Seneca Cassidy

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Creator: Silvern
Roleplay: The ARC Trials
Nickname: Seneca

Name (Include Superhero Name/Callsign if Applicable): Seneca Cassidy, aka "Lifeblood"
Age: 56,694,452
Pronouns: she/they
Sexuality/Up for Love (If your character is even going to think of that in the midst of this): Bisexual, but with high standards, so like, good luck???
Appearance: Seneca stands at 5'7" and is on the heavier side with a curvier frame. She has short curly red hair, kept in a sort of pixie cut, and pale blue eyes. Their face is rather round, with full lips, and they are pale but very freckled, especially over the cheeks. They dress nice (they have a fondness for vintage dresses in pastel colors, though they also enjoy wearing blouses with skirts) and like wearing pink lipstick.
Personality: Seneca is a little off-putting and blunt, but very confident and proud of her individuality. She's got no trouble standing up to others and can hold her ground, although she doesn't try to make enemies or start fights herself. Although they're not the warmest, once you get used to their particular brand of weird aloofness, their authenticity and wit are appreciated by others.
Notable Accomplishments: Seneca has never bothered to solve any problem. She just... goes places and accidentally does things. Hey, she didn't know that guy she passed by who was coughing up a lung was a planetary ruler who'd been struggling to get rid of a breathing disorder, she just thought the hacking was noisy and wanted it to stop. Now she's got a statue built to her glory and a palace there if she ever wants to stop by again. Or that time they stopped an invading army in its tracks by sending it collectively into a coma? Well, they'd gotten up early to watch the sunrise, and it would've been hard to appreciate the rolling hills in their view if the army had charged over into them...
Powers/Inherent Abilities*: Her powers relate to life, health, and the body in general, with some examples being...
- Life Detection: Seneca can detect signs of life up to about half a mile away, usually in the form of sensing a heartbeat. If that's not applicable (for example, the lifeform doesn't have a body, like many Divine forms), she just gets a Weird Vibe that something's near.
- Condition Detection: Within this radius, Seneca can also sense what health conditions a living being has. If you're wondering whether that cough you have is a cold or worse, go find her.
- Healing: Seneca can heal just about any condition, disease, injury or poisoning. They don't have to be touching someone for it, but they have to be within their half-mile radius, and the closer the person is, the faster the healing takes place.
- Wound Transference: Seneca can pass an injury, in partial or in full, from someone to anyone else. The wound will stay the same-- for example, a transferred cut on the leg from person A to person B will appear on B's leg in the same spot A first had it, with the same depth and length of the original cut, and A will be completely healed.
- Energy Transference: Similar to the above, but with a living being's energy. There are some resulting symptoms-- the person who the energy is being drained to will feel more alert, faster, stronger, and focused, while the person being drained will feel lethargic, drowsy, dizzy, and weakened. In extreme cases, it's possible for the former person to run a deadly fever and the latter to wither away to the point of death.
- Body Manipulation: Seneca can control bodily functions in a variety of ways. Some are subtle, like raising or lowering someone's heartrate or blood pressure. Others are a lot more noticeable, like causing sudden asphyxiation, a heart attack, or even opening an old wound by getting rid of the scar tissue.
Strengths: Despite being quite powerful and capable of great damage, Seneca has no vicious streak. She's just as capable on a team as she is alone, and she's quite smart. She rarely commits to something, but when she does, it will get done.
Weaknesses: Seneca has high levels of apathy, so she's rarely applying herself to anything and doesn't reach for her full potential. Her main motivations? Spite, usually. Occasionally boredom.
Backstory: Seneca was born on a small, unnamed planet that is now uninhabited-- the last people living there moved two million years ago. She moved well before then on what was supposed to be a simple summer vacation to Earth, and... well, she liked it there. Now they just generally chill around and occasionally visit other interesting planets.
Aspiration Within the Agency: Get a cool title.
Reason you Wish to Become Part of the Agency: She hears they have some cool titles.
Reason you Chose to be a Hero: The last few centuries have just been so boring for them. Things were drying up for a while, and that was okay, they're used to long and uninteresting stretching of time, but then the producers of their favorite show had the audacity to cancel it???? Now they need something else to do.
Other: Seneca works as a mortician. Bills need paying, after all. The real question is, why in the world isn't she a doctor?