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dejah_thoris) wrote2016-02-29 03:34 pm
dejah_thoris) wrote2016-02-29 03:34 pm
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IC INFORMATION
NAME: Dejah Thoris<
AGE: 535, appears mid-30s
CANON: John Carter (2012)
CANON POINT: 140 years after canon
CANON INFORMATION: The events of the film are taken as true history, and the film refers to the books as the writings of John Carter's nephew, Edgar Rice Burroughs. One hundred forty years after the events of the canon (1868), Dejah has replaced her father as Jeddak of Helium, and heads the first united Council of Jeddaks. She and John Carter put down the Thern shadow occupation of Barsoom and brought about an age of peace. But John was human, and his lifespan was but a fraction of Dejah's. He refused any advanced medicine to extend his life, and died peacefully of natural causes in 1911. Dejah went into mourning, and emerged renewed in her commitment to bring the Age of Oceans back to Barsoom. It was her dream to undo the damage ten thousand years of war had done to her beloved Barsoom. The project she embarked on was the equivalent of terraforming the entire planet. She's also preparing for the eventuality that the Thern will return, knowing that they currently work their madness on Jasoom (Earth), and that one day, Jasoom will be coming to the Red Planet and bringing that plague with them.
PERSONALITY: Dejah Thoris is many things. She is a passionate and relentless scientist, a fierce warrior, and a wise diplomat. She is also a historian, biologist (natural history), linguist, and holds multiple degrees in advanced theoretical physics and engineering.
She is driven by a passionate hunger to make her world a better place for her people. She is terrified of the Thern, a race that uses intrigue and subterfuge to accomplish their goals and thrives on sowing chaos and destruction wherever they go.
She trains religiously with the sword and staff, and uses her time on the mats to clear her mind and let some of the stress of all of her responsibilities go. She can be spiritual, if not religious, and believes more in the power of relationships to further ones goals of bettering the soul than she does in adhering to any religious doctrine. For all she was raised in a very martial culture, she is a very kind and generous soul. She is not afraid to fall back on the sword, but she would very much like to find a solution that involves talking before things get to that point.
Primarily, she is a maker. She loves working with her hands, reverse engineering ancient Thern technology, and inventing her own devices based on her own extensive research into the powers of the Ninth Ray. She tends to be a very practical thinker.
REVISION
ABILITIES:Dejah is not human, though she has baseline human physical abilities. Mentally, she has an eidetic memory, which means she can recall anything she's ever read or heard. This makes her a genius for engineering and anything physics related. She's also a fairly accomplished diplomat, but people are complicated, so that's always a hit or miss thing, no matter how good she is. She's never lived on a world where water was abundant enough to be able to swim so that's going to be an amazing thing for her to have to learn!
INVENTORY: She's bringing with her a wrist cuff that is a reverse engineered Thern amulet. It uses telepathic input to relay sensor information. She primarily carries it so if she meets someone who is Thern, she'll know instantly. Other than that, it's good for taking sensor readings and can manipulate small amounts of matter into other forms. It also has the ability to let her change her appearance and voice entirely, but she would never in a million years use that unless her life depended on it.
MEMORY ALTERATION: Her memory manipulation will be that she's come here voluntarily to aid in establishing this new colony. Her secondary motivation will be learning everything she possibly can about the sea. She believes she's been chosen to assist in this invaluable mission and that her homeworld is being well taken care of in her absence.
SAMPLE: Sample One: Log post @ Milliways | Sample Two: @ Milliways, Ongoing CR with Curtis Everett
NAME: Dejah Thoris<
AGE: 535, appears mid-30s
CANON: John Carter (2012)
CANON POINT: 140 years after canon
CANON INFORMATION: The events of the film are taken as true history, and the film refers to the books as the writings of John Carter's nephew, Edgar Rice Burroughs. One hundred forty years after the events of the canon (1868), Dejah has replaced her father as Jeddak of Helium, and heads the first united Council of Jeddaks. She and John Carter put down the Thern shadow occupation of Barsoom and brought about an age of peace. But John was human, and his lifespan was but a fraction of Dejah's. He refused any advanced medicine to extend his life, and died peacefully of natural causes in 1911. Dejah went into mourning, and emerged renewed in her commitment to bring the Age of Oceans back to Barsoom. It was her dream to undo the damage ten thousand years of war had done to her beloved Barsoom. The project she embarked on was the equivalent of terraforming the entire planet. She's also preparing for the eventuality that the Thern will return, knowing that they currently work their madness on Jasoom (Earth), and that one day, Jasoom will be coming to the Red Planet and bringing that plague with them.
PERSONALITY: Dejah Thoris is many things. She is a passionate and relentless scientist, a fierce warrior, and a wise diplomat. She is also a historian, biologist (natural history), linguist, and holds multiple degrees in advanced theoretical physics and engineering.
She is driven by a passionate hunger to make her world a better place for her people. She is terrified of the Thern, a race that uses intrigue and subterfuge to accomplish their goals and thrives on sowing chaos and destruction wherever they go.
She trains religiously with the sword and staff, and uses her time on the mats to clear her mind and let some of the stress of all of her responsibilities go. She can be spiritual, if not religious, and believes more in the power of relationships to further ones goals of bettering the soul than she does in adhering to any religious doctrine. For all she was raised in a very martial culture, she is a very kind and generous soul. She is not afraid to fall back on the sword, but she would very much like to find a solution that involves talking before things get to that point.
Primarily, she is a maker. She loves working with her hands, reverse engineering ancient Thern technology, and inventing her own devices based on her own extensive research into the powers of the Ninth Ray. She tends to be a very practical thinker.
REVISION
ABILITIES:Dejah is not human, though she has baseline human physical abilities. Mentally, she has an eidetic memory, which means she can recall anything she's ever read or heard. This makes her a genius for engineering and anything physics related. She's also a fairly accomplished diplomat, but people are complicated, so that's always a hit or miss thing, no matter how good she is. She's never lived on a world where water was abundant enough to be able to swim so that's going to be an amazing thing for her to have to learn!
INVENTORY: She's bringing with her a wrist cuff that is a reverse engineered Thern amulet. It uses telepathic input to relay sensor information. She primarily carries it so if she meets someone who is Thern, she'll know instantly. Other than that, it's good for taking sensor readings and can manipulate small amounts of matter into other forms. It also has the ability to let her change her appearance and voice entirely, but she would never in a million years use that unless her life depended on it.
MEMORY ALTERATION: Her memory manipulation will be that she's come here voluntarily to aid in establishing this new colony. Her secondary motivation will be learning everything she possibly can about the sea. She believes she's been chosen to assist in this invaluable mission and that her homeworld is being well taken care of in her absence.
SAMPLE: Sample One: Log post @ Milliways | Sample Two: @ Milliways, Ongoing CR with Curtis Everett
REVISION
The city of Helium is facing the approaching army of Zodanga. They have a weapon the likes of which has never been seen before. Except for one person, the Regent of the Royal Helium Academy of Science, Dejah Thoris.
She's almost figured out what the strange blue light is that's devastating Helium's warships. The Ninth Ray, the culmination of her life's work. When faced with the sabotage of her demonstration of the Ninth Ray and public humiliation before the entire Senate, Dejah rails at her father for just a little more time. He denies her this and insists that, for the good of the people of Helium, she will be married off to Sab Than, the leader of the Zodangan forces as a token of Helium's surrender.
Rather than submit meekly to her fate, Dejah defies her father's wishes. She and the crew of her research vessel sneak her out of the city. It's an attempt to buy just a little more time, but it results in the loss of the ship and all of her work. A Zodangan warship shoots them down over a Thark settlement, and she is saved from falling to her death at the last moment by John Carter. Moments after they are safe on the ground, she picks up a sword and defends her rescuer by slaying multiple enemy warriors. She attempts to surrender and use diplomacy with the Thark, but she is taken captive along with John Carter.
She uses her sword and her wits to stay alive. Her people's extreme loyalty in the face of mortal peril speaks to her own dedication to them. After the battle is lost, she weeps openly as she watches their bodies be stacked for the funeral pyre. And yet, her spirit remains undaunted. She wants to fight. She speaks passionately to John Carter about her cause, about fighting for what is right and good and honorable. When she learns John is from Earth, she speaks with a kind of awed reverence about the days when Mars had water. The Age of Oceans, she calls it. And it's clear she dreams of bringing those days back.
Before they escape the Thark, Dejah uses her linguistic skills and her knowledge of ancient history to decode a carving in a Thark temple. She agrees to take John Carter to the Temple of Iss, in an attempt to get him back to Virginia. When they find a building that is made entirely of Ninth Ray isolates, she drops into researcher mode and sets about decoding an ancient machine built to, among other things, transmit people between planets.
The only reason she surrenders to Sab Than later in the film is because it looks like that is her only path to saving the entire city of Helium.
So she's fearless, fierce, passionate, principled, determined, and honorable. Despite living in such a violent culture, she still has a great sense of humor and a heart capable of real joy and wonder.