Arthur Layshen was born with multiple abilities that could be used in conjunction with each other, but which were not inherently connected. His ability to create extremely detailed paintings by summoning paint remotely was the result of coming from the same family as Hugh Normanson. They, in fact, knew of each other prior to Bellevue’s founding, but this did not explain Arthur’s primary ability. It was thought that Valary Sela’s heightened vision could explain it. Hell, even a Cambrio Yates connection sounded plausible. But they both turned out to be unrelated. Bree Nolan had the ability to recognize genetic relatives, and informed them that he was actually related to Peyton Resin, which made sense in hindsight since she could see without eyes. Until Reactivation, Arthur could not see without eyes, but he did have a literal photographic memory. His eyes were physiologically different than that of most people. Each time a normal person focuses on an object within their field of view, they lose focus on other objects, but not Arthur. He was capable of seeing everything in his sights with equal clarity, including anything in his peripheral vision, and of retaining the images of everything he’s ever seen indefinitely. He was a very early member of Bellevue, and was instrumental in laying the foundation for its membership so that later leadership would have something to stand on. And though he died before seeing his goals reached, his legacy lived on for many decades.
-
Current Schedule
-
Sundays (macrofiction)
-
The Advancement of Mateo Matic
Now that the lineup has been irreversibly established, and their reliance upon the direction of any external force removed from the equation, Team Matic must decide for themselves what missions to take. As they approach the year that changes everything, they may find themselves on a long detour.
Click here for the complete list of volumes thus far
-
-
Weekdays (microfiction)
-
Reflections
Roughly one hundred people die every minute. This series is told from the point of view of the hundred that took this final journey all over the world on the very first minute of 2022.
-
-
Saturdays (mezzofiction)
-
Extremus vol. 2
Now over 17,000 light years into the journey, the Extremus inducts a new Captain, and continues on towards their hypothetical new home. This is second of nine volumes in the Extremus multiseries.
-
-
- Multiseries
- Single Series
- Darning WarsNew!
- Recursiverse
- Miscellaneous
- CONTACT
- About Me
My name is Nick Fisherman III. It's not my real name, but that's not because I'm trying to hide from my former agency, or something. I named myself after someone I've known for most of my life, and he chose it in honor of his late best friend. I took up writing when I found myself failing 8th grade science, and realized I might never reach my dream of becoming a biochemist, a meteorologist, and a quantum physicist. I started developing my canon after a scouting trip to an island inspired what I thought would be my first novel. I founded this website upon the advice of many people, who told me I needed to get my work out there, and not wait for an agent to accept my manuscript. You can expect one new story every day. Weekdays are for microstories, which are one or two paragraphs long. They're usually only thematically linked, so you won't have to read one to understand another, but they do sometimes tell a combined story. Sundays are for my continuous longer story, The Advancement of Mateo Matic, which I started in the beginning, and won't end until 2066. Saturdays are for long series, most of which take place in the same universe as Mateo, and add to the larger mythology.
Monday, September 14, 2015
Microstory 146: Arthur Layshen
Labels:
ability
,
anomalies
,
Bellevue
,
Bellevue Profiles
,
cousin
,
eyes
,
family
,
food
,
microfiction
,
microstory
,
paint
,
painting
,
recursiverse
,
relationships
,
relative
,
vision
Subscribe to:
Post Comments
(
Atom
)
No comments :
Post a Comment