Post by Nizhoni on May 14, 2011 17:23:02 GMT -5
Name : Nizhoni (Nicknames - Niz, Hellcat, Grey Mother)
Alignment/Affiliation : Neutral, Anti-Shinra or former Shinra
Age : 87
Race : Firecat
History/Background :
Nizhoni was born to loving parents Kaya and Raxian, members of the selfsame tribe of firecats to which Nanaki's parents belonged. For the next eight years of her life, the firecat cub led the normal life of a young, learning member of the tribe, getting the basics of language and behavior in the process and becoming rather close to a number of the tribe's elder or important members. Unfortunately, it was in this eighth year and very shortly before Nanaki's birth that the first of the tribe's great losses was to hit upon them. During Nizhoni's first hunting lesson with her parents, away from the protection of the tribe for the first time, the cub was captured by Shinra agents and separated from her parents, never to see them or her tribe again.
The confused and terrified young firecat was soon introduced to the team of Shinra scientists who were to become her only "family", who ran numerous tests upon the poor young kitten. Over the years, she became jaded over her situation, forgetting the world that lay outside her concrete cell and lab holding areas. It wasn't a grand situation, but neither was it one which she actively wished to escape - it simply was what it was. That all changed within the last two decades of her incarceration, however. As the members of the team she had grown used to died off, they were regularly replaced. One of these replacements was to prove nearly fatal for Nizhoni.
Daisukenojo Hito, a woman following in the footsteps of her Shinra higher-up idol Hojo, was first introduced to Nizhoni in her second year of internship for Shinra's R&D, and was immediately fascinated by the possibilities. Deciding that she would become the pioneer of a new era of genetic warfare and bioengineering progress. thereby hopefully earning the respect of her out-of-reach hero in the field and perhaps even a spot at his side, Hito begins her own personal descent into madness. Ensuring a spot on the so-called "Hellcat" team, the brilliant young geneticist soon rises to the head, and therefore controls Nizhoni's schedule and experimentation rights. Immediately, the firecat senses that things are off when her injections change from nutritional supplement to drugs which significantly alter her perceptions.
Hito starts out small, attempting strength augmentation or mental manipulation experiments with the firecat, mostly prying attempts to learn Nizhoni's limitations and physical makeup. During one of these experiments, the firecat's health took a sudden and uncharacteristic drop. Once it was discovered that she was suffering from an intense skin infection, her fur was completely shaved off in order to treat the problem. To the prideful and vain firecat's utmost horror, however, the trademark red fur of her tribe's heritage was never again to be hers. What grew back instead left her scarred for life, a permanent reject of her people and freak in her own mind. Depressed and loathful, the firecat began to resist all further testing, prompting a frustrated Hojo to order sedation and forced continuation.
While the rest of the "Hellcat" team began to question their leader's sanity, Nizhoni was put through a gamut of tests that left her weakened and nearly spiritually broken. It was at this point that Hito decided she needed a new breed of test subject, one which was more durable and capable of handling the tests Nizhoni no longer could. and so began a project to extract, isolate, and modify the firecat genome. This experiment was largely a failure, though it did lead to a discovery which would have put Hito on the map - the creation and ease of mass production of dopplegangers. As a result of this discovery, Nizhoni's classification was changed to Grey Mother, an insult to her new coloring and perverted purpose in life.
It was at this time that Hito's madness plunged into the truly deranged and unthinkable. The Grey Mother team had been leery about suffusing their star subject with mako energy in order to boost her vitality and allow them to continue their experiments, and were roundly relieved when Nizhoni showed signs of rejecting the treatments, absorbing very little mako. Angered by this lack of progress, Hito ordered the unthinkable. When her team refused, they were fired and sent away from the facility. On her own, Hito's depravity was unbridled, and Nizhoni found herself under the knife with neither anesthesia nor hope of escape. The screams of pain that echoed through the mountains of the Midgar region spawned ghost stories told to this day as Hito cracked her ribecage and inserted an entire materia directly into the firecat's heart. Falling into shock, Nizhoni slipped into a coma, praying for death.
As the months went by, Hito began to slip further and further into her own demented world, refusing to give up on her nearly failed experiment. Slightly before Hito would have run out of survivable supplies, however, Nizhoni awoke from her coma. The materia lodged in her heart had suffused her bloodstream with its energy at levels that should have been toxic enough to kill her. As an Esuna-type materia, however, the gem itself was preventing just such a thing at an unbelievably precarious balance. Spurred on by her success, the scientist continued her sickening experiments on the firecat, loading her with three more materia before she made her final mistake. As she was finishing binding the last of her materia infusions, the scientist let a restraint slip too soon, and the firecat broke free. A woman missing her left foream would later be seen wandering the countryside by travelling farmers, though her existence was never confirmed and she has since not been seen in the Midgar region.
As for Nizhoni, the firecat struggled to survive in the mountain range on her own. Poisoned by the very materia now keeping her alive, which did not respond as she had been taught the gems should by their names, the firecat had just enough resources to make it on her own, and has been seen ocassionally by those people who live near the Midgarian mountain ranges, suspiciously close to the rumored location of an abandoned Shinra facility in one of the many natural caves.
Appearance :
Due to lack of natural nutrition in her diet despite attempts by Shinra facility scientists and natural specialists, Nizhoni's growth was stunted at a young age. She is approximately three quarters the size of the smallest normal recorded size for a female of her species, and looks even smaller due to her thin frame and poor eating habits.
Nizhoni further stands out from normal firecats by way of her fur color. Thanks to a failed experiment late in her life, Nizhoni's fur is a very dark grey color over much of her body, broken up only by the tasmanian-tiger-like stripes running horizontally down her spine, which are a deep indigo in color.
Unlike many firecats of her species and tribe, Nizhoni bears no particular mane style or decorations, marked apart purely by the ragged nature of her coat and mane and the highly unusual glow of her bright green eyes.
Personality :
A highly jaded and defensive individual, Nizhoni finds it extraordinarily difficult to trust any humanoids, particularly those who show signs of allegiance to Shinra in any way. A loner since the near destruction of the world, she is very quietly reserved and speaks only when it is required of her, usually in short, terse phrases. She speaks her mind, holding back nothing in any situation, even when tact would be more appropriate than bluntness.
Abilities :
Limited by the materia which have been surgically implanted into her body, Nizhoni finds it extremely difficult to wield the magics her tribe were known for weaving. Even a simple fire spell can go haywire in her hands when she isn't focusing, though it never maintains its intended effect. Due to these shortcomings, Nizhoni has resolved to simply be fast and clever enough with her physical combat to make up for her magical ineptitude. Having never been pushed to the true peak of her physical limitations or combat readiness, however, Nizhoni is largely in the dark about her own capabilities. It is possible she could learn them with the proper aid, however.
Weapons :
Again unlike the majority of her tribe, Nizhoni never learned how to utilize the standard weapons of firecats (largely as a design of the men who captured her, not wanting her to have easy access to abilities which would make it easier for her to escape). Not wanting to leave her entirely defenseless, however, the lab techs who worked with her designed a rig for her collar that would allow her to defend herself. On a loop hooked into the bottom rung of her collar, a leather strap hangs at her chest level. Angled backward to lay along her shoulderblade, a sheath was made in order to hold a blade with a heavily reinforced, leather and padding wrapped handle and carefully designed guard. Approzimately the eight inches long from guard to tip, this blade could be classified as a long knife, though the blade is much wider than this. Nizhoni spent months training how to properly use this weapon, and as such can remove it from its sheath with ease, wielding it in combat with expertise that many human knife users would admire. She has additional, minute training with a blade designed to fit over the tip of her tail, though she requires human aid in order to apply this weapon to herself and so has been unable to use it since her self-imposed exile.
Alignment/Affiliation : Neutral, Anti-Shinra or former Shinra
Age : 87
Race : Firecat
History/Background :
Nizhoni was born to loving parents Kaya and Raxian, members of the selfsame tribe of firecats to which Nanaki's parents belonged. For the next eight years of her life, the firecat cub led the normal life of a young, learning member of the tribe, getting the basics of language and behavior in the process and becoming rather close to a number of the tribe's elder or important members. Unfortunately, it was in this eighth year and very shortly before Nanaki's birth that the first of the tribe's great losses was to hit upon them. During Nizhoni's first hunting lesson with her parents, away from the protection of the tribe for the first time, the cub was captured by Shinra agents and separated from her parents, never to see them or her tribe again.
The confused and terrified young firecat was soon introduced to the team of Shinra scientists who were to become her only "family", who ran numerous tests upon the poor young kitten. Over the years, she became jaded over her situation, forgetting the world that lay outside her concrete cell and lab holding areas. It wasn't a grand situation, but neither was it one which she actively wished to escape - it simply was what it was. That all changed within the last two decades of her incarceration, however. As the members of the team she had grown used to died off, they were regularly replaced. One of these replacements was to prove nearly fatal for Nizhoni.
Daisukenojo Hito, a woman following in the footsteps of her Shinra higher-up idol Hojo, was first introduced to Nizhoni in her second year of internship for Shinra's R&D, and was immediately fascinated by the possibilities. Deciding that she would become the pioneer of a new era of genetic warfare and bioengineering progress. thereby hopefully earning the respect of her out-of-reach hero in the field and perhaps even a spot at his side, Hito begins her own personal descent into madness. Ensuring a spot on the so-called "Hellcat" team, the brilliant young geneticist soon rises to the head, and therefore controls Nizhoni's schedule and experimentation rights. Immediately, the firecat senses that things are off when her injections change from nutritional supplement to drugs which significantly alter her perceptions.
Hito starts out small, attempting strength augmentation or mental manipulation experiments with the firecat, mostly prying attempts to learn Nizhoni's limitations and physical makeup. During one of these experiments, the firecat's health took a sudden and uncharacteristic drop. Once it was discovered that she was suffering from an intense skin infection, her fur was completely shaved off in order to treat the problem. To the prideful and vain firecat's utmost horror, however, the trademark red fur of her tribe's heritage was never again to be hers. What grew back instead left her scarred for life, a permanent reject of her people and freak in her own mind. Depressed and loathful, the firecat began to resist all further testing, prompting a frustrated Hojo to order sedation and forced continuation.
While the rest of the "Hellcat" team began to question their leader's sanity, Nizhoni was put through a gamut of tests that left her weakened and nearly spiritually broken. It was at this point that Hito decided she needed a new breed of test subject, one which was more durable and capable of handling the tests Nizhoni no longer could. and so began a project to extract, isolate, and modify the firecat genome. This experiment was largely a failure, though it did lead to a discovery which would have put Hito on the map - the creation and ease of mass production of dopplegangers. As a result of this discovery, Nizhoni's classification was changed to Grey Mother, an insult to her new coloring and perverted purpose in life.
It was at this time that Hito's madness plunged into the truly deranged and unthinkable. The Grey Mother team had been leery about suffusing their star subject with mako energy in order to boost her vitality and allow them to continue their experiments, and were roundly relieved when Nizhoni showed signs of rejecting the treatments, absorbing very little mako. Angered by this lack of progress, Hito ordered the unthinkable. When her team refused, they were fired and sent away from the facility. On her own, Hito's depravity was unbridled, and Nizhoni found herself under the knife with neither anesthesia nor hope of escape. The screams of pain that echoed through the mountains of the Midgar region spawned ghost stories told to this day as Hito cracked her ribecage and inserted an entire materia directly into the firecat's heart. Falling into shock, Nizhoni slipped into a coma, praying for death.
As the months went by, Hito began to slip further and further into her own demented world, refusing to give up on her nearly failed experiment. Slightly before Hito would have run out of survivable supplies, however, Nizhoni awoke from her coma. The materia lodged in her heart had suffused her bloodstream with its energy at levels that should have been toxic enough to kill her. As an Esuna-type materia, however, the gem itself was preventing just such a thing at an unbelievably precarious balance. Spurred on by her success, the scientist continued her sickening experiments on the firecat, loading her with three more materia before she made her final mistake. As she was finishing binding the last of her materia infusions, the scientist let a restraint slip too soon, and the firecat broke free. A woman missing her left foream would later be seen wandering the countryside by travelling farmers, though her existence was never confirmed and she has since not been seen in the Midgar region.
As for Nizhoni, the firecat struggled to survive in the mountain range on her own. Poisoned by the very materia now keeping her alive, which did not respond as she had been taught the gems should by their names, the firecat had just enough resources to make it on her own, and has been seen ocassionally by those people who live near the Midgarian mountain ranges, suspiciously close to the rumored location of an abandoned Shinra facility in one of the many natural caves.
Appearance :
Due to lack of natural nutrition in her diet despite attempts by Shinra facility scientists and natural specialists, Nizhoni's growth was stunted at a young age. She is approximately three quarters the size of the smallest normal recorded size for a female of her species, and looks even smaller due to her thin frame and poor eating habits.
Nizhoni further stands out from normal firecats by way of her fur color. Thanks to a failed experiment late in her life, Nizhoni's fur is a very dark grey color over much of her body, broken up only by the tasmanian-tiger-like stripes running horizontally down her spine, which are a deep indigo in color.
Unlike many firecats of her species and tribe, Nizhoni bears no particular mane style or decorations, marked apart purely by the ragged nature of her coat and mane and the highly unusual glow of her bright green eyes.
Personality :
A highly jaded and defensive individual, Nizhoni finds it extraordinarily difficult to trust any humanoids, particularly those who show signs of allegiance to Shinra in any way. A loner since the near destruction of the world, she is very quietly reserved and speaks only when it is required of her, usually in short, terse phrases. She speaks her mind, holding back nothing in any situation, even when tact would be more appropriate than bluntness.
Abilities :
Limited by the materia which have been surgically implanted into her body, Nizhoni finds it extremely difficult to wield the magics her tribe were known for weaving. Even a simple fire spell can go haywire in her hands when she isn't focusing, though it never maintains its intended effect. Due to these shortcomings, Nizhoni has resolved to simply be fast and clever enough with her physical combat to make up for her magical ineptitude. Having never been pushed to the true peak of her physical limitations or combat readiness, however, Nizhoni is largely in the dark about her own capabilities. It is possible she could learn them with the proper aid, however.
Weapons :
Again unlike the majority of her tribe, Nizhoni never learned how to utilize the standard weapons of firecats (largely as a design of the men who captured her, not wanting her to have easy access to abilities which would make it easier for her to escape). Not wanting to leave her entirely defenseless, however, the lab techs who worked with her designed a rig for her collar that would allow her to defend herself. On a loop hooked into the bottom rung of her collar, a leather strap hangs at her chest level. Angled backward to lay along her shoulderblade, a sheath was made in order to hold a blade with a heavily reinforced, leather and padding wrapped handle and carefully designed guard. Approzimately the eight inches long from guard to tip, this blade could be classified as a long knife, though the blade is much wider than this. Nizhoni spent months training how to properly use this weapon, and as such can remove it from its sheath with ease, wielding it in combat with expertise that many human knife users would admire. She has additional, minute training with a blade designed to fit over the tip of her tail, though she requires human aid in order to apply this weapon to herself and so has been unable to use it since her self-imposed exile.