about box

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	ABILITIES. synesthesia, sort of. He can perceive sounds with his other senses, from his vision to touch. If you make a noise from behind a wall, he'll see it propagate or even feel it on his skin. This has been very useful for evading life-threatening radios and their mutated listeners. eruption. He can use his voice to create soundwaves at varying levels of pressure. These can be strong enough to destroy anything, inanimate or alive. broadcaster. He can interact with anything that outputs sound, from changing their volume to warping the noise they make into words. Yes, this includes your voice. Think living text-to-speech, except with his mind. OTHER INFORMATION age. Probably in his 30s, but who knows. Time does whatever it wants in the fog. species. Human anomaly. language. He still knows English, has an easier time reading it than keeping up with a conversation.. He doesn't remember his native tongue. first impressions. 6ft/1.83m, relatively muscled. Pale skin from lack of sunlight. Inexpressive and seemingly apathetic unless he's trying to communicate. Survival instinct keeps him alert, keeping his anomalies secret even more so. PERSONALITY Box has spent a significant portion of his life drugged up and compliant, controlled to the point of suppressing individuality and being denied privacy. He was raised as a test subject, not a child; the Institute split his life between therapeutic routines and invasive experiments to his body, testing the limits of his powers with cold interest. He never learned what it's like to give or receive affection. Box has an arsenal of traumatic memories: the Institute's various forms of physical and psychological abuse, watching countless people drop dead, and dealing with a world that closed in on the survivors that later turned into monsters, losing friends to the Broadcast or other tragedies, and so on. He's developed hardcore depersonalization to cope with the guilt and existential doom hanging over his head like a guillotine. He represses most of his emotions because he has no idea what to do with them. Weird aging. Seeing the world in sounds. Anomaly. Communication. Being alone. Existential dread.
BOX THE LAST LISTENER
CONTENT WARNING: BODY HORROR, EXISTENTIAL HORROR, PARASITES, EXPERIMENTS ON HUMANS, PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HARM, AND ALL THE UNFUN THINGS THAT COME WITH AN APOCALYPSE. HISTORY. Box's first name was Rui Ferreira. When the Institute took him as an infant, his name was changed to RF-86. When the world ended, he decided to sign his name as a black square. All memories of his first years were erased when he was brought to one of the Institute's facilities. Box was brainwashed to be an obedient patient — a test subject — with medication and what was generously referred to as therapy. All to help him deal with the pain and trauma of being brought into small rooms on floors that went deep into the underground, testing the limits of his body and the abilities they then proceeded to suppress once he was allowed to go back to the main floor. Box was barely in his teens when the Broadcast began. Strange noises poured in through the speakers attached to sterile walls before all the Caretakers in charge of the children and juveniles collapsed. Confused, Box and the others eventually found their way out of the facility, running and stepping over the corpses of grown up prisoners and prison guards dressed in white, faced with a foreign world. After miles of nothing but gravel and woods, a group of travelers found the group of children wandering in the middle of a road. In another world, they would've been taken to the authorities for help. Perhaps things would have escalated to the media, hoping to identify their families and bring those responsible for their imprisonment to justice. There was no way to do that anymore — too many people were dead, and a mysterious fog had started to descend, slowly blocking out the sky. Perhaps the rest of the world, too. The campers found other people who had pieced together ways to survive with compassion and perseverance. Alliances formed as everyone learned to navigate a world collapsing in slow motion. Box and the others tried to explain what had happened to them, but even those who believed their stories didn't know what could be done. The suppressants that the Institute had fed the children for so long were wearing off, so their anomalies — powers — started to manifest, adding to the chaos; again, nothing could be done about it, and the world had become crazy for everyone, so they just kept going. Then the grown ups started to change: their skin twisted, their muscles snapped; their bones bent the wrong way and solidified in entirely new shapes. Bit by bit, they lost the will to eat, sleep and think, until all they needed was to be near the Broadcast still playing on the radio. These people became the Dead Listeners, and those young enough to be immune turned into targets and victims of their mindless aggression. Box and a few of his friends managed to escape and develop methods to survive, blocking out noise, findings new ways to communicate between themselves. Text took too long and not all of them were old enough to read, so symbols were created and became universal, mostly as warnings or signals that a place was safe to enter. Drawn, etched, whatever felt like the most adequate thing to do, survivors started to refer to themselves using simple drawings as well. Box chose his name after introducing himself with a black square, and while he kept reading books that he found and could understand, he hasn't spoken or written anything in years. Adversity, in-fighting and tragedy made Box's group become increasingly smaller. With time, they discovered that they didn't need to eat or rest. Knowledge began to spread that new life wasn't possible, so they were left with the understanding that they'd be the last humans, and that they wouldn't last forever. The more he aged, the stronger Box's powers became, and the more the Broadcast called for him. To avoid endangering himself or his companions, Box decided to depart on his own. He's made the decision to track down the frontier to the Mouth, rumored to be the origin of the Broadcast, avoiding Unauthorized Passengers on the way to the center of the end. He still runs into survivors at times, does his part in leaving symbols behind so that others know where to stay and what to avoid.

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