Aislinn Graves

Chesterfield Act Registry of the Expressive Database

File #28 May 2018 23:48

Summary

Name Aislinn Graves Aliases Status Registered Expressive (Class C Kinetic) (COM) Ability Agrokinesis Gender Female Birthdate October 29, 1979 Age 38 Height 5'6" Build Slender Eyes Hazel Hair Brown Residence Employment Raytech Parents Richard Graves Alicia Graves Siblings Elspeth Graves Marital Status Single Children None First Scene Looking For Good Work Last Scene Dragonslayer, Part VII Profile A botanist and biologist from Scotland, Aislinn has left her life and family back home behind in search of less oppressive atmosphere and good work to do. In truth, this had been cover for coming to the United States to work for Shedda Dinu, in the hopes of finding a means of helping her comatose sister, Elspeth. Unfortunately, before she could make any sort of breakthrough, Shedda Dinu and it's front, Praxis Heavy Industries, were shut down, resulting in her arrest by Wolfhound. She is currently held at Riker's Island.

portrayed by Tegan Quin

Background

Aislinn (ASH-lynn) Graves was born in rural Scotland to Richard and Alicia Graves, one of two twin girls. Her early life was simple, her mom a teacher and her father a businessman often away from home in Edinburgh. Unlike her sister, Aislinn was an outspoken child, a pure extrovert who never had problems making friends, making herself heard, or getting her point across.

She excelled in her school years, graduating near the top of her class in high school, before moving to attend university in England, followed by taking her studies to nursing school. She had just graduated and begun work as an RN when the events of Midtown 2006 happened in New York City in the United States - and that was when everything began to change for her.

Aislinn had always had a bit of a green thumb. Ever since she was young taking care of plants, tending to a garden, and watching over the nature around her secluded home had been a hobby of hers. She relished her time in the outdoors and even helped her father build a little greenhouse when she was in her teens for her on their family property. It wasn't until 2007 that she began to realise that her love of nature was so much more.

It was after she moved to Edinburgh to work as a nurse that she began to realise that she could "understand" the wants and needs of the plants in her garden - she could talk to them, and innately understand their responses and tend to them accordingly. They seemed to grow faster than any of her neighbor's plants, bloom brighter.

But it wasn't until she one day decided she needed to remove some ivy hanging over her patio garden and into a neighbor's window in her flat that she realised she was special - and when she was able to will it to snakke backup and wind up her window without actually having to touch her, she began to understand her love of nature so much more.

She continued to work as a nurse while nurturing her abilities further and further, moving to a building where she could dedicate more space her garden and her plants, and continuously work on pushing and growing her ability and her influence over plantlife. As she found the limitations of her ability and pushed further and further past them, she became more and more enamored with her work.

Years were spent keeping her ability to herself - hidden from friends, family, and anyone else who might pry into what she could do. Questions about the state of her garden were typically met with deflection and insistence that it was simple love and care that allowed everything in her possession to flourish and grow to the point it had. She largely paid little attention to the goings on in the United States, choosing instead to stay focused on her own work and growth.

It was just before the Civil War broke out in the US - just as regulations in the EU were starting to grow more and more stringent - that Aislinn decided to get out ahead of inevitability and registered her ability. It was at the same time that she decided to go back to school, applying to attend the University of Edinburgh College of Science and Engineering, where she was accepted and went on to study with a major in botany and a minor in biology, with the aim of entering into Biochemistry.

As the sanctioning of Evolved individuals in the EU grew more and more oppressive, though, she began to find herself more and more dissatisfied with her place in life. As she worked on thesis and research papers, her dissatisfaction with the events transpiring in the EU began to leak into her papers, as she posed questions about evolution and biological imperative, and how our evolution was no different than that of the rest of nature around us, particularly plantlife that had to grow and adapt to humanity's rise over the ages.

In the end, she was lucky to graduate because of this disposition. Her work almost had her thrown out twice, and much of it went unpublished due to efforts to stem dissent and keep the University in the good graces of the public and the government. When Aislinn finally did graduate with a Masters in Botany, she was immediately thrown into a system of sanctioning and segregation. Her plans for further learning and education were put on hold as the disenfranchised and dissatisfied agrokinetic made plans to expatriate from Scotland, and instead move to the United States where- despite the still settling turmoil and uncertainty hanging over the nation, she was certain she could live and work how she wanted.

Once arriving in the United States, she quickly found herself applying for a position at Raytech Industries, where she was hired almost on the spot do to her educational track record as well as her Evolved ability. She has spent the last year since diligently working on a handful of projects, both professional and personal, all while attending to a personal garden she keeps for herself in Park Slope.

Psych Profile

At her core, Aislinn is an intriguing bundle of contradictions.

Outwardly, she often is a gregarious caring individual, charismatic and thoughtful in her dealings with others. She does not present herself with the arrogance someone might expect from someone who has spent so many years entrenched in academia, nor does she ever hold her knowledge over others, instead seeking to use what she knows to improve others and make life around her better for herself and others. This is a core value that drives everything she does in life for better or worse.

Inwardly, she is an intensely focused individual who feels the burden of her ability, of her life. Her eyes are always forward, focused on the prize at the end of her endeavors. She will do anything she has to to accomplish what she feels is right, even if it isn't what society feels is right. The fact that so many of the efforts, through her papers and thought pieces while she was in school, were stymied has left her with a bitter streak that simmers just under her surface, and drives her to care about little more than the results of her actions, rather than the actions themselves. The ends justify the means, in the end.

When deeply focused she can see distant and dismissive, something she often feels remorse for after the fact - she loves almost everyone around her so long as they don't seek to oppress those like herself, and any harm she brings them can weigh on her heavily.

Though it does seem to play to cliche, Aislinn holds her garden and her plants dear, as though they were beloved pets or maybe even children. Bringing harm to her garden, projects, or other related matters is the quickest way to earn her unending ire. Treating "freeliving" plants and flora poorly is also something she frowns upon.

Evolved Ability

Aislinn's ability is Agrokinesis, or the ability to manipulate plant life in a number of ways. Having had several years to practice and expand upon her ability, the ways she has found to force her will upon the flora of the world seems at times staggering. She can only manipulate living plants - dead plantlife and things derived from plantlife (such as the paper made from trees) are not things she holds dominion over.

Talents

Talents	Effort	Description	Learned From
Floral Communication	Low/Moderate (see below)	AIslinn is able to communicate with plants to a degree, depending on her level of interaction with them. She can "tune herself into" any platlife within a a roughly 30ft radius and mentally communicate with them, providing her impressions that include a plant's thoughts on it's immediate surroundings and what it finds lacking; i.e if the plant finds the location favourable, is too warm or too cold, needs water or sun, or similar basic information. Actively touching and interacting with a plant, however, allows for a more intimate connection that almost feels like normal conversation to her that can include more in depth observations including recent occurrences in the immediate vicinity of the plant she is interacting with. This connection is much more intensive, requiring much more of Aislinn's attention and focus, and can be draining for both her and the plant she is communicating with. As well, plants seem to understand her and react to her voice and presence.	Self Taught
Prehensile Manipulation	Moderate	By reaching out mentally to a plant within 30ft, Aislinn can seize control of plant life and will it to twist and move to her will. Vines can reach other to grab and strangle, branches move to snag and intercept, and other such uses and applications. She cannot, however, force a plant to uproot itself and move - because obviously that would likely kill it.	Self Taught
Biological Catalyst	Low	By virtue of her ability to communicate with plants and her years of study, Aislinn possesses an innate understanding of the biological makeup of plants and other flora. Her knowledge can allow her to catalyze grafts, hybridization, and splicing that might not otherwise be possible in particular combinations of plants, and this is a constant source of her off time experimentation.	Self-Taught
Plant Borne Toxin Immunity	None	Aislinn's ability gives her immunity to toxins and poisons originating from flora, such as Nightshade, allowing her to safely come into contact or injest these without consequence. It does NOT apply to animal borne or synthetic/man made toxins.	Self Taught

Effort Key
None	Requires no effort and is a part of Aislinn's autonomous functions.
Low	Requires minimal effort and concentration, like walking, holding a conversation, or reading.
Moderate	Requires dedicated concentration. Moderate-effort abilities cannot be used while actively fighting or using another talent with an effort of Moderate or higher.
High	Requires undivided concentration. Cannot do anything other than move slowly or talk in short sentences while using a High effort talent and cannot use other talents that have an effort level of Low or higher.

Appendices

I'm Not Your Hero

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Skills

In the years since she came to be with the Ferryman, Robyn's skills and strong suits have shifted considerably.

+ Orator - Aislinn has always had a knack for being an impassioned and charismatic speaker, and the more she gets wound up about something, the more this comes through. Despite the more scientific nature of her learnings, she is a very emotional speaker.

+ Physical Fitness - Several years of worry about the state of things in the EU - particularly in the waker of the collapse of the United States, drove a sort of paranoia into Aislinn that led her to take her physical health very seriously - more as a precaution than anything else. As a result, she is a surprisingly fitter person than she appears at first glance, but likely couldn't keep pace with someone who makes a hobby out keeping in shape.

+ Medical Know-How - Despite her current line of work, Aislinn originally went to school for nursing, and as such has a good baseline of medical knowledge, particularly in carte and base treatment - and she tends to think she has great bedside manner as well.

+ Book Smart - Aislinn fancies herself an incredibly smart individual, though she never seems t o outwardly border on arrogance. Years of schooling and study have left ehr with a breath of knowledge on an innumerable amount of topics, many of which revolve around plants, biology, chemistry, and inventive ways to combine all of them.

- Laser Focus - Aislinn is fantastic at problem solving, troubleshooting, and scientific testing methods. The problem is, once she gets stuck on or focused on something, it becomes the only thing that demands her attention. For better or worse, she tends to be very single minded in the moment and lets the rest of the world around her fall away - but what she can accomplish with that focus can be astounding.