Post by James Baxter on Jan 6, 2017 3:19:05 GMT
James Elliot Baxter
FACE CLAIM:Sam Claflin
♦ THE BASICS ♦
AGE: Twenty-two
GENDER: Male
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
POSITION: College Student♦ THE ABILITY ♦
POWER: Dream Manipulation/Walking
The ability to appear in and manipulate another's dream. Be it creating vivid scenarios that are nearly realistic, or even just imagining a swirling array of colors. It is based on his imagination, whatever it is that he creates. In order for this to happen, he doesn't have to be asleep, but he becomes completely engulfed in the other person's mind and zones out completely, unaware of his surroundings.
LIMITATIONS:
It is said that later on in his development he could also affect daydreams, but at the moment he can only affect dreams when the person is actually asleep. The one who's dream is being manipulated must be susceptible to the manipulation. They have to have an open mind, otherwise the manipulation doesn't work and James is basically just wandering through their dream. He can't enforce dreams, the person has to already be dreaming in order for him to walk and manipulate. The same goes with nightmares, they have to be in mid-nightmare before he can manipulate it into something worse or even something better. His imagination isn't quite horrific enough to create monsters, but he's been known to throw a few weird unicorn monkey things in there. And he can't trap anyone in their dreams or in the REM cycle, they can wake up whenever and in turn it would shove James' conscience out as well.
SIDE-EFFECTS:
-Insomnia - his sleep patterns are very strange and infrequent
-Inability to concentrate for long periods of time
-Hallucinations - he is subservient to his own manipulations except instead of seeing these images while he's sleeping, he sees them while he's fully awake
-Strange dreams - when he does dream, he has very outrageous dreams
-Blurred distinction between reality and dreams - similarly to the movie Inception, -James has a tether that allows him to determine whether he's in a dream or if he's in reality
His ability has some very serious ties to the mental disorder schizophrenia and while he was not diagnosed with it after he manifested because there was an explanation to the symptoms he had, he still does worry that he'll need to be hospitalized if more symptoms become apparent.♦ THE CHARACTER ♦
HEIGHT: 5'11"
HAIR COLOR: Auburn
EYE COLOR: Blue
MISC: James has no piercings or tattoos, but he has several scars from a motorcycle accident. Most of the majors ones are on his right arm and the right half of his back/ribs from road burn.
PERSONALITY: James is an observer, he takes in his surroundings fully and notices small gestures made by people or details in nature that most overlook which has helped him in way of his career choice of being a photographer. While his over all personality isn't particularly extravagant, he has a way of getting to know people that helps him in making friends or knowing which people to stay away from.
Because of his ability and the side effects he deals with on a daily basis, James has a difficult time relating to situations and can seem distracted. He is susceptible to hallucinations, hearing and seeing things that are not there so in the middle of a conversation his eyes will sort of glaze over and he can miss a whole part of a conversation. It isn't intentional and he always has this horrible guilt when it happens, but even with all of his training, they haven't disappeared quite yet.
James doesn't know how to act around people that he hasn't known for a long time because of his disconnect, but when he attaches to someone, he's very loyal. He also struggles with intimacy and affection which makes it hard for him to understand relationships and how to be in one. While he feels attraction, he doesn't know where to go from there.
SECRET(S): He had to be admitted into a psychiatric ward when he first manifested because his parents thought he was developing schizophrenia. However he was not diagnosed because he was recruited to Bellefonte Academy only a short time after.♦ THE HISTORY ♦
James was born in New York, his mother was a pilates instructor and his father a big time CEO for some company that James couldn't care less about learning. He grew up in the city, went to a private school with uniforms and the whole shebang. His father was a workaholic and his mother was sleeping with one of the guys taking her class. While his life wasn't perfect, he wasn't an unhappy person. James found his happiness through art.
When James turned twelve and the joys of puberty began to strike, he found himself removed from his family and from the few friends he'd made in school. There was a disconnect that happened and he became uncomfortable with his surroundings. A few weeks went by this way before he found himself in someone else's dream. If it hadn't been a bogus dream to begin with, he might not have ever known that was what had happened. Once he came back to himself, he kept having these strange hallucinations and would hear voices in the back of his mind, but he couldn't place why.
After speaking to his mother about it, she had him admitted into a psychiatric ward in the hospital. Nearly a week went by before he met with his mother and a pair of people who he'd never seen before. At first he thought they were doctors, but they weren't dressed like the doctors. That was when he was told that he was a mutant and had the ability of dream walking. It was nearly six months later after he began classes that James became aware of his manipulation ability as well.
In school, James had trouble with the classes that didn't revolve around mutations and were strictly comprehension based. He struggled with focusing in the classes and had to be tutored. He struggled with making close connections with people, such as a mentor of sorts and his trainer. He could hardly even make friends. But while he struggled with the basics, he excelled in his training and the control of this ability he was stuck with.
Due to the potential enhancements his ability could take on, James decided to stay and attend BA through college. He has hardly spoken to his parents since he moved out to Montana, but from what he heard, they divorced. He has his own apartment and is working as a photographer at one of the clubs that often has live music acts as well as doing freelance work.♦ THE PLAYER ♦
USERNAME: Red or B(ee), or whatever. Not very picky about nicknames and such.
AGE GROUP: Early twenties
EXPERIENCE: Almost a decade
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