Aylin Padovan

Name: Aylin Padovan
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Age: 21
Gender: Female
Class: Psychic
Faction: None
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Appearance:

Aylin is a 6' tall with a gymnasts tone if not size. Her natural means of communication are with her hands, when in use they are fluid and when not each move is still carefully thought about giving her an air of grace and care to her movements. Similarly her steps and awareness make her apt at moving out of the way and is rare to see her trip or make a mistake.

Her body besides being tall is very strong, while not of body builder proportions she could easily be considered amazonian. She is able to overpower the average man in strength alone, yet she still comes across as very feminine. Her bust somewhat above average and her hips making her waist seem smaller. Golden locks of blonde hair fall down to the middle of her back in waves, slightly shorter in the front with a swept fringe. When doing things it is often tied back so not to get in the way of her hands when talking.

Eyes are a silver green, expressive and generally focused on mouths. When she meets someone she will look them in the eye but when communicating she is either looking at their mouths or hands. Slightly freckled her skin has a muted tan which makes her somewhat unremarkable, her nose pointed and quite short along the bridge.

In clothes she tends to either wear fitted t-shirts and tracksuits when being physical, otherwise she wears a gambit of dresses and skirts she had collected over the last few years, leaving what she wears a little eclectic. She will normally be wearing a smile however and rarely seems to be anything other than happy in public.

Her voice is broad and seems somewhat unsuited to her, not being able to hear herself she has variable cadence and pitch from word to word. This can be a challenge to anyone not used to her and if she is not focused she can become less intelligible. When speaking she will almost always go through the same motions with her hands even when no one she is speaking too knows sign.

Personality:

Aylin falls into a huge number of contradictions with her personality. While she finds herself easily affected by her emotions she also in part of having to cope with deafness has a fully developed sense of analytics. Somewhat of an introvert she has no choice but to reach out to people if she is to make friends and when she makes friendships she puts in work to keep them as strong as possible. Leading an organised life to compensate and plan to limited her weaknesses yet she isn’t against doing things on a whim, she just needs to be prepared to do so. In short she is altruistic, returning kindness doubled and working towards things she enjoys with unbridled enthusiasm. Meticulous about details and while not faultless she will always get things done on time and to the grade needed. Her responsibilities she takes personally and frequently goes beyond what is required to make other people involved happy.

In the fields she is a high achiever Aylin doesn’t boast or show off, unless directly asked she doesn’t bring up she even does fencing, let alone the level she does it at. Being overly humble it can lead to other people taking credit for her work, though she has been lucky enough not to have it really happen to her. Saying no can be rather hard, since she works so hard to make other people around her happy, it’s against her natural tide.

Being social seems perfectly natural to her and quite effortless despite being quite the introvert at heart. The major reason for this is the fact that rather than facts and numbers her brain remembers people more than anything. Little details about themselves and their lives she can pick out and hold onto for the rest of her life. This is of course rather counter to most of the schooling she was given in part explaining why she tended to not do as well as school as her efforts ideally would have produced. To most people though the largest upshot of her focus on people is the gifts that she gives. Presents in part because of her extended family are vitally important and she puts huge effort and imagination into finding things tailored to the person she is getting them for, even if they do not really know each other that well.

To her family these days she is a ray on sunshine, full of life and vigour and hell bent on making sure everyone else is having a good time. She likes to get people together for larger events for their benefit, she finds large groups rather a problem. Only being able to focus on one person at a time she finds it almost impossible to keep track of more than two people at a time. She has no problem at talking to people in otherwise loud places however. If everyone in her family can get along and be happy then to her that is all a family needs, until recently having any sort of income beyond enough to live on seems somewhat extravagant. Beside her mother she is the only person in her family to have gone to university, something else she takes care to not make a fuss over.

In overview, Aylin is supportive of those around her and will always go with her heart over her head, aiming for a win for everyone over herself and with empathy over her own judgement. Patient she takes things carefully and keeps to her own values as much as possible to reach the goal, making sure her energy is spread out to the end and beyond rather than rushing. Imaginative in the most practical sense she focuses on empathy and trying to understand other people's feelings. In the bigger picture she wants to do things that improve the world for everyone, using a impressive drive for hard work. this is because beyond herself she is loyal to her word and the people she cares about, to make them happy she would never abandon them, she needs them far more than they her. Finally she will take any task given, however hard or boring and throw herself at it until it's done.

With all this altruistic fervour there are of course downsides to balance out what she is capable of. The meek shall inherit the Earth, not today however. So concerned with other people's feelings that she often doesn't vocalise her own or take credit for what she has done, unless it's perfect she doesn't feel it's worth the praise. There is also no like for her between work, family and friends. Any conflict or criticism strikes at her heart whether she should listen to it or not and she finds it almost impossible to let go. This mixed with her own repression can lead to stress and outbursts that not release can build up. On top of that she can easily take on too much work as she tries to meet everyone else's expectations and requirements. Tradition ways heavily on her, if not for her deafness she work in the family business. She is willing to flex but to actually change things need to be dire, at the point where not doing so will cause significant problems that couldn't be dealt with more hard work. Things will always be better soon, even if logically they can't even when she needs to she won't give up.

Love of people comes easily to Aylin but romantic love is far harder for her. While able to function just fine when it comes to work, study, family, hobbies, talking about anything she finds it almost impossible to talk about her own feelings and needs, more so when she finds them embarrassing. To get to the point where she is willing to let down her defences along with the hindrances with communicating. Piling work and study on herself makes meeting people interested in her and willing to take up the challenge a rather small pool. She is also not one for flings and only really considers a relationship for life worthwhile.

If she gets those feelings though, hidden as they normally are they could easily be weaponised. The concept of a committed romance is almost religious to her, making is exceptionally hard for her to break one should the situation arise. What she wants from any relationship is commitment in turn, love and someone to say thank you to her. Like everything else in her life she spares no effort in making it work and making her partner happy, even if it's at her own expense. At least until her feelings explode. Requiring someone to be aware that she finds it hard to express herself, if they can't see that and even by accident walk all over her she can lose herself over time. Like when she was a child she can get violent when she snaps, even if she regrets it right afterwards.

While she would never say it, Aylin needs lots of positive feedback. Not being able to hear herself she constantly worries about her voice and likes cues that she is using the right sounds and volume. People looking confused at her can easily fluster her which doesn't make communicating with normal people any easier. In all her work though while she won't look for it she likes to have feedback, beyond just a few words. It is part of the reason she tries so hard in everything, well done alone is not enough. This desire to be recognised and fear of being disappointing means she keeps dissenting thoughts to herself, feeling better to just agree.

There is no set type to the people she makes friends and hangs out with. She tends to meet them at work, school or clubs where she feels less of a disadvantage and is more comfortable. Though she tends to find life easier with more emotional people, those less likely to be bluntly critical and more able to provide her with what she needs. She also only makes friends with humans, the normal everyday ones.

Aylin is a speciesist. However this is something that she shares with most normal people without magical or other fantastic abilities. Personally she dislikes magic and thinks it should be licensed and restricted, as long as it's done by people. Those other creatures though, inhuman looking with inhuman natures, they can't be trusted. They have powers that they can use, they can easily kill a human and at best have questionable morals. They commit more crimes, kill more people all around and she has grown up with the propaganda. It isn't like most of them should be killed, just kept separate somewhere safe. It isn't like there is actually a way to control them or make sure they follow human laws. She has no non-human friends and actively avoids them whenever possible, even though there are some at her university she hasn't spoken to them. It isn't to say that one could not gain her trust, just they have a minefield, walls and moats full of gators to cross first.

Her own power, that doesn't really count. She is human and she has now accepted it as a part of her, like being deaf. Keeping objects that make her feel good is a logical thing, chief among them is a necklace that belonged to her mother, it used to belong to her grandmother before it. Aylin never takes it off, anyone that tries to take it from her might not live to tell the tale.

Primary hobbies for Alyin are fencing, piloting and running, sliding them in between her study come career in the most inhospitable places for humans on Earth. Her favourite food is simply Stargazy pie with peas, it has to be made by her aunt though or it doesn't count. There isn't much she wouldn't eat but she doesn't really like cheese in any of its forms. Her favourite book is The Princess Bride followed by Alice in Wonderland both of which she can recite verbatim.

History:

Born late in December 1986 Alyin are found to be almost entirely deaf by the time she was eighteen months, sadly her mother passed away a few months before that. So she grew up with just her father and his family with as normal a life as she could manage. Her father Tonio is also deaf so her first language was American Sign. Later with the help of her extended family and language specialists she learnt at a young age to both lip read slowly speak, even though she can’t hear anything more than a dull buzz from voices at normal volume. At age six though she was put into a mainstream school once her family felt she was capable enough. Part of it would be that she’d have to move across the State if she was to go to a Deaf School, the rest that she did not seem that troubled by her disability.

Her father worked for his brother at the fish market as an accountant, even though he worked upstairs in an office, she could always smell it on him. Reading became somewhat of a hobby during the long winters but during the summer it was sports where she found what she felt was her true calling. Teams were somewhat limited but she liked soccer, baseball and netball and even on occasion sailing when her uncles would take her. Horseback riding was for a long time her preference, going up the trails with her friends, because there was truely a lack of other things to do. That was something she didn’t realise until she was older but with so few people so spread out, there wasn’t that much.

From a young age Aylin fell into the role of a home keeper, cooking, cleaning, washing, little things at first before finding she was doing as much if not more than her father at home even by the time she was ten years old. This left her more responsible that than most children her age and being deaf helped with that. Having to be extra careful crossing the road, paying much more attention to what she could see to make up for not hearing it.

It did not take too much to convince her closest friends to learn sign language either over her years in primary school. It was something cool, different and it left her being the pivotal member of a secret language. Her life ended up being as normal as one could expect for her situation, the years winding by as she grew and learnt more and more about the world. As a student she was generally somewhat average, having to fight against a not inconsiderable disadvantage and with the frustration that came with that she could quite often be violent. More than once she was sent home from school and reprimanded, yet it kept happening, at least until her grandfather stepped in. He was the only person in her family that didn’t have a problem with hitting her, also the only one that seemed to get what her problem was.

While she already played sports, he put her up for something more aggressive. At first he found her a boxing club for half a year she stuck at it. It was far easier to not lash out at people when she had somewhere she was actually meant to do it. It was mostly male though and she started to feel more and more isolated, one of the older women invited her to try out her new fencing club and something there really took off. Of all the other sports and things she did, this one felt natural, fluid and really got her excited. In this field she excelled, she became obsessed. Three times a week she went to the club, every day she trained, even taking up gymnastics for a while to help her. It paid off in 2001 she was the Alaskan Youths 14 Champion and the USA Under 14s she came Twelfth. The former she was able to maintain for four years and the latter she improved at the USA Under 16 to Seventh.

It became much, much harder once she reached full adult competitions but she still held her own, even if she wasn’t winning any of the competitions. It was enough to get her a scholarship to UC Berkeley which would otherwise be impossible for her. Electing to study Earth Sciences with a focus on Polar Geology, Glaciology and Extremophiles. Despite her hobbies she loved her home and had always wanted to know more about it, this was what she felt was her calling. Fencing didn’t help anyone, didn’t have that much of a future but with this, there were all sorts of things she might discover. One of the first of them was that field work required aircraft in most cases, just like getting about to just about anywhere in her home State. It was another skill that she learnt over the following three years.

Traveling away from home for the first time was pretty hard for her, away from all her support networks making her first year very hard. Having to make new friends, even now she could lipread extremely well, her way of speaking easily labels her as odd. It was hard but she found a way, she liked hanging out with the students in the same course and sometimes with her roommates. There were also people at the clubs she joined, a lot more adults than she was used to and the general skills of the fencers were much better as well. Her time was full up, the highpoint was always flying back home for the summer though.

Magic, the weird. That didn’t happen too much in the Alaska she knew. It was huge and as she later learnt, was full of the weirdies. Empty enough for them to hide, away from humans which is where she liked them. In California there were more of them, mixed in with people in some cases. There were even some at the university, though not many and none on her course. Not a day went by when there weren’t reports of attacks on humans, they were dangerous and you couldn’t really trust them. At least someone that used magic were humans, even if they were just as dangerous. In general she completely avoids anything to do with that, even if that does make her a little bit of a hypocrite.

Ever since she was twelve Aylin developed something strange. At first she completely freaked out, normally only barely hearing anything other than the loudest of sounds she started to hear a whole range. At first she went to the hospital with her father and they could find nothing at all wrong with her, or any sign of anything. Slowly she learnt that it was only certain things that made sounds when she touched them. At first that was all she could make of it, then slowly she started to be able to make sense of them. Not by what they sounded like more, another sense different from the others. It took a few years for her to learn just how different that made her from other people, beyond being deaf. Most things don’t react for her so it wasn’t like she had to wear gloves, some things though. At museums, churches, those sorts of places she had to be more careful though, it was easy to get drawn into the feelings, learning things she, just shouldn’t. Some things though, like a necklace her father gave her mother, feel nice, warm. For someone that didn’t know her mother at all, it made it all worthwhile.

For her it's easy to keep the oddness about her secret, it isn’t like its outwardly apparent and just being deaf tends to leave most people she meets awkward and somewhat stunned. Yet it's not like she could set people on fire, or shoot lightning, kill people with a touch, so she is still different from all them. The only person that really knows her secret is her father and he mostly thinks its just in her head, which he isn’t entirely wrong about.



Strength: F
Endurance: F
Agility: F



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Skills:

Name: Fencing (Épée)
Description: A good enough fencer to have it earn her an athletic scholarship, and to be in the nation's top thirty.
Rank: D

Name: Gymnastics
Description: While not up to competition standard Alyin spends some time every week making sure she is as flexible as she can be and she does spend much more time working at it than most people.
Rank: E

Name: Piloting Light Aircraft (Fixed, Rotary)
Description: With her fieldwork taking place in the most remote parts of the world she is often only able to get there by flying. Over the last three years she has trained with various professors and pilots and recently passed her Rotary Aircraft License. Being deaf she is not allowed to make landings at airports that require radio communication however she can act as a co-pilot. She is able to land at any uncontrolled airstrip which is most of them in her own state and many are dotted all over America.
Rank: E


Abilities:

Name: Temporal Mental Receptiveness
Description: Alyin is naturally exceptionally receptive to psychic energy, currently it manifests itself in only one way. She can hear the past of an object that has had a strong emotional or magical connection. Depending on the strength she can hear just an unintelligible murmur or a roar, in between the two she can hear the events that gave the object that energy, normally the most important in hits existence. They come in the form of sounds rather than words in most cases that she is naturally is able to interpret.
Rank: E

Name: Observant
Description: Without sound Aylin has to focus on her sight, she can miss even the more every day cues without constantly checking around herself for visual ones. As such she can notice a great many things other may not and see situations in different ways, though being deaf she still misses a lot as well.
Rank:E

Name: Static
Description: Even when she can't hear it Aylin acts as a condiut for energy, this means that other psychic and mental magic that reads minds get results that are not entirely accurate of herself, either showing static, incorrect infomation or being entirely uneffected, depending on how they work.
Rank: E



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