Selina Carmen Álvarez

Selina Carmen Álvarez

Face Claim: Jasmine Villegas

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Age: 22

Gender: Female

Orientation: Bisexual

Position: College Student

Godly Inheritance: Titan Prometheus

Power(s): Enhanced Reflexes - (Primary)

Selina has incredibly fast reflexes that allow her to react to anything she can hear, see, feel etc. coming beforehand.

Her mind processes incoming information at an incredibly fast rate and her ability to respond to physical stimuli is almost unparallelled except by those who have it as their only ability.

Selina’s ability helps her to remain calm in any sort of conflict as she can see and interpret most of her opponents’ maneuvers and the consequential effects in plenty of time to know how she will react to them, or if she will be able to react to them at all.

Regenerative Healing - (Secondary)

Selina can heal a good deal faster than most, minor cuts and abrasions don’t last longer than a day or two at most.

Deeper lacerations can take over a week.

Broken bones tend to take 3-4 weeks instead of the typical 6-8 although they won’t set properly on their own. She still has to manually make sure the bones heal in the correct position, either by going to a doctor or by aligning the bones herself. Needless to say the first option is always preferable.

Her body is constantly reverting to a healthy state, granting her slightly increased stamina and vitality when not focused on healing injuries.

Selina has a very good immune system, so she rarely, if ever gets sick.

Limitations:

Primary - Enhanced Reflexes does not mean enhanced speed, as, although Selina can process what’s happening around her with extreme alacrity, she’s only able to move as fast as her mortal body allows to respond to that information.

She’s incapable of reacting to anything she isn’t aware of, so if she can’t sense it, she’s just as vulnerable as anyone else would be.

Selina can dodge projectiles with a greater accuracy than many, but she is not anywhere close to being capable of dodging bullets. Arrows shot from a bow are a definite possibility, bullets will kill her as quickly as they would anyone else. If she was aware of the shooter and could tell where they were aiming, she might have a chance at dodging the general direction the gun was fired in but that would be her best bet.

Secondary - Anything that kills instantly will kill Selina instantly as well.

Good nutrition and hydration are an absolute necessity while her body is healing, otherwise she’ll heal at a slower rate, or around something close to what normal people do.

Things that require outside intervention to heal correctly will not magically fix themselves, i.e. broken bones still needing to be set properly. Cancer might be slowed by her ability but it wouldn’t be stopped on its own. Surgery and chemotherapy would still be needed, etc.

Side-Effects:

Because of her ability, Selina’s always hyperaware of everything going on around her, and processing that much information can cause headaches and exhaustion.

Overstimulation is definitely a common problem, and being in big crowds is very difficult for her to handle as she’s constantly aware of every movement those around her are making.

Selina gets voraciously hungry when she’s healing and has a tendency to pass out if her blood sugar isn’t kept high enough after she’s been injured and the healing process has started.

Healing is also exhausting, so she needs lots of sleep while her body is in repair.

Height: 5’5” (165 cm)

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Dark brown, almost black

Physical Description: Selina has a long scar in the shape of a trident along her abdomen from her altercation with the Reyes boy. He'd thought it would help her remember her lesson. Other than that, she has minor scars from training, though less than most would due to her ability to heal at a faster rate.

Selina moves with the grace and elegance of a lithe fighter, her every movement confident and balanced. Selina's long dark hair is often tied back in a high ponytail for the sake of practicality and ease with training. She often wears what's comfortable, or what makes her feel good about her body. The sexy lingerie she wears around the house is just because she likes the feel of it against her skin.

Personality: Selina is fiercely passionate, and cares deeply for those close to her. She’s very protective of the ones she loves and she won’t back down in a fight unless she’s forced to… usually by Olympus Falls Staff. Selina reads like an open book most of the time, her emotions plainly visible to those around her. On the rare occasion she can hide what she’s thinking and feeling if she needs to, but she’s mostly straightforward and to the point.

She loves shallow relationships and doesn’t have much desire to bring too many close, for many reasons, not the least of which being that she can’t trust anyone due to bearing the blood of a father she’d never met. Selina curses Prometheus with her entire being on some days, but on the other hand she despises the other gods much more viciously. She doesn’t have much fondness for any of the Titans either. Selina’s torn about being thrust into a world she despises and that more than despises her in turn.

Selina is unforgiving of those who’ve wronged her or those she cares for. She doesn’t give second chances. She has no empathy for those who don’t care to return the favor and she refuses to waste kindness on those who she feels don’t deserve it. Selina has a violent sense of anger that can be unpredictable, but she’s only lost control once. She’s very good at reigning in her temper, but there are some lines that even she can’t allow to be crossed.

Five (or more) Likes:

Sex
Aikido
Challenges
Chocolate
Dancing (even if she's not great at it)
Spicy Food

Five (or more) Dislikes:

Inequality
Zeus and Poseidon and every last one of their descendants
Pushy and arrogant men
Bland food with no spices
Clingy people

Secret(s): The incident with Reyes and his two friends isn’t something she’s shared with anyone..

Parents:

Mother: Katerina Álvarez

Siblings: N/A

Worthy Mentions: N/A

Childhood: Selina grew up in “Down” Downtown Corinth, and she felt as at home on the streets as her mother did. Her upbringing certainly wasn’t easy, but her mother did as right by Selina as she could afford to. Selina often had local women her mother had paid to help babysit and look after her while she was growing up, and she got along with them easily enough as she was a bright, optimistic child.

Selina was intelligent growing up and she picked up on Kat’s money troubles relatively quickly, even though Kat never mentioned a word about it to Selina. Selina tried to help around the house where she could, and to stay out of trouble. She had a mischievous streak that occasionally got her into trouble, along with a strong sense of curiosity but she worked hard to get good grades and to make her mother proud.

Selina very easily made friends in school, as she was a social being and she loved getting to know other people. Despite her poor background, Selina was a well-adjusted young child and she thrived under her mother’s loving care. Selina wasn’t blind to the money problems, as even she sometimes had to go for a couple meals without, but she was determined to do the best she could in spite of it.

There was a wonderful Youth Center that Selina became a part of at Kat’s encouragement. It was where Selina first learned and grew attached to Aikido, her talent at the martial form increasing rapidly because of how hard and how often she practiced in her off hours. Selina threw her all into her passion and she even joined a few formal competitions, winning one.

Adolescence: Selina’s adolescence was where things started shifting and getting rockier. Whispers about her mother’s job started reaching Selina’s ears and she got in trouble for flipping a boy after he’d called her mother a horrible name. Selina didn’t care though, the boy never made the mistake again, though “crazy bitch” were words she occasionally heard muttered under his breath as she passed by. Selina was assumed “slut” by association her mother, and so she started sleeping around because, why not at least get in on some of the fun they were accusing her of having?

Selina never told Kat about some of the things she’d heard or about why some of the fights she got into ever started to begin with. She knew what her mother did for a living and Selina was proud of her mom for doing the best she could for the both of them while raising a child alone. One day when she was fourteen, a boy at school pushed her buttons too far and she got into a fight with him, but none of his hits landed and she found it all to easy to dodge his clumsy and slow blows. Before anyone could interfere, he was knocked out cold on the ground. Selina was suspended and while she was out walking around her neighborhood she saw a lion with a scorpion’s tail and a shit ton of really sharp teeth… the hell?

Selina shook her head, because she had to be hallucinating right? Unfortunately, the movement seemed to draw the critter’s attention. The beasty headed straight for her and goddamnit, even with her newly honed reflexes she found herself frozen in fear… because holy shit it was a goddamn… what the hell was it? She didn’t even have a name to put on the fucking creature. Later on she’d be told it was a manticore, but at that moment she was staring down a nameless terror.

As the creature raised its tail to… do something bad she could only assume, Selina finally got her wits together and barely dodged the thing coming down at her like a scorpion’s would. Selina scrambled to get as far away from the creature as she could but she was no match for the powerful lion-thing. She felt it slam into her back as it pounced and she fell hard, her arm cracking audibly as she fell to the ground, pinned by its weight alone, the damned thing’s claws digging into her back and tearing through her skin..

Selina felt sheer panic as she struggled against the thing, the blinding white hot pain in her broken arm and her bleeding back temporarily ignored for fear of the far larger threat to her life. Selina desperately struggled to get away. As the damn tail came forward once again however, a gun went off. Selina stared in mixed horror and shock as the creature reared up in pain.

Selina scrambled to get away while a few people she didn’t recognize finished off the creature. The pain in her arm suddenly became unbearable as the adrenaline faded and the blood seeping down her back soaked her shirt. Selina felt so lightheaded she ended up passing out. When she woke up in the hospital, she was told of Olympus Falls and how her father was an old disgraced Titan by the name of Prometheus. From the wary way they looked at her and the disgust in their tone when mentioning her supposed father, Selina got the distinct impression that Olympus Falls wouldn’t exactly be welcoming. Selina’s back healed rapidly, leaving only eight scars in two weeks’ time. Her arm healed in three weeks and she was told regenerative health tended to be a gift those from her father’s bloodline held.

Selina adapted to the stares and the whispers well enough, used to them from her old school as well. Her tendency to not give a damn about whose bloodline she slept with seemed to piss off a few, but she endured their bullshit without too much trouble, as she quickly learned that acting out here had far harsher consequences than a mere suspension. However a Reyes boy got too handsy when she refused him, and she still ended up punching him in the gut.Selina was sixteen, and she would pay for that mistake for years to come.

He left her alone for the moment, after hurling a few nasty promises her way… but he kept his promises. He intended to put her in her proper place and he brought two others to help him do it. A drug to make her drowsy and take the edge off of her reflexes was slipped into her food one night, and when she left to go to sleep early they got her when she was alone, subdued her and when they were through with her, Selina had a few scars no amount of regenerative healing would ever get rid of.

Adulthood:

The high school boys graduated soon after and she didn’t see any of them again for a long time… until nine months ago when she ran into the Reyes boy at the University. She didn’t know why he was there, and she didn’t care, she just knew she had to leave before she killed him with her own hands. Unfortunately, he saw her, and she tried to reign in her temper, she really did but when he moved to touch her, Selina’s fury was unleashed and she didn’t stop until she was pulled back from his bloody and broken body.

She’d gotten a few injuries of her own, as well as two broken fingers from how hard she’d hit him, but Selina hadn’t cared. He was in critical condition and had to be rushed to the hospital, and Selina smiled when they told her he might not make it. He lived, but her retaliation was seen as an unprovoked attack and she was suspended for a week, her powers taken from her for a year and told if she ever stepped out of line, her powers would be taken away permanently. They branded her face with the emblem of the Omega due to the severity of her crime and put her on probation for twelve months. She currently has three months left of her punishment to survive and she’s determined to do it, if only to piss off the people who want her to fail.

The symbol not only gave away her state of powerlessness but also her status with the school and those who were careful about their taunts before now became quite open. These past nine months have been hell on earth, and Selina’s impatiently waiting for the day she can remove the wretched symbol from her face and regain her abilities.

Sample: See Kat

Username: Vixen

Age Group: Mid-Twenties

Experience: Just over 2 years

How’d you find us?: Exxie, a Witch with a Lantern, guided me here.