POWER DESCRIPTIONS

Vitória's empathy is fairly strong but less than well controlled. Without any real training, she has effectively created an empathic feedback loop as an attempt at a shield. It does keep her from projecting or receiving too much, but it also causes her own emotions to be amplified. With that feedback loop in place she can only pick up the strongest emotions of people close enough to touch and can project about as far to people with some empathic sensitivity.

Her wound transferal abilities are also rather rough. In fact, she isn't even aware of them yet. She can take upon herself the pain and injuries of another but is then stuck with them herself, of course. She might heal a tad faster than usual, but it isn't anything extraordinary. She has taken pain into her self for others before but assumed it was entirely an empathic thing with psychosomatic effects on both her and the injured person. After all, they didn't heal any faster and she didn't actually have their injury; she just felt it for them for a while.

APPEARANCE

Vitória is built along tall, willowy lines.  Her mixed ancestry has gifted her with the deep brown skin and green eye color of her father, as well as some of his height.  From her mother's side she gets her heart shaped face, doe-like eyes, and delicate build. It all combines into making her a lovely, rather exotic, young woman.  Hard, and varied, work for many years has left her well toned with lean muscle.  It has also left her hands rather rough and calloused but she keeps them moisturized so they don't snag or crack.

She tends to dress sensibly and prefers earthy colors and jewel tones.  The lines of her clothes tend to be modest and simple, but flattering none the less.  Although she isn't especially voluptuous, she does have a nice enough figure; though she has very little body fat which rather dampens the softness of her body.

PERSONALITY

Selfless and self-loathing, passionate yet passive. Some of Tori's traits go hand in hand with each other, while others seem like contradictions.  A life like hers is bound to leave its mark, however. Who she might have been was irrevocably shaped into the person she ultimately became. 

She is a person of strong emotions who is afraid to fully express them.  That fear is as intrinsic a part of her now as the emotions, making her indecisive and anxious about almost anything. At the same time, though, she is flexible enough to adjust to things going in ways she doesn't expect. She may not always handle them well but she keeps trying; keeps fighting to survive.  

BIOGRAPHY

TRIGGER WARNING (child abuse, rape, incest)

Vitória’s history is not a pleasant one. She was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro in a lower-middle class family. She was a quiet girl, but smart and found solace in books whenever she could even from a young age. And solace she sorely needed for her father was less than nurturing, to say the least. While he never laid a hand on her as a child, he had no such compunctions when it came to his wife. Her older brother mimicked their father’s behavior on Vitória as she grew older and the young girl developed a hatred and fear of men from a very early age. But that was not the worst of it.

As she grew into puberty, her father’s attentions usurped her brother’s. He would come to her bed at night, put her on the floor, and rape her, threatening to kill her mother if the young girl resisted, made a sound, or tried to get help or tell anyone. Although the woman had never been able shield her daughter from her male relatives, she was the only member of her family to show her any real tenderness and anything even resembling love. The abuse went on for years until Vitória’s belly began to swell. She was pulled from school for “chronic illness” and kept virtually under house arrest for months until she had delivered her misbegotten daughter. For all that it was not the child’s fault, the young mother wanted nothing to do with her, but then, that suited her father just fine.

He decreed that the child should be raised as his and his wife’s, a plan he had in mind from the beginning, for his wife had also been confined to the house. Thus, Vitória had to contend with post-partum depression while living with the product of her abuse, not to mention her abuser himself and continued abuse. In that time, however, her empathic abilities awoke and, uncontrolled as they were, when she wasn't projecting her own misery she was bombarded with the vile feelings of her father.  It was almost enough to drive her and her whole family to suicide. When she reached eighteen she moved out of the toxic house, preferring to live in a ramshackle apartment with five strangers to living any longer under that roof.

For four years she worked her fingers to the bone, scraping and hoarding her meager funds until she had enough money for a plane ticket. Her empathy was under something like control but it was more that it was under lock and key. If she didn't open up she could keep the worst at bay. She’d have liked to flee to the other side of the globe; escape her shame and trauma in a place no one would have any way of knowing about it; but that was well out of her reach. Instead, she found employment at Aurora Academy.  She knew nothing about the place but was assured by the woman who approached her that it was a wonderful place to work.  And so she agreed.  After all, it paid a good wage and was far, far away from the city of her birth.

But her trials were not yet over, for cruelty is not bound only to the males of the species. Only a few months into her relocation, Tori's friendship with the same woman who had initially recruited her to the school deepened into a romantic relationship.  Things, she felt, just might be looking up.  But the longer they were together the more anomalies appeared and before too long Tori was feeling more than a little uncomfortable in the relationship. She decided to break things off, hoping to do it amiably, but such was not to be. The other woman sprung the worst news possible on her: she knew about her past; every sordid detail; and if Vitória didn't want everyone else to know about it too she would stay in the relationship and say nothing. 

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