Background: It had been trauma that had woken
her up. She saw the works of a demented artist lying out in the middle of
a street one day, a twisted heap of blood and skin and crumpled bone left
in all of it’s glorified pseudo-‘beauty’, as he had thought it was
beautiful. His beauty was her breaking point. She shouldn’t have woken up
so early that day. Things had been hard enough. Daddy had too many things
to do at work, and Mommy was always at the salon or at work or at
someplace that was never home, and her bigger brother hated her with a
passion and always made it obvious. She thought she had finally gotten
used to it, until she saw that girl, twisted into a position that wasn’t
even anatomically possible. Then it all came tumbling down. She panicked,
and she ran as fast as her little legs could take her. It didn’t strike
her to go back into her home and hide under her bed, to run screaming for
Daddy, to look for some help for the poor girl lying in the middle of the
street, she just ran. And then they came after her. She didn’t know who
they were, but it crossed her mind that they were trying to force her to
do something. She didn’t want to hurt anyone, but they were going to hurt
her instead if she didn’t. And then came others, people her age. They
tried to hurt her. But something stopped them. It was always something,
even though she never saw what it was....
Character Personality She should’ve never been one of the neglected girls,
no, she shouldn’t have. She was much too good for that existence. Naïve
and unassuming, yes, but her heart was pure, and she didn’t deserve it. By
Mommy, by Daddy, by big brother, by classmates, by teachers, by nearly
everyone. A nobody. She was normal, yet she was something beyond that. She
was special, had a mind and a heart that should’ve caught someone’s
attention. Oh, she caught someone’s attention, but it wasn’t akin to
anything she deserved. No. She shouldn’t be there. She’s just a normal
kid. Leave her alone. Don’t make her do this. Please.
Powers and Abilities
Unconscious
- Power: Emotion
Control
- Level: Superior
- Kit Power Link: Mentalist
- Advantage: Area Effect This attack causes damage in a large,
circular area.
I dunno. She just seems
too normal to be anyone special. I just left her alone right then and
there. Well, she asked me too. She didn’t look right for this kind of
thing. Didn’t seem important enough. She’s real tiny for a kid her age,
fragile-looking. Elegant almost. No. I’m not going after her again. You’re
not either. She shouldn’t be doing this. She’s just a normal kid. Leave
her alone. Don’t make her do this. Please. No. Stop. I swear I’ll stop you
myself if you go after her. Don’t you dare test me. I will hurt you if I
have to....
Psychokinetic
Track her
down and dart her. Now. The violent streak in some of the kids lately got
me really worried, that’s all. Yes, I’m going to justify it like that.
Just knock her out and take her home. Where’d you last see her? In the one
marked ‘closed for renovations,’ right? Okay, slowly, don’t want to scare
her anymore than she already is. Careful for the holes in the floor....
SHIT! What was that? Something fell from one of the upper stories.
Maloney? Dammit! Hell no, she couldn’t have thrown him! You think a frail
kid like her can throw someone three times her size? No f---ing way. Maybe
he tripped, always was a clumsy bastard.... She screamed at him to stop,
and he FELL backwards down the hole? You’ve gotta be KIDDING me....
Defense
- Power: Force Field
- Level: Superior
- Advantage: Reinforced Defenses Defense blocks Armor Piercing
attacks.
What?!! Who sent armed
officers after her?! She’s my daughter, dammit! She can’t hurt anybody!
She’s just a little girl, give her the benefit of the goddamned doubt!
Just ‘cause one of your men tripped and fell is no goddamned reason to
start shooting at her. Don’t give me that tranq-dart bullshit. Like I’m
going to feel any better ‘cause you’re not using bullets, you’re still
shooting at her.... What do you mean she stopped them? ...They just
stopped, in the air, just like that. Not a single one hit her? ...Well....
I guess that makes me feel a little better....
Mechanisms
The family
tree of the Parden Family, as well as genetic testing done on every single
member mentioned, shows a trend of several forms of latent psychokineses.
It’s not in the dominant genes, so I’m still surprised at how common it is
within each family member. Some have one form, others have many, some are
stronger, some are weaker, you get the general idea. Anywho, when any form
of psychokinesis in the Parden family is triggered, it’s usually by
stress. With the recent murder victim left lying right outside your house,
and the recent rash of assaults amongst the younger age groups, I
understand perfectly why she has stress. Yes, this does explain Mr.
Maloney’s unfortunate ‘fall’, if you still want to sugar-coat it and call
it that, through that hole in the floor of that renovated building. And
why every single shot fired at her stopped within a seven-foot radius. And
why those support beams collapsed and brought scaffolding down on that ass
who hit her. Oh, almost hit her? My mistake. Now, I want you to take a
look at this cerebral scan. It’s of Ashley compared to five of her other
relatives. She’s fifteen, right? Yeah, this area’s more active in her than
it is in the others, suggesting....
Psychokinetic Mending
- Power: Healing
- Level: Supreme
- Kit Power Link: Mentalist
I... I didn’t mean to hurt
you. It just happened. You scared me, you shot at me. I... I’m so scared,
I just wanna get away from everything. No, don’t go! Don’t leave me....
You’re hurt? Where? Oh God, you’re, you’re bleeding real bad.... N-no, I
don’t know any first aid. Just lie down. Please. It’ll only take a second.
......... There. You feel any better? Good. No! Don’t go! I... I don’t
wanna be lonely again.... Please? Don’t leave me...
Imbued Emotional Freneticism
There she
is. It’s Parden’s kid. Haven’t been able to track her down for days, not
since some idiot sent armed officers after her. Send a telepath in, try
and subdue her. Now, before she runs away again, or before another one of
those freaks tries to kill her. Kids have been getting too violent these
days... Whaddaya mean she’s running away again?! Stop her! Why didn’t the
telepath do anything? Said she’s too frantic to be subdued properly? Well,
that’s a load of crap....
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