[hider=Keaton][color=#38547C][CENTER][h1][b]Keaton Plasse[/b][/h1][/CENTER] [table][row][/row][row][cell] [center][img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/9483d6678a443849e58018005c9ad79d/tumblr_p3hs3wnYJj1vgimtwo4_250.jpg[/img] [color=White][sup]_______________________________________________[/sup][/color] [sub]Keaton Rebecca Plasse [color=White][sup]_______________________________________________[/sup][/color] September 9th [color=White][b]|[/b][/color] 19 [color=White][b]|[/b][/color] Caucasian [color=White][sup]_______________________________________________[/sup][/color] Single [color=White][b]|[/b][/color] ♀ [color=White][b]|[/b][/color] Heterosexual [color=White][sup]_______________________________________________[/sup][/color] High School Diploma [color=White][b]|[/b][/color] Student: College Sophomore [color=White][sup]_______________________________________________[/sup][/color] Physical Profile[/sub] [color=White][sup]___________________________________[/sup][/color][/center][hider=] [sub][b]//Basics:[/b] [color=#38547C]• [b]Height[/b] |[/color] [color=White][i]5’4"[/i][/color] [color=#38547C]• [b]Weight[/b] |[/color] [color=White][i]125 lb[/i][/color] [color=#38547C]• [b]Build[/b] |[/color] [color=White][i]Slender Hourglass[/i][/color] [color=#38547C]• [b]Hair Colour[/b] |[/color] [color=White][i]Brown[/i][/color] [color=#38547C]• [b]Eye Colour[/b] | [color=White][i]Dark Brown[/i][/color][/COLOR][/sub] [/hider][CENTER][SUB]Miscellaneous Items[/sub] [color=White][sup]___________________________________[/sup][/color][/center][hider=] [sub][b]//Every Day Carry:[/b][/sub][indent][sub][COLOR=White]• [b]Backpack[/b] | [i]Keaton’s trusty blue bag is an oft-found item on her back and carries what she thinks she’ll need. This usually entails a notebook, a sketchbook, and a few pencils and erasers as well as her trusty fountain pen, which was an early birthday gift from her father before she went off to college. Though well-used, the pen maintains its reliability, and she’d consider it her lucky item if she bought into superstition.[/i][/COLOR][/sub] [sub][COLOR=White]• [b]Smartphone[/b] | [i]A must for today’s students, especially those away from home. Cell service in space might be dependent on the ship itself, but a pocket computer is a keeper computer, especially when it takes and stores all sorts of information so easily.[/i][/COLOR][/sub] [/indent][/hider] [/cell][cell][sub][b][u] A p p e a r a n c e D e t a i l s [/u][/b][/sub] [color=White][indent]Favoring a casual, practical sort of outfit, Keaton owns a fair amount of denim, and her go-to outfit consists of a pair of jeans and some color t-shirt, most likely a neutral or graphic print one. When it’s chilly, she pulls out a jean jacket, but otherwise she doesn’t have much by the way of coats, which she figures is a result of living in an environment that’s warm year-round. As for piercings, she has five, which is her version of pushing boundaries. First were two lobes, then two more after a year of college and thought, then a cartilage piercing after a few drinks and some encouragement from her friends. Regret, however, was not part of the equation, though sometimes Keaton wonders whether it should be. On the day to day, Keaton sticks with studs, maybe throwing on a necklace when she finds herself with some time in the morning. As she subscribes to the “too much makeup makes you look older” ideology, she sticks with a simple look that comes off as natural when not scrutinized. On her wrist is often an analog watch, and her nails are on the short, uneven side as a result of her picking at them. She’s been trying to get rid of the habit, but it always seems to creep back when she gets stressed, and recently she’s been pretty far from calm. [/indent][/color] [/cell][/row][/table][/color][color=#38547C][sub][b][u] P e r s o n a l i t y [/u][/b][/sub][/color] [INDENT][color=White]While Keaton was born a shy extrovert, the city she grew up in trained her up to have a spine and a mouth, and she’s now a mixed bag of traits. Though she’s a definite people person, having always liked company over silence, she also values her privacy and space, and the concept of too much company does exist for her. As much as she enjoys being around people, she has a hard time meeting and connecting with them, and as a result she prefers to stick with the friends she has. This has branded her as the reliable friend in the past since she’s often the first to lend an ear or shoulder when the occasion arises. She cares for those close to her, and, being a worrier, she tends to spend too much time dwelling on things past and future. This, along with the fact that she’s somewhat of a perfectionist, doesn’t help much with staying calm. Having lived a life where she’s able to stay largely in control, it’s when things spiral out of control that Keaton starts getting anxious, and she can wind up being overly critical of both herself and others in such situations. Keaton’s also someone who believes that being truthful is the best policy. While this does make her come off as harsh, even a bit rude or uncaring at times, she doesn’t shy away from telling it like it is, especially to friends and family. In the bustling city where she grew up, confidence was a must, and Keaton learned to supplement what she lacked with brute honesty and a poker face. In a similar vein, she’s not one to cut others too much slack if they go wrong, mostly because she wouldn't cut herself much slack either, and she does her best to hold true to her standards and beliefs. Call her a stiff, but she feels comfortable with the person she is. To strangers, Keaton often comes off as a bit quiet, though she’s assertive enough when she speaks. Her authoritative voice is a trained one that still needs refinement, but it does the job well enough for now. Though she tends towards holding strangers at arm’s length with a warm smile, she’s developed a strong personality over the years, and she’s not afraid to hold her ground if she thinks she’s right. And, as a result of her often being correct, she’s developed a bit of a stubborn streak to back it all up. As such, though she’s a reasonable person, she’s also not the most agreeable if opinions differ. [/color][/indent] [color=#38547C][sub][b][u] C h a r a c t e r S y n o p s i s [/u][/b][/sub] [color=White][indent] Born and raised by a single father in sunny Los Angeles, Keaton went through almost the entirety of the public school track without realizing anything was amiss. After all, apart from lacking a mother and having to stop by a secondhand store every now and then, there wasn’t too much to differentiate her from her peers. The colorful spectrum of the large city left lots of room for her to find her niche, and she made a small group of close friends to whom she was known to be “clever and often correct.” From there, she flitted around, exploring the options available to her until she settled down with an interest in art. A few years experimenting in different mediums saw her tend towards sketching, and eventually her natural talent at replicating and expanding upon existing environments and the structures they held led her to fall in love with architecture, which seemed to come naturally to a girl who had an inexplicable way of knowing what would stand and what wouldn’t. With her decent grades, Keaton moved easily into community college, transferring into a four-year institution her second year. It was around this time that Keaton first realized that perhaps the ease at which she worked with concepts so difficult for others was unnatural. In her classes, a good design needed calculations and proofs that the structure would hold up under its material weight, but Keaton could forego all the math and work on instinct alone. Unlike her peers who designed and redesigned after painstakingly calculating and mapping out every meter, Keaton never trashed a design, instead operating on a gut feeling that never failed her, never sent her trashing a sketch because the math didn’t add up. Realizing that what she’d always thought of as practiced aptitude was, in reality, perhaps the manifestation of a subtle power was jarring, to say the least. She did her best to go on as if nothing was different, as if no major realization about herself was now causing her to doubt every thought she had and action she took, and she lasted all of two months before she finally broke down and called home, hoping to confide in her father. One call was all it took for her to tell her father, and one hour was all it took for people in uniforms to show up at her door. [/indent][/color] [sub][b][u] A b i l i t i e s & S k i l l s [/u][/b][/sub] [INDENT][sub][b]//Abilities:[/b][/sub] [INDENT][COLOR=White][b][i]Superhuman Ability[/i][/b] | [i]Intuitive Certainty[/i] [indent]There’s intuition, and then there’s Keaton’s brand of intuition. “Large logical leaps” would be the easiest way to describe it, but her stream of reasoning is often more like bounding through guesses with blind certainty that’s anything but blind. She intuitively knows which answers are right and wrong based on a gut feeling driven by her power. This comes as a strong hunch that she’s correct, and Keaton has learned to trust such hunches. In this way, her power lends her a Sherlock Holmes level of deduction, and though she doesn’t have the database of knowledge to back it up, she still connects dots with supernatural ease, knowing exactly when she’s correctly deduced something. Instead of thinking something seems likely, Keaton is able to conclude that her assumption is true when she has enough of a foundation to back up her guesses. For most of her life, Keaton has used this part of her power almost automatically, subconsciously tapping into it to allow her to go about daily life knowing instead of guessing at small things. When she focuses her power, though, she’s able to slightly stretch their limits by forcing a connection between fewer points of information. In addition, actively tapping into her power enables her to stack her intuitive answers, basing one off another if they are well-connected enough, and it also allows her to act as a rudimentary lie detector. Since her power tells her if something she guesses at is correct, if she’s unable to feel a hunch, that means that either her guess was wrong or she lacks sufficient information. While she always needs some form of proof to base her answers on, body language and facial expressions can be enough for her to attempt to tap into her power to read a situation, and at times it can be enough to check for lies as well. [/indent][/COLOR] [COLOR=White][b][i]Limitations[/i][/b] | [i]Knowledge and Energy Requirements[/i] [indent]Keaton’s power is limited by her knowledge. That is, if she doesn’t understand or know how a black hole works, no number of science fiction theories will allow her to guess at how it works. While she’s able to consider possibilities like any other person, her power requires a minimum amount of facts to support the new facts it arrives at. Because of this, Keaton is required to be able to call to mind the knowledge she’s drawing upon, which means that her power is also limited by her memory. And, since her memory is at best a sharper level of normal, she usually relies on getting and working off new information rather than trying to draw from what she knows. Thus, her power is most effective when she’s being fed information to processes on the spot. Though Keaton can sidestep some knowledge requirements by actively tapping into her power, she’s forced to expend a lot more energy this way since whatever doesn’t come naturally probably isn’t going to come easily either. Overuse of her power causes headaches and general nausea for her, which are usually temporary but can become more severe if she keeps going. Abusing her power can lead to permanent damage in the form of fried nerves, but her power will likely shut down or become nearly ineffective long before that happens. [/indent][/COLOR] [COLOR=White][b][i]Weaknesses[/i][/b] | [i]Deceivable, Human[/i] [indent]Certainty is the biggest strength of Keaton’s power, but it can also be her greatest weakness. Her power draws logical conclusions based on existing proof, but if her proof is purposely misleading or wrong, she has no way of knowing. That is, her power provides confirmation, not context. If there is no answer, her power doesn’t work, but if the answer is vague or both yes and no, her power can lead her to a faulty conclusion. For example, if there are two murderers responsible for one victim but Keaton is unaware of this, she may posit that one of them is responsible but will have no way of knowing that there is a second murderer unless she has more facts with which to consider the possibility. Because of this, it’s possible to purposely manipulate and use her power against her since though her power can’t lie to her, it tends to count all grey area answers as correct. If Keaton chooses to stack her answers with a faulty one, she can be led down the wrong road or reach a dead-end where her power is unable to function. And, since her power doesn’t tell her whether it’s unable to proceed due to a lack of information or due to the assumption being false, she can easily be led to believe the latter is true. Other than her power, Keaton is no different from any other human. She is as easily wounded as the next unsuspecting individual on the street, so other than some fancy dodge tactics or brain games, she doesn’t have much up her sleeves in terms of combat. [/indent][/COLOR][/INDENT] [sub][b]//Skills:[/b][/sub][COLOR=White] [list][*][COLOR=White][b][i]Sketch Artist[/i][/b] | Like many of her peers, Keaton was interested in art long before she discovered her interest in architecture. As a bit of a purist, she prefers pen and pencil over other mediums, and as a result she’s often found with a sketchbook, taking pictures for future reference when paper is not immediately available. Though this hobby has been helpful for her aspirations, she’s put little time into it ever since college started, and she forgets whether she misses it or is just nostalgic about it. Nowadays, her sketchbook is mostly utilized for design-based sketches rather than creative ones.[/COLOR][/list] [list][*][COLOR=White][b][i]Conversationalist[/i][/b] | With her powers and a father in the business of event planning, Keaton naturally got involved, and she’s quite familiar with talking, persuading, and negotiating with people of all sorts. It helps that her power clues her into the silver linings and unspoken wants very quickly, and as a result Keaton can be called gifted at making small talk.[/COLOR][/list] [list][*][COLOR=White][b][i]Natural Improviser[/i][/b] | Having practice using her power in conversations to read and understand her audience also makes Keaton a skillful story-spinner. Fibber. Excuse-finder. Whatever the term and connotations that come with it, Keaton’s good at making things up for people, and she’s had lots of practice doing it. While she doesn’t enjoy lying, she has done it before, and she’s pretty damn good at it.[/COLOR][/list] [list][*][COLOR=White][b][i]Quick Study[/i][/b] | Being highly intuitive and almost always correct in her intuitions means that Keaton catches onto most things pretty quickly. Though the extent of her abilities are limited by a lack of prior knowledge, in events when she’s given and able to retain the necessary knowledge, she can be incredibly fast at picking up new skills.[/COLOR][/list] [list][*][COLOR=White][b][i]Basic Architectural Knowledge[/i][/b] | A short-lived college career in architecture has taught Keaton some basics about architecture, to say the least. It’s not much, but when supplemented by her power, she’s been able to get by well enough.[/COLOR] [/list][/COLOR][/INDENT] [sub][b][u] O T H E R [/u][/b][/sub] [color=White][indent]N/A[/INDENT][/COLOR][/color] [/hider]