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[center][h1][b]Abigail Harlow[/b][/h1]
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[i]"Weird flex, but ok."[/i]
[h3][ [b]16[/b]     |     [b]5’3[/b]     |     [b]Caucasian[/b]     |     [b]She/Her[/b]     |     [b]102lbs[/b] ][/h3]
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[h3][u][b]   APPEARANCE       [/b][/u][/h3]
[i]"Could be worse, right?"[/i]

[indent][indent]She's short and lanky, with knobbly joints, an upturned nose and snaggly teeth. Often has a spot or two on her face. Dark blonde greasy hair which she either wears loose, covers with an equally greasy baseball cap or ties up into an unappealingly tight ponytail. She wears thrift shop fashion or sports gear. Often smells of teenage BO and cheap deodorant. On her tongue is a black tattoo, resembling an oval with ornate patterns surrounding its edge.
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[h3][u][b]    PSYCHOLOGY       [/b][/u][/h3]
[i]"Look, I’m trying my best."[/i]

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[b]MAIN GOAL  ⫻[/b] Financial Independence.

[b]PHILOSOPHY  ⫻[/b] That everything’s going a bit too fast all at once, but she has to prove to herself and the people around her that she’s got the integrity and gumption to separate herself from her biological parents.

[b]SECRETS  ⫻[/b] Most of the time, the name and location of her biological mother. She’s still in contact with her mother but that’s only to keep her away from her.

[b]SEXUALITY  ⫻[/b] Asexual/Aromantic.

[b]FEARS  ⫻[/b] Failure. There’s a lot riding on her grades. She’s two years from aging out of the system and from there on, she’s basically on her own.

[b]REPUTATION  ⫻[/b] Abigail is a silent presence in the city’s community. She switches up her study locations with frequency and is often outdoors with her books or plodding behind a group of teens with the half-hearted interest of someone who’d rather be somewhere else. It’s likely that people have seen her before once or twice, but unlikely that she’s said or done anything to really stick. Certain 24hr cafés, the city library staff and the faculty of the local high school are the most likely to know her by name and have seen her regularly enough.

[b]QUIRKS  ⫻[/b] She chews her nails. As in, [i]really[/i] chows down on those suckers. It’s a nervous tic that shines through when she’s stressed and her fingers are all frayed and scabby from it.

[b]FLAWS  ⫻[/b] Abigail is extremely mistrustful of women. She struggles to make proper relationships with other people, with her attempts at getting to know someone either fuelled by an ulterior motive or a nagging feeling she ought to be trying. This ends up with her lingering around too long or using people for her benefit.

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[h3][u][b]   BACKSTORY      [/b][/u][/h3]
[i]"At the end of the day, I think everything's turning out okay."[/i]

[indent][indent]Abigail started off life as a bright and inquisitive young girl in a very stressed household. She used to be from Missouri but her parents were going through a rough patch in their marriage that was, in part, spurred on by the fact her father didn’t really want kids and Abigail was an accident. There were other factors at play that she wasn’t made aware of, but unfortunately that little tidbit of information stuck and shaped who she thought she was from there on out. Her parents divorced when she was quite young with her mother moving to Pennsylvania in order to get away from all the scandal surrounding it as well as giving herself a new start. There, Abigail started to really invest in school as a means of distracting herself from her turbulent childhood. She was sharp, intelligent and driven by a need for escapism. It played out in her advantage and formed a coping mechanism that, whilst unhealthy, could have turned a lot worse. It was here that her nail-biting habit began.

Abigail was eventually taken from her mother by CPS and put into a state-funded foster scheme from age 8. What had started as a positive start quickly devolved into the stresses and quiet terrors of being a single mother estranged from her own family, which then manifested in meth addiction. CPS got involved after Abigail’s obsession with school suddenly turned into apathy and the signs of neglect became increasingly apparent. This was also around the time of her awakening, though it went largely unnoticed in all of the chaos. Her mother did not take the split well at all, and made frequent attempts to ‘get her baby back’, which resulted in three separate foster home changes until Abigail landed in Araminta. Attempts to get her father to adopt her were unsuccessful; she found out that he voluntarily terminated his parental rights a few years after the divorce to allow her mother to find a new partner and make a new family. He had no interest or desire to take her in but worked with her foster carers to terminate the parental rights of his ex-wife. Aside from the odd text message or letter, and yearly allowances to build up a savings account for the girl to live off of when she ages out of the system, Abigail doesn’t have a fatherly relationship with him anymore. As for her mother, Abigail does talk to her frequently but never discloses any personal information to avoid any more ‘rescue attempts’. The court proceedings finished when she was around 14, meaning that for the past two years she has been a ward of the state. 

Abigail’s awakening and subsequent abstraction came from the trauma of her early childhood. At first she thought she was incredibly good at impersonating her mother’s voice once she was separated from her, but then found she could take on her appearance after a very awkward shower. Even at a young age she realised this was something that, under any circumstance, must be kept a secret, but she’s used it to find out where her mom was. She’s only experimented with it a few times a year using foster kids or people she hung out with, learning to copy their habits and voices with extra-normal precision. She’s impersonated her fellow foster-siblings once or twice to get away with breaking house rules but puts a lot of planning and preparation into the use of it to prevent detection. Since it’s a skill that needs to be activated, she’s pretty much ignored it unless she had a spare moment and the inclination to experiment.

Socially, Abigail’s stints in foster homes have alienated her from healthy relationships. The constant looming threat of her addict mother hunting her down forced Abigail to be distant with her peers and legal guardians, half-expecting the need to move again. Her mother’s unpredictable behaviour has mixed with Abigail’s teenage hormones to mistakenly give her the impression that all women were hysterical, emotional and unpredictable - herself included. The sense of abandonment from her father hit her self-esteem, turning her into a reserved ‘background-presence’ in most of the friend groups she tagged along with. Furthermore, her obsession with passing her classes and excelling in her education has barred her from plenty of parties and opportunities to get to know her peers properly. Now that she’s feeling the sudden pressure of aging out of the foster system, Abigail is trying to build up a support network to catch her financially as she gains independence but lacks the sincerity and emotional connections to really make it work. She’s taken to observing the people she wants to connect with and making concerted efforts to please them, which comes off as forced or unnerving. The stress of it is compounded on top of her academia and fretful home life, so she often takes her things outside to find a place to disconnect and work by herself.

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[h3][u][b]   SKILLS & TALENTS      [/b][/u][/h3]
[i]"I think I’m pretty good at watching from afar."[/i]

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[b]Academic  ⫻[/b] Abigail’s got the self-discipline required to study, the intelligence to quickly grasp unknown concepts, and the drive to succeed. She also retains a lot of information and can be organised when she needs to be.

[b]Athletic  ⫻[/b] One of Abigail’s other coping mechanisms (and perhaps one of her favourite hobbies) is jogging and working out, but the lack of available equipment has impeded her progress. She does a lot of body weight exercises to make up for it.

[b]Fleet-footed  ⫻[/b] Abigail learnt from a very early age to be neither seen nor heard, and she uses these skills to keep herself out of the way from other people.

[b]People-Watcher  ⫻[/b] Abigail learnt very quickly how to watch people for subtler body language, emotional cues, nervous tics and anything that might betray their attitude towards her. Since her mother’s mood was unpredictable and abusive, and her litany of legal guardians afterwards didn’t disclose much information to her, Abigail has learnt to watch for these unspoken truths and turn them to her advantage.

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[h3][u][b]    ABSTRACTION     [/b][/u][/h3]
[i]"Nobody needs to know."[/i]

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[b]TYPE  ⫻[/b] Awakened

[b]ABSTRACTION  ⫻[/b] Mimickry

[b]ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION  ⫻[/b] Abigail can morph her body into a precise replica of another human being. The accuracy of this replication depends on how much time she’s had to study her target;  the absolute minimum is a brief glimpse of them in a gas station or a photo of them in a book to get the physical appearance down precisely, but without any knowledge of their voice, body language or demeanor the facade can be seen through quite quickly. The longer she spends time with people, the more accurate her impersonations get; part of her abstraction heightens her ability to pick up on and replicate other people’s behavior. She cannot, however, change her clothes or aura.

[i]Partial Mimickry:[/i] A less taxing but more complex facet of her abstraction is Abigail’s ability to change some parts of her body to replicate another person’s, but it’s restricted exclusively to studied facets of the person. For example, if given a recording of another person that she can listen to over and over, she can replicate their vocal chords only. If she’s given time to examine a body part such as one’s fingertips, she can change her own to match theirs.

[b]AURA SENSING  ⫻[/b] Abigail can sense the aura of the person she is copying, extra-normal or otherwise. This reading can reach incredible distances but the shape and precision of it is vague, more of an indistinct humanoid blob that Abigail can constantly detect. 

[b]LIMITS  ⫻[/b] Because Abigail cannot change her aura or clothes, certain Abstractions will completely bypass her disguise. Other than that her abstraction has no limits and she can maintain a disguise for hours.

[b]WEAKNESSES  ⫻[/b] Because of the lower-powered nature of the abstraction it has no weaknesses. However, it comes with an identity loss side-effect; the longer Abigail stays in one form the more these people's features will start to appear on her true self. It'll start with her nose changing a bit to her skin color completely changing. And she could even end up a different gender. The only way to off-set this is not to use her abstraction.

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[h3][u][b]   OTHER      [/b][/u][/h3]
[i]"I wouldn’t really...bother with them, if I were you."[/i]

[indent][indent]Abigail’s foster family is one of the largest ones in the city. Her caretakers, Joseph and Tyler Rhodes, look after five other kids including her. Two of these are juvenile offenders and one has recently gone missing after the Horde attacks, meaning that Abigail’s fallen under the radar.[/indent][/indent]

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[table=bordered][row][cell]Character name[/cell] [cell][i]Opinion[/i][/cell][/row]

[row][cell]Tyler Rhodes[/cell][cell][i]”She’s a nice lady, but I don’t think she’s cut out for the foster life. It feels like she pushed her husband into taking in too many kids and now she’s dealing with the consequences.”[/i][/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Joseph Rhodes[/cell][cell][i]“I rarely see him these days. He’s sort of the bread-winner in this house, so I try to avoid asking for too much especially since he’s getting the boys out of jail.”[/i][/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Isaac Toussaint[/cell][cell][i]“Jesus. I get why he does it, but I really don’t like him. He takes his anger out on me and Oliver if he gets the chance.”[/i][/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Oliver Lambern[/cell][cell][i]“I like to help him out with schoolwork but he’s so obsessed with making himself look cool that it’s hard to talk to him.”[/i][/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Emily Privett[/cell][cell][i]“She was a new arrival. I think she’s pulled a runner, but I hope she’s doing okay.”[/i][/cell][/row]
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[hider=Joseph Rhodes][center]

[b][47 | Joseph Rhodes | Male][/b]

[b]Description:[/b]
A worn-out agnostic banker looking to make a difference in the world by rearing up foster children. Tends to take on the older ones, but with it comes a slew of problems. Two of his wards, Isaac and Oliver, have been caught in possession of narcotics and are going through legal proceedings with him which is putting a strain on his finances. He's distraught about the missing Emily, only twelve, who disappeared shortly after The Horde began attacking.

[b]Extra-Normal Ability:[/B]
N/A

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[hider=Tyler Rhodes][center]

[b][44 | Tyler Rhodes | Female][/b]

[b]Description:[/b]
Stay-at-home ‘mom’ for six foster children. She’s doing her best to hold together the family but the emotional strain of being rejected by Isaac, ‘failing’ to keep Oliver from the mounting drug crisis in the city and losing track of Emily is starting to make her reconsider the fostering business - if she’s even going to be allowed to look after kids once they find the girl.

[b]Extra-Normal Ability:[/B]
N/A

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[hider=Isaac Toussaint][center]

[b][15 | Isaac Toussaint | Male][/b]

[b]Description:[/b]
A disillusioned young boy who was put into the foster system three years ago after withstanding an abusive household. Has turned to weed and selling drugs as both a coping mechanism and a way to make money before he ages out of the system, though he’s recently been caught with possession of marajuana and is going through the court proceedings for it.

[b]Extra-Normal Ability:[/B]
N/A

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[hider=Oliver Lambern][center]

[b][15 | Oliver Lambern | Male][/b]

[b]Description:[/b]
A shy young boy who wanted to fit in and make friends in his new foster home. Ended up hanging out with the wrong people and being in the wrong place at the wrong time, which has roped him into possession of marajuana charges. He’s extremely fearful of how this will impact his future careers.

[b]Extra-Normal Ability:[/B]
N/A

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[hider=Emily Privett][center]

[b][12 | Emily Privett | Female][/b]

[b]Description:[/b]
Given up for adoption as a baby, Emily’s grown in foster homes. She recently moved into the Rhodes household but within a month or two, suddenly disappeared without a trace.

[b]Extra-Normal Ability:[/B]
N/A

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