Nora Bakken [Approved, 5-3; Soul Evo]

I. Basic Information

♦ Name: Nora Bakken.
♦ Alias': N/A.
♦ Age: Nineteen.
♦ Gender: Female.
♦ Sexuality: Bicurious.
♦ Race: Human. [Soul Evolution].

♦ Affiliation: Nora does her best to be a good person. She holds a small secretary role within the lower echelons of the Vanguard currently as she was deemed unfit for combat with the skills she has.

♦ Body: Nora's body is one that has been worked from many years of physical conditioning, her athletic frame gives her an edge against others who have not honed their condition. She has a voluptuous frame with wide hips and average breasts. Her skin is almost flawless with the exception of a beauty mark under her left eye. She is 5 feet 5 inches making her reasonably high, she won't tower over people but neither will she be towered over. She weighs a moderate amount considering most of her mass is muscle being around 84 kilograms.

♦ Face, Hair, Eyes: When looking at Nora's face it can be described quite simply, she has round cheeks with a thin chin, full lips and a small nose. She has thin eyebrows as well. Her hair is short, cut into a bob-cut with it barely reaching past her shoulders. The colour of her hair is a shade of green. Possibly one of her most astonishing features is her eyes, she was born with heterochromia which gives one of her eyes a shade of green while her other eye is light blue.

♦ Main Attire: In terms of her main attire you can expect to see Nora sporting a great number of different attires. One of the prime choices though is something casual, that being something like short shorts with tights or over-the-knee socks in conjunction with something loose and comfortable like a camisole. She can be seen in a great number of attires though so one should not believe that she has a strict dress code. She tops off a lot of her casual attires with the addition of high-boots that crawl up her lower legs and stop a little before her knees. You'll also notice that she occasionally wears glasses, she has actually never needed glasses and they serve as purely decoration for when she is wearing them.

I. Personality

♦ [Strangers]
She tries to make a good impression whenever she meets someone. Nora tries to show that she is a hard working person and does what she can to accommodate people. This makes her a bit gullible and naive at times and can also come off as a people-pleaser in her attempts to not make a bad impression. Despite that though she is a person that rather speak through actions than words since she often finds herself babbling and handling conversations poorly. She can still talk to people well enough but meeting new people is always a little difficult for her which she tries to work towards getting over.

♦ [Subordinate, Leader, Comrades.]
She avoids leadership positions, not really having the confidence in herself or her capabilities. Especially since she is still technically a novice in her racial abilities. She doesn't have high-esteem and is insecure about her abilities. That's why she finds it easier to just avoid the role of leader or anything that would give her responsibility. As a subordinate though she does everything that is expected of her, if not more at times. She is an over-achiever and works towards getting what she needs to do done.

With her comrades she is not above going out for the odd drink with them if they invite her. She is friendly and tries to get along with everyone where possible and be diplomatic when an issue arises. She strictly refuses to get involved in personal relationships with people she works with though superiors, comrades and especially not subordinates.

♦ [Friends, Lovers]
Once you break through the barriers to be her friend Nora is a very open and caring person. She puts a lot of faith and trust in her friends while being very open but herself. Although she tries to hide it to others its her friends that get to see just how much of a recreational drinker she is outside of work. Nora is also very flirty and playful when she's with her friends and feels comfortable, truly letting her hair down to these people that she trusts. She is very romantic to those that manage to swoon her but suffers from an inferiority complex which always has her feeling she isn't good enough for those around her because of being a novice and always struggling to take off and get places. She's by far definitely not exceptional or a prodigy. While she has good wits and a good deal of intelligence she doesn't excel over her peers. She's always lagging behind.

♦ [Enemies]
It is hard to expect Nora to fight back. She is the kind of person to take a lot of shit from a person and then remember it, there are rarely consequences for ending up on the small list of enemies she has but for those that do she must have a reason to hate them. She struggles with holding grudges and wanting revenge. She isn't the forgive and forget type when someone hurts her or people she cares about but she struggles with it because she feels powerless and unable to do anything anyway. Living in a world full of powerhouses and some being monsters makes her feel inadequate and overall unable to do anything against those she despises.

I. History

Nora's heritage stems from Scandinavia. Specifically Denmark before her family migrated to Iceland towards the twenty-first century. Although the family shrunk as the spiritual world became more prominent and as this happened more and more of the family began to die. It would only be towards the twenty-fifth century that Nora's parents were the only ones left. Because of that her mother was the sole-survivor of their illusion magic, she was very protective of it. She wouldn't teach her husband much of her family's skills. She wanted to teach her daughter when she was old enough.

She was born in Karakura, it was a safe birth for both the mother and the child. Nora was a healthy baby girl. She grew up with a little bit of training, her mother wasted no time in trying to push her to develop her skill as a soul evolution human. Nora wasn't exceptional though, she didn't show any signs of control or skill until the age of five although before she could get any meaningful training done she received news at the age of six that her mother had died in a mugging gone wrong which not only confused her as to why her mother wasn't coming home but her father was forced to teach her what little he knew of the kaleidoscope ability and the limited skills she had taught him.

Going to school Nora avoided most people, only really getting close to a few people which she didn't really talk to much when she left high school and was able to get a job in Vanguard as a secretary. She tried for a soldier role but was declined when she was deemed unfit for combat.

I. Equipment

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I. Natural Skills

♦ Peak Physical Condition: Nora keeps her body in peak physical condition, she puts a lot of effort into her skills and will hone something until she feels competent with it. Her body is naturally more powerful than other humans, meaning that if a Beginner was to strike her and they were on equal tier Nora is likely to not be as affected as someone else on said tier. This makes her somewhat dangerous and deceptive since it isn't obvious, realistically she appears frail and weak yet could easily lift double her own weight and more without trouble which means that she can strike with much more ferocity and damage, thinking on the physiological scale if Nora's entire body is more developed than a normal human then Nora can easily render most conventional toxins and pathogens ineffective. It would take more sedative, more poison and more of anything concentrated to kill her, let alone actually harm her. So with a naturally enhanced body it is hard to deal with her, she still follows the laws of the body though in the way that you cut off her head then she's dead, damage her organs or cut off her arm and she's going to be in bad shape like any normal person. She isn't invulnerable or anything of the nature.

Everything about her is on steroids though, just not enough to be considered spiritually enhanced since even by taking away spiritual influence Nora is still just this way. It is therefore quite hard to understand the full nature of her body, her eyes are much more developed being able to see further than any normal human should which bleeds through into her other senses as well. Naturally due to this body of her's when she gets an adrenaline rush she truly becomes a monster with her body slipping into the nigh-enhanced levels although still being entirely natural.

I. Racial Skills

♦ 1 | Prime Matter
Nora is a competent manipulator of Prima Materia albeit very difficult for her to do on the fly or with little preparation. Most of her spells take longer than a more skilled Soul Evolution Human would but as a novice it is to be expected from her. it takes time to learn the tricks of the trade and she is much better at crafting recipes and creating objects from Prima Materia rather than overlaying an effect as it requires too much conscious effort on her behalf.

Prima Materia Techniques

Reconstruct
Nora is able to reconstruct matter to a previous state within the time-frame of three posts since it was damaged. This is limited to a maximum volume of five metres cubed. It has a cool-down of five posts once used.

Burn
Aiming her finger towards something within ten metres of her she can cause it to ignite and catch ablaze. These are natural flames and extinguished in the same manner, they can be extinguished with energy reserves matching Nora's own quite easily if anything they tend to serve only as a distraction and are not very powerful. They have a duration of five posts at max and a cool-down of three posts after the flames have burned out.

Fly
Really simple. She can fly because she has not yet mastered the actual natural ability to fly just about all races have she must use a specific spell to do so. It has a duration of three posts and a cool-down of seven.

Gust
She sends a gust of wind out by sweeping her hand in front of her which can act as a counter force to weaken an incoming attack, in some cases deflect the attack in question. It has a strength matching her own strength skill this means it can potentially even be used offensively. It has a cool-down of five posts.

Accelerate
Targeting a single projectile (other characters included) Nora can accelerate it to double its velocity, it can catch an opponent off-guard if it doesn't backfire and actually give them a boost or be very helpful as a supportive spell. It has a cool-down of eight posts. It has a duration of a single post.

Decelerate
The opposite of accelerate. This spell targets a single projectile and halves its speed stat for a single post. This again is a supportive spell that can be used on a target be it enemy or ally but has a lengthy cool-down of eight posts.

♦ 2 | Anima Stone Information
Moving aside her average manipulation of the matter and energy source her actual gathering side of it is above average for the purity of her anima stone. It is a translucent prism with many faces. Gathering well above what would be normal for her level of skill but the utilisation of this fuel is not very effective which limits her greatly in what she can do exactly. Her anima stone is a small chuck of green jade which she wears as a necklace.

Anima Stone Techniques

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♦ 3 | High-Speed Movement
Nora is a very weak user of this skill. Even a novice shouldn't be at the same tier as she is. Nora's lines that she can create to ride are quite literally visible to the naked eye which causes many issues for the woman. Unlike even the most basic of users in this field her lines can be seen, the beginning and end point meaning it is very easy to see where she intends to go and as such is undoubtedly her weakest skill.

Víma Techniques

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♦ 4 | Regeneration Factor
While not the fastest with her regeneration Nora is able to heal relatively fast for her level. She can heal scratches and superficial wounds immediately and even deep wounds after hours are completely gone. The thing her body struggles with though is organs, damage to her organs takes up to weeks before they are in good health again if they take damage. She is immune to most naturally occurring pathogens though.

Aiónios Techniques

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I. Unique Skills

♦ 1 | Kaleidoscope
The power of Nora's soul evolution is illusion. The specific ability given the name Kaleidoscope (K-Scope) by her family. They are attributed to basing their family magic off the manipulation of senses and deception. The power was taught to her by her father after her mother's untimely death although Nora never learned the entire power because of nor did she learn the proper mindset or mental attributes that are required to complete it and make K-scope whole.

The ability begins by taking the very concept of refraction and distortion and harnessing it. While in the past generations of it Nora's ancestors could apparently alter the senses of masses without trouble but for her she needs to harness it in a much more rudimentary way. Her magic allows her to alter the information input of the targets senses. For example by showing a target a picture of fire she can take the visual input and switch it to another sense, be it smelling the hot smoke, hearing the cracking of the flames or even the burning sensation in their nerves. Nora's ability is limited to the five senses specifically, she cannot affect sensing or any kind of sixth sense a person might have.

She is limited to using triggers, often requiring her to set it up beforehand. She can adapt this in ways that are creative, by showing a picture of nothing but black she could translate this to blindness and cause a person to lose access to a sense. It should be noted though that her ability is limited to having three active illusions at a time and can only afflict two senses per illusion, the first sense being the input which only serves as the means to afflict them while the second sense is the one that is being affected. While visual triggers are the easiest for her to accomplish they are denoted as being the weakest ones, the harder the sense is to trigger equals the stronger illusion.

Using this principle it can be organised into; sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste. With taste being the strongest and sight the weakest. K-scope has limitless applications based on the trigger used and how Nora applies it but it does have weaknesses. The illusions do no physical harm, a person might harm themselves in some way in this illusion like if she showed an image of bugs and the person felt bugs under their skin causing them to try and tear them out but her illusions themselves do no damage. Breaking the illusions scale off her own mental skills vs the target's. This is also considered through the trigger used, for example if Nora had master in willpower and the target had master but she used either sight, touch or hearing to affect them then they will win, even someone lower than her willpower can win if she used sight on them up to the one below her own willpower. When she uses the harder to execute triggers (smell and taste) Nora can be one tier below her target's willpower and hold it unless they had a Grand Master in willpower.

I. Skill Sheet

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Additional Note: The skill sheets, as of Saturday, February 10, 2018, have had small additions. There are new skills, and Master has been renamed to "Elite". Furthermore, Master is now the bridge in-between Elite and Grand Master.

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General Skills

• Durability: Beginner.
  
• General Speed: Beginner.
  
• Strength: Beginner.
  
• Weapon Skill: Beginner.
  

Will Skills

• Willpower/Determination: Beginner
  
• Mental Deduction: Beginner
  
• Pain Endurance: Untrained
  
• Focus: Beginner

Racial Skills

• Anima Stone: Beginner.
  
• Prima Materia: Beginner.
  
• Aiónios: Beginner.
  
• Víma: Beginner.