Name: Kayla Bradford Gender: Female, straight Age/DOB: ~25/1999 Origin: Repurposed Earth, AAEC project, Fairport Alabama Family: Absolutely has siblings among the spliced population of the Pantheon, none named specifically; has a son with Jared named Gerard Other: likely has spliced offspring or those waiting to be implanted, saved up among the stored jars that Mel has Height: 5'6" Weight: 135, average build, nicely curvy Hair: Pale blond, curly and full, quite long and sometimes in braid or tail Eyes: strong glossy green, observant, sometimes looks 'concerned' about something Appearance: fair skin, a small number of moles and scars from childhood in the EC, an attractive woman with even features and handling herself in a professional manner, a husky voice |
Image Credits: DollDivine Sari / tektek / Missangest (below) |
Genetic Abilities: Strong cryokinetics and temperature control, localized and must be quite close by or touching object to affect it; strongly resistant to cold, but often is seen wearing a sweater or sweatpants anyway; Shows moderate empathic power, strongest among the Pantheon but she claims to be able to sense the moods of the Vorts as well as dragons. | |
Icarus Processing: Yes, at age 3 she was given the Icarus treatments which accentuated her Cryokinetic ability strongly, and possibly allowed her empathy to become active. It did not affect her physical build except to provide the cold resistance. | |
Skills or Profession: Always intended to be in the science division, Kayla was given downloads for research, procedures in the lab, organic and inorganic chemistry, biology, and advanced maths. Some of this had never been reinforced, but many of her procedural skills have been in use since childhood and the Events. She is skilled in the preservation of food and even has been able to stabilize injuries among her friends until a proper healer or medic could arrive. She seems to know just how much frost an item can take before it would be damaged, or how long a piece of frozen food can last without her reapplying a new coat of ice. She is directly responsible for keeping the preserved food in the Mesa as well as the EC fresh enough to eat, and occasionally is asked to put out fires or chill areas that have been overheated by machinery. Since she has to touch the items or at least be in close proximity, this works best in smaller rooms, and she gets a workout in a server-room size area, particularly if those servers are active. Aside from those things, however, Kayla is good with lists, making sure that people are checked in and out of areas needing security or having to keep track (particularly of those food stores, can't have someone walking off with more than their share), and relaying accurate information to other people. | |
Personality: Sometimes seen as standoffish or hesitant in groups, Kayla prefers the presence of a few people or being alone, to being in a crowd. That said, she also dislikes being singled out or having the spotlight, so she avoids situations where she's the 'only one' who knows something or must respond to questions. She knows the answers, she's just uncomfortable giving them to people she doesn't intimately trust. She is sensible though, and would have already provided those answers or suggestions to someone, before they were needing to ask in general. Kayla is friendly, but more to those in the Pantheon, and rarely with regular people in the Mesa or the Rookery. Since she is reasonably pretty, as well as having those 'weird magic powers' of hers, the normal people tend to look at her with jealousy or ire, superstition, or worse, so she just... avoids them. She's well off in the sciences, honestly, since most of the science team of Black Mesa as well as the EC would do exactly the same thing in her position. | |
Events or History: Kayla was born among a largish group in the Enrichment Center's Origin program, and keeps to that group for most of her life. She was among those tasked to stop GLADOS when the children were needing free reign around the Center, and has always been there for people to rely on for 'anything related to cold'. She was hardly surprised when the 'women and children' were sent to the Mesa when the Combine arrived, and spent quite a bit of time there before switching back and forth. She was of much more use indoors than scouting around in the Outlands, and prefers a roof over her head typically. She and Jared are reasonably well attached, but neither of them are so overprotective of the other that they'd balk at the other gettin' busy with someone else. Their son is a strong matter manipulator, that's no surprise, and he learned much from both of his parents. When the Combine were stopped, and they could earnestly begin rebuilding, Kayla's powers got a workout - re-freezing foodstuffs, making sure that all the locations she habited were temperature controlled, and the like. And as the Rookery has been contacted, Kayla has discovered the great sensation of having a truly close bond with a dragon. They get along famously, and Kayla seems to prefer their companionship over human at times. |
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Dragon Name: Fogmire |
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