Lydia Alair

The Story

• Lydia's birth and early childhood were fairly normal. It wasn't until she was about five or six that she began to display signs of having preternatural abilities. They began small, with Lydia somehow getting her hands on things that had been placed out of her reach, finishing the sentences of people she hardly knew, and asking oddly personal questions about incredibly private things.
  
  All this continued to escalate to till she received, in her opinion, her most terrifying 'talent'. Upon receiving a gift from a young man she had been recently introduced too, she brushed his bare fingers with her own as she took the small package from him. She immediately collapsed, as if someone had flicked a switch and cut the power to her circuits. When she came too, she refused to speak for days. Her mother in a panic called for a priest, fearing the worst of her 'strangely gifted' child. It was downhill from there.
  
  The priest only made her 'condition' worse. It wasn't until Lydia accused him of all manner of debauchery (all of which was true) that he pronounced her damaged beyond the grace of god. Her parents, being god fearing people did as the priest instructed and sent her away to a private facility. A mental institution where she was left alone, locked away, and virtually forgotten by the society she'd been born into. During her time incarcerated, Lydia was privately tutored by governesses and teachers that were used to the mentally unstable. Though, only one could claim to have ever seen anything truly like her.
  
  She went through the trial and error of training herself to be self contained. Her emotions were dangerous to her physical surroundings, with the possibility of shattered glass, concrete, or wood, she feared the repercussions of such a thing happening before an audience of people. Slowly but surely, as she grew older and became more attuned to people, of all types, coming into contact with her. She became more centered, able to control her reactions both physical and otherwise.
  
  One morning, she awoke for the first time without being startled awake by some vision or another. She laid there for many long moments before she realized she was truly awake, she was slightly confused, but not as confused as she was when she found the marking on the inside of her left wrist. A circular mark and a three pointed symbol that she would later discover was the Delphic symbol, that of a natural born Oracle that had survived to their talents completion. (If someone had asked her how she felt about that she probably would have replied, "That could have killed me?!" She wasn't too happy about it.)
  
  Unfortunately, having a complete set of powers does not mean that they are easier to control. It still takes most of her concentration to keep them in line. Though, every day seems to bring a little breath of fresh air and an ease of command that she happily accepts.

• Lydia's Song

• Connections

  Friends

  Nolen (played by TornBySanity)

  Dr Evelyn Via-Cabrera (played anonymously)

  Sabine Reine (played anonymously)

  Acquaintance

  Addison 'Wash' Washington (played anonymously)

  Izabet (played anonymously)

  Maalik-Majid (played anonymously)