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{{Tab}}Cautious but curious audiokinetic trying to figure out what convictions and community could look like, now. Is paying attention to everything behind that book or earbuds, but only fifteen percent chance of speaking if not spoken to. 
{{Tab}}Walking tape recorder.  
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{{Tab}}Echo is 5'8" and, though she attained this height around two years ago, moves as though she is slightly surprised that she takes up space and is trying not to. Her collarbone-length black hair is straight and thick, seen primarily as an obstacle to detangle or get out of her glasses (tortoiseshell acetate, but importantly, with nosepads). There is a tentative air about her expressions, but she smiles often, if not fully. While her build has softened from childhood athleticism, she retains muscle mostly in her thighs and glutes. She dresses simply, solid shirts and jeans most of the time.  
{{Tab}}At 5'8", Echo is tall for the Chinese-American teenager she is but lacks much of a presence -- her movements tend to be relaxed-but-reserved, though it's not hard to get her to smile. Her collarbone-length black hair is straight and thick. She's almost always just wearing her tortoiseshell glasses, some genre of t-shirt, jeans and sneakers, and a hoodie when it's cold, and she often has earbuds in. Echo's build is fairly straight up-and-down, carrying more muscle in her lower than upper body.
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{{Tab}}New to Xavier's (sophomore) as of late February 2023, nothing much to speak of yet. Has probably loosened up the most in band.  
{{Tab}}Classmates may know that Echo arrived at Xavier's in the spring of 2023 and somewhat promptly became one of the kids that landed themselves in Lassiter. Otherwise not very high-profile -- may be known for having her hand in a smattering of different music things and sharing whatever she's baking if you run into her in the kitchen. Never instigates trouble but game to participate and easily influenced by friends.
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{{Tab}}Echo was born Clarissa Ziyin Lin on January 23, 2007 to Chinese immigrant parents. She had a classic sheltered middle-class life in the suburb of Eden Prairie, full of little activities (in order of longevity: piano, Chinese dance, Chinese school, even hockey) and the anxieties of growing up in a fairly white neighborhood and having a domineering and unsympathetic mother.
{{Tab}}Echo had a classic sheltered middle-class immigrant childhood in the suburb of Eden Prairie: lots of little activities, a domineering mother, trying to be Midwestern enough to fit in. Being a mutant seemed fun and harmless at first, until it started uncontrollably manifesting whenever she tried to prove something in all-too-frequent arguments. Apparently fairly useless mutant powers look like cheating to schools and make you a bad influence on little sisters, so after a failed attempt at a different boarding school, Echo ended up at Xavier's and hasn't been welcome home since. Post ill-advised group detour, she's managed to make Xavier's feel reasonably like home.  
 
{{Tab}}Persistent tensions turned hard in middle school when academic expectations and Clarissa's desire to fit in increased. Her powers kicked in to cover up freezing during a piano recital, and at first, being a mutant seemed fun; a trick to read while "practicing", a sense of being, like in a favorite fantasy novel, someone else. She confided in six-years-younger sister Candace, who would always keep a secret for her, and then her best friend, who first floated the idea of the name "Echo", but never planned on telling her parents, until it started uncontrollably manifesting whenever she tried to prove something in an argument.  
 
{{Tab}}Things calmed into an icy silence at home after a replay shook the window glass, but during her freshman year the entire class started hearing their teachers' voices during tests; she was pulled out of school after cheating accusations and lost touch with her friends. After a semester of online school, her parents outsourced the problem to a private Catholic boarding school the next year, but she got expelled from that one too. Her parents reached out to Xavier's after hearing about some mutant alums; after learning it could be a more permanent solution, they made it clear that though they would support her financially, they wanted her home as little as possible. Seemed a good time to start calling herself something different; Echo, meet Xavier's.  
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{{Tab}}Echo is an audiokinetic who can perfectly reproduce sounds she's heard (audible, 20 Hz to 20 kHz). Can only cut out background noise if she was focused on the sound. A useful memory aid, as long as she can remember that it happened (a bit of a circular problem). Passively, she has immunity to cochlear damage from audible soundwaves as well as perfect pitch. Her controlled powers are currently limited to reproducing things exactly as heard (in volume and direction relative to her) centered within a 10-foot radius from her; uncontrolled, they might Get Loud.  
{{Tab}}Echo is an audiokinetic who can perfectly reproduce sounds she's heard (audible, 20 Hz to 20 kHz). Can cut out background noise if she was focused on the sound. A useful memory aid, as long as she can remember that it happened (a bit of a circular problem). Passively, she has immunity to cochlear damage from audible soundwaves as well as perfect pitch. She has some ability to modulate volume and location of the replay.  
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{{Tab}}Piano (good, classically trained and decent at playing by ear); horn (decent for a high schooler); balance and body awareness (lots of childhood dance); skating (confident); Mandarin Chinese (conversational); baking (breadth but not depth).
{{Tab}}Piano (good, getting worse); horn (good, getting better); balance and body awareness; skating (confident); Mandarin Chinese (conversational); baking (getting experienced but still kinda by-the-book).
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| 01/23/2007
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| 01/23/2008
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|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''1, 2, 3, 4''' - ''Echo likes the music room and her powers go well with it. Can help you clean up your recordings and hear your errors. A future in conducting, if nudged.''
|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''1, 2, 3, 4''' - ''Echo likes the music room and her powers go well with it. Can help you clean up your recordings and hear your errors. A future in conducting, if nudged.''
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|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''you know nothing''' - ''Xavier's is a huge change for this pretty sheltered teen. More mutants, obviously; more people of color, more religions, more regional backgrounds. Would like to learn how you see the world, so she can figure out how to see hers.''
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|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''sugar, butter, flour''' - ''Likes to bake, will definitely offer you pieces of cake. Your partner in trying to recreate that bakery's specialty or your grandma's recipe.''
|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''sugar, butter, flour''' - ''Likes to bake, will definitely offer you pieces of cake. Your partner in trying to recreate that bakery's specialty or your grandma's recipe.''
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|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''earth day''' - ''Was really enjoying earth science before all that schooling interruption, something to explore?''
|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''angelica, eliza''' - ''Has been largely cut off from her 11-year-old sister and has questions about the possible futures. Might ask you questions about being mutant siblings.''
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|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''angelica, eliza''' - ''Has been largely cut off from her 10-year-old sister and has questions about the possible futures. Might ask you questions about being mutant siblings.''
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Latest revision as of 23:28, 17 December 2024

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Introduction

xxxxxWalking tape recorder.

Description

xxxxxAt 5'8", Echo is tall for the Chinese-American teenager she is but lacks much of a presence -- her movements tend to be relaxed-but-reserved, though it's not hard to get her to smile. Her collarbone-length black hair is straight and thick. She's almost always just wearing her tortoiseshell glasses, some genre of t-shirt, jeans and sneakers, and a hoodie when it's cold, and she often has earbuds in. Echo's build is fairly straight up-and-down, carrying more muscle in her lower than upper body.

Reputation

xxxxxClassmates may know that Echo arrived at Xavier's in the spring of 2023 and somewhat promptly became one of the kids that landed themselves in Lassiter. Otherwise not very high-profile -- may be known for having her hand in a smattering of different music things and sharing whatever she's baking if you run into her in the kitchen. Never instigates trouble but game to participate and easily influenced by friends.

History

xxxxxEcho had a classic sheltered middle-class immigrant childhood in the suburb of Eden Prairie: lots of little activities, a domineering mother, trying to be Midwestern enough to fit in. Being a mutant seemed fun and harmless at first, until it started uncontrollably manifesting whenever she tried to prove something in all-too-frequent arguments. Apparently fairly useless mutant powers look like cheating to schools and make you a bad influence on little sisters, so after a failed attempt at a different boarding school, Echo ended up at Xavier's and hasn't been welcome home since. Post ill-advised group detour, she's managed to make Xavier's feel reasonably like home.

Powers

xxxxxEcho is an audiokinetic who can perfectly reproduce sounds she's heard (audible, 20 Hz to 20 kHz). Can cut out background noise if she was focused on the sound. A useful memory aid, as long as she can remember that it happened (a bit of a circular problem). Passively, she has immunity to cochlear damage from audible soundwaves as well as perfect pitch. She has some ability to modulate volume and location of the replay.

Skills

xxxxxPiano (good, getting worse); horn (good, getting better); balance and body awareness; skating (confident); Mandarin Chinese (conversational); baking (getting experienced but still kinda by-the-book).

Connections

Friends

  • Coming soon.

Foes

  • Coming soon.

And everything in between

  • Coming soon.
Trivia
  • Random facts you think are worth knowing about your character.
  • And more random facts!
  • And more.
Gallery

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Ziyin "Echo" Lin 林紫音
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Codename None
Birthdate 01/23/2008
Birthplace Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Species Mutant
Affiliation Xavier's School
Alignment None
Powers Perfect replay audiokinetic
Occupation Student
Registration Status Underage
Faceclaim None
RP Hooks
1, 2, 3, 4 - Echo likes the music room and her powers go well with it. Can help you clean up your recordings and hear your errors. A future in conducting, if nudged.
sugar, butter, flour - Likes to bake, will definitely offer you pieces of cake. Your partner in trying to recreate that bakery's specialty or your grandma's recipe.
angelica, eliza - Has been largely cut off from her 11-year-old sister and has questions about the possible futures. Might ask you questions about being mutant siblings.
Logs
Date Title Cast Mentions
  • (2024-02-25)
Fear of Missing Out Echo, Roscoe
  • (2023-09-03)
Oh, the Places You'll Go Echo, Leonidas, Nanami, Roscoe Gaétan, Avi, Lucien
  • (2023-08-19)
Terminally Offline @winters.call, @vosco34, @helcaraxe Dusk, Spencer, Daiki, Echo
  • (2023-08-13)
In Which Some Patches and Some Labrats Are Heading Toward Becoming a Colorful New Quilt Joshua, !Karrie, Karrie, Daiki, Echo, Nahida, Naomi, Sriyani, Taylor Dusk, Spencer, Avi, Roscoe, Naomi, Nevaeh, Hive, Gaétan, Leonidas, Lael, Nick, B, Shane
  • (2023-08-05)
Of Peaches and Pilfering (Or, Switch™eroo) Echo, Kavalam, Spencer Gaétan, Harm, Shane, Ryan, Lucien, Scott
  • (2023-07-28)
New Strategies Echo, Roscoe Jax, Gaétan, Nahida
  • (2023-07-28)
In Which the People Shouted, and the Trumpets Were Blown. As Soon as the People Heard the Sound of the Trumpets, They Raised a Great Shout, and the Wall Fell Down Flat; so the People Charged Straight Ahead Into the City and Captured it. Scott, Chevy, Jax, Fury, Wendy, Lucien, Shane, Gaétan, Taylor, Tag, Boss Chen, Erik, Leo, Elie, Avi, Nevaeh, Naomi, Echo, Nanami, Spencer, Clint, Winona, Terri Pryde, Roscoe, Kitty, Ryan Kelawini, Harm, Remi, Leonidas, Lael, Asva, Sriyani, Ion, Polaris, Steve, DJ, Hive, Skye, Heather, Tian-shin, Joshua, Matt
  • (2023-07-25)
Tartarus Elie, Gaétan, Lucien Steve, Ion, Matt, Lily, Winona, Echo
  • (2023-07-23)
Prometheus: TITANFALL - eXtraction Nahida, Sriyani, Nanami, Dusk, Nevaeh, Ion, Alma, Blink, Ash, Echo, Hive, Matt, Gaétan, Spencer, Avi, Naomi, Harm B, Lucien, Jax, Lael
  • (2023-07-19)
Fun and Profit Echo, Nanami, Roscoe Naomi
  • (2023-07-06)
Extra Credit Dimension Avi, Naomi Echo, Nahida, Lael, Jax, Maya, Kyinha, Shane
  • (2023-07-05)
Thoroughly Mediocre Wonderland Echo, Nahida, Sriyani Erik
  • (2023-07-04)
Of Riots and Rethinking (Or, Best Laid Plans) Ryan, Sriyani, Nanami, Lael, Nahida, Lily, Nevaeh, Spencer, Roscoe, Rainy Ogden, Queen Bee, Beau, Gaétan, Kelawini, Naomi, Harm, Echo, Kavalam, Joshua Jax
  • (2023-07-03)
Of Buddies and Bait (Or, The Very Devout Members of the Lassiter Chapel Youth Group) Avi, Echo, Gaétan, Kavalam, Nahida, Nanami, Naomi, Roscoe, Spencer, Sriyani Jax, Matt, Leonidas, Lael, Asva, Harm, Remi, Kelawini, Elie, Nevaeh
  • (2023-06-13)
Of Ramen and Recruitment (Or, All Each Other's Problem) Gaétan, Kavalam, Roscoe Elie, Echo, Jax, Matt
  • (2023-06-04)
Exit Strategies Echo, Roscoe Jax, Joshua, Ansel
  • (2023-05-19)
Keeping Watch K.C., Cerebro Avi, Gaétan, Flèche, Lucien, Spencer, Echo, Kelawini, Nanami, Harm, Remi, Leonidas, Asva, Lael, Naomi, Scott, Charles, DJ, Hive
  • (2023-05-13)
Regular Heroic Beau, Echo Kavalam, Naomi, Spencer, Roscoe, Jax, Scott, Charles, Harm, Gaétan
  • (2023-05-08)
Not Monopoly Echo, Naomi Harm, Kavalam, Astrid, Lael
  • (2023-05-06)
Of Games and Glasses (Or, The Lassiter Youth Comedy Hour) Echo, Kavalam, Roscoe Harm, Gaétan, Sriyani, Naomi
  • (2023-05-04)
Of Raids and Realizations (Or, The Children’s Crusade) Sera, Spencer, Gaétan, Sriyani, Nanami, Echo, Remi, Avi, Lael, Naomi, Asva, Beau, Kelawini, Kavalam, Brendan, Nahida, Elie, Nevaeh, Scott, Shane, Roscoe, Harm
  • (2023-04-25)
Getting Serious Lael, Naomi Nanami, Gaétan, Echo, Harm, Marcus
  • (2023-04-21)
Animorphs Echo, Naomi, Sriyani
  • (2023-04-14)
(Super) Heroic Avi, Echo, Harm Asva, Sriyani, Jax, Iron Man, Naomi