Main Information:
Name: Garrett Daniel Flynn
Age: 17
Height: 183 centimeters/ 6 feet
Weight: 69 Kg / around 150
Location: Massachussets Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachussets, America
Appearance:
Atlantean Tattoo: Located on Garrett's neck, underneath his left ear. The top is visible unless he is wearing a collared shirt, which is unlikely. The tattoo runs down until it reaches his clavicle. It consists of two curving lines that intersect about halfway down. A seperated diagonal line does through the intersection at a 45 degree angle.
Physical: Garret is very lean. He isn't exactly the muscular type, and often gets picked on for his skinniness. He has really dark skin and tans easily. He has a sharp face that has a certain alertness to it, giving others the impression that he is always paying really close attention. His hair is long, brown, and shaggy. He often lazily pulls it back into a ponytail, but he sometimes wears it behind his ears. His eyes are deep blue, with great depth in them. He has perfect teeth, and keeps them white and healthy. His neck is rather skiiny, even compared to the rest of his body. His shoulders aren't really wide, giving him a gangly look with his long skinny arms. He has really long fingers as well. His fingernails are chewed up and pretty shabby, he bites them when he's nervous. His legs are long, but proportional to his height. They look longer than they are, considering their thin width. His feet are big, a size 11 (42 Euro)
Clothing: Garrett wears T-shirts with iconic logos on them and jeans, most of the time. His shoes range from New Balance sneakers to cheap flip flops, though he is most seen wearing black sneakers. He wears jackets or hoodies in cold weather. His jackets are usually bright colors with black desgins on them, for example, a lime green hoodie with thick black lines diagonally tracing the left side. He wears corrective lens glasses, finding contacts too time consuming. For formal occations, he usually wears a regular, black tuxedo, and usually rented. He doesn't like shorts, because they don't cover his legs and he doesn't like people to see his skinny legs. His favorite Tee is a red shirt with spiderman's insignia on it. He has other superhero shirts, but spiderman is his favorite. His other shirts have thing like Coca cola on them, or say clever comments like "I'm only here for the wifi". His jeans are all black and skinny, though on him they aren't too form fitting.
Personality: Garrett is a quirky guy thats often said to be too smart for his own good. He sometimes misunderstands what people mean when they speak with him, or misses that it has meaning at all. He is a nice guy however, and doesn't try to get in people's ways. He does have friends, but not many, as his way of thinking is off from other people. He can seem dysfunctional and sporatic at times, often jumping from place to place doing everything that needs to be done at the same time. This often leads to him totally ignoring anyone in the room, and if he gets into something (like when he reads) a plane could literally land behind him and he wouldn't notice. When he does notice someone's feelings, however, he is sincere and trys to be helpful, but he usually isn't suited for helping people in that area. Around people he knows, such as family and classmates, he acts friendly and polite, trying to sound like he is paying attention to them, and not working on some abstract theory in his mind. Its not that he doesn't care, he just doesn't know what to say really. He does like humour and will often try to make jokes himself, usually failing due to over complication.
On the whole, he is a very respectful, polite, and honest young man. However, he does have the tendancy to automatically respond when he's zoned out. "Yes" "No" "Uh huh". If he says any of these things often, he isn't actually paying attention. He doesn't really connect with people often. He usually doesn't make it past the "whats up?" stage in a conversation. Fot the first time ina while, he has taken interest in something outside his studies. The recent news of the atlanteans has his facinated rather than afraid like his classmates. He wants to learn more about them, and how they have their abilities.
History: Garrett was born in Florida, USA. His parents were both average people, his dad a dentist and his mother a receptionist at his father's office. He has no siblings, and often came to work with his parents, staying in the waiting room reading all of the magazines. He had read them all by the tme he was 6, and moved on to checking out books from the library. Whatever Garrett read, he understood. When he went to school, he already knew a considerable amount than the other kids, and was placed in advanced classes. Even then, he was always ahead of the game. His parents were obviously proud of him, but concerned that he didn't have any friends. Well, he finally made one in the 3rd grade. Ricky, another bright kid, was always with Garrett. The two were almost insperable for a year. Garrett and Ricky could keep up with each other, a feat not accomplished by most people. One day Garrett and Ricky were walking home together from school, when Ricky collapsed. Garrett rushed to a nearby house, who's inhabitants called 911 when they heard what happened. Ricky was taken to a hospital, where it was revealed dehydration had caused him to fall. But while in the hospital, Ricky somehow caught pnemonia. It did a great job on his lungs, and he died a few weeks later.
Garrett, suprisingly, wasn't exactly torn by his friend's death. Sure, he was upset, but he continued life normally after a week or so. His parents were concerned about him, but he insisted that he was fine. He went back to school the day after Ricky died, and still made great grades. This continued until the fifth grade, where he was placed in a high school. He was often bullied and intimidated by the older kids, getting picked on because he was so young. Even then, he was usually one of the top scorers on tests. He felt like the others kids weren't like him, and often thought about himself as a superhero. He would stay up at night, thinking about a movie they would make about him. In school, he aced every standardized test the state had, and didn't miss a question on the SAT. By the time he was a senior, he had made perfect scores in all of his classes. His parents, teachers, and classmates were dumbfounded. He went off to college, where he finally thought people would be as smart as him. But he was still the sharpest guy there. Although, not as far ahead as he was in high school. He only just managed to stay on top, studying hard for the first time. He misses his parents, but he goes and sees them on holidays and long weekends, so its not a big deal.
He was in a lecture when the crystal was revealed. There wasn't a direct effect on him. He didn't even know the Atlanteans existed until the next morning. At first he was puzzled, then fascinated. He started gathering all the data he could on them, though aside from the fact they existed and were superhuman, nothing solid turned up. He started contemplating about their powers, hoping to understand and even mimic them, but he couldn't figure it out. Ten days later, he went swimming. While underwater, he started to feel tingly, and as if he had a rash on his neck and hands. When he came out of the water, people who saw him either screamed and fled, or froze. He didn't know why, so he dismissed the incedent entirely, as he usaully does. He did however, notice his hands as he lifted them out of the water. They had begun to form webbing between his fingers. At first, he thought his eyes were tricking him, but the webbing dissapeared before his eyes. Curious, he put them back underwater. The webbing slowly grew back. He dove underwater, and felt the rash on his neck again. It startled him, and he took a breath in. He could breathe. He opened his eyes underwater to see his hands again, and his eyes were covered by a clear eyelid, allowing him to see underwater without hurting his eyes. He became exicted that he was Atlanean (his only "logical" conclusion) and genuinely felt happy to be a part of something, which he had never experienced before
Ability: Garrett's body adapts to his enviroment if he is currently unfit for it. Garrett experimented on himself, and found that he could adapt to accomodate for most situations. His night vision improved (although not as good as his day vision) when he went into dark places, his pupils growing to inhuman sizes. He walked on gravel, and the bottom of his feet hardened and made the pain lessen. He turned his dorm temperature down to 36 degrees (F), and his skin thickened and kept him warmer. It seemed most situations caused his body to adapt to survive.
When being hit by blunt objetcs, his skin hardens to keep himself from hetting hurt too much. His skin becomes fore retardent in extreme heat conditions, and he can adapt to survive without oxygen or water for extended periods of time. His skin can also turn spongy, which softens attack rather than deflect them. It won't make him physically stronger or faster, but it can make him more limber and flexible. His bones can become stronger, his height can change, and he can even regurgitate poison he swallows. He can't control his ability, rather it happens whenever the situation calls. He can't use it for camoflague persay, but it can alter his skind color to help predetors not see him (ex: his skin can go from tan to white when he is in arctic or anarctic regions, and it becomes darker when in the intense sun to help prevent sunburn and skin cancer). Finally, if he falls from extreme heights, his body softens to absorb the blow, but he can be killed from falling if the height is..5 stories or so high.
Writing Sample: https://www.pokecommunity.com/posts/7261318/
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And the reservation thing was really just a formality. I wanted to be sure I wasn't just popping in without reserving if its needed.
