Name: Shelly Davidson
Age: 17
Abilities: Shelly has an innate power to convert sound into light, causing her body to glow. In addition, she can produce replicas of herself over which she maintains mental control.
Appearance:
Personality: Shelly is reserved and quiet around strangers, but quickly becomes animated and fun-loving in a comfortable atmosphere. Humor, songs, and dancing are her favorite past-times. Thoughtful and kind, she is quick to heal the hurts of others even to her own detriment.
Her dynamic personality is often expressed through her clothing. Having picked up a flair for the bold and dramatic (clothing-wise, at least) from the ones who raised her, she tends to switch styles from day to day.
Other: Born as Pilar Zapatero in Benalmádena Pueblo, Spain on July 23, 1990. Shunned by her strangely old-fashioned and superstitious family upon the discovery of her powers at age 9, Pilar was forced into hiding and wandered southern Spain alone for several months. A band of traveling performers found her half-starved, scrounging for food behind a roadside inn next to the field in which they had set up camp. She spent several weeks with them, terrified they would find out about her powers and send her away as her parents had. One night, however, her dreams were so frightening she cried out in her sleep and glowed like a beacon. Her hosts, rather than being frightened, saw in her the potential for an incredible act. For seven years Pilar lived with, trained under, and was raised by the few life-long devotees of a tiny, gypsy-run circus.
One day, a group calling themselves the Brigada de la Pureza Cultural (or "Cultural Purity Brigade") began to harass the gypsies, calling them filthy names and throwing rotten fruit during their performances. This escalated slowly, until the day a small boy was beaten half to death by the BPC for crossing their path on the street. A fight was brewing, and it would be bloody. And soon. Pilar's adoptive family gave her a false passport under the name "Shelly Davidson" that they had created for just this sort of situation, a bag in which to store her few sets of clothing and personal items, and as much money as they had to buy a plane ticket to the United States. They sent her off as quickly as they could, so she would not have to be a part of the violence their heritage had brought to their door.
Now going by "Shelly", she successfully re-located and sought a new home as much like the one she had found in Spain as she could. Weeks of searching led her to a "Freak Show" in which she now performs, using her abilities to create multi-colored, pulsating light patterns. Her replicating powers, however, have yet been kept secret from her employers.
Harley: If any of this does not fit with your story, please let me know and I'll be happy to change/remove it.
