Ethnic Group/Race/Species: Humanoid Traveller (daughter of Nyarlathotep).
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: Forgotten
Appearance: Jane Blackmore is a relatively tall girl that is almost always the third tallest in whatever room she happens to be in with people similar to her age, with mousy brown hair that nearly reaches her waist, and a somewhat pretty face. She have a sickly complexion on her face as if she was afflicted with an illness and she reeks of rotten eggs, spoilt milk, dead fish, and dried blood left in a barrel on a hot summer day because The Source moulds your external appearance based on healthy your state of mind is; she doubt she'll ever look healthy and smell like pine cones and flowers. She enjoys wearing dark-coloured clothing that are casual, fashionable, and yet also practical. Her form shifts into a dark, blind, eldritch abomination that bear some resemblance to her father whenever she gets overwhelmed with anger and/or negative emotions.
Other form abilities:
- Hovering (due to a lack of wings and the fact that time and space work differently in the Source; rather than say flying, it's more accurate to describe it as hovering towards a general direction at speed that's basically no faster than walking); basically what you think it is.
- Giant Claws; and I think it's pretty obvious what that entails.
- Despairing wail; a cry of anguish and terror so horrendous, it ripples through the metaphysical space of the Source, inducing pants-shitting fear and a cardiac arrest to all that are capable of hearing this horrendous screech.
- Tentacle Mabifestation; exactly what it says on the tin.
- Party Tricks; very good at entertaining kids and soulless creatures. A must-have for long term travels!
Personality: Jane Blackmore is a reclusive and paranoid girl who was recently accepted into Oxford University for outstanding academic achievements and as a part of the University’s new scholarship program for the mentally-disabled. She suffers from mild schizophrenia and frequently sees a psychiatrist for help with panic attacks, dizzy spells, hallucinations, voices in her head, night terrors, visions, and an irrational fear of fire...before, that is, everything happened.
Quirks: Oftentimes, she suffers from an inability of distinguishing reality from fiction, she often find difficulty in focusing on what is real and what is not real.
Likes: She enjoys reading and watching movies whenever she gets the chance to, there's something about immersing herself in a fantasy world of dreams and illusions that had always attracted her.
Dislikes: Fire
Family/Friends: Nyarlathotep (her biological father), and the Blackmores (adoptive parents)
Place of Residence: Forgotten
Education: College undergraduate of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
Profession/Skills: Student
Source Prowess/Imagination:
- Illusion creation; she has an innate talent of creating illusions so realistic that one can barely distinguish between them and the objective reality (think Inception, but magic).
- Illusion Control; the ability to control and manipulate illusions regardless whether she was the creator of said illusion.
- Eldritch power source; her power doesn't seemed to come from the same place as the others. It came from...elsewhere.
- Drain; the ability to drain energy from weaker/lesser beings.
- Mind control Immunity; anyone trying to sort through and control the mind of a half-insane demigod will realise that is the equivalent of eating three servings of deep-fried burritos from Taco Bell—It's gonna be messy and you're going to regret it.
- Eldritch Communication; now you'll never worry about the dreaded language barrier ever again!
- Party Tricks; very good at entertaining kids and soulless creatures. A must-have for long term travels!
Equipment/Vehicle/Companion:
- The voices inside her head, they are not always sentient, but when they are, they are extremely annoying and often have obsessions of their own.
- A Whippoorwill that appears at random intervals that will either guide her way or annoy her by pecking her head or screw up her hair by attempting to make a nest in it (not appreciated by, well, basically anyone); much like the Voices inside her head. She's not sure whether this bird is real or merely a hallucination that no one else can see.
- Fashionable clothing
- Duffel bag
- A Phone
- A wallet with her personal I.D. and money
Goal(s):
- To remember the things she had forgotten and get back to her family.
- Travel to the Daydream Beast's realm and ask it train her to control her powers.
- Find a place to stay.
- (maybe) Find a friend.
Backstory: Before her 4th birthday, she had lived in a happy and caring household with a set of Biological parents that she barely remembers. On her 4th birthday, she dimly remembers that they had decided to take her to a theatre, which, due to some event or another, burned down, killing her parents almost instantly as burnt planks of wood struck fatal wounds into her parents, nailed them into their seats, and instantly burnt them to a crisp as the oil lamps fell onto them and lit them up like a Roman candle. The specifics of how that happened was lost to her.
A year after that, she was adopted by an abusive household. They abused her both physically and emotionally on a near-daily basis. Her then-adoptive mother put out cigarettes on her wrists to torment her, while her then-adoptive father had physically abused her to alleviate stress; in short, they had treated her with the same care and dignity as a product that they bought with a discount coupon from a nearby supermarket rather than as their adopted child. They demanded unconditional love and familial bond through any means necessary. This unfortunately included violence, manipulative actions such as lying to preserve the status-quo, and ultimately psychological torture (e.g. solitary confinement) toward her.
When she was 6 years old, her adoptive parents had locked her in the basement for days on end because of some arbitrary reason or another, and during that time, she got sick. Very sick. She heard voices coming from nowhere, phantom pain that appeared and disappeared for no reason whatsoever, and she had saw the vision of a black man in his 40s smiling down at her with an amicable smile, and the man had gently tapped her on the forehead before disappearing. She wasn't sure whether that had really or just another byproduct of her delirious episodes, but she had since then saw the world...differently, and she realised that, out of nowhere, she became able to do things that she was quite was outside of the realms of human capabilities and she discovered that she is capable of creating illusions of things that does not physically exist.
On her 10th birthday, she was finally rescued from the hell she lived in by an group of social workers after her 'parents' slipped up, they had helped her take tentative steps towards psychological recovery and arranged for her to meet with the Blackmores.
The Blackmores had always wanted a family, but they had experienced difficulties in conceiving a child. Thus, they turned to adoption, and they were paired with Jane, a lonely girl who was distrusting of the world around her and retaliated towards anyone who was trying to help. The Blackmores had decided to adopt her, and show her love and affection; they had decided to support her through her troubles in the way by showing support and understanding for her difficulties in displaying empathy.
Even after more than six years of living in a happy and supportive household, her mental and emotional problems was still not completely alleviated, but rather buried deep inside her heart. She had never told anyone the specifics of what her childhood was like, and she was still not used to her adoptive parents’ kindness and displays of familial affection towards her.
Recently, she had been trapped in a plane of existence she had known as 'the Source;, she had forgotten some aspects of her past life, but, motivated by her desire to find out what happened and her fear of being, ultimately, left alone and abandoned by what little shred of her family that was left, she was on a personal quest to go and find out.
Flaws/Fears/Secrets:
- She was adopted by a loving family of two. They loved her greatly, and gave her a happy and supportive environment to grow up in, but she was not used to their love and affection, she had always expected it to come at a price.
- She had came from an abusive household when she was young and she doesn’t want anyone to know that she was ‘the adopted child', she had always been afraid of when other people will find out about this terrible 'secret’.
- She had since developed a strong emotional attachment to the Blackmores due to their love and gentle nature; but she’s not ready to show it yet because she’s afraid of showing too much emotions towards adults ever since leaving her biological parents behind.
- She’s afraid of embarrassing herself in front of others and, as a result, disappointing her adopted parents. She feels guilt for being such a burden to them for being riddled with schizophrenia and other debilitating disorders that had made her difficult to deal with as a child.
- She's lonely, she wants to find a friend. But her paranoia and antisocial demeanour prevents her from doing that.
- She’s afraid of fire.
- Athazagoraphobia. She’s absolutely terrified of being abandoned or forgotten. she had experienced losing her family before, even though they were abusive and poisonous people who had both physically and emotionally abused her before, she still viewed them as her parents before. She’s afraid something similar will happen to her again and she doesn't want that.
Name/Alias: The Voices inside her head
Species: Sourcekind
Gender: N/A
Age: N/A
Date of Birth: N/A
Appearance: N/A
Personality: Obsessive, meticulous, paranoid, and habitually annoying
Likes/Hobbies: Annoying Jane, playing mind games
Dislikes: Being the voices of reason, but ultimately will when things becomes too drastic and they're forced into the role of consoling Jane
Significant Other: N/A
Family/Friends: N/A
Place of Residence: Jane Blackmore's mind
Education: N/A
Profession/Skills: Tormenting others, good at persuading people, being annoying, time management, procrastination, interrogation, good at insulting others, paranoia inducement, giving bad advice, cooking.
Abilities:
- Evil whispering; a series of inaudible whispers that registers just outside the normal range of hearing for all creatures and subconsciously unnerves them.
- Insanity-inducement; anyone who become aware of the Voices inside Jane Blackmore will become permanently insane.
- Forbidden Knowledge; they known things and see to it that these knowledge remain in the darkest recesses of Jane's mind and hopes that no one will ever discover them.
- Stand out from the crowd
- See the world
- Taste good food
- Annoy Jane
- Get Jane to take off her shoes and socks
- Sleep
- Do things
Backstory: The voices of insanity that had been Jane Blackmore's ever-present companions for almost as long as she can remember.