Violet Turner

[Violet Turner]

Name: Violet Turner
Age: 19

Power: Psychic suggestion. She can influence the minds of her peers within a ten foot radius. Her effectiveness is inversely effected by the emotional turbulence of the people around her. Meaning: while she can psychically suggest everyone in her class look out the window at the same time so she can slip out she wouldn't necessarily be able to calm a panicked crowd.

She can extend her range by fixating on one person but her effectiveness is determined by the individual's personal resistance, the serenity of the environment surrounding them both and her own ability to concentrate.

Personality: She is shy and eager to be liked initially, though as she grows more comfortable within the framework of a social environment she tends to mirror the demeanor of her companions slightly.

She will often find some odd pretense to approach strangers in the hopes of striking up conversation and potentially forging a friendship. However, because she is operating outside of her own comfort zone, these attempts can sometimes go awry and she has been known to use her powers to distract from her conversational mishaps.

Description: Violet's aesthetic preferences tend to shift wildly from day to day. Her approach to fashion is more akin to costuming then any real design sensibility and so her look can shift from the standard 'black trousers, black shirt, black armwarmers, black eyeliner' goth attire to Sweet Lolita (alice in wonderland, kawaii etc) and back in the span of a few days. Because she is shy, she tries to project a more confident exterior through the use of odd accessories (such as panda ear headbands, lion backpacks etc) with varying degrees of succees. Though she usually regards her odd clothing as a sort of social armor she often finds herself acutely uncomfortable in her more outlandish outfits after a gaff.

Physically she is slight of frame, pale with long, dark brown hair. Her eyes are brown but she does utilize colored contacts from time to time.

Background: Violet was the only child of two upper middle class parents. Although neither of them exhibited any sort of mutation, they were very accepting and encouraging of her ability and pushed her to develop it further.

Her control is not what it could be due to the late revelation of her talent. The unobtrusiveness of her skill set allowed her to hide its existence for many years and so, she has a fair bit of work to do before she is of any real use.

Worried over their child's discomfort and anxiety in social situations. Her parents pressured and cajoled her into enrolling at Xlu in the hopes that being around similarly-abled people might imbue her with more social grace. Whether their hopes will be realized remains to be seen.

[Samantha McManus]

I would just like to verify: this is influence rather than control, correct? She's giving them a nudge towards a given action, rather than full-on puppeting?

[Violet Turner]

Absolutely. Like say she were wanting an individual to look left she might try to suggest the individual read a nearby flyer or create the impression of movement in that direction (not true hallucination, more like the drag at the corner of your eye when you are very sleepy).

So were the individual she's trying to influence intent on watching something ahead rather then the direction she would like them to look she wouldn't necessarily have an effect. However, if the individual in question is more suggestible, tired, day-dreamy, then in that scenario she'd have a much higher degree of success.

I suppose a clearer example might be: she can plant a seed of suspicion in someone's mind but she can't make them accept suspicion as fact and she certainly can't make anyone act on said suspicion.

[Samantha McManus]

I think that addresses my concerns with the application of the power then.

Approval 1/2

[Will Stanton]

Yeah, let's give this a whirl!

Approval 2/2