Seth

"Life shouldn't be a series of pressures and rush jobs, life should be about enjoyment!"

Casting: Hal Sparks

Gender: ♂

Date of Birth: December 14, 1985

Age: 25

Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland

Occupation: Assistant Professor of Sociology (CSU)

Ability: Gyrokinesis

Power Grade: ➌Ⓟ

Registration Status: ☐ UN ☒ REG

Theme Song: COMING SOON

Hooks: ✔ University ✔ Social Sciences ✔ On The Street ✔ Unregistered ✔ Anti-Registration

Seth Michael Greene is your typical Sociologist… besides the fact that depending on his mood the air can either be lighter or heavier than normal.. does that make him weird?

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Background

Seth Michael Greene was born in Dublin, Ireland on a cold night of December 14, 1985. Being that he was born to a loving family his life has been pretty normal. Nothing really strange happened to him, until the days his powers began to surface.

Seth has been aware of his powers ever since freshmen year of high school. It started out slow and quite subtle with moments of thinking he fell through the air onto his bed when he awoke some mornings. Which progressed into waking reactions as well. Most notorious was the times when Seth coincidentally lifted soda cans into thin air.

After manifesting his powers and finding some form of control, Seth is not able to manipulate gravity to varying degrees. Both lessening and exerting gravity is within the man's grasp, but it's clear he's much more comfortable with removing gravity rather than adding gravity to a situation.

Seth works at one of the local Universities as an Assistant Professor to the Social Science department. More specifically the Sociology department of Cal State University. He will be starting in the Fall teaching various courses and offers many electives around the topic of Inequality and Social Justice.

It's also known, by his lectures most likely, that Seth is not a registered A-Positive. Though by the way he talks he's now exactly hiding the fact he's capable of extraordinary things… maybe he'll show the class one day?

+ Full Background

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Seth Michael Greene's story starts in traditionally the same way most do. He was born to two loving parents in Dublin on Saturday, December 14, 1985. He was subsequently brought home a few days later to that of his loving home in the outskirts of the city of Dublin. This is where he spent all his childhood being raised near the city and generally learning the traditional school topics one would expect an Irish student to learn.

Seth's parents were very caring indeed and Seth's childhood is what most could describe as quite average indeed. There is nothing extremely special about Seth except for the fact that Seth has always excelled at academics. His intellect has taken him to places that some might considered to be less appealing, though that's the great thing about intellectuals. Everywhere they go, they seem to somehow find a way to either blend in as passive observers or the pioneer of the group pointing out the more subtle of interactions of various situational variables.

Which brings us to Seth's early middle school days when he really starting finding his way into his own. It wasn't until Seth began studying the social sciences in middle school that his interest in people really began to blossom. Seth has always been a people watcher, finding the interactions of all the people in the city to be quite curious. This of course blossomed into a full blown obsession of Seth's. The boy would soon sneak off into the city in his early high school days to observe the social gatherings of the city folk.

He could typically be seen travelling around the city by subway system or taking the bus around to watch the traditional traveling patterns of the people. He could also be seen sitting in the park with a book reading and watching the people within the park intently. He is well known in his high school days to actually speak to random people starting conversations about what they were doing or pointing out quirky things about the general mechanics of others.

By the time Seth was a freshman in high school he had read various books about human social structure. He began developing his goal of becoming a great academic teaching society about itself and improving the world to be a better place. That was also when he began finding strange happenings going on around himself. It started out slowly, one day he would find himself feeling like he was falling out of thin air onto his bed in the morning. Occasionally he swore he saw a soda can on his nightstand floating out the corner of his eye. It was always when he was either nervous, anxious about something, or in extreme excitement.

It wasn't until near the end of his sophomore year of high school that he began realizing he wasn't going mad. He really was doing those things himself. He began experimenting when he wasn't studying about the human race and their social hierarchies. This is when he began to understand how his power even worked. By the time his junior year of high school rolled around, after a whole summer of devoting time to understand his new ability keeping it a secret from his friends and family, Seth had developed the ability to manipulate gravity around simple objects. It started out small, beginning with being able to just barely float object just far enough off the ground that they barely hovered. Which this ability was nice when he needed to clean his room and didn't feel like constantly moving objects around to vacuum and move things around to dust. His mother always wanted to know his secret of how he kept his room so messy, yet no dust seemed to build up around any of it.

He really didn't come into his power until he discovered this oddly titled book at a local bookshop he frequented. Activating Evolution by Dr. Chandra Suresh was being sold in the science fiction section of the local used bookstore. It talked about the potential of evolving and how some humans might be capable of complex things like rapid tissue regeneration, levitation and telepathy! That's when things began to fall into place; this must be what was happening to him. He was developing some kind of levitation ability, right?!

Wrong! It was in the summer going into his senior year of high school and right around the time Seth was looking into universities and colleges when one day he got quite angry. Angry enough to storm into his room and slam his door while doing the traditional teenage rage filled tantrum. Thankfully in his rage there was a soda can on his desk or situations might have been different. You see Seth got to that point when he looked over at the soda can in frustration and squeezed one of his hands together, the soda can literally collapsed in upon itself. Suddenly shocked by the new discovery, Seth ran over to his desk to observe the reaction more closely. This was the first day of many that the boy began training himself to do the opposite of floating things, he could increase gravity insolated enough to actually cause a physical reaction to objects.

When it came time for Seth to decide on where he was going for his higher education, he had plenty to choose from certainly, he decided the best option would be travelling abroad away from his family and friends. They couldn't support him any longer with his needs and who knows, maybe travelling to Los Angeles he could find some of Dr. Chandra Suresh's students or followers without fear of his loved ones finding out about his freakish ability. So Seth moved off to California State University on scholarship. He was accepted into the social science department studying for his undergraduate degree in Sociology.

This was when Seth began finding out way more about himself than he ever could have imagined. For you see, Seth had always been a devout academic not typically given the chance to really adventure too far into discovering anything about himself other than his ability and how well he could study for the coming tests in school. So when he was suddenly able to join clubs and organizations without judgment from his family and friends. Seth found himself joining the campus activism scene with groups like "Students Against Discrimination" and even the local Gay Straight Alliance on campus. Which is where the most profound realization happened for the young man, Seth found he was increasingly attracted to his fellow male GSA members.

This made Seth quite nervous and scared as these feelings never really made any sense until his spring semester freshmen year of college. This is when the second wave of accidental incidences began to happen to Seth. You see, among other things, one day after a date with his first mutual male love interest he was so overtaken by joy that he closed his dorm room door and leaned against it. Like you would typically see in the movies. And like the expression goes, he began to float on thin air LITERALLY! Panic stricken, like any man would be when randomly starting to float for no reason, he fell with a loud thump which prompted the rest of his dorm mates to come running asking if everything was okay. Luckily Seth was known to be a little clumsy around his room and explained it away, though the idea that his power had strengthened enough to actually levitate himself for a short while came as a shock to Seth! Seth went on to begin developing the control to levitate himself with more accuracy and precision.

After great amounts of study, Seth was offered a graduate student position at CSU studying for a graduate degree in Gender and Inequality. His general focus was the dynamics of gender within the world's community and wrote his master's dissertation on the topic entitled "Queer Community: Inequality of Today's Generation". He later went on to write his doctoral paper on the topic of the gay community and their general lack of equal rights under the law.

Which brings us to present, Seth is just finishing up his PhD and presenting his findings to the department. Being one of the most promising students in the department, Seth has been offered a position in the fall to begin teaching in the Social Science department as an Assistant Professor of Sociology. This was for the fact that one of the senior professors was leaving this spring in pursuit of a well-deserved retirement. Seth of course jumped at the chance of being able to take over for one of the most honored members of the faculty and has begun preparing for the road ahead.

Even more recently Seth has been faced with the prospect of dealing with the public hype on 'A-Positives' and what it means for the general public. Seeing as his doctorate is in a similar topic, Seth has been following the news for the past few months watching and waiting for the ever approaching time where plain discrimination for this his condition and conditions like his to effect the population.

Well Seth got his wish and now there are huge campaigns targetted at outing and registering the A-Positive population and even so far as to require them to carry ID card and warnings along with their powers. Which seems all too similar to another world event in the past… might this be a mirror image waiting to happen? Will the population truly rally against A-Positives like the miniorities before them?!

It should be known that Seth couldn't completely stay in hiding forever, the man needed to enter a hospital sooner or later, right?! Well in effect he offered his arm in pursuit of 'The Test' not willing to completely rebel against the US government. He already knows what the tests are going to return, but what he's anxiously awaiting for is what he's going to have to do with his power. The medical staff have already asked the young man if he wants to register with the government which he is currently refusing! He might have to discuss his condition with the medical community, but he's not willing to send his name out onto 'The List of A-Positive' until it's mandated somewhere that he is required to do so.

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Power Gravitational Modification

^{NOTE: Seth's power typically runs on emotion or mimic of an emotion present within his psyche so typically every aspect of his power needs some kind of emotional trigger.}

Routine Actions

Lessen Gravity

_{Emotion: Happiness, Joy, or Excitement}

Seth can decrease the relative gravity around either himself or visible object around himself. This allows him to essentially make things float and move in what seems to be zero gravity environments.

This is his most commonly used aspect of his power as he's been known to float objects in way that might be described at nearly mimicking telekinesis. Though certainly he's not as dexterous as someone with actual telekinetic powers he has been known to be able to move his fair share of objects.

He also can mimic the aspect of some flight though this isn't his most practiced of ability since he's not really skilled in actually controlling objects of heavier varieties. That's not to say he can't attempt to do it he's just really clumsy and sometimes a bit strained while doing so.

Concentration Required

Exert Gravity

_{Emotion: Fear (Fight Reflex) or Angry}

Seth's ability to increase gravitational pull on objects has been known to be used to increase the general pull to essentially put pressure on object and various things. This part of his ability seems to frighten Seth a little which might be why he doesn't typically practice such a feat unless force to or on objects he knows he can control. Crushing the occasional can is one thing though using this amount of force to stop a pursuer in their tracks by increasing gravity only happens when he really starts to panic and only then does he exert his energy in slowing down people.

Unknown Ability

Ease of Gravity

_{Emotion: Fear (Flight Reflex) or Panic}

Seth on very rare occasions indeed has used his ability to ease gravity in ways that he might not even realize he's doing in the first place. Like in high school gym class when they were required to do sprints. His coach warned that they had to exert themselves and really push themselves or he'd most certainly give them detentions. To the coach's great surprise Seth actually ran the sprint in less time than most of the other in school history. Though somehow when Seth attempted to join the cross country and field team he couldn't run as fast as he did in class under pressure.

Logs

2011-08-25: Starstruck	(user deleted) everett jane seth
2011-08-25: Cause and Effect	emurphy ethan seth simon
2011-08-24: Celebrity Flashback	computerscience87 austin seth

Quotes

• "Why does the world insist on inequality on some of these grounds? Is the world stupid?!"
• "You know being A-Positive doesn't mean I have something like the plague! It's safe to sit next to me…"
• "Alright, today we're discussing the inequality of the modern America… does anyone have an example of inequality? … No Jon, being too attractive is not a good answer for this question!"

Trivia

• Seth is fairly confident in being "Anti-Registration" though insists that blood test might be a good option for his students.
• He's quite taken with a lot of social topic and completely willing to argue the point if it's thought the other subject is missing the point.
• Seth is fairly open with his classes on being A-Positive, though oddly quite reserved when having to discuss other Civil Rights topics. … Funny how one can be confident with being one minority and not another!

Gallery

+ Notes

Plan and Possible Plans

Possible Power Additions:

Neo Walk

_{Emotion: ???}

This stunt can be used to shift the target characters own weight around with different gravitational orientation. This ability would allow the subject being manipulated to begin walking with a different frame of reference similar to what happens in The Matrix with walk walking. This essentially allows the manipulated to walk not just on walls, but with enough powerful success to actually walk, run, or stand on ceilings as well. The only downside is the fact that Seth (and other Gyrokinetics or similar) are the only ones that aren't effected by gravitational disorientation causes by these sudden shifts in physics.

While using this power, depending on how successful the user is, objects within the person's pockets can either have the same gravitational pull or with less success the less items one can control upon the subject being manipulated. (Idea borrowed from Lee)

Increase Balance

_{Emotion: NONE OR ALWAYS ACTIVE}

The more work with the power, the more one gets used to sudden changes in gravitational references. When enough experience with using Gyrokinesis, one gains the ability to actually train their sense of balance. In doing so, the subject no longer gets dizzy or disoriented. (Idea borrowed from Lee)

Controlled Levitation

_{Emotion: Concentration of Happy Thought?}

Gaining enough experience with lifting object and then practicing on ones self, a Gyrokinetic can actually influence themselves enough to levitate and vaguely mimic very isolated flying. Certainly without getting Superb, the effect is childs-play to the actual flying ability. Though this could come in handy with relative escape tactics and other such events.