Post by haydenripley on Feb 1, 2010 0:51:15 GMT -5
Hayden Ripley
Full Name- Hayden Ripley
Gender- Originally male
Age- 50
Date of Birth- January 24th, 1959
Sexual Orientation- Bisexual
Location- Texas.
Celebrity Claim- Steve Buscemi(Original self), Ian Somerhalder (Jack personality), Alexis Bledel (Samantha personality), Namie Amuro (Yoo Jin personality) and Keifer Sutherland (Maxwell Personality)
What should we call you?- Snow
Play anyone else?- Logan, Zoey, Harry, Tony and Luke.
Have You Read the Rules?- i need to tidy my room first.
Personality-
To talk about Hayden's personality is a lot like trying to solve a one million piece puzzle. It ain't easy and it's definitely complicated to see which piece of his mind fits with the others. Ever since a kid he had psychological issues, mainly caused because of his dysfunctional family.
His mother killed his dad in front of him when he was eight years old. He was about to hit her like he always did when she took a gun out of her purse and shot him in the head before he could touch her. This event was probably the most significant event in his short life and marked him for the years to come. Having met nothing but domestic violence until his 8th year of life, Hayden saw in his father's death a strange sense of peacefulness. And from that moment on, his mind simply doesn't see violence like everyone else would.
The next event that contributed into his broken psyche was jumping from foster home to foster home from age eight to age eleven. Hayden hated having to move, he hated change and he hated families that pretended to care for him even though they only pitied him. He hated the foster families and wished to simply be someone else, day dreaming constantly about leaving the foster families behind.
This hatred for his situation and this envy he felt about others finally kind of went away when his power manifested. Strangely enough, the opportunity to change his life presented itself in the form of violence. And once his power kicked in, it only brought more fracturing of his already fragile psyche.
Each person that he killed to steal his identity from that point on brought something along with them. Everyone of them had their own pasts and their own memories that ended up fragmenting Hayden's into so many pieces that it is impossible to know if you are actually talking to him anymore. From age eleven he started to show multiple personality disorder due to his power. Schizophrenia naturally, and other psychological problems that would drive a psychologist insane.
He goes through what he refers to calm periods. Which are periods of time where his life doesn't suffer major changes and in which he can find a sense of normality, however they are scarce, they however can last indefinitely, he has had from a couple of days to a couple of years.
Death never really having disturbed him, he doesn't find joy in killing but he does it if good things happen to him as a result of that death. Mainly the things he sees as good are getting a new life when the old one he was using turns troublesome. Though he has killed for reasons other than stealing an identity.
His sexuality is another point of his personality, due to his power and his constant changing of identities, he doesn't see himself as a woman or a man anymore. In fact he doesn't even recognize ages, he just is and doesn't care who is on the other side.
About identities, he doesn't know what he likes anymore most of the time, the different lives he has stolen have different tastes and something one liked, the other one might have strong feelings again, which is something that makes Hayden full of quirks from time to time depending to which personality is taking over him at the moment.
He has three main personalities that are active at most times. Samantha, which is the first identity he stole, she is one of his most recurrent shifts and also due to her very strong character tends to outshine his other personalities. Hayden himself, he is out mainly every time he sees violence, unfortunately for him his moral compass still resides in his own personality. Jack, some one he stole an identity from while in his thirties, he was by far the best personality he had stolen, strong, confident, extroverted and very social. However Jack tends to show up instinctively every time he's in a social setting as a defense mechanism.
In total he has not three but around forty personalities inside his head, all of them present at the same time in some form or another, and even though the three main ones are strong and they show up the most, it would be a lie that they are truly the original personalities since around 4 or 5 can be taking over his mind at the same time. Making it impossible to determine who is really who most of the time.
Another fact of his personality is that by killing so many times he has developed a sadistic persona, and not only he doesn't feel remorse any more but he sees killing like art, each murder is a new piece and each should be unique from the other.
This behavior which started at a young age could have initiated by psychopathy, which he was born with and which made his brain feel no empathy or remorse. Then it simply escalated because of his power into other mental diseases.
Likes-
- A very distinct fragrance.
- Living a peaceful life.
- Social connections.
- Art
- Red wine.
Dislikes-
- People that remind him of his father.
- Feeling emotional pain.
- Child violence.
- Rapists
- Unnecessary violence.
Strengths-
- Is a good liar.
- Is good blending into a crowd.
- Can learn any profession by touch.
- Has a great deal of cultural knowledge.
- Can appear to be really empathetic.
Weaknesses-
- Feeling unloved.
- His fragrance gives him away.
- Not remembering which memories are truly his.
- Personalities contradicting each other.
- Short tempered.
Skills-
- Communication skills.
- Forensic skills (from one of his personalities).
- Dancing skills (From Samantha, and other personalities)
Flaws-
- Multiple personality disorder.
- Schizophrenia.
- Migraines.
- Psychopathy.
Abilities/Powers/Skills-
Genetic Manipulation: By touch he gets all DNA information required and then his body is able to replicate the exact physic of a person at will. It's a painful process but he is able to replicate even to the minimum detail. Hayden's ability also allows him to not only shape shift himself, but by touch he can also shape shift other people, making them someone else he has already touched.
Memory Manipulation: Also by touch, he not only gets the DNA information of a person, but also all the information stored in that persons head. This process is directly linked to his shapeshifting because when he activates his power he absorbs everything, his DNA make up and memories alike.
The process where he absorbs the memories of a person turns the body of said person into an empty shell. Hayden would be able to return the memories into an empty shell if he really wanted it though.
Hayden is also able to also modify memories, shifting them at his will, removing them or putting someone else's memories inside someone's head.
Limits-
Genetic Manipulation: He can only shapeshift into human beings. He also gets all the genetic diseases that person has, if he shapeshifts into someone with cancer he'll get the cancer as well. He can't play around with his shapeshifting, meaning he can't fuse two DNA's to make a completely new person. The same limits apply when he shapeshifts someone else.
Memory manipulation: By using this power he also gets all the traumas and everything wrong with a person, all their phobias and psychological problems. He also gets to a point where he can't distinguish his own memories from someone else's. This power is what basically drives him more insane each time he uses it. Also each person he absorbs becomes a different personality for him, the persons living somewhat inside him.
He is able to play with someone else's memories, however he can't manipulate his own memories, meaning that he can't erase all his different personalities nor their different memories. A limit to his power is that he can't heal an injured brain, meaning that if someone has amnesia due to an accident, Hayden isn't able to get memories previous to the accident, nor restore the memories for that person.
Appearance-
His original self is far from good looking, however he only turns into his old self when in extreme psychological conditions, most of the time he likes to hide behind the people he steals identities from.
He usually has one look for a long period of time (about 5 months in average) but he has been known to shapeshift when escaping or other situations. The looks he is more attached to are Samantha (looks 22), Jack (looks 33), Yoo Jin (looks 26) and Maxwell (looks 45).
Since he knows that absorbing people damages his psyche more and more, any shift not involving changing his identity he tries to use one of his past identities. These are also the ones with more shocking memories and the ones he enjoyed being more than the others, so he often chooses one of those for various purposes. Hayden likes some colors more than others though, and in any body he is using he often wears black or deep blue and red. He also wears a unisex fragrance, which is characteristic of him.
Alignment- Villain.
Team Affiliation- Rogue Society.
Birthplace- Tallahassee, Florida.
Mother- Jane Ripley(In jail still), Civilian.
Father- Theodore Ripley, Deceased, Lung adaptability.
Siblings- Only child.
History-
Hayden was born in Tallahassee, Florida in the year 1959. As a young child he was born into the low class of Florida, in a predominantly Cuban neighborhood where a small white kid wasn't well received. Obviously Hayden had trouble adapting to the neighborhood and often got picked on by the kids of the block. One day when he was around seven he got beaten by some of the kids and went back home, his dad found him all bruised and bleeding and simply said he was disappointed that his kid wasn't man enough to beat some social rubbish as he called anyone not white. Then he proceeded to punch him and send him to his room.
When he was eight, his mother which was the only person in this world that he loved, did something he would never forget, after his dad coming back home after working at the gas station and proceeding to wanting to hit his mother, she took out a gun and told him that he would never lay a hand on her or Hayden again, shooting him to the head in front of a young and impressionable Hayden. Who was then forced to watch the policeman take his mother away and then getting him to social services.
Of course no one really wanting to adopt the ugly son of a wife beater and a murderer, he was forced to move to several homes in different towns across America. Mostly landing in homes that had adopted him due to the money they received from the adoption, leaving him malnourished and mistreated.
When he was eleven though, he landed in one of those bad homes somewhere in Alabama. However something was different here, at school he met a really nice and pretty girl called Samantha, whom he started having feelings for. However he was really introverted and simply looked at her from far away never even attempting to talk to her.
One day social services came and he knew they were here to take him to yet another foster home, he couldn't have this, he would be far from Samantha and he would have to move to yet another town and with another family which would only take advantage of him. As soon as he saw the government vehicle parked outside of his foster house he started running the opposite direction, running until he was out of breath.
He spent the whole night outside, it was a friday and he slept on an alley behind a garbage bin. Next morning he decided he needed to look for Samantha and tell her how he felt before they took him away. He finally arrived at her house, tired and dirty from his little camping trip the night before and asked for Samantha.
The girl came out although was unpleasantly surprised to see who it was looking for her outside. It was the creepy kid that always watched her from a distance. She asked him what did he want, and when Hayden told her to go take a walk with her crying she accepted out of pity. He told her about how his mother had killed his father and that the government was here to take him away and told her that he liked her. The girl unfortunately didn't react as he hoped and she simply said “Ew” and told him that she didn't care they were taking him away, that he was creepy and that she was glad she wouldn't be seeing him at school again.
Hayden reacted badly to that and did what his mother had done with his father, this was the only way he knew how to solve his problems, he pushed her to the ground, and the girl fell hitting her head against the ground, then got on top of her and grabbed a stone and then hit Samantha with the stone on the head one time, then another, and another until she stopped making a sound and a blood surrounded her. Hayden realized he was having a headache like he had never had, images flashing around his head, and then when they ended all that was left was the girls dead body and himself.
He stood there shocked at what he had done, and started crying, however he realized his voice sounded different, shocked for the second time he looked at his body and realized he was no longer him, he was someone different. He looked at his reflection in a nearby abandoned car and looked at himself, he couldn't believe his eyes, he was her... And those flashing images that he got while beating Samantha to death, they had been memories.
He remembered her birthday party last year, what his parents had given her, who her friends were, that she was afraid of spiders because one time they had bitten her and she had had a terrible reaction. He remembered her entire life. Scared he dragged the death body of the girl away into a cave, it took him several hours but it was a small town and no one had seen him, or rather her, dragging the body away. Once in the cave, he took her clothes and dressed up, and then went out to make sure he hadn't left a blood trail. Once he had cleaned up everything, he returned to Samantha's house, where her parents were expecting her and were worried.
Next day the police came asking for the young kid that had visited her, and Hayden passing as Samantha told them that he had beaten her and that he said something about taking a bus out of town so that he wouldn't get caught by social services. They believed her and some time after that he took some gasoline and matches and burned the body of the girl in the cave to leave no evidence of what she had done.
Hayden lived as Samantha for a long time, finding in her family a nice one, and making friends and being peaceful, being Samantha had been everything he had ever wanted as Hayden. She moved and entered college in the University of Arizona. There everything was going well until her senior year of college. Someone had caught up to her while at night with the intentions to steal from her and rape her. The criminal had been at the middle of the raping when Hayden was able to seize a knife he was carrying with him and stabbed him while he was too busy raping her.
It was then that Hayden knew her life was going to hell again, and so she knew she had to do it again, so she ran away to another city and sought someone she could take the identity from, failing the first few times, until she eventually was able to repeat what she had done with Samantha so many years ago.
The man was called Jack, and all his memories were also stolen, he had a nice life he was out of college and his life would be the perfect one to live as. So he killed the man and burned the body again, he knew how to do it now and he knew if the time came again he could do it.
He lived a couple of years in peace until another event forced him to change identities again, and then again, and again. Whenever something complicated he decided to try on a new life, it was addicting, except that every time he did it someone else appeared inside his head, a new voice, someone new taking over his body. He knew he was starting to lose his mind.
So now 50 years old, Hayden looked like someone barely on their 20's and changing identities every few months, he doesn't even feel bad for killing someone like he once did, and he enjoys the thrill of starting a new fresh life. In fact he has began to like killing people and now likes killing the next one in a completely new way.
Anything else?- As Samantha he studied Art history. Other people he has stolen identities from had other jobs and therefore he has acquired those skills. His memory absorption has given him massive migraines that don't go away with the shifts. He has never used his powers to change others, only himself so far.
Sample RP-
Hayden came to his new home, he remembered the life that this guy had had, but still it was something being able to remember it and another completely different actually seeing it. It was late at night and he knew his new wife would be asleep.
He entered the kitchen and took a glass, filling it with wine, that was one of the things that his time as Samantha had left him with, he adored red wine. He took a sip and left the glass half way done before going upstairs to his new bedroom. He entered, just as he remembered, except his new wife, she was way better in person than what this guy remembered.
He took off his clothes and joined her in bed, she had been asleep but as he entered she put her arm around him. “Good night Max” she said. And he simply smiled before closing his eyes shut and falling asleep.
