Ghost
20~25 y/o, d.o.b. n/a
DESCRIPTION
A long thin frame with essentially no curves and black clothes layered over each other to hide away any features that could give away her gender. The only thing that subtly tells the world Jaden is a female are her sharp, but rounded facial features, but only so for the careful onlooker. Her skin is extremely pale because of the lack of sun with a slight grayish tint in it, sharp and straight eyebrows and with eyes so dark the iris is barely visible makes her face rather plain to look at, compared to her shaved head and long mohawk.
PERSONALITY
Just like her distortion Jaden doesn't like to be known, preferring to keep to herself. Despite her reserved character she is rather easy to get along with, however, as she does crave for connection and relationships. She just prefers not to talk about herself, or share information about herself. It is one of the reasons why she dresses androgynous, liking the mystery of her gender being put to question. It is why she likes black, as the colour doesn't reveal anything about her as a character and as a person. The more she shrouds herself in mystery, the more effective her distortion becomes, she believes.
However, despite her reluctance to talk about herself she does have an interest in others. Observant as she is she is constantly people watching, enjoying exploring quirks and other little details that often go missing daily.
History
Jaden comes from a world of abuse. A life filled with addiction, violence and danger. Her parents were young, too young and conflicted to have a child, but they still had her. And while they tried to shield her from the rotten world she was born into they couldn't hide their own faults and their own abuses. Jaden didn't know better than that the world was filled with fumes and drinks that poisoned the body, but dulled the mind. She did know that she wanted to disappear from the world, however. The string of men her mother saw, the hard hands of her father, the strong smell that always seemed to make them worse as people. Jaden wished to escape them all.
So, when the first rift opened a power awakened within Jaden. A power that truly had her and the world disappear for a while, contained to an area. Though not exactly what she had wished for it helped her in a way. It was also what turned against her when her parents realised what this could mean for her.
Within the Jackson Detention and Research Facility Jaden found that there was even more pain found there. This time pain that was actually aimed at her. Still young, just a mere teen, Jaden was devastated to find the world so cruel. However, she managed to escape quickly enough with 47 others. The tests run on Jaden had made the female understand how far her power could reach and this helped her to employ her distortion in other useful ways. Once out of the Facility she jumped into the underground world, deciding that she wasn't to fight fate and would become the criminal the world had apparently wanted to be.
Stealing her way to survival, evading authority by escaping through darkness, forcing herself to not rely on sight alone, Jaden learnt all that and more in the span of four years before she heard the news of the former governor of the Facility. Fueled by hatred the female thus responded to the summoning of James Morrison.
DISTORTION
Wishing to disappear Jaden has received the power to make darkness, or to take away the light, depending on how the ability is explained and perceived. In any case, Jaden can cast a room, or a limited area into complete darkness, making it unable for any light to be able to penetrate through and thus rendering sources of light completely useless. It has earned Jaden the name of 'Ghost' as she can disappear on the spot, along with the rest.
The Distortion is often passively used, as a means to escape, to hide, or to level the grounds for her allies. However, it can also be actively used as prolonged exposure to darkness can actually affect the mental health of those affected.
LIMITATION
Casting darkness isn't limited to certain individuals. Everyone in the affected area is swallowed by the darkness projected by Jaden, making them experience what a blind world is like. This is a disadvantage for allies and Jaden herself, as even night vision goggles can't come through the darkness she casts.
The duration in which she can hold up the darkness also depends on Jaden's own mental health, for absolute darkness does something to the mind of the affected individual. There are days where Jaden can hold up the darkness for ages, driving her victims crazy, but there are also days where Jaden can't even summon a shadow.
Despite the lack of light and thus disabling sight, the other senses are left alone. In the cast area Jaden can't take away someones hearing, touch, smell, or taste. Being able to rely on other senses thus gives an advantage when the darkness is cast.
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