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Original Character Ember Titaia Bio

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Ember Titaia

BIO
Ember was once an innocent Toad who lived in the Bean Bean Kingdom. While she was a Toadtot (Baby toad, I think I've invented a new word there, lol) she had been kidnapped by the Shroobs who attempted to extract her Vim, the magic power of the Toads. When the Shroobs were defeated and the Vim Factory shut down Ember got a little more than her freedom. Vim was pumped back into her in all the confusion, Vim that had already been converted into the fuel the Shroobs used to power their saucers.

The resulting mixture with her body caused her to go into shock. When she awoke two years after the invasion she found she had Pyro-kenetic abilities. It started in small ways when she stared fires without meaning to and once her entire body caught fire, those around her finally realised something was different about her after the orphanage she was in burst into flames after a Bowser attack, she was at first trapped yet she managed to free herself and walked out of the burning building unharmed.

These abilities caused her to be shunned and feared by those around her especially the other Toadtots at an orphanage which she had been placed into after her parents didn't recover from the Vim extraction. This shunning and constant rejection warped her young mind causing her to hate all those around her, the constant teasing and bullying also didn't help her control her unnatural abilities.

On her 16th birthday her Toad tormentors played a cruel trick on her, that was when she finally snapped, she badly burnt her tormentors and for that the other Toads forced her out and abandoned her like a witch.

She was discovered years later by Kamek who saw her burning hatred and blackened heart. Kamek invited her to stay in Bowsers castle but her arrogance and short temper meant she attacked anyone who irritated her. She got on Bowsers bad side and attempted to burn her, but her special abilities meant Bowsers fire breath could not harm her.

Rather than attempt to kill her Kamek advised Bowser to invite her into the fold, despite Bowsers protests at having a Toad in his army he accepted. Under Kamek Ember discovered how to use her powers in a variety of very creative ways so that she could fight and defender herself against even the most skilled of combatants. She was also feared by most in the castle, the Koopa Bros, Ondray, Captain Sugar, General Karange even Bowser himself thought twice before attempting to test her temper.

Now at 25 Ember though fiery and burning on the outside still remains cold on the inside, Bowser and his castle is the only true home she has known as a result she holds a lot of loyalty to Bowser though she has a short tolerance of his ego. Bowser keeps Ember somewhat happy to keep her obeying him though Ember is intelligent enough to figure out that Bowser probably sees her as a threat on some level.

In the modern day she spends her time in the hills, locking herself away in a cave and hanging around volcanoes. Though she will still answer the beck and call of Bowser she detests being around other people, believing them to be unreliable, two faced, cruel and back stabbing. But despite her loathing of other people she doesn't go out to deliberately kill or cause suffering to other people unless Bowser commands it or her opponent either deliberately tries to irritate her, attack her or stab her in the back.

Bowser intended to use Ember as a weapon against Mario, but her first test against an opponent was the mysterious creature of mischief Green Thunder.

Strengths
Temperature does not affect her because she can generate her own heat so she can keep herself and others warm around her in cold climates, she’s never done this as she detests other people however.

She can also evaporate water and melt ice very quickly by turning up her heat and bursting into a fireball.

Though not inherently cruel or malicious she does not have any feeling attached to inflicting pain and suffering onto people and will not hesitate to deliver the killing blow first to get the job out of the way. In short, she doesn't mess about.

The angrier she gets the more fiercely she burns

Weaknesses
Though she can evaporate water by bursting into flames she cannot evaporate a sea or an ocean. The best bet to defeat her is to try to knock her into a large body of water such as a large river or sea.

She still feels the emotional scars of being abused as a young Toadtot and as such dragging up her past in some way makes her angry this causes her to lose focus on her powers. Though it's probably not advised.

She has a short temper


Special Abilities
Pyro-kenisis
The ability to produce and manipulate flames either into a shield or into a weapon either shooting streams of fire from her arms or creating fire balls and flame shields. These shields can become so hot they can even melt bullet bills in mid flight.

The ability to ignite her own body and cause the temperature around her to start burning those around her.

She can absorb any explosion or fire presented to her so any kind of flame attacks don’t work.

One talent she’s become very good at is creating two streams of hot plasma from her head like a pair of pig tails. She uses these long pig tails like tentacles, whips and spears

Because the Vim pumped back into her body was supposed to allow the Shroob Saucers to fly it has also granted her limited levitation abilities, though she hasn't mastered the art of full flight yet.

Inspiration
When I came up with the idea for Ember I wanted a female antagonist because almost all the antagonists so far in my series were all male. I’m also a fan of the female villain as it goes against most cultures personality correlation, girls and woman are seen as gentle and sweet and we hardly ever think of them as horrific monsters (Despite the fact that there are woman out there who I’d never label as gentle or sweet and would fit the latter category. lol.)

The reason I chose her species as a Toad is again my love of going against personality correlations. Toads are seen as sweet, eccentric, lovable little critters and as far as I am aware there have hardly been any Toad villains in Mario and Luigi or even the Super Mario Bros franchise (Correct me if I’m wrong.)

I based her back story several sources but the core of it is of the usual abandoned as a child in an orphanage where said orphan is taunted and teased by those around them. But rather than coming out of it a well rounded individual she’s come out of it as a maladjusted monster, and because she has odd abilities she is shunned, feared and she’s got it into her head that she is totally wrong on all levels to the point of self loathing. With no self respect and no respect for those around her she’s become a soulless evil creature with little sense of right and wrong who thinks society is too sick and twisted and for that reason tries to distance herself from everything and everyone as much as possible.

I had three characters for inspiration of Ember, her orphanage back story came from Harry Potter, Harry was also abused as a child but kept a level head and didn't turn his powers against his abusive Ant and Uncle despite how much he wanted. Ember on the other hand is the opposite and after being pushed for so long she finally snapped and turned on her tormentors.

Another character I based her off of was Raven from Teen Titans as in someone who hates herself for having strange abilities that make her feared, also he reluctance/fear to become friends with anyone in case they reject her because of who she is and so on, though with Ember she doesn’t fear rejection any more, but more people who’d smiling at her one minute and stab her in the back next (Don't do this or you won’t have a choice on whether you want to be buried or cremated). 

The third character was Vegeta of Dragon Ball Z in that Vegeta stated Freeza forced and shaped him to become the heartless monster he was. Except while Freeza forced Vegeta to become bad, on the other hand Ember wasn’t forced to become what she is, she found her inner evil herself became bad because her tormentors and guardians in a way closed off every other avenue and gave her nowhere else to go but to fall into darkness. In this sense she is the product of the society that brought her up.

Her pig tails and the fact she can use them as whips comes from a character called Annin from the final episode of Dragon Ball. Annin had feathers in her headdress which she used as both spears and whips to try to attack Goku and it looked like such an odd idea that I liked it and I adapted it for Ember.

I chose her special powers as pyro-kenesis because every animal is scared of fire to some degree and its often shown in cartoons and anime when a character is very angry flames are somehow involved in a metaphorical sense. Her pyro-kenetic powers would also get across that this is an individual who bottles up her frustrations and screams out at the world by bursting into flames and attacking someone or something in an attempt to destroy it utterly.

The Vim idea seemed a logical way of giving her powers. The Shroobs in Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time extracted Vim from the Toads of the world so they could convert it into fuel and power their space ships. So I thought it was great idea if once the Shroobs had fallen that Ember was half way through the extraction process and some of the converted Vim was pushed back into her body.

Her second name Titaia I believe is a Greek girls name which means both Great Fire and Great Anger.
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Superdimentio77's avatar
I liked this character, hope we see a little more about her. Maybe she could encounter the Toad that knows Luigi's secret identitiy, and he could get her to calm down ? (Ships, ships everywhere...)