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Punished GN
Alby47
"It doesn't matter that he's dead, daddy is too smart for that stop his plans. I'm sure of it."
 _______________________________________________ Junior Alexander Vanburen He/Him | 13 | French-American | 5'11" | 115 lbs _______________________________________________ Arrogance _______________________________________________ Skills & Talents "My brothers are twice my age and I'm at their level. God they're pathetic." ___________________________________ Running ⫻ More because of his young age and boundless energy, Junior can run quite the distance and can move for a long time before tiring. Years of playing soccer around the home has left him in good physical shape and given him a good amount of hand-to-eye coordination. Though maybe it's not all in the best; paired with his tyrades and childish personality, Junior can be a pain for hours on end. Annoying ⫻ Unintended as it is, Junior is especially skilled at irritating adults and anyone whom he falls under the protection of, a few impulsive actions of his could drive many people up the wall- and it's a wonder so many people within the family can manage such a menace. | Appearance ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ "Five years till I get a beard, you'll be crying then." Even at a glance Junior radiates youth; Boundless energy comes across in the way he walks, his strut has a buoyancy to it as his light body practically skips along to the beat of the bustling city. Immaturity shines through a mischievous grin as he walks alone, or the aloof and arrogant scorn he carries when with others, hiding no hint of admiration or respect. His eyes seem tired of constant arguing, with no energy they seem distant as he argues his beliefs against any who would listen to his raspy, childish voice that is all too high a pitch for his body. He has no features to point out, and he would all but fade into the background of any gathering he would be a part of. No piercings, no tattoos (besides the one, invisible abstraction branding), brown hair, brown eyes and a barely respectable chin- and so it is his loud nature and family name that distinguishes him from the crowd. Arrogance and the Vanburen name, a match made in hell if there ever was one. As for clothing, he wears nothing besides sporting attire or a fashionable tweed suit on occasion, the former consisting of a gray sports hoodie, black joggers and trainers- and the latter being a dull brown tweed jacket carried over a child's school shirt, along with black leather school shoes and trousers. |
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"I'm just as capable as most of these dimwits, they don't listen because they're IDIOTS. Who cares if I'm a kid I'm still right."
MAIN GOAL ⫻ If asked Junior may say his dream is to grow up, to show all the fools in the world that if he was only a bit older they would revere his ideas and suggestions, that his own body was a crux that people hung below him as a sign of their authority and superiority. In actuality his goal is rather more simple, to be accepted so he doesn't need to shout to be heard. You could argue that they are similar goals, and Junior won't deny that they are, but he would rather find a true family that would accept his regardless of his age or faults, instead of needing to change first for them to embrace him.
PHILOSOPHY ⫻ "Dumb, stupid idiots. Why can't they just SEE." In his eyes, it is not Junior who is slow, but the people around him. The truth is besides the point as the boy sees himself as the only sane person around- if they point out the flaws in his plan it's them who aren't seeing the strategy in the proper way. The idea is flawless in his eyes.
SEX ⫻ Sure Too young and sheltered to really interact with other kids his age beyond the stuck up kids at his school and football practice, Junior really hasn't has much chance to experiment or realise who and what he is attracted to- though recently boys have danced throughout his thoughts.
FEARS ⫻ Junior fears the unknown, that what he has amounted to cannot match what is to come, that the encompassing future will swallow him up and spit him out a broken man like many of his siblings. For Junior the future is a very real threat; while his brothers or his sisters may have lived, loved and learned, his future is still an untrodden path that may twist and change with every meeting, every event, every action he can take- some things which he cannot control or even predict that will shape his being and the path he will walk.
And that scares him.
The pages of his future are unwritten, but he does not hold the pen.
REPUTATION ⫻ Junior is seen simply as another child of the late James Vanburen around the city of Araminta, although most people don't know him personally those that do hope he grows into a capable man in the future- but for now he is no more than a pest most would love to see cry... Not that anyone would admit that.
THOUGHTS ABOUT FATHER ⫻ "They always tell you not to meet your heroes or you'll be disappointed. He was the exception." James was one of the few people Junior had personally gotten to know that he respected, though more for his character than as a father as he had little time for that. He allowed his son to grow up in his home, even as the affair with his mother fell through. His charitable deeds, business ingenuity and boundless wealth let Junior be as content as he could possibly be, able to accommodate all his needs with ease.
FLAWS ⫻ "What's wrong McFly? Chicken?" Junior can be riled up relatively easily, seeing his older siblings ignore or refute his suggestions- as wildish or inconsiderate as they can be, and has a habit of going off on his lonesome to carry out his plans. It's the flaw of arrogance and being young, blaming your youth when others ignore the ideas you have, and it is a flaw Junior expresses more than could be healthy.
PHILOSOPHY ⫻ "Dumb, stupid idiots. Why can't they just SEE." In his eyes, it is not Junior who is slow, but the people around him. The truth is besides the point as the boy sees himself as the only sane person around- if they point out the flaws in his plan it's them who aren't seeing the strategy in the proper way. The idea is flawless in his eyes.
SEX ⫻ Sure Too young and sheltered to really interact with other kids his age beyond the stuck up kids at his school and football practice, Junior really hasn't has much chance to experiment or realise who and what he is attracted to- though recently boys have danced throughout his thoughts.
FEARS ⫻ Junior fears the unknown, that what he has amounted to cannot match what is to come, that the encompassing future will swallow him up and spit him out a broken man like many of his siblings. For Junior the future is a very real threat; while his brothers or his sisters may have lived, loved and learned, his future is still an untrodden path that may twist and change with every meeting, every event, every action he can take- some things which he cannot control or even predict that will shape his being and the path he will walk.
And that scares him.
The pages of his future are unwritten, but he does not hold the pen.
REPUTATION ⫻ Junior is seen simply as another child of the late James Vanburen around the city of Araminta, although most people don't know him personally those that do hope he grows into a capable man in the future- but for now he is no more than a pest most would love to see cry... Not that anyone would admit that.
THOUGHTS ABOUT FATHER ⫻ "They always tell you not to meet your heroes or you'll be disappointed. He was the exception." James was one of the few people Junior had personally gotten to know that he respected, though more for his character than as a father as he had little time for that. He allowed his son to grow up in his home, even as the affair with his mother fell through. His charitable deeds, business ingenuity and boundless wealth let Junior be as content as he could possibly be, able to accommodate all his needs with ease.
FLAWS ⫻ "What's wrong McFly? Chicken?" Junior can be riled up relatively easily, seeing his older siblings ignore or refute his suggestions- as wildish or inconsiderate as they can be, and has a habit of going off on his lonesome to carry out his plans. It's the flaw of arrogance and being young, blaming your youth when others ignore the ideas you have, and it is a flaw Junior expresses more than could be healthy.
Backstory
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"I'm thirteen, what did you expect? Ten paragraphs?."
Junior is the love child (of course) of James Vanburen and Elenor Tate, a French exchange student studying Marine Biology in the later years of the 2000s. An affair short lived that it seemed his mother wished to forget, so much that she left her newborn son with the father that sired him. While the man himself was usually busy managing his business empire or caring for his other children he made sure his servants could care for his son by proxy, they worked to the best of their ability but even then nothing comes close to the attention and care a child could desire from the ones they recognise as their true parents and family- it was a shame neither had the time for him. Growing up yearning for the care and attention of a mother had no interest in building bridges and a father who didn't have the time to care beyond a few pleasantries Junior grew up as you would expect, bitter and grasping at straws for any attention that he could gather. His frustration only grew as his misplaced arrogance remained unchecked, where he began growing tired of hearing of his siblings' tales and frustrations that he felt he could fix. Growing tired of how the servants pampered him, not raising their voices, but angering at expressing their doubts about the wrong things. As he grew older and tired of those that managed his well being, seeing them only as substitutes for the parents he could only dream of, is carers suggested that sports could help him make friends beyond those in school and the walls of the house, or at least tire him before he could make another tirade or argument to one of them- in face he found himself enjoying soccer even if he wasn't some natural talent at it. He found his weekends filled with training, and his wardrobe with sports gear and trainers, he was enjoying himself.
Then came the Christmas party- and his whole world shattered.
Gone was the father, the one parent who he knew was at least there for him. There was no mother to hold and cry on, he had never seen her, had never spoken a word, never shown he was worth her affection, only a hollow shell of a vague shadow- a role no one ever came close to filling, and now a dead father. Why was he even here, nobody would care, nobody even liked him it was just money that kept them around, there was no love, no care, no mother, no father, nothing.
The flurry of emotions he felt that night and all the nights after were fuel for his awakening, and a month after his late father's passing Junior found himself with a strange ability. And a many siblings that moved into the manor home, speaking of a strange power that compelled them back here, for fear they would suffer the consequences.
Then came the Christmas party- and his whole world shattered.
Gone was the father, the one parent who he knew was at least there for him. There was no mother to hold and cry on, he had never seen her, had never spoken a word, never shown he was worth her affection, only a hollow shell of a vague shadow- a role no one ever came close to filling, and now a dead father. Why was he even here, nobody would care, nobody even liked him it was just money that kept them around, there was no love, no care, no mother, no father, nothing.
The flurry of emotions he felt that night and all the nights after were fuel for his awakening, and a month after his late father's passing Junior found himself with a strange ability. And a many siblings that moved into the manor home, speaking of a strange power that compelled them back here, for fear they would suffer the consequences.
Abstraction
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"YES! ALL EYES ON ME PLEASE."
TYPE ⫻ Awakened
ABSTRACTION ⫻ Valence Control, Junior has the ability to control attention by manipulating how important events, people or things seem- from incredibly uninteresting and more difficult to notice or remember, to impossible to ignore. His tattoo is an abstract compass, appearing on the inner thigh of his left leg.
ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Within a large area Junior's abstraction can freely manipulate the affective quantity of valence, the essence of how intrinsically good or bad something seems, that surrounds a person, object, event situation or even a thought, that he is aware of. He may will a greater amount of valence into the target of his choice, making it more noticeable to an observer, or lower the amount so that it acts as a dampening field; That a target becomes mundane to onlookers, an idea becomes a vague or an event becomes more forgettable and unnoticeable. The amount of valence builds up like pressure in a heated pan, and beyond a threshold Junior must exert himself to increase the effect his power has. See it is not as though valence is a switch, that can be memorable or forgettable; If we are to return to the idea that it is a heated pan, increasing the temperature in the stove is akin to increasing the amount of valence onto the target, and cooling a pan off is the reverse- and the target becomes forgettable.
AURA SENSING ⫻ Junior can see the auras of attention, who is the center of it and who is watching them. Both auras appear the same colour and there is little difference to discern between the two. He can feel this aura from up to fifty feet before it quickly fades out.
LIMITS ⫻ Junior's ability bypasses emotional-fields so it can affect the Extra-Normal freely. However the ability has a range of around twenty-five meters, and its effects gradually build up. For something to be the center of everyone's attention, he has to be working on it for a bit, and vice-versa - however, when he drops his abstractions the effects will quickly fade away. The ability has zero lasting effects whatsoever.
WEAKNESSES ⫻ When Junior uses his abstraction, he seems to get the opposite effect from it. Such as when he makes something unnoticeable, he'll find it hard to pay attention to anything but that. When he makes something very attention-grabbing, he finds it really easy to be distracted by other details.
ABSTRACTION ⫻ Valence Control, Junior has the ability to control attention by manipulating how important events, people or things seem- from incredibly uninteresting and more difficult to notice or remember, to impossible to ignore. His tattoo is an abstract compass, appearing on the inner thigh of his left leg.
ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Within a large area Junior's abstraction can freely manipulate the affective quantity of valence, the essence of how intrinsically good or bad something seems, that surrounds a person, object, event situation or even a thought, that he is aware of. He may will a greater amount of valence into the target of his choice, making it more noticeable to an observer, or lower the amount so that it acts as a dampening field; That a target becomes mundane to onlookers, an idea becomes a vague or an event becomes more forgettable and unnoticeable. The amount of valence builds up like pressure in a heated pan, and beyond a threshold Junior must exert himself to increase the effect his power has. See it is not as though valence is a switch, that can be memorable or forgettable; If we are to return to the idea that it is a heated pan, increasing the temperature in the stove is akin to increasing the amount of valence onto the target, and cooling a pan off is the reverse- and the target becomes forgettable.
AURA SENSING ⫻ Junior can see the auras of attention, who is the center of it and who is watching them. Both auras appear the same colour and there is little difference to discern between the two. He can feel this aura from up to fifty feet before it quickly fades out.
LIMITS ⫻ Junior's ability bypasses emotional-fields so it can affect the Extra-Normal freely. However the ability has a range of around twenty-five meters, and its effects gradually build up. For something to be the center of everyone's attention, he has to be working on it for a bit, and vice-versa - however, when he drops his abstractions the effects will quickly fade away. The ability has zero lasting effects whatsoever.
WEAKNESSES ⫻ When Junior uses his abstraction, he seems to get the opposite effect from it. Such as when he makes something unnoticeable, he'll find it hard to pay attention to anything but that. When he makes something very attention-grabbing, he finds it really easy to be distracted by other details.
Other
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"I act like everyone else in this house. They just give me hate because I'm younger. They think they're 'mature' and 'in charge' but live off daddy's money anyway."
Ghost is the unfunny.
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