Character's full name: Susan Hyde (birth name Fanny M., discarded by foster parents for being too frivolous, whatever they meant)
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: none officially. Lately had been nicknamed as Witch, Jinx and several others, including Wednesday (but she doesn't get the reference).
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Birthday: December 13
Nationality/ Ethnicity: American with a hint of Romani (although the latter is mainly foster care gossip and wishful thinking)
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Unknown. Currently lives in upstate New York.
Appearance
Hair colour and style: dark brown and plenty. Used to wear it in two tight braids, but one night a mysterious someone cut them off above her shoulder. So now it's still dark brown and plenty, but doesn't have much of a style to it.
Eyes: black and piercing
Height: 5'7"
Build: nothing to look at.
Visible mutation: her eyes (including white, iris and pupil) change color when she uses her powers. See below.
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: none yet.
Other features: Most people wouldn't call Susan pretty. She has sharp features, thin lips and depressing lack of curves, not to mention the constant 'go to hell' look on her face. Curiously enough, she owns a pair of dimples only visible when she smiles a real smile. This rare phenomenon is said to have been sighted only once so far, source unknown.
Everyday clothing style: She is almost always seen in school uniform: gray, black or dark blue skirts, white blouse, tie, vest, white stockings. If she is not wearing the actual uniform of the school, she still dresses in plain black clothes, covering up as much as possible without changing religions.
Uniform: none
Sleepwear: white, old-fashioned nightgown with a flower pattern.
Miscellaneous clothing: she has a wast collection of colorful clothes and fashion items she was never allowed to wear, hidden under her bed. Sometimes wears sunglasses to hide the color change in her eyes, but sunglasses are only allowed outside school, and not appreciated at home either.
Character
Personality: "There is something wrong with that girl." That seems to be the common opinion among people who've ever met Susan - including her foster family, her teachers, and her schoolmates. Especially her teachers. She asks too much, and asks things a decent girl her age should not be interested in; she is often labeled impertinent, sarcastic, disturbing, and... (in hushed voices) sharp.
Susan is a fine specimen of the common bookworm. She reads and reads and reads some more, and she had an exceptional memory to match her interest. She uses her gained knowledge to make up for the lack of empathy or experience in social behavior. And friends. She is not afraid to have an opinion, and if she has one, everyone will soon know it. That includes remarks on everyone else around her - and that explains the lack of friends. Intelligence and logic are the only company she needs and one of the few features she respects in a person.
Susan is not easily scared; she relies on logic too much. She watches horror movies with mild interest, and believes fluffy bunnies are a lot more suspicious than common spiders can ever be. She doesn't quite enjoy scaring others either, but she finds it a very entertaining psychological experiment.
If life was a fairy tale, Susan would be the wicked stepsister. Not because she means harm, or hates anyone - she just gets annoyed by princesses really fast, and eats valley girls for breakfast.
Hobbies/ Interests: Books. Excels in History and anything that has to do with legends and lore. She likes reading anything that's on the forbidden books list of the school. She plays a flute. Because the Pied Piper had one.
Job or part time job and description: Student.
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Susan has issues with normal human relationships - she doesn't understand them. She hates being mocked, and handles it with striking back; she is afraid someone would get too close to her to strike.
Special talents: See above.
Morality
Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: Define 'good'. Define 'bad'. Define 'morality'.She is not into violence, that's for sure.
Mutations
Mutation description:
Synesthesia. Susan can switch her five senses with one another: she can 'see with her ears' or 'taste with her eyes' etc.
Strengths:
- The sense that gets switched sharpens, becomes more accurate that it was in its original place - probably because it actually becomes the sum of the two.
- It is very hard to stop her from perceiving her surroundings. Blindfolding certainly won't do the trick.
Weaknesses:
- She can only switch one sense at once.
- The sense that gets moved to a new 'place' stops functioning in its natural way - meaning if she 'sees with her ears' she cannot at the same time see with her eyes: she goes blind.
- She is not in full control of her powers. Sometimes her senses switch by themselves, and sometimes she has trouble switching back to normal. Her abilities mess with her perception of the world, and affect her speech - sometimes she would describe a person by a smell, or describe a sound with colors etc., which makes communication with her somewhat tricky.
- A strong or painful experience remains strong or painful in any form. A loud sound becomes blinding light, a hot surface becomes a painful sound etc.
She hasn't learned all the possible ways to switch her senses yet; she is most adept in sensing with her eyes:
Hearing with eyes: Susan can see sound waves in different colors. She can see where they are coming from and how strong they are, and she can also separate them from each other by color - but she can't hear the actual sound. Meaning if she listens to someone speak, for example, she can only see the sound waves, she can't distinguish the words. She can only tell the type of sound (if it's music, speech, knocking etc.) in cases she'd already seen. When doing this, her eyes go black.
Touching with eyes: Susan sees a heat picture of her surroundings with this version - the temperature of different objects (and living creatures) takes on different colors. She can use this ability to create some kind of night vision. She can also tell the material objects are made of, to a certain extent (the one she would be able to tell by touching them).
It puts a great strain on the yes though, especially if looking at something burning hot or painfully cold. When doing this, her eyes go red.
Smelling with eyes: Very much like sound waves, Susan can see smells and the place they are coming from. This ability gives a very colorful picture, especially in a place with a lot of different smells. It also gives her a vague sense of strong emotions around people - fear, desire etc. but she can't really tell those apart. When doing this, her eyes go blue.
Tasting with eyes: Susan finds this one particularly hard to explain. Technically, she can taste anything just by looking at it, but the taste comes as a visual experience. When using this ability, she tends to say things like 'it tastes pretty' or 'it tastes green', and most of the time it doesn't have anything to do with the actual color of the food. When doing this, her eyes go yellow.
When her sight in switched to anywhere else but her eyes ('sees with her ears' etc.), her eyes go pure white.
She has been experimenting (or experiencing) other combinations as well, but is not adept in using them yet. It's mostly just bits, pieces and passing impressions. Some examples:
Seeing with ears works somehow like a sonar.
Seeing with touch gives her a very limited ability to sense shock waves and determine the shape of objects she is contact with (and also, curiously, she can tell their color).
Hearing with touch allows her to sense sound waves on her own skin.
Tasting with ears is a funny one - different tastes turn into different noises and sounds she can hear.
Hearing with taste allows her to perceive sounds as different tastes.
Secondary mutation description:
Susan can sense the X-gene with all of her senses. It gives a distinctive smell/color/touch/sound to a person.
Strengths: She can tell if someone is a mutant. As soon as she learns what a mutant is, that is. So far she can only tell some people are different, or have a curious quality about them.
Weaknesses: She can only sense a mutant with a switched sense. E.g. she won't 'hear' someone with an X-gene with her ears, but she can 'hear' it with her eyes. She can only sense mutants who are within the natural range of one of her senses.
Fighting Style
Psychological warfare.
Explanation: she tries to scare people into leaving her alone.
Pros for fighting style: sometimes it works...
Cons for fighting style: ...sometimes it doesn't.
Faction Allegiance
Unaffiliated
History Of Your Character:
Little Fanny was left on the church stairs with the name tag still on her wrist, but nothing was ever found out about her parents. She spent the first decade of her life in foster care, moving from one family to the other, until she ended up with the Hydes. This deeply religious (Roman Catholic) couple made it their life calling to rescue children from foster care and adopt them into a caring, decent, devoted family of their own. They already had two adorable little girls (Mary and Anne) in their care when they met little Fanny and decided if there was ever a lost soul in need of help, she was the one.
So Fanny was adopted and re-baptised as Susan Hyde. She didn't really have any problems with it at that time. The Hydes were moderately wealthy, with a huge collection of books. Mary and Anne were fair, perfect, cheerful, empty-headed and annoying, but at least they left her alone (because they didn't know what to do with their new, strange sister). At the age of 14 Susan was sent to a Catholic boarding school for girls. Her powers started manifesting there - not at once, but gradually, just slow enough to make her think she was going crazy. A couple of medical examinations later her eyes started changing colors, and she stopped talking about the whole thing, partly because other girls were mocking her enough already, and also because she figured out the only logical explanation:
She was a witch.
(Yeah, talk about wishful thinking.)
Being raised in a devoted family, she grew up more sheltered than she likes to admit. This resulted (among other things) in her lack of knowledge about the X gene and anything else that has to do with it. (Her 'parents' and most of the school teachers think mutants are possessed by something evil, so they all put an emphasis on keeping the idea itself as far away from the girls as possible.) After her religious studies - which she rarely finds logical, by the way - Susan came to the conclusion that she possessed some kind of magical power that affected her perception of the world.
She is in her senior year now, really hoping she would hold out till graduation without getting into trouble. Her dream is to move out and start a life on her own. She is thoroughly fed up with being Susan Hyde.
Roleplay
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JewelSample RP:
It was a cruel, cruel joke. Putting four girls into one room - that she could understand, given the financial circumstances and the school's policy of enforcing the whole sisterhood nonsense. The cruel part was having to share her room with three 'young ladies' who did not possess two brain cells to rub together and light a spark in the ever-so-dark night of their cheerful ignorance.
Susan tried her best to focus on the book she was reading, but the constant chatter made it very close to impossible. There was too much excitement in too small a space. Molly, Jessica and Brigitte were getting ready for the Field Trip.
"Come on, Susie darling, you need to get dressed or you are going to be late and we don't want that now do we, honey?" one of them giggled at her, twirling around half dressed. The book hit the floor as Susan covered her ears in pain.
"Jesus Christ, Molly, that perfume is screaming bloody murder!"
The giggling stopped. There were scornful looks instead.
"Honey... you're doing it again."
Susan shook her head and looked away.
"Doing what, pray tell?"
"Taking the Lord's name in vain." Brigitte whispered. A sigh escaped the messy-haired girl on the bed; she almost thought they were on to something. Of course they weren't.
It really was in vain.
"Good thing it's confession day then" she pointed out, her eyes drifting shut as she rested her head against he headboard. The other three exchanged a flock of excitedly chattering glances.
"Susie. You should come with us on the field trip today. We are going to see a play!"
"How truly fascinating. Let me guess. They sing, they dance, they fall in love, they sing, they cry, they dance, and they sing some more."
"Oh come on Susie. Just give it a try. Pretty pretty please?"
...
"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned."
"Speak, my child." Father Martin nodded his head as the smooth voice of the umpteenth 'young lady' filled the confession booth "What is your sin?"
You spilled tea on your dress? Forgot your evening prayer? Disobeyed your parents?
"Murder, Father."
Bloody hell.
"You... took a human life, child?"
"No, Father. But I am thoroughly tempted."
Welcome, Susie dear.
