Young Writers Society

Name: Annabel “Bel” D'atlas


Age: ?? (20, but because of her history, she doesn’t recall her own age)


Gender: Female


First Ability: Pepper Surge
This ability allows Bel to generate concentrated amounts of thermal energy within her body, then release it through her body as concentrated waves or spheres of heat. She can also absorb the heat from her environment to amplify her own.
Additionally, Bel can also release her heat through filament materials or specific elements, provided she’s in physical contact with them.


Second Ability: Pepper Gale
This ability allows Bel to redirect her thermal energy shortly after it’s been released, though she needs to program the direction she’s going to make her projectiles follow should they be particularly complex.
(Currently not available)


Personality: Bel is deathly afraid of empty spaces. Though her life’s history allowed her plenty of time to adjust to that fear, she constantly tries to fill empty space with something – colors, objects, people, anything. Her entire philosophy of life is based around her experiences with empty spaces. For instance, despite her irrational fear of empty spaces, she’s spent an absurd amount of time collecting blank paper sheets as well as pens, so that she could make maps of whatever place she explored or write whatever she saw fit on those papers.
Also due to her experiences, Bel primarily talks to herself – again, urge to fill space with something – which, even when talking to other people, makes her prone to whispering side commentary in reaction to things she experiences. She usually takes a low, grave tone when doing so. This habit makes her very honest, and strangely enough, her insecurity towards empty spaces turned her quite confident, as she doesn’t often shy away from saying anything to anyone. This also makes it easier for her to hear whatever people say to her. Because of that, she can get frustrated, but she rarely gets actually angry.


Brief History: Bel was among the many that came in contact with the symbol – but she was also among the few that wouldn’t stop believing in its reality, and the reality of her abilities. So, she was mercilessly thrown into an asylum for troubled people alongside a few others – with the exception that she was put in a completely isolated section of the asylum, as she had been put in it for having caused forest fires that, she had no connection with.
While in the asylum, the constant isolation turned her partially insane, but she managed to befriend one of her caretakers well enough that she’d been given pen and paper to keep herself occupied with. After many years, she managed to get a good enough grasp of her powers that she used them to escape the asylum, fleeing towards whichever dangerous place she could find that nobody else would want to go to. Two years later, she was approached by Leon Eberhardt, who told her the secret behind her abilities.

Other:
•Because the use of Pepper Surge damages her skin, Bel prefers to use heatrod elements to project her heat. In the two years she spent on her own, she eventually got two pistols that she customized into heat-projecting tools. She can also use them in melee combat should she find herself in danger.

•The years she spent in the mostly isolated section of her asylum created within her an inability to properly understand the concepts of time and home, severely damaging her self-identity and her understanding of things around her. As such, Bel can randomly find herself unable to feel or identify items, concepts and even people. In these moments, she pulls out a pen and paper and draws maps of things and places that only she understands - unless her life is in danger.
Strangely enough, she still retains fond memories of that asylum and will speak about it enthusiastically. The same cannot be said of a life before that - as if her existence began in the asylum.

Thanks for the tipTinkerTwaggy!