Post by jestercarr13 on Oct 14, 2020 14:38:44 GMT
Name: Andrea Jensen
Alias: Starlight
AKAs: Andi
Physical Description
Hair: Andi's hair is a very light brown, nearly blonde, with blonde highlights. She keeps it long, but most often wears it in a loose pony-tail with long free-hanging bangs.
Eyes: Pale blue
Ethnicity: Andi appears to be white American, though both her parents are of nordic origin; her father is Norwegian and her mother Danish. In truth, Andi isn't strictly human. Her body has the same outline of a girl her age, with her build, but the shape of her chest is not due to breasts but the way her non-human musculo-skeletal structure has developed similar growths of tissue, slightly firmer to touch than breast as under an initial layer of pliant skin its cartilage, bone and muscle (essentially her rib-cage) that creates the initial protrusion. There is not as much of a "valley" of cleavage, but there is a slight recession between the two sides of this protrusion. Her skin is perfectly smooth all over; she has no nipples, belly-button, genitalia or even anus. Her face and all other features are distinctly human, however, meaning she can easily pass for human while clothed. Though, the observant might note she lacks finger-prints, any form of body hair (even the fine fuzz most have at least on their arms or legs)
Age: 16
Build: 5'6'', slim athletic build
Uniform: Andi wears a typical x-team style uniform when training (she is not officially on any of the teams yet) of trainers, pants, sleeveless top with a high collar and finger-less gloves.
Personal Style: Andi has a typically trendy fashion sense for a girl her age, but is not so obsessed with her look that she has to create the "perfect outfit" like so many of her peers. She strays away from clothes that would reveal too much of her chest, as though she does have a recession that slightly mimics cleavage, if too much can be seen the difference can be easily noticed.
Psychological Description
Personality: Andi is a very friendly and kind individual. She is fully aware of how she differs from everyone around her, but does not see herself as apart any more than any other mutant would do. She is responsible and respectful, studious but not a complete nerd or geek that does not maintain and enjoy healthy relationships with her peers.
Relationships: Andi has many friends amongst her peers and the faculty at Xavier's school, and maintains good relationships with everyone she knows. She has a very good relationship with her parents, Scandinavian scientists that moved to New York independently for their respective fields of research that came together on the same project, fell in love, married and soon after had Andi.
Powers & Abilities: Andi has the ability to manifest and manipulate stellar energy, the same kind of energy created in stars through the carbon cycle, transforming hydrogen to helium, and the fusion of protons into helium. She cannot perform said processes, their occurrence is assumed by the way she simply yields and wields the resulting energy. The energies she controls do not have inherent radioactive properties, or appear to have a particularly threatening level of UV output despite being incredibly bright and energetic. She can use these energies to achieve flight, fire heat and light based force-blasts or beams that can and will burn if she turns them up high enough, shield herself from incoming harm (though not in the form of a solid, static barrier or force-field as such, more a swath of hostile atmosphere the offending item has to make it through) and does not need to eat or drink to sustain herself.
Weaknesses: If Andi uses her powers too much, she can burn herself out very easily, causing great fatigue, and in extreme cases, risk death. Direct sunlight is her friend, and the only sustenance she needs to survive as she has no digestive system to speak of. Starlight at night can also fuel her, but to a much lesser extent. If she wants to benefit from the night stars, she needs to sleep while in their direct glow to be able to feed on more than she expends. Enough sunlight in a single day, however, can fuel her for up to a week if she doesn't expend too much of it through excessive use of her powers.
Skills:
Andi is learning how to control her powers, as well as how to understand the science behind them. She is also learning all the same tactical and combat skills any student would while in Xavier's school.
Equipment:
Andi keeps no specific equipment other than the usual communicator and other gadgets any Xavier student would.
Background: Anders Jensen and Clara Buske were and are prominent names in their respective scientific fields; bio-chemistry and astro-physics. Anders, hailing from Norway, and Clara, from Denmark, were recruited onto a U.S. government project in New York in the 1990s, a project that sought to combine their fields, and others, in order to explore new options in interstellar travel. Working with many colleagues from around the world, they were trying to create technologies, treatments and processes that would enable efficient interstellar travel, and/or improve the human race's ability to efficiently undertake and survive it.
Anders and Clara in particular worked quite close together on one theory they had that combined possible genetic therapies inspired by astro-physical concepts, debating every limitation on either side, and how they could be addressed by the other. Over that first decade, they fell in love, and married. They had not planned on having children; their work was their baby. At the turn of the millennium, they had finally pieced together a tangible process to, at the very least, explore the physical possibilities of a life-form that could survive, and even thrive, during interstellar travel. Their first tests were performed on animal embryos, and each was more promising than the last. None in particular succeeded and brought any kind of life to term with any particularly significant discoveries, but every time they learned something new and came ever closer and closer. They're last animal test brought to term a worm-like creature born of a genetically modified pig embryo that could live on solar energy alone. Live is a strong word, it only had a very small brain and resembled little more than a multi-cellular amoeba.
But it allowed them to move on to testing with human embryos. Their first few attempts, running concurrently each with slightly different balances and approaches, harboured much the same results. Nothing with significant success, but boundless promise once technology and science could catch up with their theory.
That was, until, one of their creations continued to grow beyond the state of a multi-cellular amoeba like mass of rubbery flesh. They didn't notice, at first, having stopped measuring certain aspects of their creations' physicality as they had remained constant previously. But this one began to grow bone, something Clara noticed one evening while they were locking up the lab when she noticed there was a rib-cage, rising and falling as though breathing. Upon further examination, it became clear there were no lungs; the behaviour seemed to be instinctual... which only asked more questions concerning the apparent development of an autonomic nervous system.
It continued to grow, and eventually organs, muscle, and more bone all began to develop as the creature seemed to blossom from its strange larval state and eventually... appeared to be a healthy human baby. The only things that never seemed to develop were a digestive system and sexual organs. It had a heart and lungs, that process oxygen and pumped blood as you'd expect. it had a full skeletal structure, though the rib-cage appeared to be particularly pronounced. The pair kept this development a secret, at first confused and afraid about what had happened, only to be quickly concerned what would happen to the poor thing if they revealed it to the government. Instead, they took advantage of the relative isolation they'd forced upon themselves during the project to convince people Clara had been pregnant, and they'd after all decided to have a child.
They named her Andrea. After some testing her DNA revealed she actually had 3 X chromosomes. They were unsure what this meant, or how this came to be. Despite the lack of clearly identifying sexual features, the pattern of her genetics did seem to lean as close to the female analogue as they could have, and as Andrea grew, she did indeed seem to favour traditional feminine development patterns, though some of this might have been because her parents raised her as a girl. As her chest continued to develop as it did, this proved to have been a fortuitous happenstance.
She otherwise grew as any other human child would have, and they treated her as such, allowing her to attend school and have friends without limitation beyond the norm. Her medical needs were met by themselves, avoiding any revelation of what she was, or in fact wasn't, to the public. She had never needed sustenance, not having a digestive tract with which to process it. Like their other experimental subjects, she could survive purely on solar energy, or more accurately, the light or energy cast by stars, as she was able to feed to a limited extent from the light of stars at night. All said and done, she was a delightful child they came to love as their own, which in many ways, she really was anyway.
Her abilities developed in puberty. There was no sudden onset, or even slow trickle, that caused anxiety or tragedy. Andi simply started to use the abilities as though they were a natural development like any other child had to deal with new hair in strange places or developing genitals. The only way she could explain it to her parents is that she just sort of became aware she could do it, as though she always could have maybe, and simply did it. Anders and Clara performed more tests, and on a particularly deep dive into the genetics of her triplicate chromosomes, discovered she had a rogue x-gene that had begun to activate. Somehow, she was a mutant on top of everything else.
They developed slowly at first, but grew. Eventually to the point where control did become difficult. Her parents could only help so much, the nature of her powers, though scientifically and theoretically within their expertise, were otherwise alien to them concerning how she could learn to control and live with them. And so they sought out a peer in the field: Professor Charles Xavier.
Andi has been at Xavier's school for nearly a year now, and though she still dresses to conceal her non-human physiology, it is not as much of a closely guarded secret as it once was. Her origin, for the most part, is, but there are others in the school with stranger physiologies to her, so her body isn't such a strange thing people need protecting from anymore.
Alias: Starlight
AKAs: Andi
Physical Description
Hair: Andi's hair is a very light brown, nearly blonde, with blonde highlights. She keeps it long, but most often wears it in a loose pony-tail with long free-hanging bangs.
Eyes: Pale blue
Ethnicity: Andi appears to be white American, though both her parents are of nordic origin; her father is Norwegian and her mother Danish. In truth, Andi isn't strictly human. Her body has the same outline of a girl her age, with her build, but the shape of her chest is not due to breasts but the way her non-human musculo-skeletal structure has developed similar growths of tissue, slightly firmer to touch than breast as under an initial layer of pliant skin its cartilage, bone and muscle (essentially her rib-cage) that creates the initial protrusion. There is not as much of a "valley" of cleavage, but there is a slight recession between the two sides of this protrusion. Her skin is perfectly smooth all over; she has no nipples, belly-button, genitalia or even anus. Her face and all other features are distinctly human, however, meaning she can easily pass for human while clothed. Though, the observant might note she lacks finger-prints, any form of body hair (even the fine fuzz most have at least on their arms or legs)
Age: 16
Build: 5'6'', slim athletic build
Uniform: Andi wears a typical x-team style uniform when training (she is not officially on any of the teams yet) of trainers, pants, sleeveless top with a high collar and finger-less gloves.
Personal Style: Andi has a typically trendy fashion sense for a girl her age, but is not so obsessed with her look that she has to create the "perfect outfit" like so many of her peers. She strays away from clothes that would reveal too much of her chest, as though she does have a recession that slightly mimics cleavage, if too much can be seen the difference can be easily noticed.
Psychological Description
Personality: Andi is a very friendly and kind individual. She is fully aware of how she differs from everyone around her, but does not see herself as apart any more than any other mutant would do. She is responsible and respectful, studious but not a complete nerd or geek that does not maintain and enjoy healthy relationships with her peers.
Relationships: Andi has many friends amongst her peers and the faculty at Xavier's school, and maintains good relationships with everyone she knows. She has a very good relationship with her parents, Scandinavian scientists that moved to New York independently for their respective fields of research that came together on the same project, fell in love, married and soon after had Andi.
Powers & Abilities: Andi has the ability to manifest and manipulate stellar energy, the same kind of energy created in stars through the carbon cycle, transforming hydrogen to helium, and the fusion of protons into helium. She cannot perform said processes, their occurrence is assumed by the way she simply yields and wields the resulting energy. The energies she controls do not have inherent radioactive properties, or appear to have a particularly threatening level of UV output despite being incredibly bright and energetic. She can use these energies to achieve flight, fire heat and light based force-blasts or beams that can and will burn if she turns them up high enough, shield herself from incoming harm (though not in the form of a solid, static barrier or force-field as such, more a swath of hostile atmosphere the offending item has to make it through) and does not need to eat or drink to sustain herself.
Weaknesses: If Andi uses her powers too much, she can burn herself out very easily, causing great fatigue, and in extreme cases, risk death. Direct sunlight is her friend, and the only sustenance she needs to survive as she has no digestive system to speak of. Starlight at night can also fuel her, but to a much lesser extent. If she wants to benefit from the night stars, she needs to sleep while in their direct glow to be able to feed on more than she expends. Enough sunlight in a single day, however, can fuel her for up to a week if she doesn't expend too much of it through excessive use of her powers.
Skills:
Andi is learning how to control her powers, as well as how to understand the science behind them. She is also learning all the same tactical and combat skills any student would while in Xavier's school.
Equipment:
Andi keeps no specific equipment other than the usual communicator and other gadgets any Xavier student would.
Background: Anders Jensen and Clara Buske were and are prominent names in their respective scientific fields; bio-chemistry and astro-physics. Anders, hailing from Norway, and Clara, from Denmark, were recruited onto a U.S. government project in New York in the 1990s, a project that sought to combine their fields, and others, in order to explore new options in interstellar travel. Working with many colleagues from around the world, they were trying to create technologies, treatments and processes that would enable efficient interstellar travel, and/or improve the human race's ability to efficiently undertake and survive it.
Anders and Clara in particular worked quite close together on one theory they had that combined possible genetic therapies inspired by astro-physical concepts, debating every limitation on either side, and how they could be addressed by the other. Over that first decade, they fell in love, and married. They had not planned on having children; their work was their baby. At the turn of the millennium, they had finally pieced together a tangible process to, at the very least, explore the physical possibilities of a life-form that could survive, and even thrive, during interstellar travel. Their first tests were performed on animal embryos, and each was more promising than the last. None in particular succeeded and brought any kind of life to term with any particularly significant discoveries, but every time they learned something new and came ever closer and closer. They're last animal test brought to term a worm-like creature born of a genetically modified pig embryo that could live on solar energy alone. Live is a strong word, it only had a very small brain and resembled little more than a multi-cellular amoeba.
But it allowed them to move on to testing with human embryos. Their first few attempts, running concurrently each with slightly different balances and approaches, harboured much the same results. Nothing with significant success, but boundless promise once technology and science could catch up with their theory.
That was, until, one of their creations continued to grow beyond the state of a multi-cellular amoeba like mass of rubbery flesh. They didn't notice, at first, having stopped measuring certain aspects of their creations' physicality as they had remained constant previously. But this one began to grow bone, something Clara noticed one evening while they were locking up the lab when she noticed there was a rib-cage, rising and falling as though breathing. Upon further examination, it became clear there were no lungs; the behaviour seemed to be instinctual... which only asked more questions concerning the apparent development of an autonomic nervous system.
It continued to grow, and eventually organs, muscle, and more bone all began to develop as the creature seemed to blossom from its strange larval state and eventually... appeared to be a healthy human baby. The only things that never seemed to develop were a digestive system and sexual organs. It had a heart and lungs, that process oxygen and pumped blood as you'd expect. it had a full skeletal structure, though the rib-cage appeared to be particularly pronounced. The pair kept this development a secret, at first confused and afraid about what had happened, only to be quickly concerned what would happen to the poor thing if they revealed it to the government. Instead, they took advantage of the relative isolation they'd forced upon themselves during the project to convince people Clara had been pregnant, and they'd after all decided to have a child.
They named her Andrea. After some testing her DNA revealed she actually had 3 X chromosomes. They were unsure what this meant, or how this came to be. Despite the lack of clearly identifying sexual features, the pattern of her genetics did seem to lean as close to the female analogue as they could have, and as Andrea grew, she did indeed seem to favour traditional feminine development patterns, though some of this might have been because her parents raised her as a girl. As her chest continued to develop as it did, this proved to have been a fortuitous happenstance.
She otherwise grew as any other human child would have, and they treated her as such, allowing her to attend school and have friends without limitation beyond the norm. Her medical needs were met by themselves, avoiding any revelation of what she was, or in fact wasn't, to the public. She had never needed sustenance, not having a digestive tract with which to process it. Like their other experimental subjects, she could survive purely on solar energy, or more accurately, the light or energy cast by stars, as she was able to feed to a limited extent from the light of stars at night. All said and done, she was a delightful child they came to love as their own, which in many ways, she really was anyway.
Her abilities developed in puberty. There was no sudden onset, or even slow trickle, that caused anxiety or tragedy. Andi simply started to use the abilities as though they were a natural development like any other child had to deal with new hair in strange places or developing genitals. The only way she could explain it to her parents is that she just sort of became aware she could do it, as though she always could have maybe, and simply did it. Anders and Clara performed more tests, and on a particularly deep dive into the genetics of her triplicate chromosomes, discovered she had a rogue x-gene that had begun to activate. Somehow, she was a mutant on top of everything else.
They developed slowly at first, but grew. Eventually to the point where control did become difficult. Her parents could only help so much, the nature of her powers, though scientifically and theoretically within their expertise, were otherwise alien to them concerning how she could learn to control and live with them. And so they sought out a peer in the field: Professor Charles Xavier.
Andi has been at Xavier's school for nearly a year now, and though she still dresses to conceal her non-human physiology, it is not as much of a closely guarded secret as it once was. Her origin, for the most part, is, but there are others in the school with stranger physiologies to her, so her body isn't such a strange thing people need protecting from anymore.