Subject Name: Jolynn Parker
Birthday: 25th December 1957
Time of Birth: 00:00
Age: 17
Height: 5'6
Weight: 100lbs
Appearance: Brown hair, Brown eyes
Blood Type: AB-
Parents: Hailey Parker, Jonathan Parker
Siblings: Lloyd Parker, Desmond Parker
Personality: Social, Kind, Energetic, Positive, everything about her is based around joy
Background
Jolynn's family has been farmers for many centuries dating back to the 1400s. They have been well known and established as one of the greatest farmers in all of America. Her mother, who was the lasts in line that inherited the land now, sits as the 65th inheritor of the Parker Land. In short terms, a big lineage with important positions.
Childhood
Jolynn Parker was a very timid child during her younger years. She rarely went outside, only stepping out for her education. She never spoke to anyone and barely had any friends. When she was five, she was diagnosed with social anxiety, and her parents had tried hard to find ways to cure it. Her father, a wealthy businessman, had fallen into a drinking habit after hearing the news, whilst her mother never left her side. Both tried for exceedingly long to make solid attempts at curing her disease but to no avail. Doctors had given her techniques as well as pills to find a cure, but none of them worked. Most likely because they didn't understand much about mental health problems.
Her father, becoming an avid alcoholic resorted to an abusive relationship with her mother. She would often wake up in the middle of the night to hear them arguing about her, and sometimes, he would resort to violence. Jolynn, not knowing what was going on, began to blame herself as every time they screamed, her name would be part of it. Also, due to this, she began to eat much more than usual, increasing her weight above average.
However, her mother had noticed that Jolynn was very gifted academically, and so she had started to get people to test her skills, and thus, Jolynn emerged as a prodigy. By the time she was ten, she had joined high school. When she was ten, her mother had given birth to twins who were both boys. The father, who had finally lowered his drinking habits, started to amend his mistakes. Over time, the whole family, thanks to the birth of the twins, had forgotten all the bad things that had happened in the past and left it all behind. A happy family had been reborn.
Early Teens
During her first few years in high school, Jolynn was excelling at pretty much everything. She has been ranked as the number 1 prospect in the whole of America and continued to excel, whether it be mathematics or science. She even had a knack for sports, but due to her large proportion, she struggled a bit. However, thanks to that wall in her way, she became determined to lose that weight so that she could participate more in the sports department of high school. By the time she was thirteen, she had lost half the weight and had become much more social in the process. Her parents, who had been worried about her anxiety still, now felt relieved about her dramatic change. Jolynn made a huge number of friends and became famous across America, being deemed a prodigy. She had started to receive huge scholarships from various different colleges, and it seemed as if she was at the top of the world. By the time she was fourteen, she had finished high school and started college.
During her time in high school, she had grown an interest in philosophy. Her mother had started to encourage her to learn more about it, saying about how it was such a fascinating topic unlike any other. Growing curious, she picked up her first book about philosophy and immediately fell in love with it. After a month, she had read around ten books on philosophy, and she grew more eager as time passed. Ensuring that she didn't slack of on her other studies, she set a particular time everyday in which all she would do was study philosophy whilst the rest of the time she would work away on her other subjects. She had decided at that moment that she would become a philosopher. Many people shunned the thought of such a prodigious child resorting to such an unusual subject. Everyone knew about philosophy, but not many people saw it as important. The idea of questioning things was something so trivial that people didn't even understand why it had built such a following. But Jolynn knew that this was what she wanted to do.
Late teens
During college, she studies various subjects but is always keen on her philosophy class. Everyone could see how passionate she was, and her mother did not try and divert her attention to anything. People around the country started to talk about how she would become the next big philosopher, but for Jolynn, all she wanted was knowledge. She wanted to understand the world better and understand people. She wanted to know the cause of our ideas and thoughts and how we live based on our morals. She wanted to know how our knowledge shapes us and how we can prove things based on our reasoning alone. She was hooked and couldn't escape. But she didn't want to escape and kept drowning deeper and deeper into this mind-blowing study. When she turned seventeen, she started her degree in philosophy and now is working towards becoming one of the best.
Further information
Jolynn has a fondness towards cats and kittens. She works a night shift at a diner on the outskirts of the city. During the morning, before sunrise, she would wake up and feed the animals as well as clean the house. As of now, she has learnt three different languages, which are English, Italian, and French, and is currently learning Greek. Her favourite sport is soccer, and she dislikes geography. When she was twelve, she had an accident that resulted in her getting five stiches on the side of her head and two down her arm. She scored a whopping 165 on the IQ test and has been given scholarships by Nasa. Her favourite food is a bacon sandwich. She has an unusual expertise in art and is talented in sculpting.
After observing Jolynn for a while, I have started to pick up some noticeable behavioural patterns. Jolynn is still very naïve. Granted, her age is still quite young, but with someone who has such an extraordinary mind, her awareness and naivety are something that I would not have expected. Out of everyone, she is the easiest to manipulate. A very fundamental piece of Jolynn that shapes her is people. She can not thrive alone. By placing her in a glass fortress surrounded by her own reflection, I have isolated her into an uncomfortable situation in which she must revert back to her previous lifestyle in order to survive. Yet due to past traumas and problems, Jolynn has avoided her past by any means necessary. As I had rekindled a past memory of her birthday, her acceptance of the past started to grow again whether she liked it or not. Becoming distant from the things that shape you is something that must never happen.
But for Jolynn, the past is something terrible, and she continues to run away even now. Not wanting to be left alone is her biggest fear. Loneliness is probably the biggest reason why people have problems. They fear the thought of living for so long without the touch of another person. The feeling every morning when you wake up that no one is by your side haunts you to the point that staying away from someone for even a split second becomes insufferable. Jolynn is the greatest example of that. However, that makes her easier to control.
By becoming a simple hope for her, I can dictate her every move easily because she realises the power that I have to leave her alone anytime I want. People always want to please others. We can not live life without having someone notice our abilities and praise us for it. Whenever we hear a simple well done, our brain starts to secrete happiness, and we reply with a huge smile and a thank you. That I show we behave. We cling onto each other's skins as we walk side by side with them into the future. Whether it be a parent, a friend, a relative, or even a lover. The warmth and presence of another is unlike anything else. Society is formed to function as a whole. We all have our different roles, but when one person doesn't do their part, everything crumbles. That is what makes us so strong yet so weak. The heavy reliance on someone else shapes the way for us. And when we fall, we have someone to pick us up.
A beneficial relationship. We help others, and they help us. We fall, and they fall with us. That is how society runs. Jolynn is the greatest representation of someone who has experienced loneliness and experienced socialness. The intoxication of society has brought her down to stop her from being able to thrive alone. Unlike the other two, her youth does play a factor into this. As children, we do not wish to be left alone and be independent. We want praise and company. Maybe that could result in the downfall for Jolynn, but she has continued to pursue things with others.
All I need is something to kickstart her loneliness again. And then I must swoop in as her saviour and save her from the clutches of despair. In doing so, she will not be able to live without me during this experiment, and I can shape her to my fitting. What a marvellous thing loneliness is! Staying away from humanity for such a short amount of time can drive someone to the brink of insanity. It makes us revert to such animal-like behaviours, and we lose our sense of being. Soon after, we start to commit unspeakable acts as we transition into beasts. Our previous identity is lost forever.
However, such an experience is something I do not want to witness. My subjects much dance along the very thin line of sanity and insanity but I must make sure that they do not fall and lose themselves. If I want to create beings that can obey through fear, an insane person is nothing different to a dog. I want subjects that can still reason to a certain degree. It may seem far-fetched, but that is what science is about. Far-fetched dreams and aspirations are only deemed impossible when the dreamer stops dreaming.
On another note, during my expedition around the town, I found a very peculiar specimen. A boy. However, instead of a normal human, it acted like a wild animal. As I approached it, it started to growl at me like a dog and lash out at my hand in hopes of harming me. When it realised that it had no chance against me, it tried to flee and, in doing so, ran into a dead end. As it realised it had no escape, all it did was whimper and cower. Such unusual behaviourisms is impossible to find inside a human being. For now, I have placed the creature into a cage, and I have been observing its actions.
Unusual. That is all I can say about it. This thing crawls on all fours and gnaws at the bars it is confined in. Every action I have taken to converse with such a beast has resulted in growls or plain ignorance. The way it sleeps is like a dog as it rests, and it eats like a bear, chewing away at the food relentlessly. Out of all the things I have seen in my life, this is truly one of a kind. My theory is that the child was abandoned as a baby in the forest and left to fend for itself, thus resulting in it adopting the societal behaviours around it, which ended up being animals. However, for a baby to survive in such harsh territory is something absurd. I hope that as the days progress, it will be able to learn our language so that we can sit down and converse with it for some answers. As of now, it has been asleep for an awfully long time. It is almost as if it is hibernating. Perhaps it was raised by a bear that mistakenly took it as its own cub. Very unusual. I wonder if such a thing has ever happened before. Maybe Annabeth or Jolynn may have an answer for this. Until then, I must continue to observe.
Jolynn currently has been walking around her confinement, humming away a tune her mother had taught her. She is such an unusual specimen. For starters, she was able to tamper with my dream sequence that I had placed for Annabeth. I ensured strictly that I would not allow for any of them to interfere with each other's dreams, yet for some bizarre reason, Jolynn appeared in Annabeth's. Secondly, she was able to wake up from her own dream somehow, which has never happened for the other two. There is something special about her that I must find out. Maybe those things confronted her! That must be it! Otherwise, how would she be able to awake from the dream. No, that isn't right. They do not interfere with human problems. They told me that they would bestow me this power and only watch from afar to entertain themselves, not to meddle in with us. And I am certain that they would keep their word. But if there is a small chance that they did, I must find out why. Jolynn Parker. Truly something special.
I stared at her as she played her usual hopscotch, singing away nursery rhymes that she had learnt during her infancy as a small smile creeped across my face. For some reason, I had grown an attachment to her. She reminded me of someone in the past, but I could not place my finger on who. The feelings that I have for Annabeth are completely different for Jolynn. I am quite sure what I feel for Jolynn is not romantic.
Maybe I truly do still have some emotions left in me.
I thought to myself, letting out a small chuckle.
Sitting in this dark room, watching these three go about struggling to survive was entertainment for me, but I had started to subconsciously grow a bond with them all. Seeing their struggles and perseverance was dazzling. All my life, after the tragedy, I had devoted myself to science and the future. I had given up spending time about my past and looked on ahead, leaving whatever was behind me in the past. I had given up my emotions and my title of being human away for this life. And yet, after all the research I had done and all the vile things I had seen, my emotions never came out. I remained like a blank statue unmoved by everything. But these three, something about them, channelled something inside me which I hadn't realised was there. Feelings that I had long abandoned began to resurface, and now I felt much more attached to someone after what felt like eternity. I wondered if those things had any part to play in it. That one experience of the knocks led me to here.
I bet they are laughing away as they watch me unravel new things that they had placed for me. They were probably responsible behind the knocking, and I had a strange feeling that they knew everything would play out like this. Well, I guess I'll keep watching because I'll be sure to entertain you all. I am your puppet, after all. In the grand scheme of the cosmos, I am just a singular ant trying to pave a way for itself.
I continued to watch my three subjects as they worked their way to find an escape to this madness. Harold and his daughter continued to survey the walls, trying to search for openings that would allow them to escape. He had an extra boost of motivation after realising his daughter had been trapped inside with him. Fatherly love is something unlike any other. I guess. But the fear of losing his daughter was enough to make him more active. I was right to bring an outside variable for such an experiment.
Annabeth had also been trying to escape. During the day, she would move furniture around and try pushing against the door handle to find any looseness within it or anything hiding behind the furniture I had placed. The motivation by the fear of losing another person was enough to keep her active. During the night, before she went to sleep, she would write down everything she had learnt inside her diary. She truly is an intelligent woman. I hope one day, in the distant future, more people like her emerge. Young brilliant minds of females out to change the world.
Jolynn, as of now, is continuing her hopscotch, and she has acquired a new star of hope for her journey. Me. Her fear of loneliness has resulted in her making a pact with me to give herself up and become my puppet, and in return, I would not abandon her. Her innocence is admirable. However, I hope she learns from this experience that not everyone is a friend. And that not everyone is an enemy.
"Hello! Mr Scientist! Can you hear me!"
Looking at the screen, I heard Jolynn shouting at me for my attention.
"Time to continue to show." I whispered to myself.
"May I help you, Jolynn?"