Name: Katie O'Fey
Codename: Seance
Age: 24
Date of Birth: April 28
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 120
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color: Gray
Place of Origin: California
Nationality/Race: American (mostly Irish w/ lots of other parts)
Classification/Origin of Powers: Supernatural
Status: Team Member
Occupation: Bartender.
Personality Profile:
Katie is a relatively quiet woman with a morbid sense of humor. She's prone to finding quiet places away from others where she can interact with nature/the world at large (i.e. a moon watching tree, or a hill where the wind blows strong). Her fiery side tends to emerge when protecting someone else, in arguments (political/philosophical), or any competitive event.
Physical Description:
In her team Uniform
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Powerset: Connection to the Other side
Ability One: Deathsight - Katie can see and speak with ghosts as clearly as if they were normal people with the color drained out of them. She can also invite ghosts into her to possess her.
Ability Two: Echoes - Gets psychic flashes from objects that were important to people who have since passed away. The psychic flashes always revolve around the person and their relationship to the object.
Ability Three: Stepping Through - Katie can physically interact with those on the other side. She can either completely step across or do it partially. In the physical world, this power makes her intangible (aka translucent but physically untouchable).
Drawbacks & Weaknesses: Katie's powers never turn themselves off and can be quite overwhelming.
* Deathsight - Katie has swerved to avoid hitting ghosts when driving late at night. Some pushier ghosts have kept her up at night. Some of the more frightening have caused her to leave an area and once during a job interview, vomit on the interviewer. Also, when she is distracted, distraught, or otherwise unfocused a ghost could possess her without her inviting it.
* Echoes - When caught up in the Echoes, Katie cannot do anything else. It sweeps over her putting her in the moments/visions leaving her susceptible to whatever may happen in the outside world. Some echoes have been so overwhelming as to knock her unconscious afterwards. The worst of them placed her in a coma for several days.
* Reaching Through - Katie is connected enough to the other side that she is susceptible to possession and other influences of the dead. While most ghosts do not have the ability to physically contact her, it is easier for them to reach her than it is for her to reach them. Also, when she is making contact with the other side those on that side may also make contact with her.. She cannot physically manipulate objects in the regular world when ghostly.
Projected Power Growth & Development: The third power is the most obvious form of power growth and development. It seems as though her powers are making her closer and closer to the other side. Intermediate development would be a closer connection and ability to manipulate the other side. Way far in the future I'd assume she'd gain the ability to physically cross over and use powers/abilities associated with ghosts and hauntings. Her first power could grow by allowing her to see closeness or distance to death. This could lead to her being able to diagnose illnesses or other problems. Her second power could eventually grow into full on psychometry where she reads psychic imprints and increases what she can pick up from the objects used by people or places touched by them.
Skills:
Katie is an excellent cook. She likes to feed people. She is also a voracious reader and has a quirky base of knowledge. Working as a bartender, she's developed an alcohol tolerance and a knowledge of well mixed drinks.
Background:
Katie was born and raised in Oakland. Her Deathsight manifested early (around 6), eventually leading to her being medicated for several years. Upon reaching adulthood, she got a doctor to ween her off her medications and became increasingly involved in school and politics. With a degree in philosophy, Katie worked at a bookstore for a time.
Life seemed to be plodding along despite the oddity of what she'd see and hear until the day a friend asked her to come over and help her deal with something haunting her home. When Katie arrived, it had her friend's child and was going to climb inside. Katie instinctively grabbed it and threw it to the ground. It looked at her in fear and fled into the night. Katie, freaked out by what she was just able to do, did some research finding the Cobalt Academy and moved to attend.
Criminal Record:
Has been arrested several times at protests and other political functions.
Quirks, Extras, Random Character Facts:
* She cannot swim and is a bit scared of learning.
* She loves the rain and will often go out into thunderstorms.
* She's a bad driver and has been in many fender benders
* She's a firm believer in rights over freedom
*She has a morbid sense of humor and drinks entirely too much.