Aliyah

Wealth

Ambition

Mocking

## Appearance

Aliyah wears a faded orange coat with a fur collar (Same as Butch) as a cape, white button-up service shirt, dark grey tapered combat pants, 2 different boots, along with random armor and bandoliers. She has a large afro, a vertical scar up from the left side of her lip, and normal eyes. She looks similar to Mick from stranger things.

## Personality

Aliyah is short of patience, her cautious and protective demeanor quickly shifts to an explosive temper, partially due to the recent injury prohibiting her from speaking, when she used to rely on talking to do most things. As per her short temper, she's quick to resort to violence whenever she gets too agitated, and usually isn't sure when to stop. Even though she cannot speak, she still is extremely good at intimidating and manipulating people to do what she needs.

## Gifts/Equipment

*Magnetism manipulation-* Ability to adjust the qualities of magnetism, and lack thereof. Sub-division of Space-time manipulation.

*Fragmented lance-* Lance/railgun made up of metal scrap shards, held together by **Aliyah's** magnetism powers. By default, it is just a handle and a small base for it. Most of the lance is nondescript metal shards, but there are specific diamond-shaped metal pieces manufactured to either be shot out or used as the tip of the lance, and semi-cylindrical metal pieces used for the main body of both the railgun and lance. The railgun can lanch out pieces as small as the tip, but could also launch the entire lance as a projectile if prepared properly.

*Scrap shield-* Large balls of slag/scrap that slows and magnetizes metal projectiles, and can block non-metallic projectiles manually.

*Vagrant's car-* Reinforced but deteriorated blue & white SUV that Nevada and **Aliyah** use to drive around the battlegrounds. Based on the Chevrolet K5 blazer.

## Background

Nothing is really notable about Aliyah's early childhood, except for that she was born into Aurub and learned to survive in the harsh environment. She always had dreams and aspirations about being a leader, after seeing the power of the raider ringleaders and mainland politicians control the world around her. She drifted along with many small raider and survivalist groups, trying to lead and build some kind of legacy. She eventually set her sights on the floating city for promises of the riches.

She drifted along, trying to find solid mercenary teams that could work together, raiding random neglected buildings on the outsides of countries. She eventually stumbled upon Butch's family, who were usually intoxicated, and practically kidnapped him from his parents. She trained him on how to be a fighter, and how to work together well. She was slightly abusive and basically made Butch completely reliant on her socially/emotionally. The 2 quickly picked up political momentum throughout the years, intimidating small trading posts and collecting all of the protection money, quickly becoming rich. The 2 became well known throughout Aurub before the events of Sunpike went down.

### Seige of Sunpike (Connected story)

Sunpike was a dock/trading town on the northern shoreline of Aurub, known for a large triangular shadow that cooled off the town in the afternoon. It was somewhat developed as a town and was pretty safe in comparison with the rest of Aurub. Most visitors were there to buy from the bazaar, while most of the permanent residents were semi-wealthy merchants. The town was run by partially by an anonymous single leader, who was likely assassinated shortly before the siege. The town also allowed a vigilante justice system where gift users are heavily expected to contribute, which helped the town survive without a real government.

Without the town knowing, the anonymous mayor had been paying protection money to the scorchers, to help the town survive. Since he is presumed dead, and the scorchers didn't know that, they showed up at the bazaar and demanded payment. The townspeople didn't know anything about the scenario, and the situation escalated when **Aliyah** picked up a hostage and threatened to kill him if nobody was going to pay up or get the mayor.

There were only 4 gift users in town that day; a dust storm controller, a portal-using swordsman, Aasim, and his son Ethan, a teenage fire user. Aasim was getting his shop ready for opening, while the other gift users were wandering in the bazaar. The situation quickly escalated when **Aliyah** executed the hostage, sending the town into a panic. When the dust storm character started to summon, she got sent to Butch's dimension and was killed by **Aliyah**. The fight continued as many of the common people tried to fight Butch and **Aliyah**, and failed. People were getting caught in the crossfire in the duststorm confusion. More panic was caused when Ethan accidentally set fire to a few houses trying to hurt **Aliyah**.

While **Aliyah** was busy on her rampage, she didn't notice that Ethan had locked Butch in a headlock with a gun to his head. He demanded that Butch would put her and the portal swordsman into a fight favoring the latter. Butch really didn't want to, but he had to oblige to survive. Butch had to helplessly watch as **Aliyah** got her hands, face, and tongue cut up. He couldn't bear to watch it happen, so he gave **Aliyah** the upper hand again, and she easily won the battle. Butch told her what was happening before she was released, and she shot Ethan right after she was sent back to the real world.

Aasim saw this just as he was running out of his burning shop, face scarred with flame. He had just lost his wife and witnessed his son getting shot, and he was not in a good mental state. Nonetheless, he was unwillingly sent into Butch's dimension to fight **Aliyah**. He quickly outlined the ground and trapped **Aliyah** in a shard, making Butch think that his mom was just killed. As the dimension quickly faded away, Butch and Aasim gave each other the same grief-eyed look. Aasim wiped his tears and hastily ran to the residential part of town, preserving part of his house and 2 daughters in a reality shard, and running off into the barren landscape. The town did not survive the siege, and the remnants were quickly washed away in the shifting sands.

Aliyah was then trapped within Aasim's reality shard for nearly 15 years. Upon release, Aasim nursed her back to health and became a pseudo-caretaker to Aliyah as she learned about what changed throughout the world while she was gone, and as she learned to live without a voice. When the manga starts, Aliyah has only been out of the shard for about a month.

 Trivia

* Aliyah originally had cosmic entity physiology before she was made into an alive character.
* Aliyah was originally planned to be a resurrection from Annie.