Realistic or Modern The Institute - Character Thread

[Owl Knight]

Spoiler: Character Sheet

Name:
Age: (16-20)
Height:
Physical Description:
Personality:
Background: (Where did they come from? What was their life like before they were trapped in the institute? Remember, these are all kids from troubled homes who would not be missed if they disappeared. (

Every character should have a specific, unique power, but that power has to have a challenging side effect they must manage or learn to control.

Character Suggestions (feel free to make your own or use these templates)
- A metahuman who can move with incredible speed and agility, but their metabolism makes them sluggish and tired if they can't take in enough food.
- A girl who was pregnant when the experiment started, so rather than becoming a metahuman herself, her child becomes a metahuman. As the child grows, so does its powers and she has little to no control over it.
- A metahuman who has nearly impenetrable skin, but also can't be given shots or blood transfusions
- A metahuman with catlike reflexes, and night vision, but whose skin had grown a coat of fur, making it hard for them to appear in public.
- A metahuman who builds up kinetic energy and can release it, but sometimes can't control it and has to get away from people quickly before the energy they store up releases and causes injuries.

The players will work together to escape the institute and avoid the dangerous metahuman agents that work for the institute. Along the way they may encounter friends and foes alike.

 

[PixieDust]

BASICS & APPEARANCE

NAME
Ivy Brent
AGE
20
HEIGHT
5'3"
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Ivy is a pretty young woman with dishevelled, dirty blonde hair, solemn brown eyes and a heart shaped face. She is below average height and has a dainty, but slightly underweight frame. She tends to dress rather nondescript in dark hoodies and jeans, not wanting to draw attention to her now pale green skin from the experiments she has been forced through. It is rare that she lets her hood down, ashamed of how hideous her skin looks. She feels as though she looks like The Wicked Witch of the West or something now.

PERSONALITY & POWERS

POWERS
Ivy has gained the ability to summon organic vine-like plants from her body (usually her hands). These can be used in both defence and offence. However this power comes at a cost. Each time Ivy summons these plants it is excruciatingly painful for her and her body now has to produce chloryphl to create these vines. Because of this, her skin has taken on a pale green, almost sickly hue and Ivy hates to be seen in public. She is also generally weaker at night time and thrives in sunlight and has a slightly higher than average tolerance to pain. If the vines she creates are severed, Ivy will experience immense pain and instantly pass out for up to ten minutes at a time.

PERSONALITY
Ivy is shy and introverted, but a natural caregiver and can be overly giving. Although she cares about people very much, Ivy finds it hard to form strong and long-lasting bonds with people because she is afraid of being hurt or hurting them. She is a creative thinker and loves to draw. Ivy tends to stress a lot about things that she cannot control and tries too hard to control the things she can. She avoids conflicts to a fault, making her too agreeable and unassertive.

Ivy can be stubborn when it comes to her morals and is surprisingly unbending when it comes to her most deeply held beliefs in non-violence and kindness, although because her natural tendency is toward pleasing people and peacemaking, she will not have any qualms with telling a white lie if it means everyone will get along.

If one takes the time to get to know Ivy well enough, they will be surprised at how much of a realist she can be and her sometimes dark and edgy sense of humour. Although she is at heart an idealist, she is under no illusions about how cruel the world can be and dislikes toxic optimism and sugary-sweet catchphrases. She doesn't necessarily embrace the dark side of life, but she definitely knows that she has her own dark side.

VIRTUES
Creative, kind, loyal
VICES
Unassertive, controlling, neurotic
FEARS
Being touched, conflict, violence, nightmares she has of being experimented on

BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Ivy has always been a quiet, private and pacifistic girl, though her home life was anything but peaceful. She was born to a cruel and volatile mother, who's name was Rose and a father whom Ivy knows nothing of other than that he 'abandoned' them shortly after she and her twin brother Brayden were born. She was born in the town of Springdale.

Rose did not make life easy for Ivy. When they were both still infants, Ivy's twin brother Brayden sadly passed away, sending her mother into a tailspin and making her more volatile. Rose never wasted an opportunity to let Ivy know that she loved Brayden more and wished Ivy had never even been born.

Though Ivy faced physical and verbal abuse from her mother for her entire life, she refused to fight her back. She was always a quiet and peaceful child and never wanted to become as cruel as her mother. She did not have any close friends to speak of, in fact, Ivy was pretty much invisible to all her peers. She liked it that way, but whenever people did take the time to speak to her, she was always kind and attentive, and quick to avoid conflict at all costs. Though Ivy though about running away several times, she also felt a guilt about leaving her unstable mother on her own, so she stayed until she was taken away to The Institute.

EXTRAS

THEME SONG
Imaginary-Evanescence

|| LIKES ||
Drawing
Quiet places
Nature
Edgy humour
Music and literature

|| DISLIKES ||
Arrogance
Bullying
Violence
Bubblegum pop music
Nightmares

SEXUALITY

Straight

BIRTHDAY

June 12

RELATIONSHIPS
TBD

 

[Owl Knight]

PixieDust this is great! Approved.

 

[Wisteria Romance]

• Basics
• Personality
• Biography
• Ability

• 
  Name: Daphne Xiong (Daph)
  Gender: Female
  Age: 18
  Sexuality: "Don't worry about that stuff."
  Ethnicity: Hmong (Southeast Asian)
  Occupation: High school dropout, ex-gang member
  
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  Height: 5'7 (170 cm)
  Weight: 135 lbs (61 kg)
  Appearance: Daphne has a slender toned body that consists of long limbs. Being Southeast Asian, she was born with a medium-golden tan complexion with dark brown eyes and black hair that's messily chopped into a wolf-cut. Although her powers haven't given her obvious signs of side effects from afar, her impenetrable skin noticeably acts similar to metal with only the coloring out of place. It reflects in the sun, and there are various scratches and dents all over her arms that almost look like what a scratch and a dent would look like on a car rather than flesh. Her style typically consists of loose, modern neutral-toned clothing.
  Faceclaim: Prim Patnasiri
  
• 
  
  
  Having grown up under the shadow of her older sister, Daphne had an inferiority complex which she would cope with by being rebellious. She often did things that gave her the momentary high of freedom, even though they weren’t the most morally correct. Daphne was always spirited and never ran away from taking risks, a trait that you could either call reckless or courageous. However, after being disowned by her family and the betrayal of Salida, Daphne adopted a more reclusive personality and prefers the accompaniment of solitude. She has grown very scared to trust others and it takes a lot to be able to break past her defensive mechanisms, but once you bulldoze your way through you’ll find that Daphne is just a vulnerable soul who only wanted to do what she thought was right for herself.
  
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  Likes: Loyalty, spicy foods, 7/11 slushees, being recognized, rock music
  Dislikes: Betrayal, being compared to someone else, birds (specifically chickens), and the smell of gasoline
  Theme Song: Blaze - Rolling Quartz
  
• 
  
  
  
  Daphne Xiong was born into a low-income Hmong family who lived in a rough neighborhood on the outskirts of the city that had a heavy population of Southeast Asians. The neighborhood was overrun by gang activity, but Daphne’s parents always tried to make sure that their children grew up staying on the right path in hopes that they would go on to live a normal life.
  
  Her childhood was fairly normal. She was raised along with an older sister, Hli, by her parents who she was initially close to, but as they grew up both Hli and Daphne began hanging out in different crowds that eventually began the start of their distant relationship. Hli was an upstanding student who worked hard in excelling everything that she put her mind to. She was social and worked hard in being an active member of many clubs, won multiple awards, and was always getting along with almost anybody she encountered. Daphne was the opposite. While her sister was the star student of their school, Daphne fell into the wrong crowd with a girl who eventually became a close friend. The girl, Salida, began coaxing her to try things together out of curiosity and eventually Daphne got roped into experimenting with different substances such as underage drinking and smoking.
  
  Salida eventually began to expand beyond those “childish” measures and started to invite Daphne to go hang out with some friends. At night, Daphne would sneak out of the house to go meet with these “friends”, who would later turn out to be older boys who were members of a well-known gang around their neighborhood. When Daphne found out, she was apprehensive at first. However, as life at home got harder for her due to her parents’ constant comparisons between her and her sister, Daphne began hanging out with the gang more and more as a means of escape. Eventually, she willingly became part of the gang and started sneaking out multiple nights to hang out with them who she considered as family.
  
  
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  When Daphne’s parents found out one night about her activities, they were livid. They caught her sneaking back into her room because they had grown suspicious of her whereabouts and waited until she returned. When Daphne encountered her parents, she was immediately confronted with their explosive chastising to the point where they began conducting verbal abuse against her.
  
  “How could you do this to us? You no good waste of a daughter!” “Your sister Hli would never do something like this!” “From now on, you are no daughter of mine. You are as good as trash. There is no room for you in this family.” “Don’t ever come back to this house, I never want to see you again.”
  
  Ousted by her parents, Daphne cried tragically at the realization that her family had disowned her. Running away, she headed to the only place that she knew of. Knocking at the door of Salida’s home, which acted as the main place for the gang to convene, Daphne begged and pleaded for Salida to allow her to stay at her house for a while until she was able to find a way to sort things out. When Salida heard the news of Daphne’s disownment, she simply met her with a smirk.
  
  “Sorry. That’s not my problem.”
  
  Daphne looked at her in shock, before blubbering in desperation at what she meant. It was then that Salida revealed how she never truly thought of Daphne as a friend, she only hung out with her to get back at her older sister, Hli, for embarrassing her. She felt no sentiments of friendship for Daphne at all, and was only planning to destroy her life the same way that Hli destroyed hers (or at least Salida believed she did). After Salida’s speech, Daphne noticed that the gang members were surrounding her at the door. Their once friendly faces suddenly seemed more menacing than usual, and their menace seemed to be directed at her.
  
  “Consider this your goodbye ceremony. You’re no longer part of our crowd.”
  
  Before Daphne could say anything, the gang members charged towards her. However, all she could remember then was hearing an explosion right before she was knocked out cold, the last thing she felt being the intense heat of an explosive.
  
• 
  After being experimented on, Daphne has the ability of impenetrable skin that can nearly protect against anything. However, because her skin cannot be dug into, she is not able to receive necessary shots or blood transfusions. Her ability doesn’t have any noticeable side effects aside from what was stated in her appearance, but when you touch her skin it doesn’t feel like flesh. It feels more like a solid, sturdy surface that’s identical to how metal would feel except it’s not cold.
  
  Her skin’s layers act similarly to the earth’s layers. Her epidermis is the most protective layer of all and is tough to get through, but as you damage her layers of skin they get less and less protective, which can eventually become lethal if she’s damaged too much. Overall though she is basically like a human shield and will have no issues with putting herself in harm’s way if it means protecting someone who she cares about.
  
  
  
  
  

 

[Owl Knight]

Name: Everett Barnes
Age: 19
Height: 5' 9"

Appearance: Everett is a slight and unassuming youth, sinewy and toned from working on his father's lumber yard in the summers with sandy hair and slate blue eyes. His mutation does not affect his appearance until he is gathering kinetic energy to release, which makes his muscles glow through his skin.

Personality: Everett's father was an abusive drunk who drove away Everett's mother with his intolerable behavior when he was thirteen. She always promised to come back and get her son out of the situation, but after four years of waiting, the boy figured that it was unlikely she would ever come back. Everett is a quiet and closed off youth who is slow to trust and slower to open up with his inner feelings. On particularly bad days he would often bottle up the intense feelings of the day and walk deep into the wood behind his father's house where he would yell and pound his fists on a tree. His inability to process the hurt and anger led him to flounder in school and struggle to make meaningful friendships. He contains his anger as well as he can, but it often manifests as stubborn silence.

Metahuman Mutation: After being experimented on, Everett's body began to generate kinetic energy which he can release in targeted blasts. It is easiest to do this from his hands, but he can, in theory, release the energy from any part of his body. The negative impact of this power is that it leaves him numb and exhausted after using it for a sustained amount of time, he can also overcharge and reach a kind of critical mass where his body expels a tremendous amount of energy in all directions. This can be extremely dangerous to the people around him.

 

[Owl Knight]

Wisteria Romance approved!

 

[Young_Charles99]

~LIAM BRADLEY~

• PHYSICAL
• PSYCH
• META

• 
  
  NAME...............Liam Jonathan Bradley
  AGE...................20
  GENDER...........Male
  HEIGHT............5'9”
  WEIGHT...........162 lbs
  DESCRIPTION

  Liam doesn't look like much at first glance. Always dressing in heavy clothes and listening to music, he's not one for showing off or showing anything whatsoever. He's much of a listener, saving his words for when they're necessary. Although he's quiet, he'll welcome any conversation. Liam's shoulders are more than often tensed up, looking to be in a constant state of discomfort. Eye contact is important for him, requiring it for any social interactions; avoiding this makes him distrustful.
• 
  
  INTERESTS...........Literature | Running | Sketching
  DISINTERESTS...Television | Politics | Confrontation
  PREFERENCE.......Men
  BEHAVIOR

  Without the add-on of a meta ability that completely scrambles your brain, Liam is already split on who he really is. As he's grown up, he's established different personalities that take over when he lets them. He's even gone as far as naming them. When he loses himself to his anger and makes everyone his enemy, that's Lucas. Wanting to completely give up and accept the inevitability of failure is Lance. Feeling confident and powerful, like the world is a brand new box of crayons, is called Larry. When he's chill and taking things one step at a time, that's good old Liam.
• 
  

  Telepathy

  The ability to manipulate mental energies at will. There are many different ways to use this ability, each with its own drawback; his pupils swallow their irises when the drawbacks take affect.

  1. Telepathic Speech

  Communicating with another creature within a 50-foot radius.

  The longer the conversation goes, the more exhausted the user becomes until falling unconscious.

  2. Mind Link

  Experience everything another creature is experiencing, replacing the five senses of the user with the five senses of the creature being linked.

  When the link is severe, the user will experience a period of identity confusion.

  3. Psychic Bedlam

  Crawl deep inside a creature's mind to fill its mind with immense psychic energy, forcing it into a state of pure insanity as if a thousands voices were speaking at one.

  Unfortunately, this results in a backfire, causing the wielder mental pain and brief insanity.

 

[Owl Knight]

Young_Charles99 approved!

 

[Walnutt]

Faceclaim - Kim Min Jeong
Legal Name - Megan Stone
Nickname - Winter
Age - 19
Sexuality - Asexual
Occupation - Whatever makes her money

Height - 5'4
Weight - 105 lbs
Appearance - Although Winter had always been on the paler side, her skin became almost as white as snow after the experimentations. She has midnight black hair and dark brown eyes, which she likes to cover with icy blue contacts for that extra "pop". Winter also almost always wears long sleeve shirts as, being a petite woman who puts herself into ridiculously dangerous positions, she likes to carry thin blades hidden from view. They're strapped to her forearms by a garter, and she can strike out at anyone simply by pulling her sleeve up a few inches.

Personality - Cold and calculating, she never cares to become close with anyone unless it benefits her in some way and, if she does get close to someone, she has absolutely no issue with throwing them to the side if her needs change. People are simply objects that allow Winter to achieve a personal goal. Her base nature is to be quiet, watch, and listen. If a social situation calls for it, she can switch and become talkative, friendly, flirty, or ditzy at a moment's notice. But don't be fooled; if Winter is nice to you, she wants something. And when she wants something, she doesn't stop until she gets it. She's not completely emotionless! She feels satisfaction when a goal is achieved, and she often feels joy when someone is emotionally or physically hurt.

History - Born into a stable, upper-middleclass family, Winter had the idealistic childhood. Loving parents, lessons in whatever she wanted to do, family vacations every summer. She excelled in school from a young age and always won the seat as class president. But none of this brought Winter joy. She always had this incessant need for more fulfillment. It wasn't any fun just being given something by her parents or teachers; she wanted to take it for herself. One semester in 5th grade, a girl in Winter's class finished the year with a higher score. After school, Winter followed the girl on her way home. This was a safe suburb where children would often walk themselves home as crime was almost non-existent. Winter had a bat that she had stolen from the school's PE class and, when she saw no one around, she swung. And swung. She stood over the crying girl, and swung again. And again. This was the first time Winter felt joy. It was an addicting feeling. And of course, the girl deserved it! No one scored better than Winter; that's just how it was.

As an 8th grade graduation present, her parents bought Winter an adorable puppy. Everyone in the neighborhood loved that dog. Even Winter's parents loved it. Almost too much. The dog was annoying, always trying to outshine Winter in the eyes of the people around her.

Spoiler: TW - Animal Abuse/death. Not important to read. tldr; the beginning of her fascination with death

One day, before her parents returned from work, Winter had enough of the dog. She took him in the backyard and, with a bat, swung at the dog again and again. The squeals didn't phase her; they encouraged her. She was fascinated at the moment of death, and spent the whole afternoon examining the dog, lost in her own mind. She was so invested, she didn't realize when her parents had returned home and found her in the backyard, holding a bloodied bat next to the body of their dog.

Their perception of the perfect daughter being shattered, her parents were unsure of what to do besides force her into therapy and to see a psychiatrist. Therapy was where Winter learned to hone and craft her ability to blend in. Using emotions she didn't actually feel at the correct moments was difficult at first, but she soon caught on and, after almost a year, she managed to convince her parents of her "recovery".

At the age of 18, Winter received a call one day that her parents had been in a terrible car accident when a drunk truck driver swerved into oncoming traffic. Both were killed almost instantly. Even this didn't stir emotions with Winter. If anything, it was nice not to have to answer to anyone anymore. She was an adult, after all. Having made connections to "bad people" in high school, she decided that the easiest way to make money was to join them in their endeavors. While never actually joining any gang, Winter gladly played the role of "bait" for a large portion of criminal organizations. She didn't care about the job so long as she was paid. Whether it be luring someone down an alley to be robbed or aiding in the act of kidnapping someone for trafficking, she had no qualms. While working for one of the more notorious gangs, one of the lower-tier guys decided to try and have his way with her. A weak, attractive little girl like her should learn her place. That was her first human kill. A hidden blade straight to the femoral artery, she smiled as the man bled out in the decrepit alley. This gained her notoriety and respect among the criminals so, when Winter suddenly disappeared without a trace one day, they all thought she had been killed while trying to defend herself again.

Metahuman Mutation - After experimentation, Winter gained the ability to drastically decrease the temperature of anything she touches, almost instantly freezing it in a block of ice. Her breath can do this as well which lets her use her ability at range, but to a lesser extent. Someone grabbed her to try and subdue her? She can touch their arm, freezing it almost instantly, and then shatter it like an ice cube—bye arm. The downside is that she has only limited control as to when this happens. At all times her touch will feel like an ice cube to someone else and they'll get chills if they are too close to her when she talks. She also always feels like she's standing outside, naked in a snowstorm. No amount of layers helps to warm her up. It physically doesn't harm her, but mentally she's almost always in pain from it.

Theme Song - Villian - KD/A

 

[Owl Knight]

Walnutt

Metahuman Mutation - After experimentation, Winter gained the ability to drastically decrease the temperature of anything she touches, almost instantly freezing it in a block of ice. Her breath can do this as well which lets her use her ability at range, but to a lesser extent. Someone grabbed her to try and subdue her? She can touch their arm, freezing it almost instantly, and then shatter it like an ice cube—bye arm. The downside is that she cannot control when this happens. Anything she touches will freeze; any room she breathes in will, after a little while, drop drastically in temperature. This has forced her to wear specially designed gloves and masks which contain her ability until she removes them.

I like the idea of this ability a lot. The only thing I might ask you to adjust is the side effects. These kids will be escaping the institute at the start of the RP and be on the run. She is not going to have access to the advanced technology you are describing to contain her side effects. Perhaps it could be something less destructive, like she always feels cold, no matter how warm she dresses or physically touching others causes them pain like touching snow or ice?

 

[AtomBombBaby]

Max Faraday​

Name: Max Faraday
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Sexuality:: “Whatever”
Star Sign: Scorpio
Birthday: October 23
Height: 6’0”

Metahuman Mutation: Max has the ability to phase through objects: his form becomes shimmering and ghostlike, allowing him to walk through doors, walls, and other solid objects, only to reconstitute himself at will on the other side. But there have been times during those awful test trials, in moments of high stress or deep loneliness, when he struggled to become whole again, his form flickering erratically or fading almost entirely as if he might blink out of existence at any moment….

“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts…



…but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”​

• Appearance
• Personality
• Biography

• 
  Max is Max, a ghost just like he’s always been. Max is tall and skinny like he’s always been, and white like he’s always been, and sort of unkempt like he’s always been. Max is tall because he grew that way, having experienced a late growth spurt at seventeen so that he shot up to 5’10”, and then two more inches. Max is white because he never spent much time outdoors, a menagerie of personal problems keeping him cooped up inside where he played video games in the dark, and slept rather than getting up for school, and boredly scrolled through graphic websites that never interested him as much as they should have. His pale skin color is perfect for bruising; when blood hemorrhages and blooms under the skin like dark flower petals, there’s no hiding it. Max is thin, but not skinny, with broad shoulders and a lean frame muscled enough to put up a decent fight, in his arms, in his shoulders. And his legs: he does a lot of running, away naturally, always away.
  Max’s bitter sense of humor pairs well with his smile: it’s a sort of let down smile, a laughingly miserable smile, like when you’re hurt so much the only thing left to do is smile. His slight underbite and that chipped front tooth add to the sort of pathetic hilarity of his grin, which conveys the futility and hope of life all in one contradictory expression. Max’s eyes are like that too, a slate-colored gray, almost black, like dirty wash-water, like all the negativity his parents threw at him as a child was soaked up into his irises.
  Max’s style tends to lean more towards carelessness—net necessarily the “cool” kind, more the “I’m so depressed that crawling out of bed is a feat in and of itself” kind. His dark hair is always a little mussed. As for his clothes, the fabric is soaked in a dizzying mix of strong cologne and cigarette smoke, those old dark skinny jeans and monochromatic hoodies and v-neck t-shirts, and a pair of dark, beat up off-brand Converse. Max doesn’t like to stand out, never has: he just prefers to melt into the background, see-through, invisible. It looks like his deepest, innermost wish finally came true.
• 
  Max is Max, a ghost just like he's always been: a lost spirit trapped in a human body, oscillating between mellow depression vengeful anger on a daily basis. He's confused, protective, aggressive, distrustful, with a gnawing craving for acceptance and a bitter sense of humor. He’s far beyond feeling sorry for himself, and so far beyond wanting people to feel sorry for him—it’s one of the most annoying things someone can do, throw pity in his face. And when Max is irritated, he hurts people.
  Whether he means to or not, it’s one of the less attractive sides to him. He can be downright ruthless, a savage part of him that reveals itself under circumstances where he feels cornered, abused, or betrayed. Almost like the flip of switch Max can become violent, abusive, and aggressive, like a dog that’s been kicked one too many times. It’s almost as if residual pockets of hurt and anger are being torn open, like scars, and the pent-up pain makes him septic with rage: he’s broken furniture and sent his fists through drywall and yelled until his throat was raw, a whirlwind of frustration and panic destroying everything in its path. (Now, these outbursts only serve to trigger his newfound powers, intense emotion causing him to lose himself in a way that’s beyond emotional—it’s physical, too, his form flickering like television static or fading into near-complete opacity.)
  In the end, Max hurts everyone he cares about. While he can be passionate and loving if given the chance, possessiveness comes with the territory. The vice-grip with which he holds on to people he wants to be close to is almost suffocating, his paranoia of being left or betrayed or stabbed in the back sucking the love and life out his relationships. Max knows that he’s the reason why all his relationships seem to crumble or suffer, but testing is his way of protecting himself: he doesn’t want to be with or around someone—he doesn’t want to put emotional stake in someone—who’s going to let him down. He’s a self-fulfilling prophecy that way, pushing and pushing until the inevitable happens: his relationships fray and splinter and finally snap. But despite all of his inner turmoil, Max craves a relationship, and is passionate and protective enough to succeed in one if he learns how to control his inner demons. As tough as Max has been in the past, it’s evident that he’s a fragile person, and his breaking point isn’t pretty. Now, with this new power that’s been bestowed upon him, that breaking point might even be deadly.
• 
  Max’s life began with David and Helen, who brought him into a world they were neither fit nor willing to help him navigate successfully. David was an excessively abusive man. An alcoholic, there were few times he wasn’t drunk—and if not completely drunk, at least sporting a blood alcohol level. His anger was a hallmark of Max’s childhood, which was directed either at Helen or Max—and seeing as how Helen was rarely home, Max was the one who was most often scalded. Helen, on the other hand, was less hands-on and preferred psychologically lashing her son. Between his father’s dehumanizing punishments, his mother’s hateful, scorching words, and the utter neglect that followed in between, Max’s self-esteem was crushed so wholly that he still suffers from a lack of self-worth—the root of nearly all of his problems—to this very day. While Helen worked two waitressing jobs and a part time position at a local convenience store, David did little to contribute to the income; Max’s best memories of his father were of the man sitting in front of the television watching sports, drunk and vulgar, throwing curses at the screen. Even then, before the experiments and the procedures, Max was a ghost.
  Max was eventually rescued by CPS, who finally intervened when he was twelve. He was circulated through a series of foster homes until he was adopted at 15 and brought into a very stable, quiet household. The problem was, Max knew absolutely nothing of “stable” and “quiet,” or of routines, or of responsibility, like getting up at six in the morning to get ready for school or being expected to keep his room clean or getting in trouble for being on the computer at three in the morning. He didn’t know much about eating three full meals a day at the same time with everyone sitting around the same table and talking civilly without alcohol involved. He wasn’t used to living in a family setting where everyone was expected to cooperate and work together—where he came from, it was every man for himself.
  So, from the time he was put into his first foster home, Max was understandably confused and frustrated—after taking care of himself for practically twelve years, Max didn’t want someone else telling him what to do. And a calm household environment was stressful, where his adoptive parents expected to see him and talk to him and interact with him. But Max was used to hiding, wishing for nothing more than to disappear. To this day Max has been unable to adjust, and it’s clear that too much damage was done in his childhood to give him a fair shot at a normal life. Naturally, the only thing for Max to do was act out. It always gets him in trouble, in his relationships, in his educational and professional future, but Max doesn’t have the inner motivation to do anything aside from what he’s always done.
  Needless to say, his sudden disappearance from the messy high-rise apartment he shared with a stranger for a roommate hardly sparked any concern, aside from whether or not rent would get paid the following month. Young adults do this sort of thing, run away, vanish for a few days before turning up again, and let’s be honest—no one would really care if he never came home, anyway.

 

[Aurora Dream]

Name: Andrew Cartwright
Nickname: Prefers to be called Dru or Andy
Age: 19
Sexuality: Bi
Height: 5'10
Physical Description: Dru is a slender looking guy, 5'10 tall with blond hair that looks like it has light brown highlights even though he never dyes his hair. His hairstyle is cut into layers and easy to style. With brown eyes that have specks of amber in them, he wouldn't stand out in a crowd if it weren't for his clothing choices. Dru prefers to wear clothes he considers fun or cool. They come in all kinds of styles but he stays away from neon colors or colors that are too hard on the eyes. His wardrobe includes a lot of hoodies and socks with patterns as well as alternative fashion clothes. He paints his fingernails black or white depending on what he is wearing.

Spoiler: photos

Personality: Dru used to be very outgoing and a social guy that spent more time with friends and around people than alone. He never liked the 'getting to know you phase' and often just approached someone and started a conversation even if he didn't know them very well. That caused him to be popular with some people while others called him a weirdo. He tended to hide his emotions with a smile so he smiled very often no matter what he was feeling. Since he was locked up in the facility he changed a bit but he still prefers to be around people than alone, even if it's just sitting with someone in silence. He is very protective of those he lets into his circle of friends and really hates when someone blames him for something he didn't do, it tends to make him so angry he lashes out in any way he can.

Background:
Dru was born in America but soon after he was born his family moved to Japan. He grew up with his mother and father and had a relatively good childhood despite the struggle the family had with money. Everything was well until the day Dru had an accident that led to him ending up in the hospital where events lead to the revelation that his father wasn't really his father. His parents divorced and following a big fight his mother forbade Dru's father to contact him again, not that the man wanted to anyway. At that point, Dru was seventeen years old and his mother became emotionally unstable. She packed some of their things and moved them back to America. She thought she could start over and be happy but her behavior only drove people away and caused there to be more and more of a distance between her and Dru. After even his rebelling and acting out didn't help get his mother's attention Dru eventually had enough and ran away from home which is when he was taken from the streets by people from the institute.

Power:

Persuasion

Using his voice he can persuade a person to do what he tells them to do but this power only works if he is heard by the person he is trying to influence and if his voice isn't messed with. To prevent him from using his power on the people in the institute they used a special choker that changed his voice so his power wouldn't work while he had it on.
Due to having this power anyone who knows about it seems very distrustful of him, questioning if he is using his ability on them or when he asks for something often refusing just to see that they can and he isn't using his ability. He also gets headaches if he tries to use his power on very strong minded people because it takes more of his concentration for the power to work.

 

[Owl Knight]

AtomBombBaby Great! Approved!

Aurora Dream This is all good! Can you add in a negative consequence of his power? I can suggest that the ability to persuade people with his voice might make the people around him feel really distrustful.

 

[heyitsave]

Fire and the Flood

Vance Joy

Adonis

R

equisite.

name

Adonis "Ado" Myers

age

18

ability

A sort of sixth sense that warns of danger and helps guide him through difficult situations. He’s described his power to manifest in the form of “ghosts from his past,” but tests to determine whether the dead were actually communicating with him, or if it's simply heightened instincts, have been inconclusive. As a side effect, the voices of these "ghosts” make it hard for him to concentrate.

height

6 ft (182 cm)

physical desc.

Dark, shaggy brown hair that often falls into his eyes. His eyes are a dusty brown, appearing grey from far away. He has tan skin and is fairly skinny; not unhealthily so, but he's not someone to help lift heavy objects.

p

syche.

He is quite

dramatic,

which he tries to hide behind his dry tone and "done with life" attitude. He grew up in a very strict household, and as a result tends to be

untruthful

about his motives, feelings, and even his hobbies and interests. (It's something he's working on, as he realises some things don't need to be hid.) He's

superstitious

; he blatantly refuses to have anything to do with the number five, carries salt with him, among other things. If he likes you, he'll probably end up making you a lucky charm of some sort.

h

istory

He grew up in a somewhat happy family. At least in his younger years. After his father was sent to jail, his mother began finding comfort in the bottom of a bottle. That left him to take care of his younger sister, Angie, who unfortunately died at the age of 13 in a car accident. His mother blamed it on him and became abusive; though he had no cause in the accident, Adonis has developed lots of guilt around the subject of her death. Angie is the most common “ghost” who speaks to him.

g

allery.

♡coded by uxie♡

 

[Owl Knight]

heyitsave aproved!

 

[Owl Knight]

Aurora Dream Approved!

 

[Walnutt]

Walnutt


I like the idea of this ability a lot. The only thing I might ask you to adjust is the side effects. These kids will be escaping the institute at the start of the RP and be on the run. She is not going to have access to the advanced technology you are describing to contain her side effects. Perhaps it could be something less destructive, like she always feels cold, no matter how warm she dresses or physically touching others causes them pain like touching snow or ice?

Edited ^^

 

[Walnutt]

Owl Knight whenever you get the chance, can I get Winter added to the "starting" list at the top of the rp thread?

 

[Owl Knight]

Owl Knight whenever you get the chance, can I get Winter added to the "starting" list at the top of the rp thread?

Approved!

 

[Walnutt]

Approved!

Sweet!
Can her name be added to the top of the rp thread with the other characters? Feels empty without my girl there too lol

 

[Owl Knight]

Sweet!
Can her name be added to the top of the rp thread with the other characters? Feels empty without my girl there too lol

On it!