Name: Faith Ashton
Cape Codename: Decree
Age: 16
Appearance: Faith is tall and skinny for her age, with a slightly pale complexion, golden blonde hair and bright green eyes. Her fashion sense is a strange mixture of ‘conservative church girl’ and ‘colourful hipster’. She is a particular fan of sweaters and turtlenecks, though also sometimes likes to wear overalls over a t-shirt. She typically wears either bright pastel colors, or a more mature and subdued color palette such as maroons and mauves, depending on the occasion.
Her hero costume resembles a dress, with toga-like elements in the method the cloth is bunched up at the top. It is white with golden gilded edges and highlights, giving her a divine yet Greco-Roman air. Covering the top half of her face is a white venetian mask
Personality: Faith is a girl standing at the edge of ‘being so normal that it’s slightly weird’. She is a church girl. A devout christian who’s faith in Jesus is unshakeable. Despite this, she takes the positive mantra of ‘love thy neighbour’ to heart and is always warm, kind, and ready to give anyone the benefit of the doubt. After all, it is God’s place to judge others, not her own.
She tends to take great care in what she says and will always say with a question or a statement what others might say with a command. She wants others to trust her and be open with her and she is well aware that the nature of her power is an obstacle in this.
Power Classification: Master 3/Stranger 2
Power Description:Faith’s power, which she refers to as ‘commands’, is that any command she makes influences everybody around her who heard the command. The brain naturally has a resistance to foreign ideas, so to total strangers unaware of her ability, any command that goes against that person’s nature is treated more like an intrusive thought by the brain and ignored. Those aware of her power are also unlikely to be swayed as they will naturally be looking out for any command spoken by Faith and will both consciously and subconsciously reject it.
Something that greatly affects the potency of her ability is trust. The more people trust her, the more susceptible they become to her commands. This means that by merely working together, her own teammates will become more vulnerable to obeying her commands as their rapport and team dynamics improve. The true scope and limit of her powers are unknown as most people are naturally guarded and cautious around her, but it’s theorised that her power has the poential to affect the subconscious of a subject who trusts her, or possibly even directly influence bodily functions. (eg. “stop feeling pain”)
Strengths:- Demeanor: Faith is a warm, friendly presence who can reassure people and put them at ease.
- Way with words: Due to the care she needs to take with every sentence she utters, Faith can always find the right words for the occasion.
- Public speaker: Faith is a confident and inspiring public speaker and as such is a reliable PR representative for the team.
Weaknesses:- Reluctance: Barring serious occasions when something is seriously at stake, Faith does not use her powers lightly.
- Untrained: Faith has no combat training or experience. She jogs as a hobby and was a cheerleader briefly so she’s not unfit, but she currently lacks the skills needed to fight the bad guys without her power.
- Pacifist: Faith does not like violence. Even if no other solutions present themselves, she has not yet hardened herself to the idea of harming another person, even indirectly.
History:Faith was born into and raised by a middle class Evangelical family on the ‘nicer’ side of Bridgewater. Her father was middle management for some corporation. Her mother worked on the sales team of the same company. That is in fact how they met; at work. Faith had two older brothers, and the whole family were devout christians.
Faith’s life was happy and uneventful right up until high school. One of her best friends was a closeted bisexual and when Faith refused to shun her, rumours began spreading that the two of them were in a relationship. The more Faith stood by her friend and refused to be swayed by peer pressure, the more fuel the gossip received. It all reached a crescendo when her friend was pressured by the class bullies that she in fact had a crush on Faith.
Faith still refused to abandon her friend, even from mounting pressure from her own family, who started to repeatedly question whether Faith was reciprocating those feelings. Her standing in the school was in tatters. Her friend tried to cut contact with Faith just to try to protect the both of them. Faith’s school life became actively miserable. Why couldn’t her friend just talk this out instead of running away? Why couldn’t her family listen to her.
Then, it Triggered.
One day she got into a screaming match with her mother and it all came out. After her tirade about everything that was happening at school, the effect it was having on herself and her friend, and her feelings regarding her own family not believing her own words, she ended the tirade with “please believe me.” And they did. She went to explain things to her father, and he believed her too. Her friend agreed to speak to her again and her classmates agreed to back off. Everyone had….done exactly what she told them to. Life appeared to return to normal but it didn’t take long for Fauth to realise something was very different.
After some experimentation, Faith gained a good understanding of how her power worked,Its applications and limitations. School life appeared to be going well on the surface, but her knowledge that she had artificially created this prosperity prevented her from being able to enjoy it. It was uncanny, and she constantly felt guilty for merely….having friends.
Being a Master/Stranger with the potential to mould the free will of those around her for her own benefit, it wasn’t long until the PRT contacted her. They ‘offered’ her the Cape gig, though the possibility of being taken into custody if she refused was more than implied. She accepted anyway. Being a Hero means being in the position to help people and make their lives better. Was there anything more Christian than that?
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