Marvel Character:
Spiderman

Name:
Peter Parker, changes his name to 'Pietro Parkour' to sound cooler and separate himself from his past. He claims to have a French father and a Russian mother.

Identity:
Secret (for now)

Gender:
Male

Age:
33

Team:
Magneto's x-men/Avengers

Physical Description:

5'10" barefoot or in costume, 6' in shoes. 167 with a gymnast build, in regular clothes, he tends to wear thicker or quilted clothing to make himself look 'pudgy'. He dyes his hair red from the usual brown and wears special full-eye contact lenses as well as tinted glasses almost constantly to hide his mutated eyes from not always tracing with his actual eye movements. A slipped lens tends to make him look wall eyed or a blown blood vessel as the case may be.

Skills
Fighting style
Spider-Man has developed a unique fighting style that is difficult for most other heroes to emulate or for most villains to defeat. Spider-Man uses all of his powers simultaneously to overpower and overwhelm his foes. He also makes excellent use of his surroundings during battles. For example, he uses a webbed-up fire extinguisher as a projectile in order to get distance between himself juggernauts crushing arms. He is also never without a witty response or wisecrack to throw at an enemy in order to distract, anger, or simply insult a foe. His fighting style can best be described as an improvisational freestyle that functionally encompasses the usage of his strength, speed, flexibility, wits, intelligence, and his "spider-sense". With this combination of his acrobatic abilities, the use of his webbing and his surroundings, he can easily work his strengths against his opponents' weaknesses.
Spider-Man devised his own unique variant of kung-fu with capoeria and parkour overtones aptly named "The Way of The Spider". This style has significantly improved his existing fighting prowess when combined with his new martial art, now allows him to react and fight his enemies with training and skill rather than with random attacks.

Scientific knowledge
Before the Mutation, Peter Parker was already a gifted academic student with considerable expertise in many fields, such as chemistry, biology, physics, and engineering. With these skills, he was able to experiment with his web fluid, create mechanical web-shooters and other Spider-Man equipment. His scientific knowledge has often been used to defeat his adversaries when his powers are insufficient, such as creating various mixtures to dissolve the costumes of foes such as the Rhino and El Dorado. Academically gifted, with a recorded IQ of 250, Peter displays an uncanny affinity for applied science, mathematics, mechanics, biology, and physics. He is a brilliant individual, with exceptional skill in practically every field of science, and an excellent inventor. He is an accomplished chemist and physicist. This has in part of great help of living at a college-grade school with nearly limitless resources for the last twenty years.


Personality:
While not loosing his uncle in this reality to a gunman, his separation from his biological family and the goals of his new family have taught him that "With great power, comes great responsibility" all the same. Like most mutants, he has a terrible identity problem and a constant fear of further mutation. For all his powers, he possesses a marked inferiority complex, and a fear of relationships yet yearns for romantic companionship. He is at times anti-social, racked with guilt, and a functioning neurotic. Agonizing over his choices, always attempting to do right.

Origin:

Imagine the following:
A nerdy teenage boy with a proclivity to collecting bugs (made worse by an aunt who's life in the Philippines makes eating bugs a commonplace in the house) gets pushed by a bully. Meant to simply fall into a puddle, he instead falls into New York traffic. This is when his mutant power activates.

At this point he could merely leap over the truck and stick to the wall, it is possible he would lift the truck over his head, he might even fire organic webbing and snare the truck before it hits. Instead, he is hit by the truck and killed. At least that is what everyone was made to believe.

The bully will forever think he killed someone with his childish actions and spend the rest of his life in atonement. Ben and May will mourn the loss of their nephew, but take a subconscious comfort they can not explain. As for peter, he spent the last twenty years as an an X-man!

Background history:
Parker is a family name of English origin, derived from Old French with the meaning "keeper of the park". "Parker" was also a nickname given to gamekeepers in medieval England. It is the 48th-most common surname in England. Within the United States, it is ranked as the 47th-most common surname.
The story begins in 1602 with Peter Parquagh Who was bitten by an enspelled spider and turned an English agent of the crown into something much much more. While he was killed, his bloodline would live on in his children who would carry the same powers and responsibility. For 400 years there have been people of his bloodline, some embraced the facts, others hid them away. For some it skipped a generation, for others, it skipped three generations.

One of the 'first five' all those years ago (potentially replacing Beast). He was selected to be part of something greater than himself with his brilliant scientific mind and superhuman physiology making him an invaluable addition to the x-men.

The first years were spent training while at the same time doing what they could to save those in danger and build upon the mutant name as a force for good. Rescuing kittens, burning buildings, car accidents. But for all the good the x-men did, there were others smearing the mutant name.

With magneto's micro manipulation of magnetic metals, the scientific endeavors grew in leaps and bounds in nearly every field. Every microscope they made made it even easier to control ever thinner wires down to the width of human hairs From there he was able to align the poles on a molecular level to make every thread superconductive. It was only with these innovations that he managed to invent mechanical harvesters and launchers for his webbing. What started as a shotgun holding blobs of webbing has been refined to the forearm mounted web-shooters he uses today, not to say that he hasn't been improving on 'heavy duty' designs for when the situation calls for it.

A dark day came when the x-men met one who would be their greatest nemesis, En Sabah Nur, Apocalypse. The x-men did well and foiled the plans to force mutations on those of latent genes who would never have manifested otherwise. But it came with a cost, Peter got injected with the latentcy virus and experienced horrific secondary mutations, his eyes turned large and red as he grew stingers out of his forearms while he became quite hairy. Not as bad as windego or sasquatch, but definitely time to take shaving lessons from Wolverine.

Marvel Character: Silver Surfer

Name: Steve Rogers

Identity: Public (As Super Soldier), Currently Private (As Silver Surfer)

Gender: Male

Age: 98

Team: A Herald of Galactus (Formerly the US Army)

Physical Description:

Items/Weapons: Board doubles as a melee weapon.

Skills: Military experience and training, focused on hand-to-hand combat. An excellent grasp of tactics and an strong sense of empathy.

Powers: Imbued with the Power Cosmic, the Surfer is capable of feats of power that are difficult to quantify. Due to his military background, this power is usually manifested in increased strength and primal unfocused blasts of energy. In addition, the Surfer's body is hardened and contained by his power, allowing him to function as normal in the unpredictable reaches of the universe.

Personality: The Surfer is an old soul in a young body and lives for his duty which, in turn, has left him a shell of a man. Cold and seemingly emotionless, his extended lifespan has left him viewing the cosmos with a growing sense of guilt and melancholy. Deeply honourable and crushed with remorse for the actions he has performed in his master's name. When on a planet the Surfer has an attitude of unyielding care. Knowing that any great expression of his power, while a fraction of his master's, would be more than capable of causing severe destruction to innocents around him; the Surfer maintains a stoic, almost pacifistic response to threats and violence. This can cause him to become almost a liability in a team situation, his former leadership and self-belief has been buried by decades of service to his master and so he follows a strong authority with almost grateful ease.

Weaknesses: The Surfer is majestically depowered in comparison to his usual power levels. He maintains a portion of the power cosmic within his body and his board but is no stronger than any being with super strength. In addition, the use of the power cosmic visibly drains the Surfer and he must wait for his abilities to recharge before expending them again.

Background history: Steve Rogers was born in the Great Depression in the United States. Growing up, he was bullied and picked on regularly by those around him for his short stature and underdeveloped muscles. Despite this, Steve never lost his fighting spirit and his love for humanity. At the outbreak of the Second World War Steve, like many young men his age, attempted to sign up as a soldier but was pronounced 'unfit for duty' by the many recruitment centres he visited. A chance of fate led to Steve meeting a Doctor Erskine and being chosen for the 'Super Soldier Programme', upon receiving treatments as part of the programme Steve found his body augmented to a superhuman level. His strength was many times that of an ordinary soldier, his reflexes were increased and his tactical senses were tested and pronounced at almost genius levels. Unfortunately Erskine mysteriously died shortly after Steve's tests and so the process could never be repeated leaving Rogers to be co-opted by the Allied armed forces.

Dubbed 'Super Soldier' by his fellow squad-mates, Steve soon became indispensable to the Allied war effort. He was responsible for single-handedly winning engagements and completing objectives that many thought impossible. Towards the end of the war Rogers was sent to the Arctic as part of a special taskforce to investigate strange and unclear readings. When they arrived on location the task-force witnessed technology that could only be described as 'inhuman' being assembled by an impossibly giant figure who could not be identified. Rogers ensured his team would remain back and went to confront the figure. Minutes later the figure, its machinery and Steve were gone.

Steve had been transported away from Earth and into the cosmos. The figure (who Steve found out later called itself 'Galactus) informed Steve that his life was over. Galactus had identified Steve as an aberration in humanity's evolution and had engineered Erskine's death to ensure no one would be able to recreate him. Steve was then given a choice, to be removed from existence, or to serve as Galactus' herald and find planets for the cosmic being to consume. Theorising that eventually he would be able to find a way to return home, Steve agreed.

Steve was then augmented further by Galactus, imbued with a higher cosmic power which caused him to lose his hair and his skin to bleach, later taking on a silver aura. His strength was greatly augmented further and he could function as normal in the vacuum of space.
Dubbed 'The Surfer' by Galactus, the former soldier was given a conveyance in the form of a silver board. With the power Cosmic, the board proved as malleable as it was needed to be.

Since then, the Surfer has performed his task diligently, conveying his master to worlds for consumption. Although he endeavours to provide his master with uninhabited worlds this is not always possible and, with the death of every inhabited world, his guilt and sorrow at his situation increases.

Marvel Character: Hulk inspired

Name: Light

Identity: Light (Public)

Gender: Female

Age: '24'

Team: N/A

Physical Description: Light is a 1.9 meter tall white humanoid figure. Her head is a large spherical shape with no nose, very large black and orange eyes(Demon lense type), short blue hair, fin like ears, and a very very skinny neck. She has a noticeable hourglass shape to her due to her hips and chest. She has skinny biceps with large forearms and hands with spike-like fingers. She wears a white dress with blue trim and a blue tanktop, the dress having an 'M' cut pattern in the front to reveal her legs, which look normal besides the bottom leg ending at a sharp point where her foot should be. Light has very little muscle mass and only tone muscles instead of well defined muscles.

Items/Weapons: None

Personality: Light is intelligent, observant, playful, honest, and very easygoing, sometimes making her seem naive. She tends to play with her opponents more than fight them, although making her angry will lead to, as she puts it, a "Bad Time". And you really wont like what happens when she wants to give you a 'bad time'.

Origin: Light is a being from the Void, drawing more and more energy from it depending on her anger which drastically increases her already impressive strength and endurance. However her appearance and touch is often seen as off putting, meaning that while she likes to play with others, she is often deprived of any sort of intimacy or friendship.

Powers:

Anger - It should be noted that all of Light's pwoers increase if she is angry, increasing proportionate to her anger.

Unlimited Strength - Light has an incredible amount of strength, which only increases as she gets angrier. There is no limit to her strength, its limit only dictated by her anger.
Super Endurance/Stamina - Light has incredible endurance, which only increases as she gets angrier.
Near Invulnerability - Light is incredibly durable, only getting more durable as she gets angrier.
Regenerative Healing Factor - While incredibly durable, Light also has a healing factor that allows her to regenerate damaged or missing limbs or organs. While not as fast as say, Wolverine or Deadpool, it is still combat viable. Rate increases with anger. Can nullify effects that inhibit healing factor if angry enough. Also makes her immune to disease.
Reactive Adaptation - Light can adapt her body to survive in any dangerous environment including space, short of cosmic environments. The rate of adaptation is dictated by her anger.
Enhanced Speed - While it doesn't increase as sharply as her other abilities do due to anger, Light does have some modicum of enhanced speed, but usually not enough to out speed other faster heroes unless she is supercharged or so angry that your probably going to get oneshotted if she punches you.
Psionic Resistance - Light has some form of psionic resistance, or at least enough to not be incapacitated or rendered braindead. This increases with her anger, and with enough anger, she can eventually become nearly immune to psionic attacks outright.
Void Energy - Light is powered by Void energy, or the energy of entropy. As such, her energy can't be used to power objects and gives her a small amount of energy resistance and drastically reduces the duration of magical enchantments placed upon her. If Light's energy is forced to build up while she isn't angry, Light will eventually let out an implosion of Void energy, draining all nearby devices or sources of power and weakening organics. Light often creeps out whoever she is touching. The amount of Void energy she emits increases with her anger.

Skills
Skilled Combatant (And other Hulk combat abilities like the Sonic Clap)
Intelligent

Weaknesses
Slow to Anger (Hard to anger, but if made angry, it scales at Hulk rates.)
Gas and Toxin inhibilitation (Means she can be knocked out as easily as anyone else by these methods unless super angry.)
Rage Nullifcation
More easily injured by Magical attacks, Enchanted Weapons, Vibranium, and Adamantium.

Background history: <Would like to wait on filling out until I have a firm grasp on the world and where everyone is and all that fun stuff>

Marvel Character:
Thor

Name:
Taranis

Identity:
Publicly Known as Taranis

Gender:
Male

Age:
Complicated. The Tuatha De Denann were once mortals who ascended to godhood via the grace of the fair folk and their affinity with Mother Earth. While they did once manifest in the mortal realm, they have since retreated to fairy, the home of the fair folk. As a land beyond the normal rules of time, it’s hard to say how much time has past for them since they walked the earth. Suffice it to say that it has been more than 200 years of our time since one of their number was seen and more than 2500 since Taranis and the rest of the pantheon became gods.

Team:
Currently Unaffiliated

Physical Description:
Standing at more than two metres in height and built like bear, Taranis is a giant among men. His skin is worn and as pale as milk, occasionally dappled with freckles but more frequently with old scars. He has a wild, untamed beard with a consistency more common in gorse bushes than facial hair and a mane of hair to match. Around his neck is a Torc of corroded metal. It probably once had some form of design on it, perhaps a snake head or dragon, but time has worn it into a plain band. On his chest is faded tattoo of a wheel that once symbolised his role as a god of travel and exploitation, now rendered a little obsolete by the invention of the aeroplane.

Taranis wears a pair of trousers of rough wool, stained with the grime of centuries. In the most sever of weather, he also wears a brown cloak. True to his feral, druidic nature, he never wears any form of foot ware and his soles have therefore developed the texture and thickness of old leather.His face is worn by weather and time but not by ill temper. He has deep smile lines under his beard and his face is frequently split by a grin or creased in raucous laughter. His eyes are deep and black, occasionally flashes of white rearing and vanishing in the depths. Taranis’s voice is deep and earthy, bringing to mind the smoke of an open fire and taste of dark beer.

Powers:
Taranis’s flesh, bones and muscles are many times as dense as any humans, allowing him to take punishment enough to slay any hundred mortals. His strength too is vastly superior, easily enough to tear down a fortress and rip apart its inhabitants. He can use to winds to bear himself aloft and fly from place to place, but with more of the essence of the wind blown leaf than the soaring eagle. With much more skill, he can direct storms and hurl lightning. For the most part though, he doesn’t interfere with the natural course of meteorological events, letting Mother Earth’s systems do their work. A sure sign of things being dire is when Taranis begins summoning the storm to hi side. As one of the Tuatha De Danann, the mortals made gods, he is unageing and will not be struck down by disease or infection, his life ending only in combat. As well as that, his status as one of Mother Earth’s chosen gives him some sway in the animal kingdom. Beasts tend to act deferentially to him and plants will gladly bend to let him pass or give him shelter, despite him no longer being a mortal druid. Finally, a gift from Mother Earth, Taranis hears all tongues as his own and can be understood by all that stand upon her soil.

Abilities:
As a mortal, Taranis trained as a druid first and a sailor second. Of his grove, he was trusted to spread their teachings from the shelter of the British Isles (then a series of warring and disparate factions) to the mainland of Europe (then an even more chaotic group of warring and disparate factions). As such, he knows much herblore and medicine, though most of both have been rendered obsolete by modern advances, as well as how to communicate with Mother Earth and interpret her wishes. The boats of his day were a very different affair from those we have now but Taranis can still make himself useful at sea, especially when it comes to predicting storms; they come when someone has seriously pissed him off. He is also trained as a warrior, using the short swords of Celtic Britain. Similar in length and style of use to Roman Gladiuses, they have a stabbing point and a flared edge for hacking and slicing. The style most Celts employed was to batter the opponent into submission, moving too fast to be hit and burying their opponent in agile attacks. As almost no Celts could afford armour, it was that or wait around to get stabbed. Thus, Taranis’s style of swordsmanship is an all out assault with nothing held back for defence, a particularly deadly tactic given his extreme strength. He prefers not to have to use weapons though, favouring his fists and feet as weapons. When fighting unarmed, he brawls like you would expect a man of his strength to; punching hard, pulling people into crushing holds and throwing them through walls or into the air.

Weaknesses:
Taranis’s weaknesses are not psychical, but tactical. As a god and a warrior, he can have few mortal rivals. But his godhood is not an unchangeable aspect of his being. He is only a god through the grace of Mother Earth and unageing through the generosity of the fair folk. Without their blessings, Taranis would be no more than a man a long, long way out of his time. A man, it’s worth mentioning, whose immune system has not developed any immunities to modern pathogens or diseases. However, the sever the connection between Taranis and Mother Earth would be very, very difficult. As one of her champions, he lives for no other purpose but to serve her will. To break the bond between them would require him to do sometime unforgivable, such as damage the natural world enough that it will take a millennia to heal. His immortality, gifted by the fair folk is part of a deal between Mother Eart and the fae, would disappear along with his godly powers.

Items/Weapons:
Taranis takes one weapon with him wherever he goes; a sword named Caledfwlch (Caled-Wulch with a Scottish ch) or, to give it its more common name, Excalibur. When the druids were being hunted from the Earth, Taranis reclaimed this ancient and revered sword. He vowed to return to humanity’s greatest hero when he returned to Earth. Mother Earth approved of this, hoping that the removal of one of her greatest gifts would make humans see the folly in hunting down her chosen servants. As it was, Excalibur proved too entrenched in the human consciousness to disappear completely and, though history, several copies appeared. They were wielded by great men and did great deeds. In the end, though, the blades broke or the kingdom fell. And, in Fairy, the true sword bided its time.

And now Mother Earth, sensing the great dangers to herself and humanity in the coming years has sent Taranis back to his home to return the sword. Being more than a little tired of Fairy, he was relieved and the envy of all the Tuatha De Danann. Taranis knows that, as a god, he will never bear the sword of kings and heroes and is quite glad about that. A simple man at heart, he has never wished for great titles or mighty swords. Fists and feet are weapons enough and the responsibilities of being a god are more than enough for him. So he carries the sword with him wherever he goes, offering any that wish the chance to try and draw it. The one to draw the sword from the scabbard will be granted powers not seen since the ages of gods and heroes, enough to shatter empires and bring dynasties to their knees and will signal that Earth’s reckoning is nigh. Perhaps fortunately, no one has yet been able to even make the blade shift in its sheathe.

Personality:
A man out of his time hardly covers quite how alien Taranis’s perspective is. When last he stood upon the soil of the mortal world, Christianity was not yet a major religion. Steel had only recently begun to be used as a commonplace metal. The Roman Empire still dominated the known world. That said, Taranis is a remarkably uncomplicated man. He is strong, brave and kind, wishing nothing more than to lift loads to heavy for other and fight battles that others cannot. He knows that he is a god and immortal in a world of mortals, just as he remembers (somewhat cloudy) his own time as a mortal. Taranis is also patient, having had to deal with the capricious fae for time out of mind. Although the complexities of the modern age often elude him, he is slowly learning to grasp the different elements and nuances of this alien culture. Somethings in today’s society make him laugh and remember good days of home and hearth. His laugh is the bellow of a billowing gale, moving all in its wake. His wrath, however, comes as lightning on a summers day, sudden and terrible with no warning other than the furrowing of his brows, like twisting storm clouds.

Origin:
Along with the rest of his pantheon, the Tuatha De Danann, Taranis was once a mortal man, a druid who was beloved of Mother Earth. In an event that has not been repeated since, he and his fellows ascended from mortality to godhood, shedding their fleshy bodies for aspects of the elements they represented. Unlike some gods, the Tuath De Danann still retain an element of mortality; they can be killed. It’s not easy, however, as they are far together than any mortal and posses formidable abilities, both magical and mundane, that dissuade all but the most determined assassins.

Some time around 200 BCE, the Tuatha De Danann retreated from this world and into Fairy, the domain of the fae. The persecution of the Druidic people dismayed Mother Earth and she sought to keep her favoured children from harm. She bade them take shelter with the fair folk and so they did. When Taranis left, he took with him the sword Caledfwlch, promising to return it one day. They left this earth and did not return until 2012 AD, when Taranis stepped out of a wood in Scotland and directly into a large tractor. It is a little difficult to say how long they perceived their exile into Fairy to be, as time there is less of an absolute and more of an opinion. Suffice it to say that each member of the pantheon is now sick of songs and stories, tired of dances and debaucheries and utterly bored of the fae. Not that they are foolish enough to say so.

Background history:
Once mortal, now god, Taranis has existed in one form or another for what we perceive to be in excess of 2500 years. When the Tuatha De Danann walked the earth and involved themselves in the affairs of men, they would lead men to be heroes and lords to be kings. Taranis believed greatly in exploration and seeking out the undrawn corners of the map, often encouraging sea faring men to take their voyages just a little further, to look just a little longer. Now, it seems, the earth is truly mapped and there is no more sideways to explore. Humanity will have to start going up and out into the stars or down and into the earth. As one Mother Earth’s champions, Taranis would much prefer them not to cut the soil and instead advocates sailing the stars.

Upon arriving back on the earthly plane, Taranis was more than a little confused, as might you be too if you accidentally skipped two and a half millennia. The trees were the same but the animals that scampered between them seemed subtly different. And, as he wandered out of the shelter of the trees, he discovered a much less subtle difference; a large, yellow JCB tractor. And in this context, ‘discovered’ means ‘was hit by’. After freeing the confused farmer from what he took to be some sort of mobile jail, Taranis stalked the local countryside in search of a lord or chief who he could get answers from. After causing something of a ruckus at a market with his command of the winds, his presence became known to SHIELD. Naturally, they dispatched an agent to apprehend him. That agent was Jie Wan, otherwise known as Goldenstar. When she arrived, she saw a barrel chested man with long, mangled hair, a dirty face, bare feet and a sword. Not unreasonably, she decided to subdue him first and ask questions later.

Only Goldenstar, Taranis and the few people with the clearance to read an executive level SHIELD mission reports know what transpired on that lonely Scottish country road but the events are far more widely known. First, the 21st century was introduced to Taranis by agents of SHIELD and he was presented to the world by the organisation’s leaders. Secondly, Goldenstar came away from the encounter with a new power. The arcs of lightning that crackle from her fingertips are, Taranis claims, a gift from Mother Earth but he seems curiously reticent and refuses to elaborate further to anyone but her.

Marvel Character: Iron Man

Name: Kathryn (Ryn) Stark

Identity: Private

Gender: Female

Age: 31

Team: Avengers eventually (none yet.)

Physical Description: Image: http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/29000000/Anna-Silk-bo-and-lauren-29029966-800-1127.jpg

Ryn is 5’10 with long dark brown hair that falls just past her shoulders. She has deep brown eyes that are usually filled with mirth and she’s quick to smile. She has a circular arc reactor centered on her chest. This arc reactor is smaller than the traditional Iron Man arc reactor but just as powerful. She prefers casual clothes when working in her lab and tends to have her long hair pulled back into a messy bun. Ryn does have a bit of her mother’s signature style and can quite easily go from mechanic's coveralls to a high fashion show.

Items/Weapons: Iron Maid suit.

Skills: Mechanical and Electrical Engineering experience. Dabbles in programming and technology. Krav Maga experience (mostly for exercise but can definitely defend herself)

Powers: Ryn has no superpowers, other than being extremely intelligent. All her powers come from what she’s built into the suit.

Weaknesses: Ryn's hero identity is still private and she could lose her position at her company if she's outed. Her fame as a Stark is a double edged sword in this sense. Ryn is also powerless without the suit, and though she's fairly good in a normal fist fight, her human strength wouldn't be much help against powered enemies.

Personality: Ryn is fairly easy going though she can definitely be driven when working on a project or toward a goal. Ryn easily gets lost in her work and relies on Pepper to keep her from losing herself in her work completely. Other than Pepper and JARVIS, Ryn doesn’t have many true friends, she has a hard time trusting people after a lifetime of people trying to use her for her family's connections. That said, she's quite comfortable in the spotlight and often uses humor to gain the goodwill of people.

Origin: After building the first super soldier suit, Ryn realized that technology like this in the hands of governments would be too dangerous. She modified the suit to work only when powered by her arc reactor to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.

Background history: As the late in life daughter of Howard Stark, Ryn grew up hearing of her father’s exploits long after he had passed away. Ryn was primarily raised by her mother’s staff while her mother was traveling around the world promoting her fashion line. Left to her own devices, Ryn began playing in Howard’s workshop and developed a love of all things machine. She graduated high school early and set off for CalTech where she got dual doctorate degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, graduating in record time becoming one of the youngest graduates from CalTech in the university’s history.

Once Ryn graduated, she went to work for Stark Industries and happily started at the very bottom in the company, working her way up through the company until she’d earned her place in the upper echelon. Her work on the original, full sized arc reactor brought her to national attention that she’d managed to evade so far. During a press conference announcing Stark Industries new weapons program Ryn was hit in the crossfire of an assassination attempt on the CEO. Though she survived the initial assault and was released to her home she was given about a month to live due to bullet fragments working their way to her heart. Ryn immediately went to work, working day and night to create a device that could keep the fragments from piercing her heart. Thus, the mini arc reactor was born.

After installing the mini arc reactor with the help of JARVIS and Pepper, she began work on one of the government contracts that they had, for a soldier suit. Once she began work on it she realized that without a mini arc reactor that they wouldn’t work but since she had the item in question she could work up a prototype. Work on the suit has consumed her and it was only Pepper’s gentle influence and finally her outright demands and threats to quit that brought Ryn’s head out of her work.

Ryn has recently stepped up as one of the junior executives of Stark Industries and has been working on the suit on her own time after telling them that it wouldn’t work. She’s still working on the Iron Maiden suit and testing it, hasn’t quite started saving the world yet.

Marvel Character Base: Magma (Amara Aquilla)

Name: Avery McKay (Wildfire)

Identity: Secret

Gender: F

Age: 19

Team: Magneto’s X-Men

Physical Description:
Avery’s hooded green eyes sit under low, thick, arched eyebrows, in an oval face, with a slight cleft in her squared chin. Her snarky attitude often finds her forehead graced by her raised right eyebrow, usually accompanying the last word in a conversation. She has full lips, a peaked cupid’s bow, and her bottom lip is unproportionately too big, curving down towards her chin. Avery has high cheek bones that are softened by her face’s roundness, but are shown when she genuinely smiles.

Her ears are quite small, prompting comments when others take notice; her nose pleasantly placed and shaped, rounded with a straight bridge, and the slightest upturn at the end. She prefers to keep her chocolate brown hair cropped short, just above her shoulders, in an angular lob style, right-side parted, often trying to work with her hair’s natural waviness to give it a ‘chic’ look. However with training, fighting, and her hair’s cowlick stubbornness, it tends to be tied up, just long enough for a short, low, ponytail.

She stands 5 feet, 7 inches, at 140lbs, and has a curvy but visibly athletic figure - think MMA fighter. Since joining the X-Men she has been able to sculpt and tone her figure. Avery has inherited pale skin that would normally be prone to sunburn, but her powers negate this, and has a whisper of freckles under her eyes.

As it was her birthplace, Avery speaks in an Australian accent. She is of Scottish decent on her mother’s side (McKay), and is possibly Irish on her father’s side, as told by her mother.

Despite needing to always have perfectly liquid-lined eyes, and an ‘ocd thing’ with her unruly hair, Avery isn’t very girly and tends to be very casual and athletic with her style. A t-shirt or tank, tight jeans, sneakers or boots, and a hoodie or leather jacket tend to be her staple pieces - preferably in blue or black - when she’s not wearing her ‘super-suit’. Her costume is a similar style to many of the other X-Men’s, although it is mostly black, with some bright blue (she adamantly requested) and yellow colour blocks down her chest and back in a V-shape. She also wears boots, an ‘X’ belt, and tends to tie her hair up. In her Magma Form, her costume is specially made to withstand the heat, and she looks like one big walking flame.

Items/Weapons: I mean, she’s got nice arms. . . .Those guns, though.

Powers:

Geokinesis: Avery can psionically control the movement of the tectonic plates within the Earth's crust within limited areas, around the radius of a few city blocks. Within this area she can create small or large earthquakes, and gaps for lava to emerge.

Pyrokinesis: She can create flames and project blasts of heat that do not contain any molten rock. She can also combined these flames with molten rock to create magma blasts which have a solid impact that can knock down a target. The highest level of heat that Avery can generate is believed to be at least 850° Fahrenheit or higher.

Geo-thermokinesis: Can psionically cause magma, or molten rock, from far beneath Earth's surface to rise up, forming miniature volcanoes. She can then telekinetically project this magma at targets.

Magma Form: When using her powers Avery’s body shines with intense light and gives off tremendous heat. Her hair seems ablaze and her eyes glow. Neither her own heat nor heat from any other known source can burn or otherwise harm her. Although Avery has triggered small earth tremors while not in her Magma Form, she has not yet mastered her full powers while in her ordinary human form. Her Magma Form, and contact with heat, as well as contact with the earth can heal her.

Skills:
Avery is very street smart and resourceful from her childhood in multiple foster homes and on the streets. She is scrappy and good with her fists, her fighting style haphazard and rough, using whatever she can get her hands on. She has a good memory, and tends to remember or get the hang of something after learning it once.

Weaknesses:
Avery's power is linked to her emotions - by losing her temper she can temporarily lose control of her powers. Which tends to be often.

Her power depends on her maintaining contact with the Earth. Prolonged distance from the Earth makes her feel ill, and she isn’t a fan of flying.

She is very stubborn and hot headed, which at best tends to get her into trouble with polite company, and at worst with her ass handed to her by a stronger opponent.

Personality:
On the surface Avery seems detached, rude, angry and sarcastic. While her life experiences have made her somewhat jaded, when she’s finally open with someone she is goofy, witty, and enjoys in depth conversations. However, it takes a while to get to this point with her, as she is very wary with others.

Has a ‘fuck you, I’ll do it myself’ sort of take when it comes to things. Quite neat and tidy, and methodical. Stubborn as hell, is driven to finish things, and can get a bit ‘tunnel visioned’. Is introverted but can’t seem to stop herself from being outspoken, blunt, and opinionated on certain matters, which gets her into trouble. Known to back talk and swear often. Her brother Peter usually has to jump in to smooth things over.

Avery is smart and resourceful, often doing whatever needed to be done for her and Peter to survive. Avery and he are very close, being the only family she has. They share a strong bond not only in family and friendship, but in their powers too - as they are able to emotionally strengthen or negate each others powers. If you’re ‘in’ with her, she will be loyal to a fault. She is used to hard work and has had many odd jobs to get by, racking up snippets of odd knowledge and skills.

Origin:
Being born a mutant, it was only a matter of time before her powers surfaced. It is suspected both her parents were elemental mutants as well. Her powers began showing soon after puberty, but were emotionally charged, sporadic, and uncontrollable. Because of her powers somewhat weak and erratic nature, she suspected but wasn’t fully aware of her mutant status until she was 16. Coming to her brothers defense in a fit of rage her powers fully emerged, burning and completely leveling the foster home they stayed in. If not stopped by her brothers own emerging hydrokinesis powers, she might have tried to level the whole neighborhood block.

Background History:
Avery was born Aug 20, in Sydney, Australia, in a rather run-down suburb on the outskirts of the city. Born 13 minutes prior to her, was her twin brother Peter, whom she is very close with.

Their father left before they were even born, and it’s hard to say whether he even knew they existed. Their mother, when not strung out on whatever blow she could get her hands on, would regale them with musings of their departed father. Although he was loved desperately by their poor mother, the information she was able to provide them was minimal at best: he enjoyed writing and traveling - which was of course why he had to leave, but would surely come back - and was a mutant like her, however somewhat more powerful then her own ability to make slushy water.

Later on in life, the twins heard rumors of a man in the Brotherhood, a man who was now dead, a man who could have possibly been their father. But, by then their time of wondering had passed.

Avery’s mother died of a broken heart and an overdose when she and her brother were 6. Wanting to finally connect with her grandchildren, and make amends with her daughter, their grandmother came forward to care for them. Avery would site the time with her grandmother as the best of her childhood. While taking care of 2 children financially was a struggle for their already burdened grandmother, she managed the best she could to provide a loving home with life’s basic essentials.

Tragedy struck however, when Avery and Peter were 12, in the form of brain cancer. Viciously attacking their once vibrant grandmother, she passed away quickly, unable to afford anything more than basic ‘comfort’ care, to possibly extend her time. The twins were now completely out of relatives, and a home.

Avery and her brother were then placed into foster care. Avery in turn sites this time in her life as her worst. Carted from foster home, to girls/boys homes, to shelters, Avery and her brother had been to them all. Often the twins were separated when placed in foster homes, leading them to constantly run away, so as to be together. But, even when they were able to be placed in a home together, their stay generally didn't last long.

While already jaded at a young age and puberty surfacing were tough enough, Avery and Peter were coming into their mutant powers, little did they know. Avery’s manifested earlier, being the hothead of the two - literally - and odd occurrences would follow them around. Lights blowing, houses shaking, other foster kids being burned, house fires, the list got longer and worse as the years went on. She wasn’t able to explain it, control it, or definitively say it was even her, but soon the twins had a reputation in the foster system that was hard to shake.

It wasn’t that she was inherently a bad child, in fact Avery had started out as a goofy, happy, insightful, and bright child - it was only now after years of life beating her down that she had become angry. Really angry. While Peter tried to be the most optimistic of the two, Avery’s anger and pessimism often got the best of her - the best of both of them in fact. Her emotions and surfacing powers cost them many fosters homes, and they were often placed in a different one every few months. That’s not to say Peter had no hand in their constant changing homes, as he too was struggling with his anger and the odd occurrences his powers created, and later his sexuality.

However, it wasn’t until their last home, that her slow build of power would become a full blown explosion. At the age of 16, Avery and her brother were placed in a home that was known for ‘getting kids into shape’, but little did the system know, or care, was that their methods were less than desirable. Furious and abusive, the Husband’s techniques to control Avery’s smart mouth and Peter’s defense of her, were more akin to Fight Club, and less to Mary Poppins’ means of parenting. The Wife, always an avid on looker to her husbands methods, was indulgent of him, while cold, distance, and an emotional terrorist to the twins.

This constant physical and mental attack was short lived however, with Avery finally having enough, her powers fully emerging in a terrifying display, after witnessing Peter being beaten for speaking out. Furious, her powers erupted the house in flames, lava bursting from the floor, a localized earthquake shaking everything around them - the constant barrage left the small home leveled by the end of it. If not stopped by her brothers own emerging hydrokinesis powers, she might have tried to level the whole neighborhood block. By sheer miracle, and her brother’s aid, their foster parents made it out of the wreckage alive.

However, the twins knew they could no longer stay there, or anywhere, and hit the streets, fending on their own for nearly a year. Approached by both the Brotherhood and the X-Men their path could have gone 2 completely different ways. Ultimately, knowing of the Brotherhoods reputation, Avery and Peter choose to accompany the X-Men to New York, thinking if nothing else they would be able to get back on their feet and start a new life. Never one to trust anyone, Avery figures if the team disappoints them like many others in their past, at least they’ll have a place to crash for a while. Her stubborn attitude is finally broken, when she finds there are real feelings of family and camaraderie between the members of the X-Men. She and Peter are able to build friendships and relationships, and decide to stay. Deep down, Avery wants to redeem herself for the things her uncontrollable powers have done, and knows helping the X-Men might be the way to do it.

Taking on the names of natural disasters, Avery and Peter (Wildfire and Tidal Wave respectively), hope they will be able to get a hold of their destructive powers, using them towards those who deserve it, to help the X-Men in the fight for good. They have stayed with the team ever since.

( Peter McKay aka Tidal Wave's powers are based on Morris Bench (Hydro-Man) > marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Morris_Bench_%28.. )