Basic Information
Name: Claudette Jean-Pierre
Nickname/Alias/Etc: Love
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Height: 5'4
Weight: 128
Reason for Attendance: Willingly came to the camp after losing control of her powers and injuring her father.
Appearance
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Amber (But glows different colors when she uses her power)
Ethnicity: Haitian
Physical Appearance: Claudette is a girl that is obviously foreign. It's not just her really dark black skin, but it's her accent and mannerisms. When she speaks, she has a very thick accent, and sometimes stumbles on the English language. For those who are familiar with them, it's clear as day that she is Haitian. Her movements are slow and deliberate, and she takes large steps. That said, Claudette is a thick-boned girl that has a solid build all without being fat. She has solid, masculine, earth hands. She has a healthy amount of body fat and muscles, while she plays sports, she isn't muscular. But her legs are fairly solid and devoid of body fat. But her body has some curves to it. Her breasts are C-cup, and her butt is round. She's not super short, but it's an inch below the average female height, and according BMI, she weighs a healthy amount too. As it's been stated before, she looks pretty Haitian. Her facial features, skull shape, and hair-texture are quite consistent with Africans, but it's not that which gives away her Haitian heritage, but it's her very dark skin. Her skin is very dark, coal-dark, which is probably from the extra-sun she's been getting since she was young. Her skin is very scarred, but the most notable scars can easily be concealed under her clothes. Now, easily the most notable scar on her right has to be the one a few centimeters above her knee, that circles her entire leg. Almost like she was bifurcated (And it's true!) around those two areas. Claudette's hands have leathery, fleshy, burn scars all over them, that are fairly recent. She also has a few burn scars in assorted parts of her body, mostly on her arms and chest. It's because she went overboard with her power a few times. Her head is round-shaped, and her facial features are squared. Her eyes are small, and have that longing stare to them, in addition to having a amber color. Her nose is large and arrow-shaped, pointing inwards somewhat, with small nostrils. Claudette's lips are pretty thick and full. Her cheeks are small, but very round. Claudette's chin is rounded, and smooths into her sharp-jawline quite well, but it's pretty big. Claudette's ears are small, round, and yadda, yadda. Finally, Claudette has thick, afro-textured, hair. She has two large, bushy, afro-puff at each side of her head and the rest of her hair is brushed down.
Attire: Claudette's style is very modest. She has a school-girl style, you could say. She likes to wear skirts of various patterns, but never a skirt that goes down to her knees, and she's usually always showing her legs. As for shirts, she tends to wear formal shirts, such as dress shirts and sweaters, at times, she wears. But she never wears a shirt that shows too much skin, and usually all of her clothes cover skin. She'd never be seen in anything that'd be slutty. But, she keeps her hands covered up to hide those horrible scars on her hands.
Personality
Personality: A one, true fish out of water. Claudette is new to the whole America thing, and has to get used to everything. She is a very sweet and kind hearted girl that is polite as she is well-spoken. While her English may not be too good, she's real fun to be around. She tries to be one of the nice, energetic people, who everyone wants to be around. However, she is very inexperienced in general, due to a rather sheltered upbringing. She hasn't gotten herself any real experience. She tries to mesh with American standards of what is fun and what is cool a little too hard sometimes. Sure, she'll talk to people, and play pranks, but she's rather naive, and easy to convince with a little bit of smooth talking. Due to her lack of awareness about American culture, it could be quite easy. Since she hasn't exactly adapted to American culture yet. It's not stupidity, it's merely a lack of her own understanding. All because she was lonely back home and wants to make friends with other people. Claudette has the edge that she's meek, and her attempts be cool to can come off as endearing. Especially her overly apologetic habits. If she screws something up, even in the slightest, she'll apologize, a peculiar habit she had developed. Adding onto her endearing traits, Claudette is rather inexperienced with romance in general, because she never exactly had one! She intends to fix that. Most of her "experience" with romance has to be glorified relationships on TV and other outlets. Claudette tries to flirt, but can't exactly get that down too well. She herself isn't too sure about her sexual preference, she's fine with boys and girls. Claudette constantly seeks approval of others, and wants to make friends out of many people. Even if she comes off as desperate. With the people she does become friends with, she really values their relationship, and will go out of her way to help them whenever she can. One of Claudette's major problems is that she's often anxious, and goes through bouts of depression because of the loneliness. Which is why she tries to get friends, and have fun, to bury those traumas with past. Claudette doesn't exactly know doesn't how to express her feelings properly, and has a hard time controlling her emotions. She's fairly moody at times, or can be described as oversensitive. It might be a side-effect of her power, or past traumas coming to light. Claudette is a fairly lonely girl, and just wishes to change that. She attempts to hide this mentality underneath a nice, and cheerful mask. A mask that she never intends on ever taking off. Because it makes her feel normal. Claudette isn't exactly super comfortable with her power because of one lapse of control caused her to hurt someone she cared about. She plans on avoiding this by maintaining control of herself at all times. One of Claudette's biggest peeves is when people mistake her lack of understanding of the English language for stupidity. It's something that angers her to no end.
Skills/Talents: This might not seem like a skill, but since Claudette is Haiti-born girl, she is learning English. It isn't perfect, but she's trying. Her main draw is how well she can speak French, specifically the Haitian Creole.
That's what Claudette can speak. Other than that, Claudette has played a few sports. Nothing that she's especially good or "talented" at, but she was given lessons in Tennis and Soccer. It didn't exactly stick with her, so it's barely worth noting. Another thing she got lessons for was the piano. Unlike sports, she managed to actually come to love playing the piano. But her main draw seems to be how good at cleaning she is. She never misses a spot. Other than that, Claudette views herself as unremarkable and talentless.
Quote: "Bonjour, non M - Um, I'm Claudette. No-nice to meet you."
"I'm sorry, I can't understand you, m regrèt."
History/Bio: Claudette was born into a rather prestigious Haitian family, a very wealthy one. The Jean-Pierre family were apart of the Haitian Elite, one of the few rich families in a poor country, that had a heavy hand in the Government. The Jean-Pierres lived in the city of Port-au-Prince, and, naturally, had enough money to spend enjoying themselves. They lived in the city in a nice house. Other than the occasional thief trying to break into their house, they lived a rather uneventful life. Being rich wasn't so glamorous for Claudette, actually. She got what she wanted, and was properly educated, but it was all so lonely growing up for her. There were really no other kids that were her age for her to interact with, and her father kept her from really interacting with them because he was rather paranoid. She was just the lonely rich girl, only having the company of maids and butlers that all came and went. Claudette's father picked up on this, and gave his daughter some hobbies for the child to keep her mind off of it. Claudette was given lessons in Tennis, Soccer, the Piano, and others, in an attempt to find something that'll keep her happy. But none of them really helped, they kept her distracted for a bit, but were not a permanent solution. Her father was extremely paranoid, and had a fear of what the lower class might do to Claudette to elevate themselves, so it was something she had to deal with. However, Claudette's mother, Patricia had helped a great deal with her daughter. They talked a lot, and Patrica attempted to teach her daughter morals and how to be humble so that the wealth wouldn't go to her head. These conversations came to shape Claudette, but Patrica helped Claudette by using her secret power of emotion manipulating on her. It felt wrong, but it kept Claudette in a good mood.
Continuing, there wasn't too much about Claudette's early life until she was ten, when the Haiti Earthquake hit. The Port-au-Prince district was hit the hardest by the quake, and unfortunately, the Jean-Pierres were no exception. During the middle of the night, everything began shaking and Claudette wandered out of the bed, confused. She was injured gravely during the quake when she fell down some stairs and a piece of rubble had fallen on her and crushed her leg. She was unconscious for awhile, but while she was knocked out, the rubble was pulled off of her by her parents, and she was rushed outside by her frantic parents. They had come across a rescue party during their run through the ruined streets of Port-au-Prince, and Claudette was taken to the Argentine Air Force Mobile Field Hospital. Once there, she was treated by a healer, a Meta-human, that was in Haiti for the time. This healer was healing children and the incredibly wounded, so Claudette fit the bill. There was a scar left behind, but she was otherwise in great condition. After she was healed, she was given to her family. Her family was confused, and in fear. But one thing was for certain; they couldn't stay in Haiti, going from shelter to shelter. Things were going to get bad. They choose to head to America for awhile, since they had quite a few ties to the states. Fortunately, following the Earthquake, the US Government were a bit more lenient when it came to Haitian refugees, so they were allowed to get a greencard and live America. Which was the plan until the dust settled and they could resume their businesses.
They arrived in the states, living in Myrtle Beach, South Caroline, and the place was so strange to the young Claudette. They lived in a vacation house that they had owned on the beach, for the time being. Unfortunately, Claudette had to do a little bit of adjusting to the states, but, once again, she was kept rather sheltered out of fear of what other people might try something. Her father was always out handling business, or mingling with his American friends elsewhere, so she was left alone. The only real company Claudette had was her mother, but even she wasn't around all the time. Patricia attempted to teach Claudette some english. Years had passed and the house started to feel like a prison. Claudette was barely let out. However, she decided to take matters into her own hands. She simply snuck out of the house when her family wasn't home. She didn't go far, she merely explored the beaches on her own terms. Until she ran into other people... she was rather shy, but managed to start a conversation with them. She talked to the other people who had owned vacation houses in this area. Some of them were young and had kids. It was scary for her at first, but she eventually warmed up. She went back home before anyone even got back, and went out again the next time. Creating a cycle of sneaking out of the house. She met people, and it shaped her into a better person. Even though she couldn't talk to them that well.
Claudette thought that she gotten better at it, predicted them better. All she did was get arrogant. One day, Claudette stayed out on the beach for too long, and her family came back. By the time she had returned, they were worried sick about her. Claudette argued that she was tired of living in a prison, which made her father extremely angry. In a fit of anger, he threatened to lock her in her room and never let her out (He wasn't going through with it, however). This made... Claudette very angry. It awakened something in her, bright-red flames had surrounded her. She dropped to her knees and let this fire vibrate in all directions. Which set the room on fire, and badly burned her father. Her mother had realized what happened, and quickly used her power to pacify Claudette, extinguishing the flames automatically, but the damage had been done. Claudette had gravely burned her father. He was rushed to the hospital, and she was rushed inside a cell. No one had planned on arresting her, but the incident had caught the all knowing eye of Camp ThinkerRock, who had offered Claudette a place in the camp. A chance to be among the people like her. She saw it as a solution to her social problem, she took the offer without a second thought.
And away to ThinkerRock she goes.
Family:
Grandfather - Frantz Jean-Pierre (Deceased)
Grandmother - Aubrey Jean-Pierre (Deceased)
Father - Edward Jean-Pierre (Hospitalized. Badly burned)
Mother - Patricia Jean-Pierre (Meta-human has Emotion-Manipulation)
Relationships
Abilities
Power Class: Cerebral/Elemental, Super-System, & Power
Power: Flames of Passion. Inside Claudette burns a certain kind of fire. The fires of intense emotion, that she can barely contain herself. That said, Claudette can create a special kind of technicolor flame out of nothing. But this fire doesn't burn anything, it doesn't consume oxygen, secretes no heat, and cannot be extinguished with water. These flames are heavily connected to Claudette's emotions, in fact, what they do, and their color, heavily depends on the emotion she's currently feeling. The stronger her emotions are, the stronger these abilities are. These abilities are on a similar frequency to Cerebral-type powers, but have shades of Elemental, and buff herself and other like Super-System powers. However, some aspects of her ability are Cerebral in nature. Claudette can see the "emotional fire" that resides within people. It's a fire that represents the emotions that people experience. How strong their emotion factors into how intense the fire rages. More or less, this is empathy, except in a slightly different way. Claudette can read base-emotions just by looking at people, but she has a form of telepathy. Not allowing her to read minds. If she grabs onto somebody, and focuses really hard, she can "receive" the emotion, and see a vision about the source of the emotion. This ability might not be related to the flames, but it assists her greatly. By receiving emotions from other people, Claudette herself mirrors them, which can allow her to choose the flame she wishes to use. In addition, Claudette can also "recall" emotions she felt in the past to change the properties of her flames. It's not as easy as mirroring someone else's emotion, as it takes an extreme amount of concentration, but it can help her in a pinch. Below are the possible emotional combinations:
Anger. Claudette's anger more or less makes her a more traditional pyromancer. Her flames pack an intense heat, eat the oxygen, and burn whatever is in Claudette's path. These flames are much more intense than usual flames, they're hotter and burn things much faster. Once again, proportionate to the anger she's feeling, however, they have an effect on her emotions. They make her angrier, and more savage, therefore, the more she uses the flames of anger, the stronger. They burn with a bright red color and an intimidating light radiates off Claudette's body. In addition, she gains a resistance to heat (But not an
immunity) to allow her to withstand these heats. Notably, they also infuse Claudette with far more strength (Allowing her to lift three times her weight), durability (Boosting her durability enough for her to shrug off punch), and numb her pain (She will feel less and less pain).
Fear. Fear is a tricky emotion, it either inspires you to fight or run... in this case, the flames of fear hide Claudette. The flames of fear take a bight-yellow color, and take the appearance of a more smoky/gassy substance. These flames erase light, muff sound, remove odors, and generally mask what is within the flames. Thermal signatures will be invisible, radiation/signals will be dampened, and so on. It also mutes the senses within the flames, the sense of touch is confused, sight is robbed, and hearing is deafened. It also interferes with the detection abilities of Meta-humans. While inside the flames, she'll be invisible to telepaths, other information type abilities won't work properly, and generally, only powers that detect Meta-human energy will be able to sense her.
Love. Love heals, and there is no passion greater than love, and it shows in their bright, hot-pink, flames. The flames of love heal those that Claudette exposes them to. Physical and mental wounds will be healed. In fact, if she so happens to be in the presence of someone she loves, the flames will heal her too. In addition, the flames secrete a fume that alters people's perceptions a bit. Regardless of what person they are, they'll think that Claudette is much more attractive, removes inhibitions a bit, and it'll be like her voice is hypnotic. Thus, they'll be easier for her to manipulate.
Sadness. The moment Claudette's tears start rolling, her flames will take a dim-blue color. Like the flames of love, these flames secrete a fume, one that doesn't alter people's perceptions, but is a gaseous chemical. The flames of sadness are much like tear gas, they sting every orifice in someone's body. Badly. Causing them to cry themselves. Maybe cry themselves to death!
Joy. The flames of joy are the flames that get the party started! A bright-green flame, they overpower whoever they touch with a happiness like no other. Even the angriest soul, or most savage beast, will be flooded with a peaceful feeling. In addition, they will be full of energy, having their stamina restored, almost making them want to jump around. So will Claudette. She'll be infused with the same invigoration.
Desire. What people crave... The flames of desire take a dark-green color, and are quite simple in what they do. Claudette can create illusions by shaping these flames and envisioning something. She can create anything that she imagine, much like the average illusionist.
Nostalgia. The past was great, wasn't it? The Flames of Nostalgia take a purple color and allow Claudette to absorb memories of whoever they touch. After they come in contact with someone, they'll copy memories from the past and "store" them within the flames. From there, Claudette can absorb the memories and experience them for herself. As a small side effect, Claudette's own memory will be enhanced, and she'll remember things much easier.
Anticipation. The flames of anticipation are a tan color. These flames grant speed buffs to whoever they're affected by. They'll be able to run, think, react, and heal faster. It also makes them far more nervous, and won't think things through. Which counts as a weakness and a strength, if you think about it.
Weaknesses/Drawbacks: First and foremost, Claudette can only access one form of the flame at a time. That's more of a limit, but I feel like I should note it. Plus, this power is pretty situational, she sometimes won't have the right flame for the right situation. Which puts her at a disadvantage when she doesn't have time to prepare. Now, using any form of the flames emotionally drains her. As in she won't have any emotions and sensations if she goes overboard. She'll feel empty as a husk, and nothing she does will change that. And there's the fact that without emotions, she's powerless. So that means she has to work hard not to overuse her power. These flames tend to influence her thought patterns a bit, such as making her more single-minded. Each form of the flame has their own weakness:
Anger. Claudette will get consumed by her own rage the more she accesses the flames of anger. That said, she'll get more and more predictable and single-minded in a fight - which a clever opponent can take advantage of. That said, while Claudette has a resistance to flame, if she overuses these flames, she can burn herself extensively. The flames can also dehydrate her, burn all the oxygen, and so on. Since these flames are like normal flames, they can be extinguished with water. The flames are connected to Claudette's anger, once she calms down, or falls unconscious, the flames will disappear.
Fear. Naturally, these flames also affect Claudette, so they mute her senses as much as anyone else. Which can leave her unaware of what's going on. She'll have to drop the flames, and possibly expose herself, in order to see. The flames of fear makes her extremely paranoid, and jumpy. Even in the presence of friends, she'll be ready to run.
Love. The flames make her much more suggestible and easier to manipulate with romance/sex, and it removes inhibitions of her own. Basically it kinda turns her into a slut. After she's done using these flames, they make her feel heartbroken. She'll feel grief and disappointment for a period of time.
Sadness. Uhh... the flames of sadness also sting her eyes? I don't know. Well, the flames of Sadness make her apathetic to the world, and she'll slowly demotivate until her only goal is to find somewhere to wallow.
Joy. The flames overwrite all other needs, emotions, and thoughts. By that I mean that the only thing she'll want to do is jump around and have fun. No matter what. Someone could punch her and she'd laugh it off. Which means she's extremely vulnerable to attack while the flames of joy are running, and she won't be able to focus on the goal at hand.
Desire. Much like love, Claudette will be consumed by a desire like no other. Whether it's for people, or an object. Which can cause her to act really rash, and so on. Any illusions she creates only affects sight, and are intangible, so yeah. She better keep that in mind. If people overcome their desire (Or have none) then they will not see the illusions that Claudette creates.
Nostalgia. Absorbing memories can be quite painful for Claudette. If she absorbs too many memories at once she will suffer a painful overload and will be rendered unconscious. Even then, absorbing small amounts memories will make her thought process a bit hazy for a moment as she processes it. Though, for the psychological side, Claudette will gain an insatiable desire to indulge herself in her good memories as she uses her flames. Which can overwrite all other thoughts.
Anticipation. These flames speed up Claudette's heart too. If she uses the flame too much, she could suffer a heart attack. In addition, the flames make her impatient, fidgety, nervous, and prone to jump the gun.
Other: