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What Are You Listening To?

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If there was one takeaway from all of this it was that sleep had a way of sneaking up on people. When all they had before them was the uncertainty and the looming fear, Ellie Duke had assumed the worst: That they would be taken back, punished rather horrifically for their crime of wanting out, and that the world wouldn't care to remember their names or notice they were gone. It was some sort of small miracle or bitter twist of fate that they came upon the abandoned house. At the time Ellie wanted to voice her opinion, how they should keep moving, how it was possible that this place was under watch. But the only thing louder than her silence was the anguish of her feet having been running all day.

Ellie had little choice but to go with the group decision. While she had so desperately wanted to say something, even just a reassurance, she didn't. She couldn't. The last time she opened her mouth she shattered glass so hard it tore through an adult with a clipboard like he was butter being poked by a hot knife. If anything was likely to give away their position, it was someone who had been turned into some kind of megaphone.

Without speaking, Ellie claimed one of the empty rooms and sank into the bed. She had no plan on sleeping. The adrenaline was too high, she and everyone were obviously on edge and how could anyone sleep at a time like that? Listening to the increased patterns of her heart pumping its blood, her thoughts turned to her would-be stepfather and how he didn't share in the mourning when Ellie was turned over to the supposed authorities. It only added anger to the emotions that were bubbling under the surface.

And in spite of her belief, sleep found its way to Ellie's system. That was why she awoke with a start when the banging on the door started. Her last night's thoughts being on her parents had her almost call out for her mom and ask what was for breakfast before the realization that this room, the bed, and the scratchy pillows weren't familiar sank in. Was this going to be her life now? Running with people who didn't know her from Adam? Too afraid of whatever the hell it was to ever speak again? She was too afraid to even hum or whistle for fear of blowing the door off the hinges.

There was little else to do other than wonder why anyone would choose this for someone. While she didn't exactly know the others, she wasn't going to stay here on her own. For now it was safer with them than without, and that meant dragging her ass down the stairs. Maybe if she closed her eyes and pictured it she would be able to smell pancakes on the griddle.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

If there was one game that genuinely defined my childhood it wouldn't be a game most people would associate with things like...fun or whatever it is video games are supposed to be. While I spent a good portion of my youth playing Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Mega Man X (and X2, the best of the X series), Streets of Rage 2 (the game that still has the single best first level song in all of video games bar none), and Super Empire Strikes Back, and while I could go on and on about how Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6 doomed me to a life of being an unapologetic JRPG fan, all of those games are stories for another day. Or something.

The game that defined my childhood was Where In The U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego?

Back when I was a little Fablet I was a daycare kid. Both my parents worked so I didn't exactly go to kindergarten, I went to daycare that doubled as kindergarten but wasn't really. And honestly what does anyone learn in kindergarten except how to scribble on paper? This daycare had a computer room which was full of crappy old Apple Macintosh's and mostly used for Kid Pix or Pinball or Tetris under the guidance of the staff. I was told that one game on the computer was 'too hard' for kids my age so naturally that just made me want to play it more. That game was Where in the U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego?

At the time I didn't know it was an educational game and while other kids would play Oregon Trail just to play the hunting game, every day I was playing this Carmen Sandiego game. For the first couple weeks I didn't know what the hell to do, I was just clicking and watching the little animations of interstate travel happen. It wasn't until one of the staff members helped me understand the point, that I was supposed to read and use clues to find where these crude little cartoon people went where I started to discover how incorrectly I'd been playing.

So I kept at it, and I wound up playing it as intended: looking things up and learning. My profile on the game was tied to a specific machine and there was a notice put up for anyone using the machine that they weren't allowed to mess with my profile. I was just glad to prove people wrong who told me the game was too hard for me. Technically they were kind of right but even though I never actually got far enough to catch Carmen Sandiego, I did learn enough about the United States and about reading to impress the shit out of my grade school teachers - the the point where by like third grade they were letting me read chapter books without pictures.

I've gone back to play it in my adult years thanks to DOS-BOX but that is a game that is very much of a time and place. It did get me to beg my parents to buy me "Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time" which was my first point and click adventure game and only helped make me even more of an annoying know-it-all shit kid well into grade school.

Carmen Sandiego remains one of my all time favorite video game characters, though I guess she's more of a general 'fictional character' these days. One day I'll catch her again. One day.

Stretchers, Stethoscopes, and Scalpels: First Year

She lives. @Bee@MesuOkami@Universorum

Eugene Kim

Dr. Stick in the Mud

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"Everyone in this wants to save lives and feel like a rockstar when they do it. Surgeons like to think they're God. "

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CMH Personnel File

Name

Yunjin "Eugene" Kim

Birthday & Age

October 13. 30

Gender & Sexual Orientation

Female. Who has time for sex?

Other Labels

Stick in the Mud | Recovering and Rediscovering Catholic | University of Chicago, Pritzker (Summa Cum Laude) | Unfortunate Realist

Occupation

First Year Surgical Resident

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"The fact is sometimes she believes it. That she can be happy the way things are. Be happy with the things she's done"

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CMH Psychological Evaluation

Personality

The Positive:

• Problem-Solver
• Assertive
• Tactful

The Negative:

• Cynical
• Phlegmatic
• Moralistic

Evaluation Observations:
It's almost a cliche but Eugene does tend to come off as the 'fun police' of the surgical ward, which makes her no one's favorite resident. Regardless of how she views others under her direct care - none can say she doesn't care. Eugene holds herself to higher standards than the other surgeons of the department and in turn expects her fellow residents to meet them, which has the unfortunate benefit of giving Eugene a reputation for being something of a stick in the mud given her distaste for things she considers to be 'frivolous' such as her views on the 'booty on-call room'. Everything aside, however, and it's easy to see why Eugene is at home when she is allowed to scrub in; her bedside manner could use some work but her meticulous nature and perfectionist preferences makes her a boon with the scalpel. Eugene is a hard person to like on the job, but she's playing the long game and that leaves little times for making friends.

Actual Personality:
Eugene feels like she has the weight of the world on her shoulders damn near every day, and that's before adding to the fact that lives are literally in the hands of her and her surgeons. In truth, she's often jealous of her peers when said peers seem to be managing the hectic and stressful realities of the job with a seemingly normal social and romantic life. She's well aware that the majority of her social interactions comes with dealing with patients who think they know better than the staff or from desperately trying to let other doctors let her scrub in, and that takes its toll. While it's true she hasn't made friends with her residents, she also respects them all individually. They've earned at least that much just by making it this far and putting on the scrubs.

History:

The only thing that matters with Eugene's history is her credentials, and that's all she typically talks about. She was born overseas, in Busan, but her family relocated to the States when her father's job at an automobile manufacturer needed an experienced hand to manage a new branch in America. Eugene, born Yunjin, didn't always want to be in the medical profession, there was a time where she figured working on cars like her dad would be fine, but the best bit of advice her parents gave her was not feeling the need to simply follow in their footsteps. In high school Yunjin thought she might like to be a cop after the school had a D.A.R.E. assembly. She still isn't sure why she opted to enter the medical program at the Pritzker School at her university but it was the right choice.

She was going to do her residency at Chicago Medical Center and they would have been happy to have her - but she heard about Jack Marshall and the idea of a competing hospital sounded promising - and put in to transfer to Caduceus Mercy which was a risk to say the least. She makes no attempt to hide the fact that she is ladder oriented in that she has every intention of making Chief of Surgery by any means necessary. Most simply think she's arrogant because of it.

Anything else about Eugene she keeps mostly to herself. Except why she goes by Eugene, and that's because one of her earliest patients had difficulty saying 'Yunjin' and kept calling her 'Eugene'. Some of her peers thought it was funny and used it to poke fun.

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"In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive." - Haruki Murakami

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Off the Record

My Dreams

Eugene has one dream and that is making chief of surgery by age forty. It seems like a rather insane plan given that ten years isn't all that much time, but she has a plan. Three years to make attending. Five years as an attending, then two years as a department head while grooming the chief for her own promotion. She knows she has the skills, at least she thinks she does, so the only one who can stand in the way of her goal is, as always, herself.

She also wouldn't say no to being invited to the bar with her other surgical residents. At least once. Maybe.

Fears

• Malpractice
• Heights. She only reluctantly took a plane to move from Chicago to California because it was cheaper than hauling everything she brought with her in a car.
• Meaningful Relationships, given the fact that she doesn't seem to have friends or romantic pursuits.

Likes

• Fuji Apple flavored water
• Fiction novels in the magical realism genre
• A glass of wine with a good meal
• Funk music
• Chamomile tea before bed
• Cats
• The lack of winter weather

Dislikes

• The 'booty on-call room'
• Liars, specifically patients who aren't upfront about their medical history or drug use.
• More than one glass of wine/alcoholic beverages
• Gossip in the work place
• The 'surgery corner' in the lobby.

Reputation

An overly serious over-achiever who should be making friends and connections while she can but doesn't seem to know how.

Extra information
She owns a cat named Kafka. She has a stuffed animal she sleeps with and once made the mistake of bringing it to the on-call room. There was a picture taken. That was not a fun week.

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Alrighty, I'm gonna have my post up in no fewer than two days.

The Astonishing X-Men

Aegis

_{Student Information}

Gender

Female

Age

19

Physical Traits

Ana Sofia has above medium length light brown hair that most recently had an experimenting phase wherein her bangs were dyed a periwinkle pink; it didn't exactly take but the tips of her hair are still an even lighter color than her already light-by-brown-standards hair.She stands at a modest 5'6" with a build that couldn't be described as dainty or frail. She's not about to break any lifting records but she has the build of someone who cares enough to make sure her legs and thighs look good in pants as much as they do in skirts, which is her garment of choice. It's hard to tell if Ana Sofia is a late bloomer or an early peaker, but given that she has come out of the cocoon that was unflattering sweaters and mussed up hair since her arrival, at some point she found her physical confidence and never let it out of sight.

Hometown

Miami, Florida

Academics

Ana Sofia comes off as a bit of a teacher's pet for all the negative that that brings with it, though given the fact that there are those who basically cheat their way with their enhanced intellect she has never nor likely will ever reach the top of the class. So much for a valedictorian speech. Her best class, as in the one she doesn't study much for, is history while her weakest subject is math because who has time for all the formulas. Sometimes she wishes she could read minds in order to close the gap between the real top of the class and the mentally enhanced, but for now she'll enjoy her placing.

Personality Traits

• Empathetic
• Articulate
• Conciliatory
• Decisive
• Trsuting

• Competitive
• Demanding
• Sentimentalist
• Zealous
• Provacative

_{Gifted Youngster}

Call-Sign

Aegis

Costume

If she could get away with it, she'd wear a skirt into battle but that wouldn't be tactically sound. She settles for purple leather pants and a pink halter with the 'X' logo on a belt buckle.

Mutation

Telempathy: Shorthand for 'Telepathic Empathy', Ana Sofia is a telepath who doesn't read or control minds but reads and manipulates the emotions of people. It's unclear if she can read minds, but if there's one thing she's learned it's that minds can be made t be deceptive but feelings are honest every single time. With her empathy abilities she can instinctively draw people to her with the power of suggestion, though she is adamant that she wouldn't do it as it robs people of their free will and that she'd rather people be honest with her about her. If she is tuned into a particularly strong emotion she can experience the memory or 'echo' associated with it. Her main use is in inspiring others through emotional control, such as making sure her allies - assuming they let her in - are keeping their cool in a high stress situation thus allowing them to fight on. Since arriving she's started to discover more uses for her telepathy and her empathy, her telempathy, such as forming a strong emotional bond with someone so that she can know when they are in danger as well as healing emotional scars and wounds.

It is incredibly difficult to lie to Ana Sofia because of her connection with emotions. At the moment, she has an empathatic link with one person only.

Empathetic Forcefields: An offshoot of her telepathic side, Ana Sofia can maintain a defensive forcefield - or shield - around a person or persons. It is strongest when her emotions are in check, and strong positive emotions, such as love, make for the strongest forcefield. They aren't impenetrable and the mental strain it puts on her is quite severe, but it's the price she pays for keeping those she cares about safe.

Weaknesses

Because she's empathetic and telepathic she is sensitive to emotions and feels them stronger than others. This has the adverse effect of making her prone to being a bit of an emotional mess which in turn messes with how well or easily she can tap into her powers. Fortunately one of the first things she learned was how not to hear the emotions of every person around her at all times, though even something as simple as brushing someone in passing can have her hear emotional echoes if there's a strong emotional response there. Headaches are frequent. Against non-human or non-emotional beings or creations she's next to useless and anyone who knows how to shut telepaths out of their mind are unaffected by her abilities.

Prior to Joining the School

Ana Sofia's was a simple upbringing that nevertheless was rooted in the heritage of her parents. Her father owned and operated a small walk-in restaurant specializing in Cuban sandwiches - and anyone who asked for salami was promptly told to take their business upstate and out of sight. At night, her father would let local talent have a space to perform which elevated the hole-in-the-wall sandwich shop into something of a local spot for the Cuban population in the area. Ana Sofia sometimes helped out as a young girl, writing down orders on a little pink notepad because she was too young to work behind the counter. Her mother taught English to adults at night school after failing the bar exam one time too many.

For a while, Ana Sofia assumed she'd inherit the shop which wasn't the worst thing imaginable, and when she turned thirteen she started working the register for allowance but only after her homework was done. It was around her thirteenth birthday that the magical time known as puberty struck. The time in everyone's life where boys realize that girls don't have cooties and girls realize that boys have brains elsewhere than their skulls. At first she couldn't explain it. During a math test in school shortly after puberty was taking its toll, Ana Sofia dropped a pencil on the floor and leaned over to pick it up. It was then she heard the irregular heart beating like a thumping bass drum in her ear coming from Rodrigo, who happened to notice that Ana Sofia was filling out her shirt a bit tighter all of a sudden.

From there it only spiraled as Ana Sofia became more and more distracted by the things she was hearing all around her. Being tuned into the emotions of boys and girls who were just starting to enter the awkward adolescence part of life was a terrifying experience. It came to a head one day as she was walking to class and bumped into Rodrigo and tapped into a somewhat graphic fantasy involving Rodrigo and herself; in response she shoved Rodrigo who wound up tripping backwards and busting his head on a hard locker. He went to the hospital. She got suspended.

Things weren't any easier at home where she understood the stress her parents were going through; the restaurant was being overshadowed by larger chains which was making the place far less profitable, and worse her mother no longer had feelings for her father and was having an affair with a fellow English teacher. When she was fourteen, Ana Sofia didn't want to leave her room, which only served to add to the stress of the household that was already shaky like a house of cards. A psychiatrist was called in, but it wasn't a normal psychiatrist that opened the door. It was a woman with red hair who said she could help.

Post Powers

Ana Sofia arrived shortly after the death and funeral of Charles Xavier and by all accounts she was sad to not have known him. Arriving at the impressionable age of fourteen, Ana Sofia took time to adjust to her surroundings, being shy and not much for speaking for that first year. Fortunately, Jean helped Ana Sofia shut out the emotions she was feeling by helping Ana Sofia realize that it was a subconscious thing at first. Once she started to understand how there were other kids like her, ones who had come in scared or unsure, she mellowed and found her place; it helped that she got training from a fellow member of the mental based mutants even if her telepathy was somewhat different from the norm.

By age sixteen she had filled out and become the Ana Sofia the school is familiar with and used to; it was that year where she met Soren and started dating. They've had their relationship going for three years now and it's not escaped her ears that some have started referring to them as each other's 'Sword and Shield'. Ana Sofia doesn't know about that, she just knows that anyone caught looking at her man is in for a bit of feisty in their face - and trust her, she'll know if anyone's been looking.

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Stretchers, Stethoscopes, and Scalpels: First Year

First

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But leave poor Togepi and Miltank out of it!

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