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Description
OC-training Round 7, Task 2.
Body Type/Profile: Draw your character in their underwear showing scars, markings, tattoos and anatomy. Also include 4 basic expressions. Optionally you can add a three word personality description and a theme song/tune.

In the shortest terms possible, Aesha was caught in a rift from another dimension and physically changed. She gained what some people might call a superpower but it's actually a horrible curse. She can never learn to control it and shes a danger to everyone around her, having accidentally killed or crippled people.
Find the full explaination of Task 1; Guess Who at the end of the description.

DESCRIPTION:
Here we have one of the initial physical exams carried out on Aesha by the scientists and doctors.
As a result of the changes inflicted by exposure to the other realm, as you can see in the main picture, her stomach and associated organs have atrophied meaning that her waist/torso seems anorexic in appearance. It's also resulted in a loss of approximately 15% of her body mass, though she remains healthy otherwise.

The only real giveaway of her nature is her eyes. Each eye changes colour completely randomly and individually, lasting between one and three minutes. Seeing her with two different coloured eyes is disconcerting enough, but when one changes in front of you, it's more so.

The attached X-Ray shows the shrivelled nature of her former organs, she no longer needs to eat or drink, gaining energy from the colour she absorbs. In fact it's difficult for her to eat or drink more than a mouthful or two. The highlighted organ is actually a new organ that has replaced them and processes the energy and turns it into bodily fuel.

You can read the scientist's full report here AP 0112 - Initial Report (Aesha Task 2 Part 2)
And if you're wondering about the AP-0112 bit. All the effected people were found to have been changed in some manner. Collectively they were labeled as Altered-Persons (AP). The number is Aesha's identifier. She was the 112th person examined. And yes the clothing does look sort of prison/Guantamello Bay, doesn't it. After all you can't have those nasty AP's mixing with real people, or sneaking out.

TASK 1; GUESS WHO - EXPLAINED.

As most of you surmised, it was picture of two halves The past and the present/future.
The past was drawn on shards of broken glass, representing the shattering of Aesha's life during The Event. Previously, Aesha had a good, loving family and was particularly close to her younger sister who was nicknamed Poppi. However, she found the strictures of Indian culture, at least for girls, to be unfair; one in particular but I'll cover that in a later task. (I can't give away everything yet ). She rebelled by drinking hard and partying harder, often ending in love of the one-night type. Which tarnished her reputation among the staid Indian community. Which was kind of the point.
She was studying at university, majoring in Art and Sculpture as she had a talent for it, but little actual interest. The sculpting, like the University, was a means to an end.

This all ended with The Event which I couldn't really fit in here with everything else
The Event was an explosion at Newcastle University where she attended. But it wasn't just any explosion, it was an experiment gone terribly wrong. The explosion ripped a hole in space-time to an alternate dimension. A dimension that was nothing like ours. Where the very laws of physics and nature were completely different and foreign.

Of the 1300 or so students and faculty caught at ground zero, 317 survived the initial event. Exposure to the other dimension changed everyone radically. All the males, bar 3, died. Generally horribly and in pain. Some were never found. Some remains were so twisted as to be unrecognisable, right down to a DNA level. Something on that side reacted badly to the male genome. Of the 314 female survivors, all came back... changed. The media have thrown around the word superpowers, at least before the media blackout, but it's more like a curse. More than half of the survivors were killed by some factor of their new ability. The others were left with an ability that they had no way of Ever learning to control, all of which were unique and usually dangerous to themselves and others.

Aesha and 4 of her friends escaped the ruins of the university and sealed off the rift in an act of self-presevervation. The military then swooped in and quarantined the whole area. Locking all the survivors in a 'Hospital' where they could be 'protected and eventually cured'. Or basically tested like lab rats.
Eventually Aesha and 2 of her friends broke out and went on the run.

Aesha's curse is that she drains the colour from everything around her. Which doesn't sound terrible until you realise that in doing so she sucks out the objects... or person's energy until they literally come apart at a molecular level, turning into ash. And she can't turn it off. Ever. And though it's generally little more than background radiation, it can spike without warning disintergrating everything around her, so far measured up to a maxmum of 15' in all directions.

She has accidentally killed at least one person and crippled one of the researchers (Simon, in the wheelchair). She also once used it to destroy someone on purpose. Someone she knew. And though she had absolutely no choice, it still haunts her.

Oh, and in case there is someone out there I haven't linked it to, here is a 3 page short story that introduces Aesha and her world; Requiem For A Ghost

Description
OC-training Round 7, Task 2.
Body Type/Profile: Draw your character in their underwear showing scars, markings, tattoos and anatomy. Also include 4 basic expressions. Optionally you can add a three word personality description and a theme song/tune.

In the shortest terms possible, Aesha was caught in a rift from another dimension and physically changed. She gained what some people might call a superpower but it's actually a horrible curse. She can never learn to control it and shes a danger to everyone around her, having accidentally killed or crippled people.
Find the full explaination of Task 1; Guess Who at the end of the description.

DESCRIPTION:
Here we have one of the initial physical exams carried out on Aesha by the scientists and doctors.
As a result of the changes inflicted by exposure to the other realm, as you can see in the main picture, her stomach and associated organs have atrophied meaning that her waist/torso seems anorexic in appearance. It's also resulted in a loss of approximately 15% of her body mass, though she remains healthy otherwise.

The only real giveaway of her nature is her eyes. Each eye changes colour completely randomly and individually, lasting between one and three minutes. Seeing her with two different coloured eyes is disconcerting enough, but when one changes in front of you, it's more so.

The attached X-Ray shows the shrivelled nature of her former organs, she no longer needs to eat or drink, gaining energy from the colour she absorbs. In fact it's difficult for her to eat or drink more than a mouthful or two. The highlighted organ is actually a new organ that has replaced them and processes the energy and turns it into bodily fuel.

You can read the scientist's full report here AP 0112 - Initial Report (Aesha Task 2 Part 2)
And if you're wondering about the AP-0112 bit. All the effected people were found to have been changed in some manner. Collectively they were labeled as Altered-Persons (AP). The number is Aesha's identifier. She was the 112th person examined. And yes the clothing does look sort of prison/Guantamello Bay, doesn't it. After all you can't have those nasty AP's mixing with real people, or sneaking out.

TASK 1; GUESS WHO - EXPLAINED.

As most of you surmised, it was picture of two halves The past and the present/future.
The past was drawn on shards of broken glass, representing the shattering of Aesha's life during The Event. Previously, Aesha had a good, loving family and was particularly close to her younger sister who was nicknamed Poppi. However, she found the strictures of Indian culture, at least for girls, to be unfair; one in particular but I'll cover that in a later task. (I can't give away everything yet ). She rebelled by drinking hard and partying harder, often ending in love of the one-night type. Which tarnished her reputation among the staid Indian community. Which was kind of the point.
She was studying at university, majoring in Art and Sculpture as she had a talent for it, but little actual interest. The sculpting, like the University, was a means to an end.

This all ended with The Event which I couldn't really fit in here with everything else
The Event was an explosion at Newcastle University where she attended. But it wasn't just any explosion, it was an experiment gone terribly wrong. The explosion ripped a hole in space-time to an alternate dimension. A dimension that was nothing like ours. Where the very laws of physics and nature were completely different and foreign.

Of the 1300 or so students and faculty caught at ground zero, 317 survived the initial event. Exposure to the other dimension changed everyone radically. All the males, bar 3, died. Generally horribly and in pain. Some were never found. Some remains were so twisted as to be unrecognisable, right down to a DNA level. Something on that side reacted badly to the male genome. Of the 314 female survivors, all came back... changed. The media have thrown around the word superpowers, at least before the media blackout, but it's more like a curse. More than half of the survivors were killed by some factor of their new ability. The others were left with an ability that they had no way of Ever learning to control, all of which were unique and usually dangerous to themselves and others.

Aesha and 4 of her friends escaped the ruins of the university and sealed off the rift in an act of self-presevervation. The military then swooped in and quarantined the whole area. Locking all the survivors in a 'Hospital' where they could be 'protected and eventually cured'. Or basically tested like lab rats.
Eventually Aesha and 2 of her friends broke out and went on the run.

Aesha's curse is that she drains the colour from everything around her. Which doesn't sound terrible until you realise that in doing so she sucks out the objects... or person's energy until they literally come apart at a molecular level, turning into ash. And she can't turn it off. Ever. And though it's generally little more than background radiation, it can spike without warning disintergrating everything around her, so far measured up to a maxmum of 15' in all directions.

She has accidentally killed at least one person and crippled one of the researchers (Simon, in the wheelchair). She also once used it to destroy someone on purpose. Someone she knew. And though she had absolutely no choice, it still haunts her.

Oh, and in case there is someone out there I haven't linked it to, here is a 3 page short story that introduces Aesha and her world; Requiem For A Ghost