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headinjuries) wrote2016-06-05 01:29 pm
headinjuries) wrote2016-06-05 01:29 pm
[station 72] info and permissions
BASIC INFORMATION
Name: Sam Alexander
Canon: Marvel 616
Age: 15
Physical details: 5'6", 140 pounds (or so says wiki; comic art frequently makes him look smaller? idk). He's in good shape but not particularly muscular. Black hair and blue eyes.
Bio: Sam Alexander used to be a normal kid from a struggling family in the middle of nowhere, Arizona. Between taking a lot of crap from his peers because his father was the school janitor, floundering through school with a bad attendance record, and using his free time to pick up the slack of his alcoholic father barely being able to keep a job, Sam figured he was going nowhere fast.
Except as it turned out, his father's crazy stories about his glory days as an intergalactic black ops officer in the Nova Corps were actually true, and when his father disappeared, it wasn't because he was drunk in a ditch somewhere, but because he was captured trying to repel a Chitauri invasion force before it reached Earth. And it fell to Sam to take up his dad's helmet, take care of the invasion, and try to figure out where the hell his father was so he could bring him home.
And that hasn't been going too well. He thought he'd found him, but as it turned out, he'd only found an alien cloning conspiracy and he was straight back to square one. On the other hand, he's managed to accomplish a lot in the meantime, going from a screw-up rookie superhero to being able to face foes like the Hulk and the Dark Phoenix, save the world from the Chitauri (again), and becoming an active duty Avenger.
He's still kind of a hotheaded kid, though. He'll grow out of it. Someday. Maybe.
(Full app is here.)
SYMBIOTE INFORMATION
[RHO] - [TRUE PERCEPTION]
Sam's ability allows him to see the truth of things - effectively, he'll be able to see through illusions and tell when he's being lied to.
If he's not making a conscious, focused effort to see the truth of something, then he'll only have fairly vague, broad feelings that something isn't right; these manifest primarily as a sense of nausea. Someone telling little white lies might just make him feel momentarily queasy, with the severity increasing parallel to the level of deception. In the midst of an extensive, well-crafted illusion, he'd feel so nauseous that he'd have a difficult time functioning.
That sense that something is off doesn't give him the details of what or how - but if he decides to actually focus on it, he'll be able to narrow it down to the specifics. Focusing on an illusion would let him see through it and know what's actually there; focusing on someone lying would let him pick out which statements are false and which are true. (When applied to language, this sense is very literal. If someone repeated false information that they themselves believed to be true, he'd see that as a lie - despite the fact that they're not consciously lying, the statement itself is false. On the other hand, lies of omission can slide right past him, and statements that are technically true but that he takes the wrong interpretation of will still show up as truths.)
Focusing causes definite mental strain, so it's nothing he'd be able to maintain constantly - he needs to choose when and where it's worth using. This comes out as headaches; the severity of these headaches increase if he uses his power frequently, for longer durations, or repeatedly in the same day. Using it once to spot a lie in a quick conversation would be a minor headache that's mostly an annoyance and doesn't keep him from functioning; having to use his power continuously for an extended time to get through a complex illusion, or keeping it up for negotiations lasting for hours, would leave him with a full blown migraine, possible also with extra sensitivity to sound or temporary vision loss.
BROOD: Bellatrix
Sam Wilson |
Bucky Barnes |
Addison Parker |
Giorno Giovanna |
Pidge Gunderson |
BROOD PERMISSIONS
Sam is not good at locking himself down, so he'll be an easy read. He's a bullied kid from a poor family; his school record is horrible but he's not stupid so much as he's got major problems with truancy and getting into fights. (He's working on it, and he does do better than he used to. He really doesn't want to be a dropout like his dad.) He has a hard time balancing normal life with superheroing, he feels like he has to keep up a solid front and doesn't feel like he can open up about his problems, and he's constantly lying to everyone he knows about why he's never around - he's like a pot about to boil over with frustration, and he's not going to be able to hide that very well (if at all).
He loves his family to death (although he has a deep sense of guilt about his father, who he didn't really appreciate until he was gone), and despite the headaches he does love space and flying and being Nova.
His current physical status is okay but he's got a storied past of concussions and head injuries, including one from being knocked halfway around the globe by the Hulk that left him with bad memory blackouts for months after the fact. He's still got some holes from around that time that are a blank, although he hasn't had any new gaps in a while.
NEST PERMISSIONS
Once again, Sam isn't good at locking himself down, so he's a pretty easy read. Bullied kid, poor family, a lot of trouble at school although he's been working to improve that. He's got a lot of anger and frustration in his life and he tries to clamp down on it, but it's constantly simmering under the surface just waiting for a chance to bubble out. There's a really good-hearted sense of enthusiasm in him despite that, though; he's a good kid. He just has a lot on his plate.
MENTAL LINK
Space - the vastness, the wonder, endless stars. A nova, burning bright and hard but not long. Speed; moving faster than a rocket, the exhilaration, but not knowing how to slow down and not being able to do it even if you wanted to. Being pulled in too many directions at once.
PERMISSIONS
Physical Affection: He's not likely to initiate unless he's very close to someone, but he won't be terribly resistant to it beyond squirmy "omg I am a cool teenager stop embarrassing me" levels. Go for it.
Physical Violence: Getting in fights he can't win is Sam's specialty, so I'm all for it, but let's talk first if he's really going to get himself messed up.
Romance/Relationships: Open to it, but he's fifteen, so there are some hard limits on this.
Thread-jacking: Go for it! If it's a very serious/private moment, ping me first, but in general I love this shit.
Back-tagging: Always.
Fourth-walling: Limited. He's an Avenger, so he's used to some level of recognition (and one of his teammates writes RPF about their other team members...), but please don't tell him he's fictional.
Offensive Subjects/Triggers: I'm fine with most things as long as you're not tasteless about it.
Anything Else? His dad's an alcoholic, so if you want to avoid that coming up let me know and I'll definitely write around it.
SAM • CONTACT @ PLURK
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