Passing Strange - Profile of Zephyr Vaughan

Zephyr Vaughan Psychic

Basic Information

Name Zephyr Vaughan

Pronouns He/Him

Age 34

Birthday November 18

Height 5'6''

Eyes Blue

Face Claim Rory Culkin

Locations

Residence Location Alder Heights

Occupation Location Cheyenne Point

Occupation Manager @Drunk Poet

Vehicle White 2010 Subaru Legacy

Vampire Stats

Age turned 15

Supernatural Eye Color Black

First Ability Dreamscaping

Second Ability Empathy

Power/Animal Description

Dreamscaping aka Nap Time: Putting someone to sleep and maintaining this will cause the feeling of having missed 1d8 hours of sleep last night each roll (1d4 if willing target, also 1d4 to keep someone willing awake). Failed attempts and trying to influence the content of the dream in a negative way will guarantee the next night to be full insomnia. Creating negative dreams add 1d8 hours of sleep debt while positive and neutral ones put him to sleep once the target wakes up (however this does not work toward lowering the sleep debt). Slower reflexes and hallucinations are likely symptoms of tiredness, but pushing too far will trigger overstimulation of 1d5 senses to the point of breaking all focus.
Empathy aka Why Is This My Problem: In the passive form, he gets influenced by other's moods, which is both the power and the side effect. In the active form, the person's most common emotion of the last week will be brought up and amplified (happiness will turn into bliss, sadness into tears, etc). This is contagious, so there's a risk to be swallowed up by an emotion without a clear source. Push too long and full on dissociation can occur. To change what one is feeling, he has to bring forth a memory of his that fits the emotion.
Eye color be Jet Black, bigger reference here!

Psychic Stats

Age turned 15

Supernatural Eye Color Black

First Ability Dreamscaping

Second Ability Empathy

Power Description

Dreamscaping aka Nap Time: Putting someone to sleep and maintaining this will cause the feeling of having missed 1d8 hours of sleep last night each roll (1d4 if willing target, also 1d4 to keep someone willing awake). Failed attempts and trying to influence the content of the dream in a negative way will guarantee the next night to be full insomnia. Creating negative dreams add 1d8 hours of sleep debt while positive and neutral ones put him to sleep once the target wakes up (however this does not work toward lowering the sleep debt). Slower reflexes and hallucinations are likely symptoms of tiredness, but pushing too far will trigger overstimulation of 1d5 senses to the point of breaking all focus.
Empathy aka Why Is This My Problem: In the passive form, he gets influenced by other's moods, which is both the power and the side effect. In the active form, the person's most common emotion of the last week will be brought up and amplified (happiness will turn into bliss, sadness into tears, etc). This is contagious, so there's a risk to be swallowed up by an emotion without a clear source. Push too long and full on dissociation can occur. To change what one is feeling, he has to bring forth a memory of his that fits the emotion.
Eye color be Jet Black, bigger reference here!

Were Stats

Age turned 15

Supernatural Eye Color Black

Animal Appearance

Appearance

Personality

Very observant or totally oblivious, no in-between
Totally comfortable being alone in public
Numb to many things but hyperfocused on others
Creative with words but not moved by visual arts
Takes suggestions as criticism, and takes criticism badly
Listens to many audiobooks and podcasts to pass the time during insomnia nights and likes bringing tidbits of info in unrelated conversations
Filter is optional
Will go to great lengths to help out the people he cares about

History

Zeph grew up in Las Almas with a happy enough family, as the youngest child
Much less outgoing and outdoorsy than his social butterfly, gardening enthusiast parents hoped for
The type of teen to seek the shelter of the library as much as possible
Which led to one day glaring daggers at a very loud classmate and wishing they would 'just nap'
They did, and he earned three full nights of insomnia to think about what he did
And decided he would do it again
The rest of high school was laborious due to these side effects and his grades suffered, but he still managed to graduate
Moved to Alder Heights for the college, enrolled in psychology, got a student job at the Drunk Poet
Used his power to help out fellow students with their sleep patterns, passing it as hypnosis, also charging small fees because why not
Tried his best to balance school and psychic stuff, ended up dropping out
Planned to return one day, made his student job his full-time job in the meantime
This was comfortable, and he eventually became manager
The Drunk Poet is one of the things he's passionate about and he lowkey wants to buy it one day.
Recently got into screenplay writing. It's not going well.
Thinks he's ready for some evolution, it remains to be seen

Relationships

Jordan Levi — Long time colleague, possibly teetering towards friends after they shared more personal ordeals
Luisa Ramos — One of his favorite regulars at the Drunk Poet (don't tell the others!), he'd like to invite her for a friendly hangout
Mingmo Chen — Knowledgeable psychic friend and pratice partner
Rosemarie Butler — Other possible practice partner, was almost a raccoon??
Mathis De Luca — Willing participant in dreamwalking practice, also there may be tension?

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