[quote][color=silver][b]◼   W E E K   0 0 1:[/b][/color] [I]The world of Crestwood shows Hyperhuamns as being possibly one of the most oppressed races in history, they're unable to hold positions of authority nor able to use their gifts without fear of punishment. How does this affect your character and their relationship with society both as a whole and within the confines of a highschool social heirarchy? How has discovering that they are a Hyperhuman changed their worldview?[/I][/quote]

While some found the abrupt manifestation of their powers detrimental to the livelihood of themselves and others, Benjamin found quite the opposite. In fact, he not only was unaware that his power was actually a power during its initial manifestation, but it actually brought him a great deal of solace. A blessing if you will. What he had believed to be nothing but a dream, or perhaps the residual energy of his father reaching out to him, he did not shy away from that first night that he astral projected to his father's grave. Under the moonlight, he'd speak to him and cry, and relinquish all the emotions he had kept stifled and repressed throughout those weary days. 

And then he moved. And the one thing in this world that had brought him peace, hope, and some semblance of comfort, had suddenly been stripped away from him. Maybe it was the distance. Or perhaps it was some other force driving a wedge between. Either way, he soon realized that he was no longer able to visit his father every night. And his power was no longer a blessing. It'd had felt like such a lie. Ephemeral visitations he was no longer given access to. And for what?

[color=FFDEAD]Why?[/color]

His existence was exactly what society was trying to tell him all along. It didn't matter that he had a mother that loved him and brothers that stood up for him. His power was nothing more than a nuisance. An abnormality in the grand design of humanity. 

[i][color=FFDEAD]Why did I have to be this way?[/color][/i] he often wondered. Not that it'd do him any good anyways. Even if he were to find some kind of acceptable philosophy, would it matter? He knows the science behind his mutation, but the knowledge does little. Though maybe a day will come when they can eventually remove the Hype-gene. That curse of a chromosome. What it'd be like to be normal again. It's hard enough being a teenager. And yet, the most frustrating part of it all isn't that he has this power. It's that non-hyperhumans have no idea how good they have it. Being simple. Being normal. To live just by living. They say our powers are an aberration. And they're right. They were always right.

Take it then! Take it away. Take it far away...