Ashton Sawyer
basic description
Birth date and place
basic history, family life
early life
mid life
moder life
- Why (s)he was on the plane
- What (s)he's been doing since
(I once noted that there was a peculiar similarity between certain names of various gods from different cultures and words from different languages meaning "god" and "demon", so I combined them to create the name Aenzhyris.)
Potential Flaws: I was thinking that my character could have a form of amnesia wherein he does not remember his real name. (If I as a player do not know my character's real name to begin with, it will make it easier to roleplay the amnesia.) He has created an alter-ego persona of sorts within his dreams and his fiction though, which is Aenzhyris. This persona could manifest as a form of megalomania.
Dreaming Life: I have been dreaming lucidly all my life. The first powers that I started manifesting in my dreams were what I call the hypertelekinetic powers, the very first and favorite of which was the ability to fly, inspired by the Superman cartoon. (Years later when my vocabulary was more developed I named the power of flight as autokinesis.) (My love of words leads me to eventually invent a name for each specialized application of my dream powers.) The next power that I manifested was the ability to levitate objects, which I call simply telekinesis, and which is my second favorite power due to the mischief that I cause with it in my dreams. When I started using my dream powers to combat my nightmares, I applied the concept of hypertelekinesis to create three martial powers. The first, which I call myokinesis, is a specialized application of telekinesis wherein when I attempt to lift or punch through an object I add telekinetic energy to the! task to effectively give myself supernatural strength. The second, which I call teleclasm, was a concentrated ball of [invisible?] telekinetic energy that I could hurl at targets. The third, which I call kinephylaxis, was to erect a shield of telekinetic energy around myself that would stop such things as bullets and other attacks. Applying philosophical and esoteric metaphysical notions, I learned to pass through solid objects in my dreams, which I call transphylaxis. This has become another of my favorite dream powers, because my freedom loving heart combines it with autokinesis to enable me to fly through solid objects. Over the years I have also developed other dream powers, such as forms of mind control, electrokinesis, teleportation, and shapeshifting. The list of my dream powers contains approximately forty named powers. I have tried pulling other sleeping people into my dreams, but I have only succeeded in doing so with my sister Maria.
Waking Life: I am a dreamer in my waking hours as much as in my sleeping hours. The banality of the waking world is sometimes depressing to me when compared to the world I experience when I sleep. I have read books on oneiromantic magick and studied Tibetan dream yoga all in the hopes of breaking down the barriers between the dream world and the waking world, so that I could experience such things as the wonder of flying in the real world. Other interests of mine could be considered alternate ways of experiencing wonder in a mundane world: RPG gaming, Renaissance Festivals, sci-fi conventions, artistry, books, writing, computer programming, mountain climbing, motorcycles, and even goth clubs. My martial arts training even reflects my love of fighting the monsters in my nightmares.
Friends:
1) Robert Swift - best friend, RPG gamer, philosopher, writer, computer programmer, former Army Intelligence. Curiosity should be his middle name. He has a reputation for knowing things and finding information that he should have no way of knowing. He has long whitish blonde hair that he prefers to wear in a pony tail.
2) Maria Clover - half-sister, goth, Wiccan, stripper, nymphomaniac, performance artist. She loves making costumes and clothing for sci-fi conventions, Renaissance Festivals, and goth clubs. She is the most daring person I know. She has an absolutely uncanny knack for finding four-leaf clovers. We sometimes experience both spontaneous and intentional dream-sharing. We have an incestuous relationship.
3) Lindsay Wilson - roommate, ex-girlfriend, goth, RPG gamer, stripper, bookworm, biker chick, dabbler in chaos magick and the occult. She is fond of using psychodelic mushrooms and peyote to expand her consciousness. She is learning how to work on motorcycles from her mechanic husband, Xavier Wilson (Ally #2). (Lindsay and Maria work at the same strip club.)
Allies:
1) James Catalino - my martial arts instructor and my Tibetan dream yoga instructor, lived in Tibet and China for a few years. Induced my first psychic experience, which involved a blindfold and the sensing of auras.
2) Xavier Wilson - roommate, mechanic, biker, adrenaline junkie, kleptomaniac. He has somehow survived numerous vehicular crashes that should have killed him. Husband of Lindsay Wilson (Friend #3).
3) Melissa Volante - lucid dreamer, goth, gamer, writer, artist, maker of chain-mail. Met her at Renaissance Festival through my sister Maria. Melissa travels around the country selling her chain-mail wares at various Ren Fests. Her boyfriend Keith works security at the Ren Fests and as a bouncer at nightclubs, sometimes including the one I like to attend.
Enemies:
1) Laura Finazzo - ex-girlfriend, skilled manipulator, daughter of a Mafia boss, pathological liar, self-proclaimed voodoo priestess, professional dominatrix. She always manages to rope in vulnerable, angry youth and convince them into being her minions. Her boyfriend is one of the bodyguards under her father's employment.
2) Jonathan Gray - metalhead, homophobe, weightlifter, crystal meth addict. He is the boyfriend of Laura Finazzo's bestfriend [who is a stripper]. Johnny was raped by a priest as a child. Laura told him that I was bisexual and now he wants to unleash all of his pent-up murderous rage on me.
3) Jeffrey Williams - corrupt police officer, drug dealer. He steals drugs from small time dealers, beats them up to keep them in line, and then turns around and sells the drugs himself through various channels. He pulled over my friend [while I was a passenger], found a quantity of marijuana and confiscated it from the car, cuffed us, took us out to a rural area, beat us with his nightstick, then left us there. Jeff works for Laura's father, and Jonathan works for Jeff.
