Commander Susan Ivanova

Character Name; Commander Susan Andreiyva Ivanova

Canon; Babylon 5: http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/Susan_Ivanova

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5

Canon Point; End of Season 4

Age; 31



House; Heimdall

Power; Damage Drain



Personality;

Ivanova is tough and sarcastic. She usually puts her works before everything, including breaking up with Malcon Briggs originally because she had a new job at the Io transfer station. She considered it a good career move and told him later that she didn’t regret it, even if she cried every night for a month. It is her dedicated attitude that brought her to rank of Commander before the age of thirty. She does break the rules when necessary, including growing a coffee plant in hydroponics for her own personal use.



With subordinates she is fair, but also harsh, and she has little patience for fools or conmen. Her subordinates respect her, but many also seem to fear her. She is not above threatening to tear someone’s lungs out with her bare hands, and she apparently threw a man out of a three story building and into a swimming pool. She also considered assassinating a psicorps representative on station before Sheridan stopped her. While she is sometimes willing to bend the rules, she is loyal to her commander and her friends to a fault, and does not compromise on her greater principles. This is why she chose to follow Captain Sheridan over Earthforce.



Love has been the millstone around her neck, and she seems doomed to tragedy on that front. After her mother and brother died, she became estranged from her father and didn’t speak to him until he was dying. On his deathbed, he begged her for forgiveness, but she couldn’t say it before he died. Romantically, she personally arrested her first love, Malcolm, for terrorism, and her second romantic interest was mindwiped by the psicorps and became her enemy. She was only beginning to return Marcus’s love for her when he died to save her. She remarks in the series that she believes that all love is unrequited.



She has a strong sense of ethnic pride, and is fond of quoting Russian parables. This may have been born of her asserting her culture while living abroad for most of her young life. She is a bit more ambivalent about her religion, because her father was so religious. She does still practice, and lights candles or Sabbath in her quarters.



Ivanvoa’s worst fear is to be discovered as a telepath. It would mean the end of her career and her freedom. As a child, she saw her mother mentally disintegrate from the sleepers used to repress her telepathic ability. Even though she trusts the other command staff with her life, the only person in series that she ever tells is Sheridan, and during this she is visibly shaking and terrified.

So, the little red-haired girl has turned Ivanova from a latent telepath to a full blown telepath. Specifically a P9. I figured I had better put up a permission post. It should be noted that while she is fairly powerful, she has no experience and almost no control. She will do her best to respect everyone's privacy, but can't always do it. Accidental contact is more likely with physical contact.

You can learn more about B5 telepaths here.

Which brings me to permissions:

1. Can Ivanova sense your character's emotions?
2. Can she accidentally read your character's thoughts?
3. Will your character notice?
4. Anything else?

How utterly like me.

I finally... I mean, I'm happy with someone right now. And more than anything, I want someone to hate.

[Ivanova sits at the bar and downs her vodka.

It's a good thing I'm a pessimist, or I'd be surprised.]


[OOC: She's missing black and ashen.]

[Ivanova is staring at her hand and slowly flexing her fingers]

It's gone.

That event was difficult.

... Is everyone alright?

[Ivanova is trying to remove her collar. The video has several minutes of her fussing and tugging on it, and finally trying to pry it open when the bar slips and slices open her hand.

Hissing, he holds the injury with her other hand. Although in a few minutes she's more shocked by the fact that she has formed red lion's claws on the injured hand out of her blood. The surprisecauses the sin to fail and turn back to blood which then spatters on the floor.]

The book didn't tell us about that.

[Ivanova has mostly been hiding out since the end of last event. She hadn't spoken to many people during the event, but she still felt exposed. Telepathic powers were harder to hide when her mind was being overcharged out of nowhere.]

[Currently, she is walking alone on the paths through the hedgemaze. She isn't exactly avoiding anyone, but it's not like she wouldn't be relieved to be left alone for the time being.]

[Just outside the main entrance of the mansion, there is a heavy mist forming, and very faintly, almost inaudibly, a voice calls from inside it. Whoever is speaking cannot be seen, as though the speaker was the mist itself.]

Come here. Come to me. Come outside.

[Maybe it was only the wind...]


[OOC: Basically, Ivanova has cracked and is now hunting. She's an old school vampire, which means turning into mist, mind control, and not being able to enter without being invited. She's trying to summon someone nommable from inside, and she may or may not kill them.]

[Ivanova is alone in her room, which is as spotless as always. She's looking out the window from her seat, seemingly lost in thought. Her dinner is in front of her, which seems to consist of a romaine and horseradish salad and flatbread.]

Second year here...

[She sighs a little, still not noticing that the device has switched on.]