Mercy Of the Witness



Appearance: Very tall and pale, with long hair. It exclusively wears lightweight clothing, typically too-small (it's hard to find fitting clothes for her height) tanktops and shorts, to prevent the sound of fabric from picking up on camera. Her blindfold is always in place, and always the same.

Personality: She doesn't speak, but communicates through vocalizations (humming, clicking, etc.) and gestures. It never displays strong emotion/aggression, unless she somehow becomes seperated from her camera. In the event that she is seperated from it, she becomes highly volatile and aggressive. Unconcerned or perhaps uncaring of violence, death, etc, and, more often than not, acts as a silent observer.

Abilities:
Visual Projection - With her eyes eternally covered, her visual input is provided by her camera. She collects the memory cards and hoards them someplace. This is why she is so attatched to her camera, as it is her only way to maintain her vision. The camera itself doesn't seem to require new batteries.

Agelessness - She doesn't seem to age, and she's not sure how long it's been that way. It's oldest memory card reads "July 26, 1989", but the footage is incomprehensible and she can't seem to remember what was on it.

Backstory: okay so I'll admit it, she's an OC insert for everymanHYBRID. Kind of a freakish media to have an OC for, but she's a cameraman!! In the series, I think there was implications that the cameraman was a lot more animalistic, but I like the idea of a silent observer that's impervious to the violence it witnesses. I'm quite sure that the cameraman, in canon, was "summoned", so I'm still working out an idea for where/what it was doing before that.

Trivia:
-To her knowledge, her camera most closely resembles a Sony DCR-SR46.
-It rarely eats, but when it does, it scavenges whatever area she's in, uncaring of rot or other contamination.
-She's not easily irritable, but if it had to pick it's biggest pet peeve, she would choose corrupted audio/video. Her memory cards are her mind, and losing them is like amnesia.
-Very good sense of direction
-has an aquiline nose
-can stay still for hours at a time without moving.
-avoids mirrors
-Finds shiny trinkets or scraps incredibly easily, they give off a large glare in her camera that helps it catch her attention.
-When it's not watching anyonething in particular, it pauses it's camera's recording and paces within one room, sometimes for hours.
-has never worn shoes (that she remembers)


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