December Talbain

=History= The legend of December, the future foremost expert in the field of mad bioacoustics, begins long before the unhappy accident that lead her to independence. The name of Talbain held some amount of renown in Texas. The entirety of the clan distinguished themselves as brilliant in various areas of mundane science, having started with Susette Coleman, a strange, but noble and deeply religious woman with dark skin and darker eyes who discovered many methods of getting her father’s crops to grow better and his animals to live healthier that didn’t work for anyone else. It was the favor of the Lord, or so everyone in the sleepy Mississippi boondocks she lived in said to each other. Her marriage was uncommon as well. Most local girls married relatively young and married some friend they’d had since infancy. Susette had few close friends. Despite the deep faith of her neighbors, there was something in her Christ-centered tirades that simply confused them, but nothing about them was readily heretical. A transient stranger made himself the exception. Tall and burly, with an olive complexion, sky blue eyes, and long, straight hair, nobody could quite place his ethnicity, but considered him “black” and maybe a little “funny”. He offered to help Susette’s parents with work around the farm for a bit to eat and a place to sleep. This stranger, Malachi Talbain, came to the town with loud and aggressive mannerisms. His insistent irreverence for the Gospel and general meanness did little to diminish the quality of his work, so the Colemans kept him present. These things faded, however, gradually over time as he listened to Susette’s fevered theological babbling. There came a time when he remembered vaguely that he’d been angry at God, but could not remember why. In a year or two, the stranger married the strange girl, and they moved into their own place, producing thirteen children. The longer Malachi remained around his wife, the less sense his independent opinions began to make. By the twelfth child, he’d built a church out in the country, and by the thirteenth, he could quote his wife on any topic of common Protestantism. The neighbors found it touching how the couple never argued and how Malachi, a former drifter and a very nasty one at that, had dedicated himself to his wife to such an extent. The thirteen children of this union, however, were all as “off” as their mother. Roy, the eldest, went off to college in Texas, where his paternal grandparents resided. He was the first of several. Though they all distinguished themselves, not all of them managed to graduate. The ones who did drop out often did so because the professors were “stupid” or “crazy” and couldn’t see things that were right in front of their noses. A few of them went back to the country; most of them went on to become successful in clerical work or worked their way up to middle management positions. This story is not about them. December’s uncle, the illustrious Roy Lee Talbain PhD, pulled himself through college by meeting the professors halfway, if only so he could keep learning. He saw something in his chemistry and mathematical texts beyond what it spoke of, but he made sure to never go beyond what it said. He had a fascination with that thing, just beyond the edge of the knowledge that his professors could see, and he studied it in private, determined to get some credibility so he could show everyone else. He awoke to madness in those days, eventually becoming a member of the Peerage, a Director specifically. This story isn’t about him either. The story is about the second child of the twelfth descendent of Suzette Coleman, who stayed with her uncle one fateful summer in 2003 and realized that she could do anything. =Current Events= After a few years that December's middle school out in Georgia will never forget, she was sent back to her Uncle to learn what she had become. As part of her continued learning, Dr. Talbain has sent his young niece to the area to investigate the disaster.

Appearance
A small, bronze-skinned woman with dark blue eyes, she stands at a few inches over five feet. She always has some musical instrument on her person, commonly bells or flutes, and she dresses in loose, modest clothing.

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