Ariel Character Sheet

 

I miiigght do character info posts (at least for Ariel and Alice), but until then here’s some more info on Ariel :>

Creating Ariel:

Alongside Alice, Ariel is the main character of The Cosmic Presence. She was the first character to be designed, and I immediately feel in love with her design, first try no changes needed. I had an idea of making a character who would run a blog about Vigilantes and photograph them in a “journalist” type of way, while also secretly being a Vigilante herself, and because I was being self indulgent, I decided to make the story center around a doughnut shop (because doughnuts are my favorite desert and I wanted to do a cafe type thing). Her Vigilante form wouldn’t be designed until later, but I knew I wanted a pink haired design, and I wanted it to be both technological and Hermes based, because Hermes is the Greek god of connection, which is Ariel’s ability. “Connection” is also based off of Ariel’s photography hobby, I wanted it to be slightly technological so that it could somewhat represent her camera, which also ended up being her main “weapon.” Also fun fact about her name, she’s not based off of the Disney character in any way, but the name did come to mind because the longer part of her hair reminded me of a mermaid tail. Ariel also takes some slight inspiration from Sky, a early-season main character from Marvel’s Agents of Shield, who was a hacker who lived in her van and hacked into things by using cafe Wi-Fi in a back alley. While not purposeful, Ariel also lives in a van, as I was watching a lot of van renovation videos and realized it would be perfect for her since she works odd-jobs and at the being of the story is planning to travel to different places so she can learn more about the different Vigilante Factions.

Songs that feels the most representative of Ariel’s character-

•Strategy (TWICE)

•Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl (Chappell Roan)

•Coffee (Chappell Roan)

•Death by a thousand cuts (Taylor Swift)

•Cosmic Love (Florence + The Machine)

(Yes I did order them by her story timeline)

Other Information:

Abilities:

Connection-

Connection is the name used to represent Ariel’s power as a whole, however it is also what her main ability is called, however because Connection is due a rework (it’s a constant balancing game of making sure it’s not too OP while also making sure it’s still functional..) I will do my best to explain the general functions. 

While not transformed, Ariel can essentially scan anyone and gain information about them, such as their abilities and Vigilante identity, she can learn different information based on the connections she makes with said person, however there’s specific criteria that must be met for this ability to work properly (which is what I’m reworking). As Picturesque, however, Connection is much less finicky, so long as her camera is pointing at someone and recording them, she can use Connection to learn who they truly are and can view specific memories, once again, specific criteria must be met. Ariel is driven by a dangerous amount of curiosity, she enjoys learning about Vigilantes and what makes them tick, because of this she does not learn about them with bad intent, she simply wants to learn about them so she can post it on her blog as a way of sharing her wonder and never intends to reveal their identities. However her fatal flaw is that she doesn’t realize how much danger she can easily put them in, and because of this many Vigilantes don’t get along with her, most people wouldn’t want a camera pointed at them and most don’t know what she does with it, which leads to suspicion.

(I’m getting lazy and kinda just want to get all these posts out, so I might come back to this later 😅 You’ll know when the posts are fully finished (with additional text and all that) because I’ll have them in the link page by then)