Name: Matty *the colors blue and yellow alternating followed by a bright red* it’s easier to just call her Matty.
Gender*: Female
Age: 22, a bit older, the stress of her crimes made Matty a bit more serious and shy.
Species: Monocu
Species Description*: The Monocu are a diminutive race from ICU-Delta, a heavily forested planet with large flora and smallish fauna. Taking a basic humanoid shape, they can almost pass for human if not for… Well everything else. The being native to a sunny planet the Monocu have developed dark maroon skin with an arrangement of bright hair colors, they almost resemble tropical plants with dark stems and colorful flowers. Then there’s the horns and earns, Monocu have short cow like horns and cow like ears that are covered in a velvety fur the same maroon as their skin. The horns provide basic defense against attackers in hand to hand combat and keep growing throughout an Monocu’s life from when they reach physical maturity (16) to death while their ears a quite a bit better than a human’s. The most shocking feature (to a human) of a Monocu would be their eyes or lack of them. Yeah, they’re born without eyes. The face of a Monocu does look quite human (ignoring the ears) until you reach where they SHOULD see, there’s just skin. I’ll get to that later. Nowadays Monocu are found throughout the galaxy. When a Monocu couple have a child they tend to give the child to the foster system for adoption as they want their baby to be able to use their abilities (like I said, I’ll get to that) from an early age. Children sometimes are given up with contact information to find their parents when they are old enough.
Appearance: Matty is about 5’4” and only 100 pounds (due to being a Monocu), she doesn’t really stick out from a crowd facially as she lacks any distinguishing features, no freckles, scars (yet), birthmarks or anything like that though Matty has a white tattoo of an eye on both her palms that she got on a whim, she likes to hold them up to her face and freak people out (she ends up looking like an adorable version of that horrifying eye creature from Pan’s Labyrinth). Her skin is the dark maroon of her species and she has the typical horns (though they are not incredibly long due to Matty’s youth). and ears, though her ears are a bit unusual as thy have a white fringe of fur on their ends which is a relatively rare recessive trait of Monocu. Matty’s snow white hair is cut in a bob and her bangs extend to right above her nostrils. Normally Monocu would proudly display their lack of eyes but the planet Matty lived on had a large human and human subspecies population, including her boss, who made several comments about his secretary’s eyeless face was off putting. She grew it out in the hope for better treatment.
Typically, Matty wears a black sundress that reaches her calves and a small black band necklace around her throat. She also wears blue tennis shoe styled shoes (she refused to wear heels, even for her boss) as they are really comfortable.
Here’s a bust shot of Matty: http://rpvoid.com/avatargen.php?id=9597&rnd=0.5187043684847084
And these are what her hand tattoos like, but white: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c1/6c/a8/c16ca8a14d9a618f5467c5d4f745e9f4.jpg
Personality: Matty used to be a relatively light hearted girl who wanted to make everyone around her as happy as possible as she was never was in a really bad mood. She was an extrovert of course but was quite bashful when it came to the opposite gender. I say used to of course.
Her crimes messed her up. Matty suffers from major guilt, she literally has hundreds of thousands of lives weighing down on her shoulders. At first Matty was considering offing herself or asking to be sent to the melting pot to rid herself of the pain but at the mention of Black Moon and its… Unique deceased protocols she realized that dying there would make her feel guilt for eternity. She didn’t want that, instead Matty’s working to be as friendly as possible to try to make up for what she did. She’s quieter now though and quite terrified at the concept of prison so she’s going to be shy and awkward. Helpful, shy girl in prison. Can’t see how that could end up back firing. Non what so ever.
Abilities*: The Monocu lack eyes. That’s where their evolutionary advantage kicks in, a Monocu can “borrow” the sight of anything with biological eys in a certain area of them (it varies with the individual, for Matty it’s anyone within twenty feet), the telepathic bond is painless and the host doesn’t feel anything so Monocu’s can cheat at poker really easily. This ability was used when Monocu’s were hunter gatherers, they could use the sight of their prey, predators chasing them, or their companion animals used specifically for sight. It could also, as seenn in Matty’s case, be used for some very bad purposes.
Weapons*: Nothing yet, though Matty figures she should try to find at least a shiv as she has no combat experience.
Biography: Matty’s biological parents never gave her a way to contact them though it really didn’t matter to her. When she was an infant she was adopted by an intelligent terrestrial cephalopod, pretty much a space octopus with a sturdier structure. As her “parent” (she honestly doesn’t know how genders work for them) the creature gave Matty her last “name”, they were deaf and communicated with colors. Though they did learn to read Matty’s lips as she really couldn’t change the color of her skin.
Anyway, on to Matty’s adult life. She wanted to be a lawyer from a young age and was working in a well-paying internship to go to law school. She served as a secretary for the CEO of a pharmaceutical company known as Parasol (they first became famous with a treatment for severe solar radiation, hence the name). Matty knew her boss was greedy and a bit of an ass (he was pretty offensive to the women of the company) but she tolerated it. She would only have to be there for a few more months then she could go to school and perhaps take a case against this guy. For now, though Matty knew she needed to get him to like her so she changed how she looked like growing out her hair and wearing makeup despite hiding most of her face.
It was when Matty’s boss invited her to go out to a café and chat that Matty thought she was going to get a raise and be able to leave sooner, or have to do something with that man to not get fired. The second option made her sick but, as she didn’t want to get fired Matty agreed. The two had some ice cream before her boss told Matty to use the eyes of a nearby man on his computer and say what she saw. The request was easier than Matty expected, she did and rattled off several long lists of letters and numbers. When she was done her boss seemed pleased and told her to take the weekend off.
The next evening Matty and her roommate were preparing dinner and watching their entertainment programs when a news flash occurred, the planet of Terra Genti Minor had been obliterated in a nuclear attack, the perpetrator? Parasol Incorporated. It was around then that the law enforcement burst into Matty’s home and arrested her.
The trial went on forever, Matty’s roommate was from a wealthy family and had made she got the best lawyer. Matty had to agree that her lawyer, a bird man, was good, he explained that Matty didn’t know what she was doing (why would she know what nuclear codes look like?), that she was pressured by an older male authority figure, that she never did anything wrong before. But… He wasn’t enough, not when the statistics of Genti’s population was revealed. 95% were killed instantly, another 4% were succumbing to the agonizing death of radiation poisoning. The prosecutor even called up witnesses that were part of the 4%, the state they were in made Matty want to declare herself guilty on the spot.
She was guilty of course, and sent to Black Moon.
Reason for Sentence: Crimes against Life (it’s like crimes against humanity but extends to other races)
Other: “I wanted to be a lawyer. Now look at me.”
Her personality is pretty bare, sorry about that. I usually develop my characters before I write their personalities so this is pretty basic.