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PLAYER INFORMATION

PLAYER: Sophie
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CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Ophelia “O” Bennett
CANON: Savages
CANON REFERENCE: Wikipedia.
AGE: She’s 19, which is a little younger than her canon age
GENDER: Female
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: 12 grade
APPEARANCE: O is not a tall girl by any means of the imagination. 5’5” and slender, she’s the West Coast dream girl. She has deep blue eyes and long blonde hair, often with streaks of colour. In terms of notable descriptors, she also has a stud in her nose on the left side, and a tattoo sleeve on her right. The sleeve is very intricate, the best money could buy. It shows silver dolphins and golden sea nymphs dancing in blue breaking waves and green underwater vines twisting all along. It’s described as being bold, almost to a fault. I am using the Blake Lively as her PB, as she was the actress chosen to play her in the movie.



PERSONALITY: At first glance, O seems a lot like your typical Manic Pixie Dream Girl. She hasn’t got much drive of her own, involves herself with men more than she does with school, and generally plays up her own fan service abilities. She loves recreational drugs as much as the next guy and seems to spend a lot of time lazing around. But this is just one facet of her personality. O is actually fairly complex.

Raised by a mother who constantly varied between very present and involved and very uninvolved and married and unmarried, O has learned to distrust most parental figures and adults alike. They don’t get her, they don’t understand why she is what she is. And that’s okay--as long as they stay out of her business. You see, O is living the life she wants to live. In canon, one of her boys, Ben, offers to set her up with a job, art, acting, music, many different things, but the girl has no interest in any of it. She likes being a child in some ways. It keeps her open to the world being wonderful, safe. Not to mention her mother’s crippling fear of getting old plays into keeping O a dependent child. So she stays who she is. It allows her to be lovable, to be the person who anyone with motivation should despise. The thing is, she doesn’t try to play up being any more than just that. O knows she doesn’t have any interests or purpose, so she doesn’t pretend she does. She’s unapologetically a lay-about, a consumer. When people say she’s useless, she absolutely agrees. And that’s part of what makes her so likable. Her honesty about herself and her life is refreshing.

Plus, it does actually show how smart she is. Sure, she regularly fails her classes, shows no interest in having a real person life, or getting a job, but she picks up on things. She’s been to more therapists than a psychopath and spent more time analyzing what she’s done wrong to have the life she does. Her common sense is generally very on-point and understands concepts very well. O would be a big supporter of Einstein’s theory that she had no need to memorize something when she could just look it up. Which is probably why her grades are so bad. When O applies herself, she can do just as well as anyone else, but most things just aren’t worth that. In some ways, this is both a strength and a weakness. She doesn’t get pulled into the everyday messes, she simply distances herself from them. But this apathy also pulls away from her involvement in the world around her, makes it hard to relate to everyone on a deeper level. She handles this with her serious cynicism.

No really, you thought you were bad? Meet O.

In canon, her mother sits her down to tell O that she’s breaking up with Six--I mean Steven, her sixth husband. O doesn’t even blink. She even asks if she can have his old room. When asked if she can stay behind from a drug deal, she says “I don’t want to be alone.” To which the boys ask if she can be with her mother. O then repeats, “I don’t want to be alone.” But her humour isn’t single faceted either. She saves face easily when Chon, another one of her boys who spent time in wars jumps under a table automatically at the sound of a loud noise. He stays there, not really sure how to handle it until O comes down there with him. It makes it socially acceptable, cute even and she asks the waiter brings their drinks down there. It shows how much she cares, how flexible she’s willing to be about the things that matter to her, how she thinks out of the box and yet can still handle things with grace and humour.

This actually plays directly into how she can easily get along with people on a surface level. Her humour may be sick and cynical, but it’s very relatable, making her just as much. She makes friends easily, gets on people’s good sides when you wouldn’t expect them to. Even when she’s kidnapped in canon, she makes a friend with her guard. She gives him advice about his girlfriend and even gets him to provide her with weed. And speaking of that, O is definitely an addict. She frequently uses party drugs, prescription drugs, alcohol, and of course good ol’ Mary J. O enjoys the trips, they take her to a place where she is in more control, where she can be herself without the shame of her parents and family. In fact, she’s a key part in helping Ben and Chon start their marijuana business in canon. It tells a lot about her pleasure seeking. O literally gets turned on by anything. She loves sex, loves feeling good because it also takes her away from her real life. Other than Ben and Chon, she doesn’t feel like she has much else. Sure, her family has money, but directly says she doesn’t adore herself, so she adorns herself in things. She uses the money to replace her absent father and overbearing/abandoning mother. But it does tell you that her thinking is simple. One plus one always equals two to O, and she likes it that way.

POWERS/ABILITIES: O’s powers are a type of telepathy that relies specifically on her pleasure. It would be accurate to say she’s a type of succubus. If she is in an altered state driven by sex, drugs, or anything else highly pleasurable, she finds herself tuning into the people around her and becomes capable of suggesting things to them. These things can be anywhere from giving her their wallet to eliminating her presence from the room to having them jump off a tall building. Of course the influence of this depends upon their own mental strength. O finds her abilities to be stronger when the person whom she’s using it on is also in an altered state, but can affect those who aren’t. Her limits vary from her personal experience of pleasure, but she generally isn’t all that into using people this way. She prefers for people to be themselves.

AU HISTORY: O’s story doesn’t really start with O. It starts with her mother and the life she led. Kim Bennett was just a girl in the late 70s, living with her transient mother in Laguna Beach, California. It was the time of free love, of drugs, of kids whose names were “Starshine” and “Sunbeam” and the two of them, along with a large group of other hippies, homeless, and druggies, lived in a commune of sorts… in a cave. Her mother and her owned just a few blankets and chairs, and she was never quiet about when a man came over. It’s understandable how that led Kim to never wanting anything close to that life. She decided very young that she was going to become the wife of someone rich, someone who would get her into the prestigious ranks of the old money families. Kim was beautiful once she grew and that helped, yes, but in order to really look the part of a rich girl, she had to make money. And one of the many ways she made the money was by muling cocaine across the Mexican border. It was mortifying, but it got her to the life she wanted. Kim married young and rich, but that man was far from what she actually wanted. He lost his money--invested it poorly--and so Kim moved on to husband number two. Two and Kim split when she was pregnant with another man’s child, and thus, she gave birth to O, still Ophelia then.

There, that kind of sets the stage for little Ophelia.

One of little Ophelia’s earliest memories were of the time she met Chon. She was attending an expensive private elementary school on husband number Three’s dime, and found a kid who was a little older than her just peeing in the corner of the playground. He got in trouble, but Ophelia kind of liked that sort of rebelliousness. It appealed to her a lot. She asked the teacher for his name and was told it was John. But little Ophelia couldn’t say that right. And thus, the nickname Chon was born. He was a disobedient kid, but Ophelia tagged along with him, annoying him until eventually he realized he actually kind of liked her. They were friends for years, until he disappeared.

That left little middle school-aged Ophelia alone to deal with her mother. Kim was still with Three at that point, though not for much longer. Their split didn’t take too much of a toll on Ophelia though. In her mind, her father was already dead or maybe he just never existed. Three went out the door and husband number four came parading back in not too long afterward. It was around then Ophelia realized her namesake--the Ophelia from Hamlet--and that just didn’t sit right with her. Why name your kid after someone who takes a one way swim to the end? No thanks. She decided “O” was a better name.

O made it through middle school and on into high school, her freshman year. Things were pretty SOP with her. Occasionally her mother, who has since been dubbed Paqu, Passive Aggressive Queen of the Universe, would smother O with affection and micromanage her life. Occasionally she’d ignore her and go off on a bender, or maybe a long trip to Paris, or even rehab and vanish. There’d always be enough to eat in the house, O’s nanny made sure of that, but it still left the girl with long periods of no mother, no parental figure at all.
Then one night, there was a party on the beach. It was a big get together, anyone who was anyone was going to be there. It was supposed to be the type of party kids at school talk about for weeks. Her mother told her not to go, told her that the older boys would get drunk and try to take things she didn’t want to give. But then Four and Paqu went to a party themselves and all O had to do was walk out the door. It didn’t take her long to find the party. It was big, and there was a big bonfire. She sat down in the circle, started being friendly.

She was young, sure, but one of the boys she thought was really hot was sitting across from her. He was the starting quarterback for the year, built, charming, maybe a little drunk. O just sipped on her first beer, making eyes at him. She wouldn’t be against a little kissing tonight, maybe if he was good at it, he could even get a little further. It was working. He met her gaze when she glanced over at him, he brought her another beer when she was done. What O didn’t know was that her powers were kicking him over the edge.

He pulled her away from the party not long after. O was excited, she would be the freshman who was with the junior, the hot one no less. But what followed was nowhere near what she had imagined. Instead of giving her a kiss or holding her hand or cuddling in the moonlight, he very bluntly told her he wanted to have sex with her. Taken aback, O said no. That wasn’t what she wanted at all. Her abilities were still in force though. He took ‘no’ to mean a blowjob would be all right.

O hit him and he got angry. She fought back as hard as she could, but her small form was no match for the quarterback. He pinned her down and was beating on her hard--then Chon came out of nowhere and smashed the quarterback’s arm. He wasn’t alone either. There was another boy with him by the name of Ben.

From then on, they were the ones who made up her little family. They were her magic boys.

It turned out that Chon’s little stunt to protect O caused some problems though. He quickly shipped off to the Navy. Ben was good for O, he took care of her while Chon was away, but he wasn’t the violent type. He didn’t physically attack. He was the son of two psychotherapists--he emotionally could. But that didn’t help out when O found herself getting into more of these situations.

It took her a little longer to figure out what was going on with her, but eventually it clicked. O could make people do what she wanted with the help of mind-altering substances. When her mother was drunk on the couch with her bottle of gin, all O had to do was to take a shot too and Paqu was putty in her hands. Now the thing with O trying her powers out was that her ability didn’t wipe the person’s memory. And Paqu was not dumb.

It didn’t take her mother much time to figure out what was happening. She even experimented with it, setting herself up in ways so O could ‘take advantage’ of her. And that was the last thing that Paqu wanted. Her daughter was already a disappointment. She was beautiful like her mother, but she showed no drive to do anything. Paqu had worked to get to where she was, and hard. O never had to. There was some resentment in the fact that her daughter could get what she wanted just by thinking about it without any extra effort. So Paqu confronted her one day.

When her suspicions were confirmed, O was sent packing. Away from her mother. Away from her blessed life. Away from her magic boys.

O was furious. She transferred in the middle of her sophomore year, and spent the time being a hellmonger. The gamine girl would do the exact opposite of what the professors wanted, would smoke and drink obviously in her room, not to her homework, get into fights--anything she could think of to get expelled and sent back to California. Nothing worked. The teachers were patient, they knew what she was doing and she wasn’t the first to try it.

Eventually, she settled. She wasn’t home and she didn’t like New York nearly as much as she loved her beachside life, but there were worse things. She could still talk to Ben and Chon, the magic of skype and breaks. The shopping was pretty great in NYC and there was no Paqu to be found.

O’s time at Xavier’s has been fairly constant. She hangs with most of the crowds, not really having her own. She did fight during the U-Men’s attack to the best of her ability, even taking care of a lot of the younger grades. Her telepathy allowed her to mask their presence and protect as many people as she could.

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hey, who’s thinking about going with bridget? i wanna go but i’m not gonna drive alone. anyone want a ride? promise we’ll get there and back without too many injuries. (;

btw has anyone seen a stray top on the boys third floor? blue, lacy, that sort of thing. think i left it there like a day or two ago. something like that. at least point me in the right direction? it’s kinda one of my faves so i’ll pay you back with coffee before class. it might be in the common room? idk. keep me posted pls!

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