Post by Chance on Jun 14, 2006 23:04:22 GMT -5
Full Name: Raina Marie Rollins
Codename: Rain Dance
Age: 15
Birthday: September 18, 1991
Hair color: black
Eye color: blue
Height: 5’2’’
Weight: 102 lbs.
Place of Origin: Montauk, New York
Relations: father, George (deceased), mother, Crysta, Younger sister, Elaine (Laney), grandmother, (Tallulah)
Powers: Raina has the ability to control, manipulate and influence the movement of
water. In this way, she is able to create small shapes, and has even been known to manipulate water vapor in the air, generating small water bombs. However, Raina cannot create water. She can only work with what she is given.
Personality: Raina is very withdrawn and shy. She doesn’t talk much, although you’d wish she would since she always has something intelligent to say. Mostly she keeps to herself and draws or paints, trying to stay low. People may find her boring, because she likes to read and play it safe, but she considers herself “careful.” She doesn’t like to do anything too risky, and she hates showing off too much skin. In many ways she is still very immature, still growing up and finding her place in the world.
Appearance: Raina is of Native American descent, meaning that her skin is somewhat dark. However, her eyes are blue, something that really makes her stand out. Raina usually dresses in jeans and long sleeve shirts. She hardly ever lets her skin show, except when she wears a bathing suit. She usually dresses in blues and greens and she keeps her long black hair in two braids hanging on either side of her face.
Uniform: In order to break her out of her shell somewhat, the Professor had X-Man Syphon design a special uniform for Raina. This uniform, although made in Raina favorite color (blue), allows Raina’s midsection and sides to show. It’s also sleeveless, something that Raina usually doesn’t stand for. Professor Xavier hopes that the new look will help Raina adjust more to her life as an X-Man.
Affiliation: Xavier’s
Skills: Raina is a skilled musician and so far she knows how to play the pan and violin. She is also a very skilled swimmer, and a closet surfer. She doesn’t really like to flaunt the fact that she can rip up the waves just as good as any Cali boy.
Interests: Raina is interested in many things. She loves to read, especially old fashioned Victorian literature, and she loves to rides waves, as well as ride horses. For a while she feared the water, but now, with her newly emerged powers, she feels at peace once more. She also loves to paint, draw and write poetry, all of which she does with impressive skill.
Bio/History: Raina was born to her Native American parents on Long Island, New York. When she was two, her parents moved out to Montauk, to a beach house right on the water. Ever since she was little Raina remembered playing in the water, splashing around with her younger sister, Laney, and having a great time. She also remembered when her grandmother Tallulah would come to visit. Although her father and grandmother stressed the importance of their Native American culture, Raina found that her mother despised it, hoping to have the girls instead be integrated into society, casting away their tribal bonds. This animosity continued throughout Raina childhood, even though her grandmother still took the time to teach the two girls about their past. She was a wise woman, a woman who was a tribe elder, and a woman who was said to have a link with the Ocean Spirit. Everything went well, Raina attended public school, made friends, and met with her grandmother on the weekend to prepare for her “rite of passage.” However, one stormy afternoon, her father went out on his boat fishing and never returned. A few days later, after hours of Raina’s mother praying to the Creator, the police found the body of her father washed up on shore, ten miles down the beach. Apparently he had been knocked from his boat, and hit his head on a rock.
The funeral was held the next day, and after that everything fell apart. Raina stopped going to meet with her grandmother, she lost all her friends, and she turned into a recluse who solely stayed at home and painted and wrote in her journals. From that day forth Raina blamed herself, saying that if only she had gone with him, maybe things would have been different. But, time moved on, as Raina and her mother and sister fell deeper into despair. Then, one day, while Raina was sketching a rock formation out by the water, her sister fell and hit her head. Immediately history repeated itself. The crushing waves knocked Raina back as she tried to get to Laney, pulling her sister out to sea, and smashing her back to the shore. Angrily, Raina reached for her sister, her eyes filled with a powerful force and her body on fire with a force she had never felt before. Like magic the water washed away from Laney, seemingly listening to Raina’s every command. Marveled at what she had just done, but worried about her sister, Raina pushed it from her mind, running toward Laney.
After that day Raina felt like strange things were happening all the time. The water in the sink was constantly flowing out too quickly, and the shower seemed to turn on whenever it felt like it. It also seemed to rain more than usual, and even the ocean was behaving strangely, with massive changes in the tides that left boats washed up on shore and fishermen stranded. Little did the little Native American girl, afraid to talk to people, know that she was the cause of it all? For the next month she lived feeling weird, like there was a power inside her, something that was making all the water around her tremble, and bend towards her. Finally, after her biology lab flooded, Raina made her way to her grandmother’s house, asking for her advice.
Although her grandmother originally believed that Raina was channeling the water spirit, she decided instead that there must be something else. She called in a tribal doctor, but even he could not understand why water bent and moved in the ways that Raina instructed it to. It was like some sort of invisible force was emanating from her. Finally, a blood test confirmed that Raina was not in fact a mystical instrument, but a mutant. Not wanting to scare her mother, and not wanting to alarm her sister, Raina decided to keep her mutation a secret, sharing the information solely with her grandmother. While they were figuring out what to do, Raina’s grandmother received a phone call from a sister tribe near the town of Bayville. Apparently there was a school there, a place that welcomed mutants. So, with a call to Professor Xavier, Raina enrolled. Now, at the age of 15, she is heading off to Bayville, telling her mother that it is a school for gifted and intelligent children. Hopefully the lie holds up…
Codename: Rain Dance
Age: 15
Birthday: September 18, 1991
Hair color: black
Eye color: blue
Height: 5’2’’
Weight: 102 lbs.
Place of Origin: Montauk, New York
Relations: father, George (deceased), mother, Crysta, Younger sister, Elaine (Laney), grandmother, (Tallulah)
Powers: Raina has the ability to control, manipulate and influence the movement of
water. In this way, she is able to create small shapes, and has even been known to manipulate water vapor in the air, generating small water bombs. However, Raina cannot create water. She can only work with what she is given.
Personality: Raina is very withdrawn and shy. She doesn’t talk much, although you’d wish she would since she always has something intelligent to say. Mostly she keeps to herself and draws or paints, trying to stay low. People may find her boring, because she likes to read and play it safe, but she considers herself “careful.” She doesn’t like to do anything too risky, and she hates showing off too much skin. In many ways she is still very immature, still growing up and finding her place in the world.
Appearance: Raina is of Native American descent, meaning that her skin is somewhat dark. However, her eyes are blue, something that really makes her stand out. Raina usually dresses in jeans and long sleeve shirts. She hardly ever lets her skin show, except when she wears a bathing suit. She usually dresses in blues and greens and she keeps her long black hair in two braids hanging on either side of her face.
Uniform: In order to break her out of her shell somewhat, the Professor had X-Man Syphon design a special uniform for Raina. This uniform, although made in Raina favorite color (blue), allows Raina’s midsection and sides to show. It’s also sleeveless, something that Raina usually doesn’t stand for. Professor Xavier hopes that the new look will help Raina adjust more to her life as an X-Man.
Affiliation: Xavier’s
Skills: Raina is a skilled musician and so far she knows how to play the pan and violin. She is also a very skilled swimmer, and a closet surfer. She doesn’t really like to flaunt the fact that she can rip up the waves just as good as any Cali boy.
Interests: Raina is interested in many things. She loves to read, especially old fashioned Victorian literature, and she loves to rides waves, as well as ride horses. For a while she feared the water, but now, with her newly emerged powers, she feels at peace once more. She also loves to paint, draw and write poetry, all of which she does with impressive skill.
Bio/History: Raina was born to her Native American parents on Long Island, New York. When she was two, her parents moved out to Montauk, to a beach house right on the water. Ever since she was little Raina remembered playing in the water, splashing around with her younger sister, Laney, and having a great time. She also remembered when her grandmother Tallulah would come to visit. Although her father and grandmother stressed the importance of their Native American culture, Raina found that her mother despised it, hoping to have the girls instead be integrated into society, casting away their tribal bonds. This animosity continued throughout Raina childhood, even though her grandmother still took the time to teach the two girls about their past. She was a wise woman, a woman who was a tribe elder, and a woman who was said to have a link with the Ocean Spirit. Everything went well, Raina attended public school, made friends, and met with her grandmother on the weekend to prepare for her “rite of passage.” However, one stormy afternoon, her father went out on his boat fishing and never returned. A few days later, after hours of Raina’s mother praying to the Creator, the police found the body of her father washed up on shore, ten miles down the beach. Apparently he had been knocked from his boat, and hit his head on a rock.
The funeral was held the next day, and after that everything fell apart. Raina stopped going to meet with her grandmother, she lost all her friends, and she turned into a recluse who solely stayed at home and painted and wrote in her journals. From that day forth Raina blamed herself, saying that if only she had gone with him, maybe things would have been different. But, time moved on, as Raina and her mother and sister fell deeper into despair. Then, one day, while Raina was sketching a rock formation out by the water, her sister fell and hit her head. Immediately history repeated itself. The crushing waves knocked Raina back as she tried to get to Laney, pulling her sister out to sea, and smashing her back to the shore. Angrily, Raina reached for her sister, her eyes filled with a powerful force and her body on fire with a force she had never felt before. Like magic the water washed away from Laney, seemingly listening to Raina’s every command. Marveled at what she had just done, but worried about her sister, Raina pushed it from her mind, running toward Laney.
After that day Raina felt like strange things were happening all the time. The water in the sink was constantly flowing out too quickly, and the shower seemed to turn on whenever it felt like it. It also seemed to rain more than usual, and even the ocean was behaving strangely, with massive changes in the tides that left boats washed up on shore and fishermen stranded. Little did the little Native American girl, afraid to talk to people, know that she was the cause of it all? For the next month she lived feeling weird, like there was a power inside her, something that was making all the water around her tremble, and bend towards her. Finally, after her biology lab flooded, Raina made her way to her grandmother’s house, asking for her advice.
Although her grandmother originally believed that Raina was channeling the water spirit, she decided instead that there must be something else. She called in a tribal doctor, but even he could not understand why water bent and moved in the ways that Raina instructed it to. It was like some sort of invisible force was emanating from her. Finally, a blood test confirmed that Raina was not in fact a mystical instrument, but a mutant. Not wanting to scare her mother, and not wanting to alarm her sister, Raina decided to keep her mutation a secret, sharing the information solely with her grandmother. While they were figuring out what to do, Raina’s grandmother received a phone call from a sister tribe near the town of Bayville. Apparently there was a school there, a place that welcomed mutants. So, with a call to Professor Xavier, Raina enrolled. Now, at the age of 15, she is heading off to Bayville, telling her mother that it is a school for gifted and intelligent children. Hopefully the lie holds up…