Post by Wren Pak on Nov 21, 2016 3:42:59 GMT
Wren Pak
FACE CLAIM: Yana Shmaylova
♦ THE BASICS ♦
AGE: 18
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Unsure
POSITION: College Student♦ THE ABILITY ♦
POWER: Retrocognition
Wren has the ability to see into other peoples' past and can discern certain information from them. Her power is the opposite of seeing into the future, and can be just as vague and simultaneously worrisome. Her visions, of sorts, involve one person's memories at a time, and can most often be seen through a first-person perspective. Her abilities are similar to divination, and require intense concentration to delve into the memories of another person. Wren closes her eyes and goes into a trance-like state when she looks into someone's past, watching what is going on like a film.
Depending on her own mental state, these glimpses into the past can go from seconds long to days long, if not properly taken care of. The person who is being "read" generally feels no effect, and can go about with other activities as if nothing is happening. The visions are not limited to observing one instance at a time, but rather can cut to other memories or important happenings without provocation. Wren's own control over her power determines many of the specifics to each reading.
LIMITATIONS:
-While being able to look into the histories of other people, Wren must be able to physically see a target in order to read them at any given point. They must be clear and easy to see, with not a lot of interference between.
-Distance also plays a factor in her power. As she has gotten older her range has increased, but as is, targets can be a maximum of 120 feet away from her.
-Within the reading itself, Wren has no power over her actions, and "becomes" the person she is looking through. Only one person at a time can be read, with no exceptions, as doing so takes up all of her concentration.
-The trance-like state that her visions comes with leave her susceptible to all form of stimuli, and being forcibly broken out of one can cause actual physical harm, such as intense nosebleeds.
-In addition, memories that have been blocked or are affected by mutant powers are an automatic no-go for Wren. She cannot access the "truest" form of someone's memories, she sees it exactly as they do- which can be warped from reality by the person's emotions, prejudices, and such.
-Most of the time, Wren cannot control what memories are shown at what times within her visions. She cannot decide to search for a specific hook within someone, and rather receives the memories of either the most recent or most emotionally important moments to the target.
-Wren can only see the histories of one specific person at a time, and has no knowledge or way to look into "the past" in general. She needs a human mind to delve into, and cannot use her powers to somehow look into the past of a town, or an inanimate object, for instance.
SIDE-EFFECTS:
Wren's power to see into the past can be very helpful, but more often than not, it is very stressful and difficult to work with due to it being linked to her mental state. The more stressed, depressive, or anxious she is, the easier it is for her powers to go a bit haywire. She can end up reading people rapid-fire without consciously deciding to do so, leaving her in the disoriented state of reliving other peoples' pasts without end. In addition, reading people even when in a healthy mental state can be physically tiring, and she is often sleep deprived.♦ THE CHARACTER ♦
HEIGHT: 5'6''
HAIR COLOR: Blonde
EYE COLOR: Brown
MISC: Her eyes are rather dull and unfeeling in appearance, and one can often see her true intentions if studying them.
PERSONALITY: Wren, by all appearances, seems to be a very collected and cool type of individual who might occasionally throw in a funny quip every now and then. Her outward demeanor is cordial, polite, and witty. She dislikes loud noises and large crowds of people, preferring small groups or going it alone. This amiable persona helps her get through daily life easily, without provoking much thought from people around her.
Wren's real self is cynical, bitter, and somewhat lacking in empathy. She has witnessed the saddest of experiences, and also the most incorrigible of acts within people's memories, and it has left her feeling completely disillusioned with the world.
She is rather apathetic, having virtually no hobbies outside of reading whatever new book comes her way, and often walks about aimlessly in order to find something interesting to see or do. Wren doesn't really make good friends with anyone, and she has immense trouble understanding how other people are able to form such close connections.
Despite feeling empty inside, Wren is, at heart, not a bad person. She would never wish harm upon anyone else, but also does not stand up for those in need. She is almost always neutral in any situation, yet paradoxically feels betrayal and sadness when the very people she scorns don't yearn for her attention. She dislikes herself, and hides that by blaming it on other people, who do just as many objectively questionable things as she does.
SECRET(S): -She often will read people in order to understand people better, sometimes intruding on very private moments
-She feels abandoned, and she is unsure if she understands what it is like to feel deeply for another person♦ THE HISTORY ♦
Born to a mixed Korean and Russian-American home, Wren grew up a boisterous and excitable child. She was known to be a bit quirky and odd to her classmates in elementary school, but enjoyed a simple and fun childhood in Denver, Colorado. As she grew older, however, family drama caused her parents to split up, which left Wren with her mother. The two moved out of Denver to Fort Collins, and together lived in a tiny one bedroom duplex. Things were financially difficult for the family of two, and Wren found life much less exciting than she'd thought.
Entering her first year of middle school, Wren's dwindling sense of wonderment with the world suddenly came grinding to a halt when, at the age of 12, she started experiencing strange visions during class. She didn't want to stress her hardworking, anxious mother out, so she kept it a secret for a small amount of time. In those few short weeks, Wren found herself learning much more about her supposed friends than they could ever tell her- by looking into their memories. Lies about making plans, the dirty game of gossiping, and everything petty junior high girls would do. Wren felt completely ostracized due not only to her mutant status, but to the fact that she was being made fun of behind her back.
Weeks passed, and recruiters from Bellefonte Academy showed up at the Paks' door. They explained in detail how mutants could live in a safe environment at the academy, and would be placed in a special boarding school. Wren's mother naturally accepted, and sent her emotionally vulnerable daughter off.
For the rest of her high school and middle school life in Montana, Wren distanced herself from others, and fell into several boughts of depression. One day, in her sophomore year of high school, she broke down, and completely lost control of her retrocognition abilities. Her eyes were clouded by the pasts of people who were attempting to help break her out of the trance for two entire days, with no ceasing, unless left completely alone. Eventually, staff members were able to break her out of the visions, but the event left Wren feeling even more bitter and isolated than ever before.
In her last years of high school, Wren's personality began to warp into something more cynical, and her years of mental illness taught her to fabricate a persona for people to interact with. On the inside, she felt more disgusted than anything else. She angered a few of her classmates around graduation time with her rather unsentimental comments, and left high school with no fond memories. Now on her way to college, Wren is unsure of what to do with herself in the future.♦ THE PLAYER ♦
USERNAME: Onairic
AGE GROUP: 21
EXPERIENCE: 10 years
WHERE DID YOU FIND US? RPG-D
