<div class="floatright">(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691657169988485150/957457550079586394/6b6405dbaff8917f8168729d1a5cc408.png)<br/><div align="center"><strong>Layne Opa</strong></div></div><strong>Nicknames / Alias:</strong><em>Downtown, J-Sweet</em><br/><strong>Age: </strong><em>19</em><br/><strong>Birthday: </strong><em>March 31, 2004</em><br/><strong>Gender &amp; Sexuality:</strong><em>Cis-male/Heterosexual</em><br/><br/><strong>Face-Claim / Play-By:</strong><em>Will Rayne Strongheart.</em><br/><strong>Height: </strong><em>6’3”</em><br/><strong>Brief Physical Description: </strong><em>Layne is tall, lanky in a fit, athletic way with wide shoulders that look like he will fill out more in a few years.  Layne wears his raven hued hair (elbow) long, often pulled back in a ponytail, more rarely in a braid when he is doing something active.  He has large hands, even for his size.  Usually seen in jeans and a plain T-shirt when he isn’t in a muscle tank top and athletic shorts on the court, always in sneakers, of which he has nearly a dozen pairs.</em><br/><strong>Arriving from: </strong><em>Dayton, Ohio</em><br/><br/><strong>Character Trope:</strong><em>Jock</em><br/><strong>Stuffed Animal Type</strong><em>Bird</em><br/><br/><strong>Please provide three to five subjects or tasks that your character is strong at. At least two of these should be drawn from your Trope:</strong><em>Basketball, Javelin, Electronics, and Statistics</em><br/><br/><strong>Please provide two to three positive qualities about your character.</strong><em>Layne is an exhaustively hard worker and teammate, he keeps secrets and confidences well and protects people he sees as being picked on.</em><br/><br/><strong>Please provide three to five subjects or tasks that your character is weak at. At least two of these should be drawn from your Trope:</strong><em>English/literature/writing (Layne’s dyslexia was not diagnosed until he was 16), has pretty much no fashion sense outside of his sneaker collection, algebra and any math level past that, still doesn’t have his driver’s license.</em><br/><br/><strong>Please provide two to three negative qualities about your character.</strong><em>Can get hyper-focused on one thing and miss everything else, including getting lost pretty easily, can be oddly superstitious to the point of seeming obsessed about luck, and can get easily frustrated when he doesn’t understand something he is tasked with doing.</em><br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Paranormal Powers</span><br/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/713373042520096840/957459763694825523/20190927_3bf4cb.png)<br/><div align="center"><strong>T-Sam</strong></div></div><strong>Stuffed Animal Power 1</strong>-<em> You're able to make yourself lighter, attaining the ability to perform short glides through the air.</em><br/><strong>Stuffed Animal Power 2</strong>-<em> By concentrating on the mental picture of something you're able to make it shine to you, enabling you to find it.</em><br/><strong>Character Trope Power 1 </strong>-<em>Just can’t miss – Layne finds that even in bad weather, the dark, impossible odds, he simply can’t miss when he aims at something.  Could be throwing a stone, shooting a basketball, slinging a rope or flinging a javelin, it is like his already pretty adept eye-hand coordination has some sort of inherent GPS kind of tracking ability, even with moving targets.  Downside, even when he wants to miss, he can’t seem to do it.</em><br/><strong>Character Power 1 </strong>-<em>The Fadeaway – Named after one of his favorite shots on the court, Layne can disappear and blend in with any background, assuming there is one.  If someone is touching him and willing to trust him completely, he can make someone else disappear as well.  On his own he is close to undetectable, even by smell, but has to keep entirely still for the effect to be anything better than wearing a basic camouflage jacket (how it works if he is moving at all, maybe harder to see, but far from impossible), and with someone else, both must stay entirely still and the effect is doubly draining on him and twice as hard to maintain.  Thos power only works in natural settings, or settings made from nature (the woods, bushes, natural wood objects like the side of a log cabin or natural stones/rocks).  Out in the open the best he can do is lay flat on the grass or dirt and can’t easily be seen from directly overhead.  The effect is not instantaneous, it takes some time, twice as much for two people, hence the "Fadeaway" name is an accurate description too.</em><br/><br/><strong>Describe your character's home-life. Be sure and include their relationship with parents and any siblings.</strong><em>Layne is an Air Force brat, so life has been constantly on the move every few years.  His Mom is former Air Force and works as a nurse after her first two enlistments, while his Dad is a Senior Master Seargeant in a Tactical Aircraft Maintenance and Logistical command unit at Wirght-Patterson AFB, near Dayton where their current home is.  Layne has one sister, Barrett (14), who is in a freshman in high school.  Layne is closer to his Mom with some things, like school work that he struggles with, and to his Dad with others, like hobbies and the workshop in their basement.  Building, repairing and flying remote control model aircraft is Layne and his Dad’s biggest shared hobby.<br/>Barrett is the academic star of the family and a social butterfly, while Layne excels in athletics and tends to be the quiet big brother sort.  <br/><br/>Other than visiting some relatives and stories his parents have told and a few traditions they keep, Layne is close to his family, but estranged from his Native American heritage, or at least feels that way.  His home life is pretty disciplined and orderly, he does more chores than most teens he knows and has just graduated High school after being held back twice, once in elementary school and again in middle school, because of his grades.  While Layne had some tough times emotionally, frustrations that still bother him sometimes, finally having his dyslexia diagnosed and learning to deal with it has made the last few years a lot less anger and frustration filled for Layne.</em><br/><br/><strong>Describe your character's school-life. Are they doing well? What is their relationship like with their teachers and peers?</strong><em>Layne qualified to graduate this year, though his GPA was barely a 2.0, but was on the upswing his last year.  Layne has attended five different schools with his Mom and Dad, and later just his Dad, getting transferred from base to base, including four years in Germany from ages 6-10, so consistency and long term friends really haven’t been a thing.<br/>  <br/>The last three years were in Dayton and as usual Layne used his athletic ability to make friends on the court and field easily enough.  Concentrating on basketball, Layne’s team won a Class AAA state championship and several of his teammates are off to colleges on athletic scholarships.  Layne is planning to attend junior college in the fall in hopes of getting his grade up enough that he can get a scholarship at a four-year school to play basketball.<br/><br/>Off the court he tends to be oblivious at times to girls who like him, though far from completely so.  He tends to enjoy girls who are more tomboyish, or at least not overly girly.  It’s not that he will only date other jocks, but anyone that spends too much time getting dressed and made up usually expects the same coming from him which just isn’t going to happen, plus he simply has a thing for girls and women now, who have a natural, no muss, no fuss kind of beauty, for want of a better term, but so far dating has been like his friendships, not all that long lasting and none currently he would call a girlfriend.</em><br/><br/><strong>Describe your character's relationship to the stuffed animal that they brought. How did they acquire it? Did they want to bring it? Are they proud to show it, embarrassed to have it, or something else?</strong><em>Layne won T-Sam at a carnival when he was 11 by hitting three jump shots at a basketball rim that looked normal from a distance, but was, as most carny games are, a bit more or less than meets the eye.  Twelve feet high and barely wide enough to fit a basketball through (standard hoop is two b-balls wide, as everyone knows), Layne nailed all three shots on the first try.  In some ways it was a precursor to his developing an incredibly accurate jump shot as a shooting guard in his basketball career.  <br/><br/>Layne was insanely proud of the win and was sure it meant something special. Ever since then T-Sam has been Layne’s good luck charm, with his Mother teasing him that it was the strangest totem she has ever seen.  T-Sam is pretty faded and has seen better days, needing to be sewn up here and there and barely survived a wonky washing machine once, but Layne is convinced that T-Sam, or just plain Sam, brings him good luck and when he is playing basketball, T-Sam is always in his locker and Layne touches his beak for luck before heading out on the floor.</em><br/><br/><strong>What is one thing will make your character most home-sick while they are away?</strong><em>With this being his Dad’s last stationing before he retires in two years, their family finally has their first dog, Kota, a husky-shepherd mix, whom sleeps on Layne’s bed when he is at home.</em><br/><br/><strong>What is one thing will your character be happiest to hopefully 'leave behind' while they are away?</strong><em>Layne isn’t the happiest camper, pun fully intended, with his former teammates all getting ready for their big adventures at medium to big name colleges in the fall, and so this camp, that one of his Mom’s cousins recommended, is his way of getting away from all of that noise, even if it means less time on the court this summer.  Yeah, he’s a little jealous and insecure that his grades didn’t let him do what his friends are doing, so trying to take his mind off of it by just getting away from it all.</em><br/><br/><strong>What is your character's favorite campfire story and why?</strong><em>”How Racoon Got His Coat” https://www.campfiremarshmallows.com/campfire-stories/how-the-raccoon-got-his-coat-native-american/</em><br/><br/>How Layne sees awakened T-Sam (in his mind at least):<br/><br/>(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/713373042520096840/957459846293229568/artworks-000173912443-zd3fb2-t500x500.png)