✮Name✮
Emma Heleen Naaktgeboren
✮Nickname(s)✮
Em
✮Age and Birthday✮
18, November 17
✮Grade✮
Elite
✮Gender✮
Female
✮Sexuality✮
Demi-Sexual (Hetero)
✮Position✮
TBA
✮Eye Color✮
Light Blue
✮Hair Description✮
Blonde, golden. Chest length
✮Height✮
5ft 11inch
180cm
✮Weight✮
125lbs
57kg
✮Piercings✮
One piercing in each earlobe. She rarely wears earrings though.
✮Marks✮
She has a number of birthmarks on her body. Many of them are symetrically placed across her body, or could be interpreted as (part of) a constellation, such as the big dipper lightly being present on her left cheek.
The total number of birthmarks over her entire body tally up to 93.
✮Health Ailments✮
None
✮Personality✮
Ditzy is probably the first word that comes to mind when people think about when talking about Emma.
Her mind tends to be elsewhere, anywhere and everywhere but here.
At times she comes across as a bit dumb and preoccupied.
While preoccupied is definitely true, those that know her know that she's not at all as dumb as she appears. In fact, she remembers a scarily large amount of random information and details. She's just very absentminded.
Despite that, she's only average in her grades.
Overall, Emma is friendly, warm, and welcoming. She loves being near her friends and classmates, even if she's distracted most of the time.
She is a bit of a girly girl.
Emma also has a strong moral code and high sense of honor. As such, she refuses to cheat on tests and won't betray the people around her.
✮History✮
Original history
Born in the fall, Emma was the second child to Rick and Anne Naaktgeboren, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. They were a moderate, average family living in the southern part of Rotterdam for a few years, then moving to the northern part.
For most of her life Emma didn't have much to do with super powers, until her older sister Lisanne developed an extraordinary gift when Emma was 10, and her sister age 13. Lisanne had the ability of time travel.
It was an awesome discovery, that her parents tried to keep under the rug. They wanted to make sure the world perceived them as ordinary people, leading a calm, uneventful life.
For years they managed to pull off the facade, which was a tad boring, but at least they were safe.
One day, on a week of summer camp with her sister, Emma discovered her own powers, and she was thrilled. Now she was special too, and the sisters had something they could share. Despite how worried her parents were about being seen using powers, she was excited to tell them.
When they came home the entire atmosphere in the house was distorted. One of the windows was broken, and her parents were in a state of shock and panic. They didn't explain what had happened, but they forbade Lisanne from ever using her powers again. As a result, Emma kept her newfound ability a secret from them.
When Emma was fifteen she and her sister had formed a close bond. They did almost everything together, including secretly trying out and testing their abilities. Still wondering why their parents had been so shaken up when they had come home from camp, the two decided to find out. Lisanne would take a quick peek in the past, and report it back to her. It would only take about 5 to 10 minutes, that was the deal. So she left, and Emma waited, and waited, and waited till almost an entire day had passed.
Emma lied to her parents that Lis was at a friends place and staying over for the night, hoping her sis would be home by morning. The next day she didn't return either and her parents got suspicious. Eventually she confessed that Lisanne had traveled back in time, and her parents broke down in tears.
What had happened all that time ago was that someone had broken into their house while everyone was out. When Emma's parents returned they found a bloodied trail and the body of Lis at the end of it. When Lisanne had traveled back to that event, she had stumbled upon a burglary taking place. The burglar, or perhaps multiple burglars must have panicked and killed her as there had been no other trauma done to her. When her parents found her they couldn't risk exposing that their child was a superpowered individual, so they had taken the body and dumped it.
It wasn't soon after that that Emma herself was pulled into a van as she came back from school.
New history
Born in the fall, Emma was the only child to Rick and Anne Naaktgeboren, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. They were a moderate, average family living in the southern part of Rotterdam for a few years, then moving to the northern part.
Most of the rest of Emma's childhood was calm, uneventful. Both parents had a job, her mother worked part-time so she wouldn't come home to an empty house after school, went through school like everyone else.
As a part of an exchange program she got to go to the Hidden Academy. It would help her get a better control over her English language in order to become a teacher, but eventually she ended up staying for the remaining years. She misses her family and friends, but she likes the adventure and the whole opportunity of being in an English speaking school.
At times however, she has a feeling something is amiss. Like not everything is adding up. But the rest of the people around her are quick enough to reassure her that she's just forgetting details again.
✮Likes✮
Comic books, superheroes, strawberries, action movies, the night sky, weather patterns.
✮Dislikes✮
Mint, melons, showoffs, immoral people, slapstick comedy movies.
✮Hobbies✮
Taking a walk, meditating, drawing, gazing at the stars.
✮Talents✮
Emma has a steady hand and not a lot of problem with clearing her mind to concentrate on the task in front of her. Due to the fake history, she is unaware of this and its possible applications such as marksmanship.
Hand to hand combat has been trained to her in her true history, so she can use it due to muscle memory, but doesn't recall it, though, she will prefer summoning weaponry.
While it's not so much a talent, Emma can clear her mind in seconds. It calms her down, and she can then freely make art. She isn't a good artist, and has no interest in pursuing a career as an artist, she does like to draw.
✮Strengths✮
Calm, easy to talk to, TBA
✮Weaknesses✮
Forgets a lot, oblivious to her surroundings, TBA
✮Fears✮
Spiders, bugs, dogs, doing something unethical, hurting a friend.
✮Gifts✮
Space-Time Continuum Distorting Summoning.
Or in layman's terms, a Borrower capable of borrowing anything from any time or location by creating a rift through time and space itself.
Ever wondered where your phone suddenly went even though you swore it was 'right there' a minute ago, or how you can't find that one favorite CD even though you're quite certain you brought it home after that party? Only to find it right in that spot where you looked ten times a short while later? Or better yet, searching for that eraser, and after ten minutes of looking you find it right in your own hand? Then it's probably Emma's fault.
When Emma concentrates on retrieving a certain item from a time or location, the item vanishes temporarily from that spot and appears in Emma's hands. She can then use it as she wishes till she sends it back or it fades after a while.
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Limitations
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Duration
Everything she borrows from a different time or space will fade and disappear after a certain amount of time has passed. How quickly depends on the size of the object. Larger objects range between five to fifty minutes, while simple small items can range up to being in her possession for a few hours or a full day. That however is very rare.
Timeline
Items from the past or future are more difficult to summon. Objects brought in from a different time period do not fade faster than similar objects from the current flow of time.
Size
Larger items are more difficult to borrow. Not only do they fade faster, they also cost more energy to collect.
Location
In order to collect something from a location or time, she has to (roughly) know where the item was put. For small stuff like desk items it's enough to focus on a desk and collect from there. More complex and larger items and past/future items need a more specific focus point. If she were to want to borrow Hitler's gun she would have to know exactly where it was, when it was.
Also, if an item is in the same room as where she is, she can not summon it to her hands. For that she will have to get up, and walk.
Space-Time Continuum
The same object can never exist in the same room at the same time. If she was borrowing someone's phone from the past, and the person walks in with their phone, the phone she is holding will disappear instantly.
This also means she can not borrow an item that someone is holding right then and there in the same room.
Memory
If she can't remember where she saw the item, or what it was exactly, or when it was there, she can't summon it. To combat this she does (used to) own a record of almost everything she has deemed useful for a possible summoning some day. However, finding something in there isn't always easy as the list is extensive beyond belief. Plus, if she needs something quick, this takes a great deal of time.
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Weaknesses
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Due to the amount of borrowing she does and can do, she constantly forgets to bring her own items, forgets where she puts them, or what really is hers to begin with.
Physically it's quite straining to reach into a different location or time in order to take something. If she over exerts herself the item will not only not appear, but she could pass out as well. Chances are she could die from it, just as over exertion on sports could kill a person given the right circumstances.
She can't send items to a different time or location, unless she is releasing an item back to where it came from.
The effects of the borrowed item do stay when the item has faded/sent back. (e.g.: bullet hole (and bullet if that wasn't borrowed too), cleaned wounds, etc)
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Applications
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In a fighting situation Emma will be able to collect whatever she thinks will be of use. Guns, knives, bandages. She does have to keep in mind that things will eventually disappear again, so in the case of bandages, that it will only be considered a temporary fix till actual bandages are brought in.
In class she's the go-to person for forgotten equipment. Need a pen? A new shirt till at least the end of class? A deck of cards to play poker that can disappear the moment a teacher walks in? Just ask Emma.
Even though she doesn't cheat, in theory she could borrow the answers for a test, if she knew where they were kept. That however is a rule of ethics she will not break.
Another application of her power she will not use is borrowing money, buying something, and letting the money fade after leaving. A strong moral code makes for her not doing things like that.
Due to her powers' nature, she tends to be more support than offense in a team. Providing backup and materials whenever needed.
Also, as she can repeatedly summon the same item if it fades (unless she is too tired) Emma makes for an excellent flow of (temporary!) supplies.
(If for example Emma borrows a bandaid from the first aid kit, and the bandaid disappears after a time, the bandaid will appear back in its original place in its original state. This is due to her not being able to send anything into a different location or time.)
✮Secrets✮
Emma Emma hasn't told anyone the translation of her last name. In the Netherlands Naaktgeboren is a fairly common name, but it literally means 'Naked born'. Not really something you'd share with people unless you're drunk.
She still speaks with a Dutch accent. (
How she sounds) At random moments she has accidentally spoken Dutch to someone instead of English. This mainly only happens if she's extremely distracted and thinking about home.
She is a disaster in the kitchen. She's more likely to kill herself with her cooking than fill her stomach.
✮Family✮
N/A
✮Friends✮
TBA
✮Boyfriend/Girlfriend✮
TBA
✮Enemies✮
TBA
✮Extra Curricular✮
✮Schedule✮
1. Homeroom
2. European History
3. Drawing
Lunch
4. Geometry
5. Sculpting
6. AP Literature
7. Physics
✮Other✮
N/A
