Name: Holly Nicole Mason
Nickname/Preferred name: Holly, Nici
Age: 15 1/2!
Sexuality: Bi-Curious - She still dreams of the perfect man and the white picket fence life, but curiosity about the grass on the other side keeps her right on the edge.
Gender: Female
Grade: 11
Tier: 3
Class: Cerebral (Low)/Mundiphysical (Low)
Abilities:
Mundiphysical
Sonar – The ability to create & manipulate sound and sound waves. Holly can create and modify sound waves to mimic, intensify, hush, and distort, as well as warp, strengthen, echo, speed up, and slow down sound. She can affect music as well as produce it. Create and modify the loudness, pitch, and tone of sounds, even to destructive levels:
Ballistic Scream, Siren Song/Hypnotic Call
Sound Absorption/Conversion
Sound Nullification/Inaudibility
Voice Manipulation
Echolocation
Air Dashing by releasing sound waves as propulsion force.
Earthquake Generation by releasing sound waves into the ground.
Sonokinetic Combat – Blast, Combustion, displace weight to alter movement.
Limitations
Everything that affects normal sound affects this ability as well; this might be overcome with enough training, but she's not there yet. Vacuum or anything that stops sound prevents this power. Plus, due to her little pet, her ears are so overly sensitive to sound, that overusing her own abilities causes seriously debilitating migraines that can knock her out for hours and leave her ears ringing profusely. With training, this can be eliminated.
Cerebral
Xenolinquist – Mutated tongue; forked and shaped like an hour-glass. It gives her the insane ability to speak any language like a native or mimic any sound she hears. She doesn't have the ability to mentally help others understand what language she speaks, if one is unfamiliar with it, but with the assistance of mentalist, she can clearly be understood.
Other - Her continuously developing mutation has also created a very deadly situation for her. Growing ever so slowly around her spinal cord at the base of her skull is a special little pet. More like a tumor actually, but she's not going to claim it as anything unfortunate. It enhances her mental recognition to what she hears, giving her abilities to literally mimic noises, people's speech patterns and accents, animal sounds, perfectly. It's like enhancing her Voice Manipulation and Xenolinquist abilities at the same time.
Unfortunately, this darling little bugger is a demanding creature though, causing her severe headaches at times if it's not fed. She has to maintain a proper diet and remain hydrated at all times to avoid the headaches, drinking high concentrations of electrolytes and other vitamins in order to keep the feisty tumor from eating at her grey matter and sipping on her spinal fluid. Her pet can be removed, but the fear of such a procedure scares her to no end… She's unsure if the removal of the tumor will snatch away her abilities, which she's quite fond of and would hate to lose, let alone turning her into a veggie. It's either living with it, or dying from it – no middle ground for her. One thing is for sure, the more it grows – the stronger she gets - the quicker it'll kill her. Therefore, she's damned all around. (There's probably a way to kill the tumor, but she had no clue as to how.)
Appearance: (Faceclaim – unknown)
A petite 5'5", 135 lbs, with jet black hair, bright turquoise eyes, and fairly pale skin; Holly is a living, breathing Snow White, according to her mother. (And if you call her that, she'll whoop you a good one across the cheek.) Will spend a fortune on spray tanning to avoid such monikers. Always dressed in high 20' fashion, you can tell that she just adores the Golden Age pulp fads, but don't get her confused with a crazed fangirl of the era. Holly does dawn modern attire when she's not feeling as peppy as she normally looks. But regardless of what mood she's in, she seriously knows how to set the atmosphere.
Personality: Very eccentric and charismatic; yet, dramatically topsy when it comes to her moods. Slightly bipolar, you know what sort of day she's having by her attitude and the way she dresses. At times, she's fun-loving and quirky – hence her 20's flair. Other times, she's moody or unemotional – and she dresses to fit with lackluster sheen in her attire; grunge or bohemian comfort absence color – simple to the point of boredom. But when she's feeling demure and sexy, she's not afraid to dress the part.
History:
Helaine (Holly) was born in Nea Makri, near Marathon, Greece. She's the youngest of three, an older sister, Elahnie, and middle brother, Josef. Her father, Anthimo, is a marketing analyst for a major medical manufacturing company, and her mother, Olivia, is an online college instructor of music and art history.
Growing up was a fun task for her, for her and her siblings took everything in life like it was a tale from a beautiful storybook. They made even the dullest task more like a fantasy story of adventure and magic. It's easy to do that growing up with an ocean for a backyard. Even to this day, she swears she's swam with a mermaid around the shallow underwater ruins within the Mediterranean beaches around her home.
A kidnapping incident that happened one summer when she was 10, involving her brother and their strange next door neighbor (a new doctor that moved in several months before), landed them in the hospital for several months. Josef had sustained so much physical and mental damage that he was left in a vegetative state, living under Hospice care at home with his parents. Holly, although physically and mentally distorted due to being caged and tortured for three month, was taken by her sister Elahnie to The States when she moved away for college. She knew her parents had enough on their hands with caring for Josef. She wanted to help by caring for Holly. Still to this day, the things that happened to Holly and Josef are a mystery. Josef can't speak; yet, when mentioning the "the lost house" or "keeping things in the dark" he shows a substantial amount of fear. Holly recovered nicely, but mentally she's slightly unstable - the bipolar issue developed through this incident, and possible other things but she hasn't be diagnosed. She fears doctors and hospitals and has blocked so much of that year out she can't recall being a 10 year old.
Her sister believes that her unknown special talents were developed during that summer - that the doctor was experimenting on them. Reason why her baby sister changed so..drastically. Holly developed this need to protect. Being imprisoned for so long, listening to her brother's cries for help, she screamed so much that she lost her voice several times. But, through whatever the doctor was doing to them, she somehow regained a voice... not her voice, but a Voice; one that soon, over time, became much more than a means of communication. Her voice sung her tortured brother to sleep at times when the nightmares of his days took over. It even calmed the doctor's rage a time or two. Her voice was also the reason why the mailman decided to drop the mail off at the house rather than the street. He heard a sweet calling muse and assumed it was a goddess singing from the beach on the side of the doctor's house. But, when he stepped near, he realized it was coming from the basement...where Holly and Josef have been locked away all that time.
Because she wasn't able to save her brother in time with her calls for help, Holly grew this need to help others - disregarding herself at times. When her sister expressed to their parents what was happening with Holly, they took it as a sign of God that their daughter overcame such horrendous pains to become something more; but they feared her, so much so that they refuse to visit their daughters in America and have told Elahnie to not bring her home. When Josef died, Holly fought Elahnie to return to Greece for his funeral but to keep amends and to protect her sister, Elahnie set it up for her to view the proceedings via video. That wasn't enough for her - Holly disowned her parents and tried to run away at 13. Elahnie stopped her, but before she could, her sister damaged tons of property and caused havoc due to her overly emotional abilities going out of control. Elanie decided right then that Holly needed a different type of help, and through her research she had come across RUSH.
Other:
- Scorpio, do you believe that? She doesn't; it's just not a good fit for her. _ October 23rd.
- Greek background, but you wouldn't know by her name. That's because her real name is Helain Mattezia. She took on the name Holly Mason to fit with her 20's persona after cosplaying this unique personal creation with friends during a Golden Era of Comics Fest three years ago. For some reason, Holly was a perfect fit. Only her family and really close friends (and school authorities, of course) know her real name.
- Holly, like her parents, is Greek Orthodox, but she's not as serious about her devotion or faith as her parents would like for her to. She still upholds respect for her family's beliefs and traditions, but being more Americanized has altered her thought and outlook on such old world thinking.
- Has been playing the clarinet and violin most of her life, learning from her father and sister when they lived in Greece.