River Elemental (Virtue)

The Remarkable River Elemental
Player: @Dyne
Origin:	Magic
Archetype:	Defender
Level:	29
Super Group:	Dauntless Reverie (Virtue Supergroup), Dauntless Consortium (Virtue Supergroup), Kinetics Revolution (Virtue Supergroup), Rovers (Virtue Supergroup)
Created:	2005-01-21
Personal Data
Real Name:	River Elemental
Known Aliases:	Fred
Species:	Water
Date of Birth:	Unknown
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Red
Marital Status:	Single
Biographical Data
Nationality:	Native American...?
Place of Birth:	Galaxy City
Base of Operations:	Gemini Park
Occupation:	Body of Water
Powers Data
Known Powers:	Water blast, Kinetic Energy manipulation, teleportation, invisibility (or at least transparency)
Known Abilities:	Transporting things, being wet, making things wet, reforming herself, embodying the Gemini Park river
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River Elemental is a Kinetics/Water Blast Hero from the Virtue server, played by @Dyne

In-game Description

((RP)) The spirit of the Gemini Park river, awakened by the magical power of the Dauntless Reverie due to magical run-off. Answers to "River" or "Fred". Often wise, usually mysterious, occasionally mischevious, sometimes cynical, frequently playful, and always surreal. River is a fan of Joss Whedon shows, and is not a fan of Vahzilok, skinny dippers, or sewers. Her best friend is Azra Acacia, a demoness of dubious virtue and intelligence, but cheerful disposition.

Biography

River Elemental is the personification and spirit of the small river running through Gemini Park in Galaxy City.

Awakening

The northern bank of the Gemini Park river -- near the zone's eastern War Wall -- was the primary gathering spot for the early Dauntless Reverie, a supergroup composed entirely of magical and magic-touched heroes. Due to intense magical runoff that flowed into the water from the large number of sorcerers, witches, wizards, ghosts, magical artifacts, angels, demons, kitsune, and other supernatural beings constantly lurking nearby, River awoke on January 21, 2005.

River's awakened form

River was fairly innocent (after all, she was quite young for a river). Given the slightest opportunity, she will rant on the topic of skinny dippers ("Rude! I'm not that kind of river!") and Vahzilok ("Yuck!") ... or worse, the dread Skinny Dipping Vahzilok. Initially cross at the Daunts for disturbing her slumber, she became much more friendly when she realized that Vahzilok didn't stand a chance with so many heroes constantly on guard, and the skinny dippers weren't nearly as common either (though super-powered people often means super-powered libidos, so it was kind of a trade-off).

Because she is a fan of Joss Whedon's television shows like Firefly and Angel, River also answers to the name "Fred". As a result, many people have insisted that logically, Gemini Park must therefore contain "The Fred River". She privately finds this a bit dubious, but doesn't complain. She doesn't really care which name the city puts on their maps, she is River and also Fred, and that's that.

River eventually met and befriended Azra Acacia, a demoness of dubious morals and intelligence (but a cheerful disposition), who was born in the Hell of Disco (Paragon City has a lot of hells, Jack).

Issue 21

In the context of Paragon Chat (which I treat as multiple versions of Paragon City smooshed together), River comes from the same dimension as Heterodyne. In their world, Issue 21: Convergence did not bring the destruction of Galaxy City. Instead, that fate befell Atlas Park.

Physical Characteristics

River is literally made of water ... or she is a spirit inhabiting some water ... or something? The rules are just as fluid as she is.

For example, when River is active, the body of water that she is associated with usually remains in Gemini Park ... but it has also been known to go walkabout. Likewise, River can remain liquid when the water in the park is frozen solid, and vice versa (she usually wears winter clothes if she plans to be outdoors in freezing weather).

River has almost total control of the shape and behavior of the water that forms her body. Although she can change shape and even gender at will, River almost invariably takes the form of a short, slender girl with almond shaped eyes, pale blue skin, deep blue clothes (sometimes white), red hair, and a black tail. (the tail was added to match Azra's). Normally, she wears a sailor fuku type outfit, but she bundles up in the winter and has also been known to wear costumes for Halloween. It is possible to touch her "skin" or "clothing" (thanks to modified surface tension). It is also possible put your hand completely through her body with only ordinary water resistance. Or anywhere in-between.

River creates coloration (such as her red hair) by altering the refraction of the ambient light like a prism, and she makes parts of her surface more or less opaque by creating tiny vibrating wavelets to break up the surface. She can become "invisible" (i.e. transparent, exactly like you'd expect from a girl made of water) at will. This doesn't mean she's impossible to see, unless she's presently IN water as well as made from it, but it can make it a lot harder in some conditions. She thinks of her coloration as part of her clothing, and doesn't like to go transparent in public for no reason (She's not that kind of river!)

River has a pet fish named Jerry that can sometimes be seen swimming around inside her when she goes transparent, and it's hard to say whether her fish or her embarrasment at being "naked" is the bigger distraction. She also has been spotted with an unnamed lesser water spirit riding her left shoulder.

When she moves around, she tends to leave a rainbow in her wake.

OOC History

River and Azra in an early mission

After the Dauntless formed and began hanging out at The Spot (somewhat separate from the main RP site elsewhere in the park), and several of my fellow Gemini Park players had put characters in the group, I considered joining. Unfortunately, Usurper Dyne (my main) wasn't really magical in any way, and I didn't have any good ideas for something better, so it sat in the back of my head for awhile.

At some point in mid January, I'd decided to get involved with some light RP at The Spot. I'd already created Still Heart, but she hadn't yet solidified into an RP character, and as I recall didn't originally even have a magic origin. She was initially a Katana scrapper with a mutation origin (that version didn't last long; I rerolled her almost immediately).

In any case, I chose to poke a little friendly fun at the Daunts, so I came up with the idea of the "magical runoff" and created River to be irked by it as her introduction to the players. Though she's perfectly capable of walking on land, her habit was often to swim in the water near The Spot, listening in on whatever was going on. As such, River was usually parked near the Land Locked badge marker when offline, so she'd spawn in the water. She'd start off muttering or emoting about any nearby events that she found interesting (or annoying), and converse with people if anyone took particular notice of her. So pretty much just like any other Gemini Park roleplayer without an active story, aside from hanging out in the water.

River was originally rolled as a Kinetics/Dark Defender. The idea behind her Kinetics powerset was that rivers are used for transportation of goods, or in other words, moving things around. The Dark Blast set was simply because it was the closest thing that looked like water-based powers; even Tenebrous Tentacles seemed relevant. I simply decided that in order to produce water blasts and so forth, River could open portals to other bodies of water, such as the ocean abyss. This is why she had Teleportation as a travel power (though I could've easily justified superspeed instead) In Paragon Chat, she was given the Water Blast set instead.

Thanks to her primary set, River was later part of the formation of the all-Kinetic supergroup Kinetics Revolution. As I recall, Azra Acacia was created by Malevelyn's player partly for the purposes of joining this group (and partly just for general shenanigans arising from that character's concept).

Eventually, River became Dauntless herself.