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I heard Lord Wraith does off-brand car commercials in Japan.
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Vanjie......Vaaaanjie. VAAAAANNNJIE!
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Silly me silly me, for tuttling like we could make something beautifully. And the hands of my man, dusted in bedlam and false promises --while I delved in with love abundances
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Ooops....where did the time go and it's the Holidays?
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Surprise bitches, betcha thought you'd seen the last of me

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I think I'll come back to this relatively soon...but then again, knowing me, I probably won't.

I guess the main point of this is to say: damn, I was gone for over a year from this place. I spent a good bit of inconsistent time on Iwaku, but I kinda missed my roots and the place I originally called home.

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| NAME(S): |
Miles Alexander Bergeron

| NICKNAME(S): |
Really just Miles, or Milaminute when he’s telling a story.​

| ALIAS(ES): |
PsycheOut​

| D.O.B.: |
10/10/2001

| AGE: |
15

| SEX: |
Nope

| SEXUALITY: |
Asexual

| APPEARANCE: |
Now coming to the tail end of his second round of that awkward “teenage development”, Miles is still adjusting to his latest growth spurt (standing at 5’8”). He’s more on the slender side, weighing in at around 120. His hazel eyes are typical filled with mirth and it’s quite easy to make him laugh. Fashion alludes him, even though his older cousin Illani has tried her best to help the poor kid out. He typically sticks to colored tees and fitted pants, ideal attire for getting into after-school shenanigans. ​

| ABILITIES/SKILLS: |
Magipsychic Energy Manipulation

On the night of November 17, 2013 Miles snuck into his Grandfather’s study, searching for things he shouldn’t have been. Magical objects lined the wall but he made a beeline for a simple yet elegant crystal pyramid known as the Crystallis Memora. Upon placing his hands on it, such concentrated magic, Miles reacted to it. His dormant Minerva Hype (Pyschometry and Vague Aura Reading) gene was activated in response, flooding him with his grandfather’s memories. The trauma was such that his own magic was activated in defense, mingling with his hype gene, it threw up a psychic defense: a magic empowered psychic manifestation that shielded him from the expulsion of magic defense that was sent out from the Crystallis Memora.

“Sticky Hands” - Primarily, Miles is able to generate psychic extensions of his own hands. His control over the hands allows him to enlarge them about roughly the size of a couch. He can use these hands to grab things, swat enemies and the like. He can only extend the “Sticky Hands” to about 10 feet and he can only produce two of them, stemming from his fists. Though they don’t feel pain, if they were to be severed or cleaved, Miles would feel it.

“Dome Time” - By expelling psychic and magic energy at once, Miles is able to quickly “harden” it, creating a barrier to block physical attacks and psychic attacks. It doesn’t do well against most psychic attacks as of now, while Miles still has a way to go. As for the physical attacks, it can withstand multiple rounds of bullets. However, Miles can generally only hold the dome for about 120 seconds. 60 seconds if he widens it accommodate more people.

“Fitz” - is the name Miles would come to call his initial manifestation of energy that saved him that night. Since then, Miles has only been able to generate a full Fitz twice, and both situations left him unconscious for a day. Fitz stands at about 6 and a half feet and encompasses Miles. In this form, Fitz is able to expel a limited number of psionic-magic blasts before his form is compromised. He is highly durable and mobile, but Miles is hard-pressed to hold his form for more than 5 minutes. him was a Magipsychic Energy manifestation. The name is mainly his way of describing what he can do in one term. Fitz has shown no external sentience besides Miles’ own. Miles is unconscious while Fitz is in full form and should he be woken, Fitz disappears immediately. He can typically only be woken by mental means as noises don’t affect him.


| BACKSTORY: |

It sucks when you know exactly where you went wrong. That one decision that led to This, and from This you wound up with That. That put you There and without a care you end up Here. November 17th, 2013. ’In front of this damn crystal. Always this crystal. I know this black, this dark. Why am I still afraid?’ Does the knowing make it better? I don’t think it does.

’I just wanted to learn the secrets of magic like the rest of the Bergeron family. My family’. Which is admirable, a man for the family, right? Especially when as a member of this Magni family, you still hadn’t shown any magical inclinations. No knowledge of the denotation of magic. ’It’s her fault. I can’t help thinking it and feeling certain of it. It’s her fault for making me a half-breed. Some human and Homo Magnus combination….. But she tried her best, gave unconditional love to a child ostracized by the rest of the Bergeron family in Louisiana. And a father who had left before the pee on the stick could even turn blue. But even with no husband, being a mother was always at the forefront of her mind.

’Life was awesome, before 10. Always her and me and Cousin Bebe. Any day was a new adventure, and I knew was that our family was supposed to be a special one because we were on of the first free black families. That’s what they always told us. Why couldn’t they have just told us the truth? I could have started to learn earlier maybe. Something that wouldn’t have put me….here…’ But a Bergeron child displays magic 7, on average. 5 if they are gifted and 10 if they’re a late bloomer. And then there are the Others, the Others that never do. Only a few in the history of Bergeron, but their lives are something to be dreaded. ’Dreaded heavily, as I soon came to find out. I just wanted to get away, I didn’t care at first. But the Bergeron family wouldn’t accept another “failure”. How do you excommunicate a child? From a family? And...I could see how much it hurt my mom. I couldn’t do that to her. I never imagined...

Oh that imagination. Overactive, always creating a scenario, an imaginary friend. Some that lasted longer than others. The boy with the mind that could go a lightyear a minute, the family always said. They had such high hopes in that imagination, that wonderment. Second only to that uncanny intuition for reading people. Maybe it meant the birth of another prodigy. Then age 5 went by, while 7 slinked over the hill 2 years later and 10 didn’t want rear its head of reality. But I guess not even the greatest can halt the flow of time.

’And that’s when they saw I was one of the Others. The smiles disappeared, uncles stopped clapping me on the back, aunts were hard pressed to invite me to family birthdays and even my cousins looked at me a little sideways. I hated it.’ Endured it for 2 years, until enough had passed enough and was starting to trickle into the realm of violent resentment. ’Because no matter how hard I tried to learn it, magic just wouldn’t come to me. And I got to wonderin’...wonderin’ and plottin’. And that’s when Grandpa Remy-Lou’s Crystallis Memora started tinkling just a bit brighter. None of the other cousin’s knew what it was really for. But I figured it out and he told me years back.

Everything that he’s ever learned and experienced, as the current Patriarch of the family. Passed down to the next, and so on. He’d been prepping it for the next heir. There it sat, in the midst of his study, deceived as a forgotten simple decoration. ’It was better that way, he said. That way no one would ever suspect it. And I got curious. Just one touch, was all. Maybe I could learn his trick, see his cheats...but I didn’t expect...I didn’t expect the pain. So many flashes of the hurt. That anger, pain, death...so many people. And then, nothing. But it’s okay to not remember. Sometimes, it’s even better that way.

’Curiosity killed the cat, but what if there was never any satisfaction to bring it back. What happens to it then, my little sly friend. What are you left with?’

You’re left with you and me.


| MOTIVATION/OBJECTIVE: |
Since leaving the Bergeron family, Miles has actually experienced a sense of freedom. He’s an intelligent kid and an innocently presumptuous one at that, he just wants to help and on another level, he wants to prove himself. Become something the Bergeron family never expected.


| SUPPORTING CAST: |
WIP So Far:

-Claire Bergeron: Miles’ mother. A magni herself, she sealed her powers in a vow of solitude with her son when their family attempted to Ex-Communicate him. Now that Miles is older, she’s debating telling him this information.

-Belina-Brooks “Bebe” Jackson: Miles’ cousin and childhood friend.

-Ilani Marie Jackson: Miles’ older cousin. She’s more like an older sister, having lived with him and his mother for a few years.

| REFERENCE POST(S): |
.....my intro to Rise of the Mavericks should probably be weight enough. XoXo

| NOTES: |
I think me and Ray-J could be friend, if we ain’t love the same bitch
Yeah he mighta hit it first, only problem is I’m rich (I’m rich).
I went ahead and tweaked my sheet to give Skylar an actual reason to resort to crime fighting and all that jazz.


I would actually see that as a bit much in terms of a change to serve as a call to action. Honestly, you had it all right there, you could have played a daring side of him creeping up in the midst of his new freedom-body mind and soul. It doesn't always have to be traumatic and compromise the character. His goodness yet reckless nature could be what motivates him to help people. To stand as a public display of grit and strength for the transgender community in a particularly dangerous line of work.
Also @Lord Wraith That's soooo weird, I don't remember saying your pending character could post ICly.

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Hey, at least I am consistent in my disappointments. ^_~ Understood, had to hope. Let me know if there are a number of drop-outs.


Well hun, I don't think that's a good sentiment to have. KH, I think you could produce some stellar work if you focused on grammar a bit and let that flourish. The number of drop outs won't really affect things much, I'm afraid. As I'm the one who did the mark-ups on the characters, I can safely say the basics had a lot to do with your decision.

I wish you the best and growth from there.

~Stein
@Lord Wraith@Stein I am a little tentative about that myself. My justification feels sound though. But probably good to run it by you... Especially since you asked. Ha. Oh and @Hillan too.

So, if I'm understanding your point correctly, pretty sure I am, but y'know, I might not be, anyway! The main reason Andrew would start off with the risk is because he is unaware of it. He knows about the consequences of lowering his density, which aren't great, he'll be honest with you there, but he's never had an issue with a fast heart rate before, so his heart can slow down on its own and, for the most part, he assumes it's like exercising, since it was worse when he started. And the pacemaker makes sure that when he goes back to normal density, all that extra work doesn't just leave his heart giving out. He's also used to watching for the symptoms of arrhythmia, and is aware of his limits, so he's not afraid of testing them or making sure someone is there to spot him.

When he starts out with the fighting crime thing, and it winds up being less preparation and less safe because obviously, he won't be stopping in the middle of a chase or fight to check his pulse or be able to call a time out if he feels some bad palpitations, then I'm hoping for some chance at character development. Since it would be a risk and he'd be fully aware of it at that point. And he'd have to decide if that's something he wants to continue to risk. I cannot promise he will, but I know him fairly well in my head, and it wouldn't be something he'd want to give up on immediately, so he'd want to look for work arounds, compensating methods, that sort of thing. And it would make working in a group a much better idea. ;) Not that he needs the incentive there. He likes people. And if nothing else would motivate him to stay with them, it'd be that. He'd want to help them, even if it's not in the obvious way, he wouldn't like bowing out just because of the risks to him when they're risking themselves too. (granted, risking himself might only add to the complications they'd be dealing with, but that would be another character development moment, I hope)

It's a sort of, it landed at his feet as a solution to what do I do with my life to be useful and he wouldn't readily let it go. He's the kind of guy that would have thought about fighting crime or helping out once he got his powers, but he was young enough, and still had some heart problems, to feel like that was just a fantasy. So, I'm hoping that the first time he does it, it's kind of an accident, and then, after that, he realises that it might not be as out of his reach as he's always thought. Then whoops, maybe it is, after all. Psyche.

The heart thing, I will admit I am not 100% in the know on, as I've only been using internet research and a few blogs to get my knowhow. He had the actual heart transplant 15 years ago, and while I know he probably has to take medication for it for life, I'm not aware of any other regular routines he'd have to go through at this point apart from doctor check-ups(if anyone else knows, feel free to toss that knowledge my way). The pace-maker, which he's had for about 8 years, does have a few points of weakness of its own (which I think I've still managed to not include, go me), but apart from the potential for its shocks to get out of alignment with the greater density (don't ask me if that is at all scientific), it is meant to let him do most things, if not everything, as anyone else might manage. And as far as I know, the recovery time for the initial operation is expected to be about 5 months or less depending on the type of operation, with minimal maintenance required.

The only thing I think that could cause a problem (apart from the ones I actually want) is the fact that I had the EMP short out the batteries in it. Since I'm pretty sure it would do that whether I want it to or not. And changing the batteries does require a small operation to get to the pacemaker, but I don't think the recovery time is nearly as long.

Hopefully I've answered your concerns somewhere in that ramble. Sorry, I just kept going... If not, poke me, or something.


Yes you did. Beautifully in fact. Unph.

I love all of it and approve of it. I'd like to see some of that addressed/woven into the bio. Not necessarily the length to which you explained it here, but some awareness on his part. And DEFINITELY that young childish urge to be a hero but being stopped by his heart condition.
Oh hey gurls,

I'm here. Bringing the sass class, and ass. I feel like I inspire a low simmering of fear.

Anyway, I guess I'll do some GM stuff real quick.

I'll be giving reviews on your characters tomorrow as planned!

XoXo ~ Stein
Because I mean, c'mon, you wish you could hold this down without me, babes

Ladies, you're all equally as.. well, you're people, either way. And we shouldn't think less of you for it.

Stop fighting.


WhoTF is fighting

Can we fight though? Mexican knife battle?
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Hey don't you go telling me what to do! I AM A REBEL I PLAY BY MY OWN RULES BECAUSE I BREAK ALL YOUR RULES MAN!

But if I break all rules that means I break my own rules meaning that technically I'm being against being a rebel since one could only assume that being a rebel is an important aspect to the rules of being a rebel but by not following those rules I could very well be considering myself to be normal but since I'm not accepting any rules a normal person follows I guess that puts me in this weird limbo where I'm not really following the rules of a normal person but I'm also not really following the rules of a rebel itself OH JUST ACCEPT THE FACT I'M A REBEL DAMMIT.


Glut.

You should look that word up. Y'all are sharing a few similarities, tbh
@Stein I don't trust @Lord Wraith or @Hillan after they planned to disqualify us for finishing first.

Performance issues are not uncommon guys.


I'm not entirely sure how that relates....in any capacity.

But okay.
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