IndividualCharacter's full name: Jacqueline Jihee Little
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: Jack, J, only her family calls her “Jackie”
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 03/11/1996
Nationality/ Ethnicity: 50% “American” (mixture of English, Irish, German), 50% Korean
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Alexandria, VA
AppearanceHair color and style: Wavy, thick, and naturally warm brown. It falls just above her waist.
Eyes: Chocolate brown.
Height: 5’6”
Build: Toned if it’s cross country season, average and lazy if it’s not.
Visible mutation: When she activates her mutation, her body changes into electricity.
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: Jack has double piercings on both ears.
Other features: Round jaw line, flatter nose.
Everyday clothing style: Her style is very girly, favoring lace and florals. She usually wears dresses and skirts, blazers, button-downs, leggings or tights, and a variety of shoes (flats, riding boots, the occasional pair of heels).
Uniform: None.
Sleepwear: Loose-fitting shirts and running shorts.
Miscellaneous clothing: She likes to wear flowers or bows in her hair from time to time. In the winter, she favors legwarmers and thick scarves.
CharacterPersonality: Jack is a bright, independent girl who enjoys the company of others, and dislikes solitude. Though she may seem quiet or even timid at first, it does not take her long to break out of her shell. She enjoys spending time with her friends and family, and has a particularly close bond with her younger brother, although they occasionally fight. She laughs freely and has a sense of humor, but she is also sensitive and easy to hurt (she may not show the offense outwardly). Jack is very neat and refined, as indicated by the immaculate state of her room and her clothing of choice. She is also a procrastinator and frequently finds herself scrambling to get assignments or errands done at the last minute. She thinks before she speaks, as she is wary of confrontation, and often plays the role of mediator in her friends’ quarrels, demonstrating her cool head. However, at times her level-headedness can bleed into cold apathy, alienating her from those around her.
Hobbies/ Interests: Running (XC), F. Scott Fitzgerald novels, Clark Gable, fashion, creative writing, cheesecake.
Job or part time job and description: None.
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Jack fears her parents finding out about her mutation. She hates disappointing those she looks up to, and will work very hard to earn their approval. Also, she is highly allergic to shellfish.
Special talents: Running in freezing weather, waking up early in the morning, and perfect attendance.
MoralityGood/ bad/ neutral/ other: Good. Jack was raised to be a “good girl.” She grew up with specific standards and rules, and she almost always abides to them. She generally tries to be kind and helpful to others, though her colder personality can sometimes hinder that motivation. However, she is a teenager, and she is still forming her own opinions and world views, meaning her morality is still quite malleable.
MutationsMutation description: Electricity Mimicry
Jack has the ability to change her body into electricity, becoming a being made wholly of electricity. The amount of electricity is equal to the surface area of her body. In this electric form, she is free-formed, meaning her body takes no specific shape. She can travel rapidly through conductors such as metals and salt water, but the speed varies depending on the conductor. Conversely, she cannot travel through insulators such as rubber or plastic. If she attempts to, she will be rejected by the insulator and cast back into the air. She can move through the air by riding on the electrons in air molecules, but this can be very slow and ineffective. Jack is able to shock and give low-voltage (600 Volts or less) electrical burns in her electric form, through concentrated physical contact. The severity of the burns depends on the length of contact.
Strengths:
- Enhanced speed through conductors.
- She is immune to any electricity-related attacks in her electric form. She will simply absorb it.
- While she can feel pain in the electric form, it is very difficult to touch her without shocking/burning oneself.
Weaknesses:
- She cannot manipulate electricity that is not a part of her body.
- In her electric form, she is not immune to electric or general energy manipulation, as she is essentially made of electric energy. She could very well be controlled against her will by a more powerful mutant.
- She can be very attracted to certain conductors (namely highly conductive metals such as silver or copper). It would be difficult for her not to be “sucked in” to such objects.
- Any damage sustained in her regular form carries over to her electric form, and vice versa.
- Changing to and from her electric form can take a large physical toll, limiting how much Jack can use her powers. If she overextends herself, she will immediately revert back to her normal form.
- In her electric form, she cannot touch anything without shocking or burning it. This includes people, which may or may not be a bad thing. Technological items may become shorted.
- Due to her lack of control, she may accidentally shock others or short electronic objects even in her normal form, limiting how much contact she can have with said things.
- She cannot travel through insulators.
- While traveling through conductors, it is very easy for her to lose control of direction and end up somewhere she had not intended due to the sheer speed of movement.
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Fighting Style Explanation: A peaceful, diplomatic chat (with basic self-defense techniques as a Plan B).
Pros for fighting style: Those with some ounce of good might succumb to her calm rationale and back off.
Cons for fighting style: Anyone with any good probably wouldn’t be attacking a defenseless teenage girl.
Faction Allegiance Unaffiliated
History Of Your Character:Jack Little was born in Georgetown University Hospital, to William and Leah Little. William, a lawyer, moved to Washington D.C. in his late twenties after joining a corporate law firm there. At the firm he met Leah, a fellow lawyer of Korean descent, and eventually fell in love with her. The two got married a few years after his arrival, and settled in the suburbs of Virginia after the birth of their daughter.
Jack lived a relatively calm life with her parents and Topher, her younger brother of two years. She had a solid group of friends in school and was quite involved, partaking in activities such as Debate (mostly from her parents’ prompting), Cross Country, and the unpopular Poetry Club she had created during her freshman year of high school (it had a total membership count of three). As the older sibling, Jack was no stranger to responsibility and pressure, “babysitting” Topher whenever their parents found themselves trapped in the office. Despite his annoying demeanor, Topher was the only one to keep Jack company on those long nights, culminating in a close bond that contradicted their near-constant bickering. As they both grew older however, the fighting lessened and the sappier side of their relationship surfaced, much to the relief of their parents.
However, the normalcy of Jack’s childhood ended the night her mutation manifested. It all started with a stupid idea brought forth by a stupidly adorable boy because of the stupid spring rain pouring outside. Matthew, her “thing” (more than a friend, not quite a boyfriend), proposed the couple take a run through the warm storm outside, a notion that sounded delightful and wonderfully romantic at the time. And it was…until Jack was struck by lightning. Literally, a giant bolt from the sky rained down on her with a vicious force. Matthew thought she had died when she fell to the ground, electricity visibly traversing her body. But quite the opposite had happened. Jack’s body, in an effort to save her from the potentially deadly effects of lightning, activated her latent mutation and used it to change into an electric form, in which the lightning would be rendered useless. Shockingly, she quickly began to transform into a being of electricity. In an effort to live, her mutant identity had been unveiled!
Consequently, Matthew never became her boyfriend. Nor did he ever speak to her again. Quite a few people stopped speaking to her, actually, and it was a relief when the school year ended and she was free of all the whispers and dirty looks.
At home, her parents had no idea what was going on. They did not know what had happened that spring evening, they did not know about the discrimination she secretly faced at school. Jack took pains to act as normal as possible in their presence. She kept her mutation hidden from them in fear of rejection, of the disappointment or disgust she might see in their eyes because she was a mutant. Topher was the only one who knew, because he had seen her come back home that night, right before her energy fizzled out and she changed back into her normal, human form. He thought it was “the coolest thing ever,” but Jack made him swear not to tell, an oath he has kept so far.
During that period of inner and outer turmoil, Jack Little decided to take matters into her own hands and began to research mutants and places that would accept people like her, desperately searching for somewhere or someone who could help her. She knew she had struck gold when she found Xavier’s Sister School, an all-mutant boarding school that pledged to aid all mutants in need. All she needed to do was bring it up to her parents, keeping the mutant part of the school wholly secret, and surely they would agree to send her there for the educational value…
“I hear their debate team is superb!”
RoleplayWhere did you learn about this site?: A friend who prefers to remain unnamed.
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: None…yet!
Sample RP:
Margie’s lip started quivering in a dangerous indication that she was about to cry. “B-but…you’re our president!” she shakily exclaimed, eyes welling up with tears. Flo Writa (a.k.a. George) nodded in agreement, grabbing Margie’s shoulder in an attempt to steady her quickly crashing composure.
“I know…and I’m sorry. I hate that I’m moving schools too. But you two can still continue the club! Recruit some more members, keep sharing with each other. It’ll be great!” Jack tried to keep her tone happy as she consoled her two loyal members, the only two to ever join and stick with the Poetry Club since its inception. She was truly disheartened that she had to leave them, but she couldn’t leave them hopeless. The future of the club was in their hands! She trusted them, and they needed to trust themselves.
After a few moments of awkward, contemplative silence, Flo Writa finally spoke, the first time he had said anything during the whole meeting. “You’ll keep in touch though, right?” he questioned in his deep, gravelly voice, reassuring hand still on Margie’s shoulder. His eyes were serious, not betraying much sadness, but he’d never been one to show much emotion. It came with his reputation for writing stone cold slam poems and general…coolness.
“Of course,” she said.
“And you’ll keep writing?”
“Of course.” Jack nodded, smiling slightly. Writing was her one and only, and she didn’t think she would ever stop, at least not until she was too old to hold a pen. She glanced at her friends, the only two people who were as committed to poetry as she was, and realized with sadness that she would probably never meet anyone like them again. Beyond the club and writing, Margie and Flo were some of the only people in school to accept her mutant-ness. While lifelong friends deserted her, those two stayed by her side even though she had never been close with them to begin with. Despite their eccentricities, they had grown on her quite a bit, and Jack was really going to miss them. She couldn’t believe she was realizing their value so late…
“I...I’ll come back to visit you guys, I promise.”
i like your character, specially the traveling capabilities, which you don't see much of in other electricity manipulators.
And, once again, welcome~
