Gender: Female
Age: 18
Grade: 12
Hobbies and Interests: Writing, drawing, reading, video games, reality television, piano
Gift: Imprinting Press
Power Details: Kennedy can imprint ink in any shape, appearing through the pores on the tips of her fingers, by pressing them onto any solid surface.
Limitations and Drawbacks: To be able to use her Gift, Kennedy must maintain an internal supply of ink, done so via ingestion of any kind of printing ink - printer ink, pen ink, adhesive ink, and so forth. When Kennedy swallows any ink in any form, rather than passing through her digestive system, it is instead absorbed safely into her body when it reaches her stomach, in much the same way proteins and fats are. This ink is held in her body indefinitely and can be called upon instantly when needed. If Kennedy has no ink held, she cannot use her Gift. Also, the amount Kennedy can imprint is limited by the size of the tips of her fingers - ink can only be printed by the area of her fingers that ranges from the topmost crease of her finger to the millimeter of area before the tip lengthways, and the area of her fingers that does not include her fingernails in width. Furthermore, while it is possible for Kennedy to print ink through her fingers in a drawing motion without any further thought, she needs to maintain intense concentration in order to print small singular shapes, such as letters or symbols, with her power, although some of the necessity of this concentration can be alleviated by speaking what she wants to write out loud. Lastly, if she uses her power on a surface that cannot hold ink in much the same way that writing on it with a pen or marker would, the ink will remain liquid and malleable after use and not print onto the surface.
Appearance: Kennedy stands at 5’6”, 161lbs, slightly overweight for her height. She has a somewhat triangular build, with her weight more being distributed in her lower body as well as her face. She keeps her auburn hair long and wavy, and while she does try different hairstyles, she tends to wear her hair naturally down past her shoulders in everyday dress. Kennedy is caucasian, and her skin is slightly lighter than average due to her hobbies that don’t see her out in the sun that often. She has an oval-shaped face with a rounded chin, average-sized downward-turned lips, and only slightly prominent cheeks, sitting beneath a pair of hooded hazel eyes, soft angled eyebrows and a medium-sized rounded nose.
Kennedy doesn’t like to stand out, and this is reflected in how she dresses - she prefers simple, muted colours with rarely any logos, and usually opts for comfort over style, going for pants or shorts over skirts or dresses and usually always wearing some sort of hoodie, weather permitting. On the day of the abduction, Kennedy was wearing a dark grey zip-up hoodie over a light grey t-shirt, a pair of dark navy boyfriend jeans, and a pair of black high-top sneakers with new white laces, as well as a light brown beanie.
Background:
- Kennedy was born in Bend, Oregon, as the only child to Kenneth and Wendy Jackson. Kenneth is a jury consultant, while Wendy is a former army staff sergeant who became a wedding photographer, giving the Jackson family a comfortably middle-class life.
- Kennedy’s power manifested when she was young, but due to the strange circumstances regarding her power’s usage, she entered kindergarten not knowing what her Gift was - her parents eventually saw a private specialist when she was six years old, and were able to figure out her power and how it worked.
- Kennedy was always a shy student, and while she did well in class, she took a long time to warm up to other students in her class, to the point of missing out on making friends at a young age. She was also bullied for being quiet, and while the bullying eventually passed due to eventually not provoking any worthy reaction from her, she inadvertently let it dictate the rest of her social upbringing, meaning that whenever she did become friendly with anyone, she was reluctant to let them close to her, and eventually what little existed of their friendship would fade away.
- Kennedy picked up the hobby of writing and drawing when she began to practice the capabilities of her Gift. While being able to essentially paint with her fingertips intrigued her, the ability to create the words that she would think or say immediately fascinated her, and she worked tirelessly over the years to try and improve herself, with or without use of her power.
- Middle school and high school were no different than elementary school for Kennedy - while she was a great student who always worked diligently, she never made any friends, with the closest relationships she had at school being merely acquaintances. People knew who Kennedy was, since she was generally nice to people who were nice to her first, but she never learned how to let anyone in close to her.
- While Kennedy initially never had much of an interest in learning a musical instrument, she became fascinated with the piano during high school after hearing Moonlight Sonata being played on piano for the first time. She asked her parents for lessons, and she eventually received them once a week. She is a competent pianist, but prefers learning songs she's heard in video games or on TV rather than she is taught in her lessons.
- Kennedy’s reputation around school leans as positive as it can for someone with no friends - people tend to not think of her either majorly positively or negatively, but she tries to be nice to people she meets if only because she still lets the bullying she endured in elementary school affect her and doesn’t want to do anything of a similar nature to others. However, she has gone eighteen years of her life without making any major, notable friendships, something people tend to know about her.
- Academically, Kennedy is in the top quarter of her class at the very least - her favourite subjects are Literature and Art, which she excels at, while she is adequate at Law, Statistics and Religious Studies, subjects she doesn’t necessarily enjoy as of her senior year, but she took because she thought she was knowledgeable enough in them to maintain her GPA.
- Kennedy is incredibly skilled with her Gift, able to write quickly with her fingers and draw incredibly intricately. A side effect of her practice with her power is that she has become incredibly accustomed to the taste of most kinds of ink - her parents often include an ink refill canister of some variety in her lunch for school, in a similar way that other parents might include an extra juice box.
- Kennedy does not know what she wants to do when she leaves high school - while she likes writing and drawing, she is unsure as to whether or not she can make a career out of them. While she intends to send applications for any major she can find relevant to her main interests, she is also planning on sending in applications for programs with majors that involve statistics. She is also unsure as to whether or not she wants to move away from home to study, as her parents are essentially the only people she’s really close to in her life.
Other Skills: Gift Adeptness
