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<blockquote data-quote="Acid_crash" data-source="post: 1528544" data-attributes="member: 16278"><p>A brief concept:</p><p></p><p>A young man of around 22 years old trying to go to college after being schooled either at home or in mental institutions for much of his life. For the longest time he had recurring nightmares, as far back as he could remember. These nightmares were always of spiders, and they caused him to fear spiders. He was raised by a single mother, who really didn't know what to do, or so it seemed, and for many years he was in and out of mental institutions. They couldn't figure out a way for the nightmares to end. Many times he would wake up screaming, sweaty and scared. Once he tried public school, but that lasted two weeks in the third grade. He was home schooled or tutored while in institutions up until he was eighteen years old, when the nightmares suddenly stopped.</p><p></p><p>For a couple years he was able to live a normal life, met a girl, got a job, and was trying to fit in with the 'real' world. When he was twenty one, his mother died. He fell into a great depression, and the nightmares came back. He would lose sleep, his girlfriend left him, and for a while he was at a loss.</p><p></p><p>[These nightmares he would have was spider related, in some form. Some were of him being chased by swarms of spiders, others were of one spider trying to capture him. Others were of this guy who could become a spider and chase other people. Others were more normal, but there was always a spider watching, as if waiting for him.] </p><p></p><p>Then, he got drunk one night at a party. He wanted to break the depression, got desperate, and when drunk fell into a deep slumber. When he woke up, he woke up to a house full of dead people. Mutilated bodies, some recognizable, others not, he didn't know and couldn't remember. The bodies were as if some kind of creature, or creatures, ravaged them. In his dream, all he could remember was when he was a kid and a bunch of people picked on him, pushing him around, and in the dream he got revenge by finding a bunch of spiders and throwing them on the bullies.</p><p></p><p>He ran from the house, terrified, and ran home. In a heated frenzy of the most heinous hangover he had ever had (in this case the only one, so it is the worse he had ever had), he let loose a scream that would have woken the neighbors had he lived next to any. In the mirror he saw his body then shrivel into hundreds of tiny spiders, and his senses were able to see in all directions. With much concentration he was able to form the spiders into a condensed humanoid form, like a giant spider/man shaped person. </p><p></p><p>This was two months ago, and he has moved to a different town where he isn't recognized. Occasionally he still has a nightmare, but this time it's of something just watching him, as if from a distance. (Is this idea cool for a background/character?)</p><p></p><p>Background info - his mother was raped by a man who was a werespider and she didn't know she had latent mutant genes that never manifested, and both their DNA's happened to be spliced together in their son. </p><p></p><p>Power manifestation - obviously, he can change into a swarm of tiny spiders and form them to look like a humanoid shaped werespider person. He can shoot a web, see in all directions, has amazing reflexes and perhaps increased speed. When he gets mad or mentally stressed there's a possible chance he can lose control of his powers and his body could change involuntarily.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Acid_crash, post: 1528544, member: 16278"] A brief concept: A young man of around 22 years old trying to go to college after being schooled either at home or in mental institutions for much of his life. For the longest time he had recurring nightmares, as far back as he could remember. These nightmares were always of spiders, and they caused him to fear spiders. He was raised by a single mother, who really didn't know what to do, or so it seemed, and for many years he was in and out of mental institutions. They couldn't figure out a way for the nightmares to end. Many times he would wake up screaming, sweaty and scared. Once he tried public school, but that lasted two weeks in the third grade. He was home schooled or tutored while in institutions up until he was eighteen years old, when the nightmares suddenly stopped. For a couple years he was able to live a normal life, met a girl, got a job, and was trying to fit in with the 'real' world. When he was twenty one, his mother died. He fell into a great depression, and the nightmares came back. He would lose sleep, his girlfriend left him, and for a while he was at a loss. [These nightmares he would have was spider related, in some form. Some were of him being chased by swarms of spiders, others were of one spider trying to capture him. Others were of this guy who could become a spider and chase other people. Others were more normal, but there was always a spider watching, as if waiting for him.] Then, he got drunk one night at a party. He wanted to break the depression, got desperate, and when drunk fell into a deep slumber. When he woke up, he woke up to a house full of dead people. Mutilated bodies, some recognizable, others not, he didn't know and couldn't remember. The bodies were as if some kind of creature, or creatures, ravaged them. In his dream, all he could remember was when he was a kid and a bunch of people picked on him, pushing him around, and in the dream he got revenge by finding a bunch of spiders and throwing them on the bullies. He ran from the house, terrified, and ran home. In a heated frenzy of the most heinous hangover he had ever had (in this case the only one, so it is the worse he had ever had), he let loose a scream that would have woken the neighbors had he lived next to any. In the mirror he saw his body then shrivel into hundreds of tiny spiders, and his senses were able to see in all directions. With much concentration he was able to form the spiders into a condensed humanoid form, like a giant spider/man shaped person. This was two months ago, and he has moved to a different town where he isn't recognized. Occasionally he still has a nightmare, but this time it's of something just watching him, as if from a distance. (Is this idea cool for a background/character?) Background info - his mother was raped by a man who was a werespider and she didn't know she had latent mutant genes that never manifested, and both their DNA's happened to be spliced together in their son. Power manifestation - obviously, he can change into a swarm of tiny spiders and form them to look like a humanoid shaped werespider person. He can shoot a web, see in all directions, has amazing reflexes and perhaps increased speed. When he gets mad or mentally stressed there's a possible chance he can lose control of his powers and his body could change involuntarily. [/QUOTE]
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