Post by Simon Alexandre on Aug 26, 2015 20:21:18 GMT -5
Basics
Name:
Simon Alexandre
Nicknames:
None.
Age:
18
Birthday:
September 8th
Grade:
12th
Power:
Coin Manipulation
Simon is able to manipulate the metals in coins in telekinetic matters and is able to expand its metal outwards and change the coins shape (also able to mould coins together to form larger objects out of them, but this requires him to constantly focus on keeping the coins in that shape and it only lasts as long as he has focus on it. He also cannot use more metal than is already in the coins). He is not limited to moving one coin at a time, and can move about as much as an average person would be able to lift, which is about 140lbs worth. He is also able to make this amount of coins using this power, but to make all 140lbs of coins it would exhaust so much energy that Simon would be knocked out. This is a lot of coins, enough to make shields, walking platforms, etc. He can manipulate coins only within a 100 foot radius of him, although this will expand as his power grows in strength. He can send these coins flying at very high speeds, about the same speed as a bullet, which can cause a lot of damage. However, he is limited to the weight of the coins he can carry to make and use, and the more he uses his power the weaker he gets. Once he’s made a coin it’s much easier for him to manipulate – and making 140lbs of coins would cause Simon to be knocked out almost entirely. He can maybe create about 30 loonie-sized coins at a time every minute and a half and use that alongside whatever other coins he has with him. Therefore, he keeps coins on his person at all times, although they weigh his pockets down quite a lot. This means he never gets to really use all 140lbs of coins at once, unless he's in an old-styled bank for some god forsaken purpose. For some reason, though, Simon is unable to manipulate metal objects larger than the size of a normal coin, causing to only really be able to use currency as his form of attack. Simon has learned to be able to 'pull', or make, coins out of solid metals by taking those coin 'chunks' out of those metals. He still finds this relatively difficult and can't do it very often, but he is working to improve on it and will eventually be able to do this with ease.
Steel Appendages
Simon, when he uses this power, is able to create four steel-like appendages that stick out from his back at a time. When the power is not in use, they simply retreat into his body leaving small bumps along the skin on his lower back, but these bumps can only be felt by the touch and are not very noticeable otherwise. These “arms” resemble a lot spider legs, and he can use them to hold or fling himself up. They’re pointed, and very strong, and although they can bend and move around almost like a liquid metal, they’re limited to only extend about fifteen feet in any direction of Simon. As Simon improves his ability, he’ll be able to make them move further. Extreme heat causes them to retreat back into Simon before it liquifies, but only if that extreme persists for extended periods of time and causes a threat of possibly melting the metal. They can move very quickly, although not as fast as Simon’s coins, allowing them to be used for a variety of things. However, using this power requires a lot of energy from Simon, and those appendages are a lot like muscles that need to be trained. If he strains them too much, he’ll be unable to use them for lengthy periods of time. Just as an arm or a leg, these appendages will cause pain to Simon if they’re harmed, which could strongly encourage Simon to retreat them into his body. Additionally, he can only keep them out for a certain length of time, which ranges from fifteen minutes to half an hour depending on how much Simon had eaten that day. These appendages are not necessarily immune to other metal manipulators when they’re out – but when they’re inside of his body they are. It’s much more difficult for metal manipulators to change the shapes of these appendages, though, and the changes caused to them don’t last very long (typically one minute) as they recover quickly by draining some of Simon’s energy. However, these steel appendages can NOT be telekinetically influenced by metal manipulators, only changed in shape.
Enhanced Durability
Despite his muscles, Simon isn't extremely tough looking, as he's relatively short. However, this power alongside his thick bones gives him the strength he needs to survive being thrown into walls, beat with a bat, and stabbed with a knife. This ability allows him to endure what others cannot, which is especially useful when fighting because he can take a few dozen more punches than the average person before he starts to feel the pain bothering him. This, accompanied with the partial lack of feeling in some of his body parts allow him to go through a lot more seemingly unharmed until his body finally exhausts itself. When his father beat him, especially with other objects, this power contributed a lot to keeping him alive even if Simon didn't know it at the time.
Member Group:
Prefect
Canon or not:
Non-canon.
Appearance:
Simon’s skin is a soft golden from spending a lot of his time baking in the sun’s glare, although there are certain parts of his skin that just don’t seem to burn and remain a pasty white. He has a relatively strong, lean-build with an emphasis on his core strength from his gymnastics. It helps that he’s relatively small for a Caucasian boy, being 5”5’. He is able to do things ranging from flips to handsprings, and his balancing skills are more than just impressive. Despite this emphasis on his abdominal muscles, he’s also very strong in both his legs and his arms, allowing him to lift in general quite a lot more than the average individual. He’s got very thick bones that allow him to endure a lot, making him look larger and give a lot more weight to him. He’s also endured quite a lot in his life, making him a lot more tolerant to pain with the help of his powers. Additionally, he has a multitude of scars and burns across his body as a result of both abuse and outside factors, which he tried to hide. The few he has on his scalp are intentionally hidden by his hair. Additionally, he therefore tends to try to keep his shirt on whenever he can, but when he asked he’ll just tell people the scars are from rough-housing activities.
Simon’s face is almost an ovular shape with a pointed chin, giving him a ‘younger boy’ look in comparison to everyone else. His hair is a silver-y gray, and it has been his whole life, almost as if he was born old. This hair droops down in front of his eyes, providing a slight inconvenience that Simon has gotten used to. His eyes are a light violet caused through the mutations of his powers, giving him an almost eerie look. When he was younger, his father broke his nose and it has never completely healed, giving it a slightly crooked appearance with a bump near the bridge.
Simon tends to always wear his school uniform, even if he’s out of class. The only difference is that occasionally he’ll button down the top or switch the pants for shorts when it’s very hot out. He likes keeping a degree of seriousness to his apparel, and on the uncommon casual day that he’s not wearing his school uniform, he’ll probably be wearing a red flannel on top of a black tank-top, with normal blue jeans and sneakers.
Personality
[/b]- Simon doesn’t question people that tell him what to do, nor does he really mind what he’s told to do. He gets along well with his authorities.
Positive:
* Fast reflexes- Mainly as a result of his skittishness and paranoia, Simon reacts very quickly to physical confrontations. He is quick to be able to move out of the way of an oncoming, unexpected attack since his eyes are always trained on people and watching them as if they might attack him any minute.
* Loyal/Loving- Simon does really care for people, believe it or not. He’s quick to help someone in need or just talk to them, although he’s not so good at the whole ‘sharing’ thing when asked about his own life. He’s also very loyal to those who he is close to (which, so far, has been absolutely nobody in his life), and also to those who have proven themselves worthy of respect.
* Determined- Sure, maybe Simon doesn’t always like what he does, but that doesn’t mean he gives up. Once he starts something, you’re damned right that he is going to work to finish it as fast as he can with the best results possible.
* Over-achiever- Simon strives to do the best he can do at everything, having no desire to do something half-heartedly or to do just the bare minimum. This tends to make him successful, although it means he tends to work a bit too hard for his own good when he’s given a task.
* Agile- Simon is a quite strong young man, working out often, but he is also very acrobatic and agile. He used to be in the gymnastic team at his school and this leads him to being able to do backflips and quick manoeuvres in the air and on the ground.
* Happy- Despite everything that’s happened to Simon, he tries his absolute hardest to act happy around people, willing to have conversations on days where he’s not working. If he’s on duty, you’ll find difficulty trying to get him to laugh, but otherwise he works to be conversational, unless they pry into his past in which he'll shut up instantaneously.[/ul]
Negative:
* Unjust- Views many things as a personal issue and tends to try to solve issues based on how he feels about them, not about how others may feel about it.
* Intuitive- Simon acts based on how he feels is appropriate without any regard to conscious reasoning, which is debatably a bit impulsive. He acts off of instincts, allowing them to guide his actions.
* Hard-to-please- Simon rarely is impressed with any talents other people have. He has a tendency to brush things off, yet he does pretend to care. However, sometimes it's pretty clear that he doesn't.
* Awkward- When Simon really cares for someone, he’s very unsure of how to show it and he can stutter over his words, which is very different from his normal, stoic attitude. He’s not used to feeling nervous, so this makes him act definitely weird.
* Pessimist- He’s very quick to point out problems in people and objects around him, making him seem like a larger pessimist than he is and, really, like a douchebag.
* Emotionally repressed- Simon doesn’t talk about his feelings or his thoughts very often, and if he spoke to someone about what happened to him, which he never has before, he would be an absolute mess, sobbing and crying. It still harms him today and strikes fear in his heart, and the emotions that are caused by his past he feels are absolutely inappropriate for a ‘man’.
* Skittish- Partly stemming from his father's aggression towards him causing him to fear not knowing his surroundings, Simon is very skittish and even just walking behind him and saying "Hello" without him hearing you can cause him to jump.
* Paranoid- Although not to the point of losing complete touch with reality, Simon is paranoid in many ways. It's hard for him not to look at someone and wonder whether they'll attack him or not, and it's easy for him to believe that people around him are working together to hurt him. He has a lot of difficulty focusing as a result, since he's always looking around him for people about to attack. Him moving his eyes off (for more than a moment) of someone he's talking to is, in all actuality, a relatively rare thing as he can't trust people that much.
* Short- Simon is pretty short for being a caucasian male, especially considering the vast majority of the guys on the island are pretty tall. This causes people to brush him off relatively often and for him to be viewed as less strong, although he is very athletic.[/ul]
Likes:
* Going for runs
* Completing tasks
* Having alone time to just think[/ul]
Dislikes:
* Being stuck in one place
* Beating around the bush
* Swimming
* Alcoholism/drugs[/ul]
Extra:
Simon is bisexual, although he is a virgin and has never really been with anyone for a lengthy period of time due to his tendency to push people away. He has a fear of commitment and therefore has never had a serious relationship, or any relationship that has lasted longer than a month. He can't handle the concept of being stuck with someone, especially since he struggles so much with trust.
Simon, from his past, does have PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), although it's undiagnosed. His symptoms include nightmares, flashbacks, feelings of intense distress when reminded of the event or extreme physical reactions (heart pounding, rapid breathing) when thinking about what happened to him. This is accompanied with trust issues, causing him to be paranoid, skittish, jump very easily (which he passes off as a joke), and muscle aches and pains all over his body which can't be explained by really any other reason. Simon refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of his 'disease', not wanting to put himself on par with war veterans with the disorder as he views his problems as not as impactful. However, it does debilitate him and is not something that is just a 'aww what a cute quirk he has'. His feelings of almost constant distress prevent him from sleeping, and being unable to make strong connections with people prevents him from healing and from getting the help he so desperately needs - and it's agitating for others to try to talk to him and try to get to know him but have him shove them away almost violently for seemingly no reason.
Because of his father's methods of abuse, Simon gets a bit uncomfortable around big sources of water and he tends to keep away from it. This isn't a huge fear, though, and isn't absolutely crippling unless he's unlucky enough to receive flashbacks (will be explained in more depth later) while in or standing by the water. He does tend to try and avoid swimming for this reason, though, or any sources of water that he knows about.
Simon does also have a reaction of fear to loud noises, mainly when people yelling at him. He can't stand the aggressiveness and tends to react mainly by cowering or even having a panic attack when people start screaming, especially if the words spoken are offensive. It's rare for him to get flashbacks from this alone, although he does get the physical reactions of his heart pounding and his breathing accelerating to an unnatural rate. This is, again, because of his history with his father shouting at him while he was being abused, striking him with offensive words and actions.
Simon has never been the best to show his emotions, always trying to conceal his feelings especially if they’re negative. He has trust issues and finds difficulty in allowing people to find out more about him, taking years to tell even his closest friends about his history. Therefore, he’s generally not too easy to manipulate unless one can play off of his intuitiveness, but that's something that he might be able to pick up on.
Simon will not drink alcohol, nor do drugs of any form (apart from caffeine). It's a huge discomfort to him to even see alcohol being used by other individuals, because of his father's alcoholic tendencies contributing to the beating that repeated everyday that Simon was with him. He doesn't have the same issue around people who smoke, and will still be able to have a conversation with them (although he will be distasteful), but alcohol is something that 'triggers' him into a state of unsureness and fear, and in high doses (being in parties and such), it's likely he'll have a panic attack.
Simon, although not triggered by this whatsoever, tends to stay away from anyone that strongly resembles his father and he tends to be distasteful of the type of people that are like him. This tends to be burly, strong-looking men who are very tall and tend to be a little bit on the dumber side, and also those who anger easily. This is simply a natural response to avoid the type of people who may hurt him again.
Additionally (as mentioned previously), Simon will occasionally break down into tears while trying to sleep and/or snap awake, as he does occasionally get what's known as 'flashbacks', where he's forced to relive what he's once been through almost like a very realistic feeling dream, where he cannot wake up or change anything happening to him. This can also happen during the day when he sees things that remind him of his past, but he tends to not react as strongly as he tries his absolute hardest to hold it back, but he tends to fail and still mentally break down. This gives him a strong weakness to people who can create illusions and see into his dreams, because they're able to see what part of him no one else can and recreate it during battles, which will make Simon mentally shut down almost indefinitely.
The problem with all of Simon's triggers, is that he avoids them to the point where it's almost as problematic as the disorder itself. If he hears lots of people in a room late at night, or loud music playing, he associates that with the idea of parties with excessive drinking and he can't help but get away from whatever it is, even if he's on duty and supposed to stop those kind of things. He avoids the pool as much as he possibly can, too, and he has a natural tendency to avoid people that are loud or obnoxious. Sometimes he'll go to extreme lengths to avoid these episodes of breaking down, almost as if it was a phobia, staying away from anything that might possibly lead him to being exposed to any of his triggers. This is partly because he, although he knows that he does have PTSD deep down, refuses to acknowledge it completely and doesn't want to have anything to do with it, thinking that if he doesn't go near what triggers him he won't have any issues. It's also because he's still as scared of his father as he was when he was a child, not wanting to have anything to do with him, and he doesn't want anyone to know his debilitating problems so he hides it best he can. It's debatable that no one actually properly knows about his PTSD, not even either of his parents or his friends, and it's probably not something that could even be found on his file as he has never told anyone about his problems, partly because he can't properly acknowledge them himself. Additionally, even his father didn't tell the officials the real story about the abuse Simon went through, so not a soul except Mac (his father) and Simon know about what happened. This, again, brings back up the fact that the PTSD is also undiagnosed, and this is something else that Simon desperately grabs onto to try and prove to himself that he doesn't have the debilitating issue.
Despite Simon's past, he's been able to conceal it for years and this has not changed. It's buried deep inside of his brain and he tries to ignore it as much as he can, so he tends to not act very 'oddly' in front of people, except with the aforementioned situations. Mind-readers that cannot dip deep inside of his brain will not be able to find out about his history, although people that can read a scar's past will be able to if they touch the scars along his neck and back. Absolutely nobody knows when he comes to the island, though, and even those who do read his file will simply find information on him possibly having anger management problems because of how he lashed out against his father, but not a single thing about the abuse that occurred or his undiagnosed disorder.[/blockquote]
History
Family Members/guardians:
Lisa McKlain
Mac Alexandre
History:
Neither Mac nor Lisa were truly 'bad' people. When they'd started dating, Mac never really even drank alcohol often and he wasn't a mean person when he avoided it. He cared a lot for her although he did seem to show some manipulative behaviours and exercise control over her (e.g: 'why are you talking to him? stop it.' or trying to shove her closer to his friends rather than her own), but it was to no extreme and Lisa simply blamed it on his 'manliness'. Soon, though, his undiagnosed anxiety disorder caused him to lose his job as he had kept skipping work in fear of the stress that came from it. Scared that Lisa would break up with him for it, he began to go out with his old work friends instead while pretending to go to work. They tended to drink together, and Mac first found it relaxing. See, drinking was a way of getting rid of his fears of going out into the world and it worked. Being drunk calmed his mind and stopped him from stressing out. He didn't drink too often, and when he did he only showed small signs of violent behaviour and normally it wasn't around Lisa. This was likely the best stage in his life, where he was the happiest but he soon found out Lisa was to have Simon. The alcohol began to work against him and began intensifying his anxiety whenever he didn't have a drink. Additionally, he couldn't get a job and he feared that Lisa's teaching career didn't earn enough, so he worried that they wouldn't be able to support their kid. To keep the stresses at bay, he drank, and it became a vicious cycle that he couldn't get out of. He grew addicted - he kept consuming more and more of it to keep his worries and stresses at bay, and yet he was aware that being drunk tended to lead to violent behaviour towards other people, but he couldn't stop. If he didn't drink, he felt like he couldn't breath or do anything as a result from his extreme anxiety. This powerlessness contributed to his anxiety. Soon, he was drunk so often that he could no longer see the negative impacts of it on him and his once-happy family.
So, when Simon was born, neither of her parents were happy with him or each other. His mother, Lisa, found out only days later that her boyfriend, Mac, was a raging alcoholic. She found out as he had spent much of Lisa's hard-earned money this way, when she already didn't have much. Lisa broke up with him. Simon was very young at the age of the split, only about five or six, so it barely affected him apart from the sound of smashing bottles against walls causing him to cower in fear in his room.
It was soon decided that Simon would spend two weeks at his mom’s house, then alternate to spend two weeks at his dad’s. Mac, unfortunately, started bringing the drinks home to him. Around the age of nine, it wasn’t uncommon for Simon to return to Lisa’s house after the two weeks covered in scars and bruises, insisting that they were from “ATVing”, “snowmobiling”, or whatever came to Simon’s mind to use as an excuse at the time. He didn’t want his parents to fight again, so he refused to tell anybody what happened. That is, that when he was at his father’s house he was being physically and emotionally beat by a man in a drunken rage. It didn’t help that his father endlessly threatened to kill him if he told anybody, so the fear in Simon’s heart was deeply rooted. From this, Simon has multiple scars across his body, more specifically along his back and his neck. Simon only ever saw his father sober a few times in the mornings, and the stress he saw his father experiencing was almost as terrifying as when he was drunk. He would shake, and his eyes would flicker around wildly and he wouldn't respond to any comments. The unpredictability of his father gave Simon a paranoia.
This was the hardest point in Simon's life, due to his fear of telling others about what was happening. He started to believe his father's abusive words about how he wasn't worth anything, which helped keep his mouth shut. Every night it seemed to be just as worse as the last, with his father shoving him on the ground and kicking him, hitting him with bottles, or even forcing his head down in the bath so he got the feeling of drowning all the while yelling at Simon about how useless and unwanted he was. But, whenever he'd wake up in the morning, there his dad would be, twitching on the couch uncontrollably. The repetition of the abuse messed with Simon's developing brain, leaving him emotionally repressed and with trust issues, paranoia, PTSD, and self-esteem issues. He attempted to end it all twice, once when he was 14 and again the next year. Both times he stopped, mainly because of his mother. His mother worked very hard to keep him happy when he was with her, and she was the only real parental figure that Simon had and loved. He stopped for her, knowing it would tear her apart if her only son committed suicide for reasons unknown to her. Besides, Simon idolized her. He wants to be a teacher just like her.
So, despite him getting bullied at school for being 'too short' and his weird gray hair and purple eyes (with no one to defend him due to his inability to form relationships) and despite being abused physically and emotionally by his father, Simon somehow managed to stick through it and tried his hardest to make friends to talk to and help defend him. This only worked to an extent, as he did manage to find people to sit at a lunch table with but he still was bullied when he was alone, which was often as he was unable to become best friends with anyone due to his trust issues. No matter how hard he tried, he could never stop fearing the abuse that would come every night he was with his father.
Things started to change, as Simon grew older (around the age of 15) and became a stronger individual. He started getting sick of being hurt by his father, realizing that he actually was disgusted by him and his actions. The last time he was ever beat was the day Simon discovered his powers. It was late at night, outside, by the shed where their ATVs were kept, and his father was holding a bat and was about to hit Simon, who had already been pushed on the ground, with it. When he was about to, coins flew out from his dad's pocket to defend Simon from the blow. As a result of this, the bat did break, and Simon’s instincts took over and steel appendages sprouted from his back and slammed his father into the nearby shed exterior. His father, unfortunately, came out of it only with a minor concussion and a few broken bones.
That was something that had been difficult to explain, especially when his father was rushed to the hospital. However, Simon had had time to come up with a story different from what had happened, partly because of his deep-rooted fear of his father as well as the fear of what he himself was becoming. He lied to the police and claimed the they were coming home from a late ATVing trip and his father accidentally drove into the shed, causing the damage that occurred. It was a tough story to believe, and the doctors barely seemed to buy it based on his injuries, but no other explanation had been presented so it seemed to be the only thing that made sense.
Afterwards, when his father was out of the hospital, Simon refused to see him again, and they changed the legal documents so that his mom had full custody all the time. Simon simply reasoned this by saying his father and him no longer got along and they had nothing in common, and that there was no longer a feeling of mutual love between the two of them like he had with his mother. His father did not object, only giving the time of day to Simon to stumble up to him in his unforgettable drunken manner and promise that one day he would be killed by his hand.
Simon continued on his life for a few years, things beginning to look up for him. He was part of the gymnastic team for a number of years, becoming successful in that department, and he spent a year in wrestling. He had begun to get a lot of friends and expand his social circle despite his trust issues hindering him from having any close friends, until he was walking home from school one day to be grabbed by some officials of the Ashford Academy. He was told that his father informed them about Simon’s ‘special abilities’ and that Simon wasn't safe to be out and about, as Mac told the officials that Simon lashed out at him for no reason. The Ashford officials said that his gifts were also needed at the school, as they didn't want to put him on the field in fear that he would lash out at his fellow teammates like they were told he did to his own father.
Behind the Character
Name:
Silver or Fivvy
Chatango Name:
Fivvy
RP Experience:
Three or so years.
How did you find us?:
Sunnybuns.
RP Sample:
See Joshua Strasser.
