Zylia

morwen · May 6th, 2011, 6:36 am

Name: - Zylia (Goes by Zy for the most part)
Age:- 100 - looks like 25 at the moment
Gender: - Female

Skills:
Shadow Rider: Zy can enter shadows, and travel instantly from one end of it to the other. Zylia can travel any distance in shadows as long as they're are connected. The darker the shadow the swifter the travel, but the lighter it is, the slower it is. If the shadow is light Zylia can be seen as a dark shadow in it, if it's dark she can be seen as a lighter shadow. If it's between then she can blend in perfectly. Zy cannot attack from the shadows, and it takes her a full minute to enter, or leave a shadow. After exiting a shadow, Zy has to wait five minutes before entering another one.
Copy Cat: Zylia is able to take on the form of other people. She can only stay in one form for fifteen minutes before she reverts back to being a shadow. When Zy takes on the form of someone else she gains their abilities, although what she does is considerably weaker than their power. Zy has to wait ten to twenty minutes before taking on the form of someone after leaving a form - the time depends on how much of the person's power she used.. Zylia can only attack normal people when she has copied someone's body. (not shades or spirits - she can always attack those)
Shadow Puppeteer: If Zy touches someone's shadow she can control it, and to an extant the owner of the shadow. The darker the person's shadow the easier it is for her to control them through it. Zy has a hard time controlling anyone bigger than herself, and those the same size or smaller she can only control to a certain extant. When Zy steps into someone's shadow she can move the shadow, forcing weaker people to move along with it. If the person is much bigger than her the shadow almost becomes 'heavy'. It's almost like a leash - pulling smaller dogs around is easier than pulling cows around. That's pretty much how that skill works.

Race: - Shadow
Hair: - Shadowy appearance of hair.
Eyes: - Shadowy green
Home Village: - One destroyed by a riderless dragon which had gone insane
Parents: - N/A
Siblings: - N/A

Character Personality: Zylia has the personalities of all the people that lived in her village. Speaking of split personality disorder, Zy has it big time! At one moment she can be very kind, with anger seeming impossible for her, and the next she can be totally opposite - angry with no way to calm her down. Zylia has so many different personalities that when she meets someone for the second time it is nearly impossible for them to tell that she's the same person. At times Zy breaks into tears for no apparent reason. When this happens, Zy either becomes either extremely violent, or unable to attack at all. At times Zylia is filled with an immense hate for all living beings - after all she is made up of the shadows of the dead. Zylia is usually a kind, pleasant person to be around... During the daytime that is. At night she can become extremely violent, trying to steal people's shadows to add to herself. The only shadows Zy can add to herself are ones near her village, or ones of those already dying. Absorbing shadows adds to Zy's life span, and makes her appear younger, but she can only absorb the shadows of those who want revenge for something. After absorbing a shadow she takes on the personality of that person for a full day. During that time she will hunt down the ones that the person who's shadow she absorbed wanted to get revenge on.

Character History: In the empire there is a village. A village which is said to be haunted. It is said that the old dilapidated buildings cast no shadow, and the old dead trees give no shade. It is said that the village's shadow appears only at night, killing, and stealing the shadow of any within a mile of the village. It is said that at night the wails, and cries of terror, and hate can still be heard from the shadow-less buildings, even nearly a hundred years after the village's destruction.
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100 years before: The Fall of the Riders.
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A dragon roared in anguish, and despair. Her rider had just been killed by Galbatorix. Her hope for revenge was all she had left. A large tear slipped from her eye. She wanted so much to stick her claws into Galbatorix, and rip him to shreds! She wanted to rip his head off with her teeth, she wanted to burn his body with her fire! She wanted to destroy him! No. Not just Galbatorix. She wanted to destroy all of his followers as well. She wanted to destroy all humans! A human had destroyed her rider, and now all other humans would have to pay for what he had done. Suddenly a spark of light caught the dragoness' eye. It was a human village. The dragoness roared, and dove to attack.
During the night she slaughtered the entire village, from the youngest to the oldest. Nothing was left alive - not even the trees. The dragoness laid down to rest, unaware of a strange power in the air. Just before dawn the dragoness woke up, and gave a cry of fear. A pair of shadowy green eyes looked down at her. The dragoness felt herself being ripped apart by anger, hate, fear... She happened to look at her shadow, and saw it begin to disappear. The dragoness gave one last, mighty roar of agony, and became silent. The sun rose on the dead village. No noise, not even the wind was anywhere. The sun looked dull, and red, and there wasn't a shadow in sight. The only thing left was hatred, and a want for revenge.
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Zylia was born from the hatred of the people of the village which had been destroyed by the insane dragoness. The night the dragoness came and destroyed the village, the hate, and want for revenge which everyone in the village felt, awakened Zylia. Their emotions had been so strong that they didn't die - rather they grew stronger, feeding off of each other. The personalities, and everything about the people became part of their shadows. Even the plants, animals, and buildings were. Everything there died, and the many shadows, and personalities combined, creating Zylia. That night Zylia absorbed the dragoness' shadow, and personality, leaving her dead in the village which she had slaughtered, and releasing a shadow which would bring much pain, and misery into the world.

Weapons: Shadow weapons: Zylia is able to create weapons from the shadows of weapons, although they usually only affect shades. The weapons look like a shadowy reflection of the weapon they're based off of.

Likes: - Shadowy places
Dislikes: - Places without shadows

Weakness / Fear: -Zylia is afraid of the light. It is what makes her weakest. If Zylia is fighting under the sun without any shadows near her, then she loses about 3/4ths of her power. Zylia can only attack Shades unless she uses copy cat to become completely solid.

Animal Companions: - None

Character's Physical Description: Zylia doesn't really have an appearance being a shadow. Yes she has eyes, mouth, nose, ears, and hair, but all of these are more like a shadowy outline, rather than definite features. The only time Zy has a solid appearance, where her face is distinct is when she copies the appearance of someone else to herself. The only thing that doesn't look like the one she copied are her eyes, which always remain a shadowy green. Like normal shadows, Zy changes at each position of the sun. At noon Zylia is 5'5, but she gets taller or shorter, depending on the position of the sun. The shortest Zy get is 4'5, and the tallest is 6'5

Dreams for the Future: - To destroy the Varden and Galbatorix
Reason for Dreams: - Because the want for revenge is what created Zylia from the shadows of a ruined village. Revenge against both the Varden, and Galbatorix.

Alignment/side: - Against Galbatorix, and the Varden.

Finally finished her! Her bio took up a little more than 4 pages on Open Office.

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