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I need help with a character! Please help!

Ok, I already put this in the writing club, because it is a story I'm writing, but I'm posting it here, too! I need as much help as I can get!

So, I'm writing a story where some kids develop 'Talents' that give them the upper hand in certain situations. 5/6 of the main characters, Bix, Lila, Leo, Toby, and Silvia, all have Talents. The Talents are very rare and the government recruits kids who develop them to make teams. Bix, Leo, Toby and Silvia are all assigned a team because their talents work very well together. Bix can uncover almost any piece of information. Silvia can find a way out of any situation. Leo can put on a really grand show as a distraction (usually used for Silvia's plans). Lila, who ran away before the government could take her from her home and put her on a team, can disguise herself as anyone. I need help with Toby. After a while in the story, all of these characters end up teaming together.
I need a Talent for Toby that fits his backstory. For instance, Silvia was adopted by a family. A short while after she was adopted, her Talent began to show itself. The family was in serious debt and used it to their advantage. Lila came from a very creative household, so her Talent involves a lot of creativity.
Toby was raised by his grandparents because his dad died and his mother couldn't take care of him on her own so she gave him to her parents until she could get over his father's death and get back on her own two feet. But she died in a car accident 7 months later. This is all that Bix, the narrator, knows about Toby. He's a very quiet kid who only speaks when spoken to or when what he has to say is very important and no one else is going to say it. Toby can keep a lot of secrets, but maybe he just doesn't listen.
Anyway, thanks and I can't wait to see what ideas for Toby's Talent you come up with.
 BennieBear27 posted over a year ago
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Tessa_ said:
So what you can do is either have him be very quiet but when in a mission he makes an extremely loud sound that makes the opponents feel helpless(he chooses who the sound goes to), giving the team more time to operate. Or maybe he has the power to appear a drink or food out of nowhere(im saying food or drink because grandparents usually shower their grandkids with food and gifts) and when the opponent eats it he goes into like a sleeping trans and doesn't wake up until he says so. Idk if this was helpful at all but good luck with your story!!
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I like the loud idea. There's this one part where he points where a toy plane landed and explained how it got there. Everyone just stared at him because the 3 sentences were practically a momolouge for him.
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cloudcastle said:

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Hello BennieBear27 . . .

Some ideas . . .

Sounds like Toby could be the star of the story.

Could be a perfect 10.

Toby or not Toby, what was the question? ( ha ha )

Toby could equal good.

( it doesn't have to be perfect - good could be good enough )

Any-one could be ruled by the sun.

Any-one could be guided by God, including Toby.

Idea for a happy ending could equal . . .

A government could be guided by God to not abuse, confuse and use.

After sorry there could be a thank-you.

( any day can be a Peter Pan type day )

Hope you have a happy Saturday.

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