LILY LAFAYETTE
aka JEWEL

All that glitters is gold

HISTORY

The only daughter of a wealthy Southern family, Lily grew up sheltered and loved by everyone. Her father is in the jewelry business; Lily attended the best schools available, and when her powers manifested at the age of 17, her parents supported her in every way they could. Finding out she could use her mutation to pursue her dream about designing jewelry as a profession, Lily started working as an apprentice at a workshop. Her teacher soon found out about her mutation and her value as someone who can copy any piece and always tell if something was a fake. Soon she was working as a thief and counterfeiter among other things, and she was not even aware of it. When the police busted the business, she got arrested; her parents and the family’s lawyers managed to make a deal, so instead of going to prison, Lily was court ordered to move into a place where she could learn to control her powers. So it happened that one morning she arrived at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters…

And she made friends. A lot of friends: new ones like Shin, Alex, and Sam; she met again with her childhood friend Juka; and she met Shawn a.k.a. Silver Streak, who soon became something more than a friend. For the first time in her life Lily was out in the so-called ‘mutant world’, with all its exciting new details… and also the scary ones. She had been attacked by other mutants and by mutant haters; she had to find out the world outside her home was not as safe and innocent as she’d thought. (She also swapped bodies with a Kabal mercenary called Zephyr for two whole weeks, but she prefers not to talk about that.)

Lily made a decision: she would learn to use her powers for defending herself and people who need protection. A few months after her arrival, she signed up for the tryouts for the X-team, and became an X-men trainee. Her first mission was Romania: helping mutants to avoid the chaos of the Registration, and escape across the border to safety. The first few missions went well (apart from the infamous night out with Alex), but then Lily got captured, and thrown into the camps…
(To be continued)

POWERS - Jewel has the ability to control and sense precious metals and gemstones. Silver, gold and platinum she can shape, levitate and form at her will within her 15-20 feet range. She can also create alloys or separate them from each other. Gemstones she can levitate, adjust in color and a minimum of size, with the exception of diamonds which she hasn’t mastered yet. She can also sense any precious metal within a one-mile radius.

Before moving into the X-Mansion, Lily mostly used her powers to create unique jewelry. After being attacked a couple of times and realizing there were other ways of making her abilities useful, she started experimenting with using metals as weapons and body armor, and using gemstones as bullets. Now she is getting used to controlling a bigger amount of silver and gold than she used to when she was only making earrings and bracelets…

POSTS TO SEE:

So many shinies – (Too) soon after her arrival to the Mansion, Lily founds herself in the middle of a fight between two members of the Order, a mutant-hater, and a shapeshifter called Audrey in a jewelry store. Her very first fight, but not nearly the last.
A pretty girl in a bad bad place – Lily wakes up in a male body. Uh-oh. Not only the body belongs to a mercenary, the Big Boss (some kid called ‘Slate’) also shows up and drags his ‘amnesiac’ employee along on a dangerous mission…

What could go wrong? – Streak takes Lily out for a night downtown, but the pleasant evening takes a very unpleasant turn when they get attacked in the park. There will be fighting and shooting.

Shadowy figures – The first part of the X-men tryouts. Jewel gets teamed up with some molecule manipulator called Alex and an annoying guy called Kaz. The new team has to deal with invisible opponents, and also with each other…

A night to remember – Somewhere between chaos, missions and Registration Act insanity, a very pissed off Alex and a very naïve Lily spend a girls’ night out in a bar. Drinking. And that is only the beginning…

Yay! *is the first to rain confetti at Jewel*

Congrats my dear Jewelly

Congratulations, Jewel, and well earned.

*High five to Jewelry* Congratulations!

YAY Jewel!! *Snuggles his Jewel* Congrats.