Post by DM: Dersite Merchant on Jun 4, 2010 17:47:28 GMT -5
Full Name: Paula Polestar
Nicknames: Pokey probably thinks she's the devil by now
Age: 10-13
Height: Short
Weight: Light
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Alliance: Good
Home: Twoson, Eagleland
Franchise: Mother/EarthBound (specifically, Mother 2/EarthBound One)
Physical Description: Paula has blue eyes and short blond hair. She wears a pink dress with a white collar and belt, dark pink shoes, and white socks.
Weapons: That frying pan of hers has some pretty deadly potential as a weapon... especially when used in conjunction with PK Fire.
Abilities/Powers: Paula boasts a number of PSI techniques, mostly elemental-based offensive PSI. Techniques she is shown to be able to use in the game are as follows: Defense Down, Offense Up, Telepathy, PK Fire, PK Freeze, PSI Magnet, PSI Shield, and PK Thunder. Paula taught a good number of these not only to Ness for the Smash Brothers games but to a classmate of Jeff's named Rico who revealed he was a psychic as well; Ness taught her some of the defensive PSI he knew in return, though she's not as good at them as he is. Another ability of Paula's that works with her Telepathy and shows just how powerful a psychic she really is allows her to send messages across vast distances to "friends whom she has never met." she's also been known to have glimpses of the future in her dreams. However, she doesn't seem capable of learning the one PSI technique that comes from the caster's heart named after their favorite thing.
Skills: Paula is good at arts and crafts, children's games, and keeping an eye on small tykes as she helps her parents run the local preschool and is quite popular with the kids there. And while her PSI in itself counts more as a power, her resourcefulness and control with it is definitely a skill and one that has certainly made hers a household name around town. She also has the highest score in Street Fobbies in the local area.
Personality: Paula is a kind soul and loving of all Earth's creatures. But Beware The Nice One should you harm any said creatures in any way, particularly the Mr. Saturns whom she's grown fond of. She is particularly fond of Ness and becomes jealous when he looks at other woman, such as the zombie girl in Threed. And, while she is particularly frightening towards wicked people, she's quick to forgive those who feel genuine remorse for their actions, such as Mr. Monotoli. Paula harbors a particular dislike towards Pokey, both for the horrible things he's done (starting with, of course, kidnapping her) and for the rotten way he talks to Ness.
History: Paula is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Polestar of Polestar Preschool. She attended her parents' preschool and had been signed up for home schooling in the years that followed; Paula has since helped out around the school. It was around when Paula was 8 when she was helping her mother in the kitchen and her mom had to step out to break up a fight between two of the preschoolers. A series of subtle, easily overlooked safety hazards, however, led to the start of a grease fire that cornered poor Paula as it spread. As her panicking dad rushed around to find the fire extinguisher, the fire closed in ready to take her life... when she did something rather peculiar. Almost as if by instinct, Paula reached out her hands and sprayed out a mist of psychic ice. The news that Paula had psychic powers spread through Twoson like the wildfire that unlocked them, and she became quite popular amongst her fascinated neighbors. Her curious parents then began reading into this strange power called PSI to better understand what their daughter could now do.
One of the most prominent abilities she learned as telepathy, allowing her to read people's minds and project her own thoughts back. Paula's parents found a small so-called "novelty trinket" at a thrift store their research said was actually called a Franklin Badge, which could deflect lightning-based attacks; they gave it to her for her protection. Not long after unlocking her potential for PSI, Paula began having odd prophetic dreams depicting her going on a long journey to battle an evil that threatened the Earth with three other forechosen individuals. Her parents were left worried at first, but they began to accept it as time wore on. Although the dreams were fuzzy on detail, she knew her journey would begin when she met the leader of the Chosen Four, a psychic boy who introduced himself as Ness. Eventually, the dreams began getting stronger, and she knew it was a sign the time was coming. One day, she was out buying her mother groceries when she was ambushed and kidnapped by a cultist and a portly kid...
Paula didn't know where she was, but she knew she was kidnapped on the orders of Carpainter, a strange cult leader who could control lightning, and whatever they wanted her for could not be good. Wherever she was, she could hear running water in the distance. Paula knew she needed help to escape, and therefore it was time to meet the leader of the prophesied Chosen Four, Ness. When Ness was already on his journey to collect the eight strange melodies that would somehow help him beat the evil (given the name Giygas), Paula began telepathically calling out to him for help, and he eventually tracked her down to a place called Happy-Happy Village, home of the bizarre blue-loving "religion", Happy Happyism. Armed with Paula's Franklin Badge, Ness challenged Carpainter for the key to Paula's cage and won, and Paula joined Ness in his journey. Before leaving Happy-Happy Village, Ness and Paula visited a "sanctuary" location that contained the second melody and fought the giant mole that guarded it from him. Paula was nerely knocked out by the mole, but it instead attacked and reduced her teddy bear to a pile of fluff.
The two then attended a concert by the music group the Runaway Five before paying off the band's large debt to the theater with a large wad of cash the local crimelord Everdred suspiciously gave them. In return, the band drove the two to Threed, the haunted town where they'd supposedly meet their third party member. It was there that the two were ambushed by zombies, when a scandally-clad, not-rotting-just-yet zombie woman managed to seduce Ness to Paula's great chagrin. When Ness and Paula awoke locked underground, Paula decided it was time to all their third party member just as she called their first and sent an S.O.S. to Jeff Andonuts of Winters. Within a day or so, Jeff arrived via crash-landing in a UFO-type vehicle and managed to release his new allies from their prison. Together, the Chosen Three managed to trap all the zombies in town, rescue a local tribe of creatures called Mr. Saturns from the zombies' leader, Master Belch, and acquire the third melody.
After leaving the de-haunted Threed as local heroes, the Chosen Three crossed Dusty Dunes Desert (with a number of interesting hijinks along the way, some caused by the heat messing with their brains) and made it to the big city of Fourside. Upon reaching the city, they found the very portly boy who helped kidnap Paula--Pokey (or Porky, depending on who you ask) Minch, who was supposedly Ness's neighbor. To their surprise, Pokey had somehow managed to worm his way into position of Mayor Monotoli's advisor. Paula was quick to note how rudely he talked down to Ness, which only added to her list of reasons to hate him. Deciding to ignore him, however, they went on to check out the rest of the city; this included saving the Runaway Five from an even bigger debt with a diamond they were given by minors they'd saved from five more giant moles (long story). The next stop was the newly opened department store, where the took the time to unwind from their adventure and have fun. But that fun was cut short when a strange mook creature infiltrated the store and captured Paula right from under Ness's nose.
Ness was so furious at both the mook and himself, he ultimately obliterated the mook in a fit of psychic rage. His quest to find her ultimately led him and Jeff into a trippy battle with the Mani-Mani Statue, the golden statue Giygas had influenced Carpainter through. Paula, meanwhile, was held at Mr. Monotoli's penthouse where she began to see his remorse for everything he'd done. She helped Monotoli find the good in himself, and in return he let her deliver an odd device called the "Pencil Eraser" to Ness when she had a vision that he would need it. When Ness finally arrived, Paula was only just able to talk Ness out of beating Monotoli senseless for her kidnapping. Monotoli admitted he had dreams that he was to prevent Ness and company from reaching Summers, and he rebelled from those dark orders by giving the three his private helicopter to get there by. Unfortunately, Pokey got to it first and gloated from the sky before Ness finally got the courage to stand up to him and shut him up.
In order to make it to Summers without Monotoli's helicopter, the three headed back for Threed (again with the Runaway Five's help) where Jeff was able to get his flying vehicle, the Sky Runner, working just enough to get it back to his father's lab. There, they met Dr. Andonuts, acquired the fourth melody, and Ness and Paula started a more intimate relationship. By then, Dr. Andonuts had fixed up the Sky Runner to get them to Summers, though it just ended up crashing into a scrap heap on the beach when they got there. After an incident involving "magic cake" (don't ask), their fourth party member, Prince Poo of Dalaam, arrived to join them. The adventure that continued involved defeating mummies for important hieroglyphics, backtracking to Fourside to acquire the fifth melody and to Dalaam for the sixth, and getting a special artifact from Scaraba to light the way through Deep Darkness. Before heading in, Poo had to leave to train in an advanced PSI technique called "Starstorm."
Ness, Paula, and Jeff entered Deep Darkness and ran into relatively little trouble as they traversed it... That is, until they met up with their old enemy Master Belch, who had been enhanced by the muck of the swamp to become Master Barf. Without the advantages they had before, it seemed to the three that they would lose the battle until Poo arrived to defeat Barf with his new Starstorm move. The reunited gang made it to a cave of small creatures called Tenda who were too shy to talk to them. Hoping to get their help, the gang traveled again to Winters where they hoped to find Twoson's young inventor Apple Kid with Jeff's dad, as the young inventor supposedly had a library book on overcoming shyness. But when they arrived at Andonuts Lab, they found it broken into and Dr. Andonuts and Apple Kid missing. After they broke into the base under Stonehenge to rescue all the hostages there, they learned Apple Kid returned the book to Onett Public Library and backtracked to Ness' hometown to check it out.
With the book at hand, the Chosen Four returned to the Tenda village and gave it to their chief to help them improve their social skills. Now more outgoing, the Tendas were more than happy to help the kids and instructed them on how to get to a place called the Lost Underworld; on the way there, they collected the seventh melody. It was down there threat the gang battled dinosaurs and getting Paula a powerful piece of work called the "holy frying pan," the gang made it to a volcanic area of the Lost Underworld where Ness found the eighth and final melody... and subsequently went into a comatose state. Paula knew this was no ordinary coma, so all the remaining three could do was sit around and wait. Moments before he awoke, Ness started mumbling about Saturn Valley, and he declared they needed to go there as soon as he was back on his feet.
At Saturn Valley, they found Dr. Andonuts and Apple Kid working with the Mr. Saturns on supposedly a time machine, the prototype of which Pokey had previously stolen when the two were kidnapped earlier. The time machine, called the Phase Distorter, needed a piece of a meteorite Ness learned of his journey and the eight melodies from, so they headed back to Onett to retrieve a piece before returning. The gang traveled to a cave in the Lost Underworld back millions of years in robotic bodies to withstand the temporal displacement. There they met Pokey and the big bad himself, Giygas, a swirling mass of evil contained in what Pokey called the Devil's Machine. The gang managed to hold their own in battle against Pokey... until Pokey deactivated the Devil's Machine and released the cosmic evil that was Giygas. The battle at that point went downhill fast as nothing could hurt Giygas, and Pokey mockingly "suggested" telepathically calling for help.
Paula then realized that was exactly what they should do, and she began reaching out to all their friends, all their families, and everyone else who they touched the lives of for their strength... but it wasn't enough. But then, something strange happened. Paula's cries began breaking out into another dimension: our dimension. Despite not knowing the kids, many of us of our world began praying for their success. And this boost in their support was enough to finally defeat Giygas. Seeing his master defeated, Pokey escaped leaving the promise that he and Ness would meet again someday. Despite their success, the Chosen Four's robotic bodies were too broken down to get them back to the Phase Distorter. Their mechanical bodies lay there rusting for millions of years before their souls suddenly departed from them and returned to their original organic bodies in present day. After celebrating their success, the Chosen Four went on to pursue their normal lives.
But then one day, Ness arrived at Paula's door holding a note he apparently received from none other than Pokey Minch: "Come and get me, loser! Spankity spankity spankity!" The reunited Chosen Four's search for Pokey ultimately landed them in a sort of crossroad of universes called Dimensional Island. The four eventually got cozy on the island as they continued to battle Pokey, the somehow revived Giygas (apparently had something to do with something called a "Chaos Heart" or whatever), and other forces of evil. But then at one point, Ness got separated from the rest of the group. Worried, Paula decided to split from Jeff and Poo to try and find him...
Other: I will likely be channeling much of Paula from the version of her seen in the long-running Starmen.net comic, "The Chosen Four". Also the idea that Paula had taught Ness the moves he utilizes in Smash Bros but not his own game was implied in one of said Smash games, and the fact that Paula also taught Rico those same moves in his own backstory is the main reason I'm applying for Paula, with Saturn's permission of course.
Picture:
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(clay model)
Nicknames: Pokey probably thinks she's the devil by now
Age: 10-13
Height: Short
Weight: Light
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Alliance: Good
Home: Twoson, Eagleland
Franchise: Mother/EarthBound (specifically, Mother 2/EarthBound One)
Physical Description: Paula has blue eyes and short blond hair. She wears a pink dress with a white collar and belt, dark pink shoes, and white socks.
Weapons: That frying pan of hers has some pretty deadly potential as a weapon... especially when used in conjunction with PK Fire.
Abilities/Powers: Paula boasts a number of PSI techniques, mostly elemental-based offensive PSI. Techniques she is shown to be able to use in the game are as follows: Defense Down, Offense Up, Telepathy, PK Fire, PK Freeze, PSI Magnet, PSI Shield, and PK Thunder. Paula taught a good number of these not only to Ness for the Smash Brothers games but to a classmate of Jeff's named Rico who revealed he was a psychic as well; Ness taught her some of the defensive PSI he knew in return, though she's not as good at them as he is. Another ability of Paula's that works with her Telepathy and shows just how powerful a psychic she really is allows her to send messages across vast distances to "friends whom she has never met." she's also been known to have glimpses of the future in her dreams. However, she doesn't seem capable of learning the one PSI technique that comes from the caster's heart named after their favorite thing.
Skills: Paula is good at arts and crafts, children's games, and keeping an eye on small tykes as she helps her parents run the local preschool and is quite popular with the kids there. And while her PSI in itself counts more as a power, her resourcefulness and control with it is definitely a skill and one that has certainly made hers a household name around town. She also has the highest score in Street Fobbies in the local area.
Personality: Paula is a kind soul and loving of all Earth's creatures. But Beware The Nice One should you harm any said creatures in any way, particularly the Mr. Saturns whom she's grown fond of. She is particularly fond of Ness and becomes jealous when he looks at other woman, such as the zombie girl in Threed. And, while she is particularly frightening towards wicked people, she's quick to forgive those who feel genuine remorse for their actions, such as Mr. Monotoli. Paula harbors a particular dislike towards Pokey, both for the horrible things he's done (starting with, of course, kidnapping her) and for the rotten way he talks to Ness.
History: Paula is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Polestar of Polestar Preschool. She attended her parents' preschool and had been signed up for home schooling in the years that followed; Paula has since helped out around the school. It was around when Paula was 8 when she was helping her mother in the kitchen and her mom had to step out to break up a fight between two of the preschoolers. A series of subtle, easily overlooked safety hazards, however, led to the start of a grease fire that cornered poor Paula as it spread. As her panicking dad rushed around to find the fire extinguisher, the fire closed in ready to take her life... when she did something rather peculiar. Almost as if by instinct, Paula reached out her hands and sprayed out a mist of psychic ice. The news that Paula had psychic powers spread through Twoson like the wildfire that unlocked them, and she became quite popular amongst her fascinated neighbors. Her curious parents then began reading into this strange power called PSI to better understand what their daughter could now do.
One of the most prominent abilities she learned as telepathy, allowing her to read people's minds and project her own thoughts back. Paula's parents found a small so-called "novelty trinket" at a thrift store their research said was actually called a Franklin Badge, which could deflect lightning-based attacks; they gave it to her for her protection. Not long after unlocking her potential for PSI, Paula began having odd prophetic dreams depicting her going on a long journey to battle an evil that threatened the Earth with three other forechosen individuals. Her parents were left worried at first, but they began to accept it as time wore on. Although the dreams were fuzzy on detail, she knew her journey would begin when she met the leader of the Chosen Four, a psychic boy who introduced himself as Ness. Eventually, the dreams began getting stronger, and she knew it was a sign the time was coming. One day, she was out buying her mother groceries when she was ambushed and kidnapped by a cultist and a portly kid...
Paula didn't know where she was, but she knew she was kidnapped on the orders of Carpainter, a strange cult leader who could control lightning, and whatever they wanted her for could not be good. Wherever she was, she could hear running water in the distance. Paula knew she needed help to escape, and therefore it was time to meet the leader of the prophesied Chosen Four, Ness. When Ness was already on his journey to collect the eight strange melodies that would somehow help him beat the evil (given the name Giygas), Paula began telepathically calling out to him for help, and he eventually tracked her down to a place called Happy-Happy Village, home of the bizarre blue-loving "religion", Happy Happyism. Armed with Paula's Franklin Badge, Ness challenged Carpainter for the key to Paula's cage and won, and Paula joined Ness in his journey. Before leaving Happy-Happy Village, Ness and Paula visited a "sanctuary" location that contained the second melody and fought the giant mole that guarded it from him. Paula was nerely knocked out by the mole, but it instead attacked and reduced her teddy bear to a pile of fluff.
The two then attended a concert by the music group the Runaway Five before paying off the band's large debt to the theater with a large wad of cash the local crimelord Everdred suspiciously gave them. In return, the band drove the two to Threed, the haunted town where they'd supposedly meet their third party member. It was there that the two were ambushed by zombies, when a scandally-clad, not-rotting-just-yet zombie woman managed to seduce Ness to Paula's great chagrin. When Ness and Paula awoke locked underground, Paula decided it was time to all their third party member just as she called their first and sent an S.O.S. to Jeff Andonuts of Winters. Within a day or so, Jeff arrived via crash-landing in a UFO-type vehicle and managed to release his new allies from their prison. Together, the Chosen Three managed to trap all the zombies in town, rescue a local tribe of creatures called Mr. Saturns from the zombies' leader, Master Belch, and acquire the third melody.
After leaving the de-haunted Threed as local heroes, the Chosen Three crossed Dusty Dunes Desert (with a number of interesting hijinks along the way, some caused by the heat messing with their brains) and made it to the big city of Fourside. Upon reaching the city, they found the very portly boy who helped kidnap Paula--Pokey (or Porky, depending on who you ask) Minch, who was supposedly Ness's neighbor. To their surprise, Pokey had somehow managed to worm his way into position of Mayor Monotoli's advisor. Paula was quick to note how rudely he talked down to Ness, which only added to her list of reasons to hate him. Deciding to ignore him, however, they went on to check out the rest of the city; this included saving the Runaway Five from an even bigger debt with a diamond they were given by minors they'd saved from five more giant moles (long story). The next stop was the newly opened department store, where the took the time to unwind from their adventure and have fun. But that fun was cut short when a strange mook creature infiltrated the store and captured Paula right from under Ness's nose.
Ness was so furious at both the mook and himself, he ultimately obliterated the mook in a fit of psychic rage. His quest to find her ultimately led him and Jeff into a trippy battle with the Mani-Mani Statue, the golden statue Giygas had influenced Carpainter through. Paula, meanwhile, was held at Mr. Monotoli's penthouse where she began to see his remorse for everything he'd done. She helped Monotoli find the good in himself, and in return he let her deliver an odd device called the "Pencil Eraser" to Ness when she had a vision that he would need it. When Ness finally arrived, Paula was only just able to talk Ness out of beating Monotoli senseless for her kidnapping. Monotoli admitted he had dreams that he was to prevent Ness and company from reaching Summers, and he rebelled from those dark orders by giving the three his private helicopter to get there by. Unfortunately, Pokey got to it first and gloated from the sky before Ness finally got the courage to stand up to him and shut him up.
In order to make it to Summers without Monotoli's helicopter, the three headed back for Threed (again with the Runaway Five's help) where Jeff was able to get his flying vehicle, the Sky Runner, working just enough to get it back to his father's lab. There, they met Dr. Andonuts, acquired the fourth melody, and Ness and Paula started a more intimate relationship. By then, Dr. Andonuts had fixed up the Sky Runner to get them to Summers, though it just ended up crashing into a scrap heap on the beach when they got there. After an incident involving "magic cake" (don't ask), their fourth party member, Prince Poo of Dalaam, arrived to join them. The adventure that continued involved defeating mummies for important hieroglyphics, backtracking to Fourside to acquire the fifth melody and to Dalaam for the sixth, and getting a special artifact from Scaraba to light the way through Deep Darkness. Before heading in, Poo had to leave to train in an advanced PSI technique called "Starstorm."
Ness, Paula, and Jeff entered Deep Darkness and ran into relatively little trouble as they traversed it... That is, until they met up with their old enemy Master Belch, who had been enhanced by the muck of the swamp to become Master Barf. Without the advantages they had before, it seemed to the three that they would lose the battle until Poo arrived to defeat Barf with his new Starstorm move. The reunited gang made it to a cave of small creatures called Tenda who were too shy to talk to them. Hoping to get their help, the gang traveled again to Winters where they hoped to find Twoson's young inventor Apple Kid with Jeff's dad, as the young inventor supposedly had a library book on overcoming shyness. But when they arrived at Andonuts Lab, they found it broken into and Dr. Andonuts and Apple Kid missing. After they broke into the base under Stonehenge to rescue all the hostages there, they learned Apple Kid returned the book to Onett Public Library and backtracked to Ness' hometown to check it out.
With the book at hand, the Chosen Four returned to the Tenda village and gave it to their chief to help them improve their social skills. Now more outgoing, the Tendas were more than happy to help the kids and instructed them on how to get to a place called the Lost Underworld; on the way there, they collected the seventh melody. It was down there threat the gang battled dinosaurs and getting Paula a powerful piece of work called the "holy frying pan," the gang made it to a volcanic area of the Lost Underworld where Ness found the eighth and final melody... and subsequently went into a comatose state. Paula knew this was no ordinary coma, so all the remaining three could do was sit around and wait. Moments before he awoke, Ness started mumbling about Saturn Valley, and he declared they needed to go there as soon as he was back on his feet.
At Saturn Valley, they found Dr. Andonuts and Apple Kid working with the Mr. Saturns on supposedly a time machine, the prototype of which Pokey had previously stolen when the two were kidnapped earlier. The time machine, called the Phase Distorter, needed a piece of a meteorite Ness learned of his journey and the eight melodies from, so they headed back to Onett to retrieve a piece before returning. The gang traveled to a cave in the Lost Underworld back millions of years in robotic bodies to withstand the temporal displacement. There they met Pokey and the big bad himself, Giygas, a swirling mass of evil contained in what Pokey called the Devil's Machine. The gang managed to hold their own in battle against Pokey... until Pokey deactivated the Devil's Machine and released the cosmic evil that was Giygas. The battle at that point went downhill fast as nothing could hurt Giygas, and Pokey mockingly "suggested" telepathically calling for help.
Paula then realized that was exactly what they should do, and she began reaching out to all their friends, all their families, and everyone else who they touched the lives of for their strength... but it wasn't enough. But then, something strange happened. Paula's cries began breaking out into another dimension: our dimension. Despite not knowing the kids, many of us of our world began praying for their success. And this boost in their support was enough to finally defeat Giygas. Seeing his master defeated, Pokey escaped leaving the promise that he and Ness would meet again someday. Despite their success, the Chosen Four's robotic bodies were too broken down to get them back to the Phase Distorter. Their mechanical bodies lay there rusting for millions of years before their souls suddenly departed from them and returned to their original organic bodies in present day. After celebrating their success, the Chosen Four went on to pursue their normal lives.
But then one day, Ness arrived at Paula's door holding a note he apparently received from none other than Pokey Minch: "Come and get me, loser! Spankity spankity spankity!" The reunited Chosen Four's search for Pokey ultimately landed them in a sort of crossroad of universes called Dimensional Island. The four eventually got cozy on the island as they continued to battle Pokey, the somehow revived Giygas (apparently had something to do with something called a "Chaos Heart" or whatever), and other forces of evil. But then at one point, Ness got separated from the rest of the group. Worried, Paula decided to split from Jeff and Poo to try and find him...
Other: I will likely be channeling much of Paula from the version of her seen in the long-running Starmen.net comic, "The Chosen Four". Also the idea that Paula had taught Ness the moves he utilizes in Smash Bros but not his own game was implied in one of said Smash games, and the fact that Paula also taught Rico those same moves in his own backstory is the main reason I'm applying for Paula, with Saturn's permission of course.
Picture:
(in-game sprite)
(clay model)
