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Name Mato Tu
Alias 4K_PSI, DO NOT call her Tomato
Age 24
DOB April 4th
Gender Female
Species Human
Ethnicity Adelan
Height 5’6”
Occupation Military, works closely with Seekers
Residence Ryun, Aedolis
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Physical Description
Mato is a stocky, compact woman for her short stature who makes up for it with 10,000 pounds of attitude. She has light brown skin, dark brown almost black eyes and long, straight black hair that reaches to midthigh and is traditionally kept up in a high ponytail. Sharp cheekbones are accented by six halfmoon shaped scars on each cheek with the lines closer to her eyes being the most faded and the ones at the bottom of her jaw being the freshest while still being a few years old.
Her expression is usually that of some form of contempt, disgust, or disinterest only made more severe by the deep scars that bisect her face from above her right eyebrow, over her nose, and deep into her left cheek. The inside of both her forearms by the elbow crease are also marked up with intersecting thin, raised scars of varying ages from repeated cutting. Some are even still fresh cuts. The only other significant scar she has is a four inch horizontal scar a few inches below her belly button that is quite old and healed quite pale. All of her teeth have also been sharpened into points giving her a very sharklike grin.
Mato has several piercings. These include standard earlobes, a sharkbite set on her lower lip, and a pair of hoops in her left brow. She also wears a leather cord necklace with a shark tooth around her neck. As for tattoos, she has an inch wide pastel purple ribbon tattoo around her throat that ties off into a pretty bow with long tails in the back. The tails reach to midback. She wants to get sleeves down but hasn’t found a design she likes yet. Outside of her uniform, Mato still prefers combat boots, dark jeans and tops with a black, high-collared, leather jacket.
Personality
She is a very tough, take no shit, independent type woman. Mato is rough around the edges and not about to let anyone stand in her way or tell her no. She’s a fierce soldier who has gotten into trouble more than once for getting combative or too aggressive but for the most part has managed to earn herself enough respect to make her way up through the ranks. She will always speak her mind and doesn’t back down from a challenge easily.
Mato is not impressed by material wealth and instead places her focus on strength and honor. Much of her time is spent on trying to be better than she is to make her family proud and provide for them. She has little interest in the puppy eyes of “children” and has sent many a suitor running with their tail between their legs. She does not smile often but when a toothy grin does appear, do not be fooled for it is usually a threat that if not heeded will soon be acted upon.
With regards to her family she is protective and private to the point of not even discussing them with her coworkers. Plenty are unaware she even has a son let alone his name or age. She prefers to keep her private life private and her work life where it belongs, at work.
Things
- Owns a pair of brass knuckles and very much knows how to use them.
- First generation military and proud of it, but salty over not being a telepath so can’t be a Pilot.
- Lives with three grandparents, two parents, and young son.
- Loves to surf and has been doing it her entire life.
- Gives names to inanimate objects.
- Has an ongoing war with technology where things malfunction and then they are brutally sacrificed.
Magic/Abilities
Hemokinetic: Mato is able to manipulate the blood in her body and others’s to achieve different endgoals.
- Blood Clotting: Mato can cause her own open wounds to clot quickly so that she does not bleed out. She has far more trouble performing this trick on others though.
- Neurocognitive Deficit: She can reverse the flow of blood to cause unconsciousness. She is limited in the number of people she can do this to at one time and she runs the risk of also causing herself to pass out if she isn’t careful.
- Paralysis Inducement: By stopping a target's blood in their veins, Mato can cause the victim to become paralysed. Holding it for too long can cause the individual to die.
- Paralysis Inducement: By stopping a target's blood in their veins, Mato can cause the victim to become paralysed. Holding it for too long can cause the individual to die.
- Bloodflow Enhancement: By increasing her rate of bloodflow, Mato can choose to do ONE of the following for herself for a limited amount of time: enhanced speed, enhanced stamina, enhanced endurance, or enhanced regeneration. The use of this ability can also be quite fatal if she does not check herself as she can quite literally tear her muscles clean off the bone by pushing her body to impossible limits with the enhancement. Enhanced regeneration is the most deadly and risky however as to use it means her entire body has to shut down to bare minimum function in order to divert all her energy to healing. It is not an efficient process nor one she is ever keen on using. She cannot be using any other ability while also using this one.
- Hemo-Precognition: An ability that bears great cultural significance for Mato. She possesses the ability via blood-letting to catch shifting visions of the future. It is easy to become lost in these visions and to bleed herself dry if she is not careful. It is however, a ritual she partakes in regularly though not excessively as part of her own religious practices.
Martial Artist: Mato is also trained extensively in a very brutal form of martial arts which has kept her safe and protected despite her small size.
Relationships
Family: Mato has a close bond with her family and everything she does is in support of them. Thanks to her working in the military they have been able to move into a better home but, all her life Mato has lived with her two maternal grandmothers, paternal grandmother and grandfather, her mother and father. Her paternal grandmother has since passed away, having not lived long enough to meet her great-grandson, Isi. Isi is Mato’s pride and joy as he continues to grow into a little soldier all of his own. He’s just turned ten. Mato has no siblings.
History
Mato grew up a pretty normal life surrounded by family and nothing life-altering. Her family are followers of some old Adelan traditions accounting for some of her scars and teeth which they also share. But, the choice to follow in their footsteps was her own.
Her biggest grievance growing up was that she was not a telepath. For, while from an early age she showed an aptitude for blood manipulation, without the ability to communicate via her mind, she would never become a Pilot, her greatest dream. Mato would spend hours daily trying with all her might to will herself into hearing others’s thoughts or sending her own but to no avail.
This point in her history has led her to be rather bitter about people who DO get to become Pilots as she will never have the honor of being a “7 gill” and earning her final pair of cheek scars. She is recognised as a fierce warrior in her community all the same and high ranking in accordance to the old traditions.
Currently she lives with her family in a nice home in Ryun by the water. Her parents and grandparents care for her son Isi while she works. His father is not part of the picture, nor is he someone that Mato ever talks about.
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