'Anger is never without a reason... well, most of the time'
Zachery Jan Hooke
Nickname:
Zack 'Or Zee, Hery, Zed, Man Z, Chief Z, Bro... I could go all day.'
Age:
18 'The age of adulthood in most parts of the world'
Sexuality:
Heterosexual
Clique:
The Third 'The middle of the bunch'
Likes:
|| Jokes || Girls || Teasing || Liquorice || Emotions || Cats || Guitars ||
|| Sudoku || Drama (The Subject) || Driving || Cars || Burgers ||
|| Evergreen Trees || Skateboarding || Water Polo || Video Games ||
Dislikes:
|| Apathetic People || Boredom || The Cold || Bees ||
|| Wasps || Country Music || Classical Music || Ballet ||
|| Broken Bones || Clowns || Tween Pop ||
Fears:
Cryophobia - The fear of freezing to death.
Wasps/Bees - Zack is allergic to bee stings, hence he has a natural fear of the small insects. He's one of those people who actively avoid any small, buzzing, flying thing.
Hobbies:
Water Polo - Zack loves the game. He's part of the school's small team.
Video Games - A hobby that takes place in his room, with his curtains closed and door locked. Zack will play video games for hours if his parents don't stop him.
Skateboarding - While he's not into doing tricks at the local park, Zack does enjoy simply cruising around town on his handmade board.
Powers:
Anger Manipulation
Zack has the power to manipulate the anger of himself and others. He can increase, decrease and even create rage in people and animals.
Zack can sense anger in people and has a particular intuition when it comes to understanding what makes people angry. He can make someone feel angry towards a certain thing or just feel uncontrollable rage. Generally when targeting someone's anger, it is easier to make them focus on something that naturally frustrates them. Natural rage enhances his power, the more anger in the atmosphere the more powerful Zack is. While Zack can manipulate anger without touch, physical contact is a much easier way to manipulate people.
Weakness:
Love - 'Love concurs all. How cliched!' Love can overcome the effects of his power. It is important to note that only pure love can overcome Zack's anger, not lust or desire.
Physical Touch - Zack can manipulate rage in a person without touching them only if there is a seed of anger already. If someone is anger free Zack must physically touch them in order to create anger in them.
Strengths:
Guitar - Zack is actually pretty good at acoustic guitar. He taught himself to play and will whip out a guitar alone or with friends.
Water Sports - Zack is an adequate swimmer and loves most water sports. He plays competitive water polo but also enjoys water skiing on the lake during the summer months.
Confidence - Zack has never been shy about who he is. Insults generally roll off him.
Maths & Physics - Surprisingly Zack has quite a talent for mathematics and physics, his father is a physicist after all. Although he rarely studies, meaning he isn't that far beyond others his age, he is able to naturally understand mathematical concepts with ease.
Flaws:
Snow Sports - Zack has a thing against the cold. Snow - and by extension snow sports - fall well outside of his comfort zone.
Irresponsible - Zack is pretty careless when using his power. He'll feed off of and manipulate other people's anger if he's bored.
Boredom - Zack can quickly become bored and restless if not entertained, often resulting in some decision that's likely to end poorly for him or someone else.
Personality:
Zack's personality, in stark contrast to his power, is laid-back and carefree. He knows anger, he can literally sense anger in others and understands that the emotion is a part of every human being. Yet Zack has always been surprisingly anger-free, or perhaps that has something to do with the fact that he can decrease anger in himself too. Whatever the reason Zack is rarely seen with a scowl on his face for longer than a blink of an eye, there is little that actually angers him.
Zack loves to laugh and will frequently be found telling spectacularly awful puns and non-jokes. He knows that they're bad, but to Zack that's what makes them so fantastic. Around his friends, or complete strangers, he is pretty playful. Grins, smiles, smirks are common visitors to Zack's face.
His carefree attitude comes with some shortfalls. Zack often doesn't see the seriousness in a situation. He is constantly being called irresponsible and unrealistic. In all honesty those two traits are true. Zack rarely thinks of the consequences his actions will have. Zack will use his powers to alleviate his boredom or to simply 'liven up' the place. Since his powers aren't exactly the friendliest, this always results in an unpleasant situation for someone. Not that Zack purposefully means to hurt anyone, he just rarely thinks about others.
Zack is a bit of a flirt. Playful, teasing, harmless flirting is his preferred method. He rarely plans on the flirting leading to anything serious, in fact he actively avoids serious relationships. He's more of a one night stand/ summer fling kind of guy. That being said he never lies or cheats, he lets all of his partners know that he's not ready for a serious relationship.
Restlessness and boredom are things that often overcome Zack. If he has been sitting still for two long his mind begins to wander. He likes to be active, physically or mentally, and if something doesn't catch his attention he will begin to find other ways of having fun. He can be impulsive at times, choosing activities based on a singular thought and (as mentioned above) without taking care of potential consequences. This is because he dislikes boredom and will do anything to entertain himself.
|| Laid-back || Carefree || Playful || Irresponsible || Flirtatous ||
History:
Zack Hooke comes from a big family. His mother, Augusta Jean Orak, was a talented young woman who dreamed of becoming a dancer. A broken ankle at the age of 16 destroyed those dreams, but set her life on the path that would eventually lead her to Zack's father. First, of course, she met, fell in love with and married Arthur Menold. Augusta married and had two children with Arthur before skin cancer cut his life short. With two young children to look after and a house full of grief Augusta moved, arriving in Benjamin. It was there that she met a younger Gregory Hooke, a promising physicist. The two started as friends and eventually (and thankfully for Zack) fell in love. The two married and a year later had their first children together, a set of girl twins. Two years later Zack was born.
Growing up with his older half-siblings and his two sisters, it was only natural that Zack was babied. He rarely had to worry about remembering anything, knowing that he had a range of older family members who would for him.
Emotions were also something that were rarely controlled in his household. His mother was an empath and each one of her children had inherited some kind of emotion manipulation. His oldest half-sibling can manipulate patience, the other can manipulate trust and his older twin sisters can both manipulate excitement. As the children learned to control their powers there was, naturally, a lot of drama and anxiety experience by both parents, but somehow they managed to get through it.
At school Zack's casual attitude made him a favourite among his peers, but earned him more than a few stern words from his teachers. His work was usually handed in late and sometimes in complete. However teachers never got angry with him, his power helping him cruise through without any obvious rage aimed at him.
Zack is allergic to bee stings. The first time he was stung his arm swelled up, doubling in size within a matter of minutes. His distress quickly tapped into his powers, bringing out the anger in all those around him. As everyone grew angrier it only made the distress of a young Zack worse, making the surrounding rage worse. It was only when the anger and pain of the sting overwhelmed Zack and he fainted, that everyone around him was slowly able to regain control of themselves. Only after that was he rushed to the doctor's practice where it was found that he had had a severe allergic reaction.
In regard to the social hierarchy, Zack recognised early on that he'd never reach the elite or even the secondary. His power is adequate if used well, but he lacks any drive to get him anywhere. Besides, against people who could literally destroy the town within a second, he wouldn't stand a chance. Plus his power is hardly the most offensive power, the best he can do is make them so angry that their reason clouds. Or direct their anger at something or someone else. For Zack he is happy where he is.
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