Echoes

Player: @Drea

NAME: Valentine Moreno
KNOWN ALIASES: Echoes, Val
BIRTHPLACE: Crestview, FL
AGE: 25
OCCUPATION: Thief
STATUS: partners with The Last Song

POWERS

• ECHO
  

Able to echo sounds back to varying degrees

• MIMICRY

Able to store and reuse sounds and voices in a perfect mimicry of tone.

🔊 MUSIC

Valentine Moreno was born mute and partially deaf, a thing that her single mother had to face alone when her father ditched them both when she wasn't even a year old. Life is hard enough for a child growing up in this world without having to deal with other stigmas. Her mother, Carla, tried her very best to give her daughter all the best care and help she could in dealing with all of this. A hearing aid helped somewhat in her being able to hear in class, but in the end she was struggling overall and needed special help. She started attending a special school for disparate youth that was meant for girls in trouble, but it gave her more personalized, one-on-one teaching and allowed Valentine to start excelling in her studies, rather than stumbling every step of the way.

Val was in high school when her mutation hit — it wasn't a mass of new power or the ability to shape worlds, but for her it was life-changing — and suddenly she could hear perfectly and, though she still couldn't talk, her mother found out that she could parrot back phrases that Carla had said with absolute precision; right down to the tone and voice. Valentine didn't have a voice of her own, but now she had the ability to hear and store every bit of other people's phrasing in a mental bank and use them in a pinch; it turns out most people get a little freaked out if your voice changes with every response or you sound exactly like them.

She chooses, still, to mostly remain _silent, but has learned that her gifts come with a sort of mental ability (both in the fact that it worries people and the fact that her simulated, mocking-bird voice causes actual damage to the mind at times). The echoes that she creates of other sounds are also able to be modified by her, increasing in volume, pitch, or otherwise. All in all, she wasn't much different from the girl she was growing up in Crestview, but the move to Paragon as an adult saw her seeing things in a new light.

Where her story ends up has yet to be discovered, but she has chosen to take on the moniker Echoes and face the city in a way she never could before.

... and she's not going to take anything lying down anymore, now that she has real power.

Her powers were unexplored and undeveloped for a long time, but eventually Valentine got a hold of them and now feels confident in using them.

ECHO

Rather than repeating someone perfectly, this one is more like a reverberation of sound waves right back at someone when necessary. It's something Valentine has to focus on to get right but she has learned, with time, to wield it with precision. Her echo is devastating and causes various effects on the mind and body.

MIMICRY

Like a mockingbird, Valentine can mimic the sounds of others. She has no voice of her own, but over the years (and continuously throughout her life) she has managed to store a library of other voices and phrases that she can use. The power of her voice when she's doing mimicry is bar none the most powerful of her abilities. Nothing messes with a person like hearing their own voice say things they'd never thought of.

SUPERIOR HEARING

Being partially deaf all her life had always felt like a huge hindrance, but her mutation made sure that she could hear everything. Aided by her silence, she can hear from great distances with clarity and often uses this to scout buildings before going in; it also helps her to tuck away things that she probably shouldn't know to be used against whomever is inside to various effect.

HYPNOTIC GAZE

While a power that is less powerful than most of her others, her eyes began to glow when her mutation hit with a swirling, gold vortex of power — shades of gold, bronze, and some silver flecks shift like a galaxy within her gaze — and has the power to hypnotize if she focuses and maintains eye contact.