• Name: Emily Dawson
• Appearance: 
A very pretty blonde woman with short hair, 5 feet tall with a slender build. Bright, wide blue eyes with an intense look about them. Wears fashionable street clothes.
• Age: Twenty One
• Personality: Emily talks. A lot. All the time. Ever since she was a kid she's never been able to shut up. Her stream of consciousness is vocalized, she always needs something to talk about. If not talk to others, than talk to herself. Even when someone is speaking directly to her, she's murmering under her breath. She can't seem to help it. If it's not talking, it's singing, and if it's not singing it's whistling. The best you can get is very low humming.
She has a strange way of viewing the world, being very cheerful and optimistic, sometimes inappropriately so. If she's not being very friendly, she'll be trying to do something to cure her boredom. If she doesn't get her way she can become displeased and go for it anyway. Overall she is a very volatile person in both directoins. Recklessly curious, she'll follow whatever instinct or impulse or question she has to it's termination point. Very easily distracted, she'll go off on tangent after tangent, fixating on certain topics or ideas only to dismiss them the moment she finds a new one. Social boundaries escape her, and she'll ask offensive questions and violate personal space often.
In fact, Emily can behave like a cruel person, hurting others while not realising the depths of what she is saying or doing. A flippant disregard for safety that shows that while Emily does care a lot, she has a hard time putting herself in others shoes.
Emily loves very deeply, and more than anything strives for human connection. She hates being alone and being lonely. The idea that people might not like her stresses her out a lot. Which is unfortunate, because her off-putting nature means only people who can tolerate strangeness will want to be around her. Emily really likes helping people, and she really likes doing what she likes. But if she doesn't get praise of appreciation for it, it might ruin her motivation to do it.
For a very long time, self-esteem was a big problem for her, and in many ways it still is. Due to her past, her mental conditions, and her actions, sometimes Emily thinks she isn't worthy of love. To hurt herself she cuts herself off from her friends and family. When she hates herself the most she bites her tongue to prevent herself from speaking.
• Powers: Moving Drawings- Emily loves to draw, and she can make pencil and pen drawings move like cartoons.
The Dive- Has access to a two-way ticket into people's minds.
- Psychic Specialty: Octo-Pole Links
Within her, Emily has Eight psionic spheres, like glass. About two inches in diameter. She can draw them from her body telekinetically, and control them with her mind and limbs. These spheres can extended laterally for twenty feet. While they can move quickly with just her mind, their speed and power goes up exponentially if she physically guides with her body, say, her hands. The poles can 'weld', 'link', or 'connect' to objects with the rounded ends.
The poles can either be physically present, in which case they are highly durable, or transluscent and only used for welding things together. If the poles are damaged, Emily feels pain in the corresponding area of her body. If the poles are destroyed, that corresponding area of her body takes severe damage. Transluscent poles can be damaged by psionic attacks and are more vulnerable to them, but physical attacks pass through. They can still be affected by heat, cold, and other status effects.
The spheres that become poles are stored in her arms, chest, hips, and belly. Destroying or damaging the poles will destroy or damage those parts of her body.
The poles can do more than just link physical objects together, they can also link 'attributes', 'aspects' or 'traits' together. For example, the 'aspect' of frictionlessness of an ice cube can be 'linked' to a carpeted floor, causing people to slip and fall. Emily's attribute of 'hearing' could be applied to the wall of a building, allowing her to hear things more clearly on the other side. The durability of her steel pole could be linked to a cardboard box, allowing it to be used as a heavy bludgeon. She can only link solids. The poles are hydrophobic. Liquids and gasses can't be linked.
- Weak Link: Emily is easily distracted. If her focus is broken, her poles might lose links or durability.
Emily is particularly susceptible to illusions or other deceptions, falling for them or being tricked by them nearly every time, even seemingly obvious ones. If she tries to 'link' with an illusion, or she thinks an object has properties that it doesn't, she won't be able to tell it hasn't worked.
Non-solid things in the world are difficult for her to deal with. She cannot link with them and her physical attacks can't affect them.
Her poles are a physical extension of her willpower and body. While this increases their strength dramatically over more mind-based telekinetics and other constructs, this leaves her vulnerable to exploitation. If someone had the ability to cause blindness upon touching someone's body, touching one of Emily's psionic constructs would be a workable substitute.
- Archetype: The Lover- A cartoonish form of Emily, with a large head and big, expressive blue eyes. She wears a denhim blue jacket embroidered with intricate bead patterns, and skinny jeans that fall loosely over pink sneakers. Under the jacket is a pink crop top. Her belly button is pierced with a pink heart.
Skills:Sketch Artist
Memorization
Practiced Gymnast
Saying the alphabet backwards
Really just a bunch of useless eclectic baloney and trivia
Can almost play many instruments
Oddly endearing to some people
Walking on stilts
Dancing, street and formal
History: Emily was a chatterbox baby. Spouting incomprehensible nonsense to herself or others was a habit that would follow her for the rest of her life. Her first word, debatably, was 'hippo hippo hippo' at 9 months old. Her parents, Trevor and Ashley, already had two children: Mackenzie and Eliza. Emily was nine years younger than Eliza, the middle child. Needless to say she was the newest addition to the Dawson family by a long while.
While her family loved her, Emily was a bit of a problem child. Despite her seemingly good intentions she did poorly in school and made few friends, often the target of bullying and ostracization. This just made her want people to like her more, which resulted in even more disastrous 'friendship attempts.' While the bullying was unforgivable, her parents couldn't exactly blame the other children for not wanting to be around Emily. She was... a lot.
Emily discovered her psychic powers when she was a little girl. Maybe, she thought, this was the reason nobody liked her? Because she was special like this? At first she placed the psychic spheres inside some baseballs and pretended to juggle them to impress some of the other girls at her school, all the while reciting that one part of the bible where there's like two thousand names of dads and their sons. At first it was kind of impressive but when she started juggling eight balls and they started obviously floating around the place, the kids at her school got scared. It really didn't help when she grabbed onto a baseball and started to float around, saying the bible names faster like that would somehow soothe their nerves. That was a bad Tuesday.
Reports of the incident put her on ESP's radar, but she was just a child and hadn't done anything illegal or damaging. The psychic community just had a new member. Her parents would have to move the family to Illinois, USA, and do some reading. "Ten things parents of psychic children should know." Yeah. As if raising kids wasn't hard enough.
Emily hung out with her sisters a lot, and while they did occasionally pick on her they were a lot nicer than the bullies at school. Her parents were also stressed out by Emily, who was by the hardest child to manage. They tried to hide it, but Emily was very good at spotting people who started to not like her. While internalizing these feelings she began to try even harder to win her parents approval. Needless to say, it didn't work. She only succeeded in ruining the kitchen of their new house. Emily just felt like she couldn't get it, no matter what she tried.
Through out all of middle school and high school, the only friends Emily had was her exasperated family their dog. Emily knew in her heart that she was just a freak, but ever the optimist, she kept trying anyway. Not like she could stop herself from shutting up anyway. Particularly strict teachers held a grudge against the teen for her behavior. They could really ruin her school year. Her grades did not improve. One of the only places she found solace was in gymnastics. Nobody could argue or downplay her results, right?
Everything changed come college. Emily wasn't sure what she was going to be, but she had to do something, right? There she met a quiet boy named Jerome, and the two really hit it off. Jerome was the outcasted quiet kid, she was ostracized loud kid. They quickly became best friends. Incidents with Emily became less and less common the more time she spent around Jerome. Around him, she felt like...a person.
One day after school, Emily accidentally revealed to Jerome she was a pyschic. While she was sure that was the end, he didn't seem to mind. He just smiled calmly and let her perform tricks for him.
In her second year of college, after being friends with Jerome for a year, Emily started walking the path that would lead to her Break. She began developing the symptoms of what would later be diagnosed as Paranoid Schizophrenia. Emily became convinced there was a living tree stalking her. It sounds stupid now, but her literal magic powers lended credence to the idea in her afflicted mind.
While she kept it to herself due to fear of being dismissed or accused of lying, the symptoms got worse. Delusion gave way to hallucination. When she was over at Jerome's house, she became violent, and battered him away with her powers accidentally. Normally a breakdown like this could be more peacefully resolved, but Emily's powers were acting up because of her fear and confusion.
Emily locked herself in the bathroom and fell asleep. She became temporarily more lucid and when she arrived, she saw Jerome nursing his injuries. He hadn't called the cops, but Emily knew it was her that had hurt him. All at once she confirmed her own suspicions about herself. She really was a monster and freak, just like everyone had said. As the feeling of being watched once again crawled up her spine and Emily profusely apologized to her best friend, he looked at her and said.
"You're not a monster, Emily. You deserve love, okay?" Jerome had decided not to call the police for one reason or another. Instead he gave Emily the chance to go in on her own terms. It was a huge risk, but Jerome didn't want to betray his best friend.
That was the moment Emily Broke. Jerome gave her inner fears a solid haymaker that jostle her worldview out of position. Holding hands, she automatically dove right into his mind. Not sure what just happened, Emily began poking around in this strange new world.
She managed to withdraw without causing too much damage, although Jerome strongly disliked PB&J and liked Shrimp a lot more from there on out. But afterwards, Emily had to get her problems figured out. She was diagnosed and put on medication. Still curious about her new powers, she started diving pretty regularly into people's minds for fun, not really seeing the issue. Occasionally she wondered if her medicine was working, or if this was all some bizarre hallucination.
After causing the annoying head teacher on her college campus to forget how to read as a prank, Emily recorded it and posted it online. This got the attention of the ESP, who knew she was a psychic. When they sent an Agent named Morgan to investigate, Emily Dove into her mind and made Agent Morgan think Emily was her best friend. Afterwards ESP brought the hammer down and arrested Emily. There was a brief confrontation where a confused Emily barricaded herself in her room, but was subdued by sleeping gas and then brought in.
At the very least this confirmed that she wasn't 'crazy'...unless the shadow government organization was also made up by her mind. Tricky tricky tricky.
Emily's overall outlook on life is a troubled one but ever since the night she Broke she's been on a slow but positive trend upwards. Now she just has to figure out what to do with her life. Is there a spot in it for someone as strange as her? Maybe...just maybe.
Misc: She used to have her belly button pierced with a pink heart, like her Archetype, but not anymore.
Emily is bisexual.
Jerome is still Emily's best friend, though they are taking a bit of a break from hanging out with each other so much. Probably because of the assault.
She has an OCD comorbidity with her schizophrenia, manifesting in her chatterbox nature and a few other places.
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