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Post by Quinn Wiley on Aug 2, 2014 7:45:36 GMT -6
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NAME: Tarquin Alfried Wiley
NICKNAME: Quinn, he doesn’t need the ‘Tar’ part of his name
AGE: 17
GENDER: Male
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
POSITION: Bellefonte student
FACE CLAIM: Aneurin Barnard
POWER:
Fire Breather
Fire starts with one thing, his diet. He will need a fat-rich but low carb diet to produce fire. This diet creates a lot of gastric acid. This is what is required for him to throw fire. The acid will lead to heartburn and spill into his lungs. A part of the fat is also converted into a highly combustible acetone vapor. Once he coughs it, the vapor is sprayed from the mouth. After a series of vapor-releasing coughs, a single one releasing gastric juices from the lungs is enough to ignite the gas and give the appearance of fire expelled from his mouth.
The fire can be compared to napalm and will cause severe burning and even death to anyone who has received the vapors on them before being set on fire. It can also melt metal and burn things to a crisp in seconds. Water does not affect him and he can take cold better than some thanks to his body temperature always higher than normal, until he releases fire, then it drops.
Limitations
There is always a small amount of fat that is turned into combustible inside of him. As a result, he must expel fire from time to time to get it out before it causes damage to him.
If he eats a lot of carb, not as much fat will be turned into vapor and even less into acid. He can easily take two or three weeks without breathing fire as opposed to do a little every week otherwise. Since he burns fat easier than carb however, that means a lot of weight gained.
His stomach, lungs and throat can take the vapor and acid well. However, since the fire appears only as the acid and vapor meet outside of his mouth, he is not immune to fire. If sprayed by the same mix, he could burn as well.
It takes time to breathe out the acetone. It requires him to breathe out at least two or three coughs of vapor before he throws gastric juices. If you see him exhaling like he's trying to spit something, you can easily knock him out before he can breathe fire.
If Quinn can be affected by heartburns, his stomach, lungs and throat are made of a thicker layer of tissue than normal people, making it able to handle the gastric acid better. Stocked there too long, it will dissolve that layer like it would normally, causing heartburns, ulcers and even chest pain. The vapors are located in a small sack attached to his lungs made of the same thick tissue.
Side-Effects
The more fire he will breathe out, the more his body temperature will drop. This can lead to shivering, some hypothermia and even passing out if he doesn’t watch out.
Due to the diet required for him to create fire, he is more prone to heartburns (although those won’t make him spit fire).
If he keeps the acid and vapor inside of him, he could grow ulcers. He isn’t sure if his body could blow up into a ball of fire if both were to mix inside of him and prefers not to try that.
He can tell when he should start breathing fire because he will have heartburns and trouble breathing right, will even cough a lot as the body is trying to get it out of him since he isn't on his own.
APPEARANCE SECTION: Quinn has olive green eyes he is particularly proud of. What he is less proud of is his dark hair that always seems to curl on top of his head, no matter how he styles them. He also feels he’s got natural bags under his eyes that always make him look tired and older and is ambivalent as to the size of his nose and his chin. He mostly thinks that because he resembles his mother a lot and has little affection for the woman.
Quinn is not one to smile a lot. Frowning seems to add years to his face however so he generally keeps the same facial expression of general boredom. His eyes are probably the most alive feature on him.
Standing at 5’9’’, he considers himself not too tall but not too short either. He is not very muscular and for someone who is often outside, a little pale. Depending of his diet, he can gain weight fast. He is able to burn fat quickly but too much bread and you can see him getting all chubby in no time. He doesn’t like to train a lot so that will show quickly.
MUST HAVE APPAREL: Quinn dresses very simply. He doesn’t think much and will often wear black or a dark pair of jeans. He only owns one pair of running shoes and he isn’t sure if he ever ran in those since he got to Bellefonte. He likes dark colors and will avoid anything flashy, glittering and/or that would attract attention to him. He isn’t really into jewelry or fashion and since black is a color that goes with everything and for every occasion, this is why he wears that most of the time.
PERSONALITY SECTION: Quinn is one to constantly see the glass half-empty. A pessimistic by nature, he will see the down sides of a situation before its positive ones. He will also point it out to anyone who likes to look at the brighter side of things, as if he was having fun dampening the mood. But he doesn’t. He’s just unable to really see things from a positive point of view and gets the feeling those who tries to see only this side of life does in order not to admit there is a darker one.
That being said, he isn’t attracted to any dark side or anything. He would not call himself an emo kid. He just doesn’t care or at least chose to pretend like he doesn’t. Life gave him lemons but decided to have others steal them from him before he learned what to do with those. He really has a whole "me against the world" kind of attitude.
He is attracted to quieter things and people, being a relatively quiet person himself. The only sport he seems to do, and he is quite good at it, is getting away from people. And climbing trees. Trees are good to get away from people. He is a relatively fast runner, mostly because running was the only thing he could do against his cousins. This introverting aspect of his life has made him observe others, actually envying their more outgoing nature. He isn’t nervous around people, he won’t stutter or anything, but he never feels like he fits in. So he captures the better life of others with a camera. That is the closest he will get from a happy life, he thinks. He doesn’t seem to realize he could be this happy if he stopped seeing everything in dark shades, ignoring the light.
He has trouble trusting people when they come near him. He will not open easily and expects them to get out of his life the second he’ll get attached. And if you stay despite what he thought you’ll do, he’ll try to make you leave or will run away. He can even grow aggressive when it happens.
EXTRA QUIRK: Quinn really loves custard. Any dessert with it, he will try to get his hands on it. Bringing him a fruit custard pie might not make him like you instantly, but he will surely give you two minutes of his time instead of one. He picked up the bad habit of smoking. Never, ever try to talk about his parents, especially if you want to justify what they did.
FATHER: Alfried Wiley, 46
MOTHER: Juniper Wiley (née Humfries) (died at 31)
SIBLINGS: none
PET: he has a ferret called Pips
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: none
WORTHY MENTIONS: grandparents are Finnuala and Bryce Humfries. (68, 71)
Scarlett (née Hunfries) and Tristan Bernhard are his aunt and uncle, they have 3 boys, James, Dean and Karl (47, 48, 19, 17, 14)
CHILDHOOD: Quinn’s childhood could have been great. His father was a businessman, his mother did... well not a lot of things other than host parties or so it seemed to him. His father was working a lot, his mother did not always had the time for him but Quinn considered himself happy. He had someone to watch over him when they could not, he met with several other kids his age. And then things took a turn for the sour. His father’s business fell apart, it was all a Ponzi scheme. As the authorities were about to close in on him, Alfried Wiley ran away with whatever money he could get, leaving his family behind to deal with the mess. People were far from happy and accused them of living on money that belonged to them. Mother and child ended up with nothing and Juniper ran away from Boston, unable to deal with the judgement of people. She went back to Pennsylvania, where she was from but dared not go back to her family, knowing they never liked Alfried very much and not wanting to hear about him again.
Even though they were in another state altogether, Juniper still felt like people were judging her, accusing her for the crimes her husband did. She never heard of him ever again. She was forced to meet with a therapist who gave her antidepressants but it was not enough and she also self-medicated herself with alcohol. Quinn was only seven at the time and trying to help her out but he clearly had no idea how to do so. The woman never really did anything of her life except event planning and she found it hard to work in a mall instead.
One night, she promised Quinn she would make him pancakes in the morning and he fell asleep happy. The next morning, he waited in his room for her to come out and start cooking. But he never smelled any food. He dressed up, waited a little while longer. Still nothing. He was getting quite hungry so he got out. His mother was not in the kitchen. He went to her room and found her in her bed. She had taken all of her pills and was dead. Somewhere inside, he knew that, but he still tried to wake her and even ended up sleeping next to her, thinking a bit of warmth might be all she needed. It was only after the next day, after both his school and her job called, after a neighbour came knocking at the door because the mail had not been picked, that people found out. Quinn was seven then.
His mother’s parents took him. They blamed his father for the death of their daughter. And they wished to forget about it. For that, however, Quinn needed to smile and act like any normal kid. Something he didn’t feel the strength to do. To him, what his mother did was worse than his father. She was in a terrible state, sure, but he needed her, and she preferred to kill herself. She chose death instead of watching over her son and get through it. He always hated her for that and would sometimes lose his temper on his grandparents if they dared put all the blame on his father. He was hoping the man would come back to pick him. Of course, that never happened.
His grandparents didn’t really know how to take him. They tried to make him see a therapist but that didn't seem to work very well. He was twelve when his grandfather hurt his hip really bad. Since then, it became hard for him to move. With his grandmother having arthritis and having to take care of her husband, she felt she no longer had the strength to watch over a young boy. Quinn took it more as an excuse to get rid of him. He went to live with his aunt and uncle and their three boys.
ADOLESCENCE: Even though he was the same age as his cousin Dean, younger from James by two years, he was picked on by both of them. Of course, he often provoked them also. It was then that Quinn learned to run fast and to climb trees to avoid being seen by them as much as he could. It was nothing major, they never hit him pretty bad or anything. But they would fight him a bit or toss mud or frogs or whatever at him. And if he fought back, he would always put more sterngth into it and so he felt like he was the one being punished for them. It was not the case, they were all punished the same way but Quinn was always certain his aunt and uncle favored their kids over him. Of course, the fact he was growing a withdrawn, negative boy was the reason they would push him more, hoping he would get out of his shell.
Photography helped. The family thought it was a good idea to bring the boys to a gallery once. If the three others had no interest, they noticed Quinn seemed taken by the subject. They offered him books with different photographs in them as well as a small camera. He was still withdrawn but at least he found an occupation.
His power manifested when he was 15. He had mocked James when the boy asked he would take a picture of his girlfriend and himself, claiming he was not taking pictures of gorillas. His girlfriend laughed but it was enough to send him after Quinn. He stopped at some point however, having trouble breathing. James didn't punch him, merely mocking him back for suddenly having asthma. Quinn coughed up a few times and suddenly fire came out of his mouth. Luckily, he was facing the pavement, so James was not hurt. But of course, he was freaked out and went back home to say what his cousin had done. The whole family of course had no idea what to do and it was hard to tell which one was more scared out of the two. His uncle and aunt tried to rationalize this and claimed Quinn must have lit something on fire with a match or a lighter to scare their son but the two teenagers knew what happened. Quinn was still punished for it but this time he didn’t care.
A recruiter came a few days later, tried to explain what happened. Quinn was hoping they could explain in details what he had but it was more complicated than that. He was promised to find an answer at Bellefonte however. He did, and realized a teenager’s diet of fries and burgers only made him breathe fire even more. He was told that it must be because of fat. So he tried to eat as little as possible. But the body needs some and his needed more than normal people since he would naturally stock some fat to turn it into gas and acid. Not to add that his body burns carb not as fast as fat and he since he’s already relatively pale and not very muscular, he didn’t want to be chubby also.
He had spent a year and a half to Bellefonte, trying to be as invisible as he could, talking to as little people as possible.
ADULTHOOD: not there yet
SAMPLE: Tell me if you think it would be more appropriate for him to be a college student. Hope he's alright
USERNAME: Bobby
AGE GROUP: 25
EXPERIENCE: about ten years or so
WHERE DID YOU FIND US? Proboards Support
