Post by Emily Graves on Feb 3, 2016 19:36:17 GMT -6
Emily Lucy Graves
FACE CLAIM: Lily Collins
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AGE: 16
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Demisexual
POSITION: Student
POWER: Cryokinesis and Cold Physiology.
Emily's ability is to telekinetically generate and control ice. Whether it's water, moisture in the air, or from other liquids. She does this by telekinetically manipulating the density, temperature and form of the water in substances. When she does this, her body temperature drops to an extreme low for a human being, as does a small area around her body.
Emily's core body temperature is slightly lower than that of a normal person, not to the point of making others cold through touch, but it is noticeable. She is more comfortable in lower temperatures than most people, e.g she could get by wearing simply a long sleeved shirt and trousers in snow whereas another person might catch a cold. This also goes the other way though, extremely heated temperatures are uncomfortable for her, as a result heat waves are unpleasant, though the effects can be lessened when she is near liquids.
LIMITATIONS:
-Emily has an effective range of about 50 feet, though it should be noted that the further away her target is away from her, the more difficult it becomes to effect with her power.
-Creating ice takes a differing amount of time, depending on the state and conditions surrounding it. Higher environmental temperatures make it take longer, distance makes it take longer and Emily's own level of exhaustion also has an impact. Obviously as well, diluted liquids take longer to freeze than straight H20, such as alcohols.
-Emily cannot manipulate the liquid inside of living cells, as a result she could not pull water from inside another human or animal, or plants.
-Emily can use her power in maximum bursts of about 30 minutes.
-She is limited to a total of 5 average uses a day, though this is assuming that she uses the full 30 minutes, if she only used her power for 30 seconds to cool down something she could use her power more than 5 times.
-Emily is also naturally resistant to temperature effecting powers, as she can lower her core temperature if needed and also doesn't suffer to the same degree due to cold, compared with others.
-Lastly, Emily's control and ability with her powers are tied to her state. If she is exhausted, or sick it is harder and her limits will be more severe, if she is in extreme heat she will find it very hard to focus on using them, ect.
SIDE-EFFECTS:
-The first obvious effect is her own temperature lowering with continual use, and while she is resistant to cold, it can still effect her like any other person if continual and severe enough.
-As she approaches her time limit for her power she begins to experience what are akin to brain freeze headaches, that worsen with every subsequent reaching of time limit in the same day.
-If Emily tried to force herself over her time limit or her uses per day, it would work. But at the same time her power would come out imperfect and strained, she would experience severe headaches, nose bleeds or coughing. If she carried on pushing it she would eventually pass out and be in a semi-comatose state for at least 48 hours.
-Lastly her powers leave her feeling drained, using her powers is mostly a mental exertion, so if she used them up for a day she would be more sluggish than usual, tired out and have trouble focusing on things.
Journal Entry 1;
Dear Journal. Well this is a first, I don't know if I'm even writing this in the proper way... Well it was suggested by the therapist that I get a diary to write in about stuff, my dad got me a journal instead. Mum was mad.
Anyway... I guess since this is number one, I should tell you about me. My name is Emily, Em to my friends. So I guess you can call me Em! Sorry. I'm weird. Weird people are great though. My family are weird, and while they are great they also kinda suck sometimes. My parents are getting a divorce, so I'm in therapy so yay! Journal! I'm a pretty normal girl... sometimes. The rest of the time I'm kind of, to quote Mum 'Boyish' but my awesome friends seem to like me well enough, we're just starting secondary school, a few weeks in now. It was daunting at first but I'm getting used to it.
See, I grew up in a little town in Buckinghamshire, went to a little school and was only really super close with one person, my best friend. So starting off school this month has been crazy. But I've actually ended up in pretty much all of the same classes, and tutor group with my bestie, who is, believe it or not just about as cool as I am. Anyway, I think I'll be doing these a couple of times a week, or try to at least as I did sorta promise Mum and Dad that I'd give it a go.
I'm a brunette, sarcastic ALMOST teenager, with a whole lot of attitude to bring to this whole, 'secondary school' thing! And I most certainly, do NOT need a therapist.
Journal entry 28;
Hey, Em again. Looking back it's kind of funny that I ended up with this, I think it was mostly Mum pushing it... which kind of figures. See, she figured because I didn't open up to people who weren't my best friend, I should have a diary to write in, after speaking to the therapist and telling the woman that I didn't really open up all that much since the divorce had been going through, but she was sort of wrong. I opened up to the bestie, and to Dad. Me and Dad have always gotten on really well, he doens't try to pamper me or force me into stuff and to be blunt... he's just cool.
Now I know what you're thinking, I've complained about home life, and the parents, and I mostly talk to you about school stuff. So what probably comes to mind is "how can a dad be 'cool'?" Well. Truth is me and him just... work. He's always known the right things to cheer me up, he never cared that I'm not overly 'girly' and he's never too forceful with me. I mean, I could point to the dozens of times Mum's been away and me and him have sat up on a weekend playing Resident Evil, or Banjo Kazooie but I think you get the picture.
Journal Entry 52;
So maybe you're thinking, 'been a week or two Em, why no writing?' Well I was busy hanging out with the bestie and some other friends, several of which assumed I needed comfort after breaking it off with my boyfriend. I don't get this whole damsel in distress thing that people seem to think girls should follow, I really don't. I broke up with him because he was awkward and wanting our relationship to be more physical, yeah I know, gross. And he his friends were a bunch of cheeky buggers anyway, always making sexual comments and stuff when we were around, with it always being me to shoot them down.
Whatever, anyway. The main reason I'm writing is because Dad's gone as of yesterday. He finally finished setting up and did the big move. It's... weird. He had the big promotion ages ago, and we knew he was moving out of the UK, and it's not like we were a happy family anyway, or even all living under the same roof. But it's just not the same, ya know?
Journal Entry 85;
Soooo I don't know how much of this I can talk about, because the whole thing seemed really creepy and weird and I'm a little upset and I don't understand all of it. But something really weird, has happened with bestie. Again, I don't get it all of it but this was like... some fictional comic book crap.
But the point is, she's gone off to this weird boarding school somewhere in Manchester. I don't know where, or what it's called. I think it had a Saint in it's name. I don't know what to do with myself. Is this depression? And no, that isn't another sarcastic rhetorical question, this is an actual rhetorical question. Dad suggested I come visit him over Christmas break... maybe I should.
Journal Entry 103:
Okay. Real talk. Have you ever had something really... like I mean really weird happen to you? So much so that you can't explain it and the whole thing feels like a dream? Something like that freaking happened to me today. Like... it's so.. I don't even know where I should begin with explaining it.
I'm visiting Dad right? And his place (Which is super nice his new salary is awesome and you should see his car and entertainment lounge) and he's got to go in for a meeting, which he wasn't happy about but I tell him something along the lines of it's fine, I can kick his butt at halo when he gets home before we cook dinner and I decide, I'll go out for a walk. By the lake.
First weird thing, I wasn't cold. It was like, minus 8. I should have been cold. Second weird thing, it was sunny (if freezing) an hour before this, so there wasn't really any frost on the ground or anything... But I swear to god I could see the edges of the lake freezing over as I walked past, and frosting on the blades of grass, it got more and more noticeable the longer I was there, and the more freaked out I got. I get home, and everything is fine, even though the heating isn't on, I'm still warm.
I'm 14. I can't be going this crazy already.
Like a dream, right?
Journal Entry: 105
So. Big recap. 2 days ago, a couple of dudes show up from some boarding school, here in the US to speak to me. My dad was weirded out, as was I but everything seemed okay. You know what? Even as I'm writing this it doesn't make sense so I'm just going to Too long didn't read it for you.
The weird dream like thing 2 weeks back, and the thing the other morning with my glass near my bed being frozen? They were me. Apparently I did that. Apparently a lot of kids can do stuff like that, and they go to special schools about this stuff. Which sounds oddly a lot like what happened to bestie a few months ago...
Here's the kicker. Because I have two legal guardians, in 2 separate countries, one in the UK, One in the US. My Mum and Dad had to decide which one I go to ultimately, the decision comes down to me. I chose the US one, it's not far from Dad and being somewhere with NO parents or friends is going to be weird enough without being within a reasonable distance of Dad. Mum's not happy about it, but at least she's trying to be supportive of me, and not going to mental on the 'what you should wear' stuff.
So... Off to Bellefonte Academy (had to look that up again) I'm fucking terrified. Let's see what happens.
The Journal entries end there...
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USERNAME: Raz
AGE GROUP: 20
EXPERIENCE: ... nearly 4 years 0-0
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