App || In The Night

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PLAYER INFO

Player Name: JejuneN
Player Contact: JejuneN
Character(s) In-Game: N/A

CHARACTER INFO

Character Name: Coraline Li aka “Nightshade”
Age: 17
Canon: Original

World Description: Generic modern world where superheroes and villains are constantly fighting for control. Magic, supernatural creatures, meta genes, fantastical technology? All can be found here.

History: Coraline’s story starts at birth, where due to either fate or chance, she was stolen from the hospital to be used in a ritual meant to bring upon the end of the world as most knew it. Except she was saved. The police crashed in during the ritual, foiling whatever plans they had for the baby sleeping in the middle of a spell diagram. The cultists were seemingly all captured and the kidnapped child was safe. So after the usual media circus that happens after such an event, life went on. Her parents moved from New York to escape the attention and traumatizing memories, ending up across the country in Los Angeles. There, she had a perfectly normal childhood. She attended school, was enrolled in extracurriculars, and made friends. All the usual things.

Then, she turned 14. Turns out, the ritual did do something to her: It gave her powers. And being who she was, she decided she would become a superhero with them. Her attempts at practicing in secret spread rumors, and those rumors soon gained the attention of the very same cult that had taken her on the day she was born. They stole her away once again except this time, she died, sacrificed in an attempt to free the thing that had been put inside her.

And now, she’s here.

CRAU: N/A

Death: Sacrificed by a cult.

What are your plans for this character in-game? Coming to term with this massive change in her life and just exploring what is humanity.

What aspects of this game and/or its setting are you most interested in having this character engage with? I love the exploration aspect and just. The dichotomy of being hurt by the light but also needing it in this world is so fun and I’m interested to see what the mods do with it!

How does your character generally get along with other people? She’s a bit timid, but tends to pick out someone she feels safer around to latch on to. Overall though, she’s polite and friendly in most situations, and trusting enough to give just about anyone a chance.

What is your character's mental state upon entering the game? Traumatized and frightened.

Skills/Abilities: At the most basic, her abilities are shadow/darkness manipulation. She can mold and change the properties of the darkness around her rather effortlessly. This allows her to create constructs, objects, etc.

With their death and subsequent transformation, their body has been rather drastically changed. Instead of blood, what runs through her body can best be described as shadow stuff. Due to this, everything about her has a decidingly grey, blackish tint to it, belying her now inhuman nature. She is now much more durable than before, with wounds being automatically sealed by the shadow stuff flowing through her. Pain is deadened.

They are also perfectly capable of moving around in darkness now. She doesn’t have night vision really, more a highly precise and intuitive understanding of anything happening in shadows/darkness around them. The range is functionally at around 10 feet, as any further, her mind becomes overloaded and she passes out.

While unaware of this, they can use the shadows within their body to augment their speed and strength. Indeed, they are no longer even bound to human form, able to turn into a living shadow that can become incorporeal at will. At lesser extents, they can simply blend into shadows, giving an extra layer of stealth to their movements. They can also “teleport” via shadow portals, though it has to be within sight.

Flaws/Weaknesses: As to be expected, anything she creates is susceptible to light, dissolving away at speeds depending on the intensity of the light as well as her concentration on keeping the construct going. With this, since she is held together by Dark now, she is rather sensitive to light: especially at areas where veins are more exposed. The light becomes even more dangerous when she is in her shadow form.

Her main source of true sensation/pain now is regenerating her body. The wounds aren’t actually healed, the shadows simply acting as a very effective band aid that is unfortunately also very susceptible to light, and sooner or later, she will have to heal as her presence is tied to the integrity and continued existence of her body. Thankfully, healing is a rather speedy process since the shadows just stitch their body back together. Unfortunately, the process is as said, extremely painful, with what could be months or even years of healing compressed into seconds to minutes. With her senses as deadened as they are, damage can unknowingly build up rather fast. 

Moving on to things that more affect everyday life: she lacks any life signs, can no longer sleep, and everyday sensations have become duller than before, especially in the light: Taste, sight, touch, smell, and even sound. Whether this is due to her new physiology, or because in comparison to her new senses, everything else just feels weaker is unknown.

Also, while she is no longer quite as susceptible to most forms of physical damage and the like, she can be easily subdued by magic if one knows what they’re doing.

Other weaknesses include her stubbornness, mental state (PTSD + fear of her own power), and mentions of her mom + best friend.


Personality: Coraline is a rather bright person so to speak, displaying massive amounts of curiosity and enthusiasm in most parts of life. She loves to learn new things, and tends to throw herself wholeheartedly into her new obsession before tiring of it and moving on to something shinier. This combined with her intelligence makes her a bit of a jack of all trades with tons of random knowledge stuffed into her head. On the other hand, this makes her a bit of a know-it-all and rather stubborn in her opinions when she thinks she’s right. As one may expect, she also veers towards book smarts rather than street smarts, and hence, doesn’t always have the best judgements on people and situations.

However, most people wouldn’t know this from first meeting her, as there is a timid side to her. She is rather anxious, fearing what others think of her as well as constantly doubting her own capabilities. So in situations where she doesn’t feel comfortable, she tends to be rather quiet, shrinking in on herself. Once she opens up though, the fire within her awakens and she can become rather loud and admittedly obnoxious.

She is also very compassionate, finding great joy in helping others and making others happy. She is fiercely protective of those she loves, and despite flashes of pessimism due to her anxiety, in the end, she is an optimist at heart. Coraline truly believes in the overall good and endless potential of humanity (and life in general) with a rarely dampened ferocity and hopes to aid in the protection of that in all she does.


Items: A blood stained white slip and the knife that was in her chest.

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Inventory

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General
- 5 turtlenecks - various colors/patterns
- 3 black hoodies
- 5 pairs of jeans - various washes
- Misc socks, underwear, sports bras
- 3 baseball cap
- 11 sunglasses - various styles
- 5 black cloth masks
- 1 homemade mask

Backpack
- lantern attached with belts
- tablet
- canteen filled with water
- 10 power bars
- 2 sunglasses
- 1 mask
- 1 baseball cap
- bloodstained white slip
- ceremonial dagger