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PETVIII - Benjamin 'Paradox' Westley

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Name: Benjamin
Aliases: Paradox
Alignment: Oracion
Gender: Male
Race: Super
Rank: U|B|C
Age: 25
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 165 lbs
Blood Type: 0

Distinctive Features:
-Really red hair

Personality:

Reliable | Opinionated | Sarcastic | Independent | Smart

Likes:
-Alcohol
-Animals
-Writing
-His sister's image wandering in his dreams
-Sleeping pills

Dislikes
-Guilt
-Being Helpless
-Nightmares
-Being close to people (not really, but he's afraid that anyone close to him will end up like his sister)

Biography:

Ben and his twin sister, Ophelia, were born in Wastelands, where their led relatively simple life with their parents. Both of the children were gifted with the powers to manipulate people's dreams.

Their life in the wastelands settlement wasn't easy, but they were happy. Everything changed around the time twins were 11, when they started discovering their powers. They dreamt together, always pushing their powers further and further, creating more fantastical creatures every night.

One day, their settlement was attacked, and even though mercenaries hired to protect it, chased the bandits away, not everyone survived. For days after attack Ben and Ophelia were tormented by vivid nightmares, full of large, vicious creatures. During one of those nights Ophelia was attacked by one of the creatures. It tore her, limb from limb. She died and Ben couldn't do nothing more than watch. After he woke up, he found Ophelia liking on bed, unseeing. Her young mind couldn't have dealt with the amount of pain and she succumbed to state similar to coma. The doctors from settlement were unable to help.

Twin's parents decided to try their luck in fiding help for Ophelia in Petrichor. Thier were settled in Petrichor's middle ring, where both their parents found job. Mother as medical nurse and father as teacher. Despite transfering Ophelia to hospital no one was able to help her, and when care for her became too expensive, their mother decided to stay at home and care for her herself.

Ben knew that Ophelia's state had something to do with her being locked in the dream, but he couldn't access her sleeping mind anymore, desite the fact, that her visage appeared in his dreams almost every night.

With time Ophelia's state improved, she is now able to eat with little help, and walk around if someone leads her, but her mind remains somewhere far away.

During next years Ben and his parents grew apart. It was never said, but they blame him for his sister's fate. When Ben turned 18 he left his parent's home. Now he lives in small apartament in ghetto. In order to survive he maintains couple of odd jobs, sometimes working as shop assisstant sometimes as anything else. Unknown to him, his parents always send him some money, feeling guilty for estraging their son.

Powers

Power Group: Dream Manipulation
Power ladder:

>Dream Walking
Ben can dream walk in his own, or subject's dreams. Subject whose dreams Ben visits must be asleep and Ben has to touch them or has to have something that belonged to the subject. In between dreams he must return to his own consciousness.

-Nightmare Inducement
Ben can create nightmares in subject's dreams

-Dream – World Manipulation
Ben can control the reality of the dream world, both by creating things/creatures in subject's dreams and also by changing the laws of the dream world itself. In order to create something he has to have seen it and understand the basics of it's functionality in order for it to be believable.

-Dream Imprisonment
Ben can imprison the subject in his/her dream, but it's hard for him to prevent the dream from falling apart for a prolonged time. If subject becomes aware of the fact that their are in a dream, they can fight it in order to get out. It is nearly impossible to imprison a person with stronger mind than Ben's



Negative Effects

-The subject whose dreams he's entering must be asleep
-His powers don't work on people who have reality anchor, are not dreaming/unable to dream. Illusionists are more prone to sensing him, and kicking him out of their dream, and other dream manipulators are automatically aware of his presence in their dream.
-His body dusring dream walking is as defensless as any other person while alseep.
-The stronger the mind he's entering, the harder it's for Ben to stay in the dream
-Ben isn't able to control some aspects of his own dreams image of his sister
-Forcing Ben out of the dream, by waking oneself up or simply by throwing him out of it results in severe migrenes on Ben's part
-Dying in a dream, like every other sudden termination of dream walking, results in severe migraines and general weariness. It can also result in panic attacks.
-Any pain resulting from damages taken in dream persists in real world. Taking huge amount of damage at once may result in Ben going into shock and subsequently send him into a state his sister is, or it may lead to permanent brain damage.
-After prolonged dream walking in subject's dreams he may experience minor hallucinations linked to the dreams of subject whose dream he was in. It's possible for him to lose touch with reality if spending too much time in a dream. Ben never experienced this, but he estimates that for it to happen he'd have to spend in a dream around 2 hours of real time.
-Prolonged dream walking in someone else's dreams actually results in exhaustion on Ben's part


Additional Information

-He experiences periods of insomnia
-If he feels like losing control he goes to bar and drinks himself to oblivion dreamless sleep
-He loves animals
-Image of his sister that appeares in his dream is unresponsive. She changes her appearance with her growing up, but besides that, she just wanders around, not reacting to being touched or spoken to.
-He likes to visit children's dreams, both to protect them from nightmares and to enjoy their happy, colorful dreams
-Ben visits his sister at least once a month, the visits always make him feel depressed
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marbellisima's avatar
His powers sounded very interesting! His background though, poor thing!