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⌽personality⌽
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Many find repitiveness to be mentally oppressive. The same tasks and the same patterns, repeated day after day and week after week, wear down on them. They need change, and excitement, and new experiences. Not Hedieh. For her, she only wishes the world would stop moving so fast. Stability is important to her. In patterns she finds peace. And she applies this need for stability to nearly every aspect of her life. Around others, she is a quiet observer. A decoration or backdrop to the group. Not antisocial by any means, and isn't afraid to join in when she has something to say, but she rarely leads a conversation. She doesn't take the reigns in her own hands, and prefers to be cautious and deliberate with what she does choose to say. She's good at reading people to get a sense for what they'll find interesting or funny, and what they'll find offensive. All so she can leave a positive impression without drawing too much attention, or accidentally saying something to cause a rift.
Her humour, when she's comfortable enough to show it, is often sarcastic or ironic. Self-deprecating around those more sensitive, friendly mocking around those who enjoy good-natured banter. Her grins are lopsided and wry, the smile of someone entertained by a joke only they understand. Her patience is nearly endless, preferring to roll with the punches and wait things out rather than cause a confrontation.
While Hedieh is quick to try and help a friend, she's afraid of long term commitments. Both of others coming to rely on her, and of her having to rely on others. She's at her best when she can step in unexpectly, offer a moment of help, and then step back once more.
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⌽biography⌽
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School was perhaps the happiest part of Hedieh's life. Organized and scheduled, it was a litany of familiar faces and familiar tasks. It was a gentle stream Hedieh could close her eyes in and let herself be carried along. Comfortable enough that she could introduce change and experimentation at a controlled rate; make new friends, pick up new hobbies. She was a good student. Her grades were average, but they were consistent. She was quiet and respectful, but at the same time was well liked for her intermittent but well-timed and well-executed jokes. She picked up track and field, participating in the endurance races. Partway through high school, she also picked up a job as a housecleaner at a hotel. Part time work on the weekends, difficult but not overwhelming. Yet life, inevitably and unfortunately, changes.
Graduation, when it came, left her listless. Time started to melt away from her without the usual schedule of school to provide structure. Upgrading to full time work helped to alleviate that, but then a divorce between her parents sent her off balance once more. Rather than forcing herself to choose a parent to live with, she moved out on her own into a small apartment on the outskirts of downtown Millennium City, as close to her work as she could afford. During the transition, from live-at-home student to independent woman, Hedieh began to lose track of her friends. Failed to learn how to keep in touch without the aid of seeing them every day at school, and by the time she did, she struggled to maintain even sparse contact with a select few. And while she stresses over losing even those, doubting her ability to go out and make new friends to replace the lost, part of her is relieved at the lowered obligations. The potential to fade away from everyone and live in a self-enclosed bubble.
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⌽powers⌽
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Hedieh has the ability to turn herself, or parts of herself if she chooses, completely intangible. Able to pass through walls, people, and even light, rendering her all but invisible. However, there are annoyances. With light passing through her when intangible, if she wants to see, she has to leave at least part of her eyes visible. Similarly, learned quite quickly after discovering her powers, she often needs to leave the soles of her feet tangible, lest she fall through the floor. Or worse, through the ground, eternally trapped beneath the Earth's surface. Because of this, there's a limit to how thick a wall she can pass through, with that limit being what she can comfortably cover in a single stride. Letting her always leave one foot solid so that she can keep herself grounded.
At first, her powers were limited purely to her own body, but with some practice she's been able to include clothes and small objects. From what she's gathered, it's less about weight or even volume, and more about distance from her body. For example, even once she'd gotten the hang of turning her clothes intangible with her, she lost a couple of loose jackets to them flapping out behind her as she passed through walls, causing her to lose control of the hem as it moved away from her, and becoming permanently stuck in the wall.
There's also the minor side effect of whenever she uses her power, a snapping noise can be heard, as air either rushes in to fill the vacuum left behind, or is shoved back as her body becomes tangible once again.