Name: June Joyce
Superpower: Empathy
Age: 20
Gender/pronouns: She/her
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Face Claim: Natalia Dyer
(+ kind, clever, optimistic &- stubborn, inconsistent, duplicitous)
(tw: mental illness, depression, attempted suicide)
It was always only June and her mom, living alone in a sunny Michigan suburb. Single parenthood was easy for Ms. Joyce: she and June lived syncronistically, following each other’s patterns and moods. June was an easy child: quick to please; clever; popular, but never cruel about it. They had a simple life, and that that was it, and it was nice.
Things changed when June was sixteen. Suddenly, June became moody, inconsistent, devastated one moment and overjoyed the next. June lost weight, and gained it back, she became dangerous to herself, spontaneous at moments, and then quiet and worried the next. These moods became increasingly concerning to June’s mother, but June could hardly notice them shift, caught up in their constantly fluctuating waves. One day, June left for school happy– humming, grinning, kissing her mother on the cheek on her way out the door– and came home and tried to kill herself. The next day, June was admitted to a mental hospital.
June’s stay in the institution only made things worse– mind flooded with too much input– mania and depression and worry and delirium– that she couldn’t feel for herself anymore. Emotion, to June, was an external force and not her own. Treatment after treatment failed, until one doctor suggested a different cause for her problems. Had they heard of empaths? A super power– the ability to feel the emotions of others. A gift. After researching June’s father’s history, they discovered that he, too, had superpowers. June was not sick, just unaware of her own abilities.June finished high school like a normal teenager, but was tutored, after school, to hone in her abilities. She learned to concentrate on the gaps between herself and others– to open herself up to other’s emotions without them becoming her own. And once she graduated, she enrolled in Save University, where she hoped to master them, to do something good with herself, to make a difference.
At Save University, June made friends fairly easily, breaking the stereotype of hero support as losers. One particular friend she met was Calvin Corelli, a boy who, since they met on the first day of classes, had become essential to her own identity. It was halfway through their freshman year that Calvin revealed that he had a vision of her. A vision of her dying. A vision that repeats for him, daily. While June has full faith in Calvin’s ability to save her, she walks around with a ticking clock on her back, constantly counting down. She’s determined that, if she’s fated to die, she can at least do something meaningful in the uncertain time she has left.
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