Post by Soranik Natu on Aug 26, 2012 17:09:31 GMT -5
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=valign, top][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, border: 10px solid #f1e3b4; width: 450px; background-color: #f6f7f1;][STYLE=font-family: times new roman; font-size: 36px; color: #191919; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 2px;]PERSONAL FILE[/style][STYLE=font-family: arial; font-size: 8px; color: #FF0000; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 2px;]HIGHLY CLASSIFIED AND CONFIDENTIAL[/style][STYLE=float: right; margin: 10px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 10px solid #FFFFEE;] [/style][STYLE= color: #000000; background: #BBDD22; font-family: courier new; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; width: 296px; margin-left: 05px; font-weight: bold; padding: 02px;]GENERAL INFORMATION[/style][STYLE=color: #191919; font-size: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-left: 10px;]NAME: Dr. Soranik NatuALIAS: Green Lantern of Sector 1417, Honour Guard, ‘Saviour of Korugar’ GENDER: Female AGE: 27 OCCUPATION: Green Lantern, Neurosurgeon ALIGNMENT: Good AFFILIATION(S): Green Lantern Corps, Korugar[/style] [STYLE= color: #000000; background: #BBDD22; font-family: courier new; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; width: 296px; margin-left: 05px; font-weight: bold; padding: 02px;]PHYSICAL PROFILE[/style][STYLE=color: #191919; font-size: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-left: 10px;]HEIGHT: 5’11” WEIGHT: 176lbs EYES: Violet HAIR: Black CLASSFICATION: Korugaran-Ungaran hybrid UNUSUAL FEATURES: Due to being part Korugaran and part Ungaran, Soranik’s skin isn’t quite the same shade of red as either species. It is closer to Korugaran-magenta, but it is darker and redder than most. In addition, Natu has two tattoos. The first, under her left eye, is two triangles together pointing downwards. It was placed there by Sinestro and contains a tracking implant so that he always knew where his daughter is. The second is on her upper back, consisting of an ornate Korugaran mandala design spread across her shoulder blades. BEHAVIOR PROFILE[/style][STYLE= margin: 0px 10px 0px 10px; border: 2px solid #191919; padding: 2px; font-family: verdana; height: 125px; overflow: auto; font-size: 11px; color: #000000; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff; opacity: 0.8] Compared to a number of her colleagues in the Green Lantern Corps, Dr Soranik Natu is not necessarily an obvious team player. As a surgeon, and a supremely good one to boot, she possesses the God complex that is sometimes associated with the profession. It is a necessary conceit, because there is no way that she could do her job – either job – without supreme confidence in her ability to do it. In the case of being a surgeon, this is metaphorical. When Natu is operating on a patient’s brain, she cannot afford to panic or hesitate. However, as a Green Lantern, her own life depends upon it just as much. Her ring relies on her willpower and if she were to falter, it could be the death of her and of anyone relying upon her. Further, in many ways, it is arrogance she has earned the hard way – Soranik is very good at what she does and she knows it and needs to know it. Of course, to others, it can just come across as arrogance rather than justified pride, but then Natu rarely cares. While she would reject the comparison immediately, in many ways, this is a trait she shares with her biological father – both have little time for fools and both come across to most as coldly arrogant and exceedingly particular. She can also be bitingly sarcastic when the mood takes her and is often happy to get into people’s faces no matter their rank, seniority or anything else. There are exceptions to this. When it comes to her patients, Natu is clearly caring, invested in their wellbeing and the sort of surgeon and doctor who would go out of her way to make a patient comfortable as well as healing them if it is within her power. To her, quality of life is as important as life itself. That having been said, while Soranik is a doctor and does not enjoy or relish taking life, that does not mean she is unprepared for that. As shown by an attempt to kill Sinestro and having been prepared to kill Ragnar of Betrassus, Natu is ready to deal out death if it is necessary. As with all other things, she is surgical about it to a fault. Life is important to her, yes, but she does not blindly believe that all life is sacred or equally valuable. But nor does she enjoy it, preach that somehow it is right to kill or seek situations where she can exercise lethal force. Given a choice, Soranik would always choose the non-lethal option. She merely recognises that sometimes a limb must be amputated to preserve the whole. As a member of the Corps, it should go without saying that Natu is brave. As a surgeon of her rank, she is formidably intelligent and she also has a natural charisma despite her regrettable flaws. That said, because of this, there are two things she cannot deal with well. The first is failure. Natu is accomplished, yes, but until she joined the Corps, she rarely failed at anything she turned her hand to. Even now, she is a respected veteran despite her youth and now a renowned surgeon across sectors. So, on those rare occasions when she does fail, it scares her. She does not know how to cope and, when her pride and arrogance fails her, the fear of failure can readily lead on to failure itself. The second thing is those things she cannot change or even affect. Soranik takes death almost as a personal affront, while her changing status on Korugar frustrates her precisely because it is out of her control. She is a surgeon, someone used to controlling lives, now given a tool that raises her even higher. This is not a surprising result. Building upon what was mentioned earlier, while Soranik may care for others (patients and those closest to her), this is the exception. Natu challenges others, because she chooses to hide those things she is insecure about – her ‘relationship’ with her father, her focus on her career and so on – behind the front of her attitude and also because she just isn’t friendly by nature. Again, blame her father. She is also confrontational when it is not necessary as well as when it is. Passivity is not in her vocabulary, nor is she ever ‘nice’ for the sake of it. She can be kind, she can be supportive, and she certainly cares but Soranik is who she is and being ‘nice’ or ‘sweet’ to those outside her immediate circle or those who are not in her care is not who she is. This is particularly true when giving out advice. The most complicated part of Soranik’s life is undoubtedly her pseudo-relationship with her ‘father’, Sinestro. On the one hand, he is everything she was taught to hate. He represents everything bad about the Lanterns, is a former dictator who she would personally love to see executed for his crimes and, for much of her career as a Lantern to date, Natu has feared becoming just like him. He is also her biological father and that has complicated things for her, bringing some of her fears into sharper focus because of it. He is still the most likely trigger for her hot temper and its very short fuse. Threatening those she cares about is another excellent way to bring it out as is failure. That said, if someone was listing descriptions of her, professional would rank highly. At one point, Natu placed Korugar’s wellbeing above everything else, allowing Sinestro to exploit her. She has moved beyond that though, to realising that the universe comes first. The only personal thing she has allowed herself lately has been her relationship with Kyle and the (now cancelled) Third Law has been a great part in her increasing distrust in the Guardians, a distrust amplified by Sinestro once again wearing a green ring and the fact that she has been sent by the Guardians to keep an eye on him has not helped one bit. [/style][STYLE=color: #191919; font-size: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-left: 10px;]DOCUMENTED HISTORY[/style][STYLE= margin: 0px 10px 0px 10px; border: 2px solid #191919; padding: 2px; font-family: verdana; height: 125px; overflow: auto; font-size: 11px; color: #000000; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff; opacity: 0.8] Soranik Natu was not born with that surname, although she only recently learnt her true history. Instead, she is the biological daughter of the infamous Thaal Sinestro and his Ungaran wife Arin Sur. Already the Green Lantern of his home Sector, Sinestro had met Arin through her brother, Abin Sur, who was the Green Lantern of the nearby Sector 2814 and a great friend of Sinestro. The two had fallen in love and been married. The result of their love was Soranik, the couple’s only child. She grew up, loved and doted upon by both her parents. More than once, her father would take her flying through the skies of their planet or would allow her to play with his Ring. If everything had continued as the small family had hoped, then things would have turned out exceedingly different. However, now with a family depending on him, Sinestro began to change his policy. Originally he had previously been concerned primarily with protecting his home but now he began to try to control it and the rest of his people. He would bring order to Korugar, so that he could guard his wife and young daughter from the chaos that he saw all around them. However, inevitably, there was a backlash. Arin predicted so much at least and, fearing for young Soranik’s safety in a world of dangerous threats both from on Korugar and from beyond it, one day, she simply took little Soranik away. Growing up away from her parents, she would be safe both from physical dangers but also from the taint of her father’s name while she grew up. Then, eventually, when Korugar was safe and Soranik was grown, they would tell her the truth or so Arin told Sinestro. That was all that she told him, choosing to hide even the identity of the family to which she had taken their daughter. Despite all her secrecy, Arin Sur actually made the obvious choice. The obstetrician who had delivered her daughter was named Karoll Natu and it was to the Natus that Arin took her child in her moment of need. And it was with Karoll and Dgibb Natu that Soranik grew up. She believed they were her parents because, although at first the Natus planned to tell her in time, things changed once again and this time most certainly for the worst. Abin Sur, Sinestro’s greatest friend and the uncle Soranik never met, was killed in the line of duty. Sinestro, angry and guilt-stricken, tightened his grip on Korugar, and the people inevitably rebelled. A young suicide bomber, convinced by the ideology of those around him, put on a suicide vest and tried to kill Sinestro. Inevitably, he failed. It takes much more than a mere bomb, no matter how large, to kill a Green Lantern after all. On the other hand, Arin, fleeing through the sewers when the bomb exploded, had no such protection. She lived just long enough to die in Sinestro’s arms. And if Korugar had been oppressed before, that was nothing compared to what was to come. Sinestro effectively set himself up as a dictator, ruling through merciless order until the symbol of the Green Lantern Corps that he supposedly represented became synonymous with ‘evil’ and repression in the eyes of his people. This was the world in which Soranik Natu grew up, a dictatorship, where Sinestro’s will was absolute, where any deviation was punished and free speech was a thing of the past. He could not kill, of course, but there were always ways. The Natus, rather than burden their adoptive child with the knowledge, chose to lie. They told Soranik that they were her parents and, when she asked about half-formed memories of flight and being cradled in the evil Lantern’s arms, they told her that he had once gone flying with him before he had changed. And if she had a few memories of seeing the Lantern and a familiar but strange woman arguing, well, she was too young to remember much and the memories soon faded. Soranik therefore grew up hating everything that Sinestro stood for. Taken when she was barely walking, her mother dead before she was ten years old and before she ever really knew her, her biological father the hated dictator of her planet, the young girl went to a normal school with normal classmates. From an early age, it was clear that she was gifted with her father’s intelligence and also his stubbornness, as Soranik easily rose to the top of her classes. Her preference was for the sciences, however, having decided at a young age that she was going to be a surgeon, an ambition she was to hold on to through her life. While she was at school, Sinestro was finally overthrown and banished from Korugar, a day that Soranik greeted with the same joy as the rest of her home planet. Overnight, the symbol of the Corps seemed to vanish. Katma Tui, the resistance leader turned Green Lantern, was tarred with the same brush as Sinestro and the others – she became known as ‘the Lost’ to match Sinestro’s epithet of ‘the Wicked’. But this did not bother Soranik. She completed her time at school with flying colours and was accepted into Korugar’s most respected university to study medicine. It was about this time that Sinestro finally found his wayward daughter. He had long since realised that it was for the best that his daughter was taken from him, so that she would be kept safe from his enemies, but he had been unable to accept that he would have no influence over her life. So he had searched for her and, now, he found her. But he did not even approach her. Instead, stealing into her room one night, Sinestro marked his daughter with his family’s secret coat of arms, installing a microscopic transmitter underneath while she slept. He would never lose his daughter again, instead always knowing exactly where she was. In time, Soranik graduated at the top of her class, receiving her medical degree in front of a crowd that included her foster parents but also, unbeknownst to any there, also her true father. Sinestro even took the picture of the smiling Natu family, his ring hiding his true features. Soranik continued to study, achieving her doctorate at a young age and going on to become a neurosurgeon in a prestigious hospital. She had achieved her dream but, again, it was not to last. Events beyond Korugar were to play a key role once again. In the years since Sinestro’s overthrow, Katma Tui had served as the Green Lantern of Sector 1417. She had died in the line of duty, but even this failed to redeem her name. Following this, a wave of catastrophes had shaken the Corps, leaving it understaffed and deeply shorthanded. The Guardians had launched a recruitment effort to fill the gaps, but this inevitably lead to Green Lanterns without sufficient experience – such as Tarkus Whin, the first new Lantern of 1417. He was unfortunate enough to be caught in the gravity well of a collapsing star and slain. His ring, as it was programmed, went in search of a replacement. It found one – Doctor Soranik Natu. At the time that the ring found her, Natu was in the middle of a delicate operation. At first, she automatically rejected the ring, which represented everything that she had been taught to fear. However, faced with the choice between her patient’s life and death, Natu accepted the ring and instinctively used it to save him. Following this, the ring automatically took her to Oa, for training, but (still haunted by her planet’s attitude) Soranik refused to be a Lantern. Telling the gathered recruits exactly what she thought of the Corps, she ordered the ring to return her to Korugar and left Oa. Before she returned home, however, she went in search of Whin, because the funeral rites are sacred on her home world. The search took her to the collapsed star and, despite her attempts to remain at a safe distance, through it to (unknown to her) the Vega system, home of the Spider Guild, where she found Whin’s corpse. She was able to protect herself from the Spiders by reducing her life signs until rescuers found her in the shape of Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner. Together, they were able to escape Vega despite the pursuit of the Guild and bounty hunters alike, warn the Guardians and successfully repel the attack on Oa. Now committed to her newfound role as a Lantern, Natu’s life remained uneasy. As a Lantern, she was forced to deal with attempts on her life as well as a new partner and feelings that the ring she wore was somehow cursed. On Korugar, however, she found that her life was effectively over – she was fired from her job, her licence suspended, her home was seized and, when she tried to help the poor and needy on her own, the military police intervened. Natu refused to stop though, which, during the uprising of the Sinestro Corps, led to Soranik being viewed by some as a potential saviour. At a rally in her honour, she told the crowd to disperse before the police fired on them. Before they did, though, they were interrupted by Sinestro himself, returning to Korugar. He and Natu fought, a battle Soranik naturally lost. But Sinestro let it appear to the crowd that he had been defeated by Natu, withdrawing. In turn, all those present hailed Natu as the Saviour of Korugar, cheering her for what they saw as her victory over their greatest enemy. Now a hero, Natu was furious with Sinestro. For a while, she remained on Korugar, before travelling to Earth where she participated in the war for that planet while, in the aftermath, she treated numerous Green Lanterns who had lost limbs. In addition, she found herself falling into a relationship with Kyle Rayner following a mission to save the child of a Green Lantern couple (the Prees) from the Sinestro Corps member called Kryb. During this mission, the Star Sapphire Miri Riam showed both Natu and Kyle their true loves and, to her surprise, for Natu it was Kyle. Their relationship blossomed at first, despite the Third Law added to the Book of Oa by the Guardians. It was at this time, following a failed attempt to execute Sinestro, that Natu returned to Korugar to tell her people that it was time for them to stop lingering in his legacy. It was only natural that he in turn picked that time to appear and finally to reveal that he was her father. At first, Soranik did not believe him but even when convinced she denied anything beyond a purely biological relationship. Once he left, she attempted to remove the transmitter, but she was unable to despite her best efforts. During the Blackest Night that followed soon afterwards, Soranik fought against the hordes of Black Lanterns alongside the others, battling alongside Kyle against his dead girlfriend before being separated. During the battle, Kyle sacrificed himself to save the central Power Battery. With the aide of the Star Sapphire Miri, Soranik’s love was able to save him and the two survived the war although, due to her discovery of her heritage and other outside factors, it remains to be seen what the future holds for Dr Soranik Natu. [/style] [STYLE=color: #191919; font-size: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-left: 10px;]POWERS AND ABILITIES[/style][STYLE= margin: 0px 10px 0px 10px; border: 2px solid #191919; padding: 2px; font-family: verdana; height: 125px; overflow: auto; font-size: 11px; color: #000000; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff; opacity: 0.8] KNOWN POWERS: N/A – On the power grid, the darker green represents her natural abilities, the rest represents the potential for the ring to enhance her. KNOWN ABILITIES:
STRENGTH LEVEL: Dr Natu has the strength of a Korugaran woman her height and build who exercises intensively on a regular basis (unless she is using her Ring of course). WEAKNESSES:
 [STYLE=color: #191919; font-size: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-left: 10px;]PARAPHERNALIA[/style][STYLE= margin: 0px 10px 0px 10px; border: 2px solid #191919; padding: 2px; font-family: verdana; height: 125px; overflow: auto; font-size: 11px; color: #000000; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff; opacity: 0.8] EQUIPMENT: Green Lantern Power Ring
TRANSPORTATION: See Equipment. WEAPONS: See Equipment.[/style] [STYLE=color: #191919; font-size: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-left: 10px;]EXAMINATION RECORD[/style][STYLE= margin: 0px 10px 0px 10px; border: 2px solid #191919; padding: 2px; font-family: verdana; height: 125px; overflow: auto; font-size: 11px; color: #000000; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff; opacity: 0.8] She could hear the crowd cheering already. Once upon a time, Doctor Soranik Natu had vowed that she would never become likehim. Sinestro could say what he liked. He could make whatever comparisons he wanted. It did not change the fact that they were very different. She was not like him. She was not him and whether he was her biological parent or not did not change that. As far as she was concerned, the Natus were her real parents. But it was at times like this that she had the most trouble convincing herself. She could hear the roar of the crowd, the twin chants of her name and the title that the people had given her since that night echoing around the square below her and rising up to her ears. She knew what she would see when she arrived too. There would be the podium, with the stand waiting for her. There would be the banners on the walls, white with the Corps’ symbol in green. There would be the cheering crowd, drawn mostly from the Korugarans with less, desperately longing for a saviour that she was not. It was straight out of a history vid of one of Sinestro’s rallies and Soranik couldn’t help but worry even now. She told herself that she hadn’t asked for this. In fact, she had discouraged them before, telling them to go home before the military police arrived, ordering them to break up the rally. The last thing that she wanted was to become the figurehead for a revolution – no, not quite. The last thing that she wanted to become was her father. Her lip curled, baring white teeth that were a striking contrast to her dark red features, beginning her descent now down towards the square. She refused to follow in his footsteps. She refused to play his game and pick up where he had left off. No, Soranik intended to show her people that there was another way. No matter what they were accustomed to, she would prove to them all that a Green Lantern could help them, could direct them and assist them without needing to rule them or without needing to demand the sort of ego-stroking parades and cult of personality that Sinestro had demanded. She would show the government that she had no intention of overthrowing them, provided they did not continue to mistreat the homeless simply because they longed for a saviour. Natu could understand that, intellectually, even if she did not share it. They wanted someone who would give them the things that they lacked in their current lives. Admittedly, she felt that they should make the effort themselves instead of relying on others to do it for them, but it was still understandable, particularly now that she knew just how hard the military police were. It was not acceptable. And that was the trouble. She knew that it was a fine line to walk, between helping those who needed her help and allowing herself to slip into the role of Sinestro, oppressing them because it was somehow for their own good, taking away their freedom of choice because they could make bad decisions. She could not and would not go down that route. Her feet alighted on the podium and Natu glanced around, hearing the cheers redouble now that she was there, in plain sight. The ‘Saviour of Korugar’ chant grew louder still. Was this how it started for him too? Stepping to the microphone, Soranik raised her hands in an appeal for silence. The crowd slowly quieted, waiting, and she opened her mouth, preparing to speak… [/style][STYLE=color: #191919; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center; font-family: courier new]subject examined by Doctor Cyber[/style] | [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, width: 40px;][STYLE=background-color: #f1e3b4; font-family: times new roman; font-size:30px; color: #404040; min-height: 150px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; moz-border-radius: 0px 10px 10px 0px; -o-border-radius: 0px 10px 10px 0px; border-radius: 0px 10px 10px 0px; -webkit-border-radius: 0px 10px 10px 0px;]S O R A N I K N A T U[/style] |
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