Post by Katie Graushuper on Aug 19, 2023 19:59:59 GMT -5
WELCOME TO LOS EUROSIA,
Kaylee Cassandra Graushuper
"so you’ll forget the vision that they didn’t wanna see"
BASICS
NAME: Kaylee Cassandra Graushuper - "Katie"
AGE: 29
BIRTHDATE: April 10th, 1994
PRONOUNS: Female
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single
OCCUPATION: Walgreens employee, third shift; 10:30pm-7:00am
NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown
MEMBER GROUP: Gifted
POWERS: Clairvoyance:
Katie has the ability to see pieces of other people’s lives. These visions can include the emotions of the person, smells, sights, sounds, and similar feelings. (For example, someone getting punched, she would feel like she was getting punched.) When she has a vision she experiences bouts of dissociation slightly before, at the beginning and after the episode. Once a vision fully takes hold, she no longer experiences things from her own perspective, rather that of the subject of that vision. Her visions are painful and headache inducing. They make her nauseous afterward as well. She often collapses when she gets a vision. They can last from a few seconds to multiple minutes. Headaches often last longer than the other side effects. Katie takes aspirin and other painkillers (occasionally she will take antidepressants which tend to work better). However, these really only blur her visions even more, and numb some of the pain. If she stops taking medication, her visions become clearer and more painful.
Potentially, with some training, Katie could hone her abilities to see particular people or times(?).
She is currently unaware that she has any supernatural ability. She believes that she has depressive type schizoaffective disorder.THE LOOKSHEIGHT: 5' 5"
WEIGHT: 120 lb.
HAIR COLOR: Dark brown
EYE COLOR: brown
FACE CLAIM: Hannah Marks
OVERALL APPEARANCE: Katie can usually be found wearing a loose jacket and plain clothes. She has bad posture, as a result of constantly bending over to read books or watch videos. She fidgets with her hands a lot when she’s nervous or bored. She tends to smile more than frown. Katie avoids eye contact with people who intimidate her. Her demeanor is usually very friendly and curious. She looks approachable, as long as she doesn’t have something making her anxious.INSIDELIKES: Katie really likes to listen to music, especially on CDs. Some of her favorite bands are Cute is What We Aim For, Yellowcard, and Relient K. She likes to read books, mostly non-fiction. She spends some of her free time watching Youtube videos on first aid and medical procedures. She likes sappy romance movies, too. She loves her bike. Katie likes to play the drums and she thinks she's getting good, but she can handle criticism.
DISLIKES: Katie doesn’t care much for violence, and she could do without ever getting into a fight. She tries to avoid confrontation, physical or emotional. She doesn’t like politics, either. She hates it when people chew with their mouths open. She refuses to eat apricots. Katie thinks it’s really weird when people intentionally rip their jeans. She hates it when people mispronounce her last name like “grasshopper”.
STRENGTHS: Katie is earnest and genuine. She tends to stand her ground in an argument, though is usually terrified the entire time. She can be stubborn and isn’t easily persuaded. She can act carefree and laugh a lot even when she’s afraid or anxious. She tries her best to be nice and make good impressions. She tries to avoid putting her burdens on others. Katie has a fair amount of knowledge regarding medical procedures and treatments (all garnered from youtube videos). She picks up new skills easily. She can play the drums, and was in band at middle school and highschool before her episodes started. She is smart and well educated, mostly from books and the internet. If she doesn’t know the answer to something, she will do everything in her power to figure it out.
WEAKNESSES: Katie can be manipulated relatively easily if the correct things are drawn upon. She struggles socially with other adults. She can be too stubborn at times and once she draws a fully formed conclusion is not easily swayed, even if she’s wrong. She hates lying but does it anyway, despite the moral anxiety she experiences. She seeks validation, but is afraid that she doesn’t deserve it when she gets some. Katie doesn’t know how to drive. She has never fought anyone or been in mortal danger. She refuses to ask for help, even when she needs it.
OVERALL PERSONALITY: Katie is a really bad liar and somewhat socially awkward. She tries to be considerate, but is a bit fed up with people’s shenanigans. She laughs easily and is pretty lighthearted; at least usually.
She rambles a bit when she talks and says things before thinking. She doesn’t really know how to talk to other adults, and actually feels more comfortable with very small children. When she feels physically threatened, she will throw up. She is pretty conflicted and is afraid she’s going to mess up. Katie doesn’t really know whether or not she’s safe to be around. She doesn’t want to be trapped inside an institution, but she keeps on doubting herself. She almost went back to the institution, but she doesn’t want to waste what Juliet did for her. She thinks she has to see this through, but she still feels uncertain. Katie doesn’t really let people see this side of her, and doesn’t want anyone to know how crazy everything got.
She is more angry at her parents than she would like to admit. She feels neglected, and despite wanting to forgive them, she can’t seem to think of them without anger lacing her thoughts. She deeply misses Avery and feels as though she abandoned him. She regrets not doing anything more for him, or getting to know him better (if she could). Katie wanted at first when she was released to contact him, but convinced herself that her parents would never let her. Later she acknowledged that part of that decision was her anger and grudge that she held for them seemingly having erased her from their lives. More than she’s willing to admit though, is that she’s afraid. Afraid that Avery hates her, afraid that he doesn’t even know who she is, but mostly afraid she’ll ruin his life. Instead she opts to ignore his existence (even though she feels guilty about it when she thinks about him) almost as well as her parents ignored her’s.BACKGROUNDHOMETOWN: Irvine, CA
FAMILY: Katie has parents whom she hasn’t had contact with in many years. But her brother, on the other hand, well, that's kind of complicated now.
PETS: Katie only ever had a goldfish when she was six, but she accidentally killed it.
HISTORY: Kaylee Graushuper was born on April 10th, 1995 to Rachel and David Graushuper. Katie was raised as an only child in Irvine, California. She had supportive parents and good grades. She lived in a middle class household and had a pretty stable friend group. She wanted to be a doctor, and help patients who were sick and lonely. Around her sixteenth birthday she had her first episode. She collapsed on the ground at a friend's birthday party. She screamed and yelled about the ocean and a storm. The vision itself lasted only a few minutes, but she was crying for a long while after that. She insisted that what she had seen was real, that she felt it. The friend whose birthday it had been didn’t talk to her again. Similar instances like this occurred over the next few months until her parents took her to a doctor. Katie still insisted it was real, which would later work to her disadvantage. The doctor said she had some kind of mental condition. Her parents were more and more weary. They always looked like they were expecting something. Always talked in soft voices they thought she couldn’t hear. Katie spent more and more time alone, and in her room. She had to keep going to the doctor to do tests and such. Her friends stopped talking to her. She stopped going out after school. Her grades dropped.
After she turned seventeen the episodes became more frequent. She was told she had depressive type schizoaffective disorder.The doctors started to say it wasn’t safe for her or anyone else if she was on the streets alone. She never learned to drive. She eventually was forced to leave school and stay home. She spent most of her time in her room, listening to music, drawing, reading, and learning what she wanted to on the internet. Katie’s parents grew further and further away from her. By the end of the year, her mother was pregnant again. It felt like a replacement.
Katie didn’t want to have a sibling; she didn’t like it. Soon though, she realized whoever came out of the hospital would be her blood. It wasn’t the baby’s choice. It was her parents. They brought Avery home from the hospital with all the love new parents should have. Katie loved her brother, even if she didn’t see him much. Katie felt the tension rise. She felt so unsure. The next few years passed in a blur. A little while after she turned nineteen, the episodes became more and more frequent and intense. During a more violent vision, Katie found herself fighting for her life. She lashed out, and hit her father. Not too long after there was a decision made. She was to be committed to a psychiatric ward in a specialized facility. Fancy name for an asylum.
Katie left for Los Eurosia. She really only had the heart to say goodbye to Avery. That was the last time she saw or spoke to any of her family. She was checked into the facility. For four years she lived with a roommate who barely talked and not much to do but read. When she was twenty-four she got out of the hospital for a few months, living with a friend of one of her doctors, but pretty soon she started having severe episodes again and had to return.
This time she had a new roommate. A cynical depression patient named Juliet. It wasn’t as bad as it sounded. Julie and Katie formed a strange friendship that only grew in strength. Julie insisted what Katie saw was real, even though Katie herself no longer believed that. She told Katie that she didn’t belong in a place like this and that Katie would actually go crazy if she stayed forever. For a while Katie would just shrug and laugh it off, she was intensely certain she had a disorder. If she didn't, everything wrong with her life would have been a lie. Katie, though she thought herself selfish for it, began to see what Julie meant about going even more crazy in this room. When she responded in seriousness to Julie’s jests, Julie grew extremely dedicated to the idea of tricking the doctors into believing Katie no longer had episodes. Julie received antidepressant as well as sedatives to help her sleep, and she devised to have Katie use them for a few months in order to make it look like Katie was sane. Katie was worried she couldn’t do it, but Julie said she’d take care of it all. Katie may have fallen into a possibly dangerous stupor, but in the end it worked. Katie left the ward. She swore to Julie she’d write. Julie got one of the doctors to use some of her savings from before her depression got bad to buy Katie a bike as a present. Julie might never admit it, but she cared, and listened when Katie said she missed riding. Katie was afraid to room with any doctors she knew in the case that they noticed her episodes returning.
Katie is out in Los Eurosia.THE PLAYERNAME: Faunatic
AGE: Old enough
TIMEZONE: CDT