Bellamy Shaw

[Bellamy Shaw]

Bellamy Anne Shaw
FACE CLAIM: Meghan Ory

♦ THE BASICS ♦

AGE: Twenty-Six
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Homosexual
POSITION: History Teacher @ the Bellefonte Academy

♦ THE ABILITY ♦

POWER: Sensorial Link / Empathic Masochism: Bellamy has the ability to create a empathic bond between herself and another individual. As such, any emotional turmoil she might face or inflict on herself is projected and shared between herself and her chosen party. Bellamy also has the ability to inflict pain on others by inflicting it on herself directly. Every attack dealt to Bellamy is directly inflicted back to her chosen party, hit for hit.

LIMITATIONS: The primary limitation involved with both abilities is that of the strength Bellamy has for herself. There is a limit to whatever psychological and physical damage she herself can take. While this is heightened by extended use and time with such a skill, she is still only human. She also needs to know the person she is trying to connect with; if she has never seen or met them before, there's no way for her to make a connection. Each ability also only works on one person at a time. Because both abilities require a kind of mental link, anyone with a psychic shielding ability has the means to block attempts to use either.

Great care has to be taken with such a predominantly taxing physical ability in that any damage caused to herself isn't something she can't come back from. For example, breaking her own arm to break someone else's arm takes the same amount of time to heal; there is no regenerative healing factors associated with the ability she has.

SIDE-EFFECTS: Both abilities work well in tandem and as such have very similar side effects. Because a great deal of focus is taken to use the two, it is a highly exhausting ability to put into practice. Disorientation is a high factor to consider; spending too much time emotionally linked with an individual blurs the lines between consciousness and the shared feelings.

The largest side effect for both abilities is that if the individual Bellamy is connected with dies, she also dies.

♦ THE FREEFORM ♦

What is it like to grow up in Chicago?

Just like had I grown up in any other city, I suspect. My parents were fine; the distance means we don’t talk all that much anymore. I have a brother that I don’t know too well, honestly. I’ve never even met him. He was adopted before I was born.

They always told me I was quiet, when I was younger. And that I love to read. I guess some things never change.

What is it like to do what you can do?

Confronting. I think it’s because, honestly, you have an insight into other people’s lives that you really shouldn’t have. When I was younger it was different because, well, I didn’t know how to read people. But I manifested fourteen years ago; I’ve had fourteen years to learn what I couldn’t help but learn.

I've shared a lot with people. I've taken a lot, too. Not by choice. In the very beginning, these were incredibly difficult skills to have any kind of control over. And honestly, they're scary.

Furthermore, I don't think a lot of people consider how hard it is to lie to me. It's difficult to conceal a majority of feelings this way. People are absolutely liars; it's an easy trait to be known for. But being good at it doesn't always mean you're getting out of it.

What is it like to teach history?

History has always been something I’ve found fascinating. Choosing to teach was more… It was like giving back to the people who had done so much for me.

What is it like to lose faith in humanity?

People are, at times, horrid, horrid creatures. Though I believe that every individual deserves to be looked at by the course of their entirety, not their single actions... It's a hard thing to factor in when you don't know the rest of the story. It's all subject to your experience now, isn't it? There was abuse, when I was younger. Not by anyone I know - not by anyone whose story I know. But it was enough to have me reconsider where I am in this world. Where I stand.

I didn't want to live, for a little while. When I was younger. Time may heal all wounds but that doesn't make you any less cautious.

What is it like to be in love?

In my experience - minimal as it has been and from a very decent distance - it is an equal and unequal exchange. Its a twist of a thought, and it's contradictory, but I think that's what makes it so fitting. It's freeing and liberating, but so so constricting. Painful and healing. It's like a dream to feel that way, but it's like a nightmare.

And if you like control, it's frustrating. But, I find, the lack of control is liberating. Not that I consider myself a control freak - not by any means - but I understand the feeling.

The one difference is that once you have it, you can't imagine life without it. Even at a distance. Out of range, and all that. My experience is exactly that. I've been in love. I think, I should say, that I am in love. But she has no idea.

What is it like to be you?

I don’t think there’s anything special about me. I don’t have anyone so specific; I live day to day normally. There’s not much to pay attention to, I promise.

I should say, I think, that ever since my manifestation I’ve always felt like things make.. More sense. Belonging to a set of incredibly unique people carries a comfort to it, too. That’s exactly why I stayed here when I could have moved on. I feel safer in the company I have now.

♦ THE PLAYER ♦

USERNAME: Eddie
AGE GROUP: Twenty-five
EXPERIENCE: Lets do dis
WHERE DID YOU FIND US? The holy woman

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