Post by NAWRA EL-AMIN on Aug 24, 2014 0:19:05 GMT -6
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[attr="class","appname"]nawra kamal el-amin
[attr="class","appnameb"]aka Nymphaea
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| TWENTY-EIGHT 5'9" / 155lbs | FEMALE PROFESSOR - THEATER |
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[attr="class","appbold"]APPEARANCE:
- FACE CLAIM: guardians of the galaxy, gamora - nawra el-amin
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[attr="class","appbold"]PERSONALITY:
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✓ reliable
✓ energetic
✓ organized
✓ ambitious
✓ passionate✖ prickly
✖ domineering
✖ passive-aggressive
✖ arrogant
✖ melodramatic
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[attr="class","appbold"]HISTORY:
- As a republican politician in Egypt, her father Kamal was always second fiddle to his left wing rivals. The most prominent of them lived in Cairo, the capital and largest city, while he lived in Alexandria, the second best. Many of them had multiple growing children, and what did he have? A single-- not to mention, green-- daughter.
Nawra's mother did her best to hide Kamal's contempt for his daughter. She did a pretty good job of it, too, but Nawra caught on soon enough. It bothered her, of course, that her father didn't think she was worth his time beyond a few choice press events; but she was always a bit passive-aggressive. She poured her efforts into undermining her father in subtle ways. Most notable among her methods was her rejection of Muslim faith (she even ate pork once to spite him, though she became violently ill afterwards) and her embrace of her father's least favorite subject-- theater.
She started out in small school productions (she was especially successful in Wicked). The realization that theater and film was her passion did not take long, and after successfully completing her secondary education, she moved on to university. Though her father refused any monetary support, she was able to obtain a reasonable scholarship and attended a film school in Cairo. She graduated with a bachelor of fine arts in production, which she then used to (unsuccessfully) run her own theater.
After several more failed attempts and quite a bit of debt later, Nawra decided she had to (temporarily) start smaller. She accepted a position at Vireximus University, teaching theater. New York City is certainly not her favorite place in the world, but it's a start.
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[attr="class","appbold"]POWERS:
- PRIMARY POWER: PHOTOSYNTHESIS: In short, nawra uses the process known as photosynthesis to obtain energy from the sun. Her body converts the light energy into various sugars and other carbs and later stores them as automatically as any other person converts the food they eat. A perk of this that is not shared by others, however, is she has the ability to stockpile this stored energy and later expend her energy stores whenever she chooses.
Nawra has to be careful about how much energy she stores and how much she expends at once. Storing too much energy can be extremely harmful to her body, resulting in muscle tremors, headaches, dizziness, chest pain, heart palpitations, and even more serious complications, such as heart failure. Using up too much energy at once has similar side effects. She can store about five days worth of sunlight before suffering ill effects. However, she can only expend about a day's worth in one sitting without risking injury.
Expending her energy does not grant her superhuman abilities by any means. She cannot, say, lift a car, or run as fast as a bullet. She can, however, perform activities at an ordinary level for much, much longer than the average human. For example, she could run a marathon quite easily, or put up with a five year old child for longer than ten minutes.
Like any power, Nawra's ability comes with a downside. Her body is unable to digest proteins the way most people can. Because of this, eating anything at all causes her to become extremely ill; ingesting too much food might even prove fatal. This leaves the sun as her only source of energy. If she doesn't have any energy stored, she can only survive ten days without sunlight before her cells will begin to literally break down. Don't move to Antarctica, Nawra.
As a side effect, she also excretes oxygen from her pores. So if you plan on getting trapped in an airtight space for a while, try to bring her along. Additionally, the chlorophyll in her cells causes her skin to be a bright, obnoxious green color. How rad.
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[attr="class","appbold"]OOC:
- OOC NAME: riley
- HOW DID YOU FIND US? the stars aligned
[attr="class","appcred"]MADE BY HABBUE