Post by Mindshadow on Jan 27, 2020 16:52:35 GMT -5
Hallowed Halls
Shy and introverted, Chris (Christine Cunningham) doesn't make an intimidating hero. She stands around 5 feet tall and might weigh 100 pounds in warm clothing. Her natural hair color is strawberry blonde and she has blue eyes, freckles, and pale skin. She speaks with a stutter, which becomes worse when she is upset or stressed.
Chris has an unusual combination of abilities. She was born with them and they developed much like general psychic powers early on. As a young girl, she could read people’s emotions very well, if she paid attention. As she grew, the range of her powers increased, but it did so unpredictably. Chris became worse and worse at interpreting the information her paranormal senses provided. Her powers took a turn in junior high, however.
Shortly before sixth grade, Chris noticed that she could predict and later control what ordinary shadows would do. Her favorite pastime for a while was making complex shadow puppets and entertaining her younger sister, Erica.
After Thanksgiving break in sixth grade, Chris was called on to read a poem she had written over break. One of the boys in her class made fun of what she had written and many in the class laughed at her. Chris had nursed a crush on this boy, and felt like her heart and stomach were fluttering in her body. She could feel pressure as her powers swelled in her head. Just before everything exploded, Chris realized she could feel her classmates and their shadows. Chris realized she was projecting her own panic back at the class, who were reacting to it. The feelings she was getting from them enhanced her panic, and the whole situation erupted into violence. Several constructs of living shadow manifested and attacked her class.
Chris passed out and woke up later when the incident was all over. No one died in the incident, though the boy and several of the other students had to spend time in the hospital for lacerations and necrotic tissue damage. Some of them are still in counseling. Without knowing it, Chris had pulled their worst fears from their minds and manifested them in shadow form. It may have been a blessing that Chris collapsed when she did, since the shadows didn’t seem to know who to concentrate on during the assault, allowing students and the teacher to escape serious harm.
Chris was placed under tight security in a local power-suppressed jail to await evaluation by law enforcement. Under FBSA inquiry, some of the specifics of Chris’s abilities came to light.
Chris can absorb emotions from other people and use it fuel magical spells. She has discovered a natural talent with shadow magic and is more advanced than most witches of her age. Her psychic abilities can fluctuate, likely a function of her own neurological development. She can use other forms of magic, but she doesn’t have the same exceptional aptitude. If too much of this energy builds up, her powers go out of control and disaster is likely.
For the remainder of Junior High, Chris was confined to a closed facility for her own good and the good of the public. While confined, she was trained by a manifested figment of her imagination through waking dreams and automatic writing. This person, who called himself Professor Whipple, admitted that most people wouldn’t believe he is real. (Whether or not he actually was real is a different question the Professor never addressed directly.) Most of the spells Chris knows she learned from the Professor. Magical practitioners will recognize the magical style as a blend of forgotten gestures and verbiage with newer, more efficient techniques of modern-eclectic Thaumaturgy--in other words, impossibly old and new techniques that would rarely be taught as part of the same system.
When Chris started high school, her parents got her into the Daybreak Academy and Metahuman Advancement Center (DAMAC), a school for metahuman children. The school’s focus on metahuman students took some of the pressure off Chris to control herself. The students and staff could take care of themselves and the facilities were made with potentially unstable meta children in mind. More at home on campus than at her parents’ house in Minnesota, Chris finds that she is almost a normal student. She’s fairly good at math and history but has some problems with the physical sciences and literature. Since she’s arrived at DAMAC, she’s enjoyed being just another student, rather than “that weird emo girl”.
Whether or not such a setting will help in the long term is unclear. However, Chris’s control over her powers has clearly advanced since starting school. Hopefully, this trend will continue, and Chris will become a safer, saner person from her experiences in these hallowed halls.
Shy and introverted, Chris (Christine Cunningham) doesn't make an intimidating hero. She stands around 5 feet tall and might weigh 100 pounds in warm clothing. Her natural hair color is strawberry blonde and she has blue eyes, freckles, and pale skin. She speaks with a stutter, which becomes worse when she is upset or stressed.
Chris has an unusual combination of abilities. She was born with them and they developed much like general psychic powers early on. As a young girl, she could read people’s emotions very well, if she paid attention. As she grew, the range of her powers increased, but it did so unpredictably. Chris became worse and worse at interpreting the information her paranormal senses provided. Her powers took a turn in junior high, however.
Shortly before sixth grade, Chris noticed that she could predict and later control what ordinary shadows would do. Her favorite pastime for a while was making complex shadow puppets and entertaining her younger sister, Erica.
After Thanksgiving break in sixth grade, Chris was called on to read a poem she had written over break. One of the boys in her class made fun of what she had written and many in the class laughed at her. Chris had nursed a crush on this boy, and felt like her heart and stomach were fluttering in her body. She could feel pressure as her powers swelled in her head. Just before everything exploded, Chris realized she could feel her classmates and their shadows. Chris realized she was projecting her own panic back at the class, who were reacting to it. The feelings she was getting from them enhanced her panic, and the whole situation erupted into violence. Several constructs of living shadow manifested and attacked her class.
Chris passed out and woke up later when the incident was all over. No one died in the incident, though the boy and several of the other students had to spend time in the hospital for lacerations and necrotic tissue damage. Some of them are still in counseling. Without knowing it, Chris had pulled their worst fears from their minds and manifested them in shadow form. It may have been a blessing that Chris collapsed when she did, since the shadows didn’t seem to know who to concentrate on during the assault, allowing students and the teacher to escape serious harm.
Chris was placed under tight security in a local power-suppressed jail to await evaluation by law enforcement. Under FBSA inquiry, some of the specifics of Chris’s abilities came to light.
Chris can absorb emotions from other people and use it fuel magical spells. She has discovered a natural talent with shadow magic and is more advanced than most witches of her age. Her psychic abilities can fluctuate, likely a function of her own neurological development. She can use other forms of magic, but she doesn’t have the same exceptional aptitude. If too much of this energy builds up, her powers go out of control and disaster is likely.
For the remainder of Junior High, Chris was confined to a closed facility for her own good and the good of the public. While confined, she was trained by a manifested figment of her imagination through waking dreams and automatic writing. This person, who called himself Professor Whipple, admitted that most people wouldn’t believe he is real. (Whether or not he actually was real is a different question the Professor never addressed directly.) Most of the spells Chris knows she learned from the Professor. Magical practitioners will recognize the magical style as a blend of forgotten gestures and verbiage with newer, more efficient techniques of modern-eclectic Thaumaturgy--in other words, impossibly old and new techniques that would rarely be taught as part of the same system.
When Chris started high school, her parents got her into the Daybreak Academy and Metahuman Advancement Center (DAMAC), a school for metahuman children. The school’s focus on metahuman students took some of the pressure off Chris to control herself. The students and staff could take care of themselves and the facilities were made with potentially unstable meta children in mind. More at home on campus than at her parents’ house in Minnesota, Chris finds that she is almost a normal student. She’s fairly good at math and history but has some problems with the physical sciences and literature. Since she’s arrived at DAMAC, she’s enjoyed being just another student, rather than “that weird emo girl”.
Whether or not such a setting will help in the long term is unclear. However, Chris’s control over her powers has clearly advanced since starting school. Hopefully, this trend will continue, and Chris will become a safer, saner person from her experiences in these hallowed halls.