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Whee! Jinx is OK! Heh, it's kind of weird: I have a Teen Titans calendar, and each month features a specific Titan. Well, this month it's Jinx! Coincidence?
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Name: Jinx
Age: 16
Gender: Female
World: Same as the Teen Titans, obviously
Original/Pre: Pre-existing from Teen Titans
Appearance: Ahh, can't find a picture right now... I'll have to come back to this if necessary.
Personality: Jinx basically aligns with anything dark or evil. She's basically sadistic--she likes to toy with people when they're going through the worst of times. She pities those who are unfortunate, but she laughs to herself at them as well. Also, Jinx has a tendency to see things from an obscure or "magical" perspective--it's often "real-world" complications that frustrate her or get her into trouble. But she does pride herself in her embracing of that which people normally don't look into, the realm from which elusive yet occasionally powerful things can happen, things known simply as "supernatural". Yet, even with this she isn't really ostentatious nor egotistical--yet still creative and, um, different. In planning she tends not to follow nor lead, but to sneak around and try something new.
Abities/Powers: Something called a "hex blast" or a "jinx". (Hey, there's how she got her name!) This basically causes unfortunate, "unlucky" things to happen to a certain person or situation. These exist on many levels of power, but stronger levels of this ability become harder to perform and require more concentration, etc.
History: Jinx originally attended a school for people with special abilities just like her. Some students in the school already knew what they could do and just had to develop their abilities, but others like Jinx came in not knowing anything. However, those students did have potential--others had seen "great things" inside these individuals.
Jinx was off to a rough start--well sort of. She did have an interest in the supernatural--perhaps it was this that sparked her attendance. Anyways, when she learned how to cast curses, she realized that hers were pretty recognizable and also amazingly accurate. This eventually lead to the discovery of her ability, which she was fascinated with from the start.
Maybe it was this penchant that did it, but in the end Jinx came out as one of the top three students in the whole school, along with Gizmo and Mammoth. Though this was a great honor, something dirty and unfortunate happened. The headmaster of the school presented these three to Slade--she secretly supported him. Slade, though he wasn't too impressed with their abilities, recruited them to his side. To test their abilities, he gave them a mission to destroy the Teen Titans.
Gizmo planned out a brilliant strategy. Jinx caught the Titans off guard and tipped the situation to her side. Mammoth went in with the force of a true fighter. Yet even with this, partially because they were outnumbered 5 to 3, they lost, and Slade dismissed them. (Luckily he wasn't thoroughly furious.)
Eventually, the three realized that they would be beter off siding with the Titans--after all, their teachers had tricked them. Gizmo and Jinx especially did not like being tricked, so they sought out revenge against the school, but also against Slade and anyone on the side of evil. Jinx at first thought this strange ("But I'm a little evil too"), but she figured out that fighting evil against evil isn't evil--two evils make a good just as two wrongs make a right.
Other: She just has much experience with magic.
~~The RPG~~--------------------------------------------------------
-In a dream, before Silphia was transported to Jump City-
It was dark inside the castle, the one whose stony walls were donned with cobwebs and purple tapestries, with cracks and dim torches. Barely visible behind a curtain sat Jinx, in a darker room than the bigger main cavern. In front of her was a crystal ball, and she sat there looking into it.
After a while, a blue flame sparked above the crystal. Jinx looked puzzled--what could this mean? Things were supposed to appear inside crystal balls, not on top of them...
Jiiiinnnnxxxx. It sounded like a voice inside Jinx's head. Jinx jumped up at the sound, er, thought, of this... but she didn't turn around.
Face me, Master of the Academy. Master of the Academy? Jinx knew what this meant though--it was referring to her, as she was one of the best in her school.
I am not an enemy--I came to you as a stroke of Fate.
"Show yourself!" Jinx quickly spun around, but not in surprise but as a hopes to frighten whoever was there. Someone was there, but she did not falter.
"Hello," said a young woman standing in an opening in the curtain, silhouetted against the torchlight. "I know you are Jinx, but may I introduce myself as Silphia."
"Why do you come to disturb this wonderful silence?" Jinx inquired, keeping her usual sinister tone.
"I was a master like you too. I come from a world where creatures called Pokemon dwell. These Pokemon have abilities just like you and me, but..."
"What 'me'? You are a Titan too?" Jinx inquired, a bit more sharply.
"You can easily compare my own powers to Raven's, but she and I are quite different."
"Wait a minute... If you're new here, I assume, how do you know about Raven?"
"I know you fought against her once--I an legilimentious."
"Ha, that's not in the dictionary!" Jinx challenged with a bit of a laugh.
"Look at the root more carefully--as you might say, I can read your mind. Of course--this ability an inspirational psychic power, meaning I can't use it all the time... but alas, Fate made its way into my mind at this moment, giving me a glimpse of this opportunity."
"And what specifically do you want from me?" Jinx tested.
"A hand." Silphia extended her hand, as if wanting Jinx to shake it. "Sladelike forces have risen, as far as distant birds tell me. If we can agree to combine the powers of the dark mind, we can destroy this force."
"So you're saying we should work together." Jinx would have refused an offer like this normally, but she sensed something in a similar way that Silphia did. In a way she read her mind--some sort of spark signified a bond between them, one created by fate so that neither she nor Silphia could separate it. Whatever it took, Jinx would have to accept...
"I accept." And with that Jinx held her hand, almost automatically--soon the two would be off.
-In the real world, in the present-
It was late in the morning, and Silphia had just appeared from behind a tree in a park near the ocean. The Titan Tower could be seen across the water.
I was told this is Jump City by that voice which brought me here... Silphia thought. Is this the call for some sort of mission? Is it a sort of new Pokemon journey or... something else?
If it was a Pokemon journey, then where are Kanasama and Hottails and Kinter and everyone else? It was a voice inside Silphia's head that she recognized... Sure enough, she turned back to the tree she emerged from and saw Harmonique, shadowed by the tree and looking only half as confused as Silphia was.
"Harmonique? Well of course you came--those portals of yours... Clever little witch, you followed me here... Hey, speaking of witches... While coming here, I had a dream where I met this girl who called herself Jinx. No, she didn't act like the Pokemon Jynx... but it was weird, it was like we were... kind of close."
<"A Telegon said the same thing to me once, but maybe he just had a crush on me...">
"But I accepted... we were to... journey... together..." Silphia paused for a moment, then decided that she didn't want to think about the dream anymore.
"Well, I suggest we should bring the team back together... Why don't we find a Pokemon Center, if there even is one here..."
<"It is very likely we entered another dimension,"> Harmonique mentioned. <"I would say we're dead and in the spirit realm, but I can't die twice...">
"Unless you're the one that's living now," Silphia joked. "But shall we go on?"
<"I guess so--though I wish the sun wasn't so bright...">
"The darkness always thrives in your heart. Come along."
And the two walked through the city (or at least Silphia did--Harmonique, umm... floated), not finding a Pokemon Center but becoming interested in the tall building shaped like a T...
The first time Jinx tried to look into a crystal ball to see things, she became more immersed than she expected, so that she pretty much lost track of everything involved in the physical world. For a while she had thought someone else had met her while she gazed into it--a clairvoyant girl named Silphia--but it was probably a dream, as she was now outside, leaning against a lamppost on the sidewalk. She was shadowed over by buildings, but she could see a peculiar building shaped like a T--she smiled, knowing exactly where she was.
"Back in Jump City after going away for a while... Perhaps it was a small homesickness inside me, and perhaps crystals aid in any kind of psychic power, even teleportation..."
Looking at Titan Tower, Jinx remembered the Titans that had steered her away from Slade in the past. She really did thank them for that, for she now hated the life she had back then--she knew that she had been manipulated back in that school. Then she thought of the time when she once tried to destroy the Titans along with Gizmo and Mammoth. She had tormented Beast Boy, she had tried on Raven's cape, she had fallen at the hands of what deeds were manipulated into her...
Jinx started walking towards the tower. When she was nearly there, though, she caught a glimpse of something that looked familiar... it looked like Raven walking back to the tower.
Instinctively, Jinx started to follow. But for some reason Raven looked shorter, and she was floating in the air. Plus, she was walking alongside a girl she knew she didn't know, but it was a girl Jinx knew...
"Silphia..."
Jinx then ran over and tapped Silphia on the shoulder. Silphia spun around, and after that she looked surprised.
"Jinx?!?"
"Nique?" Harmonique kept looking from Silphia to Jinx. Jinx looked over and saw that the owner of the blue cape was not Raven but someone who looked much more ghostly.
"You look like someone I know," Jinx said to Harmonique.
"So did you just randomly appear here like I did?" Silphia asked Jinx.
"Yes, but I'm originally from around here--I just moved away... for a while. And who's this?" Jinx indicated who she originally thought was Raven.
"We have things in common," Silphia added before answering. "I don't know much about Jump City, and you don't know much about Pokemon." She paused for a moment, but before Jinx could ask what Pokemon was, she continued. "Pokemon are basically creatures that live in the wild--or at least some are--and they usually have various special powers. And Harmonique here is one of those Pokemon."
"I guess then I should be honoured," Jinx replied as she started to shake Harmonique's hand. However, her hand went right through Harmonique's--it was like gripping cold air. Harmonique giggled at this.
"She feels like a ghost..." Jinx commented.
"She is a ghost," Kelsey corrected, "ghost Pokemon that is. Unlike real ghosts, ghost Pokemon are partially present in the physical world."
"And you said she has special powers as well. Sounds like she could be a Titan herself..."
"A what?" Silphia never heard the term before.
"Well, I am part of a group called the Teen Titans, who are basically just like Pokemon in that we have special powers and such, but we're for the most part human. For the most part... there was one who could morph into animals."
"Wow..." Silphia commented, "I thought I was the only one... or one of the rare few... Back in my, um... dimension... the only powers I've ever heard of humans having were psychic powers, and I only know of one family who has those..."
"Interesting," Jinx muttered half to herself. "Very interesting... in your world it's the Pokemon that have the powers." Harmonique replied to this in Pokemon language.
"Huh, she can only say her name..." Jinx realized. "How very unfortunate."
"Actually," Silphia corrected, "that's common with Pokemon. I only know of one Pokemon that ever managed to pick up on human speech, and it was very difficult for him..."
A few moments of quietness passed. Jinx then glanced at the tower and changed the subject.
"Let's go into that tower, OK? That's where the fun can really start."
And as they headed toward the tower, Harmonique decided to mock Jinx for fun.
<"Huh, she doesn't understand Pokemon language or telepathy. How very unfortunate.">
"Actually," Silphia repeated, "that's common with Titans." And though Jinx could not understand what Harmonique said, she got the joke.
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OOC: A few notes...
1. Harmonique is the evolved form of Misdreavus. She's a Ghost/Dark-type Pokemon, with a sadistic nature and an ability to morph her attacks to have different shape or effect. She looks
like so.
2. Blue text describes Silphia, and purple text describes Jinx. Black text is only used when Silphia and Jinx are together.
3. Anything in triangular brackets is said in Pokemon language, if you haven't figured that out already.
4. Both Silphia and Jinx had the dream that was described in this post.
5. I'm lazy--these posts are from the previous version of this RPG.