riven "oracle" armstrong

the basics

full name ♦ Riven Armstrong

nicknames ♦ Oracle

age ♦ nineteen

birthday ♦ Jan 1, 1999

occupation ♦ waitress

school ♦ last attended small high school, no college, now attends phalanx

species ♦ human

ability/power ♦ time manipulation

how the ability works ♦

Time Manipulating Objects

The easiest application of manipulating time, Riven is capable of shifting an object's appearance to looking younger or older. She can shift a tree several years into the future or several years in the present. She can make iron look rusty or shiny and new. 

Time Manipulating Herself
Riven can manipulate her own body to look older or younger. She is not capable of making someone else older or younger. Just herself.  However, she also acts her age as a result- she acts dumber and simpler younger. She can also suffer medical conditions and crankier as an older person.  

Speeding/Slowing Down Environments

Riven can slow down and speed up environments. The difference is, that she can do an area she cannot physically see but is still relatively present in(ex. a house). She can go as far back as a year, but in the future, she can only go into the future no more than 3 day.  Speeding and Slowing Down Environments is particularly draining and she cannot due it more than 3 times in a thread unless for plot purposes.

Stopping Time

Riven can stop time altogether. She can only stop the time in an area that she can visibly see. She can stop an area that she's not looking at.  She also can only do this for no more than 1 minute. She can choose to stop time for others as well, meaning she is not always the only one who can move when this happens.

gender ♦ she/her/hers

sexuality ♦ closet pansexual

the appearance

face claim ♦ daiane sodre

height and weight ♦ 5'5, 120 lbs.

identifying features ♦ n/a

overall appearance ♦ Riven reaches to a height of 5'5.  She is an average sized female, but is rather on the lean side. She is flate chested, but curvy and shapely. She has blueish-greenish eyes and medium toned brown skin.  It can be rather light in the winter and fall,however.  Her hair is long and wavy dark brown color.

the personality

likes ♦

cooking

money

working out, but not necessarily eating healthy

being alone

dislikes ♦

using powers accidentally

killing, but still likes money

sour candy

people who are prideful

strengths ♦

intelligent

street smart

charismatic

weaknesses ♦ 

manipulative

mean

strange

dreams ♦ She wants to(somewhat/maybe) go to college someday.  She also wants to meet her mother.

fears ♦ Being seen as small to others. Losing any sort of power or high status.

overall personality ♦

Riven can be a crass and rude person. She can also be charismatic when she wants something, however, She knows when to time her talking and when to not speak. She is undeniably manipulative and analyzes behavior before she sets her goals.

Riven is just secretly insecure though. She never had a proper person to tell her where her moral standards should lie. She does have a sense of doing the right thing, but doesn't know which way to go. She doesn't have specific life goals or know 'what' she's good at. What's really wrong is that she analyzes the world around her, but doesn't analyze herself.

Riven does have anger issues and depression issues and is obsessed with materialistic objects since, never coming from a good home.

Riven enjoys long walks/running, money, tips, sleeping, cooking for people in phalanx, as well as watching tv. She also is fond of reading and sewing. She is also secretlly a big crybaby. 

the history

father ♦ unknown, 50s, author

mother ♦ Raven, 50s, unknown for now (if applicable)

siblings ♦ none

important people ♦ none

hometown ♦ New Orleans

overall history ♦ 
Riven is the daughter of a Scottish immigrant and native African American citizen. They never married. 

Her mother was a partier and a crack addict. She was a bit of an alcoholic. Just an addict to anything that is seen as taboo and negative in today's standards.  However, she was a strong human and delved in the rare ability of time manipulation. 

Her father was an author and a shifter. He migrated to New Orleans for the lifestyle.  He was stoic yet, charming. Also quiet. Which is why he was so drawn to Riven's extroverted mother. 

Riven was born a year or two of them being together. Her father abandoned her mother. He went back to Scotland and hated the relationship at a spur of the moment.

Riven's mother would give her up at a spur of the moment as well. She needed a 'clean' start. She wasn't a 'good' mother.  That sort of thing. 

So, Riven would be born into foster care.

Riven would leave the orphanaage aged 13. She'd still attend school and all. Just not on an often basis. She was very good, she hardly attended. She still would pass the state tests, just, not attend the classes as frequently as normal.

Riven would grow up on the streets of New Orleans. She'd become a thief. She'd make 'friends'. She learned to use guns quiet early. How to stab people. She hated the lifestyle. She found it uncomfortable, to kill.

It'd be a secret of hers. The first and only time she killed an old lady.  

Riven would continue to steal but separated herself from a clan.  

She temporarily became a prostitute.  But, she hated that too. Only lasted for a month. She hated the aspect of possibly getting an STD or being raped and murdered.  Law enforcement likely wouldn't care.

Riven would go on about her business. She was always aware of her powers, but never using it unless she really had to(for theft).  So, eventually she'd run into issues. Her powers started becoming out of hand.  

So, she'd live in Phalanx.

At least she had a roof above her head now. 

the role player

alias ♦ Bambam

age ♦ seventeen

pronouns ♦ she/her

code ♦ ADMIN EDIT

other characters ♦ if any