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First Impressions
Appearance, Fashion, Demeanor
Age/Sex: Visible female, early 30'sHeight: 5'6"
Physique: Statuesque (made even more so by the 4-and-more inch heels she wears all the time). She is slender, well-proportioned, and athletic.
Hair: Black, 3/4ths dyed blonde, crimped perm, that falls to the middle of her back. Usually worn down, but at times plaited or pulled up in elaborate styles.
Eyes: Brown
Skin-tone: Creamy Brown
Defining Marks: Tattoo of a black umbrella, with a red handle, on her left forearm. A scar from a slash has healed across the middle of her throat.
Fashion: Allison's life as a world-famous actress for the last most of a decade has informed on her wardrobe, makeup, and accessories. Even when not being dressed by couture, and made picture perfect by a team of ten, she is usually in designer clothes, many of which include high-waisted pants, revealingly cut shirts, heels, and a wide assortment of jackets all in a high class 80's chic.
Demeanor/Attitude: Allison is graceful and precise in almost her movements, trained first for nearly two decades in mixed martial arts and the following decade as an actress. Allison's demeanor and attitude, especially with the public, is more mask and act than reality. She is generally polite, kind, receptive, and a little distant.
Voice: Allison has regained her voice and her powers as of 2.01, and returns to the world with a year and half of its use already under her belt again. The means of her main power and a world-famous actress of over a decade, Allison's voice in the seat of her power on both sides of her life. Speaks seven languages fluently.
Personality
☂ 00.03 Insufferable, narcissistic creature, but extremely useful. Prevaricates with appalling ease — From the personal notes of Sir Reginald HargreevesAllison Hargreeves was the third child bought (and “adopted”) by Reginald Hargreeves — inventor, entrepreneur, renown Olympic gold medalist in fencing, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize — ”to save the world, of course.” Raised in a mansion with siblings who were more like compatriot soldiers, Allison was rigorously trained for physical endurance and the use of her powers from the point she could walk and talk.☂ “My sister is beautiful, and she knows. Allison loves attention, even while complaining about it, feigning modesty. What else would you expect—her superpower is dishonesty. Father trained her so well.” — From Extra Ordinary: My Life as Number Seven by Vanya Hargreeves
The first child to speak up about their father’s dedication to them only being only there when they were training, being experimented on, or our on a mission, Allison has always been willing to speak out sharply, in a sharp cold temper, against what she thinks is wrong. Which started with her father’s treatment of herself and all of her siblings, whom he never named, but numbered in the order with which he felt their usefulness to him was.
Allison’s powers, warping reality to fit whatever she said something was (through the use of ’I heard a rumor’), gave her everything she wanted as a child. Being capable of always getting her way with the turn of a single phrase, while being raised without parents who truly focused on intrapersonal morals, Allison was in many ways selfish, self-centered, and arrogant. She was quite willing to use all she had to further her aims, whether that was in helping to stop bank robberies by telling a criminal to shoot their accomplice or using it to run loops around her father’s rules for sneaking out.☂ It just seemed like, when you left, all you wanted to do was forget this place even existed. — Luther Hargreeves
Being the only girl in the Umbrella Academy with powers, Allison was courted by and grew up with the focus of the media on her, and her face often splashed across any number of newspapers and magazines. This only furthered both what Hargreeves referred to as Allison’s “insufferable, narcissistic traits” and her own longing to go into acting, knowing the world was already ready and waiting for her to hit adulthood.
Except for Luther, none of the Umbrella Academy children planned to stay in their home any longer than they had to. Two of their brothers, Five and Ben, were already gone by their mid-teens, the former vanishing after one intense fight with their father and the second dying in the line of duty. None of which changed anything about how the rest of them were raised, trained, and run, like expendable — and ‘disappointing’ — toy soldiers.☂ I didn't think it was possible to miss a person this much.
After leaving, Allison started a career as an actress which would blossom so massively that ordinary people, even in small towns recognize her from several of the action and romantic-comedy movies that she’s done. While the fame of her siblings, and their exploits as a child superhero team, had died down and mostly blown away in the 12-13 years since they all parted, Allison’s fame only skyrocketed higher and higher, until, as her sister put it, “[she’s] one of the most famous people in the world.”
While Allison’s life was still on its skyward assent as she claimed movie after movie deal, earning more and more attention from the world at large, she fell in love with Patrick, got married, and they had their daughter, Claire. Still relying on her powers to help her smooth out frustrations and obstacles in her life, Allison was caught by her husband one night, using her powers to convince their daughter to sleep instead of having her temper tantrum.☂ Now I know nothing in my life was real.
Due to this manipulation of their daughter with her powers (and too many doubts about what other things she may have used it on both on himself and their daughter), Patrick filed for divorce and won full custody of Claire. This event changed everything for Allison, as she was required ongoing sessions with a court-ordered therapist to even be given the rights to see or speak to her daughter at all.
Eight months later, and at current for Allison’s one-week worth of canon, and her entering Mask or Menace, Allison has been in therapy for three-fourths of a year and is in the process of trying to reconstruct her life. She’s been made to face the crutch her powers have been and the fact it’s made her life a carousel of lies built on rumors that likely had no real truth under them, and to acknowledge her dependence on this and "taking the easy route" cost her the most important person in her world.☂ Some things just stay broken.
Because of these epiphanies, when Allison meets her siblings again for their father’s funeral, her response to being told she could do her ‘Rumor Thing’ (to get her daughter back, specifically, even) is “I don’t do that anymore” and it holds true, as Allison doesn’t actually use her power once in the whole of first season current-day canon. She’s come to space where she trying to define her life and herself without the lies her skills make real.
In returning home, Allison is shown as frequently the most mature of her siblings.
While the bar is set very low on this for the Hargreeves Children, none of which had a healthy upbringing or adulthood, Allison is the only one of them to have been married and had a child, and, also, to have those things taken away from her. While she maintains a very coiffed appearance and demeanor at all times, her mental state is still quite fraught. Therapy has both helped further shatter her original conception of herself, and placed into her hands the tools of understanding her present and her choices are now in her hands, "because she is an adult now and there's no one else to blame for her actions but herself." A refrain we hear her give her siblings, as well.
Allison considers herself, in her own words, “broken” very likely indefinitely-without-repair, and she goes on to tell one of her siblings, that he is the “only [person] who knows who [she] really is, and still likes her.” Which has indicative connotations to how much she can’t trust what she’s manipulated of the lives around her, save one, and somehow that one still doesn’t hate her, at least not the way she’s come to hate herself, for who she is and how being that person led to the removal of her daughter. That all the others in her life who like her very likely don't at their truest base, too.
While this struggle for herself and finding, as well as defining, her own new way in life, is a big part of her, Allison shines where it comes to her family. Her absolution to put her daughter first is paramount to all she does. The same can be said of her loyalty to all of her siblings, and to Luther, and Vanya, especially. Though erstwhile some of them may be and all of them estranged from over a decade of barely talking (so much so that not one of her siblings has met her daughter yet), Allison would not turn her back on any of them. Not even for the end of the world and the deaths of everyone on the planet.
Allison very much speaks from her heart and loves her family, even if she can come off distant and fiercely annoyed in turns.
Meta Heroes Powers
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Reality Manipulation Umbrella ☂
Allison’s canon power is the ability to manipulate reality. Most of the time, this starts with the phrase “I heard a rumor...” and the person (and reality itself) listening will be convinced of the validity of the statement she just made, or obey her command she’s given them (/or physical reality shifts just slightly to come into accordance with her’ rumor/lie’). While the trigger phrase is a guide for funneling her power, it is not required, and she can and has powered her intentions into other words, or a single word, without the four-word starter.
Allison has spent much of her life using her ‘rumoring’ power over reality to make her life more convenient: persuading her father and the world at large (from passing strangers to people in Hollywood to her young daughter), to go along with what she wanted in any given moment. This power works on any ‘being’ with a sense of consciousness/ability to be directed (people, animals, aliens, robots, undead, etc.).
Allison’s manipulation of reality can also cause things to appear out of thin air. She has made things as tiny as a container of paste, to a medium infestation of cockroaches, to a same-size living copy of herself, to a large anthropomorphic statue several stories high appear by simply rumoring them into existence. Objects Allison creates are not bound by the laws of physics or her knowledge of the inner workings of an object, only her intention of directing something to work as it should.
The Super Star ☂
Allison is one of the most famous people in the world of her canon. Due to her star-studded life of the last decade, she has always appeared immaculately put together (hair, makeup, four-inch heels, etc.) in the show. This silly lollsy power is just making it so her hair, skin, clothes, makeup somehow look radiantly fresh, flawless, fitted, and flattering at all times no matter the circumstances she finds herself in.
Lie Detector ☂
Allison, in her canon, is already a character who is very astute at noticing character shifts/changes/the ‘level of bs’ people use when talking to her, and she’s often calling people on it. In general and specific this power reacts in any level of duplicity someone near her is trying to use on her. This power does require other people to be speaking/overheard for the power to react, so it wouldn’t go off just because someone was furtive somewhere in the near vicinity of anywhere Allison happens to be. It is limited to a twenty-foot radius around her, and there is no target minimum.
Alignment Types
Zodiac: Libra
Myer-Briggs Type
ESTP-T / The Entrepreneur(Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.)
Entrepreneurs always have an impact on their immediate surroundings – the best way to spot them at a party is to look for the whirling eddy of people flitting about them as they move from group to group. Laughing and entertaining with a blunt and earthy humor, Entrepreneur personalities love to be the center of attention. Entrepreneurs keep their conversation energetic, with a good dose of intelligence, but they like to talk about what is – or better yet, to just go out and do it.
Entrepreneurs are the likeliest personality type to make a lifestyle of risky behavior. They live in the moment and dive into the action – they are the eye of the storm. People with the Entrepreneur personality type enjoy drama, passion, and pleasure, not for emotional thrills, but because it’s so stimulating to their logical minds. They are forced to make critical decisions based on factual, immediate reality in a process of rapid-fire rational stimulus response.
This makes school and other highly organized environments a challenge for Entrepreneurs. It certainly isn’t because they aren’t smart, and they can do well, but the regimented, lecturing approach of formal education is just so far from the hands-on learning that Entrepreneurs enjoy. Also challenging is that to Entrepreneurs, it makes more sense to use their own moral compass than someone else’s. Rules were made to be broken.
With perhaps the most perceptive, unfiltered view of any type, Entrepreneurs have a unique skill in noticing small changes. Whether a shift in facial expression, a new clothing style, or a broken habit, people with this personality type pick up on hidden thoughts and motives where most types would be lucky to pick up anything specific at all. Entrepreneurs use these observations immediately, calling out the change and asking questions, often with little regard for sensitivity.
Entrepreneurs are full of passion and energy, complemented by a rational, if sometimes distracted, mind. Inspiring, convincing and colorful, they are natural group leaders, pulling everyone along the path less traveled, bringing life and excitement everywhere they go.
Ennegram
Type 8 - The Challenger, Wing: 7 - The NonConformist
(Taking charge, because they don't want to be controlled.
People of this personality type are essentially unwilling to be controlled, either by others or by their circumstances; they fully intend to be masters of their fate. Eights are strong-willed, decisive, practical, tough-minded and energetic. They also tend to be domineering; their unwillingness to be controlled by others frequently manifests in the need to control others instead. When healthy, this tendency is kept under check, but the tendency is always there, nevertheless, and can assume a central role in the Eight's interpersonal relationships.
Eights generally have powerful instincts and strong physical appetites which they indulge without feelings of shame or guilt. They want a lot out of life and feel fully prepared to go out and get it. They need to be financially independent and often have a hard time working for anyone. This sometimes necessitates that the Eight opt out of the system entirely, assuming something of an outlaw mentality. Most Eights, however, find a way to be financially independent while making their peace with society, but they always retain an uneasy association with any hierarchical relationship that sees the Eight in any position other than the top position.
Eights have a hard time lowering their defenses in intimate relationships. Intimacy involves emotional vulnerability and such vulnerability is one of the Eight's deepest fears. Betrayal of any sort is absolutely intolerable and can provoke a powerful response on the part of the violated Eight. Intimate relationships are frequently the arena in which an Eight's control issues are most obviously played out and questions of trust assume a pivotal position. Eights often have a sentimental side that they don't even show to their intimates, such is their fear of vulnerability. But, while trust does not come easily to an Eight, when an Eight does take someone into the inner sanctum, they find a steadfast ally and stalwart friend. The Eight's powerful protective instincts are called into play when it comes to the defense of family and friends, and Eights are frequently generous to a fault in providing for those under their care.
Eights are prone to anger. When severely provoked, or when the personality is unbalanced, bouts of anger can turn into rages. Unhealthy Eights are frankly agressive and when pushed, can resort to violence. Such Eights enjoy intimidating others whom they see as "weak" and feel little compunction about walking over anyone who stands in their way. They can be crude, brutal and dangerous.
Mask or Menace Basics (2019-21)
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉CHARACTER NAME: Allison Hargreeves
CHARACTER AGE: 30
SERIES: The Umbrella Academy
CHRONOLOGY: Episode 1.10
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Nonah Independent Housing (New Hargreeves House) (May 1, 2020 - present)
- Formerly: Nonah Independent Housing (Old Hargreeves Mansion) (May 27, 2019 - May 1, 2020)
- Formerly: Maurtia Falls #2 with Tulip, Cassidy, & Eccarius (April 3, 2019 - May 27, 2019)
JOB: Project Walkway, Model & Silent Actress (June 2019 - present)
- Formerly: CNC - Gabriel's Enforcer & Intergation Specialist (February 2020)
- Formerly: Gossip Columnist (April 2019 - June 2019)
BACKGROUND: Allison | The Umbrella Academy
Mask or Menace Powers (2019-21)
Reality Manipulation Umbrella ☂Allison’s canon power is the ability to manipulate reality. Most of the time, this starts with the phrase “I heard a rumor...” and the person (and reality itself) listening will be convinced of the validity of the statement she just made, or obey her command she’s given them (/or physical reality shifts just slightly to come into accordance with her’ rumor/lie’). While the trigger phrase is a guide for funneling her power, it is not required, and she can and has powered her intentions into other words, or a single word, without the four-word starter.
Allison has spent much of her life using her ‘rumoring’ power over reality to make her life more convenient: persuading her father and the world at large (from passing strangers to people in Hollywood to her young daughter), to go along with what she wanted in any given moment. This power works on any ‘being’ with a sense of consciousness/ability to be directed (people, animals, aliens, robots, undead, etc.).
Allison’s manipulation of reality can also cause things to appear out of thin air. She has made things as tiny as a container of paste, to a medium infestation of cockroaches, to a same-size living copy of herself, to a large anthropomorphic statue several stories high appear by simply rumoring them into existence. Objects Allison creates are not bound by the laws of physics or her knowledge of the inner workings of an object, only her intention of directing something to work as it should.
The Super Star ☂
Allison is one of the most famous people in the world of her canon. Due to her star-studded life of the last decade, she has always appeared immaculately put together (hair, makeup, four-inch heels, etc.) in the show. This
Lie Detector ☂
Allison, in her canon, is already a character who is very astute at noticing character shifts/changes/the ‘level of bs’ people use when talking to her, and she’s often calling people on it. In general and specific this power reacts in any level of duplicity someone near her is trying to use on her. This power does require other people to be speaking/overheard for the power to react, so it wouldn’t go off just because someone was furtive somewhere in the near vicinity of anywhere Allison happens to be. It is limited to a twenty-foot radius around her, and there is no target minimum.
Player Info
NAME: AmandaPLURK: Wanderlustlover
DISCORD: On Request
RP HISTORY: 24 years
OOC Permissions
☆ Backtagging: I am always for backlogging. Allison's writer is a full-time Teacher/Professor, with three school clubs, and multiple outside big time commitments organizations she runs. She's, also, in the ownership of some very dicey medical situations that can lead to drastic slows. Backtagging is always welcome, and I'm super happy to write with those who are willing to work with it, too.☆ Threadhopping: Thread-hopping is cool if you clear it with the mun first. Allison is usually super good at handling multiple people. Just check in with the mun, and 3 times out of 4 it will be absolutely okay. If she's threading with other Umbrella characters at the same time, for these same reasons, I will ask that you get their permissions, too.
☆ Fourthwalling: Writer does not fourthwall in prose, or character, unless in Memes or Backroom happenstances for fun. Please do not do this in the game. Also, please do not have characters react to things in her prose/narration that they have no reason to know about being thought about and yet not being expressed by Allison's words or actions at the time. Especially given how good an actress she is. If you need to check in on whether your character would notice something hinky, reach out and ask, I'm super friendly and open to compromises.
☆ Canonbreaking: This is not on the table for MoM due to the rules.
☆ Offensive subjects: Allison is pretty knowledgable about most things, and has been around being a superhero since birth and a Hollywood star long enough to be exposed to even more. Allison isn't easily triggered by many things, but she's entirely willing to throw down if she has to in need of protecting herself, her siblings, or a civilian. If you feel things are ever getting dicey for your character, or mine, contact and conversations are always welcome.
IC Permissions
☆ Hugging: This is one of those touch-and-go things. Allison will casually hug a person back that she knows, freeze if she doesn't know them, and can be at least basic-level, in passing, physically affectionate with no notice of it with her siblings. In the wrong moods, Allison can also be standoffish and very quickly shrug away even the smallest touch to her person even by people she does like. As well, there is that Allison comes from a childhood where all physical affection was eschewed and reprimanded, so often she won't even realize it if she's giving off a vibe of maintaining clear spaces between herself and others. ☆ Flirting: Sure, go for it. Allison was raised knowing she was beautiful, powerful, and singular in being the only girl in the world like her. Then, she moved to Hollywood and became a star. She didn't do a lot of flirting in her childhood, except with one person, but she got over that quickly enough once she got out of her father's house.
☆ Kissing: Probably not? Maybe? I mean, you can try, if you think your thread is headed that way? Allison is very much Luther-centric. Even when she's not trying to be Luther-centric, she's Luther-centric. As she admits, in her canon, Allison compares every man she meets in her life to the cut of the cloth that is Luther Hargreeves. She has, though, dated, kissed, and slept with people, and married at least one person, all of whom were not Luther Hargreeves, so, you know. It's not entirely out of the question. I'd say prepare yourself for a lot of Luther-adjacent angst given that he is solidly back in her life again and not looking to leave it.
☆ Fighting: Allison has been trained to fight, both physically and with her powers of persuasion, since she was a child. When other girls were playing with dolls and going to school, Allison and her siblings were being rigorously trained as toy-soldiers from before they were even five. She's ready for a fight, and she quite enjoys them more than she'd ever like to admit.
☆ Injury: Talk to me first, but injury, both severe and limited, are not off the table. Allison's been a superhero and is returning to it, again, injuries happen in the line of duty.
☆ Killing this character: Uh. No thanks. She (and her siblings) have enough trauma on related situations for now.