Post by haley on Dec 5, 2012 19:29:08 GMT -5
Basics: O’Connor, Haley. Sunny.
Full Name: Haley O’Connor
Codename: Sunny
Nicknames: Hal, Sunny
Type: Original
Gender: Female
Species: Homo superior (mutant)
Age: 18, looks 16
Date of Birth: 8th March
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Current Residence: X-mansion
Loyalty: X-Student
Occupation: Mechanic
Hair Colour: Red
Eye Colour: Blue-green
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 220lbs
Body Type: Athletic, but appears a tad too skinny. Often described as pixie-like.
Typical Style: Like most mutants she prefers functional clothes that allow her to use her powers. But Hal also loves fashion, so she tends to wear the trendier new styles of clothes.
Distinguishing Features: N/A
Physical Mutations: No obvious mutations unless you know her. She currently looks 16 even though she’s actually 18.
Uniform: A cross between Jean and Rogue’s suits from X2, with red trimming.
Personality: Haley is a happy girl. Indeed she’s often so happy that people call her a hamster on speed. She loves to talk, hang out with friends, get up to a little bit of mischief, and generally have a good time. As her empathy forces her to constantly affect the emotions of others around her, Hal tries her best to be as happy, kind, and friendly as she can. She’s a very loyal person, willing to befriend anyone, and sacrifice herself to save even the most contemptible stranger.
Hal does have a more serious side. After accidentally killing her own father, she understands well the danger of being a mutant. As she will be graduating soon Haley has started to groom herself for the leadership responsibilities that come with being an X-man, and senior Student. So when the situation calls for it she can be cool calm and collected, for the sake of those she’s in danger with.
Family: Henry O’Connor - Lawyer - Deceased
Isabel O’Connor - Lawyer - Alive
History: Haley was a fairly normal child. She didn’t experience any life altering dramas, almost die, or develop an outrageous rivalry with some other kid. She had friends, lived comfortably, and was every bit the normal human child. Her Irish-American parents, Henry and Isabel O’Connor were lawyers, meaning they often spent a lot of their time busy working on cases. This did mean Haley didn’t get to spend as much time with her folks as other kids might, but she didn’t really mind. Her parents doted on her, never letting her want for anything, trying to make up for not being there for her all the time. For some kids this might have turned them into spoilt little brats, but that was not the case with Haley. Henry and Isabel were very devoted to their only child, and whilst they gave her pretty much whatever she wanted, they ensured she remained grounded in return.
So Haley grew up in comfort, the kind money can buy. She heard some things about the mutant situation, but paid it no mind. No one she knew was a mutant so it didn’t really concern her. However that was about to change.
Haley was 16. Her new found love for engines (and the boy working at the local auto shop) meant she began spending a lot of time down at the garage, tinkering with the cars, taking the overalls and grease stains in her stride. Henry had just finished up at a court hearing early, and since he had some spare time he thought he’d come surprise his daughter at her new hangout. Unfortunately Henry picked the wrong day.
Haley had been having chest pains all day. Being a girl she just put it down to puberty and that time of the month issues, thinking it would go away eventually. Business at the garage was slow, Hal and one other mechanic being the only two people there. Steve the mechanic had stepped out about an hour ago for his lunch break, meaning the lazy fellow would probably be gone for another hour or so. Haley was lying under an old beat up Ute, fiddling with the oil lines when Henry walked in.
The pain in her breast had been getting worse in the last hour, and now it really kicked into overdrive. That’s when Haley realized something really was wrong. Letting out a moan of pain she went to push herself out from under the pickup and get to the phone to call an ambulance. But the pain was too much, it felt like her heart was trying to tear it’s way out of her chest, paralyzing her in agony.
Henry was perfectly healthy. He heard the cries of his daughter and came running to investigate. Pulling her out from under the truck, he fished into his pocket for his mobile, seeing the obvious distress on Haley’s face.
Haley for her part had lost all sense of what was going on. The pain was blinding. Her entire body was burning up. Desperate for relief her mind naturally shied away, sending itself shooting up along Haley’s new found connection to the global life force web. But that didn’t help, if anything the pain grew even stronger. Haley could have sworn her blood was on fire.
Ironically, that’s pretty much exactly what was happening. Haley’s powers were activating, and as she suffered her way through what most doctors would describe as an acute heart attack, the extra life force she was generating was trying to find somewhere to go. Her blood was adapting to concentrate and store the energy, but that process in itself was just as agonizing as her crazy heart beat.
Completely absorbed in her pain, Hal had no idea that Henry was leaning over her, trying to figure out what was wrong. So when her heart kicked it up another notch, she didn’t try and stop her body from thrashing in pain. Unfortunately, when she back handed Henry’s face, instead of giving him a harsh slap, her newly awoken super strength hit him hard enough to send him flying across the room, breaking his neck, killing him instantly.
Oblivious to what she had just done, Haley spent the next hour alone in her own little hell, eventually passing out from the strain on her consciousness. Steve the mechanic came back from his break to find a dead Henry, and an unconscious twitching Haley. Naturally he called an ambulance… and the police.
When Haley woke up a day later in hospital it was to questions she didn’t know how to answer, and extreme guilt that she was probably the one who killed her father. Haley was no idiot. She may not understand what had happened to her in the garage, but she knew what the impacts were. When she tried to sit up, . Obviously she was a mutant.
Isabel spent a lot of her time at the hospital with Haley, but both women knew that Haley was the reason Henry was dead. Isabel didn’t hold it against Hal, but she couldn’t forget about it entirely either. Something in their relationship was broken, and Hal didn’t know how it would ever get fixed.
So when a sympathetic nurse mentioned Hal wasn’t the first newly awoken mutant they’d got here, and suggested she seek out Xavier’s school for her mutant troubles, Haley didn’t waste much time. Her healing abilities meant she had fully recovered from her powers emerging, and since things would be way too awkward at home with Isabel, Haley set out for the school.
For the next two years Haley was enrolled at Xavier’s. She went home to visit her mother every weekend and holiday, but their rift still hasn’t healed. Haley is too full of guilt to be bubbly around Isabel, and Isabel is too grieved by Haley’s presence bringing up the memory of Henry to be excited either. But they do still care for each other regardless, their love untarnished.
She has continued to enjoy working with engines, even though auto shops always remind her of the place where her father died. She finds the simple and logical connections in mechanical things to be a soothing steady rock in the otherwise tumultuous world of a mutant.
After she joined Xavier’s, Haley got her research on. She may have ignored the mutants in the past, but she was no longer in a position to afford to remain ignorant. Seeing all the tension, the violence, Haley knew that being able to heal herself wasn’t going to be enough. That’s why she poured her heart and soul into hand to hand combat training. She’s now a fairly skilled close combat fighter, excelling in kickboxing, average in assorted martial arts, and becoming fairly skilled with small blades such as daggers.
As Haley is still technically a student, she doesn’t get to go on many X-men missions. But that’s not to say trouble has avoided her. As she’s very close to graduating, she has been asked to assist on several missions, and is considered an X-trainee. One such adventure was about a month before the new Registration Act came into play. A rogue mutant had kidnapped a senator, then taken refuge in a mine in Maine. The X-men were called in, bringing Haley along due to her ability to heal in case the Senator was injured. Things seemed to go without a hitch. The X-men chased the rogue out of the mine and started to subdue him up on the surface. Haley stayed underground, slicing open her hand to heal the assorted cuts and bruises the Senator had sustained. But then everything went rapidly downhill.
The Rogue had more power than the X-men had anticipated, able to create powerful seismic waves. When he sent a wave of earth flying at his foes, the mine underneath him collapsed. Luckily Haley was close to the exit, so when the roof caved in she managed to catch it, supporting it much like Atlas does the world. She yelled at the Senator to get him moving. The exit was still open, but the rest of the mine could come down on their heads at any moment. The Senator ran and made it outside. And that’s when Haley realized she wasn’t going to make it. The weight of earth falling down on top of the rock she was holding up was rapidly becoming too much for her to bear, even with her super strength. If she stayed where she was she’d die. But if she let the rock go and ran for the exit, everything would fall on top of her and she’d die all over again. But what choice did she have?
Willing her enhanced speed to be enough, Haley used the strength in her legs to propel her forwards at the fastest speed she’d ever gone. But it wasn’t enough. Whilst everything from her belly button up made it out of the mine, everything below was crushed beneath rubble.
By now the X-men had subdued the rogue, so they wasted no time in rushing to Haley’s aid. But there wasn’t anything they could do. Haley was the healer of the group. They tried to dig her out, but the lower half of her body wasn’t even attached to her anymore. Within minutes Haley bleed out and died.
Except, she didn’t stay dead.
All the life force stored in her body was released, moving her atoms around in a cloud of golden fire. A minute later, 16 year old Haley was standing next to a large bloodstain on the grass, her previously broken body no where to be seen. That was when the true potential of her powers finally revealed itself to the girl. She was immortal…ish. However it isn’t a theory she wants to test anytime soon.
When the Registration Act was updated, Haley registered with no qualms. She was technically not underage anymore, and she met all the requirements, so she had no issue with it. It hasn’t affected her daily life at all, but she understands how it affects many of the younger students at Xavier’s, and feels sympathetic for them.
Haley gained her nickname in a somewhat roundabout fashion. Her parents were Irish-Americans, hence why she has such a typical Irish last name. Both Henry and Isabel were 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants respectively, so they both still held some accent and sayings that their immigrant parents did. Haley’s powers are very similar to the Phoenix of myth, but as that codename was already taken, she had to come up with something else. Phoenixes are usually linked with the sun, but Sun Girl didn’t sound unique enough. So Hal turned to her heritage. She’d heard her father call boys sonny before, so she figured why not take that keepsake of her father, and combine it with her powers. Thus, she was dubbed Sunny. Ironically, her codename matches her actual personality.
Classification: Beta
Powers: Haley’s mutation is fairly simple. She has over 100x the normal amount of life force within her body. This concentrated force is a product of her heart beating at an incredibly fast rate. As she produces more energy than her body requires to function, her blood has adapted so that it can store highly concentrated life force within her cells. This excess energy grants Haley a number of secondary abilities.
Weaknesses: Below, the fullest extent of Haley's abilities are listed. This does not imply that she understands this is how her powers work, nor does she know many of her upper limits. ie, Haley assumes she is immortal as she came back to life after dying in the mine, but she does not know that this is a fact, nor is she willing to put herself in danger of dying again to find out. She does not know her powers function because of the exceptional amount of life force in her body, she simply thinks her heart beats too fast and somehow that relates to what she can do. In practical terms of how Haley employs her powers, she is really only a Delta mutant. She tends to only use her strength, occasionally using speed if the situation requires it. And these powers are really only at a Delta power level. The Life force connections powers are really only Epsilon-Delta level in terms of how they assist her, and the way she can employ them. Her only truly powerful abilities are her healing, and even they are not particularly easy to use. Haley does not enjoy pain, and so whilst she understands she needs to injure herself in order to heal others, she tries to avoid it. And, as Haley has no control over her powers, they are on all the time. She cannot chose to not heal, just as she cannot chose to not be returned to her 16 year old self (something that will become quite annoying when she's 60 with grown kids who appear older than she is. Or even if she's pregnant, for the regeneration will remove the baby.)
Skills: Mechanic, good in hand to hand combat.
Weaponry: Hal prefers her fists in a fight, but she is also quite proficient with daggers. She keeps two short straight blades hidden in her boots, and two long curved blades horizontally along her belt behind her back ie their handles are at the rear of Hal’s right and left hips.
Role Play Sample:
Come do a Danger Room session he said…. It’ll be fun he said...
Haley took cover behind the boulder, her head still reeling at the sight of what they were up against. She was going to clobber Cyclops into the middle of next week for this one. In what way was this fun?!
The aim of the session was simple. Make your way across the room to the waiting X-jet on the other side. What Scott had failed to mention was that the token bad guys they had to face weren’t your average Joe Blow. No, between the 4 man team of X-Students and their escape vehicle were several hundred of the most terrifying creatures on the planet…. Clowns!
Except these weren’t your normal circus red nosed bucket of fun clowns. These were the clowns from the nightmares of M Night Shyamalan. Wrong in every conceivable way. And worse than that, they all had guns.
Turning to her waiting teammates Haley gave them the bad news. After the understandable pause of disbelief and mentally imagined vengeance on Cyclops, the team put on their thinking caps to figure out a way through. Dave could create force fields, but he couldn’t keep them up for more than a minute at a time. Abby could turn invisible, able to cloak another person with her for a maximum of a minute. And Jake could create illusions.
After working out a basic plan, the team scattered to get to their assigned roles.
Jake stayed behind the boulder with Dave, casting an illusion of the team running from boulder to boulder along the north side of the room. Meanwhile, taking advantage of the distraction, Abby cloaked with Haley and headed south. Once majority of the clowns were busy shooting up the north, Haley and Abby uncloaked, Haley using her strength to hurl boulders into a line, creating a protective barrier along the south wall. But that drew the attention of the clowns. Recloaking with Abby, the duo waited behind a boulder for Dave to do his part. They didn’t have to wait long, the young force field wielding mutant running across the open space in the middle of the room, his token yellow hued shields protecting him and Jake as they headed for the plane.
That’s when Abby’s cloak ran out, leaving Haley exposed. Haley waved the invisible girl down the rock protected path they’d built earlier, before following suit. The boys were halfway across the room, but Dave’s field was running low. Time for Haley to step in. Running along the path after Abby, Haley threw each boulder she passed at the sea of clowns, crushing dozens, and giving the boys the covering fire they needed to reach the plane.
With their immediate quarry out of reach, and a new threat killing their comrades, the clowns turned their attention, and their guns, on Haley. Abby was now over a hundred meters in front of Haley, so the young mutant didn’t worry about the invisible girl getting shot by the hail of bullets shooting towards Hal. Indeed, Haley didn’t really have the time to worry about Abby, she was too busy saving her own skin.
Using her speed and strength to the best of her ability, Hal ducked, weaved, dodged, and dived from boulder to boulder, occasionally kicking a large rock at her attackers when she had a spare moment. But she was making slow progress, and the clowns were getting closer. In the glimpses she took between the boulders, Hal noticed the clown army circling around the rock wall ahead of her, cutting her off from the plane. If she didn’t hurry up she was definitely going to get shot, and mostly likely killed.
But Hal needn’t have worried. With Abby safely on board the plane, the team took off, flying over to the trapped Haley, hovering about 20 meters above her with the rear ramp lowered. Grinning up at the black bird, Haley used a surge of strength in her legs to jump up onto the ramp.
Unfortunately a remarkably lucky bullet grazed her shoulder as she landed, sending blood spraying across the plane’s floor. Haley grunted, but it was more in annoyance than pain. She had no doubt Scott would make her clean that mess up later. The bullet wound had already practically healed, so she got to her feet and headed to the cockpit to join her team.
Your Name: Haley is fine.
Other Characters: N/A
Full Name: Haley O’Connor
Codename: Sunny
Nicknames: Hal, Sunny
Type: Original
Gender: Female
Species: Homo superior (mutant)
Age: 18, looks 16
Date of Birth: 8th March
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Current Residence: X-mansion
Loyalty: X-Student
Occupation: Mechanic
Hair Colour: Red
Eye Colour: Blue-green
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 220lbs
Body Type: Athletic, but appears a tad too skinny. Often described as pixie-like.
Typical Style: Like most mutants she prefers functional clothes that allow her to use her powers. But Hal also loves fashion, so she tends to wear the trendier new styles of clothes.
Distinguishing Features: N/A
Physical Mutations: No obvious mutations unless you know her. She currently looks 16 even though she’s actually 18.
Uniform: A cross between Jean and Rogue’s suits from X2, with red trimming.
Personality: Haley is a happy girl. Indeed she’s often so happy that people call her a hamster on speed. She loves to talk, hang out with friends, get up to a little bit of mischief, and generally have a good time. As her empathy forces her to constantly affect the emotions of others around her, Hal tries her best to be as happy, kind, and friendly as she can. She’s a very loyal person, willing to befriend anyone, and sacrifice herself to save even the most contemptible stranger.
Hal does have a more serious side. After accidentally killing her own father, she understands well the danger of being a mutant. As she will be graduating soon Haley has started to groom herself for the leadership responsibilities that come with being an X-man, and senior Student. So when the situation calls for it she can be cool calm and collected, for the sake of those she’s in danger with.
Family: Henry O’Connor - Lawyer - Deceased
Isabel O’Connor - Lawyer - Alive
History: Haley was a fairly normal child. She didn’t experience any life altering dramas, almost die, or develop an outrageous rivalry with some other kid. She had friends, lived comfortably, and was every bit the normal human child. Her Irish-American parents, Henry and Isabel O’Connor were lawyers, meaning they often spent a lot of their time busy working on cases. This did mean Haley didn’t get to spend as much time with her folks as other kids might, but she didn’t really mind. Her parents doted on her, never letting her want for anything, trying to make up for not being there for her all the time. For some kids this might have turned them into spoilt little brats, but that was not the case with Haley. Henry and Isabel were very devoted to their only child, and whilst they gave her pretty much whatever she wanted, they ensured she remained grounded in return.
So Haley grew up in comfort, the kind money can buy. She heard some things about the mutant situation, but paid it no mind. No one she knew was a mutant so it didn’t really concern her. However that was about to change.
Haley was 16. Her new found love for engines (and the boy working at the local auto shop) meant she began spending a lot of time down at the garage, tinkering with the cars, taking the overalls and grease stains in her stride. Henry had just finished up at a court hearing early, and since he had some spare time he thought he’d come surprise his daughter at her new hangout. Unfortunately Henry picked the wrong day.
Haley had been having chest pains all day. Being a girl she just put it down to puberty and that time of the month issues, thinking it would go away eventually. Business at the garage was slow, Hal and one other mechanic being the only two people there. Steve the mechanic had stepped out about an hour ago for his lunch break, meaning the lazy fellow would probably be gone for another hour or so. Haley was lying under an old beat up Ute, fiddling with the oil lines when Henry walked in.
The pain in her breast had been getting worse in the last hour, and now it really kicked into overdrive. That’s when Haley realized something really was wrong. Letting out a moan of pain she went to push herself out from under the pickup and get to the phone to call an ambulance. But the pain was too much, it felt like her heart was trying to tear it’s way out of her chest, paralyzing her in agony.
Henry was perfectly healthy. He heard the cries of his daughter and came running to investigate. Pulling her out from under the truck, he fished into his pocket for his mobile, seeing the obvious distress on Haley’s face.
Haley for her part had lost all sense of what was going on. The pain was blinding. Her entire body was burning up. Desperate for relief her mind naturally shied away, sending itself shooting up along Haley’s new found connection to the global life force web. But that didn’t help, if anything the pain grew even stronger. Haley could have sworn her blood was on fire.
Ironically, that’s pretty much exactly what was happening. Haley’s powers were activating, and as she suffered her way through what most doctors would describe as an acute heart attack, the extra life force she was generating was trying to find somewhere to go. Her blood was adapting to concentrate and store the energy, but that process in itself was just as agonizing as her crazy heart beat.
Completely absorbed in her pain, Hal had no idea that Henry was leaning over her, trying to figure out what was wrong. So when her heart kicked it up another notch, she didn’t try and stop her body from thrashing in pain. Unfortunately, when she back handed Henry’s face, instead of giving him a harsh slap, her newly awoken super strength hit him hard enough to send him flying across the room, breaking his neck, killing him instantly.
Oblivious to what she had just done, Haley spent the next hour alone in her own little hell, eventually passing out from the strain on her consciousness. Steve the mechanic came back from his break to find a dead Henry, and an unconscious twitching Haley. Naturally he called an ambulance… and the police.
When Haley woke up a day later in hospital it was to questions she didn’t know how to answer, and extreme guilt that she was probably the one who killed her father. Haley was no idiot. She may not understand what had happened to her in the garage, but she knew what the impacts were. When she tried to sit up, . Obviously she was a mutant.
Isabel spent a lot of her time at the hospital with Haley, but both women knew that Haley was the reason Henry was dead. Isabel didn’t hold it against Hal, but she couldn’t forget about it entirely either. Something in their relationship was broken, and Hal didn’t know how it would ever get fixed.
So when a sympathetic nurse mentioned Hal wasn’t the first newly awoken mutant they’d got here, and suggested she seek out Xavier’s school for her mutant troubles, Haley didn’t waste much time. Her healing abilities meant she had fully recovered from her powers emerging, and since things would be way too awkward at home with Isabel, Haley set out for the school.
For the next two years Haley was enrolled at Xavier’s. She went home to visit her mother every weekend and holiday, but their rift still hasn’t healed. Haley is too full of guilt to be bubbly around Isabel, and Isabel is too grieved by Haley’s presence bringing up the memory of Henry to be excited either. But they do still care for each other regardless, their love untarnished.
She has continued to enjoy working with engines, even though auto shops always remind her of the place where her father died. She finds the simple and logical connections in mechanical things to be a soothing steady rock in the otherwise tumultuous world of a mutant.
After she joined Xavier’s, Haley got her research on. She may have ignored the mutants in the past, but she was no longer in a position to afford to remain ignorant. Seeing all the tension, the violence, Haley knew that being able to heal herself wasn’t going to be enough. That’s why she poured her heart and soul into hand to hand combat training. She’s now a fairly skilled close combat fighter, excelling in kickboxing, average in assorted martial arts, and becoming fairly skilled with small blades such as daggers.
As Haley is still technically a student, she doesn’t get to go on many X-men missions. But that’s not to say trouble has avoided her. As she’s very close to graduating, she has been asked to assist on several missions, and is considered an X-trainee. One such adventure was about a month before the new Registration Act came into play. A rogue mutant had kidnapped a senator, then taken refuge in a mine in Maine. The X-men were called in, bringing Haley along due to her ability to heal in case the Senator was injured. Things seemed to go without a hitch. The X-men chased the rogue out of the mine and started to subdue him up on the surface. Haley stayed underground, slicing open her hand to heal the assorted cuts and bruises the Senator had sustained. But then everything went rapidly downhill.
The Rogue had more power than the X-men had anticipated, able to create powerful seismic waves. When he sent a wave of earth flying at his foes, the mine underneath him collapsed. Luckily Haley was close to the exit, so when the roof caved in she managed to catch it, supporting it much like Atlas does the world. She yelled at the Senator to get him moving. The exit was still open, but the rest of the mine could come down on their heads at any moment. The Senator ran and made it outside. And that’s when Haley realized she wasn’t going to make it. The weight of earth falling down on top of the rock she was holding up was rapidly becoming too much for her to bear, even with her super strength. If she stayed where she was she’d die. But if she let the rock go and ran for the exit, everything would fall on top of her and she’d die all over again. But what choice did she have?
Willing her enhanced speed to be enough, Haley used the strength in her legs to propel her forwards at the fastest speed she’d ever gone. But it wasn’t enough. Whilst everything from her belly button up made it out of the mine, everything below was crushed beneath rubble.
By now the X-men had subdued the rogue, so they wasted no time in rushing to Haley’s aid. But there wasn’t anything they could do. Haley was the healer of the group. They tried to dig her out, but the lower half of her body wasn’t even attached to her anymore. Within minutes Haley bleed out and died.
Except, she didn’t stay dead.
All the life force stored in her body was released, moving her atoms around in a cloud of golden fire. A minute later, 16 year old Haley was standing next to a large bloodstain on the grass, her previously broken body no where to be seen. That was when the true potential of her powers finally revealed itself to the girl. She was immortal…ish. However it isn’t a theory she wants to test anytime soon.
When the Registration Act was updated, Haley registered with no qualms. She was technically not underage anymore, and she met all the requirements, so she had no issue with it. It hasn’t affected her daily life at all, but she understands how it affects many of the younger students at Xavier’s, and feels sympathetic for them.
Haley gained her nickname in a somewhat roundabout fashion. Her parents were Irish-Americans, hence why she has such a typical Irish last name. Both Henry and Isabel were 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants respectively, so they both still held some accent and sayings that their immigrant parents did. Haley’s powers are very similar to the Phoenix of myth, but as that codename was already taken, she had to come up with something else. Phoenixes are usually linked with the sun, but Sun Girl didn’t sound unique enough. So Hal turned to her heritage. She’d heard her father call boys sonny before, so she figured why not take that keepsake of her father, and combine it with her powers. Thus, she was dubbed Sunny. Ironically, her codename matches her actual personality.
Classification: Beta
Powers: Haley’s mutation is fairly simple. She has over 100x the normal amount of life force within her body. This concentrated force is a product of her heart beating at an incredibly fast rate. As she produces more energy than her body requires to function, her blood has adapted so that it can store highly concentrated life force within her cells. This excess energy grants Haley a number of secondary abilities.
Healing
- accelerated healing
- heal others with blood
- regeneration
Supernatural condition
- super strength
- durability
- super speed
- reflexes
Life force connections
- sense world wide web of life forms
- danger sense
Weaknesses: Below, the fullest extent of Haley's abilities are listed. This does not imply that she understands this is how her powers work, nor does she know many of her upper limits. ie, Haley assumes she is immortal as she came back to life after dying in the mine, but she does not know that this is a fact, nor is she willing to put herself in danger of dying again to find out. She does not know her powers function because of the exceptional amount of life force in her body, she simply thinks her heart beats too fast and somehow that relates to what she can do. In practical terms of how Haley employs her powers, she is really only a Delta mutant. She tends to only use her strength, occasionally using speed if the situation requires it. And these powers are really only at a Delta power level. The Life force connections powers are really only Epsilon-Delta level in terms of how they assist her, and the way she can employ them. Her only truly powerful abilities are her healing, and even they are not particularly easy to use. Haley does not enjoy pain, and so whilst she understands she needs to injure herself in order to heal others, she tries to avoid it. And, as Haley has no control over her powers, they are on all the time. She cannot chose to not heal, just as she cannot chose to not be returned to her 16 year old self (something that will become quite annoying when she's 60 with grown kids who appear older than she is. Or even if she's pregnant, for the regeneration will remove the baby.)
Healing
- accelerated healing
Life force is the energy that allows a person to grow, heal, and develop. As Haley has an excess store of this energy within her body, when she is injured the stored energy is released, greatly speeding her healing process.
Cuts and bruises heal almost instantly. Deep wounds eg a shark bite to the leg would take about a minute to heal. Broken bones take anywhere from moments for small bones eg toes, to almost 2 minutes for large bones eg thigh bone.
Haley can even regenerate whole limbs. A hand takes about a day. An arm takes a week, so too does a leg. However removing her head or her heart will kill her instantly.- heal others with blood
In the same way that the release of life force heals Haley’s injuries, when she applies her own blood to another person’s wounds, the stored energy will release and act to heal those wounds.
Once her blood leaves her body, the stored life force remains in the blood for about 5 seconds before it rapidly breaks free of the containment inside the cells. This means that there is a 5 second delay between Haley applying her blood to another’s wounds, and the start of the healing process. Add to this that there is a finite amount of life force in the blood Haley gives an individual. It may only be enough to heal a stab wound, but not enough to heal the person’s broken back as well.
Time is a major factor in Haley’s ability to heal. The 5 second delay, along with the finite amount of life force, mean that she may not be able to heal the person fast enough. Ie their wounds are too many and too severe for her to apply enough blood to heal them before they die.
Haley also has to contend with her own healing abilities. Once she cuts herself to access her blood to heal another, she only has about a second to slap her hand on their wound before her cut will heal itself. Meaning she may have to hurt herself quite severely in order to get enough blood to heal someone close to death.- regeneration
Perhaps Haley’s most powerful ability. Upon her death, all the life force Haley has stored in her body is released. As she has no control over how to manipulate her life force whilst she is alive, Haley is never able to fully access the vast reserves of energy within her. However, upon her death all of her stored energy is released. This massive vent contains enough life force to not only reanimate the cells in her body, but also regenerates them, healing them to the point that the effects of ageing are reversed, returning Haley to her 16 year old self.
On the down side, this means Haley has to go through her teenage years all over again, on a fairly regular basis. But more than that, when Haley regenerates, she uses up all the concentrated life force in her system. This leaves her powerless for a week afterwards whilst her heart works to accumulate life force again. But, this is not to say that she cannot regenerate again if she is killed in this week. Upon being revived, her heart immediately goes into overdrive (when compared to it’s already super speedy heart rate) After about 5 minutes she has enough life force to reanimate herself. However she cannot un-age, or heal her wounds completely, they just heal to a point of not being immediately lethal. After a day she can regenerate fully.
Supernatural condition
- super strength
- durability
- super speed
- reflexes
As Haley’s cells contain an enormous amount of concentrated life force within them, they naturally become somewhat denser. On the down side, this has the effect of increasing Haley’s weight. On the outside she would appear to be maybe 60kg tops, but in reality she is actually about 100kg. This is why she has allowed herself to become a tad thinner than what would be considered healthy, simply for practicalities sake.
On the upside, this increased cellular density has acted to enhance her base functions. Her skin has hardened so that blunt knives that would normally injure a human, just bounce off her skin. Sharp knives injure her as a blunt one would eg not penetrate as deeply/require more force to penetrate. Bullet wounds meet resistance, so a revolver shot into her shoulder that would blow straight through a human, would become lodged about halfway through her shoulder, which can be a bit of a pain. The increased durability of her skin, whilst its helpful in reducing the seriousness of Haley’s injuries, serves a better purpose. It allows her to take more of a beating than a human could. Her hardened skin reduces the pain she feels, so punching a concrete wall would just feel slightly sore and jarring, instead of crippling her hand.
In addition to her durability, Haley has gained extreme strength. This is the area where her concentrated life force has the most impact. Whilst her skin was only slightly enhanced by durability, her muscles have been improved to the point where she has legitimate super strength. The life force allows her muscles to operate at peak human condition, and beyond, as they heal any damage her muscles sustain (eg tears and sprains) whilst she is using them almost immediately. She can lift a car no problem. A truck is reaching her limit. Lifting 2 trucks would be impossible, but she could lift a car and a truck if she really had too.
As the lifeforce has enhanced her muscles to peak functioning, Haley’s speed also experiences great improvement. She can run as fast as an Olympic sprinter for about 2 hours before she starts to get tired. She tires not because her muscles are sore, but because the effort to actively releasing continuous amounts of life force into her body can become mentally draining over time. The effects of this are more apparent to her speed than her strength ie using her speed effects her faster than using her strength.
Following on from her enhanced speed, Haley has gained enhanced reflexes. This is to about the same degree as her durability, in that she doesn’t move faster than you can see. Instead her reaction is simply improved a little. Ie she can dodge a sword swipe about half a second faster than a human can. It’s an almost imperceptible improvement until you realize that almost every attack you send her way seems to miss by a fraction of an inch. It doesn’t make Haley invulnerable and impossible to hit. You simply have to compensate and strike where she is going to dodge to.
Life force connections
- sense world wide web of life forms
Due to the incredible potency of Haley’s life force, the force of others around her are slightly influenced by her own. This enables Haley to sense the life force of others. It’s not precise enough to judge who is who, but she can sense how many people are in the next room. But on a larger scale than this, she can send her mind out and feel the interconnecting web of life force all around the world. On this level she can’t differentiate individuals from the collective whole, rather she simply feels the pulse of life itself from billions of organisms.
Haley is able to sense the life force in all things, not just humans. In her minds eye, humans, animals, plants, and the different species within each, all have a slightly different feel. But on the worldwide scale this differentiation fades to become part of the whole.
Haley can sense individuals within the web in an area up to the size of New York. But her finesse is reduced eg she can’t tell how many people are where exactly, but she can say more people are in Manhattan than any other area of the city. After this scale, individuals fade into one another so that whilst she can tell more people are in New York than the ocean, she can’t give you any idea of numbers, or if the organisms are even human, it might just be a huge colony of seals.- danger sense
Not really a danger sense, but more of a proximity sense. As Haley’s web is always either consciously or subconsciously keeping tabs on the living organisms around her, she can sense when someone is coming towards her. In most situations this just means she turns to face you before the sound of your footsteps should have reached her ears. But it has a more practical application in that she can sense when someone is attacking her.
This has limitations however. Haley can only sense living things, so she can’t see inanimate objects such as bullets, blades, tables, rocks, flames, or anything else that might be thrown, shot, or projected at her. She can sense those who are physical attackers though, such as animals, or hand to hand assassins.
Skills: Mechanic, good in hand to hand combat.
Weaponry: Hal prefers her fists in a fight, but she is also quite proficient with daggers. She keeps two short straight blades hidden in her boots, and two long curved blades horizontally along her belt behind her back ie their handles are at the rear of Hal’s right and left hips.
Role Play Sample:
Come do a Danger Room session he said…. It’ll be fun he said...
Haley took cover behind the boulder, her head still reeling at the sight of what they were up against. She was going to clobber Cyclops into the middle of next week for this one. In what way was this fun?!
The aim of the session was simple. Make your way across the room to the waiting X-jet on the other side. What Scott had failed to mention was that the token bad guys they had to face weren’t your average Joe Blow. No, between the 4 man team of X-Students and their escape vehicle were several hundred of the most terrifying creatures on the planet…. Clowns!
Except these weren’t your normal circus red nosed bucket of fun clowns. These were the clowns from the nightmares of M Night Shyamalan. Wrong in every conceivable way. And worse than that, they all had guns.
Turning to her waiting teammates Haley gave them the bad news. After the understandable pause of disbelief and mentally imagined vengeance on Cyclops, the team put on their thinking caps to figure out a way through. Dave could create force fields, but he couldn’t keep them up for more than a minute at a time. Abby could turn invisible, able to cloak another person with her for a maximum of a minute. And Jake could create illusions.
After working out a basic plan, the team scattered to get to their assigned roles.
Jake stayed behind the boulder with Dave, casting an illusion of the team running from boulder to boulder along the north side of the room. Meanwhile, taking advantage of the distraction, Abby cloaked with Haley and headed south. Once majority of the clowns were busy shooting up the north, Haley and Abby uncloaked, Haley using her strength to hurl boulders into a line, creating a protective barrier along the south wall. But that drew the attention of the clowns. Recloaking with Abby, the duo waited behind a boulder for Dave to do his part. They didn’t have to wait long, the young force field wielding mutant running across the open space in the middle of the room, his token yellow hued shields protecting him and Jake as they headed for the plane.
That’s when Abby’s cloak ran out, leaving Haley exposed. Haley waved the invisible girl down the rock protected path they’d built earlier, before following suit. The boys were halfway across the room, but Dave’s field was running low. Time for Haley to step in. Running along the path after Abby, Haley threw each boulder she passed at the sea of clowns, crushing dozens, and giving the boys the covering fire they needed to reach the plane.
With their immediate quarry out of reach, and a new threat killing their comrades, the clowns turned their attention, and their guns, on Haley. Abby was now over a hundred meters in front of Haley, so the young mutant didn’t worry about the invisible girl getting shot by the hail of bullets shooting towards Hal. Indeed, Haley didn’t really have the time to worry about Abby, she was too busy saving her own skin.
Using her speed and strength to the best of her ability, Hal ducked, weaved, dodged, and dived from boulder to boulder, occasionally kicking a large rock at her attackers when she had a spare moment. But she was making slow progress, and the clowns were getting closer. In the glimpses she took between the boulders, Hal noticed the clown army circling around the rock wall ahead of her, cutting her off from the plane. If she didn’t hurry up she was definitely going to get shot, and mostly likely killed.
But Hal needn’t have worried. With Abby safely on board the plane, the team took off, flying over to the trapped Haley, hovering about 20 meters above her with the rear ramp lowered. Grinning up at the black bird, Haley used a surge of strength in her legs to jump up onto the ramp.
Unfortunately a remarkably lucky bullet grazed her shoulder as she landed, sending blood spraying across the plane’s floor. Haley grunted, but it was more in annoyance than pain. She had no doubt Scott would make her clean that mess up later. The bullet wound had already practically healed, so she got to her feet and headed to the cockpit to join her team.
Your Name: Haley is fine.
Other Characters: N/A
. And I must say, the life-force mechanism was elegantly woven in all aspects of the powers.