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Player Information
Player name: Captain
Contact: wingsofcover on aim, plurk, gmail
Are you over 18: yes
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Character Information
Character Name: Sarah Kerrigan
Canon: Star Craft: Heart of the Swarm
Canon Point: Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm, just after Zerus when Zeratul leaves
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive:Alive
History: here
Personality: Kerrigan has, in some sense, two personalities, and it's very evident that her more human side struggles with the more Zerg side when she is on Char. There, she sets her swarm on an evacuation of injured troops, and is berated by general Warfield, who tells her Jim would be disgusted with her. Kerrigan kills him in a fit of rage, but acknowledges that he's right and pulls her Zerg back to allow the injured to escape.

Her desire to destroy Mengsk and have revenge fuels the side of her that is the Queen of Blades, and it is her love for Jim that keeps her human and brings out her compassion. When she thought Jim was dead, she fell back very quickly into her more aggressive, bloodthirsty nature, only stopping to realize what happened when others pointed out the change.

She feels very guilty for everything she did as the Queen of Blades, all the lives that were lost due to her actions, and she has yet to completely come to terms with the fact that she's a mass murderer.

At the point I'm taking her from, Kerrigan has given up her humanity again to gain the power she needs. Despite all the destruction she caused last time she lead the swarm, she's come to view it as necessary, and herself as a part of it. The way of the Primal Zerg is that 'one shall die, and the other shall grow stronger', and Kerrigan has come to embrace the brutality of the Zerg. She has even accepted Zeratul's prophecy that she must go to fight the fallen Xel'naga and save the universe, but she's also not going to leave Mengsk behind alive.

She is still very ruthless, and more than willing to kill anyone who gets in her way, but there is also still a merciful side to her. She declares that they will no longer experiment on Terrans, and later, it takes very little to convince her to choose a more difficult avenue of attack to spare civilian lives. Kerrigan also spares Brood Mothers who fought her or did not rejoin her immediately, something she would not have allowed before she was de-infested.
Items on your character at canon point: None, she's naked in all her primal zerg glory
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:

Zerg Physiology: Since becoming Primal Zerg, Kerrigan's physical strength and agility has increased far beyond what any Terran could hope to achieve. She can easily make jumps several times her height. She can also survive temperatures low enough to flash-freeze most living organisms and extreme heat. She can take quite a beating before she's seriously injured, and even then, her regenerative abilities are sufficient to regrow limbs and repair major organ damage.

She is also very well equipped in the defensive department with hard, bony, wing-like structures that have sharp edges and long, powerful claws on her hands she is fully equipped to take on almost any foe in melee.

While most Zerg absorb nutrients from Creep (an organic ground-cover that spreads and absorbs nutrients from the ground as well as distributes nutrients and materials stored in Hatcheries, Lairs, and Hives), there is precedent for Zerg being capable of consuming other organisms.

So while the preferred method is to absorb the necessary nutrients and calories through creep, Kerrigan is also capable of eating (as Infested Kerrigan in Star Craft, she has the same ability as the Defiler to 'eat' a friendly Zerg unit).

Psionic abilities: Kerrigan was powerful enough when she was a child to force the psionic power scale to be redefined to account for her as a 'class 10' psion. She was the first Terran to demonstrate telekinetic abilities as well as telepathic.

At the height of her first infestation she once again forced the scale to change, and was listed as a 'class 12 psionic lifeform'. She was capable of lifting and crushing large machinery with a thought, as well as creating damaging psi-storms that could shred and destroy almost anything caught in them.

Her powers dropped when she was de-infested, but since being reborn on Zerus, her powers have exceeded even the height of her abilities when she was first infested. She is the only Zerg powerful enough to control the entire Swarm (when she was de-infested, the Brood Mothers split the swarm into smaller groups since no single one of them was strong enough to take control), and has a considerable (though not infinite) range to her psionic communication.

She has also demonstrated being capable of basic communication with Terran communication technology, as she makes contact with the Hyperion on multiple occasions. That ability is limited to basic communication only, and Abathur confirmed that Terran Machines are not compatible enough for Zerg to be able to 'hack' them to gain encrypted information.

Kerrigan is capable of reading minds, but has shown far less use of that ability since becoming infested, de-infested, and primal once more. It is likely that her change makes reading Terran minds more complicated than it once was, and she either sees no need to do so, or the effort that it would require would take too much of her attention away from the swarm.

Training and Tactics: Kerrigan is a graduate of the Ghost Academy, which taught her assassination and combat techniques with a variety of weapon, as well as how to drive or pilot a wide range of vehicles. She was an adept field commander and operative for Mengsk before she was betrayed, and led armies under the command of the Overmind.

After the Overmind's death, she waged war to unify the Zerg, fighting against the Cerebrates (the commanders the Overmind used to keep control of the various broods), and successfully prevented the birth of a new Overmind. She then successfully defended against two Terran armies and a Protoss Army that attempted to stop her after she betrayed them, proving herself as a capable leader.

Genetic Manipulation: Kerrigan is capable of creating new Zerg on her own, 'spinning strands' and altering sequences, as shown when she makes a parasite capable of infesting a Protoss and which will eventually grow into a new Brood Mother. The Swarm Queens and Brood Mothers may also be partially of her design, and almost certainly use some of her genes; their more human faces and lack of extra eyes are very unusual for Zerg. She is capable of creating small parasites on her own that become implanted in enemies when she attacks; they grow into small, short-lived, aggressive broodlings when the infested enemy expires.

Psionic Dependencies: Kerrigan is vulnerable to technology that specifically targets Psionic, or specifically Zerg Psionic, abilities. The Xel'naga artifact that de-infested her was also capable of severely weakening her and crippling her in a fight. Likewise, maintaining mental contact and control with other Zerg is an extremely high priority for her, not only because she has finally accepted that she is Zerg, but because of the damage they could do if they went feral.

Emotions: She is driven by her emotions, and people can, and have, used that against her in the past. Her love for Jim, her anger at Mengsk's betrayal, and the guilt she feels for everyone she killed before she was de-infested. People who can push her buttons can cause her to take a course of action she wouldn't otherwise, and that isn't necessarily in her best interest.

Social interaction: Kerrigan never learned how to really deal with people outside of a military setting. She learned how to be manipulative and deceptive to complete missions and achieve objectives, but she's only had a handful of personal relationships. Even then, all of those were with people she already knew on a professional basis. Just 'connecting' and socializing are a little bit beyond her abilities, particularly now that she's accepted her position as Queen of Blades, leader of the Zerg Swarm.

Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample:
[Audio]

I remember hearing once that life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Life is happening to me a lot lately.

I have plans I need to get back to.

[There's a slightly audible exhale that isn't a sigh.]

For those of you who might know who I am don't bother unless you have something useful to say. For everyone else, hello.

I'm Kerrigan.

Prose Log Sample:  It wasn't as though there was nothing to do. It was the fact that Kerrigan was completely unable to pursue her goals directly. The most she could do was strive to improve herself as she waited to find her way back to her own universe.

Learn new tactics, acquire useful essence. Both were worthy aspirations, and sure to help when the inevitable conflict with Mengsk came, but Kerrigan would have preferred to do both of those things while gathering her swarm and seeking revenge.

As it was, all she could do was go on in an absurd holding pattern, carrying on some mockery of what might have been a normal life.

"Have created new drone." Abathur's dull monotone interrupted. He had a much easier time pursuing his purpose here. Kerrigan rose from her position and followed him out behind the large structure masquerading as a house they inhabited together.

There was a single, tiny, green translucent sack, full of liquid and a tiny writhing form that would eventually be a drone. "Good. I've located possible locations for a new hive cluster." It would be slow going, with the lack of easily harvested materials in this environment.

"Will become strong organ on creep." Abathur stated.

"We need better control over the spread of creep here," Kerrigan said.

It was obvious, at least to her, but Abathur's idea of obvious was very different."Expanding as far and as fast as possible will create more problems than it will solve.""Understood." Abathur said. "Will set up pheromone boundaries."

She was stuck part way between a semi-normal human life of eating, sleeping, and going on with a life that wasn't constant war and keeping an eye on a massive, intelligent Zerg. A massive, intelligent Zerg with a very strange point of view, and who constantly needed her to tell him what to do, and, more often, what not to do.It was simpler when she could leave him to experiment in his section of the Leviathan and not worry that he might eat something, or someone, that will have people trying to kill him.

"Oh, and Abathur? No more making new Zerg without informing me."