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Re: Carolyne Weber - Carolyne Weber - 09-07-2016
Name:
Carolyne Weber
Origin:
Montgomery, Alabama, USA.
Occupation:
Carolyne works as a freelance reporter. Travelling across the globe to various combat zones and natural disasters, she is regularly paid top dollar for her stories. She's done a lot of work for Vulpesnet, and has a passing acquaintanceship with Nicholas Trano - though they are not close friends. Carolyne has made a career of documenting human misery in all its forms. Beginning when she left college at the age of 20, she's spent her career travelling between war zones and disaster areas, humanizing those who are suffering and telling their stories.
Psychological description:
Carolyne figured out she wasn't like the other girls early on. They all wore dresses, and she was put in pants and T-shirts. They got to be princesses for Halloween, and she was dressed like a prince. It wasn't long before her parents took her to a psychiatrist, and she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria. At age ten, she was placed on puberty blocking hormones and by age sixteen she was able to consent to the surgery that finally made what was on the outside match watch she knew she was on the inside.
In the here and now, Carolyne is a determined career reporter. She chose to make a life out of reporting in the most dangerous disaster areas and war zones for a reason. She wants to tell the human story, and give a voice to the people who are really suffering. She's too young for a Pulitzer Prize, but she's more than confident she'll get one eventually. Her face is a regular sight in places where there's suffering in the world, and she takes pride in her ability to get the message out. In person, she's confident but kind. She knows she's beautiful, and isn't afraid to use that distraction to get what she wants.
Physical description:
Carolyne stands at a healthy 5'6", and is slim, but athletic. Blonde hair reaches to her middle back, and blue-gray eyes sometimes partially concealed by her bangs peer out - open, honest, and inquisitive. She has a pretty face, she knows it, and she isn't above using it to her advantage. Her career as a field reporter doesn't always provide the opportunity to bust out the full on makeup kit, but she does her best whenever the situation allows.
Powers:
Carolyne is a channeler, but only very recently have her powers manifested. She was getting background for a story at a military checkpoint in the Congo when a rebel militia attacked. There were only a dozen of them, but with the element of surprise they easily swept the defenders away. She tried to escape with her cameraman, but soon found herself staring down the barrel of a gun in the middle of the jungle.
Carolyne closed her eyes, thinking death was upon her. When she opened them, the militiaman was dead on the ground. She has since gained some semblance of control of the power, but she can only win the harsh battle for control when her eyes are closed.
Biography:
Carolyne always knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. When she was a child in the 2020's, her heroes weren't the soldiers fighting on the front lines in the Taiwan Strait War - although she did respect their sacrifice. No, she looked up to the men and women on the ground, recording the action and getting the word out across the globe. She was the star writer for her high school's newspaper, writing simmering exposes on everything from the class president squandering election funds on house parties, to the football team's latest win.
In college, however, she quickly found herself losing steam. As much as she enjoyed writing for the University of Alabama's newspaper, there were only so many times she could look at the words "ROLL TIDE" in the headline. It wasn't that her dream was dead, it was that she was wasting time. The classes were too slow paced, covering aspects of reporting that she'd already researched herself. She wanted to get out into the world, get her hands dirty, and report real news. So it was that in 2042, with just an associate's degree in hand, Carolyne left college.
At only twenty years old, she couldn't get hired by any of the major news networks. But instead of running back to the safety of the university's ivory walls, she spent what money she had left to buy herself the best camera she could afford, and a plane ticket. Her parents thought she was crazy, but she didn’t care. A tsunami had hit in the southeastern CCD, and while it was reported, nobody had actually gotten in to cover the devastation first hand. Taking the chance, she soon found herself delivering the first scoop of her career. When her face was broadcast across the web, accompanied by pictures she'd taken herself, she knew there was no turning back. The healthy payments she received for her trouble weren't too bad, either.
Personal Relationships:
Armin and Jean Weber - Carolyne’s parents. Were very supportive of her transition in her younger years. Less supportive of her decision to abandon college and cross the globe to be a reporter in some of the most dangerous areas known to man. She tries to keep in touch, and while that isn’t an impossibility in today’s increasingly connected world, can still be difficult at times.
Jake Weber - Carolyne’s older brother. Member of SUBGRU. Recently deployed to Liberia. Did not accept Carolyne’s transition as easily as the rest of the family. He wanted a little brother, not a sister.
Rynold Akkerman - Carolyne’s cameraman and sometimes lover. They’ve been travelling together for the past three and a half years, through more than two dozen countries. They started working together after she stopped over in South Africa to get background on private military companies operating out of the country.
<small><small><small>SHE’S CHANNELING SAIDIN IN CASE YOU DIDN’T FIGURE THAT OUT!
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