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Daimyo Daimyo -> RE: The Crystal Room. (3/22/2014 2:10:10)
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Forum name: Daimyo Daimyo
Character name: Michael Lee
Magic type: Plant-based; able to quickly grow large and tasty fruits, vegetables, wheat, mushrooms, etc. Can also create and control vines to bind or even strangle someone if need be. Has tried to grow a tree before and found that doing so exhausts him for the rest of the day.
Description: Michael Lee is a male aged twenty-one. He has black hair and brown eyes with dark circles underneath. He stands at a height of 5'5'' and weighs 120 pounds. His arms and fingers are bony-thin like a skeleton's and has slight belly fat.
It started in fifth grade. Michael wouldn't talk with or play with anyone at school on the first day at recess. He later opened up to a few kids and things were seemingly fine after.
With middle school came many changes. A new house to move to, new school, new people, block schedules, more than one teacher, and of course no more recess. On the first day, Michael did those traditional questionnaires where you went around asking people what their favorite color was or what pets they have. Or rather, he just sat there and stared at the sheet of paper and ignored anyone who tried to talk to him until they gave up and left him alone.
Michael did make a friend though. A shorter bespectacled male named Chang. Every now and then, someone would ask if they were brothers. Michael talked with Chang and only Chang. He wasn't as comfortable with anyone else and was perceived as being shy.
Michael and Chang went to each other's houses a few times. They had to be driven by their mothers because the distance was too far to walk. Michael even attended Chang's birthday party; the first non-family one ever.
It was at this party that Michael realized that Chang had other friends. Friends who were closer to him than he could ever be.
Chang moved away at the end of sixth grade. He gave Michael the phone number of his new house.
Michael never called. They lost contact after that.
In seventh grade, Michael had a new friend. An obese male by the name of Joshua. In sixth grade, Michael and Chang had gone on a field trip. Joshua also went though he was from a different class. When lunch time came, Joshua had asked Michael if he could borrow some money. This was on account of them riding the same bus so there was some familiarity.
Michael lent him the money with no questions asked. He completely forgot about that and really did not care about being repaid until near the end of sixth grade when Joshua repaid him. Come seventh grade, they began to sit next to each other on the bus.
If there was one flaw them sharing most of their classes, it was that they talked a lot. Their teachers would have to tell them to stop talking. Their grades in class suffered as well.
Like with Chang, Joshua was the only one Michael was comfortable enough to hold conversations with. His shyness was just as bad as the year before.
Michael never did go to Joshua's house unlike Chang. But they did have more opportunities to talk since they rode the same school bus. Joshua did give Michael his phone number but he never called. They were strictly "friends at school".
Years passed, Joshua continued to be his only friend through middle school until the end of high school where he lost contact since they were "school friends". As for academics, Michael almost didn't graduate because his grades were terrible. He was by no means stupid but he would rather play games or surf the Internet than do homework.
The end of high school also came with the end of his slacker ways. Realistically, he couldn't go to college since it would be a repeat of his high school years. So that left him with the option of finding a job. Unfortunately, he had not "grown out of" his shyness. From ninth to twelfth grade, he started to hole himself in his room coming out only for school or shopping. During the summer, he would also lock himself in his room and for months the only people he saw were his family.
Well, it was basically summer all the time with his education having ended for good. Except he didn't really have fun like he used to when he was younger. Now that he was older, Michael finally realized how hard his parents worked to support him and his little brother. He felt guilty and ashamed now for doing poorly in school and for being a lazy good-for-nothing.
And so he read and read stories. When he dreamed, he dreamed of a happier life like in those stories he read. He'd wash dishes, mow the lawn, sweep the floor, mop the floor, anything to be useful and lift some burden off his parents' shoulders.
Sometimes he would lie in bed and think of how his life had come to this point. He'd think about where things went wrong and what a terrible son he was. He'd wish for a better life for his family when he blew out his birthday candles. He'd pray to a god he didn't actually believe in.
One day, he woke up with the power to grow plants. He kept it a secret at first and with practice learned to grow fruits, vegetables, and grains. This miracle made him a bit happier for now he could actually provide for his family.
He had to tell his family of his powers of course. They were surprised but they did not shun him or kick him out or anything dramatic like that. It was decided that Michael's powers were to be a family secret and absolutely no one, not even friends, were to know. The reason for this was likened to not telling people you were rich or you'd be robbed.
Michael became a "farmer" and chef after that. He tended a garden in the backyard and learned to cook from his father.
Personality: Michael is shy and nervous around strangers. Even his family isn't that close to him. But regardless, he does care about them. He was quite depressed and felt bad for being a freeloader before acquiring his powers but now he's happier and opening up a little bit more each day to his family. Still a ways to go before he'll make any friends though.
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