I was told there would be bagels.  Are there bagels?<br/><br/>Just using this space to work on a character.  Move along, please.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character Version 2.0</div><div class="spoiler_body">Character Sheet Format:<br/><br/>BIOGRAPHICAL DATA:<br/>Hero Name: Not yet determined<br/>Real Name:  Helen Poston<br/>Date of Birth:  August 29th, 1996 (16 years old)<br/>Citizenship:  American<br/>Place of Birth:  Detroit, Michigan<br/>Sexual Orientation: Lesbian, but unconfirmed and unacknowledged.<br/>Known Relatives:  Father - Lou Poston, Mother - Louise Poston née Wilson, Uncle Edgar Wilson <br/>Major Enemies:  Not yet determined<br/>Extent of Education: Junior in high school.  <br/><br/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://25.media.tumblr.com/f30104898b4d0b5e5615320b562c8889/tumblr_mfo86fNmaS1rlxy60o1_500.jpg)</div>PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:<br/>Height: 4'10" / 147cm<br/>Weight: 90# / 41kg<br/>Hair:  Red trending towards ginger<br/>Eyes: Blue<br/>Skin: Pale, heavily freckled<br/>Other Distinguishing Features: None<br/>Uniform/Costume: Not yet determined<br/>Usual Style/Clothes: The Poston's are not affluent and Helen's clothes are neither on the cutting edge of fashion or brand name.  She favors quieter colors, greys and blacks with the occasional green that complements her hair and complexion.  She's a jeans and tank tops or t-shirts kind of girl.  T-shirts without ironic sayings that is, unlike a certain other person.<br/>Health:  Generally good.  No known allergies or impairments.<br/>Mental Health:  Like any late stage adolescent, Helen goes through the usual mood swings, exacerbated when she's tired or on her period.  <br/>Appearance:  Helen is a girl on the verge of womanhood.  She has very fair skin and is heavily freckled.  Though she has slender hips and torso, her breasts are large for her frame, making them appear bigger than they actually are.  Her hair is a lazy red and untidily styled long and she has blue eyes.    <br/><br/>POWERS AND ABILITIES:<br/><br/>Name:  Darkness Manipulation<br/>Effects:  Darkness is not the absence of light, but the presence of its opposite.  Currently she can cause wisps of it to flow like inky fog over an object and cover perhaps a square meter with a blanket that can range from slightly grey to absolute black.  With serious concentration she can make a single tendril extend, two centimeters around and perhaps a half meter long, and move at her direction.  It can curl and twist and knot and seems almost physically tangible but it has as yet only a visual effect.<br/>Duration:  Until concentration is lost.<br/>Disadvantages:  The brighter the ambient light, especially sunlight, the more concentration it takes.  It also takes a physical toll on her, as if using the power burns calories like working out.  Elevated heart rate, rapid breathing are common and she's intensely hungry after using it for anything more than mere play.  If she does not eat, it will have an effect similar to a diabetic crashing out from low blood sugar.<br/>Aides:  None yet discovered.<br/><br/>BACKGROUND:<br/>Personality:  Helen's a quiet girl and tends to fly under the radar of everyone.  She doesn't stick out, doesn't act up and doesn't talk in class.  She's not a loner.  Quite the opposite.  She's always attaching herself unnoticed to groups and making herself part of them as best she can until someone finally notices her.  <br/>Favorite Quote:  "Hanna, friends don't let friends sneak into insane asylums alone."  Aria from <em>Pretty Little Liars</em><br/>Quirks:  Helen counts things; ceiling tiles, bricks, telephone poles, stitches in the backpack's zipper in front of her, black spots in terrazzo, the sides of a pencil.  Really, anything.<br/>Hobbies:  Gymnastics.  Helen works out four times a week for an hour and a half each day on a competitive gymnastics squad.  She's not Olympic material, not quite, but she is rather good for the rest of the pack.  Sometimes she's found with the cheer squad, helping them with tumbling stunts though she's treated like a trainer than a member of the squad.  She's never, ever, invited to do things with the Pretty Popular Girls and doesn't go to games either, with or without them.<br/>History:  The Poston's are second generation assembly line workers, or at least her father and Uncle Eddie (Edgar) are.  They've worked for GM since their fathers got them jobs back in the heyday of the Big American Car era.  When the lines shut down, the Postons found themselves on reduced means, though her father still gets a pension as part of an unemployment settlement.  He works as a shade tree mechanic with Edgar out of a small gas station converted into a garage, and the two men also run a very broken down wrecker that sometimes needs one itself.  Her mom sometimes picks up a shift at the diner, but mainly stays at homes and smokes and watches her stories.  She keeps a mean clean house though. Nothing is ever out of place except maybe her dad's work boots when he falls asleep on the recliner in front of the TV.  It's an older TV, not even a flat screen.  Helen's always been quiet but not a bookworm.  She just doesn't talk much and doesn't keep any real friends.  She'd like to, but can't quite seem to find the ones she yearns for.  The only odd thing about her is that even as a baby, as a child, Helen's never been afraid of the dark.  Ever.  She's completely at ease on the night halfway opposite the harvest moon or in the house with the electricity out and heavy rain outside.  Sometimes she even goes in her closet and sits.  Helen's fitted it with an old blanket with aluminum foil sandwiched between layers that she unrolls from where it's thumb tacked above the inside of the door and sits amidst her clothes and shoes and leftover toys and just...sits.  It's soothing, peaceful, and utterly black.  When her period comes she's always found in there with her heating pad against her stomach and the darkness holding her.  The Postons aren't entirely sure what to make about it, and after some awkward conversations about drugs and was she hurting herself, they decided, as her father said "Girl's just peculiar that way." <br/><br/>Schedule:<br/><br/>Period 1 English 3<br/>Period 2 Algebra II - Baker<br/>Period 3 Lunch<br/>Period 4 Family Science<br/>Period 5 Earth Science<br/>Period 6 World History<br/>Period 7 PE / Competitive Athletics<br/><br/></div></div>