Davis, Aaron James

[Aaron Davis]

Aaron James Davis
Dream Manipulation

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General »

Nickname: N/A
Gender: Male
Age: 14
Student/Professor: Student
Subject: N/A
Birth-date: 03/10/1994
Birthplace: Rockland, Maine
Sexuality: heterosexual
Face Claim: Kyle Gallner

Appearance »

Eye color: Blue
Hair color: Brown
Height: 5’10”
Build: small but toned frame
Scars: none
Tattoos: none
Piercings: none

Personality »

Likes:

• drawing up blueprints for his “dream house”
  
• reading and writing short stories
  
• watching horror/thriller movies and playing similar video games
  
• trying new foods
  
• “people watching”
  
• discovering “new” music (artists he’s never heard before)
  

Dislikes:

• spicy food
  
• books that look “too big”
  
• romantic comedies
  
• pop music, with few exceptions
  
• overly confident (“obnoxious”) people
  

Fears:

• deep water
  
• large spiders
  
• simultaneous silence and darkness
  
• social situations that leave him alone with a stranger
  

Brief Summary:

Aaron doesn’t like people, partially because they make him nervous but also partially because he’s easily annoyed by them. If he doesn’t know a person, then he doesn’t know what they’re capable of, and that’s what gets him nervous. He mostly keeps to himself unless absolutely required to be social, and he’s almost always wearing headphones to help drown out “the outside world”. He’s naturally reclusive, and it takes him quite a bit of time and effort to open up to people. Occasionally, when he finds himself interested in someone but doesn’t want to emotionally open up to them, he’ll lie by living vicariously through different characters from stories he’s written. He’s gotten caught doing this though, and he lost most of his friends because of it. This makes him realize that he might actually need to have those connections that he lost, but he doesn’t know how to rebuild them.

Power Description »

Dream Manipulation: if Aaron is in close proximity, or has physical contact with a “subject” while they are sleeping, he can enter and then alter their dreams. In doing so, Aaron seems to lose consciousness himself, appearing to simply be asleep. His relationship with the subject can greatly affect his influence on their subconscious; if he’s only recently acquainted with them, he might only be able to make simple aesthetic changes (what someone is wearing, the color of that building, etc.) but if Aaron has become close with the subject over time, he can influence every decision the subject makes in the dream. Typically he is undetected while doing so, though if the subject realizes they’re dreaming, they wake up and he is consequently awakened as well. With enough effort, he might be able to manipulate the subject away from the notion of being in a dream, therefore continuing the connection.

History »

Aaron’s mother Clarissa was also a dream manipulator. She was born into a fisherman’s family, which at the time meant she led somewhat of a bourgeoisie lifestyle. She spent her childhood with her nose in every book she could find, learning everything there was to learn about her powers as well as the abilities of others she met. Other than the small handful of other “gifted individuals” she encountered, the only person outside the family that knew of her abilities was her best friend Anna McCormick. Her friend-turned-love interest Beau Davis suspected something “odd” about her on many occasions, but through subconscious manipulation Clarissa was always able to make him forget.

As she entered adulthood, her adolescent relationship with Beau blossomed into marriage; consequently, Beau knew as much about Clarissa’s abilities as she did, and he accepted her for who she was. He trusted that she would only enter his mind with his permission, and for a long time she had respected that request. However, he was not aware that Clarissa’s curiosity had become an obsession, pushing her to conduct human experiments and jumping into the dreams of whomever she wanted.
She even went so far as to toy with the dreams of their only child, Aaron.

Eventually she remembered a philosophical question she read as a child; if a person dies in a dream, will they die in real life? After an incredibly short quandary of moral aptitude, she decided to test the theory at her earliest convenience. Unfortunately, that earliest convenience came around when Anna and her daughter Amy were in a car accident; both Anna and Amy were left comatose, and as Clarissa discovered that even comatose people can dream, she forced her four-year-old son to invade the subconscious of his only friend. After a few “dream trips”, Anna and Amy were both pronounced brain dead.

At first Beau didn’t suspect anything supernatural, but as he became more aware of his wife’s delusional “hobby”, he tried to ease her into leaving it alone. This only convinced Clarissa that her husband was now against her. When Beau was found “mysteriously deceased” in bed one morning, police began to suspect Clarissa’s involvement in multiple deaths. Subsequently, Clarissa has a psychotic break, convincing herself that her interrogation is only a dreamscape created by one of the police officers. She is placed in an institution for the criminally insane, and Aaron became a ward of the state of Maine.

Permanently separated from the only people he had learned to connect with, Aaron emotionally shut down for a number of years. Various foster families tried and failed to bond with him, but he was always particularly apprehensive with the foster mothers. Since he never stayed at a school two years in a row, he kept teachers and classmates at a distance. He valued few things in life, with the exception of a leather journal and CD player given to him by one of his foster fathers. Music was an outlet through which Aaron felt understood, and his short stories were his way of escaping and temporarily living a life that wasn’t the one he had lived.

OOC »

OOC Name: Taylor
Contact(s):
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