Long time no post, just trying to get back in the swing of things after some life issues.
2 of however many I do. :)
Helen on the left, 13; on the right, 21.
The summer before Helen's 13th birthday, she went to bed the weekend she got out of school, and woke up with her head against her bed's headboard and her now-green feet dangling off the end. She had goblinized overnight, as many metahumans do, and it nearly destroyed her. She panicked, running across the room, screaming and crying to wake her older sister Bianca. The elder, scared initially until she realized this tall, gangly green person was indeed her little sister Helen, tried to console her terrified baby sis until her mom and dad came running up the stairs. They knew what had happened, but it still didn't lessen the impact of seeing their once short, slim Helen changed into something completely different. The 12 year old was now standing eye to eye with her father! Her cocoa skin, a gift from her lovely mother, was now a dark green, causing her terrified blue eyes to stand out even more than they already had. For weeks, the young girl stay closed up in her room, refusing to come out for fear of ridicule even though it was happening to kids all over the world. 'Why me? Why me?' was all she could think of, tears streaming down her rage reddened cheeks. In a fit of despair she slammed her clothes chest with her fist, sending it flying across the room to dangle precariously out the window. After a few moments of terror that she might get punished, the thought occurred to her,
'Wait a minute, did I do that?'
She walked slowly over to the end of the chest she could reach and reached out a tentative hand to touch it. It didn't budge. She gripped the foot firmly and pulled gently, it slid in easily. Her eyes wide with disbelief, she gripped two of the feet and lifted; the old oak chest moved with little effort and she gently set it back into it's place.
Still staring at her hands, amazed that she just effortlessly moved a piece of furniture that took her dad and uncle two shifts to get in the house, she never noticed her parents and sister in her doorway, stuck in silent shock that their little girl just performed an impressive feat of strength.
After that, though she was still quite nervous, she agreed to come out and start living again. Her mother took her shopping for new clothes, (thought she kept some of her old pants as they were now tight 'capris') her sister introduced her to some of her friends who had goblinized before, one of which was another troll, and they alerted the school that she had transformed, so they could take the necessary precautions relating to classes like gym and other physical education.
Helen felt confident going back to school that year until the first recess period, where she was taunted and made fun of away from the teachers. Everyday for her first few weeks she came home crying, with small bruises all over her arms and back and spitwads in her hair, just for being different.
Her parents went to the school to complain and got a generalized 'we can't control what kids do outside of these walls.'
Even with her father's constant assurance that if she 'fought back, just once, they'd leave you alone', she still took the abuse, fully aware that she could kill one of these 'humans' if she got out of control. It was that same month, however, that her sister Bianca showed the kids in that school just how magic in the Sixth World looked...
Also, poor Helen was made fun of because her eyes and lips were a bit too big for her small face, but I think she grew into them quite nicely. :)
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