Name: Delta Collins
Age: 17
Appearance:
Mental illness: Schizophrenia
Bio: Delta was born to a loving family who lived on a small farm. She was always a bit of a loner, never really making any friends. She would go out into the woods alone rather than going to play with the children from the nearby farms, and at school she would always just read or do homework at recess. Her parents never really thought much about it, but they also didn't like her going into the woods alone so they got her a collie puppy that she named Sable.
The year she turned 9 had been a bad year for tornados. Several of the other farms around them had serious damage from the storms, but their farm had been lucky. Until, that was, the last predicted storm of tornado season. The storm got bigger than anyone had predicted. No one had thought there would be a tornado that day, so her family hadn't taken any of their normal precautions. An hour after the storm had let loose the family got word that there was a tornado near them, but so far it hadn't touched down yet though. They debated weather to try to save the animals or just to hide themselves, and the family decided to try to get the animals in. They worked together to get everything into the barn and other buildings, and they nearly succeeded.
As the tornado hit Delta remembers seeing debris flying through the air, and seeing the roof get torn off of the barn where her parents were waiting for her to arrive with Sable and the last goat. She passed out shortly after.
When she woke up in the hospital she realized that she couldn't hear, and the doctors had to write everything out to be able to talk to her. They told her that a piece of metal had been flying so fast with the wind that it had imbedded itself in her auditory cortex causing her deafness, and there was no way they could get it out without risking killing her. When she asked about her parents and Sable she was told that her parents were killed when the tornado actually ran over the barn knocking it down completely, and no collie had been found on the farm. While she was in the hospital rehabilitating she was taught how to understand sign language and read lips.
Also while she was in the hospital, she started noticing two women in her room a lot, and they weren't nurses. They never tried to speak to her until she knew sign. That was when they started signing to her. One was dark and cold. She only ever said that Delta was the reason her parents were dead. The other was warm, inviting, and looked very similar to Delta's mother. She would always try to comfort her when Delta let the other one get to her. Over the months her feelings of guilt grew to become delusional. As her feeling turned delusional she stated talking less and less, and just before she was released she was diagnosed as schizophrenic. She had no family left so she was released to the asylum at the age of 10.
For the first few years at the asylum she let her guilt eat away at her causing her to stay pretty quiet and not do much, but for the past few years she had been doing better with the help of therapy. With the help of the therapists she has learned(chosen) to pay more attention to the light woman (Dawn) and ignore the dark woman (Jolene). Another thing that has seemed to help greatly in the past year is that one of the therapists recommended a therapy dog for her, and she was given a miniature poodle named Tinkerbell.
She recently transferred into this asylum when her old, small town one shut down.