[CHAR] The College Life of Nonhumans

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Sergio LaMont

Name: Sergio LaMont

Race: Cambian

Powers: Emotional sensing (Lust and Love), Absorb emotional energy (Love and Lust, needed to survive, fights aging in older Cambians), Illusion (make themself look like a different person of the same gender)

Year: 3rd

Degree: Prelaw

Reason for wanting degree: So he can help defend nonhumans from bigots.

Hobbies/Clubs: Visits a lot of clubs and parties.

Personality: Loves to hang out and socialize, but he's determined to do well in school so that he can get a law degree, like his father.

Bio: Born just before humans found out about all of the other races, he grew up with people judging him. His dad was a US Senator, but when people found out that humans weren't the only people on the planet a large enough "Humans should be represented by humans" movement sprouted up to lose him and several others their position. After that his dad restarted his career as an attorney, helping non humans who felt they were being discriminated against.
Sergio has wanted to help his dad out for a long time, but without a law degree he was stuck doing paperwork and other menial tasks. When he graduated high school, though, his dad made him a deal: get strait As in prelaw and he would pay for Sergio to go to Harvard.

Greg Simmons

Name: Greg Simmons

Race: Djinn

Powers: Manifestation: He can make objects, alter bodies, and give people powers. The strength of those powers depends on the desire of the person, and the more complex the object, alteration, or power is the more desire it requires to maintain. A Djinn must also understand how something works before they create it, and the energy released by the object, alteration, or power must come from either the user or their desire.
Type C blood: All pure Djinn and many hybrids have a special protein in their blood that, while making their blood incompatible with anyone that isn't type C, interacts with neurotransmitters in their brain. This helps feed their brain, making them build up mental stress more slowly, and allows them to actively change the signals their brains send to their bodies. Many use it to alter hormones or control autonomous functions. Greg uses it to increase his metabolism and lower his Myostatin levels, so that he looks like he works out even though he sits around playing games all day.

Year: 3rd

Degree: Computer programming

Reason for wanting degree: To become a game developer.

Hobbies/Clubs: Plays a lot of video games, HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) Club

Personality: He's a geek. He loves learning about how things work, but is socially inept. Doesn't like to be around humans because of the pro-human groups that mistreated him as a kid.

Bio: The son of a fashion designer and a machinist, he grew up fairly normally until his dad's boss fired him. His boss claimed that he was slacking off, but he thought it was because his boss hated non-humans. He hired Sergio's father, and the investigation resulted in death threats, attacks, and various forms of harassment, events which they learned were orchestrated by his former boss to try and get him to drop the case. They also discovered that his former boss had joined an online "pure humans" group where anyone that wasn't a pure human wasn't welcome.
After winning the case they decided to move into the non-human area of the city, and Greg grew up with few humans around. Greg became friends with Sergio, and his dad got a job designing car parts for a performance car factory in town. The occasional attacks on the neighborhood, however, have made his weary of humans. That's one of the reasons he turned to online games, as no one can tell what race you are without a picture to look at.

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Amelia Cross

Name: Amelia Cross

Race: Half-human, quarter-Cambian, quarter-Djinn

Powers: Empathic--can sense strong emotions and manifest changes based on those emotions. Needs to feed on emotions for sustenance. None of the illusion powers of Cambians and relatively minor manifestation Djinn powers. Her powers fluctuate based on the intensity of the emotion the target is feeling, but they change reality (in the Djinn way) in order to resolve the emotions. They're as subtle as possible, and tend to shift the emotions of people around the target in order to shift the situation to resolve the emotions. Amelia usually has tight control over her powers, but when her guard is down (she's overwhelmed, tired, etc) or when the person's emotions are unusually profound, her powers can work without her knowledge or intent.

Year: Freshman

Degree: Psychology

Reason for wanting degree: Wants to be a therapist. Endless supply of emotions as well as the ability to help others deal with their emotions.

Hobbies/Clubs: Secretary of the gay/straight alliance. Plays back-room poker (using her powers to sense when people are bluffing). Tends bar to make ends meet.

Personality: Amelia is introverted, which makes her relationship with her powers and needs complicated. She's trying to reach out to people more, but she isn't great at it, partially because she doesn't always trust herself to open up safely (see bio). Because she's panromantic and asexual, relationships are doubly complicated. Amelia tends to be very grounded, as she has figured out how to keep her own emotions balanced and in check, but when she feels strong emotion, it often overpowers her judgment and perspective.

Bio: Amelia is the second person in her family to attend college. Her father--a half-human half-Djinn--graduated from East Coast University with a teaching degree and currently teaches high school English. Her mother--a half-human half-Cambian--is a high-class escort. Amelia was successful in school, mostly because her lack of connection with others gave her quite a bit of free time. Her only romantic partner, a girl she met in 11th grade, ended up having to spend time in a mental hospital because Amelia absorbed so much of her emotions at once (the first time they kissed). Since then, Amelia avoided strong emotional attachments.