Ferguson, Clarice; Blink

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I'm strange? Look, Black Pot, haven't you heard the expression, "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw shotguns and knives"?
---Clarice Ferguson

Basics: Ferguson, Clarice; Blink

Full Name: Clarice Felicia Ferguson

Codename: Blink

Nicknames: Cub (By Sabretooth only)

Type: Canon

Gender: Female

Species: Homo Superior

Age: 24

Date of Birth: February 16

Hometown: The island of Cartusia in the Bahamas

Current Residence: X-Mansion; She also rents a small apartment on the outskirts of New York City

Loyalty: X-Men

Occupation: Mentor/ Teacher

Hair Colour: Magenta

Eye Colour: Solid green with no visible pupils

Height: 5’5”

Weight: 125 lbs

Body Type: Athletic

Typical Style: Green, and rather reminiscent of what a fantasy elf might wear.

Distinguishing Features: Facial tattoos from her time as a captive of Apocalypse.

Physical Mutations: No visible pupils, light magenta skin, pointed ears.

Uniform: Blink's uniform does not vary greatly from her typical day-to-day wear. Green fabric which clings to her torso, a whole lot of leg put on display, boots, gloves, belts and a quiver. She looks the part of something out of a nerd's dream, and she cares little for how her uniform might be perceived.

I am not strong, I am not smart, I do not shoot death-rays. About the only thing I am good at... is making friends.
---Clarice Ferguson

Personality: A life of hardship, turmoil, and constant change often leaves a person feeling lost, bitter, or cold to the world. Oddly, Blink managed to shun such personality traits no matter what her life was like. She is a strong-willed and independent woman who takes to heart the years she spent under Sabretooth's care. She idolizes the man who saved her from the pens and raised her, and one of the greatest driving factors in her life is the desire to make him proud. She strives to set a good example of a leader, keeping a brave face no matter what danger she faces, showing a fierce loyalty to those she cares for and who are a part of her team, and being as effective as she can possibly be.

She can come off as intense when you first meet her, making an effort to show little emotion and instead putting up the front of a serious woman and a trained fighter, with a discipline which could rival that of a monk. In reality, this is only one aspect of her.

Friends and loved ones know better than to be fooled into thinking her so tough all the time. While she is still a strong leader she is also playful and friendly. She's quick to joke or fool around, and even stranger is her sentimental nature. She can be caught off guard by happy thoughts of Cal and Victor, and she longs for a chance to see them again. Much of the time, when she doesn't feel the need to show the tougher side of her, she is open and friendly. A part of the cause is beyond just her base personality, but an attempt to put people at ease around her. She knows her appearance can be a bit much to take in at first and she wants the people she surrounds herself to be comfortable with her rather than constantly staring or avoiding her.

There is one fraction of her personality which was sadly tainted by her past. She is wary in places she isn't familiar with, and she makes a habit of getting herself familiarized with her surroundings until she knows them backwards and forwards.

Family: [All of which hail from her home universe and are not pertinent to this universe’s versions]
Sabretooth (foster father)
Apocalypse (ancestor, deceased)
Frederick Slade (great-great-grandfather)
Miss Ferguson (great-great-grandmother)
Chamber (distant cousin)

I shall remain with your group until I find a way back to my own reality. Naturally, I shall be in command, but I may let you live if you serve me well.
---Clarice Ferguson

History: [Blink was born in the dreary Age of Apocalypse reality created when Charles Xavier was killed by his own time traveling son Legion. Her magenta skin and hair color along with her pointed ears marked her as a mutant at birth, and was taken by the forces of Apocalypse to Sinister's breeding pits. Although kept captive for a long time and scarred with facial tattoos, Blink was rescued by Sabretooth of Magneto's X-Men. Sabretooh raised Clarice as his daughter, and she eventually joined him on the X-Men roster. It was recently revealed that Clarice is a descendant of Apocalypse, himself, and that her power of teleportation comes from her great-great-grandfather Frederick Slade.

During the final battle against Apocalypse as the X-Men's fate seemed doomed by a nuclear strike ordered by the Human High Council, Blink was abruptly removed from the reality and appeared in a desert. The mysterious Timebroker explained she had been unhinged from time, and was to join five others on missions to fix timelines in order to return home. Blink became the leader of these Exiles, and was soon romantically linked with her teammate Mimic.

Soon Blink was reunited with the Sabretooth of her own reality, who as it turns out, is the leader of another group of reality hoppers known as Weapon X. Their mission was to free David Richards, the son of Rachel Summers and Franklin Richards from a Sentinel camp, and Weapon X was to murder the boy (because he was destined to enslave the world). To complete the mission without killing the boy they were supposed to rescue from the Sentinels Sabretooth stays behind to raise the child.

On a later mission, the Exiles find themselves on a world where the Legacy Virus had mixed with Warlock's techno biology to create an army of zombie like Vi-Locks. After the completion of the mission the Timebroker appeared and told the team that Blink's reality was complete and that she was to be returned home. She was replaced by Magik.

However, Blink wasn't sent home since her reality no longer existed, instead she was returned to the reality that Sabretooth was left behind at. There she helped Sabretooth raise the young mutants under his charge & destroy all the Sentiels that ruled that reality. David Richards eventually fulfilled his destiny and attempted to enslave the world, taking control of Blink and using her to kill humans to do it, until Sabretooth had to kill the boy.

Blink eventually returned to her teammates in the Exiles, after their member Sunfire had died on a mission. Blink & the Exiles then found themselves battling the Weapon X team (now under the control of an evil Hyperion) the Timebroker wanting only six survivors. Blink survived the ordeal and continued on with her team.

On a mission to protect the Earth which was manipulated by Ego The Living Planet, Blink met the Celestials, who warned her to beware of the Time Breakers. The group then began to question the Timebroker's motives and their current string of missions.

On a later mission, the group was returned to the world where Sabretooth was left behind, and Sabretooth was given the Talus when Blink refused to tell the group what their mission was. The mission as it turned out was to kill their teammate Mimic. However, when the group refused to do the dirty deed, the Timebroker send the group to Blink and Sabretooth's home reality the Age of Apocalypse, which has recently been resorted.

There, they were teamed up with another member of the Age of Apocalype, the evil Holocaust, the group were then told to kill Magneto. Refusing to do the Timebroker's bidding once again, the group learned that with the M'Kraan crystal they could use the Talus to teleport to the Timebroker's base of operations.

The group find that there is no Timebroker, but a group of insectoids that discovered a "crystal palace" outside time and space and used it to explore other realities. In their dabblings, the group messed up various realities, and tricked the Exiles and Weapon X into doing their bidding. The Timebroker was a method of communication and the it about each members realities being changed was bunk to get them to do the dirty work.

It turns out the Hyperion was not as dead as everyone though and broke free and took over the crystal palace. Blink and the Exiles tried their best to battle the super-man, however it took the aid of Beak and two other Hyperions from alternate realities to stop the evil Hyperion.

After Hyperion's defeat, Blink and the rest of the Exiles vowed to continue to fix realities, and also find a way to heal their injured comrades and return them to their home realities.

Blink's most recent quest with the Exiles brought them to a world full of monsters, where they sought to get a sample of Curt Connors's regeneration serum, but found themselves helping Connors and a team of scientists to help get Fin Fang Foom to battle Krakoa the Island that Walks Like a Man.

Recently during a fight with Proteus, Mimic was teleported away to an unknown universe. Clarice left to search for him on her own once the team was left in a safe universe. She has recently arrived in this universe and is confident she found the one Calvin is in. She enlisted the help of the X-Men, offering to remain in this universe and serve as a team member and a teacher for the school in exchange for any help with finding Mimic.

Classification: Gamma

This is soo much better'n what I came for!
---Clarice Ferguson

Powers:
Bio-Molecular Spatial Displacement: ability to displace matter through a type of teleportation rift, appearing as blinking holes, enabling her to move an object or people various distances and displace matter out of sync with reality. Her effective teleporting range is to the moon and back. Blink is capable of "blinking" beings or objects without reassembling them properly, catching them in a portal and temporarily splitting them into pieces. The effects of her power on living beings varies from brief unconsciousness to death.
• Banishing: ability to manifest the energy for her portals in the form of short javelins, which she could throw at an object to cause it to teleport. She uses this ability both offensively and defensively. Also she can send targets to multiple locations at once. At times she has teleported portions of objects.

Skills:
-Unarmed Combat
-Leadership
-Making Friends
-Agile
-Marksmanship
-Escape Artist
-Blink has displayed the ability to perform gymnastic maneuvers which should be impossible for even a human in peak condition. It is not actually known for certain if this is a mutation or something else though.

Weaponry: Blink wields javelins to make better use of her powers. They are carried in a quiver worn on her back.

You know the thing about sand...? It gets in everywhere.
---Clarice Ferguson

Role Play Sample:

"Oh no. No way in hell am I going to go crawling around in the sewers to try and find what you think might be a mutant. You do it." Blink's hands planted themselves firmly on her hips, her head shaking and a brow cocked above her green eyes incredulously. She had thought it was a joke when she was approached by the headmaster asking her to go hunting for a kid they thought was a mutant who had taken off and high-tailed it into the sewers of New York. "Isn't that supposed to be the job of someone else? Y'know, tracking down the lost little souls and all that jazz. I'm a fighter."

"I know this Clarice-"

"Blink. Not Clarice."

"Alright, Blink. I know you are trained to fight but this is a special case, and I need you to lead a small team to find the child." How anyone could mange to sound so utterly calm... It was beyond her. His eyes were leveled on her calmly, hands tented before him as he stared across the large wooden desk at her.

She sighed, giving her shoulders a shrug of defeat. "Fine, but I'm picking my team, and that team is the students I'm mentoring. They could use some time in action, to get a feel for what it's really like out there. I won't let anything happen to them so don't go telling me it isn't safe for them either. Deal?" The smile which was flashed at her told her the answer before the words even came from the lips of the Institute's headmaster.

"Of course Blink. If I thought you wouldn't be taking your charges with you, I would have had to pick someone else and order them to drag the children along with them. Now go ahead and get them ready. You leave immediately."

Shaking her head in disbelief and chuckling under her breath, the lilac-skinned mutant tossed a two-fingered salute towards the man and strolled out of his office to track down the teens who looked to her as their mentor. Today was going to be interesting, that much was certain.

Your Name: Lyric

Other Characters: Madelyne Pryor [Goblin Queen]; Leena Collier [Masochist]

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This character looks good to me; and since the board is not set to any specific canon universe I see no issue in taking heavily from the age of apocalypse universe for the character since all her basic relations are clearly defined as being different than the on-board canons.

So in closing; approved.