Oriana Verdi | Criminal ●

[Oriana Verdi]

Name: Oriana Alexandria Verdi Age: 27 Gender: Female Sexuality: Sapiosexual Faction: Criminal Occupation: Scientist Playby: RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne, Rin Traits Positive Intelligent Goal oriented Insightful Perceptive Controlled Confident Independent Negative Hypocritical Domineering Lack of Moral Restraint Contentious Possessive Work a holic Untrustworthy - Optional in depth personality if one wishes. History A well-known Italian scientist went to work in secret for one of the many mafia families in Caserta, Italy. His research and life thereafter was almost completely confidential up until he began to fancy the don’s daughter a little too much. When she ended up pregnant, he was brutally murdered and left in the streets while she was pressured to give up the baby. Despite these pressures, she stood her ground against her own father and birthed three healthy triplets, two girls and a boy. Though she fought to keep each of them, her father saw to it each was placed in a different home isolated from her. It would be only several months later she too wound up dead in the streets though whose fault it was would never be discerned. The child that would be named Oriana Alexandria Verdi would be raised as a daughter of Alvise and Anna Verdi, two members of the mafia family with no other children aside from her. While technically part of the famiglia, they were not part of the general violence that came with it. Alvise dealt with monastery matters, and Anna was a stay at home mom to Oria. Thus, the little girl had a rather decent and normal childhood. She grew rapidly as small children do running before she was walking and playing freely in the process. Surrounded by numerous toys, she held no want or need that wasn’t provided for almost on the spot. It was only as time went on that Oriana would begin to notice they were almost too quick to appease her. Other children’s parents weren’t so lax, and when she was around others, they always seemed too worried. She couldn’t ever comprehend why. At five years old, Oriana was put in private school with very few other students. She did well in her classes predominately due to their small size and her general interest in everything. Of the children there, she had the most natural interest in all subject matters. There was not one that she felt mattered less than the others nor was there one she particularly liked most. However, early on, it became apparent she preferred to discover things on her own. She didn’t just like listening to teachers. She didn’t just like reading things from books. She liked to try out what she learned, find the practical application in all subject matter. Her parents were always cooperative with her desires and supplemented whatever it was she needed to get what she wanted. In this way, Oriana had no restraints. This lack of restraint would put her in the hospital at age eight. An ‘experiment’ concerning two cars, the neighbor’s dog, and miscellaneous socks caused an explosion that left Oriana scarred all over her arms and chest. The dog walked away without a scratch but the girl would be hospitalized for almost a month thereafter. Despite the terror her parents faced, Oriana seemed completely unafraid and excited by the prospects of what her experiment could mean. She never stopped talking about it, and that worried them more and more. They started keeping her at home, calling in home tutors, and keeping her away from anything she could use to cause a problem. With childlike ingenuity, Oriana slipped through their binds frequently enough. In the years that followed, this caused a lot of unnecessary tension not only within the single family unit but eventually within the famiglia that was growing tired of the little girl’s ‘mistakes’ here and there. Had they not known effectively who she was, it was more than likely she would have been disposed of. At ten, she would meet her siblings for the first time- initially not recognizing them as such. The family members had been summoned to a party, and the recourse was a mixing that only in hind sight was a terrible idea. Almost too well, the three siblings got along blindingly well. They shared many of the same interests in varying forms and structures, and after a few hypothesis were thrown out, all three literally came to the conclusion they had to be related. Ironically this initially childish proposed idea was exactly what had happened, and when they jokingly went to ask an adult on the matter, it was uncomfortably uncovered. Oriana had never known such confusion and such a mixture of feelings. It made her feel sick and angry, and readily she turned and started towards the don at the party. She was stopped, thankfully, and sent home thereafter without any of her questions answered. Thereafter, Orian wouldn’t stop talking about it. She brought it up whenever possible to her ‘parents’, her teachers, whoever would listen. She asked who her real parents were, considering that was not uncovered there at the party. She asked about why her she and her siblings were separated, why they had been made to be alone. No one would answer her questions, and Oriana grew furious. Eventually, she ran away from home searching for her siblings, and with that childish ingenuity, she succeeded in finding her sister, Carmina, who too had been asking about the situation. Oriana convinced her to run too so they could find their brother. This plan didn’t succeed, however, and they were caught and talked to harshly. It was the first time Oriana could remember her ‘father’ yelling at her, and it wouldn’t be the last time from there on out. It seemed once she had done wrong, there was no way Oriana could do right. She only grew angrier. In the years thereafter, Oriana fought her parents and anyone else she could frequently. She did things she wasn’t supposed to, and got yelled at time and time again. However, she’d learn the art of controlled retaliation rather quickly, and it only made the situation worse. She was becoming a social menace in unexpected ways. If she had just been a girl blind to everything, she would have been more manageable. Unluckily for them, Oriana was not. It seemed her sister wasn’t either – and possibly her brother though it seemed he had been moved out of range for Oriana to get any information on him. She suspected they sent him to another country, but which and where was beyond Oria’s knowledge. This would all come to a screeching halt, however, when one day, Oriana would be made aware Carmina had been killed. Trying to sneak out to Oriana’s home, she’d been ambushed by a rival family and ‘accidentally’ killed when they had ‘simply meant to kidnap her’. At first she didn’t believe it, refused to believe it. However, when she was allowed to attend the wake and see that body, reality hit, and Oriana broke. She couldn’t remember having experienced such raw emotion before nor could she remember when she hit the floor in a heap of unruly sobs. Her parents picked her up and took her home, but thereafter, the fight in Oriana went out for a while. She simply floated in life passing through existence without happiness any longer. She still accepted schooling, did what she was told, but all of it was half-hearted at best. Without communication to her brother and with her sister dead, Oriana had a hard time recovering, yet time was a healer in some regards. She felt isolated, alone in her interests, and surrounded by people who knew nothing of her but appeasement, yet Oriana’s mind slowly got off the ground again. Sometimes, she fought; most of the time she went about her days initially listlessly and eventually restlessly. She found solace in a belief that Carmina would have wanted her to find their brother and live a life that was fulfilling for her. It was a strange thing to believe considering there were no ways to test such a theory, yet despite her otherwise calculating ways, Oriana held on to it quietly in herself. She pushed herself to think. Her mind would be her weapon, a blade sharper than any other. As she passed through her teenaged years, Oriana learned everything she could and showed a progressive zeal for science- including machines. Whispers went about that she was becoming ‘similar to her father’, and though they were squashed frequently, Oriana still noted them. She managed to manipulate the system to learn more about her family life and eventually would get her hands on the ‘story’ of ‘two lovers’ that she would later obsess over. She eventually began to ‘take up’ a ‘certain man’s research’ when it seemed even the don could not deny her intellect and interest. They needed a scientist, and even if she was young, that just meant she had years of research do and the years to actually do them. Meanwhile, mafia wars raged on the outside, and kidnapping children seemed to be the common ‘way’ to go about more ‘peaceful matters’. Two families joined together, one of them being Oriana’s associated group, and had a raid on yet another in order to bring back a few of their own that were stolen. What they came back with was more than what was expected. Numerous children from a variety of families seemed to have been kidnapped, and while Oriana’s famiglia did their best to return them, one child was left without a known family. Apparently she had been there for quite some time, to say the very least. Mildly interested, Oriana stuck her nose where it didn’t belong and moved to meet the girl, Michelina. Michelina was both incredibly bright and incredibly timid. She shied away from Oriana for weeks, but after an initial confrontation, Oriana realized it was fear that drove her and gave her some space. Slowly she would grow closer, and eventually, after a few strings were pulled, Michelina was living at her home. At home, Michelina became Oriana’s unintentional project of sorts. She was a social experiment, yet as time went on, Oriana found in her own heart Michi was becoming more than important. This girl was so hurt but somehow so pure. It was so foreign to Oriana, and in time, she came to understand the feelings that had been established. Oriana wanted to protect Michelina no matter what. She wanted to give her a better life- better even than this one of relative calm. Oriana found a purpose she had never had before but clung to it. For a time, it was peaceful like that. Years passed, and Oriana found she was growing stronger due to Michelina. They shared interests, and on day it finally hit Oriana that Michi was her first friend- truly. Everyone else had been general ‘family’, but this was the first one she chose. Obscurely, she grew a bit more possessive of Michi than probably intended, but Oriana assured herself it was all for Michi, so it didn’t matter. These times held some of Oriana’s happiest memories. However, peace was not meant to be. As Oriana passed out of her teenaged years entirely, the wars came too close to home, and one day, their house was attacked by a rival group. The people that had raised Oriana for years, the people she had come to accept as her parents, ordered her to leave, and Oriana didn’t hesitate to take Michelina and flee. They were chased for several streets before they managed to make it to safety at a protected house. It was only later that Oriana would learn her father had been killed and her mother had been severely wounded. Forcing herself to go to the hospital, Oriana watched the woman who’d taken care of her for those years pass away pleading for her to be safe because ‘it was never a parent’s desire to see their children die’. Oriana unexpectedly cried. Though she had had interest in her true parents, it hit her how much these two had loved her and were fundamentally the same anyways. For a while after, she couldn’t stop crying, but it was with Michelina there that Oriana realized she was tired of loss. There was only one person she still had contact with that truly mattered to her, and she was in harm’s way where they were. They needed to go. It took some time to get ready, but Oriana did well in convincing the famiglia that it was better for her to be in America. America had more advanced science studies similar to what she had been working on for years now anyways. She assured them she would only be there for school and come back and finish everything up there so they could truly dominate the territory. They let her go taking Michi with her, but Oriana had no intention of returning. She at least did attend Barclay and made sure Michi did something for schooling, and for a time, things were peaceful. Oriana studied and did well in science easily filling in the holes in her engineering understanding as she went. On her own time, she made a small business of making hand crafted guns. They were relatively simple firearms after all, but for whatever reason Americans loved them? Oriana never quite understood the art of them but was willing to take a pay outside of what her famiglia was sending. One thing Oriana didn’t expect was how much she would love being in university, and after her first bachelor’s: a double in two intensive science fields, she went into a PhD program there allowing her interests to flourish. She may or may not have done a few things under the table with that knowledge in order to try and secure complete financial independence for herself and Micelina, but Oriana claimed it all in the name of science. She’d long since given up on any human sense of good and evil, after all. The ‘event’ surprised Oriana to be sure, yet she couldn’t quite be happier about it, in all reality. It sealed her and Michelina away from Italy and the ‘responsibilities’ that were there- and it gave her something completely new: powers, an insignia, a passive. What did it all mean? Apparently she was supposed to find out for it seemed a building had been erected as her own personal lab. It was a wish come true, to say the least. Thereafter, Oriana began running tests and experiments- doing anything she could to get more information on others and how their powers manifest. Naturally, she refused to believe it was all done by 'magic' and that the beings that came before everyone were 'gods'. Instead, sh was sure they were some form of superior alien race though what they wanted from humans, Oriana didn't know. She'd study and find out. Unbeknownst to her, the reason Oriana was placed in the Criminal class was less because of a history of crimes but her natural inclination to bend the rules and do things less than ethically..........yeah. All of it was for science, and that feels like enough justification to Oriana- even if others don't see it that way. Insignia Level 1 The insignia takes a form of a black tattoo on her left ring finger. It circles around it and reads “for science” in Italian. She normally has a ring around it to keep it hidden, but once she slides the ring away and presses it, her power activates. Electrokinsis level 1: From her own energy stores, Oriana is able to summon an electrical current that takes the form of green electricity. While the voltage can exceed 1k volts, the amps that do actual damage do not exceed .05 amps. At this level, it would elicit a painful electric shock leading to muscle spasms and burning but is normally not enough to kill (unless someone had say a pacemaker that was affected by the electricity). She can cause the electricity to move around her / spark around her hand for up to five minutes before releasing it, but once the energy is spent, it’s ‘done’. Oriana can use this up to five times a day, but she cannot use them in rapid succession. Frequently over usage causes muscle shut down and fainting. The passive takes the form of a thin small snake that often rests on her shoulder. He most closely resembles a garden snake, but his coloring is glistened with gold and green instead of yellow and green. Oriana has named him Sykes. Extra She views Michelina more as a daughter than a younger sister though she’s more apt to call her a sister when people ask. She will do anything to further science – aside from bringing any detriment to Michelina. She will sacrifice anyone else including herself if necessary to learn more about the toybox, and she has since trashed all of her morals holding her back. As a sapiosexual, Oriana tends to crush on those of a higher intelligence. She loves information and those who have a lot of it – especially the sciences. Thus physical appearance and everything else don’t matter. It’s all about the mind- or rather, the intelligence. That being said, she very rarely crushes and has never been one to pursue such matters. She wouldn’t mind settling down one day and having a family, but right now, her eyes are on work. OOC OOC Name: Nai How did you find us?: the force Other Characters: too many

[Neko]

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