Jace Murphy
Sept 10, 2013 11:06:52 GMT -5
Post by Jace Murphy on Sept 10, 2013 11:06:52 GMT -5
[/i][/size][/right]The Basics
Name: Jace Elizabeth Murphy
Nicknames: Jay, Jekyll (her cousin, Robby is the only one who gets away with that particular nickname)
Age: 15
Orientation: Homosexual
Desired Rank/Job: Student
Powers: Hydrokinesis—Her power manifests as an ability to control the shape and movement of water in contact with her skin. Currently she’s trying to learn how to control her power without the need of physical contact, but it’s not going well. When she exercises her power too much, she gets dizzy like a sailor who can’t shake her “sea legs.” She gets ferocious headaches during dry spells and tends to hunker down near water whenever possible during the summer months.
Play By: Celeb Claim Missy Peregrym
The Details
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Any Piercings? Ears
Any Tattoos? No
Any Scars? Small burn scar on her arm from an iron.
General Appearance: Jace shot up like a weed when puberty hit. She is taller than most of her friends, just under six feet. Her body is rather lean from years of recreational swimming, but she’s lost some muscle after spraining her ankle during spring break. Her face and shoulders are lightly sprinkled with freckles.
She’s usually a bit sloppy with her appearance, preferring to keep her hair long and letting it hang in a wild mess of soggy curls. Her school and play attire are similar—t-shirts and jeans. She wears her sneakers to literal pieces before replacing them. For Jace, the more comfortable, the better. She’s been scolded several times for running around campus in wet clothing during warm weather.
The only time she resigns herself to formal dress is when required for special events. She has only two pairs of dress slacks and a handful of “nice” tops selected by her mother.
Personality: Jace’s biggest problem is her mouth. She lacks any kind of filter which leads to many an awkward conversation. Later on, she looks back at those conversations and kicks herself for her lack of social etiquette. Being put on the spot or meeting new people makes her nail-bitingly nervous. During those times she is more likely to say something before she thinks it through just to fill silence.
Despite her poor social skills, she is usually quite friendly. She just wants to be liked, and will occasionally go against her personal beliefs to try and please her peers (She once flooded a science lab to get everyone out of class for the first snow of the year). She is always the first to offer to help, even to the detriment of her schoolwork. Usually by Sunday night she’s a haggard mess, trying to complete her homework assignments late into the night.
Dry weather puts her in a foul mood. She gets excruciating headaches which make her short-tempered. Most of her friends know to avoid her after more than a week without rain. During these times, she can be particularly passive-aggressive. All the pent up frustrations she usually lets slide by come to a head and she can and will start huge blow-out fights with friends and classmates who she feels take advantage of her.
Your Vices
Likes: Clean water, swimming, rain, biology, nature documentaries, violin, classical music, most water sports
Dislikes: Fishing, social studies, make-up
Strengths: She’s a very strong swimmer and possesses an excellent memory.
Weaknesses: She can’t do math to save her life. Simple algebra is the best she can manage.
Fears: Her biggest fear is being forgotten by those she cares about. She was an “oops” child, and she never really connected with the older brothers that she idolized. She followed them around from the time she could walk, but once they moved out she saw them on holidays and got cards from them on her birthday.
Secret: She keeps a ratty old stuffed bear in her dorm bed hidden under the covers. It was a gift from her brothers (given at their parents’ insistence).
Family Ties
Father: David Murphy
Mother: Allison Murphy, meta-human—hydrokinesis
Siblings: David Murphy Jr—29
Thomas Murphy—27
Any Other Important People:
Robert Greene—cousin (Robby’s the only kid her age in their family, so they’re practically siblings)
History
In 1971, Allison Rhodes arrived at Hammel Institute, sent their by her family when her ability to manipulate water became apparent. She loved the school and all it did to help her. David Murphy was a local, born and raised in Pine Ridge. The two met when Allison began attending the community college. They married two years later and began their family. The two boys came first, but Jace was an “oops” baby born over a decade after both of her brothers. Her father jokingly calls her the “Tequila Baby,” because that was cause of her conception.
Her parents both worked, but her father started working at home after she was born to keep daycare costs down until she entered school. Her mother spent most of her time at work, but was very affectionate when with her family. She made every game or race the boys had and then every game or race Jace had when she started playing, too. Her brothers were heavily into sports, so she mostly heard about their victories and rarely saw them outside of family dinners. To her they were like celebrities, always praised and adored by her parents, but utterly unreachable to her.
David Jr. is practically a stranger to her. He moved away to college before Jace could even talk. He’s more like a distant uncle if anything. When he came home for Thanksgiving break during his freshman year of college and tried to pick her up, she hid in her room for an hour before her mother finally coaxed her out with promise of ice cream. Of the two boys, she developed an attachment to Thomas the most. He was still in high school by the time she was old enough to start learning to play sports. He taught her to dribble a soccer ball and spared time at the end of the day to listen to her chatter about kindergarten.
But then college arrived for Thomas. He moved out, leaving Jace as an only child except on long weekends and holidays.
Around the time Jace entered elementary school, Jace’s maternal grandmother passed away and her mother’s older sister moved to Pilot Ridge with her family. Jace formed a fast friendship with her cousin Robby. Their birthdays were only a week apart, and they shared birthday parties all the way through middle school.
Athleticism had always been very important to her father, and he encouraged her to continue playing soccer once Thomas showed her the basics. She played on a rec league for six years. Once she hit puberty, though, the thought of sweating made her skin crawl. The only sport she could tolerate was swimming. When she started exhibiting abilities to control the movement of the water in the pool, she began winning races by laps.
It didn’t take long for an official from Hammel Institute to show up on their doorstep. Now she shared something with her mother that she couldn’t share with her father, something he still doesn’t fully understand. Her once-close relationship with her father shifted and strained. The week before she moved into the campus dormitory was full of squabbles and a fight that led Jace not to speak to him for six months. After four years, though, they’ve started to awkwardly rebuild their relationship. She taught him to text and now he sends her terrible jokes every day.
Around 13 she started to realize that she was gay, and confided in Robby only to discover that he too was struggling with his sexuality. He’d come out to his mother a few weeks before Jace spoke to him about her own misgivings and his home life was still a little touchy. He expressed envy in her power then. He believed that parents able to accept meta-human abilities would be much more accepting of a gay child than his mother was. Still afraid and unsure, however, Jace has yet to come out to her parents. She and Robby remained close after Jace moved into the dorms, and they would meet up on the weekends.
Since coming to Hammel, Jace has become more confident in her abilities, but not with her ability to keep friends. She still swims whenever she gets the chance, but she hasn’t tried out for the swim team because of her past history of cheating at the sport.
Roleplay Example
Jace wandered into science lab, wrinkling her nose at the lingering smell of formaldehyde from the previous week’s frog dissections. Shuffling along the linoleum in flip-flops worn almost all the way through, she made her way for the row of small tanks along the wall. She wore a teal shirt so vibrant that “obnoxious” couldn’t even begin to describe the effect it had on the eyes. The name of her father’s company was printed on the front, faded from thousands of washes. The logo on the back had nearly disappeared. Her jean shorts were in a similar state of decay, frayed along the bottom and speckled with paint on the left side.
After a few moments of searching for the Observations clipboard, she spied the corner of it sticking out over the top of the specimen cabinet. Grumbling, she reached for it, flipping to the sheet for her group. She fought the urge to roll her eyes at the sight of the blank page. Of course no one had come in to feed the small fish they’d caught on a field trip the week before. Already she could see that one was missing, and she eyed one of the larger minnows suspiciously.
“Did you do it, Gregory?” she muttered moving around the tank to count the rest. She reached under the table for the fish food and crumbled a few flakes into the water. She recorded the behavior of each animal as well as the untimely death of the missing fish. Dangling her fingers into the water, she created a current that kept Gregory in his own corner of the tank while the rest of the little silversides fed. A noise in the hall startled her, and she sheepishly pulled her hand out of the tank. The last thing she needed was to get caught potentially skewing their data. She dropped in an extra pinch of food and marked it on the page, then hiked her bag on her shoulder and headed for the dining hall.
What About You?
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Name: Az
Age: Mid-twenties.
Experience: I was a very consistent RP-er from ’06 to ’09, but I took an extended break because life got complicated for a while.
How Did You Find Us? Recommendation from Izy
Ready To Play? I can’t wait to start!
