CAMPER FORM
Name: Francis Scott Luber
Alias: Frankie
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Powers: Clairvoyance
Aura: A hazy shadow of Orchid outlined in a faded, dusty Pink. Visually, his aura would be described as noisy and kept very close to his person.
Appearance: Frankie is a young boy of nine who is clearly very small for his age. He stands just under five feet tall and weighs, perhaps, 57 pounds. His skin has an unhealthy color to it, as though he rarely sees the sun, and his straw colored hair is wiry and unkempt. His large, watery eyes are red in color and are often blood shot and tired looking with heavy bags beneath them. Over all, Frankie simply appears frail, sickly, and if you watch him close enough, a little twitchy.
Despite his small frame, it is very rarely seen as Frankie tends to over dress. He can be seen, more often than not, wearing baggy sweaters and warm coats well into the warmer months. Even in the summer, he will retain his baggy clothes that seem to swallow him whole. Upon his head is a ball cap with a large brim which he often hides behind and on his back is his most prized possession; a teddy bear back pack given to him by his grandmother. Upon closer examination, if he will ever let you close enough that is, you will see that the backpack is a sagging plush bear with a zipper pocket sewn into its back. The bear is complete with ever-staring red eyes, a crooked top hat, and a matching bow tie. The backpack is dirty, stained, torn, badly mended, and most of all, very well loved.
Even though the bear is not heavy (Frankie can fit very little into it's pocket, you see), Frankie walks as though there is a heavy weight on his tiny shoulders. He fidgets like mad, taps his fingers nervously, and is always looking over his shoulder if not at his feet. When around others, Frankie keeps his extremities as close to his body as possible, pulling into himself. The nails on his hands are short, bitten down to their nubs and the sleeves and hems on his clothes are stretched from nervous tugging.
Personality:
- Overactive Imagination : Due to his hyper-drive creativity, Frankie doesn't just have your every-day imaginary friends. They are full-blown characters with a past, best friends, and dreams of their own. His attention is swallowed with fantastical answers to the most mundane of questions. Why doesn't he sleep? Well, it's not because he's too busy thinking, no. Perhaps he is the first batch of humans to mutate, growing further in Darwin's name, now no longer requiring a full eight hours of sleep.
- Insomniac : Speaking of lack of sleep, Frankie is the king of functioning on as little sleep as possible. Due to his Overactive Imagination, he suffers horrible night terrors and vivid nightmares. While these do not occur every night, they do happen often enough for Frankie to have developed an aversion to sleeping. In fact, there have been stretches of days at a time where Frankie will not sleep at all. He will do his best to keep himself awake as long as possible by talking walks, reading, or playing with his toys until his simply crumbles into a exhausted puddle.
- Jumpy : All that distraction between lack of sleep and an entire world blooming in his mind leaves Frankie quite out of it at times. Simple things, like sounds or a sudden touch can easily startle him out of whatever fog he is in. And he sinks back into it so quickly that the exact same trigger could scare him again just moments later! Paired with the paranoia that naturally comes with his Overactive Imagination, and tack on the caffeine from all of the sodas he drinks, and you have one twitchy kid.
- Clingy : Frankie doesn't have that many friends, not because he isn't friendly, but because a lot of kids find him weird. For those few who manage to overcome their adversity of his strange behavior, they will have earned themselves a second shadow. If you've gotten to the point where Frankie starts following you around everywhere, and I do mean everywhere, this means that he sees you as a safe spot, a place where he is comfortable and secure. Frankie has very few places where he can relax and if you are one of them, that makes you very special to him.
- Loyal : To those who have earned Frankie's devotion, you will not find another friend as loyal as he is. He would stand up to the scariest bully to defend you, despite his trembling hands and shaking knees. He will guard your secrets to the grave and will do pretty much anything asked of him. If taken advantage of, he would simply smile and forgive as best he could.
History: Frankie was born as Francis Scott Luber into a very typical household. There was his father named Lawrence who worked at a boring, uneventful desk job for scraps. There was his mother named Marie who was gone all day taking care of elderly people as a Home Health Aide. And there was his sister, Jane, always busy preparing for college. Over all, the Luber household was quiet and uneventful. Frankie would even go so far as to call it completely and utterly boring.
Being the odd duck that he was, Frankie never felt truly at home in his typical suburban home. He mostly kept to himself, feeling his family too busy or disinterested in his stories and games. In fact, he rarely left his room, if you asked his parents. But in reality, Frankie was never home. When he was too young to read, he escaped the dull every day life of a child with no playmates by making up his own. Once he could, he devoured books and games, often losing himself in their stories for hours and hours at a time.
His aversion to sleep began while he was still very young; the earliest he remembers would be him at about five years old staying up all night because he feared the monsters in his dreams were to eat him. He told no one of his nightmares and the subject went untouched for almost a year, until the fateful holiday visit of Grandmother Bonnie.
Grandmother Bonnie was a very strange lady. She was a tall, thin woman always dressed in layers of shawls and beads and bracelets. She jingled when she walked and smelled of jasmine and sage. She was loud and boisterous and exactly the opposite of everything Frankie had come to expect from his family. During her visit, Frankie became her shadow, always eager for one of her amazing stories.
But Frankie's parents did not like Grandmother Bonnie. She showed up unexpected and for long lengths of time. She smoked her clove cigarettes inside and most of all, she put crazy ideas into their children's heads. She believed in things like ghosts and spirits and, worst of all, that she was a Psychic.
Despite his parents insistence, Grandmother Bonnie became a very important person in Frankie's life. They shares their enthusiasm for grand stories and it was from her that he was given many gifts. The first was the encouragement to write his stories down. The second was the teddy bear he will forever have. But lastly, and most importantly, it was from her that Frankie received his "gift" of clairvoyance.
(please include information about their family, home life, when their powers began appearing, reactions to powers, how they found out about the facility, and whether they had prior knowledge of psychonauts and psychic stuff before attending. anything else is optional and encouraged)
