Sew: During the first couple years after Devoraâs death, Boydâs mother refused to buy him new dresses. So in order to make himself and Devora happy he learned how to sew different kind of clothes. This came in handy for when he was on long camping trips or traveling.
Cook: Boyd, for the sake of seeming girly at times, learned to cook. He began using his motherâs cookbooks, then gradually moving on to trying new things on his own.
Endurance: Thanks to hiking trips and eating right, Boyd has learned to work on his endurance for a long time; most of the time he didnât even know he was doing so. A few times, being dressed like a girl, larger men would chase him for long periods of time, but his endurance is what saved him, most of the time.
Hunting: It is not his favorite thing to do, but he has the patience for it.
Knowledge: Learning new things comes quickly to Boyd. You can show him once and he can pick up on it.
Nature Lore: Since Boyd loves to travel, hike, and so on; he has learned the plants and the animals that surround him. This skill gives him the knowledge of such things as edible and poisonous plants, healing herbs, and signs of unnatural danger (such as unusual quiet, absence of normal plant or animal life, atypical animal behavior, etc.).
Acrophobia- fear of heights
Allodoxaphobia- fear of opinions
Ceraunophobia- fear of thunder and lightening
Chi: With the martial arts that he learned from a younger age, and still practices, it provides him with extraordinary strength, speed, durability and reflexes.
Mediumship: Ever since his sisterâs death he has been able to see and talk to spirits. For his parents sake he went to Dr. Hynd and played along. It is hard for him sometimes because a lot of the spirits that died in the war come to him.
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Sister
A couple years later as time went by it was surely known that anytime Devora would get hurt Boyd would be the one to cry. One day, at the age of seven, as they were playing outside Devora and Boyd went on a little adventure in the woods that bordered their yard. Devora was the first to climb one of the old trees and bugged Boyd to climb up with her. He was unsure about this, having an ill feeling wash over him. He begged her to come down as he got to the first branch. The ill feeling grew more and as he looked up long white hair brushed his cheek. He heard a thump with the russiling of leaves, when he looked down his eyes watered and he curled up on on the branch, feeling the pain wash over him.
The next few months left Boyd numb and cold. Devora was in a coma and doctors worked furiously at trying to cure her. A year had gone by and none of the doctors could figure out what had caused her to suddenly collapse. Boyd had been at school when he felt it, he fell to his knees. The air in his lungs seemed to disappear and his heart broke. Boyd had felt half of him die. He didn't need to go to the hospital' he didn't need to see his parents crying; he had already known Devora had died.
Boyd never went to the funeral; instead he stayed home and cried in his sister's closet. A few days after the funeral Boyd found himself in his sisterâs room; he felt like half of him died along with her. He undressed and slipped his sisterâs favorite dress and twirled around. Boyd looked into the mirror and realized that in some way this made him feel like he had his sister back. From that day on he would come back from school and dress up as his sister. He refused to make friends, scared that if he did he would lose his sister again.
Boydâs parents became seriously concerned and brought him to a psychiatrist, having nothing else to turn to. He was seeing his psychiatrist, Dr. Hynd, up until he was fourteen. He helped Boyd learn that he could still have friends and memories of Devora, but he had to realize that she was dead and gone. Boyd still dressed up as Devora, even became to the point where he would go out in public. People started to talk so his parents shipped him off to his grandparentâs old him. There he met his friends Roman and Calliah, the only two who knows that he is a male.