Name
Alice Ender
Nickname
Alice, Ender, ... (feel free for your character to make up their own for her)
Age
17
Ethnicity and Hometown
London born and raised.
Alice's mother is Caucasian English; her father, assumedly, is not.
Sexuality
Bisexual
Power
Wound transferral:
Dreist Freshman
Alice Ender
Nickname
Alice, Ender, ... (feel free for your character to make up their own for her)
Age
17
Ethnicity and Hometown
London born and raised.
Alice's mother is Caucasian English; her father, assumedly, is not.
Sexuality
Bisexual
Power
Wound transferral:
- Alice can transfer pain, injury or illness partially or wholly between herself and others. She can naturally sense pain, and with focus can also detect other injuries or illness.
- Transfers occur instantaneously leaving one host as it occurs in another. A physical wound will become hot and the air wavers, the injury vanishes, appearing in the same instance on the other host's body preceded by once again by heat and wavering air. Transfers may be held ‘in stasis’ between hosts with control and consequence on Alice's part.
- Alice has a minor healing factor, only slightly better than human, and it tends to focus specifically on more severe injuries.
- Alice does not create pain or injury, only transfers it.
- Her powers are greater with proximity or physical contact, but can be done at a distance with focus.
- She can’t perform transfers directly between two separate individuals but may use herself as a conduit to achieve the same results.
- Pain transfers are easier but in general transfers only work with another human host, as a transfer to or from different living things requires greater understanding to adapt the injury.
- Holding a transfer 'in stasis' requires focus, control and energy - increasing with the severity of the transfer and how long it is held. It may cause Alice nausea or even loss of conciousness in some cases. When a physical wound or illness is held in stasis pain usually can't be, unless the wound or illness is very minor, and the process itself my cause pain.
- Transferring wounds from the dead will not revive them and once transferred to Alice can not be returned to the original host.
- Old scars can't be healed as they are considered 'part of the body' and not a foreign injury.
Dreist Freshman
Appearance
Alice Ender often looks like she's either going to kiss you or kill you with the smirk she tends to where on her lips. Her eyes, usually traced with dark liner, are a bright blue that sometimes seems grey or green in certain conditions. She a little bit shorter than average height and possesses a lean body. Her hair falls just past her shoulders, is a dark red-brown, and more-often-than-not is on the messier side.
Dark, comfortable clothes are Alice’s preferred choice of attire; things like a leather jacket, a hoodie or baggy sweater, loose shirts, singlets. Jeans are a regular piece of her wardrobe unless the weather allows her to flaunt her long legs in short. She likes to stomp around in boots or converses.
That’s not to say the Alice doesn’t clean up nice. If the occasion calls for it she can strut her stuff in heels and a dress without any reservations.
Special Marks
No piercing, no tats, no distinguishable birthmarks, but Alice does have a number of fading scars, not all of them her own; from grazed knees or knuckles and the odd scratch or cut, to the bullet hole scar on her left upper arm below the shoulder.
Occupation:
Being a freshman Alice doesn't have a job in the village but she would like to get one since she is financially self-reliant. Otherwise she is willingly to use her powers to make money.
Alice Ender often looks like she's either going to kiss you or kill you with the smirk she tends to where on her lips. Her eyes, usually traced with dark liner, are a bright blue that sometimes seems grey or green in certain conditions. She a little bit shorter than average height and possesses a lean body. Her hair falls just past her shoulders, is a dark red-brown, and more-often-than-not is on the messier side.
Dark, comfortable clothes are Alice’s preferred choice of attire; things like a leather jacket, a hoodie or baggy sweater, loose shirts, singlets. Jeans are a regular piece of her wardrobe unless the weather allows her to flaunt her long legs in short. She likes to stomp around in boots or converses.
That’s not to say the Alice doesn’t clean up nice. If the occasion calls for it she can strut her stuff in heels and a dress without any reservations.
Special Marks
No piercing, no tats, no distinguishable birthmarks, but Alice does have a number of fading scars, not all of them her own; from grazed knees or knuckles and the odd scratch or cut, to the bullet hole scar on her left upper arm below the shoulder.
Occupation:
Being a freshman Alice doesn't have a job in the village but she would like to get one since she is financially self-reliant. Otherwise she is willingly to use her powers to make money.
Likes
Hot chips. / Hot black coffee with plenty of sugar. / Scribbling. / Boots. / Testing people's patience and just generally being annoying. / City lights reflected on water. / Making a mess. / Autumn leaves. / Night air. / Partying. / Trees. / Chocolate. / Humming. / Being helpless.
Dislikes
Causing innocent people physical harm. / Pain. / Feeling guilty. / Prissy-ness. / Broccoli. / Being vulnerable or helpless. / Ungratefulness. / Animal cruelty. / People who harm themselves or others for no reason. / The effects of smoking. / Having cold toes. / Petty-ness. / Hospitals
Fears
Death. / Cockroaches. / The power thrill of hurting people. / The pain greater than thought. / Transferring brain illness or injury.
Secret
Alice is responsible for killing Samuel O'Grady.
Personality
Alice Ender is a girl who is often smiling, or glaring, or both. In the part of London she grew up her dark looks and the rumour of her powers allowed her to form a somewhat menacing repute for such a small and smiley girl, it allowed her the freedom to roam without fear of harassment while her powers ensured that she could defend herself should that fail. Alice is defiant and bold, smiling even through pain, and at times unsettling people. She is sarcastic, and blunt, passionate and a little bit selfless. It might not always be clear to others but her moral compass generally points north, she is harsh but fair, and sympathetic to the suffering of others.
Despite the recent recent trauma in her life Alice appears flippant and almost unaffected. In truth she still grieves and is burdened by the guilt of her actions.
Hot chips. / Hot black coffee with plenty of sugar. / Scribbling. / Boots. / Testing people's patience and just generally being annoying. / City lights reflected on water. / Making a mess. / Autumn leaves. / Night air. / Partying. / Trees. / Chocolate. / Humming. / Being helpless.
Dislikes
Causing innocent people physical harm. / Pain. / Feeling guilty. / Prissy-ness. / Broccoli. / Being vulnerable or helpless. / Ungratefulness. / Animal cruelty. / People who harm themselves or others for no reason. / The effects of smoking. / Having cold toes. / Petty-ness. / Hospitals
Fears
Death. / Cockroaches. / The power thrill of hurting people. / The pain greater than thought. / Transferring brain illness or injury.
Secret
Alice is responsible for killing Samuel O'Grady.
Personality
Alice Ender is a girl who is often smiling, or glaring, or both. In the part of London she grew up her dark looks and the rumour of her powers allowed her to form a somewhat menacing repute for such a small and smiley girl, it allowed her the freedom to roam without fear of harassment while her powers ensured that she could defend herself should that fail. Alice is defiant and bold, smiling even through pain, and at times unsettling people. She is sarcastic, and blunt, passionate and a little bit selfless. It might not always be clear to others but her moral compass generally points north, she is harsh but fair, and sympathetic to the suffering of others.
Despite the recent recent trauma in her life Alice appears flippant and almost unaffected. In truth she still grieves and is burdened by the guilt of her actions.
History
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
Alice’s parents were together only a short while and it wasn’t until after they parted ways that her mother, Kate, realised that she was expecting. Alice’s father had left Britain by then and her mother chose to raise the child by herself.
Alice was a bright and energetic child, bold and adventurous, always getting up to mischief and enjoying the company of others. At age six she started to complain of various pains. At first her mother dismissed it, but soon she grew concerned as Alice started to become more reserved. People felt at ease in the young girl’s presence because her powers were beginning to manifest; Alice was unwittingly drawing away the pains of others onto herself. Her mother took her to a doctor but they couldn’t diagnose the cause of her complaints. It was suggested that perhaps it was simply attention-seeking behaviour; her mother disagreed and allowed Alice to take mild pain-relief medication. This treatment helped ease the burden for a while but it was not a healthy long term solution. Alice even at a young age didn’t want to worry her hard-working mother and soon stopped mentioning the pains.
Eventually, through simple will, Alice learned not to absorb others’ pain unintentionally. She figured out how to be aware of it without transferring it to herself and imagined pain in her mind’s eye like lights within the outline of a person; the brighter the light the greater the pain. Still, she always knew when her elderly neighbour’s bad knee was playing up or when her primary school teacher had a migraine.
Her first wound transferral was an accident that she almost didn’t notice. Alice was playing with a friend when the other child grazed their knee. The two of them fussed over it and Alice pressed a tissue on it. When her own knee began to hurt she assumed that she’d simply transferred her friend’s pain. Then the tissue was taken away and it was revealed that her friend’s knee was now unblemished, but if there was no injury where was the pain Alice still felt coming from? It turned out she now had a grazed knee of her own.
At the time the two young children dismissed the strange occurrence but Alice mentioned to her mother in her habitual retelling of the day’s events. Kate didn’t really hold much stock in the tale, but over the years similar incidents occurred, and with the growing evidence she inevitably had to accept the idea of her daughter’s gift. Alice herself recognised now that she had some sort of power and worked to understand it herself. She ended up with lots of little injuries that she’d transferred from other people, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose.
Once thing she never learned to do was transfer to others. Partly it hadn’t occurred to Alice that it could be possible, and partly, at the age she was, a person’s powers tend to more harm to themselves then others. It wasn’t until she was nine that this changed.
A boy in her class was teasing another girl near her, Tessa, when Alice told him, none too kindly, to step off. He smacked her hard with a ruler while the teacher’s back was turned, and in a sudden surge of indignant anger she accidentally used her powers so that he ended up the one with a great red welt on his arm instead of her. All three ended up in the headmaster’s office, tight-lipped, unable or unwilling to explain what had occurred. Alice had discovered another side of her powers. This side-remained mostly unexplored for a time as Alice felt rather guilty inflicting even the tiny injuries on others simply to sate her curiosity. With the use of a sewing needle, she did find out that without the emotional trigger it required a lot of focus to perform an injury transfer from herself to another, pain transfers were only slightly easier.
Over the years Alice’s mother had dated a few guys, but it wasn’t until Alice was almost eleven that Kate started going out with Tom. He was a nice guy, Alice thought; he made her mum smile and brought her flowers. He didn’t hog the tv remote, or yell a lot, and he actually acknowledged Alice’s existence without disdain. He smiled, and talked to her, but best of all, he was satisfactorily wary of her and she knew it.
Now Alice had never really made a particular effort to conceal her powers but it wasn’t information that she advertised. Nevertheless, it was something that some people knew about, but didn’t really talk about, and weren’t always sure they believed.
Tom, being a local to Alice’s part of the neighbourhood, had heard some of the rumours and wasn’t sure what to believe. Sitting across the table from him one night, while Kate was on her room getting ready to go out, Alice appraised her mother’s suitor with a gaze that made him fidget uneasily in his seat.
“Tom.”
“Yeah?”
“It’s true.”
“What is?”
The young Alice smiled sweetly in a way that didn’t touch her eyes. Some of the rumours were exaggerated and not all of them were about her taking away people’s pain and injuries. It was impressive how menacing a slightly shorter-than average, almost-eleven year old girl in her pyjamas could look when there was the possibility that she could hurt you with only her mind.
“Be nice to my mum, okay, Tom?” she advised.
“Yep,” he answered a bit quickly.
That was the only time the two of them ever discussed her powers.
Alice became close friends with Tessa De L'Arbre, who, it turned out, was a plant empath. In high school Alice found she could make money transferring away people injuries or pains. She discovered that she could hold injuries or pain ‘in stasis’ and detect not only pain but internal injuries or illness.
Kate and Alice ended up moving in with Tom, and Kate had a baby boy when Alice was thirteen. She didn’t begrudge them, she still got on well enough with Tom and she doted on her baby brother, but Alice preferred to hang out with her best friend Tessa or work on her powers, just generally exercising her independence, rather than spend time playing house with her growing family.
Alice’s bullet scar is from transferring the fresh wound from a cashier she witnessed get shot in a robbery.
When Alice received her letter from Eltz Academy she did not immediately accept. Her issues with authority and arrogant over-confidence in her control of her abilities meant that she put it off until she was seventeen. A few weeks before her birthday she and Tessa were in a car accident where they hit a tree; Tessa was killed on impact. Alice tried to transfer away some of Tessa wound’s. Not only did it not save her friend but the moment Alice received the injuries her own body’s survival instincts immediately rejected them. The killing wounds were forced into stasis causing Alice excruciating pain and to her horror she found she couldn’t return them to Tessa's lifeless body. When another driver came to help her she was beyond thought, Tessa's killing wounds which she was holding in stasis as well as all of Alice's own wounds were transferred to him. She blacked out and he died. Later medics couldn’t explain how Tessa De L'Arbre's remaining minor injuries had killed her, or how Sam O'Grady, a driver not involved in the accident, had acquired his fatal wounds. Alice Ender woke in a hospital bed a day later completely unharmed.
Not two months later Alice used her own savings to make the trip to Eltz Academy.
Family
Mother - Kate Ender
Mother's Partner - Tom Campbell
Half-brother - Luke Campbell
Pets
A potted cactus named Gus.
Theme Song
Teenagers - My Chemical Romance.
Anything Else
My favourite flavour of ice-cream is cookies and cream.
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