Future Profile[/u]
Character's real name: Emily Brooks
Codename/Alias: Lee Brooks
Gender: Female
Age: 34 (20 December 1983)
Nationality/Ethnicity: Canadian born, now has American citizenship
Birthplace: Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Personality: Lee is far less withdrawn than she had once been, though she does still have her temper if something makes her mad. Still, it takes a bit for her to fully open up and trust people.
Notes (Hobbies, Phobias, Worries, ect.): Her daughter (job, hobby, and worry all rolled into one), music, including working at teaching her daughter to play piano, reading, horseback riding, walking.
Lee is also worried about the Haywire Virus, both because of what it'll cause her powers to do, as well as Tarin's powers, but also because she's worried about her daughter.
Allegiance (Good, Bad, or Neutral): *shrugs* To her family? She's not a member of one of the factions.
Everyday clothing: Pretty similar to what she was wearing ten years earlier: a lot of blacks, short skirts, tank tops in summer, blouses. Other than black, deep red and white are probably the next most common colours in her wardrobe.
However, Lee is wearing pants more often than she once used to, and saves the three and four inch heels for when she and Tarin go out rather than every day; makes chasing after a kid much easier.
Uniform (Optional. Required if eventually becoming part of the X-Men): None.
Pyjamas: It took quite a while, but Lee eased up with sleepwear over the years. During the winter, or cool summer nights, Lee will wear cotton pyjama pants and a t shirt, where as in the summer, it's silk boxers and a tank top.
Hair colour and style: Back to her natural brown colour, a few inches past her shoulders. Depending on how she's feeling that day (and how much time she has to put into her hair), Lee will either leave it to curl/wave on its own, or blow dry it straight.
Eye colour: Grey
Height: 5'3” naturally, varies depending on the size of heels she's wearing.
Build: Slightly curvier and slightly less toned. Lee never did manage to get the last 5 or so pounds of baby weight off, and she doesn't do nearly as much walking as she did when she was younger so her muscles aren't as toned. But she's still able to fit into her corsets and make them look good, so it can't be that much of a change, can it?
Scars: Small one on her forehead from hitting the edge of a counter. Two inch long silvery scar on her right shoulder blade. Merges can be quite dangerous.
Tattoos: A
treble and bass clef on her left shoulder blade, which has been enlarged with a few notes as well. A red heart on the inside of her left wrist with her daughter's name in black.
Piercings: Single hole in each ear.
Description of ability(ies):Because of her mutation, Lee's body is still incapable of producing its own energy, so Lee is completely dependant on siphoning to have any energy herself. However, she has gained far more control over the siphoning, as well as everything related to it.
On the one extreme, Lee is able to amp up her siphoning and draw in much more energy much faster if she chooses to. So much so that if Lee is actually siphoning this much, she'd be able to drop a person to the point of exhausted collapse within minutes by touching them. Those not touching, but within 20 feet, would even start feeling the drain before too long. She realized this growth in her siphoning during times when Tarin had been merged, each time she purposely siphoned from him in those situations taking less time before he passed out.
To the other extreme, Lee has also managed to somehow turn the siphoning off. Lee isn't sure when or how this came about, because depressing as it was, she hadn't thought it was possible, but Lee is actually able to stop siphoning.
Lee rarely actually goes to those extremes, though, opting for a minimal level of siphoning. This allows her to get energy to function herself without taking too much from people.
Her strength and speed are still directly proportional to her energy level, as they have always been.
What Lee calls her 'people radar' has also gotten much better. It has gotten just about automatic, meaning Lee doesn't have to actually concentrate to figure out where the energy is flowing into her from and how much there is. She can also identify some people based on how their energy feels, similar to how you can tell based on hearing someone walk or how they smell. However, because of the number of hours it takes for Lee to recognize someone based simply on their energy, the number of people she can identify is still quite low.
And it is the same with her dream walking, though in this case it isn't so much having gotten better so much as having figured out how it works and being able to control it.
Cons (weaknesses) of ability(ies):The main thing holding Lee back from the extreme siphoning is mental rather than to do with her powers. Even now, she still can't stop the guilt she feels from siphoning from people. She is doing better dealing with it, but that guilt rears up any time she really takes a noticeable amount from anyone, so she tries to only ever take what she needs to and nothing more.
With how she feels about her siphoning, the fact that she is now able to turn it off sounds like a great thing. However, actually stopping the siphoning does a bit of a number on her body. She's not sure if it's because of the effort of stopping the siphoning, or if it has to do with the fact that she can't create her own energy, but she wears out rather quickly when she's not siphoning. Or, at least she thinks it's quicker than she should be wearing out.
The people radar has very real limitations. While it is pretty much automatic now for her to know how many people are around her and where they are, it's not very useful when there are more than about 15 or 20 people in a 20-30 foot radius of her. Thus, not very useful out in most public places, but even when there are lots of people, it's almost like an alarm when someone moves within a foot of her because of how that energy spike feels.
Fighting style (if any): Just simply hand to hand, relying on her speed and strength. Lee has never had any formal training in fighting, but learned what she knows by growing up with two brothers, and then living on the streets.
History of your character:2008 ~ The rest of the year continued to progress. Very slowly, Lee became less resistant to contact with people again, though her relationship with Tarin wasn't even close to being back to normal until they went to Texas to see his family over Christmas.
Christmas night, after the family dinner, Tarin and Lee went to do something they had been talking about since he had first mentioned going to see his mother: went to spend the night under the stars in the back of a pickup truck.
That was the real turning point in their relationship. By the time the sun was rising, they were already on the road driving to Las Vegas. They had called Lee's sister on the way, and were married before noon on December 27th.
2009 ~ The year started off great for the newlyweds. After the turning point at Christmas, everything was back to normal, there was no tension between them anymore, and they were actually married at last. The shop was doing great, too, thanks to Garrett's help and education into areas they hadn't known about. They hadn't actually had a honeymoon after the wedding, since they had had to drive back to Texas in order to catch their flight back to New York, but it didn't really bother them. Plus, they hadn't exactly done anything else traditionally so far, so why start?
Really, things were going great. By the early summer, they had even managed to sort out Lee's citizenship stuff, and she was actually allowed to be in the country legally (as opposed to the previous almost three years she had been there illegally).
But then things changed quickly with the Haywire Virus outbreak. Lee was terrified, absolutely terrified. As if they didn't have enough to worry about regarding their powers, this had the potential to make things exponentially worse. To try and ease her worries, as well as his own over what he could do if infected with the Haywire Virus, Tarin suggested they head back to the ranch in Texas. So Tarin and Lee closed up shop and headed south to Texas to live and work on his family's ranch.
2010 ~ This new year was much the same as the end of 2009, though the worries slowly died down as the Haywire outbreak slowly died as well. Tarin and Lee both worked on the ranch, doing various things that his mother hadn't been able to in years. Lee even started learning how to cook, something she hadn't learned yet. Meanwhile, Tarin was embracing his inner cowboy, much to Lee's approval and enjoyment (she does love that hat and accent of his ;-)), and was experiencing much less strain because of his powers due to the fact that there are far fewer people and thus far fewer spirits around the ranch.
But, because of the time and contact with Tarin, as well as the animals (which, it turned out she did siphon from, just not as much as she did from humans), Lee still had a great deal of time on her hands at night when she couldn't sleep. So she did what Tarin had been suggesting from the second time they had seen each other: she went back to school, taking a couple courses a semester by correspondence from Midwestern.
2011 ~ Despite how much they both had adjusted and were enjoying their move to Texas, both Lee and Tarin were missing the city. There was just something about New York that they hadn't felt before or since, and unlike they both had thought, it wasn't just because of the other person. So, since the worst part of the Haywire Virus was past, they moved back to New York in May. Rather than reopening the shop, they went to live at the mansion, Tarin working there as a teacher, while Lee transferred her college credits to Hunter College and continued to take correspondence courses.
Things fell back into a comfortable, though very different rhythm than they had been before they left New York.
2012 ~ Almost as soon as the year started, Lee found out she was pregnant, and started panicking. Though he was completely stoked about her being pregnant, it was almost a full time job for Tarin to keep Lee calm for the first month or so after they found out. Imagine a frightened first time mother who's scared to find out she's pregnant. Now multiply that by 100 because of Lee's worries about what her powers would do to the unborn child. For the first half of her pregnancy, Lee was in the infirmary about every other day, wanting Doc Prof to give her a checkup to see how the baby was doing.
Gradually, as nothing at all seemed out of the ordinary with the pregnancy, the baby actually appearing to be doing remarkably well, Tarin managed to get Lee to stop worrying so much and they started making plans for when the child was born.
And, though neither Lee nor Tarin were in any way religious, they decided that having godparents for the child would be a good idea. Lee's sister, Rachael, as the god mother was easy, she jumped at the honour. The god father, on the other hand, was a little more difficult, and things like discussions about taking the child to church on a regular basis were part of the agreement to be the god father. Damn Italians.
But, on August 5th, Alice Adele Brooks was born. Tarin was there with Lee through the entire length of the labour, and though the pain and strain caused Lee to siphon more than she normally did, Alice was born in very good health.
That November, Alice was baptized, another condition from her god father, though Lee was more than insistent that she and Tarin get to choose the church.
2013 ~ Alice is growing up fast, and Lee is torn between wanting to spend as much time with her daughter as humanly possible and not wanting to take energy from her and thus risk slowing down her development since the immunity Alice seemed to have had to the siphoning while Lee was pregnant is now gone.
That worry was almost completely thrown out when Alice started attempting to crawl shortly into the new year, Lee was not about to miss out on those sort of milestones because of worries about her powers. Tarin and both god parents were also almost as eager to not miss a single thing as Lee, though it was harder for Rachael to be there as often as she'd like because of the distance.
The end of April was, probably, the best week in history. It started with Alice greeting Tarin when he came back to their room one evening with a 'Dada', her first word. Then it got even better a few days later when she took her first steps on her own. To say Tarin and Lee were proud parents at that point would have been an understatement.
The rest of the year went by much more quickly. Now that Alice could walk, she was getting into everything she possibly could everywhere in the mansion, and speaking with everyone who she came across. Some days, even with the siphoning from others in the school, it was all Lee could do to keep up with her daughter.
Alice's first birthday was a huge event. Not only were there a number of the mansion residents there, who Lee and Tarin had come to know quite well over the last couple years, but her aunt and uncles were there too, even Doug, who had come to see his niece for the first time. The only notable absences were Ash, and Tarin's mother who hadn't felt up to the travelling. Lee didn't feel that the absence of her own parents was anything to even think about, never mind be upset about.
2014 ~ Gradually, things seemed to settle into a routine. Teaching was going well for Tarin, and Lee's courses she was doing were going well, and somehow they both had time to sleep. So, when normal courses ended, and before Lee started her selection of summer courses, they made a trip back down to Texas. It was about time, they decided, since Alice had yet to see her grandmother, and it had been coming up on a year since she had seen Josh, and even longer since she had seen Ash.
Though they would have liked it to have been longer, after their time there years earlier, it was like going home even for Lee, they had to return to New York after just a week. Which was apparently more than long enough, considering Alice's god father complaining about how much she had changed while she was gone. Just because he hadn't been able to take her to church
one Sunday...Damn Italians...
2015 ~ The recurrence of Haywire was unusually bad this year, which already had Lee and Tarin worried. That worry sprang into all out panic when Alice fell ill. Luckily, it turned out not to be Haywire, just another more mundane though still dangerous virus. The moment that Doc Prof assured them that it wasn't actually Haywire, Lee was in there, right beside Alice's bed, only leaving when Tarin dragged her away at night, half passed out, so she could sleep.
Despite her desire, need, to be there with Alice, Lee was torn.
Should she be there with her daughter when her presence was draining much needed energy?
It was then, three days after they discovered it wasn't Haywire and Lee had been allowed in the room with Alice, that she realized something had changed about her powers. Lee was leaning against Alice's hospital bed, dozing slightly as she mopped her daughter's feverish forehead with a damp cloth when Doc Prof walked up. That startled Lee awake as he started talking because she hadn't felt him coming. It took a couple moments for her to wake up, but when she did, Lee realized that she wasn't siphoning. For the first time she could remember since before she was 14, she wasn't siphoning energy.
Thankfully, Alice's fever broke the next day and she started getting better. Once she was fully recovered, things settled back into their previous routines surprisingly quickly.
2016 ~ For the most part, things simply continued on as they had been into 2016. Tarin kept teaching, Lee continued taking classes, growing ever closer to actually being able to get a degree, and Alice kept growing. And part of that growing seemed to be her curiosity, as Alice started to question
everything. Much to everyone's disapproval and disappointment, one of her favourite topics of questioning was religion. Questions such as asking Tarin if he'd ever seen the Holy Spirit, and the people at church questions asking about why the spirits her dad saw weren't in heaven or hell. No one was very impressed with those sorts of questions in particular.
2017 ~ Early in the year, when she was 4 1/2, Lee decided that it was about time she started teaching Alice how to play piano. Her daughter was already showing herself to be rather artistic with her insistence to draw or paint any time she had any kind of writing implement in her hand, so Lee hoped that would also transfer to musical ability and interest. Tarin, of course, thought that Lee was pushing their daughter too hard too early to learn. But he didn't fight her too hard on the issue because with teaching Alice, Lee was not only playing the piano more often herself, but was also picking up her guitar more frequently.
Then another early summer trip to Texas to see Tarin's mother. Now that she was older, Alice had a great time, and with a grandmother eager to spend time with her, this gave Tarin and Lee more time to themselves. Time they happily spent together, including recreating the night they decided to go get married, in the back of a pickup under the stars.
Alice absolutely loved Texas, though she did frequently complain the sun was too hot. But while they were there, she discovered something else she liked: horses and riding. She was still far too young and small to even think about letting her ride on her own, but Tarin and Lee took her out with them a couple of times and she fell in love. So much so that after they got back from Texas, Alice tried to convince Lee to let her learn to to ride a horse rather than learn piano. Obviously, Lee didn't give in to these attempts, but she did take Alice out riding with her a few times.
2018 ~ So far, this has been a good year for Tarin, Lee, and Alice. Tarin's teaching at the school has been going well, Lee is actually coming close to graduating with a bachelor's degree, and Alice started school. As a bonus, she likes it, and doesn't have to be prodded too much to actually do her homework.
And so we come to the start of the Future Plot, with Tarin and Lee living happily at the mansion with their now 6 year old daughter Alice.
