Carmilla Black
| Carmilla Black | |
|---|---|
| File:CarmillaBlack.jpg Portrayed by Olivia Thirlby | |
| Codename: | |
| Affiliations: | N/A |
| Birthdate: | October 27th, 1989 |
| Journal: | Bio-Hazard Girl |
| Player: | Jo |
Former Homecoming Queen, Cammie's mutation resulted in her losing everything.
Contents
Details
Character Journal: Bio-Hazard Girl
Real Name: Birth name: Thanasee Rappaccini; Adopted Name: Carmilla Maxine Black
Codename:
Aliases: Cammie
First Appearance: Jan 16, 2009
Date of Birth: October 27th, 1989
Place of Birth: Old Town, Madripoor
Citizenship: American by Adoption
Relatives: Monica Rappaccini (Birth Mother), Birth father unknown, Tim & Julia Black (Adopted parents)
Education: High School Dropout (10th Grade Level)
Relationship Status: Single
Occupation: Runaway/thief/con-artist
Team Affiliation: N/A
Biography
Childhood
Though born over seas, Carmilla was adopted by an American couple and grew up in the farming town of Grand Falls, VT. Her adoption papers list both her birth and adopted name, though Carmilla has only ever known herself by the name her adopted parents gave her, Carmilla Maxine Black. To her friends she was always Cammie. She's the only child of her adopted parents, Tim and Julia Black. She had a comfortable childhood, her father working as a doctor in the town clinic and her mother staying at home, despite holding a degree of her own.
Cammie grew up knowing she was adopted though she doesn't know any details of her birth family. Instead she focused on her life, making friends out of most of the small town where she grew up. In a town where everyone knew everyone else, Cammie could claim friendship with almost the entire town and she was happy and popular. Growing up, she became closer and closer to her childhood sweetheart, Greg.
Worst. Homecoming. Ever.
When she was fourteen, Cammie started noticing odd things, like she suddenly lost of her sense of taste, her hair also tinged a dark green and medication of any kind stopped working on her. She ignored these early signs and went on with life as normal. Her biggest setback not making the cheerleading squad. She also started dating her childhood sweetheart. In a town with a population smaller than most urban High Schools, it didn't take long for everyone to start making predictions on exactly when the young couple would get married.
Given both Cammie and Greg wanted out of Grand Falls and Vermont someday they laughed it off and let it slide. Things stayed the same until the Homecoming dance Cammie's Sophomore year. What happened there is the subject of an Urban Legend that's made the rounds through most of the North Eastern United States. It starts, "I have a friend who's sister's cousin's brother was there in Grand Falls, Vermont the night the Homecoming Queen killed the King..."
Though the urban legend has ballooned and expanded into something worthy of a teenage horror movie in the last four years, the truth of it is actually extremely simple, but no less tragic. A few minutes after being 'crowned', the king and queen's first dance started, and not even a minute into that, the deadly facet of Carmilla's mutation manifested, sending a concentrated shot of toxins down her left arm and out her left hand and right into her boyfriend, who stiffened and died instantly, leaving Cammie staring down at a very dark green left hand and her dead boyfriend in horror. She also had to deal with a gym full of screaming teenagers, some of whom tried to flee, others who tried to stop her, none of whom wanted to be next and all who suddenly didn't care they had known her all their life. Even her best friend turned on her in those frantic moments.
On the Streets
With the less than understanding reaction of her friends in the aftermath her accident Cammie packed a small bag and turned tail and started running. Though she's convinced she's still wanted for murder in her home town the truth is even with the witnesses, they couldn't narrow down the cause of death enough for Cammie to be formally charged. Never knowing this, Cammie fled her home and hasn't been back since. She also doesn't know her parents have spent money on private investigators and the like trying to find their daughter. Convinced she was a monster, Cammie was sure that going home would only result in more pain, a jail sentence and possibly being mobbed to death.
In the four years Cammie's been running from her past, she's made it as far north as northern Canada and as far south as northern Mexico. She tended to migrate with the seasons, heading south for the winters and venturing farther north in the summer. Her two favorite haunts are Chicago in the Summer and Houston in the winter, though she's been all over the country. While on the run she learned and learned quickly how to survive. That meant learning when to stand and fight, and learning when it was best to disappear.
In her first two years on the streets Cammie tried just about every street drug she could come across to try to block out the memories that still burned a hole in her brain. When nothing worked, she turned to picking fights she thought she would lose. Some she did, some she didn't, but she never managed to fulfill the latent death wish, even with her big mouth helping her along. It ended up her sense of self-preservation was stronger. Eventually she eased into her life on the streets and between thieving, con jobs she's been able to make a living, though it's been far from an easy life and she has the scars to prove it.
Living At The X-Mansion
Nothing to see here yet.
Physical Characteristics
Height: 5' 4
Weight: 127lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Dark Green, long and frizzy
Other Features: Carmilla has both ears pierced from top to bottom as well right eyebrow. She has a a small scar that came from a lip ring that got torn out and she's never replaced it. Carmilla's left arm is unusually colored, starting a pale green up by the shoulder to dark green down at the finger tips. The intensity of the shade of her left arm varies based on how much toxin she's currently storing. Even if she's running low, her fingers will still obviously be green at the tips. She normally keeps her left arm tightly bandaged and wears an old fingerless leather glove over the bandages so only her fingers are visible, and that she'll often hide her left hand from view.
She has a few scars in various places over her. The longest is about three inches and vertical down her right arm, starting at the shoulder. It's visible if she's wearing a shirt without sleeves.
Powers
Cammie's mutation covers her entire immune and lymphatic systems and her digestive system on a smaller level. She's immune all foreign substances she's come in contact with. This includes all diseases, environmental hazards, poisons, toxins, medications and on a lesser level radiological hazards. Once she's exposed to a substance she'll never be affected by it again. (And initial affects only last a minute at most.) Her body doesn't rid itself of toxins like normally happens, instead storing them in the lymphatic fluids with immunological material also present in the blood.
She has a mutated lymph node in her left arm that stores toxins pulled from her body and sends them down through her arm to be discharged through the skin of her left hand and fingers. This toxic touch can kill someone instantly, though Cammie has control of it down well enough to control how much toxin she puts out through her hand. The ranges vary from next to nothing to instant death. When fighting, the amount she prefers to discharge is enough to cause extreme pain and vomiting. Her mutation leaves the skin of her left arm discolored from light green up by her shoulder to dark green down at her finger tips. A heavy discharge of toxin is accompanied by a sickly green cloud around her left hand. To prevent an involuntary discharge like the one that killed her first boyfriend, Cammie has to discharge half her total volume at least once a week to keep the toxins at manageable levels. Her blood is pitch black and also highly toxic and is lethal if put over someone's open wounds or swallowed. Both her lymphatic poisons and her blood smell horrible.
Equipment
Ace bandages.
Trivia
Because of the way her mutation works, it's easy to mistake Cammie for having an extreme case of Pica.
Her favorite "non-foods" include antifreeze and Styrofoam.
Because of her mutation, Cammie doesn't have a normal sense of taste. She can only taste extremely spicy foods or pick up toxicity by how tart or tangy something is.
Cammie enjoys punk music, her favorites being Green Day, Mindless Self Indulgence, Offspring and Guttermouth.
Cammie's sense of humor is crude.
Her manifestation is the subject of a popular urban legend in the North Eastern States.
She will never admit to once trying out for the Cheerleading squad at her high school. She didn't make the cut.
The song that was playing when she manifested was "Unchained Melody" by Randolph Boots. These days, Cammie can't stand that song and won't hang around to listen to it be played.
Plots
Meta
Player: Jo
E-mail: File:Sephirajoemail.jpg
AIM: RedMoonPrinny
Player Icon Base: Olivia Thirlby
Meta Trivia
Unlike her 616 incarnation Carmilla is not yet a trained martial artist. Nor does she have any connection with SHIELD or other agencies.
Jo originally put in an application for this character over one year before actually being approved, having to put off revising/rewriting the application due to health issues.
