Age
17
Role
Teen Against Evo, Role #4
Weight
140
Height
5'8"
Hair Color
Brown
Eye Color
Dark green
Skin Tone
Caucasian; lightly tanned
Home City
Zues
Social Rank
Rank 7
Vance is a very uninvolved person. He prefers to look at the world through a digital screen, through data and technology. He doesn't care for the clearer view of seeing things with his very own eyes. He doesn't trust the world as it is. He doesn't even trust himself to see things clearly. He doesn't believe the world he sees is the truth because there's so many different ways to interpret things and so many different angles to look at that no single person could possibly see them all. Nobody can possibly know what another person is thinking with a hundred percent accuracy. Humans themselves aren't perfect at all, not even close. They're fickle creatures, always mixing and matching things, always changing their minds, always lying and putting on facades. Vance can't stand them. He can't stand that he can't understand them, so he turns to technology for the definitive answers he desires. Technology doesn't lie. If it breaks, it can be fixed. If it ages, it can be replaced. He likes that. He relies on that.
Because of his obsession with knowing the clear truth of the things around him, Vance has become a very reserved person. He doesn't really interact with other people unless he finds he has to and prefers the companionship of technology over that of another human being. He paranoid of others and being around them for too long can make him irritable or even more closed off than usual. If he finds a situation or a conversation undesirable, he'll shut himself out of it completely, sometimes even to the extreme of ignoring it entirely and pretending he can't hear the person speaking to him. When he does actually bother taking his nose away from his precious technological security blanket, he's a very blunt person, often showing off his selfishness for others and how little he understands sympathy or empathy for other human beings.
That isn't to say he doesn't have an actual personality, though. He might try shutting himself off from the things around him as often as possible, but he understands that doing it twentyfour-seven is unhealthy, so he makes the minimal effort when he believes necessary or just when he feels up to it. For the most part, he's just a whiny, lazy person who trusts himself over anyone else in the world. If he helps someone, it's most likely because he assumed it would be the smart thing to do and not because he actually cared about them. He's not the meanest person in the world, but his selfish nature makes it hard for him to be kind or caring, or even the least bit considerate. If he's in a room with a woman crying over her dead husband, he wouldn't hesitate at all to ask why the hell he had to come along to listen to this obnoxious lady cry all day. His real personality can be a little annoying and hard to get used to, especially since he's so unfriendly, but he's not the worst person to be around either.
Vance is pretty confident in himself and his abilities. He wouldn't be too stupid to jump into a fight that he'd obviously lose, but he wouldn't back out of one that's about 50/50 either. Despite his seeming intolerance for others, he still gets a kick out it when he can actually relate to someone or when he discovered he has similar interests to another person. With that person, he may even be willing to focus on them more often than his technological devices. However, he'll still probably be inclined to act sour towards them like he is towards anyone else, but his generally rude nature just stems from his lack of caring and understanding, and not to mention his lack of trust, towards others.
Likes
▶Technology
▶Money
▶Silver and gold
▶Games
▶Adventure
▶Learning
▶Music
▶Sleeping
Dislikes
▷Pain
▷Fighting
▷Nature
▷People
▷Retro
▷The Kings
▷Secrets
Esper Power
Thievery. Vance has the ability to "take" things from other people without actually having to touch those items, or having to physically grab them. Basically, within a certain, generally small range of area, he can "magically" take someone's object without them even having to notice it. If he sees that someone has a wallet in their back pocket, all he has to do is think about wanting it, and bam, there it is, from that person's pockets straight to his hands in the blink of an eye. Nobody else would even notice it--well, not unless they knew exactly what they were looking for, which isn't very likely to a normal, powerless civilian. He can't "take" anything from people too far away. For the most part, if they're out of his line of vision, he can't take anything from them, but if they are, then he could pretty much take the shirt off their back (literally) if he felt like it. He takes klepto to a whole new level.
Skills/Strengths
✤Light-footed. Vance has always had the innate ability to be quiet. He could tiptoe through water without making a single waterdrop of sound. He knows how to make himself unnoticeable, average. He's able to blend-in well with his surroundings and the people that may be around him. If he has to sneak around somewhere, he's able to do so skillfully and he rarely has any issues with being found out. If he wants to sneak a snack in the middle of the night, he'd be the last person to make the most noise doing so.
✤Adjusting. He's very good at adjusting to new, different, and unfamiliar situations. He's a pretty fast learner, but even if it's not something he can get a handle on, he still knows how to lay back, relax, and let it happen without freaking out about it or making matters worse for himself or for others. He's pretty practical when it comes to things, a handy guy to have around for various reasons.
Fears/Weaknesses
♡Lying. Despite what he does and how he is as a person, Vance is contradictorily not a very good liar. At all. He's not terrible at leading away from a subject that would inevitably end up with him either needing to lie or admit the truth, but when it comes down to someone trying to shake the truth out of him, they wouldn't have to try very hard or for very long. When it comes to most lies, whether they're big or small, he's pretty awful at them. He has many tell-tale signs of lying, usually his voice rising slightly in pitch, or him smiling nervously, or looking off to the side and refusing to meet the other person's eyes.
♡Physical contact. He's not a germaphobe, not by a long shot, and he's plenty used to being in a crowd, but one thing he absolutely can't stand is when someone touches him. He's moderately okay with cloth-to-skin contact, or cloth-to-cloth, but if someone's bare skin brushes against his own, he gets really agitated and starts scratching at the area that was touched. He refuses to shake peoples' hands. The only time this isn't an issue is when he's deeply distracted by something else, whether emotionally, or by his surroundings or by a situation happening at the time.
Weapons/Equipment
Sonic Gun. This is an average, medium-sized weapon that uses the physical force of wind rather than actual bullets. Since it doesn't need bullets or anything, it doesn't need to be restocked or refilled, and all it needs is just a little recharging every now and then, but not very often. This is a two-in-one weapon. The wind comes out through the wide, shield-like area and its force is strong enough to knock a full-grown man back at least a hundred feet. It can do some serious damage if it's shot into an object that hits another object. The second part of the gun, the tip, shoots out a fine laser-like beam, like any other typical laser gun can do. He doesn't have the desire to use any other weapons because he specialized this one himself, building the wind portion of the gun around an average laser gun.
PDA. This advanced piece of technology can be used as both a personal planner, portable computer, and a cellular device. Vance uses it to keep track of the things he's assigned to do and things he wants to do, as well as all the phone numbers of people he needs to keep in contact with. He uses it very often to play games on when he's bored or needs a distraction. It's really useful for being able to navigate around the city--since he lived in Zues, it kept him from getting lost all the time--and it can bring up profiles of peoples' personal information that can be used against them if necessary. It's an all around handy dandy device and he can be seen with his eyes glued to it a good majority of the time.
Biography
Vance doesn't really have any interest in talking about or thinking about the things that have happened in his past or with his family. When he was younger, his parents moved around a lot because his mother had a deep-rooted paranoia, an irrational, pathological fear that someone was following her and wanted her family. Her husband knew about this when they were together and was always convinced that he could be the one to change her and make her see the world in a better light. He loved her enough at the time to marry her and have a child with her, only one, and go along with her obsessive ramblings about how someone was definitely following them. Being higher up on the chain of intelligence, Vance's father made a good amount of money--enough to allow them to move every couple of months to a new, although usually small, home.
As a child, Vance never understood what his mother was going on about, but it influenced him in a way that made him think that people were bad. He started to assume that his teachers had other intentions and started to wonder if they might be the people his mother was always going on about. When he was old enough to start bringing it up, his father would always try to explain the situation to him and tell him that his mother was just a little different than other people and that he shouldn't take everything she said so easily. His father's worked for him well enough to get him through school, but he refused to make any friends, or if he did, they were never kept for too long. He felt that the longer people were around him, or the more they got to know him, the more suspicious they became. He simply couldn't tolerate them.
At some point in his younger life, his parents started getting into loud, heated arguments. His dad seemed to have wasted all the steam he had in him to put up with his mother. She would lose sleep at night or stand by the window all day long. She would always refuse to eat food she either hadn't made herself or that she hadn't thoroughly watched her husband make. Between his parents arguing and not having anyone he trusted to share his feelings with about it, Vance turned to technology. He started out playing little games and ended up getting overly involved in information, learning how to get into things he should never be able to get into. It became an obsession for him, a safe haven that shut out the crude, loud noises around him. It was a way for him to escape the things he disliked in his life.
When he was taken into experimentation, he accepted it without much of a thought. At that point in time, he'd stopped caring so much about his parents, and he didn't have any friends, so he thought it would be the perfect opportunity to get his hands on technology and devices that he wouldn't normally have access to. He was almost excited to be apart of it. When he heard about what was happening in the world outside the protective areas, a world he'd never thought that much about, he wasn't so much angry about it as he was curious. It was the first time something outside of his world of technology had managed to pique his interests and the last thing he wanted to do was destroy it, at least not without learning all he could about it first.
Other
If any of his devices are taken away from him without his permission, or while he's using them (namely his PDA), he'll throw a hissy fit until he can get it back. However, he doesn't really mind if something of his is broken to bits or if it suddenly breaks internally and stops working. The only thing that he'll get extremely upset about breaking is his PDA, which has information on it that would be nearly impossible to transfer over. It means the most to him.
Thoughts Towards Other Characters
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