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player information.

name: Hannah
are you over 18?: yup
personal lj: feilyn
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: aim: xfeilynx
characters in abax:CLICK NAMES FOR ACTIVITY
Kaidan Alenko, Garrett Taliesin, Marian Hawke and Katniss Everdeen

in character information.

name: Amelia Pierce
age: 18
sex: F
race: Human (super)
height: 5’4”
weight: 121
canon point: After she’s been partnered up with a hero and damsel for a few months.

physical appearance:
A good word for Amelia is average. Average height, average build, skin that isn’t tan or pale but somewhere in between. A faint smattering of freckles over the bridge of her nose, dark brown hair that isn’t straight or curly, but falls in loose waves. She usually has most of it scraped back into a ponytail, although short bits around her face have a tendency to fall out. Her eyes are a blue-gray colour, and her expression is usually a slight frown. Her PB is here!

world information:
Amelia’s world is actually a post-apocalyptic version of our world, set innumerable years in the future where (to the knowledge of the people in her story) the only habitable piece of land left is a large island, the Capital city of which is named Sterling. For the most part the tech is modern day/futuristic, with what remains of humanity having had enough to time to both discover old tech, how to use it, and create new technology based off of it.

It’s not clear whether or not a small percentage of humans gaining super powers is what set off the decades of warfare and climate change that ultimately all but decimated humanity, or if that small percentage were somehow altered by whatever weapons were created during that period; it’s long since been lost to history. What is known is that from the time people started documenting the years again some three centuries ago, the supers have been around. For all intents and purpose they appear to be normal humans, but the difference is that supers have abilities no normal human could hope to learn – super strength, speed, regenerating. In the early days the powers were relatively simple, but as time went on, more and more variations started occurring. In Amelia’s time, there are people with such diverse abilities as control over elements, light manipulation, telekinesis and more rarely, brain-focussed abilities such as precognition and mind reading.

As the population of supers increased, this gave the population of ordinary humans something to worry about – after all, with these people such strange and unusual abilities, it would be easy for them to take advantage of them to the detriment of other humans. And this is exactly what started happening. Thankfully, the supers were just as diverse as humans themselves, and while some were assholes, there were always others willing to combat them in defence of what remained of humanity as a whole. While this was an informal arrangement, approximately two hundred years before Amelia’s time the Academy was created – a place where people with superhuman abilities would go to learn how to use them for the positive growth of society.

This is how it currently stands; it’s believed that supers are born only of other supers, and thus far there has been nothing blatantly occurring to contradict this, but not every child of a super is necessarily born with abilities that could cause mass damage or effects (although it is rare that a child is born with no abilities whatsoever). The children are tested for abilities from a young age, and this determines the path their life will take. First they’re sorted into either Active abilities – super strength, element manipulation, basically abilities that are useful in fighting and doing general superhero things – and Passive abilities (everything else). The Actives are then separated into Primaries and Secondaries. People classified as have Primary abilities are what you’d think of as heroes, people who can both deliver and survive massive damage. People with Secondary abilities are those with powers like invisibility, who can provide back up to a Primary, but can’t pack the same punch.

What’s the point of all of this? Basically the entire system works to protect ordinary people from supers. The supers are for the most part revered by the rest of society – they’re closely involved with law enforcement, and work to take down ordinary criminals as well as people who might fall from their Academy set path and become villains. But part of this reverence comes from the fact that they’re entirely separate from the rest of society – it’s totally possible for a super to not even speak to an ordinary human until they’re sent out into the field. Part of this is because about a century ago, the Academy leaders noticed that villains had a tendency to use civilians as cannon fodder, or distractions, or hostages, particularly civilians to whom supers had grown particularly close to. This necessitated the separation, and also gave birth to the idea of the three-man team. The Primary is backed up by the Secondary, and for the past hundred years or so, has been paired with a compatible Passive. While the Primary and Secondary match ups usually happen in the late teens, Primary supers and Passives are paired up from a young age to form a close bond. This way, if a villain or any other criminal happens to want a hostage who won’t cause trouble, they can go for the Passives first. The Passives are the only supers who are taught how to interact with ordinary human society, and are usually involved in free lance jobs where being absent frequently due to kidnappings and what have you won’t have a large detrimental effect on their performance.

Basically the entire society is set up so that the passives are now the cannon fodder, and the heroes and villains can go on destroying each other with little to no negative effect on the lives of ordinary humans. It’s pretty fucked up, but at this point the weight of tradition and indoctrination has resulted in no one really realising that. The supers are brought up to believe they exist for the protection of ordinary citizens, taught this by other supers who believe the same things – when they do fall off this path of righteousness, they tread the paths that have already been set out for them by everything they’ve learned, and the villains that came before them. And while villains are hated and feared, heroes are admired and practically worshipped throughout the entire society. With all that adoration and basically having your entire extravagant lifestyle provided for, who wouldn’t want to be a super?

history:
Amelia is the only daughter of two Passive supers – colloquially referred to as ‘damsels’. Her father possesses the power of precognition (now designated ‘passive precognition’), and her mother is a speedster without the ability to protect herself against friction – she would have been a Secondary Active (sidekick :’|) if not for this. There have always been more Passives than Actives, and neither of them were ever considered to be compatible with a Primary. As such, while they might have been held up in a mass hostage situation once or twice before, there was never any attention drawn to them specifically, and so they’ve managed to have a fairly stable, comfortable home life.

Amelia was born, like most supers these days, in the hospital wing of the Academy, located in Sterling. A few weeks later she was tested and found to possess heightened reflexes and some unusual brain activity that they couldn’t quite put a name to. While heightened reflexes might have been impressive by human standards, it wasn’t an ability that fit into the Active classification; while doctors puzzled over just what that strange brain activity could mean, Amelia was designated a Passive. She was a shy, serious child, but her parents could never fail to get her to laugh, and once she warmed up to a person, she could be quite chatty. She had frequent monitoring check ups to see if that odd brain activity would manifest into an actual power, but otherwise was left to continue along the Passive path for the most part uninterrupted. She even attended several of the sessions intended to see which Passives would be compatible with Primary Actives, but was pulled out when it seemed as though she was bonding with one of the most promising young heroes, Elijah Keaton. Better for him to have a stable Passive who they could be sure of, than someone with an unknown ability.

Amelia grew a little resentful of the Academy brass after that, in the way that a young child is when she doesn’t understand why she can’t do something she thought was fun anymore. That soon dissipated in the face of intense headaches when she was six years old, although a cause wasn’t found until half a year later when she was seven and started getting the visions. She hadn’t registered on any of the tests for precognition, because they were all geared up towards people who had visions come to them. Amelia, on the other hand, possibly as a result of the odd mixing of her parents’ abilities, actively sought the visions. It was the head of the Passive school that quietly pointed out how useful that could be in a combat situation, if Amelia were trained; she could warn her Primary about potential danger, and avoid it herself with her heightened reflexes. So it was that Amelia was moved from Passive classes to Secondary Active.

Her parents couldn’t have been prouder, and at first she was excited, in her own quiet way. But it soon turned out that she was far behind in classes – Actives had things like physical endurance training, and all sorts of things that Passives just didn’t have to deal with. On top of this, she was pretty much constantly getting told just how lucky she was, to have escaped being a Passive and entered the Active ranks. She’d never before realised that being Passive might be something to be looked down on. As time passed, she simultaneously came to resent the fact that she was judged for having once been a damsel, and also be grateful that she wasn’t one anymore. Her natural shyness developed into standoffishness, and she focussed solely on her training; if she was behind, she’d just work harder until she was better than all of them. As she grew older, she did her own research on how best to use her abilities, argued with her supervisor about how long she should be allowed to train and what she was ready to try.

Her resentment meant that while there were actually some people her were interested in her and wanted to learn more, she usually just saw that as attempts to make fun of her, if she even noticed their interest at all. She was constantly at odds with Primary Actives, and had little patience with their tendencies to ignore her and her advice/instructions about the future; while she was deemed ready to be paired with a Primary a while before she turned eighteen, her birthday came and went without her finding anyone she could stand to be in the same room as for longer than a three hour joint training session.

Eventually, after some meddling from her supervisor and the head of the Passive school, a training session was wrangled with the most promising Primary in years – Elijah Keaton. Amelia had long since forgotten about her compatibility with him, and had spent much of the last few years thinking he was a lazy good for nothing who’d had everything handed to him on a silver platter – and she didn’t have any trouble telling him this to his face before they went into the training session. He laughed at her, and she went into the training session seething. Unbeknownst to her, though, her words had hit home; when she told him to do something, he listened. He kept the worst off the damage off her, and she directed him around the worst in turn, and for the first time she experienced what it was like to actually work in perfect concert with someone.

Needless to say, she was pissed off about it. Elijah, however, was ecstatic about the whole thing, and requested from his own supervisor that they continue training together to see if it was more than a fluke. Amelia’s supervisor pointed out that she wasn’t exactly going to get a better offer, and she had sort of been harping on about how she wanted to prove herself just as good as a Primary – being out in the field with the top Primary in her class would give her that opportunity. It was this, more than anything else, that finally prompted her to agree to the whole thing, and she’s been training Elijah for the past three or so months. Begrudgingly, she’s even come to sort of like the guy – although arguments between her and his damsel, Beth, are frequent after the other girl took an instant dislike to her. Still, she’s settled into something like a routine, and isn’t even that upset about it. Way to go for ruining that, Abax.

personality:
A good word to describe Amelia is ‘determined’. Stubborn, standoffish, judgemental, and defensive are also good words; while at the heart of it Amelia is a good person with a genuine desire to help people, she has a tendency to get caught up in the semantics of things.

But back to that determined thing – she’s had most of a lifetime of putting up with people not expecting much from her, or telling her that she ought to consider herself lucky for being in the position she is. Dealing with this has sparked a fierce desire in the girl to prove a) that she can be more than what everyone is expecting of her and b) that she isn’t just going to rely on luck to do it. She’s taken this attitude to such an extent that maybe she doesn’t realise that there weren’t quite so many people against her as she initially assumed.

If she’s honest with herself (it happens occasionally), she prefers to interact on an antagonistic level with people, because then she can be more sure of herself and what she’s talking about; if people are being kind and understanding, she feels uncertain and off balance. Overall, she’s a very defensive person, and if there’s any ambiguity about a statement when she’s talking to someone, she’s generally quicker to assume that they meant it in a negative fashion than let it slide as something badly worded or spoken out of ignorance rather than being offensive. There’s a lot of overalls and generallys in this paragraph because it’s definitely a tendency, rather than an overwhelming attitude – she’s not some kind of asshole powder keg looking for any excuse to go off, but she does tend in that direction.

This is also where the judgemental comes in. Because she pushed herself so hard, overwhelmingly the sort of Actives she’s dealt with have been the powerhouses – the people who’ve been told their whole lives that they’re going to be amazing, saviours of Sterling, etc. etc. This has soured her perception of Actives as a whole (and consequently anyone who has their same abilities, even if they’re not from her world), and she will absolutely assuming that anyone with super strength or other revered powers is an unmitigated ass. The sort of people she has respect for are the ones with unusual abilities who have managed to become Secondary Actives or even Primaries - regardless of whether they actually deserve that respect from her.

Leading on from this, she’s quite naive in several ways. Namely, that it’s never occurred to her how actual Passives might feel about the attitude levelled at them, or that her attitude that she ‘escaped’ that fate might actually be considered offensive by some of them. She genuinely hasn’t paid much attention to that school of people since she left it, and when the time comes for her to work closely with Bethany because of Elijah, she’s genuinely surprised to find that the other girl has a pretty serious dislike for her and her attitude, accusing her of the same arrogance that Amelia accuses people like Elijah of. Beyond this, her upbringing means that she really does have a skewed way of how the world actually words. As a super, she has been and always will be provided for by the Academy – poverty is a vague concept, and she doesn’t really know all that much about what could drive a person to turn to crime or villainy, having only been brought up to catch and bring down some perpetrators, rather than understand what they’re doing it.

Despite the crispy outside, Amelia really does have a squishy centre. After all, she’s been raised for the sole purpose of protecting other people, and the fact that she takes that duty so seriously has formed the base for the rest of her determination to build off of. Despite the issues she has with the internal workings of the Academy, she has a fierce pride in what she is, and in what they do. She’s also very lonely as a person, but she ties herself up in her studies and her training so that she can tell herself that she’s not; reluctantly, she’s started to admit that these past few months with Elijah (and even Bethany, to an extent), have probably been some of the more carefree and fun times she’s had since she was originally in the Passive school.

She has a fairly dry sense of humour that has a tendency to slip out when she doesn’t mean it to – that inherent shyness of hers makes her feel awkward about being funny, so she’s the type to make a comment without thinking about it and then realising a second or two later what it is that she’s said. She might try to take it back on occasion, but having provoked a few laughs from her new companions over the last little while, she’s slowly becoming more relaxed about having fun and being silly, rather than being serious all the time. The world knows that she’ll stick up for herself when she feels threatened, but that same fierceness and desire to protect transfers itself over to the people she cares about, and while it’s okay for her to talk smack about them, god forbid if anyone else tries it. She doesn’t take being surprised very well, even if it’s a good surprise, and if people flip her expectations upside down she has a tendency to be sort of derp about it. At first she got defensive, but having started to understand that maybe her worldview isn’t the only one out there, she’s started to take a genuine interest in other people and their point of view – her only problem is that she’s been so aggressively independent for most of the past decade that she’s frequently thrown off guard or taken aback by what other people think or have to say, and has to scramble to find something to say in response. It’s funny to watch, if nothing else. She’s trying.

abilities/powers:
She can call on visions of the future! Her specialty is seeing things that are immediately about to happen, but she can also see up to a week in advance on demand – anything beyond that is accidental, and the further she reaches, the more it takes out of her. Likewise, if she calls on a bunch of smaller visions, she can be incapacitated the next day.

She also has heightened reflexes – nothing godmoddy, it’s not superspeed or anything, but she’ll instinctively move to defend/get out of the way of shit happening at her.

first person sample:
One!
Two!

third person sample:
“Is everything okay down there? Medical sensors are indicating nothing’s amiss,” the tech’s voice came over the loudspeaker, sounding more bored than concerned. Amelia could relate.

“We’re fine!” she shouted back, making some sort of vague hand gesture to indicate just how fine they were, before offering it to Roger. She might not have liked the guy much, but that didn’t mean she had to leave him there on the ground like that.

Of course, she probably should have expected him to smack it away like he did, getting to his feet with the effortless grace of someone with regenerative powers and the endurance of a tank. “I meant, why didn’t you tell me the damn thing was going to explode? If I wanted directions, I would have looked at a map.”

Amelia ignored the sting in her fingers, refusing to give him the satisfaction of knowing he’d hurt her. Something like that, it was probably barely a tap to a guy like him. She could feel her jaw setting into a stubborn line at his comment, arms crossing all over again. “Because telling you to ‘go left’ is one hell of a lot quicker than saying ‘don’t run into the truck, Roger, it’s about to explode!’” Her temper flared; this was the third hero-in-training she’d had to deal with today, and she’d been sick off them before she’d spoken to the first one. “And let’s face it, even if I had said that you would have barrelled straight into the thing anyway because you were too busy listening to your oversized ego going ‘Sure, I can take an eighteen-wheeler!’ than the girl who can predict the future.” She closed her fist on the urge to poke him in the chest, knowing she’d just end up hurting her hand more than he’d managed by accident already.

case no: 03-22-01