Lori Levonian

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File #15 Jan 2009 00:30

Summary

Name Lori Levonian Aliases None Status Unregistered Evolved Ability Body Language Mastery Gender Female Race/Eth. Armenian Birthdate 10/21/1982 Age 27 Height 5'3" Build Slender Eyes Brown Hair Dark Brown Residence Unknown Employment None Parents Peter Levonian Siblings Unknown Marital Status Single Children None First Seen Sandwiches and Paparazzi Last Seen N/A Profile Sweet but superficial, vapid socialite famous for being famous. Staple of the New York party scene and tabloids everywhere. (NOTE: Unless you live in a cave or pay NO attention to television/print media/internet, you would probably know this character. Think Paris Hilton.)

portrayed by Kim Kardashian

Background

Not An Inspirational Tale
There are stories of heroism. Of people overcoming great odds, triumphing over evil, and standing up for all that is right and true in the face of adversity.

This…is not one of them.

Lori Levonian's family is rich. Staggeringly, stupidly rich. Her father, Peter Levonian, was the son-in-law of the president of Interpipe, one of the world's largest producers of steel pipes. Upon graduation from college, his father turned over the firm to Peter. Peter's shrewd business acumen sent the company's net worth spiraling up and up, and eventually he diversified, purchasing Armenia's largest steel company, Kryvorizhstal, with fellow billionaire Rinat Akhmetov until it was reprivatized in 2005. His net worth is estimated by Forbes at 6.4 billion dollars.

Lori is Peter's only daughter, and very much the apple of his eye. Doted upon and given virtually ANYTHING her heart desired growing up, she is the embodiment of the spoiled, super-wealthy heiress. During her childhood, the merest HINT that she wanted something, and it was hers. Expensive toys, the finest designer clothes, a Ferrari for her sixteenth birthday. And why, yes, she did have a pony, thank you for asking.

Despite having everything that money could buy, Lori wanted more. Armenia, for as nice as it was (well, nice if you're the daughter of a billionaire) was still somewhat of a backwater. It was America that fascinated Lori. America, their culture of consumption, their obsession with fame, and worship of celebrity. She decided then and there that she wanted to go to America.

It was the first (and quite possibly only) time that her father told her no. She was too young to live alone, and it was too far away. He countered with an offer that if she wanted to, when she was older he would see to it that she went to college there. After the shrieking and tantrums stopped, Lori decided that if this was the only way to do it, so be it. She took up studying English (probably the only studying she's ever actually bothered to put effort into; you don't need good grades when you're as rich as her family is).

Going To America!
When she graduated high school, she proved to her father that she had a good memory. It was America she wanted. And she was an adult now! She could do just fine on her own. She was going to move there, go to school there, live there! Caught in a trap of his own making (Peter never expected it would stick with her; Lori was known for her mercurial interests), he agreed, and off she went! There were only two possibilities for her. Los Angeles, or New York, the two iconic American cities. In the end, she decided on New York…there were still plenty of celebrities and celebrity culture there, and she could become famous!

College was a sideline at best. She took the easiest, simplest classes she could find, and got by through paying people to do her homework for her. She didn't do particularly well (to put it mildly), but she at least had some progress she could send to her father. But her real interest, at which she excelled, was getting into the local party scene, and being one of the "best friends" of the local celebrities.

That was ten years ago. During that time, she's succeeded, at least somewhat. She's become famous, even if it's one of those "famous for being famous" sort of things (the naked pictures of her that hit the internet didn't hurt), and she's one of the favorites of the local paparazzi, someone they can toss up on the tabloids and take a number of photos of. She's been courted by a couple different agents looking into possible Reality TV outlets that she might be able to be involved in, the better to increase her exposure. Her ultimate goal, of course, is to become a famous actress…which might be hindered by a general lack of talent and a surplus of vapidity. Of course, Paris Hilton has both, and she managed it.

Psych Profile

Lori is, at heart, a nice girl. She wishes ill on no one, and she's not at all catty or bitchy, which many people might expect her to be. What she IS, however (to put it bluntly), is dumb as a sack of hammers. She's not a bright girl; she's always ignored her education and gotten by on her looks and her money. Couple that with her complete lack of practical skills and lack of having ever had to live like a normal person, and she has trouble relating to everyday situations or problems.

Faced with problems or difficulties, she'll try to help…it's just that her help might not be so helpful (confronted with a stressed out person, her reaction might be to buy them a present like an expensive pair of Jimmy Choos, when what they really needed was money to pay their rent). She's sweet, but very superficial, and there really isn't much in the way of emotional depth to her, though she might develop some of that if she ever has to deal with a situation that forces her to pay attention or deal with people (like, oh, her emerging power!)

Lori knows that the Evolved exist, of course…it's been in all the media. To the extent that she thinks about it at all, she thinks it's a fairly cool thing…an instant way to be a celebrity! Of course, she hasn't thought about any of the negative aspects of it. She'd be first in line to go get herself registered…if she knew she had an ability.

Evolved Ability

Lori has the ability to interpret and emit body language, to even the slightest degree, on an instinctual level. To her, the minute movements someone makes, their tells and subconscious signals, are an open book. This provides her with a small slate of things she can do, as detailed in the following.

By picking up on tells, perspiration, breathing speed and rapid eye movements, Lori effectively makes a lie detector, at least as accurate as the average polygraph. She'll usually know when someone is lying, though of course she has no way to know what the truth is, or if they're lying about something related. This facet can be tricked, but only by people who have had the kind of training that would let them beat a polygraph. It has nothing to do with powers; an average telepath would still get caught out here, while Noah Bennet (for example) could probably lie bald-faced to her and she'd never know it.

Secondly, she can usually get a sense of someone's emotional state, especially if it's a directed state. If Sylar and someone else were near her, and that person was afraid of Sylar, she'd probably not only pick up on the fear, but also on the fact that Person A is afraid of Person B. The same thing goes for attraction, anger…most of the emotional gamut. This is, again, subject to the same kind of restrictions as the lie detection; she could probably read Matt Parkman's emotional state like an open book (he tends to wear them on his sleeve, as it were), while someone like Noah or Hana would be much harder to interpret.

Thirdly (and this ability's only combative application), she can read the moves that people are making in a combat, literally the instant they start to make them. In essence, every blow in a fight is telegraphed, from her perception. On the other hand, knowing that "Yes, he's about to swing a right hook at my head" doesn't really help unless you have the strength, speed, or training to actually DO something about it, and right now Lori has none of those. If she were ever to be trained, she would pick up hand-to-hand combat (or sports, for that matter) like a duck takes to water, and would be very good at it, very quick. But at this point, she has neither the abilities to make use of this, nor the inclination to want to learn them. (Fist-fighting? How tacky!)

Lastly, in the same way as she's a master of reading people's body language, she's also a master of controlling her own. There's not a polygraph in the world that could nail her down if she was trying to lie, and in the same way, she can choose to "project" an emotional state, letting other people perceive her as angry, afraid, interested, bored, or whatever, as easily as she does the other things. (Of course, a telepath, or a true empath, would see through this in a heartbeat).

This ability is one that is "always on", and really she has very little conscious control of it. It is in essence another form of communication, like hearing and speech are to a normal person, and just as intuitive and innate to her. She doesn't even know she HAS a power. She thinks she's just good at reading people, and good at making friends.

Appendices

Trivia and Notes

• Lori has had a home video of herself with her then-boyfriend make the rounds of the Internet. While it's mostly forgotten these days, it was the nigh-viral content of the day, and despite efforts to quash it, anyone with a little Internet-savvy can still find the video lurking out there.