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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 4307031" data-attributes="member: 130">Ok. Are there any commonalities to the powers-getting events? I know you said trauma isn't necessarily, but is some form of it typical? The origin story is something I'd like to hammer down even if I don't get the rest figured out. Even if it needn't be all durm und strang, he's been through a very major physical change. "Say mate, didn't your hair used to be colored? And your skin too?"I'm not sure exactly how darkness "feels" to him yet. I think he probably has some synaesthesia relating to it, but it's not the polar opposite of sunlight. He's on some kind of a wavelength with it. Completely aside that it would be very weird if the guy with the shadow powers is blocked by shadows.I'm not sure how convincing an Australian he'll be. I really kicked around making him Asian for a while (still might) but he'd be a Japanese Australian or something. I did some spot research and discovered that most Japanese people in Australia presently immigrated post-1980, but that's nearly 30 years ago (and the year I was born...I feel old) and will be 32 years gone by in 2012. I picture his father as pushing forty but the timeline could be managed. He immigrated with his family as a kid in the early 80s, giving him time to reproduce sometime in the mid-90s. Or I could make him ethnically Chinese and buy another decade or so. Maybe his foster parents were well-meaning sorts that urged him to discover his heritage. I kind of like that angle.</blockquote>

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