The International
06-25-11, 10:23 PM
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Name: Ludivine Villeneuve
Race: Half Human, Half Valinthe
Age: 25
Height: 5'5
Weight: 123 lbs
Occupation: Covert Operative – Specializing as an Assassin, Theif, and Honeypot
Appearance
Ludivine has a deceptively innocent image to her name. Even though she is one year older than Vespasian, she looks much younger than him. Her face is a smooth pale with perfectly placed beauty marks, her nose is like a button fit for an infant, and her orchard hair falls straight to her lithe frame like flowing silk. Her eyes are the only indication, if any, of her true nature. The glacial blue irises are dark hooks for one’s soul, and no one can deny their predatory gaze. She often wears navy or midnight blue (never black) just in case her stealth skills are in need. Most of her attire serves to conceal, facilitate movement, or both.
Personality
Ludivine is confident and calm, border lining on being stuck up. She doesn't like many people, which her fellow Villeneuves believe to be her way of justifying the deception that comes with her line of work. She says it's just because "some people suck while others swallow". Beware her quiet streaks, for she is the stealthy assassin of the family. When she gets quiet she's moving in for the kill, either with her blade or with her mouth. Unlike her family members she is quick to anger although she would never show it. Instead she plots her revenge, and only after the offender's demise will they know that they angered her.
History
The middle child in the Villeneuve family has had a turbulent origin to say the least. Her exploits in the spy trade began quite early when she unintentionally placed herself in the middle of one of her mother's assassination plots at the age of eight. Strange circumstances led Ludivine to witness Alix kill Coronian noble and two of his mistresses in cold blood thus making her the first of the Villeneuve children to know the family secret..
At the age of fifteen she looked back at the incident and remembered how her mother killed that nobleman. Like a savage panther she subdued the mistresses, muffling their screams and ending their lives with vice grips and bone snapping strikes. At the time, it traumatized her, but now it enticed her.
She requested to be brought into the spy trade arguing that while their other children wanted what Alix and Esme had, she would fulfill the ultimate honor by aspiring to do what they did. Her parents were reluctant. They wanted to bring their children into the world of espionage in order from oldest to youngest, but it was too late. In a last ditch effort, Ludivine threatened in so many words to reveal their secret to Vespasian and Maelle. They conceded, and sent Ludivine to Akashima for two years to learn from the Akami clan of Ninja.
She returned a new woman: cold, quiet, calculating. While Maelle excelled at negotiations, information brokering, and grifting, in which diplomacy was the crux, Ludivine excelled in two things, violence and seduction. She wasn't sent by her clients to make peace and preserve life. She was sent to make scandal and death, and her parents had issues with that.
When Vespasian was brought into espionage, the Villeneuve parents went to great lengths to keep Ludivine from influencing his tactical development. To some extent they like to think they succeeded, but they constantly fear for Vespasian when he works alongside her. Their fears of her influence on him were confirmed when Vespasian coordinated an investigation on them that led to the discovery that Alix & Esme Villeneuve were more than seven thousand years old, and Alix’s Villenueve Transformation allowed them to cheat death by occupying the bodies of species with longer life expectancies. They also found out that Alix Villeneuve was of Valinthe origin, and that a rogue unit of their descendants intended on bringing ten thousand Valinthe back from the Anti Firmament to wreak havoc on Alerar.
During these exploits, the Villeneuve Siblings met and befriended a peculiar librarian named Lillian Sesthal, who looked like a teenage version of Ludivine. To this day she is Ludivine’s only friend besides Vespasian.
In Raiaera, an agent who discovered the family’s exploits in Alerar saw it fit to blame them for the High Elf Nation’s Dark Elf invasion, and put in motion a plan to imprison Alix by turning her into a tree nymph of the Red Forest. It was revealed here that the Villeneuves had made contingency plans concerning situations just like this one. If one member of the family found themselves in a place of no return within the wide diversity of ways to become corrupted in Althanas, another member of the family would take it upon themselves to kill that person. The Matriarch had chosen Ludivine to kill her, despite their many years of being at odds with one another, in a grand and final gesture of love for her middle daughter.
Luckily her little brother, Vespasian, was able to devise a way to get his mother out of the predicament, and she didn’t have to resort to killing her own mother. However, as the best fighter in the family, the lingering possibility of someday having to kill someone she loves haunts her.
Skills
Note: The majority of Ludivine's skills are closely connected to her large array of items, so I'll be listing them alongside each other.
Shinobi-iri:This is Akashiman for the study of stealth, techniques for silent movement and climbing, combined with a range of specialized tools stood the agents in good stead when the time came for them to effect entry into the enemy location. Ludivine is able to significantly quiet her footsteps without the use of her ashairo(soft pads attached to the footwear shaped like an animal paw), but she can completely silence her steps with them. This also refers to correct use of timing, discovering tactical and psychological weaknesses in the security's defenses, using distractions, and taking advantage of light (or lack thereof) and sound. The demands of sensitivity to her environment have given her x2 Perception
Taijutsu:Like her mother, Ludivine is an expert in the art of unarmed combat, but she favors breaking bones in addition to striking nerve points. She has two rings which she wears on varying fingers called sunsetu, small oval shaped pieces of wood affixed to the finger by a small strap. The suntetsu would be held against a finger on the palm-side and when the hand was thrust at an opponent using the longer piece of wood to target pressure points such as the solar plexus. She's quick and evasive, but also takes some acrobatics from Esme. The demands of this art have given her x2.5 Agility.
Kendo:The art of sword fighting. Ludivine, taking after her mother, is an expert in this skill. She carries with her a Steel Wakizashi strapped across the small of her back, the scabbard of which is several inches longer than the actual blade which allows for a lightning fast draw and simultaneous strike. Extensive use of this discipline have given her 1.5 Strength and x3 Speed
Abilities
In terms of her Valinthe heritage, Ludivine is the first of the family to manifest more than one ability from her personality. The theme of her Valinthe abilities stem from her desire to hide from judgement.
Sublimation: This was once the ability to create a dark mist around her to further conceal herself. It was discovered that this was a manifestation of her personality from her Valinthe heritage. During the family’s exploits in Raiaera, Ludivine’s love and desperation to fight for her mother enhanced this ability. She is now able to become the dark mist. She can shape and move in accordance to her will, and pass through small spaces. During this time she is invulnerable but harmless.
Light Manipulation: Ability to control, generate, absorb or repulse light particles. She can bend light around her to become invisible, repulse photons to create areas of darkness, and generate photons to create blinding flashes of light. She can also absorb light to create a deadly laser beam. This particular utilization demands a great amount of energy, and she is only able to do it once per engagement.
Night Vision: Ludivine has developed a tapetum lucidum, a layer of tissue in the eye of many vertebrate animals. It lies within the retina. It reflects visible light back through the retina, increasing the light available to the photoreceptors. This improves vision in low-light conditions, but can cause the perceived image to be blurry from the interference of the reflected light. The tapetum lucidum contributes to the superior night vision of some animals, and isn’t present in Humans… except for Ludivine.
Villeneuve Transformation: Ludivine's sketchbook contains drawings of the following races...
Raiaeran Elf, Dark Elf, Haidian, Akashiman Human.
Name: Ludivine Villeneuve
Race: Half Human, Half Valinthe
Age: 25
Height: 5'5
Weight: 123 lbs
Occupation: Covert Operative – Specializing as an Assassin, Theif, and Honeypot
Appearance
Ludivine has a deceptively innocent image to her name. Even though she is one year older than Vespasian, she looks much younger than him. Her face is a smooth pale with perfectly placed beauty marks, her nose is like a button fit for an infant, and her orchard hair falls straight to her lithe frame like flowing silk. Her eyes are the only indication, if any, of her true nature. The glacial blue irises are dark hooks for one’s soul, and no one can deny their predatory gaze. She often wears navy or midnight blue (never black) just in case her stealth skills are in need. Most of her attire serves to conceal, facilitate movement, or both.
Personality
Ludivine is confident and calm, border lining on being stuck up. She doesn't like many people, which her fellow Villeneuves believe to be her way of justifying the deception that comes with her line of work. She says it's just because "some people suck while others swallow". Beware her quiet streaks, for she is the stealthy assassin of the family. When she gets quiet she's moving in for the kill, either with her blade or with her mouth. Unlike her family members she is quick to anger although she would never show it. Instead she plots her revenge, and only after the offender's demise will they know that they angered her.
History
The middle child in the Villeneuve family has had a turbulent origin to say the least. Her exploits in the spy trade began quite early when she unintentionally placed herself in the middle of one of her mother's assassination plots at the age of eight. Strange circumstances led Ludivine to witness Alix kill Coronian noble and two of his mistresses in cold blood thus making her the first of the Villeneuve children to know the family secret..
At the age of fifteen she looked back at the incident and remembered how her mother killed that nobleman. Like a savage panther she subdued the mistresses, muffling their screams and ending their lives with vice grips and bone snapping strikes. At the time, it traumatized her, but now it enticed her.
She requested to be brought into the spy trade arguing that while their other children wanted what Alix and Esme had, she would fulfill the ultimate honor by aspiring to do what they did. Her parents were reluctant. They wanted to bring their children into the world of espionage in order from oldest to youngest, but it was too late. In a last ditch effort, Ludivine threatened in so many words to reveal their secret to Vespasian and Maelle. They conceded, and sent Ludivine to Akashima for two years to learn from the Akami clan of Ninja.
She returned a new woman: cold, quiet, calculating. While Maelle excelled at negotiations, information brokering, and grifting, in which diplomacy was the crux, Ludivine excelled in two things, violence and seduction. She wasn't sent by her clients to make peace and preserve life. She was sent to make scandal and death, and her parents had issues with that.
When Vespasian was brought into espionage, the Villeneuve parents went to great lengths to keep Ludivine from influencing his tactical development. To some extent they like to think they succeeded, but they constantly fear for Vespasian when he works alongside her. Their fears of her influence on him were confirmed when Vespasian coordinated an investigation on them that led to the discovery that Alix & Esme Villeneuve were more than seven thousand years old, and Alix’s Villenueve Transformation allowed them to cheat death by occupying the bodies of species with longer life expectancies. They also found out that Alix Villeneuve was of Valinthe origin, and that a rogue unit of their descendants intended on bringing ten thousand Valinthe back from the Anti Firmament to wreak havoc on Alerar.
During these exploits, the Villeneuve Siblings met and befriended a peculiar librarian named Lillian Sesthal, who looked like a teenage version of Ludivine. To this day she is Ludivine’s only friend besides Vespasian.
In Raiaera, an agent who discovered the family’s exploits in Alerar saw it fit to blame them for the High Elf Nation’s Dark Elf invasion, and put in motion a plan to imprison Alix by turning her into a tree nymph of the Red Forest. It was revealed here that the Villeneuves had made contingency plans concerning situations just like this one. If one member of the family found themselves in a place of no return within the wide diversity of ways to become corrupted in Althanas, another member of the family would take it upon themselves to kill that person. The Matriarch had chosen Ludivine to kill her, despite their many years of being at odds with one another, in a grand and final gesture of love for her middle daughter.
Luckily her little brother, Vespasian, was able to devise a way to get his mother out of the predicament, and she didn’t have to resort to killing her own mother. However, as the best fighter in the family, the lingering possibility of someday having to kill someone she loves haunts her.
Skills
Note: The majority of Ludivine's skills are closely connected to her large array of items, so I'll be listing them alongside each other.
Shinobi-iri:This is Akashiman for the study of stealth, techniques for silent movement and climbing, combined with a range of specialized tools stood the agents in good stead when the time came for them to effect entry into the enemy location. Ludivine is able to significantly quiet her footsteps without the use of her ashairo(soft pads attached to the footwear shaped like an animal paw), but she can completely silence her steps with them. This also refers to correct use of timing, discovering tactical and psychological weaknesses in the security's defenses, using distractions, and taking advantage of light (or lack thereof) and sound. The demands of sensitivity to her environment have given her x2 Perception
Taijutsu:Like her mother, Ludivine is an expert in the art of unarmed combat, but she favors breaking bones in addition to striking nerve points. She has two rings which she wears on varying fingers called sunsetu, small oval shaped pieces of wood affixed to the finger by a small strap. The suntetsu would be held against a finger on the palm-side and when the hand was thrust at an opponent using the longer piece of wood to target pressure points such as the solar plexus. She's quick and evasive, but also takes some acrobatics from Esme. The demands of this art have given her x2.5 Agility.
Kendo:The art of sword fighting. Ludivine, taking after her mother, is an expert in this skill. She carries with her a Steel Wakizashi strapped across the small of her back, the scabbard of which is several inches longer than the actual blade which allows for a lightning fast draw and simultaneous strike. Extensive use of this discipline have given her 1.5 Strength and x3 Speed
Abilities
In terms of her Valinthe heritage, Ludivine is the first of the family to manifest more than one ability from her personality. The theme of her Valinthe abilities stem from her desire to hide from judgement.
Sublimation: This was once the ability to create a dark mist around her to further conceal herself. It was discovered that this was a manifestation of her personality from her Valinthe heritage. During the family’s exploits in Raiaera, Ludivine’s love and desperation to fight for her mother enhanced this ability. She is now able to become the dark mist. She can shape and move in accordance to her will, and pass through small spaces. During this time she is invulnerable but harmless.
Light Manipulation: Ability to control, generate, absorb or repulse light particles. She can bend light around her to become invisible, repulse photons to create areas of darkness, and generate photons to create blinding flashes of light. She can also absorb light to create a deadly laser beam. This particular utilization demands a great amount of energy, and she is only able to do it once per engagement.
Night Vision: Ludivine has developed a tapetum lucidum, a layer of tissue in the eye of many vertebrate animals. It lies within the retina. It reflects visible light back through the retina, increasing the light available to the photoreceptors. This improves vision in low-light conditions, but can cause the perceived image to be blurry from the interference of the reflected light. The tapetum lucidum contributes to the superior night vision of some animals, and isn’t present in Humans… except for Ludivine.
Villeneuve Transformation: Ludivine's sketchbook contains drawings of the following races...
Raiaeran Elf, Dark Elf, Haidian, Akashiman Human.