Futurology Application
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NAME: JKat
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CURRENT CHARACTERS: none.
CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Evan Friave-Goodlace
CANON: Original
AGE: 20
APPEARANCE: Evan is five foot six with short-cropped pale red hair, brown eyes, pale skin, and a build that's compact but not muscular. He dresses like your average marginally conscientious college boy: nice button-up shirts and jeans, slightly shabbily taken care of. His face is squarish, his eyes are slightly bagged, and his lips are thin. This is a reasonable likeness.
CANON POINT: Not really applicable, but Evan is currently in college for computer sciences.
BACKGROUND:
Evan is from Earth, of the supernatural-underground genre. His world is a five-minutes-into-the-future urban fantasy, where humans dominate but certain supernatural creatures have learned to exist under the radar. In his part of the world, he knows of elementals, dragons (with the ability to glamour themselves human), draconians (bastardized humanoid dragons), therianthropes (particularly werewolves, though he's aware of other breeds in other parts of the world), and vampires. Most humans are unaware of the other species, except for a scattered handful. Supernatural creatures are on the decline, and have mostly been forced to band together to keep treading water.
Evan exists about ten years into our future. Climates are warmer, technology is better, pants are tighter and politics are less stable, but otherwise our norms are his norms.
He grew up in a big farmhouse outside of a city in Alberta, Canada. His mother is a fire elemental wearing a human body, and his father is human but involved in the supernatural world by dint of association with her. By the time he came around his parents had settled entirely into their human routine, so his childhood was not necessarily replete with exciting events or personalities: the strangest things he's had to contend with are meeting other supernatural folks, who for the most part have also become adept at looking and acting human over the years. He's grown up knowing a pack of werewolves with which his parents are good friends, a few young dragons who have established themselves in the area, and a small scattering of Kay's elemental peers... but to a recalcitrant youngster, most of those folks are simply his mom and dad's friends and not all that interesting. He's aware that there's more to the world than the classic human experience, but he hasn't personally encountered much of that himself.
He spent his early years mostly by himself, as his sister was five years older than him and there weren't a lot of other kids in the area. He was fairly content with this arrangement, and otherwise, took part in the classic human rites of passage: he started school when he was five, graduated high school, and is currently going to university to earn himself a degree in Computer Sciences. He has always known that he was gifted, mostly because pretty much everyone in his life has told him as much. Other than that, his experiences have been very average for a young white male in 21st century Canada.
PERSONALITY:
Evan is an understated young man, given to slipping under the social radar. He tends to be a bit disengaged from the people around him, and is used to being overshadowed by more flamboyant personalities. When his curiosity is piqued he can be quite keen on whatever's interested him, which can make him much more engaged and engaging, or a lot more annoying, depending on how much the subject of his curiosity likes nosy nerds with endless questions.
He's got a snarky, surreptitious sense of humour and an obscure kind of wit that's prone to odd logic leaps and doesn't always hit the mark. Intelligent and well aware of it, Evan tends to think a lot of himself, and judges others by his own high standards. He doesn't really understand people. Mostly his friendships happen because of some degree of effort on the other person's part, except those that have grown up around mutual learning. He's not given to malice or spite, and is a terrible liar. Cruelty won't ever naturally occur to him: if he legitimately doesn't like a person he'll simply act as if they don't exist. When he can, he prefers to be frank, if only because it's simpler. He's well practiced at common courtesy and tends to be self-possessed, as long as he feels reasonably steady. When he flusters he can get quite inarticulate, and is prone to retreating from uncomfortable situations or clamming up.
With friends or colleagues he loves to share the things he's interested in and will spend hours in another's company sharing knowledge, working out puzzles or playing games: he's just not all that good at undirected social time. He's used to the vague sense that people think he's annoying, so if he finds someone who's genuinely willing to engage he can be quite earnest and enthusiastic, and all-around hard to get rid of. He can be an incredibly good listener as he tends to give it his all. Someone who's in his good graces can get him to do just about anything by challenging his sense of pride, but really, as long as it's offered in good faith he'll try almost anything once.
He's got an intense ability to focus and a hunger for knowledge, which is his main driving force. It almost doesn't matter what he's learning as long as his brain is engaged, but it comes at the price of never quite being able to turn it off. Evan will get bored and antsy and even progress all the way to angry if he's forced stagnant for any period of time. He's happiest when kicking ideas around, particularly those that relate to technological or mathematical problems, or when learning about other places, whether or not he'll ever actually visit them.
Evan, by dint of long habit, keeps his elemental skills under wraps as well as he can. Back home, people either already know what he is, or should never find out: either they're part of the supernatural community and know him through his mother, or they're regular humans with no context for elementals. He's practiced with his skills and is proficient with them, but even in the safety of home prefers to be subtle rather than flashy.
ABILITIES:
Computer sciences second-year university education as well as particular skills with network infrastructure and security (for 21st-century computing systems).
He is an exceptionally thorough learner and observer.
He's not hurt by heat, though he'll be sweaty and uncomfortable like most people.
He can raise the temperature of objects he can touch.
He can produce, control, direct, and extinguish fire.
(He has been experimenting with expanding this to other forms of combustion, with inconsistent results.)
He can light himself on fire, and his human body remains uninjured by the exercise.
He suspects he has some latent powers that haven't developed yet because he's not entirely mature. He's right. For reference, these will be: teleportation, telepathy, and transformation into a mutable body that's made of fire. These won't manifest until he's in his thirties.
I am a-ok nerfing any of his fire skills if it'd be better for the game, although if possible I'd love to keep his imperviousness to heat.
INVENTORY:
One pair of jeans
One button-up polo shirt
Four dollars and fifteen cents, Canadian coinage
A pair of well-made sneakers
A canvas summer jacket
A leather wallet with credit card, Alberta driver's license and ID, school ID ("Old Strathcona Academic"), health care card, an old Magic card ("Cerulean Wyvern"), and two twenty-dollar bills
House keys
An ornate silver lighter (engraved E.F.-G.)
WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE:
[Evan does not like getting bad marks.]
Trustworthy recruits? How about decent teachers? Does anyone else have a real problem with this -- this grading?
Really, if they're going to grade us we should at least get some sort of -- I don't know, rubric beforehand. Or a decent postmortem! I don't know, did we have to kill that guy? They talk like they know what we should have done, in which case, tell us! How are we supposed to improve if we don't know what we missed?
Hff. If an entire class fails a test, that's on the teacher, not the students.
[Never mind that the grades had averaged a quite a serviceable C. Evan's crossed his arms defensively and is frowning.]
I mean...
Even I could tell that that could've gone better. I'm just looking for a little guidance, you know. This is all such a massive responsibility.
LOG SAMPLE:
Around the Tree from August 6th to 12th (Evan at the Home Tree)
NAME: JKat
CONTACT:
CURRENT CHARACTERS: none.
CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Evan Friave-Goodlace
CANON: Original
AGE: 20
APPEARANCE: Evan is five foot six with short-cropped pale red hair, brown eyes, pale skin, and a build that's compact but not muscular. He dresses like your average marginally conscientious college boy: nice button-up shirts and jeans, slightly shabbily taken care of. His face is squarish, his eyes are slightly bagged, and his lips are thin. This is a reasonable likeness.
CANON POINT: Not really applicable, but Evan is currently in college for computer sciences.
BACKGROUND:
Note: Evan is a second gen OC. He's the progeny of a couple of other OCs whose stories have been played out already. I haven't included much about them as their background is not exceptionally relevant, but I can revise it in if you'd like!
Evan is from Earth, of the supernatural-underground genre. His world is a five-minutes-into-the-future urban fantasy, where humans dominate but certain supernatural creatures have learned to exist under the radar. In his part of the world, he knows of elementals, dragons (with the ability to glamour themselves human), draconians (bastardized humanoid dragons), therianthropes (particularly werewolves, though he's aware of other breeds in other parts of the world), and vampires. Most humans are unaware of the other species, except for a scattered handful. Supernatural creatures are on the decline, and have mostly been forced to band together to keep treading water.
Evan exists about ten years into our future. Climates are warmer, technology is better, pants are tighter and politics are less stable, but otherwise our norms are his norms.
He grew up in a big farmhouse outside of a city in Alberta, Canada. His mother is a fire elemental wearing a human body, and his father is human but involved in the supernatural world by dint of association with her. By the time he came around his parents had settled entirely into their human routine, so his childhood was not necessarily replete with exciting events or personalities: the strangest things he's had to contend with are meeting other supernatural folks, who for the most part have also become adept at looking and acting human over the years. He's grown up knowing a pack of werewolves with which his parents are good friends, a few young dragons who have established themselves in the area, and a small scattering of Kay's elemental peers... but to a recalcitrant youngster, most of those folks are simply his mom and dad's friends and not all that interesting. He's aware that there's more to the world than the classic human experience, but he hasn't personally encountered much of that himself.
He spent his early years mostly by himself, as his sister was five years older than him and there weren't a lot of other kids in the area. He was fairly content with this arrangement, and otherwise, took part in the classic human rites of passage: he started school when he was five, graduated high school, and is currently going to university to earn himself a degree in Computer Sciences. He has always known that he was gifted, mostly because pretty much everyone in his life has told him as much. Other than that, his experiences have been very average for a young white male in 21st century Canada.
PERSONALITY:
Evan is an understated young man, given to slipping under the social radar. He tends to be a bit disengaged from the people around him, and is used to being overshadowed by more flamboyant personalities. When his curiosity is piqued he can be quite keen on whatever's interested him, which can make him much more engaged and engaging, or a lot more annoying, depending on how much the subject of his curiosity likes nosy nerds with endless questions.
He's got a snarky, surreptitious sense of humour and an obscure kind of wit that's prone to odd logic leaps and doesn't always hit the mark. Intelligent and well aware of it, Evan tends to think a lot of himself, and judges others by his own high standards. He doesn't really understand people. Mostly his friendships happen because of some degree of effort on the other person's part, except those that have grown up around mutual learning. He's not given to malice or spite, and is a terrible liar. Cruelty won't ever naturally occur to him: if he legitimately doesn't like a person he'll simply act as if they don't exist. When he can, he prefers to be frank, if only because it's simpler. He's well practiced at common courtesy and tends to be self-possessed, as long as he feels reasonably steady. When he flusters he can get quite inarticulate, and is prone to retreating from uncomfortable situations or clamming up.
With friends or colleagues he loves to share the things he's interested in and will spend hours in another's company sharing knowledge, working out puzzles or playing games: he's just not all that good at undirected social time. He's used to the vague sense that people think he's annoying, so if he finds someone who's genuinely willing to engage he can be quite earnest and enthusiastic, and all-around hard to get rid of. He can be an incredibly good listener as he tends to give it his all. Someone who's in his good graces can get him to do just about anything by challenging his sense of pride, but really, as long as it's offered in good faith he'll try almost anything once.
He's got an intense ability to focus and a hunger for knowledge, which is his main driving force. It almost doesn't matter what he's learning as long as his brain is engaged, but it comes at the price of never quite being able to turn it off. Evan will get bored and antsy and even progress all the way to angry if he's forced stagnant for any period of time. He's happiest when kicking ideas around, particularly those that relate to technological or mathematical problems, or when learning about other places, whether or not he'll ever actually visit them.
Evan, by dint of long habit, keeps his elemental skills under wraps as well as he can. Back home, people either already know what he is, or should never find out: either they're part of the supernatural community and know him through his mother, or they're regular humans with no context for elementals. He's practiced with his skills and is proficient with them, but even in the safety of home prefers to be subtle rather than flashy.
ABILITIES:
Computer sciences second-year university education as well as particular skills with network infrastructure and security (for 21st-century computing systems).
He is an exceptionally thorough learner and observer.
He's not hurt by heat, though he'll be sweaty and uncomfortable like most people.
He can raise the temperature of objects he can touch.
He can produce, control, direct, and extinguish fire.
(He has been experimenting with expanding this to other forms of combustion, with inconsistent results.)
He can light himself on fire, and his human body remains uninjured by the exercise.
He suspects he has some latent powers that haven't developed yet because he's not entirely mature. He's right. For reference, these will be: teleportation, telepathy, and transformation into a mutable body that's made of fire. These won't manifest until he's in his thirties.
A note on Evan's nature: Evan thinks of himself as "half" elemental. This is not strictly true. He's fully human, in the sense that his body is entirely human, but an immature elemental shares his consciousness and exists in a symbiotic relationship with him. This isn't a case of split personalities: right now they're literally the same mind, but when the elemental matures it has the potential to split off from him and become its own creature. Beings with the insight for it will be able to tell he's not a blended creature, but instead a human with an add-on.
I am a-ok nerfing any of his fire skills if it'd be better for the game, although if possible I'd love to keep his imperviousness to heat.
INVENTORY:
One pair of jeans
One button-up polo shirt
Four dollars and fifteen cents, Canadian coinage
A pair of well-made sneakers
A canvas summer jacket
A leather wallet with credit card, Alberta driver's license and ID, school ID ("Old Strathcona Academic"), health care card, an old Magic card ("Cerulean Wyvern"), and two twenty-dollar bills
House keys
An ornate silver lighter (engraved E.F.-G.)
WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE:
[Evan does not like getting bad marks.]
Trustworthy recruits? How about decent teachers? Does anyone else have a real problem with this -- this grading?
Really, if they're going to grade us we should at least get some sort of -- I don't know, rubric beforehand. Or a decent postmortem! I don't know, did we have to kill that guy? They talk like they know what we should have done, in which case, tell us! How are we supposed to improve if we don't know what we missed?
Hff. If an entire class fails a test, that's on the teacher, not the students.
[Never mind that the grades had averaged a quite a serviceable C. Evan's crossed his arms defensively and is frowning.]
I mean...
Even I could tell that that could've gone better. I'm just looking for a little guidance, you know. This is all such a massive responsibility.
LOG SAMPLE:
Around the Tree from August 6th to 12th (Evan at the Home Tree)
