Rave
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Rave is a student at Halcyon Academy, a DJ, musician, and the unofficial student body president.
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History
Caitlynn Post was born to two human parents, Richard and Belinda Post, and showed a high level of music prodigy before she even fully learned to walk. Noticing that their daughter was both naturally gifted and seemed to have a strong love for music, her parents began to encourage her growth in this direction. At first her mother taught her, both acting as a stay at home mom and tutor while her father went back to school. Unfortunately, by the early age of 5, Caitlynn had already surpassed her mother's level of talent. Still, her parents saved and found her the best instructors they could afford. Soon word of the girls prodigious talent began to spread among the musical community and teachers would come from across the country to see if they could teacher. Many couldn't. Some would pretend that they weren't willing to, but her parents knew better.
Even once her piano teaching skills were no longer useful, Belinda still home schooled her daughter, which gave her daughter more time to dedicate to the piano, (or occasionally other instruments), and allowed her to still over see the direction her daughter's skills grew. "If you aren't playing for the love of music, you shouldn't be playing, Caitlynn", was a common refrain in her house, and Caitlynn took it to heart. It was their motto. Richard began to attend law school, making money even tighter, but still they got by.
Father
Richard Post
Mother
Belinda Post
Belinda Post (born Belinda Schwen) was a talented pianist, considered the top of her class in high school, and even having earned a full scholarship to Juilliard before even starting her senior year. It was then unfortunate to learn during the winter of her senior year that she had become pregnant. Fortunately it happened late enough in the school year that she did not start showing until after graduation. Also fortunately the father of her child, and her child hood sweetheart was very supportive. They were married months before Caitlynn was born.
As Caitlynn grew older Belinda home schooled her and tried to help develop the child's own musical skills, although it was quickly appearant that Caitlynn far surpassed her mother's talent even at such a young age. Because of this Belinda often pushed her daughter harder, in some ways trying to get her to finish the dreams that she herself had to leave behind, and because of this, when Caitlynn's powers manifested and she lost the titles she had won, Belinda was one of the ones to take it hardest.
At first Belinda didn't believe her daughter's insistence that she hadn't cheated, but quickly grew to realize the error of that thinking. It still bothers her that she didn't trust her daughter more first, and she has yet to be able to fully admit this. She knows it has strained their relationship and is currently taking steps to try to fix that, but when one is missing so many years of their child's life, it is hard to pick up in the middle and work from there.
Powers
Rave can create and control sounds to an incredible degree, both in the infrasonic and ultrasonic spectrum. This includes sound mimicry and controlling the properties of the sound wave (such as how far out from the sound wave it can be heard), allowing her to fly, dizzy opponents or at times create literal walls of sound (or at least using the sounds to push air molecules around, but you'd never hear HER explain it that way).
She also has a limited degree of ability to create lights, although can not control existing lights or modify the properties to much more an effect than to burn or distract someone.
The exact "how" of her powers has been debated by those with enough time on their hands to debate such things. Some theorize that Rave is actually a telekinetic who tends to focus more on the vibration of molecules rather than the bulk movement of them, as her natural musical upbringing would have made that a mroe familiar and comfortable way to display her powers. Others argue that the ammount of effort to express her powers that way, if it were true, would not only be incredible, but highly unlikely considering her normal aversion to hard work. The more common theory is that she is infact an audiokinetic, but her level of natural musical genius allows her to squeeze much more out of her powers than the normal brute force shoves and noises that tend to be common among others that share her powers. This is further evidenced by the fact that she becomes extremely drained when using her powers in 'uncommon' ways for prolonged periods of time.
What this theory tends to ignore is that it would involve just as much effort and concentration on her part as the first, if not more.
Nickname
Her name was chosen merely for the pretentious value it added to her starting DJ career, and has followed over into her super-hero career. While not a secret identity per-se, Rave tries to keep her real name unknown, as it allows her both to keep up her usual 'persona' of the lazy party girl, but still have a way to be herself at times without compromising that image.
As of late she has begun to let go of the idea of trying to live this dual life, largely because her mother working at the school has made keeping her name secret fairly impossible. (Although it seems that at least for now, most of her classmates still humor her with it.) Still, as she has begun to try to take her super-hero career a bit more seriously, she may find the identity of Rave still useful.
Affiliations
Is the unofficial, unelected Student Body President of Halcyon Academy.
Is an advisory member of the Halcyon Academy Outreach Program.
Summer Classes
Physics
Trigonometry
Music (as a TA)
General Phys. Ed
Trivia
Learned to play the piano at 2 years old.
Won the Van Cliburn's International Piano Competition at the age of 9.
Was stripped of her title when her powers emerged.
Can learn to play most any instrument that isn't electronic in nature within minutes of touching it, although true proficiency can take much longer. This is a natural ability.
Has an IQ of 178, but tries to hide it.
Currently dating Karcsi Blair Lamont, aka. Daydream (it's pronounced Kar-See)
Favorite movie is Moulin Rouge!
Current top flight speed: 750 mph. If she tries to go faster she tends to suffer from nose bleeds and week long migraines.
Has trouble flying in closed places, such as indoors. She says it's because of accoustics.
Because of this, she slightly claustrophobic.
