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PLAYER: Sunny ARE YOU AT LEAST 14 YEARS OLD?: Currently twenty one years old, so yes.
CONTACT: http://www.plurk.com/solarpanelinthesnow, fruitloopsonfire@yahoo.com, PMing here or on my personal journal
PERSONAL JOURNAL:solarpanelinthesnow
CHARACTERS PLAYED: Emily
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Kendrick Tobar Thornhill
CANON: Original Character
CANON REFERENCE: N/A
AGE: 14
GENDER: Male
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: High School 1/Freshman
APPEARANCE: http://www.hollow-art.com/base/austin-butler
PERSONALITY: Kendrick is the serious one out of his siblings. His sister would tell you that, his brother would, both his parents would, and Kendrick would look at you and say, “that’s not a bad thing.” He is the product of parents who take their faith and religious freedom seriously, who have done everything in their power to instill values in their children and make their kids take things as seriously as they do. While his brother Lark is sarcastic and self-mocking and humorous and his sister is young and lighthearted, Kendrick got both the promotion to parent all eldest children of two working parents get and the heaviest dose of religious teaching from his parents. The result is a serious person with next to no sense of humor who thinks it’s his responsibility to be an excellent person at all times in order to properly represent his faith.
This mentality leads to problems, of course. Since he’s been taught that it’s up to him to be a perfect example of virtue and pagan values to a majority secular and Christian population, he examines everything that he does. He laments over every mistake, works relentlessly to get good grades, and has issues standing up for himself. After all, standing up to people who are picking on him or being jerks could lead to being a jerk himself or arrogant. As a result, his conversations are very careful, very polite and highly respectful even of people that really don’t deserve it. That said, his beliefs are also so strong he will turn people down or refuse to do things.
This and his serious nature turn him easily into a killjoy and a loner because even normal fun like ‘let’s go sneak out and see that movie we were told not to see’ is just too much for him. As the pressure of being the responsible one has mounted, he’s also developed a deeper relationship with his faith, connecting with the spirits and gods that his family believes in. He takes great comfort in his belief that his powers were given to him for a reason, and even if he doesn’t know what that reason is yet, he knows that the God and Goddess are looking after him. These beliefs keep him confident in himself and calm under fire, something his power also works to fine tune. There is of course one great big caveat to that, which is immediately apparent in his day to day life. Kendrick does not know how to have fun. He doesn’t know how to relax, calm down, look the other way, or relent on anything. He can be without sympathy, and has always been without laughter, to the point where making him laugh is considered his brother’s ‘superpower’ because it’s such a miracle. He doesn’t do any after school activities and his only real hobbies are music and crafting things. Even his father, who was formerly the most serious person in their family, is alarmed by how Kendrick has a grand total of about five interests that are personal ones, and thinks he really needs to learn how to be a normal kid.
Money was very tight when Kendrick was growing up and his family was moving, trying to find permanent jobs, and he took on a battlefield promotion to parent. He did it well. He loved being with his siblings and holds very little of that time against his parents even though they left him with some big shoes to fill and little time to learn how to fill them. Now he needs to learn how to not do it for five seconds. Stressing over everything and not finding joy in much of anything leads to migraines and poor sleep on top of an already dry personality, and these are the key reasons why he has so few friends.
POWERS/ABILITIES: Kendrick is in possession of a unique form of precognition, one that is both on at all times and also extremely limited. The world as he sees it now that his powers have activated is composed of yellows, golds, a few cold toned browns, blues, and in rare instances purple. Everything looks as it would to someone with deutanopia or deutranomaly color blindness; there is no green, no red, no orange. There is instead only the aforementioned colors, and glows around people that flare from bright yellow to white if they are in imminent danger or in a life or death situation, but is normally a faint ring of purple around them if they are in total safety and security. The average person has a 'flicker' to them of gold and blue as they go about the day. Kendrick's precognition of danger is, in essence, also colorblindness, as when it kicks in and he can't get it to shut off it is both not useful (how many near-death split seconds decisions does the average person really need to make in their life?) and is basically colorblindness. As such, even though this power is becoming something he can't shut off, it's also not anything that is dangerous or needs to be shut off.
Being able to move things with his mind is the power he can control, but he is limited with it, being able to only lift up to a hundred pounds at the most and four seperate objects at most due to the attention it takes. His ability to shove someone with telekinesis is likewise only about that forceful, and he isn't always able to move things with precision. Since most of his use of his powers comes from emergency situations when his optic power informs him 'make a decision NOW', he hasn't really practiced and is often sloppy in how he moves things. A lot of dropping things or throwing harder/with less power than intended happens. The only thing it has going for it is that his powers can work in concert, giving him as much as thirty seconds to make decisions or act before something happens to someone. For instance, the very first time both powers manifested, his eight year old sister Hazel was walking ahead of him back home from school. She flared such a bright white-yellow that even though he was unable to process what he was seeing, he was alarmed and knew he had to get to her. This was the first time his telekinesis manifested, yanking her bodily back from the path of a speeding drunk driver. Most of the time, however, his warning periods are shorter. People can also flicker temporarily and get out of their situation very well on their own. In addition, when he looks into a mirror, Kendrick can observe the same glow around himself that other people have.
AU HISTORY: The eldest of three children, Kendrick has always had a loving family background, but not necessarily a place to call home. By the time he hit seven, they’d moved nine times in an attempt to find a place to call their own with stable employment. Even when they settled on a city, by herself his mother couldn’t or more accurately didn’t take care of the house, resulting in several apartment evictions until a family friend let them rent out the basement of his house for a few years. During those years, Kendrick helped motherhen the children of said family friend, resulting in him playing part time parent for five kids from the age of nine to twelve and a half. After that, his parents finally got their own house with the help of his uncle. Kendrick’s history is agonizingly dull due to him being the resident stick in the mud. He knows how to do chores, how to keep house, make some foods and keep kids entertained. What he does not know how to do is get into an interesting or healthy amount of trouble.
Having been promoted to parent, he spent a great deal of time working or being rules lawyer to his siblings and later to the other kids. He really took to being a pseudo father well and held no resentment for what he was asked to do until he became a teenager. Nowadays he has some continual issues with his mother’s inability to do anything around the house while she runs around leading pagan events and making speeches and holding down a job at the florist’s. She can do all that but he and his father have to actually run things. Riiight.
This resentment aside, life only got noteworthy post powers, not necessarily in a good way. After all, grabbing people and shoving them out of danger, developing what seemed to be acquired colorblindness, and sudden alarm for people he’d never met are all tendencies that will turn heads. After having been examined by the school psychologist, it was determined he was telling the truth about his powers and was a mutant. His mutant powers went over pretty well at home. His parents viewed it as a gift from Deity itself, which his father already viewed all mutant powers as. His mother sees it as something that is just part of nature and doesn’t make him particularly special, but her claws really came out when kids at school began bullying him. With his personality, Kendrick of course didn’t fight back. Turns out the pagan belief there’s a bit of the Mother Goddess in each woman was very real. After raising the kind of ruckus only a mother could but not getting much from the principal, she decided to help her son come out of his shell and sent him off to the Institute. Kendrick is convinced that this will result in the house being a wall to wall mess when he gets back from being at school, but he also knows that being able to move things with his mind could be dangerous, and went to the Institute willingly to get his powers under control. Seeing in golds and blues nonstop also happens to be both literally headache inducing and anxiety inducing as well, so his family agreed that this was the best choice for him and he was glad to leave.
SAMPLE
1ST PERSON SAMPLE: [The camera is hard for him to handle, because he’s just bad at it, but after a moment Kendrick gets it steadied when he sets it on something. His voice is flat and a smidge nervous, even if he won’t show it.]
My name is Kendrick Thornhill. I’m new here; I just moved in a couple hours ago. I’m from New Haven, Connecticut. You may have seen my mom on the TV ranting about mutant rights. I’m really praying you haven’t, but even if you have you can hopefully see I’m not as… overly enthusiastic as she is. I’m not sure what to say here. I’m fourteen, and my powers are telepathy and a complicated semi-precognition. It’s hard to explain. Anyway, it’s good to be here. I apologize in advance if my powers misfire.
THIRD PERSON SAMPLE:
Kendrick cast the seventh awkward glance over his shoulder in the same minute as he placed the last object into the dresser drawer. Since having a full time pagan altar out would only invite discomfort on behalf of his room mate but felt vital to him, Kendrick had talked to the professor. There had been an agreement reached that an altar that could be set up and disassembled easily was the best solution. Kendrick fully intended to make use of it once he knew his room mate’s schedule, but also only after he explained it to him. There were certain things that you just didn’t spring on people. Partly it was because he wanted to be a good example of paganism and partly it was because, in the words of his sister Hazel, ‘nobody wants to be a douche’.
He smiled at the mental image. Hazel would’ve loved this place, with how big and sprawling it was. Games of tag would have ensued, with he the mediator for her, but he’d been sent here to learn how to live without being the head of everything. He wasn’t supposed to boss these people around. ‘Have a normal life,’ his mother had said, and Kendrick knew she was referring to his constant need to be in control. He’d promised her he would. The question now became how to do that. There was no guide to this, not really, and he bit his lip, thinking. Well, the obvious thing to do was introduce himself over the intranet. The even more obvious follow up was, how did someone do that and seem normal? He fiddled with the pentagram around his neck, debating tucking it in, but it wouldn’t feel right to hide every single symbol of his faith. Besides, this was a place for learning, for open mindedness. Even if his powers were unusual, here he was just another guy. There was nothing to be nervous about. He was here now, and hopefully that meant all the drama and pettiness of other kids at school was safely back home.
Taking a deep breath, rolling the fingers of one hand over his pentagram pendant, he reached for the camera to make his introduction.
PLAYER: Sunny ARE YOU AT LEAST 14 YEARS OLD?: Currently twenty one years old, so yes.
CONTACT: http://www.plurk.com/solarpanelinthesnow, fruitloopsonfire@yahoo.com, PMing here or on my personal journal
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
solarpanelinthesnow CHARACTERS PLAYED: Emily
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Kendrick Tobar Thornhill
CANON: Original Character
CANON REFERENCE: N/A
AGE: 14
GENDER: Male
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: High School 1/Freshman
APPEARANCE: http://www.hollow-art.com/base/austin-butler
PERSONALITY: Kendrick is the serious one out of his siblings. His sister would tell you that, his brother would, both his parents would, and Kendrick would look at you and say, “that’s not a bad thing.” He is the product of parents who take their faith and religious freedom seriously, who have done everything in their power to instill values in their children and make their kids take things as seriously as they do. While his brother Lark is sarcastic and self-mocking and humorous and his sister is young and lighthearted, Kendrick got both the promotion to parent all eldest children of two working parents get and the heaviest dose of religious teaching from his parents. The result is a serious person with next to no sense of humor who thinks it’s his responsibility to be an excellent person at all times in order to properly represent his faith.
This mentality leads to problems, of course. Since he’s been taught that it’s up to him to be a perfect example of virtue and pagan values to a majority secular and Christian population, he examines everything that he does. He laments over every mistake, works relentlessly to get good grades, and has issues standing up for himself. After all, standing up to people who are picking on him or being jerks could lead to being a jerk himself or arrogant. As a result, his conversations are very careful, very polite and highly respectful even of people that really don’t deserve it. That said, his beliefs are also so strong he will turn people down or refuse to do things.
This and his serious nature turn him easily into a killjoy and a loner because even normal fun like ‘let’s go sneak out and see that movie we were told not to see’ is just too much for him. As the pressure of being the responsible one has mounted, he’s also developed a deeper relationship with his faith, connecting with the spirits and gods that his family believes in. He takes great comfort in his belief that his powers were given to him for a reason, and even if he doesn’t know what that reason is yet, he knows that the God and Goddess are looking after him. These beliefs keep him confident in himself and calm under fire, something his power also works to fine tune. There is of course one great big caveat to that, which is immediately apparent in his day to day life. Kendrick does not know how to have fun. He doesn’t know how to relax, calm down, look the other way, or relent on anything. He can be without sympathy, and has always been without laughter, to the point where making him laugh is considered his brother’s ‘superpower’ because it’s such a miracle. He doesn’t do any after school activities and his only real hobbies are music and crafting things. Even his father, who was formerly the most serious person in their family, is alarmed by how Kendrick has a grand total of about five interests that are personal ones, and thinks he really needs to learn how to be a normal kid.
Money was very tight when Kendrick was growing up and his family was moving, trying to find permanent jobs, and he took on a battlefield promotion to parent. He did it well. He loved being with his siblings and holds very little of that time against his parents even though they left him with some big shoes to fill and little time to learn how to fill them. Now he needs to learn how to not do it for five seconds. Stressing over everything and not finding joy in much of anything leads to migraines and poor sleep on top of an already dry personality, and these are the key reasons why he has so few friends.
POWERS/ABILITIES: Kendrick is in possession of a unique form of precognition, one that is both on at all times and also extremely limited. The world as he sees it now that his powers have activated is composed of yellows, golds, a few cold toned browns, blues, and in rare instances purple. Everything looks as it would to someone with deutanopia or deutranomaly color blindness; there is no green, no red, no orange. There is instead only the aforementioned colors, and glows around people that flare from bright yellow to white if they are in imminent danger or in a life or death situation, but is normally a faint ring of purple around them if they are in total safety and security. The average person has a 'flicker' to them of gold and blue as they go about the day. Kendrick's precognition of danger is, in essence, also colorblindness, as when it kicks in and he can't get it to shut off it is both not useful (how many near-death split seconds decisions does the average person really need to make in their life?) and is basically colorblindness. As such, even though this power is becoming something he can't shut off, it's also not anything that is dangerous or needs to be shut off.
Being able to move things with his mind is the power he can control, but he is limited with it, being able to only lift up to a hundred pounds at the most and four seperate objects at most due to the attention it takes. His ability to shove someone with telekinesis is likewise only about that forceful, and he isn't always able to move things with precision. Since most of his use of his powers comes from emergency situations when his optic power informs him 'make a decision NOW', he hasn't really practiced and is often sloppy in how he moves things. A lot of dropping things or throwing harder/with less power than intended happens. The only thing it has going for it is that his powers can work in concert, giving him as much as thirty seconds to make decisions or act before something happens to someone. For instance, the very first time both powers manifested, his eight year old sister Hazel was walking ahead of him back home from school. She flared such a bright white-yellow that even though he was unable to process what he was seeing, he was alarmed and knew he had to get to her. This was the first time his telekinesis manifested, yanking her bodily back from the path of a speeding drunk driver. Most of the time, however, his warning periods are shorter. People can also flicker temporarily and get out of their situation very well on their own. In addition, when he looks into a mirror, Kendrick can observe the same glow around himself that other people have.
AU HISTORY: The eldest of three children, Kendrick has always had a loving family background, but not necessarily a place to call home. By the time he hit seven, they’d moved nine times in an attempt to find a place to call their own with stable employment. Even when they settled on a city, by herself his mother couldn’t or more accurately didn’t take care of the house, resulting in several apartment evictions until a family friend let them rent out the basement of his house for a few years. During those years, Kendrick helped motherhen the children of said family friend, resulting in him playing part time parent for five kids from the age of nine to twelve and a half. After that, his parents finally got their own house with the help of his uncle. Kendrick’s history is agonizingly dull due to him being the resident stick in the mud. He knows how to do chores, how to keep house, make some foods and keep kids entertained. What he does not know how to do is get into an interesting or healthy amount of trouble.
Having been promoted to parent, he spent a great deal of time working or being rules lawyer to his siblings and later to the other kids. He really took to being a pseudo father well and held no resentment for what he was asked to do until he became a teenager. Nowadays he has some continual issues with his mother’s inability to do anything around the house while she runs around leading pagan events and making speeches and holding down a job at the florist’s. She can do all that but he and his father have to actually run things. Riiight.
This resentment aside, life only got noteworthy post powers, not necessarily in a good way. After all, grabbing people and shoving them out of danger, developing what seemed to be acquired colorblindness, and sudden alarm for people he’d never met are all tendencies that will turn heads. After having been examined by the school psychologist, it was determined he was telling the truth about his powers and was a mutant. His mutant powers went over pretty well at home. His parents viewed it as a gift from Deity itself, which his father already viewed all mutant powers as. His mother sees it as something that is just part of nature and doesn’t make him particularly special, but her claws really came out when kids at school began bullying him. With his personality, Kendrick of course didn’t fight back. Turns out the pagan belief there’s a bit of the Mother Goddess in each woman was very real. After raising the kind of ruckus only a mother could but not getting much from the principal, she decided to help her son come out of his shell and sent him off to the Institute. Kendrick is convinced that this will result in the house being a wall to wall mess when he gets back from being at school, but he also knows that being able to move things with his mind could be dangerous, and went to the Institute willingly to get his powers under control. Seeing in golds and blues nonstop also happens to be both literally headache inducing and anxiety inducing as well, so his family agreed that this was the best choice for him and he was glad to leave.
SAMPLE
1ST PERSON SAMPLE: [The camera is hard for him to handle, because he’s just bad at it, but after a moment Kendrick gets it steadied when he sets it on something. His voice is flat and a smidge nervous, even if he won’t show it.]
My name is Kendrick Thornhill. I’m new here; I just moved in a couple hours ago. I’m from New Haven, Connecticut. You may have seen my mom on the TV ranting about mutant rights. I’m really praying you haven’t, but even if you have you can hopefully see I’m not as… overly enthusiastic as she is. I’m not sure what to say here. I’m fourteen, and my powers are telepathy and a complicated semi-precognition. It’s hard to explain. Anyway, it’s good to be here. I apologize in advance if my powers misfire.
THIRD PERSON SAMPLE:
Kendrick cast the seventh awkward glance over his shoulder in the same minute as he placed the last object into the dresser drawer. Since having a full time pagan altar out would only invite discomfort on behalf of his room mate but felt vital to him, Kendrick had talked to the professor. There had been an agreement reached that an altar that could be set up and disassembled easily was the best solution. Kendrick fully intended to make use of it once he knew his room mate’s schedule, but also only after he explained it to him. There were certain things that you just didn’t spring on people. Partly it was because he wanted to be a good example of paganism and partly it was because, in the words of his sister Hazel, ‘nobody wants to be a douche’.
He smiled at the mental image. Hazel would’ve loved this place, with how big and sprawling it was. Games of tag would have ensued, with he the mediator for her, but he’d been sent here to learn how to live without being the head of everything. He wasn’t supposed to boss these people around. ‘Have a normal life,’ his mother had said, and Kendrick knew she was referring to his constant need to be in control. He’d promised her he would. The question now became how to do that. There was no guide to this, not really, and he bit his lip, thinking. Well, the obvious thing to do was introduce himself over the intranet. The even more obvious follow up was, how did someone do that and seem normal? He fiddled with the pentagram around his neck, debating tucking it in, but it wouldn’t feel right to hide every single symbol of his faith. Besides, this was a place for learning, for open mindedness. Even if his powers were unusual, here he was just another guy. There was nothing to be nervous about. He was here now, and hopefully that meant all the drama and pettiness of other kids at school was safely back home.
Taking a deep breath, rolling the fingers of one hand over his pentagram pendant, he reached for the camera to make his introduction.
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