ℕ𝕠𝕨 𝕕𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕕

full name
Gavin Elias Fischer
White Hawk || The Lord is My God || Fisherman

nicknames
•Gav || Close Friends Only
Worships God

age
21

gender
cismale

pronouns
he/him/his

faceclaim
Andrew Barth Feldman

sexuality
heterosexual

role
genetically enhanced powers

genetic mutation
*enlarged occipital lobe resulting in a hyperactive amygdala and a hyperactive fusiform gyrus

explanation of the mutation
*amygdala and fusiform gyrus sit in the occipital lobe
*operate in concert to read individuals' nonverbal facial signals (through the fusiform gyrus) while matching with emotional context (interpreted by the amygdala)
*when enlarged, processes more nonverbal emotional signals in a given time

the result
*hyperawareness and accuracy in reading body language and tone
*interprets the signals more quickly than the average human
*trained self to increase accuracy and leverage the mutation

𝕀'𝕞 𝕟𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕀 𝕒𝕞

personality
ISFP-T || The Adventurer
Introverted • Observant • Feeling • Prospecting • Turbulent
They tend to have open minds, approaching life, new experiences, and people with grounded warmth. Their ability to stay in the moment helps them uncover exciting potentials.
Enneagram 4 || The Individualist
Sensitive • Introspective • Expressive • Dramatic • Self-Absorbed • Temperamental
Fours are self-aware, sensitive, and reserved. They are emotionally honest, creative, and personal, but can also be moody and self-conscious. Withholding themselves from others due to feeling vulnerable and defective, they can also feel disdainful and exempt from ordinary ways of living. They typically have problems with melancholy, self-indulgence, and self-pity.
Enneagram 4w3 || The Aristocrat
In Growth E1 • In Stress E2
If Gavin were to describe himself as a character in a film, his first word would probably be comic relief. The comedic character almost always provides relief through flawed adventuring, and to him, life is one big adventure to be discovered and uncovered. If his flaws make people laugh, he's fine with that. In fact, he's great with it. He thrives off of others' amusement, so long as he is the one who invited it. He wants people to laugh with him, not at him. That, he would consider, is the trait that makes him uniquely his own. He hates to be laughed at. If individuals laugh at him, he shuts down. He shuts them out. There is nothing humorous, he would argue, about becoming the butt of someone else's joke. He would rather be making the jokes himself.
Perhaps it is this slightly more temperamental side that gives way to the sensitive underbelly of the comedic relief. Everyone in life has a character. It is a matter of making his unique. For a male in a male's post-apocalyptic world of survival, sensitivity is never the way to play the game, but Gav simply can't help himself. If he sees it, he wants to empathize with it, even if it's sad. Especially if it's sad. He likes to have those deep, dark feelings, mostly because they evoke a different type of place in his own mind. If he's honest, he also wants to be the unique one to see the One among the Many. Likewise, he also wants to be made to feel something, in all situations. Though he might joke about it, he's truly even more of a hopeless romantic than his closest friends, which he would attribute to his use of imagination and creativity. He has a vision of clouds and sunsets, midnight chats and fireside cuddles, fields of adventure and homes of love.
While he hates being pegged into a box, if someone had to box him into head or heart, he would consider himself led with pure heart in which all the world's colors exist. In Gavin's mind, the world exists through a color schema that attaches a new tone to every sensation an individual could experience. His world is an artist's palate, one that stretches for miles and miles, streaking in deep blues and purples but highlighting in pinks and golds. To him, everything is color and color is everything. Call it romantic, but he thinks that's where the feelings come from. It is all in the color.
All in all, he's a fun-loving, lighthearted guy, but those jokes often mask the honesty beneath that seeks some sort of distinguishment from the rest of the world through deep connectivity and pure relationships.
At his best, Gavin channels his light, sensitive personality into the heart and soul of his found family, transforming the jokes from a cover into an authentic source of comfort and empathy. He realizes care and support for others rather than filling his own need, and he feels valued enough so that he needs not search or compete for it himself. He knows who truly needs him and what they need in that moment, allowing him to relate on an intimate level rather than a superficial one.
At his worst, those same qualities bring out a clingy, anxiety-ridden monster who needs affirmation of uniqueness to feel filled. Gavin never quite degrades to the sense of over-involvement that this picture paints, but he has come close.

𝔾𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕒 𝕣𝕒𝕚𝕟 𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕔𝕜

likes
•music
The jumble of notes, all coming together in an unorthodox manner. It's so beautiful.
•color
Everything has a color, every sound, every thought, every word.
•stars
They have so many stories to tell.
•exercise
Not everyone needs a mindless outlet, but I need something to stop myself from thinking all the time.

dislikes
•constraint
Rules exist to be broken.
•crowds
What if something happens to you? This world isn't exactly safe.
•cold
Everyone else makes do, but when I'm cold, I'm cold.
•criticism
Just me being me. There's no logical reason to critique me for that which I can't change.

preferred lifestyle
community of outcasts with genetic modifications

ℕ𝕠𝕨 𝕚𝕥'𝕤 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕦𝕚𝕝𝕕 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕠𝕞 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕚𝕥

backstory
They say you cannot remember the day of your birth, the moment of your birth, and that much is true. Gavin cannot specifically remember the moment of his birth. Not exactly. When he thinks of words, concepts, phrases, he sees color, and when he thinks of his birth, he thinks of the color red. Not just any red, brick red, almost rust red. He doesn't know why. It just is. It's the color that sort of overlays his entire life, when he really allows himself to think about it. Red seems to follow him in varying shades, but sometimes it mixes with others. It is in these colors that he perceives the world, and it is in colors that he remembers things.
Ebony and Pearl. Those are Gavin's first colors, though he only thinks of them as black and white at first. When you are young, the world is small, and his was no different. There was black and there was white. There was warmth, and there was cold. He knew his mother's voice and his father's laugh. And his older brother... Yes, there were squabbles, prods, tests of inner character, but for the most part, he remained sedentary, never overinvolved, never in the middle of it. He chose to stay on the outskirts, but he always observed, drinking in every little detail. It was with these details that his world began to grow, and he began to add colors, realizing that more existed than black and white. Eventually, Gav also realized shades of color attached to different sensations, albeit usually with a lack of any explanation. If he was happy, he felt yellow, but if he was excited, he also felt yellow, and if he was jealous...it was also yellow. It took him awhile to realize that it wasn't a straight yellow all three times. Rather, it was a shortbread for the happiness, a macaroon for the excitement, and a hazel wood for the jealousy. He began to associate the people around him with colors—tiger orange for his mother, cerulean blue for his father, fern green for his brother, sangria purple for his younger sister—but those colors always accompanied more, what he would later learn was their emotions. Gavin never complained, though. In fact, he saw it as unique, and therein lay what would become his fatal flaw: a need to be recognized as unique, as different. It was how it was, and he was fine with that.
Caramel and Hickory. They became Gavin's next two colors in an array of colors, and they became the standard connectivity with his family's abandonment. While there's usually not an explanation for color attachment, he would blame the atmosphere of the sky that day. The nuclear-charged air was caramel and hickory, depending on the light where it shone. He was six-and-a-half when their mother first realized that, of all three children, he seemed the most intuitive, the most engaged, when it came to others' emotions. Almost without realizing it, he could ask the right questions at the right times, though there were occasions when they were the right questions at the wrong times. He seemed too pay no attention to it. She dismissed it as a quirk until she noticed that he had begun to target them all with it. The ability was uncanny and unsettling. A quick word from her to his father, and the family packed its bags. They told him they were going for supplies. He was eight when they left, a week shy of his ninth birthday. The sky cried tears of acid, and he wept with it for what he had lost.
Alabaster and Egg Shell. When Gavin realizes his family left with no intention of returning, he sees alabaster. Though they are gone, a part of him left with them. He sees nothing, feels nothing, but blinding white. The color of the world is gone. Emotion has no meaning. He is nine-and-a-half when a boy only four years his elder finds him scrounging for food in a deserted settlement. The boy calls himself Phoenix, the leader of a pack of outcasts. With no recourse to escape, to retreat, he goes with Phoenix, who introduces him to Dale, Ciara, Harlow, and Leila. In them, the alabaster fades to an egg shell, shock turning to resolve, but the jagged pain remains.
Cobalt and Plum. They take him in, train him up to become someone more than who he was, and Gavin sees cobalt for the first time, an electrifying color akin to his excitement at the possibility of a new family. He shares his journey, shares how he can veritably see emotion, and they share what they can do: how Phoenix has a knack for seeing others' abilities, how Dale has a mind for forethought and plans, how Ciara has a quietness for sneaking and intelligence, how Harlow has a strength for physical combat to rival any man, how Leila has a way of catching details and finding herbs. They each have a role within the nucleus to harness those abilities with Phoenix as the leader, Dale as the mastermind, Ciara as the spy, Harlow as the defender, Leila as the healer. Gavin fears that he might not fit in until they show him that perhaps he will be Phoenix's second, because he is able to see it all. For the first time since his family left, he feels at home, and it is then that the electrifying cobalt gives way to a plum. Routine. Calm. Present.
Orchid. The note for Gavin arrives to their camp one day, delivered by an invisible and anonymous messenger. It explains the program, the triumvirate, and their intended goal. He shares it with his new family. They agree that he must go, and he sees orchid. Orchid, he thinks is the color of hope as it bleeds into being and sense of self. He sees his new family come back to life, and he thinks that maybe there is hope for their family to fit into society despite their mutations. He sees the way forward, and he thinks that maybe there is hope for a better future. He thinks that maybe there is hope that they could use this to start again.

𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕕𝕠𝕖𝕤𝕟'𝕥 𝕓𝕦𝕣𝕟 𝕕𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕤𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕝𝕪

biological family
Overview
When they realized that his genetic mutation allowed him to see more than what they wanted to share, they left him. He had no love for them then, and he has no love for them now.
Names
•Father, age 44 || Benedict Marzell Fischer
Blessed | Male
•Mother, age 45 || Matilda Reese Fischer
Mighty in Battle | Ardor
•Older Brother, age 23 || Albert Gregor Fischer
Noble | Alert
•Younger Sister, age 18 || Willa Sage Fischer
Resolution Protection | Wise

found family
Overview
These are the ones in the camp to whom he is closest. They raised him, trained him, and gave him a life. He owes all to them.
•The Leader, age 25 || Phoenix Warren Allard
Dark Red | Park Keeper | Noble
•The Mastermind, age 23 || Dale Caspian Maynard
Valley | White | Strength
•The Spy, age 21 || Ciara Raquel Shay
Black | Ewe | Majestic
•The Defender, age 23 || Harlow Candace Pierce
Army Hill | Queen Mother | Stone
•The Healer, age 24 || Leila Zaynab Najjar
Night | Beauty | Carpenter

𝔻𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜

strengths
•charisma
You wouldn't count it against me, would you, darling?
•imagination
It's one of the few things that they can't take away from me, that let my thoughts soar freely.
•sensitivity
I see more than most people can. It's not something I asked for, but I'm not giving it back.
•curiosity
Curiosity may have kílled the proverbial cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

weaknesses
•unpredictable
Keeping to a schedule is so mundane, isn't it?
•self-doubt
No, it's not that I'm doubtful. I am cautious. There is a distinct and quite unique difference, you know.
•high-strung
Who, me? Of course not. My head just tells me that there's so much to be done within the day, so many thoughts to expel and so many sparks to expend.
•independence
There's more to life than who other people make them. I make myself.

𝕀 𝕒𝕞 𝕝𝕖𝕗𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕝

quotes
•I am who I am who I am. You can't take that. No one can.
•Whoever said laughter is medicine for the soul could really use some new lines. It's a bit overused, don't you think?
•Yes, I'm empathic. No, I can't read minds.

𝕀 𝕕𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕒 𝕝𝕖𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕕𝕠𝕨𝕟

theme songs
•It's Time by Imagine Dragons
The path to heaven runs through miles of clouded hell
•Rainbow by Kacey Musgraves
If you could see what I see, you'd be blinded by the colors, yellow, red, and orange, and green, and at least a million others
•Fireflies by Owl City
I'd get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs as they tried to teach me how to dance
•I Ain't Worried by OneRepublic
I'm at my best when I got something I'm wanting to steal, way too busy for them problems and problems to feel
•Viva La Vida by Coldplay
One minute, I held the key, next, the walls were closed on me
•Let Her Go by Passenger
You see her when you close your eyes, maybe one day, you'll understand why
•Bejeweled by Taylor Swift
And we're dancin' all night, and you can try to change my mind, but you might have to wait in line
•Music of the Night by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Let your mind start a journey to a strange new world
•Wake Me Up by Avicii
All this time I was finding myself, and I didn't know I was lost

𝕀𝕥'𝕤 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖𝕘𝕚𝕟, 𝕚𝕤𝕟'𝕥 𝕚𝕥?

other interesting facts
Birthday
March 19
Pisces
Water Sign
Favorite Color
Golden yellow, the type that filters through the clouds after a storm
Medical Issues
Though he has never been formally diagnosed, Gavin has a rare condition called synesthesia, which allows him to connect his senses through color. His 550 color palate is expressed in the aesthetics section below.

aesthetics