LAROCQUE, echo

[ECHO LAROCQUE]

Name: Echo Larocque
Age: 19
Gender: Female
class: med risk
Birthday: January 20th
Face Claim: Miryam Sater
Height, and weight: 5'5, 122lbs
Personallity:

-Physical
-Affectionate
-Preoccupied
-Hot-tempered
-Mistrustful
-Impulsive
-Unbalanced
-Secretive
-Observant
-Territorial
-Obsessive
-Protective
-Forgiving
-Liberal
-Sincere
-Generous

Illness:

Delusional Disorder
Believes the government is watching certain people (her being one of them) at all times and refuses to take any pills or injections (pharmacophobia) because she believes they’re secretly devices that make it possible for the government to read your thoughts. She believes the doctors are in on this and refuses to see them, reacting with hostility at initial contact and, if this doesn’t get rid of them, overwhelming fear. Medications that come in pill or injection form are believed by her to contain advanced tracking devices that connect to her brain. Echo also won’t allow electronics such as phones to be on during important/private conversation, as she believes the government listens through them.

She does not voice these thoughts; if she does, she believes the government will harm, kill, or steal her for revealing their secret.
(Also, according to Wikipedia, people with delusional disorder have a quality of secretiveness or suspicion when addressed about it, despite their profound conviction.)

Insomnia
Echo has an extreme fear of sleep (hynophobia/somniphobia) that is caused by her delusions and night terrors. She fears that someone from the government will come in while she’s sleeping and either harm and/or kill her, or steal her away. Her night terrors often feature zombies (often trying and failing to survive in an apocalyptic world filled with them) or things of paranormal nature -the Grudge woman being one of her biggest fears- that add to her fear of sleep.
Between doing her best not to sleep and high anxiety over it keeping her awake, Echo goes many days without it; around 8-12, but sometimes longer if she tries hard and uses many energy boosters. However, this also causes hallucinations, microsleeps*, and dreaming when awake occurs after 70 hours. Obviously, considering the main content of her dreams, this is often a problem.


*When the brain automatically shuts down, falling into a sleep state for a period that can last 10 to 60 seconds. The person mentally falls asleep no matter what activity he or she is engaged in. Microsleeps are similar to blackouts in the way that a person experiencing them is not consciously aware that they are occurring.

Family:

David Larocque (father)
Kitty Larocque (mother)

Storm Laroque (sister; 23)
Jay Larocque (brother; 17)

Libby Larocque (niece/Storm's daughter; 6)

History:

Besides a baby-sized bump in the road of life when Storm went through with her teenage pregnancy, having her daughter Libby, Echo faced a fairly average life until she was about seventeen. She was always on friendly terms with almost everyone -though she did get teased a bit for her unusual name, which her mother insisted had ‘spoken to her,’ as did all her other children’s names (she’s a bit of a hippie)- and developed a steady group of friends. The While she wasn’t a grade A student, she did well enough to get an early acceptance to university for Media/Film and Television.

Unfortunately, she never did get to go.

While she wasn’t a wild child, her behaviour did flip in most areas early in grade twelve; her eccentricities became limited to only her hair as she became more subdued and the passion she’d put into making short films slowly dwindled, dying shortly after her acceptance. Echo also stopped her booze and already minimal pot use for no apparent reason, reacting irately when pushed on either the subject or to have some. Her parents also caught her awake -generally on the computer- at odd hours of the night, and many times her friends were told that she’d ‘had some fucked up dreams the other night.’

At the time her friends and family just attributed it to the stress of doing well enough to get into university, as well as swinging her part-time job as a hairdresser in a salon in the mall and being Libby’s primary babysitter while her sister went to night school. Now, looking back, they see it was one of the many parts of the slow build-up to the full development of Echo’s delusional disorder.

Echo’s not sure when exactly or why she started believing the government was watching her, though she thinks it was a steady build-up. She can remember becoming uneasy when she became inebriated, not liking how unaware and vulnerable it left her -not to rapists or anything reasonable, but something only known enough to simply fear it. This unease grew quickly, and when the idea of becoming inebriated almost caused a panic attack she completely stopped. Medication use also came to stop for the same unexplainable fear, and cell phone use became minimal and basic at the same time as a sense of being watched developed. It took less than a month for Echo to blame this sense on the government, and since then her beliefs and fears have only escalated (especially as they gave reasoning to her original fears). These fears had already been affecting her sleep, along with her previous and continuing night terrors, but once they developed into full-out delusions they also developed a fear of sleep, and insomnia set in.

Until recently, no one knew of Echo’s delusional disorder -though more than once she did or said something that seemed off to them- but her insomnia was well known. Her parents tried to get her to go to a doctor about it, but with her mistrust of them Echo steadfastly refused, saying that all they would do was prescribe her with drugs that she didn’t want to be dependant on. Her parents stopped pushing the matter when they realized it was doing more harm than good, and the matter was only brought up again when it was agreed that she’d put off going to university until her insomnia got better, as it was unlikely she could keep up when small gaps of time were being lost to microsleeps and dreaming while awake causing distraction and disruption.

Until shortly after her nineteenth birthday -despite her insomnia not improving- Echo managed to keep her delusions hidden. However, with the ‘help’ of a dream she had while awake, all was revealed; while walking to work, she dreamt a 28 Days Later-esque zombie was coming at her, and in her panic to get away she ran out in front of an oncoming vehicle. The most severe of her injuries was only a couple fractured ribs, the rest being mostly cuts and bruises, but while brought in the emergency room she had a panic attack and screamed that she ‘knew what [the doctors] were really trying to do’ and, upon sight of a needle of sedation, that she ‘wouldn’t let them help track her.’

Being the professionals they are (but also huge dicks, apparently), they recognized the problem and had her emitted to Alridge.

Likes&Dislikes:

-Videogames
-Manga
-Conventions and cosplay
-Styling and dying hair
-Hugs (the more free, the better!)
-Making films (which generally featured zombies, and likely the cause of her night terrors)

&

-The government
-Naggers
-Driving
-Chipped nail polish
-Eating when she’s bored
-Anyone and anything related to the medical field

Roleplayer Name/ Alias: Boo
Experience:

4 years.

Roleplay sample:

See Dulcie and/or Grigori.

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I'm going to change the risk value of her though, her Delusional Disorder is a danger to her which falls more under med risk status. remember to fill out the required claims and journal shtuff like normal (: