Post by Seth Perry on Jun 14, 2023 15:50:38 GMT -5
WELCOME TO LOS EUROSIA,
Persephone Mae Thorne
"Careful creature made friends with time
He left her lonely with a diamond mind
And those ocean eyes"
BASICS
NAME:
AGE:
aged up: 22 (05/01/24)
BIRTHDATE: May 1st, 2002
PRONOUNS: she/her
SEXUALITY: heterosexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: it’s complicated
OCCUPATION: unemployed
NEIGHBORHOOD: transient
MEMBER GROUP: gifted (maybe future Blackstorm)
POWERS: Chlorokinesis
At a young age, Seth learned about the effect she could have on plants. Her mother is a botanist, so she was around vegetation of all sorts from the time she was born. She delighted in being able to make a flower bloom, roots take hold, and fruit ripen. Her parents, neither being gifted, were largely unaware of the feats their daughter was capable of, and she really kept the ability to herself and didn’t use it around them.
When she was in high school, she met Jason (currently 23-24 years old). He was gifted as well, and he taught her how to harness her power to protect herself. She could control plants, not just accelerate their growth. She learned she could quickly generate vines with sharp barbs and use them to protect herself from anyone who was trying to hurt her.
THE LOOKS
HEIGHT: 5’3
WEIGHT: 115
HAIR COLOR: red
EYE COLOR: green
FACE CLAIM: Samantha Cormier
OVERALL APPEARANCE:
Seth wears a lot of white, light grey, black, or pastel colors. She’s no stranger to floral prints and denim, feeling just as comfortable dressed down or dressed up. Generally lately, she’s in jeans or shorts with a t-shirt or sweater, with sneakers or flip flops on her feet. Her red hair is usually long and left down, or thrown into a high ponytail or bun when she wants to keep it out of her face. She’s covered in freckles, most prominent on her face, but also found anywhere she has been exposed to the sun. They fade or strengthen, depending on how much time she spends outside. She’s got light green eyes that seem to glow when the sun hits them just right.
INSIDE
LIKES: spring time, singing when she thinks no one is paying attention, parks with big open fields, gardening, sitting in the shade of huge old trees
DISLIKES: snow and winter, littering, being the center of attention, having to fight, being completely alone
STRENGTHS: resourceful, agile, quick learner - she’s had to take care of herself for a little over a year now, and she’s become quite the little thief when she needs to be.
WEAKNESSES: easily scared, unsure of herself, codependent, wildly unaware of the world, naive - she’s convinced there is danger around every corner, and she is quick to panic when a situation seems to be going poorly. She’s used to having Jason to rely on, and is easily manipulated into believing almost anything.
OVERALL PERSONALITY:
Seth is skittish and easily startled. She’s always looking out for someone trying to hurt her, after listening to Jason tell her for years that the hunters are after the both of them. She has a tendency to attack first and ask questions later if she feels threatened. She spends a lot of time in the parks, beaching, and forest. Nature is where she feels the most comfortable, and she is more likely to be at ease when she’s surrounded by trees or flowers.
BACKGROUND
HOMETOWN: New Haven, CT
FAMILY:
Jeremy Thorne - father/human - professor of mythology at Yale University
Bethany Thorne - mother/human - botanist
PETS: no current pets
HISTORY:
Seth Perry was born as Persephone Mae Thorne. The daughter of rich parents who both followed their own passions and had become a mythology professor and a botanist, she was surrounded by culture and plantlife from the day she came home from the hospital. Her father loved to wax on and on about the topics he was teaching his students, or blather on about in depth theories of the origin of mythos he found so fascinating. He gave his daughter several nicknames when she was young, knowing that his obsession had saddled her with a name that was hard for young children to say or spell. The nicknames that seemed to stick the best were Perry and Seth, and as she started school she took a preference toward Seth. It was close to what her mother was called, Beth, and she liked it.
When Seth was still in elementary school, she learned that she could make plants grow, ripen, and take root faster than normal. At first, she thought it was just a fluke. She’d done the lima bean experiment, and it seemed like it was growing a lot faster than she had expected it to. Her mother, a botanist who worked full time in the field, left Seth to perform the experiment on her own, not wanting to ruin the learning process for her. Seth never told her mom, but she started her own experiments in their backyard. Her mother was usually busy enough at work that she didn’t pay attention to any of the wild plants in their large back yard, anything she wasn’t specifically cultivating herself, so Seth had a lot of freedom when she was learning what she could do.
Her childhood felt magical. Her parents, busy as they were, never failed to impart how much they cared for her. She was sent to good schools, got the best education, and was put in rooms where she could make connections that were supposed to help her in whatever path she chose to take in life. She was spoiled, but she wasn’t a brat about it. She just never really thought about what life was like for those less fortunate than her, it wasn’t something she was aware of. Nothing bad touched her life, until she got to high school.
As a freshman, she met Jason Sturm. He was a senior, and everyone had a crush on him. Seth was in class with his sister, Jenna, and they got assigned partners on a couple projects. As Seth and Jenna spent time working on their projects, Jason took an interest in the younger girl. Jenna and Jason were from a family full of Gifted, and he noticed little things. Flowers bloomed when she walked by them, leaves on the rose bushes seemed a brighter green after she’d been there, the wildflowers were more plentiful.
Jenna had atmokinesis, the ability to affect the weather, and Jason had aerokinesis, the ability to control the air. Their parents were also gifted, with similar abilities, and they grew up learning great control of their abilities. Jason told Jenna he thought Seth was like them, and over time the three of them became friends. It was easy to hang out with Jenna and Jason, and eventually a romance budded between Jason and Seth. He was kind and gentle with her, and she trusted him completely.
It was Jason who taught Seth how to use her ability to protect herself and fight if she needed to. At first, Seth resisted the lessons, but he explained to her that if the wrong people found out about her gift, she could be in danger and need to know what to do. She believed Jason, but she didn’t know how serious it was until Jenna was attacked by a hunter shortly after the girls graduated high school. Seth still doesn’t know if Jenna was killed or abducted.
After the attack on Jenna, Jason and Jenna’s parents were found dead in their home. New Haven wasn’t safe anymore. Instead of preparing to start college for Seth and return for Jason, the two of them ran. Seth left a note for her parents, explaining that something bad happened to the Sturm family, and they had to go, and she would call them when she was safe. It’s been three years, and she’s only called them a handful of times, but when she’s desperate they will wire her any money she needs. They are worried about their daughter, and don’t know the whole story, but Mr. and Mrs. Sturm’s deaths made the papers so they don’t question the validity of the need for Seth and Jason to be on the run. Jason has access to his family holdings, but only accesses the accounts when they are traveling between cities so there is less of a paper trail of where he is.
They were heading to Los Eurosia for a while, hearing rumors about it being a good place for Gifted to hide out, but Jason was acting more paranoid than ever. Seth got a text from his phone the morning he disappeared, saying to meet him at a hole in the wall restaurant on the outskirts of the town they’d stopped in. She went, unsuspecting, and realized quickly it was a trap. A stranger started coming at her quickly, and she used her vines to trip him and cut him, then tied his foot to the bench nearby. It wouldn’t hold long, but it was long enough for her to get back to the suv they’d been traveling in and leave.
Seth continued on to Los Eurosia, hoping somehow Jason would make his way there as well. She’s taken to signing everything as “Seth Perry”, and she’s laying as low as possible. She spends most of her time camping out in the national forest, but she comes into town regularly to look for any sign of Jason.
Shortly after arriving in Los Eurosia, Seth had one particularly terrifying run in with who she can only assume was another hunter. She’d been careless, used her ability out in the open to accelerate the blooming flowers, desperately wanting to see something pretty and vibrant. He approached her and she panicked, attacking him with vines thorny and sharp enough to cut him deeply. She took off running, then realized he’d done something to her, now he was using her gift. She fled back to the forest and hid for days, relieved when she realized her ability had returned and wasn’t gone for good, even if she’d had a thought that maybe it would be easier if it was gone forever.
It had been a year. No sign or contact from Jason. Seth had stopped contacting her parents after he disappeared, afraid and unsure of what to tell them. She’s losing any hope that maybe he’s still alive, and she’s convinced the hunters are going to be after her as well.
THE PLAYER
NAME: Aimee
AGE: 34
TIMEZONE: EST