Teacher

Name: Matthew Pierce
Age: 27
Height: 5'11
Weight: 165
Appearance


Personality: Quiet, yet friendly. A fairly jaded man who prefers the company of books, nature, and cats.
A generally calm fellow until pushed to far.

Psychic Ability: Hallucinations- Matthew is able to making you see anything he can imagine. People will react to whatever they think they are seeing.
Can only be used on one person at a time? Probably. Requires eye contact to work, but he only has to look you in the eyes for a split second to "catch" you in his Hallucinations. (Doesn't require constant eye contact as that would just be weird.)
Psychic Drawback(Cost?): Blindness- using Hallucinations too much causes bleeding from the eyes, loss of vision, and if used even more can lead to long term vision loss.

Background: First discovered his power when he was ten to get out of trouble for breaking a window. He made his neighbor think the window was broken by a large bird rather than a ball. Once he learned he could make people see things he started to use his power more often. However he was quick to learn the cost when his eyes began to bleed and he couldn't see.
Fast forward several years and he has learned just how much he can use his powers before the cost is too much. Do to a fear of blindness he avoids using his power as much as he can. Over the years he has learned most if not all the limits of his ability.
On the downside he was disowned by his family when they discovered he had the Gift. (A.K.A. the Curse, by the cult and people like them)
Due to this he has developed a habit of travelling a lot to avoid Cult Extremists that are constantly on witch hunts for the Gifted.
After years of working odd jobs and barely getting by he is offered a job at the recently established academy for the gifted as a teacher.

Student

Name: Aiden Cross
Age: 16
Height: 5'10
Weight: 160
Appearance

(Hope you don't mind digital art.)

Psychic Ability: Telekinesis- Due to a horrific childhood event Aiden's telekinesis is somewhat damaged. When every he tries to move an object the force exerted on it is to great which commonly results in the object being crushed to pieces.
Psychic Cost: The cost for Aiden's telekinesis is that his skin breaks out in lacerations as if cut with a knife. Though only using a little power results in small cuts, using more power leads to more and deeper cuts which can lead to him bleeding to death with out treatment.

Background: Aiden discovered he could use Telekinesis when he was five and wanted candy that was out of his reach. when his mother learned he could move things with his mind she was happy as well as worried. She was also a Psychic with Telepathy as her gift. When Aiden's father learned of his power he was worried, not happy. Ecspecially once he learned what Aiden's cost was. As he grew up his mother tried to teach him to control his power and not to use it unless he had to. She also taught him that psychics were feared and hated by others. Aiden couldn't understand that as a child so when he saw some one about to be hit by a car in town one day he openly used his power to pull the person out of the way and nudge the car out of it's collision course. Such a massive show of power resulted in several cuts lacing themselves across his arms and face.
Even though the person he saved was thankful he was quick to run off as he could see the local cultist had spotted aiden.
With Aiden only being seven he didn't understand when his mother grabbed his hand and started running until they were cornered in a back ally.
Four cultists started yelling at his mother to give up her "Cursed Child" so they could kill him. She refused and was able to use telepathy to overload one of the cultists minds knocking him out. the other three proceed to beat her to death with wooden sticks and bats while she hid her son behind her.
Crying and screaming Aiden reached out at to the three attackers and put as much force as he could into his power.
When the police and EMT's arrived what they found were three adult males that looked like they had been crushed by a giant hand, a women that had been beaten to death, a man that seemed to have passed out, and a young boy covered in cuts and bleeding to death.

Fast forward to present day. Aiden and his father Lance have been living in an old house in the country to avoid cultist and anyone really. Selena's death was hard on both Aiden and his father. After the accident Aiden was never able to use his power normally. When he heard of the academy he urged his father to let him join so that he could learn to control his power. His father agreed, mostly hoping that Aiden would be safe in an acadmy with the hope the cultist's wouldn't be foolish enough to attack that many psychics.

Alright I think we have a lot of what we want to happen nailed out. So I will go ahead and start on my first post. BUT are we doing male and female separate dorms?

good question. For the teachers obviously no. They can stay where ever in their dorm, which has rooms that are larger than the student ones. How much larger is up to us I suppose.
As for the students maybe it's co-ed, but one side of the dorm is female housing and the other is male? So, same building, but still kinda separated? What do you think?

I like that idea, so no one gets any funny ideassss LOL ;)

Double posttt

lol, have to keep an eye on teenagers. And double posts happen to the best of us.

You sure do! Especially ones as good looking as your character!!! LOL They tend to have powers over the female brain!

lol, I look forward to his effect on the academy as a whole. I see him being labelled as a pretty boy.
I wonder if he'll get bullied...?

Uh oh. I hope not! That's never fun! ;) Im sure Brooke wont bully him, maybe hit on him but not be mean to him for sure. You want me to start?

Heh, glad to hear it. I'm pretty sure Brooke will catch his eye as well.
And go right ahead. Ladies first. ;)

Cool
Sorry I am at work and I was on the phone with a guest for 15 mins and then my fiancé brought me dinner lol

haha, sounds exciting. And don't worry about it. I apolgize in advanced for my spotty posting. Between work, college, cats, and family I have been much busier than I would like....

:D I completely understand that I only get on while I am at work. The only time I have for it. At home I have 2 kids and my fiancé.
Which reminds me, after I get off tonight I wont be here Monday or Tuesday. And I do not know if I will be able to post at all on Wednesday. I work day shift and its harder to get on then because my managers are here.

Sad you won't be on much, but I do have a test I should probably study for. Oh well.
At least you'll have my post to look forward to when you get back. I'll try to have it up tomorrow.
I would post tonight, but it's too late here for my brain to function. :/
Great opening post by the way. Oh, and what do you think about Brooke being signed up for counselling
with Matthew? I leave the choice up to you, but he does specialize in helping people learn to control the more unique powers. I think that might even be what his class covers.
And I may be rambling at this point, but I was thinking of having him teach that one class about unique powers and such (kinda weird psychic stuff 101) an then just do counselling type stuff for people that have trouble controlling their powers.
What do you think? Love it? Strongly dislike it? Let me know.

I would love for that.. I love the whole idea.
I think it would be great to have a teacher that can teach her to control it. Because I can see it getting bad.
I have a feeling with the fact that she screams while she has one that people wont go near her much.

Hopefully Matthew will be able to help her. I have some cool ideas about that as well.
Anyway, time to start my first post I guess.

EDIT: So, Matt is semi awake and drinking coffee in the Teachers lounge and is about to head to his office and/or classroom. He is not much of a morning person til he has coffee if you didn't notice. Also, Aiden is in the lobby area.
Also, should there be some sort of assembly hall meeting at some point? Seems normal. I assume they need to go drop there stuff off and pick rooms and such now right?
Also, room mates or no roommates? Very tough question to be honest. I'm almost swinging more no than yes.
Thoughts?

I am swinging more towards the NO rather than the YES also. I myself would prefer no roommate.
And yes they will need to have an assembly of some sort

Glad we're on the same same page yet again. No roomies.
Also, I had an idea for the Headmaster I hope you like. Here is my idea in a nut shell.
Morgan Freeman+Powerful Precog Abilities!
What do you think? Part of my idea about him being able to see the future I hope to tie in later in the story. Maybe.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I love it!
Sorry I was in the middle of posting yesterday and closed the browser and got irritated that I did that and just didn't come back on LOL