[X] Ask if mom was coming with them on the special trip.
[X] playing with your brother indoors and watching cartoons with him.
Gained the following Traits:
- Abide by the rules: Your father had been acting that way for a reason. Despite not understanding it all, you follow his rules and examples. (+5 to Charm, Community Relations, Negotiations, Reassurance rolls, -10 to intimidation, interrogate rolls)
- Longing to know: Though you never show it in public nor with your father, you long to know what happened to your mother after what your father did that night. (+10 to research involving your mother)
***
You couldn't help but smile remembering participating in many mischievous games with your brother, decorating the many rooms in which you stayed with childish drawings on the walls, tearing apart any paper and pasting them into shapes on the carpet floor, using all sorts of items you could find in the rooms to build makeshifts buildings, but more importantly, you relish the chance to the see your morning shows with Rocket Group, Captain Bennet and his special squadron, Miss Luvon and Arista being your favorites.
Watching the heroes wield a combination of powers and weapons, fighting villains and robbers, and saving the day made you long to go outside with your brother to act out those scenes. But your father's instructions were clear as day to you. Neither you nor your brother should go outside without his permission and supervision unless the people outside did something to the both of you. You can't help but smile at those innocent memories.
After a year or so of this, your father's paranoia lessened a bit, in due part because he couldn't subject the two of you to live in squalor throughout your childhood, and now turned his attention towards securing an apartment to live in. Against the promise he made himself, he began to use his powers more liberally each day, fleecing men and women of their wealth of trinkets of low to no value, suggesting that the more kindhearted of them should allow his him and his children to stay the night with them as he had no other means of shelter and to rob some of their wealth under their noses, and finally him charming his way to a good apartment at a low price in a city called Danville.
By the second year, your father's fears about the police and heroes taking you away had diminished enough that he started taking you both to a private school that didn't ask too many questions to be with other kids and to familiarize yourself with children your age, while he watched from a distance socializing with the adults.
When you talk with the other children, how did it go for the first time?
[] Queen Bee: The Social Butterfly.
It didn't take long for you to be popular amongst the children; you were the prettiest girl in any group, which won you popularity and acceptance by those you sought to impress and hang with. The boys fought for your attention by doing favors for you and sometimes gifting you things and the girls either envied, feared, or admired you and tried to befriend you.
Unbeknownst to you, you were subconsciously and unwittingly influencing the children around you with your powers to bend to your needs.
Traits: Proud Beauty, Elitist, Charming, Proud, Center of Attention.
Powers: Your powers start off at a higher level. You do not need to concentrate on using them to influence simple-minded people's opinions. (Lowers DC for certain individuals)
Abilities: Social/Diplomacy skills gain more XP, and have lower DC, but at the expense of stealth skills being harder to improve and having higher DC; You can use your powers as many times you want. Men and women, but particularly men, are more susceptible to your charm.
[] Loner: Alone in the crowd.
You never fit in with the other kids, not really. Every day, your father would take you to school, and every day you skulk in the back, talk to a child or two and that would be your school day.
Barring a few exceptions where your brother tried to bring you along with the friends he made, you were by yourself most of the time. And that fact has never bothered you one bit and in fact, you've enjoyed it.
Traits: Introverted, out of sight, Disguise, Observant.
Powers: You never used your powers, either consciously or subconsciously, you had no reason to. They remain stagnant and weak and will continue until you use them on others, which might prove difficult.
Abilities: Pickpocketing, Concealment, Detection, and Palming under the Stealth skills are more easily improved. Skills under the social/diplomacy suffer lower XP gain and have higher DC. You can, at best, use your powers twice a day, three if the need arises, but no more.
[] Plain Sight: The Devil in Plain Sight.
When your father took you away from home, he set guidelines and rules for how you should conduct yourself in public early on. Each day, you've lived by those rules to help guide you in school that you've felt uncertain about. When talking to students, you always kept them at arm's length emotionally, even when they told you that you were their best friend and confided to you, their secrets. As you attended school, keeping people at a distance has become second nature, as was learning their secrets.
Traits: Trusted, Friendly, Under the Radar, Extrovert, Deceitful.
Powers: Your power is average, neither strong nor weak, but it comes more easily to you and can even sway a group should you prove charismatic enough.
Abilities: You gain more XP for your power, and your reputation will be harder to tarnish without hard evidence to back it up, you also gain trust more easily and people are less guarded towards you.
[] Superior: Believer of a new order.
You don't know when you've felt this, but you've felt a lack of connection with the common people around you. No matter how much you try to befriend them, you are never able to view them as equals only as servants. Whenever they talk to you, you can't help but listen in with the intent to use whatever information you gain to pit them against each other in the next meeting. It was the only time you ever felt alive in school. Your father and brother are the only people you treat as equals and have any positive emotion from you.
Traits: Sociopathic, Manipulative, Scheming, Supremacist
Powers: There is something more to your power than you previously thought, and you know it. You can feel other people's emotions emanating around them, making them easier to read and single out.
Abilities: Lying comes naturally to you, to the point that no one knows if you're telling the truth or not. As does manipulating people into your schemes. But people can tell there's something off about you even though they don't show it.
Your father nodded with approval with how you handled yourself on your first day--and you swear you could see him smile at you.
***
As the years went by, you began to live, what most would consider a normal life. You were to attend public school, once your father got new identities, no longer needing your father to hover over you on whom you talk to and being able to wander outside by yourself and get a part-time job.
How were you as a student in the local public school?
[] You formed your clique of like-minded people. It helped pass the time, when you weren't in class, and bullies those different than you when you could. (You can't take this if you pick Loner or Hiding in Plain Sight)
[] You socialize with everyone and anyone you could. It helped you when it came time to spread rumors about people and watch it unfold before you, but more importantly, it helped you see how easy it is for people to be tricked. (You can't take this if you pick Loner.)
[] You kept your head down for the most part, occasionally talking to your classmates and other students, but mostly focused on your studies. Didn't stop some people trying to bully or try and take advantage of you. (You can't take this if you pick Queen Bee.)
[] write-in
After school, did you join any clubs or get a part-time job?
[] If yes, write in.
[] no
A/N
Next update should be the end of character creation. Sorry if it reads bad for jumping around in years. Didn't want to linger around too much in character creation.
