BASICS

Your name or nickname: Marie
Your year of birth: 1992
A reliable DW account the mods can PM to reach you: loftarasa
Link to your hold comment: Here
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Character name: Octavia Blake
Character type: Fandom character
Fandom/Canon: The 100
Character DW journal: tectus
Does this character have previous CR?: No

HISTORY

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What is your canon exit point?: 4x12

PERSONALITY OVERVIEW

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PERSONALITY QUESTIONS

What skills does your character bring to the situation?

Why did you choose this specific character for 6I, and how do you picture them fitting into the game?

How do you imagine your character will survive in 6I, and in what ways will they contribute to the settlement, if any?

How will your character react to...

Being separated, possibly permanently, from loved ones and their previous life, including loss of powers, if applicable?

Their environment being manipulated, possibly in strange or extraordinary ways, and possibly in ways which restrain them?

Being physically and/or mentally manipulated, such as having hallucinations or suddenly possessing special abilities they did not have before?

POWERS & SPECIAL ABILITIES

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WRITING SAMPLES

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whinings

On the Ark there is a one child rule. It makes sense: oxygen is limited, supplies are tight, and they can't afford an overpopulation problem. As such, the breaking of this law (as with the breaking of all laws) is punishable by death, and the officials take it very, very seriously. Between random checks and ID cards, no one manages to keep these things under wraps for very long. In 2133 CE, Ark Year 81, Octavia Blake was born. She was Aurora Blake's second child. When the discovery of your existence means death for the woman who brought you into this world, it follows suit that your life would be spent largely shrouded in secrecy. Octavia literally lived under the floor, for the inspections at least, and for the first sixteen years she literally only interacted with her mother and older brother. Rough. Still, even if the teen years made that isolation a little more difficult to swallow, at least she was alive. More than anything she wanted to see the outside of the small quarters that the Blake family lived in. With her brother landing a job as part of the guard, that opportunity finally came shortly before her sixteenth birthday.

Every year the ark would hold a 'Unity Day celebration' commemorating the day where the 12 space stations joined together to make one ship, and the youth were allowed to hold a themed dance. In Ark Year 96 this dance was a masquerade theme, and with Bellamy's position on the guard they finally thought Octavia could have an evening to be around people her own age. The masks would come off at midnight, but she would be home by then. For a while it worked out too, she got to dance and laugh like a real kid. For a while everything was just like she'd dreamed - and then an unplanned solar flare changes things. The lights went on and the masks came off, and the guard caught her. Bellamy lost his job, Octavia was sent to prison, and their mother was floated for her crime. They lasted almost sixteen years - it was nearly a record.

After a year spent in juvenile lock up Octavia became part of the 100 sent to the Earth to see if it was inhabitable for human life once more. After finding out her brother snuck his way onto the Exodus ship, Octavia became the first Ark inhabitant to step foot on the ground - and was understandably ecstatic. A few of them set out towards Mount Weather - the place where their supplies are supposed to be - and Octavia goes along. After almost seventeen years held captive in one way or another, her chance to do something with her life was finally here. It backfired a little when she decided to be the first to take a little swim though, when some kind of giant snake-like creature promptly attacked her and meant she had to be saved by the other people on the mission. It wasn't enough to deter her, and she kept moving forward with them. Unfortunately that just meant she was there when the surviving inhabitants of the Earth that they'd previously thought non-existent attacked a member of the group for crossing the river. Jasper took a spear to the chest, and Octavia and the others had no choice but to make a break for it.

Left behind to recover from her wounds from the serpent while a group go out in search of Jasper, her brother left behind strict instructions to make sure Octavia couldn't a) leave the camp or b) get close to anyone ("Anyone who touches her answers to me"). Naturally that meant she did everything in her power to do both, finding a field of butterflies not too far from their camp. When another of the 100 discovered her there, she began to flirt with and eventually kissed him - just in time for her brother to catch them. He punished Atom for breaking his rules by tying him up in a tree for hours on end, and put an end to any budding relationship quickly. When a member of their group was killed, Octavia and Jasper were the ones who discovered the body. Octavia was one of the ones who aggravated the situation when they believed it was John Murphy (a particularly unpleasant delinquent), but later faltered along with many others when the real killer, a young girl, was discovered.

Tensions between her and her brother hit a new high when an emergency ship was sent from the Ark along with Raven Reyes, a mechanic working with a doctor and mother of one of the 100's leaders (Clarke Griffin) to find out if the Earth really was inhabitable. Bellamy snuck out to destroy any hope of communication, but Octavia followed him and during an argument found out he shot the Ark's Chancellor as way of paying for his spot on the ship. Furious, she stormed off, but on her way back to camp she stumbled and fell, knocking herself unconscious. When she awoke hours later, there was one of the Earth's natives, a Grounder, who brought her back to a cave to heal her wounds. Scared for her life, Octavia made a break for it the moment she can, but while the chaos of the Grounders fighting the group of 100 sent out to find her slowed her down, the Grounder who tried to help her initially caught up with her and took her back. Chained up, the camp members who found her (including her brother) reacted badly and tried to attack the Grounder, who retaliated by stabbing one and almost killing her brother too. They brought him back to the camp and began interrogating him to try and discover the antidote for the poisoned blade he used, but nothing worked until Octavia used the blade on herself to force him into revealing the antidote. She had to be the one to treat the Grounder's wound, which was when he revealed his name, Lincoln, to her.

Octavia let him go, and the two began a relationship of sorts. It was supposed to be a secret, but when one of the other campers discovered them their relationship was used to begin negotiations between the 100 and the Grounders. The plan was to send in just Clarke and the leader of the Grounders, a woman called Anya, but things didn't end up working out when both parties took more armed backup. The negotiations resulted in a firefight, and shortly after the Grounders began retaliation by sending in a banished member of their camp infected with a debilitating disease. Octavia was one of the people resistant to the strain, and Clarke took advantage of her relationship with Lincoln by sending Octavia to ask him for a cure. He asked her to run away with him instead - and she almost did - but when her brother came down with the same disease she decided to stay and broke off things with Lincoln, devastating them both. In a battle between the Grounders and the 100 Octavia fought with her people, but when she was hit by a poisoned arrow Lincoln took him with her instead, with Bellamy's blessing. He wanted to take her to the ocean, but the infection and spread of the poison in the wound worked too fast for him, forcing him instead to try to sneak into his old camp. Lincoln ended up being caught, and Octavia was forced to take a hostage to get him back. That plan backfired when Reapers, some of the other 'people' living on the Earth, kidnapped a handful of the Grounders, including Lincoln, but Octavia agreed to play bait to try and lure them back.

It didn't work, but Octavia seemed to have earned the grudging respect of some of the Grounders for the part she played in the recovery of some of their people, and Octavia was allowed to walk free. She found her people again, protecting her brother from an attack that came while they looked for signs of some of their missing friends. While she had been with the Grounders, the 100 had won the war, but a good portion of them had been kidnapped by the 'Mountain Men' (as called by the Grounders) and the ark had successfully landed on the surface of the Earth, reuniting them with the old population. After Clarke made it back from the mountain and told them that the Reapers were actually Grounders who had been experimented on in Mount Weather Octavia went with the group to try and recover Lincoln, who had already gone too far down the treatment.

She was there when they tried to bring him off of the drugs given to turn people into crazed killers, and stayed while Clarke went to use this possibility of treatment into brokering a final truce with the Grounders. Although Lincoln died for a few moments, they brought him back with a shock to the heart. It wasn't enough to make a total peace with the Grounders though, and they demand Finn, one of the 100, be brought to their camp for execution (While Clarke had been missing, he massacred 18 of their people hunting for her, including some Grounders that had become Octavia's friends). Octavia was one of the many watching at the fence as Clarke went in for a last attempt at saving Finn's life, and she watched as Clarke made the decision to give Finn a quick and painless death. It's at that point that Octavia was pulled to the Tranquility.

Upon returning to Earth Octavia was promptly dropped into the middle of a pretty huge shitshow. Clarke had just killed Finn, Raven was freaking out - most of the camp was - and Lincoln was still questionably alive at best. Turned out he made it through the worse just fine, though, and even though he didn't really want to talk about his Feelings and Experiences of being a cannibalistic drug addict (go figure) him and Octavia still kissed and made up. Later Finn's body was burned in a traditional Grounder ceremony, and all assumed peace was finally on the cards - until the peace dinner came around. Someone poisoned the Leader's wine and everyone freaked out a bit trying to find out who it was. Obviously Raven was accused owing to the fact that she basically didn't stop glaring at the commander ever, and Octavia tried her darndest to prevent some guy from dragging Raven off, but eventually Clarke figured out that it was the Commander's right hand man trying to get the Sky People killed. Because of this Clarke decided to send her right hand man (Bellamy) off on a dangerous mission to Mount Weather, and Lincoln decided to go with him. With her brother and main squeeze fighting the good fight Octavia obviously wanted to join in, but on account of her knowledge of both sides of the fragile alliance she was made to stay.

Turned out holding onto the alliance was harder than expected. Indra, the commander's new second in charge, brought a bunch of her squad to Camp Jaha but the divide was still obvious. Octavia tried to bridge the gap by asking to train with Indra, but was basically laughed away. In an attempt to prove that she was tougher than she looked Octavia insisted on picking a fight with one of the toughest looking guys in said squad, and in a true David and Goliath tale Octavia beat his ass to a pulp--

--except not really. She got her ass handed to her well and truly, and if Indra hadn't stepped in and stopped the fight he may well have killed Octavia. With a mouth full of blood and mud, practically passed out, she's going to wake back up in the Tranquility - and promptly wonder what the hell you guys did while she was gone??

All things considered, Octavia Blake has grown up remarkably well adjusted. Given that her only human interaction for almost sixteen years came from her mother and brother, it would be expected for her to be far more issue-ridden than she presents. Of course, that isn't to say that it's clear sailing for Octavia either. If there's anything that makes her less-than-normal formative years obvious it's her childish need to rebel. While this is something she begins to grow out of as the series progresses and circumstances necessitate it, the early days of her freedom are almost defined by this naive need to act out. She goes off on a dangerous mission just because she can, wanders out of camp to explore despite seeing someone get speared only days earlier, even deliberately trying to provoke arguments with her brother in retaliation for his attempts to curb her behaviour. The petty desire to define herself comes in large parts from the utter lack of definition throughout her childhood - after all, it's pretty hard to develop any personal sense of self when anything that can define you is removed from your environment. Without any external influences prior to being part of the 100 delinquents sent from the Ark, the freedom that Earth offers proves far too much for her to resist.

As a youth of less than seventeen as of her arrival time, it is also fair to assume that this natural tendency to rebel can be chalked up simply to age - given that she does seem to mostly grow out of it over the course of the season - especially considering this is the first time her rebellion hasn't carried a life sentence with it (or mostly, anyway). What teenager wouldn't push back against the rigid rules of an overprotective brother and overly cautious co-leader? For the first time in her life Octavia Blake has the chance to live, and God does she grab that chance with both hands.

With that rebellion comes a naivety. With sixteen years under the floor and an additional year in prison, Octavia hasn't seen a lot of anything, and though all of the 100 are naturally amazed by the new environment of Earth, everything is new to Octavia. It isn't hard to see why she is the one to wander off despite the obvious dangers their new home presents, and the look of pure wonder on her face as she finds herself surrounded by the wildlife (the butterflies, not the deadly serpents that bit her) are a stark reminder of that innocence she still possesses. It is a quality often forgotten in Octavia, one she tries to disguise with overly flirty mannerisms and a short temper (mostly when concerning her brother), but even as things get progressively worse for the 100 she retains this. Where in the early days her innocence presents itself as a wonder and amazement of the world around them, it later shines through in her trust and belief in the good in people.

Her relationship with the Grounder, Lincoln, is a perfect example of this. When they first meet she is understandably desperate to escape, assuming the worst after the rocky start her people have had with his. Despite this, she is quick to change her mind as she starts to understand that he is helping her, and by the time the group sent out to find her reach Lincoln's hide out she is already quick to defend him and his actions. Even when the life of one of the 100 is on the line Octavia is one of the only one to remain staunchly against torturing Lincoln, and after she uses their connection to save Finn's life she releases him in secret - directly going against her brother's very clear wishes for the sake of returning Lincoln's kindness.

Octavia is the first (and so far only) of the 100 to enter a relationship with one of the Grounders, and through her connection to Lincoln she ends up interacting with more of them on a far deeper level than any of her other people. When he is kidnapped Octavia enters the camp to try and negotiate a trade, and though they do not condone her actions it is clear that the Grounders come to respect her bravery - particularly the way she steps up and saves their leader while on the path of searching for Lincoln. It is Octavia who seems most affected by the massacre of the Grounders, moved to tears over one of the bodies, and if the new hairstyle she sports upon reunion with her brother is anything to go by, they've passed a couple of trade (or style) secrets onto her by the time she leaves them.

Ultimately the most important relationship in her life will always be her brother, though. Even though she has proven a willingness to go against his requests and wishes when she truly believes he is wrong, their life has all but revolved around one another. While this makes for a rather unhealthy co-dependency that leaves them both vulnerable to poor decision making and irrationality at times, it is noted several times throughout the series that several other characters are envious of the kind of bond that Bellamy and Octavia share. No one else from the Ark has siblings, and the Blake's share a relationship unique solely to them. it is shown time and time again that they would do just about anything for one another, risking life and limb to keep the other safe. While Bellamy tends to lock down into overprotective mode the moment he perceives a threat (read as: anyone within 10 feet of his sister) and Octavia practically jumps at the chance to push those boundaries he tries to set for her, it is very clear that deep down they love each other unconditionally, and nothing is too much to break their bond. After all, they've both made some pretty unpleasant choices since arriving on Earth.

That isn't to say that they always get along. in fact they can be outright vicious towards one another when rubbed the wrong way. Their particular brand of short-temperedness manifests itself in insults thrown far too fast that are nearly impossible to take back, and at one point they even both go as far as to blame their mother's death on one another, a fight that clearly takes an emotional toll on both of them. Some things just shouldn't be said, even when angry, and that is a line that really, never should have been crossed. Rough as it is, they do make up with time, heartfelt apologies ("I told you my life ended the day you were born, the truth is, it didn't start until then") and the inconvenient circumstance of being forced in each other's space every day, because it's a little hard to ignore someone who lives only a few feet from you. It does happen though, and eventually their relationship falls back into it's usual rhythm - i.e. Octavia doing everything in her power to do what she wants and her brother's exasperated attempts to try and keep her under control and alive.

Perhaps the reason why that fight is so tough on them both though, is because deep down both of the Blake siblings feel that the death of their mother falls squarely on their own shoulders. For Bellamy, it was his job to keep his sister secret and safe and he can't help but feel he has failed, and for Octavia...well, Octavia was born. Her whole time in prison was spent acutely aware of the fact that her mother was executed for making the choice to keep her, and she knows all too well that were it not for her existence her mother would still be alive. Self loathing is practically the Blake way, and Octavia is no exception - though her tendencies are far less destructive than her brother's, and ultimately she can see past the loss of her mother. Perhaps part of that is due to her tendency to avoid issues in favour of helping the people around her and focusing on just about anything else, but for whatever reason she is far better at coping with self-hatred than her older brother.

Octavia Blake is a complicated one, alright. In some ways she very much acts her age; this sheltered, naive little teenager that's barely begun to grow into herself, and then at other times she seems smarter than half the people around her. She's barely had a chance to interact with humans her whole life, and yet the moment she is presented with an opportunity to show compassion it is remarkable how large her heart can be. Since arriving on Earth her life has been nothing but one trial after the other, one tragic circumstance to follow the next, and yet she still manages to find it in her heart to believe in the best of people. For a lifetime shrouded in secrecy and constant proven cruelty, she is remarkably prone to showing mercy when others might not. Octavia Blake isn't a basket case, she's brave and stupid, irrational and intelligent, and she'll be damned if she lets whatever curveballs life throws at her take any of that away.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:

For all intents and purposes Octavia is a regular human being. Being born and brought up in space, her resistance to radiation is significantly higher than your average person, but beyond that there isn't any significant biological differences. While on the ground Octavia has picked up some important survival and basic first aid skills, including some hand to hand and weapon-based fighting skills that has made her able to stand her own in the tough terrain on Earth. (Also, she's well on her way to becoming bilingual?)

Inventory:

any of this can be taken away, but if possible i'd like to have her previous tq inventory, which was:
→ a flask of moonshine
→ a machete
→ an ark-issued transmittor wrist band (defunct)
→ a black jacket
→ a dark purple tank top
→ one pair black jeans
→ a brown belt
→ a jar of charcoal eyeliner
→ a shock baton
→ one pair black cargo pants

Species/Race: Human (albeit far better at withstanding radiation but still very human).
Appearance:

Played by Marie Avgeropoulos, Octavia is for all intents and purposes your 'average' TV teen - thin, pretty, with long brown hair and light green eyes. She stands around a similar height as the other girls she was sent to Earth with, 5'5", and has started to wear her hair in an intricate braided fashion that is, honestly, pretty similar looking to Legolas in the Lord of the Rings films*. (I don't think they have those in space, but who knows). Given the nature of their life, she's always more than a little grimy and bloody these days, and has very quickly stopped being so concerned with her personal appearance as a result. Don't expect that to last with the introduction of running water and hot showers, though. As of her canon point Octavia has a pretty messed up face, arriving in-game with a severely bruised and beaten face and body, with a split lip, cut up cheek and black eyes. It's a lovely sight.

(* seriously though it's ridiculous)

Age: 17

AU Clarification:

Octavia will be returning to Ataraxion with her previous in-game memories! Although she didn't spend an extensive amount of time on the ship during her first run (four months to be exact) it didn't make the experience any less emotionally taxing. The main events she went through were a fear-based Boggart plot that saw her worst nightmares come to life in front of her - at one stage she had to literally kill the manifestation of her drug-addled cannibalistic brother to save her actual brother's life - and the arrival of the DUPRR npcs and subsequent rescue. Overall it was a pretty unpleasant time, between events she saw her brother depart the ship and the toll it took was significant to say the least, but the most important distinction during her time here was that Octavia actually made friends.

As mentioned in her history Octavia has spent a large portion of her life in complete isolation, and her only experience outside of this has been a) in prison and b) dropped onto a post-apocalyptic Earth with 100 of the inmates in said prison. Until her arrival on the Tranquility Octavia had a severely limited social circle, and her close relationships had been pretty much limited to her brother, the groups unofficial leader and her new grounder boyfriend. Arriving on the ship changed that massively, and while she was pretty damn miserable about being in space, the relationships that developed made it a hell of a lot easier. The Octavia that emerged was a much more social one, able to and willing to reach out to others for assistance with far less hesitation, and ultimately it had an overall positive effect on her. Although her canon update will slightly affect some of that development (getting your ass handed to you for the sake of a stupid alliance will make you a little salty) the regain of her Tranquility memories will hugely assist in the transition from being on the ground to the new setting.

S A M P L E S
Log Sample:

It's the alarms that wake her up first. There's a dull drone swimming somewhere in the background and she half-wonders if something has happened to the wreck of the Ark to make this happen. She goes to furrow her brows, realises her jaw aches, and promptly becomes very suddenly aware of the tube jammed down her throat again. Her eyes fly open and she immediately regrets the move, because for a split second before the pod drains and deposits her on the opposite wall there's clear blue fluid swimming around her eyeballs. Disgusting.

Octavia lands without much ceremony and quickly realises that she's naked, but that isn't nearly so big a problem as whatever the hell is going on in the ship. The memories aren't quite all there yet, edging through the haze in little chunks of significant moments rather than all in a rush, but she knows that this is the medical bay, and she knows that it's the wall she's sitting on right now, not the floor. Something is clearly very wrong with the place.

"Hey," she calls out loudly, voice rough, and she clears her throat before trying again, "hey! Come on, this is f-"

There's no need to start cursing, and besides all the shouting hurts like hell. Octavia falls silent momentarily with a scrunched up face and a hand to her jaw, but that lasts all of three seconds before she grits her teeth and drags herself up off of the floor. There'll be someone around here, surely, and she'll get answers however she has to.

(It should be noted that the concept of her strongarming anyone right now is laughable, but god knows don't tell her that. If anything the injuries are just making her more determined.)

"Hey! Someone's around here, right?"

The lack of response is surprising, the jumps have always been thriving with people, but rather than wait Octavia just turns her attention to finding clothing. It's not a huge priority, but it's always a little nicer to demand answers with your parts covered.

Comms Sample: this sample is gold tbqh you can have it again.

So, listen.

[ octavia loves the network a little too much, it has to be said, but she isn't really one for making announcements of her own. part of that is not having anything to say, part of that is trying to subtly use it as a way of getting a read on other people - and in turn not revealing too much about herself. enough time has passed though, and she has a plan for getting to know a little more dirt on the people she's stuck with up here in space, and she's done a lot of prep work for her first transmission.

she's prettied herself up, no sign of the girl that had tumbled out of the grav pod hyperventilating. all that was left to resemble that girl was the scars across her cheek and slightly split lip. she's all smiles as the video switches on, and she starts the feed with a little wave. ]

I've been here for what- [ she pauses briefly as though counting on her fingers before shrugging casually and continuing ] some time now, and I've just realised I've never had a really good chance to get to know any of you. Ridiculous, right? So I was thinking, let's play a little game. Truth, truth, lie, you've probably heard of it. It'll be fun, right?

[ she pauses to dig into her bag and pull out an unmarked bottle, and she shakes it a little before directing her attention back to the feed. ]

If you need a little encouragement, I've got a little of Monty's moonshine to loosen people's tongue. Come see what us Sky People drink to have fun.

[ with a cheeky little grin, and a calculated wink that suggested just the right amount of flirty, she signs off. ]

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