Echo Waverly [FINISHED]

[Echo Waverly]

The easy S T U F F . . .

Name: Echo Lucille Waverly
Nickname: N/A
Age: Eleven-years-old
Member Group: Student
Power(s): Power Mimicry - Currently, by touching someone Echo can mimic their power for a minute or two after touching them. As she trains, the length of time will increase. How well she can use a mimicked power depends on the experience she's had with it before. Of course, this also means that drawbacks depends on the power she is mimicking as well.
Play By: Ryan Newman

Let it F L O W . . .

Echo could easily be described as... complicated. Some days she could be the epitome of calm, cuddly, and loving, and would gladly curl up on the couch and watch movies with someone close to her. Other days she tries to hide under her bed all day. And yet other days she would sooner throw a lamp at someone's head than hug them.

However, this has not been true of her since the beginning, or even most, of her life.

As a baby, she was quiet and agreeable, if distrusting of strangers. Her parents were busy, both working full-time jobs, and also unstable maritally; just about the only thing they agreed on was love for their daughter. Echo was fairly well attached to both of them, but more attached to her nanny, Yvette, who consistently cared for Echo after the three months her mother took leave from work.

From the start, Echo was kept on a schedule, which her parents believed to be the healthiest thing possible for her. She woke at a certain time, ate breakfast with her parents before work, then Yvette arrived promptly at nine, just as dad left for work. The rest of the day was kept carefully structured as well-- from lunchtime, to walks, to playtime, to naps and, eventually, to school, finally ending with dinner with her parents, a bath, and eight-o'clock bedtime.

Echo took well to this, and by the time she was eight, would keep herself to the schedule on her own. Yvette took note of this, and also that Echo became increasingly frustrated when the schedule was delayed or messed up. When she voiced the worry to Echo's parents, they said she was simply going through a phase, and that she was building good habits by sticking to her schedule. All the same, Yvette began tweaking the schedule here and there, to allow for slightly less structure.

Despite her worry about Echo's behavior as it related to her schedule, she couldn't be surprised by it. From the start, Echo had been of the more nervous disposition. By age ten, she hadn't grown out of her distrust of people outside immediate family, and of course Yvette. Echo also had taken up some OCD tendencies, keeping her room carefully organized and not liking anyone to enter it, and arranging her food on her plate and eating it in a specific order. However, neither of these proved damaging, so it went unaddressed.

At school, Echo avoided people as much as possible, only making friends with the first person she spoke to each school year. Of course, this meant she often went the first day or two of school without talking to anyone, as she carefully gauged each and every one of her classmates and determined which was the most trustworthy. It was a painstaking decision, but she had determined it necessary, as friends were good to have for help and support at times. Yes, she made friends largely for the necessity aspect rather than the emotional support aspect, though in the process of her decisions she did end up with a couple of close friends.

As far as her teachers' opinions of her, she tended to be one of those students that stayed quiet, kept middle grades, and didn't draw a lot of attention to themselves, so her teachers rarely got to know her very well.

Despite her OCD tendencies, her nanny and parents considered things to be going well with her. She was learning, had friends, and was healthy. She wasn't the most active kid, and she absolutely dreaded PE, but it wasn't uncommon to see her scaling trees with great enthusiasm.

Then, at the age of eleven, her life took a turn. She felt different. Her parents, and even Yvette, said it was just puberty, that it was perfectly normal, and that she would get used to it. And well they might, as moodiness is a part of this transition. However, something felt very much off to Echo, and her moodiness became extreme. She held rigidly to her schedule, moreso than before, and was not above shoving or screaming at students at school who were unfortunate enough to jostle or otherwise annoy her. For the first time in her schooling, she began getting detentions.

After about a week and a half of this, during playground time one day, she bumped into a kid that, unbeknownst to her, was a telekinetic meta home for the summer. Irritated at the bump, but also completely un-intentioned, Echo shoved him off the playset—without ever setting a hand on him. As much as he insisted that she had done it, both his parents and Yvette had seen, what looked like to them, him loosing his balance and falling. Though he hadn't been hurt beyond bruises and scrapes, and though she didn't understand what had happened in the least, Echo insisted on sitting out the rest of her playground time, refusing to allow herself the playtime, but also refusing to break the schedule and go home early.

Not until they had returned home did she tell Yvette what had happened. Her confusion was met with Yvette's support and empathy, as always. Yvette convinced Echo's parents to let her take their daughter in for testing the next day, and it was then, almost two weeks after initial manifestation, that she was confirmed a meta.

Her parents met the news with denial at first, insisting their daughter was completely normal, and refusing the idea of her going away to Hammel. They insisted on a second test, one they were present at. It wasn't until the results showed a second time that they believed it—Their daughter was a meta. Much as they disliked the idea of her not being “normal”, they didn't fight her being taken to Hammel.

Echo met the revelation first with a mimicry of her parents' denial, then with an internal scorn of it being proved she had the power to mimic other powers. She did her best to talk anyone and everyone into letting her stay at home-- with Yvette and the friends she'd made-- but of course these were not fulfilled. However, Yvette suggested the possibility of her moving to Pilot Ridge. Echo's parents voiced no opinion one way or the other on the matter, and so Yvette promised it to Echo. Though she wouldn't be able to live with her nanny, at least she would have a familiar person nearby.

Echo has been at Hammel for about a month now. She still retains a mild scorn of her power-- often comparing it to a leech, or calling it unoriginal, and also has retained the moodiness that came with manifestation, hence her being described as, “complicated”. She also still has a great love of organization when it comes to her room, as well as keeping on schedule. She plans every moment of her day, and keeps three different calendars meticulously updated-- one in her room, one on her cellphone, and one in her backpack.

Finally, since arriving at Hammel, she has refused to speak to anyone but Yvette or her parents, opting for writing anything necessary in a notebook. Though this is partially in defiance of being sent to Hammel, it is also in part due to her habit of allowing the first person she talks to in a school-year to be her friend. As this is a completely new environment to her, she is taking an even longer time than usual in deciding on who to trust enough.

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Age: Old
RP Experience: Looong time
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