Started this a week ago at work and then just couldn't finish it. So I'm going to keep going with this and hopefully finish getting it posted today. In other news, writing and focusing on my world and my characters is a really good way to ignore the way my life has, more or less, gone to hell. :D I'll probably post some fiction later, introduce you all to Dean, who is my very favoritest baby.
Name: Troy Parker
Codename: Breaker
Power: telepathy
Team Affiliation: the Alliance
Troy is an anomaly, as far as telepaths go. He is very powerful, but it was a slow progression for him, his power knob slowly turning from low to high (though Dean will eventually be much more powerful) and his mind and body adjusting accordingly. By the time the Alliance finds him (at age 18) he's more powerful than the last telepath the Alliance had thirty years ago. It is very hard to keep your sanity when you have minds pressing in against yours, hearing snippets of thoughts and having to push to make sense of what you're hearing. For Troy, this is as natural as breathing.
Troy grew up on the mainland of Europe, in Denmark. He has two older brothers who he's very close with. His family runs a greenhouse and nurtures plants and special hothouse fruit. This is half the reason Troy's room in Eden is covered in plants and why there's a mini greenhouse at Medic's childhood home (and why the Sky Tower's upper most floor is covered with greenery). He might be a telepath, but he's still very good with plants.
His life was pretty ordinary until he ran into a tiny, 10 year old Scry, and saved his scrawny ass. I really need to write this scene because it's adorable and Scry Sees that he's never going to get rid of Troy and just grouches that he might as well take the brat with him now. Which Troy finds hysterical. Instant friendship, or something like that. Troy turned into a kind of babysitter for Scry (which mini!Scry objected to loudly) but they got to be really good friends. Troy'd been on the Alliance for a bit before Mimic had joined the team, being Scry's partner and being part of the Alliance's Unbeatable Dream Team(tm), and found her refreshing. And constantly tried to get her to smile and laugh, which he promptly fell in love with. Scry sulked, for the most part, because Troy started ignoring his young friend in favor of spending time with Mimic and then marrying her, and then having a baby.
Of course that's when things went to hell. Mimic pulled away from him and Troy never understood why. He tried hard to do whatever he could to keep Mimic smiling and happy, but after a while it just got to be too much for the both of them. They took a break, Troy raised Medic and spent more and more time with Scry, and then he and Mimic gave it another shot. And they had Casey. And then Mimic just moved out of the house to the Sky Tower and that was that. Every now and then they'd give it half-hearted try, mostly for the kids's sake, but each attempt ended up with Troy thoroughly discouraged and Mimic colder than ever. Around this time, Troy started dropping hints at Scry (who is oblivious and asexual and just Doesn't Get It) that he'd very much like to try a relationship with the younger man. Troy is bi, Scry is asexual, and Mimic is just...cold. It went on for a bit, Troy wearing Scry down inch by tiny inch.
And then Aployta happened, and the NOS. And that was that. Poor guy. I wish I could give him a happy ending. Instead he just sits in an Assisted Care facility and stares out into nothing.
Name: Troy Parker
Codename: Breaker
Power: telepathy
Team Affiliation: the Alliance
Troy is an anomaly, as far as telepaths go. He is very powerful, but it was a slow progression for him, his power knob slowly turning from low to high (though Dean will eventually be much more powerful) and his mind and body adjusting accordingly. By the time the Alliance finds him (at age 18) he's more powerful than the last telepath the Alliance had thirty years ago. It is very hard to keep your sanity when you have minds pressing in against yours, hearing snippets of thoughts and having to push to make sense of what you're hearing. For Troy, this is as natural as breathing.
Troy grew up on the mainland of Europe, in Denmark. He has two older brothers who he's very close with. His family runs a greenhouse and nurtures plants and special hothouse fruit. This is half the reason Troy's room in Eden is covered in plants and why there's a mini greenhouse at Medic's childhood home (and why the Sky Tower's upper most floor is covered with greenery). He might be a telepath, but he's still very good with plants.
His life was pretty ordinary until he ran into a tiny, 10 year old Scry, and saved his scrawny ass. I really need to write this scene because it's adorable and Scry Sees that he's never going to get rid of Troy and just grouches that he might as well take the brat with him now. Which Troy finds hysterical. Instant friendship, or something like that. Troy turned into a kind of babysitter for Scry (which mini!Scry objected to loudly) but they got to be really good friends. Troy'd been on the Alliance for a bit before Mimic had joined the team, being Scry's partner and being part of the Alliance's Unbeatable Dream Team(tm), and found her refreshing. And constantly tried to get her to smile and laugh, which he promptly fell in love with. Scry sulked, for the most part, because Troy started ignoring his young friend in favor of spending time with Mimic and then marrying her, and then having a baby.
Of course that's when things went to hell. Mimic pulled away from him and Troy never understood why. He tried hard to do whatever he could to keep Mimic smiling and happy, but after a while it just got to be too much for the both of them. They took a break, Troy raised Medic and spent more and more time with Scry, and then he and Mimic gave it another shot. And they had Casey. And then Mimic just moved out of the house to the Sky Tower and that was that. Every now and then they'd give it half-hearted try, mostly for the kids's sake, but each attempt ended up with Troy thoroughly discouraged and Mimic colder than ever. Around this time, Troy started dropping hints at Scry (who is oblivious and asexual and just Doesn't Get It) that he'd very much like to try a relationship with the younger man. Troy is bi, Scry is asexual, and Mimic is just...cold. It went on for a bit, Troy wearing Scry down inch by tiny inch.
And then Aployta happened, and the NOS. And that was that. Poor guy. I wish I could give him a happy ending. Instead he just sits in an Assisted Care facility and stares out into nothing.
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