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[awkwards]

[nick / name]: Taryn
[personal LJ name]: buries
[other characters currently played]: none
[e-mail]: wheresthepillow@gmail.com
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[series]: Misfits
[character]: Alisha Bailey
[character history / background]: here and here.
[character abilities]:

Alisha has a really shitty power that’s more of a nuisance then a help. She possesses the power of intense arousal, that comes into effect when she makes skin-on-skin contact with someone. Essentially, the person she touches wants to have sex with her, and is pretty vocal about what they want to do to her—which creates awkward moments and also reveals a little about the victim—and once she stops making contact with them (or somehow pushes them off of her, as it is rather intense) they forget what they’ve said and what happened from the start of her touching them to when she pulls away.

[character personality]:

Alisha is a party girl. If the world isn’t revolving around her, she’ll make sure it does. She’s aware of her attractiveness and manipulates it to get what she wants—which usually leads to sex. When first introduced to Alisha, she was seen as one-track minded with sex on the brain and nothing else really seemed to matter to her.

Alisha was sentenced to do community service after being caught drink driving. She attempted to get out of the arrest by performing fellatio on a water bottle. She ended up being sentenced to community service, anyway. When she was struck by lightning, Alisha gained the ability to cause intense sexual arousal in anyone who touched her as she used her sexuality to dominate and manipulate people for her own needs.

With her rather handy power, Alisha had difficulty relating to her peers. Without being able to use her sexuality—as having sex or simply kissing someone would cause them to go into an intense arousal and lose all inhibitions, and once losing contact with her, they would forget any actions they performed while under the influence of her power—Alisha was forced to simply be herself. Which was difficult due to her many walls and her being locked up for so long in the headspace of using her sexuality to get her further in life.

She’s aware that she’s attractive and she uses it along with her sexuality. As that was clearly unable to be used—after Curtis was vocal about his dislike over her using her power on him—Alisha slowly began to become a part of the group by being herself without her sexual mask.

Alisha slowly matures over the show, growing to be a caring individual who doesn’t like to show that side of herself. She becomes attached to Simon—a less-than-desirable companion for the old Alisha—despite her past open dislike for him (he asked her out, she called him a freak). As Future Simon is revealed to be the mysterious Superhoodie, Alisha starts to respect Simon more, realizing how much he sacrifices for the group and how little appreciation he gets.

Alisha isn’t exactly a part of the group, either. The group usually consists of Nathan, Kelly and Simon fixing the shit that Nathan usually causes while Curtis and Alisha are on the sidelines, usually dealing with their relationship. Alisha can be seen to be disinterested in the problems the group usually gets into. As Alisha’s power is more of a nuisance—as seen in 2x01 when everyone but her was ganging up on the probation worker, in terms of becoming violent and physical. She stepped in only to stop him from killing the immortal Nathan (and the probation worker turned to her, vocally expressing sexual innuendos and what he’d like to do to her) and that’s when they were able to knock him out cold. Her power usually isolates her from the rest of the group. It isn’t until Superhoodie that Alisha stops isolating herself and can be seen working with the group as a team—as she partners up with Nathan to ‘save’ Simon from Nathan’s murderer (who isn’t his murderer at all).

After Superhoodie’s true identity is revealed, Alisha becomes conflicted and confused with her feelings and the information he is revealing to her. Future Simon and her future self are in a serious relationship—far from where she was with present Simon, which was dislike. She falls for Future Simon and at his death, she keeps his secret to herself. She struggles with losing him. After his death, she goes out of her way to try and get to know the Simon of her time—showing her to be a rather caring individual who has trouble relating to people, as demonstrated in a scene where she suggests to Simon that they walk in together “unless you’re embarrassed to be seen with me”.

Alisha is blunt and honest. When given the chance, she gets involved with the ridiculous ideas of the group and tries to assist in any way she can. Her power had been holding her back from being any use to the group—and once she sells it in the Christmas Episode, so she can touch and be with Simon, she finds that she has a more active role within the group. She’s a touch misguided, as she told Simon his future self said they give up their powers, when, in fact, he didn’t. She only tells him that so they can be happy, as she felt that their powers—especially hers—were a burden.

[point in timeline you're picking your character from]:

2x06—Milk boy episode (the last episode of season two before the three month jump shown in the Christmas episode).

[journal post]:

( video )

[ When the device turns on, it sounds like Alisha is fiddling with it, trying to turn it on. She manages to, and it takes her a few extra moments to realise that she has, indeed, found success. A deep inhale—one of exhaustion and annoyance—can be heard before she speaks ] What the fuck is going on? If we've somehow pissed off another goddamn freak I'm going to kill you, Curtis. Who the fuck goes after some weirdo who [ air quotes ] "apparently" [ end air quotes ] controls dairy or whatever the fuck and - [ Alisha inhales, suddenly realising that she's talking at a strange device she's never seen before. It's not Simon's phone, or Nathan's, Curtis' or Kelly's. ] Hello? Where the fuck are you? Curtis? Simon? Kelly? [ A long pause ] Nathan? [ Alisha goes for her phone, trying to turn it on. She frowns ] Why won't my phone work?

[ A pause, and this time Alisha's voice is angrier ] What the hell did you do to my phone, Nathan? [ She glares. As if that will give her an answer from the twat. ]

Fucking answer me, you twat!

[ A longer pause as she waits for an answer that doesn't come. Alisha starts to look anxious. ] Look, if this is about the boy in the locker - or the probation worker - we didn't do anything, alright? I don't know shit. Whoever the fuck is doing this, please stop. Whatever the fuck you want, take it, alright? Just tell me where the fuck my friends are.

[third person / log sample]:

If it wasn’t another dead probation worker, it was another freak like them. Hiding out in a storage closet in the community centre—which smelt like freaking piss, mostly thanks to Nathan and his inability to get off his arse and find a place to live—with Simon, of all people, was not on Alisha’s list of things she wanted to accomplish today.

If his orange community centre suit brushes against her arm one more time she’s going to smack him in the head with a broom or mop or whatever the fuck they keep in this stupid little room. And if that doesn’t work, she might as well just touch him. Hearing him say something completely and utterly disgusting would make him squat far away from her.

“Stop moving,” she says, instead, hoping her irritation will be released with that one command. Simon instantly apologises and the guilt swells in her stomach. It’s not his fault she’s being such a bitch and that they’re in this situation. “Sorry,” she says, looking away from where she can see a tiny sliver of his face highlighted by the crack in the door and the dull light coming through it. “These fucking situations make me crazy.”

And Simon, being Simon, understands and comforts her, which drives her up the fucking wall because she doesn’t like finding him attractive. At all. Her Simon is the one who came and left, who sacrificed himself for her and kept her alive so she could live out the events that got her to the point where he was a changed man. She doesn’t know how to be around this Simon. She knows too much and she expects too much and she really wishes Simon had left a guidebook on how to get from Point A, which is shit, to Point B, which is with him.

Simon pushes her out of her thoughts when he closes the door another inch, saying that the freak is out there and to stay quiet. Alisha tries to get a look at the freak, too, by peering under Simon’s head, but is unsuccessful. For one, she doesn’t want to brush his bare skin with hers and two, he’s taking this whole protective crap pretty damn seriously. It’s fucking annoying.

That’s when she hears Nathan’s awful singing and knows they’re done for.