Sailor Nequerion

Name: Aqua (front)
Height: 5'0"
Skin: Caucasian, pale
Hair: White greyish-blue, curly
Eyes: Greenish, milky

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Name: Vita (rear)
Height: 5'6"
Skin: Caucasian, dusky
Hair: Greyish blue-black, straight
Eyes: Greenish, milky

About: Aqua and Vita have an overall leathery, desiccated look, and ill-assorted, withered limbs. Their hair, while on the long side, is anything but lustrous - it looks more like dusty Spanish moss or thick cobwebs. They also have visible stitching, ranging in quality from near-invisible to something best termed "hack-job", on their limbs, faces and torsos. Their movements are generally somewhat clumsy, though they come across as more graceful than the average zombie.
Their specific deformity is conjoinment front-to-back - Aqua's shoulderblades and spine are fused to Vita's sternum and ribcage. They share heart, lungs, and stomach.
Aqua is obviously female, and looks to be somewhere around sixteen years of age. Vita is girlishly androgynous, and is sometimes said to be hermaphroditic, though whether this is true or not, nobody knows. Vita simply leers in a particularly disturbing manner when asked, and Aqua seems too horrified at the mere mention to talk about it.

Both sport hairbows. Aqua wears low-heeled Mary-Janes, and Vita wears granny boots.
Aqua is the quieter of the two, ashamed of what she's become and what she's had to do, and more than a little afraid of her other half. Vita is livelier, more outspoken, and just plain lecherous. She particularly enjoys tormenting Aqua when they aren't performing.

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Tales are often told of circuses, of festivals and of carnivals, in every place where Man has laid down his foundations. Some carnivals are wonderful, some are strange, all are unique. One is never spoken of at all. Freely it passes between borders and boundaries both physical and unseen. Widely it wanders. Many are those who enter its dark and unsettling domain, and some never return. Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show moves on, unchallenged, and most never remember its having been there at all...

Once, long ago and in a place so unremarkable that both name and location have been lost to the sands of time, there lived two young girls - Aqua and Vita are the names we shall give them, as any they may have been born with are as lost as the name of their home. Virtually inseparable, they were the very best of friends until Vita's idea of friendship turned into something more. And then one autumn, the carnival came to their town... a strange affair it was, operated by the most bizarre of carnival freaks. The very air of the midway seemed to whisper promises to the children. To Vita, it spoke of friends never to be parted, and one night, she convinced dear Aqua to come to the carnival with her, to see something very special indeed.

The girls died during their assimilation, but (unbeknownst to all) the stronger of the two, Vita, had a Sailor Crystal-level Starseed which reacted strangely with the carnival's own dark brand of magic. Aqua and Vita's bodies fused together, and they exist in a sort of undeath, similar to the concept of zombies or flesh golems, kept "alive" by the power of the Starseed.

As a result, they became the "Siamese Lovers". Vita has embraced their new life. Aqua, having been tricked into this, is unhappy and has tried on several occasions to kill the both of them by holding her breath. She tends to forget this isn't a threat.

Mr. Dark allows them out to drum up business masquerading as schoolgirls, but only at night. The location of their tattoo on the Illustrated Man's person is a secret.

While the Starseed does keep them functioning, in its split state it doesn't give them full Senshi ability. In a sense, they share its power and as such, that power is diluted. They don't henshin and have no major offensive attacks.

"Passion that endures beyond the grave, the victims of a gypsy curse given new life by Frankenstein himself... Witness the doomed lovers now forever joined!"

The show they put on for the carnival-goers is risque to say the least, as whatever transformation they went through only seems to have intensified Vita's tendencies (this personality change may in fact be due to the division of her Starseed). Children are strictly forbidden to enter their area of the carnival.

Senshi Name: Sailor Nequerion
Senshi Title: Soldier of Misfortune
Senshi Type: Lesser/Crossover

RoI: Bad Luck

Abilities:
• "Touch of Doom": Well, that's what everyone calls it, anyway. Bad things just seem to happen to anyone the twins lay hands on. Any sort of bad luck a person may have already had is suddenly much worse, and if you've never had bad luck before...get used to it. Duration is approximately twelve hours, and the effect is worse if the touch comes from Vita. Oddly enough, Aqua's touch occasionally has good results, or can temporarily reverse pre-existing bad luck, though the effect is weaker and it doesn't last as long. Those who receive the touch are fairly easy to spot, even without the ridiculous amount of strange and unfortunate things happening around them - the touch also leaves a physical mark on its recipient, and the twins almost always reach for visible areas. Vita's touch burns black, while Aqua's is white and glows faintly.

Artwork:
Concept Art
Sketch Request by Ladyredvelvet

Related Characters:
None

Notes: Nequerion is a crossover of sorts with the always-wonderful literary world of Ray Bradbury. In this case, Something Wicked This Way Comes. I am not in any way attempting to trample on toes or beloved concepts of much-loved stories - the concept of the carnival and what it does was just too intriguing to pass up.