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Name: Joseph Rozhenko
Known As: No real aliases. Although, most of his friends call him Roz.
Location: Boston, Massechuesettes.
Description:
Age - 20
Height - 6'2''
Weight - 203 lbs
Eyes - Brown
Hair - Black
History: Joseph Rozhenko was born January 22, 1986, in the small Russian villaige of Pokrovskoye. Shortly afterwards, Joseph's father was able to get the family out of Russia. At first, they moved to Germany, where they lived for a few years, his parents working at an electronics store. However, his father soon got a job offer from a relative in America, who owned a small chain of electronic stores in Massechuesettes. They soon moved to Boston, where they have lived ever since. From an early age, Joseph experienced strange phenomina. He would hear things that weren't there. See strange figures in the night that would disapear the next instant. Whenever he was angry or upset, objects would shake and fall. He soon found that he could reas people very easily, soon passing intuition and treading the line of the psychic. There are two major moments of weirdness in his life.
One was in his early childhood. When he was about eight, his family lived in a small apartment building. In the building lived a rather large black family of Hatian decent. The mother of the family took a special interest in Joseph, often times watching him for hours on end as he played outside. Eventually, while the family was out, the landlord discovered a small shrine in their apartment, with Joseph's picture in the middle of it. Upon learning this information, the Rozhenko family moved to another building.
The second was in his teenage years. It was at school during lunch. A young girl he had never seen before sat down beside him. He introduced himself, and she said her name was Lacy McNeil. Joseph and Lacy began talking. They spoke of their families, their lives, and pretty much anything there was to talk about. Through the coversation, Joseph noticed that Lacy seemed very sad, and always kept her arms bunched up at her sides. After lunch, Joseph caught up with his friends, and told them of the nice new girl he met. They said that they had not seen anyone sitting with Joseph. When he told them her name, they informed him that the only Lacy McNeil they had ever heard of had been a student twenty years earlyer. On the night of the prom, her boyfriend dumped her. Then, in a state of depression, she went into the girld's bathroom, slit her wrists, and bled to death.
Graduating high school and college, Joseph came back home at the age of 20. Needing money and possesing no real skills to speak of, he began searching for a job. His girlfriend, who he had told of his unique abilities, suggested that he become one of those psychic private detectives she's always hearing about on the Sci Fi channel. After some thought, he agreed. So, going through the proper channels, he became a private detective.
Stats:
Strength - Average
Dexterity - Average
Fortitude/Stamina - Average
Speed - Average
Intelligence - Adept
Skills: Joseph is highly inteligent, and an acomplished tactical and analytical thinker. However, he posseses no real skills that would be helpful in the job market. Recently, though, he has found that his relatively impressive cognative abilities are very good for detective work. He is also fluent in German and Russian, and can speak French very well.
Power(s): Joseph posses psychic abilities. He seems capable of reading people quite well. While this is comperable to telepathy, he cannot hear people's exaqct thoughts. Instead, he is capable of getting a good idea of who someone is and what they're like simply by being near them. He's also shown to be able to get a good idea of what someone's up to. If you ask him what a randomly pointed out person on the street is doing or is about to do, he can tell you and will be at least somewhat acurate. He says he simply gets a "vibe" about stuff like that.
Joseph has also shown limited precog abilities in the past. There have been instances where he simply gets the feeling that something either very bad or very good is about to happen. The closer he gets to the event or the location of the event, the better idea he gets of what it's going to be. Although, usually, it remains quite vague. This feelings, however, don't tend to happen very often.
Joseph has sometimes said that he can see spirits. These can usually be described as either being ghosts or demons. He tends to call them "spooks." This lends itself to humans aswell, Were he to meet a demonically possesed human or a superhuman of some kind, he could tell that there was something odd about them rather easily.
Joseph also posseses low level telekenisis. He is limited to small objects, but through practice he has learned to move them with a good deal of profficience. The largest object he has ever moved was a couch, and that was with a bit of effort. He's also learned how to use his abilities in combat, usually through knocking people off balance and tripping them up.