Claim: Toda Erika Player's Name: Mashka Character's Name: Toda Erika (yes, another Erika 8DDb) Character's IJ:todalie Nationality: Japanese What are they from? Actress Human/Mutant/Vampire: Mutant Ability: negating other mutants’ powers Background: Born in Japan, Erika was raised by her grandparents, after her parents moved to the States because of her dad’s job when she was only four. Visiting them for summer and winter breaks, when she turned 18 she finally moved to New York where they lived, determined to live on her own. She still had to rely on their money for the first couple of months but after finding a job and finally settling, she doesn’t meet them more often than before, preferring to make a phone call weekly instead of driving across the city.
She is now 21 years old, sharing a small apartment in Brooklyn with a couple of girls she met through an advertisement. They are not really close but they get along. She’s also taking classes in psychology, and working as a freelance Japanese-English translator and interpreter for a small company downtown, occasionally doing modeling for travel or fashion catalogs, when they need something exotic, as they call it.
Her grandfather was the Sensei of a little aikido school so she has a white belt in it, enough just to protect herself if it's really necessary. Erika is a quiet girl, often appearing mature and cold, sometimes silly and nice, maybe a little weird and absent-minded, too, but never rude. You never know what happens in her little head while she looks at you with a faint smile.
She is not aware of her ability, yet. Her natural state is negating the powers of other mutants and she hasn’t made direct contact with mutants who would reveal her power to her. Erika’s had this strange feeling of a presence, an aura a couple of times back home and also in New York like that time at a pizza restaurant she visited once. It didn’t feel unpleasant to her at all, just different and it intrigued her but as she couldn’t explain it, she assigned it to her wild imagination. If she reveals her power, she could learn to control it and selectively negate mutant powers but for a limited amount of time since it’d require effort and concentration on her side.
Preferred RP Style: both is fine. Over IJ. I don’t have AIM..I have MSN but I don’t really use it. So yes, IJ. ^^ Anything Else: I tried to keep it short this time heh ^^;; And I’m taking the last mutant spot :O