PULSE

ANTLER / CST
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Daniel Bryan Fox


Pulse
Out (formerly)


human mutant


21


september 9th


nashville, tennessee


male


male

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angry, unstable, a tad paranoid, maybe a bit manipulable; daniel is honestly sort of weak-minded, despite his power. the only reason he seems to still be functioning regularly is his sister. she was always the listener, the soft one. she was like a sponge that he has complained and fretted to his whole life. he's always been the aggressive half, the protector. when daniel and his sister's powers manifested at the same time, it only hammered in the fact. from that point on, his mostly stable mind was driven out by his literal physical numbness. he couldn't feel his clothes or the wind or the water when he wasn't with his sister. she literally had to hold his hand through his breakdowns so that he could touch something, anything.

[break][break]for a long time now, he's been sort of coping with it. considering the fact that he's had the power for seven years now, you tend to get used to things. he's not much the better for it though. without much of a tactile sense, daniel began to slip into fear and paranoia. he doesn't trust stronger groups, so daniel doesn't think of himself as intensely loyal to the initiative, even though he'd be willing to do whatever they wanted. money's money, and this is one of the easiest ways for him to make it. right now, all that he wants to do is gain some sort of control over his physical shield or get rid of his power. he would honestly give anything to get rid of it, whether or not he could be a part of the initiative afterwards.




[tw: almost sexual assault, but nobody was actually hurt but the perpetrator.]

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daniel was born in a pair of blond-haired, poor-sighted twins in the country-music capital of the united states: nashville, tennessee. he and rebecca took to their country accents just like the two to each other. they were inseparable, even though daniel was strongly dominant over his sister. she was more accepting of (or at least not willing to speak about) things that were new or wrong to her, like when daniel told her that they should jump off of the slide instead of going down normally, and she wasn't willing to leave him to do it on his own, so she went down with him. they at least had matching casts for the next month, so it wasn't too bad. daniel was the strong one, and he watched out for his sister, even though he was never bright enough to really read her. when people were mean or she didn't want chinese for lunch, daniel would speak for her so she didn't have to. it wasn't exactly ideal for anyone, but they got through things together.

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it took to the age of 14 for the two to really find themselves. one of daniel's friend's had invited him to a party, to which daniel refused to go if he couldn't bring rebecca to get her "out of her shell" and make more friends or something. it didn't help in any way, though, because as soon as they got there, she just sat in the corner and didn't really talk to anyone. they were only fourteen, and it wasn't too wild of a party. one of the rowdy kids had brought a little bit of beer, which only made it in because the daniel's friend's parents weren't around, but it ran out quickly and daniel didn't get the chance to have any. his friend did, though, and he managed to find his way to rebecca. she didn't want to be rude, so when he offered to show her the house, it kind of just happened.

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that said, it wasn't much of a surprise that when they got to his room, the door was closed and things began to escalate. rebecca's fear was instantly greater, but she wasn't ready to be a jerk to a boy that she had just met. maybe he wanted to show her a cool music box or something and it was too loud with the door open. for a sickening moment, though, rebecca thought she could see into his head; she knew exactly what he was doing. not just why he was moving towards her, any girl with a brain knew that. she could see exactly what he was thinking, even though it was foggy like he had clouded his thoughts with beer. for maybe the first time since the day she was born, rebecca screamed.

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in nearly an instant, daniel was in the room and could see exactly what was happening. his rage sort of came undone and a shockwave rocked the house. the window in the room blew out into their garden. apparently, it took them weeks to get all of the glass out of mrs. pettifer's petunias. the rest is history. daniel began to slip away from pretty much everything as he was quickly adopted into the initiative, an organization dominated by adults. he was expected to act adult, but he was still just a kid. even though his sister should have been the more traumatized of the two, she had always internalized everything. she was drafted with him because of her powers that seemed just opposite to his own. she pulled things in, and he threw them away. his body rejected everything, and she only got smarter. her powers were the only things that held him together; she was the only one that could touch him or his mind. for a while, they were one group: polarity, a dynamic duo of sorts, but daniel didn't want to push her away like he did everything else, so he managed to do the one thing that would push them apart the most. they're still friends - a twin's bond is unbreakable - but the two aren't together all the time like they were for years before.

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all of daniel's powers are concerned with pushing his mind and intentions out. though he has the capacity, using telepathy and telekinesis to pull objects or thoughts into his own head is a far weaker skill for him.



daniel has an output of energy that pulses out of his body at a constant rate. his body has a thick telekinetic pulse that is nearly impenetrable, excepting maybe a heavy cannonball or a truck crash. because it pushes so hard, he is unable to touch anything without his power sub-consciously rejecting it. a small amount of his focus can be used to push his power under something in order to pick it up, but if he closes his hand too much, he could crush the thing in his hand without even noticing, but not because he's strong. his power doesn't let him know if he's touching anything and closing his hand will force it around his power. besides this, he can send waves of this telekinetic energy out in ranged attacks or create huge waves to push everything away. this power can be completely turned off by his sister, and vice versa, making her the only person who can allow him to make contact with anything or feel anything tactile but pain (from when he gets hit by massive amounts of force).



his telepathy is much weaker than his telekinesis. daniel isn't able to actually communicate with anyone telepathically, as all of his powers go outwards from his body. it's more of a one-way conversation where daniel can sound out his own thoughts as a sort of notification in people's minds. alternatively, he can influence people by pushing his own thoughts onto people forcibly. if he was stronger, he could probably do more than influence them, but because he hasn't seen this aspect of his power until more recently, he hasn't developed it very much.



as an alternate version of his telekinetic shield, daniel has a mental wall to resist psychic attacks on his mind. like his telepathy, this is weaker than the physical version, but it can still resist a novice telepath. like his telekinesis, he can't actually feel anything that probes against this shield until it gets past it, but he doesn't tend to need to. the only person that can break past it without immense pressure is his sister.