Ida Mae Sullivan

Ida Mae "Sully" Sullivan is a purple-band Alpha poster whose precognitive power allows her to see five seconds into the future. She is practical and hyper-focussed on her goals, aware that if she does not excel at Maillardet's and graduate with a career offer, she will be returning to a life of poverty with no job prospects.
==Biography==
Ida Mae Sullivan was born in a trailer park. Her family had little money and the only way to put meat on the table with any regularity was to hunt it themselves. Her father began taking her on hunting trips from a young age and quickly discovered she excelled at it; her five-second precognitive power gave her inhumanly perfect aim and an uncanny ability to predict the movements of deer. Sully found satisfaction in it, not least because when everyone was fed her parents didn't fight and her brother left her alone.Target Practice
When schools began enforcing mandatory testing, Sully's power attracted attention and she was sent to Maillardet's Academy, entering in the first block. With no career prospects awaiting her at home, Sully is determined to excel at the Academy in order to be fast-tracked into the police force after graduation. Anything less, and she fears she will end up being "trailer trash" like her parents, marrying her boyfriend Kenneth McKay and becoming "another statistic".
She achieved a combined score of seventy-nine out of a hundred over her first two blocks,Origins and volunteered to take a new third block partner in the hope of being paired with someone who had potential. Unfortunately, her partnership with Maks Petrov got off to a poor start. Where Sully was hyper-focussed on her goals, he seemed to have no idea what he wanted to do, and his wisecracking, theatrical nature gave her the impression of a "professional attention whore". What was worse, he was constantly in motion, unwittingly wreaking havoc with her powers; when she looked at him, she was invariably subjected to a nauseating blur of possible future movements.
She felt she had been saddled with a "dead weight" and avoided him when possible, leading to terrible consequences when Clay Dillinger and his friends attacked and severely injured Maks during the Night Games. Sully had nothing to do with it, but her classmates blamed her for abandoning her partner and June Hovick took revenge by stealing a comb that had been a precious gift from Sully's mentor Mamie Lamarr.
During the first winter break of their third block, Sully and Maks were given the chance to take part in a practical survival scenario, with successful completion earning them each an extra two points to their scores. Over the course of the practical, they came to understand and appreciate each other better and worked together to win the scenario, afterwards resolving to work together as true partners.
==Personality==
Ida Mae is strongly career-oriented, intent on doing well at the Academy in order to be fast-tracked into the police force after graduation. She is hyper-focused on her goals, to the point that she doesn't put any effort into the classes that she sees as useless (namely, Acting, PR and Language). By contrast, her third-block partner Maks Petrov delights in new experiences, loves the classes that Ida Mae considers a waste of time, and has no idea what he wants to do post-graduation. As a result, Ida Mae finds Maks a continual frustration and regards him as dead weight.quipquipquip: "Can you tell us more about the dynamic between Maks and his partner?"
==Physical appearance==
Sully is described as having "big, beautiful, horrendously impractical hair", which she wears curled and loose around her shoulders.Grinder
==Powers and abilities==
Sully possesses a low-level form of precognition which allows her to see five seconds into the future. This gives her perfect aim, and means she is able to track and predict a target's movements with extreme accuracy. It also makes it near-impossible to sneak up on it. However, the consequence of always seeing ghost-images of possible immediate futures is that she is very prone to migraines, a fact that she is careful to keep hidden: she is acutely aware that if her powers are known to have a drawback, her standing and career opportunities will suffer.
==Trivia==
*If Sully were at Hogwarts, she'd be a Slytherin.quipquipquip: "Hogwarts houses"
==Appearances==
*Origins
*Grinder
*Target Practice (POV character)
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Alphas
Category:Purple-bands
Category:Target Practice characters