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player information.
name: Lauren
are you over 18?: 26
personal lj: pinikir
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc:
msn: lovehorsesandlegolas[at]hotmail[dot]com
Plurk: pinikir
characters in abax: na
in character information.
series: Marvel 616: X-men after ‘Not Forgotten’
name: Character Name - Laura Kinney Code name: X-23
sex: F
age: 17
race: Mutant
height: 5”1’
weight: 147
canon point: After ‘Not Forgotten’
previous cr: n/a
history: Background
personality: At first glance Laura looks like your typical woman, just a little too calm and quiet for her age. Underneath the surface however there is a lot of emotion and thought that are hidden behind this front, stemming back from how she has been shaped since she was born.
Laura is a clone and was born and grew up in a laboratory. The laboratory had a highly controlled environment, where all her training and development was done to turn her into a living weapon. Consequently only proper language was used around her and she speaks English in it’s purest form, and she rarely uses slang as she was not exposed to any for it until she was a teenager living in the streets of New York.
In the laboratory, Laura was never mollycoddled, and was never taught how to express an opinion or to make social chit chat. Her talk was mostly limited to orders and affirming orders. This has made Laura seem very withdrawn as she rarely speaks more than one or two sentences at a time. She is also less likely to be the person to start a conversation unless there is something specific that she needs to say or ask as she does not need see the need to waste time and words on pointless chat.
The lack of conversation and social interaction when Laura was young was part of the process of turning her into a mindless, controllable killer. They wanted her to have no emotion or feelings. They tried methods such as making her kill a puppy that she had been allowed as a pet. Laura displays distress at this and after she finds she has killed her sensei under the trigger drug. She had been unable to kill him under a direct order. These experiences taught her that the deaths would happen no matter what and they succeeded in turning her into a highly skilled and trained combatant; who is able to kill dozens of heavily armed opponents during a single encounter. However, they did not succeed in beating the humanity out of her. Laura continued showed signs of humanity and emotion; in one particular mission when X-23 was assigned to assassinate Martin Sutter and his family, she killed Sutter and his wife without hesitation, but she spared their young son, Henry.
Laura does not show her emotion in a normal fashion as these were denied to herWhen the average teenager has a problem or is upset they find something to lash out at or they go to a friend or family member who will comfort them or give them a hug. Laura does none of these. When she was a child, her mother Dr. Sarah Kinney, did her best to ensure Laura retained some semblance of humanity by spending time with her and reading to her. However in the tightly controlled environment she had to rebuff Laura’s advances; Laura tried to place her head into her mother’s lap and got pushed away. She associates pain, loneliness and emotion as something that she must deal with alone. The only way she found to deal with this, and still deals with emotions she cannot express is to self harm by cutting herself with her claws.
After joining the X-men Laura began to improve in her interaction with other people. She joined the team the New X-men and attended the Xavier Institute, where was always surrounded by other people. Laura adapts to her environments, on a mission she will play a part to gain access to the target, in the school she watched, trying to learn what was expected of her. Julian Keller, noticed her, and called her weird. He was the first person to interact with her, even if it was in a negative fashion. She showed she cared by watching him, when he was injured, she perched by his bed at night, and even defended him in a fight. Eventually Laura began to develop a romantic interest in him, but she has said herself that she does not understand what she feels for him.
Laura also begins to show feelings enough to develop friendships. One time when she runs off from Julian she goes to cut herself and her team mate Mercury found her. Mercury placed an arm around her and talked to her. Laura did not pull away and a bond of sorts developed. When Mercury was kidnapped Laura went after her to rescue her.
Laura is secretive and does not share information about herself easily. She tells information about herself on a need to know basis. When she does she is very fact or fact and calm, even about the torture that she received at the hands of Weapon X. She has a no nonsense attitude towards situations and analyses them. She is also clever and has a wide range of facts. When she is talking in a conversation, she still prefers to state the facts rather than give an opinion. She has still to learn how to develop her own opinion on many things and still has has trouble comprehending and expressing the many new emotions she has been experiencing for the very first time.
abilities/powers:
Laura is the female clone of Wolverine, created from Wolverine’s genes with the result that her mutant powers are similar to his. Like Wolverine her main ability is an accelerated healing factor that allows her to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissues and cells a great deal faster than the average person, for example injuries such as a gunshot or a slash heal with in minutes. She can regenerate large areas of herself. When she and Daken were caught in a blast and shown as near skeletons, she emerged from the blast, healing herself. Laura can also regrow severed limbs. Kimumra, her handler severed her arm from her body and Laura was able to regrow it, this took days to do.
The accelerated healing system does have an effect on her immune system making her immune to most diseases and infections. One noticeable being the Legacy Virus which nearly killed her. Drugs and toxins can effect her in sufficient doses and Laura is deeply affected by the trigger which was designed to ensure it would always make hr kill her target.
The healing factor also heightens Laura’s physical senses, strength, stamina, agility, and reflexes to superhuman levels. Like Wolverine, X-23 possesses retractable bone claws, however unlike him she has two claws in each hand which emerge from her fists and she also has a singe claw in each foot. These claws were taken out of her body by Zander Rice, sharpened, coated with adamantium, and reinserted into her body. The adamantium claws are virtually unbreakable and capable of cutting almost any substance.
Laura was trained to be a killer and is also proficient in hand to hand combat, fire arms and explosives.
first person sample:
[The video option on the phone is selected and is pointed down at the toe tag and the metalic claw coming out of her foot]
This place smells of death.
[The video comes around to show a pair of frowning green eyes.]
I do not remember what happened. Who else has arrived here like this, who was my assailant? I will return their favour.
third person sample:
The darkness did not bother her. Laura had always lived in a shadow and the blood trail that she had left behind. As her other senses were stronger than her eyesight in the dark, she honed in on her sense of smell and hearing. There was a lot of silence in the city. SHe liked it, it gave her time to herself, where there was little expected of her.
Laura perched on the top of a park bench and looked towards the sky. She had been about to leave the X-men to trace her passed. Someone had brought her here, to prevent her from learning about it. She needed to find out why; then she needed a way to put the past behind her.
There was on old poster peeling off a shop wall. Laura paused to examine it. It was nothing that she recognised. She frowned to herself. It was not the first time that she had been removed from her own world. However it was the first time that her purpose or the threat was not immediately clear. Laura moved on, intent on her surroundings for a clue.
An hour later, with no clues Laura returned to the apartment that she had selected. It was on the fourth floor to give her the clearest view of the street and buildings around her. There was minimal furniture and she did not need anymore than the basics that were there. Frills meant nothing to her. She had dragged the bed under the window. and she retired to it, where she could continue to watch out the window until she fell asleep.
case no: 23-23-23