IndividualCharacter's full name: Lara Hall
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name:Gender: Female
Age: 17
Date of Birth: (09/21/1996)
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Miami, Florida
Nationality: American
Ethnicity/ Cultural Heritage:Appearance
Hair color and style: Shoulder Length, Straight brown hair, usually combed straight or tied back in a ponytail.
Skin Tone: Milky White
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 5’8”
Build: A bit on the slender side, and not especially muscular either.
Visible mutation: Lara’s skin, though appearing normal, is unusually soft and pliable to the touch.
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: None
Other features: None
Everyday clothing style: Tank tops (usually with a band logo or funny comment), Skirts or shorts, and usually some manner of thigh-high stocking.
Uniform: None
Sleepwear: A baggy T-shirt and Pajama pants
Miscellaneous clothing: (if applicable)
CharacterPersonality: Lara is a pretty laid back, fun loving girl. She’s pretty smart, but lacks the patience or motivation to really do anything with her intelligence, preferring to goof of rather than work hard. To more focused individuals, she can come across as rather lazy. Lara is outgoing and personable, and a fairly stalwart friend. Of course, she also has a bit of a trouble making side, and likes to cause minor acts of mischief when she gets bored. Nothing malicious, of course, but frequently annoying when others are trying to be serious.
Hobbies/ Interests: Lara enjoys painting, sketching and similar forms of art. While not quite good enough to make a living out of it, she’s none the less quite talented at it.
Job or part time job and description: No formal work experiance
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Lara is moderately Claustrophobic, despite her power enabling her to escape from most tight spaces.
Special talents: Ace arcade game player
MoralityGood/ bad/ neutral/ other: Mostly Good. Lara has a rather poor relationship with rules and laws though, and will often ignore rules that she doesn’t feel are important.
MutationsMutation description:Elasticity- Lara’s body possesses superhuman elastic qualities, enabling her to stretch, bend, expand or compress any part of her anatomy. When not consciously using her abilities, her body retains the normal elastic qualities (or lack there off) for a human being. By activating her power, she can freely stretch her body like a hyper-elastic rubber-polymer. Her rubber-like ability also makes her extremely resistant to blunt force and concussive trauma, as she can naturally bend and contort with the force of the blow and then rebound back to her normal shape. She does not appear to lose any physical strength as she extends her limbs, even though her muscles are spread over a greater distance.
Strengths: High resistance to blunt force trauma, able to manipulate her body shape to surprise enemies, virtually impossible to contain by conventional means.
Weaknesses and Limitations:Firstly, there is a limit on how far Lara can stretch before she begins hurting herself. She can freely extend each of her limbs up to 30ft or so without trouble. Going beyond that point is uncomfortable, and somewhat painful, but not especially damaging. At 50ft or greater distances, she risks tearing the muscles in her arms. 50ft is also the limit she can stretch her neck from her torso. Any further, and her heart cant pump enough blood to her brain, and she blacks out. Similarly, there are limits on how far she can compress. If stretching herself flat, she can flatten enough to pass under a typical door frame, with some difficulty, though higher security doors with tighter frames are to much. She can also squeeze through spaces as narrow as 6 inches in diameter, though going much further risks compressing her lungs and other vital organs.
Secondly, Lara can only stretch or compress her body, like rubber. She does not have true shape shifting. While her elasticity allows some flexibility in her body shape, she cannot manipulate her overall physical structure. So contorting herself into a ball, or wrapping her body around a person to restrain them is one thing. She could not, however, alter her appearance or reshape herself into anything more complex than a geometric shape.
Thirdly, while she is highly resistant to blunt force, she possesses no special resistance to cutting or piercing based physical attacks. This is more of a drawback than it may first appear, since a 30ft long neck is a much bigger target.
Fourth, her powers are not automatically activated, nor are they constantly on. They require conscious effort on her part to use. If she is taken by surprise, than she can be injured by normal before she alters the elasticity of her body.
Lastly, It is difficult for Lara to coordinate her limbs the further they get from her body, as she can’t easily see up close what each body part is doing. Just because her arm can reach across a football field does not mean she can easily use the hand at the other end. In order to perform any action requiring fine motor skills (Writing, Typing, tying knots), she needs her head to be reasonably close to whatever limb she’s trying to use.
As one additional point, Lara’s psychological fear of enclosed spaces proves a hinderance to her abilities, as she cannot bring herself to pass through spaces she could otherwise stretch through. While flattening enough to pass under a doorway is one thing, extending herself down a narrow pipe is to much for her to comfortably handle.
Physical AbilitiesGeneral Physical Capabilities: Lara is physically normal for a girl of her age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise. The sole exception being flexibility, which she possesses far beyond what any human could hope to achieve.
Fighting Style: No specific style
Fighting Style Pros/Cons:History Of Your CharacterLara comes from a fairly wealthy family, having lived most of her life in the high rise apartments with a great view of Miami beach. Her dad was a stock trader, which was nice for the cash it brought in, but the guy was also a serious work-a-holic, and barely spent any time away from the office. Dear old mom wasn’t much better, being a dedicated socialite. If she had two nights a week that weren’t spent at some big party or event, it might as well have been a week wasted. In short, Lara was a classic Latchkey kid, pretty much raising herself.
That’s probably what lead to her rather rebellious nature, the desire to act out for attention. Like the time she tried to play secret agent in the buildings air ducts. Not a fun experience, she ended up getting stuck for almost three hours. The whole event left her with a rather nasty fear of small spaces. Didn’t stop her from making trouble for herself though. At home, at school, didn’t matter. She didn’t care enough for rules to follow them, and loved to push the boundaries.
Her rebellious nature only became more pronounced as she grew into a teen. Lara ended up running away from home not once, nor twice, but three times. Never made it far, either chickening out or getting snatched up by the local police before she ever made it too far. Since her mom was big into the ‘new age’ healing at the time, instead of talking about her feelings to her family, Lara was given a ‘dream crystal’ to try and cleanse her of her unhappy thoughts. Given the repeated run-away attempts, it goes without saying that the touchy-feely hippie crystal wasn’t working.
Lara would have made it a solid four attempts, but was caught by her dad purely by chance. He happened to spot her during his power lunch, and an argument broke out between the two. Not wanting to put up with being told what to do, especially not by a father who was never around for her, Lara tried to storm off. When her dad grabbed hold of her wrist to restrain her, both father and daughter were surprised to find that Lara just kept walking, her arm stretching out behind her.
And that was the day Lara found out she was a mutant.
The Hall Family was a bit torn after the event. Lara’s mom, ever one to make a big show of being socially conscious, positively embraced Lara for her mutant powers. She went on and on about how lucky she felt to have a ‘special’ daughter. Her dad was far more resistant to the idea, thinking it somewhat unnatural. For her own part, Lara loved her new powers, and had lots of fun toying with them and trying to figure out how they worked, as well as what she could do with them. It didn’t take to long for her to find out about a school she could go to, one where mutants could learn more about their abilities.
One plea to mommy dearest later, Lara was on a plane up the coast and on her way to her new school.
RoleplayWhere did you learn about this site?: Google
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: No
Sample RP:Skipping out on classes was an awesome way to spend an afternoon. Some would argue that Lara should have been in school, studying or taking notes. Lara held a counter viewpoint, insisting that with the warm summer breeze blowing just outside the window, it wouldn’t have mattered that she was physically sitting at her desk; her thoughts would have been focused solely on all the fun things that she could have been doing instead of sitting in class. The point being, either way she wouldn’t be learning or doing anything productive on a day like today. So why not at least go out and enjoy it fully, rather than sit inside and just fanaticize about the fun things she could be doing?
And what, you may ask, was she up to on such a warm summer day? At the moment, Lara was attempting to see if she could use her body as a slingshot, so that she could launch herself through the air. She’d had a bit of luck trying it with street lights, but it was next to impossible to find a good stretch of road to use without blocking traffic. Thankfully, Lara had found a construction site that appeared mostly empty at the moment. Maybe the workers were at lunch. Didn’t matter much to her though, because she saw a crane that would work wonders for her needs.
Her arms extended a good thirty feet each, before she grasped the metal frame of the cranes cross brace. Walking backwards, she felt the tension rising with each step. After a dozen or so paces, Lara was ready to fire.
Jumping up, she let out a joyful cry of excitement as she was rocketed through the air. She easily must have cleared two or three blocks. However, her aim was a bit poor, and she slammed into a traffic light, bringing her flight to a sudden and unexpected stop. Worse yet, her limbs had gotten tangled in the impact, and she now found herself knotted in place.
There was only one thought on Lara’s mind as she began trying to free herself from the entangled predicitment she’d gotten herself into. “Worth it”
