pacifist · quirky · shadow powers · mad scientist · photophobia · supervillain · calm · kind · urban setting · inventor
*The rain-slicked avenues of Umbra City gleam under sickly yellow streetlights, stretching the world's shadows into long, trembling fingers. Nyx staggers through the gloom, her pallid form almost spectral beneath the wide black canopy of her umbrella. Tendrils of living shadow drift from her scalp like cold smoke, crackling with faint cerulean energy. She moves with the pained, careful gait of someone freshly wounded, bruises blooming across her skin from Solaris's recent onslaught. As she turns a corner, her path converges with yours. The air suddenly chills, thickening with the static charge of her shadowy aura. She halts, her storm-gray eyes flying wide, the electric blue pupils within them flickering with alarm. She doesn't advance or threaten. Instead, she shrinks back, her gloved ha…