#taken empath

[wickedsrest-rp]

Name: Eleanor Bolden Species: Empath Occupation: Author Age: 28 Years Old Played By: Kayla Face Claim: Natalia Dyer

"We all get addicted to something that takes the pain away."

The product of a love affair between two teenagers that had fizzled out by the time the pregnancy was confirmed, Eleanor was raised in the foster care system and bounced around from home to home all across New York. She was often teased by the other children in the homes for being strange and standoffish, but anytime she would try to explain to others that the reason for her isolation was due to the overwhelming presence of everyone's emotions she would be punished for speaking nonsense and told to stop believing everything she read in the books she cherished so much. Because she had such a hard time being around a large number of people and often slipped into the fascinating world of fantasy provided through books, she began writing her own stories that she would base off of her own struggles.

At the age of twelve Eleanor was sent to live with a well-off family and their array of adopted children; the Bolden family was large but welcoming and she graciously accepted the change. She was legally adopted into the family two years later and started to learn how to regulate all of the emotions she felt around her every day with the help of her stories and a few friends who didn't find her strange. Eventually, her love for writing led her to achieving a masters in English and while studying she was able to publish two novellas that were received with more praise than she had expected. It seemed that she had turned her life around and it couldn't get any better - until it did.

Eleanor and her girlfriend were introduced through a mutual friend and the spark between them was undeniable. Eleanor enjoyed the woman’s calm and lighthearted nature, a welcome change of pace from the oftentimes overwhelming waves of emotion she usually dealt with on an everyday basis, and she found herself not being able to get enough of the woman and her bad puns and the way she gave Eleanor a sense of belonging. For the first time in her life Eleanor was able to openly speak about her abilities and not be scorned for believing such a thing could be real. She was listened to, understood, and sympathized with.

Eventually the ladies decided to move to Maine due to higher-paying job offers and Eleanor was able to settle into her new home quickly and eagerly got to work on her biggest writing project yet, all while she found herself falling more in love with her girlfriend with every passing day, but an unimaginable horror lurked unseen just around the corner.

Almost from the moment they met, Eleanor was attuned to her girlfriend and the bond only strengthened with the more time they spent together, which meant that she felt every second of the kidnapping. The confusion, pain, panic, and eventual hopelessness was strong enough to leave Eleanor in tears and scrambling to find her missing half. She went days without sleep, wandering along the streets and begging anyone who would listen to join in the search, but as it so often did, the hype surrounding the local woman's sudden disappearance died down and people moved on to the next trending topic.

In an attempt to move on, Eleanor moved to Wicked's Rest, a town where, as she had heard in whispers, she might find others like herself and a fresh start. While she's trying to shake the depression that has settled over her, Eleanor is still plagued by her lover’s emotions every day and is spending most of her time trying to locate her missing soulmate.

Character Facts:

Personality: Creative, intelligent, kind, compulsive, self-destructive, withdrawn

Eleanor has always been shy and doesn’t like to mingle much, but she’s very kind and enjoys having meaningful conversations.

Her need for relief led her to taking some ballet classes when she was younger and she’s loved it ever since - aside from reading and writing, she takes pride in being skillfully trained in ballet and hopes to one day feel well enough to resume teaching classes part time.

While she doesn’t go out of her way to make friends, the quickest way for someone to start on the path to friendship with her would be to offer her coffee, her greatest weakness.

Eleanor prefers the company of the undead due to the feeling of numbness she feels whenever they’re around.

[fellthemarvelous]

It pisses me off to see the way some Star Wars fans are so dismissive of Reva, Third Sister.

She's complex. She's interesting. She's clever. She's intelligent. She's strategic. She's conflicted. She's traumatized. She's scared. She's angry. She's a survivor.

The Obi-Wan Kenobi series literally opens with her and her friends watching one of her Jedi mentors get gunned down by clone troopers during Order 66.

She was a FUCKING CHILD!!! They were in the middle of a lesson when the clones walked in and started shooting everyone!! These were Anakin Skywalker's troopers and they were executing every single Jedi around them.

These children had NO idea what was going on. They were scared and they tried to run to safety.

We remember this scene from Revenge of the Sith and we all immediately knew what it meant.

These are the same bodies that Obi-Wan Kenobi found when he and Yoda returned to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant after having to kill so many of Anakin's clone troopers just to survive.

These are children that the Jedi Council wasn't there to save.

Palpatine snuffed out the light of the Jedi in one swift act of terrorism and then blamed the Jedi for their own genocide after taking over the entire galaxy.

And in times of war, the weakest among everyone always suffer the most.

This is what Reva, Jedi youngling, remembers most about the end of the Clone Wars.

Anakin Skywalker, hero of the Clone Wars and former padawan of the great Obi-Wan Kenobi, murdered all of her friends and injured her.

She had to play dead amongst the dead bodies of her friends, and that's how she survived. She witnessed Anakin Skywalker murder all the Jedi in the temple with no one there to stop him because the other Jedi Masters were being executed in a war they had never wanted to enter into in the first place.

She blames herself for not being able to save her friends because she wasn't strong enough to fight back. No youngling was ever going to be strong enough to stand against Anakin Skywalker. She wanted revenge against Anakin Skywalker, and she was just as desperate to get to Obi-Wan Kenobi as he was. She wanted to kill Anakin Skywalker just as badly as Darth Vader wanted to kill Obi-Wan.

She was alone in a galaxy that tortured and executed surviving Jedi. She spent ten years plotting her revenge against Anakin. She was angry at Obi-Wan for not being there to stop Anakin, and rightfully so.

The Republic fell. Reva and her friends were left unprotected. She was the only person she relied on because everyone else failed her. She was only a child when she lost everyone.

And it's clear she was conflicted by her role as an Inquisitor. She doesn't have the training the other Inquisitors do because she volunteered to be an Inquisitor while all the others were tortured and terrorized into falling to the dark side. She only wanted access to Anakin so she could get justice for what he did to her and her family.

Unlike Anakin, Reva couldn't find it in herself to harm a child. She was seeking revenge solely against Anakin Skywalker. Luke and Leia are the same age she was when she watched her friends and family die in front of her.

Yes, she was prepared to torture Leia, but she consistently hesitated, and when Tala walked in, Reva turned away. She stopped. Yeah she was mad, but she didn't have to go through with it. She'd already planted a tracker on Lola. She was already planning on allowing them to escape so she could locate their secret base. She just needed to bait Obi-Wan. Her plan worked perfectly, and she didn't even have to hurt this child who was annoying the shit out of her (not realizing she was dealing with Anakin Skywalker's offspring).

She went to Tatooine to kill Luke, but she couldn't. She hunted him down without bothering to kill Owen or Beru. She only cared about one thing. Getting justice for what happened to everyone she had been unable to save at the end of the war. She was only a child, and when she realized she was about to kill a defenseless child just to get revenge, she couldn't do it. She saw her face when she looked down at Luke and cried when she realized she couldn't do it.

She was so horrified by what she had been prepared to do and returned him to Owen and Beru alive. She fell to her knees and sobbed because she thought she failed her family in the end.

Obi-Wan was there for her this time. He reminded her that by showing mercy, she was giving her friends and family peace. She was not going to become the monster that Anakin Skywalker was.

Obi-Wan helped her and reminded her that she gets to decide who she wants to be from this point forward. She refused to become Anakin Skywalker, and a weight was finally starting to be lifted from her shoulders. A weight she had been carrying for ten long years.

She did what she thought she had to just to survive. She had only been a child with no guidance because everyone she loved died. She survived by joining the ranks of the enemy so she could plot her revenge. Obi-Wan showed her mercy at the moment she needed it most. He wasn't angry with her. He was compassionate. She survived Order 66 just like he did, but she had been defenseless when they were thrust into a galaxy that tortured and killed Force sensitive individuals and those who helped them. He had failed Reva during Order 66, and he wasn't going to fail her this time.

She is getting a second chance at finding her path in life despite the bad things she did. Everyone deserves a second chance. She was robbed of her childhood and had to grow up overnight. She had to learn how to survive. And that's exactly what she did. Just not in the way she expected.

[discoonthegrass]

The Empath: Trapped in an alien laboratory, Kirk, Spock and McCoy meet an empath and are involved in a series of experiments.

This Side of Paradise: The Enterprise investigates a planet whose colonists should be dead, but are not. (Vague description: it’s the one where they all get drugged up on happiness-inducing spores besides Jim, and Jim has to convince Spock to come back to the Enterprise by insulting him.)

This is the last poll of Round 4! Remember to vote on the other polls in this round, listed here. I need to wait for these polls to expire before starting Round 5, so check back here on Friday for that or come back to my blog tomorrow for a bonus poll!

[mechieonu]

y'all i mean this w love but mha from the start has been a story examining how villains are also victims of the circumstances their world has imposed on them. why would afo be any different

[septic-salad]

I'm still stuck thinking about the fact that that is the softest voice I've ever heard Quackity speak in, especially for a long period of time.

It just. Aouuhhggh. That's all I can say.

He sounded so broken and lost and uncertain, like at first it was like he didn't really even know how to speak, or maybe he was just afraid to hear his own voice after spending so much time surrounded by the gentle quietness of the water he'd been submerged in.

I mean, imagine how much of a shock that must've been to go from pretty much complete sensory deprivation to suddenly being forced out of the calm water into a sickeningly steril environment with bright florescent lights and too-white walls.

No wonder he wanted to just stay in the water, and even when he was above he literally made a little wool cave thing to hide in :( it was so pathetic to watch and I mean that in the nicest way possible

[tovaicas]

tl;dr so much of estinien after hw is just a constant joke that overtakes actual nuanced content with him and I’ve had it

[thevirginslvt]

i gotta get this off my chest arggg

y’all don’t know but i’m a huge sonic fan and before that i’m an amy rose stan so it hurts that she most likely won’t be in this upcoming movie BUT

but— if this movie focuses on building Shadow’s character i doubt they’ll have enough time to fully cover everything without it being rushed. SO!!!1! i have the slight hope this movie will be divided in two, sort of like spiderman across the spider verse was. the first part focusing on the problem and the second on its resolution.

so if all is good and dandy and Amy Rose isn’t being the victim of another pinky-hater, there’s a very small chance her character will be further explored in the next next movie and so fulfill her role like in Sonic Adventure 2. or i’m just being delusional grr

[megkuna]

nothing i hate more than seeing lolita brought up over and over again in pro/antiship discourse. please free nabokov from this bullshit he would have hated it so much. it's such a nonsense set of arguments at this point. it merits no discussion. end of

(also it's almost always someone who has never actually read the book bringing it up ... lmao. name one (1) other piece of fiction involving problematic themes)

[bugcpu]

i think it's really funny how people just go on the internet and tell lies

[marshmallowprotection]

Do you think any of the Saerans would like spicy food? I can see Suit trying to prove he’s strong by eating a super spicy pepper or something and then just…internally dying

No. I've answered questions like this in the past, but it's always good to say it again.

I don't believe Saeran will be able to tolerate most foods due to the damage done to his body by the elixir. It will be harder for SE Saeran to tolerate most foods and liquids, and while the damage GE Saeran faces will be just as tough, his limit might be better in part thanks for the fact his exposure to the elixir isn't as long as it is in the CS/DP/SE timeline.

The amount of acidic erosion to his throat is nothing to scoff at. He's going to be put in a position where he wants to try all sorts of things now that he's free, only to discover in tears that the elixir has taken a lot more from him than he realized. Sure, in the game setting, they've glossed over some of this, but I won't gloss over this important detail because it's a part of his life now, and likely forever.

Spicy foods are a no-go for Saeran Choi. As are many other foods, and while his tolerance to spices and other such ingredients will vary here and there, there's no denying that he will have no choice but to watch what he eats to avoid a painful reaction. So, in my opinion, no spices whatsoever in Saeran's food. That doesn't mean it needs to be bland, but you can't go heavy on the peppers.

[wickedsrest-rp]

Name: Finnegan "Finn" Cooper Species: Empath Occupation: Self-employed Coder Age: 27 Years Old Played By: Hera Face Claim: Joe Keery

"I don’t mind other people. They can just be… a lot."

TW: Suicide (overdose), parental death, drug abuse

Being the oldest sibling never comes without a big tangle of strings attached. Finnegan, or Finn as he would later solely go by, used to be a pro at detangling every string. Even as a child, he could always step in and stop his brother’s crying or settle an argument between his two younger siblings. He seemed to innately know whether his siblings were tired, hungry or just cranky - a talent his professionally overworked parents were very grateful for. Finn was proud of his role as a young caretaker, if not a bit worn at the end of the day but: anything for family.  

Around the time he hit puberty, a difficult enough time in every young man’s life, Finn started to notice something new that had nothing to do with hormones. What had once felt like a gentle sixth sense when it came to emotions was now all encompassing. He didn’t just have an inkling that his mother was annoyed, he could feel what she felt, down to the strangling sensation of bottled up anger in his chest. Everything his peers felt, he felt - and in high school, there was a lot to feel. It was also around that time that Finn realized his father’s emotions weren’t just hard to read, they were blank. 

Despite everything, Finn still came through for his siblings. He felt his brother’s anguish at being bullied, dried his sister’s tears over a bad grade as he held back his own. Even made attempts to fix his mother’s bad mood, which didn’t register as ironic until years later, seeing as she was one of the top psychiatrists in the state. On good days, Finn could bask in his family’s joy and feel it for himself, especially on the days when his father emitted the tiniest twinge of happiness. On the bad days��

Surviving through the emotions of more than one angsty high schooler was overwhelming on most days, leading to bouts of missed classes and bad grades. Making friends, when he regularly had emotional outbursts set off by the cacophony of what everyone else was feeling, was hard. Finn wasn’t supposed to be home when it happened. His father had planned to be home alone, had planned for his wife to come home first and find him. The second sixteen year old Finn walked into his house, the overwhelming sense of numbness mixed with relief paralyzed him. And then there was nothing to feel. The few seconds of hesitation wouldn’t have mattered in the end - by the time the ambulance arrived his father had stopped breathing. He had made sure to ingest enough pills to finish the job. 

Everything was different after that. Finn's mother refused to talk about their father’s suicide, except on the nights when she had a few glasses of wine too many, admitting to Finn her guilt over having missed all the signs. At least she hadn’t known exactly what his father had felt and failed to step in. 

With the help of some prescriptions his mother insisted on, as well as the occasional ‘herbal remedy’, Finn managed to crawl his way through high school. After that, being around people was overwhelming, except for his siblings. They still needed him. So he worked the odd job here and there, helping his mother with the home and avoiding social contact at any cost. Until the word ‘empath’ finally popped up on his computer screen, explaining the last 27 years of his life in the blink of an eye. More research led him towards Wicked’s Rest, a small town just a short ride away from his hometown of Portland. He could go there searching for answers and still stay close to his family.

If some freak thing had been able to give him a connection to every emotion, surely there was something out there that could get rid of it. Whether that would leave him able to feel anything at all remained to be seen. 

Character Facts:

Personality: Caring, aloof, clever, defiant, sarcastic, irritable, pessimistic, supportive

Sometimes it helps him to write out what he’s feeling from others and even read into the scenarios he sees. Various books have been filled with descriptions and notes pertaining to this; some have even started to sound like short stories

Taught himself how to code through courses online.

Used to be part of the high school hockey team, and pretty decent at it too. Got kicked off the team after getting into too many fights after or during games. Lot of anger on those fields. 

Really likes graphic tees. 

[odessastone]

[bmpmp3]

when people complain about getting like, a 98% grade on something because it was "so close to perfect" its like. i understand what you're saying on a technical level. but that is a line of thought so far away from my experiences and ways of thinking that i do feel like im from another planet. 100% isnt even a real number to me

[calciumcryptid]

I don't know how to explain it, but Scylla from Epic the Musical: Thunder Saga is a VegasPete song. Particularly the coup on the major family, with Vegas as Odysseus and Pete as Scylla.

[akippie]

thinking about how when I was younger (pre feminism enlightenment) I used to daydream about being a woman in the 1950s/60s/70s (in sort of a glossified fake America in my head, based on media from those eras mushed together and ignoring politics or social issues) in order to get around the fact that it was a homophobic time period and that heteronormativity is a big part of the aesthetic (an aesthetic that nevertheless appeals to me)

I didn’t ever want to be a woman in an AGP way or actually want a female body or anything– it was just a way for me as a gay teenage boy in fairly deep denial to do enough mental gymnastics to fantasize about men and also to connect with an era of fashion/music/TV that I’ve always been kind of obsessed with

obviously that fantasy was operating under the false (imho) assumption that being a woman during that (insanely misogynistic) era would be better and easier than being a gay man.

I still encounter gay men who have this weird envy towards women that often leads to resentment and misogyny. I also think, anecdotally, that its a big factor in transitioning for homosexual TIMs. Like, I’ve grown out of that and when I think about my teenage self daydreaming and feeling jealous of women etc it makes me cringe… but I can recognize it when smn else is thinking that way, and logically I understand the train of thought.

[daydreamerdrew]

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