Cole Price

[Cole Price]

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Blind, Funny, Loyal

Full Name: Cole August Price
Alias: Cole
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 01/17/1996
Ethnicity: Half Irish, Half British
Religion: N/A
Orientation: Straight
Occupation: Student

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Face Claim: Shelly, Randy

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Power: Telepathy- Cole is able to read other people’s minds. At first it is a complete uncontrollable event, normally brought on by strong emotions, such as anger, fear, or even happiness, by either Cole or someone around him. Once he forms a bound with someone the ability to read their mind becomes stronger and maybe, though he hasn’t gotten there quite yet, he maybe be able to control when he uses his power on such people.

Power/Personality Relation: Cole is very kind and all he wants to do is help people. Of course people seem more determined to help him. He wants to be either be a cop or in the military but being blind means that no one would want him. This leads him with an internal conflict, how to help people and be accepted. The power to read people’s minds gives him an edge in how to help others. At the same time Cole finds himself hiding the fact that he feel paranoid, not being able to see people and all those little cues in their bodies about how they really feel about something. Telepathy gives him something better.

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Personality: Cole is a very strong willed person and will get what he wants. He doesn’t let the fact that he is blind get in the way of anything. He will do anything and everything no matter how difficult it is with out his sight, such as playing football (soccer), or other such sports. However because he can’t be the best and no matter how much he wants something not everyone is willing to give it to him, he finds himself shunned from teams and instead is forced to do more appropriate tasks such as reading and learning. This stigma has put the geek label on Cole, as he works his way up in school. And though there is no reason to not want to be a geek Cole has tries his hardest to not live up to such titles.

Cole is one of the funniest guys around. He loves to make everything a joke, especially things related to his blindness. It an easy way to make things better. He is not shy by any meanings of the word and would rather through himself in a large room of people he doesn’t know then sit alone. Of course being blind people would expect new things to scare him, new places and people, that he can’t see. But Cole loved the adventure saying that it makes him feel alive. He’ll never know what color is or how beautiful the world can be but he isn’t going to let that get him done. Live for the moment.

Of course underneath the smiling exterior who doesn’t give a care what other think is an insecure boy who doesn’t know what to do. Deep down he really does see his disability as bad and even curses that he has it. Wishing that he could just be normal. Under all the jokes is a small part if him that wonders what people really think. Wonders if they are only his friends because they pity him, or thing that he needs help. Which causes the biggest flaw he could have, the fear of help. He knows that there are some things that realistically he can’t do by himself. But because he wants to be normal, and doesn’t want to seem weak he will refuse to ask for help, and if anyone tries to help him anyway he will refuse even more. Even to the point in which he could get hurt he wont back down from his pride. Along the same lines comes the wish to do things that might be dangers to him, though safe to others. He doesn’t care that he can’t see, he’ll go off into the worst part of town alone.

Likes:

• Doing things by himself
  
• Reading, and writing
  
• Learning
  
• The rain
  
• People watching
  
• Helping people
  

Fears:

• Help
  
• What people think
  
• Loud noses
  
• Dying alone
  
• Failing
  

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History: Sue Hart was a young Irish college student when she meet James Price, a slightly older grade school math teacher. The two hit it off right away and after dating for two years they married. Their lives went on for another two years like normal while Sue finished her degree at a London University. Along right after graduation she become pregnant and the two couldn’t be more happy. Things were great up to when Sue went into labor a month early. Though despite everyone’s fears that the baby was to underdeveloped Cole Price came into the world a seemingly healthy baby. However because he was small the hospital kept a few days to make sure everything was okay. In this time they found that though he was completely healthy his eyes weren’t following movement. This alarmed the doctors who kept the infant another couple of weeks to make sure there was no brain damage.

After a number of tests it was soon found that Cole had been born blind. At first Sue and James found the news devastating not know what they were going to do. But after taking the small baby home they realized that he was no different than anyone else and that they would get through it. The first couple years of Coles life went with out any problems. Though Sue had become a bit over protective of her child she tried to let him have as much freedom as any other toddler. Cole himself was just full of energy, he started walking a little earlier then most and even with out sight he would find ways of making his way from one room to the next, just enjoying moving.

When Cole got closer and closer to five Sue and James began to give their son regular lessons on reading brail and as well as other beginning skills he would need for school. Then when he reached five they sent him to a school for the blind where with his beginning knowledge took off in his studies. Around this same time Cole began to demanded that he get to do things normal kids got to and in second grade he began playing on a neighborhood soccer team. For the first few months things went okay, Cole sitting out most the games and even when he was put in he never got the ball. Once he was able to score a point but that didn’t convince the other kids that he could play, and in truth he couldn’t. He was forced to “quit” the team later that year. But that didn’t stop him from playing with his dad in the back yard and hoping one day to be able to rejoin the team.

By the time Cole was nine he had skipped one grade and already going into middle school. He knew that his mother wanted to place him in another school of the blind but he refused, saying that he wanted to go to the school his dad worked at. After much argument James convinced his wife that he would look after Cole and so the blind child for the first time entered a normal school. It was hard at first, but Cole had great people skills and with his jokes and charm he was able to make friends with everyone. However his may group of friends were the “nerds”, and Cole spent much of his time after school with the “math-letes” and his father. This is where he meet his best friend Roger and the two of them became unrepeatable. After leading the math-letes to victory that year him and Roger decided to work extra hard and after another year they skipped a grade and headed off to High school together.

Again Cole found life even harder, this time not having his father to help him in this new school. Once or twice he considered going back to the school for the blind but always remembered that he had Roger were in this together, him being two years younger than everyone, and Roger one. Much like in Middle school Cole made friends easily with everyone and even was considered the class clown in some classes. Learning came easy to him having spent his whole life doing it and now he was ready to try sports again. His freshmen year he tried out for soccer and didn’t get on. This didn’t stop him though and the next year he tried out for everything else but again was denied, even the track team didn’t want him. Crushed he joined a soccer team for the blind and though not happy he knew it was the best he was going to get.

Then when he was fifteen he had Roger had gone to the movies. The movie got out late, but instead of calling a parent to go and get them they decided to walk the two miles home. They had made it half way there when they were stopped but a group of thugs. The two tried to talk their way out of anything, giving all the money they had over but that didn’t stop the men. They began to beat the two up. But since Cole was blind the decided to “spare” him. Instead they continued to beat Roger, beat him until he was dead. And all Cole could do was listen, unable to help. After the men left Cole was able to call the police, but they got there to late. Unable to give a description of the attackers the men got away.

It was then that Cole finally realized what he wanted to do in life for the first time. He asked about getting into the military but was told he couldn’t because of his vision, or lack there of. He couldn’t even be some sort of computer lackey. He then thought of the police, but again after talking to an officer he said that he couldn’t join. Even after the rejection he decided that he wasn’t going to give up and one day would join on or the other. Then one day he took a walk, something he started to do frequently after Roger’s death no matter how much his mother hates it, when it started to rain. At first it was like any other story but it got worse and worse and soon hail began to fall. Unable to find cover Cole suddenly felt one of the hail stones hit his head, knocking him out. When he woke up in the hospital the next day he was no longer normal, but could read people’s minds. Now at sixteen years old he’s not only a senior in high school, and a blind child trying to get into a field that doesn’t want him, but he’s trying to deal with this new gift, though sometimes it seems more like a curse.

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PLAYER: Reid
ROLEPLAYING EXPERIENCE: 7 years -ish
FOUND FROM: Ad on Positively Criminal

[Evan Summers]

Approved ^.^
let's hope you stick around xD