ATR: Gaia app

  

my character for the lovely Miko-Koro 's group is finally done!! I can use Gaia for a rp group at long last. 

thanks pixabay.com/en/gps-navigation-… for the gps image cause i couldnt draw one at all smh

(sobs i know i wrote a novel for her backstory, please dont look at me)
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Name: Gaia McCanster
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Height: 5'01" (without projector, with is 5'10")
Section: Researcher
Specialty: Botany, Navigation, and Charting 
Magic: 

Gaia has the ability to help plants grow. it can be used in two ways; one, being able to detect the health of a plant and ensuring it can grow at a steady rate, and two, excelerating the growth of plants she touches to alarming rates that can be used in an emergency situation, but the plant will soon die after and it drains Gaia's energy greatly. 

Romantic/Sexual Orientation: Plants Demisexual / Panromantic / Male Preference

Personality
░░ Convivial : friendly, enjoyable ░░ Sweet-tempered : easy-going, gentle, Mild ░░ Wholehearted : sincere, committed ░░ 

    Gaia is one of the most mild, cheerful, and friendliest people you could meet. Though she has an... unusual and unsettling appearance, she holds a warm and welcoming demeanor that could melt almost anyones guard quickly. Even when she does you wrong in some way she'll own up to it in an instant, making it impossible to stay mad at her for long. 
    While its hard to stay mad at her, Gaia is likewise very hard to make angry. Her attitude towards most things is fairly level headed, and she seems to have the patience of a saint, treating most problems with a gentle hand. This sweet-temperedness of hers can sometimes give people the idea that she is a push-over and can easily be bossed around. It doesnt help that Gaia has a hard time saying no to someone in need, but she knows when to draw a line. 

Stats:

Strength: ★ ★
Defense: ★ ★ ★
Speed: ★ ★
Dexterity: ★ ★ ★
Magic: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Equipment: 

Camera:
            She keeps a camera on her at all times during expeditions in case a new species of plant is discovered.

Specimin Containment:
            Same Reason as Above, to study the wildlife that grows on the floating islands. 

Locket:
            It Contains a photo of her and her father before she 'died'

History:

Elroy McCanster was a stern and wealthy man. He had grown up in the traditional mindset of those on the vessel Hope; Magic and the use of were forbidden.  Those within the family who did receive such abilities were shunned in the past, or considered the ‘black sheep’.

 

But, it had been years – decades even - since the last magic-able McCanster had been born. As far as Elroy thought, it wouldn’t happen in his lifetime. He had a brilliant career as one of the leading bio-engineers aboard the ship, even working with a team to develop a completely natural biosynthetic human, something the citizens of Hope had never seen before. The Family had a high-standing name in society, and he was even set up to be married. The life ahead of him seemed to be set for the normalcy of a high-class life.

 

 But when he later married and his wife gave birth to a baby girl, the perfect life he pictured would soon change. They named the child Gaia, and for the first three years they lived like a normal family aboard the ship. She was lively, always wanting to be out among the gardens and plants, a child truly befitting the name ‘Gaia’.  It was an innocent interest at first, her mother only assumed she had a knack for the organic and earthy lifestyle many had. Elroy couldn’t help but feel that something was unique – different – about the way Gaia acted though. At first he wrote it off as parental pride. What parent didn’t think their child was special compared to the rest?

 

Time passed. The innocent interest Gaia had in plants grew from unique to the unusual- and quickly to surreal.

 

Gaia was now 5 years old. Within the year their garden that was once clean and well kept, had grown into that of a jungle, trees as tall as the ship would allow, adorned with vines and moss, and grass that tickled your ankles as you walked had taken over. The sight of it baffled all who knew how old the garden was, and Gaia’s parents were at a loss as to how it happened. That is, until Elroy stumbled upon the answer: one evening he walked outside to find his daughter standing below one of the trees in the yard, her head resting against its bark as she hummed. And the bark moved, leaves whispered in response, and the tree itself stretched out its limbs at the girls touch.

 

Elroy instantly knew what was going on. Before he could think, he found his body moving first and he pulled Gaia away from the tree, holding her by the shoulders as he stared her down.

 

“ you are never to do these things again – Never – understand?”

 

The young Gaia could only look at her father with terror in her eyes. She hadn’t known herself to be doing anything wrong and was scared by her fathers sudden outburst,, and the tree seemed to respond to her emotions. Roots grew and tore apart the ground beneath their house, taking sections of floor and wall with them, until soon the house itself was upturned and broke in two. Gaia passed out from the overexertion this use of her power caused almost immediately, falling at her fathers feet as he stared on at the destruction she had caused.

 

Gaia’s mother, trapped inside, perished in the rubble.

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Time passed; the incident had been recorded as a faulty experiment, Elroy taking the blame for what his daughter had caused – she was all he had left after all. He forbid her any use of her powers, even going to the extent of locking her away inside until she was old enough and able to control it. The man blamed himself for what happened, believing that if he had done anything about Gaia’s unique-ness sooner he could have stopped it and saved his wife. If he had shunned Gaia like the McCanster’s had done in the past, everything would have been fine.

 

But he hadn’t, and what was done was done.

 

15 years go by.

 

Growing up shut in the house for much of her young life, Gaia only had books from her fathers office to entertain herself with, the majority of which were on biology. Many days she spent reading the books when she wasn’t getting lessons from her father, or practicing ways to hide her ability. The young girl was always enamored by the construct, origins, and growth of plants, and it quickly grew into a life passion. Once she was allowed to go to the schools she quickly began to study botany and biology, and soon got a job at her fathers lab.

 

He had been against the idea at first, thinking that if she surrounded herself with plants that her powers would go wild again. Over time though, Gaia proved that she could suppress it well, and if she worked under him he could keep an eye on her. Everything was going well, and they acted out the perfectly normal family as best they could.

 

That was until Gaia joined the Guild.

 

It wasn’t an official joining. She was a part of a research team that would assist the guild when it was required, only in times of great need. Elroy had been strongly against it, but Gaia wouldn’t listen to his protests. She wanted to discover new things, and see the islands plants and wildlife with her own eyes. And before he could do anything about it, she had already gone with the research team out on the expedition, gone from the ship.

 

Gaia fell behind the other explorers and researchers, stunned by what she was seeing, and her heart was in her ears, the excitement too much to handle: her feet were standing on real ground, out in the real world, with plants and grass that had grown with no outside involvement, they had grown naturally.  she watched as the guild members moved around, seemingly used to the overwhelming sensation of this sort of thing. All it took was a few minutes for her to stop gawking and to switch into botanist  mode, and to begin getting as many photos and specimen samples as she could.

 

The process took hours but the work went quick, and everything was set and ready to return to the ship. Everyone thought that the expedition would go without incident. Everyone thought they would return home safe. Everyone wanted to believe they could.

 

A tremor shook the island, coming from the far and unexplored region, as if answering their hopes with an ill omen: One that came too late.

 
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When Elroy received the news that his daughter didn’t return from the expedition alive, it was like the world fell out from under his feet. He was so in shock that he denied it with every fiber of his being. Those who were present when the body was returned to him claimed to have heard him utter “my daughter is alive. She’ll wake up soon, she just needs to sleep.”

 

After that he was said to be a lost cause, obsessed with the idea of bringing his daughter back. People talked, saying that losing his wife and daughter was what drove him mad, some saying that he must have been mad already. The rumors got worse when it was found out that Elroy had started using his research on biosynthetic anatomy on the corpse of his daughter,  locking himself away in the lab for two years.

 

Everyone thought it would fail.

 

Everyone hoped it would fail.

 

They weren’t so lucky.

 

The synthetic organs had worked. He had managed to completely recreate the bodily functions needed to reanimate his daughters body, the only thing that he couldn’t salvage and repair was her head, and he died from overwork and stress before he could attempt the creation of a false one. The colony was left with the final outcome, the synthetic Gaia, the desperate attempt at reincarnation, and they didn’t want her. Eventually, it was decided that the guild would take her, finding her to be useful as an tool for missions and research of  the rift. 

Other:

Likes:  

❀ Plants of any kind. 
❀ Discovering new flora and fauna on the islands
❀ 'Stargazing' 
❀  Sweets. at least, she used to. now she just likes looking at them

Dislikes:

✿ Confrontation
✿ Darkness/pitch black
✿ Excessive Violence
✿ Confined spaces

Trivia:

✿ There is a tiny camera and projector built into her neck, which allowes her to 'see' and share the data she has stored in her 'brain.' the choice of the globe as her main projection setting was all her idea, a pun on her name as well as a useful guide of the islands.

❀ Scars on her neck, as well as along her spine from being hooked up to machines and surgeries when her body was initially recovered. Two more claw like scars along the left side of her body.

✿ A portion of her temporal lobe was salvaged from the scene of her death, and used to reconstruct her brain and stored in a 'bio-mechanical mainframe' that emulates the missing functions. (i obviously know sci-fi speak )   

❀She keeps an old photo album from before her death with pictures of her family locked in her night stand table. it rarely sees the light of day or is shown to other people. 

✿ On expeditions she gets caught in her own little world when it comes to the wild life, so dont lose track of her please.

❀ Excessive use of her powers can cause Gaia to "pass out," in other words the energy in her body is drained and her body functions shut down. if she isn't attended to shortly after the possibility of death is high. 

✿ More TBA!

Death: Yes 
Injury: Yes
Corruption: Yes

Rp method: Skype, Discord, Notes, or Chat! Time zone: Pacific Standard Time