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Post by Coen Attaway on Mar 24, 2014 14:22:51 GMT -6
COEN TAM ATTAWAY
21//MALE//HOMOFLEXIBLE//HOLOGRAPHIC LIGHT SHOW//TA and DORM MONITOR//CAIQUE NOGUEIRA
POWER INFO: You know music visualizers? The abstract bouncing swirls of colour and awesomeness? Guess who makes those real. That’s right, this guy. Awesome, right?
Coen (who will totally answer to Coco) has the absolutely spectacular ability to generate three dimensional abstract light in the air (or on his skin) that moves with whatever sound he hears. He can currently keep track of five segments of sound at once with complete concentration, but multiple sources in time and tune count as a single stream. For example, he can animate a five-part conversation or a music class with, say, vocal, flute, violin, cello, and piccolo. Attempting to multitask further results in continually dropping one stream or another.
The shape and vitality of the light show depends on the strength, tone, and pace of the sound triggering it. Fast-paced, energetic music will have dense light bouncing all over the place, while a lullaby will be more diffuse and move more gently. Colour is highly variable, inconsistent, and usually (but not always!) somewhere between rainbow disco ball and iridescent disco ball.
It should be noted that the five-item limit theoretically but not really extends to Coen’s ability to multitask overall. It’s theoretical because he has a certain tendency to be a fluffbrained sillyfluffball. If he tries to do more than that, everything will burn and die in a glorious explosion of widespread misery.
Strengths
- … it’s pretty?
- parties. ‘nuff said.
Drawbacks
- doesn’t really turn off; if he’s listening to sound, it’s showing up
- too many streams = ugly light and nasty headaches
- no secret listening to music in class
- doesn’t technically require him to HEAR sound; he gets some reaction from remembering or imagining sound
GENERAL APPEARANCE: Coen’s not particularly fancy. He’s tallish, at 5’11”, sturdy-ish, and has an ovallish face and brownish hair that is usually longish. The brownishness varies between light brownish in the summer and dark brownish in the winter. His eyes are plain old dark brown, nothing special, and he’s really lazy about his clothing, partly because he keeps wrecking stuff while partying. Even if he was a good boy and didn’t really start drinking until he hit 21 (very recently!), alcohol is not required for him to stain or tear clothing… his or someone else’s.
MUST HAVE APPAREL: Bluetooth over-the-ear headphones. Yeeaahhh. Also, his phone, because it has music.
PERSONALITY: Coen’s a pretty relaxed, lazy, go-with-the-flow kind of guy.
Wait, who was he trying to prank? Eh, forgot already. Time to be honest, then. Coen loves parties and music and dancing and people and sex and food and caffeine and carbonated pop. He has a tendency to counter arguments with free entertainment (either through music, attempts at dancing through his light, or him with alcohol, caffeine, or both) or consumable objects. Coen frequently buys people drinks just because. If he does it for you, it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s looking to pick you up. But it might. Since he does like messing around. But it doesn’t have to. He also listens to ‘no’ most of the time.
Coen’s a bit of a flutterbug, frequently changing his mind and preferences and intentions. He is easily distracted by shiny things, laser pointers, music visualizers on computers, and butterflies. He means no harm to anyone, is a total wimp when it comes to confrontation or violence or danger (but will also fling himself off a rock ledge first, so…), and is most saddened by being a mutant because he can’t really go experience the big cities and their fun. There’s no way he could possibly keep that much awesome sound out of his head.
He’s also a bit of a trickster, but not necessarily the one to come up with the ideas, and has a looser grip on literal rules than a TA and dorm monitor probably should. He’s really good with the intent, though! Bullying and damage are both big no-nos. Do them and he probably won’t buy you drinks or sleep with you.
EXTRA QUIRK: Coen sings a pretty good tenor but air guitar is his best instrument.
MUST HAVE APPAREL: Bluetooth over-the-ear headphones. Yeeaahhh. Also, his phone, because it has music.
PERSONALITY: Coen’s a pretty relaxed, lazy, go-with-the-flow kind of guy.
Wait, who was he trying to prank? Eh, forgot already. Time to be honest, then. Coen loves parties and music and dancing and people and sex and food and caffeine and carbonated pop. He has a tendency to counter arguments with free entertainment (either through music, attempts at dancing through his light, or him with alcohol, caffeine, or both) or consumable objects. Coen frequently buys people drinks just because. If he does it for you, it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s looking to pick you up. But it might. Since he does like messing around. But it doesn’t have to. He also listens to ‘no’ most of the time.
Coen’s a bit of a flutterbug, frequently changing his mind and preferences and intentions. He is easily distracted by shiny things, laser pointers, music visualizers on computers, and butterflies. He means no harm to anyone, is a total wimp when it comes to confrontation or violence or danger (but will also fling himself off a rock ledge first, so…), and is most saddened by being a mutant because he can’t really go experience the big cities and their fun. There’s no way he could possibly keep that much awesome sound out of his head.
He’s also a bit of a trickster, but not necessarily the one to come up with the ideas, and has a looser grip on literal rules than a TA and dorm monitor probably should. He’s really good with the intent, though! Bullying and damage are both big no-nos. Do them and he probably won’t buy you drinks or sleep with you.
EXTRA QUIRK: Coen sings a pretty good tenor but air guitar is his best instrument.
FATHER: Charles Tam Attaway
MOTHER: Catherine Janine Attaway née Parker
BROTHER: Carl Robert Attaway, younger
SISTER: Catria Jamie Attaway, older; Clarissa Maybelline Attaway, younger
PET: nopedy nope. you really think he’d remember to take care of it?
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: probably not
WORTHY MENTIONS: ummmm whoever that is in that photo from last night’s party? that was fun.
MOTHER: Catherine Janine Attaway née Parker
BROTHER: Carl Robert Attaway, younger
SISTER: Catria Jamie Attaway, older; Clarissa Maybelline Attaway, younger
PET: nopedy nope. you really think he’d remember to take care of it?
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: probably not
WORTHY MENTIONS: ummmm whoever that is in that photo from last night’s party? that was fun.
CHILDHOOD: Coen had a pretty chill childhood. His parents were a little too amused that they both had C names and felt compelled to extend that to all of their offspring (seriously, Catria, Coen, Clarissa, and Carl?), but they were good parents otherwise. They lived in the general vicinity of Port Angeles, WA, and didn’t move very far when Catria accidentally made the house forget it had gravity while everyone was outside.
Insurance covered that, miraculously enough. Catria got invited to a special school, though, and wasn’t consistent enough in not making things forget they had gravity until she was fifteen to come home to visit. In exchange, the rest of the family trekked out to Montana at least twice a year. Coen thought it was pretty cool that his sister had special powers and was totally cool letting everyone around him think that his random stories were about an imaginary sister rather than a flesh-and-blood one.
ADOLESCENCE: Catria got to come home for Christmas when Coen was thirteen, but the next summer he was the one who had to be visited in Montana. Guess what! His fourteenth birthday part had lots of music. Partway through, someone noticed the totally psychedelic lightshow.
Coen didn’t mind moving. He got to talk to his parents regularly, he didn’t have to keep track of who he told what about whom with what degree of honesty, and he could make things as colourful and pretty as he wanted. He had fun, and did well enough in school for them to not shift around nervously when it came time for him to graduate and not be able to leave because the whole pretty colours floating around him didn’t exactly shut off.
ADULTHOOD: Coen doesn’t have grand plans for the future. He TA’s in most of the music and art classes Bellefonte offers, and keeps a friendly hand on one section of the dorms (and only gets yelled at to limit the noise and parties once a month or so these days! but not really from toning things down), and he’s cool with that. Plus now he can actually go to adult parties legally. Being an adult is totally AWESOME.
Insurance covered that, miraculously enough. Catria got invited to a special school, though, and wasn’t consistent enough in not making things forget they had gravity until she was fifteen to come home to visit. In exchange, the rest of the family trekked out to Montana at least twice a year. Coen thought it was pretty cool that his sister had special powers and was totally cool letting everyone around him think that his random stories were about an imaginary sister rather than a flesh-and-blood one.
ADOLESCENCE: Catria got to come home for Christmas when Coen was thirteen, but the next summer he was the one who had to be visited in Montana. Guess what! His fourteenth birthday part had lots of music. Partway through, someone noticed the totally psychedelic lightshow.
Coen didn’t mind moving. He got to talk to his parents regularly, he didn’t have to keep track of who he told what about whom with what degree of honesty, and he could make things as colourful and pretty as he wanted. He had fun, and did well enough in school for them to not shift around nervously when it came time for him to graduate and not be able to leave because the whole pretty colours floating around him didn’t exactly shut off.
ADULTHOOD: Coen doesn’t have grand plans for the future. He TA’s in most of the music and art classes Bellefonte offers, and keeps a friendly hand on one section of the dorms (and only gets yelled at to limit the noise and parties once a month or so these days! but not really from toning things down), and he’s cool with that. Plus now he can actually go to adult parties legally. Being an adult is totally AWESOME.
SAMPLE:
USERNAME: Bowen
AGE GROUP: 21
EXPERIENCE: Longtime.
USERNAME: Bowen
AGE GROUP: 21
EXPERIENCE: Longtime.
