Post by Elusion on Oct 27, 2021 22:07:26 GMT
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Name: Cory Carrick
Date of Birth: September 17th, 1994
Gender: Female
Alias: Elusion
I never got into any trouble I couldn't get out of.
And trust me - it wasn't for lack of trying.
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't a bad kid. I stayed out of any real trouble. But if you grow up with the ability to be completely intangible, well, you're going to test your limits. Yes, I can take things with me - anything I can wear or carry - but not more than that. I swiped a few candy bars here and there, sure - but I never took cash or anything really valuable. Mostly I just got into places I wasn't supposed to be. Concerts - a lot of concerts. When you're a broke teenager and tickets are over a hundred bucks a pop, you look for other options, all right? I snuck into the teachers' offices a few times if I needed to slide my homework into the pile after the period. Might have disposed of a detention slip once - in my defense, I didn't deserve it in the first place.
Still, it was really just stupid kid stuff. For all real purposes, I played it pretty straight. I went to college, got a doctorate in marine biology. Had a couple weird people from the government scouting me a couple years back for some project - "MIRROR" or something like that, I don't know. Government types like their acronyms even more than marine biologists. I turned it down, though. They weren't interested in me, just in what I could do. That wasn't the sort of job I was looking for - which is why I'm currently employed as a marine biologist studying invertebrates, making barely over minimum wage when you factor in all the overtime I put in. I guess you could say I've settled down in my old age - which is 27, for the record. Positively decrepit, I know.
I spend most of my days with sea cucumbers, which I like a lot more than people. I think the best thing about being intangible is that I can go down there, under the water. As near as I can tell, nothing can hurt me when I'm like that. I don't need to breathe. The pressure can't crush me. My boss can't ask me why I haven't filled in Form 297-C012 yet.
Don't worry, I'll sneak into his office later and hide it under a stack of papers and tell him I gave it to him yesterday. See, all that practice in high school was good for something after all.
Other than the one trick, though, I'm not that special. I don't have super speed or super strength or super butt-kicking or anything like that. I'm just untouchable, when I want to be. And I know an awful lot about nudibranchs. I'm pretty sure that's not related, though. Sometimes I tell people I got my ability by having a radioactive sea cucumber spew its intestines on me, but only the marine biologists think it's actually funny.
Sea cucumbers don't have much of a sense of humor.
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Date of Birth: September 17th, 1994
Gender: Female
Alias: Elusion
I never got into any trouble I couldn't get out of.
And trust me - it wasn't for lack of trying.
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't a bad kid. I stayed out of any real trouble. But if you grow up with the ability to be completely intangible, well, you're going to test your limits. Yes, I can take things with me - anything I can wear or carry - but not more than that. I swiped a few candy bars here and there, sure - but I never took cash or anything really valuable. Mostly I just got into places I wasn't supposed to be. Concerts - a lot of concerts. When you're a broke teenager and tickets are over a hundred bucks a pop, you look for other options, all right? I snuck into the teachers' offices a few times if I needed to slide my homework into the pile after the period. Might have disposed of a detention slip once - in my defense, I didn't deserve it in the first place.
Still, it was really just stupid kid stuff. For all real purposes, I played it pretty straight. I went to college, got a doctorate in marine biology. Had a couple weird people from the government scouting me a couple years back for some project - "MIRROR" or something like that, I don't know. Government types like their acronyms even more than marine biologists. I turned it down, though. They weren't interested in me, just in what I could do. That wasn't the sort of job I was looking for - which is why I'm currently employed as a marine biologist studying invertebrates, making barely over minimum wage when you factor in all the overtime I put in. I guess you could say I've settled down in my old age - which is 27, for the record. Positively decrepit, I know.
I spend most of my days with sea cucumbers, which I like a lot more than people. I think the best thing about being intangible is that I can go down there, under the water. As near as I can tell, nothing can hurt me when I'm like that. I don't need to breathe. The pressure can't crush me. My boss can't ask me why I haven't filled in Form 297-C012 yet.
Don't worry, I'll sneak into his office later and hide it under a stack of papers and tell him I gave it to him yesterday. See, all that practice in high school was good for something after all.
Other than the one trick, though, I'm not that special. I don't have super speed or super strength or super butt-kicking or anything like that. I'm just untouchable, when I want to be. And I know an awful lot about nudibranchs. I'm pretty sure that's not related, though. Sometimes I tell people I got my ability by having a radioactive sea cucumber spew its intestines on me, but only the marine biologists think it's actually funny.
Sea cucumbers don't have much of a sense of humor.