Post by Logos on Oct 27, 2012 18:09:35 GMT -5
Name: Amelia Ferenczy
Age: 8
Monster: Child molesters and other creeps who prey on children (see bio and video below), and "Gus," (Man in Black/Slenderman type, see video)
Appearance: (click to watch: she's not the man in the thumbnail pic, lol)
Personality:
Amelia likes to dance, skip, play jump-rope, and make sculptures with modeling clay. She is sweet and gentle. When she is happy, Amelia is the embodiment of cherubic innocence. She is also timid, unable to fight back against the bullies that seem drawn to her. Being deaf/mute, she cannot cry for help.* Buried inside her, hidden from all but her victims (see below) is a deep reservoir of hate and pain. She usually carries an old doll (always a child, never a Barbie-type adult or teenager) of the sort that can be found in trash or bought for pocket change at yard sales and thrift stores. The time always comes when she disfigures the doll...then it is replaced by another and never seen again.
Bio:
Amelia was an only child, doted on by her parents through her infancy and toddler years. When it became apparent that she was deaf and mute, her father started to take a special interest in her, increasing as she grew. While his eyes lingered in places they shouldn't, Amelia started seeing enormous white glowing eyes watching her from her closet or shadowed corners of her room at night. She would run to her parents' room screaming silently, begging in sign language to stay with them.
Then one night shortly after her fifth birthday, Amelia's father volunteered to sleep with her in her room. That's the night she discovered a terror greater than the 'Tall Man.' "My perfect, perfect girl," her father had said as he slid his hands under her nightgown. "I've been waiting for you for soooo long..." Her soundless screams went unheard. When at long last she dared to defy her father's threats of terrible punishment for her and her mother, her mother refused to believe her. Instead, she told herself that Amelia was just having bad dreams, imagining things like the huge-eyed monster in her closet.
Amelia stopped going to her parents for protection from "the Tall Man." Instead she began to fantasize about him coming out of the closet to seize her father and drag him away into his world of shadow and terror. In time, her fear of the Tall Man transmuted into a kind of love. Since only she could see him, he was hers alone, and he came to represent her only hope. Over time, his presence became stronger, more concrete. She began to have intuitions that she felt were communications from him--that if she 'invited' him in the right way, he would come, and give her the power to make all of her fantasies come true.
Following her feelings, she went to a thrift store and bought an old doll. Keeping it hidden from her parents' sight, she patiently tortured and disfigured it in her father's place. Hearing her father's footfalls coming up the stairs one night, she set the violated doll on her bed and lie in wait. Creeped out by the sight of it, he became angry and lunged at her. To Amelia's astonishment, when she tried to shove him away with all her feeble strength, he flew across her bedroom and slammed into the wall. Don't let him get away. You know what to do.
Amelia's mother was awakened by her husband's terrified screams, and the sounds of a violent struggle. Not daring to go face the intruder, she called 911. The few articulate words he managed to cry out made no sense. They were desperate pleas for Amelia's mercy. By the time police arrived, there was silence from Amelia's bedroom. They burst in, finding only the little girl in bed, looking at them with wide eyes, blankets pulled up to her chin. Neither her father nor the disfigured doll were anywhere to be found. Her window was shut and locked from the inside, with no signs of forced entry elsewhere in the house.
Asked about what happened, Amelia signed that 'the Tall Man got him.' When her mother explained that 'the Tall Man' was an imaginary monster in Amelia's closet, the police psychiatrist decided that she was projecting her fear of what she'd seen onto 'the Tall Man,' and the case went unsolved. Amelia's mother began to blame her for her father's disappearance, and even started hallucinating glowing eyes staring from her closet. Sometimes she would get a look from Amelia that would chill her to the bone.
Amelia started slipping out at night, prowling the New York streets and Central Park...hunting. Somehow, child predators were drawn to her, choosing her as their target. Two by two, predators and mutilated dolls disappeared from the world as we know it.
Amelia was admitted into psychiatric care, and when her mother had a nervous breakdown, placed into the foster care system. Due to her odd and potentially dangerous behaviors (especially sneaking away to go out into the city alone), her case worker decided to move her out of the urban environment. Her superiors considered it a bit of a risk sending Amelia to a quirky family like the Roths, but she made the argument that their eccentricities would be a feature, not a bug. Perhaps they would be better able to accept the girl than a more "normal" family, and could provide Amelia with safer and more psychologically healthy outlets for unusual behavior.
Other:
Amelia is a conduit through which "Gus" can manifest and build his power in our world. Currently, she can only summon the hate and fear necessary to invoke him when confronted with a would be child-molester or similar predator, and only after leading them to an isolated location. By request/permission from the GM, "Gus" might become able to manifest his powers through her to attack lesser enemies, like schoolyard bullies or adults who mistreat her in non-criminal ways, and/or menace other PC characters.
It does not occur to Amelia that "Gus" might have ulterior motives for manifesting through her, or that he could be evil. Right now, he is her only friend. "Gus" draws child molesters to Amelia, especially when she's equipped with a Doll and out looking innocent and helpless to bait them. This has a side effect of making her an even more inviting target for ordinary bullying than she is already. At present (barring GM-approved change), Amelia can only invoke "Gus'" power against child predators, and only when she has a prepared Doll.
OOC: *This is a departure from her portrayal in the video.
OOC: Sorry for contributing to the Girl Overload, but when I saw the video, her character just seemed so freakin' perfect for this game. I'll try to come up with a boy character to maintain current gender balance.
Age: 8
Monster: Child molesters and other creeps who prey on children (see bio and video below), and "Gus," (Man in Black/Slenderman type, see video)
Appearance: (click to watch: she's not the man in the thumbnail pic, lol)
Personality:
Amelia likes to dance, skip, play jump-rope, and make sculptures with modeling clay. She is sweet and gentle. When she is happy, Amelia is the embodiment of cherubic innocence. She is also timid, unable to fight back against the bullies that seem drawn to her. Being deaf/mute, she cannot cry for help.* Buried inside her, hidden from all but her victims (see below) is a deep reservoir of hate and pain. She usually carries an old doll (always a child, never a Barbie-type adult or teenager) of the sort that can be found in trash or bought for pocket change at yard sales and thrift stores. The time always comes when she disfigures the doll...then it is replaced by another and never seen again.
Bio:
Amelia was an only child, doted on by her parents through her infancy and toddler years. When it became apparent that she was deaf and mute, her father started to take a special interest in her, increasing as she grew. While his eyes lingered in places they shouldn't, Amelia started seeing enormous white glowing eyes watching her from her closet or shadowed corners of her room at night. She would run to her parents' room screaming silently, begging in sign language to stay with them.
Then one night shortly after her fifth birthday, Amelia's father volunteered to sleep with her in her room. That's the night she discovered a terror greater than the 'Tall Man.' "My perfect, perfect girl," her father had said as he slid his hands under her nightgown. "I've been waiting for you for soooo long..." Her soundless screams went unheard. When at long last she dared to defy her father's threats of terrible punishment for her and her mother, her mother refused to believe her. Instead, she told herself that Amelia was just having bad dreams, imagining things like the huge-eyed monster in her closet.
Amelia stopped going to her parents for protection from "the Tall Man." Instead she began to fantasize about him coming out of the closet to seize her father and drag him away into his world of shadow and terror. In time, her fear of the Tall Man transmuted into a kind of love. Since only she could see him, he was hers alone, and he came to represent her only hope. Over time, his presence became stronger, more concrete. She began to have intuitions that she felt were communications from him--that if she 'invited' him in the right way, he would come, and give her the power to make all of her fantasies come true.
Following her feelings, she went to a thrift store and bought an old doll. Keeping it hidden from her parents' sight, she patiently tortured and disfigured it in her father's place. Hearing her father's footfalls coming up the stairs one night, she set the violated doll on her bed and lie in wait. Creeped out by the sight of it, he became angry and lunged at her. To Amelia's astonishment, when she tried to shove him away with all her feeble strength, he flew across her bedroom and slammed into the wall. Don't let him get away. You know what to do.
Amelia's mother was awakened by her husband's terrified screams, and the sounds of a violent struggle. Not daring to go face the intruder, she called 911. The few articulate words he managed to cry out made no sense. They were desperate pleas for Amelia's mercy. By the time police arrived, there was silence from Amelia's bedroom. They burst in, finding only the little girl in bed, looking at them with wide eyes, blankets pulled up to her chin. Neither her father nor the disfigured doll were anywhere to be found. Her window was shut and locked from the inside, with no signs of forced entry elsewhere in the house.
Asked about what happened, Amelia signed that 'the Tall Man got him.' When her mother explained that 'the Tall Man' was an imaginary monster in Amelia's closet, the police psychiatrist decided that she was projecting her fear of what she'd seen onto 'the Tall Man,' and the case went unsolved. Amelia's mother began to blame her for her father's disappearance, and even started hallucinating glowing eyes staring from her closet. Sometimes she would get a look from Amelia that would chill her to the bone.
Amelia started slipping out at night, prowling the New York streets and Central Park...hunting. Somehow, child predators were drawn to her, choosing her as their target. Two by two, predators and mutilated dolls disappeared from the world as we know it.
Amelia was admitted into psychiatric care, and when her mother had a nervous breakdown, placed into the foster care system. Due to her odd and potentially dangerous behaviors (especially sneaking away to go out into the city alone), her case worker decided to move her out of the urban environment. Her superiors considered it a bit of a risk sending Amelia to a quirky family like the Roths, but she made the argument that their eccentricities would be a feature, not a bug. Perhaps they would be better able to accept the girl than a more "normal" family, and could provide Amelia with safer and more psychologically healthy outlets for unusual behavior.
Other:
Amelia is a conduit through which "Gus" can manifest and build his power in our world. Currently, she can only summon the hate and fear necessary to invoke him when confronted with a would be child-molester or similar predator, and only after leading them to an isolated location. By request/permission from the GM, "Gus" might become able to manifest his powers through her to attack lesser enemies, like schoolyard bullies or adults who mistreat her in non-criminal ways, and/or menace other PC characters.
It does not occur to Amelia that "Gus" might have ulterior motives for manifesting through her, or that he could be evil. Right now, he is her only friend. "Gus" draws child molesters to Amelia, especially when she's equipped with a Doll and out looking innocent and helpless to bait them. This has a side effect of making her an even more inviting target for ordinary bullying than she is already. At present (barring GM-approved change), Amelia can only invoke "Gus'" power against child predators, and only when she has a prepared Doll.
OOC: *This is a departure from her portrayal in the video.
OOC: Sorry for contributing to the Girl Overload, but when I saw the video, her character just seemed so freakin' perfect for this game. I'll try to come up with a boy character to maintain current gender balance.