Post by Grace Harper on Jul 18, 2009 21:43:24 GMT -5
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Grace Elizabeth Harper
Full Name- Grace Elizabeth Harper/Reed
Gender- Female
Age- 28
Date of Birth- Febuary 22nd 1986
Sexual Orientation- Heterosexual
Location- New York City
Celebrity Claim- Jessica Alba
What should we call you?- Graceharper
Play anyone else?- Gwen Matthews, Abigail Andrews, Cassie King
Have You Read the Rules?- No and I never will
Personality-
Grace is a very friendly and honest person. She will tell you what she think's even if it mean's the possibility of upsetting you, her approach to honesty isnt blunt like many people,she tries to be honest in the nicest way she can, although that doesnt always work.
She is very tolerant, you will rarely ever see Grace angry, but when she is you will definetly know about it, like most people she does get annoyed but it takes a lot more to push her to snap.
She can be dedicated, driven, spontaneous, or cautious whatever the situation calls and allows for.
Grace is a natural leader, she like's to take charge and has been known to 'mother' other's that she comes across that and slightly bossy.
She's huge hearted and care's about other's sometimes a little more then she really should.
Likes-
- Honesty
- Bright Colors
- Long Walks
- Rain/Storms
- Long drives to nowhere specific
Dislikes-
- Liars
- Birds
- Mess and Clutter
- Spiders
- Arrogance
Strengths-
- Level Headed
- Confident
- Committed
- Loyal
- Calm
Weaknesses-
- Wears her heart on her sleeve
- Needy People
- Excessive use of her Ability
- Brutally Honest
- Bossy
Skills-
- Persuasive, she has a way of reasoning with others, even the most stubborn of types
- Fluent spanish
- American Sign Language (or ASL, Ameslan) is the dominant sign language of deaf Americans (which include the deaf communities in the United States, in the English-speaking parts of Canada, and in some regions of Mexico).
- Computer literate, she’s quite the wiz when it comes to technology mostly hacking systems and encryption codes
Flaws-
- She is very accident prone, shes extremely uncoordinated in her movements meaning she crashes into things quite often (clutz).
- Has a severe fear of birds, generally anything with wings.
- Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD), She was born with a hole in her heart.
Abilities/Powers/Skills-
Force-field Projection.
Graces primary power is, the ability to manipulate energy to produce Forcefields. The forcefield can be used as a type of barrier, She can mentally generate and project force fields of tremendous strength, which she manipulates for a variety of effects. The fields are able to repel solid objects, even those of great mass and momentum. She can generate these fields at a distance of several hundred feet so aswell as acting as a defense abilitie she can generate the fields in the form of attack by directing the field away from herself..therefore the shield takes acts as an energy source and colliding with a target, will produce a powerful blast.
Invisibility
Her secondary abilitie is to render herself invisible. Much like when creating her forcefields, Grace uses her ability to produce a form of energy that she can mentally project around herself rendering her invisible. It is a similar process to her forcefields.
Limits-
With every powerful forcefield created by Grace a lot of her energy is taken up, making her physically weakened to an extent and due to this the forcefields arent always as solid created as she had set out to do so.
Another down side is that she cannot use her forcefields and invisibility at the same time, she is only able to produce a certain amount of energy at one single time. Her ability to render herself invisible comes with a minor, more personal concern as at this moment in time she is only able to turn herself invisible, which means clothing usually stays visible..so to become entirely invisible would require being entirely, declothed.
Appearance-
Grace stands at medium height, of around about 5 feet 7, she has dark hazel eyes and natural dark hair which she often colours lighter, theres no real reason for it simply that she likes a change now and again.
Grace was blessed with naturally tanned skin which she get's from her spanish heritage.
She has a slim and toned physique, quite petite due to a small framed bone structure.
She is lucky as she appears to be naturally blessed with a fast metabolism meaning she can get away with eating most things, not that if she couldnt shed care as Grace cant live without the crap thats no good for you, she likes it far to much.
Alignment- Good
Team Affiliation- The Company
Birthplace- San Antonio, Texas
Mother- Roselyn Torrez
Father- Thomas Harper/Special - Electrokinesis
Siblings- Half Brother, Joseph Harper (Same Father)
Spouse- Husband, Michael Zyre
Children-Adopted/God Daughter, Ava Miller
History-
Grace was born in San Antonio, Texas to Roselyn Torrez. Grace was born out of wedlock and never knew her biological father, however her mother married Kevin Reed when she was two years old,so Grace called him her father.
Her family life was pretty average, she grew up in a middle class home where both parents worked to earn a living, Grace had no other siblings so growing up was kind of boring for her.
As Grace grew older she started to notice that she was going through some changes, not the changes that you'd usually go through when you come to a certain age..these were a lot different.
It was when Grace was 15 years old that she started getting to realise she had an abilitie. She had just finished school and arrived home like any typical teenager, at this time Grace didnt get on to well with her parents as she was just starting her rebelious years, where she didnt do a thing she was told and most of the time only spoke in profanities to them. Grace had upset her mother and when her father came home he came to her room to discpline her, she played the not my real father card and Kevin became enraged, upon trying to enter the room he found he couldnt actually get in an invisible force was blocking the door.
This eventually lead to cause her parent's to worry, but even though they realised that Grace wasnt like everyone else they never once turned there backs on her. They seeked help and guided her through her difficult time, helping her understand and in the process helping themselves aswell.
Because she got the help almost right away, growing up wasnt so difficult for her, by the time she'd ended highschool she could already control her abilities and therefore didnt fear that anyone would fine out,they all just thought she was normal like them.
Thing's were almost perfect for her but with good comes the bad and the bad certainly did come. One evening she arrived home to find her parents upset. Some people had arrived at there home looking for her, they knew everything about her and knew that she was 'different', they'd told her parents they would come back and that they would take her into custody.
With this warning, Grace's parents used the time they had to pack up their things and leave, they were not going to risk losing thier only child and moved away as soon as they could. After a few months of moving around, they finally settled down in Odessa, Texas where they now had taken the last name Harper her father's name.
The move and name change seemed to keep them safe and they were never approached by those people again. The name was never in there family, to Graces knowledge anyway so nothing could be traced back to them.
Grace was training to be a teacher in Odessa but when she got a job offer in Dallas, she had to jump at the chance and finally moved out of her parent's home. She moved to Dallas and started a new life for herself, unfortunately Kevin, her father, got sick with cancer and because he had passed off not going to see someone sooner, when he eventually found out it was a little too late. When Kevin passed away, Grace decided to move her mother upto Dallas with her where questions were asked regarding her real father's identity, the father whose surname her mother had taken as a way of disguise.
She'd expected her mother to keep her father's identity a secret, but because she hadnt asked up until this point it was never shared. Grace learnt that her mother was having an affair with her biological father whom possibly had a family at that time, Grace discovered that she had a half brother. She knew nothing about him, where to find him, so she really had nothing to search for. After hearing about her biological father though, Grace felt it was better left alone..he didnt sound particularly nice to know.
Anything else?- Grace has VSD, (Ventricular Septal Defect), A hole in her heart. Though surgery was an option at birth, Grace’s mother did not like the idea as she was given figures of the chance of complications and estimates regarding survival during the procedure.
As Grace got older the option arose again but once more it was declined, Grace wasn’t to fond of the idea that someone would be poking and prodding inside of her, it frightened her to much.
Though VSD is a very serious condition, Grace appears to get by just fine only having the symptoms to really show for it.
Sample RP-
Grace had just finished work and was driving back heading for home.
When she arrived on the highway, there was no surprise when she found herself in the middle of a traffic jam. It was the same every day around this hour when everyone on the road had just finished a hard day and were in a rush to get home, she wasn't one of those people. Grace hated being cooped up in doors and would find any excuse to get out even if that meant being stuck in a traffic jam.
Grace sat against her seat, her hands on the wheel waiting patiently for the traffic to start moving again, she let out a stretch and leaned over flicking on the radio. Hearing the famailiar tune, Grace began bopping her head to the beat and belting out the lyrics as best as she could, which wasnt all that good at all..she was completly tone death and had no idea what the words were, but that didnt stop her.
Soon the traffic began moving swiftly again. It wasnt before long that Grace was off the highway and on the busy texan roads. She decided to stop off at the store on her way home. Parking her car up in the car park at the local supermarket, Grace called her mother who was currenlty living with her to ask what they needed.
After being given quite a large list by her mother, Grace continued on into the market to pick up the grocceries. She pushed the trolley down the aisles and browsed along the shelves for her listed goods. She had no real idea where anything was as her mother usually did the shopping.
As she pushed her trolley down the aisle she found herself humming along to the supermarket music, the typical chiming tune that you hated but could never get out of your head.
Grace turned her trolley around the corner and stopped by a large display of can's. Abandoning her trolley she headed over to one of the shelves after spotting something that she needed. As she bent down to pick up her item of choice she heard some commotion coming from the next aisle, shrugging it off she picked up the item and headed off back toward her trolley.
Just as she reached it some little kid came running around the corner going wild with a trolley, his poor mother running behind trying to gain control of her small child. Grace chuckled lightly and placed what she had picked up in the trolley, suddenly the kid came darting right behind her, narrowly missing her and smashing straight into the can display.
She heard the crash and looked up as the cans began to topple over above her, It was like they were moving in slow motion..only they werent but the way everything happened it was like one of those slow mo moments you see in movies. Grace's eyes widened as the cans flew right at her. Squinting her eyes she held her hands up to protect herself, As she bought her hands up above her she created an invisible shield that when up caused the cans to bounce off and fall to the ground.
Luckily no one had been able to see what she was doing, the way her arms were positioned it appeared to other that the cans had bounced off of her. Having saved herself from being crushed by toppling canned goods, Grace swiflty continued with her shopping before heading to the check out.)
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