things were incredibly private and intimate.

Your Vices

Likes:
Animals, fuzzy or otherwise.
Chocolate, all forms.
The beach, yes - even when it’s cold.
The sound of rain.
Leaves crunching beneath her feet.
Cotton Candy.
Candied Apples.
Sweets in general.
Music, all sorts.
The creative spirit in others.
Cute clothes.
Shoe sales
Sales in general.
Knowing secrets.
Scented candles with jewelry inside (treasure candles).
Dislikes:
Coffee.
When the shower doesn’t heat up fast enough.
When her dad uses all the hot water.
Being asked if she’s The Slayer with a particularly snickering tone.
Bullying for the sake of bullying.
Anyone who mouths off about pharmaceuticals.
Not being good at something right away.
When her phone breaks.
Not being able to go home whenever she wants.
Having to always eat at the Cafeteria for every meal forever.
Dry skin and hangnails.
Watery hot chocolate.
Being in class when outside is sunny and just warm/cool enough to really be enjoyed.
Strengths:
Math
Reading comprehension
Budgeting
Snooping Intelligence gathering
Compassion

Weaknesses:
Cooking
Easily distracted/discouraged from projects
Keeping her room clean (it’s a chaotic organization, okay!)
Self-motivating (for things she’s not good at)
Baby animals

Fears: Being truly alone.
Secret: Poppy only keeps other people's secrets, she’s an open book -- and sometimes too loud about it.

Family Ties

Father: Harrison Wozniak
Mother: Tea Summers
Siblings: None
Any Other Important People: an aging Chinese Crested mix named Kraken.

History

Born and raised in Old Orchard Beach, Maine - a lazy and small Beach Town except during tourist season when it’s filled with people coming up for clam bakes, Poppy had a childhood filled with affection. Though her parents were never married, and at least one of them was openly gay. It was unorthodox, to say the least, but it was home and very normal for Poppy.

Her parents had been best friends from a young age. From the stories she was told, by both parents, and both sets of grandparents, the two of them had gotten into quite a few shenanigans. The tales were always fun, and some of Poppy’s favorites growing up.

Though her parents had been roommates for the longest time, marriage was out of the question. Her father was an openly gay man, and her mother had never truly loved anyone else. It was what it was, and Poppy didn’t care, though she would occasionally throw things at people who made off-handed comments which lead to disciplinary actions at school.

Both her parents had wanted children, and being the very best of friends Harrision was the donor for Tea. It worked out beautifully, and Poppy Buffy Summers could not have asked for better living conditions.

The moderately sized house was often filled with music, piano, bass guitar, and sometimes other instruments from her dad’s band members practicing. Though Poppy desperately wants to play an instrument well she didn’t pick up either Piano or Guitar (bass or otherwise) quickly and since abandoned the notion of either of those. There are many, many other instruments to try her hand at though and she hasn’t given up on music all together. At least not yet.

All through her earliest childhood, Poppy noticed that her mother would make off handed comments about Luck being a tangible thing and not all of it went in her favor. As it turned out, her mother was Meta, with an ability that didn’t seem to have any real rhyme or reason behind when it would work in favor as opposed to against. Small things, like having a successful business, weren’t purely hard work. The occasional scratch-off ticket when purchased in the exact moment of that certain feeling often came with lucrative reward. Though her mother would complain about being unlucky in love (which Poppy understood later to be a direct reference to her father as he was never really around when such things were mentioned directly).

Probability Manipulations, was the official verbiage, her mom just called it Luck Power, and according to her it was what changed her Dad’s luck so he could attend school with her in Vermont. A private joke within the family, but hardly true. 

For her father, his power was just as benign as her mother’s. Furniture manipulation, or Couch De-Lumper. Furniture was always comfortable when he picked it out, even the leavings of people on the side of the road. Though, it was entirely possible that it was partially her mother’s doing as well.

This, too, did Poppy inherit from her parents. When puberty began to hit, really hit with menstruation in late August, Poppy found herself surrounded by shadows. Creeping, crawling, writing shadows and while it was terrifying, thankfully didn’t work in total darkness. Right away she was enrolled in The Hammel Institute and with kisses, hugs, and promises of visits and regular care packages she was dropped off.

Settling in took longer than Poppy really expected it to. She had hoped it would be like sleep-away camp, but it wasn't. Everyone had abilities and a lot of them clashed. It was loud, crowded, and not everyone respected the space of others. Not that she always respected other's space either. The routine of classes and training helped. It normalized things, and true to their word, her parents sent care packages. Books on her Amazon wish list, cookies, an electric tea kettle, and family photos. Little by little Poppy Adjusted and by November, she was comfortable though Hammel wouldn't likely be called home any time soon.

Roleplay Example

It was hot, it was muggy, and it was beautiful in one of those indeterminate ways. There was a lot of beauty, but Olivia wasn’t sure how to explain why she found the area beautiful. The Volanis’ encampment because of the people, certainly, like her own family. They, she mostly understood, learned through travel with them. but mostly Eddie, with whom she loved dearly and held a special bond with. It was he, in this case, and for this reason, that she chose to spend the day exploring Grace Parish with.

Peering over at Eddie, whose surname she had taken to replace the name she’d been foisted with for all of her life, Ollie smiled. The motion felt strange, even still, as it pulled her lips and changed the shape of her cheeks. The corners of her eyes crinkled just so, and though she had to take a moment to think about what grandmother meant, she offered, “I think, perhaps, that is because someone's… grandmother? Did make everything. And everyone else is just carrying on.” She looked, hopefully at Eddie that she had gotten it right, not that he had any real way to know.

But as to where to go first, she nodded. “I heard one of the Volanis group mention a sweet shop.” If there was one thing, besides her gameboy, that the Outside truly had to offer that she was more than delighted to have learned about the existence of, it was sweets. At first they had been too sweet, the sensation overpowering, but once the Others had figured that out, they eased her into sweet treats and Ollie was quite fond.

Pleading eyes turned upon Eddie, lips parted in anticipation of the sugary delights that no doubt were behind glass doors. Of course, there were many delights that she had been told about. A music shop, the sweet shop, a shop filled with nothing but teas, another of treasures old and new, people with secrets and stories. Lives very different than her own. Stories she would rather like to hear. But for the moment she was content only to walk with Eddie.

“Do you think,” she asked, leading him along the streets, “that we will stay here long?”

What About You?

Name: Urchie
Age: Adult. (30s)
Experience: For the better part of my life.
How Did You Find Us? Once upon a dream
Ready To Play? After three years >.> Yeah I am.

[Admin!]

Almost!

Urchie, it's good to see you back after all this time. Poppy seems like she'll be a great addition to Hammel, but she requires a few edits before she can be accepted for play.

The first edit has to do with the power. The power itself is fine, but all powers have limitations and side effects, and you've only mentioned a natural limitation. What are the side effects?

Second, this is unclear but you seem to imply that her father manifested because of her mother's probability manipulation. That is against our lore. If that's just a teasing joke her mother shares with her and her father, then that's fine, but please either change or clarify this.

Third, you say that she manifested when puberty hit, but please provide an exact age.

Last, since I assume she's been at Hammel for a while, please include a paragraph about how she's adjusted to Hammel.

When you've made these changes, just bump this topic so staff can take another look!

[Poppy Summers]

It's lovely to see you too! I'm sorry I was gone so long. I've made the adjustments please let me know if you need anything else shifted elaborated, or otherwise changed.

[Admin!]

Accepted!

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