BABBLE
Name: Lee Littles
Nickname: Babble
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Type: Born
Duration of Stay: Nine Years
Abilities:
Sound.
Almost everything to do with sound. From the vibrations to the way the mind interprets these signals, he rules the sonic domain with the power of his mind. He controls sound not with his vocal cords but with his sheer willpower.
He can produce a dizzying number of effects using his sonic manipulation. These effects are limited in a way very similar to how sound itself is limited. Like sound, his sonic effects grow weaker the farther away from him it goes. Like sound his powers are more powerful when traveling through thicker mediums than air such as liquids or solids. Using these principles Lee can not only produce sonic effects externally but internally as well. He used to be able to use sound to make his hand vibrate so fast that the edge of his hand could cut flesh and bone. His hands are gone now but he has learned how to use that particular technique in different fashions such as "Shuffling."
Shuffling is a technique he uses by using sound to vibrate his legs and then take a rapid series of short steps which allow him to move with extreme speed and precision. The speeds he can achieve when shuffling can come close to the speed of sound. Close but not up to, Wind resistance and friction serving as limiting factors.
At maximum vibration he can go from shuffling to hovering. When hovering he no longer needs to be touching the floor to move in the horizontal plane. He can prevent himself from falling any distance while hovering but he cannot make himself ascend any distance higher than he already is. Additionally unlike shuffling he has far less control of his speed and direction when hovering, like as if he were sliding on ice.
His power doesn't exhaust him unless it involves his body directly. When shuffling, he uses up as much energy as he would be running the same distance he's shuffled. Despite the efficiency of it, his power allows him to travel much farther and faster than possible for regular humans but that makes it quite easy for him to expend a lot of energy rather rapidly without even noticing. His appetite can become quite ravenous when this situation occurs.
Weaknesses:
- White Noise almost always causes great pain.
- He's learned to control it but without being able to control sound all sounds cause unbearable pain.
- He's got no hands
- He is afraid of glass
- Shuffling causes contact burns as a result of friction.
- Tuning Forks distorts his ability's effects.
- He's very frail and gets sick easy.
- Cannot turn his power off willingly.
- Most limitations sound has he also has.
Appearance:
His emaciated form is rather gaunt, making him very light and frail. Standing at only four feet nine inches tall and weighing only ninety eight pounds doesn't help either. He has perpetual deep dark circles under his eyes from a chronic lack of sleep. His short, straight, coal black hair is constantly disheveled and his grooming habits have suffered quite a bit ever since he lost his hands. His skin is a sickly pale white due to how little sunlight he sees on top of his malnutrition.
Generally he wears a standard patient's white shirt and pants because that's all he's given to wear.
One peculiarity to note is that ever since the incident back at the previous facility a year ago he never opens his mouth to speak. He almost never uses his own voice whenever he talks, always someone else's.
Personality:
He's nuts.
To say he is strange would be an understatement. When he talks he doesn't always stay on topic, often going into outright babble. He hears everything that is going on around him whether he likes it or not unless he uses his powers to counteract his passive sound reception. He has a fascination with the way words sound like they do. He puts little value in cooperation, only doing so if he must. He doesn't much value people's company either, seeing as how people have brought him nothing but misery.
For all the horrible things that have happened to him he's only concerned with the simple, childish things he's never got to enjoy. He just kids around and lives to enjoy himself. He holds very little actual malice towards people in general despite how little he cares for their company. Even though a lot of people have hurt him in one manner or another he's only ever killed one person with his sonic powers and that was a special circumstance. He usually restrains himself to simply incapacitating or dissuading his opposition with intensely painful sounds.
Above all else he loves the golden noise. When he is able to he just likes to sit in absolute silence, no sounds around. This is only possible for him by producing the golden sound, a sound which is so quiet it drowns out all other noises until all that's left is silence. The real effect of this is similar to a technique people commonly use. The golden sound is all sounds present played back at the exact same frequency. As the waves hit they cancel each other out, creating silence. All he does is constantly play all the sounds he hears back against the original sounds, eliminating both for sweet silence. One day he hopes that he can strengthen his powers to an extent where he can broadcast the golden noise across the entire world, drowning out all sound and putting an end to communication forever. He believes once people lose the crutch that is talking society can begin to be more honest with itself, expressing ideas and emotions through actions instead of words. Until then he simply practices honing his powers when he can, welcoming any opportunity to test his abilities and improve. If someone wants to get on his good side then they better be quiet. After all, silence is golden.
History: - Pending disclosure
Character Link: He can hear everything being said and done in the cell block when he's in his cell. Outside his cell he can hear throughout most of the facility.
