A long fucking time ago in the RT2 thread, I wrote:
Name: Leia Scott
Age: 16
Appearance: Rather... odd is the first term that comes to mind when you see her. Frizzy-curly hair that changes from mouse-brown to vivid red in the right lights, glasses too thin framed to be emo but too thick to be cute, half-lidded, lightly slanted eyes that are a mahogany a shade darker than her hair – her face is cute enough as a whole, but nothing special. If she exercised, she’d have the body of an Amazon; as it is, she’s just another tall, mildly overweight teen. Her eyes and hands are bound to change at any time, but this is covered later under her Talents.
Origin: Ever since she was a small child, maybe three or four years old, Leia wrote stories. Of course, they weren’t the best of stories – but it was writing, telling what could happen, talking about people that she wasn’t. It wasn’t until about age eleven – early puberty – that she wrote… And the character spoke back. She glanced into the mirror to see that her eyes were no longer the familiar colour of bayou mud. They were now the hypnotic indigo swirls of the demon that she’d been writing about.
Panicking, Leia ran screaming to her mother; the character yelling in her mind the entire time. The end result – from ages 11 to 15, she was shipped from one hospital to the next. The doctors wrote off the voices she heard as schizophrenic; however, they were never able to explain the way that her hands would be deformed after “attacks”, or the way her eyes never stayed the brown colour assigned to them on the charts. The only things she’d request at each hospital were notebooks and pens… Which would promptly disappear. To this date, only Leia and her characters know where those stories are.
She was released roughly a year before the beginning of RT2 for reasons of finally having a diagnosed paranormal ability of telekinesis; however, it should be noted that at the time of the testing, her eyes were a vivid, absinthe green, and her hands appeared stained with something dark.
Skinner is the last hope to keep her tied to some sort of reality, not that it's much of a hope. She's generally kept locked up in a padded room in the back, not as threatening as some, but with potential. She's often mumbling stories to herself in a way of keeping the characters in her head in line.
Personality: Leia herself is generally quite meek and shy. She flusters rather easily and is terrified of someone finding out how much she loses herself with her power. Though it’s hard to find, there is a backbone beneath the quiet exterior. She’s a bookworm through and through; mention a novel and she’s either read it or has plans to in the future.
Powers: Leia’s powers are hard to pin down. What stands out above everything else is her writing ability and the consequences of it. When her characters begin speaking to her, she will eventually have to write; this can also cover speaking the story out loud to herself. When she begins to vividly write from a particular characters point of view, the character begins to “take over”; first signs of this loss of self are the changing of hands to look like the character (example : if writing a warrior, Leia'’ hands will turn into tough, grizzled, battle-scarred, scary manhands) and the melting of brown into the colour of the character’s eyes.
There are MAJOR limitations to Leia’s powers. For one, she begins turning into the person; thus, if she’s writing a “Big Bad” from one of her stories, she’ll begin to take on the mindset of the Big Bad. Secondly, she cannot god-mod. She can only write when a character is speaking to her; likewise, when a character is speaking she finds it hard to do anything but write. Finally, she despises using her powers. Although she’s a writer at heart, losing herself when she writes has turned it into a painful experience. She will avoid writing unless the characters force her to or it’s a matter of someone else’s survival.
On a final note, it should be warned that her characters can, to an extent, “feel” what’s going on.
Note that I did change a few things from RT2 Leia. This girl will not be so gentle as she appears... And will need a notebook.
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