From Sailor Moon Flash!
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| Name: | Ebba Koch |
| Birthday: | September 16 |
| Age: | 19 |
| Affiliation: | Elementals, JDE |
| Powers: | Gravity |
| Player: | Char |
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The Basics
Name: Ebba Koch. Her first name represents the mystical forces of the tides. Her family name is pretty like being a Smith, Chin, or Lee.
Position: Di, Elemental of Gravity
Appearance: Ebba is roughly 165 cm, which puts her eye-to-eye with the average Japanese man, but definitely taller than your average Japanese woman. Her hair, a rich chocolate brown with vivid auburn highlights, falls at the beginning of the year to the bottom of her shoulderblades, with straight-cut bangs at eyebrow level. As spring turns to summer, her hair lightens a couple of shades, and she wears it up to help fight the heat. She has large, round deep brown and honey eyes, set wide in a classically oval face, full lips, and a long, graceful neck. She has a definite hourglass figure, curvy legs, and a generous bosom. She keeps in shape, and prefers clothing that is stylish but conservative; more Washington DC Power Player than Los Angeles Business Whore.
Age/Birthday/Astrological Whatnot: September 16. No astrology kung-fu here; she's a pretty standard Virgo with a bad case of Aries. She's 19 going on 40.
Mundane Life
Friends and Family: Ebba is the only daughter of a prominent and talented chef and the German Ambassador to Japan's executive assistant. Belinda Koch is the executive chef at Edelweiss, a fine dining restaurant at the heart of Shibuya-ku. She is often mistaken for Ebba's older sister, and is a very open and affectionate woman. Walter is fairly handsome, warm... Rodger Moore's James Bond in personality, Richard Gere in looks. The romance died from their marriage long ago, but they remain great friends (when their schedules overlap and they actually see each other). They are fond of their daughter, but are secretly rather glad they don't have to see her very often.
Ebba doesn't make friends. The closest thing she has to a friend is Li-Nian, but that is definitely a one-sided relationship of "Please, what can I do to make you like me back so we can be sisters?" vs. "DIE ALREADY GEEZ you'd think with this many enemy soldiers running around I wouldn't *have* this problem..."
The only other person of note in Ebba's life is Takezo Nakamura. HE WILL BE A ROCK STAR. At least, so he believes. His parents claim he's going to be a neurosurgeon, dammit, just like his father and his honourable father before him. Currently, he's Ebba's neighbor, and lives off of his parents' income while "attending college". He occasionally gets it into his head that he is in love with his hot gaijin neighbor, leading to written lyrics under her door and "accidental" meetings in the elevator.
Usual Daily Routine: Ebba wakes up early in the morning to take care of her personal hygiene needs. This is followed by a healthy breakfast, choosing an appropriate (usually professional) outfit for the day, then a brisk walk to work. She completes her tasks with exacting diligence when in the office, leaves when it's time to leave, and fills the time between leaving JDE and arriving at her apartment with some form of cultural appreciation outing. Once in a while, she fulfills her familial duties by making an appearance at her mother's restaurant for dinner, or picking up something and bringing it by her father's office.
Every once in a while, schoolgirls with strange powers interrupt her days. It makes her very, very cross.
Background: Ebba started life as a round, burbly, picture-perfect and utterly adored baby. She smiled at everyone, crawled, walked, and talked earlier than normal, and loved being the center of attention. Her nanny took great pride in dressing her in lacy little dresses and tying a bow in the little curls of red hair, preening as strangers cooed as if the little darling were her own flesh and blood.
As Ebba approached two, the smiles disappeared. She would play with her toys, over and over, rocking and humming a single note to herself. The family tried to deal with her in their own way, but she reacted violently to any attempts to bring her out of her shell. The nanny quit by the time she was four, exhausted and disheartened by her failure to fix her charge. By the time she was five, her parents reluctantly decided that they just didn't want to deal with trying to raise her anymore, and found a nice boarding school where she would be better off.
So, without much fanfare, Ebba went to school. The household went on,firmly convinced that they had done all they could.
The school turned out to be St. Dymphna, a facility dedicated to educating "different" children and equipping them for life as a functioning member of adult society. Years of therapy worked for Ebba, teaching her how to focus and relate to the world outside of herself. Not that she appreciated it.
Ebba's peers didn't like her any more than she liked them. The years blended together in a series of pranks and (welcome) shunning. She excelled in her courses, graduating high school at sixteen. A couple of months later, Walter learned he had been accepted to his new position in Japan.
Ebba had some small hope that, when her father announced his promotion to the embassy in Tokyo, that she would find a culture that wouldn't be nearly so annoying. For the most part, she was content - people were more polite, businesslike, and unemotional. (Obviously, Ebba isn't out when the salarymen head home from the bars, and willingly pretends she doesn't even know karaoke *exists*.) She dismisses her irritatingly loud neighbor as an abberation. She even managed to find a job that didn't require much in the way of interaction with human beings, as an Accounts Receivable Processing Clerk at Jade Dragon Enterprises, Inc.
The job interviews went well enough. By some stroke of luck, the first round wasn't ruined by her unusually bad mood that day (one of her goldfish died of ick). The second was a bit harder. The American man just didn't act right, and everything about his friendly manner and demeanor set her nerves on edge. That he was the Director of Human Resources didn't help; the man made her feel like... prey. She was surprised that her final interview was with the CEO, but Yu-Huang explained it as taking a personal interest in the prospective employees of his company. Ebba was busy enough trying not to openly stare and babble like an idiot to question her job too deeply.
If it weren't for the other employees, life would be perfect. The Director of Human Resources gave her the first case of creeping horrors she could remember experiencing, the receptionist is obviously on some kind of stimulant (and far too much of it), and Lucien... if he wasn't off limits, she would have attempted to crush that hateful, sulking little twit at first glance. Not even all of him. Just BITS of him.
The one bright spot in her life is the CEO, who she feels unusually attracted to, and would rather like to please as often as possible. After all, when he hired her, he promised to reward her with perfect isolation, in return for something as simple and useless as her starseed and service. He doesn't strike Ebba as being a liar.
Ebba doesn't have any real friends. Her neighbor is the closest thing she has, and that's because he hasn't had to sit through Schindler's List and listen to her giggle at all the wrong parts.
A Little More Specific
Quirks: Ebba is autistic, if that hasn't been made clear by now. She didn't want to get better, resents that learning to function is necessary for her independence, and is not above using her autism as an excuse to avoid having to interact with people.
Ebba has perfect pitch. She couldn't sing to save her soul, though. However, she did master one trick: shattering glass with her voice.
At least twice a day, every day, Ebba brushes herself off with a little plastic brush that looks like the ones you use to clean your nails. It helps her calm down and control the overstimulation of everyday life, grounding and centering her for another six hours or so. She also has a little hand and foot massage routine she does when she can't take the time to brush herself down.
Language is not her friend. Her Japanese... well, she's been described as an "angry, random free-verse generator". She tries desperately to speak the language (she approaches fluency in understanding it), but her mind simply refuses to connect her tongue with the correct words.
Darkest Secret: Ebba wants to be normal and live a normal life, but sincerely believes she never, ever will. She belives this so fiercely that she is convinced that she is grateful for her handicap, and that it makes her a better person than all those normal people who don't have real problems.
Reactions to Sudden Hugs: OH @!#% OW OH MY GOD DIE. Hugs do not feel good to her in any way. It's like being crushed to death, with a side of "ew intimacy". After she is done trying to break every bone in your body, she will run and hide and curl up into a little ball and cry.
Virtues and Vices:
Virtues
Charity: For all her bristly hedgehoginess towards the human race, Ebba has a huge soft spot for animals. She displays a softness and compassion towards critters that is rarely found outside of the crazy cat ladies who sing to the kitties at the animal shelters.
Vices
Anger: Ebba is always angry. Most of the time it's a general background simmering peevishness, but it can be provoked into a full-blown rage. It's actually rather hard to make her that deeply angry, though, which is good news for the general stability of the ground beneath everyone's feet.
Pride: Not only has she been chosen by a god, she is the prettiest, smartest, most capable, and most powerful of Yu-Huang's Chosen. Not to mention the sanest. Who would blame her for being a bit proud?
Badassery
Power Sphere: Gravity
Asswhoopery: Ebba can sense and manipulate gravitational forces at will with surgical delicacy. She intuitively knows which forces to alter and when to achieve her goals, from floating gracefully (and, in her mind, menacingly) for a few moments, to hurtling small objects at near-relativistic velocities. She can also use her abilities to track people and objects even when her normal vision is impaired, and can discern a real threat (with mass, at any rate; light-based attacks can throw her for a bit of a turn) from a mere illusion. It does take effort, though; trying to throw a car at someone would knock her out with a killer migraine for at least a month, and anything requiring more energy would probably kill her. She tends to limit her projectiles to billiard ball-massed objects or smaller.
Greatest Weakness: Ebba does not react quickly on the battlefield. She can plan ahead, but she has to go over all her options and make a decision before taking action. If she is forced to react quickly (say, jumping out of the way of an attack), it takes her a moment to process what just happened, adjust her projections on courses of actions, and formulate a new vector of attack. The more people there are on a battlefield, the harder it is for her to take any action. Over time, this effect can have a wee bit of negation if her opponent happens to be methodical in their attacks and defenses.
On top of that, Ebba can only do one type of action at a time. She can (after much planning and with considerable amounts of focus) fling several rocks at once, but she can't be tossing masonry at heads and summoning a worm at the same time.
Attacks:
Antigravity - Covered in Asswhoopery, woo!
Mass Detection - Also covered in Asswhoopery, with the following caveat: she tracks by exact mass, since she's just that kind of girl and uncertainty really messes with her sense of equilibrium. Any profound changes in mass (such as shedding a layer of clothing, emergency liposuction, suddenly being a girl senshi instead of a boy civilian, or loss of limbs) would register to her as a different person.
Worms - She summons worms through holes in space-time, hurr hurr. These are not little teeny earthworms, though. These are BIG worms. Big, STINKY worms. Think Frank Herbert's "Dune" worms, only less spicy and without that weird fish lifecycle stage thing. But, while they are massive, stinky and capable of giving Gozilla pause, they're also very dumb and friendly.
Fuku: Dolce & Gabbana, Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo... natch.
Connections
Fairly easy; Ebba HATES EVERYONE, except Yu-Huang.
Yu Huang - Whatever he says is Law. Yu-Huang is her first priority and her highest loyalty. Ebba wouldn't go so far as to say she loves him, but she would definitely die for him if he asked her to.
Li-Nian - You would think a woman that well-bred would know how to act around people! Ebba avoids Li-Nian as much as she can afford to without sabotaging her work and loyalties. The woman gives her a headache, and there's the ever-present threat of touch.
Arcelia - If Ebba thought shoving a sock in her mouth would shut her up, she would do it in a heartbeat.
Trin - Trin is very tolerable in her willingness to be quiet and keep her distance from Ebba. Trin is very intolerable in her complete lack of focus and discipline.
Tacey - Nobody will ever be able to convince Ebba that Tacey isn't in fact trying to plant bugs in her apartment and stalk her. There's antisocial, and then there's "strange hacker who spends way too much time with her laptop and is probably out to destroy my credit rating and sell my stolen identity".
Lucien - Insufferable brat who doesn't know his place in the pecking order. He's a pathetic brown-noser.
Gene - OK, let's say Ebba is a cat, and she walks around a corner and is suddenly face-to-face with Gene. Her pupils dilate, her fur stands on end, and she hisses and RUNS LIKE HELL. Gene is the only person Ebba truely fears, even more than Yu-Huang (who has her best interests in mind, at least). She can barely stand the sight of him, and just the thought of having to carry on a conversation with him makes her whimper. Audibly.
Dante - Dante is going to make a pass at her at some point, and it won't be pretty. She will forever be convinced that he is going to make another pass at her, and she will be forced to kill him, and is still trying to figure out how she's going to explain it to Yu-Huang.
