cosmic

Threat,

★ THEPHANTOM, equal parts divine grace and catalysmic power. penned and dearly beloved by LIJA ^{[ she/her/they. gmt+8. ].} established 09/18/2026.

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✴︎ guide.

[ 001 / CREATOR.] Penned by #LIJA, is of age, and currently a university student. Replies can be sporadic due to academic and personal priorities. She may still appear active on timeline or telegram channels, but this does not always reflect availability for replies or interactions. Out-of-character discussions are strictly kept to a minimum and used only when necessary.
[ 002 / CONTENT. ] This is an ENG/FIL roleplay account. The character is heavily inspired by Jean Grey, The Void, Eleven, Cate Dunlap, and Raven Roth. Mainly SFW, but some contents may include mature non-sexual themes, strong language, and emotionally heavy subject matter; viewer discretion is advised. Trigger and content warning will be provided when necessary.
[ 003 / PLOTTING. ] Open to pre-established relationships, collaborations, and plotting. If you have a trope, dynamic, or plot in mind, feel free to discuss through direct message. Replies to plots may be delayed, but all will responded to as soon as possible. The writer is flexible with her writing style and can adapt depending on partner’s preference. Please share any boundaries or triggers during plotting so it remains comfortable for everyone.

[ 004 / BRIEFING.] Strictly no godmodding. Selective following with a preference for timeline interactions. Randomly goes inactive and does random silent softblock sprees to curate my timeline. You are welcome to send me a direct message if any issues arise.
[ 005 / RESTRICTIONS.] You hit the basic DNI/DFI criteria, not a roleplay account, -16/30+, excessively post lewd content, bring unnecessary drama and toxicity on the timeline, apolitical/UNITEAM/DDS, insensitive, and close-minded.
[ 006 / DISCLAIMER.] This account is strictly for roleplay purposes only. All characters, narratives, settings, and events are entirely fictional, and all thoughts or actions belong solely to the character. The writer holds no affiliation with any portrayed muses, public figures, or agencies; real-world references serve strictly as narrative devices. While stylistic elements may reflect shared community spaces, all character interpretations and writing remain original to the author.psd credit lija.
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✴︎ DOSSIER.

NAME. Salome Chava Masayoshi.
KNOWN ALIAS(ES). The Phantom.
NICKNAMES. Salem, Meli, Sally, Sami Grapes, ~~Bean~~.
PRONOUNS. She/Her.
SEXUALITY. Pansexual.
DATE OF BIRTH. 11/01/2007.
AGE. 19.
ALIGNMENT. Chaotic Neutral.
NATIONALITY. Filipino-Chinese.
OCCUPATION. Student, Informant, Wildlife Rehabilitation Assistant.
CURRENT RESIDENCE. España, Manila.
LANGUAGES. Tagalog, Filipino & English sign language, English, Japanese, Hokkien, French, Latin, and Mandarin.ORIGIN. Mutant.
MUTANT-CLASS. Omega Level.
POWER STATUS. Active / Supressed via Inhibitors.

Salome "Salem" Chava Masayoshi lives two entirely separate lives, and she barely manages to keep either of them on the rails. By day, she is a nineteen-year-old second-year university student who treats her classes like a blood sport and picks up new languages the way other people collect paperbacks, yet her academic record remains terrifyingly pristine.Nobody in her lecture hall would ever guess that the girl stressing over her midterm is also an ~~Omega-level extinction event~~ waiting to happen.Known in the shadows as The Phantom, Salem doesn't just bend the rules of the world—she rewrites them entirely. Her mind is a crowded, dangerous room where dreams bleed into wakefulness and memories can be wiped clean with a stray thought. She is brilliant, chaotic, and devastatingly powerful. She is also just trying to pass her finals before her powers accidentally destroy the campus.

LIKES. Soft blankets, cold metal, oversized hoodies, scented candles (lavender/cedar), libraries, plushies, rocks, fossils, pressed flowers, books, antique keys, polaroid photos, keyboards, dubai chewy cookie, potato corner, jollibee, potchi, warm soup, (wild) animals, dinosaurs, coffee shops (even though she hates coffee), glowing neon lights, aquariums and art galleries.

DISLIKES. Loud noises, bright/harsh lights, static noise, crowded places, perfume-heavy scents, unseasoned food, long queues, getting interrupted mid-sentence, sticky and oily surfaces, being micromanaged, invasion of privacy, losing control, unwanted physical contact, small talk, forcing conversations, dry texters, shady people.

✴︎ ANATOMY & PSYCHE.

EYES. Expressive, shifting from warm hazel into an intense, glowing, cosmic-bright gold when her powers flare up.
HAIR. A voluminous cascade of wavy hair framing her face softly.
HEIGHT/WEIGHT. 166 cm (5'5.5") / 45 kg (99 lbs).
BUILD. Striking and youthful with an upright, graceful posture hiding an agile, athletic physique beneath.
COMPLEXION. Soft, translucent ivory skin with cool/neutral undertones.
NOTABLE MARKS. A cluster of subtle moles beneath her left eyelid; a circular, silvery scar on the back of her neck from a mutant tracker.
WARDROBE. Exclusively wears clothes two sizes too big as a barrier against sensory overload.
SCENT. A subtle, clean mix of lavender and baby powder.
VOICE. Soft-spoken and low-pitched with a smooth, calm cadence; turns sharp, dry, and sarcastic when defensive.
THERMAL. Baseline human warmth to the touch, radiating intense heat when her powers flare up.
FACECLAIM. Yu Haram (Hearts2Hearts), Huh Yunjin (LE SSERAFIM), Hanni Pham (NJZ).

MINDSET. Hyper-vigilant and obsessively driven. She approaches academics like a blood sport, and possesses an uncanny ability to master languages instantly.
SOCIAL DEMEANOR. Sharp, guarded, and selectively detached. She avoids unwanted physical contact, and maintains a dry, sarcastic front to keep others at a distance, deeply disliking invasiveness.
COPING & HABITS. She chews on pen caps when stressed, mindlessly scroll social media in bed, and hum familiar tunes when nervous. To decompress after class, she blasts very loud music through her headphones while pacing her room or eats her comfort food at their rooftop.
UNDERLYING NATURE. Volatile yet protective. Beneath her cold exterior lies a fierce moral compass that refuses to tolerate cruelty or abuse of power, driving her to act when system structures fail.
INNER STATE. Exhausted, constantly overloaded and overstimulated. Her mind is an overcrowded, high-pressure space where the boundaries of reality are perpetually thin, leaving her in a constant struggle for control and quiet.

✴︎STATS.
POWERS.	Shadow Walking, Shadow Manipulation, Incorporeality, Shape-shifting, Dreamwalking, Mind Manipulation, Mind Hopping, Memory Erasure, Psychological Trapping, Clairsentience, Empathic Mimicry, Reality Manifestation, Aura Projection.
WEAKNESSES.	Intense Photophobia, Severe Motion Sickness, Empathic Volatility, Chronic Insomnia, Darkforce Dependency, Sensory Overload.
STRENGTHS.	Advanced Pattern Recognition, High Agility, Environmental Adaptability, Tactile Memory Recall, Stealth Mastery.

✴︎ ORIGIN.

THE GENESIS.
Before Salem was born, her mother had no idea she was being used as a test subject in a secret medical experiment that changed her baby’s genes. Salem was conceived in an unconventional way and brought into the world by two loving mothers who were ready to give her a normal, happy life. But when she was born, it was clear right away that something was different about her. There was an unsettling energy surrounding her, a heavy and dark presence that made it clear she was connected to powerful being.Her mothers loved her and just wanted to keep her safe, but her abilities made her a target. A rogue researcher working inside the hospital saw how powerful the baby was and knew what she could become. Before her mothers even got the chance to take her home or hold her in their arms, the researcher stole her straight out of the nursery in the middle of the night.In an instant, the normal life she was supposed to have was ripped away. Instead of growing up in a warm house with two parents who cared about her, she was taken to a hidden, high-security lab where she was isolated from the rest of the world. She wasn't brought there to be taken care of; she was brought there to be studied, tested, and turned into a weapon.DARK PHOENIX.
The lab where Salem was taken wasn't a normal clinical facility; it was a ghost-funded, off-the-grid research compound hidden behind heavy forestry and disguised as an industrial waste facility with underground levels built specifically to contain cosmic-level threats. The doctors operating the program viewed the test subjects purely as biological assets. To them, Salem wasn’t a human baby—she was a threat to human-kind, whose altered genetics were constantly tested through heavy surveillance and intrusive neurological trials.As a child, she was constantly surrounded by adults and older test subjects; though she caught glimpses of other children like her, the staff never permitted them to meet, let alone play like normal kids. Each one of them had an individual containment cells, hers was constructed with sound-dampening panels and cold, reinforced steel. It was a loveless space designed to break down a child's sense of self, forcing Salem to adapt through hyper-vigilance, which was the only thing that kept her alive until the night the lab burned down.When an older subject's violent rampage destroyed the facility's defense grid, the containment locks failed and chaos flooded. Overwhelmed by absolute panic, Salem accidentally summoned a cosmic force of pure dark energy from deep within her. It took complete control to protect her, razing the entire compound in a wave of dark fire and leaving eight-year-old Salem drained, terrified, and stripped of her memories as she escaped into the night.BEAN THERE, DONE THAT.
After months, she was processed through an adoption agency into a home where her new family welcomed her and affectionately called her 'Bean.' Though Salem tried her best to live like a normal child, her powers were like a ticking clock, and she shared a strained relationship with her older adoptive brother, who constantly bullied her for being quiet and withdrawn. When she was nine, during a family camping trip, he began picking on her once again. Overwhelmed and frustrated, Salem pushed him and yelled at him to leave and never come back. Unbeknownst to her, her latent mind manipulation took hold; her brother walked into the woods and vanished for weeks. Terrified by what had happened and convinced that her adoptive daughter was a dangerous monster, the mother called a police officer to escort nine-year-old Salem away, refusing to stay in the same room with her.This incident sparked an endless cycle of foster homes, as she was passed from family to family until she landed with one that tolerated her presence. They locked her inside the house for nine full years, forcing her to wear thick gloves at all times and conditioning her to fear physical touch so she could never use her powers again. Despite being strict, the family enrolled her in an online school, but under a strict tutor who punished her whenever she used her powers unintentionally. Even when met with cold treatment and hostility across every home, Salem still spent every night secretly weaving protective dream barriers over her family's bedrooms so her bad memories wouldn't leak out and give them nightmares.THE UNMASKING.
On her eighteenth birthday, an agent from a classified government division specializing in tracking unregistered mutants arrived at her house. Unlike her foster parents, the handler didn't flinch away from Salem. She calmly removed the heavy gloves, offered her specialized inhibitor pills to suppress high-level power spikes, and processed her clearance so she could finally step back into society and enroll in college. Out in the world for the first time in nearly a decade, Salem went all-in on her education, maintaining a pristine GPA while quietly working as a covert informant, using her shadow-walking ability to shut down illegal animal poachersand protect endangered species.However, this peaceful life didn’t last long. After the facility trapped her in a hypnotic trance for three agonizing days, Salem discovered that the university was using power inhibitors to quietly subdue mutant students. Pushed far past her limit, she snapped, her deep-seated resentment toward human authorities taking over. As rage completely overtook her; she unleashed her telepathy, forcing the administration—and even innocent civilians—to experience the exact same terrifying powerlessness and fear she had endured for years.At the height of the chaos, satisfaction washed over her. For the first time, she wasn't the helpless victim—she was in control. But as she looked at the crowd around her, locked in place and paralyzed with fear as darkness flooded their minds, something inside her snapped. Even frozen, their wide eyes stared back at her with the exact same horror her adoptive mother once had. That fleeting high faded, replaced by a quiet, heartbreaking realization: she didn't want to be feared, she just wanted to be accepted. Realizing she was turning into the exact monster that had ruined her life, her rage completely broke, and she stopped the attack right then and thereTHE PHANTOM: UNBOUND.
Now nineteen, Salem balances her double life as an academically driven student and the elusive entity known as The Phantom. Swearing never again to lose control or harm the innocent, she channels her dark powers to protect the vulnerable on her own terms. She operates strictly in the shadows, entirely unconcerned with traditional laws or heroic ideals. If a poacher, abuser, or corrupt official escapes justice, Salem will gladly bend reality, break their minds, or use brutal dark energy to force compliance, choosing her own cold standard of justice over the authority that once sought to cage her.

✴︎ HEADCANONS.

001. Her shadow occasionally trails a fraction of a second behind her movements, unnerving anyone paying close attention when she moves too fast.
002. She uses her shape-shifting ability to slip into restricted university spots, rooftops, or closed spaces to hide away from people and rest under the guise of an ordinary stray cat.
003. She talks back to her "shadow friends" out loud when alone in her room, leading her adoptive family to quietly worry she is losing her mind.
004. She uses subtle shadow manipulation just to flip off light switches or drag objects across the room because she is too lazy to stand up.
005. She keeps a stash of smuggled lab tools, stolen pens, and odd trinkets from her years in captivity hidden in a locked tin under her bed.
006. She slips extra food into her pockets during dinner to feed stray cats and her shadow entities, flatly denying she has a soft spot for either.
007. She accidentally hovers a few inches off the floor when a loud, sudden noise startles her.
008. She leverages her informant network to quietly track down missing endangered species being poached or illegally trafficked through the region, dealing with the poachers herself when the authorities move too slowly.

009. She collects strabge rocks, dried leaves, and moss from her hiking trips, lining them up on her windowsill like a little museum.
010. She tracks micro-expressions and posture shifts in everyday conversation with a hyper-vigilance forged from years of captivity.
011. She exclusively wears clothes two sizes too big, using heavy, oversized sleeves as a physical barrier against sensory overload and the open air.
012. She automatically maps out the exits, blind spots, and cover points of every room she enters within thirty seconds of sitting down.
013. She secretly weaves a faint, protective dreamwalking barrier around her family's bedrooms every night to keep their minds safe from nightmares.
014. She meticulously logs field observations for her wildlife research assistant gig, obsessively tracking local fauna behavioral shifts that she suspects are actually mutant mutations caused by industrial runoff.
015. She uses her dreamwalking powers to explore surreal landscapes out of sheer insomnia and boredom when she can't sleep.
016. She has a singing cockatiel, named Maestro who learned how to mimic the exact pitch of her alarm clock and regularly sings (screams) screams opera melodies at 3 AM.

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✴︎bonds.
@rhymshotz	Kaito	♱
@excuriaa	Seb	♱
@weeknls	Loki	♱
@Playouffs	Madeo	♡
@url	Name.	☆
@url	Name.	☆
@url	Name.	☆

♱ = familial

☆ = platonic

♡ = romantic

𝄞 = A SECRET THIRD THING

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