Blindfold (Earth-616)

Blindfold

Name:	Ruth Aldine
Gender:	Female
Place of Birth:	North Carolina
Age:	18
Aliases:	Blindfold
Origin:	Mutant
Origin Earth:	616
Present Location:	New Jersey, New York
Occupation:	Student
Team:	X-Men
Alignment:	none listed
Significant Other(s):	none listed
Powers and Abilities:	Psychic Powers
Portrayed by:	none

Origin

All About Ruth

Ruth Aldine was born without eyes, a condition that her family saw as part monstrous and part omen. Deeply ashamed, she was hidden away from the world, kept sheltered and largely abused. Her father ran away, in time, and her mother took her loneliness out on her. Her older brother saw her as almost demonic, blaming her for their parents' divorce and holding her in contempt. Eventually, her brother went mad and, in that madness, attempted to kill his sister. Their mother, for all her own sins, tried to stop him and, in the process, was murdered herself. He was sent to prison for his crime.

The worst part, of course, is that Ruth foresaw it all, her gift having awakened just beforehand, but her own terror and her own confusion made it impossible for her to do a thing about it.

Taken in by social service, Ruth has never quite adjusted to being torn from her home. While she was abused, yes, she also never knew anything else. Now she's surrounded by strangers and inundated by thoughts and visions that she still works to understand. Because of her strange gift, her manner of communication is odd, mingling past and future and present together, alienating her even further even from those who would offer her sympathy.

Perhaps she will find someone to help her with her gifts, someplace where she can belong. For now, though, she's run away from those who would institutionalize and 'care' for her, choosing instead to strike out on her own and make do the best she can.

Psyche

+ Quiet

Ruth is generally a quiet person. She usually doesn't speak unless spoken to, but most of the time she speaks to herself.

+ Broken

Due to her brief past, an incident left her partially broken. Mentally and sometimes physically.

+ Polite

Ruth is polite to a fault. Whether it was due to her upbringing or having her psyche ripped away, she'll never be rude, even to enemies.

+ Motivation

Ruth is motivated by her pure need to protect everyone from what she inevitably sees in her visions. There is also a need for her to want to be alone, and to not deal with them all together.

+ Outward Loner

Outwardly, Ruth usually wants to be alone. But secretly? She just wants a hug.

Abilities

+ Telepathy

Blindfold is a capable if still nascent telepath, capable of broadcasting thoughts and reading minds. She can engage in deep-mind probing and can create a mental link between as many as a dozen people. Her range only goes so far, however. For instance, she could read minds up to at least two to three miles. Anything further would put obvious strain on her mental capacity.

+ Retrocognition

Ruth can see events of the past, but as with the rest of her powers, cryptic and incomplete. Sometimes it could be activated by touch, sound or smell, but mostly through dreaming.

+ Precognitive

Through dreaming and sometimes by complete accident, Ruth can often see events as they were to happen, but only in cryptic images that she's not too smart to decipher. She doesn't have control of this power and it happens at random.

+ Astral Projection

Blindfold possesses the ability to project her consciousness into the astral plane. She enters the immediate astral space adjacent to the physical world, but can journey deeper after arrival, tethered back to her own body. During such times, her body will be in a state of meditated unconsciousness, unaware of her surroundings.

In the astral, she is capable of altering her spirit's appearance, create illusory spiritual objects out of the ambient spirit energy around her and even craft weapons for 'psychic combat'. These weapons can only be used on presences in the astral plane and not on actual physical beings. The weaponry she creates in the astral plane can only do ASTRAL damage, however.

She can also shape the astral material around her to create settings and appearances to her liking. She can also peer into the physical world where it connects to where she is in the astral. She is even capable of manifesting herself there as a solid apparition, making it seem as though she's somewhere she's not.

+ Clairvoyant

Ruth can 'see' even though she lacks the eyes through clairvoyance. It's tricky, sometimes as long as she stays in a mode of careful concentration she could actually maneuver herself around without assistance.

Also, being clairvoyant allows her to see present and slightly distant events as well as events in far off places. She has been known to tell a story JUST as it is happening elsewhere with remarkable clarity. (THIS MAY REQUIRE PLAYER CONSENT/PLOT APPROVAL). With this ability being 'always on' for her navigation, there are times when she cannot see what is happening miles away due to her focus.

Even though this ability is nearly centric to her own mobility, she cannot see through walls nor underground, as her brand of clairvoyance in this regard is a very, narrow gift called 'traveling clairvoyance' unless triggered by an unknown event.

+ Psychometry

Ruth can tell the history of a person or object through touch. The object itself must hold personal value to a person or be related to a major event in a persons life.

Advantages

+ Telepathic Resistance

Ruth's mind is in a permanent state of flux, which makes reading her mind just a little bit hard. More skilled telepaths won't have a problem with it, once they get past the initial fuzz. This minor resistance however doesn't stop her from being possessed or psychically assaulted.

+ Reality Warp Immunity

Ruth retains all of her true memories in case of a reality warp instance. It could possibly be due to her clairvoyance or her mind constantly in flux (or active). But the reason remains unknown.

+ Unusual Insight

Ruth has an unusual insight into the world and how she perceives things. It could be from her powers, or her life in general.

+ Xavier's School

Ruth Aldine is going to be a high school graduate of Xavier's School of Gifted Children. Yippie!

Skills

+ Avoidance

Coupled with her mutant ability, Ruth knows just where to go and how to hide. The probability field with her is extremely high, due to predictions and basic know how to stealthily hide or avoid any sort of altercation.

+ Astral Navigation

Being a born mutant, Ruth has successfully learned over the years to navigate through the astral plane. It's almost like her bread and butter.

+ Academics

As a graduate student at Xavier's, Ruth is employed with scholastic knowledge in all levels of normalized learning.

Disadvantages

+ Obvious Mutant

Ruth was born without eyes. She doesn't have an upper and a lower lid like most blind people have. Skin covers the holes where her eyes should be, which is why she chooses to wear the blindfold over them.

+ Fractured Mind

Due to the incident with her brother, something happened in which she lost part of herself. Perhaps it was due to him attempting to kill her mother.. or other events that have gone unknown. But her mind is fractured and possibly will remain that way for the unforeseeable, or in her case, see-able future.

+ Horrible Social Skills

With Ruth being polite to a fault, her lack of interaction with people has caused her social interactions to suffer greatly. Most people find her standoffish, and most people would rather avoid her due to her odd mannerisms.

+ Doom & Gloom

Seeing the future and all aspects of it isn't.. well, the best for anyone. She's a walking vision of Doom. Sometimes the good outweighs the bad and there are happier times. But lately, not so much.

Reputation

Ruth Aldine is practically a nobody. Though those who know of her know that she's a sweet, quiet, mild-mannered woman who always wears a blindfold over her eyes.

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