Hayley Konrad

[Hayley Konrad]

NAME:Hayley Rae Konrad
NICKNAME: Hayls for short
AGE: 16
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
POSITION: Student
FACE CLAIM: Britt Robertson

POWER:
Name of Power Illusions
She can manipulate illusions causing people to see or hear things that are not there. Hayley can create the illusion of looking like someone else. She can do things like make people believe her hair color is different or she's wearing a different outfit. In theory she should be able to completely change her appearance to look like someone else but she hasn't mastered that yet. She can also make people believe they are somewhere they are not. She can change things about the current setting or change it completely. Hayley can also make people believe something is happening when it isn’t. She can create a scenario to fool someone to what is really happening. She can also do this with sounds, creating sounds where they are not or muffling sounds that are present.

Limitations
Since Hayley is pretty young, she can’t control her illusions very well. Creating illusions takes a lot of concentration and Hayley’s not quite there yet. Her illusions often flicker or make brash, illogical changes in the middle of them. Many times they disintegrate altogether as the more complicated the are, the harder it is for her to keep them constant. She often cannot hold them for very long. The only way she can currently get her illusions to work is to basically convince herself what she is creating is true, so basically she has to temporarily believe the illusions to make them work, so she often gets confused. Furthermore she’s constantly mixing up details which sometimes causes things to change almost erratically. Overall, its easier for her to change minor things, rather that to create an entire scene.  Right now the largest that she create is about the size of an elephant or a small house and the larger the illusion, the shorter time period she can hold it for her.  So for about a 30 ft illusion, she could hold it for maybe 20 minutes with intense concentration while a 10 ft one she might be able to hold for an hour, but once again with intense concentration that would takes a lot out of her energy wise.

Her ability is also limited to her imagination. Hayley has a big imagination but often the things she creates either resemble people of places she has seen before or are so out of the ordinary that simply too unrealistic to fool anyone. However, since Hayley does have a big imagination she can sometimes accidentally create illusions without really intending to. She is getting better at controlling this but it does happen from time to time.

Side-Effects
Headaches are the main side effect, which comes from the intense concentration. She also has poor concentration when it comes to daily nonpower related tasks since she’s usually tapped out from having to concentrate so hard. Since she has to believe what she is seeing, she easily gets confused between fantasy and reality. This is especially difficult if she works within an illusion too long. If untrained, she could lose the ability to distinguish reality altogether, causing paranoia and ultimately leaving her insane.


APPEARANCE SECTION: Hayley is slightly above average height at 5’6”. She’s thin with an athletic build. She’s built kind of like a boy with not many curves to speak of. Her chest is small and she doesn’t really have too much of definition between her waist and hips. Her weight wavers around 110lbs putting her slightly underweight, which is probably due to her lack of curves.

Hayley is pale by nature but she has the healthy glow of someone who spends time outdoors. She keeps her hair long, past her shoulders. She’s a natural blonde, lighting it further with lemon juice and the sun. Her hair is wavy but she straightens it sometimes. Her eyes are bright blue and her lashes long. When she smiles she gets a dimple in her left cheek.

Hayley isn’t opposed to wearing makeup but she tends to keep it natural looking. If she has a reason to she’ll wear more to make herself look fancy but she’s usually fine with some mascara and a lip and cheek stain.


MUST HAVE APPAREL: Hayley dresses in a lot of layers. She’s usually wearing at least 4 or 5 layers at once. She also has an affinity for vintage things. She likes to think that her clothes had a life before she owned them. She’s not opposed to getting something that is new, but when she does she wants it to be something the is unique looking or special.

Hayley also wears a lot of accessories, mostly with natural stones or crystal looking things. Again, a lot of her pieces are vintage or costume jewelry. Like her clothes she layers them on.

PERSONALITY SECTION: Hayley is the stereotypical baby sister. She is used to being doted on and sometimes acts as so. She doesn’t intend to act spoiled or entitled and she would never describe herself as so, but sometimes it comes out whether she realizes it or not. She’s the type of person that wants everything to be good and everything to work out for everyone and she can be naive about the fact that life doesn’t work that way.

When it comes down to it, Hayley is inherently a good person and she likes to think that everyone else is inherently good as well. She has a lot of empathy for others and likes to be helpful and will go out of her way to help people. She tries to have a high moral stance that she never compromises, but the truth is, wanting to see the good in people she sometimes can be talked into doing the wrong thing.

Hayley is a dreamer. She daydreams all the time and she loves stories, both telling them and listening to them. She also likes to envision a perfect place where everything is good, and sometimes forgets that that isn’t realistic. She’s the type of person who will spend her extra cash on buying things like handmade soap or perhaps try to make her own shampoo. She likes natural things and she likes old things. Vintage or preowned is amazing to her because its like the object had a life before her and sometimes she likes to make up what that life might have been like.


EXTRA QUIRK: She likes using natural products because she thinks its all around better for the environment so she sometimes will even try to make her own beauty products.


FATHER: Estranged, haven’t spoken to in a long time
MOTHER: Deceased
SIBLINGS: Slade Konrad (32), Deanna Konrad (26), and Brooke Konrad(19)
PET:none
SIGNIFICANT OTHER:none
WORTHY MENTIONS:


CHILDHOOD: The first 8 years of Hayley’s life aren’t something she remembers much of. Her father was an abusive alcoholic and she mostly just remembers tears and being afraid. While her older siblings sheltered her from the brunt of the abuse, she got it a few times, though she’s done a pretty good job at blocking it all out.

Once her oldest sister, Deanna was old enough, she took Hayley and Brooke and brought them to live by the Academy. That’s mostly what Hayley remembers, growing up there and having a relatively good life. She’s close with her older siblings who have always doted on her, which she complains about sometimes but secretly loves all the attention.

ADOLESCENCE: Since Hayley grew up near the Academy and with older siblings that all had abilities, the fact that mutants exist has pretty much always been a given to her. It’s normal. She’s aware that some people doubt their existence but she doesn’t completely get it since she really never has known anything different.

She remembers watching powers manifest in her older siblings and thinking that it was so cool. Growing up, she used to guess what her power would be. When she started to get around the right age she started to get antsy about it. When powers didn’t manifest on her 11th birthday, she immediately started to worry that maybe she was the different one...maybe she didn’t have any abilities. By the time she turned 12, she was convinced that that was true. However, it was only a few months later that they finally came to be.

Since Hayley’s ability is creating illusions and she already was such a dreamer, she actually didn’t realize that her power manifested until the people from the Academy showed up at her door. Her first response was to say, “But I didn’t do anything…” However, quickly realizing how badly she wanted to have an ability she’d changed her mind. “Of course I did something! What was it?” she asked. Thankfully, the Academy had people who could recognize what she was doing and she was immediately enrolled and has been in attendance ever since.

Hayley has been at the Academy for about 4 years and in that time she’s gotten a lot better at controlling her powers. The concentration fact still kills her though. As for adjusting to the school, Hayley found that very easy given that all of her siblings were affiliated with the school. Her two oldest siblings have pretty much worked there since she started and even though Brooke is now in the college, she was a student alongside Hayley in the beginning. All in all, going to Bellefonte felt much more natural than going to public school did.

ADULTHOOD: N/A


SAMPLE: Kye shoved his hands in his pockets as he walked across the unfamiliar campus. Kye had never really been a school kind of guy. Most people liked to assume that he was smart because he was a “nerd” but the problem was, that he really wasn’t. At least he wasn’t a proper nerd. He liked video games, sure, but what guy didn’t? He didn’t read comic books or like science fiction or any of the traditional nerd things - because, really, he wasn’t a nerd at all. He was just awkward enough that only nerds wanted anything to do with him and usually they became easily bored due to their varied interests.

So the sad truth was, that Kye really didn’t have many friends. He’d always been close with his sister, but she had a mind of her own. She’d taken off to Europe after graduation and the last he’d heard from her, she was living in Amsterdam. Kye considered going after her...he was still considering it...but he was trying not to. He’d spent most of his life following his sister around. He sort of wanted to make it on his own.

The problem was, this was very difficult. He’d spent the majority of high school in love with a girl who was in love with someone else. That had never panned out. So, he’d spent most of last year figuring out what to do with his life. That year had consisted of a trip to New York, a trip to Miami, and lately a lot of drunken nights on the beach in LA where he lived. It was borderline unhealthy and frankly, Kye was getting bored of it all. He had to get himself together.

So, now he was enrolled in two classes: American History and Psychology. He’d mostly picked them because they had openings and didn’t require any prerequisites. Now he just had to stick with a semester of school and who knew, maybe he’d declare himself a major. Maybe.

He’d gotten himself an apartment a few blocks from campus back when he’d first returned to the city, mostly because he figured living near a college would offer more parties since he wasn’t old enough to hit up the bars just yet. He was heading there, back to his apartment when his eyes fell upon the one breath of fresh air from his high school existence: Ezra.

Ezra had been great. If there was one person that he could have considered a friend it was her. They had even been more than friends, a little bit at least. He still remembered the day quite clearly that he’d lost his virginity to her in the back of his van. Maybe it had sort of been pity sex, but Ezra had done a really good job of not making it feel as such. Ezra was here!

A smile managed to appear on his lips as he quickened his pace toward her - she was looking all over the place, taking it all in. She must be a student here. She was a year younger than him, she was probably a freshmen, which he was too he supposed since he had taken that year off. She didn’t notice him right off the bat, but then again, no one did. “Ezra!” She didn’t hear him... He was sure of it. He sped up further, walking so quickly, that he probably looked like a lunatic...so quickly that….. Right. There is was. They collided.

Being so close to her brought back memories of that time in his van. “Ezra,” he said. “What are you...what are you doing here? Do you go here?” he asked quizzically, still taking her all in. She looked beautiful. She’d always been beautiful but he’d never really seen her as so before. He’d been way too infatuated with another blonde to see anyone else as really beautiful back then.

Kye straightened his glasses on his face and fixed his beanie. “You look good,” he said, his cheeks starting to burn slightly.

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