User blog:Holokami/Character Sheet: Rachael Faraday

"Please stop..."

- Rachael to herself when being followed by Abler Eichmann.

Rachael Faraday is the daughter of Lumi Faraday. She’s a powerful psychic and a genius in her own right, following in her mother’s footsteps. Although she exercises her powers, she's no fighter. Rachael isn’t one of the Elite Seven, but she could easily take any of them in a fight.

Appearance
Rachael is a very unassuming girl. She has shoulder length, blonde, wavy hair, and like her mother, purple eyes.

She usually wears plain clothing, and can often be found wearing the grey school uniform of the small school she goes to on the Faraday Isles, one which just has a different uniform from the others.

Personality
Rachael is fairly quiet, a little shy, and a studious girl. Her work-play balance swings a bit too much to work, and it interferes with her social life as much as her shyness and social standing. Lumi often tells her to make friends, but she finds it difficult to.

Rachael is a very hard worker, and will happily help others if asked to help, which often leaves her doing the duties in the classroom at the end of the day more than anybody else, in fact, it’s left to her all the time. She enjoys the time alone to think though.

She often displays a level of intelligence greater than that of both Alber Eichmann and Victoria Charters, and can almost match the intellectual might of Lumi, Eadda, Marcella, and Mai.

Rachael does feel lonely at times, and this is simply down to who she is. Being the daughter of the one and only great Lumi Faraday, makes people almost scared to talk to her, or want to talk to her just to get close to Lumi- and she’s too shy to seek out friends of her own, or tell people to go away.

Not only this, but she’s also very close to the “Big Three”; Eadda, Mai and Marcella. You might think her closeness to such big names would make her popular, but it again adds to both people her age being intimidated by her, and people trying to further their own standings and ambitions through her.

Rachael doesn't like feeling lonely, but also dislikes unwanted attention, which seems to be the only attention she gets, being the daughter of Lumi and friend of the Big Three, people try to get close to her just to get close to Lumi and the Big Three.

She doesn’t hate or dislike Lumi, Eadda, Marcella, or Mai because of this though, they’re still her very caring mother and friends. She thinks it’s the others being selfish, worrying about themselves too much, and knows Lumi would verbally shutdown their reasoning.

Despite all this, she gets along well with some of the elderly cityfolk she passes everyday, and has a wonderful smile. She sometimes joins Lumi, Eadda, Marcella and Mai in their weekly gaming nights. She never wins, but puts up a really good fight.

Rachael isn’t one of the Elite Seven because she never fights. She's just not the fighting type, even though she trains her powers more than anybody at home. She wants to know as much about her powers and psionics as she can, so she can help others, especially those suffering from Michelle Syndrome.

Because of her training and powers though, she could take any of the Elite Seven in a fight. This became evident when Alber was following her one day to get more info on Lumi. Rachael completely bypassed his mental shield, and removed her presence from his mind and powers completely until she was far away.

Background
At a time Lumi has finished her compilation of psionics, had put together many arguments and presentations for it, and was close to mastering her powers, she became bored, and felt that, after the everything she's done, even her drive to find Michelle wasn’t enough. Eadda suggested something crazy to her, after Lumi spoke to her of her boredom.

Eadda suggested to Lumi to have a child, somebody to take care of, and to think of constantly. There was her search for her sister, the search for a cure of Michelle Syndrome, there was her Faraday Isles and Psychic School to run, but Lumi could do all of these things without too much trouble. A child would be something different entirely- an emotional connection in the present.

Lumi thought about it, and agreed.

”How can I take care of an island full of kids, without knowing what it’s like to take care of one?” Lumi mused.

But Lumi couldn’t be bothered with the usual child-making process, claiming it was too long, and too much of a bother. So, using her powers, she created Rachael, but to make her not a clone, added addition genetic information to her. Lumi made herself pregnant, and gave birth to Rachael the usual time later.

Lumi actually found it difficult to raise her at first, it was something of a challenge. Though, help from Eadda, she managed just fine. Lumi began to understand what her own parents went through for the first time in her life, as she was being told of Rachael reading minds carelessly, and having to tell her off about it.

Eadda had seen many forms of love from Lumi- the love of a daughter, the love of a sister, the love of a friend, the love of a ruler, and the love of a teacher, but now she was seeing something in Lumi she had never seen before, the love of a parent. Lumi grew to understand children, and felt more confident than ever about her Faraday Isles.

Rachael enjoyed reading from a very young age, and enjoyed playing games with Lumi and Eadda. She always lost, but it made her think so hard, her intelligence grew quickly.

When Rachael was 5, Lumi began to teach her the workings of psionics at a basic level, and showed her how to use her own powers. Rachael struggled at first, but quickly got the hang of it. Rachael possessed the rare power to sense the mental attributes of others, a power Lumi herself grew up with. After this, Rachael found she could control the workings of psionics and brains.

With Eadda’s help, Lumi became a great mother. Though, Lumi’s own personality did get in the way at times- her habit of spending unearthly hours in a lab when onto something, her random behaviour, and her depression, often lead to difficult moments which Rachael couldn’t understand. It was a times like these, Eadda would take care of her. Eadda, using her time manipulation, loved playing tricks on Rachael.

Rachael one day, saw through Eadda’s power. She didn’t beat her trick, but understood it. Rachael’s insight was incredible, though it was helped along by her ability to detect psionic powers and abilities.

Rachael’s powers were all based around the workings of psionics, the mind, and brain it seemed, a very powerful set of abilities, Lumi thought to herself. Though, Rachael seemed more interested in her books than practice, similarly to Lumi when she was young. When Rachael was seven and a half, Lumi sat her down, and gave her a talk about the beauty of psionics, and a wondrous demonstration of her own power.

Rachael was in a awe, and in love. She immediately wanted to learn more. Lumi was just glad she had started to take a deeper interest in psionics.

When Rachael was 9, she met Marcella for the first time, when Lumi was introducing her to Mai and Eadda. Rachael was frightened of Marcella for the following few months, because of the scary look on her face. This became something Lumi often teases Marcella about.

Rachael was currently at Primary School, and was blitzing it. She was always the top of her class, and passed every test was flying colours. Students were impressed by her, and wanted to talk with her, but Rachael was very shy, and couldn’t handle the attention well, and barely spoke to them in response.

Going through primary and junior high, she made a reputation for herself, as she was always the top, nobody could ever surpass or match her. But this success, which Lumi, Eadda, Marcella, Mai, and older people she knew around the city, praised her for, got her attention she couldn’t handle at school, and she always spent her free time in the library, where noise wasn’t allowed to be made.

She walked home after after students, to avoid attention, and usually helped the teachers with classroom tasks at the end of the day.

When the time came to pick her high school, she asked her mother if she could go to a quieter one, a smaller one with less people. It was a difficult request, but if it made Rachael more comfortable, she knew just the place- a small school on the outskirts of Lefévre. It didn’t wear the usual island-colours though, opting for a grey uniform instead.

It was a school opened specifically for smaller classes, as an experiment to see if more personalized and interpersonal teaching could improve performance both academically and socially. It has been running for a couple of years, and to a great success. Though because of its smaller size, most students didn’t feel like going.

Rachael fit in just fine, and excelled. The school was challenging though, and even Rachael had to hit the ground running to keep up to begin with. The attention and time she, and the other students, got from and spent with the teachers brought them all closer. It made it easier for the teachers to pick up problems, and easier for the students to speak to the teachers about problems.

Rachael couldn’t hide who her mother was as well, as much as she didn’t want to get attention, as media have photographed her multiple times next to Lumi. It lead to her avoiding crowds, and ignoring strangers completely, as most just wanted to ask about Lumi Lumi knew this was going to happen, and actually said in an interview with Kijicia it was wrong to do so.

One problem which was growing though was the lack of friends Rachael was making, even at this school. The teachers there got close to Rachael, but the students didn’t. To the students were too intimidated, as Rachael’s being the daughter of the great Lumi Faraday, friend of Eadda, Marcella and Mai, and her genius level intellect, made her fellow students treat her like an inaccessible individual.

Feeling worried about saying something wrong and invoking the anger of the Big Three and Lumi, or getting involved in Lumi’s random behavior, or just feeling like they’d be outshined by her, made it impossible for them to get close with these thoughts.

Rachael often did the after school tasks in the classroom and helped the teachers. She liked the quiet at the end of the day to think, but couldn’t help feeling lonely. Her fellow students were too intimidated by her social standing to get too close, and she was too shy to ask them.

Right now, Rachael is still studying at that same school, struggling with feeling lonely and her studies. The Elite Seven have approached her a couple of times, but she can make their minds ignore her presence with ease, and escape the unwanted attention.

Powers
Being the daughter of Lumi Faraday, it's safe to say Rachael has some mighty power. In fact, her own powers relate to the working of the mind and psionics. On top of this, she has enhanced intelligence and a psychic shield herself.
 * Enhanced Intelligence
 * Psychic Shield

To go into further detail about her powers. Rachaels powers are related to the very workings of the mind and psionics. She can actually affect someone's mind and powers directly- no saves, no resistance (unless you're powerful enough yourself). To start off with, she can sense the attributes of your brain and mind, and discover the statistics, function, workings and flaws of your mind and powers in an instant. Then, she can control you brain, and on top of that, psychic energy, psychics waves, and psychic elements.

If that wasn't enough, she can create and manipulate mental shields, allowing her to bypass your defense with ease, and then she can use her telepathy without resistance.
 * Brain Manipulation
 * Mental Attribute Sense
 * Mental Shield Manipulation
 * Psionic Detection
 * Psychic Energy Manipulation
 * Psychic Element Manipulation
 * Psychic Wave Manipulation
 * Telepathy

Trivia
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Themes
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