@Lord Wraith If you're still accepting, I've got a sheet for you. Hoping she fits in.F L A R E
_______________________________________________Aurora "Rory" Zhang
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Age 16 | ♀ | Bisexual
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Physical Profile
___________________________________//Basics:
• Height | 5'1"
• Weight | 90 lbs
• Ethnicity | Chinese-American
• Hair Colour | Black
• Eye Colour | BrownAbilities, Skills and Resources
___________________________________//Abiliites:
• Photokinesis | Rory can absorb, bend, and manipulate visible light. The outcome is varied and dependent upon which properties of light she is affecting: intensity, wavelength, or propagation direction. Intensity relates to the degree of brightness being emitted; wavelength to the refraction and reflection of light; and propagation to the process of emission and absorption.
By far the most instinctive and straightforward use of her abilities is through emission. If undirected, bright white light will radiate from her whole body from all directions. This can be unintentionally set off by emotional triggers and stressful situations in particular. With focus and control, Rory can localize emission to a single body part, like a hand or even a fingertip, and guide its direction. With more practice, she will be able to change color and intensity instantaneously.
Invisibility is another practical use. For an object to become invisible, it has to bend light around itself so that it casts no shadow and it must produce no reflection. It's a concept Rory still has difficulty grasping in theory, but as in most cases when it comes to her ability, she finds a more intuitive way to explain it to herself. In this case, Rory imagines she is up on a pitch-black stage with a single spotlight on her. When she points the spotlight away from herself, she becomes invisible.
As Rory attains better understanding of how light interacts with the world and relies less on blind conjectures or semi-accurate metaphors, she will be able to manipulate more properties at once and with more finesse. She will be able to solidify light through use of photons, creating temporary weapons or projectiles, generate blasts of concussive solid light, or even generate holograms.
• Limitation(s) | Rory can only dispense as much light as she has absorbed throughout the day. She thinks of it as her phone when she visited Disneyworld; throughout the day, her phone was connected to this neat solar charger backpack her pop gave her on her birthday. Her phone was at 100% the whole day, and only started losing charge after sunset. After that, the more snaps or Instagram videos she took, the quicker her phone lost charge.
Although sunlight is not the only source, it is obviously the most effective and sustainable. Rory could theoretically use other light sources, but it would take draining the whole city to give her the same effect as standing out in the sun for a minute.
Another big drawback comes from Rory's lack of technical understanding. To effectively manipulate the properties of light, she needs to not only understand the changes she's making but anticipate the outcome as well.
Lastly, using her abilities saps her own energy as well, and prolonged or extensive use will cause exhaustion.
• Weakness(es) | As mentioned, having no access to sunlight will be pretty much render Rory powerless. That means trips to Alaska or Iceland or anywhere with winter darkness generally won't bode well for her. Any sort of containment unit will diminish her light's range and can even negate it completely. Her light is also still subject to gravitational changes.
As a teenager, she's ironically not the brightest bulb. Highly impressionable, oftentimes scatterbrained, and spontaneous, she has a habit of rushing headlong into situations without an ounce of foresight. She also has a difficult relationship with spatial awareness.
//Skills:
• Art | Rory has a great creative eye and excels at whimsical art styles. She can draw and paint, preferring a digital medium for exhaustive work but her trusty notebook for doodles. Rory offers her services to any clubs or teams that need any sort of banner or flyer made, and consults for the Yearbook if needed.
//Paraphenalia:
• Backpack | A white backpack designed to look like a panda, with dark circle patches for eyes sown in front and ears at the top.
• Sketchbook | Moleskine Art Plus Sketchbook. It is filled halfway through with assorted sketches and doodles. Pages have been torn and inserted back in.
• Tablet | iPad Pro in a pastel pink case and the pencil magnetically clipped to the side.
• Cellphone | iPhone X with small cracks on the edge of the screen.
• Snacks | An assortment of candies and chocolate in a ziplock bag.Appearance Details
▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔Rory is bright smiles and star-filled eyes, nose crinkled by laughter and hair tousled by expressive hands. She is fun-sized and light and made for climbing trees and squeezing through tight spaces. Her mood can be read entirely from the curve of her lips: upwards is good, happy, her default; a pout is not getting her way; curled up is mad and prepare for retaliation; downwards is bad, rare, and a precursor to tears. There is always a spring in her step and despite a proclivity to trip over nothing and for spatial miscalculations, she has somehow kept her skin smooth and free from blemishes.
The clothes she wears only need to fit two criteria: cute and comfortable. If it's one or the other, she'll wear it. If it's both, she'll wear it repeatedly. Oversized sweaters and pastel blouses are her go-to, as are plain white sneakers that go with everything. She has reading glasses she's supposed to wear but is often forgotten in the deepest recesses of her backpack, and her hair is kept short because it is easier to manage.
Character Synopsis
▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔Rory was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother, Avery, was working as an editor for a publishing company specializing on children's literature around the same time her father Xian got his first big break. He'd sent in numerous manuscripts that never saw the light of day, but his most recent one had publishers fighting for him. His trilogy was destined to be a hit, and it was Avery that was to guide him there.
Working so closely together, it seemed almost inevitable that they got together. Both finding out that the other was a Hyperhuman only solidified this. They got married within a year, had Rory the year after, then separated the year after that. Turns out that no matter how compatible they were, it wouldn't change her father's sexuality.
Her parents parted in amicable terms, with her mom helping her dad sort things out. They both eventually found the right person for each other—Hyperhuman activists (although not powered themselves) they met at a Hype Equality Rally—and that's the family Rory has always known. She has a dad, a pop, a mom, and a pa. It's both a blessing and curse when you have two sets of parents, and she loves every bit of it.
Rory moved to Crestwood Hollow with her two dads when she was ten. Her dad had one book left to write and needed a change of scenery for inspiration, and Rory was never one to pass up new adventures. They bought a house in the block adjacent to Mather Park, within view of that haunting Hanging Tree. She visits her mom and pa at least once a week, although recently they have been swamped with work.
Her power manifested right after middle school; Rory was over the moon. The world she knew growing up was a very pro-Hyperhuman one. Her parents were very involved with the community: staging rallies, sheltering displaced Hyperhumans, raising money to help those unable to find jobs because of their abilities. Even her dad's best-selling trilogy was rife with thinly-veiled pro-Hype sentiments.
When word of the program in Mather Memorial reached her, she volunteered immediately.
Personality
▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔Sprightly and good-natured, Rory is a natural people person with a genuine sense of wonder. There is no shortage of laughter or amusement in her wake. Her friends will say she's a goofball, but Rory prefers to think she's just keen on spreading (literal and figurative) sunshine wherever she goes. She is the first to make light of stressful situations and the first to point out the silver lining when things are bleak.
Rory is sincere to a fault, heart on her sleeves and everything. She will cry her heart out, will be petulant and vindictive, will confess her love openly and unabashedly. Any and all endeavors she finds compelling will be attended to wholeheartedly, doubly so if it is for a friend in need. It is only when she is shaken to her core, unable to release the grip of fear, that Rory is less than true to herself. She will cower behind her brand of silliness, between forced laughter and exaggerated cluelessness, before ever admitting that she is afraid.
Growing up essentially coddled by two sets of parents has perhaps skewed Rory's perception of the world and may have made her unprepared for the harsh realities in store for her.
Miscellaneous
▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔☀ Schoolwork isn't filed under things she finds compelling, and so Rory's grades are middling at best and barely passing at worst.
☀ She is an honorary cheerleader; the squad was rooting for her to pass tryouts, but while she had more than enough spirit, she was lacking in coordination.
☀ She's part of the Art Club. One of her goals in life is to do the illustrations for her dad's books.
☀ People are often surprised to find out that she is an avid reader.
Go, shields, go!~
Our team has so much protection now <3
I like how Rory and Felix have similar powers, but utilize different sources to perform nearly the same actions. Really cool power you have there! I was wondering if artificial light would still allow Rory to use her powers? Or is she subject to only the sun's light?
