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[center][color=darkorchid][size=12][i]δ | Matilda Haywire | δ[/i][/size]

[size=10][b]δ | Khao | δ [/b][/size][/color][/center][hr]

[center][color=#488AC7][size=12][i]Δ | Nie Eikenboom | Δ[/i][/size]

[size=10][b]Δ | Chimera | Δ[/b][/size][/color][/center][hr]

[b]Name:[/b] Matilda Psyche Haywire

[b]Alias:[/b] None for now. Later on, "Khao."

[b]Age:[/b] 14

[b]Gender:[/b] Female[color=pink]♀[/color]

[b]Alliance:[/b] At first, unknown, but tends to lean towards the good side. Later on, Squad One.

[b]Interests:[/b]

• [b]Reading[/b]. She almost always carries around her bookbag with her. She enjoys learning new things, as well as constantly surfing the internet. Writing is one of her hobbies, and she tends to be found tapping away at her laptop at times, greatly engrossed in an idea. Libraries are her refuge for sure.

• [b]Onomastics[/b]. [i]the study of the history and origin of proper names, especially personal names.[/i]

• [b]Explosives.[/b] Haha. She's a walking [i]nuclear bomb[/i], whether or not she knows it. Of course she's going to be interested in explosives. In fact, for the record, don't let her near the fireworks.

• [b]Hair.[/b] It's a weird interest, but her unnatural hair color kind of called it. She was born with purple hair for some godforsaken reason she doesn't know and quite frankly, she'd [i]love[/i] to figure out why she couldn't have ended up with something normal, like black.

[b][url=http://i.imgur.com/YtCQqUv.jpg]Appearance:[/url][/b] With eccentric electric blue hair and stormy blue eyes, Matilda definitely stands out. Her long hair is usually kept in check with a blinding white headband, and it is occasionally set in a ponytail. Her stormy orbs switch to a menacing purple when using her powers.

Matilda is often seen wearing worn out blue jeans and a black ruffled lace blouse, topping it with a silver cardigan. She either is seen with glossy black combat boots studded with silver diamonds or comfy black sneakers with white shoelaces.

Slightly shorter than most girls her age, Matilda tends to get underestimated due to her height. Many a bully has tried to pick on her, laughing at her thin and frail-looking frame. Her skin is a sickly pale color, caused by rarely being out in the sun. The lack of color in her skin contrasts greatly with her eye and hair color. Despite all this, Matilda exudes a mysterious strength that makes people think twice before messing with her. She moves with an easy grace that is unnerving for someone who always looks like she's sick.

[b]Personality:[/b] Quiet and a nasty temper. Those words pretty much sum up Matilda. She's the quiet loner sitting in a corner, almost always perusing the pages of some book or another. Tending to blend in the shadows, sometimes Matilda can go unnoticed as long as she sticks to her silence. People do their best to avoid talking to her, since her dark eyes seem to convey a message of eternal suffering to anyone who looks at them. Not easily angered, Matilda will unleash the wrath of the entire world upon anyone who dares to aggravate her.

She is unswervingly loyal to those she cares for, but only to a certain extent. Matilda thinks in a logical and whimsical manner that causes people to think she is naive, when in fact she is actually quite smart. For the most part, she seems like a quiet unexceptional girl with a knack for getting into trouble, not really drawing attention to herself.

If she ever opens up to anyone, it will be revealed that she is quite sarcastic, both in all seriousity and in humor. She will stand up for anyone she feel is being wronged, tending to becoming very physical in doing so. However, she is not easy to converse with nor approach, becoming quite reclusive when someone attempts to do so.

[b]Abilities/Super power:[/b]

→[b][u]Energy manipulation[/u][/b]: [spoiler]Her main and hands down most dangerous power. This enables Matilda to manipulate pretty much any energy source. Running water? Done. Electricity? Bam. Fire? Been there, done that. Heck, energy produced by a death? All for it.

This may seem seriously overpowered, but in Matilda's case, it's not. It takes so much energy to do this, often Matilda ends up seriously hurt when she uses this power. Using this by pure willpower damages Matilda severely to the point she is on the brink of death. However, when she gets emotional, this power draws on her emotions, making her a destructive force and not damaging her for the time being.

Matilda isn't very good with controlling this at first, only being able to manipulate fire without suffering serious/any injuries. This involves drawing on her own body heat and causing flames to shoot out of her fingertips. Doing anything major with this, like summoning extremely hot flames, will injure her, depending on how much power is used.

As she progresses in self-training, she will eventually learn how to use minimal power with the best results, thus being able to avoid severely damaging herself as much as possible. She also will eventually learn how to use her memories and emotions as unlimited energy sources, avoiding hurting herself in all ways possible, but this will happen later on.

Though in fact this DOES sound incredibly overpowered, I'd like to note this one little fact: [b][u]a tired Matilda will not be able to use her powers to their full extent.[/b][/u] Disregarding available energy sources, Matilda, if weakened (by pretty much anything including lack of sleep, hunger, etc.), will [b]not[/b] be able to manipulate energy without damaging herself. I hope that's enough to make it not overpowered.[/spoiler]

[b]• Ability to manipulate any energy source[/b]

[b][u]Basic:[/u][/b]

[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Energy blasts
[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Energy conversion (Ex: body heat into fire)

[b][u]Advanced:[/u][/b]
[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Energy absorption
[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Able to create things using energy (Limited, molecular)
[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Able to use energy to enhance physical abilities (Self-training)

→[b][u]Psychic Abilities:[/u][/b]

These are mostly passive, and Matilda manages to control these with more difficulty. Actually, at first, she is completely unaware she has these abilities. When she discovers these, Matilda will reduce use of her energy manipulation because it is easier to use her psychic abilities. Also, she cannot use both at the same time, for both require her full attention and concentration.

[b]• Telepathy[/b]

This is a variety of psychic abilities Matilda will have. Though it looks like a lot (damn, this looks so overpowered it upsets me), I'm pretttyyyyyy sure most psychics have this. These abilities are mostly taken from the Sensitives in Skulduggery Pleasant, and the Powerlisting wiki.

[u][b]Basic:[/u][/b]

[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Psychic Communication
[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Mind Reading
[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Telepathic Speaking
[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Telempathy

[u][b]Advanced:[/b][/u]

[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Illusion Manipulation
[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Knowledge Projection
[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Knowledge Replication
[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Thought Manipulation
[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Psionic Inundation
[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Psychic Energy Manipulation [i](Combined with her skills in energy manipulation, this power is a force to be reckoned with.)[/i]

[b]• Second Sight[/b]

Pretty sure this is self-explanatory. Unusually enough, when Matilda gains knowledge of her psychic abilities, this is the first one she completely masters, able to predict the future through sheer willpower.

[b]• Clairvoyance[/b]

So basically ESP.

[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Psychic Navigation
[color=transparent]--[/color]■ Visual Linking

If it seems too OPed (I'm damn sure it is), then I'd like to prod you towards the direction of [url=http://pokeheroes.com/forum_thread?id=15369&site=1]this roleplay thread[/url] in hopes of convincing you that Mattie is not OPed. Her powers aren't exactly stable and stuff, plus her psychic abilities don't manifest until later, so she's basically left with the power of a nuclear bomb that can also kill her. Yay.

[b]History:[/b] Left at the doorsteps of a random orphanage in the outskirts of the city, Matilda never knew her parents. She grew up, a lonely child always with a book, getting shunned by the other children due to her eccentric appearance and whimsical opinions. Any attempts to bully her ended up with Matilda getting physical and the bully getting confined to their bed to heal their injuries. The orphanage's caretakers decided to leave her to her own devices as much as possible.

Matilda was eventually adopted by an equally eccentric couple who, much to her delight, shared her unusual hair color. She kept a low profile at schools, doing her best to keep out of all the drama. She excelled greatly in her studies, acquiring praise and respect from her superiors.

Mattie was barely seven when she first used her powers, by accident, of course. She hadn't been adopted yet then, and had been reading quietly in the corner of the orphanage's garden. A group of other children had come and begin to taunt her. In her anger, she set the whole garden on fire, also injuring many of the children. Fortunately, their caretaker quickly called the fire department. The building was unharmed, but the entire garden was burned to a crisp. The other children who had witnessed this were too terrified to speak to her or about the incident afterwards, resulting in the adults guessing they had been playing with matches.

Her newly found abilities both scared and piqued Matilda's interest. Often, she would sneak out of the orphanage to test them out in the nearby forest. To both her delight and horror, she quickly narrowed her strange powers to being ergokinesis, also more commonly known as energy manipulation. After nearly destroying an abandoned building during a trip to the city, Matilda immediately resolved to try and control her powers.

After some training out in the woods, Matilda finally traced a pattern between her sudden losses of control: she was always emotional. Realizing this, she isolated herself as far away as possible from everyone, practicing and honing her skills as best as she could. She learned to dismiss all the nasty remarks the other kids shot at her, and shoot back witty remarks to cool her temper. Mattie also learned immediately that using her powers were extremely exhausting and possibly fatal. Fire, she discovered, was the easiest form of energy she could manipulate, since she could control it without passing out for long periods of time.

When she was adopted, Matilda moved to the city with her foster parents, raising the risks of being discovered as one of the "gifted." Mattie lay low during middle school, all the while training her abilities. She maintained a good relationship with her foster parents, though it was always evident that she preferred being alone.

[b]Extra information:[/b] Matilda is a carnivore, and she loathes veggies.

[b]Password:[/b] Spork.