Sleepless: Characters

Characters:

The Sleepless:

Name: Junalyn Filomena Benjae                 Codename: Stray

Nickname: Jun

Nationality: Filipino

Age: 19                                                                 Height: 5’4

Eye Color: dark brown                                    Hair Color: dark brown

Ability: destruction

Case: one of the first children used as an apparatus for the special weapons in an International   project called the “Sleep Weapons” where people with harnessed abilities are gathered to create these weapons. But the project was shut down since it was discovered that they exploited children as artillery. She was then sent back to her family along with the other children.

Name: Yoshitaka Satoshi                               Codename: Cross

Nickname: Sadim

Nationality: Japanese-Arabian

Age: 18                                                                 Height: 5’6

Eye Color: brown                                              Hair Color: khaki

Ability: disembodiment and screen

Case: he was in the same program with Junalyn in the “Sleep Weapons” project that allowed young children to harness dangerous abilities, even for themselves, to handle, but he was among those who showed a good performance. When the project was closed down, he was taken into military training as he had no family to return to.

Name: Gardo Gonzaga                                   Codename: Leif

Nickname: Gado

Nationality: Filipino

Age: 13                                                                 Height: 5’0

Eye Color: dark brown                                    Hair Color: brown

Ability: inanimate (lifeless)

Case: he was discovered to be one of the Sleepless when he unconsciously used his ability against a classmate who ended up in a coma for weeks. Since these abilities are said to fade once they age into adulthood, his was rekindled when he learns of his parents’ plan of separation and his refusal to accept it.

Name: Bryan Stevens                                      Codename: Slash

Nickname: Bryan or Ian

Nationality: American

Age: 12                                                                 Height: 5’1

Eye Color: blue-gray                                         Hair Color: platinum blonde

Ability: incision (cut)

Case: youngest son of a wealthy surgeon yet feeling left out because of his older sibling’s success in their profession as graduate students, he sorts to himself and an introvert with a stubborn personality which emits an air of a spoiled brat. He looks up to Junalyn when he finally got to know her. His ivory white complexion is somewhat of a puzzle to others though as he doesn’t have a single imperfection on his skin.

Name: Chow Jiang                                           Codename: Dragon

Nickname: Ji (G)

Nationality: Chinese

Age: 9                                                                    Height: 4’6

Eye Color: black                                 Hair Color: black

Ability: incineration (fire)

Case: his ability was rekindled into a raging inferno when he witnesses men burning down his home with his parents and sister still inside. In his numb shock, he burns the men responsible for the arson and only did he calmed down and regained his senses when he saw his sister was saved from the fire.

Name: Yoshida Madoka                                Codename: Dreamer

Nickname: Ka-chan

Nationality: Japanese

Age: 8                                                                    Height: 4’4

Eye Color: dark brown                                    Hair Color: black

Ability: realism

Case: the daughter of an actress who neglected her as a nuisance to her career. The treatment she received from her mother allowed her to create real monsters and beasts as a means of protection from abuse. A charming cherubic girl with the face of an angel, she emits a strange ability that allows those affected to see hallucinations that would appear real enough, the very ability that drove her mother to commit suicide when an illusion she released accused the actress.

Name: Chow Shiloung                                   Codename: Voice

Nickname: Lu-Lu

Nationality: Chinese

Age: 6                                                                    Height: 4’0

Eye Color: black                                 Hair Color: black

Ability: invoke (call)

Case: in a frail, she is especially well taken cared of by the secret unit that gathers the endangered Sleepless people into their protection. In return, she voluntarily uses her ability to keep track or summon other Sleepless into their side.

The Sleepers:

Name: Nagasaki Junji                                     Nickname: Jun

Nationality: Japanese

Age: 27                                                                 Height: 5’8

Eye Color: black                                 Hair Color: black w/ copper streaks

Case: a police inspector on an assignment to survey the Naji (Benaje) family that was suspected to be involved in some sort of organization that was beyond the government. Surveillance showed nothing amiss and they were called back. However, on the last day of their packing, the Naji house exploded with the daughter caught in the impact just outside.

Name: Hijiki Kisa                                             Nickname: Kisa

Nationality: Japanese-Korean

Age: 23                                                                 Height: 5’4

Eye Color: black                                 Hair Color: black

Case: a member of the special unit that protects the Sleepless people. She was assigned to befriend Junalyn who was recognized as the stray Sleepless and to keep a close eye on the girl. Along with her in this assignment is Satoshi. She later found out that Junalyn was the very person Satoshi who he calls his “Onesan” or Big Sister.

Other Characters:

Name: Kitagawa Kanae                  Nickname: Kana

Nationality: Japanese

Age: 24                                                 Height: 5’3

Eye Color: dark brown                    Hair Color: black

Case: Junji’s ex-girlfriend who works in a boutique store. Junji and Junalyn had to go to her place to hide from the men who blew up the Benaje house.

Name: Matsumane Yuno               Nickname: Yuno or Yu

Nationality: Japanese

Age: 26                                                 Height: 5’5

Eye Color: black-gray                       Hair Color: black-brown

Case: Junji’s partner in the district office. It was his suggestion that Junalyn stay in Junji’s place for the meantime while arrangements to contact any of family members to notify of her situation. Where else could be a safer place than a cop’s?

Name: Filomena Benaje                  Nickname: Filly

Nationality: Filipino

Age: 88                                                 Height: 5’0

Eye Color: dark brown                    Hair Color: ash gray

Case: Junalyn’s grandmother whom she doesn’t get along as the old woman always has a ready rebuke for her, calling her the “Devil’s Child” and such for she fears her granddaughter’s dangerous ability which she knew before then, for it was in the country’s old bedtime tales of children being born such.