Player: Domomique
Sign On Used to Post for Her: Striker
Player E-mail: windrider_child@yahoo.com
YIM: windrider_child
MSN: windrider_child@yahoo.com

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Character Name: Altaria Muhummed On'gayo

Current Alias: Striker

Previous Alias: Sheba ( 'Precious One'), Weapon XX, Walida ('Reborn/Rebirth').

Age: 20

Height: 5'4"

Build: Small and lithe, though there are some muscles

Hair: White

Eyes: Blue (Sapphire)

Relatives: Mufasune On'gayo (Father, deceased), Umm'ram On'gayo (Mother, deceased), Zimbawe Tribe (Extended family, destroyed).

Current Occupation: College Student

STUDENT INSTITUTE INFORMATION

School Attending: Resident at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

Advisor: Wolverine

Squad Group: Haze, Senior X-Men

Room Number: TF-02

Classes Taught: N/A

Curriculum: College Level Student

Non-Curriculum: Fluent in Swahili, Arabic, Afrikaans and English, writing, can cook African or Moroccan/Arabic dishes, dancing, hand-to-hand combat (or would that be claw-to-claw combat?), demolition, infiltration, assassination, and tracking.

Education: Her 'legal' education level is considered the equivalent of honor student in grad. school.

Resources: Student Salary, Un-Authorized link (AKA, hacking)

X-GENE MUTATION

Mutant Powers: Animal Shapeshifting, Telezoic, Modification and 'Chimera'

Control:
Animal Shapeshifting: Altaria can shapeshift into any animal known on the planet, including ancient animals and dinosaurs, as long as there's a description or some type of visual. Having had this secondary power since she was a child, the time and process of shifting has decreased over the years. Unlike some shifters, whatever is on her being is maintained when she shifts back.

There have been questions on how far down in the kingdom she can shift into. Mind you, there are six kingdoms in Biology Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archea and Bacteria. Of course, the Plantae and Fungi kingdoms don't pertain to Altaria because there's not enough 'activity'. Bacteria would be considered an alternative in the future. However, it's not possible. Animalia is the obvious kingdom. However, there have been some who wonder if she can also use the Protista and Archea.

The answer is yes, she can. How is this possible? One, these two kingdoms, albeit not having the same structure as the Animalia kingdom, contain living organisms within them. The best example would be either a Planarian or tape-worm. While not having the same structure as an earthworm, tape- and flat-worms are still living, although the structure is a little different. Also, rather she can turn into viruses and such is unknown, but a possiblity that she'll look into, once she has a better understanding with Biology.
Control: Automatic
Weakness: Every animal has either a weakness or some kind of personality issue. Altaria, unfortunately, has them sometimes. For example, if she shifts into a cat, she will have an indefinite fear/hate of water, even with her human mind in place. Also, pertaining to the Protista and Archea kingdom, there are a lot of possible set-backs that could prove dangerous. If, for instance, she turns into a tape worm and goes within another living being, she has to have an extreme understanding of what she's doing and where she's going because there's the huge possiblity that she can get stuck somewhere or end up dying.

Telezoic: Altaria can communicate with any animal in a perimeter of fifty miles through speech or 'mind talk'. She can also communicate with telepaths and mutants that are connected to nature, no matter the extent. Apparently, there seems to be a bit of empathy in her telezoic abilities, allowing her to 'feel' another animals emotions, along with people. Only to certain people or animals does she lass out, which has developed into a 'mind bolt'. This is normally fulled by her emotions, which gives the degree to what the bolt will feel like. Since this isn't something she'll normally use, the most damage done is a strong headache.
Control: Automatic
Weakness: There will be times that Altaria won't get a reply from another creature. Normally, this is based on the creature's mood. In a way, the creature can 'nudge' her away, but only for a second before she can come back in.

Heightened Senses: Having the ability to shift into animals, there's no surprise that Altaria has heightened sense's in her human form. Even with the smallest amount of light, she can still see in darkness. Her sense of smell allows her to sniff anything out, even if it's been washed for over two month's ago. Her sense of taste is fine, except for the fact that she can tolerate, even delight, in raw meat. While others would get sick, her stomach has developed over the years where she can eat almost anything without getting sick. Touch helps detect the temperature of an item or what's happening either above or below ground. Her hearing allows her to hear sounds from far distances and pitches that humans just can't hear, even up close.
Control: Same as modification
Weakness: Sensory overload. Loud sounds, high-pitched tones (dog whistle, for example), over-bearing scents and intense light can disorientate Altaria to the point where she can easily pass out if she doesn't get away from whatever is over stimulating her sense's.

Modification: Ties in with shapeshifting which allows her to modify her mental state and body of an animal. As of now, her nails, eye's, teeth, and sense's can change to accommodate certain animals. Lately, Altaria's been showing signs of other changes happening. For instance, animal features showing on her face, hair 'fluffing out' or eye's changing.
Control:
Weakness: Same as heightened sense's.

Chimera: In mythology, a chimera is a creature composed of two or more animals to form a fearsome creature. Well, that's the case with Altaria. Since she can turn into practically any animal, her DNA isn't stable. So, this has caused a default form to manifest. Instead of having a regular default form, this form is actually a combination of animals.

As of now, her default form is mainly an anthromorphic feline with feathered wings. Her build is about the same in human form, except for some added muscle's and fur outlining her form. Elongated teeth and claws on her hands and feet are the perfect examples of a hunting feline, able to claw and tear off more thickier substances than a normal feline. For the moment, her wings won't let her gain flight above a helicopter. It hasn't shown yet, but when the weather changes, her fur will change with the season.

In this form, her sense's are heightened to the point where she can get sensitive to even the faintest touch, her eye's can pinpoint movement or a person in the darkest room, and her hearing will pick anything up in a thirty mile radius. As far as speech, her voice will be a jumble of feline noises, both domestic and wild, depending on how she feels until she can calm down and learn how to speak, if possible.
Control: Not at one hundred percent, but slowly working on it.
Weakness: Unfortunately, since this form just sprang up, Altaria doesn't have the same control over this form then she does as a normal animal. This form is more aggressive, so there will be no telling if she can control herself around those she cares about.

Chimera

Overall Weaknesses:

Depending on what she turns into affects her own body structure. Anything that weighs more than her own body weight can have various effects. This problem is generally solved by her consuming a large amount of food loaded with viable nutrients. Also, it's uncertain if she has all he abilities of certain animals. As of now, she can't 'breath fire' as a dragon. As far as normal animals go, she has some of the defensive maneuvers and instincts. For example, she can produce venom in a number of venomous animals, like a cobra or a komodo dragon.

No matter what, her powers are strongly tied in with her emotions/mental state. This means that the animals around her will feed off her emotions and react to how she's feeling at the moment. Say, if she's enraged, then the animals around her will go off. As far as mental shields go, Altaria technically doesn't have one. Her shield would be considered as a filter instead.

Until she 're-learns' how to shift with everything on her form, Altaria will end up with little to no clothing when she shifts back to normal. And we wouldn't want that to happen, now do we?

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE

Personality: Despite everything, Altaria is truly a scared child whose been pushed so many times in her life. Some would say she's snobby if she doesn't respond to people, but she's really not ready to get open to a lot of people yet, less her powers act up. She's also scared to get close to anyone, less something from her past comes along and take it away from her. Aside from that, she's calm, serene, generous, and a bit coy at times.

However, since being at Xavier's, her personality has almost taken a 180 degree turn. Now, she see's the residents as members of her pride, where the children are cubs needing either a scolding or some protection, the teens are just angsty and the adults are the elders with her being THE Alpha female among the ferals. She's also learning how to be playful with and without her powers being put into the mix. Because of unfortunate events while being Weapon XX, Altaria doubts that she will ever have children. As such, she looks after the younger children as her own and will protect them with the same fierceness as a mother lion protecting her cubs.

Trust and loyalty has been a major ploy at Xavier's and those two personalities are a symbol of what others can expect out of her. However, if you manage to get on her 'bad' side, then it's going to take a while for her to trust you again. If, for some reason, something extreme happens, then you can kiss your trust from her goodbye.

Demeanour: Survivor, Observant

Nature: Blossoming Loner

Current Affiliation: X-Men, Residents

Previous Affiliation: African Republic (experiment, weapon).

HISTORY

Born to an African princess to the Zimbabwe tribe and a Arabian researcher, Altaria was considered special on her first day of life when she opened her eye's to reveal, at that time, light blue eye's and white fuzz on her head. Her mother knew where it came from and would tell Altaria when she was old enough to know.

Her powers came quite early for her. When she was three, her mother and some of the women were washing cloths when a leopard appeared. The women panicked, but Altaria smiled at the leopard as the big cat came towards her. When it did, she petted it's nose playfully and the big cat licked her face, which caused her mother to faint. Her father found out that same day by the women when they came back. Four months later while she was playing with the other children, they noticed her eye's were slitted and her pupils huge. Before they knew it, a wild African dog was in their mists, causing a bit of a commotion. When she finally managed to change back, her parents told her that she was a 'gifted' child. The people of the tribe didn't cast her out and took her abilities as a good sign.

When she was six, her village was attacked by the Trimbene tribe, a rivaling tribe who practiced dark 'magic'. The chief ordered his men to kill everyone and burn the village up. When he saw Altaria being held by her parents, he had an idea which would help his tribe. He grabbed her, her parents holding on to her as tight as they could. But both were stabbed through their hearts, an image that would haunt Altaria for the rest of her life. The day after, the tribe went to the nearest city and sold Altaria off for some money to a white man, who said he would take care of her. That wasn't true when he brought her to a building that was fours hours away from the city. It was a government base/laboratory that was an international branch of the Weapon X project where experiments were conducted. The moment the door to the truck opened, Altaria was hauled in by guards into a room where she was strapped down and that's when the testing began.

From that point, her life got worse by the day. She was experimented on since she was a mutant. Soon enough, the researchers and scientists felt the need for a 'weapon' to counter act with their America rivals of the Weapon X project and Altaria was chosen to become 'the perfect weapon'. Everyday, she went through various trainings that built her endurance, knowledge, stamina, and strength. That didn't mean she wasn't hurt badly from the training. During the day, she was submitted to torture, ranging from lashings to electric shocking, lethal injections and more.

She was given the name 'Weapon XX' when she was merely ten because of her improvements. She was sent to either kill people, either human or mutant, retrieve specific files on computers, hard drives and such.

One day, when she was eighteen, she was strapped down to a table, getting ready to get injections. She was thrashing around, feeling like something inside of her was about to explode. She didn't know that from all the years of missions, training and torment that her animalistic side had enough. Something snapped inside of her when she the scientists entered the room, making her go feral. They were surprised when she broke out of the bounds and she went on to killing them with anything she found around the room or she had changed into a dangerous animal. But she wasn't done yet. She went through out the whole building, killing anyone she saw. The guards did their best to make her stop with darts and bullets, but she kept on moving. Within twenty minutes, everyone was dead and Altaria ran away, having no idea where she was going.

After two days of wandering, she passed out in the jungle. The animals in the area gathered around her, watching over her until she wok up a week later. Since then, they took care of her. And in return, she did the same. Eight months later, there was a group of African men who were traveling through the jungle on an expedition. Altaria was in the trees at that time, stalking them. The next minute, she attacked them, not realizing that some of them were mutants. One of them, called Dummon, looked at her and used his power to make her fall into a deep sleep.

When she finally woke up, she was surprised to see that she wasn't in the jungle of Africa, sleeping in a tree. But was surprised to find herself in a bed...in New York. The men she attacked had brought her to the States. A occupant of the house came in and told her what happened in Africa, that she was asleep for a good four days. He also told her that they were getting her papers (citizenship, visa, etc.). Now, she's dealing with life in the USA, though being protected by three guys though that are hoping to keep her away from 'dangerous' mutants.

Updates

Ever since arriving at Xavier's, Altaria has surely changed from being a loner to being more active around the mansion. Growing up without a family, the residents in the institute has become her surrogate family or 'pride'.

While working to obtain her citizenship to prevent from being shipped back to Africa, she also learns one of the various lessons young Americans have encountered and have little to no experience: being with a guy. The first guy she was with didn't turn out well. But nothing compared to what happened when she became close to the now deceased mutant Jacob and actually falling for one of Apocalypse's henchmen, Draco. With no sign of him around, Altaria thought she wouldn't take a liking to anyone for a while.

After mid-terms, Altaria was one of the unfortunate mutants to be put up for cage fighting. What was different with her situation was that one of the men whom she thought she killed in Africa made a deal: Fight or have the possiblity of bringing up her past into the light. Not wanting this to happen and protect the residents at Xavier's, she agreed. But now, without finding some of them actually there

After the cage fighting, her wish to not get close to anyone faltered when Elizabeth's brother, Brian Braddock, showed up. And it's been an instant blush fest for the telezoic. Of course, nothing happened for a while when the canine incident happened. Having to show her powers in front of some of her college friends was hard enough, but to have one of them die on her didn't help. But, it was also one of those turning points where she wondered if trying to save normal humans that hated them was really her calling. But, it didn't stop her from aiding in getting rid of some canine's and getting the coerced and altered back to their normal selves.

What is important, right now, is that Altaria wants to have a life and has to slowly work for it.

SAMPLE ROLE PLAY

Oh, come on people! This was a school full of mutants. Sure the boy had a good reason to stare at her. Seriously, you'd stare if there was a curvaceous, naked, furred cat-like creature with feathery wings in your presence. ~Hmm. I wonder what would happen if I pounced him?~ Altaria's feral side wondered deviously. However, said feral knew that, one, not everyone was a touchy person. Second, she didn't pounce on people if she didn't know the full purpose of their powers. She'd rather keep her fur intact, thank you very much.

"A...chimera?" he asked, "Grr." Looking over her shoulder, her tail swished around. Then, she used furry hands to rub her ears before shrugging. Did she really look like a chimera? Well, not the ones that were part of Greek mythology. But, Altaria knew she wasn't just a anthromorphic feline. Heck, she didn't know if she was suppose to be a domestic or a wild. Well, there was the fact that cat food wasn't her cup of tea. Though, there was that, unfortunate, thing going with catnip.

"Er...I'm fairly certain you're a mutant, then... Wouldn't it be a bit more...effective to go to the kitchen in human form? I mean...opposable thumbs are sort of useful when it comes to operating the fridge or the silverware...," ears flat again, her chest and wings puffed out. "Mrew!" If Kevin could understand her, she would've been along the lines of calling him an idiot and some other choice words. Lucky for him, he didn't hear it. She mewled, crouching down. With both bipeded feet and a flexible body, she scratched herself along her chin and head. Luckily, Altaria wasn't in need of a brush or else there would've been a lot of fur all over the place.

Looking up in time to see and smell the familiar scent of Betsy teleporting in, Altaria stood up again. Okay, seriously, everyone needed to be in bed now and stay there at this time of night! At Betsy's suggestion, the fur around her cheeks took on a faint red tint to them. ~Looks like someone's got the hots for a certain British man. And we both know you wanna do more than have him scratch your head. Maybe pet your....~

Another yowl emitted out of Altaria while her form rippled. A few moments later, she stood there in a black bikini-cut undies and a red top. Looking down, she growled at the visible scars before looking at Betsy. "Not...a word..to..your brother." She hissed before looking at Kevin. "Well, I seriously doubt this is what you envisioned Beauty to be."


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