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— Look who it is! If you take a look at our database, you’ll find that THEA SEONG is an ART DEALER that works in SECTOR 10. According to the file, they’re a mutant with the power of INTUITIVE MULTILINGUALISM & VOCAL REPLICATION. That must be why they’re ASTUTE and MERCURIAL. If you ask me, they remind me of glimmering oil reflections on rain-soaked concrete, a cat’s eye winking in darkness ; spines of white-hot lightning splitting apart a distant thunderstorm ; when Clarice Lispector said, “I’m alive. Like a wound, a flower in the flesh”. They are affiliated with NOBODY.

statistics .

character name. Thea Nari (나리) Seong (성) ( her parents often refer to her using her middle name ) nickname(s). absolutely not face claim. Greta Lee mutation status. gen ii mutant , intuitive multilingualism & vocal manipulation birthday. november 30 , sagittarius age. thirty - nine sexuality. lesbian gender & pronouns. cis woman , she / her occupation. art dealer & occasional forger ( when the mood strikes ) ; her clients range from those associated with the democratic council to underground groups work sector. sector ten affiliation. none , however clients range from the democratic council to underground organisations moral alignment. lawful neutral positive traits. astute , eccentric , poised negative traits. mercurial , vindictive , abstract distinguishing features. sleek , inky hair styled into a bob that is never out of place & dramatic eye makeup & dopamine dressing , office siren looks ( think : tailored sets , patent tabi boots , hard to find and intentional accessorising , a statement lip and perfect manicure ) & no ( visible ) tattoos .

biography .

extended bio to be added !

from sol city, however Thea was no stranger to travel growing up due to her parents’ work as artists and familial connections in what was South Korea. really, artists are the last people expected to have that kind of money to go between settlements - occasional art forging on the side seems to help.

creativity was highly encouraged - while Thea has the skills to be a talented artist, she much preferred the business side of things. a sense of control over what she wanted and earned was comforting in the face of expectations to be a carbon copy of what her parents are.

originally in sector five as a research assistant and then art conservator, Thea started to build her client base and developed an eye for what she recognised could bring in significant money, if she chose her clients right. she’s been an art dealer for the last 8 years.

there were a handful of years back where Thea dealt extensively in the underground. largely as a way to make ends meet, she had to hone her mutations to avoid getting caught up in tricky situations. dishonesty in such environments didn’t bother her - pretending to be someone else, ripping someone off occasionally with a forgery or two. in order to survive it didn’t really matter.

currently, Thea works within a tight-knit client network not limited to sol city. a very limited number know who she actually is - the rest deal with junior assistant staff or a complete stranger she hires to pose as her throughout the sell. she has philanthropic connections to sectors five and ten as well as the democratic council, presenting herself as an art collector, socialite or advisor.

questionnaire .

how do they feel about living in sol city? have they always lived there or did they travel from another settlement?

sol city born, though it’s never quite felt like home. parents somewhere between the relatively well-off and buy a million dollar trinket for funsies tax bracket that let them travel on a whim, there are glittering neon signs of other cities that punctuate Thea’s formative memories. one of the strangest business trips she accompanied her parents on was to a city in South Korea, curiosity underlined by a gentle tug of longing for what lies here that unknowingly shapes who she is. Thea accepts the grit of sol city barely just, so long as it makes her a living. as an adult, she has spent six to twelve months at a time in other cities where the business demands she follow.

do they trust the council's leadership? why or why not?

she doesn’t particularly care about the council. although having made her career through sectors closely tied to it, she doesn’t feel a strong opinion needs to be formed about its leadership unless it brings her more questionable dealings onto their radar. there’s a touch of privilege to her attitude about what they do or the decisions they make, with a mutation easy to hide. she supposes her opinion would be different in that instance.

if they chose their sector and profession, why did they make that choice? if they didn't, why not? were they happy with their assignment or not?

went with what she knows. with both parents slightly beyond having a cult following in the art world, there weren’t many blind spots for Thea to grapple with in the early years of her career. art conservation was a rare pocket of quiet in the bustle of sol city, buried in the cool, dim quiet of gallery and museum storage rooms. conveniently, it gave her the insider’s access to know what not to do when forging works. on the other hand, Thea painstakingly weaved together the network of clients she most often deals art to now. she chose to build her own business from the ground up and plays down the nepo baby perks she’d have otherwise leveraged. a positive of choosing her own connections was that the eye she’s developed is entirely her own rather than giving in to the continuation of the familial hopes laid out for her from the beginning.

what's one object that they always keep on their person?

an old map, stored in a quilted satin snap-lock purse she keeps in her handbag. Thea originally came across it in her conservator job, sifting through dust-ridden collections of papers in the archives. she has no idea what the map shows on the crumpled, yellow paper - it’s a strange, circular pattern of overlapping lines and borders in faded brown ink. at first she thought it may be sol city’s underground. asking around, it doesn’t seem to be the case. it doesn’t particularly matter whether or not she knows what it is nor the value it carries – it serves her no purpose other than being a curio and a point of conversation.

mutations .

what can your character do? what are their strengths?

vocal manipulation - can generate varying pitches of voices to give the impression thea is someone incredibly far removed from who she is. she needs to hear a voice properly, once. the most commonly used voices are a mishmash of ones she has heard from memory. her voice changes to mimic a man, someone older or younger, a voice raspy or weak. there are many instances where she has used another voice to get what she wants, often with the goal to intimidate someone else or hide her identity.

intuitive multilingualism - operating in a similar manner to vocal manipulation, Thea needs to only ‘ gloss ’ over a language to learn it. this can be sweeping through a book or language dictionary, listening to conversations, watching an episode or two of a television show. learning a language means Thea is close to fluent and proficient at the very least

what can't they do? what are their weaknesses?

vocal manipulation - all voices are replications only. it is rare for her to mimic voices heard in passing, for example someone she walks past on the street. Thea has a habit of pretending to be someone she is not, and if there is a new client or risky situation she is putting herself into, there’s almost always behind the scenes preparation. an actor for her to impersonate is crucial, be able to put the face to the voice she is hiding behind and keep her mark none the wiser. however different her voice may sound, she can only project it as a typical human would. new voices not yet practiced can waver and fall back to her own voice if Thea is rattled enough or taken by surprise. as with any person whose job it is to project their voice, she’s also victim to a dry throat that affects how well she can alter it.

intuitive multilingualism - a dead giveaway that a language is ‘ new ’ to Thea is her pronunciation will be off. similar to the way she replicates other voices, she needs to hear what the language sounds like from a native / fluent speaker to be convincing. her learning also doesn’t take into account regional dialects or whether she is using formal / informal language, although her mental patterns of learning will adapt to it quickly.

is there anything else you’d like to specify about them?

depending on the type of voice Thea manipulates, it can take a significant physical toll on her. there aren’t many people who have witnessed her use the ability, unless they have been around her in a tricky situation or are close to her ( she’s also done it as an occasional party trick when she was young ). people are far more likely to see her use intuitive multilingualism in a business capacity.

wanted connections .

business associates – people who she buys art from , or sells to ! maybe she ripped you off or she’s a usual contact when you want something ludicrously expensive .

former colleagues – people she worked with in sector five ! a mentor , supervisor or coworker ? Thea has an immense amount of respect to those who mentored her and isn’t immune to bending to their will . maybe there’s something she can do for them now .

friends / enemies / exes / literally anything else : people who see through the person she projects to know what she’s truly like ; she can't keep up the facade forever .

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