| THE IMPORTANT BITS:
» grunge scifi universe, mainly set in slums/the undercity. see: world info
» roughly 20-22 depending on canon point
» looks exactly like this (tattoos included (ps, this character was entirely based on that image))
» he is BLIND, usually always something covering his eyes, if not, they're a very dull opaque color. he sees the world more as a mental image. half spectral, half scientific sense. reid sees particles and radio/sound waves, the world looks like a jumble of fractals, as well as a constant time dilation. he sees the world around him at several points along several timelines all mashed together, like outlines drawn on wax paper all layered one on top of the other. it can be very clear or very jumbled, and its often interrupted by more stark and arresting visions, so it can get very confusing, but he can normally walk and text and see people fine. he'll just occasionally walk straight into a newly constructed wall if he's too focused on what the area was like 5 years prior.
» clairvoyant (prophetic knowledge and visions, insight into lives and souls of people he meets/sees in visions), beginning to develop telekinesis.
» this does not jive with the government peeps :(
HISTORY:
» one of many undercity orphans/runaways that squat in unoccupied buildings, he was abandoned to one of the shelters in Chi sector, left on the doorstep, was raised there and ran away when he'd been about 13.
» met Dalton some time after, and the two became close friends, sticking out undercity together, usually finding shelter and food together - it's easier to survive with a partner. Dalton is basically Reid's favorite person ever, he looks up to him an absurd amount, and wants to help him find some peace in his life, finally.
» meets Paz through Dalton, who becomes a fast friend and sticks around with the two of them. Later, watches out for him, makes sure he's taken care of (eating/finding shelter/sleeping/not walking into traffic on accident), as well as keeps the government from tracing him through the net.
» The boy Reid was before he became what he is now wasn't terribly remarkable, not very skilled at any one thing, save for maybe pick pocketed and running away from police. that, and, looking pretty. he was born with good looks, so he'd used that to his advantage as his one gift, often flirting his way in or out of situations, being the charming distraction while Dalton snuck behind a clerk to steal some food. And, on some very rare occasions, ply sexual favors for cash. When times were really tough.
» awakening: at 17 he'd been a fairly normal street urchin punk, and then some kind of accident happen that blinded him and gave him severe head trauma, was comatose for a long while. (Accident: part of the ground in the Undercity gave out underfoot, he fell, hit his head hard on the Fulgior structures on the way down, opened up a gash across his eyes, landed in a puddle of Fulgior, it seeped in through that gash and left his eyes useless, Dalton and Paz rounded up enough people to fish him out and get him to a hospital). Reid woke up rambling nonsense, unresponsive to doctor prompting, they concluded him too heavily brain damaged to ever live without assistance or the medical machines so, because no one was responsible for him or his medical bills, they'd been planning to unplug him. just before they were able to, Reid's hand snapped up and grabbed the nurse, before telling her all about her life, her children, who her children would grow up to be, the color of her hair and eyes and her mother's name and all these other things impossible to know. he continued the process with every doctor and nurse in the room, until his line of sight (eyes still bandaged and completely blind) landed on his best friend, sitting to the side, and Reid asked "i'm starving, what's around to eat?" as if he were completely normal.
» reid isn't normal. his mind is sort of fractured into many different things, so he can go from babbling nonsense, to babbling incredibly specific insights and prophecies, to talking like he's any other street kid. he tends to snap from one to the other, as he feels pulled one way and the next. he tells people he isn't just himself anymore, he's a vessel. when he isn't needed, that's when he's normal.
» world religion: there's leading religion is created and propagated by the government (though that isn't known to the public), with a structure that keeps the rich at the top and the poor and outcast underneath (the city literally goes down in social class, with the lowest of them (what reid is/was) in the slums actually dug into the ground, with the pariahs, the ill and the criminals), with a very firm caste system. reid's existence as a prophet is directly in opposition to the teachings of the world religion, and that makes him a target. the more he comes to share his visions and insights with the undercity (the lowest level slum), the more word of him travels, and starts to bleed upward in the caste. thus, government agents have been sent to shut him up/arrest him for heresy, basically. thankfully, he's made a lot of friends in undercity now, and they all help out with protecting/hiding him. he isn't actually any kind of jesus or whatever, he just hears and sees and knows things and won't shut up about them.
» meets Avery when he stumbles into his bar and tells him to skip his train home that night + can he have a whiskey. probably meets Vaughn through him.
» meets Jesse, Calla, Remy and Doro somewhere along the way too
» when the government catches up: at some point, reid will be abducted by government agents and taken to the upper sectors - beta and gamma - where they'll try to coerce him to back the world religion (thus getting the lower levels that follow him under control), and go with the image needed and use him as a tool to prove their legitimacy. he doesn't play along well. (spoilers: they get him into a conclave thing with all the important peeps around him, and his telekinesis hits it's entire purpose for existing: he crashes the building in on itself, it appears to anyone watching the broadcast of it that everyone inside died (they didn't))
PERSONALITY:
» never says where his visions and prophecies come from, and always changes from "them" to "her" to "him" to "it" and etc, never really settling on what the force of divinity or omnipotent entity is. basically it's just 'the will of creation', the universe as a whole, which is why all of his tattoos are some kind of physics or mathematics or astronomical related thing.
» his consciousness is sort of between times, more often than not. in his more lucid moods, he can focus better and determine the physical present, but sometimes has a lot of difficulty figuring out where/when he is
» sometimes just sits are scribbles out complicated mathematical equations like the rotation of mars around it's axis and how it's figured etc etc some other thing. his mind is very full up with the kind of divine perfection in mathematics and physics and how they work just so, the idea that there's something god-like in all of science, etc, that sort of thing.
» he's sort of a space cadet
» will def walk up and hug a person who can see is having a bad day. might, on some v intense days, try to kiss someone he sees a particularly beautiful soul in, but thankfully is usually stopped by a friend before he does something embarrassing
» uses his tattoos to make sense of things he sees, doesn't like having them covered up, so he's usually in very loose tank tops like so, or totally shirtless, like a weirdo. and, very occasionally, totally naked.
» his need to tell people what messages he gets in his head overrides basically anything else. this is his purpose now, to deliver these things, for whatever reason or outcome that might bring. he has full faith in it.
» he's sort of like that one friend that seems like they're constantly high
» hobbies: he loves making sand mandalas, because he likes the idea of time spent and then swept away. also likes dreamcatchers, and loves feathers, crystals/gemstones, and anything old. |
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