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[h1][b][color=Cadetblue]Ash Pierson[/color][/b][/h1]
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[color=Cadetblue][b]═══B A S I C O V E R V I E W═══[/b][/color]
[indent][sub][color=Cadetblue][b]NAME:[/b][/color] Ashley Elias Pierson |
[color=Cadetblue][b]NICKNAMES:[/b][/color] Ash |
[color=Cadetblue][b]AGE:[/b][/color] 22 |
[color=Cadetblue][b]ETHNICITY:[/b][/color]  Irish American|
[color=Cadetblue][b]PRONOUNS:[/b][/color] He/Him |
[color=Cadetblue][b]HEIGHT:[/b][/color] 6’0” |
[color=Cadetblue][b]WEIGHT:[/b][/color] 180lb |
[/sub][/indent][color=2e2c2c]....................................................................................................[/color][/cell][/row][/table][table][row][/row][row][cell][color=turquoise]Availible Files[/color][/cell][cell][color=turquoise]PHYSICAL EVALUATION
PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
POWER EVALUATION
OTHER INFORMATION[/color][/cell][/row][row][/row][/table]

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[color=Cadetblue][b][h3]═══P H Y S I C A L E V A L U A T I O N═══[/h3][/b][/color][i]"Weird how nailing the 'I woke up like this' vibe isn't quite the same thing as making everyone think you just woke up."[/i]
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[color=Cadetblue][b]▼ PHYSICAL APPEARANCE:[/b][/color]
[indent]Ash always looks as if he has just pulled off an all-nighter, his blue eyes glazed over with dark bags underneath them. Dark stubble lightly peppers his face, hinting at a beard that’d be too patchy to be worth growing out. His messy black hair is painstakingly styled to look like he couldn’t give a shit about grabbing a comb and smoothing out the bedhead. The symmetry of his angular face is offset by a hooked nose that is slightly crooked, courtesy of one of the many times Ash let his mouth run free. Ash speaks with a calm, low voice that quickly degrades into a mumble when around people he doesn’t fully trust. Ash is decently tall with a deceptively athletic and powerful build for someone who typically moves at a sloth’s pace, with long, toned limbs and a somewhat slim frame. He stands with a relaxed, open posture, often staring out into space as if his attention is somewhere else entirely.  [/indent]

[color=Cadetblue][b]▼ ATTIRE:[/b][/color]
[indent]He prefers to dress casually and favors the color black, typically wearing just a plain black tee, a dark pair of jeans, and some Chuck Taylor’s. The closest he gets to dressing up is throwing on a black button-up; anything fancier and he starts to squirm like a toddler being forced to dress up for Sunday service. Ash wears a black leather wrap bracelet on his left wrist and a black belt with silver studs, both well worn by time.[/indent][/indent][/hider][hider=Psychological Evaluation][color=turquoise]Accessing Psychological Evaluation
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[color=Cadetblue][b][h3]═══P S Y C H O L O G I C A L E V A L U A T I O N═══[/h3][/b][/color][i]"You don’t have to be a good person, but if you aren’t you need to stay out of the way."[/i]
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[color=Cadetblue][b]▼ PERSONALITY:[/b][/color]
[indent]On first impression, Ash seems like a cool, level-headed guy incapable of getting phased by anything let alone giving a shit about it. Laidback and easy going, Ash would falsely identify himself as an introvert. While he’s a bit quiet he actually prefers being around other people—especially if those people are loud, bright, or vibrant—and is quick to engage someone in a conversation. He doesn’t take many things very seriously, can be a bit of a harmless prankster, and even when he’s trying to be supportive he finds it difficult not to crack a joke to ease the tension. His overall demeanor is quite cavalier and chill, which might be what makes it so jarring when people see Ash lose his cool for the first time.

Anger doesn’t visit Ash quickly, but when it does it overstays its welcome. A firm believer in treating others how you want to be treated, Ash doubles down on the unsaid threat hiding behind the shine of the Golden Rule. Basically, if someone is acting like an asshole, Ash is going to show them what it’s like dealing with a real asshole. He intervenes without prompt, quick to challenge anyone who is being unnecessarily rude, violent, or abusive like he’s a champion of justice...or like he’s just any basic decent person who are unable to pretend like they didn't see something. Frustratingly for many, he also calls out people for minor offenses, startings fights over slights that most people would roll their eyes at, mumble under their breath, and move on—things like cutting in front of others to join their friends in line, or parking in two spots, or not knowing what they wanted on their burrito when they got to the front of the queue.

Basically, he's just confrontational. Ash’s more of a troublemaker than he is the social hero he attempts to be, but fortunately he’s able to recognize this as long as one of his friends are around to tell him he’s being the bigger asshole by escalating. Ash doesn’t want to be a burden on them, so he will drop something if they speak up. Unless he’s dealing with an authority figure. Then even the  sincerest of pleas to just let it go fall on deaf ears. Ash is highly suspicious of anyone who’d want to put themselves in a position of power, questions their intentions openly, and is hyper critical in his judgment of them. He rigidly believes that it isn’t just limited to the absolute: any form of power will begin to corrupt a person as long as they aren’t kept in check, although keeping a person in check itself gives an individual power. Really, he just doesn't like being told what to do.

Ash values honesty and transparency above all else, finding the harsh truth to be kinder and more comforting than trying to protect someone’s feelings through white lies. In fact, he finds it exceptionally difficult to tell a lie and gets visibly uncomfortable when someone else doesn’t tell the truth. He’ll attempt not to expose the lie if someone has entrusted him with a secret, but it’s clear by looking at his face that he’ll feel guilty the entire time.
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[color=Cadetblue][b]▼ SKILLS/TALENTS:[/b][/color]
[indent]As the son of an instructor with her own studio, Ash is actually quite a talented dancer seeing as how he has attended class since he was five. Trained both in classical and modern styles, dancing has made him strong, flexible, and a smash hit at weddings. Inadvertently, dancing has also made Ash better in a scrap by making him more agile and light on his feet. Considering how many fights his mouth has gotten him in over the years, he’s started taking Muay Thai classes to better defend himself. He’s still an amateur, but being an amateur is better than being totally defenseless.

Ash is also a damn good cook, specifically when it comes to baking treats or grilling out. He actually learned how to bake while being volunteered to help keep the Academy’s cafeteria clean after he (accidentally) caused a food fight.

Ash is an avid reader who crushes through books regularly, focusing more and more on nonfiction and philosophy as he has gotten older. Calling himself the best read dumb person he knows, Ash freely admits that his retention is garbage and as a student his grades barely coasted along the passable line.

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[color=Cadetblue][b][h3]═══B A C K G R O U N D D A T A═══[/h3][/b][/color][i]“You know, people go on trips to forget these kind of things and have fun. The future will be there sucking when I get back."[/i]
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[color=Cadetblue][b]▼ BACKSTORY:[/b][/color]
[indent] Ash never had a choice. He was always part of the system. Even if he never developed powers he was considered a person of interest by FAMA. He had his dad to blame for that. He never met the man in his life, but where he is now can be directly linked to the man who sired him. It’s almost kind of funny considering how much his dad would hate it.

Maria and Stephen Pierson, Ash’s adopted parents, had always been upfront about his father. Ash knew the man was a Deltahuman named Jackson Stone who’d gone by the callsign Far Out Man whose power made it impossible for anything in the world to be out of his reach. He knew he’d worked for ALBATROSS and had stolen Delta-Crystals to sell on the blackmarket on the side for years. He knew that his father had only been caught because his birth mother Tiffany had reported him to the authorities after catching him exposing a baby Ash to a Delta-Crystal. He knew that his father was responsible for his mother’s death and that he was never, ever going to be released from prison.

So the first time Ash got a note from his birth father that simply said, “They are lying to you. Love, Dad” he thought it was some kind of sick prank pulled on him by one of his friends. Once lunchroom brawl and a phone call to his mother from the principal later and Ash was pulled from the tenth grade and taken to a FAMA blacksite where his adopted father worked. It was during the car ride that Ash felt a sharp pain in his neck. Reaching up, he found a syringe jammed into his jugular. He passed out almost immediately after touching the syringe. He was told later that it had been a power serum.

When he came to, Ash was informed by Stephen that his birth father had been broken out of prison. Ash and his adopted mom were kept under a protection program for nearly a year. During that time, Ash was harassed daily with notes from his birth father, all of them spinning elaborate conspiracies against FAMA and the government and totting Pro-Deltahuman propaganda. He heard things like how he hadn’t been adopted, he’d been stolen. He was told things like how FAMA killed his birth mother and pinned the murder on his “real” dad. The notes were always one sentence and always signed Love, Dad. The serum also seemed to take effect during this time, granting Ash the powers that his father always wanted him to have. The notes only stopped appearing after his father was neutralized by MAVERICK.

Ash was enrolled in the Academy program sometime after and he tried to make it his new normal, ignoring the hell his life had been over the last year. He made friends, finished up the high school education he’d missed, and learned how to control his powers. He kept information about who his dad had been underwraps. He was informed by his adopted father that he’d be immediately enrolled in FLETC the summer after his graduation from the Academy. However, he couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off. His suspicions were heightened between his second and third year at the Academy when a massive leak from BASILISK lined up with some of the conspiracy theories his father had been feeding him.

To this day Ash still isn’t sure what is and isn’t true about his family, but he's had enough questions go ignored by his parents that he cannot help but believe something is being covered up. He began phoning it in at the Academy, knowing that if he performed poorly he wouldn’t be accepted to FLETC. He started to refer to himself as a proud test tube Delta. He stopped hiding who his real dad was, hoping someone would come out of the woodwork and tell him what really happened, but so far all it has earned him is the ire of the Academy staff. After getting in a particularly bad fight with another student that ended up with both of them getting injured, the Academy staff figured that Ash had not properly been given the tools to cope with the trauma induced by the harassment caused by his dad.

He was forced to sign-up for a weekly, hour-long group therapy session for students whose parents were criminal Deltahumans. The teacher in charge of the sessions was Sean Rosier. As per usual, Ash challenged him on just about anything, but Mr. Rosier never showed a sign of annoyance and always answered the boy’s probes to the best of his ability. Ash soon grew to trust Sean Rosier, seeing him as one of the few people in any position of power that he could express his doubts to without being seen as a rabble rouser. Ash was only required to attend the sessions for three months, but he continued going to them until Mr. Rosier vanished.

Graduation came and went.  Ash packed for the cross-country trip he’d planned with his friends to, in his words, celebrate their escape from the system. The acceptance letter for an application he hadn’t submitted to FLETC arrived for him a few days before they left. He called his adopted dad, demanding to know what was going on. Stephen told Ash that he had to pull a few strings, but they were able to get a few incidents scrubbed from his permanent record that would’ve kept him from applying. He then said have a great summer and hung up before Ash had a chance to reply.

He wasn’t getting out of the system after all.
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[color=Cadetblue][b][h3]═══P O W E R E V A L U A T I O N═══[/h3][/b][/color][i]“I really don’t think any of you realize how much of a struggle it is for me to not just constantly be sticking people’s pants to their chairs."[/i]
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[color=Cadetblue][b]▼ CLASSIFICATION:[/b][/color]
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[color=Cadetblue][b]▼ POWER INFORMATION:[/b][/color]
[indent][color=Cadetblue][b]Unification & Separation ⫻[/b][/color]
Ash can instantly remove the space between two things and make them become one. Among many other things, cause shoes or tires to stick to concrete, put a phone on the wall and have it be held in place, break a bottle and attach all the glass to a baseball bat, or cause a computer to overheat by stopping the fan by binding the blades to the frame of the cooling unit. As long as something can feasibly touch another thing, Ash is able to bind them together. Once the space is removed the two items are permanently held together until Ash uses his powers to separate them. His power is only activated to unify or separate items, so he could feasibly use his ability to daisy chain a countless number of things together to create makeshift ladders, extension bridges, or those really abstract art sculptures found outside of modern museums as long as he took the time.

To unify two objects Ash must be able to see one of them and feasibly know that the other one exists. For example, he could unify a holster he could see to a gun he couldn’t because it made sense for there to be a gun in it, whereas he wouldn’t be able to unify a purse to the gun hiding inside of it unless he saw the person put the gun in it. However, Ash can only separate two unified objects by touching one of them. If he daisy chains multiple items together he’ll still have to separate each individual piece from the last one in the chain.

When unifying one thing that is in motion with another thing that isn’t then the thing that is in motion will always stop instantly, so a car will get stuck to the highway. If he unifies two things in motion then whichever item is moving fast will determine the direction and momentum, so a car going sixty unifying with a car going twenty as it is about to crash into the side of it will continue going sixty. With more complex constructs Ash can target either the whole, like the car, or an individual part, like the left front tire. [/indent]

[color=Cadetblue][b]▼ LIMITS:[/b][/color]
[indent]As previously mentioned, Ash must be able to see an object to use his power on it. However, it cannot be an object he witnesses on a screen, even if that screen is of a live feed with no delay. While he is able to rapidly unify pairs of objects together, he cannot affect all groups of pairs at once. His power instead follows a kind of work-order, averaging about one second per pair. His power is fairly low impact, but it isn’t infinite. He can keep a slow, steady pace up for hours, but a few moments of intense, rapid bursts could leave him tapped for several minutes. 

Objects he unifies together will still function the way they are intended if it is possible, so while the gun stuck in a holster couldn’t fire because the trigger couldn’t be accessed, the one inside of a purse could still shoot through the material. As well, objects don’t change their normal properties and they follow a logic. Putting a large, dense item like an anvil on top of a small, fragile item like a teacup will still cause the anvil to smash the teacup but still have the shards attached to it. Therefore, while Ash could theoretically create complex things like ladders, extension bridges, and abstract art sculptures they would still need to be structurally sound to actually hold up. 

Ash’s power cannot be used to remove the space between living things, although his power does push microorganisms out of the way. Things must be within less than an eighth of an inch of one another for Ash to unify them together. Any larger gaps make it impossible for his power to work.

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[color=Cadetblue][b]▼ WEAKNESSES:[/b][/color]
[indent]Be it mundane or fantastical, anything that limits or robs Ash of his sight ends almost all of his access to his power. The other fastest way to counter Ash’s power is by making items play keep away, either through some kind of telekinesis or other similar power, or even just by simply carrying an item with your hands.

As well, his power is extremely limited in natural environments, as even the sliver of a living thing getting between two items will make it impossible to be unified. Even his favorite trick of unifying shoes to the ground to trip people up doesn’t work well in nature because grass straight up stops it and dirt, pebbles, and sand get bound only a little bit at a time. If he is able to use his power, most unified objects can easily be broken apart or smashed to pieces. Their strength solely depends on the durability of that item. Fusing a door to its frame may secure a room, but if that door is wooden and there is a deltahuman with termite breath or a fire axe then Ash might as well not even bother.

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