Name: Caleb Howle
Age: 23
Birthday: June 22
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Category: Student
Class: College
Grade: First Year
College Major: Undeclared
Appearance Description:
Eye Color: Brown
Skin Color: It was probably a good thing he was kept indoors for most of his life, because Caleb burns like an ant under a magnifying glass
Hair: Light brown, usually kept at shoulder length, and generally tied
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 150lbs. Slim, not much muscle or fat either way.
Style: His clothing is fairly simple, often jeans and a graphic Tee. He keeps things well maintained, but doesn’t much care what he’s wearing so long as it’s clean and doesn’t have any holes.
Mannerisms: He doesn’t really know what to do with his hands, so he often fidgets or speaks with them.
Personality Description:
Caleb is an excitable and joyful man who believes in the power of positive thought. Mostly because he has the ability to stop his own heart if he thinks about it too hard. Spending his childhood in a hospital, he tries to make the best of life is constantly seeking new things to expose himself to. Each novelty occupies his complete concentration for a brief, if intense period of time, before he moves on to something else. Fleeting, reckless, and occasionally selfish, Caleb does his best to make his surroundings cheerful, both for him and those he meets.
The drive for entertainment features is featured so prominently in his actions because it's what keeps him going. For most of the time, when he's around people. When he's active and striving for something, that positivity shines through, but when he's alone, when that energy shuts off... his thoughts often drift to how easy it would be to just stop. It wouldn't be hard, he wouldn't have to do anything, it would be the easiest thing to just... not take that next breath. It never lasts long, fear, guilt, and the occasional warm memory are enough to quickly banish the fleeting thoughts. It's just that sometimes, while alone with his own thoughts, there's nothing to distract him.
Species Abilities: N/A
Powers:
Autonomic Control: Complete control of his bodies normally involuntary actions and responses.
Biography: Caleb’s ability manifested quite young, in the midst of a tantrum to be specific. Normally when a child stomps their feet and states they are going to hold their breath until they die. You really only have to wait until they give up. Caleb apparently had a little bit more willpower than the average child, because he kept on going right until he passed out. His parents laughed at his antics, told him to get up and eat his peas. It was a few moments before they realised he really wasn’t breathing.
A few broken ribs, and a trip to the hospital later, left Caleb in bed with a tube jammed down his throat. That tube stayed there for quite some time. The doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with his brain, or his lungs, but without medical assistance, it seemed he would never be able to breathe on his own. It was traumatic to say the least.
As he grew, they managed to get him breathing on his own, but the moment he drifted off to sleep, or lost concentration, he would just… forget to breathe. Since then, he’s spent his nights with an intubation tube down his throat, and his days just thinking about that next breath. In, and out. In, and out. It made concentrating on anything virtually impossible. Left him with a rather subpar educational experience, a terrible fear of falling asleep, and not too much experience with the outside world.
He didn’t really realise he had more control over his body than the average person until much later in life, the most obvious were his nerves, like on and off buttons he could sever those connections. If it hurt, you stopped doing it, if it kept hurting, you just made it stop. He never understood why people cried after being hurt until someone explained to him that normal people couldn’t just make the pain stop. He was told he had impressive willpower, that he had a high pain tolerance. These were explanations that he accepted as a boy, and never questioned as he grew.
As an adult, he finally realized he had a supernatural control over his body. With focus, he could change the way it worked, the way he worked. The only problem was, once he messed his body up, without the proper control, the proper understanding of his power, could he fix it?
There was little resistance when he read the letter sent by Starlight Academy. Within the week, he had packed his bags, and boxed his ventilator, and was already feeling a little sorry if he ended up having a room mate. The thing was loud, he could only hope they had single dorms. He really hoped he could get a single room. He didn't want someone else's mess mixed up with his mess. What if they were awful, or slobs, or worse... what if they were cute?
Additional Information: Remember to Breathe
Age: 23
Birthday: June 22
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Category: Student
Class: College
Grade: First Year
College Major: Undeclared
Appearance Description:
Eye Color: Brown
Skin Color: It was probably a good thing he was kept indoors for most of his life, because Caleb burns like an ant under a magnifying glass
Hair: Light brown, usually kept at shoulder length, and generally tied
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 150lbs. Slim, not much muscle or fat either way.
Style: His clothing is fairly simple, often jeans and a graphic Tee. He keeps things well maintained, but doesn’t much care what he’s wearing so long as it’s clean and doesn’t have any holes.
Mannerisms: He doesn’t really know what to do with his hands, so he often fidgets or speaks with them.
Personality Description:
Caleb is an excitable and joyful man who believes in the power of positive thought. Mostly because he has the ability to stop his own heart if he thinks about it too hard. Spending his childhood in a hospital, he tries to make the best of life is constantly seeking new things to expose himself to. Each novelty occupies his complete concentration for a brief, if intense period of time, before he moves on to something else. Fleeting, reckless, and occasionally selfish, Caleb does his best to make his surroundings cheerful, both for him and those he meets.
The drive for entertainment features is featured so prominently in his actions because it's what keeps him going. For most of the time, when he's around people. When he's active and striving for something, that positivity shines through, but when he's alone, when that energy shuts off... his thoughts often drift to how easy it would be to just stop. It wouldn't be hard, he wouldn't have to do anything, it would be the easiest thing to just... not take that next breath. It never lasts long, fear, guilt, and the occasional warm memory are enough to quickly banish the fleeting thoughts. It's just that sometimes, while alone with his own thoughts, there's nothing to distract him.
Species Abilities: N/A
Powers:
Autonomic Control: Complete control of his bodies normally involuntary actions and responses.
Drawbacks: This ability requires careful control and expansive knowledge. Without proper care, a mistake manipulating the brain or nervous system could leave the user brain dead. A less serious error could leave the user with a lingering deformity until their control and knowledge grow to match what they were attempting.
Currently Caleb can use this power in the following ways:
Control of the sensory nervous system- Caleb can manipulate sensory nerves to gain better control of his own body, as well as receive more detailed information than a normal human.
Control of brain chemistry- Caleb can stimulate certain parts of his brain to release a variety of neurohormones such as dopamine, or GHRH.
System Overdrive- Caleb can put certain parts of his body into overdrive. With enough energy and material, this can accelerate healing ten fold or merely grow out his hair from a bad dye job, at a visible rate albeit. (this just summarized the previous Keratin Growth and Accelerated Healing, which sounded clumsy... But now although more succinct the lable sounds kind of mechanical...)
Currently Caleb can use this power in the following ways:
Control of the sensory nervous system- Caleb can manipulate sensory nerves to gain better control of his own body, as well as receive more detailed information than a normal human.
Control of brain chemistry- Caleb can stimulate certain parts of his brain to release a variety of neurohormones such as dopamine, or GHRH.
System Overdrive- Caleb can put certain parts of his body into overdrive. With enough energy and material, this can accelerate healing ten fold or merely grow out his hair from a bad dye job, at a visible rate albeit. (this just summarized the previous Keratin Growth and Accelerated Healing, which sounded clumsy... But now although more succinct the lable sounds kind of mechanical...)
Biography: Caleb’s ability manifested quite young, in the midst of a tantrum to be specific. Normally when a child stomps their feet and states they are going to hold their breath until they die. You really only have to wait until they give up. Caleb apparently had a little bit more willpower than the average child, because he kept on going right until he passed out. His parents laughed at his antics, told him to get up and eat his peas. It was a few moments before they realised he really wasn’t breathing.
A few broken ribs, and a trip to the hospital later, left Caleb in bed with a tube jammed down his throat. That tube stayed there for quite some time. The doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with his brain, or his lungs, but without medical assistance, it seemed he would never be able to breathe on his own. It was traumatic to say the least.
As he grew, they managed to get him breathing on his own, but the moment he drifted off to sleep, or lost concentration, he would just… forget to breathe. Since then, he’s spent his nights with an intubation tube down his throat, and his days just thinking about that next breath. In, and out. In, and out. It made concentrating on anything virtually impossible. Left him with a rather subpar educational experience, a terrible fear of falling asleep, and not too much experience with the outside world.
He didn’t really realise he had more control over his body than the average person until much later in life, the most obvious were his nerves, like on and off buttons he could sever those connections. If it hurt, you stopped doing it, if it kept hurting, you just made it stop. He never understood why people cried after being hurt until someone explained to him that normal people couldn’t just make the pain stop. He was told he had impressive willpower, that he had a high pain tolerance. These were explanations that he accepted as a boy, and never questioned as he grew.
As an adult, he finally realized he had a supernatural control over his body. With focus, he could change the way it worked, the way he worked. The only problem was, once he messed his body up, without the proper control, the proper understanding of his power, could he fix it?
There was little resistance when he read the letter sent by Starlight Academy. Within the week, he had packed his bags, and boxed his ventilator, and was already feeling a little sorry if he ended up having a room mate. The thing was loud, he could only hope they had single dorms. He really hoped he could get a single room. He didn't want someone else's mess mixed up with his mess. What if they were awful, or slobs, or worse... what if they were cute?
Additional Information: Remember to Breathe
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