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IMPRESS ME!~
I have always wanted to hold one of these, and who better for that possibly the most interesting family of my bunch, the Marais-Tau couple!~ Now the Mensay twins are here and I've chosen the one I'm keeping, their sibling is now a free adopt!
They were designed by Paintchu, have edited hair, and green eyes with black sclera under that hair :3
END DATE
Hey, why don't we say the Ides of March? I will be open to extension requests towards the end~
Extension requests have been heard! The one and only extension is now until Saint Patrick's Day, at 12 noon GMT.
18 - 03 - 16
To adopt this little one, just fill in the form below~ Please be aware that, although this is an impress me, the real key focus of your form should be their relationships and history - what place they have in the Kiaminal universe.
FORM
RULES
• Prettying up of forms is allowed and encouraged, just make sure the main body of text is a dark colour or grey for ease of reading.
• This Kia may NOT be traded. If you win and later lose connection please return them to me.
• Stay at least semi-active with them! On CS, dA or the forum is fine, but I don't want them to rot.
• If you have questions about the family etc go here.
BONUS POINTS
• Family art!
• Well developed relationships especially with close family
• A history that ties in with the rest of the family
• Clear character concept
• A name that fits with the family! Menhit and Sekhmet are both the names of war goddesses, but really anything to fit their ancestry (South African/Egyptian) will score you major points in my book.
• Asking lots of questions! My ask.fm link is in the rules section, feel free to drop in and ask whatever.
• Long, well-written forms
CLOSE FAMILY
The Marais-Tau Family
Lindsay Marais - mother
Old associate and partner in crime to the notorious Lioness, Menhit Tau, Lindsay is a jack of all trades in the criminal underworld with a rather special difference. When things go wrong on a job — assassinations fail, gangs are pinned down, crew members captured — Lindsay is the one they call to sort everything out. With a 100% track record and skills in everything ranging from sniping to hacking, never has a non-specialist been so highly prized in the underworld.
Outside and even during work, she is bubbly and excitable, a spirited and driven Kiamara with a fiery passion for life and her skills. She even gained the nickname 'Firebird' for her flaming enthusiasm and supposed inability to be killed, regardless of job difficulty. She's difficult to faze and takes everything in her stride without a hitch, with a permanently brilliant grin never leaving her face.
Firebird got her name partly for the fact she always seemed to arrive quickest to cleanups at the scenes of explosions. It was simply attributed to her having some kind of thing for flames, but in fact the opposite was true. Lindsay is terrified of fire. She is terrified that one day she'd be called to a mission gone wrong at an explosion and the casualty would be Menhit Tau, her mentor gone spouse.
Menhit Tau - parent
Never has there been a more fitting name than that of the infamous Menhit Tau, the Lioness. 'One who massacres' - indeed xe does. A demolitions expert famed amongst the criminals of the city for xyr ability with explosives and destruction, this cotton candy-haired Kia may look sweet but is truly not to be messed with. Though xe doesn't technically run with a crew, xe has a certain... friendly rivalry with the sniper Vanoan Æthelind and their partner-in-crime, combat medic Mitch Caelix, and used to act as a mentor of sorts for 'Firebird' Lindsay Marais, before the two became a little too close to be professional...Xe loves cats, and despite xyr imposing profession and tendencies towards pyromania are a excitable and enthuastic, loving Kiamara who is fiercely loyal to xyr family.
Sekhmet Marais-Tau - twin
Sekhmet is a contradiction, the exuberant violence-loving child of Lindsay and Menhit... With a debilitating fear of fire? It seems she takes most after her mother, for whilst she certainly inherited Menhit's wild spirit and love of demolitions she isn't very fond of being anywhere near the explosives. Sekhmet is no generalist like her mother, instead she's clearly a frontman with a fondness for learning. She's the one you want at your side during negotiations, the sure fire way to win any contest of manipulation and yet her understanding of Lindsay's many skills mean she is perfectly in sync with everyone she works with.
She's always bouncy and rather silly at times, hard to throw off her stride and always smiling. Her curiousity leads her into many a sticky situation, but she's always confident her friends and family will save her in the end.
EXTENDED FAMILY
The Kiaminal Family
There's a bar on the less desirable side of Sirena city with no name and no need of one. It's a place new people don't need to learn of, because if you are in need of it then the chances are you are already well acquainted with the place.
It's not somewhere you'd go for a quiet drink or a date, and yet not somewhere you were likely to get mugged unless the mugger really wanted to die horribly.
The owner and bartender has their own share of legends, a certain Mx Araceli Rendón — Spanish born, with dark-sclera'd eyes, a tiny frame and an attitude like a volatile explosive. It's how the bar got its nickname 'Fireworks'.
That and the sheer quantity of danger ever present in the aura of the place.
There's a very close knit community amongst those known as the Kiaminals, a strange bunch of the very best of the criminal underworld often found at the Fireworks bar.
Furfur — the shadowy informant known as the Fallen Angel with a million stories surrounding him. Somewhat of a legend amongst the underworld.
Furfur, known to many unsavoury sorts as simply the 'Fallen Angel', is a seemingly emotionless manipulative informant on his own agenda, known as a socially incapable Kiamara with a particularly dark mindset, the ability to mimic personalities and a rather bizarre love of manipulating people. He is believed by most to be an actual fallen angel seeing as he was found in the forest as a child, surrounded by white feathers that had turned black, and there are many whispers that he killed those who found him to keep this secret. He delights in adapting to potential dangers, whether through gathering information, manipulation or perhaps as far as causing harm, though he's not usually the type to carry out what he considers the dirty work, leading most Kiamaras to label him a psychopath. With his calculating mind he seems to be able to talk his way out of any situation, though with his habit of annoying powerful people one can only wonder how long his luck will last.
Murmur — sister to the Fallen Angel, a compulsive liar, con-artist and well known criminal contact known as the Risen Demon.
Murmur, the even more mysterious older sibling of the informant Furfur. Where he is known to the criminal word as 'the Fallen Angel', she is his counterpart 'the Risen Demon'. She is an incredible pavement artist, able to blend in to any crowd and vanish in an instant, and can adopt an entirely new persona in the blink of an eye, making her almost impossible to identify. Every bit as manipulative and charming as Furfur, few resist her persuasions.
Those who believe her brother is an actual fallen angel were equally quick to label her as a demon come to earth for the way she simply appeared in the same forest, surrounded by bloodied black feathers and with brilliant crimson eyes. She carved a bloody path to the city and claims to mainly be looking out for her brother, but this enigmatic Kiamara's true intentions are, as always, inscrutable. Perhaps it runs in the family.
Cry Delphini — a suspected killer and close friend of Furfur's with a rather enthusiastic sense of humour and an unusually bubbly personality.
Cry is a curious one, best described as minxish and oddly personable. If there's a way to cheat at it, she's already found it, and probably improved on it tenfold. She's almost genius-level quick at things involving cheating, hiding or deceiving anyone, including close friends, and likes to tell elaborate lies in the form of stories. She finds everything funny, even things that don't seem it to anyone else, and has a very distinctive laugh. She has a tendency to be up to no good, and will occasionally say or do the odd almost psychopathic thing, but her worryingly high strategic ability, skill at lying, and constant amusement seem to keep her out of the majority of trouble. She is always grinning, though in a vaguely frightening way.
But is she a friend or a slightly psychopathic maniac? Well, usually both. Rumours say looking at which colour wristband she is wearing over the other will give you the answer. But she really only ever wears the red one on top. Maybe that says something about your question. Just... never trust her, or you'll be the one in tears.
Free Lilitu — the mute assassin with a penchant for emojis. She and her girlfriend, street fighter Ariana Quinn, are often found wherever there's trouble in the city.
None would guess from her appearance that this sweet hearted party girl is actually the feared assassin known as Kitten. Free likes it better that way, though she never really hides her work from anyone who knows her, to the point where she's essentially dropping hints in the hope they'll figure it out on their own. Not to say that she actually tells them, since she can't (or doesn't, no-one really knows) talk. Instead, Free gets her point across entirely in non-verbal body language, (and the occasional written note/sign language/mouthing for those who don't get this) mostly just a single look that somehow conveys whole sentences. It's a skill that has most of the people she knows convinced she's telepathic. She's mentioned before that it makes it difficult for her enemies to get information out of her, but whether this is a joke or from an actual event in her past that made her mute is unknown. It's hard to determine humour without tone, even with Free's prevalent use of emoticons in her notes and texts. She's quite closed about most of her life and likes a joke, particularly when people take her seriously, so the general consensus is that it's not true.
Amusingly enough considering her name, she's a talented traceur, an ability that she uses regularly in order to be the best at her job. Outside of her job though, she can often be found practising her skills or casually running the rooftops of the city as her 'morning jog'.
Danaë Quinn — child of a street fighter and an assassin, she and her twin brother Arick are well known bodyguards and mercenaries for hire.
Independent and strong Danaë, truly the child of famous street fighter Ariana Quinn and the infamous assassin 'Kitten'. She's a well balanced and cunning Kiamara, always searching for the easiest way out of tough situations, and is well able to handle herself if things go south thanks to both her parents' backgrounds. Deciding not to follow in the footsteps of Free and Ariana, Danaë makes her living as a bodyguard, and occasional mercenary, for hire. She likes the close knit community of the Kiamara criminals, and is almost considered street royalty for her bloodline.
Danaë has very little respect for civilians.
Araceli Rendón — owner of the Fireworks bar, a tiny but fierce Spanish Kiamara who the regulars would all fight to defend.
Araceli runs a bar on the... less desirable side of town. It's a state that shows in its regular customers, a frequent hangout for the mercenary nicknamed Serpent, Mitchy the combat medic, the mute assassin-for-hire Kitten, a certain giggly female traceur/possible serial killer and even an occasional glimpse of the informant known as the Fallen Angel. It's a place of peace despite its less than lawful regulars though — even the gangs know not to cross the bar's tiny owner with their sharp tongue, burning gaze and the countless notorious criminals that would willingly do harm to anyone who threatened them. Despite their small size, the Hispanic Kiamara is a fierce, fiery personality with biting sarcasm and a great sense of adventure. Their love to always be at the heart of the gossip with their finger firmly on the pulse led to the creation of their bar, a safe space for illegal information to circulate. Everybody knows if you need to find someone, you ask Araceli, or at the very least head to their bar to find out. They definitely know how to handle themselves despite not exactly being an active participant of the criminal underworld, either through their friendly relationships with their talented regulars or as a by-product of some long forgotten criminal lifestyle. No-one can quite muster up the courage to ask.
Vanoan Æthelind — cocky mercenary sniper with a love for music.
Vanoan is a rather cocky Kiamara, confident in themselves and their own abilities. They are sharp-witted and easily amused, almost childish in their humour and is often the voice of reason to those around them. They are genderfluid and switch between their birth name of Vanessa and the self-chosen Vanoan depending on what gender they identify with that day — Vanoan for agender/male days and Vanessa for female days - though most call them Van.
They are competitive and yet would gladly throw even the most important competition to spend time with their friends, being the sort that values the people around them above all else. Vanoan is a very physical Kiamara who enjoys exercise greatly and can often be found showing off.
Very few people would guess from first appearance or even from knowing them that this bubbly, sharp and pleasant Kiamara is a mercenary, a hired gun with little concern over the morals of their job. Vanoan is well known as one exceptionally skilled with a sniper rifle and indeed most guns, and can often be found with a rifle over their shoulder and one headphone in their ear. The sheer normality of their life and social circle keeps them grounded though, and their best friend and platonic soulmate Mitchy keeps them well out of the worst of the trouble.
Mitch 'Mitchy' Caelix— combat medic and Van's very protective boyfriend/bodyguard.
Childhood friend of Vanoan, Mitchy is a rather imposing-looking civilian Kia who somehow manages to deflect even the worst kinds of trouble from his mercenary friend's path. He's a tattoo artist by trade, though he's gained a bit of a reputation as a fearsome fighter and off-the-radar medic, and in truth, is much softer than he appears. He worries a lot about those he cares about, particularly Van, and would do anything to help those in need. He's saved the life of several prominent Kiamara criminals, not least his best friend. However, he is determined not to drag anyone into the mess of a criminal lifestyle he's accidentally already a part of. Anyone who wanted to get close to him would most likely have to already be in the criminal underworld or at least familiar with it, and they'd certainly have to get along with Van.
Lashay Emerald — model turned thief extraordinaire.
Beautiful Lashay Emerald, former model turned thief. Messing with her because she looks like an easy target will just give you a broken wrist for your troubles. She's sassy and self-confident in both her abilities, looks and attitude, and none of them without grounds. Nothing can faze her, and she's very much aware of how to use her charms to manipulate. Despite this, she is just a slightly materialistic thrill seeker who loves the rush of a heist and reactions to her beauty. Though arrogant, she is not shallow and is in reality very friendly with the rest of the Kiaminals, sort of like their young, rich aunt who's always willing to fund a job. She lives in the city suburbs with her son Tadashi.
Tadashi Emerald — the sweetest dead shot in existence, only son of Emerald.
Child of famed supermodel turned brilliant thief Lashay Emerald and an absent military woman, Tadashi was always destined for a life of violence. Raised singlehandedly by Lashay, he gained great respect and admiration for the Kiamara criminal families and knew he didn't want to leave it behind. The gentle, sweet and kind Kiamara who everyone thought a weak link stunned the underworld as he reinvented himself as a mercenary with quickly-infamous marksmanship.
He is honestly the sweetest Kia who must be protected... And he's a mercenary. Who doesn't miss.
Iskra Sindre — relaxed getaway driver.
It is no secret that Iskra Sindre had a rather awful childhood. From neglectful parents to attempts on his life, he'd been through a lot even as a teenager. What does come as a surprise, however, is that despite all this, he's still one of the sweetest guys around. Confident but not cocky, brave but not foolhardy. Always willing to help others, and a soft-spoken, polite Kia in general.
He's also one hell of a driver... And a pilot. You need a getaway driver? You hire Iskra.
It's the only surefire way to make sure you'll get out alive.
Unlike the usual stereotypical criminal, Iskra simply likes the thrill of the chase and is not really involved in much other than the odd grand theft auto when left to his own devices. He just likes to drive and fly and do it fast, easily escaping any pursuers.
He's a sweetheart with a wild spirit, a less than legal job description, and a deep-seated hunger for the feeling of freedom.
Khthonia Incarnadine — The ruler of the underworld, fitting considering their name. They would fight to the death to protect their mate, Nycthemeral.
Khthonia Incarnadine; Persephone in scarlet. They truly live up to their namesake in the minds of those around them - this fierce, enthusiastic and brash Kiamara seems the very embodiment of the Queen of Hell. They are rather cocky and a bit of a flirt despite their frightening appearance and the fact they don't make much time for romance. They also have bipolar disorder and others often mark when their mood is about to switch based on how many fights they attempt to start.
Though their job and appearance are both frightening and give off the impression they are heartless, Khthonia adores Nycthe above anything else on the planet and would do anything to make them happy and protect them.
Thaumé Nycthemeral — 'Seer' and martial artist, civilian partner to Khthonia.
The first word that comes to mind when describing Nycthe is frightened. Despite their dark and almost imposing colours they are almost constantly afraid of something, be it phobias or paranoia. They often seem lonely even when it appears they have friends, prefers to be alone and yet is afraid of being forgotten.
Tempestuous and with strong moral views, they are blazing, furious energy given form, made dull by the world and the demands of life; it is as if they simply cannot fit into the place in life they have been allotted. Others see them as bad luck and so, despite their hatred of superstition, they reinvented themself in that image; someone beyond luck and fate.
Their awkwardness and unusual nature make them easily dismissed, something they loathe. Nycthe is at constant war with themself, torn between keeping up trying to fit in despite the torment it causes them, or remaining true to themself and obtaining some form of happiness. Khthonia is their main source of support, and they would willingly die or kill for them.
