[ooc] application for damned
Name/Handle: Ruthi
Age: 20
Gender: Female
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E-Mail: sarlefay@gmail.com
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Is English your primary language?: Yep.
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Series: Heroes
Series' Medium: TV series and graphic novels.
Character: Eleanor Zoe Bishop, AKA Elle Bishop.
Age: 25.
Sex/Gender: Female.
Canon Role: Generally she seems antagonistic because of the antagonistic way the Company is portrayed in season two, but she comes off as almost too sympathetic to be a real antagonist. She's just a Chaotic Neutral, okay.
"Real" Name: Sarah Kingston
How long have you roleplayed your character, if at all?:
A little over a year now, but sporadically.
Where have you roleplayed in general and/or with this specific character?: As Elle, I've played in dramadramaduck, maisongrise, and in museboxes and dressing rooms such as dear_mun and sixwordstories. In general, I've run a pretty wide range of games, including cityofdesai, beyondtherift, crowdedhour, and taxonomites.
Are you personally familiar with your character's canon?:
I've watched the series (in it's entirety I guess, seeing how it's canceled) several times over, watched deleted scenes, and read the parts of the graphic novels pertaining to Elle. There's a lot of material in the graphic novels that I feel is important to understanding her, so I ... talk about a lot of it in my history section/generally use it in my portrayal of her.
Please give us a personal history of your character's life and explain to us in detail how they grow and develop over the course of their canon:
Elle was born in 1983 to Bob Bishop and his unnamed wife. Her childhood was presumably normal until her ability-- electrokinesis-- started manifesting at a young age. When she was six, she set her grandmother's house on fire. In the graphic novel From the Files of Primatech: Part 7, she's shown celebrating her eighth birthday in Athens, Ohio at her mother's house. After playing a video game and spilling Slusho on her controller, her ability manifests again, causing a blackout that spans four counties. Her mother quickly loses patience with her, and she's sent to live with her father. Bob is advised to test the limits of Elle's ability, with the idea of her being used as a generator to power entire cities planted in his head.
And so he does. To an inhumane degree. Elle is never the same after all the experiments; her innocence is lost forever. Along with most of her memories of her childhood-- it's implied that Bob had the Haitian wipe her memory of all the experiments, to keep her complacent and not rebelling against him.
The next sixteen years of her life are spent within the walls of the Company facility in Hartsdale, New York. The Company is an organization with the objectives of finding people with special abilities, and often containing the more dangerous individuals so that specials can go more or less unnoticed by the rest of the world. Bob serves as Company head, and, being his daughter, Elle gets away with a lot more than any other agent would have.
Her first couple assignments are covered in the graphic novels-- Elle's First Assignment depicts her mission to infiltrate Claire Bennet's school undercover and wait to see if she manifests an ability. She's undermined by both Eden and Noah, and when she comes close to getting her hands on the tape Zach made of Claire jumping off an oil rig, Noah and the Haitian intervene and erase her memories of the incident. She leaves shortly before Homecoming, thinking Claire was a negative for abilities of any kind. These few pages give us a glimpse of just how bitter Elle is in regards to Claire. Claire wasn't burdened with an ability since childhood. Claire had a seemingly perfect cookie cutter life, and Elle resented her for it.
In the The Man With (Too Much) Brains graphic novel storyline, Elle is sent to a high school to take Matt Neuenberg, a boy with the ability of enhanced memory, in to the Company. She tells him she knows what it's like to be alone, and promises to take care of him as they leave the high school. She seems to be sincere, and I believe she actually thought she was helping him by taking him in. Matt was shunned by his peers, booed off the stage of his school's talent show for being "a freak." Elle wanted to give him a place where he belonged. When he endures painful testing and starts screaming out her name, she actually looks concerned for him. Later, Matt accuses Elle of not protecting him like she promised. She says that by bringing him to the Company, she already has.
Similar how she treats Peter later on, she flirts with Matt, giving him electric kisses and playful shocks. When Matt stumbles upon Richard Drucker and Hana Gitelman (two technopaths) conversing in the Company computer's mainframe and plotting to destroy it with a viral file, Elle receives orders from Bob to put goggles on Matt that will help him store all the information from the computer in his mind, relying on his eidetic memory to retain everything. She obeys without question, but panics when he overloads from all the information and collapses on the floor. It takes coaxing from Bob to calm her down and get her to jump-start Matt's heart with her electricity. He's revived, but dies shortly later when the Company extracts the information from the mainframe out of his brain. Right before the procedure, Elle had reassured him that she wouldn't let anyone hurt him, and again, seemed sincere. His death visibly upsets her, and you could say starts her wavering morality, much more visible in her next assignment. That we're aware of, anyway.
That assignment being Gabriel Gray. Noah explains to Elle that they're supposed to bait him into killing again instead of taking him into the Company, with some drawn out analogy about whales not making the same mating noises in captivity that they do in the wild. But after meeting Gabriel and talking with him about the nature of his ability and the remorse he feels over his first kill, she's convinced that he won't kill again and tries to tell Noah as much. Noah chalks her opinion up to her having feelings for Gabriel, and tells her if she doesn't want to go through with the assignment, she can consider her Company days over and start a new life waitressing in New York City. And while she feels what she's doing is wrong, she doesn't feel strongly enough about her hunch to sacrifice her entire life for it. So she lures Gabriel into trusting her with baked goods and reassurances of him being special just the way he is. Like a good little agent, she fishes the list of specials he tried to throw away out of the trash and calls one of the names on the list for a little get together with Gabriel. He kills again with very little prompting, and throws Elle out once he realizes she'd been lying to him. She's very distraught about being responsible for releasing a monster out into the world, but all Noah can say to her is that they'll probably run into Mr. Gray again very soon. Throughout season two and the very beginning of season one, Elle has a preoccupation with stopping Sylar (Gabriel Gray's serial killer alias) and people like him. This is most likely exacerbated by guilt she feels for setting Sylar on the destructive path he ends up taking.
Next, chronologically, is season two. Elle is seen passing out pills to prisoners of the Company facility in Hartsdale, Peter Petrelli specifically. She flirts with him, as is her wont. By accusing her of always wanting to be in control, he manipulates her into sharing the abridged version of her life story with him. When he escapes the facility with Adam, she expresses disappointment in him and gives him a parting blast of electricity, setting his shirt on fire. Four months later, she's seen trying to track him in Ireland. When Ricky of the Wandering Rocks pub doesn't answer her questions honestly, she kills him, feeling no remorse over it-- only annoyance when Bob is on the phone lecturing her and telling her to return to New York.
Next, she's paired with Mohinder on an assignment to get Noah Bennet back within the Company's clutches. It ... doesn't work out so well. Noah gets the upper hand, and Elle awakes from unconsciousness to find herself soaking wet and tied to a chair in the Bennet home. Noah holds her hostage, and while she's there, divulges information about her past-- namely, all the experiments she endured as a child-- that had been previously erased from her memory. It shakes her until that point unwavering faith in her father. When Noah makes the negotiations to exchange her for the return of Claire from Bob, everything goes as swimmingly as can be expected until Claire's boyfriend tries to fly her off to safety afterward and Elle shocks them out of the sky. Noah retaliates by shooting Elle in the arm, and Bob shows a rare moment of compassion by holding her. She's clearly shocked and bewildered, half from the pain and half from Bob showing her any kind of attention that wasn't scolding or disappointment.
But that moment's quickly over, and the scene with them in the next episode is spent with Bob blaming her getting shot on her letting her guard down and lecturing her to take responsibility for her actions. She promises to watch over Claire for him, and ends up confronting her and getting into a heated argument that ends with Claire threatening to show the world what she can do. Elle gets a lecture from Bob for that, too. Disappointed in her for being so petty, he says that she's benched from any future field assignments. This upsets Elle to the point of tears, and she pleads with him to no avail.
With nowhere else to go, she visits Noah in his holding cell and begs him to tell her more about the gaps in her past she can't remember. Noah obliges her, revealing that her father was the one pushing for all the testing. She responds by breaking down into tears. When she looks for her file, she discovers that the file is empty. While sneaking around, she sees Sylar in Mohinder's apartment on the Company surveillance system and decides to be a big damn hero and intervene, certain that she'll win Bob's approval back by catching Sylar.
That confrontation doesn't exactly go her way, either. Sylar ends up escaping by crashing through the window. Elle is disappointed with her failure, but Mohinder tells her that without her, Sylar would have killed him and the other two people in his apartment. Therefore, they owe her their lives for her interruption. Elle smiles and decides that's pretty cool.
Season three starts with Bob going over the security footage of Sylar escaping Elle's grasp and... you guessed it, expressing more disappointment. When she later gathers up the courage to ask for her position back, she discovers Bob minus his scalp and brain-- a tell-tale sign that Sylar was responsible. Shocked and devastated, she runs to Level 5-- where the most dangerous prisoners the Company holds are kept, including one Noah Bennet-- and lets him out because Sylar is still in the building and she needs his help taking him out. It's not enough to stop him, however. When he tries to kill her and take her ability, she responds by releasing enough electricity to not only knock him out, but shut off all the power on Level 5. Several dangerous criminals escape. Elle is in deep shit. This little accident of her's probably played no small role in the new Company head Angela's decision to fire her from the Company.
With freedom she'd never experienced in her life before, she decides to travel to England for a "study abroad." While in England, her life manages to somehow get worse, and she struggles with control of her power, constantly shocking herself, other people, and various objects around her. While in the neighborhood, she seeks out fellow ex-agent Claude Raines for help, but all he can offer her is for her to forgive herself for what happened to her father. She's just not at the right place mentally to do that yet, so after accidentally shocking one of Claude's friends and getting chewed out for it, she decides to seek help from one last place-- Pinehearst. She'd been given a business card, and things are looking pretty desperate at this point. But before taking that leap, she goes back to the States and makes a pit stop at the Bennet house. Elle banks on Noah, being the knowledgeable person he is, possibly knowing something about these mysterious Pinehearst people.
Too bad for Elle, he isn't home and she has the pleasure of running into Claire instead. But since Claire's been having trouble with her powers too lately, they decide to fly out to New Jersey and check out Pinehearst together. Being greeted by Peter crashing out of a window and onto the ground in front of them is enough to deter Claire from proceeding any further than Pinehearst's front yard, but not Elle. Desperate as ever, she ventures forth into the building and leaves both Claire and Peter behind.
What ends up happening to her is that she gets locked up in a metal room with her arms and legs chained to the ground. Why? Who knows, maybe Arthur Petrelli was into that. In any case, he brings Sylar in the room and they have what is... more or less a really intense come to Jesus talk. She shocks him to the point that it would have killed him if he didn't have healing abilities several times over, expresses how angry and hurt she is over the loss of her father, begs for him to kill her, and says that he never meant anything to her-- he was just a lab rat. Sylar reacts to this by undoing her chains, and urging her to forgive herself. As he helps her come to terms with her father's death, he gains her power without descalping her. Elle is happy to show Sylar the ropes when it comes to using her power, possibly because her power is one of her favorite things in the world or possibly because she ~likes~ him. In any case, her electrical overloading days are done.
Elle is next seen complimenting Sylar on his control over her ability. That's not enough for him, however. Arthur sends him on a mission to bring Claire Bennet to Pinehearst, and Elle insists on tagging along. She has ample experience with the cheerleader, the Company life is all she knows (Pinehearst is an acceptable substitute), and she probably didn't want Sylar to wander away too far on his own. Arthur approves, and they set off on their adventure.
Annoyed with the way Sylar seems to eager to please Arthur, Elle decides to simultaneously have a little fun and provide Sylar with a wake up call by pretending to be held hostage by him in the Hotspur rental place they stop at on the way to Claire's. Sylar doesn't appreciate her efforts, but they continue on with their assignment only to fall victim to horrible timing. In Heroes, eclipses can randomly take the powers away from people with abilities. Elle and Sylar had the fortune of facing off with Noah and Claire just as an eclipse started up. Since they're both essentially worthless without their powers, Noah easily overpowers them and flees with Claire. While left alone in the abandoned house their showdown took place in, Elle and Sylar discuss what they want to do with their lives now that they don't have powers. The answer is make out and have sex on the floor. Okay, not really. They want to start over, and live new lives without being controlled by anyone else-- something neither of them had ever really experienced before that point. But they do make out and have sex on the floor. While Noah watches them through his sniper rifle. After allowing them enough time to have pillow talk about the status of their brand new relationship, he decides it's probably a good time to shoot them now. They narrowly escape, with Elle getting shot in the thigh as they flee.
The happy couple make it as far as what appears to be a drug store, where Sylar takes the time to bandage Elle's wounds in the middle of the aisle. With Noah hot on their trail, they keep running into the backroom, and instead of allowing Elle to help Sylar fight Noah as she suggests, he shoves her down an elevator shaft. Knowing that Noah is highly trained and Sylar is pretty much fucked, she screams Gabriel dramatically as the elevator goes down. And, as she predicted, Sylar loses his big fight. And dies. But the eclipse ends, and the two of them head to the Bennet house to grab Claire and extract more vengeance. Noah does his best to rain on their parade by telling them Elle will never be able to really love Sylar because he killed her father, and the Petrellis aren't his real parents like he had previously been lead to believe.
It's all downhill from there. As Sylar is about to kill Noah, Hiro Nakamura, master of time and space teleports in and transports Elle and Sylar to a random beach. Sylar confronts Elle about his parentage, probably assuming she would know because of her association with the Company and potential access to his file. She hesitates before saying Bennet was just being Bennet, although it's unclear exactly why. She could have honestly not known the truth, or lied to protect what she thought was her best shot at happiness. Either way, Sylar turns on her, pinning her to the ground and slicing into her head. And unlike his first attempt on Level 5, this time she silently accepts her fate.
What point in time are you taking your character from when he/she appears at Landel's and why?:
I'm taking Elle from the end of 3x07-- Eris Quod Sum. At this point in her timeline, Elle is struggling with her ability going haywire, and has a lot of hurt and anger pent up inside over losing her job and her father. This is my favorite canonpoint to play Elle from, because I like working through these issues with her and exploring them in depth. Also, I think it'd be interesting to have her work out those issues with Sylar without their giant metal room of annihilation and cuddling in 3x09. It additionally gives her more to work through in therapy sessions. She might initially believe that she's in Pinehearst, and that the world is just.. going horribly wrong.
Please give us a detailed description of your character's personality:
Elle's entire life has been shaped by two things-- her ability, and her desire to please her father. Every move she made up until his death was an attempt to win his pride and affection-- often gone awry. And so many of those moves were dictated by her ability-- electrokinesis, something she's not always shown as having pitch-perfect control over.
Elle was a normal little girl before her powers manifested. Unicorns and rainbows, Noah Bennet suggests. The way she flipped out over her video game suggests that she was a little tempermental, a trait she carried with her into adulthood. But her normal childhood full of slushos and video games comes to an abrupt halt after she's brought into the Company.
Being raised in Company walls, she was kind of sheltered from the outside world and she didn't get to experience a lot of things that normal kids do-- swimming, riding a rollercoaster, or going on a date, for example. She led a very sheltered life, coming off as naive in the most positive light, and sociopathic in the most negative. Put plainly, she doesn't know how to deal with other people. She views them as her playthings, especially boys. Although she may flirt and use her sexuality to her advantage in certain situations, I don't think she's a slut. Just a manipulative tease.
In her interactions with other people, she's likely to be sarcastic and make caustic remarks, not exactly helping her reputation for being a bitch within the Company. This abrasive behavior is a defense mechanism-- Elle is very insecure and longs for approval, mostly from her father but it certainly isn't exclusive to him. Even though she may go out of the way to create her own fun-- such as the Hotspur hostage debacle-- she's more of a follower than a leader and generally goes along with whatever the more dominant personality she's with decides. When she was with Claire, it was to seek out Pinehearst. With Sylar/Gabriel, it was trying to live a normal life without their powers. She could have just went to New Jersey and found out about Pinehearst for herself, but she tried to contact Noah first because she needs someone to give her direction.
Because of this, her moral compass is skewed. She doesn't see most of the things she's done as an agent-- or anything she's done in general-- as right or wrong. She sees things in terms of what she does and doesn't want, or in the case of her work with the Company, merely orders that needed to be followed. Orders that, up until her father's death and her terimination, had to be followed to keep Daddy happy. But just because it's skewed doesn't mean she's completely without a moral compass-- she realized that what she was being forced to do to Gabriel Gray was wrong, and wanted to pull out of the assignment. But in the end, Noah Bennet's strong-arming and her fear of losing her identity as an agent keeps her on board.
Even though she says psychologists diagnosed her as a sociopath with paranoid delusions, I think it's more that she has a stunted emotional capacity. She's distrustful of people because of all the hardship she's had to endure in her childhood, and had no one in her life to teach her right from wrong. Her father practically encouraged her to maim others. And because she didn't really grow up around other people, she tends to act more immature and childish than your average well-adjusted person. So, killing someone just for being mean to her? Not outside the realm of possibility. But she does have vague feelings of empathy, and an even more vague sense of morality. It just doesn't make it past the end of her own nose in most situations.
It's important to understand what being an agent was to Elle. For the sixteen years she spent growing up within the Company, she was going to be an agent. It wasn't up for discussion. Her entire life revolved around this one thing, and being a good agent was what Bob both wanted and expected out of her, so she felt very driven to fulfill his wishes and meet his approval. This overeagerness to succeed probably made her reckless-- emotions make you sloppy, as Sylar would put it, and helped attribute to what a inept agent she actually was. When her father died and Angela fired her, she lost everything. She had built so much of her identity around it, that she flounders with it gone.
Likewise, a lot of who she is as a person is tied into her power. To a degree, electrokinesis defines her. It's her one source of power and control in a life where she possesses very little of either. It's also one of the few things that make her not a total failure as an agent. Sure, she may have unleashed a serial killer on the world, but she's a regular sharp shooter with it, and it seems to be one of the few things Bob shows something resembling pride towards her for. So she wields it at any opportunity she can, whether it be making a few unnecessary kills here and there or adding a little spice to her kisses. It gives her a sense of control.
Please give us a physical description of your character:
Elle's AT profile says she stands at 5'5" and weighs 115 pounds. Her blonde hair cascades in waves ending a few inches past her shoulders. She has bangs, and occasionally wears her hair back, but most of the time it flows freely. Her eyes are blue, and her nose and jaw are kind of square. She's wiry and petite in frame, and pale in complexion. Despite sustaining various injuries over the course of the series, she doesn't retain any lasting scars from them. Her style of dress is fairly simple, with an affinity for the color blue and tank tops.
What kinds of otherwordly abilities does your character have, if any?:
Elle generates and controls electricity. If she could black out four counties in Ohio as a child, there's no telling what she could do now. She's able to generate arcs of varying intensity and target them precisely, doing things from shattering a glass to striking down running targets. It usually outpours from her hands, but she seems to be able to generate it from any part of her body-- when she shocks Peter with her lips, for example. However, she isn't immune to her own electricity. When exposed to water while using her power, Elle can shock herself with painful results.
Her power also seems to work in sync with her emotions. After the death of her father and her near-death encounter with Sylar, she starts overloading with electricity, frequently shocking herself and objects around her. The angrier or more emotional she became in any given situation, the worse the electrical discharge became. This didn't cease until she was able to forgive herself for her father's death, suggesting that her guilt was the reason for this malfunction, and not something Sylar did to her when attempting to steal her ability.
If present, how do you plan to tweak these powers to make your character appropriately hindered in the setting of Landel's?:
Elle will still be able to generate electricity, but at a much smaller scale and with a heavy toll physically. She could power a small electronic device, shock someone, or set something highly flammable-- paper, for example-- on fire, but it would leave her feeling drained and exhausted proportionate to however much electricity she used. Using particularly high amounts (one of the blasts she shocks Sylar with in 3x09, for example), she would start to nosebleed and lose consciousness.
Because I'm taking her from a canon point where she's emotionally overwhelmed and has particularly poor control over her power, this will carry over into Landel's. She will still shock herself and other things and people without intending to, although in most cases it won't feel like anything stronger than static shock. Any real damage would have to come from her focusing to use her power, unless she's REALLY upset.
Does your character have any non-otherworldly abilities/training that surpass the norm?:
Elle has training as an agent within the Company, meaning she shows some skill with handling guns and working undercover-- but not much skill. She was kind of a shitty agent. She knows some basic first aid (ie setting dislocated limbs), probably also via working with the Company. Additionally, she gives very nice haircuts. And bakes excellent pies.
What do you see your character doing in the scope of the game and how do you plan to use the setting of Landel's Institute to develop them and affect their psychology in a unique, interesting way?:
Since the last time Elle did before waking up in the Institute was arriving at Pinehearst, she'll think she's there until someone corrects her. And then... she'll start to panic. Even when she was living in the Company, after she hit a certain age (presumably), she was the one in control of the prisoners when she was checking up on them and passing out pill cups. Losing that sense of control will make her freak. She's not above freaking out on the doctors to try and escape. Most people she encounters will be met with a lot of distrust, in the form of acting bitchy and abrasive. The only possible exceptions to this would be Peter and Claire, at least initially. She doesn't consider herself a friend of either of them, but she knows about Peter's hero complex and Claire begrudgingly helped her get to Pinehearst. She would try to strike some kind of alliance with them, but break off and do her own thing the second they weren't willing to go along with her poorly strategized escape plans.
More than anything, Elle would be compelled to look out for herself. I think it would be interesting to force into situations where she's forced to depend on other people, and possibly form bonds with them.
Given that this RP takes place in an unsettling and outright horrific environment, how do you justify your character as being appropriate in both body and mind for this kind of setting?:
Elle's dealt with (and even caused) a fair amount of horrific things in her own life. Maybe not as much as characters from some more gruesome canons, but I wouldn't consider her to have led a sheltered life by any means. But despite going through so much trauma in her life, she sucks it up and moves on. Part of it might be because she tends to be childlike emotionally and would rather push things down rather than face them-- her father's death until forced to confront it with Sylar, for example-- but she adapts to situations fairly well. Although she might experience a lot of shock initially from waking up in an asylum and seeing legitimate monster on nightshifts, after she adapts, she'll either manipulate her way into safety or find a way to defend herself on her own. While trying to hide her insecurities as usual.
Third-Person Sample:
Another botched mission. It should have been just another simple bag-and-tag, but things went wrong. They had a way of doing that more often than Elle would have wanted. She'd gotten a little shock-happy and, well... some people just couldn't handle that much electricity. He got lippy with her, and she wasn't having any of it. He was being mean. Accidents were accidents. Tough luck for Jim or Joe or whatever his name was. She was pretty sure this one had a lame power, anyway. Breathing underwater. What would Daddy want with that? He wasn't a real asset to the Company.
Elle wasn't really worried about the plight of whatever-his-name-was as much as she was about what Daddy would think when he found out. As the realization of what was waiting for her sunk in, she started to frown. Another lecture. Another Elle-is-a-disappointment speech. Hell, he might even bench her again. God forbid that happen.
As she stood over her assignment's lifeless form, she felt someone push her from behind. She tried to reach out, tried to shock them, but it was too late. She was falling into the pool in front of her, falling, falling, only hurting herself with her electricity, getting lost in the scent of burning skin and the way the water was splashing around her and the sound of her screams--
And then she woke up. It was just another dream. The more of them she had, the more she hated them. It was so stupid. She hated Sylar for doing this to her. It was all his fault, of course. She hated him for killing her father, for costing her the only job, the only life she had ever known, and this-- this whatever it was, this losing control of her powers? That was his fault, too. It had to be. She stared up blankly at the ceiling, letting the reality of her life set in. There was no Daddy to please anymore, no more missions, no anything. There was no sound of an alarm clock's repetitive beeping, no light streaming in through the window of her room. Just cold metal chafing against her skin and darkness. Voltage wracked through her, making her thrash against the chains that bound her wrists and ankles.
It wasn't supposed to happen like this. This was supposed to be her fix. Her solution to the one broken thing in her life she actually stood a chance at fixing. Maybe she couldn't bring Daddy back from the dead, or beg Angela Petrelli for her job with the Company back, but she should have at least been able to exert some kind of control over herself. Right?
But no. Pinehearst had been useless. The only reprieve from her pain was sleep, and even then it only served to twist the knife in different ways. The dreams weren't always the same, but they felt that way. They were just reminders of all the things she no longer had. A Daddy who loved-- could she say loved? Probably not. But he hadn't hated her, most of the time. When she wasn't screwing up. But now Elle would never get a chance to win his pride, because he was dead. Dead. Dead with her job, dead with the only life she had ever known.
It was enough to make her wonder what the point of living even was.
First-Person Sample:
You know, when Pinehearst said they could help me not feel like I was sticking a fork in a toaster 24/7, I expected actual help. Not this asylum crap. Primatech meets Girl, Interrupted isn't really working for me. If I don't get real help soon, I can just leave. I'll break through a window if I have to, kill people, I don't care. You can't keep me down. I'll find a solution for my problem somewhere else. I don't need any of this.
Really.
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