Post by roxannehart on Dec 27, 2008 16:41:45 GMT -7
The Handler
Name: Roxanne Chelsea Hart
Nickname: Roxy, Rox
Classification: Human
Gender: Female
Age & Birthday: Twenty, 19th November
Appearance: Roxy stands just a hair under 5’3 on a good day she’s not exactly slim – weighing between 140 and 145lbs depending on the time of year but she really doesn’t mind. Her skin is naturally fair. Her eyes are a warm hazel colour and her naturally black hair has been dyed to several different shades throughout the years although it is currently in its natural state and cut into a bobbed style.
She does not have a classically pretty face, though the subtle beauty she does have she likes to enhance with makeup. Her lips are full and usually slicked with colour and her hazel eyes are almost always rimmed with black kohl. Her body is dotted with various tattoos either of designs she found interesting or things to commemorate her travels.
Attire: Not that long ago there were two words you could use to describe Roxy’s wardrobe in its entirety: Hot Topic. Throughout her teens she was your classic angsty rebel and she dressed to suit it, all tartan skirts, ripped fishnets and black band tee shirts were a daily staple and although she still enjoys to break out her old style from time to time she’s grown up a lot since then and her wardrobe shows it. Though she still enjoys dancing between edgy and trendy she will more often be found in skinny jeans or smart dresses than her old tartan. She’s still her old unique self underneath – just with a little more class. Still wears a lot of black though, sometimes with a splash of bright colour to liven it up. Her favourite shoes, when she’s not dressed up, are a sturdy pair of boots not entirely dissimilar to Doc Martens. She always wears a small silver bat pendant around her neck and nearly always has her iPod on.
The Creation
Name: n/a
Power List: Telepathy
Detailed Power:
Telepathy –
The Potential
Alignment/Occupation:
Weapons: She always carries a small Swiss-army knife somewhere about her person, mostly either stashed in her boots or the side of her bra. She doesn’t think of it as a weapon, just something useful to keep around,
Personality:
Roxy has never made a good first impression in her life. She’s abrasive and judgemental and terribly hard to get to know because of how secretive she has become and all the walls she’s built around herself to protect herself from harm. She spent so many years being bullied and branded a freak as a child that she is always wary someone will humiliate her once more. Despite all this she can appear to be confident and forward when she wants to, often to the point of blunt rudeness. She also frequently makes references to what people were thinking when talking to them, often without realising it.
As a result of the almost permanent headache her telepathy gives her Roxy is nearly always snappy and grumpy. She can be very rude and often runs her mouth without thinking about things because she’s just plain had enough. She dislikes crowds and having people around her and if anyone is foolish enough to try and get close to her they get cussed out, insulted and generally abused until they leave her alone. There are select few people she will let into her life and even those are often insulted.
When she does let someone into her life she can be far too trusting of them and thereby easily manipulated. Because she believes her powers make her almost impossible to lie to (no one has told her that powerful people could manipulate their thoughts to be what she wants to hear) anyone she thinks isn’t lying to her she considers totally trustworthy. Betrayal is the greatest sin in her eyes and those who lie to her or betray her are despised, in the same way as she would rather die than betray those she loves.
Skills:
Roxy would be a world-class interrogator for the police if she ever put her mind to it. Because she can probe people’s thoughts she can easily find whether they’re lying to her or not and what they are really thinking about. She’s a walking (and pretty much 100% accurate) lie detector test.
Through her telepathy she has picked up various words from different languages, though she doesn’t know enough to prove much use she can just about string a sentence together – her main strength here lying in French as she spent a good deal of time in the French-speaking regions of Canada though she would love to learn more of the language.
Finally Roxy is also a fantastic cook. She learnt the skill through years of paying her way doing household chores for an old witch and prides herself in making the most delicious and well presented meals, though her main area of expertise is baking and she makes the most mouth-watering cakes and cookies.
Strengths:
Roxy is very persuasive when she wants to be and usually manages to get her way in the end. She can also quickly realise when something is wrong, allowing her to get away from dangerous situations before things get too bad. She also almost an eternal optimist, always on the lookout for the better side of something, even though she never lets on.
Weaknesses:
Roxy can’t be around large crowds. Either all their thoughts give her a huge headache or she is left so exhausted by blocking them out she collapses. For this reason she cannot love in towns or cities – last time she tried she started to go insane. She is easily influenced by others especially when she is feeling angry or betrayed as it stops her from thinking clearly or those whom she feels are in a position o authority and have her trust. She is also totally useless in a fight, although she can often judge the opponents move before they make it, she’s unfit and has no combat training whatsoever which really stacks the odds against her.
The Story
History: (Basically from birth to start of game)
There was nothing unusual about Roxanne Hart’s birth. Her parents were both normal everyday none to five working types and, apart from a surprisingly quick labour there was nothing about the newborn that suggested she would be any different. She grew up like any normal child, playing outside with her friends and spending her nights listening to fairy stories. Throughout her whole childhood there were jokes that the women in her family weren’t quiet human, her father was the main source of these often saying that her grandmother couldn’t still be alive unless she had something a little inhuman in her. They laughed but Roxy always harboured suspicions she was a little different.
When she was eleven years old something happened that only served to confirm Roxy’s suspicions that she wasn’t totally human. She was lying in bed one night when she started to hear the voices of her two brothers in the next room saying all kinds of strange and abstract things. Thinking they were in trouble she went to investigate only to find they were sound asleep. Slightly unnerved she went back to her room and tried to sleep but the voices never left. As the years went on the voices got louder and louder and there were more and more of them. It gave her terrible headaches and Roxy found she was taking more and more painkillers just to get through the day. And then there was school. She was ostracized by the other children after she accidentally mentioned things they were thinking in conversation. The other children were scared but they were also cruel, they bullied Roxy both physically and emotionally and changed her forever.
Roxy kept her powers a secret for four years until one day she accidentally overdosed on painkillers in an attempt to dull the pain inside her head. She was forced to tell her parents in an attempt to explain she hadn’t meant to take too many, that she wasn’t trying to kill herself. Her parents and doctors took this badly and she was sent to a councillor and psychiatrist. She kept up the appointments for a little under a year, but a few weeks after her sixteenth birthday she decided she had had enough of being bullied and laughed at and assessed and tested and called crazy and, on a wild impulse, she ran away from home.
She fled for the countryside, away from people and she soon found she felt better for it. It was the hustle and bustle of the town and all its people that was sending her mad and causing her head to feel like it was splitting in two. For the first couple of weeks she slept rough and many times she contemplated turning back and going home again but then she recalled the way she was treated so she persevered - and in the end it did her good. Just over two weeks into her escape she came across and old woman – a witch of some kind – who had sensed her powers and agreed to take her in and teach her how to control them if Roxy cooked, cleaned and did other jobs for her. At first she was apprehensive, but Roxy couldn’t sense any lies or hidden agendas in the witches’ thoughts so she happily agreed.
Their strange relationship worked well. Roxy soon became a wonderful chef, serving up fine meals even from only basic ingredients and she kept the little travelling caravan in good shape. Rowenna – the witch – also held up her end of the bargain, teaching Roxy how to focus her telepathy onto specific people and how to put up mental shields so that the mess of thoughts she heard could be blocked. She even offered to teach Roxy some spells, which didn’t end too well. They travelled constantly always staying well away from populated areas and Rowenna told Roxy many stories of the magical world to pass the time – like the fairy stories her parents used to tell her only more real.
Rowenna herself was an avid supporter of Prince Nuada and his values and soon these beliefs wore off on the trusting and impressionable Roxy. When they were attacked by a mob in Quebec who discovered Rowenna’s magic and feared it Roxy was forced to run for her life. Rowenna was not so lucky and did not escape alive. Since then Roxy has travelled alone, still a strong supporter of Nuada.
