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Name: Nadia Clarimont
Alias: Pulse
Age: 17
Physical: 5’4”; Weight ranges from 100-110 pounds; Lightly tanned skin; Delicate features; Makeup: heavy eyeliner, dark brown eye shadow, a colorless lip gloss, and a light blush. Piercings: in the stomach, cartilage, and twice in each of her ear lobes, along with a stud in her eyebrow; Small tattoo of a heart, about one square inch, is on the inside of her left ankle; Hair: down to her waist and dyed black, usually done up in a long braid that hangs down her back; Nails: painted black, although the tips are chipping slightly.

Powers: Bones, tendons, and muscles in arms and legs have mutated into a complex natural hydraulics system. This grants super power to her punches, kicks, and jumps, among other things. The hydraulics also act as shock-absorbers.

Str: 8
Spd: 9
Int: 3
Dur: 5
Aim: 4
E.P.: 1
F.S.: 9

Skills: Literature, Art, Computers, Math, and Psychology

Items: A compact cell phone, a tiny mp3 player, some cash, and her drivers license are all stowed in her right back pocket, within a black wallet with a silver silhouette of a cat on the front.

Background: Born in the country, she was brought to the city as a toddler. Despite growing up in the city, she always felt more comfortable being around nature. When her parents discovered her mutation, they decided against allowing her to enter the public schools, home schooling her, instead. Shy and somewhat asocial, she has few friends. However, to those friends that she does have, she is continuously loyal, cheerful and talkative. Around those that she does not know, though, she is quiet and sullen, commonly blasting her music so that she does not need to hear things that do not interest her.
This being her first year in a real school, it is unfortunate that she has to enter late due to her grandma’s death. She had to go to the funeral, which bothered her slightly because she had never known or met the woman. Her family had become somewhat estranged, due to her mutation, by her father’s family. Although she feels bad about it, she excuses it with the stories her father told her before he died when she was sixteen. He was always the weird one, preferring his hair long and his clothes black, considered “gothic” by most of those who were around him. Despite this, he always claimed that he just liked what he liked, and that’s what he would wear. His tragic death tore Nadia and her mother apart, and she came to be very independent, working and paying for her own food, clothes, gas, and other needs. Although she was only sixteen at the time, she acts as an adult, driving herself everywhere that she needed to go with her own car, paid for by her saved money, and only speaking to her mother to tell her that she is home or leaving. This is how she has lived for the past two years, since her father died in an accident involving a drunk driver. The other driver was never caught, making it all the more painful for Nadia. Her mother sent her to this school in order to possibly give her time to recover, although a bit late, from the tragedy. Also, she hopes that her relationship with Nadia will be repaired through the time away.

Costume:Pants.
Shirt.
Coat (I couldn't find it on a girl sweatdrop ).
Boots.
Three small daggers with simple, black handles and a blade of stainless steel are kept in a small compartment that sits along her hip, specially made to hold these blades.

Name: Erzulie Ramsey
Alias: Haze
Age: 17
Physical: Haitian, very dark skin, slightly narrow brown eyes, short black hair cut close to her scalp, tall but lanky with a slim build

POWERS
*Telepathic control over own and others' sense of sight
*Can release panic pheremones, used for causing panic, confusion, disorientation, etc.

Str: 7
Spd: 7
Int: 5
Dur: 8
Aim: 3
E.P.: 8
F.S.: 4



Skills: Languages(Haitian Creole, English, French),Santerian Traditons and rites, cooking, Athletics-particularly watersports (diving, swimming, rowing),

Items: A watch on her right wrist (she's left handed), wallet, sometimes a small capacity MP3 player

Background: Erzulie is the daughter of Haitian immigrants, raised in New Brunswick, Canada.She is a practicer of the Santerian Faith (sometimes known as Haitian Voudoun, it is not voudou. It derives from Yoruba (african) tribal traditions) which she learned from her extended family. When her powers developed, about two months ago, causing hallucinations and distorted vision in herself and others, her uncle suggested to her parents to contact the Institute, immediately. She was taught to control her powers easily by Emma Frost and is now discovering exactly what can be done with telepathy.

Costume: A black sleeveless turtleneck top (white x in the centre), white belt with a few pockets and skin tight black pants (with white piping), with tough low-top sneakers and black wristbands adorned with a silver figure 8 on each. She tends to wear silver and white earrings and chokers, but they change

Name: Maria Anne "Tripp" Schoenberg
Alias: "Pestilence," "Pest," (originally Plague).
Age: 17
Physical: Five-foot-seven, willowy with a very slender, albeit toned build. Black shaggy hair falls carelessly over expressive green eyes and ending just above her lightly-tanned shoulders. A 'demonic' black tail, ending in a spaded tip, forms outward from the base of her spine.

POWERS
Cloaking (moderate invisibility)
Ability to produce and secrete a highly-corrosive acid under skin.
Ability to melt down into a completely coherent mass of moving slime.

Str: (strength) 3
Spd: (speed) 4
Int: (Intelligence) 8
Dur: (Durability) 3
Aim: 4
E.P.: (energy projection) 6

(additionally: *Cloaking- 3 points
*Acid Production- 3 points
*Prehensile Tail- 2 points )

Skills:
Communication (excellent with people in general), creative problem solving, proficiancy in the arts, acrobatics, ability to communicate a strong faith in universal love.


Items:
Rucksack containing a sketchbook, a wallet, a camera and extra film, a cell phone, an ipod, three harmonicas, a small box of sidewalk chalk, a set of panpipes, a Latin-to-English dictionary, a tuning fork, a first-aid kit, some candies, a flashlight, and a book of Allen Ginsberg poetry. In her pockets, she carries two pocket knifes, a lighter, chewing gum and whatever else she can fit in them-- she likes her big pockets, and makes the most of them.



Background:
Maria was that smiling, fun kid everyone was friends with in school. Everything in life was a gift to her, and she loved people and learning; Maria skipped both the fifth and eighth grades, and was also given the option to skip the eleventh grade, but declined. She enjoyed all activities, including sports, although she was awful at them at first, earning her the clumsy nickname "Tripp." She learned quickly, though, and especially enjoyed fencing, rugby, martial arts, and track. She tried to learn how to dance for years, but her nickname always proved too true for that dream to ever really manifest.

Most of Maria's friends do not realize that she is an adoptee-- both of her parents were killed in a suicide-bombing while serving in the peace corps. Raised from an infant by a kind and loving family, her siblings didn't even know that she wasn't related to them by blood. When she was told the truth on her sixteenth birthday, she was not unhappy, but glad to know that her parents had died serving peace, and happy also to realize that Missus Schoenberg had not "jumped the fence", because being adopted explained one black-haired sheep in a sea of redheads.

Maria's powers showed up randomly in the women's restroom at her high-school in her senior year on a day when she had supped one extra cup of tea in the morning. After a scare with the school tattle-tail, who had seen the entire thing, or at least as much as a person can see when someone suddenly goes betailed and invisible before their eyes, Maria dropped out of school at the principal's request. This came as a huge blow for the knowledge-loving scholar, and it was to her dismay and sadness that she had to leave three weeks before graduating. Maria's last day of high school at West End 427 was the first time any of her friends had ever seen her cry on her own behalf.

For the first portion of the semester, Maria began to experament with her powers in her now copiuous free time, using them to fight against crimes much in the way she felt her parents had done. Known on the streets as Plague, Maria would do her best stop crimes before they started, desperately trying to keep her mind and her boddy occupied so as not to succumb to the sadness she felt at her exclusion from the rest of humanity. She gained a few fans and a few followers, earning a slight street reputation and a bit more faith in her own ability to fight for her beliefs. Fearing for their adopted daughter's health and education, Maria's parents agreed immidiately when contacted by the X-men to allow for the girl's immidate transfer to their school. Without hesitation, Maria packed her things and was on her way, no questions asked.

Part of Maria wonders if her parents had powers, too, and had not actually been members of the Peace Corps, but had instead been what she now knows as being called X-men. She hopes to learn how to better use her powers for good, so she can follow in their footsteps and spread peace.




Costume: A black and forest-green body-suit with the traditional gold X across the left breast, similar gold stripes encircling her neck, waist, wrists, elbows, knees, and ankles. The suit serves as an armor that can disappear and melt along with her, and works with the substance her body naturally creates to encase her body in an untouchable, acidic shell. Her tail is left free of the confines of her uniform, as the most acid is secreted there anyway.

Name:
Grover Allen
Alias:
The Pulse
Age:
27
Physical:
5'9"
190 pounds.
Hair : White.
Skin : Tan.
Has a slightly visible build. Looks much like a kickboxer.

POWERS
*Potential Energy Control*
*Energy Manipulation*
*Weapon Skills*

Stats
Str: 5
Spd: 8
Int: 6
Dur: 4
Aim: 9
E.P.: 8
F.S.:1

Skills:
*Complete Weapons Knowledge*
*Knowledge of Technology*
*Knowledge of Languages*
*Knowledge of History*

Items:
Has 2 Items on his wrists that atomize guns and ammo into it. (Ref. Ultraviolet)

Background:
Grover Allen was born Geoff Sparks in Nova Scotia. Not much is known of his parents since he was removed from them at the age of 13 and his name was changed by a group called "The Study." They picked Grover out of a group of 200 other "gifted individuals" to be there next "Project." While he was there (The location is still unknown) he met up with others like him. They all referred to each other by there "Project" names. His was "The Pulse." He met a girl there they called "The Incendiary." They became very close and talked often, sparking a love affair that bothered "The Study." They were quickly separated. This threw Grover into a deep depression that he still suffers from. At the age of 18, he surmised complete knowledge of all weapons ever made, from the first clubs and spears made by the cave men to the most experimental weapons made by "The Study" themselves. "The Study" was very pleased by this and felt that he was ready to move on to some more "violent" and "experimental" tests. "The Study" gave Grover the Weapon Atomizing Storage Thermal Equipment, or WASTE, and thew him into fights with friends he hadn't seen since being isolated. These threw Grover into a rage and he destroyed much of the test area. "The Study" felt that they had mad a mistake and released him back out to the frozen tundra of North Canada. In the mountains just outside Alaska, he found a trainer named Fung Hu. Fung helped him to control his powers more, making his more powerful than ever. He then traveled south untill he heard about Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. He thought that they mite help him find "The Study" and his one love "The Incendiary."

Costume:
He still wares his white outfit that he had from "The Study." His eyes spark as he gathers energy. WASTE is always on his wrist, and there is no way to tell if it's loaded or not.