Impetuous Cinder

Name: Impetuous Cinder
Age: 17
Exaltation/Caste: Solar / Zenith Caste
Affiliations: None

Bio:
Nexus is not kind to children. Impetuous Cinder and her brother Daring Raid grew up in the worst hive of extortion and scum in most of Creation, but it was hard to hate it when they didn't have a frame of reference for what life could have been like. They stole what they needed to to get by, tricked (relatively, for Nexus) innocent people out of their (relative, for Nexus) kindness, and broke whatever was necessary to keep going. While they never knew peace, they knew content. Largely because Cinder was very good at con games, and Raid was a fantastic thief.

One day, Raid came home with warm meat and fresh bread. A lucky haul! Then another, then another... Cinder began to suspect something was up, but when she confronted her brother about this, he deflected the question. After a few weeks of living like they had a real home, she followed him to find out where he was going. She'd never expected him to be working for a Guild benefactor, and when she busted in on the meeting, the retribution was immediate. The hired muscle stepped forward and knocked her delirious with a single swing. Raid stepped forward to defend his sister, but immediately incurred the full wrath of a Guildsman scorned.

When Cinder came to, she was in a basement. Dust, hay, some old tools...the door was locked, and she heard someone whimpering in the corner. When she finally made it over, to her horror, the young woman realized it was her brother. He was whimpering because he was now missing a hand, and considering there was no tourniquet for the wound, he'd likely die slowly due to infection or blood loss. She could not. Take it. Any more. Holding her dying brother in her arms, tears of rage and loss streamed down her face, and her vision blurred. At first she thought it to be just tears, but in the following moments a bright light started shining in the room.

The light of the Unconquered Sun filled her vision, and when he parted his perfect lips and spoke in a flawless voice, she listened intently. "This world is sick. This is but a symptom of its illness. Go forth, and use my light to burn back the darkness. Change the hearts of the people not through empty words, but by glorious deeds." One of his four arms raised, and he pressed his palm to her forehead. "Be my Hammer of Heaven, upon the wicked and unjust. Step forward, Pillar of the Sun, and embrace my call."

Raid, a street rat child in his dying moments, could but stare in awe at this display. Cinder stood tall to accept her destiny, and as the vision of her divine patron faded from the room, it was once more filled with sunlight...this time from one very pissed off Zenith. Impetuous Cinder bashed down the door keeping the two children locked away and unleashed holy rage and vengeance on the Guildsmen who had harmed her brother. Nothing but blood and death was left in her wake, so great was her rush of power, but she had taken too long to exact her revenge. By the time she returned to Raid, he had minutes left to die slowly in her arms.

Empowered by hatred and, now, the light of the Unconquered Sun, Cinder set forth to make things right. Her the world was ill, and Nexus was one of its greatest cancers. She would cut out every tumor with holy fire and lead the people to a shining tomorrow, or she would die trying.

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Appearance:
A young woman who is growing up very quickly, Impetuous Cinder is of relatively average height and build for a Scavenger Lands woman. Her blonde hair is extremely long, growing well past the small of her back and wildly untamed like golden fire. Her eyes have a somewhat uncommon lavender hue to them, perhaps a result of mixed heritage that she'll probably never figure out. Despite her age, Cinder has matured very quickly, and is easily one of the most stunningly gorgeous (and uncomfortably sensual) women in Nexus.

Nexus is a very rich place, and Cinder has managed to steal reclaim some impressive riches from sacking the Guild. Her orichalcum gauntlets can collapse down to slightly more discrete golden bracelets and make fine manipulation easier but they have to be extended to be used in combat. Her outfit (if you could even call that an outfit) is, likewise, essence spider silk. It's all the rage nowadays.

Cinder's anima effects might leave her easy to confuse for a Fire Aspect if it wasn't for the shimmering golden disk displayed on her forehead whenever she manifests it. Each strike is surrounded in the searing white-yellow flames of the sun, and her anima explodes into a full solar inferno when iconic. It isn't hard at all to find her.

Potential Plot Hooks:
- If it happens in Nexus, chances are either Cinder or the fear that she might show up affect it in some way. In a short time, she's gone from a nobody street kid into the self-proclaimed savior of the city. Her visions from the Unconquered Sun sometimes send her away for weeks, which is a great chance for the legitimate businesspeople to get something done without the risk of having their operations literally dismantled by a crazy girl.

- Cinder is a Zenith, and infrequently receives premonitions in her dreams. None of these will ever truly replace her hatred for the Guild and all of its works, but she's been known to show up in strange places, wandering around seemingly at random because she thinks something might happen. As a result, she's also not an uncommon sight for newly-Exalted Solars.

- Though Cinder is a great many things, subtle is not one of them. She blows more Essence in gaudy displays of power than any Solar trying to keep a low profile rightly should, and tends to be a bit of a magnet for the Realm's negative attention. It's only a matter of time until Nexus concedes to let the Immaculate Order conduct a full-scale inquisition into their city to rid them of the shiny, golden thorn in their side.

Past RPs:
Character Questionnaire - 5xp