Post by Victoria Foster on Nov 10, 2016 23:58:05 GMT
Victoria Trinity Foster
FACE CLAIM: Alycia Debnam-Carey
♦ THE BASICS ♦
AGE: 25
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Bicurious (at least those are her words)
POSITION: Local♦ THE ABILITY ♦
POWER: Empathy Assimilation
Tori has the ability to experience the emotions of other people as if they were her own. To put it simply, her power is an enhanced version of common, every day empathy. She does not take their emotions away, Tori only senses them and experiences them the same way they do. Though she can use her power on a handful of people at a time, she can only successfully and completely assimialte to one. Assimilating to the emotions of more than one can lead to serious side-effects. The stronger the emotion(s) an individual is feeling, the easier it is for Tori to pick it up, and the more she feels it herself. With her time at the academy, she has learned to deal with her power that never seems to turn off.
LIMITATIONS:
Tori can assimilate to people in a 25m radius, though the closer a person is, the easier it is for her. Skin-to-skin contact is the easiest and less stressful way for her to use her power, otherwise it takes mental strain to successfully assimilate. She finds it very difficult to exercise her ability on individuals with mutations that cause psychic abilities. Once Tori has assimilated to a person, there is a twenty minute cool down period. If she tries again before this time is up, or she assimilates to too many people in a day/time, she will suffer side-effects.
SIDE-EFFECTS:
Tori has perpetual confusion of her own emotions. She can't tell the difference between her own feelings and the feelings of others if she doesn't take note beforehand. Using her power causes tiredness. If there is a drastic difference between her own emotions and the emotions of those she assimilates to, she is at risk of having a panic attack and stomach aches. Over-using her power causes panic, stress, exhaustion, physical illness (such as head-aches, nausea, vomiting, and nosebleeds), and enhances the symptoms of her depression and PTSD.♦ THE CHARACTER ♦
HEIGHT: 5'5
HAIR COLOR: Brown
EYE COLOR: Hazel
MISC: She has her ears pierced and her industrial on the left side done. She also has a tattoo of monarch butterflies fluttering upward from her hip to her shoulder on the same side. There are some small scars on her arms and larger ones on her back.
PERSONALITY: Tori is an all around friendly person. She loves seeing other people smile. Making people happy is one of her favourite things, resulting in her pushover trait. She wouldn't really say she's a social butterfly, but she keeps a few close friends and is almost always willing for some one-on-one time with them. Groups of more than three people are exhausting, after all.
Don't let her pleasent exterior fool you. Tori does not take harrassment lightly. She'll let you get away with it for a while, but if she's had enough she'll snap. Cruel words or maybe a physical shove will be follow her fuse. At least you can be certain she'll apologize for it later.
Photography is her favourite hobby to escape to. There is nothing quite like seeing the world through a lens and capturing it in a picture you can hold onto forever. A single picture can hold so much love, despair, beauty, fear... it's amazing. Tori picked up a knack for it at Bellefonte and has made it into her passion, career, and life.
When photography fails to soothe her, she sings. She sings in the shower, when she's alone, when a good song is playing on the radio.. Tori just sings. She does it only for herself and has never performed in a crowd despite people encouraging her to do so. But Tori is very afraid of being the centre of attention. Well, attention itself is nice and makes her feel good about herself, but she wouldn't want to take the spotlight. It's nerve racking to have all those people staring at you in silence.
Tori is a paranoid person and figures people will think nothing but the worse of her. She thinks people she knows are always talking about her and laughing at her. This contributes to her trust issues. It's very hard for her to trust people and let them into her life.
Whenever things get bad for her, she isolates herself. This is a bad habit she has never been able to break. If Tori is gone from sight for a few days, you can guarantee she's in her room, either fiddling with her camera or snuggling in bed. She doesn't like bringing people down and would much rather suffer alone than make others worry about her. She's very self sacrificing and resents herself for it. Hell, she even resents other people for not seeming to care. It is definitely a lose-lose situation.
Part of her problem is feeling like she understands everyone while no one understands her. It causes a lot of sadness, self-hatred, and anger within her. She craves nothing more than to be understood. It's her one true desire. Though how can she expect it when she is a closed book?
SECRET(S): Tori has PTSD from the abuses she suffered in childhood. There are very few people who know she has this illness and even fewer know the reason why she has it. She also use to sleep with older men for drugs when she was a teen.♦ THE HISTORY ♦
CHILDHOOD:
Tori was born in Manchester, England. She would have been raised there by her single mother, Amelia, if it wasn't for the fact her mom was terminally ill. It was only a matter of time, the doctors had told her, before she would pass away; so she called up the father of her child and begged him to take Tori in before her beloved daughter could be orphaned. Though her mother and father had been nothing more than an affair, her father agreed and Tori was moved to Idaho in the United States at the age of six.
(Trigger warning: child abuse) Life with her father wasn't as comforting and kind as it had been with her mom, but Tori learned to love him and the rest of his family despite all their flaws. When she was a good girl, she was rewarded. When she wasn't, she was insulted and occassioanlly hit. It wasn't hard for her to pick which one she liked more: being the good girl. And so, despite feeling like she was worthless, she did what her father and hateful stepmother bid her to. Unless, of course, she was feeling resentful or daring.
Gas lighting was an unfortunate part of her childhood. Whenever Tori tried to bring up an issue she was having with any member of the family, she was assaulted by comments such as "so-and-so would never do something like that.", "why are you lying", "it's all in your head", and so forth. This made her question if everything was in her head. Perhaps the things she thought her family was doing wasn't being done at all. Why would people who loved her want to hurt her? They wouldn't. It didn't make sense.
Tori felt very lonely and isolated within her family. It didn't help that the letters from her mother stopped showing up when she was nine years old. She wasn't sure how to be happy in a family that did nothing but hurt her.. but she also knew she couldn't hate them. They were all she had and they gave her everything she needed: shelter, food, education, hobbies. And if they didn't love her, they wouldn't give her any of that, right?
ADOLESCENCE: (Trigger warning: sexual assault) When Tori was 13, her half-brother, Steven, sexually assaulted her. Tori remained silent about it due to fear of being denied and yelled at. She knew she had been wronged and there was no amount of denial her family could give her to make her think otherwise. But to remain safe, she went silent and never spoke a word. It was hard to live in the same house as her assaulter, and she was more than thankful when Steven moved out for college.
As she grew into adolescence, she became more and more reckless. Tori stayed out later than her curfew, she started talking back to her father and step-mother, she began sleeping around with whoever would have her, she broke things that weren't hers, and she drank and smoked when she could get her hands on it. Tori was unhappy and she was desperately trying to show everyone her distress without wording it.
The sleeping around part didn't help her self-esteem. People would seek her out just to screw her since she was "so easy". Even if she didn't want it, she would do it. There were some occasions where she tried to back out but if who she was with showed resistence, she would give in. It was easier to pretend like it was her choice all along.
When she was sixteen, things became even more difficult. Her emotional turmoil was even more confusing to her when the emotions of others started forcing themselves on top. Some days she was absolutely angry when someone around her was. Some days she did nothing but cry when a friend said she was cheated on by her boyfriend. Others, she was ecstatic when someone told her good news. The sudden changing of her, what she thought was hormonal, emotions caused her to have frequent headaches and nosebleeds. Tori often felt sick and began to skip school in order to lock herself in her room and avoid people.
But two and a half weeks after her emotions were running rampant, a knock on her door signalled the beginning of better days. People from an academy in Montana had come to recruit her. Tori could hardly believe her luck and was more than pleased to go. Really, she was ready to do anything to get out and away from her family.
Life at the academy was already an improvement. But she was finding it very difficult to learn. Though she was enjoying her classes, Tori couldn't concentrate on homework. She also didn't believe at all that she was a mutant. How could someone learn to control their ability if they even denied having it? She just thought she was a very empathetic person who had instability issues.
It took her a whole year and a half at the academy to believe she was different than the common person. But even then, she found it very challenging to control her power. Tori had been assigned a counsellor the same week she had arrived.
Putting in much needed effort, Tori graduated and learned how to control her power. She had never been prouder of herself. She was so proud, in fact... that she decided to enrole in college!
ADULTHOOD: After meeting him in her early 20's, Tori has become incredibly close with Axel Jonasen. Their relationship has sculpted Tori’s personality and behaviours. She has learned by example how to take care of herself (through aggression, of course), but has also grown to know she can rely on Axel when she needs- at least to a certain extent. Close friends tend to hate her odd relationship with the older man since they claim it is an unhealthy one of dependence and abuse. Tori disagrees.
A couple years ago, Tori graduated college with a BFA in photography. With Axel’s help, she started up her own photography studio/gallery in Kalispell called Monarch Studios. Her business has been quite successful, and Tori is very thankful for the many people who come to her for a photo shoot or to observe her gallery. This area in her life has offered stability and relaxation.
Tori has become, more recently, has picked up a terrible addiction. The drugs help numb her and it’s the only thing she feels will relieve her of her stress. Tori has become more spontaneous, reckless, and impulsive as a result. She has no time to listen to people who try to tell her how she should be dealing with her issues... hell, she just wants to keep living her life, working as a photographer, and spending time with Axel.♦ THE PLAYER ♦
USERNAME: Kenny
AGE GROUP: 21
EXPERIENCE: A long, long, long time
WHERE DID YOU FIND US? You e-mailed me! But Harvey showed me the original place
