Post by Bryton on Feb 24, 2011 0:52:10 GMT -5
Kristina O'Hara
Age: 36
Species: Homo superior
Eye color: Monochromatic white/silver
Hair color: Ginger
Body type: Fit
Heritage: Irish
Occupation: Excalibur Agent
Mutation
Empathy: Kristina is a powerful Empath, capable of some of the most amazing Empathic feats there are. Empathy is the ability to sense or feel the emotions of another person, and in some stronger cases, the ability to manipulate emotions in a variety of ways. She can sense, feel, replicate, amplify, negate, dull, or wipe emotions at will. She can also perform more advanced techniques, such as inducing pain, syncing her body to another person’s, and in a heightened state she could even, theoretically, completely change a person’s personality.
Inducing Pain- When she induces pain, it’s usually a numbing sort of burn beneath the skin, growing in intensity as she wills it to. It is her most common use of emotion manipulation for offensive means. Most often, she concentrates her empathy into a psi-bolt, and flings it at people. She often concentrates it into bolts which protrude from her hands in a pinkish aura, much like Psylocke, but instead of doing physical damage; it will make a person hurt and burn in the place it hits.
Syncing her Body- Rare, but when she is inclined to, she can sync her body to someone around her. This means that her heart will begin to beat at the same time, her blood will flow in a similar manner, and she will take on all physical illnesses a person has, such as the flu or strep throat. Its sole purpose is to locate pain, so that she might alleviate it.
Personality Changing- Has only happened once, and she was in a heightened state of power, but she was able to change him from the mean person he was into a nicer and less angry person. It can only be performed when her powers are amplified, by some outside force, such as a chemical or another mutant ability, and even then it takes a great deal of time, meaning the person must be willing or knocked out.
Healing- She can’t actually heal a person, but she can alleviate their pain so that it heals quicker.
Abilities
Acrobatics- She’s a gymnast, performing at an Olympic area in acrobatics.
Endurance- Years of training allows her greater endurance, peak human.
Strength- Peak human strength.
Flight- Achieved through use of a special suit designed to aid her in her acrobatic abilities, she can elongate her jumps and achieve limited flight.
History
Kristina was born in Ireland to her two parents. However, within a few months of her arrival, her father left and she was left with her mother. The oldest of 3 children, her brother was born 2 years later, as Kristina was just learning to walk. Almost immediately, Kristina and her brother didn’t get along. At such a young age, she resented Brady for getting all the attention, and she got her hand smacked a few times for sneaking into his room and throwing things at him on purpose.
When she was 7, (Brady being 5), her sister was born, and the same story occurred, only Brady was the one sneaking into Miranda’s room throwing things at her, Kristina fading into the background. With her mother off her case, she started exploring and learning things early on. By the time she was 10, she had explored the entire town and its surrounded forest, and never been in trouble once, while her brother and sister were yelled at constantly.
By the time she reached 13, she was reading at a High School Senior’s level. It was that year that she discovered her abilities, quite oddly as well. She was in a yelling fight at school with some douchebag who had made fun of her and her family (they had many freckles), when all of a sudden, she felt the incredible need to laugh. Well, she started laughing, and then students all around her started laughing, and then the entire SCHOOL started laughing, out of no where. Well, it seemed a coincidence or something at first, but later on, she realized that every time she got mad, someone around her would get mad, etc. She realized she was emitting emotions.
She didn’t begin feeling other people’s emotions until the following year, when she started picking up on her brother and sister (who were constantly in fights with each other). Well, quite obviously, it was very distressing.
In short, she grew up to be a very successful woman, at the age of 25, she and her siblings had joined the police force and were doing very well for themselves. However, during an especially exciting mission, her sister and brother both went missing.
She was knocked out on the floor, as the culprit had literally hit her in the head with a frying pan. Her sister and brother had been dragged away by the time she woke up. Blood on the floor indicated that they had been knocked out as well.
They have been listed MIA since.
She discovered that her empathy was now always active, and had to learn to control it again. However, the same year she was approached to join Excalibur, having been discovered as a mutant by an apparent mutant. Well, she joined, and after 10 years, she climbed the ranks.
She was sent to Breton’s for doing such a fine job.
Personality: Solemn, reserved.