INFINITY : LA MUERTE
La Muerte ☠️
physical description
FACE CLAIM : Cindy Kimberly
BACK-UP FACE CLAIM : Maggie Linemann + Danielle Campbell
HEIGHT & WEIGHT : 5 feet, 6 inches + 114lbs : 170cm + 51kg
APPEARANCE :
— Looking upon her you can see a tall woman, with a pear shaped body. She's got tan, sunkissed skin. Her eyes are a tantalizing seafom green, and her lips are round and full, often painted that blood red. She has contrasting dark black, wavy hair that travels down below her hips. She's always wearing make-up.
— In regards to body modifications, she has several piercings in her ears [ left ear | right ear ], an abstract rose tattoo that runs down her spine [ x ], a forearm tattoo with the date 12.18.95 in roman numerals, on both hands Marina has skeletal tattoo's [ x ], and she has a dragon tattoo on her left hip [ x ].
FASHION STYLE :
— Most notably, Marina is known for wearing semi-formal/semi-casual outfits. Among the variety her favorites are mid-calf dresses with slits in them because they can be worn for comfort or for business according to accessories. They fltter her body quite well and sometimes she accompanies them with a leather biker jacket, scarfs, shades, jewlery and it looks fine with hair up or down. What also pulls the "casual" part together is her choice of footwear which is usually black vans or white adidas.
personality and background check
estp : the entrepreneur // sagittarius // neutral good // ravenclaw
( + ; lively/energetic, practical, preceptive, straight-forward, out-going )
( - ; insensitive, risk-prone, impatient, unstructured, defiant )
PERSONALITY :
Marina is typically care-free. Your happy-go-lucky type of girl. She's bright and cheery, but has that dark aura around her which is unfortunate given how thoughtful and kind she is to people she cares about. Marina applies the effort where it's needed most, where most people just skip over. Marina can also be pretty energetic, and lively, ans she's know for her talking but talking really holds of littele interest to her. In terms of talk, she only does so to maintain a connection or figure out information she needs to come by. People would love to have her around if they only got to know her better, or if she allowed it. Some may question how it is she became this way with such a foul and uncertain background, but there were two options given to her; 1) become rude, and spiteful or 2) be better, be considerate and like somebody she'd want as a friend. That's what she did. She learned to not take life so serious. Whilst being a free-spirited type of person, she's learned when to draw the lines and around who to hold the reign back from. Marina strives to see things more realistically than for the dream or fantasy of what could be.
Marina tends to catch onto things a little quicker than the people around her. She is an observer, and pays close attention to things she sees, hears, smells, and touches but that also plays a lot into her mutant abilities. She's able to sense those things first hand so that she can make a clear path as to what to do. She does so while keeping up conversations, and acting aloof to whats going on around her, but has the perfect plan to couhnter when things hit the fan.
Growing up, Marina learned that it was best to say what was on her mind. Her caretakers expressed that she shouldn't be restricted and even though she recieved some backlash from it, it made her understand how important it was to stand her ground in what she believed in. Through her own personal expieriences, she's learned that people come and go, people choose who they want to be whether it's rude, or passive. She's made it a point to surround herself with the best crowd possible that fits her person. The energy and liveliness of her friends tends to surge through her, she projects an out-giong personality that they tend to adore and flock toward.
However, Marina can close herself -- more like her feelings and empathy -- off from the people around her. She can get too absorbed in her own thoughts that she forgets that the people around her have their own opinions and thoughts that can help her out of her own rut. Marina gets impatient moreso when she's just not feeling in her right mind. She won't want to wait in lines, or wait for something as small as her online order of food to arrive.
Marina is prone to taking risks that no normal people would make because she's not normal to begin with. She has a life on the edge and tries to make her life one worth living with what she was given. She doesn't take opportunities for granted and is into the idea of "trying everything once". She absolutely hates the thought of "waht-if's", or "what could have been". Her life is already unstructured but she is also rather defiant in nature, so you won't be catching her beating to anybodies drum but her own. Some people might argue that she doesn't even need a man to hold her steady, but things like that just find her off-guard. She never dreamt to have somebody stand with her, but life seems to take it's own course. Among her unstructured lifestyle, is her heavily unorganized disposition. Neither one of her hide-outs is a place you want to stay too long because she's piled things up after every personal mission that the place just collects papers and dust. Neither does she want to sort or clean out because they're easily despensable. Marina doens't have that kind of time on her hands.
BACKGROUND :
On the night of December 18, 1995, Marina Nox Leija was born into darkness, and left on the stoop of the wealthiest family in Mexico with only her name clipped to her blanket. The family Cortes had no children and worked as physicians and surgeons. They weren't outraged by this fiasco, but they were worried that the mother of this baby was in trouble. They put investigators on the case immediately to find the baby's mother, but to no avail. On December 25th, they officially adopted Marina as their own. Shortly after beinging her into their home, the family began having problems with Marina. They kept finding dead animals in her wake. Furthermore, not long after she began to sit up on her own, Marina's great-grandmother died in her presence though the Cortes family has no idea the cause of death. They thought it to be a coincidence, but with further examination, her great-grandmother was in perfect health. There was no reason for her to have been dead so quickly that nobody would have taken notice. The Cortes family was terrified that Marina may have had something to do with the death and sought to have her removed immediately.
In January of 1997, Marina was adopted by the family Santiago in Alcapulco. This family couldn't have children of their own,and they felt blessed to have Marina with them. Things were calm for quite some time as Marina had to adjust to her new family. But just like the last, strange occurances started happening. The same way dead animals made their way into the home, Marina started bringing them back to life in a faint because the Santiago's were terrified to see dead animals in their vacinity. She thought bringing them to life would lessen their terror, but it only made things worse on her. In April of 1999, the Santiago's put Marina back up for adoption. They called her the devil.
Finally in 2002, Marina was taken by a couple in Baltimore. At only seven years old, many people feared what she could do, and secluded her, but the Kensington's did not. When they were able to bring her home, they treated her like a normal perosn and she was confused as to why. Nobody wanted her, she figured in her time in and out of homes. She was a nuisance, but not to the Kensingtons. She found that the kensingtons had four children, not including her. Each of them had their own kind of knack, much similar to her own. It was the first time she felt welcomed, and normal. Marina grew with them, and they taught her very important things. They tought her to defend and stand up for herself, but to be wary of when and where she was going to use her powers. It was smart, she'd never considered it. And although they didn't have her exact abilities, they helped her figure everything out. When she thought everything was too perfect, she felt the need to escape before they could get rid of her. In early 2005, Marina took a wad of the Kensington's money and took a plane to Kissimmee. Truthfully, the Kensington's didn't look for her right away, they figured that if she needed the time away, they'd allow it to her. But when more than a week passed, they got frantic. Each family member was assigned to track and locate Marina before anybody else did. They found Marina two months later in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The ten year old Marina was distraught and enthused at the same time. She was angry that they hadn't found her, but happy that now they finally had. She didn't know that they would after the first month. The Kensington's took her back to house Kensington and scolded her there. They instilled the dangers the world was and what would happen to her if any kind of special task force agents were to get a hold of her. The conversation was a real eye opener for her.
When they taught her all they could and she felt she could no lnger benefit from them, they gave Marina two options. It was quite clear that no matter the option, Marina would take off. So she did. Marina went anywhere, and everywhere her heart desired. She learned so much, and did her own little research on mutants. A lot of the cases dissapointed her, and just when she started to feel alone again, she found Xeno. [ Refer to the Love Interest section of the application ... ]
TRIVIA :
— She owns a pet cat, if you can believe it. A tiny black cat, by the name Night Crawler.
— Her favorite dish is homemade tamales.
— She's not a heavy alcoholic, but she can hold her liquor down pretty well.
— She doesn't really like hauling a phone around, so she has an ipod classic, seventh generation in black. On it are Classical Rock groups.
— A place where she can sit down and relax is on the shore, waves crashing agains her feet.
— Marina's a night owl, always has been.
— Yoga is a sort of meditator for her.
— She isn't really picky when it comes to food. She'll eat ANYTHING.
— More than anything, Marina used to be a seducer. She'd hook-up with men at every corner, but now that Xeno is around, she's stopped all together.
— She always smells like she's on the beach. Her favorite perfume is Oahu coconut sunset.
— Archery is a HUGE de-stressor.
— She's got a drivers & motorcycle liscence, but does not own a car. Instead, she owns a kawasaki ninja 300.
— Coffee/Cafeine addict.
— Much like Jade, she's never felt the need to go looking for her birth parents.
— Marina is Panal.
— Places she squats at are mostly dark, but have a bit of her personality in there (i.e lots of black objects suchas paintings, statues, etc).
— Marina sleeps in oversized tops and underwear.
— She doesn't like sleeping alone.
— Warning: She's a cuddle bug.
— Marina learned to play instruments on her own. She can play Cello, Piano, Guitar, Drums, and Bass.
— The only reason she has a phone is to communicate with Drina, and Xeno.
— She listens to classical music on missions.
— Because she has these powers, she feels obligated to help people.
— Her favorite book genres are thriller, psychological, romance and sci-fi.
— Marina's favorite movie genres are thriller, psychological-thriller, and slasher.
— She can get pregnant.
— Marina wants to have a family in the future.
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relationship report
CONNECTIONS :
Drina
"I trust her with my life"
— Best Friend : Drinacourus "Drina" Abelettian-Andor VII / Celestial / 5 out of 5
Drina, after quite significant issues, has become the person Marina trusts with her life; one of the only people who has crafted a bond with her. And, when it comes down to roots and where they come from, things like that have molecular irrelevance to them, because in several ways, they have a plethora of similarities. They can spend hours upon hours communicating with one another with no inturruption. They've always got things to talk about, that's what best friends do, huh? When it feels just terribly normal and the conversation flows without much effort.
But of course, that's not always the case. They've worked together more times than not, and they're one heck of a team! That is how they met after all.
Whatever you'd like to say, these two are thick as theives.
The Cortes Family
The first family
— Catalina & Abelino Cortes / Physician & Surgeon (respectively) / --
Most notable for being the first family that Marina lived with, she has no memories with the two. She's not gotten into contact with them, or tried to stretch an olive branch because they probably just don't ever want to hear from her again. She'll allow them that.
The Santiago Family
The Second family
— Valentina & Thiago Santiago / Software Developer & Financial Advisor (respectively) / 76%
Because more of her memories are prominent with the Santiago's, she has more of a hurt, more of a bond with the family. She aches for them and is ashamed to contact them or see how they are doing. She doesn't want to know if they ever got another child or not because she'd like to think of herself as their only daughter, the one that solved their problem, but she thinks she holds a guilt that maybe she scared them out of children entiely. She just doesn't want to know. Ignorance is bliss. She'll leave it at that.
The Kensignton Family
The final family
— Family? Well, Close enough : Harris & Molly Kensington w/ their children Edward James, Carla Beam, Ember Leigh, and Bronny Bennet Kensington / 5 out of 5
The kensington family. The only place Marina felt like she belonged. They were a group of confident mutants. After elaving them, she doesn't know how she everg got so lucky, or how they never got caught. If anything, they were great at hiding. That's not how she wanted to be. So even though she created new, better memories with them, she knew she couldn't stay forever. She tries her best to stay in contact with them for updates and what not, but sometimes its just impossible to get a hold of them.
Team Infinity
"I belong with them."
— True Happiness : The Infinity Team / 5 out of 5
interactions
— Considering she's a vigilante in Mexico, and she's never really gone out of her way to meet any other mutants/supers her connection list is rather short. Xeno, however knows more of the Avengers and of other mutants than she does considering their different roles and backgrounds.
super human abilities
abilities :
— Aura Preception : La Muerte can preceive and read auras, normally invisible fields of energy that surround every living thing; this can be used to see a targets emotion, health status, power level, or moral allignment.
* limitations include: seeing one aura at a time, her aura range is 50 feet ahead, people with aura concealment are immune.
— Clairaudience/Clairvoyance : The power to hear things outside the range of normal preception. La Muerte can hear in a way that isn't connected to her physical senses. La Muerte can hear psychic, and spiritual beings.
* limitations include: if more than one spirit is speaking, it can overwhelm her.
— Necromancy : La Muerte can utilize magic that involves the dead and souls. By doing so she can both communicate and bring back the dead, with or without their souls (so they could come back in the flesh or as her undead army).
* limitations include: being weaker agains living-based powers, beings with no souls are imune to her power, bringing people back to life take a lot out of her and render her weak.
— Spiritual Possesion : La Muerte has the power to take complete and total control over ones body .
* limitations include: if she takes control over somebody's body, her own is left in a limbo where others will have to protect it until she returns to it. If her body is harmed while she is controlling somebody else's body, she will be trapped in that body with nowhere to go.
— Kiss of Death : La Muerte can kill somebody with a single kiss if she wills it, though she has to get close to the target first and that's no easy feat.
— Summoning : La Muerte has long since been able to hide or conceal her weapons in a pocket in between time and space. All she needs to do is think about the corresponding weapon and it will fall from the sky, into her hand. She relies on these pockets in time and space in order to pack lightly and seem weak to fool her enemies.
* limitations include: she cannot hold weapond bigger than a katana sword in these pockets of time and space.
— Along with those is enhanced senses, strength, agility, flexibility, speed, and healing. La Muerte is also skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and sharpshooting with a bow and arrow.
weaknesses :
— Essence Transfer : Because La Muerte is more spiritual based, if she runs out of energy, she's due for an essence transfer. This is only used in times of emergecncy when she's running low on energy and needs to perform a move with lots of energy. An essence transfer needs to be performed with a willing participant (in otherwords somebody willingly needs to give part of their essence to her), otherwise the transfer will not work. The reason it's more of a weskness is befcause when she is preforming a Essence Transfer, she and her participant cannot be targetted, or the transfer is null.
— Pure Beings/Angel-like Beings : Pure powers, Auras, and Angel-Like beings burn her soul. No, they can't actually kill her with their presence, but the feeling of death runs down her spine, and into her muscles. It makes her wish she were dead. Why, you ask? Because it is her opposite in nature. They render her completely useless, and weak. It is her ultimate weakness. The only way to dull or diminish it is by a blood bond with said creature or being, and not all are willing.
— here
SUPER HUMAN GET-UP :
— Usually, when she's going out to "fight crime", it's the only time she wears pants. It could be freezing cold but you'd still see her up and at 'em with dresses. When she's had time to plan her move, she normally dresses in a sleeveless skin-tight top, fingerless arm length cloves with little cavities to place weapons in. Atop that is her cape-like overcoat, it holds any potions and provides more coverage to conceal her weapong on her gloves. She wears semi-leather pants that are easy enough to move around in, and her feiyue running shoes to get around that much easier. No other accessories needed.
combat & weaponry :
— Before meeting Xeno, she wasn't all that good at hand-to-hand combat. She relied upon her bow and arrow sharpshooting. But since having met Xeno, he's taught her a lot of hand-to-hand combatant skills and techniques. She's known to be more erratic when it comes to close combat. Her specialty is more of a mixed combination kicks and punches, it confuses even the most accurate hand-to-hand combatants.
— La Muerte holds small blades on her body, but holds her bigger weapons (i.e katana's, bow and arrow, other blades and potions) in her interdimensional pocket [ refered to in her abilities section...]
history :
— I think a lot of her history can be found in her background, but if she had to exxplain herself shortly it'd be something along the lines of:
"You can similarly call me a vampire, but I'm not entirely a blood-er. Instead I can utilize the dead and some dark magics. I've been this way since birth. In and out of the homes of my caretakers."
— La Muerte never really kept her identity a secret. All of mexico calls her La Muerte because of what she can do, and what she's capable of. She's a vigilante, allways on the move, doesn't stay in one place too long so she doesn't get caught. If somebody wants to get a hold of her, they have to track her down via stalking. (In Xeno's case, he'd had her personal number, he just had to track her and let his Sensing do the rest). But in regards to Fury getting a lot of her to join the infinity team, he got a hold of her through the grapevine.
Steve knew Xeno and Steve knew Xeno was in cahoots with La Muerte. At the time Steve asked for her information, Xeno was hesitant to give it to him, but after assuring he'd not get her into any trouble, he complied. Who knew the contact information would come in handy later?
Tealcoloredstars : Lai : turn in
COMMENTS : 1) I low-key hope you don't hate me for bullet pointing Xeno's personality. 2)I'm sorry that their love story i like a mini-novel. I wanted to get their background out there. 3) Xeno knows more of the Avengers and of other mutants than Marina does because of his background So if you want me to loist his connections and get into his background a little more just let me know. 4) Sorry if there's information missing or if you want to know more about a certain thing that isn't there. Feel free to ask away! 5) My friend was actually going to apply as drina, but there's no way she was going to finish her, theres too much content she wants to put in and she's too excited to just see your story unfold. So, I added a snippet of her in my app.
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