Re: Character List
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Name: Natasha “Maya” Hulling
Age: 18
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Blond with Light Green streaks
Weight: 115 lbs.
Height: 5' 6"
Weapon: None
Armor: None
Strengths: With her rather normal appearance, many people would not think Maya is able to defend herself. Her psychic abilities are powerful, giving her a bit of an advantage with surprise. She tends to find things that are out of the ordinary absolutely fascinating which means if someone was trying to surprise or threaten her, they probably wouldn’t get the expected reaction. Maya can think up interesting solutions to situations, usually based on something she saw or read about.
Weaknesses: Maya has a terrible attention span. She could completely forget about a battle or situation if something interesting caught her eyes. In fact, it doesn’t even have to be anything really interesting, just something that reminds her of something else. While her psychic skills are powerful, she doesn’t have complete control over them. Also, other than her psychic abilities, she’s a normal human, devoid of any additional strength or endurance.
Skills:
Telekinesis - This is simply the ability to move objects with one’s mind. Maya’s telekinesis is extremely strong, having the strength to level a couple buildings. Of course, she wouldn’t want to use that much power nor would she probably be able to concentrate enough to use that much. The lighter the object, the more of it she can pick up. On the switch side, the heavier the object, the less she can hold. Also, inanimate items are easier to pick up than living things because they have no will to fight against her own. Animals are harder to pick up and people are almost impossible, only if they have low willpower.
Telepathy - The ability to speak to others with just a person’s mind. Maya usually only talks to people this way if she greatly trusts them or if there is a need for silence. Sometimes, she only communicates with feelings and ideas instead of words. However, if she is deep in thought, she might actually forget to open her mouth and just use telepathy to speak. However, when this happens, most people don’t notice that they didn’t actually hear her speak to them.
Precognition - Maya has the ability to see events that have yet to happen. This is her second most uncontrollable ability, though it has gotten better as she’s gotten older. This ability really doesn’t work in battle since she has to concentrate for a bit in order to get a clear picture. Even then, her precognition only shows one path out of the several hundred that could happen, though she usually gets the right path. Unfortunately, her precognition can also act on its own, randomly showing her events that might or might not be of any significance to her. Usually, if this happens, it is preceded by a headache.
Retrocognition - The exact opposite of precognition, retrocognition allows Maya to see events that have already happened. This ability is more controlled than her precognition but also still has its uncontrollability. Unlike precognition, Maya needs to have physical contact with a person before she can look into the past, specifically that person’s past. Therefore, this ability is a little more limited in what she can see. It’s unpredictability comes with the fact that any physical touch can activate it. However, this occurs rarely, usually only happening if the person she has contact with is thinking hard about something that has happened.
Somnus - Whenever Maya sleeps, she always dreams and almost always remembers them. With her psychic abilities, she is able to pull the consciousness of others into her dreams. Maya has very little control over this ability, only doing it intentionally once. However, for people to be pulled into her dreams, they must also be asleep and be sleeping near where she is. What can happen in the dream is completely unknown. I mean, since when have you known what you’re going to dream about? She doesn’t always drawn in people when she’s asleep and one can escape it by either waking themselves up or by Maya waking.
Items: Maya carries a black backpack around with her almost everywhere she goes. Aside from carrying her books when she’s a school, she always has a few items in it at all times.
Flashlight - It’s a normal flashlight, about one and a half feet long and blue, that runs on two AA batteries. I suppose she could use it to knock someone over the head much it’s much better when used for lighting up dark places. Considering the fact that Maya’s wandering sometimes take her into the late hours of the day, it’s very helpful.
Knife - A normal pocketknife with a shiny green handle and a retractable blade, both about 6 inches long. Maya uses this to cut away anything that she might find on her wanderings and has come in use several times. She could use it as a weapon but never actually would. Also, if she has any friends with her, they usually use the knife themselves. The idea of Maya using a knife makes them rather nervous... for good reason.
Pen and Paper - She also keeps a sketchbook and a several different colored markers with her. This is so she could write down anything she found, write down something she just thought of, or draw if she’s bored. She can also use this to leave other people notes if she wishes.
Jack and Zoe - A pair of teddy bears that Maya always carries with her. When in public, she keeps them in the backpack. However, she does let them out when she thinks she’s alone.
Appearance: Maya looks like a rather ordinary teenager. She wear a pair of blue jeans with a black belt that has small, silver studs. She has a black turtleneck sweater on and has a T-shirt over the sweater. The T-shirt is white with the words Cogito Ergo Sum in red with a red, vine-like design around it on the left side. The shirt and sweater are also untucked, hanging over her belt. She has black socks under white tennis shoes.
Herself, Maya doesn’t appear to be anything special. She has an okay physique but not a great one. It wouldn’t hurt at all if she got a bit more exercise. In fact, some people have thought she looked rather sickly. However, because of all the wandering around she does, Maya has a normal tan, not too dark or light. Her blond hair is very straight and hangs to her shoulder blades. The light green streaks don’t stick out too much, looking more like something fashionable instead of outrageous. Her hazel eyes, a mix of brown and green, are somewhat wide and tend to have a distant look in them. Maya has painted her fingernails black and keeps them short enough that you can see the ends of her fingers. Her facial features are thin but young looking. Paired with her personality, this can give the illusion that she’s much younger than she really is.
Personality: Maya is rather flighty... okay, she’s really flighty. Just about anything she sees can distract her from what’s happening at the moments, especially if the something reminds her of, well, something else. Maya’s always thinking about others worlds, ones she has either seen from a story or invented herself. In fact, she has a somewhat disconnected view of reality. Her greatest dream is that something wholly out of the ordinary would happen, despite the fact that she has psychic abilities and a pair of talking teddy bears.
Maya is rather open to people, though they would have to ask for the information simply because she wouldn’t think of mentioning it. She doesn’t quite relate to people well despite her friendliness simply because she often off in her own world most of the time. What friends she does have are rather protective of her because of her childish ways. Maya’s also very loyal to them; though, not exactly trustworthy simply because she could forget she wasn’t suppose to say something. She tends to listen to what her friends tell her and is very gullible. However, her friends don’t exploit this for a couple reasons being that they’re kind friends and are a little afraid of what Maya’s powers could do if she were surprised.
Maya usually acts younger than she actually is. She is rather innocent and probably wouldn’t get any innuendo thrown her way. In fact, she probably wouldn’t get any joke that takes a little thinking. She has been called stupid for this but she is intelligent. Just not quite all here. If someone is talking to her and she doesn’t find the conversation interesting, her mind will promptly wander.
When it comes to her twin bears, Jack and Zoe, she is very protective of them. She doesn’t mind someone else holding them but, if that person starts doing anything that might be considered harmful, she would immediately snatch them away. She listens to whatever advice they have to give and often consults them if she can’t make up her mind. However, she has, unfortunately, been manipulated by them, as well.
Biography: Natasha was born to Edward and Beth Hulling. Around the age of three, her mother died of a heart condition that she had been diagnosed with several years before Natasha was even born. While the death wasn’t exactly unexpected, it still hit Edward fairly hard. Natasha, being young at the time, wasn’t quite as affected but certainly missed her mother. It isn’t known when exactly Natasha started being able to use her psychic abilities but strange things started happening when she was four. This mostly consisted of things suddenly falling off of shelves or things suddenly ending up in different places then where they had earlier been. Her father never thought too much of these things as they didn’t happen often or drastically enough to warrant any concern.
Then, when she was five, Edward decided to buy a pair of teddy bears for Natasha. She immediately took a liking the bears and started playing with them immediately. She even thought up names for the two bears, which her father thought was cute and awfully intelligent. As soon as she learned to read, Natasha started reading about every book she could get her hands on and understand. However, she had a bit of trouble making friends with other children, mainly due the fact that, even at that young age, she liked being off in another world.
Eventually, Natasha did make friends, though it wasn’t until sixth grade that she actually became close to people to call them friends. The first one, and still the closest today, was Jake Sanders. He did this by sticking up for Natasha went a few kids were picking on her. While she wasn’t any stranger to being picked on, or had barely noticed it for that matter, she still greatly appreciated what Jake did. After hanging around with her for a bit, Jake proclaimed that he needed to look after since she obviously wasn’t good at looking after herself. While he was slightly joking about her inability to take care of herself, Natasha whole-heartedly agreed and practically made Jake her big brother. It was through Jake that she meet her other friends, as well.
While Natasha was always exploring new places, whether mental or physical, she really started exploring the city she lived in, Oakfield, in eighth grade. However, her first major foray kept her out past midnight and had the police looking for her. She was a little confused as to why her father thought something awful had happened to her but did say she wouldn’t go wandering around on her own ever again. And she didn’t. She took Jack and Zoe with her.
While she did remember to not worry her father too much, Natasha still explored every part she could of Oakfield, ranging from the bright downtown to old buildings that had been abandoned long ago. Surprisingly, she was never harmed by anyone while she was exploring. Anytime it seemed like someone was threatening or going to harm her, something strange always happened, ranging from a couple of rocks falling on the person’s head to all the nearby light suddenly going out. This was caused by her psychic abilities but she had no idea at the time.
By high school, she had several more friends, mostly introduced to her through Jake. It was one of these friends who gave Natasha the name Maya based on the fact that she was always off in her own little world. Maya absolutely loved the name and started going by it all the time she was with her friends. It was also with this group that she really learned the extent of her abilities. This was because her friends were always wondering just what she could do... after they got over the surprise of her powers. It was also with this group that she purposefully used Somnus and drew them into one of her dreams which was an interesting experience, to say the least. However, she did manage to keep Jack and Zoe hidden from her friends, mainly because the bears requested that she not talk about them.
In her senior year, Maya is still as flighty as ever. She loves traveling to different worlds in her dreams. And who knows, maybe these different worlds are just as real as her own.
Name: Jack
Age: 13
Race: Teddy Bear
Sex: Male
Eyes: A large pupil with green irises and no whites
Hair: Brown
Weight: ½ lbs
Height: 1 ft
Weapon: None
Armor: None
Strengths: Aw, come on, who would want to hurt a cute, little teddy bear?
Weaknesses: ...He’s a teddy bear. An especially angry two-year-old could literally tear him apart. I’m not going to try to list all the things that could be done to him.
Skills:
Phonokinesis - This is the ability to control sound waves with one’s mind. Jack can cause the opponent, or anyone he wants, to hear whatever he wants them to. This can range from a simple ringing noise to loud booms. However, if Jack knows something about the opponent, he can cause them to hear the voices of people they knew. He favorite thing to do is cause the opponent to hear the voices of deceased people since it can start to mess with the foe’s emotions and distract them. However, Jack doesn’t have true phonokinesis. Instead, in implants suggestions into the opponent’s mind to make them think they’re hearing something. As such, something with no mind or a powerful mental defense could cause this ability to be ineffective.
Force - With this psychic ability, Jack can forcefully throw an opponent any direction he desires, usually backwards. It’s extremely powerful, able to put the foe through a wall if strong enough. While the natural willpower of a person can weaken the ability’s strength, only people with an extreme amount of willpower could nullify the attack. However, Jack only uses if Maya has been greatly weakened or is unconscious.
Negativity - Jack naturally has an aura of negative emotions around him. He can, though, extend the size and strength of the field, affecting everybody in range. This causes people to either become sad and generally down or cause them to become more aggressive than normal. However, Zoe has the same ability, only with positive emotions, and tends to use ability at the same time as Jack. Thus, the two emotion usually cancel each other out. Also, Maya isn’t affect by the negative emotions as much as others simply because she used to being around Jack.
Appearance: Well, he’s a teddy bear, for starters. Jack has fuzzy, brown fur. He really doesn’t have hands or feet, his arms and legs just end with a circle. Those areas, his belly, the insides of his ears, and his nose are a lighter brown or tan color. His nose is just black stitching in an upside-down triangle shape. His eyes are the only hard part on him and they have large pupils with green irises but no whites. His ears are just half-circles perched on his head. Between his two ears are two blacks horns. You know, devil horns. He also has frilly black dress on that has lace around the hand holes and around the end the covers his legs. The sleeves of the dress cover about one-fourth of his arms, only his ‘hands’ sticking out. The dress also hangs downward can covers most of his legs. Finally, it has a collar that covers all of his neck except for a little V in the front. When he is out of the backpack and traveling with Maya, he usually sits on her head or right shoulder.
Personality: Jack is not your average, cuddly teddy bear. In fact, he gets rather pissed whenever Maya picks him up and hugs him. He has rather short temper with just about anything and shows this off by his rather large vocabulary of swear words. Jack’s also very boastful and proclaims that he could kick anyone’s butt, besides the fact that he’s a teddy. He definitely aggressive and usually takes out his anger by picking on Zoe, mainly because she’s his opposite.
However, Jack does have the ability to tone himself down. He only does this when he’s tempting Maya. Usually, he hang on the back of her head, by her ear, and quietly convincing her to do things that one would not consider, well, right. He can make quite a convincing argument and usually can come up with a good answer to any questions Maya would have against his suggestion. Jack has been able to get Maya to do things his way a few times.
Creation: Jack and Zoe were given to Maya when she was five years old. Ever since that day, she always told the bears certain things and gave them distinct personalities. For Jack, she always told him the back things that would happen to her and the vices she had against people. She would tell him what awful things she would like to happen to people who were mean, sometimes going into graphic detail. In response, Maya gave Jack a violent and temperamental personality, always imagining him saying things that were pure instinct and not really thinking things through. However, Maya didn’t realize her psychic abilities would actually affect the bears. With all her negative emotions poured into the bear, Jack really did start having violent outbursts and giving Maya not-so-great advice on how to handle things. Basically, Jack represents the bad side of Maya’s personality. (You know those cartoons that have a devil and angel version of the character contradicting each other? Yeah, Jack is the devil version.)
Name: Zoe
Age: 13
Race: Teddy Bear
Sex: Female
Eyes: Large pupils with a blue iris and no whites.
Hair: Brown
Weight: ½ lbs
Height: 1 ft
Weapon: None
Armor: None
Strengths: Honestly, who would find a teddy bear a threat?
Weaknesses: Like I said with Jack, she’s a simple teddy bear. The things people in the BA could do to her is countless.
Skills:
Chromokinesis - Zoe can use this ability to change the colors of things around her. Like Jack, she doesn’t exhibit true chromokinesis, instead planting the suggestion in the minds of others that the colors around them are changing. But, still, seeing yellow change to blue and then to red could be pretty disorienting, which is what this ability is suppose to cause. She can make things black and white or, with a very strong suggestion, make everything one color and thus indistinguishable.
Force - A powerful psychic ability, Zoe can create a barrier around anyone she desires and block all but the strongest attacks. This barrier takes a good amount of power and repeated hits will weaken it but, as already stated, only strong attacks can break it. However, this ability can only be used if Maya has been extremely weakened or is unconscious.
Positivity - Also, like Jack, Zoe naturally has an aura of emotions surrounding her. These are positive emotions such as happiness and serenity. If she, wishes, Zoe can extend these emotions to affect whoever may be around her. Though, if she ever does do this, Jack usually extends his negativity to effectively cancel her out. She also does the same to him. Maya is the only one who usually isn’t too affected by the two emotional fields simply because she’s around them all the time.
Appearance: Zoe looks very similar to Jack. She has brown fur covering most of her body. Her arms and legs simply end and these endings function like hands and feet as well as they can. Her belly, hands, feet, the insides of her ears, and her snout are all of a lighter, tan fur. Her nose is just black stitches in a triangle shape. Her ears are just half-circled perched on top of her head. Her eyes are the only hard part on her and they are black pupils with blue iris, no whites. She wears a white T-shirt that has the word “Angel” written across it in gold stitching. She also has little, white wings sticking out of the back of the shirt; these can’t actually help her fly. Finally, on top of her head in the middle, Zoe has a little, white halo. The back of it is sowed in the back top of her head. Zoe travels with Jack in the black backpack when Maya is around people. However, when she’s allowed out, Zoe usually hangs onto Maya’s right arm or sits on her right shoulder.
Personality: Zoe has a very kind personality. She tried to help Maya whenever she can, whether it’s getting advice on what to do in a certain situation to just helping her with a little homework. The teddy can actually relate to people easier than Maya can, strangely enough. This is probably because Zoe is much more down to earth and listens to whatever people say. She also tends to be methodical and precise with what she is doing. Coupled with Jack’s impulsive way of doing things and Maya’s short attention span, the bear usually ends up getting frustrated and not having things go how she would like them.
The teddy bear also tries extremely hard to get Maya to do the right thing in a situation. She much more forceful than Jack is, usually allowing her words not only to be heard by Maya but by any others in the vicinity. She usually listens to Zoe more than Jack but has been known to listen to Jack over Zoe.
Creation: Zoe and Jack were given to Maya went she was five years old. Ever since she got them, Maya gave the bears specific personalities and emotions. With Zoe, she always told the teddy everything good that happened that day or any good ideas she had. Maya would also tell her any aspirations she had and optimism for the future. She then imagined Zoe having a calm but happy personality and always giving Maya good advice on what to do. However, she didn’t realize that her psychic ability would eventually start affecting the bears after being with them so long. Finally, Zoe really did start giving Maya advice on what to do and comforting her when something went wrong. In reality, Zoe represents the good side of Maya’s personality. (You know, the angel that’s always sitting on a cartoon character’s shoulder.)