Jocelyn Freeman
Jan 30, 2015 13:22:39 GMT -5
Post by Jocelyn Freeman on Jan 30, 2015 13:22:39 GMT -5
The BasicsName: Jocelyn Camille Freeman
Nicknames: n/a
Age: 21
Orientation: Heterosexual
Desired Rank/Job: Local
Powers: Teleportation
In many respects, her power is quite simple. She thinks of a place, and then she is there. However, there are limits. She can only teleport up to 2 miles away at her utmost limit and it often leaves her feeling nauseous, forcing her to pace herself between consecutive teleportations. She is unable to take any other person or living thing with her and she cannot transport objects with her either beyond what she is able to carry on her person.
Though she has mastered her ability, times of great emotion can loosen her control and cause an intuitive teleportation, taking her to where she wants to be - in her case, generally to her family. If that place is outside of her range, she is teleported as close as she can get within that range. Unfortunately, this can often mean that she is transported to an entirely unfamilar place.
While she can teleport to places that she is unfamiliar with, doing so is risky and as such, she generally tries to avoid doing so. In such attempts, there is always a chance she will end up in the wrong place, or just an inconvenient place (like accidentally teleporting into the shower of a friend’s apartment… while it was occupied. An embarrassing story she refuses to talk about).
She can travel in a series of teleportation if her destination goes beyond her range, but the more she teleports, the more severe her nausea and the accompanying migraine will get. Often fatigue will last long after the other two side effects fade which forces her to consider using her ability carefully.
Play By: Stephanie Bertram RoseThe DetailsHair Color: brown (though she often dyes it blonde)
Eye Color: hazel green
Any Piercings? ears
Any Tattoos? none
Any Scars? none
General Appearance: Jocelyn is the sort of girl that people take notice of. Not only is she naturally beautiful, but she also knows how to look her best and she is seldom seen looking anything less. Her hair is naturally brown and tightly curled. While she wears her hair long and plays up her natural curls, she dyes her hair a golden blonde color. However, maintaining such a look is expensive and so it is not unusual to find her roots showing or even the only ends of her hair lightened.
She is mixed race - half white, half black - and as such exhibits features from both parents. Her skin is on the lighter side of mocha brown. While many a man has fixated on her full, lush pout, easily her most striking feature is her eyes. They are light and bright which is rather unusual for her coloring. In most lights they appear green, though with flecks of blue and amber in their depths, which hue shines dominant can shift.
Height also seems to run in the Freeman family, for standing at 5’9” Jocelyn is quite tall for a woman. Most her height is in her legs, a feature she loves to show off in shorts, skirts and dresses. Her figure is quite slim in most respects, though not in a girlish manner. She is not lacking in curves and she knows how to create an illusion of an hourglass figure.
It is important to note her style. Jocelyn always takes the time to put effort into her appearance, even her more casual looks. She is nothing if not a risk-taker when it comes to fashion often selecting provocative pieces that is revealing in some manner. She experiments frequently with makeup as well, often favoring bold lipstick and smokey eyes. Most importantly though, she is never seen without her signature manicure.
Personality: At her core, Jocelyn is a caretaker. She has always looked out for her brothers and done her best to mother them, even when they were spread far apart from one another. Family is everything to her. In her weakest moments, her brothers and her duty to them give her strength. In a surprise to no one, she is very good at the domestic arts and a little too good at nagging and worrying her brothers would say.
However, insecurity colors all of her life. She remembers all too clearly the taunts from her mother that she was worthless, and that feeling has always stuck with her. She is unable to clearly see herself because of this and is prone to minimizing her own skills and achievements. Likewise, she often blames herself for things far beyond her control. She holds a good deal of resentment inside, but aside from occasional moments of passive aggressiveness, she seldom shows her temper.
She is a very caring person, though it is more difficult for those outside her family to see this. She generally tries to maintain a rather aloof and distant persona around others, a result of the hard life she has led. She is reluctant to let people into her life, though her desperate craving for love and attention often causes her to misjudge people when they take notice of her. She is an extremely loyal person, though at times this has meant being devoted to those who do not deserve it, but can also get a little clingy at times.
Jocelyn is also fairly intelligent, though she would argue that her average grades say otherwise. Intellect has never been her issue so much as a lack of focus. She is easily distracted and tends to prioritize others before herself, whether that means putting her brothers first or putting men in her life on a pedestal. In her mind, she knows she isn’t worth the effort, so why try?
Her need for attention drives much of her actions and she has been known to take a few more risks than perhaps she should in seeking the approval of others. She is extremely suggestable which makes her quite vulnerable to manipulation by others, something she has fallen victim to in the past. Since she was a teenager, she has been a bit on the promiscuous side, and though it has burned her in the past, she still tends to act without thinking in regards to men, sex and romance.
While it is impossible to miss her sharp sense of style, it is important to note that it is extremely important to her. She cares very much about her appearance and is something of a beauty guru, though she would never think that way about herself. She has a very artistic side though she is quick to dismiss her art projects as silly doodles or a simple craft project. Jocelyn always wants to live in style, and with a next to nonexistent budget, that often means doing it herself. Rather than buying art for the walls, she makes it, favoring mixed media projects, though she would insist that they are hardly art, but as per usual she would be very much underselling herself.Your VicesLikes: coffee, cigarettes, spending time with her brothers, the color red,
Dislikes: feeling lonely, wastefulness, looking sloppy
Strengths: Beauty (makeup, nail art, hair styling), Art, taking care of others
Weaknesses: taking care of herself, need for approval, self-sabotage, terrible at parking, packrat
Fears: being abandoned and alone, her brothers getting hurt or in serious trouble
Secret: She's never told anyone, even - especially - her brothers, what her father did to her or that she refused to get adopted so they could all be together again someday.Family TiesFather: Darius Freeman
Mother: Michelle Hall
Siblings: Older brother Elijah (22)
Younger brother Rhys (19)
Younger brother Jayce (17)
Any Other Important People: noneHistoryLife at Banwell Lane was always tumultuous as far back as Jocelyn can remember. She was the second child, born just a year after her elder brother, Elijah. Their parents were ones that likely should not have had children, as they did more harm than good as parents. But as it was, they ended up having four children.
The Freeman house was one of dysfunction. Their parents weren’t often home and if they were they were usually drunk or high or fighting. Fists flew often in their household and Jocelyn learned young to throw herself between her parents and the others. She did her best to care for the younger children, but being only a child herself, there was only so much she could do. When her mother paid attention it was to berate her, telling her she did everything wrong. Worthless child, she called her. Her mother’s temper was bad enough but when her father was home and drunk… well, sometimes he paid a little too much attention to his daughter.
Still, Jocelyn never told anyone what happened at home. She might hate their parents, but to lose them meant to lose her brothers, so she said nothing, making excuses for the bruises to anyone who asked.
Yet despite how careful she was to keep the family secret, when she was 6, a social worker came to take them away from their parents. After that, their little family was fractured - no home would take four children after all, not even to keep a family together. Foster care was rough for all of them, if only because it kept them apart. Sometimes they would be lucky enough that two of them might be in the same home, or at least the same school, but often they were separated.
Jocelyn was a compliant child, so she didn’t change homes as often. Still, in such a populous area, the foster care system was overrun and sometimes things slipped through the cracks. It was her second home that made the strongest impression though. Jocelyn was there from the time she was 8 until she was 10. It was a nicer area, which unfortunately meant she was farther from her brothers. Still, they were nice people. So nice in fact, that after two years, they decided they wanted to adopt her.
But Jocelyn couldn’t leave her brothers. She couldn’t be in a family without them, and the Morgans only wanted one child.
After that she was relocated. The Jamisons weren’t cruel people, but they weren’t patient either. They ran their home like a prison with strict rules, and Jocelyn always seemed to be breaking them. It was one such night when she was 11 that caused her to manifest. She had broken a dish while she was washing them and so she had been locked in her room without supper. She was crying, wishing desperately to be with her brothers, when suddenly the world around her changed.
She looked up to find that she was in a dark, dank back alley that was entirely unfamiliar to her. Eventually it would be explained to her that where she was trying to go was beyond her range, so her newfound ability had taken her as close as she could go, but for now all the young girl knew was that she was lost, scared and confused.
So she did what every young child is taught to do. She found a police officer and asked for help. She was taken home and given back to her foster parents, who assumed the girl had run away through a window or some such and so they locked her in the closet to ensure she wouldn’t run away again. Jocelyn didn’t understand what was happening, but she knew she deserved the punishment. If she was braver, she would gladly run away from here and never look back.
The next day, a recruiter arrived to tell them that Jocelyn was a meta-human and she had to go to a special school to help her learn to control her ability to teleport. Jocelyn felt a bit confused then… She was glad to be leaving and yet… Vermont was so far away. She hated the idea of leaving her brothers behind. Still, she wasn’t given a choice which meant that she found herself at Hammel.
For a time, the school was a good place for her. She finally had a stable environment, yet the separation from her brothers was still difficult for her. She tried to stay in contact, but it was difficult to find where they were, especially Rhys who seemed to bounce from home to home so quickly. Luckily, over the years, all her brothers eventually developed powers and came to Hammel.
Though her lack of focus meant her grades never particularly improved, Jocelyn joined the art club and though she never thought herself much good at it, it was fun. It was the first time in her life she had ever really been able to have something fun, just for her.
But as she grew into a teenager, soon her focus became once more distracted. Being a pretty girl, she began to get noticed by boys around the time she was 13. By the time she was 14, she didn’t think about a whole lot else. The attention she got from boys made her feel pretty and she thrived off of it. If anything, perhaps she was a bit too eager though. She was easily used and discarded, especially by older boys.
When she was 16, she met Marcus, the 21 year old brother of a classmate. He came by the school to visit his brother and provide the alcohol for parties and it was at one such party that the two met. Soon they were dating, though it was a secret. After all, everyone would just say that he was too old for her and try to tear them apart. Jocelyn was easily swayed by his promises of love - that was all she had ever wanted really.
More than that though, he promised to take care of her. To make sure she never wanted for anything. He promised her the world, and like the naive, wounded girl she was, she believed him.
Their relationship remained secret for 2 years, until she was finally 18. Her birthday came soon after graduation - for all her mediocre grades, she did manage to graduate on time - and immediately after she moved in with Marcus. She was positively lovestruck. People tried to tell her that the 5 year age difference was too much, that there had to be something wrong. But she wouldn’t listen. He made her feel special, like maybe she wasn’t as worthless as she had always been told. So she ignored them all, even her brothers.
But living with someone reveals a good deal, and over the next year, Jocelyn began to see his darker side. She began to see more and more of a temper that frightened her. The sort of temper that broke dishes and put holes in the wall. The kind that made fists fly and her cringe, wondering how long it would be before he was lashing out at her.
The answer to that question proved to be about 10 months after she had moved in with him.
She had been working as a waitress at a run down bar at that time. When she went into work, one of the bartenders was quick to notice something was wrong. She had covered the bruise with makeup, but the swelling was still there to see. Mike wouldn’t let it go though. She shouldn’t have been surprised though. He had been hitting on her since she started working there 4 months ago, so she knew he was determined.
It took the entire shift, but he eventually wore her down and got her to admit that Marcus had hit her, though she tried to justify it, explaining that he was really frustrated with work and money was tight and he was upset because she had spent too much and overdrawn the account, so of course he got angry at her.
Mike seemed sweet, telling her that no matter what the reason, nothing was a good enough excuse for treating her that way - that she deserved so much better. She actually began to believe him. He convinced her to move out and leave, even offered to help her out. She didn’t want to worry her brothers and she knew that if they got involved things would only get worse.
So she took Mike up on his offer, crashing on his couch as she tried to figure out what to do. She hadn’t ever been on her own like this before. There had always been someone taking care of her, someone else she could count on. For the first time she was on her own and it was terrifying.
Perhaps it was because she felt like she owed him - after all, he had saved her from a terrible situation - or perhaps it was just because it was scarier to be on her own. She wasn’t really sure why, but after almost 2 months of crashing with him, they ended up being together somehow.
That relationship lasted for 2 years. In the beginning it was good. He cared about her happiness and he wanted to take care of her. But over time, he grew more and more possessive and manipulative. It was subtle and gradual - she almost didn’t notice really. He didn’t like her friends, so she stopped seeing them so often. He didn’t like the way guys always hit on her, so she didn’t go out so often. She wanted to please him and she didn’t see how he was controlling her.
It wasn’t until he started trying to keep her brothers away from her that alarms started going off in her mind. Her brothers were concerned about her, of course, but she had always written that off as just being over-protective. Especially after what had happened with Marcus. But Mike would never hurt her, she was positive of that. Yet she couldn’t handle anybody, even Mike, talking badly about her brothers, and she had vowed to herself that she’d never allow anything to separate her and her brothers again.
So again she left and this time it was to her brothers that she fled. Jayce was still in school, but Elijah and Rhys lived together. So it was there that she went. Of course they gladly made a place for her. She had also had to quit her job - she knew that if she stayed there, Mike would never leave her alone. So far she is still jobless and living with her brothers, trying to figure out just what to do with her life now.Roleplay ExampleSee Alanna Darlington, Zoelle Heroux, Talia Spencer, Sydney Emerson, Avery Fields, Chris Rossi, and Corrine Moliere.What About You?Name: Faraday
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