Character: Rachel Berenson | xenamorph Canon: Immediately after her final scene in #52: The Sacrifice
About:CW for violence, mind control, child soldiers, PTSD, and- look, Animorphs was a messed-up series.
Rachel used to be a pretty typical SoCal 90s kid. Early teens, good grades but hated school, loved shopping, aspiring gymnast, maybe a little more adventurous than was strictly good for her. Good parents, despite the split.
Then the friggin' alien brainslugs happened. The school performance dropped off, which is just as well because a bunch of the school was controlled by alien brainslugs. And suddenly, her, four other kids, and an alien who turns out to also be a kid are all that stands between the Earth and complete subjugation.
Did you know that being a child soldier is extremely traumatic? Especially when you realize you're starting to enjoy it? And have a hard time turning it off? And increasingly detaching from all of your friends, save for your boyfriend, who is- checks notes- a bird?
It's fine. You don't have to process your undiagnosed PTSD when you're dead, riiiight?
Abilities: Rachel's smart (albeit too reckless and impatient to apply it well sometimes) and in good shape (she was an aspiring professional gymnast even before the war), but none of that is what you're here about.
Thanks to alien technology, Rachel was given the ability to, by touching an animal for a few seconds, "acquire" their DNA and later turn into a perfect copy of that animal. She can't access all her morphs here (yet) but she can turn into a grizzly bear, a bald eagle, a cockroach, and a species of alien called a Hork Bajir, a tall herbivorous vaguely avian/reptilian species with several blades for climbing, pruning, and stripping bark from trees.
PLANS General: So Rachel still isn't sure what to make of this place. On the one hand, a second chance at life, in a reasonably peaceful and idyllic place, with Tobias. On the other hand, nothing about this makes sense and she is lowkey suspicious as hell about all of it.
Primary mission for me OOC is to get her to loosen up and socialize, because to start with she will be leaning way too hard on Tobias socially and obviously that's no fun. Also she has some complicated emotions to process, and uh- well, if any actual action happens, you miiiiiiiiiight see her scary side.
Dream Board: Rachel may try to help out with the Koi. This may go poorly. Event: Rachel will be staying on the Reverein-side of the mirror, and while I can probably poke at any of the event prompts, I'm particularly going to enjoy showing her what happened after she died.
CR Dreams: Please give her normal friends. She's honestly a pretty good person when she's not, y'know, pissed off or paranoid.
Or get some negative CR if you really want to see her become borderline-psychotic.
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songerein_ooc2024-03-03 11:56 pm
Rachel Berenson | Animorphs
Canon: Immediately after her final scene in #52: The Sacrifice
About: CW for violence, mind control, child soldiers, PTSD, and- look, Animorphs was a messed-up series.
Rachel used to be a pretty typical SoCal 90s kid. Early teens, good grades but hated school, loved shopping, aspiring gymnast, maybe a little more adventurous than was strictly good for her. Good parents, despite the split.
Then the friggin' alien brainslugs happened. The school performance dropped off, which is just as well because a bunch of the school was controlled by alien brainslugs. And suddenly, her, four other kids, and an alien who turns out to also be a kid are all that stands between the Earth and complete subjugation.
Did you know that being a child soldier is extremely traumatic? Especially when you realize you're starting to enjoy it? And have a hard time turning it off? And increasingly detaching from all of your friends, save for your boyfriend, who is- checks notes- a bird?
It's fine. You don't have to process your undiagnosed PTSD when you're dead, riiiight?
Abilities: Rachel's smart (albeit too reckless and impatient to apply it well sometimes) and in good shape (she was an aspiring professional gymnast even before the war), but none of that is what you're here about.
Thanks to alien technology, Rachel was given the ability to, by touching an animal for a few seconds, "acquire" their DNA and later turn into a perfect copy of that animal. She can't access all her morphs here (yet) but she can turn into a grizzly bear, a bald eagle, a cockroach, and a species of alien called a Hork Bajir, a tall herbivorous vaguely avian/reptilian species with several blades for climbing, pruning, and stripping bark from trees.
PLANS
General: So Rachel still isn't sure what to make of this place. On the one hand, a second chance at life, in a reasonably peaceful and idyllic place, with Tobias. On the other hand, nothing about this makes sense and she is lowkey suspicious as hell about all of it.
Primary mission for me OOC is to get her to loosen up and socialize, because to start with she will be leaning way too hard on Tobias socially and obviously that's no fun. Also she has some complicated emotions to process, and uh- well, if any actual action happens, you miiiiiiiiiight see her scary side.
Dream Board: Rachel may try to help out with the Koi. This may go poorly.
Event: Rachel will be staying on the Reverein-side of the mirror, and while I can probably poke at any of the event prompts, I'm particularly going to enjoy showing her what happened after she died.
CR Dreams: Please give her normal friends. She's honestly a pretty good person when she's not, y'know, pissed off or paranoid.
Or get some negative CR if you really want to see her become borderline-psychotic.
Etc.:
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(*Note: She does not, under any circumstances, 'love to see it.')
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CORRECTION
(SHE'S DEAD, JIM)