[Character Sheet] Zane Barret

[Mr. Barret]

The Basics

Name: Zane Barret

Age: 18

Apparent Age: Same as actual age. At least, according to human standards.

Gender: Male

Height: 5'9"

Weight: 150

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: White

Physique: Lean

Race: Homo Superior or Meta-Human

Language: As far as he knows, he speaks English. Common is a fine term for it.

Religious affiliation: Zane was raised in a home that practiced Judeo-Christianity. He’s now having to come to grips with the fact that DP isn’t quite the kind of god he believed in.

Homeland: Planet Earth

Home/Location in Psychotopia: Psychotopia City

Heraldic Symbol/Colors: none specified

Companions/Friends: none specified

Blended Character Description
“Why not? This is Zane’s philosophy for most things, but most noticeably for his clothing and physical appearance. Zane’s idea of good style is usually something that turns people’s heads, and not typically because they think he looks devilishly handsome either. With a sense of style like that, there is no good way to describe what Zane’s clothing looks like on an average day.

Zane’s other appearance markers are a lot simpler to describe, as they don’t change radically from day to day.

With his shock of blindingly white hair and pale blue eyes, he almost appears to have stuck his finger into an electric socket just to see what it might do. Zane doesn’t mind looking this way though, as it suits his style philosophy quite nicely (and it is distinctly possible that he did insert his finger into an electric socket, just to see if he could divert some of the energy from there, into his own energy storage, but more on that later). The crop of bone colored skin cells atop Zane’s head is variously styled depending on the day and attains assorted looks: brushed forward, brushed up and fluffy, spiked, parted, faux hawk, etc. . . The length of the whiteness is between a quarter inch and three inches, depending on what part of Zane’s head you are measuring and how long it’s been since his last hair cut.

Just below the shock of albino shading lie two discs of blue ice. These orbs don’t stay simply ice for long though, as they usually have a bright twinkle to their hardened surface. Zane is characteristically a fun loving jokester, which accounts for the twinkle, but occasionally will drop into moods of depression or a flare of anger. In the former, his eyes will attain the look of a pond on a cloudy day, blue, dull and lifeless. But for the latter though, the pond becomes a raging sea and the lively twinkle the flare of fire. It is highly suggested NOT to anger him because while the flash of anger doesn’t last too long, it burns with a very intense heat once lit.


Skills

Studies: He knew that man only as Sensei. Under his sensei’s tutelage Zane learned about the potential powers of his mind and some key techniques for unlocking his door to the Continuum.

Apprenticeships: Only the short stint under the man he called Sensei

Natural Abilities:
Zane was born with a hole in his essence that connects directly to large bore energy conduits that power the supernatural in the universe. It is not a harmful discrepancy in his makeup and is only unidirectional. The energy only drains into him, and never the other way. Zane must dispel the built up energy in his system in other ways. The one way direction is caused by the pressure differences on either side of the hole. There will always be more energy in a large puissance line, than there will ever be within Zane.

As far as is understood, this hole was undetectable and dormant within him until his adolescent years. During puberty, along with the other physiological changes that mortal humans experience, Zane was first made aware of this anomaly in his supernatural anatomy. It was during this formative and body altering experience that the hole finally became large enough to effect Zane. Since that time it has continued to grow, but will never elevate him to god status, at least, not as far as it is currently speculated. It is thought that the hole’s growth pattern is similar to that of a muscle. The more you use it, the bigger and stronger it gets, up until a certain predefined point. Zane has not yet found the end point to his supernatural strength.

-Energy expenditures

-Zane can release stored energy in its raw form from the surface of his skin. The speed, power, intensity and size of the energy release can be controlled.

-Energy can be converted to heat energy before being released from the surface of Zane’s skin. This causes Zane’s whole body to increase in temperature for as long as he desires to release energy in this fashion. His body has since acclimated to such heat levels and has gained a resistance to heat in general.

-Energy can be fed into Zane’s metabolism and processed like food energy. Because this is supernatural energy, it can lend superhuman abilities to either specific parts of his body, or to the whole system at once. These effects are usually seen in greater speed, strength or endurance.

-Zane can infuse objects outside of himself with his stored energy. This infusion requires that Zane acquire physical contact with that object. If Zane has energy stored in an object, he can manipulate that energy and thus, the object. Floating objects, doors that open on command, and stringless marionettes.

The energy can be removed from an object in various ways. Zane can simply reabsorb the energy through physical contact or direct the energy out of the object in the form of a beam, heat, or all at once, causing the object to explode.

-Stored energy can be released into other beings, as well as objects. This energy is then given over to the control of that other being. This means that the energy is used to power the other being’s physical form or any supernatural powers that they might already possess.

Control of biological objects (plants)
–Utilize energy infused in plant to spur growth and other biological functions. Let the plant do what it would do normally, but in the specific fashion that I want it to.
–EX: Zane gives off energy into an ivy bush and causes it to grow to twice its former size
–cause thorns to grow, leaves to sprout, flowers to bloom, needles to elongate, sap to secrete, fluids to develop (poison ivy), fruit to mature, roots to burrow, branches to lengthen, etc.

Consciousness transference
–Due to Zane’s link with the Continuum, he has the ability to move his consciousness into the energy provided by the Continuum.

–Zane can sense his energy when he has transferred it to another object. He can also control the energy when transferred to an inanimate object. For the consciousness transfer, Zane attaches some of his spirit to the departing energy. The transference can be the total consciousness or only limited parts.

Moldable energy
–Energy is emitted in the same manner as the laser beams, but is not powered forward in the same fashion. Instead of being rocketed toward a target, energy is released and crafted with the mind into defined, or undefined shapes. Such shapes can then be manipulated by the mind that formed them and utilized like telekinetic clay. Such energy can be either volitile, or stable, depending on the motives of the manipulator. Stable energy can be touched easily by the hands and does not cause damage in any fashion other than that of a normal, conventional weapon. Unstable energy can be compared to plasma. It cuts like a lightsaber and it is highly suggested that you don't touch it.

-Energy detection and absorption
-Because of Zane’s link with the universal energy streams, he has gained the ability to perceive these supernatural energies in the physical world. In addition to being able to sense the use of supernatural energy, Zane can also absorb this energy and add it to his own. While direct access to the large energy conduits is impossible for Zane, due to the small size of his connection to them, tapping into energy fields that are nearer the surface of reality is possible for him. Anything that has energy is a potential outlet for Zane to plug in to an utilize.

-Experimentation
The possibilities of the uses of universal energy are limitless. Zane, however, has only learned how to harness it in limited ways, as documented here. As Zane grows in knowledge and continues to experiment with his manipulative powers over energy, the ways in which he can utilize the energy will surely grow and become more refined.

Occupation(s): Making a nuisance of himself.

Financial Status: Zane has been a dependent his whole life and is now getting used to living on his own in Psychotopia. His financial status could be defined as “getting by.” Luckily for him, it seems like money is a little easier to come by in Psychotopia than on the standard planet earth.


Family

Mother: Julia Barret, age: 45, Occupation: home maker

Father: Zack Barret, age: 46, Occupation: white collar office worker

Brothers: Allen Barret, age: 16

Marital Status: Single


Possessions

http://www.blackstardojo.org/shop.php?action=inventory&searchid=162
((I would not put much stock into what I have in my inventory. Those items are not so much Zane’s as they are mine. I will put the link up, as you requested though))

Clothing: Yes. There are no specific clothes that Zane wears all the time. He has a slightly above average amount of varied clothing items. Average according to a middle class person living in the United States or other modernized country on planet earth.

Jewelry: No specific items

Weapons: No weapons specific to Zane

Armor: None

Magical Items/Artifacts: None

Currency:

Tools/Utensils: None specific to Zane

Books/Scrolls: Only those that can be procured at the local Psychotopian library

Food: Varies depending on the length of journey and anticipated location

Medicinal Items/Herbs: None

Are any of your possessions sentient? No


History:

Zane grows up on earth and realizes his powers during puberty.

Zane’s family members are mostly normal people with mutants and other supernatural folk in the family tree. There are dormant genes in the family line that occasionally produce a gifted son or daughter.

Most of the time these ancestors in the family tree are not important, although they are not ignored. Zane grew up knowing that there was the potential that he was like one of these ancestors that he’d heard about, although as time went on his hopes grew fainter and fainter. Usually the realization of powers comes on quite early in life, although there was always the tale of that late bloomer that always got passed around, as a warning and a hope that there was always the chance that you too could be a gifted one.

Zane discovers his powers along with his deepening and cracking voice.

At first, Zane thinks that he is sick, and takes a few days off from school to recover from what he thinks is a flu bug. What Zane doesn’t know is that his conduit to the powers of the cosmos has finally become large enough to begin draining substantial amounts of energy into his system. Zane feels sicker and sicker, and has this feeling like something inside is about to burst. He is taken into the doctor to check for appendicitis, but when he checks out normal, as far as the doctors are concerned, it is finally suspected that Zane may be endowed with his family’s mutant gene.

The family elders that are still alive are summoned and asked to assist in determining exactly what is afflicting Zane. As this process is moving along, Zane only continues to feel worse. It isn’t always a painful feeling, but a notion that something inside is full, and the pressure continues to build. About a week after the feeling was first noticed, and determined to be more than a stomach ache, Zane’s body finally took the initiative to assist itself and disgorge some of the energy that had been building up. It occurred at night, when Zane’s mind was most at rest and his body was most in control.

That morning, Zane woke up on the floor beneath his bed and opened his eyes to a view of the ceiling. You ask how Zane could be beneath his bed and be staring at the ceiling? Zane himself asked his question, and was quickly answered as he saw a Zane-shaped hole burned all the way though his mattress and box spring. There was even on outline of where he was lying on the floor charred into the carpet of his bedroom.

While the evidence in his bedroom was being examined, Zane was being interrogated by a select group of the family who had been determined to know the most about the dormant family gene. Zane found that after the nocturnal incident, the swollen feeling that had been building inside him had abated, but was not entirely gone. It was soon conjectured that there was something inside Zane that was trying to get out, and the incident the night before was his body allowing that something to escape. After a series of experiments, Zane was able to reproduce the heat that his body had produced without his consent during the night. Once the initial hump had been overcome, control of the discharge of energy started to become more natural to Zane and required less and less concentration to direct in more and more specific ways.

At first, Zane was limited to dispensing energy only in the form of heat from the surface of his skin. Over time, Zane was able to regulate the heat dissipation by degrees intensity and also location on his body.

It was a disappointment to Zane to find that while he had inherited his family’s special gene, it seemed to only be limited to this worthless buildup of energy that could be released in the form of heat. It didn’t seem to be a very useful power except for helping out in the kitchen occasionally.

It was during a moment of frustration and experimentation that Zane discovered an alternate use of his built up energy. He’d gone out into his backyard to blow off a wad of heat energy when his temper flared in vexation. “What’s the point of this useless power?” Zane yelled, as he began heating up the exposed portion of his skin. “I’m a useless $%#^ing oven!” He concentrated the discharge of heat to his hands and held them before him. “What good am I?!?” Zane’s hands began to glow in the intensity of his frustration and because of the heat that was exiting through them. It was at that moment extreme energy release and anger that his body altered the method of energy removal. Zane’s hands stopped glowing from every surface and shot two glowing iridescent pillars of puissance up into the sky in the direction that his hands were pointing. Zane’s anger quickly faded as his curiosity took hold. The twin beams lasted for only a second and faded into nonexistence as soon as his anger lost control.

For the second time, once a method was achieved once, the modification and control of it came fairly easily, as it had with the heating method of release. It was not long before Zane was able to exercise detailed control over this new form of energy release.

After this discovery of a new method of energy release, it was decided, by both Zane and the rest of his family, that more research needed to be done into Zane’s particular brand of gene mutation. It took a decent amount of effort and searching, but eventually a teacher was found who was well versed enough in psychic powers and the like to determine exactly what Zane’s mutation consisted of. Under this man’s tutelage, Zane learned the repertoire of moves that he currently knows, and was taught all the methods that this man knew in regards to unlocking other techniques. Also, this man was the first to tell Zane of the existence of the Dojo.

Apparently, due to his teacher’s skills, and the circle of people that he associated with, an invitation was given to him to join the Sensei’s newly founded world. This man, Zane’s first sensei, declined the offer and chose to remain on earth to seek out and train more fledgling gifted humans, such as Zane himself.

After being introduced to the idea of the Sensei’s new world, and the possibilities that would most likely abound in such a place, Zane wholeheartedly pursued and devoured all knowledge that he could find relating to the Dojo. And from what he could find, it sounded like an amazing place. His parents were staunchly opposed to Zane gallivanting off to such a place before he was in the legal majority on earth, but once he became 18, they decided that it would be up to him, since they would have no legal authority over him anymore anyway.

As you can guess, since you’re reading this profile from within BlackStar, Zane decided to enter the mysterious world of Au’Marui, the god of insanity.


Personality:

Zane is easily characterized by his off-beat-ness. He is a goofy and fun loving person by nature. This does not mean that he is foolish and stupid though. Zane is an intelligent person and the possessor of decent problem solving skills. In addition to his intelligence, Zane has a strong personality, and likes to make himself known. This can translate into putting forth ideas in a brain storming session, to wanting to just lead the whole group himself. If faced with another, stronger personality, Zane will try to logically see who is more capable of being the “leader” and will submit to a more qualified person. If everything is moving along smoothly without any intervention on his part, Zane will step back, and be a follower. It is simpler to follow, and there are times when obeying is more desirable than directing.

Don’t get the idea that Zane is just a comedian and a logical leader when the situation calls for it. He is also a very caring person, but sometimes that side of him gets covered up by these other personality traits. When it really matters, Zane will stick up for those that have earned his trust, and will almost always give assistance and show compassion to a person in need.

Character Depth

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Flashback to the entrance to the mountain

post taken from Mt. Neverrest: The Ascent

http://www.blackstardojo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1072

The tent opening flapped and snapped in the wind as it was jerked open and as quickly closed by the character who slipped through it as quickly as he could. Once the snow stopped whirling about, and the person could be viewed, it was as though a tropical bird had stepped into a snowglobe, the contrast was that vivid, and as absurd.

Zane stood just inside the entrance of the base camp tent and stomped his bright yellow snow boots, and flapped his arms, and generally shook snow off of himself and all over everything else. "Brrrr. . . It's cold out there, ya know?" Zane's mouth said, from beneath his silver mirrored snow goggles. "Sorry I'm late. There was a bit of a snow storm, and my Ferrari just can't handle deep snow drifts when they're deeper than 12 feet."

Today Zane's garish clothing actually served a purpose. It was still garish, but this time it was warm, and necessarily so. He might have been joking about the Ferrari, but the 12 foot snow drifts were real. Above the previously mentioned yellow snowboots were a pair of snow pants embossed with a flame pattern in yellows, oranges, and reds. The ski jacket above that followed a similar pattern and had a large skull on the back of the jacket that was wreathed in flame. From the neck of the jacket, a tie-dye scarf emerged and surrounded the lower half of Zane's head, but was drooping a little at this point, and exposed some of his nose. Perched above the scarf were the aforementioned silver goggles which completely hid his icy blue eyes, which were just the perfect shade for the current environment. Topping off the whole mess was a multi-colored ski hat in a style obviously knocked off from a medieval court jester. Long points and strips of colored cloth bedecked this explosion of color, and yet did not detract from its head warming abilities.

This burst of tropical jungle stood at the entrance a moment, and then removed his goggles, revealing his blue eyes, which were twinkling in merriment. The scarf fell a little further and revealed a half smile which matched the amusement in his eyes.

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The day Zane decided to enter Au’Marui’s world of the Dojo.

Setting: The entrance hall, just inside the front door of the Dojo’s undercover entrance

“What’s with all these stupid forms?” Zane complained as he filled out what felt like his millionth blue form. “And why are they all shades of blue? It’s like they ran out of every color except for aqua, teal, navy blue, royal blue, and midnight blue.” Zane’s frustration was understandable. No one liked filling out forms. These forms especially would tax anyone’s patience. “Let’s see, what does this one say?” Zane let his eyes roll their way down the page. “Are you carrying any items that may be hazardous to the inhabitants of the Dojo. . .” Zane mumbled under his breath, “List . . . books . . . what? Why would books talk . . . and bite? What have I gotten myself into?” Zane’s ire rose, but he bit it off. It was my idea to come here, so I’m gonna have to deal with the consequences. Even if they do ask me if I’m bringing in barking tomes. And it truly was Zane’s own idea to change his citizenship from the sane, mundane realm of planet earth and join the infamously insane posse that lived under the direction of the man known only as the Sensei. Who is this Sensei guy anyway? Zane thought. He must have some amazing powers. Your average smoke and mirrors magician off the street can’t just create his own realm, and then disguise the entrance to it in the middle of a metropolitan downtown area in the guise of an anciently styled martial arts dojo. Zane’s mind wandered for a while as he pondered the possibilities of the persona that he was signing up to live under the rule of. Shaking his head of his daydreams Zane bent his head back to the task at hand. “Beware of the Wall Slimes. . . uhhhhhhh . . .” A groan escaped Zane’s throat as he leaned his head back and stared at the ceiling. “Will it never end?”

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Zane’s Paint Adventure:
http://www.blackstardojo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1485

[The Narrator]

Well done! Congratulations.