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The Ace of Spades Joined: 7 May 2006 Posts: 398 | Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:00 pm OOC:Eh... I think she turned out how I wanted her to, more or less.
Name: Chavi Kaldev Alias: Ra Age Unknown. Claims to be 25. Occupation: Teacher at Xavier's school Alliance: X-Men Powers: Chavi is capable of absorbing massive amounts of heat energy, and manipulating it in various ways—lighting fires, boiling water, or even simply releasing powerful waves of destructive heat. The obvious problem with this is that she needs to absorb this energy before she can do anything with it; to expel her own body heat would be difficult and extremely dangerous. However, she can usually get all the heat she needs from the sun’s energy, and is therefore generally the most powerful at midday. Even at night she can usually find a source of enough heat to use effectively, although it’s not usually as easy or as convenient as drawing from the sun. She is capable of absorbing energy from other peoples’ body heat, but this is dangerous for the person in question and she tries to avoid it. If she is unconscious and injured, however, her body’s natural instinct is to draw heat from any nearby source, even if it means severely injuring—or even killing—another person. Although she does not generally grow weary with extensive use of her powers, certain things do require exhausting amounts of concentration. Generally, the more delicate or in-depth something is, the more concentration it requires; boiling a pot of water can be done with her mind half on something else. Boiling a person's blood requires more precision and she may not be able to pull it off unless she's in relative quiet and in a fairly calm state of mind. When she’s not actively expelling the heat energy she absorbs, Chavi’s body automatically puts it to use on a cellular level, repairing everything from illness to injury, and even the damage done by time. As long as she is near a source of sufficient heat energy (which is not always the case; severe injuries require massive amounts of heat to heal), these regenerative powers are apparently limitless; however, certain things (blood loss, for example, or drowning) will kill her no matter how much heat she’s near—she can repair damage, but cannot simply manufacture things like nutrients or oxygen. Description: The first thing most people notice about Chavi is the way she holds herself; she has been described as “regal,” but she does not believe herself to be royalty—she believes herself to be, for all intents and purposes, a goddess. Before she met Xavier and the X-men, she never knew that others like her existed, and has spent most of her life believing herself to be entirely unique. Now, she has expanded her view of the world to include multiple powerful beings: call them mutants or deities, she views them the same way. That being said, Chavi is not a mean-spirited person, nor does she thirst for power. She is actually generous and extraordinarily compassionate, viewing humans much as an animal rights activist might view dogs: clearly lesser beings, but deserving of safety and even rights. She will not stand to see them intentionally harmed, and she views herself and the other X-men as protectors, with very serious responsibilities. Perhaps it is this protective vibe that causes others to gravitate toward her, or perhaps she just has a natural charisma; either way, people (for better or worse) tend to view her as someone important after knowing her for a brief amount of time. Occasionally—especially when dealing with humans—she is viewed as someone important and dangerous, which can lead to problems. Though there’s no doubting her strength of character, it’s easy to mistake her for a worse person than she is. Her temper often gets the better of her, which is especially dangerous given that when she’s upset, nearby objects tend to spontaneously combust. She’s learned to control her emotions enough to avoid causing too much mayhem; when she’s angry, she makes every effort to focus her energy on nearby water, sand, or some other inflammable or heat-absorbing material. When she’s surprised or afraid, however, she sometimes has difficulty controlling herself-- the effects can range from a spike in the ambient temperature to nearby objects catching fire. Chavi is taller than average, with dark skin, straight black hair, and dark eyes that glow gold when she’s actively using her powers. Her clothing style tends to run in the direction of the clothing she’s been wearing all her life: flowing skirts, sandy earth tones, and gold jewelry. Occasionally, her gypsy heritage will come out in brightly patterned clothing (especially reds), but only rarely. She almost always wears heavy gold bangles and anklets, believing such materials as silver to be beneath her. Although she is strikingly pretty, her regal bearing and tendency to look down her nose at people can make others wary of approaching her. Her main ability is the use of her mutant powers; Chavi knows only a little hand-to-hand fighting, and what she knows she only picked up after joining Xavier and his team of mutants. She is no stronger than an average woman, but she is a talented dancer, and this has given her both the flexibility and the speed that she needs to pick things up quickly and stay more or less out of harm’s way. In a serious fight, however, she must rely heavily on her mutant powers or she will be easily beaten by anyone with any extensive hand-to-hand training. History: Born to a band of gypsies traveling through the Middle East, Chavi spent her early years as normally as a gypsy child could hope to. Although she and her family were ostracized by the more permanent populations for being transients and—many believed—thieves, they managed to get along all right. Chavi learned to dance, and used this talent (as well as her emerging beauty) to earn money for her family in every town they visited. Her powers didn’t manifest until early adulthood, and she managed to keep them secret from all but her parents for a long time—until people began to realize that she hadn’t aged a day in years. When her powers were discovered and talk of witchcraft reached her parents’ ears, they lost no time in publicly expelling Chavi from their gypsy band, to protect both themselves and her. With nowhere to go, Chavi had no choice but to join up with another band of travelers, these headed toward Egypt. While she made every effort to conceal her powers, they eventually came out—as, it turned out, they always would. This time, however, instead of fearing her, the Egyptian villagers welcomed her as a priestess of the gods. Chavi, who knew little about Egyptian gods, played along, believing herself to be safe as long as she was important. When the villagers realized the full extent of her powers, they decided that she must be an incarnation of the sun god himself, and worshipped her as their protector. Chavi spent many years being worshipped this way, living in luxury and doing all she could to help and protect the villagers in return. She became quite fond of them, especially the village’s resident doctor, who was always glad to satisfy her curiosity by teaching her various medicinal tricks and the like. In several instances, Chavi actually put herself in danger in order to defend the people she’d grown to feel so protective of. She didn’t know anything about her own regenerative powers until she became badly injured—the now-aged doctor, who had fallen asleep beside her bed, happened to be the nearest source of heat, and her body instinctively leeched it from him. She woke to find herself fully healed, and the doctor dead of hypothermia in the middle of an Egyptian heat wave. Overcome by guilt and afraid that the villagers would become angry, Chavi fled in the middle of the night. She again found herself wandering the desert, headed toward the Middle East, this time with a band of thieves and criminals. She took to stealing quickly, although she constantly felt guilty about taking what these various humans had earned. So she took the first opportunity she found to become “legitimate”—she studied up on medicine, building on what the Egyptian doctor had taught her. In an area with more than its share of violent conflicts, medical assistance was always needed, in hospitals and even on the battlefield. Most of what she learned was learned in the desperation of the moment, rather than in any formal training. In times of peace, however, there was nothing for her to do and nowhere to go. She spent most of this time living the life of a desert hermit, and kept herself busy studying books dealing with modern medicine. For the most part, people left her alone… until one day, they didn’t. She woke one morning to what sounded like an angry mob—and turned out to be, in fact, an angry mob. She was captured, accused of witchcraft, and sentenced to be executed by fire, a method which she had thought outdated. She wasn’t terribly afraid, having learned that fire, while painful, did not permanently harm her—the heat it gave off was more than enough to heal herself with. Hoping to “die” and be left in peace afterward, Chavi made every effort not to use her powers to harm any of the people involved in the execution. The result, however, was entirely unexpected. She’d never been forced to remain in a fire for any length of time, and the massive intake of heat soon became excruciatingly painful. Finally, in an explosion that she couldn’t help—and wouldn’t remember later—Chavi released all of the pent-up heat energy in a massive wave that essentially cremated everyone in a half-mile radius and burned the entire city to the ground. When she regained consciousness many hours later, she found herself in the care of a stranger who introduced himself as an envoy sent by Charles Xavier, who had been tracking Chavi’s movements for several weeks now. Xavier had felt the massive disturbance caused by the previous “episode,” as he put it. Chavi remembered no such thing. She agreed to go see Xavier, however, believing that she had nothing to lose by meeting with him. Once she saw his school and his team of mutants, she immediately accepted his offer to join, thinking both of her own safety (her experiences had given her a healthy fear of humans, if only because there were so many of them) and the potential power that such a group could wield. Other Chavi teaches biology and biochemistry at Xavier’s school and works as a physician in the medical center (she never actually got a medical degree, and cannot practice anywhere else) in her spare time, which she has (or makes) a lot of. She’s been known to sleep there sometimes, especially when doing any kind of medical research. As a teacher, she's garnered a reputation for being extremely difficult but also extremely fair and willing to help a slipping student; as a doctor, she's known for her efficiency and patience, as well as her strict code of ethics. Numerous times in the past, students have come to her in the middle of the night to seek help for an underage friend who'd drunk a potentially dangerous amount, or had otherwise gotten themselves into some illegal sort of medical trouble. While she has no qualms about berating them herself (often quite heavily), Chavi always takes doctor-patient confidentiality extremely seriously, sometimes to the point of breaking the rules herself, and the students trust her. She also strictly follows the "do no harm" rule, despite never having actually taken the Hippocratic Oath; she is a doctor in every sense except the legal one. Her apartments, which she spends relatively little time in, are decorated in rich reds and golds, with a coordinated but slightly mismatched look that reflects her gypsy upbringing. A thick, heavy curtain separates her apartment into a living area (containing her bed, closet, and most of her personal belongings) and a much larger work area, which she uses in place of the office offered to her by Xavier. The office consists of a large wooden desk, a couch opposite it, and a bookshelf, along with the usual office-type mess (papers to be graded, etc…) Her apartment is clearly not meant for entertaining guests, other than small meetings with one or two other teachers or even students. The entire bookshelf on the wall by her desk is dedicated to the only things she likes to read—medical journals, chemistry texts, biology articles, and other scientific literature. (She has read several of the more notable classics and “real” literature, like Milton, Dantes, and a little Shakespeare; however, these things never interested her, and her reading mostly involved light skimming at best. She will occasionally reference these stories, usually inaccurately, and doesn't bother to hide her disdain for them.) Chavi has a habit of leaving small, flat, decorative pans of water everywhere she goes a lot-- her room, her classrooms, the medical center, sometimes even the kitchen and common areas. They look pretty, and they blend into almost any decor; their purpose is to give her something to focus on when she feels her temper rising. For this reason, steam can often be seen rising from these pans whenever she's in a room, even if she appears to be paying no attention to them. Those who know her well quickly learn to keep an eye on the water if they want a clue as to her general mood-- if it's warm, tread softly; if it's bubbling, run. Although it may come as a surprise given her belief that she is, for all intents and purposes, a goddess, Chavi is a fairly religious woman. She doesn't see this spirituality as divine, beautiful, or as something to create art about; instead, she views it as a simple fact of life and probability. She considers herself and all other mutants to be higher powers than humans, who are in turn higher powers than the animals. It only makes sense, she believes, that there exists a power higher than herself. She views God-- Allah, Yahweh, Shiva-- as a freak of nature who happens to have been gifted with extraordinary powers. For this reason, she sees this "higher power" as a more human being than most religions do, capable of emotions and mistakes. This unusual belief means that she cannot partake in any particular organized religion, but she considers herself to be religious nonetheless. |
Digithe Joined: 24 Aug 2003 Posts: 884 | Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:29 pm Haha, I like her. She's almost exactly opposite to Jean -- She is happier in the sun, he is happier at night; she likes science and science-y books, he likes the arts and "real literature." Could be very fun indeed. You've reminded me of a few things I forgot in my bio, also. I'll go work on that now.....
I think I won't bother officially approving characters anymore. I don't think I've found anything prohibitively weird with anyone's character in a while. I'll just say something if I see a problem, I guess. |
Asai Joined: 24 Aug 2003 Posts: 638 | Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:10 am Hahah....I'm beginning to think I need to rewrite my bio with all these new and shiny bios. |
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