Rhett Hawthorn

[Rhett Hawthorn]

Rhett Cain Hawthorn
FACE CLAIM: Curren Caples
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AGE: 17
GENDER: Male
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
POSITION: BA Student

POWER:
Pyrokenisis:
Rhett is a mutant who has the psionic ability to manipulate flames and create them. Although nowhere near strong, he can at least create a flame. The degree of Rhett's concentration necessary to manipulate or create a flame is directly proportional to the creation’s size, power, and heat. Being so new to his abilities he often creates flames too big to handle and loses control. Along with creation, diminishing the flame also demands portioned concentration to the flame’s size. Putting out a flame, he has found, is substantially harder to do then to create one. He hasn’t quite mastered putting out a flame yet and he has to use snow or water. Whenever he tries to diminish a flame it flickers and he passes out.


Fire-Retardance:
Rhett’s blood platelets are fire retardant, so his body is naturally fireproof and cannot be harmed by any fire.

LIMITATIONS:
It is generally accepted that Rhett must be able to see a flame in order to take control of it (hence limiting his mental influence as of now to approximately 5 yards, depending on many aspects of the setting). Any of Rhett's fiery creations will immediately revert to ordinary flame if he turns his interest from it and doesn’t put it out. Even though he is able to launch his creations, at this point a stream of flame can be thrown at a maximum distance of currently 4 yards (to range farther as powers are made stronger). Since his blood platelets are fire proof Rhett SHOULD be able to engulf his entire body in flames. He sadly admits that he doesn’t have enough power to do so, but hopes to in the future.

SIDE-EFFECTS:
Rhett’s fiery abilities give him unusually severe problems with heat stroke, fainting, and dehydration. As the boy gets strong these symptoms will slowly fade in small increments. But as if now Rhett’s body is nowhere near used to him calling upon his abilities, causing him to overheat easily. When he falls into heatstroke he often passes out from his brain not being able to cool. He is often bed ridden and soaks in ice baths to cool himself off. Dehydration is also something Rhett struggles a great deal with. When he using his ability a lot of water in his body evaporates due to the extreme temperatures inside his body. He must constantly be drinking water or he will pass out and become very ill. Lastly, if he pushes himself too far he gets a terrible nosebleed and headache.


HEIGHT: 5'11
HAIR COLOR: Dirty Blonde
EYE COLOR: Hazel with very prominent flecks of green.

MISC: Very laidback look nothing to fancy. He prefers nothing more jeans and a t-shirt.

PERSONALITY: Sarcastic. Curious. Troublemaker. Relaxed.

Sure he can be sensitive if he feels the need, but in serious drama and what not Rhett seems to just laugh, and in all honestly tends to not understand the reason for drama in any way.

He’s pretty laid back for the most part but in some ways he’s just as stubborn as a donkey. He doesn’t really express his frustration in ways of anger or force like most. Nah, Rhett just shuts down. Completely. He does this with most of his negative feelings. Whenever his is depressed, mad, or any other type of negative emotion he holds it inside. It really builds a lot of anger and rage inside of someone so young and is really unhealthy. So far this build up has been the fuel for his power when it really amps up.

Rhett’s the kind of kid who sets the standards low. He’s pretty hard on himself and doesn’t really want to let anyone down on the inside of course. For example, he would purposely get C’s in school just so it would seem that he didn’t try or put forth effort. He usually tried his best but just C’s and low B’s.

In some ways Rhett can be pretty manipulative. Never directly on people, no, he would feel too guilty. He was never the kid to directly call someone out or is the one to make fun. If someone else had started it then sure, he could add in without feeling too bad because in reality, well really his mind, the fault was only in the person he had created the issue so no biggie.

He finds sarcasm extremely annoying and uses it when he can. Joking and poking fun at people are just his way of communicating and he automatically dislikes a person if they cant take a joke. Flirtatious with the ladies at times but sometimes he says dumb things that make him sound like a 9 year old.

Rhett has a pretty positive out look on life for the most part. Always looking at the bright side and trying to just lighten up the situation. Pretty much just to make sure the pressure wasn’t put on him. If his parents were pissed because he shoplifted a couple beers or cigarettes from a liquor store, he’d just fake laugh and say, “Hey at least I’m not on meth”. His tactics almost never worked, BUT HEY he tried.



SECRET(S): NONE


FATHER: Daniel, Hawthorn: 40

MOTHER: Leila, Hawthorn: 38

SIBLINGS: Samuel, Hawthorn: 21

WORTHY MENTIONS: Grand Mother: 63


CHILDHOOD: Born and raised right outside of Saint Paul, Minnesota was Rhett Cain Hawthorn. Rhett was born at home, due to lack of money at the time, by a family friend who happened to be a doctor.

Rhett almost died at birth due to his umbilical chord had been wrapped around his neck with a hole in it. The doctor was for sure the baby would come out dead. Sure enough Rhett came out as healthy as can be and the doctor was perplexed and said it was a miracle. His parents rejoiced at the miracle of their 2nd child.

Rhett grew up in a stable, ordinary home until he was about 8 or so years old. Chaos broke out at home when his father got hooked on prescription drugs. Rhett’s mother soon filed a divorce and became a single mother of two. Leila had a hard time providing for the two boys and was never home running several jobs.

As Rhett grew older he remembered less and less of his father leaving and decided to block it out. Lacking a father figure in his life, Rhett sought out acceptance elsewhere. He started hanging out with the wrong crowd and got him self into trouble around 14.
Joyriding with his friends is what got him sent to Juvie the first time when he was about 14 turning 15. All of is friends blocked the exit as they ran and left him stranded for the cops. Being young, impressionable, and wanting acceptance he returned to his friends after his short time in jail.

The second time was when he around 15 solid for getting caught buying cigarettes from a kid at school. That was only his third pack of smokes. He enjoyed smoking because it gave him a calm buzz to help him relax. Anyway, he barely served anytime for that one but after him time he left the group and realized what they were influencing him to do. His mom was too busy to care as much as you’d think. She had to provide for two boys and herself. She never really paid too much attention to the boys but showed her love through providing for them.


ADOLESCENCE: After his second time in Juvenile Hall, that’s when, his manifestation started. Rhett had a lot of anger built up at his father, mother, and friends. Starting about 3 days ago whenever anger or a strong emotion surged through his body it would heat up super quickly and his body would become abnormally hot. This startled Rhett started to panic because he was sweating so much. The first few times this happened, he passed out from heat stroke. It was all in one day. Every time he would wake up he’d realized what had just happened and passed out once more.

As time through the day he finally got a hold of himself. Believing he had a sever fever, he called over his mother. But of course, she was working and said she’d try to come home early. He found himself often extremely thirsty, so he began to excessively hydrate. As hours passed, he began to notice his extreme body heat less and less. But of course he didn’t know what was happening until the first spark.

Rhett decided to move outside to shovel snow. He figured it would cool himself down and help out his mom. Even though he wasn’t even the slightest bit cold his body was used to feeling so. Automatically, Rhett’s body tried to warm up his hands because he wasn’t wearing any gloves (Force of habit from living in Minnesota in the cold most of the year). In an attempt to warm up, Rhett naturally rubbed his hands together. Then all of a sudden a small spark flew and BAM fire both hands engulfed both of Rhett’s hands.

It didn’t hurt, but naturally he freaked out and stuck his hands into the snow. This hurt like no other the opposite temperatures gave Rhett extremely sore hands covered in small burns. He would later figure out that it was not from the fire, but the boiling temperatures of the melted snow.

Rhett ran inside but nobody was home and he was terrified. What was that? He examined his hand carefully and replayed what he had just seen in his mind. Again, he rubbed his fingers together and his hand sparked but this time the flames were smaller and not as hot. Not enough concentration or will power.

Rhett was amazed, scared, confused, and everything in between. He continued until he focused really hard and BAM! His hand burst into flames and a small concentrated flame appeared in the palm of his hand. At that moment Rhett just watch with amazement for half a second, until it went out. His eyes drew weary only to pass out on the couch from both heat exhaustion and sensory over load.

After that Rhett did not fool too much with his powers. He didn’t know what to do with them or himself.
He was a mutant. There were never any signs he thought, until one day he realized something. He had never gotten a burn. He never burned on the stove, never gotten sunburnt or anything. This amazed him once again. He had never realized it. This was all so new. For the remainder of his time at home he kept a low profile and told no one about his discovery.


ADULTHOOD: Still a youngin'

SAMPLE: As Cathall made a comment about the disease-ridden man Wren just shook his head with a disappointed look. He turned and scoured the airport for something to cover the man with. Spotting a fallen flag he moseyed and few paces and picked it up. Burnt around the edges, Wren could make out the symbol of Canada. Seeing that it would do he placed it over the corpse. Wren knew that Cathall didn’t need to skill the man it was just his ego, to show that he was the alpha. Not that the man would’ve have died anyway. It wasn’t like they could give him any medical attention. The thought switched Wren’s point of view. The man probably just thought he was putting the boiled covered freak out of his misery. Wren cracked a grin when the man commented on no one giving him any trouble. “Who would wanna give you trouble?” I asked with the smallest chuckle. I curiously wondered what he was doing as he stared at the directory sign. “Trying to find the bathroom?” I joked in a failed attempt to break the ice.

USERNAME: Cedar

AGE GROUP: Mid-Teens

EXPERIENCE: Little to no experience, a month 

WHERE DID YOU FIND US?  RPG-D

[Fate]

Thanks for all the patience, Cedarr! Can't wait to see Rhett in action!
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