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PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
Character Name: Charumati (Nope, not the one you're thinking of.)

Character Gender: female

Species: avatar

Age: unknown

Appearance:

URL to Character Picture, if any: Charumati

Primary Objective: Come to terms with needing to "start over". Her original quest has not been fulfilled: what does it mean to be human? What are the masks we wear? Who was the true monster... Hyde or Jekyll?

Secondary Objectives: Now forced back into the place she thought she'd escaped, Charu must reestablish herself while coming to terms with the historical traces left by her other self. She'll seek out people to suit her needs, of course.

MUNDANE SKILLS
List Mundane skills here:
Polyglot due to followership purposes(approved by OP)
Knits
Cooks
Drives a car
Avid amateur historian (having lived through most of it)

SPECIALIZED SKILLS AND TALENTS
Manage a high-end restaurant and bar: 3
Research: 4



OPTIONAL SUPERNATURAL CHARACTERISTICS
A note regarding this old character: Charumati seldom used her powers for anything other than traveling, or completing small tasks in daily life when on a tight schedule. At times she might use her powers for comic value. Bear in mind, she always was and still has Eldritch physiology.

Not all powers are listed, per OP instruction. Levels are not listed, per OP instruction. I'm dropping this app in, per OP instruction. I think the OP has gone 'round the twist.

Ability 1: Containment sphere
Power Level: CoOP Tool
Strengths: A pocket dimension contained within a sphere. Dimension properties depending upon creator's whim.
Weaknesses:
Restrictions: OP imposed via discussion.

Ability 2: Teleportation
Power Level:
Strengths: She can teleport. Woo.
Weaknesses: She, like all the other gods and powerful beings (sans Gio) can NOT teleport out of Demens' dimension, nor into it. She has to use a Gate. Too bad for her.
Restrictions: As above.

Ability 3: Summon Zalgo
Power Level:
Strengths: Summon Zalgo, people!
Weaknesses: Can't summon Zalgo outside of Zalgo summoning season? I dunno. It's not really a power. More like shtick.
Restrictions: Only used for Zalgofests per OP whim. Can't summon him at any other time.


MAGICAL OR SPECIAL ITEMS
List:
A few books
A jar with spare matrix in it
Her old "lab/lair" in the Chaos quarters
Those tanks with clones in them (already in setting)
A bunch of annoying lizards (already in setting)


BACKGROUND
Character Background/Biography: Once upon the time, there was an avatar. That avatar went on a trip and landed outside the cosmic cup. What she discovered there is her own knowledge to keep. And keep it, she does. You see, she returned to the cosmos and attempted to share what she had discovered... and that lead to an entire war within her pantheon. Everyone trying to kill everyone else. Messy business. So she fled. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Charu hasn't always been in the present day or age. Again, this goes back in history. Predates humanity, in fact. After her initial formation, she settled with her three brothers in an area that is now part of India (ergo they are called the India Set). There they existed for the longest time, in one form or another, before being drawn into humanity's nonsense by one of Vishnu's avatars. And thus the siblings finally took human form, and all sorts of skullfuckery broke out.

The ages passed, and Charu and Ogoti become very close, much to the disdain of their brother, Atosh. He conspired to drive them apart, only managing to piss off everyone in the process. His trifling become so overwhelming that even Chanpreet (the avatar of the God of Conspiracy) couldn't stomach it anymore. But it wasn't until Atosh managed to grievously wound Charumati that all hell broke loose. Ogoti, normally so grandfatherly and patient, released a plague upon the land to punish all those who called Atosh their god. The three turned upon their brother with a vengeance that might have destroyed the earth were it not for the sudden arrival of something entirely unexpected... the Germanic Set.

We won't get into all this backstory. The damn RP lasted eight years before ever touching upon PL's shores. Needless to say, shit went down, the Sets became horribly manged and mingled, and the end result was banishment for the lot of them. And now we go back to the beginning when Charu accidentally landed outside the cosmic cup. It was at that point that she discovered what was happening, and avowed to lend her hand. As a chaotic being, That From Which She Comes took it upon itself to assist beings such as Pearlelei in their quest to repair was was being undone.

As for Charumati? She was minding her own tasks when summoned (quite by accident) to the dimension by a young, lost conscript named Bran. His accidental feat thrust her into the midst of some idiotic characters, though there were also plenty of fantastic ones. She quickly befriended the velociraptor, NVE, and Bones and his Brothers. They asked her what her name was. She replied with where she had last been, and then told them to call her whatever they pleased. So "Swith" stuck. And the story continued without much purpose until such time as Atosh tracked her silly ass down. Then she died.

Literally.

The Residents launched a quest to restore her, and they succeeded. But what they brought back was a shadow of its former self. And that self does not concern THIS Charumati. You see, THIS Charumati is what you get when That From Which You've Been Spawned suddenly notices that you've gone missing. And THAT Charumati has gone missing. The remnants of the avatar formerly known as Sutra were put to good use in reforming the fully fleshed Charu... luckily Naomi was trapped in Demens' dimension. This current Charumati has no recollection of anything that transpired after her death (meaning, for those of you old enough to remember it, she does not recall anyone going into the Void to piece her back together).

She might have drifted along with old friends aimlessly enough to suit her needs, were it not for Demens himself. Oh, he wasn't done with Miss Charumati. Not at all done. And so she found herself exactly where she did NOT want to be... among the Residents once more.


OTHER GAME MECHANICS
URL to Apartment Picture:
Lair; Apartment in Chaos Quarters


IMPORTANT:
One paragraph that sums up your character. This paragraph is what we'll use on your player tab on the first page of the thread. This MUST be brief. Your tab will contain a link to your application so people will have full details


Charumati
A reluctant avatar trapped with... Full details.