Kim Hayes
 Haze |
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| Name: | Kimberly Hayes | ||
| Superalias: | Haze | ||
| Gender: | Female | ||
| Species: | Human (Symbiote Bonded) | ||
| Occupation: | Music Store Clerk | ||
| Citizenship: | American | ||
| Residence: | New York City | ||
| Education: | High School Dropout | ||
| Theme: | Original (OC) | ||
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| Apparent Age: | 27 | Actual Age: | 27 |
| Date of Birth | 28 Nov 1994 | Played By | Alice Kremelberg |
| Height: | 5'5" | Weight: | 120 lbs |
| Hair Color: | Brown | Eye Color: | Grey |
| Twitter: | @MeowMeowSpecialK | ||
| Theme Song: | Smash Mouth - Stoned | ||
Contents
Character Info
Profile
Kim Hayes dropped out of high school to pursue her dream of playing bass in a shoegaze rock band that never really made it before imploding after one indie release. Nowadays, she works in an independent record store somewhere in New York City. She has a history of hedonism, a present of drug abuse and a traumatic childhood home life that she uses it all to forget about. As far as she's concerned, though, she'd be coping fine if it weren't for the Symbiote she happened to encounter one night when she was putting the garbage out.
Timeline
Timeline:
* 1994: Born and raised in Portland, Maine.
* 1998: Parents divorced.
* 1999: Mother's first enrolment in rehab.
* 2008: Kim tries marijuana for the first time.
* 2009: Formed shoegaze band 'Clockwork Meow Meow' with high school friends.
* 2010: Dropped out of high school, gained emancipated status, and moved to NYC to pursue musical ambitions with band.
* 2011: Kim gets a job at 'Monkey Heaven Records' music store. 'Clockwork Meow Meow' releases self-titled EP.
* 2012: 'Clockwork Meow Meow' breaks up. Vocalist October Everhart stays on as roommate with Kim.
* 2018: Kim's chemical dependency worsens in the aftermath of Loki's invasion of NYC.
* 2021: Kim encounters an unnamed Symbiote while putting the garbage out and is subsequently infested. The Symbiote takes on the name 'Haze' as a homophone of Kim's surname.
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Personality
Haze (Symbiote):
The Haze Symbiote has the same desires as most of its kind - to feed on adrenaline from its host, to consume phenethylamine, and to feed on the emotional darkness that Kim goes out of her way to suppress. It is frequently frustrated by Kim's lethargy and refusal to indulge in its desires, but tends to be placated and suppressed by Kim's drug habits, compromising on phenethylamine through consumption of candy bars. While noise causes Haze some pain like most Symbiotes, it has developed a sort of masochistic enjoyment of steady levels of the sensation through Kim's love of music.
When it's allowed to truly let loose, though, Haze becomes a wild, almost drunken and violent thing of horror that gets its kicks from inflicting chaos and fear on its victims - though its host's nature would keep it from crossing into true sadism or cold-blooded murder.
Kimberly:
Kim's urge to escape the feelings created by her childhood problems and teenage experimentation has combined with an addictive personality, leading Kim to a dependency on self-medication through drugs (including marijuana and ketamine) and immersion in music and other media. This is made worse by the Haze symbiote, which wants her to indulge in her dark thoughts and turn her internal turmoil into other peoples' external turmoil - a voice she placates through further self-medication.
Whether depressed or stoned to avoid her depression, Kim is lethargic both in personality and lifestyle. She tends to favor deodorant over the effort of a shower, never cooks, and rarely has time to make it down to the laundromat. Fortunately, the pace of working in a record store suits her, giving her more time to listen to music and only occasionally having to deal with customers.
Kim doesn't wish harm on anyone, and has a kind heart deep down. Without the influence of drugs, she is sensitive, hates conflict, and loves living things, even rescuing wasps that fly into her apartment and letting spiders and other pests live (though sloth may also have a hand there). She's pretty friendly, too - when she's cognisant of others' presence.
Character Sheet
Powers
Environmental Protection:
The Symbiote protects Kim from asphyxiation or exposure to harmful agents in the air by filtering breathable oxygen when underwater or in the presence of harmful gases. It could probably even keep her alive in space, but she hasn't tried it yet; she isn't that kind of space cadet.
Healing Factor:
At the level of bonding that Kim and Haze share, the Symbiote allows her to regenerate minor injuries within several minutes, while more extreme injuries that would normally be permanent can be healed over the course of weeks.
Mental Redoubt:
Like other Symbiote hosts, Haze is two minds in one, and the conflicting nature of a space monster cohabiting with the traumatized psyche of a drug-addled pacifist means that penetrating her defenses is difficult and navigating once inside likely even harder.
Protean:
The Haze Symbiote, as with most of its kind, presents as a shifting mass of biomass that can grow and reform into various shapes and sizes, forming weapons of biomass, tendrils for grasping and reach, or even growing to engulf other things entirely. It can change shape and colour to blend into its surroundings, though it is more noticeable when moving.
Super Strength:
The Haze Symbiote boosts Kim's strength to superhuman levels. However, due to her personal lack of athleticism and refusal to feed it as well as it would prefer, she's currently only capable of lifting about five tons, putting her on the weak side of Symbiote hosts.
Toughness:
While Kim is not particularly tough in her own right, the Haze Symbiote's durable biomass protects Kim from harm, capable of completely stopping most small arms fire and providing enough resilience to withstand superhuman levels of harm. It also makes her all but impervious to pain due to assimilation of narcotic chemicals.
Toxicity:
Somewhat unique among Symbiotes, Haze secretes a chemical cocktail assimilated and developed from various intoxicating substances consumed by Kim over time. This creates a disturbing haze around the Symbiote when on display, and prolonged exposure to the chemical through inhalation (or relatively short-term exposure to the concentrated levels present in Symbiote's biomass or breath) can cause the average organic life form to experience a narcotic effect that induces lethargy and altered states of perception.
Skills
Combat:
Kim has essentially no training in combat. Haze has a certain amount of animal instinct for battle, but has a lot of room to grow in regard to actual technique or experience.
Gamer:
Kim spends a lot of time gaming and is actually something of a prodigy at video games - though the reflexes that she's developed serve as little more than gaming muscle memory due to the near-perpetual state of lethargy she finds herself in.
Musician:
Kim has the skill to be a professional bassist, and she's a decent singer besides, but her musical ambitions have largely been quashed, with Kim preferring to enjoy others' music instead. She has a decent breadth of knowledge of musical acts and depth of knowledge about her favourites.
Resources
Apartment:
Kim shares an apartment in New York City with her roommate October, former lead vocalist of their shoegaze band 'Clockwork Meow Meow,' and any number of vermin at any given time. Her job provides just enough income to pay her half of the rent, her food, and - through favors and experienced negotiation - her drug habit.
Volkswagen:
When Clockwork Meow Meow disbanded, Kim ended up stuck with the van - a depressingly rusted-out classic Volkswagen that somehow still runs. It manages not to be worth stealing in spite of its classic status, between the inescapable smell of marijuana and the thoroughly rusted exterior.
Weaknesses
Addiction:
Kim has a psychological dependency on various narcotic substances to cope with her negative thoughts and to keep the influence of Haze at bay. Without access to narcotics, she would be forced to confront her inner turmoil - or turn to Haze for her dopamine fix. And Haze wouldn't enable her for free...
Emotional Sensitivity:
Without her suppressive self-medication, Kim is emotionally sensitive and susceptible to low moods, feelings of worthlessness, fear and anxiety.
Fire and Heat:
The Haze Symbiote, like others of its kind, is extremely susceptible to fire and intense heat, even moreso than most organic things are. It has a natural fear of this danger, and Kim, being flammable herself, is disinclined to challenge that fear.
October:
Kim's best friend and secret blonde crush, October Everhart is every bit as grunge as Kim. October may have the same recreational tendencies, but isn't dependent in the same way as Kim is. Kim would trust October with anything - except, maybe, the truth about their third roommate.
Sound:
Powerful sonic vibrations are always dangerous to Symbiotes, but the Haze Symbiote has developed a greater tolerance than typical for its species due to its bond with a bona fide audiophile and bassist. It has actually developed something of a masochistic enjoyment of loud noise - but masochism won't stop the Symbiote from actually being harmed; extreme noise will still damage the Haze Symbiote and eventually force it to break down, leaving its host vulnerable.
Split Mind:
When not in a truce of mutual stupor, Haze and Kim are at odds with each other - the former intent on driving the latter to adrenaline-inducing action, the latter preferring to leave such action to the domain of video games. Haze is always looking for a good opportunity to coax Kim into letting it out - and most likely to succeed when self-preservation (or maybe even the preservation of others) is tested.
Role-Play
Logs
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Kim Hayes has
14 finished logs.
| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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| LBOE: Spring Breakdown | March 27th, 2025 | A Last Band on Earth spring concert in Gotham turns chaotic when the Robinson Bridge begins to collapse, prompting a mass evacuation, a chemical spill scare, and a high-stakes rescue operation. |
| Music is Suspect | March 23rd, 2025 | Kim is investigating white collar crime related to the record store she works at, Caleb and Christian verbally spar and prevent Christian from working on said white collar crime. |
| GNATION: The Chemical Plant Siege | March 20th, 2025 | The Goblin Nation temporarily takes control of the East River Chemical Plant in an attempt to produce an improved version of the Goblin Formula, but their attempts are thwarted by heroes that arrive on the scene. Rest assured, the Goblin King will not stop at this, though! He will have his new forumla! |
| Return of the Slack | March 16th, 2025 | Kim's ex-roommate October shows up at Monkey Heaven Records to hang out and invite her to October's boyfriend's gig, as well as making plans for Kim to crash at October's place in Gotham for a concert next week. Things seem pretty awesome, but Franz is being cagey about a mysterious seller interested in the store, so maybe they're not that awesome...? |
| Central Park Meandering | March 8th, 2025 | Getting between a Juggernaut and his Hot Dogs |
| Thank You For The Venom | December 26th, 2022 | Kim tries to score some drugs to help keep her festive mood up for the holidays, but things go horribly wrong for her when double-crossing is suspected at the deal. Perhaps it's fate that Venom and Mania are also drawn to the scene, and soon a standoff between the three Symbiotes ensues... |
| The Swedish Labyrinth: Part II | September 21st, 2022 | Dimensional walls and Arcade's nose, what do they have in common? Both broken by the end of this scene. |
| The Swedish Labyrinth | September 6th, 2022 | Several less than stellar heroes manage to get themselves lost in an Ikea. With monsters. |
| Shark Mama Said Knock You Out | June 2nd, 2022 | A Cardinals fan and a shark in disguise show up at Monkey Heaven, where baseball loyalties are unjudged and species are free to remain undisclosed. Unless you're an angel, because angels aren't welcome in Monkey Heaven. |
| Of Kryptonians and Barbarians | May 28th, 2022 | In which Superboy and Haze take care of the driving hazard that is Big Wheel and find that most ancient and mysterious of things, a telephone booth! |
| Holdup at Al's Corner Store | May 15th, 2022 | A pair of robbers pick a bad night to rob Al's Corner Store. It all goes wrong when someone gets shot, leading to an intervention by those nearby - and a disturbing encounter as two monsters in disguise reveal themselves. |
| Back in the Discount Rack | May 13th, 2022 | No description |
| Atomic Rave at Monkey Heaven | May 13th, 2022 | Kim receives a phone call at Monkey Heaven and discovers that it's about a special delivery. Before she knows it, she finds herself hosting not one, but two supers at once. Bloody Tears are released, and the whole thing ends up in a Downward Spiral. All in all, a pretty nice afternoon. |
| What is the most annoying vinyl record one can find | May 13th, 2022 | Kim Hayes directs Booster Gold towards Crazy Frog, the perfect musical choice for Batman's birthday. |
Cutscenes
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Kim Hayes has
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Kim Hayes has been credited in
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