[CHAR] The Coven of Briarwood Community College

[Laser Kiwi]

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Kalama Guynn

Kalama Guynn

Kalama Guynn {20F}

Stubborn ⚝ Passionate ⚝ Loyal

Pansexual ⚝ Sophomore Sociology Major ⚝ Part-time Barista at Poor Yorick’s Cafe

Song: Dark Water by Dragonborn

A future social worker, Kalama firmly believes that she can and will change the world some day. Though not the most gifted academically, she works hard for her grades and takes school seriously. Passionate about social justice and human rights, Kal wants to fix some of the broken things in the world starting with child advocacy.

She lives in a modest apartment across the street from campus, on the same block as popular student hangout Poor Yorick’s, where she picks up a shift most mornings before class and every other weekend.

Kalama is motivated strongly by doing the right thing and being loyal to those she loves, though she is also quick to pick a fight when she perceives injustice and responds harshly to betrayal. The Coven presents the opportunity for the family she’s always wanted, but also the risk of being backstabbed by the strangers she’s forced to trust.

Relationships:

• Caleb Walker: enemy. Kalama didn't know Caleb before she caught him and Daria together, so her only opinion of him is a very negative one. He was in Daria's car with her when Kal set fire to it, but he doesn't know that she is responsible.
• {NPC} Daria Mueller: ex. A dreamy theater girl, she and Kal became girlfriends in their senior year of high school. The breakup was bitter, as Kal caught Daria cheating on her with Caleb last month. Eleven days ago, Kal saw Caleb and Daria sitting together in her car and set it on fire. Daria was badly burned in the blaze, but so far Kal has not visited her at the hospital.
• Rowan Childe: Roommate. Kalama hasn't gotten to know Rowan very well yet, since things have been so busy since moving in. He made soup for the whole flat, which she really appreciated, but she's nervous about learning to cook a vegan dish to return the favor. She respects his lifestyle, but feels like he's judging her choices and thinks it might lead to a confrontation at some point.
• {Unfilled/NPC} Roommate Beta:
• {Unfilled/NPC} Roommate Gamma:
• {NPC} William Guynn: father. Accountant who lives in Briarwood, in a nice house on the other side of town. Texts Kal daily to check in on her, wishes she would visit more and learn to get along with Kathy.
• {NPC} Katherine Guynn: stepmother. Has two teenage daughters who live with her & Liam. She considers Kalama a bad influence; frequently tries to get her to go to church and tells her how pretty she would be if she just kept her hair and makeup more "neat".
• {NPC} Olivia Benoit: mother. Real estate agent who lives in Hawaii. Is terrible at returning calls and texts, but good at updating social media.
• {NPC, Deceased} Maude Benoit: grandmother. Lived in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Taught Kalama to cook, and had the same Knack for making it magically good. Died of a sudden stroke when Kal was living with her at the age of seventeen.

History:

Kalama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her early childhood was filled with fresh fruit, lots of time on the beach, and two loving parents who were trying hard to make it work. Unfortunately, their differences ultimately couldn’t be reconciled and William moved back to the mainland when Kalama was eight years old. In an attempt to make things fair, her parents agreed to split custody 50/50 - six months in Honolulu, then six months in Briarwood.
Unfortunately, moving around so much did not work out well for Kalama. Feeling unwanted and out of place no matter where she went, she struggled to make any lasting friendships or be accepted by her classmates. By thirteen she was in full-blown rebellion, taking off from school to smoke and drink. This hit a head when she was fifteen and her father got engaged. Two weeks later she got caught trespassing with a joint in her purse. After her community service finished, her parents packed her off to live with her grandmother in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
It was her grandmother’s influence, and the stability of her new life, that encouraged Kal to get her life back on track. It was her Grandma who taught her how to cook, stand up for herself & others, and the importance of community. Unfortunately, her good cooking caught up with her and Maude passed away after just under two years together, and Kalama went back to Briarwood to finish high school.
Her juvenile record was sealed when she was accepted to BCC, and even though she still smokes and drinks on occasion she’s more focused on her education and community activism than partying… at least until her Gift manifested so suddenly. Now she’s trying to figure out what’s going on with her body, testing her abilities nearly every night down by the river where she thinks nobody can see.

Magic:

Knack: Like her grandmother, Kalama’s cooking is mildly magical. Her gumbo can soothe a broken heart and a slice of her devil’s food cake could lead a pastor into temptation. It tastes good, but more importantly you can really feel the love that was put into it. Even her coffees seem unusually capable of brightening your day, and she has loyal customers who will specifically request that she makes their drink because they swear it’s better when it comes from her hands.

Gift: Kal is a Pyrokinetic, meaning she can create and feed a fire using only her mind. This Gift does not extend to extinguishing the fires nor does it protect her from them. Small uses, like lighting a candle or a cigarette, will give her a hot flash and maybe a small headache if she does several in a row, but large blazes will give her serious fevers and debilitating migraines. After she set Marcus's car on fire, she spent nearly 24 hours in bed with a serious migraine and fever.

[Kenshi]

BEN WARD

Ben Ward

Name: Ben Ward
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Personality: Shy,Quiet,Loner.
Knack: Bond with sewer rat named Black Phillip
Gift: Telepathically calls Rats
Gift Price: Buboes- painful disgusting symptoms of plague, the more he uses his power, the worse his body gets with sores and wretched pain.
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Father- James Ward, an alcoholic who has abused Ben all his life, daily beatings.
Mother- Donna Ward, heroin addict and world class who're.
Brother- Connor Ward, All American athlete, straight A student, perfect son & Asshole.

Bio: Ben has been a disappoint to his family since the day he was born, he never played sports, never made perfect grades, didn't date, nothing a "normal son" would do. Instead, he listened to death metal, sit in darkness of his closet and even sometimes slept there, it's also where he met his best friend.
Black Phillip , he named him after a movie he had seen before.
The two had a tight bond that would last forever, and he carried him inside his coat pocket.

[EurmalEye]

Caleb Walker

Caleb Walker {20M}

Fierce ⚝ Proud ⚝ Passionate
Bisexual ⚝ Sophomore Business Major ⚝ Athletic Trainer at BCC Gym

Song: Bring That Fire by WAR*HALL

A former champion boxer in high school, Caleb is now enrolled in the business program at BCC and a pledge of the frat Pi Phi Gamma. Caleb, while intelligent, does not spend as much time focusing on his studies as he could figuring a degree with C's is just as financially viable as one with A's and B's. Caleb has learned that the only people who can get there way in life are the ones strong enough to force their way forward and have cash to spend.

Caleb is currently living out his old, beat up Volkswagen Bus he fixed up back in high school. He takes keeps that information on the down low as he perceives that it would hurt his chances on getting into his frat of choice. In order to afford tuition and incidentals, Caleb is currently working as a physical trainer at the BCC gym.

Caleb uses the force of his personality to brute force past problems. He is used to getting his way not because someone gave it to him, but because he kept pushing at it. Because of this, he casually dismisses those he considers not strong enough to stand up for themselves.

Relationships:

{NPC} Daria Mueller: What was going to be a mutual one night stand has turned into an ongoing nightmare. Caleb and Daria were hooking up in the back of her car when the car suddenly burst into flames. Caleb was able to get out of the vehicle with minimal injuries, but Daria was caught in the initial burst of flame and suffered severe burn injuries. Caleb having recently discovered his new abilities believes that the source of the flames must have been himself. Out of a sense of guilt and obligation, Caleb has been visiting her every day healing a bit of her injuries at a time, fearing the pain of healing the wound all at once.

{NPC} Ezra Walker: Ezra was a hard man who only grew worse when Fiona left. At his best, he stayed out of Caleb's affairs, but otherwise it was a constant stream on criticism. The only way Caleb could find to deal with it was to get right back in his father's face.

{NPC} Fiona Rodgers: Mother who left the Walker household when Caleb was around four years old. She has sent Caleb an increasingly large amount of letters to his PO box of late that Caleb has ignored.

{NPC} Coach Marvin Jackson: Quite possibly the only person that Caleb has true respect for. Coach Jackson has trained Caleb since he was young and in a sense was more of a father to him than his actual father. Coach Jackson was the one driving Caleb to his matches. The Volkswagen also came from his Coach and showed Caleb how to fix it up. Since Caleb got banned, the relationship has been awkward and strained.

{NPC} Jack Simons: Caleb's "Big" in Pi Phi Gamma. Jack is very focused on the networking aspect of fraternal life and is encouraging Caleb to do the same.

History

Caleb grew up right here in Briarwood, but not in what could be considered a peaceful household. Neither of his parents were close to well-off and their living situation reflected that. The environment he grew up in was quite toxic, and his mother left for greener pastures when he was about four years old. Growing up was rough, and Caleb was becoming quite the school ground bully before Coach Jackson brought him into boxing. Here he excelled and had the opportunity to channel his anger into action appropriately.

The years passed quickly, and Caleb began winning match after match using his Knack to help him get into his opponent's heads and off balance them. Things at home were always rough, his father critiqued every choice that Caleb made and constantly reminded him he was worth nothing. Luckily, he spent most of his time out of the house training with Coach Jackson. Once Caleb really started to look like he may have a real career in boxing in when his father started getting an interest. He began attempting to market Caleb trying to mine him for some profit.

Caleb furiously argued with father time after time, but the last straw was when he found out that his father had fired Coach Jackson. Caleb, in an act of ill thought out rebellion, started getting into brawls with people on the street and was eventually caught and arrested. The incident led him to being banned from any further competitive boxing and the end of boxing career. His father quickly kicked him out and Caleb was happy to leave and satisfied. Through hard work, Caleb was able to graduate and enroll in BCC where he has been fending for himself since.

Magic:

Knack: One of the reasons Caleb was so successful in his boxing tournaments was that he has an excellent intuition of what makes people tick. Put another way, after a period of observation, Caleb is able to accurately hone in on one of a person's character flaws without ever saying a word. Against his opponents, Caleb used this to get under their skin and make them angry during a match, taking advantage of their anger to pull-out a win. It is a Knack that has made him quite a few enemies.

Gift: Caleb has the gift of healing. Simply by touching someone who is suffering an injury or a disease of some kind and focusing, Caleb heals them of what ails them. This gift has several critical downsides however. To heal a wound, Caleb is forced to experience the pain of that injury. For instance, if healing a broken arm, Caleb will feel his own arm break experience the throbbing ache for several hours afterward. In the case of an illness, Caleb experiences the symptoms of the illness and a far faster and intense rate. The longer an injury has lasted the more intense Caleb will feel the pain of healing it. Finally, Caleb cannot use his healing abilities on himself. Caleb is trying to gain control of it and decrease its downsides, seeing massive financial profit from it.

[Dark Cloud]

Hector James Godfrey- WIP

Hector James Godfrey

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Stubborn ⚝ Passionate ⚝ Loyal

Pansexual ⚝ Sophomore Sociology Major ⚝ Part-time Barista at Poor Yorick’s Cafe

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• {NPC} Marcus Freeman: enemy. A confident, well-liked student athlete.
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Samuel Frost - WIP

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[sassy1085]

Michelle Tsuyuri - WIP

Outgoing ⚝ Creative ⚝ Bossy ⚝ Noisy
Bisexual ⚝ Art Major ⚝ Unemployed ⚝ 19

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[Laser Kiwi]

Rowan Childe

Rowan Childe

Rowan Childe {29M}

Spiritual ⚝ Vegan ⚝ Perfectionist

Bicurious ⚝ Junior Communication Major ⚝ Veteran


Song: Blackbird - Fat Freddy's Drop

Rowan is an older student and a veteran. He spent 8 years in the Marines before going back to school on his GI bill - unfortunately, average grades in high school meant he was only accepted into BCC. Though he was one of the "lucky ones" who never saw actual combat, his time overseas changed him. After experimenting with psychedelics during his first year at BCC, he had a spiritual awakening and has cut most ties with his old life.

Now a nonviolent vegan, he is still struggling to find his place in the world and figure out what direction to take his life in. He doesn't feel like he's almost thirty, and rarely divulges his age, preferring to blend in among the younger students such as his flatmates. With his trademark dreadlocks and bright blue bicycle, he's a memorable figure around campus even though he rarely attends parties and has few close friends.

Relationships:

• Kalama Guynn: Roommate. Having only lived with Kalama for a few weeks, Rowan isn't quite sure what to make of her. He appreciates her passion for social justice and willingness to try his Vegan cooking, but found her messy breakup very disruptive to the peaceful energy he tries to cultivate around the apartment.
• {Unfilled/NPC} Roommate Beta:
• {Unfilled/NPC} Roommate Alpha:

History:

Rowan is originally from Georgia and still has a hint of the accent, although he tries to hide it. He doesn't talk much about his childhood, but it wasn't the happiest. Although his parents both loved them in their own ways, they were strict and devout people with little tolerance for perceived weakness or failure. He was a sensitive child and his father took it upon himself to make Rowan "man up" with frequent hunting trips, animal butchering, and manly activities like football and JROTC.
Joining the Marines was as much to make his dad proud as to get him out of the house as soon as high school finished. Though he initially excelled and became close friends with the Chaplain, Rowan found it difficult to take leadership roles as he has little stomach for yelling at other people. During his second tour, his Chaplain was assaulted by her commander officer, resulting in her discharge and him being found not guilty at the court martial. This event rocked Rowan to his core and changed his opinion of the military for the worse. By the end of his eight years, he was thoroughly disillusioned with the military life and sought greater meaning.
He initially hoped to find it in education, but ultimately found it in frequent LSD, psilocybin, and peyote trips instead. It was in his first year at BCC that he cut ties with the military, his family, and his religion. Though he has felt more at peace since that decision, he has also been profoundly lonely - a largely self-imposed isolation, as he has very high standards for himself and other people, making him difficult to get along with at times.

Magic:

Knack: Rowan has the ability to sense immediate danger to himself. As a kid, he called it his "Spidey sense". Though this ability won't tell him the source of the danger, any threat capable of killing or seriously injuring him within the next couple minutes will trigger a burst of adrenaline and let him know that something is wrong. This ability has prevented him from getting kicked by riled-up farm animals, stepping out in front of unseen traffic, and swimming in the ocean with a rip tide.

Gift: Rowan has the ability to telepathically communicate in a limited capacity with animals. He can passively sense the intent of any animal within eyesight, and broadcast his intent to any or all animals within approximately one mile. While he cannot read their minds or control their actions, he can communicate basic concepts such as "I won't hurt you" or "this person is a bad person". After testing this on the campus squirrels, he used this ability to call a deer from the nearby woods into the student food court by broadcasting the intentions "I want to give you an apple" and "none of us will hurt you". The price of his Gift isn't too severe, but he is completely unaware of his surroundings while communicating with animals - he could be stabbed while communicating and not be aware of it until he returns to reality. Even once he does return, he is very disoriented once he comes back to reality and it puts a fog over his whole day similar to being hungover.

[Blazion]

Valeria Siloav

Valeria Silaov {19F}

Enthusiastic ☀ Brave ☀ Dedicated

Lesbian ☀ Freshman General Studies ☀ Student Athlete

The most apt description for Val is that of a giant puppy; all big paws and sparking eyes with a toothy grin that radiates excitement. She's the type of person to roll out of bed in the morning bright eyed and bushy tailed, ready to face the day. Excitable and warm, she's a good friend to have that would drop anything for another person - if she knew they needed it. After all, trying to get this oblivious girl to take a hint is like throwing eggs at a brickwall. Pointless.

Val takes her training very seriously, and is an absolute powerhouse of a person since it focuses on weightlifting. She's actually been catching the eye of a few trainers after winning various competitions, and now has her own eye on beating the Women's Deadlifting world record. The problem is despite having this lofty goal the fact of the matter is, much to Val's chagrin, she fits the dumb jock stereotype more than she'd like to admit. Still, she's pleased to have at least been accepted into BCC, since while she works hard her grades don't seem to reflect it.

The Coven is a new experience that, for once, will leave Val flat flooted. Concerned that these special abilities make her own efforts worth little, she's trying to hide her growing self-doubt behind a worry for the others caught up in this mess.

Relationships

{NPC} Stravos Silaov: Father. Being a bit of a Daddy's girl, Val adores her father, and when they're together you can see where she gets her beastly proportions from. Of course, he cares for his daughter just as much, enough to uproot his family's life for her.

{NPC} Nadia Siloav: Mother. Nadia is the reason her family could afford a rather abrupt immigration, as well as keep them afloat. She is a well known violinist and composer, and wishes Valeria would show a bit more interest in her craft.

History

The Siloav family originally hails from Russia, Valeria being born in the port city of Yakutsk. From seemingly the day she was born, she was a Daddy's girl, content to shadow her father in everything he did. Stravos doted on his daughter in turn, and as such when his little girl begged to join him on his morning runs in the cold of dawn, all he could do was bundle her up and carry her back home when her little legs got tired. As the years past, soon she was keeping up with him, and then he was the one trying to keep up with her. Stravos, after all, was a former Olympic strongman, and just like her father before her Valeria was soon taking to anything physical like a fish in water.

Of course considering where she ended up, Valeria didn't end up staying in Yakutsk forever. It was when she was thirteen that Val let it slip she had her first kiss. With a female classmate. Her parents initially hoped it was just a phase, that it would pass. Val told them honestly it wasn't. So they accepted her, despite all their worries of her being persecuted in a country that still saw it was something to be ashamed of. It was this worry, this love for their only child, that led to the Siloav parents to make a very large decision with their lives, and move away from Yakutsk to somewhere their entire family could be happy.

It wasn't easy immigrating to America, and at first Val was just considered an awkward, towering foreigner to her classmates. It took time to find her place fitting in with others, but she was friendly and sincere and quite frankly a good friend to have. Even if she never stopped towering over classmates - even current day she's over six feet tall. Eventually though she made friends, even a best friend, and happily spent her high school years continuing to scrape by with mediocre grades and a focus on entering (and even winning!) as many junior dead lift competitions as she could.

Despite her terrible grades, Valeria was accepted to BCC with an athletic scholarship in hand. Not yet fully committed to a degree, she's focused on truly earning that scholarship and is determined to finally get her name in the record books.

Well, not so much recently. Ever since giving a helping hand in the car accident that first spawned three sets of strange glowing arms, Val has been wrestling with what the hell is going on with her. Despite being mildly panicked by them, she is still tentatively using this ability when alone and especially when getting ready has used a second set of arms to her advantage.

Magic

Knack: Keeping in line with Val being a very physical person, her knack has always been extraordinary muscle memory. She can embed any type of task involving muscle memory to heart with only a handful of times doing it, and can get far more benefit than a normal person just from watching another. This is most obvious with her athletic prowess, as can be evident in her strength training and nearly any sport. However, her fine motor skills are also affected, and ever since her mother taught her how she can play a violin no problem, even years out of practice. That being said, don't expect any masterpiece compositions.

Gift: Valeria's gift is very simple, in that she can create extra limbs made up of a faintly glowing yellow energy. This is most commonly shown as extra arms, but she would also be able to make very awkward wings, as an example. The drawback is that despite these limbs being made of energy, it's as though using her own muscles. After the incident that she first spawned extra arms, her actual arms were like dead weights the next day, and bruised for a week after.

[alexfangtalon]

Elysia Dey

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Tenderhearted * Imaginative * Gullible * Meek

Heterosexual * Freshmen General Studies * Aspiring Artist

Avicii - Broken Arrows

Elysia is one of the quietest people you could come across, and she has no control over it. Anxiety is an awful thing and the young woman has lived with it her whole life. Despite this, she tries her best to be happy. Most of the time she succeeds. She still has issues interacting with people she's close to, let alone complete strangers but she has the determination to push through her problems. She has a love for the beauty of this world and of people. Even if she has trouble interacting with the world and people around her she'll try to find the good in anything and make a drawing about it.

In regards to her anxiety, it manifests itself in a disorder called selective mutism. Despite the first word in the name, she isn't entirely in control of the selection. She has found various ways to cope. The main one being her artwork. She has also discovered that working side by side with someone in some sort of task, and if she can keep quiet while cooperating with them and doesn't need to talk then she can start to feel more comfortable with them around. As long as the other person doesn't inadvertently increase her stress, this can produce a good relationship and she'll find it easier to speak to them. Although she still relies too much on sign language, her phone, and writing to communicate.

If she can get close to someone then she will be a great friend. A great listener to your problems, able to tell when you feel anxious, and being someone who'll drop whatever they're doing to help you are key characteristics she exhibits towards those around her. Especially her friends. She's shy, reluctant, and clumsy but she always tries to put on a smile no matter how uneasy it may be. Around school, if she is even seen out and about, she's either heading for class while keeping her head down, watching everyone doing their thing from a distance, or sitting on the ground somewhere staring at a canvas or rapidly drawing on it.

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*{NPC} Ryon Dey - Father - A midwest high-school dropout and former construction worker. After his wife passed, he was the sole parent of three girls and that wasn't easy. Sure, he had the occasional help and the oldest was already college-age but he still struggled. Despite this, he did a wonderful job raising his girls and did everything to help them pursue their dreams.

*{NPC, Deceased} Mira Dey - Mother - Elysia never got the chance to meet her mother. The whole pregnancy was more difficult than normal and by the time the birth came both were in dire straits. Elysia instantly had to be taken to NICU and Mira was having unexpected issues. Despite the doctor's best efforts, she passed a few days after the birth.

*{NPC} Eliza Dey - Sister - 37 - Eliza is the oldest sister of the three. After their parents' death, Eliza took it upon herself to get a good education and job to provide for them all, as Ryon's job wasn't very lucrative. She hid her pain to take care of her sisters. She does her best but her strict standards cause a slight rift between her and Adelinde. Currently, she works as a pediatrician.

*{NPC} Adelinde Dey - Sister - 28 - With how young Adelinde was when their mother died she had looked for something to blame and that blame had unfairly fallen on Elysia. The first couple of years the relationship between the two was not good. But as they got older the childishness subsided and the two began spending time together. Today you'd never know they hadn't always been so close. Currently, she works as an author.

History:

The circumstances around Elysia's birth were unfair. The whole pregnancy was difficult and then she came earlier than her expected due date. After the birth was over she had to be instantly admitted to NICU and it was unsure whether she would make it. Despite this, her parents Ryon and Mira Dey along with her older sisters, Eliza and Adelinde, waited for her to pull through certain that she would live. But Elysia wasn't the only one to have a rough time after her birth. Mira was also in dire straits and unfortunately didn't recover. The family was in a somber situation. The matriarch had passed and despite their initial hope, the fear for Elysia's life was still there. It was a long and arduous journey but eventually, she pulled through.

The situation affected each member differently. Ryon became depressed from his wife's death and feared that something may happen to Elysia. Eliza who was much older took it upon herself to get a good education and job to provide for them all, as Ryon's job wasn't very lucrative being a construction worker. Adelinde being a child wanted something to blame for her mother's death and that blame unfairly fell on Elysia. As a baby, Elysia was unusually quiet. She cried when she was hungry, tired, or needed to be held but as she grew older the usual babbling that one associated with babies was not there. She didn't say her first word until she was two when most babies would combine words randomly at this age. It was determined that she didn't have a learning disability so the family went on as normal. She began talking a little more easing the worries of those around her but that ended around when she was 7. She got in a big fight with Adelinde. In reality, it was more like Elysia kept trying to help Adelinde in the garden but messed everything up and was yelled at. Crying she ran off when Adelinde or Eliza weren't watching. She knew where her father worked and went where he was for comfort.

When she got there she watched from outside the fence waiting to see her dad. When she saw him she called out to him distracting him from what he was doing. In a lot of places getting distracted can be dangerous. A construction site is one of them. Cutting all the details out he got injured. He was no longer able to work and Eliza had to leave college to work enough to provide for the family. This is around the time that Elysia stopped talking almost entirely. Things were hard and the anxiety within the young girl didn't help. She would spend the next year in her room hiding from everything. She even stopped drawing for a while. The only time she left her room was for school or to grab something to eat. She was too scared to interact with anyone.

For a while, after her mutism showed, she'd often get in trouble at school for 'refusing' to speak despite her extremely obedient behavior in every other aspect. Kids were cruel and bullied the quiet girl. Some of her friends stuck close but others thought that she didn't want to talk to them despite her trying to find ways to communicate. It was hard. But eventually, someone thought to ask the question 'should she be taken to a psychiatrist?' It took a while but the psychiatrist was able to determine that she had selective mutism rather than autism. Making the correct diagnosis and Elysia realizing what was wrong was the first step to recovery.

They tried various methods to help her. It took a few years but Elysia found herself being able to talk to her family a little bit more. The main thing that helped was her family telling her that they didn't blame her for what happened. Even Adelaide apologized for how she had treated her. She was still having difficulties as the road to full recovery is long and arduous, but she was doing much better. She began learning sign language, she started using her phone and writing to communicate, and she began drawing again putting more effort into it.

When she became a teenager she was more determined than ever to improve. She kept trying to force herself to interact with others. It never worked but she didn't stop trying. You miss every shot you don't take, and if you take hundreds of shots one will eventually hit. That has somewhat been a motto of Elysia's. Despite what others said she had never seen her art to be that great until her teacher recommended she enter a contest. She drew a simple image of the night sky which had a full moon covered partially by a cloud. She thought it was mediocre but she was surprised to get first place. More surprising was that she could get money from doing something she had so much fun doing. To help her family and have her own money that she worked for she began doing commissions online.

Coming around to her college years she knew that she wanted to push herself, even more, to get better. A large university was too frightening of a prospect but she also didn't want to just go to the same community college that so many she had grown up alongside were going to. So, despite Ryon and Eliza's concerns, she moved in with Adelinde who was currently living in Briarwood. It was the perfect opportunity. Going to school with new people but still having the support of someone close by.

Everything was going fine until that weird demonstration in her sociology class. It was strange and freaky but the weird part was that the next morning she woke up somewhat tired. She was usually a morning person but she did have a few off days. The weird thing was that on her desk lay a sheet of paper with an odd drawing on it. She didn't remember drawing it. It showed the back patio door wide open and a deer running off into the woods. That was weird. What was even weirder was when she went to the backyard to check on the garden she saw a deer. She must have spooked it because the majestic creature ran off towards the woods. Elysia went back to her room to look at the drawing and the deer looked almost identical.

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According to Elysia, her drawings are simply that. Plain average drawings that shouldn't cause as much fuss as they tend to. To others, they almost appear to take a life of their own. When they say that a picture can say a thousand words, well it's quite true with Elysia's works and even a little more. She started young drawing in coloring books as a coping mechanism to deal with her anxiety. She would spend hours of her day drawing in these books running through so many of them so quickly. She quickly upgraded to blank canvas' putting her all into them. She doesn't find them all that impressive, but that is because she already knows how she feels and what is in her heart and mind. Some have described looking at her art as if they were having a conversation with the girl and that's her knack. Like how an expert musician can play someone to feeling certain emotions or an actor can move someone towards the same thing, Elysia can convey her emotions through her artwork and have a better conversation with them this way than using her phone or writing ever could.

Gift:
Elysia's gift can be described as Subconscious Precognitive Drawings. Getting into the details of this, whenever Elysia goes to sleep her body seems to take a mind of its own. It will grab some form of paper and pen or pencil then will draw something. The drawing can be something of little to no significance which will always comes to pass.

The other types of drawings will take a lot of her energy for when she wakes up. That's really the best way she can judge what kind of value they have. These drawings tend to come in groups over different sleep periods. They are confusing and abstract like a puzzle with no edges. The imagery also isn't always one-to-one. Sometimes she may need help to identify the meanings as they may only be answerable by others.

The final type she can instantly identify. This is because some part of her is visible in the drawing showing her at someplace or doing something. Almost like the drawing is guiding her to go somewhere or do something.

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Kyle

Kyle Hishamie

23/M/Scorpio/Heterosexual - Loner/Humble/Innovative - Freshman General Studies - Unemployed

Relationships

NPC/Father = Verdock Hishamie(Alive/Estranged)
NPC/Mother = Mary Hishamie(Deceased)
NPC/Older Brother = Conrad Hishamie(Disowned from family/strong bond but as of late very distant)
Roommate =

History and Bio

To many people, living life is something that should never be taken for granted. The belief that the will to live is essential in personal growth, the ability to accomplish, and in keeping up ones mental health has been drilled into the minds of the general populace because in a sense it is. Motivation is key to success, at least for those who are not Kyle Hishamie. It is not as if He plans on killing himself, or if handed a loaded gun he would not point the tip of gun towards himself. Not because he has a will to survive but simply because his survival instinct would not let him. That same instinct kept him moving when he was a child and he would feel the weight of his fathers hate and anger towards him, kept him moving when his older brother left t he family to seek out his own fortune, to keep moving forward no matter how cruel the other children were, and it kept him alive in the army.

He enlisted after graduating high school in order to get as far away from his father as possible. At some point in his early life he came to the conclusion that if he became a piece of government property, he could keep his father away without fear of his father coming after him with force. After all, how could his father force him to return home to work for the family business if he was contractually obligated to not do so. Kyle joined the army, active duty, and it was there that he felt the most will to live he had ever felt. For a time.

Almost immediately after basic training he was sent to Baghdad on his first deployment. There was no immediate war looming, but it was not as if the locals appreciated any kind of American in their neighborhood. within his first six months he had four confirmed kills without even being in a firefight. This killed a certain spark that had been dimly going inside of him, for how can a man keep his humanity when humanity attacks him in the market, outside his base, and on patrol on civilian roads. While Kyle quickly and calmly dispatched enemies that would attempt to sacrifice themselves with explosives, in an attempt to get rid of the American forces stationed there, at some point he simply did what he did to keep his battle buddies safe and not so much the same for himself. Normally a deployment would last no more than a year, but due to his exemplary skills Kyle was given the order stay another year. To serve another tour without so much as rest home back in the states.

Kyle did indeed return home to Fort Gordon after being deployed for two years, going awol was not an option, but he had not returned home the same man that he once was. As a child he was insatiably curious, warm hearted, imaginative, and pacifistic even with his fathers cruel jabs and taunts and abuse. He knew his father may be the God of his world as a child, but he held some small hope that when he was old enough to leave that would be the start of a new life. He believed that the army would give him the funds and knowledge he would need to be able to be self dependent. Instead, after his deployment and two more years at Fort Gordan he fulfilled his service contract and left the base as a man who simply lived to work. As a man who kept to himself, who no longer saw everything as an opportunity, who truly hated himself but was cursed with enough intelligence to know that just because he felt this way this was by no means an excuse to be a burden on anyone else. He had saved most of the money he made, so Kyle was able to rent an apartment, and after almost a year of being alone and unemployed Kyle enrolled in community college. Kyle had always had outstanding grades but he felt like some big time college was not necessary and would only draw attention to himself. His plan was simple. Get a degree, find a job, work until he dropped, stay in the background. Its not as if he believed he deserved to be lesser, but Kyle had entirely lost his will to strive. To find the American dream, to obtain all that he never had as a child. Friends, family who cared for him deeply, and that thing that all men and women have. To hope.

To give a little bit more insight into Kyle here is a bit more information. Kyle had never had a job before enlisting, as his father would not let him. Verdock Hishamie repeatedly stated that when Kyle came of legal age he would work for him so there was not a single reason Kyle needed another job. Verdock never recovered from his wifes untimely demise, which was shortly after Kyles birth. Depression is a hell of a thing. Kyles older brother Conrad was one of the few people who cared about Kyle, but not even brotherly love could keep Conrad tied to his fathers home forever, to have to deal with their father as they did. Kyle always made good grades all throughout school, and while he was never considered......"popular" lest say, the young man was considered to be talented and bright in most that he did.

Kyle, at this time, is 23 with dark brown eyes and Mediterranean skin. Kyle is of Greek and French descent and is stands at 6'2.

Powers

Knack

Kyle can typically find a way to combine or to repair whatever items he has on hand. That is to say he isn't a miracle worker and if something is broken beyond repair he cant just make it come to life. He simply....usually can find a way to fix what's broken but not beyond repair or to make whatever suits his needs with very outlandish things on hand. This knack has come in very handy in his previous line of work even if he himself didn't realize what this truly was.

Gifts

Kyle has a natural affinity with the element of light. At this current time, this does not mean much as Kyle is not even aware of his powers.

Due to Kyles innate nature, due to his souls true shape and character, he has the unique ability of emotional suggestion. Emotional Suggestion is a it sounds, this allows Kyle to share certain emotions and mental states within a certain range. The sobriety of a target can also affect the potency, the more inebriated a target is the more difficult it is to actually affect the target. Black out drunk is an example of what is not affected by this power.

The range for this power is 5 feet on average and 10 feet when Kyle himself is emotionally riled up, but this is rare as Kyle does not feel strongly about much at this time due to his mental state being less than healthy at the time of enrolling in BCC. So this gift is less than powerful as it could be. Targets within 3 feet of Kyle though have a chance of more or less experiencing this power in a different way somewhat. Normally, Kyles targets would simply become overcome with the emotion or mental state that Kyle has sent out, ex. Kyle stands 5 feet away from his target. He sends out a wave of angry emotions to his target. This will cause the person or animal to behave in their own way how they would if in that situation they naturally were overcame with inexplicable anger. Kyle cannot control a persons actions through this power, so it is more useful on unsuspecting or uninformed targets. But I digress, the target within 3 feet would not only feel the way Kyle wants them to but they also gain a sort of six sense on Kyles actual emotional and mental state. Think of it like the person 5 feet away can only be affected by Kyles power. But the person 3 feet away can sort of peer through the window of Kyles soul to see how he truly feels in that moment. Something Kyle does not want and tries his best to keep from happening, ya know.....if he knew that's how it worked.

Kyles powers are useful but come with a price. He can only use this power effectively when in direct sun or moon light, as his affinity towards light is what powers this exemplary talent. If Kyle uses this ability when he does not have the connection towards a natural light source the ability becomes extremely unreliable and has an extremely high chance of not working at all. If this happens Kyle will feel some slight head pain or nausea. The target of this power does not become entranced by Kyle as this ability simply is an attempt to overwrite a persons emotional and mental state with a different one, not to make them become a different person or to do something they would not naturally do. Kyle can only affect a person when eye contact is made, and the way the emotional and mental state is through magical suggestion. Kyle needs to keep eye contact and speak to his target, Further more the amount of emotions and how intense of a mental state Kyle tries to suggest to person to have is key to understanding the drawbacks of Emotional Suggestion. Simple suggestions such as Your shoelace keeps coming untied, doesn't that irritate you? which would arouse mild irritation could cause a minor pain behind Kyles eyes, the same kind of pain you would receive if you had gone without breakfast and lunch and had to work the entire afternoon and night, up to a mild form of dizziness. More intense Suggestions such as Is it not a shame that while you have friends who adore you, you have no one who can truly say they love you? Someone who wishes to spend their life with you? which can cause intense depression or severe underlying anger could cause a crushing migraine up to falling unconscious after a slight time delay and body pain.

Kyle can fall comatose and even die with extended serious use of this power or if too many failed Emotional Suggestions take place within a short period of time. Kyle can also succumb rapidly to worse and worse pains when he tries suggest something to a person who also has magical abilities that are more aligned on the psychic category. Those who have powers that fall in line with the elemental manipulation category for example would not normally under non strange conditions cause Kyle to be affected in some way out of ordinary when he uses his powers. He still feels the drawbacks but not as heavily as if he had done so to a psychic, which would cause worse pains as mentioned previously.