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Jillian Valance

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Halcyon Halls

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ABOUT JILLIANFull Name: Jillian Marie Valance
Nicknames/Aliases: Jill, Jilly, Jill-Marie
Gender: Female
Race: Human (Gifted)
Actual Character Age: 18
DOB: August 21, 1989
Physical Description: Jillian stands a slim 5'8", weighing 135 pounds. She's in good physical condition for her age and is wiry from climbing trees and hiking for most of her young life. Her long dark brown hair has natural lighter streaks in it from summers spent in the sunshine and her wide hazel eyes do little to hide her thoughts. She tends to wear somewhat worn out clothing, her sense of fashion seeming to fall to neutral colors and classic fashions that tend to not go out of style. She likes jeans and comfortable clothing like sweaters and double layered shirts. Her face is often considered cold and her lack of an easy smile leads people to believe she is a snob or is even hostile.
Distinguishing marks: Jillian has a long scar below her right ear from a car accident, a scar on her left shoulder from a slim knife wound and a scar behind her right knee from a childhood fall.
PB: Olivia Wilde
Birth Location: Portland, Oregon, US
Family: Father Jeffery Valance, Mother Carolina Sharill-Valance, Brother (Deceased) Todd Valance, Aunt Janet Sharrill, Grandparents Edna and Roger Valance
Personality: Jill is a quiet young woman with a rather macabre sense of humor that often tends towards self-deprecation. Having been raised in a small-town in Oregon, Jill hasn't seen much of the world beyond her state. She is an avid reader and writer, loving to explore the natural world around her to the point of distraction. Even though she is a small town girl, though, she can be a little cynical, especially when it comes to expecting the best out of strangers. Since her accident, her world-view has gotten a bit shaken up and she looks for disaster around every turn, expecting that strangers would be just as willing to hurt her as to help her. However, around those she is fortunate enough to call her friends she feels safe and is thereby warm and congenial. Her gifts make her a bit reticent to meet new people though, as she is afraid of finding out too much about them.
Weakness: Being human, Jillian has all normal of the normal human weaknesses. She scares easily and can be shy, which often makes her come off as stand-offish and even snobbish. She is talented at the arts, but fails when it comes to anything logical such as science or mathematics. She doesn't like team sports and enjoys being alone, finding it difficult to make friends. She can also be extremely distracted by her psychic abilities, which makes her clumsy and sometimes dangerous to be around.
Magical Abilities: Telepathy (which, for now, comes in spurts and is uncontrolled)
Any Training: None
Special Skills: Jillian has better than basic wilderness survival skills and she is quite skilled at climbing trees. Other than that (and her growing telepathy), she's normal.
House: Zephir House
Start Date at Halcyon: July 2007
Classes:
-Early Morning: Nothing Scheduled
-Mid Morning: Supernatural History
-Late Morning: Language: French
-Mid Afternoon: Art: Photography
-Late Afternoon: English: Advanced
-Early Night: Nothing Scheduled
After School Clubs: None
AIM Name: strwbrryjilly

LIMITED HISTORYIn fall of 1989, Jillian Marie Valance was born to a pair of perfectly normal yuppie parents in suburban Portland, Oregon. The first three years of her life passed uneventfully, her parents juggling two children and their growing business. In 1992, her parents lost their business when they were bankrupted by her elder brother's sudden illness. Soon after her brother's diagnosis with leukemia, her family relocated to the tiny town of Eddyville to live with her grandparents. The move was rough as her grandparents weren't fond of her mother and the subsequent fights between the three of them drove Jill to distraction. Her elder brother passed away in 1998, leaving Jill and only child and her parents with a large set of hospital bills that insurance refused to cover.

Living in poverty didn't particularly bother Jillian as no one in her town was wealthy. What did bother her were the fights between her parents and her grandparents. Thanks to her weak but burgeoning psychic gift, she would often catch hurtful thoughts from her family, which just drove her more inward. She didn't know that the things she heard hadn't been said, so she often reacted badly around her family, getting angry and upset when they hadn't even had a fight. Her family didn't understand her anger and it just escalated the situation, leading to more real fights. Jillian developed a way to deal with the fights when she was younger, locking herself in her room, spending hours writing, reading, and listening to music.

Jillian's psychic powers often made her believe that she was hearing things or seeing things, but she never mentioned them to anyone else for fear of becoming even more isolated than she already was. She often caught stray thoughts from other people, but she often chalked it up to her imagination...as that was far preferable to the alternative.

When she reached her teens, Jillian often escaped into the wilderness to get away from the frequent familial battles, taking up hiking and even camping with friends. Her parents didn't approve of her explorations entirely, particularly if she was alone, terrified that something would happen to her, given the presence of several missing persons cases at the time.

In July of 2007, Jillian was out with friends when she decided to camp just a little bit longer, deciding that she was fairly safe on her own. That Monday morning she packed up and headed out, having the ill-fortune of her truck dying on the side of the road. She waited for a little while before another car passed. The vehicle stopped and the man inside offered Jillian a ride to the nearest gas station so that she could call her parents. Jillian accepted his ride and it was several minutes before she realized that they were driving in the wrong direction. Jillian mentioned it and the man grew angry, drawing a knife on her and telling her to remain calm. She panicked and struck at the man, struggling with him and causing the vehicle to veer off of the road and crash.

It was several hours before Jillian awoke, dizzy with blood loss from a head wound. The vehicle was upside down and both Jillian and her kidnapper were trapped. She kept hearing the man ask for help, even though the man was unconscious. Blood was everywhere, some of it Jillian's, though most of it was his. Her vision swam as she heard his dying thoughts, cutting in and out like a static filled television channel.

The ambulance arrived, but not before Jillian was catatonic. She had just spent the last three hours listening to and watching a man die. Unresponsive, she was taken to the hospital and treated, being transferred to the mental facility at the hospital after she had physically healed. For the following nine months she was in rehabilitation, heavily medicated as she rambled about the states of the other patients and Ray, the man who had died. It wasn't until she was medicated enough that they allowed her out of the hospital, deeming her not a threat to herself or others. Jillian then attempted to go back to school but found it difficult.

As fate would have it, she wasn't the only person in her family to be born with such a gift. Her mom's sister Janet received a phone call from Jillian's mother, explaining what had happened, and her panic over the fact that her daughter was "hearing things". Janet was sympathetic, as she herself had gone through the same thing, unbeknownst to her sister. She told her sister that she knew of the perfect school for Jillian as they were "sensitive" to her type of situation. Arranging to take care of tuition herself, Janet immediately contacted Halcyon Halls, which she had once attended herself. She knew what Jillian was going through as she had been through it herself once.

Jillian, mystified at the generosity of an aunt she barely knew, was lost all at once, especially when her parents shipped her off without much to-do. It wasn't until her aunt told her why she was going that she began to accept the idea. Explaining that she herself had awakened psychic powers at a young age and had dealt with them with the help of a relative, she offered Jillian the choice her parents hadn't given her. Desperate to return to her normal live, Jillian agreed to come to the school and give it a chance. Having just arrived at the school though, Jillian is still a bit lost.

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