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“Oh, don’t worry about me. I’m just looking around.” Maggie took it all in, the variety of polished bikes parked all around the garage as well as the one Manticore was working on. “I don’t ride,” she added, just in case he hadn’t picked up on it already.

Perhaps she would have, in a different universe. Perhaps in a different universe she would have had the time and the money to invest in something like this, and perhaps she would have had her own Harley-Davidson or Yamaha or Kawasaki. That was nothing but useless speculation, though. As much as that kind of thinking gave Maggie a thrill, the reality was that she couldn’t afford a single one of those things even if she had wanted to.

Just this one afternoon, though, she’d let herself dream.

“I saw you riding yesterday afternoon.” She addressed the red-furred mutant with a smile and the barest hint of a Canadian accent. “I mean, not that I’m an expert or anything, but that was pretty impressive.”

One moment, Margo was perusing the shelves in one of her favorite used bookstores. The next, there was the sound of shattering glass and people screaming outside.

Out in the street, a mutant with spiky black hair and apparent anger issues was throwing thunderbolts and lightning at the nearby storefronts. An Asian man who Margo recognized as one of the X-men was there too, ordering the electrokinetic mutant to stand down. The mutant ignored him.

Crowds of people fled the scene, trampling shattered glass and baguettes underfoot in their haste to get away. The baguettes, which had been neatly stacked in the window of the bakery across the street, had spilled out onto the pavement when the mutant had blasted that particular storefront.

What a mess.

Belatedly, Margo realized that the only people left on the now deserted street were herself, the electricity-wielding mutant, the X-man, and one particularly brave (or perhaps just stupid) storekeeper. Well. This was the kind of situation she would probably have to deal with if she did want to join the X-men, which she did.

“Hey!” She approached the hostile mutant… well, she got as close as she dared to considering he was wearing an ammunition sash across his chest and could probably also zap her into next week if he so chose. “Whatever is going on in your life right now, this isn’t the way to deal with it.”

She caught the gaze of the other X-man on the scene as if to say, back me up here.

Open thread here. Feel free to jump in or PM me if you have any other ideas for possible threads!

The smell of hot iron and exhaust hit Maggie like a wave in the face the moment she walked into the garage.

Just yesterday when she’d been walking down the street, she’d seen a rather large mutant with red fur performing stunts on a motorbike out in front of this workshop. Based on the audience’s reactions, some of the stunts the mutant had been doing were practically impossible. Maggie’s interest was piqued. She’d had somewhere to be and couldn’t afford to stay and watch, but she’d promised herself to return whenever she could.

Today, there were no such riding demonstrations going on out front. Maggie found the red-furred mutant inside the shop, putting repairs to one of the many bikes lined up along the walls.

“Hey,” she said simply. She looked curiously around the garage, taking everything in.

I'm looking for threads for AV!Margo, also known as Maggie or Magpie.

AV!Margo is pretty drastically different from MRO!Margo. Both her parents were killed in a car accident when she was young, so she grew up in the foster care system. She's tougher, more manipulative, and more ruthless than her MRO!verse counterpart. Maggie is also a verbal telepath (she can hear other people's thoughts as well as speak telepathically to them) as opposed to Margo, who is a transmitting-only empath. Maggie is currently in NYC, looking for a place to stay.

Some ideas just to get started:
Your character is a S.U.P.E.R. agent who discovers that Maggie is a telepath and attempts to tag her/recruit her against her will.
Your character is a member of another faction who discovers that Maggie is a telepath and attempts to get to her before S.U.P.E.R. does.
Your character has a friendly interaction with Maggie in Central Park, a coffee shop, or some other generic location in NYC.
Your character has an interaction with Maggie during which she attempts to either blackmail or scam you using her powers.

Reply below or PM me if you are interested in any of the above plot ideas, or if you have any ideas of your own.

Thanks!

AV!Margo

Individual

Character's full name: Margaret Grace Jewell
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: (if applicable) Maggie, Magpie
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Date of Birth: April 14, 1999
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Born in Toronto, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Ethnicity/ Cultural Heritage: Caucasian (father) and Japanese (mother)

Appearance

Hair color and style: Chestnut brown, thick and straight. Long. Often worn up in a ponytail.
Skin Tone: Fair but tans easily
Eye Color: Dark brown
Height: 5’3”
Build: Slight
Visible mutation: N/A
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: A curved scar on her right wrist from someone pulling a knife on her.

Everyday clothing style: Usually skinny jeans, combat boots, and a black long-sleeved shirt.
Uniform: N/A
Sleepwear: Whatever she happens to be wearing at the moment.
Miscellaneous clothing: N/A

Character

Personality: Maggie is quiet, reserved, and driven. She knows what she wants in life, and will do almost anything to get her way. She’s a hard worker, and is not above breaking the law and/or breaking other people to get what she wants. Thus she often comes across as ruthless, cold, and selfish.
Hobbies/ Interests: Maggie is a huge Disney nerd (her childhood was pretty horrible otherwise, but somehow she always associated Disney with the least horrible times). She loves the animated movies as well as the newer live action movies. Someone around her will often inexplicably have a Disney song stuck in their head.
Job or part time job and description: N/A
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Heights, losing her powers or being paralyzed.

Morality

Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: Neutral. Maggie will go out of her way to do neither good nor evil. Her interests lay primarily in her own survival and comfort. That said, she will break the law if she has to and she does have a vindictive streak that will occasionally cause her to lash out at others.

Mutations

Mutation description: Verbal telepathy.
Strengths:
Maggie can hear other people’s inner speech as if they were speaking out loud.
This is a passive process and requires no conscious effort.
Maggie also has the ability to speak directly into other people’s minds by hijacking their inner voice.
This allows her to communicate with other people without actually speaking out loud.
Maggie’s voice in someone else’s mind sounds to them like their own voice. She has no control over its tone, inflection, or volume in the other person’s mind, since it is their inner speech that she is using.
Most people are not in conscious control of their inner speech. Thus, the person whose mind she is speaking in may not even realize that she is in control of their inner speech.
Weaknesses and Limitations:
Hearing the inner speech of the people around her is a passive process. Maggie cannot turn it off, or stop hearing other people’s thoughts even if she wants to.
Maggie can only hear other people’s thoughts if they are in verbal form. She cannot see the memories or feel the emotions of the people around her. She only hears the words.
Most of what Maggie hears telepathically is not useful to her. If someone is reading silently in their mind, she will hear their voice reading out loud in her mind. If someone has a song stuck in their head, she will hear the lyrics of that song in her mind.
Maggie has no context for the words that she hears telepathically. For example, she cannot tell the difference between someone making up a conversation in their mind, or someone replaying a conversation that they actually had with someone else.
If someone knows that Maggie is a telepath, they can easily mislead her by mentally speaking lies.
The volume of a person’s inner speech correlates directly to the volume of their actual speech. The louder a person is when they are speaking out loud, the louder their voice is inside their head.
Maggie’s range for hearing inner thoughts is only about half as far as she can hear people speak out loud. For example, she can hear the average person speaking out loud from a distance of about 65 feet. However, she can only hear their inner speech from a distance of about 30 feet.
Maggie hears the inner speech of everyone in her range, as if everyone in her range is constantly speaking out loud.
If she is in a very crowded area, Maggie will not be able to process the inner speech of everyone around her, in the same way that she would not be able to listen to several different conversations happening out loud at once.
If an individual is much louder than the other people around her, she will hear his inner speech over the inner speech of the other people around her. Similarly, if she chooses to focus on eavesdropping on one individual, she may not hear the inner speech of other people around her during that time.
Unlike hearing other people’s inner speech, speaking directly into another person’s mind is not a passive process. It takes a concentrated effort for Maggie to speak telepathically to another person.
Maggie can only speak telepathically to one person at a time.
Maggie becomes temporarily, totally deaf for the duration of the time that she is speaking telepathically to another person. She cannot hear any other people’s inner speech, other people speaking out loud, background noise, or anything else except for the inner speech that she is hijacking.
Maggie’s range for speaking telepathically is even smaller than her range for hearing other people’s inner speech. Currently, she able to speak directly into the mind of anyone less than 10 feet away from her.
Maggie suffers from migraines if she attempts to speak telepathically to another person for an extended period of time. Currently, she is able to speak to someone for a duration of 3 minutes before beginning to have a migraine.
Someone with enough mental fortitude can block Maggie’s ability to speak telepathically into their mind and/or to listen in on their inner thoughts.

Physical Abilities

General Physical Capabilities: Despite her stature, Maggie is much stronger than she looks. She is quick on her feet and has fast reflexes.
Fighting Style: When faced with a physical conflict, Maggie will most likely run away at the first possible opportunity. She also won’t hesitate to fight dirty, whether that involves using her powers or kicking her opponent in the face while they’re down.
Fighting Style Pros/Cons:
Pros: Running away minimizes any chances of death or injury. Fighting dirty maximizes her chances of winning the fight.
Cons: Neither strategy is particularly dignified or honorable.

History Of Your Character

Maggie was born in Toronto, Canada on April 14, 1999. Her father was a Canadian scientist who had met her mother, a young Japanese nurse, abroad, after a traumatic accident that hospitalized him for quite a while (luckily, he recovered completely). Her father married her mother and brought her back to Canada with him, and she gave birth to Maggie soon after. The family continued living in Toronto until one night just before Maggie’s sixth birthday, when both her parents were killed in a car accident by a drunk driver.

Maggie spent the next twelve years in a variety of foster homes and orphanages, each worse than the last. Her time in the foster care system taught her many things: how to take a beating from a bully, how to blackmail the bully, how to beat up the bully, and how to be the bully. It taught her that families don’t always have enough room in their hearts for someone else’s child, even if they think they do. It taught her that people are not always what they seem. Above all, it taught her that the world was a tough place… and that, in order to survive in it, she had to be tougher.

Maggie heard the word “mutant” for the first time when she was six years old. It wasn’t until several years later, however, that she put the pieces together and realized that she was one of those mutants. She had been able to hear the voices in other people’s heads for as long as she could remember; it had come as naturally to her as hearing them talk out loud. Eventually, she discovered that she could speak telepathically to other people using this ability as well.

There was a learning curve, of course. When Maggie was eleven years old, she was placed in a family that treated her more or less like one of her own. She had a younger sister to play with, and there was even a cute boy who lived next door. Then, one day, she accidentally let it slip that she was a mutant by speaking telepathically to her “sister” instead of out loud. She was shipped back to the orphanage the same day, and she never saw that family again.

When Maggie was fifteen, she began to use her powers to blackmail and scam the other children at the orphanage as well as strangers she happened to overhear on the streets. Thus she lived, bouncing from one foster home to another and making a profit wherever she went, until her eighteenth birthday. Having come of legal age, she set off on her own into the world. Eventually, she found her way to New York City.

Roleplay
What’s your OOC alias?: Margo

Margo had never been an outdoor kind of girl. She appreciated the beauty of nature, sure. Blue skies and rustling leaves on trees were fine things to write poetry about, or to observe rushing by from the window of a train. That was not to say that she had ever seen herself as the kind of person who would immerse herself in nature, say on a day’s hike through the mountains, or the kind of person who would enjoy such an adventure immensely… yet here she was.

It was a lovely day. The forecast had been slightly cloudy, but for now the sky was clear. Margo and Richard— because who else would she go on these adventures with, besides her outdoorsy big brother?— hiked through the woods, climbed numerous flights of stone steps, and walked along cliffs overlooking breathtaking waterfalls. Margo paused at a particularly spectacular one, letting the wind blow mist into her face.

“Wow.”

Margo had never been an outdoor kind of girl, but she had a feeling that today was going to change all that.