Post by The Delaney Twins on Jun 17, 2008 19:37:15 GMT
Names:[/u] Kennedy Matthew Delaney and Lyndsey Erin Delaney
Age:[/u] 17 (Birthday: 15/5/91. Lyndsey was born about forty minutes before Kennedy was.)
Physical Description:[/u]
Kennedy.
Kennedy can, due to his power, change his physical appearance at will, and so the only feature that is truly constant are his purple eyes, which darken to brown on occasion when losing another of his powers and glaze over slightly when using the third.
However, he tends to use the same face that, according him, he picked up from ‘Johnson something-or-other’, a celebrity. (He means Jackson Rathbone, of course, and he knows full well that this was who he took it from, but he doesn’t want people ‘nosying in on his face’, as he puts it.) As such, he just clears six foot, has pale skin and brown hair that’s around a couple of inches long. He did, at least, have the sense to choose a face that doesn’t look remarkably unlike his sister’s, but his true appearance looks a lot more like her than he does now. He's a lot more handsome than she is pretty, but that really doesn't count when he has his pick of Hollywood stars. (He has been known to change into such heartthrobs as Johnny Depp and George Clooney and walk around Cardsdale entirely nonchalantly, freaking out the less-seasoned villagers quite successfully.)
He’s fairly thin and grins widely at the slightest provocation.
There is, of course, no assurance that he will not choose to revert to a different face when he chooses to do so, but generally he sticks to the same one as it’s fairly difficult to get used to a whole new you in the mirror.
Lyndsey.
Lyndsey has a considerably more static appearance, but while she cannot change herself physically in the way her brother can, she can change how she looks to other people for brief periods of time. She has skin that’s a little darker than Kennedy’s and hair that had a little more of a coppery tinge to it, but overall her colouring is fairly similar. She has a profusion of freckles on her cheeks and nose that she considers, in some darker moments in regards to her appearance, the ‘bane of her life’, but she and all who know her know that she is merely being overdramatic and will most likely not commit suicide over a couple of brown dots on her skin.
Her hair falls to just below her shoulder blades and her eyes are a dark brown that increases significantly in intensity when using one of her powers. She is not quite as thin as her brother or as tall – in fact, she’s perfectly average (5’5” and all).
However, this average thing irritates her as well. She has the curves of an average woman, which is annoying for someone who is about as physically fit as a human being can get. The only real evidence of her muscles is some toning - her overall body shape changed remarkably little.
And she does the grinning thing, too. Lots of grinning. In fact, when she is not smiling, she doesn't look like herself and also manages, somehow, to look a lot less attractive. People become so accustomed to the smile that her face seems out of balance when she is not doing so.
Clothing description:[/u]
Kennedy.
Kennedy tends to wear fairly shapeless clothes, because he has a habit of mimicking other people’s appearances often to prove points, tell jokes, irritate, amuse… Basically, whenever the hell he feels like it. He only wears tighter clothes when absolutely necessary, because even if he doesn’t plan on mimicking anyone else he doesn’t like feeling like he can’t. He has a selection of baggy, neutral jumpers (because neutral colours suit every skin tone, don’tcha know?) and dark trousers that are, as a rule, too big for him and have to be restrained with a belt. And All Stars, because Kennedy has a love for Converse All Stars that truly surpasses any other love ever known.
Also, he does tend to wear a long, black overcoat (except in the heights of summer and other such unfortunate times in which heavy clothing = death) but that is not for any practical reason so much as dramatic effect. Basically, he only takes it off when the temperature exceeds 25 degrees or when he’s in bed. He’s just that stubborn.
Lyndsey.
Lyndsey's outfit is generally of the jeans-and-shirt formula. She tends to wear well-made things – cheap well-made things, usually, because she doesn’t have a lot of money to squander on clothes; when she does find time to go shopping, it is a full-on bargain hunt. However, she does have a… let’s say, a thing about skirts, which is namely that she won’t go near them. Ever. She will wear the tightest jeans, the most revealing shorts, but give her a skirt and she will run a mile.
As for tops, she just tends to wear whatever takes her fancy at the time. She has a collection of concert T-shirts from the sixties (the only item of clothing she'll spend any significant amount of money on) but also a selection of bright, fitted shirts. She usually eschews any top with obnoxious (or otherwise) logos on them. She prefers wearing plain shirts because she has a much wider selection of outfits if the building blocks of her clothes are pretty neutral.
She does not share her brother’s Converse fetish, and prefers shoes that are pretty, but not so impractically pretty that she will break her ankles. She prefers to wear heavy hiking shoes when trainers are necessary as she considers them to be inexplicably preferable to any other brand of comfortable shoes.
For battle training, she wears shorts and a vest top, even in the depths of winter. Her cheapest clothes are reserved for this, as she is liable to burn them if she gets too overexcited.
Oh, and she has her ears pierced. And pretty much always has earrings in. She has an extensive earring collection, but many of said earrings caused her ears to go green and only remain in the collection because she couldn’t bear to get rid of them.
Personality:[/u]
Kennedy.
Kennedy’s personality can seem, on first glance, about as capricious as his appearance, but that isn’t quite the case. He is the strangest mix of reticence and confidence, and the combination can be quite difficult to predict for anybody who doesn’t know him. Generally, though, people come to learn that when he is silent it is not due to low self-esteem but merely antisocialism.
He has a basic contempt for any people placed in a situation ‘above’ him who he deems not worthy of said position and will not submit to authority or rules laid down by them if he can get away with it. As such, he can often appear cocky. He is very quick to judge people, whether for the good or bad, and can base it on one incident alone. He finds it difficult not to be cynical because of the amount of lies he was spoonfed throughout most of his childhood.
However, when one is on his good side, he is an unwaveringly loyal friend, as it takes a lot to change his opinion, and will remain so until such time as he has been proven wrong irrevocably. Also, he isn’t one to pay much attention to gossip and rumours – as someone who has the entire Internet in his head (see powers section) he knows well how unreliable it is.
He has a slightly evil sense of humour but a very active one and is seldom seen without a smile on his face. However, unlike his sister, who smiles because she is genuinely happy, his smile emanates from the 'Smile - it confuses people' school of thought. A 'glass-is-half-empty' person, he often relies on his sister to restore his faith in humanity.
And finally – there is a lack of motivation in many areas of school life (except spying, of course, as he takes the Orchid War as a special issue) and his personal life. It takes a lot to get him to actually do things, but when he does do them, they are done very well.
Lyndsey.
Lyndsey is, at the same time, the more sensible and the more gullible of the twins. She is considerably more proactive than who she affectionately terms her ‘idiot brother’ and the two things that irritate her more than anything else are procrastination and self-pity, and she especially despises a combination of the two.
But that doesn’t mean that she hates people for having those qualities, she just… rallies them through it. A little too enthusiastically sometimes.
She shares her brother’s sense of humour. As twins, she is the dominant one and it shows through their interactions in real life. It is rare that they have a fight that she does not win.
She tends to judge people more fairly than Kennedy, but just as quickly and she does not necessarily need to have a conversation with them in order to decide that she wants to be their friend. When she does decide this she is persistent… irritatingly persistent… in making this come about.
She is very bouncy and sometimes overactive, and doesn’t tend to listen to other people’s protests when she wants to rope them into doing some strenuous and tiring form of exercise with her. She’s used to very intense physical training and so isn’t satisfied with what the warriors have to do alone.
She is more likely to forgive and forget than Kennedy, and easily as loyal, if not more so. However, there is a limit to what she will forgive - namely, if someone ever hurts someone she loves, they will not be forgiven. End of.
She is a very happy person, despite her background, as she does not see the point in being unhappy. She keeps an optimistic outlook on just about everything and doesn't let the ills of the world affect her. A 'glass-is-half-full' person.
History.
Kennedy and Lyndsey were brought up in Inverness, Scotland, for the first five years of their lives. Their father and mother were very happily married, although fairly poor – their mother worked as a waitress in a high-scale restaurant and their father was a busker, for lack of a better word. They weren’t the sort of couple that people associated with children and so, although they were very loving parents, when a smartly-dressed man and woman came to the door and claimed to be Social Services come to take the children away, no one listened to the Delaneys’ protests and the case was never taken to court.
The people who took the twins away were not from the Social Services – rather, from a lab in Edinburgh that had received private funding to experiment on people with abilities. The lab was run by the ungifted and so they had no idea what was causing these powers – they assumed that it was some kind of mutation rather than a gift that had been passed down through centuries of the Delaney family, as the members of the lab had only been made aware of it recently.
The twins were originally put in the same cells while preliminary tests were run on them, a process which took nearly two years.
Then, after they had fully discerned the nature of their abilities (a step which was necessary, as the twins realised that while they were finding this out, they would be kept together, and so didn’t give them a single detail) the twins were moved into separate cells. They didn’t go easily, but they were outnumbered.
Lyndsey was put into intensive training regimes, designed to toughen up every single part of her body and her power as well. She was trained to use the power, which had previously been fairly harmless, as a deadly weapon. Her two other powers had not manifested yet – her family had had a long history of late developers – but her wave power was deadly within months, and just became more so with the following years. She was kept outside for a good part of the time and slept in a bunker with many other girls who had similarly dangerous powers.
Kennedy had the same element as Lyndsey, but his captors were not interested in using his in the same way. They knew that he was far less likely to submit to authority than his sister was, especially if they were put in the same situation. Kennedy became a lab rat.
He was fed a cocktail of drugs every day, many with hideous side effects. Eventually a combination was found that made him lose nearly all his memories of what had happened to him so far in his life – he even forgot his sister. He was told that he was staying in a hospital, that he was sick, and that they were desperately trying to find a cure for him. He was told that he was going to die. This effectively quelled any urge for rebellion he may have had. He became emaciated, his hair fell out and he began to lose his sight, his eyes turning an unhealthy shade of purple.
The drugs were not curing him, but mutating his abilities. All the powers that Kennedy has now are not natural. When the abilities were sufficiently changed – or ‘edited’, as they put it – they began testing Kennedy with technology, teaching him how to manipulate phone signals, radio, and the Internet. He was going to be their spy.
Lyndsey was going to be their bomb.
The group wasn’t just a lab, it was a terrorist base. It was led by two men who had been dishonourably discharged from Marius Hoodham’s army, and who were trying to do anything they could to get back in his good graces. Kennedy and Lyndsey were going to be used as bargaining tools – weapons for the Orchid war.
However, the drugs that they had been giving Kennedy eventually backfired. One day when he woke up his other two powers had manifested and his memories had returned. As he could mimic now, he was able to change his body for a stronger one, a healthy one that was fit to escape.
He doesn’t know now to this day if he killed anyone when he was escaping, and to be honest, he doesn’t care.
Lyndsey hadn’t tried to escape because she had been led to fully understand that if she did, her brother would be ‘terminated’ immediately.
It took some time for Kennedy with his new appearance to convince her of his true identity as he refused to change back to his old self even for a minute. He didn’t want her to see. However, when she did understand (and therefore the urgency of the situation became apparent to her) they wasted no time in making their escape. Together they were able to free themselves from the site easily. They brought a girl called May with them, as she had been Lyndsey’s only real friend throughout that time.
They made it to Orchid Hill when they were fourteen and haven’t left since – other than, of course, staying with their parents in the summer. The relationship can be awkward, but overall they are all so glad to be reunited that it can be moved past.
Gifts:[/u]
Lyndsey.
Lyndsey’s element is very rare – she can control anything that moves in wavelengths, for example, light, sound, heat and nuclear radiation. She isn’t capable of manipulating radio and other man-made waves, but she can interpret them in her own way.
However, while she is capable of doing all this, she is only really capable of controlling the nuclear radiation – she is being taught how to control the others, but it requires a good deal more effort and she doesn’t often do it.
Her second power is a form of teleportation. She can pass through any surface that gives off a reflection and into another at any point in the world.
Her third power is the ability to transform herself into any metal of her choosing. Lead, in this case, is quite useful when she is using her nuclear power to fight.
Kennedy.
Kennedy’s wave element has been mutated, so his is the opposite of Lyndsey’s – he can sense natural waves, but he can only manipulate man-made ones. He is able to scan, manipulate and use radio waves, sonar, mobile phone signals, satellite signals and wireless broadband. This power becomes more potent with every passing year as new technologies are invented. He, also unlike Lynn, is able to use most of his powers with relative equality of ability.
His other two powers manifested as the results of the drugs he was given. He doesn’t know what powers he would have had naturally.
His second power is to mimic the voice and appearance of anyone he’s ever met – he has a ‘catalogue’ of faces and voices in his mind and can choose from any of them. He is unable to make up new faces and voices.
His third power results from the memory suppressants he was given. He is able to erase people’s memories when he makes eye contact with them. After doing so, he remembers them as if they’re his own. It can get a little confusing for him and so he only uses it if absolutely necessary. When taking someone’s memories, his eyes fade from purple to their original brown for a few seconds, but other than that his eye colour does not change.
Other:[/u]
- Kennedy calls Lyndsey ‘Sally’ because one of the few memories they have of their childhood is listening to the Oasis song ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ played by their father. Lyndsey decided that she loved the name and the song, and so Kennedy (ever the helpful brother) offered to call her ‘Sally’ (as featured in said song) for the rest of his life. He didn’t forget that, much as it irritates Lyndsey now.
- Lyndsey doesn’t hear like normal people – she ‘sees’ the sound rather than actually hears it for what it is.
- Moreover, neither of the twins sees the world the way that normal people do. The waves are everywhere, and they are bright and colourful. They each have their own way of seeing that not even the other understands.
- Kennedy has only reverted to his original appearance once since he escaped. What he saw in the mirror made him swear that he’d never change back again.
- As for both of them, their favourite taste is peppermint. Without question. Favourite smell, too. Lyndsey has even gone so far as to buy peppermint shower gel, so she absolutely reeks of the stuff.
- Shortly before the twins returned home, their parents bought a Border Collie, which they named Terrence. When the twins did resurface, they transferred 'official ownership' of the dog to Lyndsey, as she only seemed truly comfortable at home when the dog was with her. She has given him the less fruity name, "Terry", and after her holiday in Inverness of 2008, has taken him back to school in order to save him from her parents' haphazard attitudes to feeding and walking.
- Kennedy hates said dog. And all animals.
Groups:
Kennedy – Spies
Lyndsey – Warriors
ooc: If you'd prefer me to post them separately instead just let me know and I'll change it XD
Age:[/u] 17 (Birthday: 15/5/91. Lyndsey was born about forty minutes before Kennedy was.)
Physical Description:[/u]
Kennedy.
Kennedy can, due to his power, change his physical appearance at will, and so the only feature that is truly constant are his purple eyes, which darken to brown on occasion when losing another of his powers and glaze over slightly when using the third.
However, he tends to use the same face that, according him, he picked up from ‘Johnson something-or-other’, a celebrity. (He means Jackson Rathbone, of course, and he knows full well that this was who he took it from, but he doesn’t want people ‘nosying in on his face’, as he puts it.) As such, he just clears six foot, has pale skin and brown hair that’s around a couple of inches long. He did, at least, have the sense to choose a face that doesn’t look remarkably unlike his sister’s, but his true appearance looks a lot more like her than he does now. He's a lot more handsome than she is pretty, but that really doesn't count when he has his pick of Hollywood stars. (He has been known to change into such heartthrobs as Johnny Depp and George Clooney and walk around Cardsdale entirely nonchalantly, freaking out the less-seasoned villagers quite successfully.)
He’s fairly thin and grins widely at the slightest provocation.
There is, of course, no assurance that he will not choose to revert to a different face when he chooses to do so, but generally he sticks to the same one as it’s fairly difficult to get used to a whole new you in the mirror.
Lyndsey.
Lyndsey has a considerably more static appearance, but while she cannot change herself physically in the way her brother can, she can change how she looks to other people for brief periods of time. She has skin that’s a little darker than Kennedy’s and hair that had a little more of a coppery tinge to it, but overall her colouring is fairly similar. She has a profusion of freckles on her cheeks and nose that she considers, in some darker moments in regards to her appearance, the ‘bane of her life’, but she and all who know her know that she is merely being overdramatic and will most likely not commit suicide over a couple of brown dots on her skin.
Her hair falls to just below her shoulder blades and her eyes are a dark brown that increases significantly in intensity when using one of her powers. She is not quite as thin as her brother or as tall – in fact, she’s perfectly average (5’5” and all).
However, this average thing irritates her as well. She has the curves of an average woman, which is annoying for someone who is about as physically fit as a human being can get. The only real evidence of her muscles is some toning - her overall body shape changed remarkably little.
And she does the grinning thing, too. Lots of grinning. In fact, when she is not smiling, she doesn't look like herself and also manages, somehow, to look a lot less attractive. People become so accustomed to the smile that her face seems out of balance when she is not doing so.
Clothing description:[/u]
Kennedy.
Kennedy tends to wear fairly shapeless clothes, because he has a habit of mimicking other people’s appearances often to prove points, tell jokes, irritate, amuse… Basically, whenever the hell he feels like it. He only wears tighter clothes when absolutely necessary, because even if he doesn’t plan on mimicking anyone else he doesn’t like feeling like he can’t. He has a selection of baggy, neutral jumpers (because neutral colours suit every skin tone, don’tcha know?) and dark trousers that are, as a rule, too big for him and have to be restrained with a belt. And All Stars, because Kennedy has a love for Converse All Stars that truly surpasses any other love ever known.
Also, he does tend to wear a long, black overcoat (except in the heights of summer and other such unfortunate times in which heavy clothing = death) but that is not for any practical reason so much as dramatic effect. Basically, he only takes it off when the temperature exceeds 25 degrees or when he’s in bed. He’s just that stubborn.
Lyndsey.
Lyndsey's outfit is generally of the jeans-and-shirt formula. She tends to wear well-made things – cheap well-made things, usually, because she doesn’t have a lot of money to squander on clothes; when she does find time to go shopping, it is a full-on bargain hunt. However, she does have a… let’s say, a thing about skirts, which is namely that she won’t go near them. Ever. She will wear the tightest jeans, the most revealing shorts, but give her a skirt and she will run a mile.
As for tops, she just tends to wear whatever takes her fancy at the time. She has a collection of concert T-shirts from the sixties (the only item of clothing she'll spend any significant amount of money on) but also a selection of bright, fitted shirts. She usually eschews any top with obnoxious (or otherwise) logos on them. She prefers wearing plain shirts because she has a much wider selection of outfits if the building blocks of her clothes are pretty neutral.
She does not share her brother’s Converse fetish, and prefers shoes that are pretty, but not so impractically pretty that she will break her ankles. She prefers to wear heavy hiking shoes when trainers are necessary as she considers them to be inexplicably preferable to any other brand of comfortable shoes.
For battle training, she wears shorts and a vest top, even in the depths of winter. Her cheapest clothes are reserved for this, as she is liable to burn them if she gets too overexcited.
Oh, and she has her ears pierced. And pretty much always has earrings in. She has an extensive earring collection, but many of said earrings caused her ears to go green and only remain in the collection because she couldn’t bear to get rid of them.
Personality:[/u]
Kennedy.
Kennedy’s personality can seem, on first glance, about as capricious as his appearance, but that isn’t quite the case. He is the strangest mix of reticence and confidence, and the combination can be quite difficult to predict for anybody who doesn’t know him. Generally, though, people come to learn that when he is silent it is not due to low self-esteem but merely antisocialism.
He has a basic contempt for any people placed in a situation ‘above’ him who he deems not worthy of said position and will not submit to authority or rules laid down by them if he can get away with it. As such, he can often appear cocky. He is very quick to judge people, whether for the good or bad, and can base it on one incident alone. He finds it difficult not to be cynical because of the amount of lies he was spoonfed throughout most of his childhood.
However, when one is on his good side, he is an unwaveringly loyal friend, as it takes a lot to change his opinion, and will remain so until such time as he has been proven wrong irrevocably. Also, he isn’t one to pay much attention to gossip and rumours – as someone who has the entire Internet in his head (see powers section) he knows well how unreliable it is.
He has a slightly evil sense of humour but a very active one and is seldom seen without a smile on his face. However, unlike his sister, who smiles because she is genuinely happy, his smile emanates from the 'Smile - it confuses people' school of thought. A 'glass-is-half-empty' person, he often relies on his sister to restore his faith in humanity.
And finally – there is a lack of motivation in many areas of school life (except spying, of course, as he takes the Orchid War as a special issue) and his personal life. It takes a lot to get him to actually do things, but when he does do them, they are done very well.
Lyndsey.
Lyndsey is, at the same time, the more sensible and the more gullible of the twins. She is considerably more proactive than who she affectionately terms her ‘idiot brother’ and the two things that irritate her more than anything else are procrastination and self-pity, and she especially despises a combination of the two.
But that doesn’t mean that she hates people for having those qualities, she just… rallies them through it. A little too enthusiastically sometimes.
She shares her brother’s sense of humour. As twins, she is the dominant one and it shows through their interactions in real life. It is rare that they have a fight that she does not win.
She tends to judge people more fairly than Kennedy, but just as quickly and she does not necessarily need to have a conversation with them in order to decide that she wants to be their friend. When she does decide this she is persistent… irritatingly persistent… in making this come about.
She is very bouncy and sometimes overactive, and doesn’t tend to listen to other people’s protests when she wants to rope them into doing some strenuous and tiring form of exercise with her. She’s used to very intense physical training and so isn’t satisfied with what the warriors have to do alone.
She is more likely to forgive and forget than Kennedy, and easily as loyal, if not more so. However, there is a limit to what she will forgive - namely, if someone ever hurts someone she loves, they will not be forgiven. End of.
She is a very happy person, despite her background, as she does not see the point in being unhappy. She keeps an optimistic outlook on just about everything and doesn't let the ills of the world affect her. A 'glass-is-half-full' person.
History.
Kennedy and Lyndsey were brought up in Inverness, Scotland, for the first five years of their lives. Their father and mother were very happily married, although fairly poor – their mother worked as a waitress in a high-scale restaurant and their father was a busker, for lack of a better word. They weren’t the sort of couple that people associated with children and so, although they were very loving parents, when a smartly-dressed man and woman came to the door and claimed to be Social Services come to take the children away, no one listened to the Delaneys’ protests and the case was never taken to court.
The people who took the twins away were not from the Social Services – rather, from a lab in Edinburgh that had received private funding to experiment on people with abilities. The lab was run by the ungifted and so they had no idea what was causing these powers – they assumed that it was some kind of mutation rather than a gift that had been passed down through centuries of the Delaney family, as the members of the lab had only been made aware of it recently.
The twins were originally put in the same cells while preliminary tests were run on them, a process which took nearly two years.
Then, after they had fully discerned the nature of their abilities (a step which was necessary, as the twins realised that while they were finding this out, they would be kept together, and so didn’t give them a single detail) the twins were moved into separate cells. They didn’t go easily, but they were outnumbered.
Lyndsey was put into intensive training regimes, designed to toughen up every single part of her body and her power as well. She was trained to use the power, which had previously been fairly harmless, as a deadly weapon. Her two other powers had not manifested yet – her family had had a long history of late developers – but her wave power was deadly within months, and just became more so with the following years. She was kept outside for a good part of the time and slept in a bunker with many other girls who had similarly dangerous powers.
Kennedy had the same element as Lyndsey, but his captors were not interested in using his in the same way. They knew that he was far less likely to submit to authority than his sister was, especially if they were put in the same situation. Kennedy became a lab rat.
He was fed a cocktail of drugs every day, many with hideous side effects. Eventually a combination was found that made him lose nearly all his memories of what had happened to him so far in his life – he even forgot his sister. He was told that he was staying in a hospital, that he was sick, and that they were desperately trying to find a cure for him. He was told that he was going to die. This effectively quelled any urge for rebellion he may have had. He became emaciated, his hair fell out and he began to lose his sight, his eyes turning an unhealthy shade of purple.
The drugs were not curing him, but mutating his abilities. All the powers that Kennedy has now are not natural. When the abilities were sufficiently changed – or ‘edited’, as they put it – they began testing Kennedy with technology, teaching him how to manipulate phone signals, radio, and the Internet. He was going to be their spy.
Lyndsey was going to be their bomb.
The group wasn’t just a lab, it was a terrorist base. It was led by two men who had been dishonourably discharged from Marius Hoodham’s army, and who were trying to do anything they could to get back in his good graces. Kennedy and Lyndsey were going to be used as bargaining tools – weapons for the Orchid war.
However, the drugs that they had been giving Kennedy eventually backfired. One day when he woke up his other two powers had manifested and his memories had returned. As he could mimic now, he was able to change his body for a stronger one, a healthy one that was fit to escape.
He doesn’t know now to this day if he killed anyone when he was escaping, and to be honest, he doesn’t care.
Lyndsey hadn’t tried to escape because she had been led to fully understand that if she did, her brother would be ‘terminated’ immediately.
It took some time for Kennedy with his new appearance to convince her of his true identity as he refused to change back to his old self even for a minute. He didn’t want her to see. However, when she did understand (and therefore the urgency of the situation became apparent to her) they wasted no time in making their escape. Together they were able to free themselves from the site easily. They brought a girl called May with them, as she had been Lyndsey’s only real friend throughout that time.
They made it to Orchid Hill when they were fourteen and haven’t left since – other than, of course, staying with their parents in the summer. The relationship can be awkward, but overall they are all so glad to be reunited that it can be moved past.
Gifts:[/u]
Lyndsey.
Lyndsey’s element is very rare – she can control anything that moves in wavelengths, for example, light, sound, heat and nuclear radiation. She isn’t capable of manipulating radio and other man-made waves, but she can interpret them in her own way.
However, while she is capable of doing all this, she is only really capable of controlling the nuclear radiation – she is being taught how to control the others, but it requires a good deal more effort and she doesn’t often do it.
Her second power is a form of teleportation. She can pass through any surface that gives off a reflection and into another at any point in the world.
Her third power is the ability to transform herself into any metal of her choosing. Lead, in this case, is quite useful when she is using her nuclear power to fight.
Kennedy.
Kennedy’s wave element has been mutated, so his is the opposite of Lyndsey’s – he can sense natural waves, but he can only manipulate man-made ones. He is able to scan, manipulate and use radio waves, sonar, mobile phone signals, satellite signals and wireless broadband. This power becomes more potent with every passing year as new technologies are invented. He, also unlike Lynn, is able to use most of his powers with relative equality of ability.
His other two powers manifested as the results of the drugs he was given. He doesn’t know what powers he would have had naturally.
His second power is to mimic the voice and appearance of anyone he’s ever met – he has a ‘catalogue’ of faces and voices in his mind and can choose from any of them. He is unable to make up new faces and voices.
His third power results from the memory suppressants he was given. He is able to erase people’s memories when he makes eye contact with them. After doing so, he remembers them as if they’re his own. It can get a little confusing for him and so he only uses it if absolutely necessary. When taking someone’s memories, his eyes fade from purple to their original brown for a few seconds, but other than that his eye colour does not change.
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- Kennedy calls Lyndsey ‘Sally’ because one of the few memories they have of their childhood is listening to the Oasis song ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ played by their father. Lyndsey decided that she loved the name and the song, and so Kennedy (ever the helpful brother) offered to call her ‘Sally’ (as featured in said song) for the rest of his life. He didn’t forget that, much as it irritates Lyndsey now.
- Lyndsey doesn’t hear like normal people – she ‘sees’ the sound rather than actually hears it for what it is.
- Moreover, neither of the twins sees the world the way that normal people do. The waves are everywhere, and they are bright and colourful. They each have their own way of seeing that not even the other understands.
- Kennedy has only reverted to his original appearance once since he escaped. What he saw in the mirror made him swear that he’d never change back again.
- As for both of them, their favourite taste is peppermint. Without question. Favourite smell, too. Lyndsey has even gone so far as to buy peppermint shower gel, so she absolutely reeks of the stuff.
- Shortly before the twins returned home, their parents bought a Border Collie, which they named Terrence. When the twins did resurface, they transferred 'official ownership' of the dog to Lyndsey, as she only seemed truly comfortable at home when the dog was with her. She has given him the less fruity name, "Terry", and after her holiday in Inverness of 2008, has taken him back to school in order to save him from her parents' haphazard attitudes to feeding and walking.
- Kennedy hates said dog. And all animals.
Groups:
Kennedy – Spies
Lyndsey – Warriors
ooc: If you'd prefer me to post them separately instead just let me know and I'll change it XD
