CoM: Theresa Winter

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Name: Theresa Winter
Age: Twenty-three
Gender: Female
Height: 5'6'' Sealed form, 5'2'' Fated form, about 1' long in True form

Species: Spider Spirit (based on various native american Spider Woman/Old Woman Spider myths)

Ability(s): 
- Dream Catcher - this ability is unconscious and powerful, and fuels all of her other skills; while she sleeps, Theresa catches all the bad dreams and nightmares of the people around her in up to a three mile radius. She can take the energy from this and store it to use later to power her other abilities. She can also draw upon this ability when she is awake, but it is a drain on her and the dreams are harder to keep from affecting her this way. A side effect of this ability is that she doesn't sleep well and so is never fully rested and relaxed without aid, and also that she sometimes hurts herself by flailing in her sleep. Also, if those around her have particularly dark/strong nightmares, they can stay with her when she is awake, causing agitation, skittishness, fatigue, and confusion, making it hard for her to function.

-Webweaver - With this ability, Theresa channels the energy from her Dream catching into a Web which she can weave over/around a wound. then, tapping into the inherent creative energy of dreams, she imagines the wound as healed, and it is. It's like realizing you are in a dream and forcing the course of events to change; this is the same energy, channeled towards a physical wound. In it's higher forms this ability will be used to form shields and barriers, but for now she can only to it in a limited size (roughly the area she can cover with her hands).




Title: Cleric
Class: Recruit
Partner:
 CoM: Minerva





Occupation: Since she was accepted into the Chancel, Theresa spends most of her time in Sanctum, with occasional trips back to the human world to train with her aunties and to visit her parents. Most of her time is devoted to the Chancel though, as she is determined to master her skills and rank up.
Residence/Region: Colorado, USA, in the Western Region

Personality:  Theresa is moody and grouchy, tending towards sarcasm and sharp  comments with people she doesn't know or who she finds to be annoying. She has little patience for anything, but especially hates it when people take a long time to understand what she is saying or to listen to her advice/words. With her friends she is largely the same, though there is a much apparent warmth and fondness to her snappiness then there is when she talks to strangers, making her a bit more playful than mean. She is very intelligent and a deep thinker, spending a lot of time thinking about things and analyzing peoples actions and motivations, but she has little patience for books or academics. Theresa is a very loyal friend and would do anything for those she loves, but it takes a bit to earn her trust - and if you betray her, if you lie to her or anything like that, she never forgives and she never forgets. Her Dream Catching abilities give her the ability to look into a persons eyes and conjure within them memories of their worst nightmares (subtly), which leaves a lot of people who meet her with a somewhat unsettling feeling of discomfort.

Some likes are movie marathons, contact sports, cooking, crafts, storytelling/gossiping/conversation, planning parties, building things, card games, wind, snow, doggies

Some dislikes are math, liars, being ignored, people who talk a lot of smack, disrespect, people touching her stuff, gum-smacking noise

History/Description: 

Theresa's childhood was largely peaceful. She lived with her parents in a cozy little ranch in Arizona, USA, and spent most of her time out in the sun, playing with other kids or tagging along with her mother at one of her many job sites (her mother is an overseer for architectural construction projects). Other members of her family were Mythos, of course, but not many served in the Chancel, so there was very little information about that available to her as she was growing up, nor did she spend much time focusing on her mythological blood. 

When she turned nine, however, the Dreams started, and everything changed.


She began to have nightmares - terrible nightmares - one after the other, none-stop every night, about people and places and things she didn't even know, things she wasn't even scared of. She would wake up screaming, would flail in her sleep, would claw at her own arms and legs and face, hurting herself in her panic and terror. At first her family thought maybe they were just night terrors, and tried all sorts of home remedies like teas, sleep medications, dream journals, anything at all. When all these things failed to help even a little, it soon became clear to her family that the nightmares were some sort of manifestation of her powers and not normal dreams.

While her family were all Mythos, it had been a long time since any of them had powers manifest themselves so strongly, especially not her parents, whose abilities were tame and limited and no where near as strong as what she was exhibiting. They panicked, and after a few months of fruitlessly trying to mend things themselves they packed up her things and drove up to Colorado to visit her mother's three sisters, who were much more familiar with these things since they all had stronger abilities and/or had had children with stronger powers.


They explained that Theresa had inherited a very strong form of a Spider's most ancient powers - Dream Catching. When she slept, her mind was like a spiritual web, drawing in the bad dreams and thoughts of everyone around her, to a distance that far surpassed any of her aunties or their children. It was suggested that she come to stay with them in Colorado for training, lest the nightmares collect and start to effect her waking life as well. It was a hard transition, living with her aunties, but it proved to be an invaluable training opportunity; while she never quite managed to stop collecting the dreams, they taught her how to control them enough that they didn't plague her while she was awake, and so she stopped hurting herself while she slept. She also learned how to absorb the energy from the dreams and use them to do other things, to tap into her other Spider abilities. When she was old enough her aunties told her about the Chancel and she, after a bit of cajoling from her family, decided to join. Since being accepted she has devoted herself more resolutely to her training, determined to get her Dream Catching under control.