Name: Ione (eye-OH-nee) Kaiser

Nickname: Hush

Age: 21

Description: Ione is a pale, slim girl with an abundance of freckles on her face and shoulders. Her face is an odd mix of too big and too small - a large forehead with a small chin and blue eyes that are a little too big and a mouth thats just a little too wide. She usually wears her fine ginger hair pulled back in a ponytail, disliking the limp quality of it more than her sizable forehead. At 5'4" she hardly stand out and often finds herself feeling more than a little short, or that the world is just that little bit too tall. She tends towards comfortable clothes such as t-shirts and jeans with a baggie grey hoodie a size too big.

Powers: Silence manipluation - Ione's ability to cancel out sound can be used in differing ways. The first manifestation of her gift was the ability to become completely inaudible, able to move around without making any sound. She would later learn to extend this "silent zone" to greater distances - cancelling out all sound within. In practice, anyone caught within the "zone" are rendered unable to use sound, verbal or otherwise, to relay information. Like a double edged sword however, the same applies to her. If she is not careful, she makes herself vulnerable to sneak attacks and unable to summon help. With some experimentation, Ione found that she could concentrate her powers on another person. Doing so not only rendered them mute, but she found that it allowed her to mimic their voice perfectly. The effect lasts until she gives it up or if she finds a new target. She is unable to retain the voices of past targets.

Personality: Ione is pretty much a wallflower - scurrying through her day with little talk. She is used to being overlooked and is content with the fact, even if she secretly loves having people's attention on her. She is socially akward and finds it hard to have a conversation with people, which means that she tries to stay away from large social events as much as possible.

Ione listens more than she talks and finds that people often speak freely in her presence, either because they do not notice her there or because they know she has no-one to pass along any information to. Thus she learns more about the world and the drama around her by simply being quiet than by being an active participant. Even so, Ione intensely dislikes excessive noise and even curiosity can not keep her around a crowd for long.

For all that people may say that she is a polite, quiet girl, Ione can be very critical of people. She judges both other people and herself harshly, and can sometimes be hypocritical in her thinking. She hates that other people stand by and let people be bullied or abused, but lacks the strength and confidence to do anything about it herself. She relies on the strength of others, preferring to act in the background in a support capacity rather than deal with things directly.

History: Ione was not abused as a child, she had food enough and a warm bed. She has no siblings which brought the family count to three. Her mother was a quiet timid thing, made sure the house was clean and that there was always food on the table. Her father though was an intimidating man, not by stature, but by his very presence. Her father was also a quiet man, but his silences were oppressive and when disturbed , ignited his rage. Ione was never abused, but she had learned from an early age to move around unheard. Always she would hear her mother whisper into ear the old saying that children should be seen but never heard. Because while her father's anger never turned physical, the silence and tension within the house would get unbearable.

Considering how she grew up, it took her a long time to realize that her ability to move around in complete silence were not natural. As she hit puberty her powers became erratic and activated without any conscious decision on her part. A glass bowl slipping from soap slicked fingers would shatter soundlessly at her feet. Music playing in the shops would fall silent until she left. A phone would ring on the table next to her as she did her homework without so much as a peep.

Thankfully hers was a gift that was easily hidden, first because of her lack of a social-life and secondly because people rarely if ever noticed. On the down side, her power was hardly all that useful when wanting to help people. Useful perhaps for a life of crime, but that was not something she had any interest in. So she wanders the streets when she needs to escape the house and sometimes mutes small areas just to watch how people react when suddenly unable to make noise. The peace and quiet along with the truly amusing spectacle of people trying to figure out what happened while unable to talk entertains her until she needs to move on lest people actually figure it out.