Post by Felix Nicholas on Nov 7, 2016 17:04:24 GMT
Felix Andrew Nicholas
FACE CLAIM: Paul Wesley
♦ THE BASICS ♦
AGE: 18
GENDER: Male
ORIENTATION: Hetrosexual
POSITION: College student at Bellefonte Academy, Academy radio host♦ THE ABILITY ♦
POWER: Sound Manipulation
Sound Manipulation is the ability to increase and decrease sound waves emitting from any given source. They can be increased to the point of bursting your eardrums and cracking your skull, or reduced to barely a whisper. Felix is basically is own walking speaker system. He can even separate layers of sound from music, for example the drum beat, and increase that while leaving the rest of the music piece at it’s usual volume.
LIMITATIONS:
Manipulating sound from a natural source is a lot harder to control then manipulating it from a speaker or controlled volume system. For example, Felix finds it far easier to control sound that’s already going through a controlled volume system, such as through speakers or sound systems, then from a natural source, for example birdsong. This is due to the fact sound of natural sources fluctuates in volume, however slight, while sound being pumped through speakers can be held at a steady level.
SIDE-EFFECTS:
As an overall effect of his mutation, Felix is very sensitive to sounds and sound waves. Small use of his power, such as increases or decreases in sound generally have no side effects; but for extreme sound changes, the effects can be quite dangerous, ranging from horrendous headaches, nosebleeds, short term deafness and burst eardrums. Depending on the sound’s pitch, it can also trigger him to feel sick, and if he’s not careful he has the potential to make himself completely deaf or damage someone else’s hearing. Using his ability in a controlled manner also requires a great deal of concentration. The longer he holds a sound steady, especially if it’s particularly large sound change from it’s original volume, the harder it is to control. Separating layers of sound is incredibility difficult compared to simply making sound louder or quieter, and requires a total focus on the task at hand, generally causing severe headaches if held for any longer then about 15 minutes.♦ THE CHARACTER ♦
HEIGHT: 6"1
HAIR COLOR: Brown
EYE COLOR: Hazel
MISC: Pale skinned with a slight olive warmth, Felix styles his short brown hair with a flicked up messy fringe, but rarely spends much time on it nowadays since it just seems to remain that way naturally. He keeps himself clean cut and generally tidy. He always seems to remain bright eyed, even if he’s been awake all hours fixing and tweaking his sound equipment.
PERSONALITY:
Fun, upbeat and lighthearted, Felix generally doesn’t take life too seriously and sees little value in wallowing in any form of self pity. Although he claims to be an open book, he chooses to hide certain information from others if he feels it’s in their benefit to do so, weather this is information about himself or other people.
Felix takes life in his stride, giving off a bright and fun loving atmosphere. He bonds exceedingly well with others, and much prefers spending time in the public eye, weather it be on the school radio or being the life of the party. While he does enjoy the spotlight, it isn’t something he goes out to purposefully look for. He’s fairly social, but only chooses to spend an extensive amount of time with close friends, preferring to relax with one person that means a lot to him as apposed to being in a large social gathering.
The school radio means a lot to him, and he takes a great pride in it’s upkeep and it’s importance within the Academy’s community, and he’ll openly admit he values it more then his studies; he often chooses to focus his time on that instead of his actual schooling.
Having grown up in an exceedingly well off family, Felix hasn’t had to cope with going without; this is however something that he doesn’t like to play on. He’s the most down to earth of his siblings, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have expensive tastes, but this is mostly for the sound equipment he uses. The school radio is his personal baby, and it deserves the best.
When it comes to personal relationships, Felix is generally welcoming and friendly to all who come across him; at least at first. While he can take an extensive amount of personal knockbacks, and easily dismisses anyone being aggressive towards him, he won’t see it being done to someone else. He cares for others extensively, easily allowing himself to be hurt and to worry about those he cares for. He has a habit of taking on their personal battles as his own too, choosing to stay by their side even if the outcome will harm himself. He’s emotionally strong, making it relatively easy for him to deal with a lot of issues from others at once. He often feels that others don’t take his feelings into consideration, due to his general care free attitude. He holds a great consideration for others, often going above and beyond for someone in order to make them feel better or to solve a problem for them.
Despite his readiness to take on any of his friends’ problems, Felix is sensitive about his own. His easy going personality hides his insecurities, his worries and his fears. The feelings of others and their wellbeing is generally viewed as more important then his own. He sees himself as a necessary pillar of resolve, since so many around him due to the nature of the school are emotionally unstable; this leaves him often feeling emotionally drained, but he often refuses to show this or inform anyone else if he’s struggling.
SECRET(S): Nothing really major.♦ THE HISTORY ♦
Born to Richard and Anna Nicholas, Felix almost immediately entered into a highly extravagant lifestyle. Having built up a successful business in a succession of hotels throughout central America, Richard Nicholas was determined to provide anything and everything for his new family. Despite his promises, Richard barely saw his son in his toddler years, too consumed with the business and the potential for expansion; he often left Felix with a Nanny, since his wife Anna was also his business partner, and the pair of them were far more focused on their family’s financial future then the early days of their first born.This wasn’t a decision taken with any sense of unwillingness to be parents, but more their focus on providing as much as they could financially for their child; both parents had come from simple backgrounds where they had struggled with money, and that was a future they didn’t want for Felix.At four years old, upon catching Felix addressing the Nanny accidentally as his mother, Anna decided to take on a more personal approach to raising her child. This evidently left Richard with a greater workload, causing the man to spend even less time with Felix.At five his younger siblings were born, twins Priscilla and Travis. The new children were a handful, leaving Felix once more shoved into the arms of a Nanny.
As he grew up, Felix became very aware of his Father’s lack of time spent with him personally, only spending time with him in relation to the company and Felix’s future takeover of it.When his attempts to raise this issue were ignored, he instead threw himself into his socializing, spending little time studying or attempting to learn anything about the company.This finally caught the attentions of his business focused Father, who saw his son’s lack of interest in school as gravely damaging to his future career.
Felix has long since felt the weight of his Father’s ideal future for him, to become the future head of the hotel company; having had the romanticized concept forced upon him time and time again while growing up, even with the birth of his younger siblings the tidal wave of expectance didn’t waver. His Father had never intended to be overbearing, and simply wanted what he believed would be best for his first born son; which was to become the head of his business. This resulted in a lot of arguments between the two of them, and between his Father and his Mother.
At the age of 14, during one of these parental arguments, Felix decided he’d had enough of listening to his father’s sharp comments regarding his career choices, choosing to turn up his music to block the man out; as he reached out for the music player, the volume suddenly violently increased, to such an extent that the boy was thrown back and his eardrums were burst.Through his recovery, his parents and others around him became aware that levels of sound were fluctuating around him. Since the moment of manifestation had caused him temporary partial deafness, he began using his newfound ability out of frustration to increase the volume of people speaking to him in an effort to hear them clearer. It was during this time he accidentally blew out his music system and destroyed the television, and caused temporary damage to a school friend’s ears.Richard Nicholas had already made subtle inquiries into his son’s condition, and was thankful when representatives from a specialist school approached him.Felix was taken to Bellefonte before his hearing had fully recovered, leading to an dangerous few weeks where he was kept separately from the main academy students, with those that did interact with him having to wear protective headphones.As his ears healed, Felix could now better judge the sound waves he was controlling, and after years of training with the academy managed to take better control of his ability.
Felix has come to find the school as far more a home then his own, settling in without any hassle and thoroughly enjoying being a part of school life.He suggested the idea of a school radio system, and offered to run it himself from a spare office room, providing a station for students and teachers to tune in to specifically for the Academy. Bellefonte Academy Radio not only provides hours of various music, but also announces important events and controls the school’s day to day tannoy system.
As Felix matured, he attempted to study the nature of business and to spend more time learning to take over the family company in an effort to please his Father. While Felix’s sudden “affliction” as his Father called it caused a good few years without being too pushed career wise, as he reached 18 the arguments began again. He wanted Felix to concentrate on learning business studies, and to drop focusing on the study of music.Finally choosing to ignore his Father, resulting in a tension between the two, Felix now concentrates on music and technology, as his new life of sound manipulation has given him a new found love and adoration for beats, rhythm and for sound in general. He hopes to go into researching and then teaching the effects of music and sound, especially on emotions and memory.♦ THE PLAYER ♦
USERNAME: Gas!
AGE GROUP: Twenties.
EXPERIENCE: SOME TIME
WHERE DID YOU FIND US? I followed the trail of sweets.
