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Beth stands at around 4'3” and weighs a measly 68 lbs, both of which are things that she isn't all that happy about. Somehow, she was also born with pink hair and eyes the color of pink sapphires, both of which kind of make up for her stature in her eyes. Her parents blamed it on an experimental drug that her mother had taken while pregnant for a serious condition, but Beth believes that it has something to do with her powers, mainly because her eyes have a tendency to glow when she is using her powers.

As for her usual clothing, Beth prefers to wear dresses and skirts. Due to the fact that her clothing selection is limited to the kids section of the store, most of her clothes are rather bright and cheery, which she doesn't really mind. In fact, she actually prefers cute clothing, and so has no qualms wearing clothes with childish designs on them. She also likes to wear ribbons or bows in her hair and often keeps her hair in twintails, though she does change it up every once in a while. She also usually wears mismatched socks, velcro shoes that are bright and colorful, and leotards, bodysuits, or tights underneath her regular clothes.

[b]Name:[/b] Elizabeth (Beth) Nicole Carson
[b]Age:[/b] 17
[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Power:[/b] Beth possesses the power of Telepathy, or the ability to send and receive information mentally. Telepathy, while not a strong combat power, does have a wide array of applications, such as the ability to shield and/or hide psychics and the ability to act as a relay for her teammates to communicate with one another, and uses that make her perfect for a support role. Some of her more common applications are:
Psychic Communication
Pushing
Download
Telempathy
Illusion Manipulation (limited to only the mind of the target)
Emotion Manipulation

[b]Limitations:[/b] Beth has quite a few drawbacks to her power, the first of which is her inability to shut it off. She is literally always hearing the thoughts of those around her, which is more or less fine in small groups, or even large ones for a little while. But the problem is that, when she is in a large group for too long, she get intense migraines that leave her unable to stand on her own or even think coherently. These usually pass after some time in solitude, but they can be persistent if she remains in such a large group.

She also has an awful time getting a good night's sleep due to this. The dreams and thoughts of those around her while she's sleeping interfere with her own sleep and result in her getting significantly less rest than she would if she was isolated from others. That's usually not that hard to to, however, as she has a tendency to influence the dreams of those around her, making them just as unable to get rest on a good night, let alone one where she has her usual nightmares.

The final thing is that it takes time to whittle through the defenses of someone who knows what she is doing. It's like a wall that she has to find a crack in to exploit and get through. She has the power to burst through once she finds a crack, and even sometimes without one if the wall is weak enough, but an individual who has practiced could last for hours before she managed to wriggle through. And, though she doesn't know it yet, psychics have a natural resistance to her mind-controlling abilities. Sure, she can read their minds and talk to them if they don't know how to stop that, but can't mess with their emotions or thoughts without some effort.

[b]Personality:[/b] Beth is a rather... reserved person. The side-effects of her powers have instilled in her an incredible appreciation for solitude, and she has a hard time ignoring her instincts to push people away because of that. Even when she can overcome that natural reflex, she still has a hard time utilizing social skills. It's not that she doesn't know them; she does. It's just that she doesn't have a perfect grasp on using them effectively, which means that she often comes across as rude or ignorant.

That isn't to say that she isn't a person whom people would consider nice. She does care about others, and has made use of her abilities to the benefit of the homeless and impoverished people living in her community, though always anonymously. She hates the attention that follows after helping people. Even having it be anonymous is almost unbearable. She couldn't think about what would it would be like if they knew who had done those things.

[b]History:[/b] Beth's life was normal, apart from her tiny size and her ability to hear things no one had spoken out loud, until she was about three years old, when her parents were brutally murdered before her eyes by an infamous serial killer. Once he was done dicing up her parents' bodies, he turned on her and raped her. The shock of everything that had gone on wore off as he was cleaning up, and Beth threw everything that she was feeling at the man's psyche. She wanted him to feel the anger, grief, and fear that she was feeling, but the magnitude of the blast caused her to black out. Gratefully, the last thing that she saw was the killer hugging his knees and weeping piteously. Apparently, the rest of the neighborhood had suffered bouts of weepiness and anxiety for the next several weeks, though that hadn't been her intention.

Regardless, she woke up in a comfortable, yet unfamiliar, bed. It turned out that the police had come by to pick up the serial killer because he had called them to turn himself in. None of them understood what had transpired, but they had understood that a three-year old girl needed a new home, at least temporarily. It turned out that none of her relatives wanted her, however, and her temporary home became her permanent home. That's not to say that it was a pleasant living, however. Many of the other kids ostracized her for her ability to literally read their minds. Had she known better, she would have kept it hidden, but she hadn't, so the kids mercilessly bullied her, with the adults doing nothing to stop it. In their eyes, she deserved it for her wicked lies, or what they thought she was doing.

Eventually, the abuse became too much, and Beth fled from the foster home, using her telepathy to allow herself to slip past the supervisors and into the town itself. From there, her power got her a taxi ride out of the town and into the closest big city: Phoenix, Arizona. Once she arrived, she was able to find an abandoned building to set up in, making it her new home. Her powers got her the food and clothes she needed, as well as the knowledge that she was missing in school due to not attending. In short, she learned how to cook, do laundry, read, write, do math, and so much more just by reading people's minds and memorizing certain things that they knew how to do, so that she was taking care of herself completely by the age of six.

And while she would use her powers to get something that she didn't necessarily need sometimes, she also made sure that she wasn't just using it to be selfish. Several times, she used her power to get a couple of donations made to the local soup kitchen or clothes closet. It was nice to do good for people, though she would never think of letting people know about who she actually was and that she was responsible for the good deeds. Not only would it be awkward as heck, it would also ruin her hiding and result in her getting sent back to the orphanage. And there was no way in heck that she was going back there.

Everything was pretty much the same up until she received a letter from Holt's Academy of Intellectual Excellence, which she had never heard of nor thought of applying to. Unfortunately, they seemed to know that she had blown them off because another letter came shortly. After the third letter, however, they sent two women in police uniforms instead. Now, they wouldn't normally be a problem with her powers, but they had somehow managed to drug her just enough with sedatives that her mind was too fuzzy to reach out. Sure, she could hear everything they were thinking, and some of it was downright disgusting, but she couldn't actually touch their minds. And so she found herself in a car on her way to the Academy, which was located in the middle of Minnesota near a medium-sized town.

[b]Other: [/b]
Has a strong tendency to wear colorful, mis-matched socks. She really just likes how they look.
Wears shoes with Velcro straps all the time. Not only are they easier to find, they are more colorful and easy to slip on.
Is ambidextrous and has awful handwriting regardless of which hand is used.
Is extremely ticklish. Seriously, a few minutes of tickling could result in her peeing herself.
She's allergic to all citrus fruits.
Can't sleep after watching horror movies. Also dislikes watching television due to receiving spoilers almost constantly.
Possesses agraphobia (fear of sexual abuse), androphobia (fear of men), haphephobia (fear of being touched), and gymnophobia (fear of being naked), all due to that awful incident when she was three.
Due to her fear of being naked, she usually wears something like a bodysuit under her regular clothes, out in public at least. Her fear doesn't just apply to when she's in pubic, however. It is admittedly less severe in private, but it is still enough to make her more comfortable wearing a bathing suit in the shower.
She loves animals because their thoughts are less straining to her than those of people. Also, she finds their simplicity and straightforwardness refreshing.[/center]