Silas Oneirus

SILAS ONEIRUS

 

 NICKNAME ?

 AGE 17
 BIRTHDAY September 17

 SPECIES Human
 ETHNICITY ?

 GENDER Male
 SEXUALITY Pansexual

 DORM Pyxis

 POWER Silas has an ability called reality warping. He can change or manipulate reality itself within the minds of people. After spending many hours of practice, he finally possesses the ability to project sounds into these alternate realities as well as visual images. When it comes to taste, touch, and smell, he still has much to work on. The visions people have when around him are vastly limitless as Silas can show people anything he wants since, for him, it's not much more than a special daydream. His powers are unintentionally triggered whenever he's in a panic, hurt, scared or when under a good deal of stress. Those who had been around him when he was upset swore that it started to rain, thunder, and other times people claimed that they were in total darkness until something in Silas changed. 

 APPEARANCE Silas has hair the color of white christmas lights and eyes the color of pine trees. His family gifted him with an average height of about 5'8 and a thin build, making him around 170lbs. His face is round and smooth, save for a small scar across his bottom lip that he got from falling down a flight of stairs when he was 12. Starting at his shoulders and moving down to his feet, he is covered in blonde freckles. He likes to think of them as constellations. Since physical activities don't seem to agree with him, he don't possess the strongest, leanest body. His arms are long and thin with not much muscle to them but his legs are a bit stronger. His chest is flat and lacks the little squares that people call "abs". Instead of nice little squares, he has a small rainbow flag tattooed near his right shoulder.

Although he wears a colorful display of blacks and grey most of the time, there will always be something of color in his outfit. Most of the time his shoes are brightly colored, maybe a bracelet instead, or a necklace on the off occasion. 

 PERSONALITY Silas is quiet at first glance, but like many other people he warms up to someone and will do that with anyone who approaches him. He is an open book when it's about himself, but won't tell you anyone else's secrets if asked. He isn't shy about his dads though, unlike some kids with gay parents he doesn't mind it at all. Having grown up with two dads allowed him to realize that he too was open to a relationship with anyone, therefor making Silas pansexual. He has been in relationships with both males and females but doesn't think one better than the other. 

Even though Silas detests sports, he likes to run on occasion (since running doesn't count as a sport). He was part of a running club in middle school and took a liking to it (he also met his first boyfriend on the running club). Other than running, Silas loves to learn. Although he didn't try very hard in school, he still enjoyed listening to teachers and would go directly to a library after school to keep learning. 

 WEAKNESSES He can't make it go away very quickly yet, so if a jungle is what you see... it's what you get. Holding grudges against people, he will crumble a little bit if he's embarrassed, being in a large crowd gives him slight migraines and he can't stand most electronics. So he prefers to type on typewriters and send letters, he doesn't watch TV often and he doesn't own a phone. 

 STRENGTHS Silas has gotten much better at controlling what it is that you see when he uses his power. Remembering things (people, names, numbers, combinations etc). He's always had a good memory but as he got older and memory become important to school work and things at home, his remembering skills got better. Hiding feelings from other people has been his key to success since the day he could walk and talk. Patience with pretty much anything/anyone, having lived with parents who eventually told the truth always had him on his toes waiting for answers. He has just started to be a bit more social, trying to meet people like himself was a goal but on the mainland there really isn't anyone who can understand him and his powers.

 HISTORY Born on September 17, 1994 he came before his 'younger' twin sister on the way out. He was almost the exact same size and weight as her sister, Lena. His name, Silas, came from their birth mothers only request about the two of them. Liking the name anyways, they used it. 

Not being that poor they lived in a nice house on a farm, not too far from civilization though. The closest town/mall was only a 20 minute drive. It was a two story house, and had a good sized barn in the backyard.

His fathers were very different in character and the four of them together make a very dysfunctional family. Dad was a drinker, not totally addicted but when he was angry or stressed he drank, a lot. Pa always worked, flying commercial planes all over the country and sometimes out of it. With his one dad gone so much it made the other lonely, desperate even. He began cheating on Pa while Silas and Lena were in the third grade. The men coming into the house never being the same, but the secret still the same every time. Every time one dad came home the other would leave, ashamed of what he'd done. But never enough to stop. 

Pa figured it out the next year when he came home early from a cancelled trip and saw the other men dad was bringing home. They stayed together for the sake of the children, but it wasn't good for them anyways. This was when Silas caught Lena making red rivers on her skin in the bathroom, her arms were covered with markings. Silas said nothing.

Silas's powers started only a few weeks after this when dad was yelling at him for not doing his chores when asked. After he stormed off, he took solitude in the barn where he sat quietly until he looked up and saw it raining all over. Nothing in the barn was wet. He asked Lena if anything like that had happened to her but she only shook her head. After skipping class to sit in the janitors closet to play around with this newly discovered power, Silas decided that he was insane and needed to turn himself into an asylum. Of course, he never did.

School was no problem for either of them all the way through middle school, they had a few friends and maintained good grades. Silas played tennis, ran and read thick books in his free time while Lena played volleyball and soccer all throughout the summer and during the school year. 

Silas told his dads about the strange powers he had and soon after he demonstrated them to both of them they found Foresta as an option to get him outta there.

Silas has a twin sister named Lena who was born after him. He has two fathers, he calls one Pa and the other Dad. 

 IN CHARACTER SAMPLE With long strides, Silas nervously walked away from the place where he had promised to meet them. Fading figures waved to him as distances grew bigger, longer, farther. A heavy bag clung to his back, slick with a thin layer of sweat. All his other belongings were already in his dorm, he had just needed to say goodbye to Lena and his dad but now that, that was over there was only an uncertain fate ahead of him now. No turning back.

Turning off the path Silas made his way a small oak tree and sat on his bum, knees pulled tightly up to his chest. Not entirely thrilled that he would be living here for a while but it didn't seem too bad. The campus was vast and likely full of places to hide away, so the possibility of enjoying his stay wasn't impossible. Having heard stories on the way here of strange sightings was just another reminder that this place was for kids like him and even that little thought made him feel better about the decision to come here. No one had forced him to move far away from the few humans he enjoyed spending time with, this had all been his choice.

With a swift yank, his backpack slid off of sore shoulders and out came his new journal. Every page blank save for the back of the cardboard cover (where Lena had doodled a grim reaper) he had yet to begin this project of his. The rights and wrongs of his days spent at Foresta would slowly make their way onto the white pages. The journal was a place to write down tactics, techniques, and what his abilities had taught him.

Wrapping up the first entry, Silas stretched out tight limbs. Sighing slowly, he closed his eyes and imagined his bedroom back home. The black pillow behind a heavy skull, the window just beyond a cozy bed and posters of violent music making on the walls to his right. When he opened his eyes, that was exactly what he saw. Grinning at the sight, he tried to imagine something different, but it took a while, maybe ten minutes or so, before it all faded into normalness Then he saw a busy street with people everywhere, tall buildings, and hundreds of black briefcases. This was what he imagined New York to look like, but he never thought he would go there. Not unless Foresta had field trips.

Wiping away the vision after the ten minutes, he put away his journal and slipped a pencil into one of the backpacks pockets. Rising like the morning sun after a long and dreadful night, Silas began a new page in his life with hopeful strides toward a successful future.

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