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[h2]Jennifer Briggs[/h2]
[h3]Basics[/h3]
[b]Name:[/b] Jennifer Briggs
[b]Age:[/b] 20
[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Height/Weight:[/b] 176cm/66kg
[b](Former) Occupation:[/b] Student (Media and Communications)
[b]Appearance:[/b]
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[center][h3] Biography[/h3]
Born in Queens, New York City, one would be hard pressed to think of Jenny's childhood as anything unique or special. Her family were lower middle class, with her father a sanitation worker and her mother a teacher. Although studious and with an excellent work ethic, most of her life went by unremarkably. Even the first Violet Dawn swept by, with Jenny, much like the rest of the world, thinking it a tragic disaster and little else. Then, however, came the second wave. Most people's view on the second wave was much the same as the first, but Jenny was placed in a unique position- one of her best friends Awoke in the Second Wave.

She only spoke to her briefly over the phone, and the next day she found that her friend had died. Or, well, they [b]assumed[/b] she had died, since a body was never found. Devastated, Jenny found herself astonished by the official narrative that these early generation mages were all unstable forces of destruction- after all, she had known one, and she had even spoken to one before her death. How dare they make these assumptions of innocent people?

Still, it took until the third wave for her feelings to truly harden. Early reports of the FOE and the third round of martial law struck at her sensibilities too much to ignore. The secrecy, the treating of mages like they were no longer people... All of it seemed so wrong, like a stifling of a unique and wonderful thing that had come into the world. Perhaps it was ludicrous of her to become so invested in magic whilst still a mundane, but she started to dig into the news about the Violet Wave and the people affected by it, sifting through the conspiracy theories and government sponsored coverup news in order to find the truth.

Slowly but surely, she began to uncover the few individuals brave, sane and clever enough to provide accurate and hard-hitting reporting. Journalists, both hard hitting reporters and mainstream sources that moved out of lockstep with what the government were saying, became a lifeline into a world she was prevented from learning about. She wanted to add her voice to this chorus, and her academic achievements were good enough to earn her a scholarship to Columbia as a media and communications major.
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[h3]Skills and Weaknesses[/h3]
[b]Skills:[/b]
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[*] [b]Play Hard, Work Harder:[/b] Jenny's often been put down in sentences along with words like 'studious,' 'driven,' and 'motivated.' She has an excellent work ethic, and can keep herself slugging away at a task past the point where most people would have called it a day.
[*] [b]Well-Read:[/b] Jenny is a font of general knowledge and esoteric titbits gained from reading through newspaper archives and listening to radio broadcasts. This allows her to have a firm, if very non-specific grounding in most subjects.
[*] [b]Tech Savvy:[/b] Jenny is a media and communications major (or, was studying to be one, anyway) with aspirations to become a field journalist. She knows the ins and outs of laptops, cameras, phones both smart and dumb and many other common consumer electronics. Alas, anything mechanical escapes her however.
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[b]Weaknesses:[/b]
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[*] [b]Magical Fascination:[/b] The first Violet Dawn seized Jenny with delight and wonder, rather than fear and trepidation. To her, magic is a fantastical, wonderful thing. This, of course, [b]can[/b] be a good thing, but the histories tell of mages losing themselves to their obsessions.
[*] [b]Little Miss Sticks-Her-Nose In:[/b] Jenny can't help it; she just wants to know [b]more[/b]. She'll pursue angles without very much tact or stick her schnozz in where it doesn't belong, just because she wants to hear more, learn more, know more about this new world she's been thrust into.
[*] [b]Only A Lass:[/b] Jenny's 20 years old and has only spent two years away from home. As confident as any young adult is about forging a path for themselves, there's a lot of basic practical knowledge she lacks.
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[b]Spells:[/b]
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[*] Playback (Black): As long as Jenny can remember it, she has the ability to pluck conversations and sounds out of her head and broadcast them as audio everyone can hear. Just like a real recording, it comes with background noise included, and lacks any visual functionalities.
[*] Feedback (Black): Jenny's premiere self-defence spell. When sufficiently scared or flooded with adrenaline, she can cause people to come under a series of effects most comparable to mic feedback; ringing ears, blurred vision and a heavy, 'cottony' taste in the mouth. 
[*] Camera Trick (White): Jenny can project a visual manifestation, or, in simpler terms, an illusion. Currently she can't do anything bigger than a dog, and the lack of smell and structure will tip someone off should they witness it up close.
[*] Pick-Me-Up (Red): A handy little trick, a touch from Jenny can cause someone to draw on their internal energy reserves to provide them with a quick boost of alertness and awareness. Depending on the intensity requested, she can give someone the equivalent to a mild caffeine buzz or a serious shot of wakefulness, with a crash at the end equivalent to the intensity of the high. Because it draws on a person's own strength, those that are already tapped out will find it to be much less effective; possibly to the point of simply not working at all.
[*] Information Highway (Blue): By spending time with a device Jenny can pull any nonencrypted data from it. The more data she wants to pull, the more time it'll take, ranging from ten seconds for a surface level scan to an hour for a deep dive. As a side effect of this reading, any device she performs this on will be totally bricked, to the extent that not even a digital forensics team will be able to get anything from it.
[*] Interview Time (Black): Jenny can set up a 'link' between herself and one other individual that lasts for a very short period of time. Whilst this link is established neither her nor the linked individual can intentionally speak any falsehood, although they can decline to speak and they can give false information if they genuinely believe it to be the truth.
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