User blog:Holokami/Character Sheet: Lumi Faraday


 * "Psionics is wonderful! There's a beauty to it which I hope you'll find in your own powers! Psionics represents freedom, the freedom to act, think and feel when and where we want, how and why we want! Psionics is a wonder, a fantastical power of limitless possibilities and endless fun! I hope you'll enjoy your time at this school, and find the beauty of your powers." - Lumi to the students at a new first year students assembly

Lumi Charlotte Faraday is an incredibly powerful psychic, and likely the most powerful on Earth, and beyond. She's the Chancellor of the Psychic School Islands; a large island chain and island nation she created to give psionics a place to thrive. The main feature of these islands is it's titular feature, the huge Psychic School.

Appearance
Lumi Faraday is a short person at a height of 5'3", or "only a little below average", as she puts it herself. She sports wonderfully blonde hair, which she keeps long and has in a twin tail style nearly all the time. Her most striking feature however is her eyes. Everybody who has ever met her has always remembered or mentioned her striking purple eyes.

Never having a moment to change between inventing, teaching, researching, and lecturing, she can usually be seen wearing the same things: A white, long-sleeved shirt, a dark grey waistcoat, a purple skirt, and black over the knee thigh high socks. Her look is finished with the two purple ribbons she ties around the base of her twin tails.

Personality
Usually calm and cheerful, with a “my pace” attitude, she can quickly become loud, bossy, hyperactive, chaotic, and/or random. She's always researching, experimenting, teaching, inventing, watching TV or playing games, and this makes her come across as a shut-in. When she starts getting bored, she becomes difficult to handle; actively seeking opposition to fight or conducting random, typically dangerous experimentation to amuse herself, generally at the expense of others. When her boredom grows too great, she secludes herself in her lab. Lumi always likes to look on the bright side of life, endure the worst and enjoy the rest; she feels that if you don't, then you're taking away from the one life you have.

She’s always been the studious type, ever since she could read, she had her gaze firmly planted in a book nearly all the time.

Lumi is the type of person who will stand up for what is right, and can be an incredible driving force for everyone around her. She’s strong and stubborn, enough to call world leader, powerful individuals, and great scientific minds idiots to their faces if needed. If the right path means breaking the law, Lumi will, and she isn't afraid to, but she’s equally willing to beg for forgiveness afterwards if needed. When words fail, Lumi isn't afraid to fight; she actually quite enjoys it as well, to the occasional worry of her “aide”, Eadda. In social settings, she often gives of the impression of "playing hard to get", or being a "tsundere", especially when being called cute, or when her looks are complemented. This isn't the case though, Lumi just honestly finds it embarrassing, and really does just hate being called cute. Don’t go flirting or trying to be “weird” with Lumi though, as you’ll find yourself quickly rejected, as Lumi hates it.

Lumi will defend her students and islands with all her might, and gift swift punishment to psychics who dirty the name of psionics by commiting crimes with psionics.

Speaking of hating something, one thing Lumi doesn’t hate is strawberries. Oh no, she loves them. And I mean, loves them. Lumi has a borderline obsession with strawberries- Strawberry milkshake, strawberry cheesecake, strawberries, strawberry juice. “Is it strawberry flavoured? No? Too bad, I never liked it anyway, sorry.” A word of warning though... don’t go stealing the strawberry off of her cakes; the last time somebody did, they were rushed to A&E.

Due to her absolute level of her psionic power and mental capability, the sheer volume of knowledge about everything she has, and her awareness of her surroundings can lead to an overwhelming level of boredom at times. She doesn’t get like this often, twice in a month at worst, but when it happens, it drives her into a deep, unbearable depression. In order to counter this, Lumi created a concoction. This concoction is powerful agent capable of shutting down psionic power, and numbing the mind. It puts her into a doped state, dropping her mental capabilities to that of an ordinary Human, and jams her psionic powers, and she likely falls to sleep as well. She only lasts in this state for three hours or so, but it’s her only method of coping at times. Eadda worries though, because it makes Lumi absolutely vulnerable.

On a final note, she comes across as in control all the time, and you'll find she's usually at least a few steps ahead of you at all times. It's impossible to say how far ahead she's planned, and how extensive those plans are, not until you stand defeated before her, and the realization she out-planned you at every step, and every possible step hits you.

Background
Lumi and her younger sister, by two years, Michelle, were both born with a regular level of psychic power; basic telekinesis and telepathy. Their intelligence at young ages meant they mastered the English and French languages both at the age of three, and could even handle basic algebra age the same age. They often used their telepathy without realising it, and combining this with her intellegence, it made it difficult for them to even be around other children their age.

Lumi realised when she was four she had special powers, and when Michelle was four, Lumi informed her as well. Because they now realised they were different, it let them hide it, and play along with other kids more easily, leading to them making friends. This is where the difference in opinion of psionics Lumi and Michelle had. Lumi believed they should keep their powers on the low, blend in and live a normal life. Michelle believed they should excersise their powers, let them grow, and help the world with them. They frequently butten heads over this, but still stayed close. Around when Lumi was 8 and Michelle was 6, they made contact with their close-friend-to-be, the immortal psychic entity, Eadda Cayce.

As the years passed, Michelle was pushing her power harder and harder, determined to make Lumi believe in its beauty. Lumi was, very slowly, being convinced, but still didn't want any part of it. Unbeknownest to the two girls, the leader of a psychic "research" sect of the military had his eyes on them.

It was when Lumi was 15 and Michelle was 13 when it happened. Lumi was kind of seeing a benefit to having really strong psionics, but remained unconvince. Michelle pushed her power's growth too far through unchecked training, still trying to show her sister what psionics can do. But it was too much, her mind tried to reel it in to a managable level ("Natural Over-Powered Psionic Correction", or "Michelle Syndrome", as Lumi called it much later in life), it caused Michelle to suffer from a huge shock- something akin to an asthematic attack, heart palpatations, and a stroke all at once. It Michelle was left forever damaged. Her psionic power managed to keep damage in check a little, but her memory, emotions and ability to walk were destroyed.

This is when Marc Beaumont, the leader of the psionic "research" military sect made his appearance. He promised and convinced the distraught Faraday family he could save Michelle, and they agreed. They wouldn't see her at all over the net year, not until a report of a "strange attack" on a Russian village spread across the news. Lumi knew in her heart after seeing a photo that it was Michelle, and so did her parents. Their hearts sank and Lumi wanted answers. She knew she wouldn't stand a chance against her sister, figuring out that any encounter with her would end in a battle, likely. She decided to approach Eadda and ask for her help. Eadda agreed to train and teach Lumi.

Two years later, Lumi had finished her training, taking longer than she thought it would do. She had gained empathic abilities and flash precognition through the training as well. She had to watch the various attacks her sister was doing around the world all that time. Lumi went after Michelle, and the fight began. The two most powerful psychics on Earth at the time clashing in an all-out duel. The world was captivated after near-by news crew began televising it. Michelle stayed emotionless the entire fight, while Lumi was emotionly driven. The fight lasted for hours, the world was captivated, and terrified by these two psychics.

It all ended when Lumi drew out a burst of power, and broke through Michelle's defences. She got into her mind, only to find nothing of her sister left, nothing but a single thought- "help me, Lumi", floating around her mind. Tears flowed as Lumi ended her sister's pain by shattering her mind, immediately ending her life.

This fight triggered outrage against psychics the world over, which Marc reveled in. Marc had actually cloned a small army from Michelle's DNA, a super-powered psychic army he used to initiate the psychic war. The war lasted for six years, and it was the longest six years of Earth's history. Psychic against Psychic, Human against Human, Psychic agaunst Human. Marc was trying to rid the world of powerless Humans and weak psychics, to bring about "his true Psychic World". Marc himself transferred his mind into a cloned body- the most powerful of them all. The worldwas broken, society was in tatters, and the population was low. Lumi and Marc finally clashed in the sixth year. It was a hard-fought battle, but Lumi had once against been training with Eadda, and powered up.

The sheer amount of psionic power being tossed about somehow lead to Michelle managing to reappear from the fragments of her mind. Not the weaponised Michelle, but the fun-loving sister from years ago, but still with sheer power which Lumi fought. Michelle and Lumi both fought against Marc, but were still coming up short. Lumi watched Michelle get brushed aside by Marc. Lumi had to focus, or this would be the end of them both. Marc took this time to ramble on about being a god. Lumi was frustrated, maybe he was? Eadda shouted at Lumi to unleash it, "that power which she awakened during her training and countless battles against Marc's forces". Lumi seemed afraid at first, but did it anyway, knowing it was the only way. Lumi unleashed her full power; Absolute Psionic Power. Marc stood no chance, and Lumi quickly annihilated Marc. Lumi collapsed to the ground, not being able to regulate that level of power.

It was 18th December, 1987, Lumi was out for weeks, the war was ending, but Eadda, Michelle and Lumi all knew the world couldn't recover. While Lumi's power was still reecovering, Michelle took it on herself to do one final act- rebuild the world as if psionics hasn't been discovered yet. Remove the war, Marc, Lumi and Michelle's battled from history. Which she did. Leaving Lumi and Eadda stood in the world which out history remembers.

Lumi, after recovered, went about with Eadda, organising everything this new world knew about psionics, researching it, and convicing the world that psionics was a legitimate science. Eventually, she convinced the world of just this, and then constructed her Psychic School Islands. She slowly learnt to master her absolute psionic power, and through this, learnt to enjoy psionics in this new, peaceful world, and began to teach the world how great psionics can be. All the while, still searching for a way to bring her sister back. Her ambition with the Psychic School is to raise generation of youths, psychic and normal alike, with an understanding, acceptence and love of psionics.

Powers
Lumi is an incredibly powerful psychic. She grew through combat and conflict, and gained mastery of the ultimate level of psionics. There isn't one psychic that's challeneged her who has ever come close to making her sweat in recent history.

Absolute Psionic Power - The ultimate level of psychic power. There's not much else to say. She trained and fought hard, and reached the pinnicle through extreme hardship. Even with all this power, there are some abilities Lumi prefers to use in any fight, until the fight gets serious: Lumi is capable of having a constant awareness of every subatomic particle, and smaller, to the edges of the solar system, and maybe beyond, she is capable of reading/controlling every mind and spirit in the galaxy and beyond simultaneously, and can even read minds in other universes, and her sheer power is enough to destroy the galaxy in a single "light-weight" attack when she isn't serious. These are just some examples, as she's never tested her absolute upper-limits and capabilities.
 * Mental Attribute Sense - Lumi can sense the brain/mental abilities, including thought  process speed, level of intelligence, capacity to feel emotions, learning ability, power of memory, the strength/precision of senses, level of logic and creativity, competence and multitasking ability, level of concentration, level of perception, etc.  She predominantly uses this ability to sense the maximum thought process speed of her opponent(s), and then make sure her thought process speed it at least ten times that. With this she can defeat her opponents before their mind can even register it.
 * Mind /Body /Nerve Reading - Lumi will read the mind, body language, and nerve signals/neural impulses of her opponents to know what they’re going to do before they manage to pull it off, allowing for rapid and planned responses that can avoid or counter her opponents.
 * Precognition - Lumi can also see the future, to let her know what the opponent is going to do befre they even think about it.
 * Teleportation - Lumi's main method of dodging and avoiding attacks.
 * Telekinesis - When the fight ceases to be fun, Lumi will just end it in a single telekinetic strike.

Trivia

 * XPS5 - The concoction Lumi uses on herself before her boredom overwhelms her into a deep depression. Standing for eXperimental Psionic Shutdown, variant 5, it’s a powerful concoction built to temporarily cease psionic operations, even at an absolute level, in a lifeform. If any psychic other than Lumi was given a dose, it could likely lead to permanent brain damage, nervous system damage, psionic ability damage, heart failure, and other complications. Due to Lumi being so powerful, XPS5 is not able to cause these side-effects in her.  Lumi has no records of how to make XPS5, digitally or on paper. She simply remembers the recipe and methods needed to create it, so that nobody else can ever figure it out, as you could imagine what might happen if the world ever had a “psychic killing potion” in their arsenal.
 * She created the Psychic School Islands with her own power, as to not incure any construction costs.
 * Lumi means "Snow" in Finnish. Her father is English and her mother is French, but her mother's mother, grandmother, is Finnish, and this is where the idea for the name came from, as it was snowing when Lumi was born.