Auris Wernicke

Name: Auris Wernicke

Age:
11

Appearance:
Curly bright red hair (which he would prefer people not to call it "orange") about shoulder-long, combed almost-neatly in a rather outdated fashion, reddish white skin, freckles on his cheeks and nose, slightly thick brows, small nose, rounded gray eyes that looks curious most of the time. His wardrobe consists of strangely old-looking clothes, complete with bow tie and occasionally bowler hat, making him look like the miniature of a 20s-30s guy. He has correct posture, can sometimes be seen putting a hand on his pocket at random times. When he's frightened, intimidated, or desperate, his eyes would blink repeatedly, his lips parted and closed as if he was going to say something (but didn't), and his voice suppressed down into a whisper. When he's curious, excited, or anxious, he couldn't help but to stare at anything in front of him and clench both his hands into a tight fist; making him appear as if he's ready to fight despite of the lack of anger or anything the like on his face. Talking about face, he has very good poker face. But if there's a "poker body", then he might have a pitifully bad one. While his face looked like he experiences no emotion at all, his whole body says it all.

Other informations:
* His eyes are unusable. They're blind, though they can still move. Only they were too expressive and curious-looking for people to actually realize, unless they spend time with him for a while.
* He has a deep voice for a kid, which might turn into a deep bass voice when he grow up. Also, he talks somewhat melodiously (imagine someone saying "Oh, man!" as "Aawh, maayn!") as if he's used to trying to compensate his lack of expression with his tones.
* He doesn't realize that his clothes are way out of date, not only because he's blind, but also because he feels perfectly comfortable wearing what he wears and would feel that something is missing if he wears something else (or not wearing a particular thing he usually does).
* He can read both Braille letters and normal Latin letters, provided both are embossed.
* He has a very strong spacial senses in particular, making him rarely ever need help navigating himself indoor (of course walking outdoor is another matter entirely). But anyway all his senses are noticeably sharp apart from his sight.
* When his natural power is activated, he would start to whisper in unknown language and his eyes would turn bright green-ish. He would also be unable to move for the moment (ranging from two seconds to a full minute).

Personality:
Auris is a talkative boy, but almost all the time the subject of his talks would be of knowledge, of something he read or hear somewhere instead of talking about his feelings, accomplishments, or something the like. He would easily talk to strangers about facts of things, like a walking book of trivia, which, combined with his friendly tone, making him seem like an interesting little fellow. It was not hard for him to start befriending someone (despite of the fact that even when his tone sounded interested, his face would show little of it).The problem arise when he has to maintain a friendship. For a reason he couldn't remember, Auris doesn't like to be touched. In any means. By anyone. He doesn't even like to be touched by random friendly animals. To him, it would feel as if he's a building and someone suddenly pushes the fire alarm, sending danger signals all over his nerves. So, what was (to others) meant to be a friendly pat on the back or an encouraging ruffling of his hair would freak him out in no time. He would calm down eventually, as long as the person doing that apologize, try not to do it again, and actually meant no harm. He expected this annoying quirk to make him lose friends as fast as he get new ones. Even though he couldn't remember whether he actually had no friends in the past, he sometimes felt a pang of loneliness thinking that everyone might think of him as a weirdo and that he is, in fact, friendless.

Power:
* His touch is extremely lethal; as if his skin was covered in thin layer of dimethyl mercury or other poisonous substance. Unless the person who touched his naked skin has rapid healing ability or is resistant to poisons, there's a 80% chance that they will die of poisoning in less than a week. There are signs that he was not born with this power though. The lethal touch might have been a result of some sort of an experiment that he didn't have any memories about. Of course, as long as it's not skin-on-skin, as long as there's something covering his skin or the skin of the person that touches him, nobody gets poisoned (fortunately).
* His natural power would be a second sight (which is ironic, considering he can't use his "first" sight due to his blindness), a kind of prophetic vision that occurs every now and then. It might show a tiny piece of his future or a bigger piece, or someone else's future, or sometimes (rarely though) the bits of future of several person at the same time. The future that he 'sees' is something inevitable, something that will happen one way or another despite of the efforts the person do to evade it. This power scares him just as much as his lethal touch, at times.

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