<div class="floatright"><div align="center">(http://i.imgur.com/S0QGr2I.jpg)<br/>(http://i.imgur.com/QTSXYxw.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/5wKhwXW.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/GYlX1gI.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/tyz4JA3.jpg)</div></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Evolved Character Sheet</strong></span></span><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><br/><strong>Character Name:</strong> Sephora Grace Blevins<br/><strong>Codename:</strong> Gem/Gemini<br/><strong>Gender:</strong> Female<br/><strong>Nationality:</strong> American<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong> Heterosexual<br/><br/><strong>Class:</strong> - 2<br/><br/><strong>Occupation:</strong> Waitress<br/><strong>Education:</strong> Failed out of undergrad, one semester away from a B.S. in Geology<br/><strong>Wealth Level:</strong> Grew up in the middle class, currently lower end of getting by<br/><strong>Languages Known:</strong> English, special language she talks to with her twin <br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong> 24<br/><strong>Height:</strong> 5' 3 and 1/2"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong> 110<br/><strong>Hair Color:</strong> naturally reddish auburn, colored various shades of red<br/><strong>Eye Color:</strong> Sapphire Blue<br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong> Lindsey Stirling<br/><br/><strong>Physical Description:</strong> Sephora is a short, petite, mouse of a girl who never wears high heels despite her great need to do so. She lives in leggins, tunics, sandals, and headbands. Besides her small stature and her homage to the hippie clothes culture, what stands out most is that she will always move as if she is leaving a person sized space open next to her. <br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong> From a far Sephy looks like a very happy go lucky gal who doesn't much care for what people think. But she is painfully aware of how her curious oddities and behaviors are seen by others. (Perhaps that is why she dresses so much like a hipster, hoping people will focus on that and not what is truly strange about her.) A loner who is truly never alone, she can often be seen with headphones in and music playing - especially when she has had a tiff with her sister. She will help those in need but would prefer to stay out of the fray. <br/><br/><strong>History:</strong><br/>Sephora's parents used artificial insemination to get pregnant after years of trying the old fashioned way. Only one egg was fertilized but at the first ultrasound there was evidence of two babies. Sephora's mom was having twins. Subsequent doctor's visits were not as clear-cut. Some times there were would be two heartbeats, sometimes only one. Later in the pregnancy there were two sacs of amniotic fluid but only one fetus could ever be seen on the monitor. People of faith the Blevins still set up a nursery for two baby girls and the names Sephora and Persephone were picked out and monogrammed on everything. After the deliver of only one healthy baby they had come to terms with the truth and moved on to raise their remaining daughter Sephora with all their hearts. It was called Vanishing Twin Syndrome and though sad it was something that just happened without need for intrusive explanation. When she was little and began to 'talk' to an imaginary friend in a strange language it was just chalked up to the residual effect of being so connected with her twin before birth. And as she grew older and insisted that her sister was alive and in her head, it was seen as the attempt of a misguided child who wanted to cheer up a mother who never really got over the loss of one of her babies. In high school she was just seen as the nutcase who talked to herself. About age 16 when the news was starting to talk about viruses and conspiracies Sephora's twin started to become not just someone she talked to, but someone that talked back (usually while cursing). A cocky teen who thought studying was stupid, goth boys were hot, and Garbage was just the best band EVER. A real girl - just one made of pure energy that no one else believed existed. And while Sephora was the only one who could see or hear her, Percy made sure her sister knew exactly how she felt about everything - including being the one who got the raw end of the deal. She wasn't a girl to be ignored and that led Sephora into very embarrassing situations where she was seen interacting with a person that clearly wasn't there and getting beat up all the time for it. Neither twin thought their connection went beyond talking and seeing each other until Sephora got jumped after school and a knife meant to 'scare the crazy girl' found it's way into her abdomen. It was then that Persephone first held her bleeding sister and 'took the pain back'. The Astral projections started in college when Percy peeked in on the football player's dressing room during halftime and shared the naked hotness with her sister mind to mind, or when 'they' used it to spy on another student's test answers. The odd behavior, cheating, and increased bickering between the girls in public helped Sephy along in failing out of school just a few months before graduation. Now Sephy gets by in waitressing jobs in bars were people are too drunk or otherwise preoccupied to notice her. <br/><br/><strong>Likes:</strong> instrumental meets pop and rock music, lip gloss, reading, and studying chemical properties of rocks and crystals<br/><strong>Dislikes:</strong> mean people, her sister at times, and lousy tippers<br/><strong>Strengths:</strong> Able to expertly read people's faces, lip reading, and knowing when a situation is about to get ugly in seconds -  honed from years of getting odd stares and whispers <br/><strong>Weaknesses:</strong> Easily believes the bad things people (and her sister) says about her. <br/><strong>On's &amp; Off's:</strong> Sexual interests and interactions are tricky with Sephy. She likes romantic nerdy (and/or hunky) guys who want to cuddle. But her sister has darker tastes and Sephy isn't too keen on being watched by someone who will always be there to offer suggestions. <br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Notes</span></strong><br/>Percy (Persephone, Sephora's twin) is real. She has been next to Sephy for almost every moment of their lives. Before the Evolved storyline she was a remnant of a lost twin that existed mostly as a figment in Sephora's mind. She grew up alongside Sephy, 'talked' to her, interacted with her, and was aware of their bond. Once the virus spread things changed. The mental projection of what was left of the twin Percy took a form - a ghost roaming the astral plane. A ghost with a wicked temper and a devious sense of humor. No one else has ever had direct contact with her but Sephora can see, hear, and touch her sister. Being around but not able to really live has made Percy somewhat of an evil twin. She can be jealous, cruel, mean, and vindictive. But to date she has only been able to ever hurt Sephy's feelings. Despite sometimes wishing their roles were reversed Percy is completely loyal to Sephy and when faced with a crisis will always do as her sister asks (as Sephy's powers are directly linked to Percy's ghostly state).<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Powers</span></strong> <br/></span><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Astral Projection (9):</strong> </li></ul>Being a twin with a ghost has it perks. Being made of pure energy Percy can travel to anywhere in the world in an instant and Sephy can experience whatever her sister does in those moments. However as Percy can't actual interact with the material world the astral projection is purely used for surveillance.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Self Healing (7):</strong> </li></ul>Percy will absorb any kind of wound, illness, cut, burn, bullet, break, and injury up to but not including amputation and immediate life-extinguishing conditions. Sephora isn't immortal and she can be killed. Percy just takes the pain and injuries into herself and then Sephy will visibly heal. This can be over minutes to hours depending on the seriousness of injury. However it takes much longer for Percy to be back to full 'power' after healing Sephy. There is a visible glow around Sephora's wounds (and if extreme enough, around her entire body) as she is being healed.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Energy Manipulation (4):</strong> </li></ul>In recent years Sephy's experience with sharing energy and sensory information with Percy has taught her how to affect other kinds of natural, spiritual, and ethereal energies outside of the twin connection. Not well sustained or mastered Sephy is as in awe and worry about it just as everyone else around her when it happens. This consists mostly of seeing auras of others in a way that shows her their intent and can act like psychic night vision where she can see heat markers through buildings and paths that people walk down a crowded street by the energy wake. Once she actually manipulated the chemical flames of a field trip experiment gone wrong during a biochem class - putting the flames out.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Energy Drain (2 - currently only a reflexive power):</strong> </li></ul>This has only been used once. A man attached and tried to hurt Sephy as she walked home from the graveyard shift at a restaurant. After being kicked and stabbed didn't slow Sephy down the would-be assailant came close to choking the life out of her. Mouth agape and desperate Sephora tapped into something deeper than neither she or Percy had ever felt before and soon the man was a pale, twitchy, half dead shell on the ground. They haven't talked about it since and neither sister is really sure what happened or how to do it again.