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Character sheet from Phoenix Nightingale

Appearance :: Phoenix’s hair matches her fiery powers and wings. It’s normally ginger, sometimes with blonde bits in it. At times she has experimented with hair dye and dyed her hair Blonde, or a darkish red colour, though she prefers her natural colour. Her hair is often choppy, due to the fact that she cuts it herself with a pair of kitchen scissors (she sees no point in wasting money she doesn’t have in getting it cut properly by a professional…plus she likes her hair done how she does it). Her eyes are a blue-green colour, that shift to a golden red when she is using her powers. Her wings are also red, the tips of her feathers gold. She is tall and thin. Her bones are lighter than a humans, giving her the ability to fly. Along with her lungs she has air sacs, giving her the ability to fly high. Her red blood cells have Nuclei like a birds, and she needs to eat more than a regular human as well (around 3-4000 calories a day). Her clothes are often dark colours, blacks, purples, blues and reds. Her shirts and jackets usually have slits down the back to allow her wings to come out so she can fly.

History :: Experiment #461PH03N1X was the first fully successful test tube mutant. She was created by a league of super villains and their scientists in a top secret facility in a rather remote place. They injected Phoenix DNA into a human egg during IVF and nine months later out popped Phoenix, wings and all. Phoenix was immediately taken away from her scientist mother who was then murdered. She grew up in the facility, looked after by scientists who’s pay check was like a footballers. As she grew up the super villains did various testing on her, trying to determine where powers came from, how to prevent people getting them, and how to take the powers from the superheroes to make them human. Yet, none of these really seemed to work. They also tried to experiment with her powers, trying to improve them, make them stronger. It never worked. Eventually they, the bad guys, came up with a plan for the now 17 year old Phoenix. She would be sent to Sky High, the school for people like them, where she would basically spy and gather information. She took the task eagerly, knowing that she would be forced to anyways. It meant that she would have a degree of freedom for the first time in her life. She had barely been allowed out of the lab growing up, but now she was going to a real school with other people.

Personality :: Phoenix is…hesitant at times. She’s very thoughtful, zoning out of conversations quite frequently. She hates what she has to do, hates that she has to be a spy to get a normal life, but it’s the only chance at freedom she’s getting so she’s going with it. She’s a relatively happy girl, away from the lab where she was created and kept. She laughs a lot when given the chance, but can’t tell a joke to save her life. She can get very angry easily at times though, or upset, and when this happens she either tends to stand and yell and/ or try to kill the people angering and upsetting her, or turn and flee. It depends on her mood. She needs exercise or she’ll go crazy, so she’ll go jogging/running at least twice a day and maybe flying to keep up the strength in the muscles that control her wings. She feels more at home within woodsy areas, and prefers summer over winter. Phoenix is a good at acting, and lying. She has to be for this spy thing to work properly. However, she really does get attached to the people at Sky High and doesn’t fake that.

Powers/Abilities :: Phoenix is 98% human and 2% Avian. That Avian is in fact the mythical Phoenix. She has the ability to control fire, though this can be limited depending on the situation (eg. If stressed or trying to do too much she can only create heat and smoke, if calm, relaxed and in control she can create a ball of fire, or shoot short bursts of fire from her hands). Phoenix also has wings, so she can fly. The downside is all of these things take energy and concentration (something she isn’t all too good at). Water is often her downfall, as it dampens her fire powers so the most she can do is emit smoke. Icy and cold weather doesn’t bother her though, she can melt the ice with enough concentration. If she exceeds her power limit she will often fall unconscious, and if overused by a huge amount it can even kill her. When using her Phoenix abilities her eyes will go a red-gold colour, but the rest of her appearance stays the same. Unfortunately the 2% avian DNA didn’t extend to healing powers, or the immortality that is a Phoenix’s. When she dies, she dies. She doesn’t come back from a pile of ashes to be born anew.