So I'm going to do something that I used to do when I was watching anime or movies back a few summers ago. This is a character breakdown of how they think, based on past and present events and the people he/she comes in contact with.
Andrew Lee Ricker (Lee Ricker) ~
Lee has two powers. He was born with a mutation that allows his muscles to withstand great strain, and he learned the ability to use his voice. He's always had it fairly easy in school, living a sheltered life until halfway through middle school where he learned that he could use his mutation for the better. Because of the life he led, he believes that every person is good, so it's actually incredibly rare that he actually ends up using his mutation to help anyone. In fact, most of the time, he nearly talks them to death instead. He believes that he has something that everyone needs. He has encountered all kinds of people--those that think he's a prophet, those that think he's punishment from hell, people who adore him because he always has something to say, and others who just hate him because he doesn't ever shut up. Still, no one has ever actually told him seriously to shut up or made him speechless until he met Lisa.
Unlike the others, she was a woman of action, something he wasn't prepared for. And unlike the others, she made it clear that she had no need for his words or even his powers. For the first time in his life, there was someone who genuinely didn't need him or even really care about him. And he just couldn't let it go. He had nothing to say for the very first time. But it didn't end there. When he went to clean his suit, there she was. And he realized that she was a hero too. He had been given a chance to make things right, to get her name, to ask her out, to find out why she didn't need him, why he had nothing to say, and he wasn't about to let it slip by.
Overall, Lee means well. He's just egotistical. He believes that he's the best thing since sliced bread because he can do things that others can't, and no one has managed to convince him of anything different. Lisa is the kick in the butt he needs to really understand the world and become a less obnoxious human-being. He just has a lot to learn.
Elizabeth Eowyn Peters (Lisa Peters) ~
Lisa was raised by her mother, Tara, from the time she was around seven, when Tara was widowed. She never remarried. Tara's excuse was that she never found a man as good to her as her husband used to be before he died, so she took on the load herself, and played the part of both mother and father. It didn't help that she was poor too, so Lisa had to learn to help out around the house. Tara was never very talented when it came to fixing things, but Lisa was. She was a natural. And because it was just the two of them, Lisa learned to protect herself. She learned fast that no man would do that for her when she ended up without one throughout her entire time spent in high school. By the time she started college, she came across a fellow girl who had gotten herself in a bind with a gang. She decided then and there that she wouldn't stand by and let other people get hurt when she could help them. But in order to keep it from her mother, she would usually dress in costume. At least it kept her name out of the papers.
Because of her difficult life, she learned to listen early on, so she appears very quiet and introverted most of the time, but she has a burning flame against injustice that flips her switch. She knows it too, which is why she became a hero herself. When she meets Lee, she at first lets him intervene to keep her name out of the papers like before, but his total disconnect with reality spikes her nerves through the roof, so she begins attacking in her own way. She thinks him to be handsome, and maybe even kind--so she doesn't totally hate him. She just views him as incredibly naive. Having been completely ignored through school, she doesn't view romance as part of her life, though in some respects she desires it deeply. She always thinks that somehow, she's done something wrong or maybe her lack of luck has something to do with how callous she can be towards people. Even so, she doesn't actually want to change, even if she thinks she needs to.
In all, Lisa has been lonely since the beginning. She fights and fights for everything she has because she has never experienced being with anyone who can help her. In her mind, she believes that she's okay, but really, a piece of her is missing because of the hole left by her father and her romantic life (or lack there of). Given the chance, she may see eye to eye with Lee. In fact, he may be just what she needs.
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