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AMALGAM - Hour of X

Orphan X

Orphan X

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DC/Marvel Characters Used: X23 and Cassandra Cain

Name: Laura Wayne née Cain

Alias: Orphan X

Age: 25

Powers: Laura possesses an accelerated healing factor, not quite on par with Dark Claw's, but not far off either. This is expected to reach full capacity by the time she is 30. She also posseses superhumanly enhanced senses, strength, stamina, agility, and reflexes. Her main form of offence are her bone claws, two of which she has on either hand and either foot.

She was also trained in multiple martial arts and stealth techniques by both Benjamin Cain and Dark Claw and excells at stealth and assassination techniques.

Weaknesses: While her healing factor is exceptional, it still takes time to kick in and she can be incapacitated by heavy enough attacks. Energy based attacks in particular are tricky to heal from. She also has a "trigger scent" implanted within her DNA from a young age which induces a berserker state in which she turns into a remorseless and unstoppable hunter who won’t rest until she’s killed her target. Unfortunately she does not independently decide who this target is, and this could potentially be used by villains to her detriment.

Team Affiliation: Titan X

Personality: Hot-headed, Sarky, Confident, Relentless, Resourceful

Appearance: Laura stands at approximately 5'4" with a lean, athletic build that emphasizes both strength and agility. She has dark brown hair that only looks darker when contrasted with her pale skin and green eyes.

Her costume consists of a sleek, black leather jacket that fits snugly, made from high-tech material to provide both flexibility and protection. The jacket has armored sections on the shoulders and forearms, offering additional protection while allowing for a full range of motion. Her legs are covered by fitted black pants made from a durable, flexible fabric, enabling her to move swiftly and efficiently .Her hands are covered by black gloves that extend slightly past the wrists, featuring reinforced knuckles for added striking power, while her feet are shod in sturdy black combat boots that rise to her mid-calf.

BRIEF Bio: Laura Cain was a clone of Dark Claw created by Benjamin Cain (David Cain + Bullseye). From a young age, she was trained to be an expert assassin with the sole purpose of one day finding and killing Dark Claw himself. Her youth was stunted, as she was cut off from the outside world by Cain, who only allowed her to meet others when absolutely necessary. She completed her first assassination at the age of eight and continued to work with and for her father until her teenage years, when Cain decided she was ready to go after Dark Claw.

The assassination attempt did not go as planned, and she was subdued by Dark Claw with minimal difficulty. Seeing that she was almost feral and resisted any methods he tried to use to calm her or extract information, Dark Claw placed her in Arkham Asylum for holding. Having been trained for this potential eventuality, Laura escaped with relative ease and set about her second assassination attempt. She skulked in the shadows, doing her best to track Dark Claw and contact her father, who had been surprisingly radio silent since her incarceration.

After a tough fight with Dark Claw, she discovered that her father had been left for dead in a rundown sewer and had gone into hiding to avoid capture. The feeling of being on her own for the first time in her life was as scary as it was liberating, but she couldn't help but feel a sense of loss and sadness after realizing her "father" did not care enough to ensure her safety.

Nevertheless, she was trained with one purpose, and subconsciously everything was telling her to fulfill it. Using expert tracking techniques, she managed to follow Dark Claw back to his manor, where she took him by surprise and attacked him, but was again defeated. After seeing the noticeable similarities in their innate powers, along with receiving encouragement from his butler, Logan realized there was more to Laura than met the eye and trapped her within his manor.

What followed was a great deal of time spent de-conditioning her from the psychological trauma and training Cain had put her through. It took a while, but eventually, Laura began to warm to the hodge-podge family that had formed under Dark Claw's watch. Sparrow was instrumental in this, being another girl around the same age as her. During this time, Laura also began to uncover memories of her early childhood, realizing that there was a part of her that longed for family and belonging, something she had never been allowed to experience under Cain's control.

Eventually, Laura felt she was old enough to go out on her own. Dark Claw, of course, kept tabs on her, but she was well and truly changed for the better and wanted to do good in the world...at least in her own strange way. This led to a few run-ins with another former student of Claw, Night Vision. They butted heads on a few occasions, disagreeing completely in their methods and even coming to blows at one point. Nevertheless, with encouragement from Claw, Night Vision persisted in attempting to get her to stop going at it completely lone wolf and join the Titan X team. She refused vehemently until Night Vision was instrumental in helping her take down the Hyena's girlfriend, Wild Thing. She realized his worth as a leader and grew a level of respect for him, tentatively joining Titan X for the time being.

Supporting cast/characters:
Dark Claw
Night Vision
Sparrow

Amalgam Universe Notes:

Got a surge of inspiration today and managed to get this done! Hope everything is ok. Thanks a lot @Omega Man the backstory you wrote was a great help in fleshing out this character. I took a few details from it when writing the backstory.

AMALGAM - Hour of X

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AMALGAM - Hour of X

@Omega Man that would be great! I think I’m just having trouble with how much creative liberties I can take with the character. I’m a big fan of X23 and was thinking of mixing her with Cassandra Cain, but I’m not hugely knowledgeable on batgirl. I was going to use aspects of both and add some of my own stuff but wasn’t sure how far I could go with that. I’m struggling a bit with the supporting cast if I’m honest as well!

AMALGAM - Hour of X

I may start on a CS soon, I'm having a bit of trouble working so closely with mixing established characters.

Teen Titans: Ouroboros

Sorry for the shorter post! Currently in the process of finishing my current job and starting a new one so been a bit all over the place lately, but thought I'd get something in there so we can move forward.

Teen Titans: Ouroboros

Trigger

Trigger grinned as Robin returned the gesture. He finished making his breakfast as he listened to him speak and began to eat. "Yeah probably about that. Don't tempt me, drinking at 8am isn't the best idea if your news means we might have to fight." He nodded to the other two as they came in grinning as they bantered. His stomach dropped a bit when Robin mentioned John. He felt guilty. He'd really not been in contact enough since arriving here, and even not replying right away this morning when it would only have taken 2 minutes felt a bit...ungrateful of him. He scratched his nose with his knuckle before answering. "Yeah he actually texted me this morning, I've still got to reply to him. Why, have we got something occult to deal with?"

AMALGAM - Hour of X

I've been wanting to RP as X-23 for a while now so defo interested!

Phi Mu Lambda: Friendly Wizarding Fraternity

Fiona Zhou

Nice N Sleazy - Bar and Gig venue
Last night around 09:00PM

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Fiona sat back on the mangy old couch with her boot resting on the edge of the table. She had one hand holding a half-drunk beer bottle and the other in the pocket of her zip-up hoodie. The room was small and stank of spilled alcohol and cigarette smoke, but it was far from the worst green room she'd ever been in. That was either a toss-up between the gig she played in Slough or the one in Blackpool; she still had nightmares about the stink in those rooms.

She was backing up a rap duo, 'Vandal Verse.' She had met them not long after arriving in Arizona at a local concert, and after showing them her SoundCloud, they asked her to produce a few tracks for them and do instrumentals at their gigs when she had the time. Fiona didn't mind the two knuckleheads, and the extra cash wasn't so bad either. It was nice having friends outside of university, too. She still felt so new to the place, let alone the country, and relating to everyone was proving harder than she expected. She'd met a few people for sure, but she worried at times the only thing she had in common with them was their magical heritage. She knew it was a pessimistic attitude for sure, but she had always been an outsider. She could only hope people here would be a bit more accepting of her than those in her past.

The club owner opened the door just as one half of the duo, Dave, began attempting to balance his beer bottle on his nose like a seal. Unfortunately for both of them, the door startled him, and he let the bottle fall and spill all over the floor. The club owner sighed, informing Dave that the accident would be taken out of their pay.

They made their way to the side of the stage as the opener began to finish his set. Fiona breathed in deeply. She'd been on stage a million times, but each time she couldn't shake the nerves. Mike, the other half of the duo, turned to her with an unusually empathetic eye.

"Hey, Fi, you nervous?"

"Me? Never." She spoke, puffing her chest and putting on a brave face. Mike just grinned back at her, sticking his thumb up as the two swaggered their way onto the stage, being met by the roar of the crowd. Fiona followed, rolling up her hoodie sleeves as she approached her decks.

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Fiona's room
The next day

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Fiona begrudgingly woke up to the sound of her phone's alarm. She'd done her best to fight the conscious world, but she had been 'smart' enough last night to set about 11 consecutive alarms to prevent her from sleeping in and missing class again. She rubbed her face with a scowl, rolled out of bed, and checked her phone notifications. It was the usual stuff: Instagram, Twitter, texts from her parents. She kept scrolling until she found her group chat with Vandal Verse.

Yo, Fi great gig last night man.

Mike

Ye dude ty for backing us up it wz sick

Dave

I'll venmo you what we're due you later today bro, c u soon

Mike

Fiona grinned. You could call the two a lot of things, but reliable and loyal definitely needed to be included. She sent a quick text back thanking them and tossed her phone onto her desk before heading for a quick shower and changing into something more appropriate than her pajamas. She looked around her small room. She'd tried to make it as personal as possible, but it still felt like a dorm room to her. Various band posters plastered the walls, and she'd put some LED lighting around the top of the ceiling. Her laptop rested on the desk next to various music equipment, and her guitar sat in the corner of the room.

She finished putting in the last of her jewelry, her nose ring, and plugged in her earbuds as she left the room. Tapping a few buttons on her cracked iPhone screen, she landed on the encore song she and the rap duo had put together for last night's gig. It began to drown out any external noise as she made her way through the dorm.

Groggily making her way down the stairs, her eye was caught by an all-black poster for a metal band on the wall. She stopped, reading it before realizing she recognized one of the faces in the stylized black-and-white photo underneath their band logo. It was that metalhead, Steve, she'd met a few times. He seemed like a nice enough guy, and it didn't hurt to have more musically inclined friends. She noted the time and date of the gig in her phone and continued on to the common room.

As she entered, she was hit in the face with the smell of weed. It could only be one person, Abasi. She took out her earphones. If he had managed to wake up before her, she'd missed her chance to get control of the ever-valuable sound system. It could be worse, though; she didn't mind the usual funk and soul playlist he had on. It was much better than some of the other stuff that got played in there, that was for sure.

She glanced at the figures in the room, raising her hand in a small wave as she made her way to the couches.
"Hey guys, what's up?" she asked, slumping down on the couch adjacent to the one Abasi and Steve were sitting on. Her eyes drifted over to Ava as she called out for the money match. "I'll play, but I'm for sure not putting up money against someone with that controller, I suck as it is let alone against that hardware."

Phi Mu Lambda: Friendly Wizarding Fraternity

Fiona

Fiona Zhou

Oneohtrix Point Never - I Don’t Love Me Anymore

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Name: Fang Zhou - Chosen English name is Fiona

Nationality: English (Scouse)

Sex: Female

Age: 19

Appearance:
Fiona walks the line between goth and punk on a daily basis and expresses herself largely through her appearance. She usually has hair styled into two large buns, with one side dyed a vivid magenta and the other black with tints of a striking electric blue, making her stand out in any crowd. She wears dark, gothic makeup, including black lipstick and heavy eyeliner, accentuating her sharp, confident features.

Her attire is a mix of punk and formal styles, featuring a black and white suit jacket with a sleek, modern cut. Underneath, she wears a white dress shirt paired with a black tie that adds a touch of sophistication to her rebellious look. Around her neck is a spiked choker, and she sports black fingerless gloves. Her nails are painted black, completing her dark and edgy ensemble. She also has plenty of piercings on her ears, along with one through her eyebrow and another on her right nostril.

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Speciality: Defence

Any Unique Spell: Fiona has the ability to summon familiars to fight for her or do her bidding. She can choose any appearance she likes for these familiars, but often chooses the form of two small winged demons hen she summons them. They are small, and more annoying than capable of properly taking down a full wizard. If Fiona's concentration wavers significantly, her familiars will dissipate, as she loses focus on maintaining their presence. She is still learning to properly hone this unique spell and has in the past been able to summon one larger familiar rather than two small ones, but wasn't properly able to hold this spell for long enough for it to be of use.

Non-Magical Skills: Fionas main skill is her musical aptitude. She is able to play the piano, guitar, drums to a high level and a variety of other instruments to a differing degree of skill. Her main interest is in electronic music though and as a result she spends most of her time using software and hardware hooked up to her laptop to make music. Other than this she isn't a bad cook when she can be bothered and she has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of film. She also grew up doing judo and some of the skill is still there, but hasn't properly done it for years and wouldn't dream of competing.

Misc. Weaknesses: Controlling her emotions, obeying authority, procrastinating

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Major: Music

Backstory:
Fiona was born in Liverpool, England, to a family of Chinese immigrants. None of them had any magical aptitude, and for most of her life, Fiona was unaware of the magical world. Her family was not rich by any means, with her father working as a laborer and her mother working part-time as a waitress. Caring for Fiona and her older brother was a struggle at the best of times, both financially and culturally. Liverpool was incredibly different from where they originally came from, and while they did their best to integrate, none of them did as well as Fiona.

Growing up, she always struggled to fit in with the other kids at school. Her older brother was often her solace, always there to defend her from bullies. His protective nature made him her hero, and he even sacrificed his own free time to work extra shifts, ensuring she could attend Judo lessons with him. He taught her how to protect herself as best he could and used his own earnings from his part-time job to pay for Judo lessons with her. Eventually, she settled in, but still always felt incredibly different from everyone else around her. It was only a matter of time before she fell into the punk and goth subcultures. They accepted her with open arms, being outsiders themselves, and she found her first friend group she could identify with not long into high school.

Her favorite class was always music. Her family never had the money for instruments; all they had was Fiona's father's old guitar, which he did his best to teach her to play when he wasn't at work. Her school's music teacher was a massive influence on her and noticed her musical aptitude. He worked to develop it, encouraging her to try as many instruments as she could and putting her forward for the school orchestra. Additionally, a lot of her time outside of school was spent playing in various high school garage bands. She often played in local gigs, gaining a reputation for her raw talent and unique style. She got a job while still in school and saved up all her money to eventually buy her first good laptop with recording equipment.

This ignited her love for electronic music, and she spent countless nights in her bedroom experimenting with pirated software and shoddy equipment she had found or put together herself. Her room became a sanctuary filled with wires, synthesizers, and the constant hum of her creative endeavors. Her life was almost entirely dedicated to music until she was contacted by the Magic Inspectorate.

The first meeting was a strange one. It felt like she had a disembodied voice in her head all day, telling her—almost begging her—to go to the park after school. She couldn't get the thought out of her head and, in her desperation, followed its instruction, later realizing this was, of course, telepathy being used on her. There, she met the woman who would soon become her tutor, an American expat named Samantha. Samantha explained Fiona's magical aptitude to her and revealed the secrets of the wizarding world. Under the guise of being a math tutor, Samantha began honing Fiona's magic skills in secret. The lessons were rigorous, but Fiona’s determination and curiosity drove her to master complex spells quickly.

During her time with Fiona, Samantha often talked fondly about her time at Arizona State University. When it came time for Fiona to graduate from high school and choose a university, she made the big decision to move across the water and attend school there. She was eager to start a new chapter in her life, one where she could fully embrace both her musical passions and magical potential.