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Nov 20, 2024 22:26:25 GMT -6
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Individual
Character's full name: Kealey Ann Quinn
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: (if applicable)
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Date of Birth: (mm/dd/year) July, 8th, 1986
Nationality/ Ethnicity: Irish
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Newtonabbey, Ireland
Appearance
Hair color and style: Kealey’s hair is blond and very curly. When curly, it falls to just at or above her shoulders, when straightened it’s quite a bit longer.
Eyes:Blue
Height: 5’4”
Build:Slight and slim
Visible mutation: N/A
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: One ear piercing in each lobe. Kealey also has two large scars, from being involved in an IRA bombing when she was 12. One stretches from the bottom of her rib cage and arcs around her side and to her left hip. The other is a large burn scar that stretches from the inside of her left thigh around the back of her leg to her knee.
Other features:
Everyday clothing style:Kealey is a design major currently in fashion school. Her appearance is very important to her and she is rarely found without coordinated clothing. Style-wise, she’s a little eclectic from time to time, but for the most part, loves to look elegant and sophisticated.
Uniform: WIP
Sleepwear:Shorts of some sort and a cami, unless it’s cold, then she wears sweats.
Miscellaneous clothing:The further into design school Kealey gets, the more full her closet gets with strange and wonderful things.
Character
Personality: (How you character behaves, social tendencies, quirks, etc.) Kealey is about as good as you get. There isn’t a whole lot that would dissuade her from doing what she genuinely feels is the right thing. She’s friendly, and doesn’t seem to have much trouble making friends. Her personality is affected a lot by her powers, and she’s often worried that her decisions and persuasions are a result of the people around her instead of herself. Despite that, she has an almost permanently sunny personality.
Hobbies/ Interests: Kealey loves to read and sew. Those are the two things she’ll most likely be found doing. She’s Catholic, and quite religious, but her former near-obsession with the church has been tempered by life in the real world.
Job or part time job and description: Kealey used to work at the NYC Public Library
Fears/ phobias/ concerns:Kealey is always worried that the emotions she feels from the people around her will lead her into doing things she really doesn’t want to do. This makes it really hard for her to make difficult decisions on the spot.
Special talents: Kealey can sew very well, and she’s got marginal talent at sketching out her ideas. Kealey can’t carry a tune in a bucket, can’t play a musical instrument to save her life, and is awful at keeping a straight face when telling even the smallest of fibs.
Morality
Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: As good as good gets. Kealey can feel emotions. She knows what doing bad things does to a person’s emotional state. It’s not only something she’d never do, it’s something she almost literally cannot understand. Being good doesn’t mean she lacks in a sense of humor, or that she doesn’t occasionally do something less than spectacular…she’s human and flawed…just always tries to fight the good fight.
Mutations
Mutation description: Kealey is a classic example of an empath. Basically, she can sense, feel, and to some degree control the emotions of the people around her. This is a double edged sword though, while she gains insight into the feelings of the people who are around her, making it easy for her to judge character and tell if someone is lying to her, she also feels those emotions herself. For example, if Kealey is in a room where someone is happy, someone is sad, and someone is angry, she feels a montage of all three emotions. As far as control of the emotions is concerned, Kealey can only mildly amplify an emotion that someone is already feeling. For example, if someone is happy, she can make them happier. If someone is sad, she can make them sadder. At this time, she has no secondary or tertiary powers.
Range, Control, etc. Kealey’s control has improved as she has worked with her powers and gotten used to living in a city full of people. As time has passed she’s learned how to more effectively distinguish between the emotions individual people are feeling. She still feels all the emotions at once, but has learned to more thoroughly keep a hold on her own emotions. As of right now, her range extends to an area around the size of an apartment building. The closer people are, the more directly Kealey can feel their emotions and distinguish one person from another. At the edges of her range, she can simply feel a general jumble of emotions.
Strengths:Being able to sense the way a person feels is a good way to pick out people in a crowd who might be lying/dangerous/need help. Kealey can also influence emotions which are already present, so she can affect the way a person feels about things.
Weaknesses: As explained above, Kealey can not only sense the emotions of the people surrounding her, but she feels them as well. Because of this, Kealey has spent her life completely immersed in the emotions of others. This has caused her problems, both mental and physical. Because she can’t shut her power off, it’s difficult sometimes for Kealey to discern what she’s really feeling from what the people around her are feeling. Kealey’s time in the convent in Ireland helped her learn to focus through prayer and meditation, as has her time in New York City. This is still a work in progress, though, and an almost constant source of frustration in certain circumstances.
Secondary mutation description: added 8/9/2011
Secondary Power Description: When in physical contact with another person, Kealey is able to transfer any emotion she is currently feeling into them. Once the emotion is transferred, it’s just like any other emotion, and if Kealey is not actively controlling its intensity, the person will deal with it exactly how they usually would.
Ex: Kealey is happy and stumbles upon a funeral where everyone is sad. Because Kealey is feeling happiness, she could transfer that emotion to someone at the funeral who is sad. (Not that she would)
Strengths:
Kealey is able to feel the emotions of everyone in her area of effect. This gives her a large pool to pull from when she’s searching for an appropriate emotion.
Emotions are powerful things and being able to introduce feelings that weren’t already present in someone can be shocking to them. This could be an advantage in many situations.
Weaknesses:
This power is not constantly active. In fact, it takes a lot of concentration and effort for Kealey to introduce a feeling to someone if they weren’t already feeling it. At first she’ll have a very difficult time making it work at all. Another weakness is that Kealey must be touching someone in order for the transfer of emotions to occur. Kealey is very physically weak, and her fighting skills are next to nothing. Getting that close to someone could be difficult, and very dangerous.
Fighting StyleNone.
Explanation: Traditionally Kealey has been a “run and hide” or “make them forget why they’re fighting” type of person. She is learning some self defense now, but most likely wouldn’t be able to use it very effectively in a fight. Kealey uses brains, not brawn.
Pros for fighting style: A mental fighter doesn’t have to be in the middle of the fight.
Cons for fighting style:Obvious. Kealey is weak physically.
Faction Allegiance
The X-men
History Of Your Character
Kealey Quinn was born to Ian and Molly Quinn on July 8th 1985, and she had one sibling, a older sister named Maire. The Quinn family was poor’ish but very happy and they made the best out of the lives in Newtonabbey, Ireland. Loving and supportive parents, Kealey’s parents took very good care of their two girls, doting on them whenever possible and trying to make sure that they lived full and happy lives despite the financial problems of the family. It worked well, and Kealey and Maire grew up as well rounded, happy children.
As devout Catholics, the Quinn girls attended the local Catholic primary, middle, and high school which was self contained in a single building. At this time in Ireland, the IRA was fighting British occupation of Northern Ireland and sponsoring terrorist attacks all throughout the country. One day, when Kealey was 12 years old, she and her sister walked to school as usual, both excited about the choral concert they would be participating in later that day. Their parents had managed to get off work to attend. The concert started, but halfway through a suicide bomber in the audience detonated his bomb, turning that wing of the school to complete rubble. Many died in the attack, including Kealey’s mother, father, and (she thought) her sister. When she awoke, hurt and panicked, looking for her parents, Kealey’s powers manifested themselves and she was suddenly bombarded with the terror, pain, and general utter confusion that the bombing had inspired. Because of this Kealey was absolutely overwhelmed and when paramedics and rescue volunteers found her she was in an almost completely catatonic state. Unable to cope with the things her powers made her feel, Kealey retreated into herself for almost two years, eating and drinking, but otherwise completely eschewing human company. Doctors chalked her problems up to post traumatic stress syndrome, something they knew very little about at the time and basically left her to her own devices.
After a few years, Kealey began to better understand what it was she was feeling and be better able to cope with the many things going on in her head. One day, while praying in the chapel in the mental hospital she was living in, Kealey had a moment of clarity in which she was completely alone with her own emotions for the first time since the bombing. This moment was a turning point for Kealey and she began to interact again, slowly but surely coming into her own and eventually requesting to leave the hospital and move to a convent where she intended to take her vows and become a nun. Because of her vastly improved mental state and stability, the doctors agreed and Kealey moved.
For several years Kealey stayed in the convent, catching up on her studies and eventually gaining the equivalent to a high school diploma. The nuns and mother superior, realizing Kealey’s natural intelligence and her ‘way with people’ insisted that she at least try a semester of college, which Kealey did, but decided was not for her and returned to the convent where she again intended to take her vows. Cherishing the times of prayer and meditation that sprinkled a nun’s life, Kealey began her studies as novice but had another moment of clarity during a prayer session where she realized that the full life of a nun was not for her. Now convinced that God and life were calling her somewhere else, Kealey left the convent with the blessing of the Mother Superior and all the sisters, who had believed for years that Kealey’s talent, a gift from god, was to be shared with the people of the world.
That being done, Kealey left the convent and moved to the much larger and more populated city of Belfast. The first few months were a bit of a wash, with the highly sheltered Kealey attempting to keep her figurative head above water as she made her way into the world outside of the church. Still extremely sheltered and devoutly religious, she found a job at a Catholic Elementary school where the joy of the children and teachers made her life into a happy one. It was at this point in her life, that Kealey fell in love with fashion and clothes and started to build an extremely diverse wardrobe that she cherishes as her most prized possession next to a necklace her parents had given her at her confirmation and the crucifix she was given at the convent. Kealey still felt, however, that there was some bigger purpose that she was to serve, and when she saw the atrocities being performed on mutants in the United States, she knew that’s where she was supposed to be. Having suspected for some time that her powers were as a result of genetics rather than a divine gift, Kealey decided that she was still meant to use them to perform God’s work and began applying for the proper visas and paperwork to move to the US. New York in particular.
Once in New York, Kealey found a job within the public library system working in the Main Branch of the NYC Public Library. This was a relatively quiet job, and it made Kealey happy that she could earn her own way in the world and maintain a pretty little apartment of her own.
Over time, Kealey found herself friends with many different types of people from many different backgrounds and was active in church and community projects. While sitting in a café one day, her powers suddenly ceased to exist and for the first time in her adult life, Kealey was alone with her emotions. She immediately sought out the source of the disruption and met Jacen. An odd and intense friendship developed between them and for the first time Kealey started to focus on the things that she really wanted in life. Her initial goal when leaving Ireland seemed further way by the day and she became more and more her own person.
During this time, Kealey also found out that not everyone is your friend. While on her way home from volunteering at a soup kitchen, Kealey took an ill-advised subway shortcut and stumbled upon an attempted murder in progress. Somehow, Kealey managed to disrupt the dark deed, and the would-be assassin turned his attention to her. He let her live, but kept her ID and gave her a nasty bump on the head. A good Samaritan named Garrett saved Kealey that night and introduced her to the Sanctuary and its residents. Kealey made several friends during her short stay and has kept in touch with them ever since, especially ones of the giant and red variety.
A short time after letting her go, Roland decided that he’d made a mistake letting her live. Kealey couldn’t shake the feeling that someone was watching her and started spending as much time as possible in public. She stumbled upon the Full Circle book store and made several more friends and gained several new books in the process. It was soon after that, Roland made his move.
The assassin struck, and in the resulting violence, Kealey’s apartment was burned. Luckily, Jacen had been there and was able to help her escape before more than property was damaged. He offered her a place to stay and in time their relationship moved past friendly and into romantic. For a while, things were great. Kealey decided to follow a lifelong passion for design and fashion and apply to the Fashion Institute of Technology. Then one day without warning…Jacen left. Kealey waited for a while, hoping he would come back and getting her acceptance to FIT. Things were changing quickly for her, and it wasn’t necessarily easy.
Kealey moved on, struggling for a while with the absence of someone she’d come to depend on so greatly. She had other friends though, and they helped her through the worst of it. Kealey noticed a friend in need at the Full Circle, and what started out as an attempt to cheer Shin up turned into a night of frivolous drinking the likes of which have rarely been seen. It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
Being thwarted twice did nothing to curb Roland and he made a third attempt on Kealey’s life. This time, Shin was able to save her and as a result they grew even closer. Kealey started working and staying at the mansion more and a time of waffles, pokemon tournaments, close friendship, and general good feelings followed. Then a rash of strange arson fires started around the city.
It took a while to make sense out of things, but when places Kealey frequented kept burning to the ground and an envelope of pictures surfaced that suggested it all had to be related to her, Kealey was worried. It turned out that her sister, long believed dead, was actually alive and the perpetrator of these crimes. Revealing herself to Kealey in a fiery showdown at the FIT library, Maire was apprehended when Shin came to the rescue…again.
It was then that Shin confessed that his feelings for Kealey were more than friendly. Kealey, after a short time to make sure of her own feelings, admitted the same and they’ve been dating since.
Roleplay
What’s your OOC alias?: Jules
Where did you learn about this site?: Google
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who:Tarin Brooks, Riley Sommers
Sample RP: Kealey was proud of herself, very proud. Five years ago, sitting in a coffee shop like this would have been utterly impossible. There were people milling around everywhere, sitting in tables near her, people who were happy, sad, scared, angry, and a hundred other emotions that nobody had ever given a name to. Kealey just sat, sipping her cappuccino and taking it all in. She could feel all the emotions, piled on top of her own pride and determination, and Keley was dealing with it. Dealing with it well. One hand drifted to the chain around her neck, toying with the crucifix that was always there and the locket her parents had given to her upon her confirmation. It was a force of habit, and something that helped her concentrate.
There was a young girl at the table next to her, and Kealey couldn’t help but think how much she reminded her of herself and her sister when they were that age. The little girl obviously went to a private school, she was dressed in a uniform and there was a myriad of emotions seeping from her. Keeley focused, trying her best to push the emotions of the people around her to the back of her mind. The little girl was nervous, monumentally nervous, but there was also a sense of confidence and pride hiding below the rolling surface of the nerves. Kealey looked around, almost as if there was going to be someone there who could see what she was doing. A slight smile curved her lips and she looked at the little girl much more intensely. As if she knew she was being watched, the little girl turned to look at Kealey and her brown eyes locked onto Kealey’s blue. Gently, Kealey grasped onto the little girl’s confidence and pride, enhancing them, pulling them to the surface where the nerves had been before. The nerves, she pushed down, down, down, until it would be simply cautionary, holding back the confidence and pride from becoming arrogance. The little girl visibly relaxed, smiled, and turned from Kealey and back to the Danish sitting on a plate in front of her.
Looking away before her interest could be misconstrued as something sinister; Kealey looked away and finished her coffee. Standing up and making her way out of the busy shop and into the street, Kealey hummed in time with the clicking of her heels on the sidewalk, she had to be at work in 20 minutes, but already it felt like a good morning.
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