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twenty-one / f / athletic / 165cm / 62 kg / united states / #fdd017
a t t a c k / 3
d e f e n s e / 3
s p e e d / 2
d u r a b i l i t y / 2
f a m e / 5
n e u t r a l - g o o d
m o r a lxxa l i g n m e n t
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Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she found her family not in her parents, but in her ragtag group of friends. Monday nights they’d smoke by the window, Wednesdays they would drink on the porch, and if they’d saved enough money, they would hit the theaters once a month (and if they didn’t, well there was always the back door). Compared to her peers, she never saw herself as “hood” but supposes that she was who she hung out with. That’s where she drew her inspiration after all.
For that reason, she values her independence and the self-sufficiency that her ability affords her (even in the context of her squad). When she discovered her ability, she was training to become a student. She found that she could delay any pain or physical troubles she had during stressful moments and work at an unparalleled capacity, but it did little to assuage her personal anxiety. As much as she wanted to lead a new generation of writers, she had an itch for personal writing and a constant worry for her students after leaving the classroom. It seemed that despite her penchant for toughening her exterior, she still had a soft spot for the younger generation.
Making the decision to drop out of her program, she became a full-time writer and lived off the money she received from selling an old manuscript she’d written in high school. Her continued interest in writing and traction as a young adult novelist focusing on the disenfranchisement of Ability Users caught the eye of American IQ84 recruiters who suspected tracked her down from her pseudonym, S.E. Hinton. With the promise of money and travel, she headed to Yokohama and was assigned to Malory’s squad where she felt herself immersed in a new world.
At first she did not understand her squadmates and idly wondered whether it was simply due to hair color that she was stuck with Sylvia Plath. Where she was this bourgeois, edumacated girl, Hinton lacked the social grace necessary for formal meetings. Compared to Plath, Hinton felt like less of a knight and more of a bandit. Her answer only came, not in battle, but during the aftermath.
With bloodied hands and quaking legs, Hinton gave Plath a long, tired earful of how reckless and selfish she’d been endangering their mark for the sake of feeding off of his pain.
It was one of Hinton’s more protective moments to say the least.
As her time on the squad unfolded, Hinton realized that Malory had chosen her specifically because of her capacity for pain. Whether it was delayed or immediate, Hinton could take a beating while retaining her composure. She embodies the beauty of tolerance, of roughness, and of a scratched-up old Mustang. Like the sun her ability was named for, one can always trust Hinton to rise up.
Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.
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