Kennedy Snow

[Kennedy Snow]

                Kennedy Cassandra Snow
          FACE CLAIM: Emily Bett Rickards

AGE: 26
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Bisexual
POSITION: Librarian / College Student

POWER:
~Sentient Hair~

Much like the marvel character Fantomex, Kennedy was born with more than one brain. She has 2. A large one that is for normal use, and a smaller one contained within the large one where the optical sensors and nerves would be. This one gives sentience and life to another part of her. Her hair. Which is actually not hair but appears and functions like blonde hair. What it actually is, is a series of external muscle strands and nerve endings.


Normally hair is made of dead cells being forced out through a strand made of a protein called Keratin. But hers the cells are not dead, her hair is alive and literally has a mind of its own. The keratin protein in her hair contains microscopic muscles and nerve endings. It does not give her super human strength with her hair but because her hair does have muscles it can be worked out like any other muscle, her hair has the proportionate strength of the rest of her body, it was growing with her as she grew and the muscles in her hair became prominent. It was not until she was 13 that it came to life however. Her hair would be slightly stronger than her body because it has free flow and works out more often than she does she could be sitting still and it would be moving. It makes her hair have agility and speed as well,not on superhuman levels but its reflexes are faster than hers because it works out more often then her body does which gives it the ability to catch her if she falls.

~Extra Sensory Perception~

Her hair's nerve endings are combined with hers which allows her to feel what it touches. However, it also has its own sense. Its similar to ESP except it doesn't see the future. It can basically sense obstacles and emotions it acts as similar to an ear drum using vibrations through its keratin proteins to the few nerve endings that actually go to its brain. It uses vibrations like an ear drum to create its on sense that allows it to be aware of it's and her surroundings which allows her to jerk and notify her when obstacles block her path, letting her walk without a cane.



LIMITATIONS:

Her main limitation with her ability is that it is attached to her it can rip from her scalp. it can be cut though it is tougher to do so considering it has muscles in it. Though it is alive and it can be cut it still regenerates like normal hair. However when short it has much less uses to her. It can get sick it can get tumors anything that could effect a brain nervous system or muscles could effect her hair. A telepath could control it.

She cannot communicate with her hair, other than the way a person would communicate with a pet. It understands her but she doesn't understand it. Other than her hair being alive and having its own sense she has no powers she is just a normal person that can be hurt like anyone else.

SIDE-EFFECTS:

Because her body was born with an extra brain it had to make space for it. Making it so that she was born blind. Surgery does cannot help her see as her brain lacks the capacity to do so. her hair roots are still attached to her head so if her hair is not careful it can rip itself out of her skull or pull itself causing her pain.

She is 5'10" and her hair is only a few inches shorter at 5'6" it only has a 5'6 radius and cannot grow longer without the time it would take to actually grow hair. However it has decent elasticity as muscles have elasticity and can appear much short causing her hair to look wavy or curly.


Also she can put her hair up and bind it. Despot it having the proportional strength of the rest of her body it cannot break the elastic bindings if it is put up.It can struggle but doesn't usually as over the years it has succumbed to being put up as a punishment.

Also because of this ability, she can only grow hair on her head. No where else can grow hair which saves her having to shave her legs while blind as that would fricken suck.


HEIGHT: 5'10"
HAIR COLOR: Blonde
EYE COLOR: Blue, her eyes do not work she is completely blind though at times will be seen wearing glasses, they are purely cosmetic because she read about people that have them and thinks they make her look smart.

MISC: Both of her earlobes are pierced twice, her cartilage in her right ear is pierced once. Her belly button is pierced, and she has a very small tattoo of lips on her left ankle. It has no real symbolism it was just her way of wanting to be wild on a trip to Atlantic city.


PERSONALITY:

Stuttering: Ever since she was a kid she has had a very bad stutter, it gets better in her different emotional levels. when she is calm it can be faint but when she gets excited or frightened or angry it comes out really bad. Growing up with the stutter has caused her to have an aversion to speaking with people. She is not inherently quiet. When she is alone or with people she considers her friends she will rattle on. But Making that first connection terrifies her because many have strayed away just because they did not have the patience to let her get through her sentences. It is why she does not have many friends and why she is so very........

Shy: Brought upon by her stutter, it is hard for her to make first contact, especially with her hair being so rambunctious and outgoing and getting her in trouble. Once the ice is broken and she is in very small groups of people she becomes somewhat outgoing, however when introduced to crowds she remains shy for most of the time.

Honest: Another thing that attributes to her shyness is her honesty. Because she cannot see she takes it in stride and she tells things the way she metaphorically sees them. This can hurt people's feelings and make her come off as a bitch but she does not do it intentionally(Most of the time). Generally people don't like to hear the truth as much as they say that they do. However without her ability to see and never having had it she tells things as they are from her other senses.

Cute/Clumsy: Her hair is not always on the ball to catch her yet she walks around without a cane. This has caused her to slip, trip, fall, and tumble on several occasions. Sometimes her hair catches her or sees ahead and avoids the accident entirely. Sometimes it is doing its own thing. Sometimes it just lets her run into walls to teach her lessons.

Hidden: She wears her emotions on her sleeve. They are not bottled in. She does let them out just makes sure no one is around when she does. She keeps most of her life private, even the fact that she is your average girl, she likes listening to chick flicks, reading braille romance novels, dancing, singing, she collects stuffed penguins and really wants to touch one one day though she never has. She tries her best to hide these things and most things about her because she is afraid that if people get close to her they will run when they see her ability as it has happened before.

Different: Some actually consider her a breath of fresh air, despite how much she tries to she does not conform to social norms, I mean she's a blind woman who walks around without a cane. She tells it as she encounters it. She sees the good in people before the bad and sometimes this just makes people smile.

Blind: A lot of her personality is based around her lack of eye sight. This is because she had to grow up without it. So she has come up with coping mechanisms such as humor, cuteness, and many other things to draw peoples attention to the woman behind the broken eyes. Not the eyes themselves.

SECRET(S): She is not saying that she is Batman, she is just saying that you have never seen her and batman in the same room together.


FATHER: Dorian Snow
MOTHER: Addison Snow
SIBLINGS: Elizabeth Snow-Older Sister 34-, Tylar Snow-Younger Sister 22-, Helsing Snow-Younger"Baby" Brother 18-
WORTHY MENTIONS: She actually has a black panther named Fido.

CHILDHOOD:
Now this was definitely not an easy childhood. She was born blind. All of the rest of her family had their eyesight and it is hard to determine if a baby is blind by yourself for the first little while. Once they brought her to the optometrist and a doctor and a cat scan was done saying not only is she blind but she has a second smaller brain in her head and does not have the capability of eyesight. It was attributed to a birth defect from a conjoined twin forming. Which would later be found out it was not true, but for the moment they taught her how to use her other senses. They did give her more attention than her older sister Elizabeth, who hated it and would complain about it.
She got along well with Liz, usually, but they did fight, Liz knew that she was blind and she did sometimes need the help and the attention but she could not help that she wanted more attention herself.

When Kennedy or Kenny as her family has grown to call her, was 7 her older sister developed a mutant ability. This took the attention off of Kenny and put it on to liz as well as the new baby Tylar who was 4 years younger than Kenny. It was for a few years that she had to teach herself things. Like how to read braille. School helped a little but people tended to avoid her because she was blind and had a bad stutter but she made the occasional friend. Her older sister was a handful when her ability manifested. So much that she herself did not want to develop one herself. But her dad had one and now her older sister had one so she figured she might get one. She hoped it would be something that would let her see.

ADOLESCENCE:
As she grew into her teens her younger sister Tylar and her became close nearly inseparable. She was a model student, a good daughter, very smart, rarely rebellious, her younger sister was her best friend. She was having a good life. Then the rebelliousness started. But it was nothing she could control.

When she was 13. Sitting at her desk reading a braille book at school, quickly finding out that she loved books and the stories and fantasy worlds within them. Allowing her to create pictures in her mind of how she thought people should look based on imagination. But as she was reading, one of the girls came over to grab something out of her purse because she would not be able to see it. When she was a kid and up until this time she did use a cane. But this day would change that. The girl that attempted to take something from her was slapped by her hair. Her parents had never cut it because her mom liked it long so she did have a lot of it.

She was confused. She was frightened. Anyone would be if their hair suddenly came to life it had been learning and growing up with her. It had just now gained sentience which gave use to the second brain contained in her head. She learned that her hair had a sense of its own,one that she could not access only it could, but she could still feel anything it touched as if it was part of her body rather than dead cells like hair usually is. 

Almost immediately after her hair came to life in class she was pulled out of her school, she was brought to a different school where she did not know anyone a school for people like her. She kind of kept to herself and looked to her books for solace, surprisingly her school was equipped with a decent library of braille books. 

She got in a lot of trouble from things her hair did, her hair was her friend, her protector, and her conscience at times. When she grew older she had never been with a boy despite her hair's many advances. She wanted to go to the prom but she was unable to, as she didn't have a date. Instead she just went home and listened to pretty in pink with her sister Tylar and her younger brother Helsing, as she cuddled her favorite stuffed penguin. (Nobody had any idea why it was penguins...she always said it was because they were birds but not normal just like she was a girl..but not normal..But most think it was just the shape of the animals that she liked)

When she was 16, she attended a seminar for people who lived with being blind. She tied her hair up forcing it to behave. It was said that a lot of them have dogs, because of her hair's sensory perception she could already get around without a cane she did not need a dog to lead her around. However, she was told that a dog was good protection for a blind person as well. She found this valid as her hair only had a limited range. So she decided to get a dog.

She went to a pet shop and when she was looking at the dogs started to sneeze and her sinuses welled up. It turned out she was allergic to dogs. She wanted a pet that was not her hair that could protect her stuff when she was not home and her herself when she was sleeping. Plus it would give her a companion.

Looking around she thought about a cat but most of them were too small to be much more than an annoyance to burglars. She had overheard at the library someone mentioning a magician friend of theirs who's wild cats were having babies.

So she researched how to properly car for a bigger wild cat, set up the appropriate habitat in her back yard that she paid extra for the space to use as it was the back lot of her apartment complex.Then she found out that she needed a permit and whats called a wildlife handler's license in order to own the animal or else it would be illegal.

There were rules to owning one and caring for it to help reduce the chance that the animal attacks the owner, and sign a waiver taking full responsibility for the animal's actions should it her her or someone else. The animal needed to be declawed, which normally she would be against as it would take away one of its defense mechanisms however in the city the claws were not necessary and it saved the animal from potentially being poached and killed and going extinct in the wild.. The process of getting one proved expensive but her siblings helped her knowing the reason why she was getting the animal. 

Finally she was ready, she got the appropriate transportation and went to the magician's house. It turned out the magician only had one left. A black panther cub. It was declawed and given its shots already. She named it Fido and took it home and Fido has been her best friend ever since.



ADULTHOOD:
Adulthood was not much different, she left New Zealand where she grew up and went to college at NYU, she took Law. Wanted to be a lawyer. So she could help people. While in college she did join a sorority, or rather tried to pledge but when they found out she was blind they did not let her in. She had grown accustomed to her abilities and could do many things with them now even built a relationship with her hair which she humorously calls Harriet. During college she got a job at a local library. It gave her access to as many books as she wanted. The librarians had to order in the braille ones for her. But she got to read them. Quickly she gained up the ranks and became The head Librarian herself in charge of all the books.

Her apartment was just a small one bedroom loft style apartment in Brooklyn as she could not afford much. She could not drive, although always wanted to try to see if it would be amusing. She did have many boys in college string her along to try and bed a blind girl but they all took a run when they saw her hair. Now years later, still the shy Librarian who sees with her imagination and has living hair. She rarely does anything fun. There was a weekend where she and her sister went to Atlantic City for her sister's 21st birthday and she got a tattoo and got really drunk and had a lot of fun. But mostly she feels she has a dull life she wants more fun. More adventure and more fantasy like the books she has grown up reading.


SAMPLE:
An exhale, a cold gust of air coming from her mouth as she breathed in the winter air. She walked down the sidewalk and her hair flailed around way more than it should for the amount of wind currently in the air. She hummed a tune to herself. Her hair would pick pocket people as they walked by just to get her attention but with even a thought or wavering from her tune she would take whatever the object was and give it back or put it back as she continued to walk.

::No Harriet, not today. Its a beautiful winter day, I actually have a date.::

~~Are you kidding me?...you remember what happened last time. once he sees me he will be gone faster than a cake at a fat kid's birthday party..~~

::Thats mean::

~~Who cares, no one can hear me but you.~~

As she walked she just nodded her head and she had a skip in her stop as she approached her building and her hair pulled her to turn toward the stairs then jerked every time there was a step as she still hummed away. Harriet then took her keys from her purse and opened the outside door. Then she just walked in. Harriet endeavored to quickly grab the mail as Kenny just kept walking.

::I wonder what he's like, maybe someone like Jamie Fraser from the outlander books, or someone smart yet distant like Sherlock Holmes, or someone who would shatter my cherry like a beer bottle at a frat party like Barney Stinson.::

~~Now who's the one with the the language?...and you know he's gay right?~~

::So, the character wasn't.::

Her hair jerked her toward her apartment which was conveniently on the first floor. Her landlord thought she was hot so let her pick where she wanted to go rather than just picking one for her as he had one open on the first floor. When she got in she got ready for her date. She reached into her bag and put on her make up strips. Then her hair did her lipstick. She pulled on a nice dress and there was a ding at the doorbell. A shiver ran down her spine and she got goosebumps almost so big she could read them like braille out of nervousness and excitement all at once. She walked over messing with her hair and opened the door as she did not need to be lead around in her apartment she knew where everything was and wasn't drunk. Oh she has some drunk stories. But lets get back to the door. When the door opened a man stood there. Someone must have told him that she was blind as he was wearing a mustard stained Beatles t-shirt, pajama pants, flip flops, and a beanie hat she could not see it she imagined Jamie Fraser at the door but Harriet sensed something off and something wrong. She was smiling ear to ear when she heard him say hello.

"P...p....p...please...c....come in.."

Her hair then moved straight up and formed the shape of a monster and the guy instantly looked up at it and backed up falling against the wall. Kenny got a look of concern when she heard the thud. The she heard the guy scream like a girl and get up and run. Then she felt her hair settle and fall down to her shoulders with an elastic bounce.

"W...wait...come..come...come b...back"

Then she sighed and got a look of sadness as she closed the door. Then she walked over and sat on the couch.

::What did I do wrong?::

~~He was intimidated by strong women, or gay, or left his iron on. the point is he wasn't the right guy~~

::What did you do?::

~~Helped. Now turn on the netflix. Lets listen to some of that Archer business. He's a funny fella.~~

USERNAME: Cathain

AGE GROUP: 24

EXPERIENCE: 3 years

WHERE DID YOU FIND US?RPG-D

[Mel *]

[Kennedy Snow]

Bump. I made her hair different so it only has proportional strength of her body because it has muscles in it so that it is not a seperate ability like superhuman strength. ThenI just gave it its sensory perception.

I added the mutant school part...

and explained the panther.

Yay.... Looking forward to playing with you guys...

tres magnifique.

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