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Full name:
Buruma
Alias:
Lookout
Age:
17
Appearance:
Buruma is tall and fairly lanky, standing at 5'11 and weighing around 145lbs. She has long, dirty blonde hair and dark brown eyes that look more like an animals, to such an extent that you can't see the whites of her eyes. Her face has a mousy appearance, with a petite nose, ears and lips but she has a surprisingly tanned complexion. Her arms, legs and back are all covered in soft, brownish-blonde fur, save for her chest and stomach and she has a long, dark brown fur-covered tail. Her feet and palms have hard, padded calluses on them and half-inch long burrowing claws extend from each finger and toes. While her posture looks human, there is a certain strange quality about it, as if her legs and arms are a little too short, as if she could comfortable rest on all fours. Her teeth also seem sharper than a normal persons, with long upper and lower canines that look more like fangs than anything else.
Abilities:
- Zoolinguist: Buruma can communicate with animals as easily as she can talk with people, being able to ask them for information or request assistance. Whether the animals actually listen is a different matter entirely.
- Animal Instinct: Buruma's five senses are all enhanced beyond normal human abilities, to the pint where she could realistically identify and trck people by smell alone. While she doesn't have eagle vision, she does have better night and low-light vision and can see in greater detail than others. She also has an instinctual knack for stealth.
- Peak Human Condition: Buruma starts with peak levels of human strength, endurance, stamina and agility. She can run longer and push harder than most people. With proper training she can only improve.
- Burrowing: With her claws, peak physical condition and enhanced senses, Buruma can quickly burrow underground. While it may take her about half an hour to dig a decent sized tunnel, she has an instinctual knack for digging in such a way that the tunnel is unlikely to collapse.
Skills:
Buruma is surprisingly bright, attentive and perceptive, quick to learn and to adapt. Whatever catches her attention, Buruma will quickly learn with ease.
Brief bio:
Buruma was the unfortunate result of mutant experimentation. Her mother, an indigenous Australian woman and mutant, was intentionally impregnated with Meerkat cells in a series of Mutant-Animal hybridization experiments. Her mothers mutant ability to adapt to numerous situations allowed her to carry her daughter to term and successfully deliver her child and it wasn't long until her motherly instincts took over, taking her child and escaping her captors. For the first 3 years they were homeless, living in the Australian outback and relying on her mothers mutant abilities to provide the skills to acquire what they needed when they needed it.
It wasn't until the two were approached by one of the X-Men and were offered sanctuary at Xavier's school that the two were finally separated, with her mother opting to remain, lest her former captors track them to the school. Since then Buruma has lived at the school, dreaming of not only seeing her mother again but also helping those in need and liberating persecuted mutants and people alike.
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