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ꜰʀᴀɴᴄɪs "ᴄᴏʟᴇ" ᴄᴏʟᴇᴍᴀɴ
ʙᴀsɪᴄ ᴅᴇᴛᴀɪʟs
ꜰᴜʟʟ ɴᴀᴍᴇ
Francis Coleman, Jr.
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19
ɢᴇɴᴅᴇʀ
Male
sᴇxᴜᴀʟɪᴛʏ
Heterosexual
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Cole isn't an 'asshole' per se, but that's probably a common view of him from the outside. He has an antipathy for socializing, and is as far as you can get from a people person. Simply put, Cole does what he wants, when he wants, and does not care much for what others may think of it. Out of his own personal choice he keeps very few people close to him, only keeping a handful of friends - despite this he still seems to command a certain level of respect from many of his peers - most likely out of fear. He tends to clash heads with a great deal of people, a result of his standoffish, brutally honest and often insensitive way of talking paired with his short temper and history of getting in to rough situations. Throughout high school he was that kid sat at the back of the class who nobody wanted to make eye contact with out of fear they would be targeted. Contrary to popular belief, however, Cole is no 'bully', and has never really initiated any fights, he is just extremely easy to get a rise out of and does not give second chances.
Really, Cole has two different sides to him - the side he puts out to the rest of the world; the quiet, dangerous, "don't cross me or I'll stab you" persona, and the side of him that he shares with the few people he trusts enough to call friends. If he cares about someone, he can show a different side, a more fragile, humorous and light-hearted side. His loyalty, when earned, is by no means meager. After a history of letting his guard down and being subsequently fucked over, however, Cole is reluctant to befriend new people. He has quite a distaste for arrogance and ignorance, and is not afraid to speak up about it.
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Standing at a fairly imposing 6'1, Cole is wide shouldered and athletic, spending many of his days in solitude keeping himself in good shape. He has short cropped dark-brown hair that is typically slightly shorter on the sides than the top. He usually keeps clean shaven but grows stubble at the rate of most adult men. He is brown eyed and has a neutral Caucasian skin tone. Cole's dress sense isn't particularly stand-out, opting for simple shirts and jeans most of the time, typically darker in shade.
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ᴀʙɪʟɪᴛɪᴇs
Chronokinesis
Cole has an affinity with the flow of time. Whilst he cannot 'time travel', as it were, he has regularly experienced bizarre shifts and alterations in the flow of time seemingly beyond his control. He often experiences unintended and often fairly inconvenient 'visions' - which are not truly visions, rather Cole witnessing moments in the future or past - these abilities being known as precognition and retrocognition. Although potentially very useful, Cole has very little control over these 'flashbacks' and 'flashforwards' meaning they rarely make much sense to him and can sometimes be completely useless.
Cole also finds time to pass differently depending on the circumstances. If his emotions are heightened things can often seem to happen in fluctuating speeds, meaning his reactions are dulled and he is put at a weakness. However, if he is more tranquil in mind, he is almost given control over how time flows around him, and is given much more time to dictate his actions. He has in no way honed this ability, however, and it rarely is much use to him.
Cole also finds time to pass differently depending on the circumstances. If his emotions are heightened things can often seem to happen in fluctuating speeds, meaning his reactions are dulled and he is put at a weakness. However, if he is more tranquil in mind, he is almost given control over how time flows around him, and is given much more time to dictate his actions. He has in no way honed this ability, however, and it rarely is much use to him.
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1. Stubborn to strangers, easily manipulated by friends
Cole does not trust easy, and approaches most situations with caution, putting very little value on the word of someone who he does not trust. That being said, his willingness to trust those he cares about is almost the polar opposite, meaning that Cole completely lets his guard down when it comes to those he trusts - whilst this could be seen as a positive, it is also easily exploited.
2. Tough
Ever since he was a kid, Cole could take a hit. It's part of his nature. When it comes to street brawls, Cole is coming out on top, knowing exactly how to land his hits and not being too harshly effected by incoming pain.
3. Street Smart
Cole isn't unintelligent by any means, in fact he is probably quite a lot smarter than you'd assume from the outside. But he doesn't know any of Shakespeare's sonnets and he can't do quadratic equations. When it comes to common sense, and surviving out on the street, however, he has that down to a T.
4. Quick to anger / Rash
Not only is Cole extremely stubborn, he can be majorly aggressive and reactive. If someone knows how to push his buttons, it won't be long before he ends up starting something serious. When he gets pissed off he also makes dumb decisions, often putting his own head on the line - hence how he ended up running in to problems with the law a couple of times.
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Hailing from a working class area of Long Beach, CA., Francis - or Cole, as everyone called him aside from his grandparents, had quite the mixed experience of childhood. The first few years of his existence were almost blissful - he was young, eager to explore and amazed by the world, and his family was stable. By family, it was really just him and his mother - who worked hard to earn enough to look after him with the support of her parents in Los Angeles. She was, however, a very damaged woman who often struggled in silence. It was not until he was six that Cole was a victim of his mother's mental disorders. Cole never knew his father, so he had nobody to stand up for him during his mother's episodes, would often mistreat Cole, mostly verbally - but every now and then, a few punches would fly his way. This continued for almost five years until he was ten, when Cole's mother broke his arm after pushing him down a flight of stairs during one of her breakdowns.
After a long-lived investigation involving many social workers, Cole was sent to live with his grandparents, where he remained for the rest of his years in education. By this point, Cole had already transitioned from being a light-hearted, fun loving young boy in to somewhat of an outcast. He tended to intimidate his peers and found it hard to make friends - something that he initially hated, but, as years passed and he became a teenager, no longer concerned him.
During his mid teens Cole showed no signs of straying from his wayward path. Despite the love and support his grandparents provided, and the chances they gave him, Cole continued down this path. Drugs, alcohol and women became a thing, and Cole got majorly involved with all that, making quite a few enemies down the way. A lot more enemies than friends, that's for sure. It was during these years that Cole began to experience the strange bursts in time that still affect him to this day. If anything, his "gift" was more of an inconvenience and he could rarely piece together what it meant, quite often putting it off as hallucination.
At the age of 18, in Cole's last year of High School, Cole's life began to truly fall apart. After a clash of personalities between himself and a rather snobbish teacher at his school, Cole physically lashed out at the teacher in question. Despite the teacher allegedly mocking Cole's mother for being a mental patient, it was Cole who ended up taking the entirety of the blame, being both kicked out of his High School and arrested. Although he was not given jail time, he lost his granparents' support and was left to fend for himself.
By 19, Cole was alone in LA with very little going for him, working odd jobs and hanging out with the wrong crowd completely, not having spoke to his grandparents in months. He experienced more and more bizarre side-effects of his abilities, eventually discovering certain ways to apply them usefully. However, before he could really test them out, this shit happened.
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Tori
Just after escaping from her kidnapping, she chopped her hair short so as to provide less leverage in a fight and less to catch on things in the wilderness.
Full name:
Victoria Alina Frejsdottir
Age:
18
Gender:
Female
Sexuality:
Heterosexual
Personality:
Tori is a tough-as-nails, cynical girl, one that is allergic to bullshit and won't hesitate to deck you if you so much as look at her wrong. To great extent, she won't. However, for as much of that persona as she puts forward, it's largely because she doesn't feel able to trust anybody. Though Tori is generally brusque and gruff to those that she finds even the smallest bit suspicious, she's extraordinarily protective of anybody she's deemed trustworthy, and won't shrink from getting up in your face if you try something that endangers those that she cares for. As a byproduct of this straightforward nature, she is brutally honest to everyone, and has no stomach for liars. No matter the motive. She is largely callous and doesn't put a lot of stock in emotions, often openly mocking people who are offended by her often-angry comments.
Appearance:
Tori is a tall girl with fair skin and a large smattering of freckles, sitting somewhere just short of six feet, and has a fairly normal build, not overly slim or overly bulky, though it's worth mentioning that she has quite long legs, sitting in the uncomfortable zone where people can tell something is disproportionate about her, but can't quite place what it is. Despite that, she's incredibly skinny and has almost no fat, largely due to her abilities' consumption of her calories. In light of that, she only weighs about 97lbs. Her lack of body fat gives her face an incredibly angular appearance, all hard lines and edges, which makes her look perpetually irritated. She has short, messily-slashed dirty-blonde hair surmounting a pair of--oddly enough--brilliant orange eyes. She wears a dirty, ripped-up, decades-old black leather jacket and a white tanktop with a single red stripe down the left side. She wears a pair of khaki-colored cargo pants and white and red sneakers. She wears a simple leather thong with a silver medallion around her neck, a family heirloom that she treasures fiercely and will go to surprising lengths to protect and remain in ownership of.
Abilities:
Tori has the ability to manipulate fire. She can shrink, grow, move and change fire with her mind to a surprising extent. However, she cannot, and has never been able to, create fire, only manipulate it. She's always got a simple lighter on her for using her power. The greatest limitation, in a general sense, placed upon this ability is that using it actively burns calories at an incredible rate, and even normally, she burns more than a normal person by a significant margin and runs nearly three degrees hotter. She has to eat a massive amount, but rarely eats enough, forcing her to restrict the use of her powers to avoid passing out. Her powers shrink in effectiveness the higher the humidity is, and when it's raining, she can barely do anything at all. It also gives her an instinctual aversion to water.
Skills & Weaknesses:
Though Tori is relatively strong for her build, and an incredibly fast runner, because of her constant hunger and rapid burning of calories, she has little stamina and can't run for more than a few minutes before keeling over. She has an absurd, indomitable will, which has often pulled her through her share of sticky situations simply by virtue of sinking her teeth in and not letting go. The obvious downside to this, of course, is that she's incredibly stubborn and has difficulty accepting compromise. Having gone on many camping trips with her family as a younger child and teen, she has an awareness of her environment and basic survival knowledge; how to find water, what plants are safe to eat, ways to hunt, things of that nature. She's a terrible swimmer, largely owing to her power's tendency to keep her away from getting wet.
Background:
Tori’s childhood was altogether typical. She went to school, got middling grades, nothing special; her share of B’s and C’s, as well among other grades. When she was young, she and her parents, Frej and Auðgeir, went on a number of camping and wilderness survival trips. Icelandic immigrants both, they had a strong sense of patriotism and had both served a stint in the military. Auðgeir was still doing so, and was occasionally called away on campaigns. Because of this military experience, they put great stock in surviving when not able to rely on civilization. Tori was never a fan of these trips; she preferred to roam rambunctiously around the neighborhood with her friends, a definitive delinquent.
When she was thirteen years old, she developed a fever that didn’t break. Somehow she seemed almost entirely unaffected by the temperature, other than making her more prone to eating and slightly more erratic. Her parents were beside themselves, and doctors had no idea what to make of it. Soon afterwards, fires began to behave strangely around her. This came to a head a few months ago, when she was lighting a fire on a cold night and it flared up, leaving her untouched. Luckily, nobody saw it, but she began to secretly experiment with fire when she was alone, and though people definitely noticed the incredible amount of food she consumed on a daily basis, nobody really thought to question it. She’d thought it was a perfectly-kept secret.
Apparently, she was...mistaken.
Voice: Maryke Hendrikse, specifically the role of Revy from the anime Black Lagoon.
Full Name: Sarah Floure
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Personality: Independent and mule headed would describe Sarah rather accurately. Growing up in a rough crowd she is a fighter and not afraid of voicing her opinion. She has the characteristics of a child left to fend for herself and has a real problem trusting others. That doesn't mean she won't cooperate though. There is something to be said for safety in numbers, a lesson learned the hard way, but outlive your usefulness and you may be on the short end of the stick. Those that do manage to gain her trust though can be sure she'd be willing to break a limb to look out for you.
Appearance: Standing 5' 1" and weighing 112 lbs. Sometimes mistaken for a boy Sarah has a slim frame without much in the way of accentuating curves. She dresses like a tomboy with simple clothing, shirts, jeans, cropped tank tops, overalls, etc... nothing fancy. Her skin shows signs of roughhousing with the occasional light scar. Not one for makeup her hazel eyes stand out as they seemingly change color depending on the lighting, however they tend to appear green most of the time.
Skills & Weaknesses: Sarah has quite a few skills under her belt though none of them are particularly honed. Most revolve around survival, particularly on the streets. She knows a decent amount of improvised combat that mostly resembles kickboxing. Her experience with weaponry is somewhat limited but she does know how to wield a blade and fire a gun. Athletic by necessity she can parcor well enough to get up, over, and around obstacles in unconventional ways.
She is a fairly good negotiator when she has to be. You don't make it very far if you can't make a deal every now and then. That said she can lie without batting an eye and can be hard to read during these times. Living in the inner city she's learned a few useful survival skills on the side but certainly is no expert.
Background: Growing up on the streets of Indianapolis life was tough for Sarah. It wasn't that she was an orphan or anything, her parents were just good for nothing and didn't really care what the girl did. They made by with what little wasn't spent on booze or drugs. Since she wasn't given much as a child Sarah learned pretty quickly that if she wanted anything she would need to get it herself. The streets have a particular way of shaping how one goes about that though. When you're younger you find a group and deal in petty crime. Shoplifting, pickpocketing, and the like.
You also tend to run into rival gangs. That didn't really mean much until her group started getting into their teens. As you got older you were either picked up by older gangs or tried to strike it out on your own. Initially Sarah fell in line with a local gang that controlled several blocks, but behind their back she dealt with several neighboring gangs to try and game the system. This of course could only last so long before she was found out and she had to move on or face getting beaten, stabbed or shot if she was lucky. Back to being a street urchin she had to watch her back and make deals where she could without attracting too much attention.
It was during this time that her personality as a loner really set in. People couldn't be trusted to have her best interest in mind without an ulterior motive. During this period, and too long ago, a peculiar change began to take place. Over the span of a few month Sarah's strength began to increase through no effort of her own. At first it was subtle, being able to lift heavier loads and navigate the streets more easily. However it didn't take long before the girl realized that her strength wasn't some normal development. Before long she could lift a car and punch through a wall with ease. Proportional to her strength also came durability. Able to shrug off significant impacts, knives, and your average gun shot Sarah was becoming a force to be reckoned with.
Her reputation slowly began to proceed her as simple interactions were hazardous to the people and things around her. Unintentional property damage and injuring others put a target on her in two ways. Gangs at large either saw her as a potential asset or a rivaling force. While Sarah didn't really want either she garnered attention none the less as she tried to adjust to her newfound strength. In the underground she had just earned the nickname Bulletproof Red (B Red for short) when she suddenly vanished from the streets. Before anyone else had the chance to get to her an outside group or organization swooped in and captured her. Finding herself in a specialized train car things were looking bleak until an explosion turned over the cars and tossed her around.
Other: Voice - Stephanie Lemelin (Clip Reel)
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"Your heart is the softest place on earth. Take care of it."
NAME
Malena Tessaro
OTHER NAMES
Her friends call her either Mal or Lena, her brothers usually use the latter, most guys do for some reason.
Her grandmother refers to her as Magdalena, of which the name Malena originated.
Her grandmother refers to her as Magdalena, of which the name Malena originated.
AGE
20
GENDER
Female
SEXUALITY
Heterosexual
PERSONALITY
Malena is kind with a good heart. She has a warmth to her that puts others at ease and which makes it easy for them to confide in her. It is a task she takes on willingly as she needs to be needed. She thrives on taking care of others, to see them happy makes her happy. As perhaps a contradiction to her caring nature Malena is very introverted. She often disappears for a while, to someplace where she can be alone, to sort out her thoughts and feelings.
Even when around others she keeps up a well practiced facade. It's tough to know what she's thinking as her expression remains largely the same, like a beautiful statue. Rarely seen sad or angry, she is a serene and steady presence to be around. Only a handful of people who are close to her can see through the cracks and figure out what she's really thinking. She can come across as secretive, while that may not her intention. She has a hard time letting people in and she is very particular on who she decides to share her life with.
She is plagued by crippling self esteem issues. Growing up people always said she was too kind, too pretty, not cut out for the job she wanted, decisions were taken out of her hands before she could even entertain a thought. She doesn't believe in herself or her ability to achieve the things she wants. Complimenting her is like throwing a paper ball through fire, it will have gone up in flames before it reaches her. It's not a feigned modesty, nine out of ten she really doesn't believe you. You wouldn't be able to tell though, she is great in faking a smile and saying thank you.
She is what people would call an old soul. Often feeling misunderstood on multiple levels. Malena is deeply spiritual and takes comfort in her beliefs. In many ways she's lost, lost on who she is outside of her family and lost on what she wants in life. She takes a back seat, waiting for others to take the initiative.
Malena is an enigma, with multiple incomprehensible contradictions. Her friends often joke her personality doesn't match the way she looks, but looks aren´t everything, Malena knows that. While it has helped her or rather forced her to deal with her shyness, it was also cause for unwanted attention. If you didn´t know her you would think she´s constantly playing hard to get. She´s gotten better at it though. If her own discomfort wasn´t enough encouragement to deal with guys hitting on her, her inability to make physical contact will do the trick just fine.
Even when around others she keeps up a well practiced facade. It's tough to know what she's thinking as her expression remains largely the same, like a beautiful statue. Rarely seen sad or angry, she is a serene and steady presence to be around. Only a handful of people who are close to her can see through the cracks and figure out what she's really thinking. She can come across as secretive, while that may not her intention. She has a hard time letting people in and she is very particular on who she decides to share her life with.
She is plagued by crippling self esteem issues. Growing up people always said she was too kind, too pretty, not cut out for the job she wanted, decisions were taken out of her hands before she could even entertain a thought. She doesn't believe in herself or her ability to achieve the things she wants. Complimenting her is like throwing a paper ball through fire, it will have gone up in flames before it reaches her. It's not a feigned modesty, nine out of ten she really doesn't believe you. You wouldn't be able to tell though, she is great in faking a smile and saying thank you.
She is what people would call an old soul. Often feeling misunderstood on multiple levels. Malena is deeply spiritual and takes comfort in her beliefs. In many ways she's lost, lost on who she is outside of her family and lost on what she wants in life. She takes a back seat, waiting for others to take the initiative.
Malena is an enigma, with multiple incomprehensible contradictions. Her friends often joke her personality doesn't match the way she looks, but looks aren´t everything, Malena knows that. While it has helped her or rather forced her to deal with her shyness, it was also cause for unwanted attention. If you didn´t know her you would think she´s constantly playing hard to get. She´s gotten better at it though. If her own discomfort wasn´t enough encouragement to deal with guys hitting on her, her inability to make physical contact will do the trick just fine.
APPEARANCE
Malena is a petite young woman with a pear shaped figure, narrow shoulders and a wider hip. She's 5'4'' and weighs around 120 pounds. She has a classic face with a fine nose, full lips, well groomed slightly arched brows and warm brown eyes. Her hair is thick, dark and reaches down to her mid back. She usually wears it down and wavy.
Malena is into clothes, make-up and fashion but doesn't follow any trends. To her dressing up is more a medium to express her personality, a way to make her feel good about herself. Her style is very feminine and elegant, soft muted colors, floral patterns, off the shoulder tops, wavy cardigans, flowing dresses. She wears minimal make up, jewelry and sticks to what she knows looks good on her. Less is more. She is never seen without a pair of thin cotton gloves, in an effort to contain her ability. She passes of her wearing them to having chronic dermatitis.
Malena is into clothes, make-up and fashion but doesn't follow any trends. To her dressing up is more a medium to express her personality, a way to make her feel good about herself. Her style is very feminine and elegant, soft muted colors, floral patterns, off the shoulder tops, wavy cardigans, flowing dresses. She wears minimal make up, jewelry and sticks to what she knows looks good on her. Less is more. She is never seen without a pair of thin cotton gloves, in an effort to contain her ability. She passes of her wearing them to having chronic dermatitis.
ABILITIES
Life-Force Absorption: The power to absorb life-force/energy and utilize it in some way.
Malena's ability is tactile requiring skin contact. She absorbs health and vitality removing it from the source and into her body. The source does not need to be (super)human, it would also work with plants and/or animals. Using the absorbed energy she is able to gain various advantages, ranging from healing herself to temporarily using powers absorbed from other superhumans. She can also transfer energy from one source to another, healing her target, or giving them an energy boost. The strength and effectiveness depends on the duration of physical contact.
If the target submits to the absorption it is relatively painless and you´ll be left feeling slight dizzy. If they resist it will be painful and very draining, possibly deadly for both parties. While her target my be completely drained Malena can´t contain that large an amount of energy without redirecting it somewhere else immediately. If she doesn´t, well who knows what will happen....
Current level:
Malena doesn't know most of these things. She's used her ability rarely, usually on accident. She knows she can heal herself and other people from minor injuries, scrapes, cuts etc. She's afraid what will happen if she holds on for too long and isn't very keen to try.
Limitations:
Her ability is constantly active, rendering her incapable of touching others without the absorption process taking place. Her inability to control her ability is psychological, a result of the combination between her introvert personality and low self esteem. It´s like her ability is a manifestation of her returning need for exclusion, as it limits her physical closeness to people around her. At the same time it forces her to deal with her issues, if she ever wants to learn how to control it.
As for her absorbing other abilities and using them, it´s not as easy as it sounds. First of all she doesn´t know she can do this,
and second absorbing an ability doesn´t mean she knows how to use it, or worse be able to control it.
Malena's ability is tactile requiring skin contact. She absorbs health and vitality removing it from the source and into her body. The source does not need to be (super)human, it would also work with plants and/or animals. Using the absorbed energy she is able to gain various advantages, ranging from healing herself to temporarily using powers absorbed from other superhumans. She can also transfer energy from one source to another, healing her target, or giving them an energy boost. The strength and effectiveness depends on the duration of physical contact.
If the target submits to the absorption it is relatively painless and you´ll be left feeling slight dizzy. If they resist it will be painful and very draining, possibly deadly for both parties. While her target my be completely drained Malena can´t contain that large an amount of energy without redirecting it somewhere else immediately. If she doesn´t, well who knows what will happen....
Current level:
Malena doesn't know most of these things. She's used her ability rarely, usually on accident. She knows she can heal herself and other people from minor injuries, scrapes, cuts etc. She's afraid what will happen if she holds on for too long and isn't very keen to try.
Limitations:
Her ability is constantly active, rendering her incapable of touching others without the absorption process taking place. Her inability to control her ability is psychological, a result of the combination between her introvert personality and low self esteem. It´s like her ability is a manifestation of her returning need for exclusion, as it limits her physical closeness to people around her. At the same time it forces her to deal with her issues, if she ever wants to learn how to control it.
As for her absorbing other abilities and using them, it´s not as easy as it sounds. First of all she doesn´t know she can do this,
and second absorbing an ability doesn´t mean she knows how to use it, or worse be able to control it.
SKILLS & WEAKNESSES
- + Basic nursing skills. Malena is a freshman nursing student. She knows how to apply bandages, basic wound care and first aid.
+ Alternative medicine. As a hobby Malena has studied alternative medicine, including herbal medicine. She can recognize most commonly used plants and can tell the difference between poisonous plants and ones that are safe to use.
+ Calm composure. Malena is generally a calm and serene young woman, and she remains that way in stressful situations, keeping a level head.
- Self esteem issues. She as mentioned before suffers from extremely low self esteem. Doing something she hasn't done before will trigger such strong feelings of fear and anxiety she'll often refuse to do it. It will take a lot of patience and numerous reassurances to convince her she isn't as useless as she thinks she is.
- Physical prowess (or rather lack thereof). At 5'4'' she isn't very strong or intimidating. She has the average strength of a young woman her size.
BACKGROUND
Malena grew up in a close knit Italian immigrant family, living in a quiet suburban neighborhood. It was a very mundane town for a child to grow up in. The community was strongly religious, many people having lived in the sleepy town for most of their life. Her immediate family was made up out of her father, mother and two older brothers. Malena's father was a buyer for a large firm dealing in chemical storage. Her mother worked in a health care centre as a receptionist. Both jobs were located out of town and both of her parents worked full time, to ensure she and her brothers had a good education. Most of her extended family still lived in Italy, save for her maternal grandmother and her children (Malena's aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews).The Tessaro family was known around town as a hard working family, a loving couple with well behaved children.
Her childhood was fairly uneventful. She had a sheltered upbringing, her parents making many of her decisions for her, her brothers protecting her as if she was made of glass. As she got older Malena started to see her family wasn't all that perfect, her aunt was in deep financial trouble, one of her brothers dropped out of school and her parents were arguing more and more each day.
At 17 her mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. A terrible blow which brought the family even closer together. She delayed going to college to take care of her mother, alongside her family. As her mother's illness got worse Malena slowly but surely took over her mother's role in the household. It was during this difficult period that her ability manifested. She kept it a secret, faking a skin disorder. Malena didn't want to add on to their problems with some freak medical affliction, at least that's what she thought it was. After two long years of fighting against cancer her mother passed away. Struck with grief the family lived on auto pilot for many months.
For the next half year Malena started to work from home, selling baked goods for parties and birthdays, while figuring out her next move. She decided to confide in her grandmother, a wise and experienced woman. While her grandmother showed her understanding, her brothers and father did not. They didn't understand why she hadn't used her ability to save their mother. After the initial anger her brothers came around, but her father held onto his resentment. His grief also drove him to date multiple women, creating an even larger distance between him and his children. Despite all this Malena enrolled in nursing school at 19. Her life exists mainly of school and taking care of the household with an absent father and two older brothers who are in between jobs.
She struggles with her newfound reality, way more than she lets on.
Her childhood was fairly uneventful. She had a sheltered upbringing, her parents making many of her decisions for her, her brothers protecting her as if she was made of glass. As she got older Malena started to see her family wasn't all that perfect, her aunt was in deep financial trouble, one of her brothers dropped out of school and her parents were arguing more and more each day.
At 17 her mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. A terrible blow which brought the family even closer together. She delayed going to college to take care of her mother, alongside her family. As her mother's illness got worse Malena slowly but surely took over her mother's role in the household. It was during this difficult period that her ability manifested. She kept it a secret, faking a skin disorder. Malena didn't want to add on to their problems with some freak medical affliction, at least that's what she thought it was. After two long years of fighting against cancer her mother passed away. Struck with grief the family lived on auto pilot for many months.
For the next half year Malena started to work from home, selling baked goods for parties and birthdays, while figuring out her next move. She decided to confide in her grandmother, a wise and experienced woman. While her grandmother showed her understanding, her brothers and father did not. They didn't understand why she hadn't used her ability to save their mother. After the initial anger her brothers came around, but her father held onto his resentment. His grief also drove him to date multiple women, creating an even larger distance between him and his children. Despite all this Malena enrolled in nursing school at 19. Her life exists mainly of school and taking care of the household with an absent father and two older brothers who are in between jobs.
She struggles with her newfound reality, way more than she lets on.
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Ｐ Ｅ Ｒ Ｓ Ｏ Ｎ Ａ Ｌ Ｉ Ｔ Ｙ
Ａ Ｐ Ｐ Ｅ Ａ Ｒ Ａ Ｎ Ｃ Ｅ
Ａ Ｂ Ｉ Ｌ Ｉ Ｔ Ｉ Ｅ Ｓ
Ｓ Ｋ Ｉ Ｌ Ｌ Ｓ & Ｗ Ｅ Ａ Ｋ Ｎ Ｅ Ｓ Ｓ Ｅ Ｓ
Ｂ Ａ Ｃ Ｋ Ｇ Ｒ Ｏ Ｕ Ｎ Ｄ
Eppie Jones
Eighteen
Female
Bisexual
Quiet ◆ Bubbly ◆ Remorseful ◆ Intelligent ◆ Loyal ◆ Masochist
Eppie is a girl that prefers the life where she can be on her own away from people, and yet when she meets someone she trusts she values their companionship. She is a positive minded person who struggles with her abilities—the unfortunate need to inflict self harm—as they clash heavily with her positive, life loving personality. She is also quite the intelligent girl, someone who had a positive future and good grades at school, and yet no matter how far she pushed herself everything came crashing down when she began to learn about her hidden gift.
Eppie is a girl that prefers the life where she can be on her own away from people, and yet when she meets someone she trusts she values their companionship. She is a positive minded person who struggles with her abilities—the unfortunate need to inflict self harm—as they clash heavily with her positive, life loving personality. She is also quite the intelligent girl, someone who had a positive future and good grades at school, and yet no matter how far she pushed herself everything came crashing down when she began to learn about her hidden gift.
Eppie is a rather small and fragile looking individual; a girl who stands proud at her petite height of five foot, and two inches. She has an anaemic, pasty-white appearance thanks to her abilities, and yet she doesn't appear too concerned about this lack-of-sunlight look. Her hair is void of most of it's colour—a change that began several years prior—giving her the teenage nickname of Snowy. The girl will however still show off her broad smile and bright green eyes, a sign that she isn't as scary as she appears to be.
Most of the time Eppie will stick to your casual, run-of-the-mill clothing range: a dark tank top, a pair of tanned pants, and a set of white sneakers. They aren't what one would call unique or special, but when you're sporting the ghostly look you're bound to get noticed one way or another.
Most of the time Eppie will stick to your casual, run-of-the-mill clothing range: a dark tank top, a pair of tanned pants, and a set of white sneakers. They aren't what one would call unique or special, but when you're sporting the ghostly look you're bound to get noticed one way or another.
◆ Ｂ Ｌ Ｏ Ｏ Ｄ Ｍ Ａ Ｎ Ｉ Ｐ Ｕ Ｌ Ａ Ｔ Ｉ Ｏ Ｎ
◆ Ｂ Ｌ Ｏ Ｏ Ｄ Ｒ Ｅ Ｃ Ｏ Ｌ Ｌ Ｅ Ｃ Ｔ Ｉ Ｏ Ｎ
Eppie has the ability to manipulate her own blood. It can simply be described as a rudimentary form of telekinesis that allows her to draw the vital fluid from her body and use it in a variety of melee and projectile attacks. The girl is able to spill a large amount of blood to form hardened whips, razor sharp blades, or long spears, while opening wounds on her fingertips will allow Eppie to fire a barrage of small, needle shaped globules at her intended target.
These abilities have a major drawback in that Eppie is only able to manipulate her own blood and thus only has a limited supply. She must also draw her own blood through an open wound so depending on where the wound is and how deep it may be will depend on how much blood she can utilise at once. Finally, once the blood leaves Eppie's contact it becomes extremely difficult to recall, making her quite vulnerable during situations of high stress where she's throwing away her valuable source of life.
These abilities have a major drawback in that Eppie is only able to manipulate her own blood and thus only has a limited supply. She must also draw her own blood through an open wound so depending on where the wound is and how deep it may be will depend on how much blood she can utilise at once. Finally, once the blood leaves Eppie's contact it becomes extremely difficult to recall, making her quite vulnerable during situations of high stress where she's throwing away her valuable source of life.
Once Eppie uses her abilities her body will begin to call out for any spilt blood nearby and slowly recall it back into her own body, using the open wounds in her skin to absorb the fluid. This is a very weak ability in that she can only use it while resting, in a state of tranquillity, or passed out and it may take some time for the blood to reach her. During this state she can absorb blood that isn't hers but will most likely end up sick due to the various compatibilities in blood types.
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◆ Ｈ Ｉ Ｇ Ｈ - Ｓ Ｃ Ｈ Ｏ Ｏ Ｌ Ａ Ｔ Ｈ Ｌ Ｅ Ｔ Ｅ
◆ Ｓ Ｍ Ａ Ｌ Ｌ Ｆ Ｒ Ａ Ｍ Ｅ
◆ Ｐ Ｌ Ｅ Ａ Ｓ Ｕ Ｒ Ｅ Ｏ Ｒ Ｐ Ａ Ｉ Ｎ ?
Eppie is the observant individual, a girl who will take note of the events happening around her and make a decision on the suitable course of action. She is quite intelligent too and will notice when things seem off or out of place.
Eppie's abilities have, unknown to her, allowed her to excel at High-School sports. Even for a girl of such a small figure she is able to subconsciously assist in her own blood flow, leaving teachers to wonder how she is able to complete a long distance run with such a regular heart rate.
Eppie is a small girl and thus she isn't always able to put up much of a fight. She has a risk of being knocked down easily and can easily be overpowered by individuals who are much larger than her.
Eppie hates that she has to harm herself for her abilities. It's painful, it leaves scars, and has a toll on her own mental health. But it's needed isn't it? Needed in order to survive?
Eppie nimbly darted her way into the female restroom, both in order to leave the crowded mass of students in the school hallway, and to take a much needed detour before the start of the afternoon classes. She entered the tiled chamber, strolling casually over to the sink, and dropped her shoulder bag to the floor as she grabbed the two tap handles to open the floodgates. A stream of lukewarm water poured out as the girl plunged her cupped palms in and scooped up a handful to splash her dry face.
That's when she entered the room, the school bitch known as Veronica. It was her and two of her bitchy ass friends.
"...Daddy just never buys me anything," Eppie could hear it already, the moaning and whining of a spoilt little girl. "Like, I want this new makeup and he says it's too expensive! I gotta look good for my boyfriend when we have sex again. It's just not fair!"
Eppie lifted her hands away from her face, smirking over the thoughts of replying with something sarcastically rude. Veronica apparently noticed and interrogated the girl with a, "What do you find so funny?"
Padding her face down with a paper towel Eppie paused for a second, wondering if it was right to tell the girl what was passing through her mind. She sighed, giving in to her temptations. "You don't need the make-up to convince everyone that you're a whore."
The next moment was completely unexpected as Eppie felt the oddest floating sensation, her feet had mysteriously been swept out from underneath her. Veronica had kicked aside the girl's legs causing Eppie to lose balance, causing her to fall to the ground below. She fell like a ragdoll as her chin passed the sink, clipping it, causing her teeth to bite down deep into her own tongue. Eppie landed hard on her knees, hands covering her mouth in pain as she heard the three laugh at her misfortune. Veronica leaned over to see if the girl needed a hand—not that she would ever offer one.
Eppie turned towards Veronica and spat a bloody glob in her face, snarling as she yelled out. "Just piss off you bitch!"
A silent reply as Veronica froze. The two girls behind her slowly changing their expressions to that of absolute horror.
"Veronica?"
The pair of girls ran off screaming like banshees, screaming tales of murder as Veronica collapsed onto Eppie. Veronica's head was flowing with pools of blood, both the small forehead wound and the large, gaping hole at the back of the skull. Eppie held her classmate in her arms, trembling, panicking, trying to understand what just happened.
"Oh god! No! I didn't want this!" She whimpered, feeling the tears gradually flow down her cheeks, hearing the rush of footsteps come towards the bathroom, "Veronica! I'm sorry. I'm so sorry..."
That's when she entered the room, the school bitch known as Veronica. It was her and two of her bitchy ass friends.
"...Daddy just never buys me anything," Eppie could hear it already, the moaning and whining of a spoilt little girl. "Like, I want this new makeup and he says it's too expensive! I gotta look good for my boyfriend when we have sex again. It's just not fair!"
Eppie lifted her hands away from her face, smirking over the thoughts of replying with something sarcastically rude. Veronica apparently noticed and interrogated the girl with a, "What do you find so funny?"
Padding her face down with a paper towel Eppie paused for a second, wondering if it was right to tell the girl what was passing through her mind. She sighed, giving in to her temptations. "You don't need the make-up to convince everyone that you're a whore."
The next moment was completely unexpected as Eppie felt the oddest floating sensation, her feet had mysteriously been swept out from underneath her. Veronica had kicked aside the girl's legs causing Eppie to lose balance, causing her to fall to the ground below. She fell like a ragdoll as her chin passed the sink, clipping it, causing her teeth to bite down deep into her own tongue. Eppie landed hard on her knees, hands covering her mouth in pain as she heard the three laugh at her misfortune. Veronica leaned over to see if the girl needed a hand—not that she would ever offer one.
Eppie turned towards Veronica and spat a bloody glob in her face, snarling as she yelled out. "Just piss off you bitch!"
A silent reply as Veronica froze. The two girls behind her slowly changing their expressions to that of absolute horror.
"Veronica?"
The pair of girls ran off screaming like banshees, screaming tales of murder as Veronica collapsed onto Eppie. Veronica's head was flowing with pools of blood, both the small forehead wound and the large, gaping hole at the back of the skull. Eppie held her classmate in her arms, trembling, panicking, trying to understand what just happened.
"Oh god! No! I didn't want this!" She whimpered, feeling the tears gradually flow down her cheeks, hearing the rush of footsteps come towards the bathroom, "Veronica! I'm sorry. I'm so sorry..."
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Tobias Thane
FULL NAME:
Thobias Thane
AGE:
23
GENDER:
Male
SEXUALITY:
Straight
PERSONALITY:
Tobias is a selfish prick who thinks that the world revolves around him. He was spoiled since childhood, and even in his teenage years he used up massive amounts of money to go and have fun. An incredibly charismatic person who can pretty much talk himself out of anything. He is a real charmer, and girls are usually all over him, even if most of them seek his money. However he never really sleeps with anyone more than a couple of times, and he moves on to avoid girls who only like him because of his father's fortune. This trend reinforces his already huge EGO and confidence which can ususally drown any other person's. He is not void of more tender emotions, but they are mostly just a facade to woo girls to take their pants off. According to him, real love doesn't exist, and soft emotions are best kept for really private occasions. He also seems to have been gifted with a lot of bravery: almost fearless as he speeds with his bike, or parkours on the house tops. Now he is not exactly eccentric: but you can find plenty of rebel thoughts inside his head to go around. Pretty much broderline from escaping his home altogether, Thobias doesn't take orders from anyone, and refuses to accept anyone as a leader other than himself.
APPEARANCE:
Tobias stands above 6'3" feet and weighs 82 kilos. He was gifted by life with an amazing look and body too. He has a strong jaw and chin. Thanks to the daily workout he is in a good physique too, just like anyone who does sports on a daily basis. Tobias is a rich kid, and so he dresses like a rich kid. He is never late to adapt to the newest trends, thought he is not particularly a "hipster".
ABILITIES:
Tobias has the ability to spontaneously dislocate himself and those who have skin contact with him to any place in his line of sight, or immediate surroundings, AKA Blink. Though he can blink up to a hundred meters on a completely flat and uninterrupted terrain if in line of sight, his ability to Blink to his surrounding is limited to a few meters at best. It is also easier for him to blink to place where he has been before, or one that he has a clear sight of (like a camera or mirror showing a location) When Tobias Blinks, he carries any items he wishes to with himself, including his clothes. The process itself is painless and is instant, but it burns calories at a quick rate, making it tiring to Blink too many times. The fact that he just began using his powers means that it takes longer and longer until he can Blink again, as his body is getting more tired and tired. After the initial Blink, Tobias needs about half a second to jump again, and after that it will require roughlly 0.05-0.1 seconds more to cast each jump. Around the 10th Blink that means that each Blink is about 1 seconds. More Blinks will grow this time exponentially (as he just discovered this ability). When he comes too close to losing conciousness due to the loss of calories, he loses the ability to do Blinks.
SKILLS:
Tobias is a very charismatic person. He can easely seduce women and is good at convincing people that he is right. He has spent loads of time on the street, running away from his home along with attending to offical events his parents went to. He can speak to any person with ease, and is usually the one to talk in a group. He is also a top notch athlete. He used to do parkour, usually running away from security trying to take him home. And lastly he was trained in Krav-Maga, and taught how to shoot a gun. He wasn't really interested in either, but he knows a bit about both.
FLAWS:
Selfish and Arrogant, Tobias thinks he is perfect. The rich kid syndrome if you would. He usually underestimates others, and this can lead some awkward moments when he is called rude, and then falls face first as someone beats him. His general lack of interest in learning has led to him being under educated in many areas. He is not stupid, but he doesn't know capitals, or even countries, and doesn't know classical things, not to mention history. He was always more interested in science education. This doesn't mean he is not intelligent, more that he has no intellectual knowledge. He is aslo really bad at planning, as he overestimates a lot of things while making the chain of events.
BACKGROUND:
Thobias was born as the son of Teodor Thane, the CEO of Enson Corporations, and such he has always lived a prosperous life in the rich areas of his hometown. He could always ask for anything, and he always got it. When his mother was still alive he was always in the middle of the attention and his parents always found some time to play with him. But after his mother's passing away when he was 6, he and his father distanced themselves from each other. Thobias did school stuff and went to parties, whilst his dad attended to offical stuff. Sometimes his dad brought Tobias to events such as weddings and dinners but he never enjoyed it.
Since his last years in elementary, Thobias has lived a rebellious life. He used to be on the baseball team, being one of the fastest runners in school. Passing with a normal score, once in High School Thobias became the most famous kid in class. He always had a girl or two by his side, and he went around town with his gang doing "fun". Later he started to do parkour, and skateboarding. Always coming back late, and having bad grades, his father sent out guards to get him home after school, and prevent him from doing illegal things, and force him to get better grades. However this made Thobias even more furious and he often sneaked out from school unnoticed to evade the guards.
When he turned 19 he got a motorbike, and since he uses that as his primary method for travel. He just loves the speed of it, and can't get enough of the thrill. Not to mention being a real lady magnet. Near this time he started to do some serious parkour training. Twice every week, he practiced painfully on a private course. That said after a few months he has stopped feeling pain on the trainings and had better conditioning than a lot of other kids. During the next couple of years, he has spent many time on the streets, dealing drugs and running errands for a few friends in the "business", generally away from home whenever possible to avoid all the bullshit about his behaviour. He has always loved his dad, and he didn't want to bother him with his own things either.
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Taylor
Winsleigh
Phendrix
Winsleigh
Phendrix
Fantaisie Sign
Age
19
Sex
Female
Gender
Trans-Male
Sexuality
Pansexual
Height
5' 10"
Weight
147lbs
Appearance
For having been born female, Taylor has a semi-masculine body. He is on the thin side, with a small bust and rather flat hips and buttocks. He has no defined musculature to speak of, which when combined with his pale skin makes him look the part of a bookworm. He often wears plain clothing, including solid color or plaid tee shirts and jeans.
Personality
Overall, Taylor is a very nice person. He enjoys meeting new people and making friends when possible. This, along with his trusting nature, makes him very easy to get along with for the most part. Despite this he is often quite shy, avoiding interaction with large groups. That said, he is not afraid to say his piece most of the time, doing his best to make his opinion known. When he is comfortable, Taylor enjoys making jokes, and will often resort to sarcasm and snarkiness before violence. In fact, he can become quite the joker, enjoying playing tricks on people occasionally. He views things very logically before acting, trying not to let his emotions get the best of him, which can sometimes cause him to come off as a jerk. That's not to say that Taylor is unable to be violent however, as years of being bullied have given him a sense of resent for people who inflict violence on others, resent which has given him a deeply buried urge to give people tastes of their own medicine.
Abilities
Energy Manipulation
Taylor has the power to control and sense energy in its various forms. He manipulates its flow and concentration within a ten foot radius of any part of his body. He is able to store this energy within his body for later use as well as convert energy from one form to another. With this energy he can enhance his body in various ways whether for movement or attack, create projectiles and solid fields or constructs, and use it to replace lost energy within his body. When energy he has been controlling leaves his area of influence it continues on in whatever state he formed it into, not dispersing naturally until it collides with a solid object. He cannot create energy from nothing, take it from or manipulate it in sentient beings, or control temporal or gravitational energies.
-Current Parameters-
Currently Taylor is only able to control kinetic energy, though can sense any energy within his ten foot radius. This includes using it to strengthen his body, form it into solid forcefields, and use it as projectiles. He is unable to store or convert energy at this time.
Skills
Taylor is knowledge in the areas of math, science, and physics, and is extremely logical. He has a keen eye for detail and a photographic memory, allowing him to perfectly recall even slight glimpses of things years after the event. Along with this he has exceptional reaction time and reflexes.
Weaknesses
Taylor is not very athletic at all, having never focused on improving his body strength or agility. He is frail physically, often resulting in injury. He gets nervous in crowds, and as such tries to avoid drawing attention to himself.
Background
Taylor's life has been a very normal one. He was born into a family with a decent amount of wealth, growing up in a fairly good part of Los Angeles. His early childhood showed nothing abnormal. He went to school, got good grades, avoided trouble for a while. However, he had never felt right as a girl, quickly finding he felt much more comfortable acting as a boy would instead fitting into the stereotypical role of a girl. This began drawing the attention of school bullies, getting him beaten up often simply for being different.
After a while of this Taylor had gotten used to it. He didn't allow it to change the way he acted however, continuing on trying to live his life. He mainly focused his attention on his schoolwork, continuing his education in order to get into a good college. Taylor's efforts paid off by the end of high school, as he had managed to obtain a scholarship. After a break during the summer, he was off to school again.
Taylor had been aiming to eventually land a career in a field of science, majoring in general physics. His studies were going well and he was no longer being bullied relentlessly, and so things were looking up for Taylor. This continued on until one day his power manifested in the middle of class. There was no warning, Taylor had no control in it, though with one sneeze he had managed to send everything around him flying. Papers, books, schoolbags, even the desks his classmates sat in, all of these things were affected, pushed away from him. Heavier objects were not affected quite as much, though the text books and pencils had been sent across the room and into the walls. Frightened by what had happened, Taylor ran from the class and locked himself in his dorm, taking the time to think things over. This was new to him, nothing of the sort had occurred before. Eventually he couldn't think any longer, and fell into a deep sleep. The next thing he knew, Taylor woke up in a metal box, the rattling sounds of motion his only companion.
Other
Voiced by Audrey May, A.K.A. GAVLYN
Name: Alexander Conner
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Personality
Alexander shows highly introverted tendencies. While not completely opposed to social interaction; it quickly becomes emotional draining, at which point he will attempt to retreat to a more quiet area. He generally prefers to hover in an area near people, without directly getting involved.
He is also fairly submissive, and rarely argues with figures of authority, unless he gets frightened. However, he is not a coward, though prefers to deal with his problems in more subtle means and he typically will try to avoid violence.
Appearance
*Not many pictures can be found from the subject when is alone, an older picture was used.
Alex is of average height and slightly on the skinny side. Despite his wealth, he prefers a simple clothing of t-shirts and jeans. His parent's insisted that he have a particular hair-cut, to make him stand out more in pictures, so he simply flipped through the catalog they gave him and picked the first hair-cut that appealed to him. He wears his wear long and slightly messy.
Capabilities
Abilities
Alexander has the ability to enhance the natural abilities of others. In order to do this, he needs to think of a person, what area he wishes for them to excel in, and there general direction. This power can occur without either party realizing it. This power is multiplicative, meaning the stronger the ability is already, the stronger he can enhance it. For example, while he can increase the strength or regenerative ability of a normal human, or another person with an ability that does not have increased or decreased strength or regenerative ability, the effects are noticeable but marginal. If a person is weaker than average, the increase is also less than average, and if a person is stronger than average, the increase is also more than average. While this ability can in theory be used to heal, under constant low-level care, a person with an injury will recover approximately 1.2 times faster, so if it would take 7 days to heal naturally, it will instead only need about 5.6 days to heal.
This ability has applies both a mental and physical stress on the user due two-fold nature. Firstly, mental stress occurs as the user's brain automatically calculates methods to make the physical process more effective and implementing the changes. The user has no knowledge or memory of this data, and it appears to stored in short-term memory, meaning it will eventually completely faded from the user's mind. The physical stress occurs as the user's body acts in a way to remove stress and supplement the benefactors body. After using this ability, trace amount of Alex's body can be found in the other person's body. However, this has no ill effect as his blood type is 0-. When using this trait, the user always suffers temporary lose of health due to the stress it places on his body, where as the receiver's health either benefits or shows no change.
Some additional about this ability; If either the user and/or benefactor are effected by an effect that nullifies powers, or are separated by an object or force with said effect, the ability can not be used between that pair. As an indirect effect of this ability, an ability can become slightly easier to control while it is being "optimized" however this often counteracted by the increase of power. It has not been observed that his ability can "unlock" hidden abilities that a person is already in theory capable of, however it is theorized that a highly skilled user of this ability could.
Skills & Weaknesses
Alexander, disregarding his powers, is best described as intelligent but otherwise average. He has also been a straight A student. He is actually fit, though not particularly fast and slightly on the weaker side when it comes to upper-body strength.
Due to his highly introverted nature, he has trouble in social situations, and where he would be able to come up with an elegant response with text-based form of communication, can blunder and misspeak in a verbal setting.
Background
Alexander was born a fairly rich family in a nice part of a small town in North Florida. However, he was the fourth child of seven, meaning he did not receive much attention from his parents. However, he never minded this, simply devoted himself to his studies and a simple schedule of jogging every other day. When he did get bored, he always preferred to company of a good book to that of a person.
His other siblings began to particular excel in the sports when he attended. At first, he did not know why, but noticed his sheer will for a person to do better caused them. He still is unclear about the mechanics of his powers, but does know to activate it, stop it, and that it places a strain on him both mentally and physically. He has questioned the morality of using his powers to help win sport games, however he never considered it that important in order to have serious moral questions.
This occurred for about three months before one day he awoke in a metal box, and it was moving.
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Personality
Alexander shows highly introverted tendencies. While not completely opposed to social interaction; it quickly becomes emotional draining, at which point he will attempt to retreat to a more quiet area. He generally prefers to hover in an area near people, without directly getting involved.
He is also fairly submissive, and rarely argues with figures of authority, unless he gets frightened. However, he is not a coward, though prefers to deal with his problems in more subtle means and he typically will try to avoid violence.
Appearance
*Not many pictures can be found from the subject when is alone, an older picture was used.
Alex is of average height and slightly on the skinny side. Despite his wealth, he prefers a simple clothing of t-shirts and jeans. His parent's insisted that he have a particular hair-cut, to make him stand out more in pictures, so he simply flipped through the catalog they gave him and picked the first hair-cut that appealed to him. He wears his wear long and slightly messy.
Capabilities
Abilities
Alexander has the ability to enhance the natural abilities of others. In order to do this, he needs to think of a person, what area he wishes for them to excel in, and there general direction. This power can occur without either party realizing it. This power is multiplicative, meaning the stronger the ability is already, the stronger he can enhance it. For example, while he can increase the strength or regenerative ability of a normal human, or another person with an ability that does not have increased or decreased strength or regenerative ability, the effects are noticeable but marginal. If a person is weaker than average, the increase is also less than average, and if a person is stronger than average, the increase is also more than average. While this ability can in theory be used to heal, under constant low-level care, a person with an injury will recover approximately 1.2 times faster, so if it would take 7 days to heal naturally, it will instead only need about 5.6 days to heal.
This ability has applies both a mental and physical stress on the user due two-fold nature. Firstly, mental stress occurs as the user's brain automatically calculates methods to make the physical process more effective and implementing the changes. The user has no knowledge or memory of this data, and it appears to stored in short-term memory, meaning it will eventually completely faded from the user's mind. The physical stress occurs as the user's body acts in a way to remove stress and supplement the benefactors body. After using this ability, trace amount of Alex's body can be found in the other person's body. However, this has no ill effect as his blood type is 0-. When using this trait, the user always suffers temporary lose of health due to the stress it places on his body, where as the receiver's health either benefits or shows no change.
Some additional about this ability; If either the user and/or benefactor are effected by an effect that nullifies powers, or are separated by an object or force with said effect, the ability can not be used between that pair. As an indirect effect of this ability, an ability can become slightly easier to control while it is being "optimized" however this often counteracted by the increase of power. It has not been observed that his ability can "unlock" hidden abilities that a person is already in theory capable of, however it is theorized that a highly skilled user of this ability could.
Skills & Weaknesses
Alexander, disregarding his powers, is best described as intelligent but otherwise average. He has also been a straight A student. He is actually fit, though not particularly fast and slightly on the weaker side when it comes to upper-body strength.
Due to his highly introverted nature, he has trouble in social situations, and where he would be able to come up with an elegant response with text-based form of communication, can blunder and misspeak in a verbal setting.
Background
Alexander was born a fairly rich family in a nice part of a small town in North Florida. However, he was the fourth child of seven, meaning he did not receive much attention from his parents. However, he never minded this, simply devoted himself to his studies and a simple schedule of jogging every other day. When he did get bored, he always preferred to company of a good book to that of a person.
His other siblings began to particular excel in the sports when he attended. At first, he did not know why, but noticed his sheer will for a person to do better caused them. He still is unclear about the mechanics of his powers, but does know to activate it, stop it, and that it places a strain on him both mentally and physically. He has questioned the morality of using his powers to help win sport games, however he never considered it that important in order to have serious moral questions.
This occurred for about three months before one day he awoke in a metal box, and it was moving.
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Kyle Jensen | 23 | MALE | STRAIGHT | 5'11" | 170 lbs | VC: Patrick Wilson
Kyle stands at a solid 5 feet 11 inches and weighs about 170 pounds, so he's a pretty average guy when it comes to his bodily characteristics. As for his look... let's just say looking stylish isn't amongst his highest priorities. His dark brown, nearing black, hair of medium length, along with the very common brown color of his eyes make him easily indistinguishable when inside a crowd, and his set of chronically unkempt beard and stache complete the so-called "hobo" look.
Kyle's is almost always seen wearing clothes geared towards comfort and ease of movement, so that means T-shirts, jumpers, jeans, joggers and sweatshirts are wardrobe staples for him.
Kyle's is almost always seen wearing clothes geared towards comfort and ease of movement, so that means T-shirts, jumpers, jeans, joggers and sweatshirts are wardrobe staples for him.
Pᴇʀsᴏɴᴀʟɪᴛʏ
Kyle is... interesting, to say the least. His troubled upbringing didn't contribute much to him building a stable character, and as such, at times, can be all over the place emotionally. One moment he might be happy, the next, he might be angry, or sad, or pessimistic, etc. Of course, over the years, he's managed to build up a facade capable of fooling most people he interacts with, and as such, not many people can truly say they know him, but it's not like its a full proof method of concealing anything.
In truth, Kyle is as emotionally fragile as any other person would be, had they been through what he has. If he were asked about the one thing he wants the most, out of anything, it would be to have a place where he feels like home, a family. Unfortunately, his biggest fear is losing control in front of others. He believes he himself is one of the main reasons why he's yet to have any meaningful relationships, even after being away from the orphanage for 5 years and having already somewhat established himself in society.
In truth, Kyle is as emotionally fragile as any other person would be, had they been through what he has. If he were asked about the one thing he wants the most, out of anything, it would be to have a place where he feels like home, a family. Unfortunately, his biggest fear is losing control in front of others. He believes he himself is one of the main reasons why he's yet to have any meaningful relationships, even after being away from the orphanage for 5 years and having already somewhat established himself in society.
Hɪsᴛᴏʀʏ
Kyle's been in and out of orphanage so many times that even he stopped counting after a certain point. A misfit for life, Kyle's never been able to find a place to call home. Jumping from foster family to foster family, he never really got to experience a stable, "family life", and that certainly left its mark on him. After turning 18, he packed his belongings and left for good.
Life was hard for a time, but he somehow managed. Fortunately for him, he'd gotten his high school degree while he was with the orphanage, and as such, managed to find work as a laborer in construction. With a skillful pair of hands and lots of determination, Kyle earned the recognition of his peers and superiors alike. After a year, he'd set aside some money, and although he continued working, that enabled him to take up an electrician training course at a community college near his area. Working and studying at the same time was tough, far tougher than anything Kyle had ever done, but he persevered, and after 4 years, he left college with his electrician license at hand.
It was around that time that the first signs of something being off with Kyle started appearing. On his first day at work as a proper electrician, Kyle accidentally touched some exposed wiring with his bare hands, and let's just say that having hundreds of units of voltage ran through you with no visible effect is kinda unusual, especially if it happens more than once which is the usual with these types of things (yes he did poke at the wire more than once after the first time).
Like any other normal person would do after finding out they are a freak, he panicked - would be what you'd think. Sure, he was surprised, but finding out about this weird quirk of his didn't shock him (hehe) as much as one would think. To be truthful, Kyle found himself somewhat frustrated at the timing of the appearance of his powers - it was like they waited until AFTER he had finished his degree in order to awaken.
Nevertheless, Kyle didn't have much time to get accustomed with his newfound powers. One moment he was unlocking his apartment's door, the next, he was fading into unconsciousness. A sting, a numbing feeling spreading from a spot on his neck, and two blurry figures walking towards him were the last things he saw before fainting.
Life was hard for a time, but he somehow managed. Fortunately for him, he'd gotten his high school degree while he was with the orphanage, and as such, managed to find work as a laborer in construction. With a skillful pair of hands and lots of determination, Kyle earned the recognition of his peers and superiors alike. After a year, he'd set aside some money, and although he continued working, that enabled him to take up an electrician training course at a community college near his area. Working and studying at the same time was tough, far tougher than anything Kyle had ever done, but he persevered, and after 4 years, he left college with his electrician license at hand.
It was around that time that the first signs of something being off with Kyle started appearing. On his first day at work as a proper electrician, Kyle accidentally touched some exposed wiring with his bare hands, and let's just say that having hundreds of units of voltage ran through you with no visible effect is kinda unusual, especially if it happens more than once which is the usual with these types of things (yes he did poke at the wire more than once after the first time).
Like any other normal person would do after finding out they are a freak, he panicked - would be what you'd think. Sure, he was surprised, but finding out about this weird quirk of his didn't shock him (hehe) as much as one would think. To be truthful, Kyle found himself somewhat frustrated at the timing of the appearance of his powers - it was like they waited until AFTER he had finished his degree in order to awaken.
Nevertheless, Kyle didn't have much time to get accustomed with his newfound powers. One moment he was unlocking his apartment's door, the next, he was fading into unconsciousness. A sting, a numbing feeling spreading from a spot on his neck, and two blurry figures walking towards him were the last things he saw before fainting.
Pᴏᴡᴇʀs/Aʙɪʟɪᴛɪᴇs
Name: Battery
Description: Kyle has the ability to absorb any and all kinds of current inside of him, store it and discharge it whenever he wishes, at potentially whatever intensity he chooses. Thus, his body is essentially a battery, and hence the abilitys name.
However, as previously mentioned, he didn't really have the chance to experiment much with this ability of his before he was abducted. Only time will show how much he develops this power.
Description: Kyle has the ability to absorb any and all kinds of current inside of him, store it and discharge it whenever he wishes, at potentially whatever intensity he chooses. Thus, his body is essentially a battery, and hence the abilitys name.
However, as previously mentioned, he didn't really have the chance to experiment much with this ability of his before he was abducted. Only time will show how much he develops this power.
Sᴋɪʟʟs/Wᴇᴀᴋɴᴇssᴇs
Above Average Intelligence
Certified Electrician
Mood Swings
Construction Site Callisthenics
- Well, it's to be expected from a guy that managed to get a college degree while having to juggle work and school. He's not some 190 IQ genius, but he's smart enough alright.
Certified Electrician
- 4 years of training as one is sure to count as a skill, right? Let's just say Kyle knows his way around a terminal block.
Mood Swings
- Yeah... emotions are not Kyle's forte. At one moment he might be fine, just chilling, and the next, he might lash at someone or something for the most random of reasons, and after he's done raging, he will return back to his relaxed, chill self, as if nothing ever happened. Mind you, this is not restricted to only anger, no. The chances of him turning sad, or cold, or happy, out of nowhere are as high as him getting angry.
So yeah, not quite bipolar, since he doesn't share the same long-term symptoms of bipolar disorder, where a person may be stuck in a cycle for an extended period of time, but he's getting there.
Construction Site Callisthenics
- Those 5 years of work in construction, lifting and moving heavy things, having to operate precision tools and machines, climbing scaffolds in order to work on the higher floors of buildings, and generally everything, have improved Kyle's fitness by leaps and bounds. Strength, Balance, and Hand-Eye coordination, however, are three of the skills he has developed the most since he started working.
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Eli
Full name:
Elijah River
Age:
20
Gender:
Male
Sexuality:
Bi, female preference
Personality:
Outwardly patient and easygoing, Eli is the kind that can entertain themselves for long periods of time with his internal life. That's not to say he's not personable, he's just a man of few words. He enjoys parties, especially when he gets to cook, and is quite adept at schmoozing potential clients in his gallery.
While normally he really is as cool and collected as he looks, he has small amount of paranoia and self doubt. Having used his powers so often in his art, he's had to bluff whenever someone asked how he achieved certain effects. This has lead to a feeling that he a fraud. His recent capture has not helped his feelings of paranoia, and can't help but react defensively when called out.
Appearance:
Eli is an average looking white man with wavy light brown hair. Neither fat nor thin, and just a hair over 5'10", the most distinctive feature about him is his rectangular glasses and freckles. He typically sticks with fancy graphic t-shirts and jeans.
Abilities: Material Manipulation
Eli can change the physical properties of a material. He can make metal soft as clay, plastic hard enough to cut stone, and glass stretch like rubber. So long as he can put his hands on it, he can intuitively make a material stronger,weaker, stretchier, harder, or any combination of similar things. This usually lets him shape materials in novel way with his hands, and the occasional sculpting tool. Additionally with extra effort he can reshape a material into complex shapes without working the material, instead 'encouraging' the material into shape with his mind. In practice, these two abilities have helped him in his life as an artist and sculptor.
However there are a few limitations to this. First, he must touch the object with his bare skin, preferably his hands. This means that he can't work his power on anything that he couldn't handle normally, like red hot metal. It normally takes a few moments for him to work his mojo, which means that he can't do things like make a baseball bat to the head feel like a whifflebat. Additionally he has trouble manipulating organic material like wood. So far the property changes are limited to only maintaining their effect while he is in contact with the material. They last at best 5 seconds after he lets go. He suspects that if he knew more about material science he'd be able make more permanent changes, but he's not so inclined.
Skills & Weaknesses:
- Artistic: Even without his powers, Eli is a good artist. In high school he used to get spending money by drawing caricatures at the mall. For a group of fugitives, this could mean the difference between ordering from the counter of a restaurant or eating from the dumpster behind it.
- Addicted: Eli has a tobacco addiction. He becomes irritable when he hasn't smoked in a while, and will go out of the way to get more if he runs out.
- Cook: He's nowhere near professional, but he's been able to cook full meals for himself and others for years.
- Handy: Between helping his father maintain an older house and working with a variety of sculpting materials, Eli has developed a knack for putting things together.
- Self-Disciplined: So long as he's not hankering for a smoke, he has incredible self control and can focus on a task for remarkably long periods of time or work through discomfort.
- Unskilled in Violence: Eli is not a fighter. His knowledge of gun use is "There's an end that bullets come out of, and trigger". The closest to fisticuffs he's ever done is Wii Sports Boxing, and the occasional wrestling match with his brothers.
- Needs Glasses: Exactly what it says. Without his glasses, Eli is extremely nearsighted and can't operate.
Background:
Eli was raised in a large town called Glennsbury, about an hour outside of Baltimore. He grew up as the youngest child of the middle class River family. For the most part, his childhood was happy and normal enough. It was his grandmother Robin that nurtured his love for art. They spent many an afternoon flipping through her collection of woodblock prints and visiting local artists. She joked that her refrigerator would need a bigger door to hold all his drawings.
By the time he reached high school, Eli was firmly on the way to becoming a professional artist. His room was wallpapered with sketches of everything and anything he felt the urge to draw, mainly ideas for new sculptures and woodcarvings. Some of the pottery he made in school was put on display in the local library. He took machine shop to learn how to work with metal. It was there that he first learned of his power. While he was marking a piece of steel stock to practice on the drill press, he noticed that he left a fingerprint in the metal.
Of course this piqued his curiosity, since he is not Superman. After much trial and error, he eventually figured out how to put his fingerprint in another piece of metal. It took him little time to start experimenting with the extent of his powers and applying them to his work. At first the extent of his manipulations only let him make changes and corrections to sculptures, but by the time he graduated from high school, he was able to use his powers to work materials into fine shapes. While he worked in a variety of mediums, it was his uniquely delicate ceramic and metal sculptures that earned him accolades. He took care not to expose his powers, mainly using his powers to do things that could plausibly be done with conventional techniques. But he must have slipped up somewhere. After all, how else did he get kidnapped?
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