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Deirdre Carson
Topic Started: Jan 28 2012, 10:50 PM (147 Views)
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Name: Deirdre Carson
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Faction: Civilian

Appearance: Deirdre stands at 5'3", an average height for a female, and weighs 110 pounds. As such, she's on the slimmer side of average, but not by much, especially for her age range.

She has straight brown hair, cut to chin-length. She also has brown eyes, which sometimes are augmented with rectangular-framed glasses, due to slight nearsightedness. These make her look rather more severe than she usually intends to, but she only wears the glasses while reading or looking at faraway objects for long periods of time.

She looks relatively plain, with mostly average features. One thing she is somewhat self-conscious about is her nose bridge, which appears straight from the side, but slightly crooked when viewed from the front. She also has high cheekbones and ears that are somewhat flatter than average, though the latter is usually hidden by her hair.

Her typical choice of attire is a zipper hoodie or a plain hoodie, paired with jeans. Recently, she has taken to carrying a large dark blue backpack around wherever she goes, because of the crisis. It used to be her school backpack.

Biography: Deirdre was born in Brockton, the third of three children. Her older sister Chloe was five years older than her, and her older brother Steven, three. If anything, her childhood was only special in its uneventfulness. She was a fairly well-behaved child. She got along fairly well with her siblings, though she sometimes found them a little patronizing. By the time the Riverside Incident occurred, both her siblings had already gone to college in other parts of the country.

In elementary and middle school, Deirdre got by with average grades, never really trying to stand out. She had some problems with bullies in middle school, teasing her about her crooked nose, which led to some self-esteem problems, though she took her parents' advice and ignored the bullies. The success of this was debatable, but once high school came around the bullies had better things to do and left her alone.

High school came and went, and Deirdre found herself looking at colleges and majors. Upon the urging of her parents, she had worked hard through high school, even getting tutors when the occasion called for it - usually on the sciences, which she found were sometimes difficult, especially chemistry. In her spare time, she kept fit by running and playing casual sports like frisbee. She was fairly sure she could make it into a reputable college, maybe even with an undecided major for her freshman year. She wasn't sure what to major in. She was beginning to lean towards the liberal arts majors, even philosophy, though she was worried that they would be difficult to obtain employment for later down the line.

That was when she was seventeen, three years before the present day. She was eighteen when the Riverside Incident occurred. She never graduated from high school - her fellow students and teachers began abandoning Brockton. Her parents, however, opted to stay and wait it out, a decision that has left Deirdre's previously amiable relationship with her parents very strained. There were financial reasons for this as well, as college fees for her siblings had taken their toll. Her mother later disappeared on a grocery run, likely detained by the military indefinitely, leaving only Deirdre and her father to manage the household, less able to move away from Brockton than ever before.

And once the superpowers emerged, Deirdre found herself increasingly bitter at the whole situation, a bitterness that she transferred onto the superpowered beings as a whole. Mostly, they had done her no wrong, but she saw the Mark 21's as a prime example of how these powers could be used for harm. She's somewhat more mixed on the rebels' usage of powers, seeing as they somewhat coincide with her own goals. Mostly, though, she dislikes the powers on principle, that some wield these powers over others, purely by chance and not by merit. However, she's also astute enough to see that eventually she may have to choose a side or be forced to continue living in the atmosphere of fear and tension that now pervades Brockton. The other option is somehow working with the rest of the civilians to escape. This will likely involve working with "superpowered" people either way, a fact she is loath to admit.

Power: None. Despite being exposed to the contaminated water, Deirdre has not contracted any powers.

Starting Belongings: She has access to kitchen knives in her home, which she usually doesn't carry around. She also has access to her father's old hunting knife, which she carries on her errand runs, as the Mark 21's are a plausible threat to any civilian alone on the streets. Granted, a knife is extremely ineffective against a gun, but it is better than nothing.
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