Sounds good.
Okay. Here's the lowdown on the new profiles... I smooshed them together because the history is so entwined. Hopefully, it's not too convoluted.
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Name: Alice Copper & Melinda Velden
Age: 17 & 16, respectively
Nationality: U.S. Citizens
Appearance:
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Alice
Alice stands at a modest five-seven. Her hair is perpetually dyed black and kept straight, with large bangs combed down over her forehead. Her eyebrows are always neatly trimmed and, at the end above her temples, sharply pointed, making them look vaguely bat-like. Her features are light and somewhat haggard. She possesses a flat, soft nose and an equally pair of thin lips.
She likes the color black, finding it to be a fitting color to her persona, and she wears it heavily. A black lace collar circles her neck and she wears a black, sleeveless, V-cut top underneath a long-sleeved fish-net blouse. The addition of black opera gloves serves as her arm wear. A black skirt and matching leggings lead into a pair of boots to complete her wardrobe.
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Melinda
Melinda tops out at five-feet, six inches, putting her just an inch shorter than Alice is. Melinda prefers a conservative mode of attire. Melinda wears a light gray tank top beneath a dark blue jacket. She opts for a pair of navy slacks over a dress and simple sneakers. Melinda is rarely seen without a backpack that contains an assortment of books, a tablet and a laptop.
She is a strawberry blond who prefers to keep her hair cut short in a bob cut. Her features a slight and not very well pronounced, leaving Melinda to attempt makeup to, ahem, make up the difference. Her eyes are a soft green and, if you look closely, slightly haunted. Her nose is short and round, as are her cheekbones and lips, rendering her an average sort of girl who won't stand out in a crowd.
Alternate Identity:
` Alice: Cure Dark
Minor Differences: Alice lacks any heterochromia. Her hair is dark brown instead of green. Throw a second wing on there.
`Melinda: Cure Shine
`Upgraded Form: Cure Shine Super Silhouette
History: It's been said that some heroes become great, some heroes are born great, and some heroes have greatness thrust upon them. In the case of Alice and Melinda, it could safely be said that they embody a little bit of all three.
Melinda and Alice first encountered each other in early grade school, and, contrary to all expectations, they didn't hit it off so well. The two became acquaintances and knew of each others existence, but by and by they just left each other alone. It wasn't until the sixth grade, when they were assigned to work together on a joint project, that they really began to talk and get to know one another.
Melinda was quiet and studious-- she was most definitely the brains of the outfit. She was bean counter, always concerned first and foremost with facts and figures and plans. Alice was the creative force in their partnership. She could put a new perspective on things and come up with ideas that were most decidedly out of the box. The two balanced each other nicely, and, perhaps realizing on some level that they brought out the best in each other, became close friends.
This friendship lasted past grade school and into high school. At first, everything seemed to be normal, but... Alice began to notice some strange things going on around the school-- but more importantly, she noticed those oddities spilling over into Melinda. Melinda began to act very nervous and began to close herself off from her old friends. Alice knew that Melinda was having some problems at home and tried to get Melinda to open up about them, but was rebuffed. Several other classmates began to act skittish as well.
Not willing to sit idly by while whatever was wrong with Melinda ate away at her, Alice conducted her own investigation. She began slipping out of the dorms and tailing Melinda during the evening hours. Alice discovered that Melinda was meeting several other students at an abandoned warehouse. Alice quietly infiltrated the warehouse and hid behind a stack of rusted machinery to watch the group's activities. It didn't take much to realize that Melinda had fallen in with a cult.
At first, it was just the usual mumbo-jumbo and shenanigans, talk of being chosen and power and the like. But when the cult leader began to make a point of sacrifice, Alice grew concerned. Apparently, Melinda wanted power and was willing to undergo some kind of magically induced rite to get it. The cultists gathered around a strange summoning circle and began performing some sort of weird ritual. To Alice's horror, one of the cultists led Melinda to the center of the magic circle... and their intentions did not sound noble.
Unable to stay silent any longer, Alice left her hiding place and burst onto the scene, demanding that the ritual stop and that Melinda come back home with her. That proved to be her undoing.
At that precise moment, a strange thing erupted from the summoning circle. Alice, having never accepted the supernatural, was downright stunned at it's appearance. It was no mere parlor trick. She could tell just from the thing's presence that its power far eclipsed hers. However, her appearance had startled the entire group and caused the lead cultist's concentration to break. The group of magicians failed to properly channel and bind the entity, and it began to run wild with destruction.
As the entity began destroying the surrounding area, and cultists began to flee for their lives, Alice pressed on. She wasn't going to leave this place without Melinda and Melinda didn't seem to be leaving this place any time soon. The other girl was steadfast, staring at the beast, and demanding that the contract be upheld and the beast provide her with power.
That got the entity's attention. The entity chortled some reply and flicked a sphere of purple flame at the obstinate girl. Alice reacted on pure instinct. She tackled Melinda, toppling the other girl to the ground, and threw herself bodily over her companion. The flame impacted the small of her back and passed straight through her clothing and skin unhindered and embedded itself in her body. Alice convulsed as a bolt of white-hot agony ripped through her. A scream left her lips.
She could feel her body changing and energy flowing through her. It was though a conduit had opened, and she now had access to channels of power and magic that she'd never known existed. Instinctively, she now knew that she had power-- a power that was corrupt to the core. Immediately, it began to run wild throughout her, threatening to take over and cause untold destruction.
The initial moment of transformation awakened a cold, demanding hunger within her. It was the hunger for destruction and death. Alice cried out, begging Melinda to get out of here before something horrible happened. Melinda, looking more than a bit horrified at what had happened, refused. Melinda could see now that she had been led astray, and now Alice was suffering the punishment meant for Melinda. There was no way that Melinda was going to abandon her friend now.
"Forgive me..." Melinda begged. "... all I wanted... was the power... to get my parents together again... But that... wasn't worth... this..."
In agony and despair, Alice screamed at Melinda to escape, before everything came apart at the seams. It was at that moment that an intervention was staged, a Cosmic Lord appeared before them and bathed the area in a radiating light.
The Cosmic Lord explained that outright removing the curse was not an option. The curse, the dark power, was a part of Alice now. To destroy that dark power would be to destroy Alice as well. But, there was a solution. If they were willing, the Cosmic Lord said, he would alter the curse placed upon Alice and provide a measure of his own power to Melinda. Between the two of them, he felt, they would be able to use the curse's evil power for good. The two would be balanced, yin and yang, and keep the other from straying too far in either direction.
Alice and Melinda agreed. The Cosmic Lord altered Alice's darkness and granted her the gifts of justice, vengeance and strength; to Melinda he presented the gifts of atonement, redemption and hope. Together, they would be a powerful force to be reckoned with. The Cosmic Lord then stepped aside, walked them through their new transformations and aided them in defeating the Writhing Thing.
Ever since, they have continued this task in secret: combating the evils wrought about by the Writhing Things and aiding others in making their own journeys of redemption.
Personality:
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Alice:
Outside of battle, Alice is almost perpetually lost in her own thoughts and needs to apply some dedicated focus to become absorbed with the task at hand. Inside of battle, however, she has to work hard not to become a rampaging berserker. How much this has to do with her powers and the constant gnaw that they have on her, she isn't quite sure.
Alice is a very opinionated person. She's quick to judgment and she sticks by that judgment until she is proven wrong. This causes her some problems from time to time when she jumps the gun and creates a notion based on incorrect or partial data. Thankfully, however she's a decent judge of character so she's not too far off the mark too often.
She is, however, very reserved around others due to how different she is from them. Subconsciously, she does what she can to push others away, fearing what would happen to them if they were were to be caught up in all the crazy of her life-- or in the crossfire of a battle, for she is very, very quick to jump into battles.
Likes:
`Ice Cream, chocolate preferably.
`A regular paycheck, currently she's employed at a local bookstore.
`Figure skating & Olympic sports.
Dislikes:
`People who don't realize how good they've got it.
`Obnoxiously loud music.
`Electronics in general. Have you seen how obsessed people get about their phones?
Relationships:
`Merlinda – Her partner.
Extra: Nothing at the moment. Maybe later.
Present Abilities:
` Thanks to the power given to her by the Writhing Thing, Alice has the ability to seal away evil and then absorb it to increase her own power and abilities. This is very much a Linear Fighter, Quadratic Wizard situation, for while she starts off weaker than Melinda, in the end Alice will be a powerhouse that, unaided, can surpass Melinda's Super Mode.
` As an aside to the above, it is important to note that while Alice can seal and absorb evil, she cannot remove evil from a creature. Should she attempt to seal evil away while it is still involved with a host, she would most likely kill the host outright.
`As a Cure, Alice has access to magic, this can manifest itself in number of different ways: energy shields, generic blasting powers and the like.
`When in Cure form, Alice possesses super strength and speed.
Personality:
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Melinda
Melinda is the more studious of the two. She dedicates herself to the task at hand rather thoroughly and does her best to follow through on her projects. She tries to keep herself busy on purpose because the work makes it harder for her to reflect on the past or their respective situations. When her mind is occupied, it allows Melinda to feel better about things.
She is very much an understanding people person. Melinda is very outgoing and cheerful, although it's hard to tell just how much of that is an act and how much of it is genuine. Melinda is trying hard to move past the trauma of that night and to forgive herself for what happened, but it's slow going.
In sharp contrast with her friend, Melinda tries to be more understanding of who people are and why they do what they do. She understands all too well what despair can do to a person and how quickly a person can find themselves performing acts that they never thought possible.
Likes:
`Electronics and gadgets.
`Non-Fiction Books and Magazines
`Balanced diets
Dislikes:
`Fish – She never liked the taste
`Vampire movies
`Engrish, leet speak and other forms of slang
Relationships:
Alice – Her partner
Extra: Nothing at the moment
Present Abilities:
` One of the gifts given to her by the Cosmic Lord is the ability to expel unwanted or implanted evil from an individual. This does not destroy the evil outright as Alice possesses that ability.
`As a Cure, Melinda has access to magic, this can manifest itself in number of different ways: energy shields, generic blasting powers and the like.
`When in Cure form, Melinda possesses super strength and speed.
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. I should prolly warn ya ziginz my man....Theres alot. Maybe not as much as magi's last profile (but at the same time maybe more?) but still alot.
