Post by Alexandra Thompson on Nov 17, 2014 19:33:02 GMT -5
Basics
Name: Alexandra Thompson
Nicknames: Alex, Alexa
Age: 16
Birthday: September 1, 1999
Grade: 10th
Power:
The Healing Kiss
Alexandra has the ability to heal certain physical wounds using a healing aura that is projected from her lips. The aura speeds up the clotting process and causes rapid cell and tissue regeneration. In order to use the aura, she must press her lips to the wound. The affected area will often glow an ethereal white color until it is done healing. After that, the light will die down and she will move her lips away, revealing only a small scar where the wound would have been. If she has to pull her lips away before the wound is fully finished healing, which typically takes 30 seconds, there is a chance that the wound will not fully close and is susceptible to infection.
Alexandra can only heal certain kinds of wounds. She has only mastered healing wounds involving the skin. This covers wounds of the dermis and epidermis. Wounds at the muscular level are too deep for the aura to reach. She also cannot heal broken bones since the aura would have to go through muscles, tendons, and ligaments in order to do so. Damage to organs or internal bleeding also are out of reach of the aura. If she forces herself to heal wounds that are hard for her to reach, it will require her to keep her lips on the affected area longer. If she pushes herself to heal too much, her blood pressure will rise due to the strain, which could cause problems with her heart.
Pain Transference
Alexandra also has the ability to take away the physical pain of others. She does this by placing her hands over the area of pain on the “patient”. She is able to block the pain signals from the affected area to the brain and transfer them to herself. Basically, she feels the pain in the same place that the injured person felt it in. In order to complete the transfer, she needs to keep her hand or hands on the injured person for a minute. If she has to stop for any reason, the transfer will not work and the pain will remain.
Pain can be transferred onto herself only, not to others. If Alexandra is injured, she cannot force her pain on someone else. She can feel pain from any injuries she has as well as the person’s pain that she absorbed. Since she uses this ability whenever she finds someone injured, she has a high threshold for pain. This might sound like an advantage in battle, and sometimes, it is. The high threshold, however, means that she does not feel pain as easily as an average person, which can prevent her from recognizing an injury unless she sees it.
Anatomical Intuition
Alexandra has a near-perfect understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the human body. By simply glancing at a person, she is able to see the functions of his or her body and see if something needs to be done to rectify it. She is able to see any condition that the “patient” has, whether it is internal or external. She also has an innate understanding of pressure points, which allows her to protect herself. She can also identify pathophysiologies, though this does not mean that she knows the name of them. Basically, Alexandra knows what is normal physiology for the human body. While she can tell the difference between a normal function and an abnormal function, she does not know what to call the abnormal function.
The medical names for diseases are not given to her; rather, she has to figure out the names of the pathologies she sees. In other words: she cannot name the disease because she does not know what it is. Her understanding of normal body functions does not include knowledge of the behaviors of any pathogens or any other organisms other than humans. She can only understand how the body functions and when something is not functioning right. Other than that, she must rely on her own knowledge and not her senses.
Member Group: Neutral
Canon or not: Let’s go with no
Appearance:
Alexandra is a little shorter than most young woman, standing at only 5’1”. She is about average for her weight class, probably around a hundred and twenty pounds. She describes herself as ‘petite’ thanks to her height and ‘slightly curvy’ because of her shape, though she does not look very heavy. She has fair skin that bruises quite easily, which can still be a pain because walking into a table could cause a bruise that lasts for a week. She gets very excited if she shows even a little bit of a tan, since she is ‘so pale’. On her back, there are a multitude of scars, varying in sizes, lengths, and edges from being in a government lab as an experiment. She often wears her light blonde hair in a ponytail that brushes against her back as she walks. Her bangs are cut a little strangely in the front, so her bangs will sometimes get in her eyes. Her royal blue eyes always seem to carry a light of happiness in them, even if she is sad. Her lips are thin, but they always seem to have the beginning of a smile on them.
Outside of the school uniform, her tastes could be described as eclectic. There are times that she prefers a more tomboy-esque look: jeans, loose fitting t-shirts, and the like. On other days, she seems to prefer a more girly style: dresses, skirts, cardigans and the like. No matter what clothes she wears, though, she keeps the same set of earrings in all of time. She has two hoop-type earrings that stay closer to her earlobe on both ears and a pair of studs in the cartilage in the upper part of her right ear. She likes to think of them as a constant in her life and is also contemplating getting a tattoo sometime in the future, though she is not sure what it will be of.
Personality
Overall Personality:
Alexandra is a sweet girl with a horrible past. She tries not to let it affect her and instead, tries to devote herself to the service of others. People in the past had described her as ‘selfless’, but she honestly feels that healing people is her calling in life. Unlike some people, she sees her powers as a blessing and tries to do whatever she can to heal people and take away their pain, both literally and physically.She has a strong desire to care for others, even though they frustrate her a lot of the time. Despite her lack of patience, she is a very kind person and will often rush to a person’s aid, no matter what relationship she had with said person. She is not necessarily outgoing, as she likes to spend large chunks of time studying and reading medical books to keep up and improve her knowledge, but when she does decide to pry her nose of a book, she can be describe as approachable and friendly, to a degree. She is loyal to her friends, especially ones that she trusts enough to tell about her past. Of course, if she disagrees with her friends, she will stay with her opinion and insist she is right. She is not often the instigator of fights, but she is often the first to forgive, since she has a hard time holding grudges against people, especially people that she cares about. She tries to stay positive, no matter what the situation may look like, even if it is hard. She reads people easily and can tell when someone is having a bad day or just needs a hug. She is more than willing to be the rock for others, but she does not often realize how hard this task is and will sometimes take on too much. She firmly believes that, if people see her being kind to others, that they will be kind in turn to other people.
Alexandra, despite all of her good qualities, is not perfect, by any means. The chief thing that she has trouble with is changing her mind. She is a very rigid person and refuses to back down from her opinion on anything, which can cause problems with other people. Her stubbornness knows no bounds and she will even butt heads with her closest friends over things that might not seem to matter in the long run. Aside from being stubborn, she is also idealistic. She has great ideas about how the world should be, but she is not really aware of the fact that it is near impossible to achieve or fully realize her ideas, specifically about kindness spreading. Deep down, she knows that not everyone will “pass it along”, but she does not want to perpetuate jaded ways of thinking, so she tries to be as hopeful as possible. Another problem is her short tolerance for people; in other words, she has very minimal patience. She gets annoyed with people quite easily, especially if she finds them annoying from the get-go and will not hesitate to tell them to shut up or clout them lightly upside the head to get them to stop talking. She is not afraid to hit someone if they are annoying or if she feels they are being idiotic. Many would say this goes against her kind nature, but she is not typically violent toward people unless she believes they “deserve it”. She is a little proud and does not take insult or criticism well and will often go on the offensive instead of defending herself. When she feels her pride has been hurt, she starts to feel insecure and withdraw into herself to make sure no one sees how “down” she is feeling.
Since a mental disorder runs in her family, Alexandra is always mindful of her mood. She is afraid of developing the same condition her father had, or something far worse. This is not to say that she restrains her emotions, by any means; this merely means that she keeps an eye on herself and makes sure she recognizes the signs of any possible disorders she could develop. She is also very conscious about her health, though there are times where she does like to “let go” and “have some fun”. She hopes to one day become a doctor and maybe even travel the world to help other people in need. For the time, being, though, her primary focus is keeping people at Ashford alive while giving the more creative thinkers time to think of a way out with minimal losses.
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History
Family Members/guardians: George Thompson (Deceased), Regina Thompson (Whereabouts unknown)
History:
Regina and George Thompson met in college and fell madly in love. Regina dropped out when she found out she was pregnant and she and George got married in secret. Regina came from a strict family, and there was no way they were going to let her stay in the house if they found out she was pregnant. The young couple managed to get an apartment, though living together seemed to exacerbate his depression. Regina tried her best to make George happy, even though she knew she could not change his condition. The young woman had a medically normal pregnancy, though she did not get adequate sleep because she always stayed up late, worrying about finances, her husband, and her child.
Alexandra Thompson was finally born on September 1, 1999, much to both of her parents’ relief. The little girl was a rather “laid back” baby, who slept quite well and only cried when she needed something. Nevertheless, Regina developed what she called “the baby blues” and was not really interested in caring for Alexandra. Regina and George fought a couple times over who would be the financial provider and, in the end, Regina started a job at a local bank while George stayed home with Alexandra. The young mother was hesitant to leave the young father alone with the infant, considering what he had been going through during her pregnancy. Whenever she returned, home, though, the young man was on the floor with his daughter, making her giggle and smile while wearing a smile himself. This brought her great relief; maybe the miracle of life restored his happiness, if only for a little while. Honestly, the young woman did not care how long it lasted. She was just happy to see her husband smile.
It was very apparent that little Alexandra was drawn to the medical profession at a young age. When she was old enough, a family member bought her a ‘fix-me-up’ teddy bear that included a plastic band-aid, toy syringe, and a stethoscope. The little girl’s parents puzzled over her fixation on the toy. It was one of the only toys that she played with until it literally fell apart. She tried kissing the tears in the bear’s fabric to “heal” it. Of course, nothing happened, but her parents found it amusing and decided to buy more toys like it that they could afford.
When Alexandra entered school full-time in first grade, George returned to work. The little girl was the first to notice a change in her father. She saw how sad he was and tried to cheer him up by telling him what she did in class and what she learned. She noticed that her mother was attempting to do what she was doing by making his favorite meals and even making dessert on occasion. The little girl tried to play with him when she was not doing homework, but he seemed to never have the energy or will to play with her. She asked her mother why her daddy was always sad, and she could see that it hurt when her mother had no answer for her. After a while, it started to put a strain on the family, and Alexandra could hear her parents arguing downstairs at night when she was in her room. There were times she was tempted to run down the stairs and tell them to stop yelling at each other, but all she was able to do was sit in her room and cry. She did not want her parents to yell and be upset with one another. She was unaware of her father’s condition was not prepared for what was going to catch her off guard and turn her whole world on its head.
Alexandra had just turned seven a few days before it happened. Her mother had picked her up from the after-care program, like she always did. The little girl talked about her day at school with excitement in her voice and a sparkle in her eyes. She noticed that her mother was distracted, though. They pulled over once or twice on the way home to get ahold of her father. Both times the girl used her mother’s cell phone to call the house, though, no one picked up. The little girl could not see her mother clearly, but, from where she was sitting, she saw a frown tugging at the corner of her lips. To ease the nervousness she was feeling, the blonde girl plucked a pencil from her backpack and tried to twirl it between her fingers. Of course, she was not able to, but passing it between her hands allowed her to release the anxiousness that she was feeling, since she could see that her mother was also nervous and on edge. It did not take them long to get to the house. The little girl ran to the door, excited to see her father and tell her all about her day. She pushed it open, not even questioning why it was not locked and was greeted with a horrific sight, one that she will never be able to forget, no matter how much time passes.
All she could see was red before peach covered her blue eyes. She heard her mother’s voice telling her to go to the neighbor’s house. She tried to protest, but her mother ushered her out the door and she all but ran to the neighbor’s house, tears stinging in her eyes. She was not sure what exactly had happened, but she was pretty sure of one thing: she would probably never see her father again. The neighbors were surprised to find a sniffling little girl on their porch, but they welcomed her into the house, offering her a juice box and a table to finish her homework on. Once she was finished her homework, the little girl buried her nose in the medical books lying around the family’s house until her mother came to get her later that night. She was not able to really understand any material in the books, but she wanted the horrible image out of her head for that time, so she tried to find a picture much worse to haunt her nightmares. When she asked her mother what happened to her father, the woman did not respond, but sent the little girl to bed, trying to hide her red eyes behind golden bangs. Alexandra climbed into bed that night and sobbed her eyes out, hugging her teddy bear tightly until she drifted into a nightmare-filled sleep.
Alexandra noticed a very abrupt change in her mother after that tragic day. The light in her eyes had dulled. The smiles, laughs, and affection seemed to wither away and disappear. It seemed like everything the little girl did was wrong. She heard her mother, who was the only person left in her life, crying at night and saw her starting to drink more and more during the day. Her mother stopped going to work, and the little girl could not wait to got to school, not only to get away from being yelled at or punished, but also because she just wanted something to eat. Her mother rarely cooked, and when she attempted, the blonde little girl would barely eat it because it was either burnt to a crisp or raw.
Her teacher noticed that she was starting to look much thinner and saw that her grades were slipping. She tried to arrange a parent-teacher conference to see what the problem was, but Regina never showed. The situation did not improve; in fact, it only got worse. Alexandra would have to ruffle through her drawers to find makeup or something to cover the bruises she had from “misbehaving”. After a year or two, the staff that had worked with the girl decided to have her officially removed from the house. They called the authorities and she was immediately removed from her mother’s care. The girl screamed and kicked at the officers, begging them to leave her mother alone and let her go home. She cried all the way to station, hugging her fraying teddy bear to her chest as if it were a lifeline. In the back of her mind, she wondered if any other nine-year-old girl was going through the same thing she was. She wondered if this was normal, and she managed to have the courage to ask the officer in the backseat with her if it was. He simply shook his head, ruffled her hair, and urged her to go to sleep.
The blonde girl ended up being transported to a government-run group house for elementary and middle-school aged females. She tried to make friends with the girls, but they all seemed to dislike her and ignored her kindness. She was also forced to attend a different school, where people were not as nice to her. It was during this time that she decided to turn her attention from people to books. Once she had read all of the books in the home, she started spending extra time after school, hiding in the library with a pile of books by her side. She had even gotten lectured a few times for doing so, but she did not seem to care. She just wanted to do something she loved so that she could escape from the reality of her situation. This behavior continued into middle school, but it was considered more acceptable then, because going to the library was a sign that a student was studying as opposed to doing anything else.
Alexandra secretly hoped that, one day, her mother would come to get her. She had heard that, if parents did not come to get their children by age thirteen, the teens would be shipped to teen house farther away. Sadly, the young woman found out this was right. On her thirteenth birthday, she was shipped to a teenage home in a different city. It was even worse at that home, because there were so many problems she was not used to. Her peers were the people who educated her and helped through her early, terrifying years of puberty. Whenever she asked the staff to help, they ignored her and told her to ask someone else. She was not about to tell the other young women in the house that she was seeing peoples’ insides, because they would have thought she was insane. So, she kept the images to herself, unaware of the other things she could do.
Younger girls would sometimes visit the older girls’ home, and Alexandra helped patch more than one wound. What was odd, though, was that, when she kissed the little girl’s “boo boo”, it would completely disappear, only leaving a small scar behind. One of the directors noticed this and kept an eye on the young lady for some time. After a few months, people in dark suits came to take Alexandra from the house. The younger teens exhibited confusion at this, but she managed to keep herself calm and bid her peers goodbye, wondering why she was singled out to be moved. Little did she know, it was because of her uncanny ability to heal, which they took advantage of.
She was brought to a private training facility for gifted youth, where she healed injuries of kids and teens who had been forced to fight each other all day and, sometimes, into the night. If the injuries were too much for her to heal, they would have to push her to make the healing work. There would be days where she would pass out and be woken up with a kick to the side. In short, they were brutal to her and the other teenagers. She could see that no one really cared for them, so she tried to, not only by healing them, but also by talking to them every day and making sure that they were comfortable at night. Some even joking called her the “Florence Nightingale” of the facility.
Once she discovered her last power, they decided to do the worst thing yet. They locked her in a room with just one other person, who would slash at her nearly-bare back with a knife. The idea was to get her to transfer her pain to the person afflicting her, but it never worked. She slept many nights on the floor of that room, holding back tears from the pain. She wondered to herself how things could have gotten so horrible so fast. One night, she realized that she was totally alone: her father was gone, her mother did not want her, and no one else did either. There were times that she considered doing something to get herself shocked, or even killed. She realized in the end, though, that it was not worth it. She had to live; if not for herself, than for the other teens who were being tormented in that awful place. After a year of failed experimentation, the staff decided it was too costly to keep her at the facility, and they shipped her off to Ashford instead.
Behind the Character
Name: Lily, Lilly, Alexis, whatever
Chatango Name: waterlilly19
RP Experience: 6 or so years
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