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PERSONALITY/QUIRKS

Sisca always had two complementary sides to her personality: one pragmatic and collected and one spontaneous and free-spirited.
Problem was, that for a very long time she’s been deprived of possibility to reconcile them, as the latter has been deemed undesirable by the regime she was part of and restrained by strict upbringing. Such was until mysterious events left her broken and possessed - and her unexplored side of nature was brought forth and twisted into monstrosity she was unable to control.
However, these events had eventually led her on a new, unexpected path and after years of journeying it, Sisca's managed to find a sense of balance and let her true character shine: that of a surprisingly companionable, but hardheaded woman, pushed forward by her restless spirit.

the good: pragmatic, resourceful and perceptive - good to have around, especially in hard situations; very open to new experiences and eager to face challenges; can be very straightforward and quick to comment, snark or reprimand, but is hard to offend and not that keen to hold petty grudges;
the bad: she can be very bossy or fall into thinking she knows what’s best for everyone - and that, paired with her attempts to always stay supportive and reliable, means that she can take too much on herself, as well as leave people with impression that she can’t trust them with any important task; she’s prone to bottle up some bad emotions, while it takes time for her to really trust anyone and bother people with some of her burdens; she can be reckless or overconfident, especially when it comes to regarding her own safety; if pissed off enough, she can be dangerously unpredictable
the quirky: she’s quite fond of shy, somewhat naive and idealistic individuals, that she often has an urge to tease, but is otherwise very protective of

INTERESTS/MOTIVES

Sisca had time to grow as a person, but is yet to become entirely convinced that she wants to follow the path she's found herself on - that is, acting on behalf of forces that require her to do certain tasks across realms she wanders into.
She'd be a fool to not appreciate being given a chance in life, as well as many possibilities it brings, but the very abstruse nature of beings she works for and difficult dilemmas, she is often faced with frustrate her, makes her mind reel with questions and does not let some of the old insecurities die off.
She either mistrusts these beings and fears being manipulated or simply feels too small and inadequate to understand the full picture and keep doing things that might eventually decide the fate of many.

But while she keeps struggling internally, trying to better understand her new function, she could not help but to notice that there was a crisis growing around her. In many places she traveled to, she heard people talking about strange things happening to their spiritual realms, about souls of their deceased being snatched from their rightful places or empty temples. At the same time Sisca got a feeling that there was something, somewhere that she did not finish - a nagging voice at the back of her head kept getting stronger with ever more frequent and disturbing dreams and demanding for her to return.
As time passed, Sisca had a pretty good idea of where she should return, but what is it that she's supposed to finish or witness there remains a mystery.

ABILITIES/SKILLS

Sisca's originated as a genetically engineered super-soldier and has a few decades of experience on hardest battlefields. And since her skills are in frequent use, she is hard to match in martial arts prowess - even in her less resilient, but still superbly fit and agile human form.
As a former high-ranking officer she also retains her ability to use elaborate tactics and can successfully lead or keep discipline in a group.
Years of travels and finding herself in variety of different situations have also honed her survival skills and boosted necessity to be inventive and resourceful.
She can be stealthy, but prefers an open, head-on confrontation.
She's ambidextrous, but sways to do more with her left hand, rather than right.

Sisca has no discernible supernatural talents - except those bestowed on her by the forces she works for. People of her kind can travel through dimensions, ignore language barriers and possess sensitive intuition - and that paired with Sisca's quick reflexes proved to be useful more than a few times.
She displays resilience to supernatural powers used against her; but under specific circumstances, she also has a capacity to become a proper conduit for magic she might come in touch with, even if Sisca herself isn't a magic wielder and has little knowledge of the arcane.
The main special ability she can use at will is shifting into her original form, as well as use a handy artifact she acquired during her travels and which requires some level of magic to function - but both abilities have been seriously diminished after she entered Hades and it is unknown if this is merely a matter of adjustment or if it's permanent as long as she stays there.

She retains a few lesser skills she acquired during her recent adventures, but their applicability varies.
If stuck somewhere long enough Sisca enjoys gardening, has knack for herbalism and can bake awesome pastries.

HISTORY

Sisca's history boils down to this: she comes from reality that doesn’t exist anymore.

That reality was actually a distant future of the PMOCT/PHOCT universe - however, in that future, all gods were eventually bound to Minos and then to the intergalactic empire that he’s set foundations to. Not only that - Sisca's very life was the outcome of complex genetic engineering that was based on Minos’ successful experiments with the The White Bull II virus.
Her life wasn't easy though. The Empire was immensely powerful and kind to its citizens, but merciless to everyone who opposed them and harsh to those bred to serve it. Indoctrinated and highly repressed, Sisca's spent years as an officer in the empire's army - she served it loyally, while keeping to herself any doubts, as well as loneliness and frustration that were slowly teeming underneath.

At some point she has found herself in the middle of a gruesome event, caused by what was left of imprisoned gods, now hopelessly mad and craving for revenge on mortals.
She survived it, although barely, on the outskirts of deities' prison and lived long enough for gods to spot her and decide to use her as a way to enact their vengeance: they have fueled her anger with their own resentment (making her mentally unstable in the result), released her to unwittingly spread their terror and waited.

When opportunity came, they’ve called upon most ancient forces, bound them to her and created a time loop. Through it they managed to send her back into the past, to either do something with Minos or bring end to the entire realm. Fortunately Minos was stopped by Edmund Dauger (the one person who managed to chip through Sisca's virulence and paranoia and became the closest thing to a friend) and gods regained their freedom.
But the price of it was a radical re-writing of the future and therefore annihilation of the world Sisca knew.

Sisca’s existence was supposed to be wiped out as well, but the ancient forces that gods wanted to use, had decided otherwise and spared her life for purposes as mysterious as themselves.

MANNER OF DEATH

Sisca can't really die... or, at least, her death in any realm she was at a time doesn't end with her being sent to any kind of underworld.
Rather than that, her soul/essence is whisked away by the forces on behalf on which Sisca acts - and she materializes, alive and well, in a different realm*.
For her to reach underworld and stay there for any meaningful amount of time, she needs to be bound to it by powerful magic. In this case, one who's provided the needed piece of magic was the personification of death itself, Thanatos, who has pierced her heart with a peculiar, wooden dagger, which sent her soul straight to the entrance of Hades.

*It should be noted that she isn't keen to die too often, as it usually interferes with her mission and - more importantly - the return to any given realm she's died in (or at least the immediate time after it happened) is difficult, if not impossible for her. It's mainly due to the fact that, while she can travel through dimensions, she has a very limited ability to travel to realms of her choice.

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Audition entry:

Additional chart:

And here's is Sisca's ProjectMinotaurOCT character profile for those who are interested:

Yes, it's a sequel for her We'll see how this works out, but I don't think it should come as a surprise that I kept working with the character since PMOCT and created a rather extensive background and story for her

OCT setting and NPCs © RobinRone
Sisca © me :]

______________________________________
Adobe CS5 + Wacom Cintiq 21UX
some DAZ3D reference

Description
PERSONALITY/QUIRKS

Sisca always had two complementary sides to her personality: one pragmatic and collected and one spontaneous and free-spirited.
Problem was, that for a very long time she’s been deprived of possibility to reconcile them, as the latter has been deemed undesirable by the regime she was part of and restrained by strict upbringing. Such was until mysterious events left her broken and possessed - and her unexplored side of nature was brought forth and twisted into monstrosity she was unable to control.
However, these events had eventually led her on a new, unexpected path and after years of journeying it, Sisca's managed to find a sense of balance and let her true character shine: that of a surprisingly companionable, but hardheaded woman, pushed forward by her restless spirit.

the good: pragmatic, resourceful and perceptive - good to have around, especially in hard situations; very open to new experiences and eager to face challenges; can be very straightforward and quick to comment, snark or reprimand, but is hard to offend and not that keen to hold petty grudges;
the bad: she can be very bossy or fall into thinking she knows what’s best for everyone - and that, paired with her attempts to always stay supportive and reliable, means that she can take too much on herself, as well as leave people with impression that she can’t trust them with any important task; she’s prone to bottle up some bad emotions, while it takes time for her to really trust anyone and bother people with some of her burdens; she can be reckless or overconfident, especially when it comes to regarding her own safety; if pissed off enough, she can be dangerously unpredictable
the quirky: she’s quite fond of shy, somewhat naive and idealistic individuals, that she often has an urge to tease, but is otherwise very protective of

INTERESTS/MOTIVES

Sisca had time to grow as a person, but is yet to become entirely convinced that she wants to follow the path she's found herself on - that is, acting on behalf of forces that require her to do certain tasks across realms she wanders into.
She'd be a fool to not appreciate being given a chance in life, as well as many possibilities it brings, but the very abstruse nature of beings she works for and difficult dilemmas, she is often faced with frustrate her, makes her mind reel with questions and does not let some of the old insecurities die off.
She either mistrusts these beings and fears being manipulated or simply feels too small and inadequate to understand the full picture and keep doing things that might eventually decide the fate of many.

But while she keeps struggling internally, trying to better understand her new function, she could not help but to notice that there was a crisis growing around her. In many places she traveled to, she heard people talking about strange things happening to their spiritual realms, about souls of their deceased being snatched from their rightful places or empty temples. At the same time Sisca got a feeling that there was something, somewhere that she did not finish - a nagging voice at the back of her head kept getting stronger with ever more frequent and disturbing dreams and demanding for her to return.
As time passed, Sisca had a pretty good idea of where she should return, but what is it that she's supposed to finish or witness there remains a mystery.

ABILITIES/SKILLS

Sisca's originated as a genetically engineered super-soldier and has a few decades of experience on hardest battlefields. And since her skills are in frequent use, she is hard to match in martial arts prowess - even in her less resilient, but still superbly fit and agile human form.
As a former high-ranking officer she also retains her ability to use elaborate tactics and can successfully lead or keep discipline in a group.
Years of travels and finding herself in variety of different situations have also honed her survival skills and boosted necessity to be inventive and resourceful.
She can be stealthy, but prefers an open, head-on confrontation.
She's ambidextrous, but sways to do more with her left hand, rather than right.

Sisca has no discernible supernatural talents - except those bestowed on her by the forces she works for. People of her kind can travel through dimensions, ignore language barriers and possess sensitive intuition - and that paired with Sisca's quick reflexes proved to be useful more than a few times.
She displays resilience to supernatural powers used against her; but under specific circumstances, she also has a capacity to become a proper conduit for magic she might come in touch with, even if Sisca herself isn't a magic wielder and has little knowledge of the arcane.
The main special ability she can use at will is shifting into her original form, as well as use a handy artifact she acquired during her travels and which requires some level of magic to function - but both abilities have been seriously diminished after she entered Hades and it is unknown if this is merely a matter of adjustment or if it's permanent as long as she stays there.

She retains a few lesser skills she acquired during her recent adventures, but their applicability varies.
If stuck somewhere long enough Sisca enjoys gardening, has knack for herbalism and can bake awesome pastries.

HISTORY

Sisca's history boils down to this: she comes from reality that doesn’t exist anymore.

That reality was actually a distant future of the PMOCT/PHOCT universe - however, in that future, all gods were eventually bound to Minos and then to the intergalactic empire that he’s set foundations to. Not only that - Sisca's very life was the outcome of complex genetic engineering that was based on Minos’ successful experiments with the The White Bull II virus.
Her life wasn't easy though. The Empire was immensely powerful and kind to its citizens, but merciless to everyone who opposed them and harsh to those bred to serve it. Indoctrinated and highly repressed, Sisca's spent years as an officer in the empire's army - she served it loyally, while keeping to herself any doubts, as well as loneliness and frustration that were slowly teeming underneath.

At some point she has found herself in the middle of a gruesome event, caused by what was left of imprisoned gods, now hopelessly mad and craving for revenge on mortals.
She survived it, although barely, on the outskirts of deities' prison and lived long enough for gods to spot her and decide to use her as a way to enact their vengeance: they have fueled her anger with their own resentment (making her mentally unstable in the result), released her to unwittingly spread their terror and waited.

When opportunity came, they’ve called upon most ancient forces, bound them to her and created a time loop. Through it they managed to send her back into the past, to either do something with Minos or bring end to the entire realm. Fortunately Minos was stopped by Edmund Dauger (the one person who managed to chip through Sisca's virulence and paranoia and became the closest thing to a friend) and gods regained their freedom.
But the price of it was a radical re-writing of the future and therefore annihilation of the world Sisca knew.

Sisca’s existence was supposed to be wiped out as well, but the ancient forces that gods wanted to use, had decided otherwise and spared her life for purposes as mysterious as themselves.

MANNER OF DEATH

Sisca can't really die... or, at least, her death in any realm she was at a time doesn't end with her being sent to any kind of underworld.
Rather than that, her soul/essence is whisked away by the forces on behalf on which Sisca acts - and she materializes, alive and well, in a different realm*.
For her to reach underworld and stay there for any meaningful amount of time, she needs to be bound to it by powerful magic. In this case, one who's provided the needed piece of magic was the personification of death itself, Thanatos, who has pierced her heart with a peculiar, wooden dagger, which sent her soul straight to the entrance of Hades.

*It should be noted that she isn't keen to die too often, as it usually interferes with her mission and - more importantly - the return to any given realm she's died in (or at least the immediate time after it happened) is difficult, if not impossible for her. It's mainly due to the fact that, while she can travel through dimensions, she has a very limited ability to travel to realms of her choice.

______________________________________________________________________________________________

Audition entry:

Additional chart:

And here's is Sisca's ProjectMinotaurOCT character profile for those who are interested:

Yes, it's a sequel for her We'll see how this works out, but I don't think it should come as a surprise that I kept working with the character since PMOCT and created a rather extensive background and story for her

OCT setting and NPCs © RobinRone
Sisca © me :]

______________________________________
Adobe CS5 + Wacom Cintiq 21UX
some DAZ3D reference