June Shepherd Lê

Chesterfield Act Registry of the Expressive Database

File #28 Jan 2020 02:23

Summary

Name June Shepherd Lê Aliases Status Registered Expressive (Class B/C Chemical) Ability Transmutation Gender Female Birthdate April 12, 2004 Age 16 Height 5'3" Build Skinny Eyes Brown Hair Black Residence Employment Parents Bian Lê Finn Shepherd Siblings Marital Status Children First Scene Girl Scout Cookies Last Scene Profile A young girl on a journey to meet her birth father for the first time.

portrayed by Lana Condor

Background

June is too young to remember a world without Evolved in it. Too young to remember a world that wasn't veiled in panic. Her mother, Bian, ran a pharmacy when she was young, one that supplied Evolved with things they needed under the rug. June grew up at her mother's side, helping people on the run and laying low before she ever understood what any of that meant. Her mother was evolved, too. She had a way of finding things she needed to find. Objects. People. She gave a lot of people bad news in back rooms when they wanted to know where a missing loved one was. That is the only life June has known. Proximity to tragedy. Her mother tried to protect her from the worst of it, but as time went on… as a war broke out, she relied on June's help more. She was only ten when the war ended, but she had helped while her mom stitched up wounds and held dying people's hands. It was a difficult time to live through, but when it was over, June felt… good. Their side won. They'd helped.

But her mother never left the mindset the war had put her in. She packed up her and June and moved them to the smallest town she could find. June never went back to school, her mom avoided anything official or government related. What they did was learn to survive. Her mom worked with a bee keeper and between them, they taught June to fill in the gaps of living more or less off the land. They were just a handful of people who carved a life out of what was left of the US.

Her power manifested shortly after the war, as well, and she was lucky that her mother had also been through a manifestation and could help her. She has very little trouble with controlling her ability under stress thanks to the coping strategies her mother taught her. It became just another chore of the day, practicing her power and finding her limits. It wasn't a bad life.

And then. Visions. Her mother had them and so did she. In one, she saw her father— a man Bian never talked about— in a life where she at last knew him. And he knew her. After that, she and her mother fought about her father constantly. June couldn't stop thinking about him after she'd seen him. Couldn't stop asking questions about him. Her mother wouldn't answer. And that argument sparked dozens of others until not a day went by that they didn't fight about something. Until one day, Bian couldn't find her mother anymore. Couldn't feel out where she was. June's grandparents had always been a constant, and with one gone, Bian knew she had to make her way back to Vietnam to help her own father. And she gave June the option to come… or to seek out her father. Finn Shepherd. That was the first day she heard his name.

Her mother left her an old polaroid of the two of them together with Bian & Finn scribbled on the back. And a map with a red circle telling her where to go.

She said goodbye to her mother, trying not to think it might be forever, and she started her journey toward Providence.

Psych Profile

June is a hopeful person, always trying to see the good in any situation. The world is still a wonder to her, as are the people in it and she very much enjoys learning about new things and people. She lives by her gut instincts and her heart and is young enough that that hasn't led her wrong yet. She's fairly laid-back and able to go with the flow even in unfamiliar situations, able to think on the fly and make snap decisions. But most of the time she's playful and appreciative of the moment she's in.

Evolved Ability

This is the ability to change matter from one thing to another. June is able to turn any physical thing— living or not— into obsidian glass. For anything non-living, the change is permanent, but living things only stay transmuted for an hour. They'll come out of it with aches from the shift, but nothing permanent (unless something gets broken off them while they're in obsidian form). The unfortunate part is that anything living will feel themselves changing, a little bit at a time until it's done. As far as other, related abilities are concerned, when she changes a non-living thing, her obsidian is no different from natural obsidian. But living things she has changed are resistant to being altered by another Expressive.

For June, alterations are all about weight. Something fifteen pounds or lighter (pre-transmutation), she can change instantly and with no concentration as long as the object is within line of sight. She can 'instant change' up to fifty pounds total in a day. But above fifteen pounds, she needs to be able to concentrate to use her power and needs to be able to touch the target. At fifty pounds, she needs one minute without losing concentration. At one hundred, two minutes and so on. She can actively use her power in this form for ten minutes at a time. After hitting this limit, she has to sleep for four uninterrupted hours before being able to use her powers again.

But she also can activate a small field around her— five feet with her at the center— that will change anything under fifteen pounds to obsidian once it hits the field. The field works like a line in the sand, if she reached something through it from the inside it would turn just as much as someone passing something through it from the outside. She can hold the field in place for ten minutes before she needs to rest and recover.

She can push herself beyond these limits, but if she makes her power work faster, she risks burning out her power for at least a week and if she passes her weight limit or distance limit, she will pass out for at least twelve hours without being able to wake up on her own or with help. The more she pushes, the worse the consequence.

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Skills

• Crafting - June knows how to make homemade tools, weapons, snares and the like with items found in nature and she's pretty good at repairing those same things when they break.
• Hunting - She uses a bow and arrows both because they're quieter and because she can make them and upkeep them on her own. But she knows how to track, kill, skin, preserve and prepare meat. As well as how to make use of as much of the animal as possible.
• Alternative fuel - She knows how to keep lamps/lanterns and mechanical things (that need fuel) running on animal fat and other compostable items.
• Mechanics - She knows how to diagnose, fix and improve cars and motorcycles.
• Sewing and Cobbling - She had to make her clothes and shoes and such things last as long as possible since running to the store wasn't an option. She can make and/or repair clothes, shoes, pillows, upholstery, etc.
• Bee Keeping - She lived with and studied under a bee keeper since the end of the second civil war. If she could get her hands on the equipment and the bees, she can run a successful, zero tech hive. Honey is very lucrative.

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Alts

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