Post by Calahan Witt on Nov 19, 2021 3:02:33 GMT
CALLAHAN WITT
FULL NAME: Callahan “Cal” Franco Witt
CODENAME: Nightwalker
FACE CLAIM: Danny Gonzalez
AGE: 22
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: Unaffiliated
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
CODENAME: Nightwalker
FACE CLAIM: Danny Gonzalez
AGE: 22
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: Unaffiliated
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
Personal
SEXUALITY: Bisexual
GENDER: Male
PRONOUNS: He/him/his
ETHNICITY: Mexican American
GENDER: Male
PRONOUNS: He/him/his
ETHNICITY: Mexican American
Double Life
ABILITIES:
Sleep Manipulation: Cal is able to induce sleep and cause insomnia to a target within 300 feet as long as he knows what they look like. He is able to control the time that the sleep happens, as long as it is within 12 hours and it can last in duration from 30 seconds to 3 days. He can cause temporary insomnia lasting up to three days.
Dream Shaping: Cal is able to plant the basic ideas of dreams into the minds of people prior to them falling asleep, causing either pleasant and unpleasant dreams. These dreams can evolve just like regular dreams throughout the dreaming phase of sleep, allowing them to change without his control. He must be within 300 feet of the target when implanting the dream and it must be within 12 hours of them falling asleep.
Dream Viewing: When someone is sleeping, Cal is able to see what they are dreaming about, but he is unable to change them in the moment.
SKILLS:
Gardening: Cal has a knack for growing various plants, from fruits and veggies to flowers and cacti. He has entered his product into various competitions and done fairly well.
Herbalism: As a kid, Cal went through a phase of being obsessed with herbs and their uses, leading him to be able to identify a range of plants and use them for herbal remedies for illnesses and injuries.
Lock Picking: At the age of 15, Cal bought a lock picking kit off of the internet and taught himself to pick locks because he thought it sounded like fun.
WEAKNESSES:
Human: With no sort of super strength or powerful healing ability, Cal is able to be injured by normal means.
Contingent: While Cal’s powers are fairly strong, they require him to be in good physical and mental condition, for example if he is excessively tired or if he hasn’t eaten recently he is easier to resist.
Insomnia: Using his powers too much makes it almost impossible for him to sleep, despite any medication or herbal supplements. When experiencing power-induced insomnia, the episodes last anywhere from 2-4 days, depending on how much power he’s expended.
Severe ADHD: While ADHD, no matter what severity, is not necessarily a weakness, Cal’s ADHD makes it very difficult for him to focus without the assistance of medication. He has gotten distracted while shaping dreams before and it causes the ideas of the dream to spiral out of control. In one specific scenario, the idea got far enough away from him that the target experienced a nightmare so severe he suffered permanent mental damage.
Focus: Placing dreams and maintaining a connection to his target takes a lot of focus, which is something that, with his ADHD, Cal struggles with. If he breaks focus, the connection is lost and he is unable to retarget the same person for at least three days. If his target leaves his 300 foot radius, this is also considered a loss of focus.
Functional Neurological Disorder: While this disorder is not well known, it impacts Cal’s life in a variety of ways. He often has tremors in both his hands and his legs, occasionally making it hard for him to complete basic tasks. He experiences non-epileptic seizures at least one every few months but sometimes can occur as often as twice a day.
Sleep Manipulation: Cal is able to induce sleep and cause insomnia to a target within 300 feet as long as he knows what they look like. He is able to control the time that the sleep happens, as long as it is within 12 hours and it can last in duration from 30 seconds to 3 days. He can cause temporary insomnia lasting up to three days.
Dream Shaping: Cal is able to plant the basic ideas of dreams into the minds of people prior to them falling asleep, causing either pleasant and unpleasant dreams. These dreams can evolve just like regular dreams throughout the dreaming phase of sleep, allowing them to change without his control. He must be within 300 feet of the target when implanting the dream and it must be within 12 hours of them falling asleep.
Dream Viewing: When someone is sleeping, Cal is able to see what they are dreaming about, but he is unable to change them in the moment.
SKILLS:
Gardening: Cal has a knack for growing various plants, from fruits and veggies to flowers and cacti. He has entered his product into various competitions and done fairly well.
Herbalism: As a kid, Cal went through a phase of being obsessed with herbs and their uses, leading him to be able to identify a range of plants and use them for herbal remedies for illnesses and injuries.
Lock Picking: At the age of 15, Cal bought a lock picking kit off of the internet and taught himself to pick locks because he thought it sounded like fun.
WEAKNESSES:
Human: With no sort of super strength or powerful healing ability, Cal is able to be injured by normal means.
Contingent: While Cal’s powers are fairly strong, they require him to be in good physical and mental condition, for example if he is excessively tired or if he hasn’t eaten recently he is easier to resist.
Insomnia: Using his powers too much makes it almost impossible for him to sleep, despite any medication or herbal supplements. When experiencing power-induced insomnia, the episodes last anywhere from 2-4 days, depending on how much power he’s expended.
Severe ADHD: While ADHD, no matter what severity, is not necessarily a weakness, Cal’s ADHD makes it very difficult for him to focus without the assistance of medication. He has gotten distracted while shaping dreams before and it causes the ideas of the dream to spiral out of control. In one specific scenario, the idea got far enough away from him that the target experienced a nightmare so severe he suffered permanent mental damage.
Focus: Placing dreams and maintaining a connection to his target takes a lot of focus, which is something that, with his ADHD, Cal struggles with. If he breaks focus, the connection is lost and he is unable to retarget the same person for at least three days. If his target leaves his 300 foot radius, this is also considered a loss of focus.
Functional Neurological Disorder: While this disorder is not well known, it impacts Cal’s life in a variety of ways. He often has tremors in both his hands and his legs, occasionally making it hard for him to complete basic tasks. He experiences non-epileptic seizures at least one every few months but sometimes can occur as often as twice a day.
Appearance
GENERAL: Cal is 5’9” but he frequently walks with a slouch, making himself appear shorter than he actually is. He has brown hair that he either styles in a pompadour-esque style or allows his natural curls to exist. He has dark blue eyes and is nearsighted, usually wearing contacts. Cal does not like to dress up and will avoid it at almost any cost. His wardrobe consists mainly of things he can buy from Walmart or thrift shops, such as t-shirts, jeans, and hoodies. He owns one coat but almost never wears it, no matter what the weather is, and a pair of boots that have been duct taped together so many times they are no longer waterproof at all. Cal has numerous small tattoos, his favorites being a poorly drawn chicken on a skateboard, about quarter sized, located on the back of his right calf and a matching frog on a skateboard on the back of his left calf.
COSTUME: While Cal’s powers can be used from a distance, he still considers it to be in his best interest to blend into the crowd as much as possible. His “work” outfits are not that different from his normal wardrobe but often are made up of more black than usual.
COSTUME: While Cal’s powers can be used from a distance, he still considers it to be in his best interest to blend into the crowd as much as possible. His “work” outfits are not that different from his normal wardrobe but often are made up of more black than usual.
Personality
If you were to ask different people in Cal’s life to describe him, they would all tell you the same thing- that Cal is a wild card. You never really know what he is going to do, but no matter what it is, you can bet that it is going to be interesting. Cal takes pride in his ability to make people laugh, but he isn’t great at telling if people are laughing with him or at him. He is often called “weird” or “eccentric” but he wears these labels with pride, even if they don’t necessarily make him popular in social situations. Despite this, Cal is capable of being calm and relaxed. He uses his behavior to keep people at a distance, but once you get to know him, he shows a more vulnerable side, hiding his anxiety and insecurity behind a wall of confidence and humor. He is very self-sufficient but craves the attention and presence of others. You wouldn’t expect someone like Cal to be able to sneak around and blend in, but that is exactly what he does as Nighwalker. He specializes in sneaking around to get things done. He doesn’t necessarily think that there is strictly good and evil in the world and he loves to occupy that middle ground and use his powers to help or hinder who he chooses.
Cal is fiercely loving to the people he lets into his life and would go to the ends of the earth for them. If you win him over, expect to receive lots of gifts, typically small trinkets that remind him of that person. He, however, does not like accepting gifts as it makes him feel awkward. If he could do anything with his life, he would move into the country and live on a farm where he could grow his own crops and raise animals, however, for now he has made a small garden on the balcony of his apartment where he grows tomatoes, beans, zucchini, and peas, along with 15 types of herbs. His apartment is very messy, but not dirty and if you ask he would tell you where anything in his home is.
Cal is fiercely loving to the people he lets into his life and would go to the ends of the earth for them. If you win him over, expect to receive lots of gifts, typically small trinkets that remind him of that person. He, however, does not like accepting gifts as it makes him feel awkward. If he could do anything with his life, he would move into the country and live on a farm where he could grow his own crops and raise animals, however, for now he has made a small garden on the balcony of his apartment where he grows tomatoes, beans, zucchini, and peas, along with 15 types of herbs. His apartment is very messy, but not dirty and if you ask he would tell you where anything in his home is.
History
Callahan Franco Witt, who would come to be known as Cal, was born on August 8th, 1999 to 15 year old Elizabeth Conner. Elizabeth did not want to be a mother, so when she found out that she was pregnant, she immediately jumped to find an adoptive family for her unborn child. She came across the profile of Niall and Celeste Witt, a couple in their thirties who were both teachers. Upon finding out they had been chosen, the Witt family not only opened their arms to their new baby, but also to his mom. During her pregnancy, The Witt family furnished a room for Elizabeth who had been kicked out of her home and was living in a shelter and cared for her like she was their daughter. This would not change even after Cal was born as the family wanted to make Elizabeth as involved in Cal’s life as she wanted to be and she chose to be very involved- even helping pick out Cal's name. Growing up, His parents were always honest with him about who his birth mother was and never mislead him about the situation, but always saw Elizabeth as a sister rather than a mom.
While this was an interesting family constellation, it would only get more interesting when 13 years after the birth of Cal, Niall would come out, changing her name to Camilla, leaving Cam the only man in the house. Aside from these things, Cal grew up relatively normal.
From the beginning his parents noticed that he was a bit peculiar, but thought nothing of it, after all he was young. But as he aged, he struggled in school and began having temper outbursts and his parents chose to enrol him in counselling. He was quickly diagnosed with ADHD and after extensive research and consultation, he was started on medication, which changed his life for the better. As long as he remembered to take them that is. At 17, he graduated from high school with honors and started attending Astaria College to study Biology as he wants to be an environmental scientist.
At first, Cal didn’t realize that he even had powers, he thought that everyone could see what others were dreaming, but the pieces fell into place when he mistakenly began placing dreams into his parents. He didn’t intend to, but he would project his wants and wishes to his parents, only realizing that something was happening when his parents began relaying their dreams to each other at the dinner table and Cal realized that he was causing them. He chose to not say anything to his family and instead taught himself to use his powers, which took a lot of trial and error, but he would say that he is comfortable with where he is. At least, that’s what he tells himself, but, deep down, he wonders what he is truly capable of.
While this was an interesting family constellation, it would only get more interesting when 13 years after the birth of Cal, Niall would come out, changing her name to Camilla, leaving Cam the only man in the house. Aside from these things, Cal grew up relatively normal.
From the beginning his parents noticed that he was a bit peculiar, but thought nothing of it, after all he was young. But as he aged, he struggled in school and began having temper outbursts and his parents chose to enrol him in counselling. He was quickly diagnosed with ADHD and after extensive research and consultation, he was started on medication, which changed his life for the better. As long as he remembered to take them that is. At 17, he graduated from high school with honors and started attending Astaria College to study Biology as he wants to be an environmental scientist.
At first, Cal didn’t realize that he even had powers, he thought that everyone could see what others were dreaming, but the pieces fell into place when he mistakenly began placing dreams into his parents. He didn’t intend to, but he would project his wants and wishes to his parents, only realizing that something was happening when his parents began relaying their dreams to each other at the dinner table and Cal realized that he was causing them. He chose to not say anything to his family and instead taught himself to use his powers, which took a lot of trial and error, but he would say that he is comfortable with where he is. At least, that’s what he tells himself, but, deep down, he wonders what he is truly capable of.
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