for @cobwebafternoons || besties when they hide under his bed at 3am
There were ins and outs of Pope's nature that seemed quirky to others, but he held them in serious regard. The only one to take him seriously, truly and without reservation, was Laine. She took the time to listen, to stand beside him hip to hip, bare beneath the full moon, or on nights like tonight, crawl beneath the springs and coils of a mattress and box spring to hide from the things he believed would tear him down to nothing. Cheek rested on the pillow she'd dragged from the bed above, Laine's hand brushed down against the carpet, fingers tangling in Pope's: cold meeting cold. It was a wordless gesture, one granted with a small, kind smile at the corners of her lips. She dared not speak, instead closing her eyes to concentrate on placing herself in his mind. Within, her voice bloomed. You alright over there?
ABOUT DELAINEY || ✸・.・― breathe kind words to a broken heart
general
full name: delainey evangeline sweetwine
nicknames: laine, lainey, lainey loo.
age: 22
date of birth: march 9.
zodiac: pisces
gender: cis female
pronouns: she/her
sexuality: bisexual
physical
hair color: light brown
eye color: blue
height: 5′4″
weight: 115 lbs
personality
aesthetics: cold hands brushing across the jagged tops of painted tarot cards, lavender and sage bound in twine burning in low candle light, pale skin gleaming under the soft, silvery glow of a full moon
parents: keaton ‘chet’ james thornton, tammy lynne thornton (nee. travis)
siblings: n/a
powers and abilities
powers: clairvoyance and telepathy
daemon: a large death’s head hawkmoth named hannibal.
abilities and strengths: can hear and speak to the dead, can feel energies, read auras, and divine aspects of past, present and future, ability to read minds and sense other's thoughts. If she tries hard enough, she can force her way into someone's head and see everything she needs or wants to know. often, this creates a bridge that she can use to more easily delve into the same person's thoughts and senses. communication with spirits is at it's strongest during the Samhain, or the traditional end of fall harvest around traditional halloween. equinoxes offer a boost in her abilities. the primary spirit she contacts is her father, chet, whose spirit is tied to the necklace he was wearing at his time of death, one laine wears often. meditation under the full moon acts as a psychic charge and can boost her internal signal.
weaknesses: overstimulation. too much noise will make her tweak to the ends of the earth. radio waves. for 'normal' people ghost hunters white noise is used to listen into the spirit realm, but for her it acts as a barrier. connection to the dead often means she's always freezing, and on occasion if she connects with a spirit whose death is traumatic enough, she can feel their pain. she can't escape the dead, so she's often running on 3 hours of sleep because she can't find silence. it's so constant and draining for her, she is shocked she knows how to function.
backstory and details - ＴＲＩＧＧＥＲ ＷＡＲＮＩＮＧ :
mentions of death, mental health issues
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(i’ll write a more fleshed out version soon, this is gonna be the placeholder for now.)
laine fully thought magic was bullshit bc she grew up watching her mama and grandma hustle people by running a fortune teller's business out of their living room because their family 'had it in the blood'. one day her dad strolls into her room and starts talking to her like it's just another day except for the fact that her dad died right before she was born and her grandma can see him, too. that's when she starts to believe it's maybe not total bullshit, but also is under the impression that she's just being drugged at home. doesn't think about it at school until the day she takes a dodgeball to the head and she can hear EVERYTHING from EVERYONE. it's so loud she starts to lose it and winds up in a grippy sock hotel which makes it EVEN WORSE and the only one to calm her down is her father's ghost bc he's tied to a necklace he wore when he died so his spirit followed her around the hospital and taught her how to control it from the other side. she finds out that he died in a car accident because he could hear the thoughts of everyone on the road and also lost it and he doesn't want the same to happen to her. finally she goes home and her mom and grandma act like she's just insane from the power so she doesn't sell out the family's main hustle. eventually manages to find a place of solice both in eilryn and eilryn academy. now that she knows how to listen in, she's using it to her advantage and has internal dirt on everyone possible. she is here to get by by doing as little as possible, regardless of whether or not people know that's her goal. will sometimes talk to her dad alone in her dorm bc she brought the necklace with her. people probs think she's actually a psycho.
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wanted connections
roommate: someone to share her dorm at eilryn academy
others: best friends, friends, people whose loved ones have passed on that she can see, she doesn’t like and that don’t like her, etc.
