Altamira Vazquez
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 7:54 pmName: Altamira Vazuez
Height: 4'11"
Weight: 75 lbs
Age: 18
Home: Santillana del Mar, Spain.
Altamira Vazquez has been in an unresponsive coma for her entire life. She's hooked up to a wide variety of life-prolonging devices, regulating her breathing and metabolism, but doctors do not hold much hope that she'll ever regain consciousness.
This doesn't stop her from being bubbly and outgoing, however!
Powers
Altamira possesses significant telepathic and telekenetic abilities, which have allowed her to continue to interact with the outside world. She has, for the lack of a better word, a telepathic "presence" that she can move from room to room and building to building, with a significant, albeit limited, range.
Altamira's "presence" has a strong effect on most people in the immediate area. It alters the chemistry in their occipital and parietal lobes, creating false signals and causing people to hallucinate vividly.
In other words, people think they see and hear Altamira. With careful use of telekenesis, Mira can also simulate interacting with physical objects. The combination of all of this allows her to interact with people in a fairly normal way, allowing her to take part in activities with everyone else.
Of course, her non-corporeal nature allows her to do things others would find impossible. Mira may appear in the center of a room with everyone else 'normally', but she's just as capable of showing up in a mirror, or on a television screen or in a picture in a book. She's not really there, of course, but everyone hallucinates that she is.
Telepaths with solid mental blocks are capable of filtering her out, if they chose to do so.
She does not have the same effect on artificial sensors--automatic doors will not open for her, for example. They can detect when she moves things around telekenetically, because those are real objects being moved, but she won't show up on cameras or on film.
Appearance
Mira's an emaciated unconscious body, tucked into a clear stasis chamber and surrounded by monitoring equipment. Looks are not high on list of priorities.
Mira's presence is generally a short redheaded girl. She can't alter it--that's her self-image--but how she actually looks depends on the person viewing her.
Because her presence is filtered through the brains of the observer, Mira's appearance will vary from person to person and situation to situation. Multiple people, viewing her at the same time, will see and hear different things. Some people might see her hair long, some short. Some might hear her with a British accent, others with an American, others with a Spanish. Everyone swears she speaks their language. Everyone hears the same message, mind you, but the language they hear it in, the accent they hear it in and the emphasis and nonverbal cues that come along with it will vary from person to person. Some might see her with very conservative clothing; others will see her in something more revealing. It depends on what the observer is expecting, and can be significantly impacted by the mood and recent activities of the individual observer. This occasionally causes some confusion.
Mira is aware of how she appears to each individual person.
As Mira spends most of her life in direct interaction with the minds of others, she's more vulnerable to suggestion than most people. She's got a will of her own, mind you; it's just that where the mind of Mira ends and the minds of others begin is more hazy than for most people. That's one reason why she's come to Xaviers University--to get a better grip on her powers.
With the full might and power of her telekenesis, Mira has the proportional strength of an average college girl.
Height: 4'11"
Weight: 75 lbs
Age: 18
Home: Santillana del Mar, Spain.
Altamira Vazquez has been in an unresponsive coma for her entire life. She's hooked up to a wide variety of life-prolonging devices, regulating her breathing and metabolism, but doctors do not hold much hope that she'll ever regain consciousness.
This doesn't stop her from being bubbly and outgoing, however!
Powers
Altamira possesses significant telepathic and telekenetic abilities, which have allowed her to continue to interact with the outside world. She has, for the lack of a better word, a telepathic "presence" that she can move from room to room and building to building, with a significant, albeit limited, range.
Altamira's "presence" has a strong effect on most people in the immediate area. It alters the chemistry in their occipital and parietal lobes, creating false signals and causing people to hallucinate vividly.
In other words, people think they see and hear Altamira. With careful use of telekenesis, Mira can also simulate interacting with physical objects. The combination of all of this allows her to interact with people in a fairly normal way, allowing her to take part in activities with everyone else.
Of course, her non-corporeal nature allows her to do things others would find impossible. Mira may appear in the center of a room with everyone else 'normally', but she's just as capable of showing up in a mirror, or on a television screen or in a picture in a book. She's not really there, of course, but everyone hallucinates that she is.
Telepaths with solid mental blocks are capable of filtering her out, if they chose to do so.
She does not have the same effect on artificial sensors--automatic doors will not open for her, for example. They can detect when she moves things around telekenetically, because those are real objects being moved, but she won't show up on cameras or on film.
Appearance
Mira's an emaciated unconscious body, tucked into a clear stasis chamber and surrounded by monitoring equipment. Looks are not high on list of priorities.
Mira's presence is generally a short redheaded girl. She can't alter it--that's her self-image--but how she actually looks depends on the person viewing her.
Because her presence is filtered through the brains of the observer, Mira's appearance will vary from person to person and situation to situation. Multiple people, viewing her at the same time, will see and hear different things. Some people might see her hair long, some short. Some might hear her with a British accent, others with an American, others with a Spanish. Everyone swears she speaks their language. Everyone hears the same message, mind you, but the language they hear it in, the accent they hear it in and the emphasis and nonverbal cues that come along with it will vary from person to person. Some might see her with very conservative clothing; others will see her in something more revealing. It depends on what the observer is expecting, and can be significantly impacted by the mood and recent activities of the individual observer. This occasionally causes some confusion.
Mira is aware of how she appears to each individual person.
As Mira spends most of her life in direct interaction with the minds of others, she's more vulnerable to suggestion than most people. She's got a will of her own, mind you; it's just that where the mind of Mira ends and the minds of others begin is more hazy than for most people. That's one reason why she's come to Xaviers University--to get a better grip on her powers.
With the full might and power of her telekenesis, Mira has the proportional strength of an average college girl.