Beth



Age: 17

Powers
Power: "Despair"

- She lives off of hopelessness and pain.

- Can absorb people's negative feelings but their energy drains depending on how much they feel

- Feels everyone's sadness/despair in a 20 meter radius

- She can inflict it upon others

>She has a loose control over it and it's never a specific amount

>Sometimes, sudden breakdowns and mood swings can give anyone near her a varying degree of her distress. Usually depends on how bad it is.

>It can range from simply upset to pure desperation and despondency

>She can drain people emotionally and mentally to the point where their mental state breaks and they're unresponsive to any emotion and all that's left is an empty shell walking and breathing. In a way, it's her own version of killing someone.

- Her brain has a semi-immune system for her power and can keep the despair in check. In exchange for the few ounces of resistance against her own pain, she's resulted in being mostly apathetic.

- The emotions from whom she's "killed" can be absorbed and she can feel, albeit dully, for a few years.

- She can't stay near any crowd for too long. Her body will end up succumbing to the hunger and she'll "blackout." Draining people of their lives like a crazed zombie with no control.

-When she feels pain, her despair seeps out and, as her brain loses control and focuses on repairing any wounds, she ends up feeling everything and it gets stronger the more she's hurt.

Backstory
'''TW!! Religion, Self-Harm, Attempted No Life'''

She grew up in a heavily religious family. They watched her every action and forced her to follow every tradition. Cue in some blackmail and failed tasks, they found out about her atheism and her homosexuality. Her resistance to them only made things worsen. They put her sins against her and punished her. They'd force her to read and study the Bible for hours, teach her the traditions, make her memorize every single book, devoid her of anything and made sure she was preoccupied with the holy deity that is their god. Any simple mistake would always result in pain and reminders that she will never be forgiven.

The stress was too much and she couldn't cope with anything. Her continued state ended up giving her a heart attack. She got bypass surgery at the hospital one of her religious uncles worked at. They gave her a cursed crystal that was laced with their hate. To make sure she has a strong reminder of her sins. To nail it down that a sinner like her will never belong to them. The strong belief that she was the one demon in the family made them force the curses upon her to make sure she can be kept in check in holy place like their home.

The family kept on going like this for a few more years until she reached a time that neared her breaking point. Her great-grandmother's death brought so much pain and she deliciously savored everything her deprived body could get. Eating away at people internally and making them so tired.

The crystal made her scream and writhe as she starved at their lives soon enough. The gem embedded in her chest sunk deeper in as she ate up what remained of her aunt's life. Sucking up every emotion. Every feeling.. and by god, did it feel good.

Once she snapped out of her state, the guilt that trapped itself in her felt greater than anything she could bear. Nothing seemed anymore prominent than the strong ache in her heart. Her family, feeling that she's forsaken them all and has relied on Satan to free herself of their godliness, had decided to send her off to the police and get her away from them as fast as possible. Thankfully, her sisters and mother had kept by her side and made sure that she wouldn't get into prison no matter their claims.

A quick time of living in the streets and desperate scrounging for money, she's forced herself to keep a handle on her emotions to stay without making a ruckus. Some searching led her to an abandoned house just by some plains, free of the city's activity and desolate of any other rouge negativity. There, she's learned to be a hermit and adjusted to her new life.

Sometimes, the guilt and pain would be so bad. She'd wake up in the middle of the night, in the alleyways of the city she wasn't even living in anymore, and the body of a "dead" person. Her body keeps acting before her brain, and she's never surprised when there's a shell of a being in front of her.

She wanted to kill herself at some point. Making herself bleed and destroying her skin every chance she got. The despair leaks out eventually and the pain, strong and vile, mixes in with her feelings of dread and hopelessness. Forcing her into a delirious sort of state and breaking her mind every time she tried. She couldn't bring herself to die that way. Constantly berates herself as a coward. She, instead, decides to die slowly. Keeping herself from the supply of bodies and their emotions they bring.

Though, she can't help any other night where she would snap out of a reverie and "kill" so many. Leaving their bodies at her wake.

She doesn't mind it all. Sometimes, she really lets herself indulge in her needs and spoils herself when the pain is too much. Somehow, her mind can get clear enough to make her know who to target and what to feast on. Shady alley dwellers and faulty drug dealers have always been her go-to.

.. but as she craves and yearns for more, she starts asking and doubting her morals. She could just go on and be a villain, rejoicing in her own high and purely divulging in her own wants.

.. or.. she could stay as she is, stick with killing off the lowlife and slowly die a pointless life.

Trivia
- She likes crop tops and short boxers

- Binges Angsty Fanfictions. ("They don't count but I swear I can almost feel it!!")

- She's Ambidextrous. With all the time on her hands, she decided to fully work with both.

- Spends some of her time learning new languages

- Dislikes topics circulating around religion

- Lacks any friends. Most of the ones she has are online only.

- Is mostly sarcastic and likes to crack jokes at times.