Post by Gaia on Apr 5, 2007 16:42:56 GMT -5
The Basics
Name: Rinaya Terra
Code Name: Gaia
Age: 16
Affiliation: X-Men
Mutant Characteristics:
Mutation: Gaia’s genetic mutation is in basic terms the ability to influence elements of the earth. Through touch she can change the basic atomic structure of anything that comes naturally from the earth. For example if you gave her a bit of coal she could put it in her hand and change it into a diamond, or change a column of Marble in Limestone. She can not however effect anything man made or anything which has been influence by man, a lamp post is made of steel yet it is steel effected by man, with things added, rust preventer and nickel composites so she has no power over such things. Although she can affect things such as a man made column of marble, which has only been shaped and is still marble.
She can influence crystals and crystal structure thus allowing them to grow in the way of her desire, the same with unaltered metal materials. She could shape raw iron, or copper or gold, but not once man has influenced it. Right now her powers are fairly limited due to her age but progression of them will allow her to influence the earth itself. For example she wouldn’t be able to make a building collapse with out having to change all the bricks because concrete is not earth made. But she could go down to the foundations and make the earth it sits on into liquid sand hence the building sinking and collapsing. It is also possible as the earth is an excellent carrier of sound vibrations she could listen through the earth.
Her power progression would include the ability to shape the earth, being able to make columns of earth appear from the ground for example. If Avalanche created an earthquake, she could turn the area around him to liquid sand, thus the liquid properties of the sand would cancel out the quake and neutralize it. If her powers fully progress then she could in theory be able to influence any mineral at the atomic level so man made structures which once came from the earth would be no hindrance to her, but of course right now this is not on the horizon for her foreseeable future, possible plot direction and progress, maybe.
Currently her powers are effected by her moods but that will change as control is built.
Manifestations: Eye colour which shifts from Mud brown, to Leaf green.
Class: 4
The Character
Personality: She is very self-aware and is more then able to look after herself in most situations that arise in her life. She has been bumped around foster home and continues to run away not because she doesn’t like the people more because she is afraid she will hurt them. Generally an active mind and tends to keep silent letting things happen around her, she likes to watch people and how they interact with one another, it reminds her of the earth and how it works, how things combine to make something new.
She is guilty over the destruction of her family and her place of birth, her people raised her believing she could control the very earth, when the mudslide came she couldn’t stop it and it wiped out most of her town. She survived and since has been plagued by nightmares of enclosed places and failing her family. She was a lot worse until she found the Xavier Institute; she has opened up a lot more, but still keeps to herself.
Physical Description:
Height: 5’ 10 in
Weight: 150lbs
Hair: Very long Mahogany coloured hair that’s is the official colour but it resembles dark rich earth
Eyes: Hazel/brown, like again rich dark earth. Which can change to leaf green depending on her mood.
Gaia wouldn’t be called exotically beautiful she posses a kind of homely beauty which never seems to remain the same. She doesn’t appears to notice but her hair never gets dirty when she is out on the streets it’s as if the dirt stay’s away. Her skin is like warm honey in colour and brings out the dark brown of her eyes.
She is a warm face when she isn’t trying to look mad at someone, she thinks she had no beauty but she like the earth is ever changing. Maybe her hair will be slightly darker one day or maybe her eyes more honey coloured. She is tall almost 6ft and tends to be covered in dirt due to being out all day playing with the earth, it is the best way she learns. Running her fingers through mud and over rocks it doesn’t bother her that she will go out clean and comes back a total mess, to her it is not mess it is just the earth. She is getting better with physical contact but is totally claustrophobic since the destruction of her home.
History: Gaia was born into a coven of sorts, the town in which she was born made up mostly of superstitious and new age people. She had been predicted to be born with power over the earth. She was raised in the knowledge of witchcraft and to accept that sometimes strange things happened to people and people change and she mustn’t treat people differently due to it.
Her mother had a power over crystals allowing her to “talk” to them almost and giving her the ability to store energy in them. Gaia inherited that from her mother her other gifts were said to be gifts from the goddess of the earth and the people of the town honestly believed the goddess sent her. Due to this upbringing she wasn’t allowed to have a normal life, she would spend hours at study of the earth and how it worked, she knew more about Geology by the time she was 10 then most at university. She knew how crystals grew which was to aid her in using them. Her powers had still not manifested by this point in her life so her training was upped to try and trigger it.
She would spend hours at meditation and crystal work her family and the coven trying to activate her powers. When she was 12 she ran away due to the pressure they were putting her under, when they caught up with her she was punished severely with a nasty beating which left her with a growing hatred of these people her mother included. She started to ask about her father who he might be and where he came from, another beating ensued as she was told never to ask that again. One horrible stormy night just before her 13th birthday she was pulled from her bed and taken outside. The coven and half the town were waiting for her, reports had come in about a mudslide that was going to hit the town and they wanted her to stop it, even thought she tried to tell them she had no power they still put her in the path of the mud.
Of course she couldn’t stop the mudslide, as the mud overwhelmed her, her powers activated and created a cocoon for her while the rest of the town and the people were inundated with the mud. The mudslide wiped most of the town out and no one knew where Gaia had vanished. She woke to find herself in total darkness sealed off from the air, she began to panic and an automatic reaction her body send out a wave of her gift shattering the cocoon which covered her allowing her out.
Upon emerging from the cocoon of mud, she saw the devastation the mudslide made and started to believe she had made it out of anger for these people, that if she had tired harder she could have saved them. Taking nothing with her she fled from the town and eventually got caught by the authorities and put into care. Since then she has been moved around foster homes her powers growing and becomes more unstable, she tries not to use them but if she doesn’t they start to do things on their own.
Now at the age of 16 she had been put into the care of the Xavier Institute as her powers are too wild for her to be put into a normal home. She actually has to laugh when they call her strange, they really have no idea about her at all. she believes she will never have a normal life as her powers currently follow her moods, with more control this will change but right now if someone scares her accidentally crystals kind shoot out of the floor.
Sample: (first morning at the Xavier Institute)
The sun shone through the curtain of her room making Rin blink the sleep from her eyes, this was the first morning of the rest of her life she had been told. Currently she was roomed alone as they where not too sure what would happen should she be housed with another student. They where going to do some sort of easy tests with her today and see what she could and could not do, this was going to be difficult for her as she hadn’t really used her powers in front of others. Swinging her legs from the bed and looked around the room and got to her feet moving to the window. She didn’t like being on the top floor so far away from the earth which powered her abilities, turning to her dresser she quickly dressed in a pair of jean and short top before moving to the bathroom.
Going through the usual cleaning processes one did every morning she realised if she stayed here this would be one place where she could brush her teeth every day, where she could shower before she went to bed. It would be a funny experience having all that again, but being back with people who would demand she use her powers she worried about that. As she worried a soft humming came from her room, with a frown she walked back in as a large piece of quartz crystal which sat on her windowsill started to hum. With a smile she picked it up and put it in her pocket. It was the only thing she had which was hers, everything else the authorities had given her before shipping her off to this place.
Walking from her room she trailed her fingers over the dark hard wood of the corridors and headed down the large stairs to the kitchen. No one else seemed to be awake yet or at least not around. She had been told to take what she wanted but she still felt odd in such a big house. Walking to the fridge she opened the door and frowned at the sheer amount of food, there where like 3 fridges in here. Taking out a bottle of coke she put it on the side and turned to close the door when the breakfast table caught her attention. It was Diorite Granite and it was gorgeous.
The large crystals of Feldspar and quartz glistened under the shiny polished surface. She closed the fridge door and ran her hands over the coolness of the granite and smiled as the crystals inside the stone glowed with iridescent colours as her hands ran over them. she loved Granite such a marble of colours and each mineral from different areas in the earth, each formed at different times. Her eyes on the counter top she wasn't paying attention as a large group of people ran past the kitchen door scaring the living hell out of her.
With a yelp she pulled her hand back as if she had bee doing something wrong, she grabbed her coke and paused looking at the table top again. It was covered in small quartz and feldspar crystals sticking up as if they had grown from the breakfast top itself. Which in theory they had, she had just given them the energy and they grew. Her face went white as she looked around and moved over to the table top again.
“Go away, stop growing… I said stop…” the panic in her voice was making it worse as they continued to stretch to the ceiling. She let out a sob and ran from the room back up to her room, she was defiantly not ready for this. When she left the room the light in the crystals stopped glowing and they stopped growing. Back in her room she closed the curtains and curled up wrapped in her cover, she had to get out of here.
Name: Rinaya Terra
Code Name: Gaia
Age: 16
Affiliation: X-Men
Mutant Characteristics:
Mutation: Gaia’s genetic mutation is in basic terms the ability to influence elements of the earth. Through touch she can change the basic atomic structure of anything that comes naturally from the earth. For example if you gave her a bit of coal she could put it in her hand and change it into a diamond, or change a column of Marble in Limestone. She can not however effect anything man made or anything which has been influence by man, a lamp post is made of steel yet it is steel effected by man, with things added, rust preventer and nickel composites so she has no power over such things. Although she can affect things such as a man made column of marble, which has only been shaped and is still marble.
She can influence crystals and crystal structure thus allowing them to grow in the way of her desire, the same with unaltered metal materials. She could shape raw iron, or copper or gold, but not once man has influenced it. Right now her powers are fairly limited due to her age but progression of them will allow her to influence the earth itself. For example she wouldn’t be able to make a building collapse with out having to change all the bricks because concrete is not earth made. But she could go down to the foundations and make the earth it sits on into liquid sand hence the building sinking and collapsing. It is also possible as the earth is an excellent carrier of sound vibrations she could listen through the earth.
Her power progression would include the ability to shape the earth, being able to make columns of earth appear from the ground for example. If Avalanche created an earthquake, she could turn the area around him to liquid sand, thus the liquid properties of the sand would cancel out the quake and neutralize it. If her powers fully progress then she could in theory be able to influence any mineral at the atomic level so man made structures which once came from the earth would be no hindrance to her, but of course right now this is not on the horizon for her foreseeable future, possible plot direction and progress, maybe.
Currently her powers are effected by her moods but that will change as control is built.
Manifestations: Eye colour which shifts from Mud brown, to Leaf green.
Class: 4
The Character
Personality: She is very self-aware and is more then able to look after herself in most situations that arise in her life. She has been bumped around foster home and continues to run away not because she doesn’t like the people more because she is afraid she will hurt them. Generally an active mind and tends to keep silent letting things happen around her, she likes to watch people and how they interact with one another, it reminds her of the earth and how it works, how things combine to make something new.
She is guilty over the destruction of her family and her place of birth, her people raised her believing she could control the very earth, when the mudslide came she couldn’t stop it and it wiped out most of her town. She survived and since has been plagued by nightmares of enclosed places and failing her family. She was a lot worse until she found the Xavier Institute; she has opened up a lot more, but still keeps to herself.
Physical Description:
Height: 5’ 10 in
Weight: 150lbs
Hair: Very long Mahogany coloured hair that’s is the official colour but it resembles dark rich earth
Eyes: Hazel/brown, like again rich dark earth. Which can change to leaf green depending on her mood.
Gaia wouldn’t be called exotically beautiful she posses a kind of homely beauty which never seems to remain the same. She doesn’t appears to notice but her hair never gets dirty when she is out on the streets it’s as if the dirt stay’s away. Her skin is like warm honey in colour and brings out the dark brown of her eyes.
She is a warm face when she isn’t trying to look mad at someone, she thinks she had no beauty but she like the earth is ever changing. Maybe her hair will be slightly darker one day or maybe her eyes more honey coloured. She is tall almost 6ft and tends to be covered in dirt due to being out all day playing with the earth, it is the best way she learns. Running her fingers through mud and over rocks it doesn’t bother her that she will go out clean and comes back a total mess, to her it is not mess it is just the earth. She is getting better with physical contact but is totally claustrophobic since the destruction of her home.
History: Gaia was born into a coven of sorts, the town in which she was born made up mostly of superstitious and new age people. She had been predicted to be born with power over the earth. She was raised in the knowledge of witchcraft and to accept that sometimes strange things happened to people and people change and she mustn’t treat people differently due to it.
Her mother had a power over crystals allowing her to “talk” to them almost and giving her the ability to store energy in them. Gaia inherited that from her mother her other gifts were said to be gifts from the goddess of the earth and the people of the town honestly believed the goddess sent her. Due to this upbringing she wasn’t allowed to have a normal life, she would spend hours at study of the earth and how it worked, she knew more about Geology by the time she was 10 then most at university. She knew how crystals grew which was to aid her in using them. Her powers had still not manifested by this point in her life so her training was upped to try and trigger it.
She would spend hours at meditation and crystal work her family and the coven trying to activate her powers. When she was 12 she ran away due to the pressure they were putting her under, when they caught up with her she was punished severely with a nasty beating which left her with a growing hatred of these people her mother included. She started to ask about her father who he might be and where he came from, another beating ensued as she was told never to ask that again. One horrible stormy night just before her 13th birthday she was pulled from her bed and taken outside. The coven and half the town were waiting for her, reports had come in about a mudslide that was going to hit the town and they wanted her to stop it, even thought she tried to tell them she had no power they still put her in the path of the mud.
Of course she couldn’t stop the mudslide, as the mud overwhelmed her, her powers activated and created a cocoon for her while the rest of the town and the people were inundated with the mud. The mudslide wiped most of the town out and no one knew where Gaia had vanished. She woke to find herself in total darkness sealed off from the air, she began to panic and an automatic reaction her body send out a wave of her gift shattering the cocoon which covered her allowing her out.
Upon emerging from the cocoon of mud, she saw the devastation the mudslide made and started to believe she had made it out of anger for these people, that if she had tired harder she could have saved them. Taking nothing with her she fled from the town and eventually got caught by the authorities and put into care. Since then she has been moved around foster homes her powers growing and becomes more unstable, she tries not to use them but if she doesn’t they start to do things on their own.
Now at the age of 16 she had been put into the care of the Xavier Institute as her powers are too wild for her to be put into a normal home. She actually has to laugh when they call her strange, they really have no idea about her at all. she believes she will never have a normal life as her powers currently follow her moods, with more control this will change but right now if someone scares her accidentally crystals kind shoot out of the floor.
Sample: (first morning at the Xavier Institute)
The sun shone through the curtain of her room making Rin blink the sleep from her eyes, this was the first morning of the rest of her life she had been told. Currently she was roomed alone as they where not too sure what would happen should she be housed with another student. They where going to do some sort of easy tests with her today and see what she could and could not do, this was going to be difficult for her as she hadn’t really used her powers in front of others. Swinging her legs from the bed and looked around the room and got to her feet moving to the window. She didn’t like being on the top floor so far away from the earth which powered her abilities, turning to her dresser she quickly dressed in a pair of jean and short top before moving to the bathroom.
Going through the usual cleaning processes one did every morning she realised if she stayed here this would be one place where she could brush her teeth every day, where she could shower before she went to bed. It would be a funny experience having all that again, but being back with people who would demand she use her powers she worried about that. As she worried a soft humming came from her room, with a frown she walked back in as a large piece of quartz crystal which sat on her windowsill started to hum. With a smile she picked it up and put it in her pocket. It was the only thing she had which was hers, everything else the authorities had given her before shipping her off to this place.
Walking from her room she trailed her fingers over the dark hard wood of the corridors and headed down the large stairs to the kitchen. No one else seemed to be awake yet or at least not around. She had been told to take what she wanted but she still felt odd in such a big house. Walking to the fridge she opened the door and frowned at the sheer amount of food, there where like 3 fridges in here. Taking out a bottle of coke she put it on the side and turned to close the door when the breakfast table caught her attention. It was Diorite Granite and it was gorgeous.
The large crystals of Feldspar and quartz glistened under the shiny polished surface. She closed the fridge door and ran her hands over the coolness of the granite and smiled as the crystals inside the stone glowed with iridescent colours as her hands ran over them. she loved Granite such a marble of colours and each mineral from different areas in the earth, each formed at different times. Her eyes on the counter top she wasn't paying attention as a large group of people ran past the kitchen door scaring the living hell out of her.
With a yelp she pulled her hand back as if she had bee doing something wrong, she grabbed her coke and paused looking at the table top again. It was covered in small quartz and feldspar crystals sticking up as if they had grown from the breakfast top itself. Which in theory they had, she had just given them the energy and they grew. Her face went white as she looked around and moved over to the table top again.
“Go away, stop growing… I said stop…” the panic in her voice was making it worse as they continued to stretch to the ceiling. She let out a sob and ran from the room back up to her room, she was defiantly not ready for this. When she left the room the light in the crystals stopped glowing and they stopped growing. Back in her room she closed the curtains and curled up wrapped in her cover, she had to get out of here.
