[u][b]Basic Information[/b][/u]

[b]Name:[/b] [i]Shannon Jacqueline Balore[/i]
[b]Nickname/Alias/Etc:[/b] [i]Silkworm[/i]
[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Age:[/b] 20
[b]Height:[/b] 5'7
[b]Weight:[/b] 142
[b]Status:[/b] Returning Student

[b][u]Appearance[/u][/b]

[b]Hair Color:[/b] Red
[b]Eye Color:[/b] Brown
[b]Ethnicity:[/b] Irish and Israeli
[b]Physical Appearance:[/b] Shannon is a low, nerdy looking teen, the glasses she wears does not help. Her most prominent feature is her red ginger hair, which is curly and back length. Not kept in a particular style. Shannon isn't super attractive, she's kinda pretty, but she isn't going to win any beauty pageants. Some of the boys call her cute. Shannon, ethnicity-wise, is Irish, if the hair didn't give that away, and Israeli. Her father supplies the Irish, and her mommy gives her the Israeli. If that wasn't obvious enough (!) she is Caucasian, her skin is a pale color, like the kind of person who spends a lot of time in front of the computer and could use a little sunshine. Her face has plenty of obvious freckles, while her face has some freckles, her upper body has the most, though. Her frame/figure shows a bit of that too, she is skinny like a person who doesn't do too much work, but she has a little bit of body fat packed in the stomach area. Nothing her heavy clothes can't conceal. Shannon's skin isn't perfect... If her pale complexion didn't give that much away. She has plenty of blemishes, stretch marks, and her face has a few pimples here and there. She hasn't done in life to warrant more than a few scars, so her body is remarkable free of them. Shannon's nose is kinda crooked from getting broken a few times, and the few scars she does have are on her face from fights she got into. Shannon's head is rectangle shaped, with rounded facial features. She has high cheekbones, and, large, smooth, and round, cheeks. She has a comically small, triangle-shaped, nose, that is hooked at the tip somewhat. Her lips aren't thick, full, nor feminine, they're small and thin, more at home on a boy. Shannon's ears are medium sized and very round. 

[b]Attire:[/b] Shannon prefers to dress heavily, and comfortably, with loose clothes that don't stick to her in the slightest. However, her outfit tends to be brightly colored or flashy. She can make her own clothes, and what she makes tends to be on par with designer clothes. Clothes with beautiful patterns, embroidered with pictures, anything that she thinks is fabulous. It gives people the impression that she is a rich girl. She likes to wear jewelry, like bracelets, and rings, usually this is the cheap, dollar-store, brand of jewelry. Then, of course, there's her wide variety of thick-framed glasses. She either wears round, and more squarish glasses.

[b][u]Personality[/u][/b]

[b]Outward & Innate Personality:[/b] Shannon isn't introverted, anti-social, nor shy. A bit of an asshole, yes, but none of those things. Shannon is incredibly cynical, jaded, and pessimistic. She rarely sees the good in things, and always thinks that nobody is nice "just because they are". She's very intelligent and observant. She tends to think things through well, she's good at making educated guesses, going off all the information she has. She's accurate most of the time. Though she has a habit of over thinking when she needs to act. To say the least, she always has her guard up at all times. In conversation, she is very snarky, sassy, and doesn't shy away from giving her opinion at every possible moment. Though, she tries not to sound like total bitch and make enemies. She tends to have the belief that every person she meets is an idiot, until proven otherwise, that is. She tends come off as condescending, though Shannon tries her damn best not to sound arrogant. She has plenty of views on current "issues" like LGBT rights, the various wars going on, and the headline stories. However, she is very passionate about her views, and won't hesitate to argue with people who have different views. In truth, Shannon generally likes to appear as if she's a super intelligent. Not hesitating to spot information, say big words, and generally acting smarter than everyone else. She tries hard to look like she's clever, when she really isn't. This has caused her a bit of problems when she messes up. She's very protective of the people she cares about. Friends, family, etc, she treats. Shannon has a bit of a temper, a very short one. When people annoy/aggravate her, even in the slightest, she tends to make it known that she doesn't like them. Because, in her eyes, she's not here to make friends with everyone, and if you're arrogant, or an asshole, then you're obviously not worth her time. She'll cut all ties with people she dislikes fast as possible, and never give them a second thought. Sexuality-wise, Shannon is a lesbian, and she's proud. She is out of the closest, and doesn't hesitate to tell boys that come to flirt with her (To get rid of them).

[b]Hobbies/Interests:[/b] N/A

[b]Skills/Talents:[/b] Intelligent, observant, naturally a detective, can speak French, good at weaving clothes, overflowing sass levels and extremely snarky.

[b]Prized Possession:[/b] There is no item that Shannon truly treasures.
[b]Quote:[/b] [i]"Oh, you're mad? Sorry that you couldn't match me in wits and had to resort to violence."[/i]

[b]History/Bio:[/b] Shannon was born to a rather good life. Being the bastard daughter of her father O'Connor Balore, and her mother Avigail Durtang, whom quickly got married a few years after she was born. They each had rather modest jobs that granted her family with plenty of money to support them, and eventually indulge them in their hobbies - But they weren't rich. So in a way, Shannon lived in the upper-middle class. Nice house, plenty of nice people to be around, and everything was nice and dandy. Shannon was sent to school aiming to be above average. Her parents nurtured this growth in intelligence after and before school, but they didn't push her too far. It was just an activity they made her do so their daughter was. They tried to make it seem less of work, and more of something fun, and it quickly became something Shannon showed off to other kids - Something that made her better than them. This is how Shannon got rather close to her parents. While getting close to a teacher of hers named Reagan Boyer, whom her parents were friends with. Even after she left kindergarten, she continued to talk to him, and was someone she strives to be, the smartest person she knew.

There isn't much else to say about Shannon's early life other than she continued to grow and mature. However, at the age of eight, her powers had developed, or rather, she had discovered them. She was in the middle of a birthday party for the child of one of her father's Co-workers, and she had gotten into a small scuffle with a rather aggressive boy. Whom targeted her merely because she had red hair, and tried to pull it out. Shannon freaked out, and every piece of fabric in a good twenty foot radius had been warped and twisted into rather twisted constructs. Shannon and the boy's clothes were destroyed completely, leaving them both nude. Her parents had hauled them out. Not a soul knew what the hell happened, there was enough evidence to connect Shannon to it as everyone else.

However, after that, Shannon discovered that she had an affinity with fabrics. It wasn't anything special, she noticed that fabrics moved to her rhythm. She experimented a bit, and realized that it was all out control over fabrics. She could move them like the traditional elemental type. Shannon came to her parents with this news, and they honestly didn't renounce her or deem her a "freak". They were not oblivious to the world of Meta-humans, and accepted their daughter for what she truly is. But they highly recommended that she uses this power behind closed doors, just out of fear of the people who didn't understand it. So it became a bit of a hobby of hers, along with the rest of her activities, training this ability to it's fullest extent. Learning the ins and outs of this ability, and becoming a master seamstress by default. 

She occasionally went to her old teacher Reagan for advice, who was a Meta-human himself (Ceramic Manipulation), and the only other. He taught her a few things, gave her a few pointers. He told Shannon that she could come up with some very creative uses with her power. All she had to do was think outside the box. Reagan acted as a mentor-figure for Shannon's training. Along with teaching her a few moves of his own that could be translated from ceramic to clothing.

Life was going rather smoothly for Shannon. By the time she was ten, she had gotten quite a grasp on her power. She had already learned how to create outfits in a few minutes, and had expanded her control beyond just fabrics. She strived to improve this power even further, and she gotten plenty of opportunities to do so by simple practices such as repairing an outfit, to changing an outfit all together. Just chalking it all up to her being . Her age having double-digits opened up a few opportunities for her. In terms of academies. Personally, she didn't want to participate in sports, and rather focused on her school work and training her power. Though, while in school, she wasn't the type to get along with people that well. She was already quite condescending towards virtually everyone. Shannon had already gotten the firm belief that most people were simply not worth her time, or too much of a mouth breather that they were beyond saving. But her intelligence was something that made other people think she was a simple stepping stone. They made her think she was their friend, only to reveal they only wanted to use her to cheat at tests and ease their way through school. This was simply a catalyst for her belief that everyone wants something, and made her more distant from other people. She made few friends that shared similar beliefs to her.

But her life had changed drastically by the time she was fourteen, beginning puberty. Shannon came home one day, and found her father drinking heavily, crying with his face in his hands. She learned what had happened while she was at school... Reagan had brutally raped and killed Shannon's mother - Apparently having harbored an obsessive desire over Shannon's mother. Using the information he had gotten from Shannon to learn about when and where she'll be, and when no one would be around to. Shannon couldn't possibly understand what happened, and went into a state of shock... Just locking herself into her own room, and never wanting to come out. She was horribly depressed, her entire world had collapsed in on itself. She just couldn't handle it anymore. This was a catalyst for her cynical attitude. One of the people she could trust most used that against her, and killed the one person she was close to. She had gotten the mindset that everyone wants something, no one is truly "nice", and always had something sneaky. It felt like days before Shannon left her room.

Shannon's father went to alcohol in order to cope, he honestly couldn't help his daughter. He got an addiction, but learned of how far he's fallen. He had to take Shannon away, and be alone with his thoughts. Before this tragedy went down, Shannon had received an invitation to Academy 218. Shannon really didn't want to get sent away, but her father forced her to. He carted her over to the boat, and she was sent on a rather long cruise-ride to the Academy. Mother killed, and sent away to a school when she truly wanted to be close to her father was not a good combination for the rather unstable Shannon. 

Once she arrived, it was all so different to Shannon. She had only known one superhuman other than herself, but a whole school of them? That was something unexpected, but she had zero interest in it all. It was all the same thing, but with powers. She felt like she was abandoned here. The second Shannon got to her room, she locked herself off. Keeping herself locked off... Until she had met her room mate, Deborah Termellio, a first year student that was almost the same age as her. Deborah understood her thoughts, knew how she felt, and tried to help her, only to get pushed away by Shannon. Whom automatically assumed she had some ulterior motive. Though, Deborah was the only person whom Shannon knew in this alien place, she had no choice but to stick with her. Over time, she had opened herself up to Deborah, and the girl acted as the therapist that Shannon had never gotten. Being the person whose's shoulder Shannon cried on. 

Through this, Shannon had gradually stopped leaving herself closed off from the world. She introduced herself to other people, and became acquainted to the colorful student body of the 218... But her opinion of everyone quickly became jaded. She saw everyone as worse than they were in regular school. To Shannon; hey were a bunch of arrogant jackasses that would be worthless without their powers, annoying as all hell, sociopaths, or she had suspected them of malicious intent. To her, she was something that was better than them. A pure light that saw the world, and it's people, for what it really is. She didn't make any attempt not to show people how she really felt, nice or not. This didn't give her a good reputation among the school. She was either neutral/mixed or downright hated. However, there was one person she could confide in, Deborah, her room mate had become her Secret Keeper. They've gotten closer to anyone else here.

Shannon was developing feelings for Deborah... but by the time she could explore them, the school year had ended and Shannon was sent home - Though, they made sure to keep it contact through phone conversations, Skype, and Facebook. Her opinion of her father had severely degraded, to the point where she downright rejected him, not saying a word to him - He had improved to, and respected her enough to give her space. She just enjoyed her summer... feeling better than she did when she received the news. Though, she couldn't wait to be sent back to that school.

It came soon enough when Shannon had begun her new school year, and she was sent back... Disappointed that she wasn't sharing rooms with Deborah, she was sharing rooms with a new student. Shannon kept her at arms length and continued to mingle with Deborah. This school year didn't yeld any interesting events, it was just the logical turn of events. Her opinion and perception of the school had changed for the worse, until she began calling it hell. But, her power had improved greatly. She had learned that she could control everything clothing was made with. Though, spending time with Deborah had finally made her admit her feelings for her, and Deborah returned them... But she wasn't quite ready to leave the closet. She even adopted a fake boyfriend. While Shannon was at school, her father had finally gotten over the death of his wife, and found another. Shannon came home one time and learned her father was engaged to a woman she never met.... A side-effect of being so closed off from her father. 

Over the course of a year, Shannon's father had married, and was already starting a new family with his new wife. In a few years, she had several new siblings to learn to hate. Making Shannon feel ultimately unwanted, like a relic of a past he'd rather bury. Which caused a bit of a dilemma for Shannon since she wanted nothing to do with her father, but she only really went to the Academy to see Deborah in person.

As years went by, Shannon finally graduated from school at Academy 218, and went into it's college course for Fashion... God gave her this power, and she might as well put it to use.

[b]Family:[/b] 

[list]
Mother - Avigail Balore (Deceased)
Father - O'Connor Balore
Stepmother - Cassidy Balore
Brother - O'Connor Balore Jr.
Brother - Sean Balore
Sister - Blathnat Balore

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[u][b]Relationships[/b][/u]

[b]Deborah Termellio[/b] | [b]Perfect[/b] | [b]Secret lover[/b] | [i]"Deebs is my girlfriend, indeed. We have so many group excursions out together when no one is looking... but the problem is that I want everyone to know of our wonderful relationship, and Deebs... isn't ready. I don't know if she really loves me or not... I want to know..."[/i] |

[b]Valjean Vaseal[/b] | [b]Hated[/b] | [b]Mortal enemy[/b] |[i] "He comes within five feet of me; I cut his balls off."[/i] |

[b]Aislin Rose[/b] | [b]Good[/b] | [b]Friend?[/b] | [i]"Despite being a huge stoner, I enjoyed our conversation. I look forward to more... If she doesn't get thrown off this island for substance abuse, that is."[/i] |

[b]Vespera Spindel[/b] | [b]Neutral, veering on bad[/b] | [b]Room Mate[/b] | [i]"I don't like her. The way she talks and carries herself around like she's an apex predator, and challenges everyone she feels like to try to inflate her ego. I don't need a power like Debby's to tell that she's so full of herself."[/i] |

[b]Sylvia Bertoose[/b] | [b]Bad[/b] | [b]Acquaintance[/b] | [i]"She's nice to Debby, but... I don't like her."[/i] |

[b]Victoria LaRouse[/b] | [b]Neutral[/b] | [b]Acquaintance[/b] | [i]"She's French."[/i] |

[b]Karlie Davis[/b] | [b]Neutral[/b] | [b]Acquaintance[/b] | [i]"Yet another person who I met through Deebs. She isn't the person I wish to associate myself with, but she tries so damn hard that I had to warm up to her a little... I know our powers are related in a way, and the two of us can easily work together... Or I can easily disarm her."[/i] |

[b]Adam Blackmore[/b] | [b]Neutral[/b] | [b]Teacher[/b] | [i]"Yes, he's a hardass. Yes, he has a pole up his ass. But I find him more tolerable than the arrogant fools who wander into this school by the boatload. If I were to choose who between the two, I'd always choose Adam."[/i] |

[b]Red Winston[/b] | [b]Neutral[/b] | [b]Debby's Partner[/b] | [i]"Yes... I jumped the gun on him. Yes... I might have mistook him for scum. But I trust Debs decision on this matter. If she ."[/i] |

[b]Peter Brooke[/b] | [b]Bad[/b] | [b]Weirdo-Metal Man[/b] | [i]"I swear, if I find another bug in my hair...."[/i] |

[b]Abraham Gene[/b] | [b]Bad[/b] | [b]Just wants sex[/b] | [i]"I get the, highly accurate, feeling that he just wants a whip of tail. Or he wouldn't be talking to us."[/i] |

[b]Ben Voss[/b] | [b]Good[/b] | [b]Mute Man[/b] | [i]"I had a small change of heart in regards to him. He saved me and Debby... I... I'm not sure if I even try to find a reason to hate him."[/i] |

[b]Mark Heaton[/b] | [b]Annoying[/b] | [b]Tool[/b] | [i]"I'm sorry that you wanted my cake, but I don't share with dumb pains in the asses..."[/i] |

[b]Jago Javaunt[/b] | [b]Neutral[/b] | [b]Debby's Cousin[/b] | [i]"This kid's on the road to being just another egotistical swine, just the same as everyone else here... I hope Debby knows what she's doing."[/i] |

[b]Theresa Obott[/b] | [b]Neutral[/b] | [b]Acquaintance[/b] | [i]"The resident transgendered individual, I support a transition like hers.... but I find her irritating. Which is why I keep her at arm's length unless she wants something."[/i] |

[b]Kade Taylor[/b] | [b]Neutral[/b] | [b]Acquaintance[/b] | [i]"Just your average hedonist that does anything to attend status. Appearing nice one minute, then silly acts of 'rebellion' like missing curfew the next moment. Whatever her impulses drive her to do. Though, I love that little scare she gave Valjean.... Ultimately, Kade is of no importance."[/i] |

[b][u]Abilities[/u][/b]

[b]Power Class:[/b] Elemental 6

[b]Power:[/b] [i]Clothing Manipulation.[/i] The basic idea behind Shannon's power is that she can manipulate clothing. In actuality, Shannon can manipulate all fabrics, fibers, cloth, cotton, and silk, along with the ability to control, leather, latex, small metals, plastic, and rubber - But she cannot control it as well. She can telekinetically move these materials, along with freely shape and alter it's properties. Shannon can weave outfits on the fly, or use clothing offensively by turning an opponent's outfit against them. She can alter the tensile-strength of certain materials. She can make a single strand of silk have more strength than steel, and make any outfit bullet proof. She would need some time to reinforce the outfit. This power is pretty versatile, and Shannon is clever enough to come up with a lot of uses with it. Enough to go toe to toe with the stronger students. 

Abilities in her potential are...

[i]Hair-Manipulation.[/i] Shannon will gain complete control of the hair of herself and others. She can alter, grow out, chance texture, color, etc., shape and manipulate it as if it was appendage, weave the hair into different shapes, etc. Along with the ability to alter the tensile strength of hair.

[i]Make-up Manipulation.[/i] Shannon will be able to telekinetically control various make up products (Eye-shadow, Lipstick, Mascara and so on). Whether it has been applied or not.

[i]Jewelry Manipulation.[/i] An extension of her clothing manipulation, she can control jewelry, specially the metal and gemstones. This power is limited to only moving it.

[b]Weaknesses/Limitations/Drawbacks:[/b] For starters, Shannon can't pull clothes out her ass, while it's pretty much everywhere, there might not be enough resources for her to work with all the time. In any case, fire and corrosive elements can easily destroy the clothes she's manipulating. Shannon's power has an effective-range of around twenty-five meters, she has difficulties using her powers outside this range. While she can pretty much make an outfit knife/bullet proof, it won't stop a punch or a really hard blow.

[b][u]Other:[/u][/b]

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