vanovickHere come four more characters @_@
Followers:
Name: Gideon Vaughn
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Appearance: Standing at an height of 5’9, Gideon sports dark, curly hair and pale, pallid skin. A short, stubby nose accompanies a pair of sharp blue-grey eyes and an upturned mouth. One might call this expression a “smug grin.”
Moderately active athletic participation has forged a body not quite skinny, muscular, or even lanky.
Personality: Charismatic and articulate, Gideon prides himself on his ability to persuade and convince. He is a passionate, powerful speaker and is practiced at exuding confidence. Gideon can be capricious and flippant, but is more often just laid-back. He enjoys messing with people and making them feel uncomfortable, or even downright terrified.
He is honorable, protective of his possessions, and dramatic to the extreme, but also gives up and changes courses easily. His decision-making is capricious-he can be rational and modest, or unreasonable and arrogant. While he’d prefer to tell the truth if possible, he feels no guilt when lying. Detests weakness.
History: Gideon grew up in a normal home, with a normal family, and went to a normal school. His life was perfectly normal. It isn’t always a person’s surroundings or past that causes them to grow up warped. Gideon was desiring something more than the world seemed to be able to offer him, and he found that in Skyline Institute. At age fourteen he learned about the school, but it took three years of research and preparation before he was confident he could enroll and survive the ordeal. He searched for many different words before settling on Bind.
Nationality: American with unknown European heritage
Word: Bind
Bind can fasten, encircle, swathe, bandage, tie up, fix in place, chafe, restrain, hold things in place, and restrict things. This can be done with physical Bindings manifesting, or the power of Bind itself. It can cause things to cohere, stiffen, harden, and become compact. Bind can seal things, including temporarily disabling a Word, and cause difficult predicaments and situations.
Interpretation of legal definitions: Gideon can forcibly place up to seven entities under another’s control. He can make contracts with any number of entities, between any number of entities. A contract must be accepted by all parties involved. Contracts cannot be changed, canceled, or tampered with except for under specific circumstances, and depending on whether or not the contract was made with specific circumstances in mind. All aspects of a contract are known to every party involved. Stipulations can be invoked to cause compulsions within the involved entities. For example, a ceasefire contract might go like this:
John Smith and Jane Smee mutually agree to the following:
(The contract materializes on a piece of paper, although it exists merely to represent the contract. Destroying the piece of paper has no bearing on the contract itself.)
Word Location: Right wrist
Abilities: Knows a lot of miscellaneous information, especially about obscure definitions of different words.
Other: Suggested Words to several insecure and confused-looking people around him, those Words being Rejuvenate, Heat, and Armor. He actually suggested Words to more people, but they didn't heed his suggestion.
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Appearance: Standing at an height of 5’9, Gideon sports dark, curly hair and pale, pallid skin. A short, stubby nose accompanies a pair of sharp blue-grey eyes and an upturned mouth. One might call this expression a “smug grin.”
Moderately active athletic participation has forged a body not quite skinny, muscular, or even lanky.
Personality: Charismatic and articulate, Gideon prides himself on his ability to persuade and convince. He is a passionate, powerful speaker and is practiced at exuding confidence. Gideon can be capricious and flippant, but is more often just laid-back. He enjoys messing with people and making them feel uncomfortable, or even downright terrified.
He is honorable, protective of his possessions, and dramatic to the extreme, but also gives up and changes courses easily. His decision-making is capricious-he can be rational and modest, or unreasonable and arrogant. While he’d prefer to tell the truth if possible, he feels no guilt when lying. Detests weakness.
History: Gideon grew up in a normal home, with a normal family, and went to a normal school. His life was perfectly normal. It isn’t always a person’s surroundings or past that causes them to grow up warped. Gideon was desiring something more than the world seemed to be able to offer him, and he found that in Skyline Institute. At age fourteen he learned about the school, but it took three years of research and preparation before he was confident he could enroll and survive the ordeal. He searched for many different words before settling on Bind.
Nationality: American with unknown European heritage
Word: Bind
Bind can fasten, encircle, swathe, bandage, tie up, fix in place, chafe, restrain, hold things in place, and restrict things. This can be done with physical Bindings manifesting, or the power of Bind itself. It can cause things to cohere, stiffen, harden, and become compact. Bind can seal things, including temporarily disabling a Word, and cause difficult predicaments and situations.
Interpretation of legal definitions: Gideon can forcibly place up to seven entities under another’s control. He can make contracts with any number of entities, between any number of entities. A contract must be accepted by all parties involved. Contracts cannot be changed, canceled, or tampered with except for under specific circumstances, and depending on whether or not the contract was made with specific circumstances in mind. All aspects of a contract are known to every party involved. Stipulations can be invoked to cause compulsions within the involved entities. For example, a ceasefire contract might go like this:
John Smith and Jane Smee mutually agree to the following:
- 1. Contractees will not be able to harm each other for a time period of seven days.
- 2. Attempting to harm another contractee will compel the offending contractee to clearly and verbally warn the contractee. Additionally, the offender will be compelled to cease all word-usage for a time period of one hour.
- 3. Attempting to gain help in order to break the contract will compel the offending contractee break an unbroken finger joint. Continuing to attempt to gain help in order to break the contract will continue to compel the offender.
- 4. Attempting to make the details of stipulations 2-5 known to anyone other than John Smith, Jane Smee, and Gideon Vaughn will compel the offender to cease all verbalizations and hand movements for ten minutes.
- 5. The contract can be safely released with the mutual consent of John Smith and Jane Smee.
(The contract materializes on a piece of paper, although it exists merely to represent the contract. Destroying the piece of paper has no bearing on the contract itself.)
Word Location: Right wrist
Abilities: Knows a lot of miscellaneous information, especially about obscure definitions of different words.
Other: Suggested Words to several insecure and confused-looking people around him, those Words being Rejuvenate, Heat, and Armor. He actually suggested Words to more people, but they didn't heed his suggestion.
Followers:
Name: Jacob Hansen
Appearance: 6’4, tall, solidly built, looks old for his age. Has a buzz-cut of blonde hair and a fair face.
Personality: Very shy, partially because of his high-pitched voice that is at complete odds with his height and stature. Blushes and gets flustered easily. He is otherwise mild-mannered and amiable.
Word: Armor
Can create:
Word Location: Left collarbone
Other: Basically an NPC. Serves Gideon unwillingly, but doesn’t really mind too much, as long as he isn’t asked to do anything unreasonable.
Appearance: 6’4, tall, solidly built, looks old for his age. Has a buzz-cut of blonde hair and a fair face.
Personality: Very shy, partially because of his high-pitched voice that is at complete odds with his height and stature. Blushes and gets flustered easily. He is otherwise mild-mannered and amiable.
Word: Armor
Can create:
- Any sort of protective covering, including metal, leather, and kevlar armor.
- The armor found in nature, such as a porcupine’s spines, or a beetle’s shell.
- Qualities, characteristics, things, and situations that serve as protection.
- Metal plating and protective coverings found on vehicles such as aircraft, sea craft, and spacecraft.
- “Mechanized units of military forces”, so armored vehicles and weaponry.
Word Location: Left collarbone
Other: Basically an NPC. Serves Gideon unwillingly, but doesn’t really mind too much, as long as he isn’t asked to do anything unreasonable.
Name: Ethan Murray
Appearance: Short and skinny, standing at 5’3, with round glasses and messy brown hair. Appears perpetually worried and frightened. Spirit animal is a mouse.
Personality: As perpetually worried and frightened as he looks, Ethan had no idea what he had gotten himself into when he entered Skyline and would have died the first day had Gideon or someone else not protected him. He just wishes the year would end so he can go back home and forget the nightmare that has become his life.
Word: Rejuvenate
Can:
Word Location: Top of right foot
Other: Basically an NPC. Too timid to think about breaking free and prefers having someone capable leading and taking care of him.
Appearance: Short and skinny, standing at 5’3, with round glasses and messy brown hair. Appears perpetually worried and frightened. Spirit animal is a mouse.
Personality: As perpetually worried and frightened as he looks, Ethan had no idea what he had gotten himself into when he entered Skyline and would have died the first day had Gideon or someone else not protected him. He just wishes the year would end so he can go back home and forget the nightmare that has become his life.
Word: Rejuvenate
Can:
- Bring the user back to life after being killed, provided the body is able to repair itself.
- Repair damage to objects and heal wounds.
- Cure diseases, illnesses, and ailments.
- Restore stamina, vigor, appearance, vitality, strength.
- Freshen, renew, and return to new.
Word Location: Top of right foot
Other: Basically an NPC. Too timid to think about breaking free and prefers having someone capable leading and taking care of him.
Name: Ashley Sultri
Appearance: Slender, fair-haired, and quite attractive, with smooth and tanned skin. Ashley enjoys the attention she’s found tight clothing and exposed skin will bring her.
Personality: Argumentative, quick-witted, and the first to point out something new and interesting. Ashley hates being ignored and will do anything for recognition. She gnaws on her fingernails whenever stressed or unsure of something. Likes to tease people and gets excited easily.
Word: Heat
Can cause or bring about:
Can create:
Word Location:Top-center of back
Other: Basically an NPC. Says she hates being under Gideon’s control, but doesn't seem to mean it?
Appearance: Slender, fair-haired, and quite attractive, with smooth and tanned skin. Ashley enjoys the attention she’s found tight clothing and exposed skin will bring her.
Personality: Argumentative, quick-witted, and the first to point out something new and interesting. Ashley hates being ignored and will do anything for recognition. She gnaws on her fingernails whenever stressed or unsure of something. Likes to tease people and gets excited easily.
Word: Heat
- Can manipulate:
- the temperature and sensation of warmth
- the weather (heat of it)
- spicy flavor of food
- the intensity of feelings and passion
- the intensity of a situation
Can cause or bring about:
- a single intense effort, or a sustained and continuous effort
- passionate feelings and situations
Can create:
- firearms
- police
- metal produced by metallurgy
- sexual receptiveness, especially in females
Word Location:Top-center of back
Other: Basically an NPC. Says she hates being under Gideon’s control, but doesn't seem to mean it?
