Ravenna "Raven" French

[Ravenna French]

Ravenna “Raven”, French
18//Female//Pansexual//Empathic Aura Reading//College Student//Charlotte Free

POWER INFO: Empathic Aura Reading
What can I do? Well nothing special. No really. I see colors. Around people. ALL THE FRIKIN TIME! Turns out not so useless. (The Academy helped a TON) It’s called Empathic Aura Reading. With it I can see how people are feeling, depending on the color of their aura. I can also tell if you’re a mutant or not based on those colors. It’s pretty handy. One day I might become a tracker! Anyways, I can also change peoples emotions, but I’m still working on that. I’m not at 100%

A sucky thing is I wear sunglasses a lot. The aura’s can get really bright, and the stronger I’m getting with my power, the brighter they seem to get. Changing people's emotions takes it out of me too. I get real tired and headachey. I’ve noticed that if someones usually always happy or something its harder to get them to feel sad or down or angry, also goes the same way for the reverse. Also if a person has some kind of shields around their minds, like telepathic ones, I can’t seem to change their emotions.

So you want to know all about me, eh? Is this like some kind of test or something?
Fine….whatever…*rolls eyes*

What can I do? Well nothing special. No really. I see colors. Around people. ALL THE FRIKIN TIME! I don’t even know what they mean. I’ve started a list to try and figure it out but its slow going. Anyways, the seeing color thing, it just happened. One day at school I was hanging out under the bleachers instead of having my brains polluted with math, listening to some music when I noticed it. It freaked me the hell out. I, as in myself, was surrounded in color and it was changing!

Closed my eyes…
Counted to ten...
Opened them…

What the frick!? Still a color freak. So I go to the school, get busted for skipping, but at this point I don’t care, even the TEACHER is surrounded with color. While sitting in the office, waiting to see the principal I casually asked the secretary if she could see random colors sometimes and she just gave me a strange look. She asked if I id. Of course I wisened up and scoffed at her. “No. God, it was just a question. I’m not a psycho freak or anything.”

Of course, I actually am. A legitimate freak! Or Mutant rather but same thing. How awesome is that?! I’m special, different (though with a useless power). How do I know this? Well a couple of people showed up the very next day from a school. (Your school obviously) called Bellefonte Academy. When my parents heard about it and how I was different, they looked like they didn’t believe. Hell if I wasn’t seeing colors I wouldn’t have either. (I don’t think I’d looked as freaked out and scared as my parents thought.) The representatives looked at me and told me to tell my parents. I looked at them like they were crazy but I complied. I told them about the color thing. My mom laughed. Literally laughed. Said I was just saying things like that to get attention. The older looking recruiter started to levitate. My mom screamed then fainted. I’m embarrassed to be related to her. (I thought it was awesome!) My dad tried to look threatening and brave. There was more talking, paperwork. My mom came to during the paperwork explanations. She looked at the now seated guy, to me, and then back. She called me a freak, not the good kind either. I could tell by the sound of her voice. If I was like him then I was an abomination. She signed the papers, dad did the same thing then told me to pack some clothes and not come back and that was that.

You want to know a little more about my history? Umm okay? My moms name is Serena and dads is Jordan. I was born healthy, yada yada. There was nothing special about my childhood. My mom raised me, well kinda. Her and dad both worked all the time, still do. When they have time off they go on vacations and stash me with dads parents. I swear they don’t want kids. They’ve never said it outloud but I’m sure I’m a mistake in their eyes. Their loss.

Anyways went to the academy. Honestly, I loved it, even if some of the personalities were grating. I graduated this past year. Moved into an apartment in town and applied for college. Won’t start until the new semester so I gotta find me a summer job. I’ll still be hanging out at the academy though. Still need to train with my powers and hell maybe even help out the next generation if needed. I haven’t heard anything from my parents, and yes I’ve tried, so I've just written them off but my grandparents still talk to me, even help me out with money, thank god. So that’s me.

Oh yah, I forgot you wanted to know about my personality. Well I don’t take crap from anyone. I don’t care what other people think of me. I’m not one for authority. Rebellious is definitely a good word for me. I LOVE music and always have at least 1 ear bud in and I’ve taken a recent liking to dancing lately. Sometimes people stare at me because most of my clothing and style is gothic, emo, steampunk ish. Hell sometimes I wear tutu’s! I can’t stand uppity happy people who are always smiling. Seriously, what are they trying to hide? I’ve got decent pickpocketing skills, which I’ve got a warning on my record for so I’ve been trying to be good. I’ve been called a bitch by many a people and I wear it proudly. Gonna get a tattoo that says Queen Bitch. Thinking about it anyways.

So yah, thats me. Love me or hate me, I don’t care. Either way you’re thinking about me. ;* xoxo

SAMPLE: Tessa Andrews or Casey Pryor=3
USERNAME: Triss
AGE GROUP: Immortal
EXPERIENCE: Since the dawn of time

[Mel *]

Enjoy your rainbow vomiting unicorn!
Olé!

(I'm sure you know what to do by now )

[Ravenna French]

NAME: Ravenna French
NICKNAME: Raven; Call her Ravenna at your own risk; only her Grandmother can call her that. 
AGE: 21 {October 24}
ORIENTATION: Pansexual
POSITION: Local; Model

POWER: {Before SPRITE} I had mastered the ability to read a person's aura and know exactly what it meant and how they were feeling. I even learned how to shut it off so I wasn't blinded by colors all the time. 

I learned how to change a persons current emotions through a touch. I had it down pretty good but still had some fails and also some too-good of responses. 

{After SPRITE}
The colors aren't back, I seem to still have control over that but I seem to be absorbing other peoples emotions now. Before all I could do was read them and change them. After absorbing it the person looks a bit dazed and confused and I feel a rush, like a high, and the crash after leaves horrible headaches. I also get physically ill, not able to keep anything down for the first few hours. I also will pass out if I absorb the emotions of 4 or more people. Even at 3 people I get dizzy spells and get black spots in my vision at times. The stronger the emotion the stronger the rush/high and harder the crash. I have yet to control this, though I'm trying. It happens randomly. Though it does seem that I have to have touched them for it to happen at all.

My ability to change peoples emotions has grown stronger. I no longer need physical contact with a person to change their emotions, I just need to be able to see them. The closer they are the better the results and the easier it is to change them. Unfortunately since its gained in strength it seems my control of this isn't as good as it used to be. Especially if I'm feeling really emotional. 

Another new, horrible change, is that while I had been able to read others emotions, they hadn't changed how I felt personally but lately I noticed my behavior was more erratic then usual and realized that I was actually feeling others emotions. I NEED to learn how to control this asap. I hate knowing that what I'm feeling might not be REAL for me. Not to mention the headaches are becoming increasingly frequent.


After a year in college, with no idea what she wanted to do still, Raven was approached by a modeling agency. They loved her style and personality and wanted to sign her. She happily agreed and also decided that she wouldn't stay in school. She modeled for almost a year before things got pretty interesting, to put it mildly. 

First some kind of weird hippy group let it slip that mutants existed and hey you know that school that seems pretty popular where kids from all over come? That's a mutant school as well. At first it seemed that the mutant news didn't leave Kalispell. Raven was rather surprised, and also awakened to just how many contacts and how much power the school had in order to keep it covered. But with in a few weeks Raven was browsing you-tube and came across a video that someone had recorded of the original broadcast. From there it only seemed to snowball. Mutants existed and now the whole world knew.

The year after mutants were revealed Kalispell seemed to bloom. Raven LOVED it. So many new things to do and parties to throw. Her modeling career grew as well and she's become a rather familiar face, not just in Kalispell, but around the country as well. Despite all the attention and fame, Raven's status as a mutant is still quiet. Only those who went to school with her and the school itself knows. Its not that she's trying to hide it. In fact she's even hinted at it and openly confronted people because she KNEW how they felt about things. Some people questioned how she knew, but eventually just brushed it off. 

Then SPRITE hit. At first Raven thought she had gotten off easy. But she soon learned that was not true. It was at a runway show when it happened. She was walking down the run way (in some very high stilettos) that she suddenly felt a giant rush of...something. The lights seemed to brighten, she started giggling, then flat out laughing and twirling. The rushing feeling didn't stop and after a few minutes she passed out. The audience itself seemed a lot quieter in their enthusiasm and quite a few people looked dazed, confused, and even scared. 

Like an over-protective mother, Bellefonte came and rescued her and helped her recover. Now she's struggling to keep herself together as she learns about her abilities all over again. She's still a model, but has decided to do less jobs until she started getting better control. Thankfully she still had plenty of money of her own, and her grandparents, standing behind her to keep her supporting herself.  She has her own apartment in town but is looking to save money by finding a roommate or two.