[CHAR] The Other World

[HylianRose]

Olivia Woods

_{"Wait. Wait. Wait... My... shadow was kidnapped? You have got to be kidding me."}

~NAME~

Olivia Susan Woods

~AGE~

18

~PERSONALITY/BACKGROUND~

Average. Average. Average. It's all Olivia's life ever was; Average. Average grades, average boyfriend, average friends, average family. Her dad worked as a principal at her local high school, her mother as a nurse in a local doctor's office, and her older brother worked at the BP, selling gas and other commercial goods to people who didn't deserve it.

In fact, nothing excited had ever happened to Olivia until that day. She'd been to senior prom with her boyfriend of two years and the next day was looking at the pictures online when she noticed something particular, she, unlike everyone else, was casting no shadow. For a moment, she thought it was some sort of weird prank that her boyfriend was pulling on her by putting these up (his mother had been the photographer). When she confronted him about it, it all started to tumble. He thought she was crazy, that she had lost her mind, yelling at him like that for something he hadn't done, said she was paranoid. She tried to ignore it from then on, but when she went to her bathroom that next morning to brush her teeth, her toothbrush was floating in midair and she screamed.

Luckily her family wasn't home at the time, having all gone to work. Olivia kept it to herself, distancing herself from her friends and family, eventually breaking it off with her boyfriend. She was having a mental breakdown. That was, until he found her. The old man, the one with the old book. He explained a lot to her in a very calming way and for whatever reason, she trusted him. She followed the man to the headquarters of what she would soon come to call the 'secret service' or SS. There, she met Logan, her new partner, among others.

[Aims]

Logan Summers.

Look, call me Peter Pan. Might as well, 'cause we've both lost our shadows. I'm gonna sew that freaking thing to me when I find it.

Name:
Logan Kyle Summers

Age:
18

Personality/Background:
Logan was born a pretty normal birth. Two parents, happily married, middle class, three siblings all older than him. His mother was a stay-at-home mom while his father worked a 9-5 job during the day and went to university classes in the afternoon. When Logan entered middle school, his father graduated with a degree in Law and went on to become one of the more successful lawyers in the state.

With success came wealth and a huge change in lifestyle for Logan. He moved to a private school with his other siblings and his mother went back to school. With his father gone during most of the daylight hours and his mother gone in the afternoons, Logan and his siblings became very self sufficient, not really ever communicating. His brothers and sisters flourished at school, leaving Logan behind. As a result, Logan became sort of invisible in his family.

The summer of Logan's eighth grade year, his only sister died in the middle of the night while she slept peacefully in her bed. The maids found her there, just like she was asleep. Logan's room was adjacent to hers and so the commotion woke him up. Watching the paramedics lift and carry her to the gurney, Logan noticed that the bright lights in the room casted shadows of everyone but his sister.

His sister's passing stuck with Logan for much longer than the rest of his family. He didn't understand the connection between his sister's "lost" shadow and her death, but it made him pay more attention. Eventually, his two brothers left for university, leaving Logan at home on his own. The day of his graduation, sitting in the velvet lined auditorium seats, he looked up at the lights for a moment. It reminded him of his sister, which made him want to touch the ground, touch his shadow. When he looked back down, it was already gone. Panicked, he ran to the bathroom and found that his reflection was also gone. It sent the boy into such a state of panic that he wouldn't eat or sleep for days, Googling stuff for hours at a time about lost shadows and reflections. When someone finally bothered to check on him, he answered the door to find a man in a suit and smile, a old book resting under his arm. It was then that he became part of the "secret service", as he likes to call it, searching for the person to take with him into the other world and find their shadows before it's too late.

Logan is an overall nice guy. He's very chivalrous and kind, has a pretty good sense of humor. He is extremely smart and observant, which is why he was chosen for his position in the SS. He tends to be a little brash, saying things that come to his mind too quickly. He puts his foot in his mouth often, regretting a lot of things. Logan doesn't really have a temper; he tends to act like he doesn't care about anything at all, which can get really annoying. He is the opposite of athletic, even walking long distances makes him short of breath. He absolutely hates running. Most of all, though, he worries about self-preservation above all else, which is a huge flaw.