Laura never forgets a face, at any point she can pull fifty facts on a person. However, she does not often go and seek a person out after the first meeting. Peter is ....different, Laura cannot explain why but she looks for him, watches him, studies him.

She realises she wishes to talk to him again but she is not known for her conversation starters. It is hard. Eventually, she stands outside his room in the evening and waits for him to emerge. She is silent until the door opens so Peter should have no idea she is there.

When the door creaks open she catches his scent and puts her hand in the door. She peers around.

"You owe me a joke."

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[Player information]
Player Name: Lauren
Age: 27
E-mail: lovehorsesandlegolas[at]hotmail[dot]com
Other characters played at Cape Kore: Alec Lightwood

[Character information]
Name: Laura Kinney | X-23
Canon: Marvel 616
Canon Point: Avengers Arena 10
Age: 16

Appearance: here and here

Inventory:
Black jeans and green top
locket

Abilities:
Laura is the female clone of Wolverine, created from Wolverine’s genes with the result that her mutant powers are similar to his. Like Wolverine her main ability is an accelerated healing factor that allows her to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissues and cells a great deal faster than the average person, for example injuries such as a gunshot or a slash heal with in minutes. She can regenerate large areas of herself. When she and Daken were caught in a blast and shown as near skeletons, she emerged from the blast, healing herself. Laura can also regrow severed limbs. Kimumra, her handler severed her arm from her body and Laura was able to regrow it, this took days to do.

The accelerated healing system does have an effect on her immune system making her immune to most diseases and infections. One noticeable being the Legacy Virus which nearly killed her. Drugs and toxins can effect her in sufficient doses and Laura is deeply affected by the trigger which was designed to ensure it would always make hr kill her target.

The healing factor also heightens Laura’s physical senses, strength, stamina, agility, and reflexes to superhuman levels. Like Wolverine, X-23 possesses retractable bone claws, however unlike him she has two claws in each hand which emerge from her fists and she also has a singe claw in each foot. These claws were taken out of her body by Zander Rice, sharpened, coated with adamantium, and reinserted into her body. The adamantium claws are virtually unbreakable and capable of cutting almost any substance.
Laura was trained to be a killer and is also proficient in hand to hand combat, fire arms and explosives.

History: Wiki


Personality:
At first glance Laura looks like your typical woman, just a little too calm and quiet for her age. Underneath the surface however there is a lot of emotion and thought that are hidden behind this front, stemming back from how she has been shaped since she was born.


Laura is a clone and was born and grew up in a laboratory. The laboratory had a highly controlled environment, where all her training and development was done to turn her into a living weapon. Consequently only proper language was used around her and she speaks English in it’s purest form, and she rarely uses slang as she was not exposed to any for it until she was a teenager living in the streets of New York.

In the laboratory, Laura was never mollycoddled, and was never taught how to express an opinion or to make social chit chat. Her talk was mostly limited to orders and affirming orders. This has made Laura seem very withdrawn as she rarely speaks more than one or two sentences at a time. She is also less likely to be the person to start a conversation unless there is something specific that she needs to say or ask as she does not need see the need to waste time and words on pointless chat.

The lack of conversation and social interaction when Laura was young was part of the process of turning her into a mindless, controllable killer. They wanted her to have no emotion or feelings. They tried methods such as making her kill a puppy that she had been allowed as a pet. Laura displays distress at this and after she finds she has killed her sensei under the trigger drug. She had been unable to kill him under a direct order. These experiences taught her that the deaths would happen no matter what and they succeeded in turning her into a highly skilled and trained combatant; who is able to kill dozens of heavily armed opponents during a single encounter. However, they did not succeed in beating the humanity out of her. Laura continued showed signs of humanity and emotion; in one particular mission when X-23 was assigned to assassinate Martin Sutter and his family, she killed Sutter and his wife without hesitation, but she spared their young son, Henry.

Laura does not show her emotion in a normal fashion as these were denied to herWhen the average teenager has a problem or is upset they find something to lash out at or they go to a friend or family member who will comfort them or give them a hug. Laura does none of these. When she was a child, her mother Dr. Sarah Kinney, did her best to ensure Laura retained some semblance of humanity by spending time with her and reading to her. However in the tightly controlled environment she had to rebuff Laura’s advances; Laura tried to place her head into her mother’s lap and got pushed away. She associates pain, loneliness and emotion as something that she must deal with alone. The only way she found to deal with this, and still deals with emotions she cannot express is to self harm by cutting herself with her claws.

After joining the X-men Laura began to improve in her interaction with other people. She joined the team the New X-men and attended the Xavier Institute, where was always surrounded by other people. Laura adapts to her environments, on a mission she will play a part to gain access to the target, in the school she watched, trying to learn what was expected of her. Julian Keller, noticed her, and called her weird. He was the first person to interact with her, even if it was in a negative fashion. She showed she cared by watching him, when he was injured, she perched by his bed at night, and even defended him in a fight. Eventually Laura began to develop a romantic interest in him, but she has said herself that she does not understand what she feels for him.


Laura also begins to show feelings enough to develop friendships. One time when she runs off from Julian she goes to cut herself and her team mate Mercury found her. Mercury placed an arm around her and talked to her. Laura did not pull away and a bond of sorts developed. When Mercury was kidnapped Laura went after her to rescue her.

Laura is secretive and does not share information about herself easily. She tells information about herself on a need to know basis. When she does she is very fact or fact and calm, even about the torture that she received at the hands of Weapon X. She has a no nonsense attitude towards situations and analyses them. She is also clever and has a wide range of facts. When she is talking in a conversation, she still prefers to state the facts rather than give an opinion. She has still to learn how to develop her own opinion on many things and still has has trouble comprehending and expressing the many new emotions she has been experiencing for the very first time.

As time has gone on, Laura has felt hampered in expressing herself because the people around her view her as a weapon to be used or with pity. She realises she does not know who she is, and has acted as people told her she should act. It made her uncomfortable to be around the X-men, especially after a divide in the X-men. Wolverine asked her to pick a side. Laua who normally, would have followed his lead, expressed her that she wanted to take a third option and pick no side. She did not want to be a pawn. This lead her to leave the X-men to trace her own bloody past. Laura expresses to Gambit that she feels nothing about her past, but she internalises it. From her internal monologues it is clear she doesn’t want the pass to shape her, and she wants to be something else.

Laura returned to the X-men, however she felt pushed back into a box. People expected her to act as she had before. This included Julian, who wanted to act on the budding emotions between them. Laura refused him and told him she felt nothing for him. This was to ensure his emotions and views on life would not entangle with hers and shape her. When she is offered the chance to move schools to the Avengers Academy, she takes it. There she finds that people are okay with her past, they don’t judge her on it or pity her. She is quieter there, taking the time to observe other people and slowly integrate herself with the other students. She does not act like a trained killer and is described by Juston as a ‘tortured pacifist’.

Laura has no desires to kill, even when she is faced with a villian At her canon point, she is trapped in the Arcade’s Arena. It has a similar to Battle Royale setting but Laura defies Arcade, and her training. She does not act as a predator, and does not set out to kill anyone. Instead, she protects her friends and tries to aid their escape attempts. In Kore, this new attitude will carry on.




[Samples]
Linked here and here

Video

[The video begins with a hand with extended claws resting on the grass. There are cuts on the hand which are beginning to close over. Slowly, a face comes into view. The girl has clearly injured more than her hand. There are lacerations and bruises on her face. She looks towards the sky looking for a face in the sky. When she’s none, she turns to the video on her wrist.]

Hazmat, Reptil? Are you safe? Where has Arcade taken us? I do not remember what happened after Apex used the sentinel to attack me.

[She shuts her eyes briefly.]

The trigger scent has gone, I am no longer a danger to you. I can find you again.


Log
There was a faint rustling in the undergrowth which the average person would not have paid any head to. Laura was not your average person and paused to sniff the air. Rabbit, she identified the smell coming from the undergrowth. A rabbit would not feed many people however she was yet to find the tracks of larger prey. If she ignored the rabbit and found little other prey she would fail in her mission to bring good to the wagons. Laura did not want to fail her mission.

Laura popped the claws on her left hand, there was a brief second of pain is they broke through the skin but it was barely noticeable to her as it was an every day occurrence. She approached the patch of undergrowth silently and stabbed quickly down on the spot that she had identified the rabbit before it had a chance to escape. In an instant she had the rabbit picked up by the scruff of the neck and deposited it into her sack so it would not get in the way of further hunting. Confidently she continued down the trail.

She was not perturbed by her new surroundings. They were different to Arcade’s arena - the surrounding where unshifting, and there was no tension, or people wondering whether she was going to turn on her friends and kill them. She felt freer like she had at the Avengers Academy. Most people did not know her. There was one problem, Julian, she did not wish for him to be watching her everywhere she went. She knew his scent and could walk the other way, she didn’t want to be responsible for his emotions. He should have reined those in. However, she recognised that if he was in danger, she would protect him like she would her new friends.

The second she heard voices in the forest, Laura climbed into a tree, and hid on the lower branch where she could observe them and gauge their motives from being away from the center of the town.

Anything Else? I have injured my wrist this month which is why the app is being submitted so late and why I’ve included a link to an older thread as well as the d_m post.

Also I am away from 22 June until 29 June on holiday, so if revisions are required, is it okay to submit them when I get back? Thanks.

ABOUT YOU

Name: Lauren
Are you 18 or over?: yes
Other characters played: n/a

CHARACTER

Name: Laura Kinney, X-23 (code name)
Canon: Marvel 616
Age: 17
History: History
Point in canon: X-Men: Regenesis
Window Location: It is located in the woods, after she stops on route to the Avengers Academy and experiences a wolf dream.
Universe: Laura is part of the Marvel MultiUniverse. Many of events of history and locations are the same in the Marvel Universe are the same, however there are events such as Genosha and M Day which are events and history contained only within the Multiuniverse

The universe has got its normal people but it also contains superheroes, those either born with mutant gene or those given their powers through an accident such as a spider bite or by design from a laboratory. Gods from different mythologies, and magic are also real.

The X-men, the mutants, over the course of the years have tried to hide their identity behind costumes and code names. Mutants are often feared and hated by large pockets of the general public as they get blamed for deaths and incidents and they are feared for how powerful they are.

Since M Day they have gone public but old fears still remain.

Abilities: Laura is the female clone of Wolverine, created from Wolverine’s genes with the result that her mutant powers are similar to his. Like Wolverine her main ability is an accelerated healing factor that allows her to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissues and cells a great deal faster than the average person, for example injuries such as a gunshot or a slash heal with in minutes. She can regenerate large areas of herself. When she and Daken were caught in a blast and shown as near skeletons, she emerged from the blast, healing herself. Laura can also regrow severed limbs. Kimumra, her handler severed her arm from her body and Laura was able to regrow it, this took days to do.

The accelerated healing system does have an effect on her immune system making her immune to most diseases and infections. One noticeable being the Legacy Virus which nearly killed her. Drugs and toxins can effect her in sufficient doses and Laura is deeply affected by the trigger which was designed to ensure it would always make hr kill her target.

The healing factor also heightens Laura’s physical senses, strength, stamina, agility, and reflexes to superhuman levels. Like Wolverine, X-23 possesses retractable bone claws, however unlike him she has two claws in each hand which emerge from her fists and she also has a singe claw in each foot. These claws were taken out of her body by Zander Rice, sharpened, coated with adamantium, and reinserted into her body. The adamantium claws are virtually unbreakable and capable of cutting almost any substance.
Laura was trained to be a killer and is also proficient in hand to hand combat, fire arms and explosives.
Possessions: The clothes that she has on her the metal claws in her hands and feet

Personality:
At first glance Laura looks like your typical woman, just a little too calm and quiet for her age. Underneath the surface however there is a lot of emotion and thought that are hidden behind this front, stemming back from how she has been shaped since she was born.


Laura is a clone and was born and grew up in a laboratory. The laboratory had a highly controlled environment, where all her training and development was done to turn her into a living weapon. Consequently only proper language was used around her and she speaks English in it’s purest form, and she rarely uses slang as she was not exposed to any for it until she was a teenager living in the streets of New York.

In the laboratory, Laura was never mollycoddled, and was never taught how to express an opinion or to make social chit chat. Her talk was mostly limited to orders and affirming orders. This has made Laura seem very withdrawn as she rarely speaks more than one or two sentences at a time. She is also less likely to be the person to start a conversation unless there is something specific that she needs to say or ask as she does not need see the need to waste time and words on pointless chat.

The lack of conversation and social interaction when Laura was young was part of the process of turning her into a mindless, controllable killer. They wanted her to have no emotion or feelings. They tried methods such as making her kill a puppy that she had been allowed as a pet. Laura displays distress at this and after she finds she has killed her sensei under the trigger drug. She had been unable to kill him under a direct order. These experiences taught her that the deaths would happen no matter what and they succeeded in turning her into a highly skilled and trained combatant; who is able to kill dozens of heavily armed opponents during a single encounter. However, they did not succeed in beating the humanity out of her. Laura continued showed signs of humanity and emotion; in one particular mission when X-23 was assigned to assassinate Martin Sutter and his family, she killed Sutter and his wife without hesitation, but she spared their young son, Henry.

Laura does not show her emotion in a normal fashion as these were denied to herWhen the average teenager has a problem or is upset they find something to lash out at or they go to a friend or family member who will comfort them or give them a hug. Laura does none of these. When she was a child, her mother Dr. Sarah Kinney, did her best to ensure Laura retained some semblance of humanity by spending time with her and reading to her. However in the tightly controlled environment she had to rebuff Laura’s advances; Laura tried to place her head into her mother’s lap and got pushed away. She associates pain, loneliness and emotion as something that she must deal with alone. The only way she found to deal with this, and still deals with emotions she cannot express is to self harm by cutting herself with her claws.

After joining the X-men Laura began to improve in her interaction with other people. She joined the team the New X-men and attended the Xavier Institute, where was always surrounded by other people. Laura adapts to her environments, on a mission she will play a part to gain access to the target, in the school she watched, trying to learn what was expected of her. Julian Keller, noticed her, and called her weird. He was the first person to interact with her, even if it was in a negative fashion. She showed she cared by watching him, when he was injured, she perched by his bed at night, and even defended him in a fight. Eventually Laura began to develop a romantic interest in him, but she has said herself that she does not understand what she feels for him.


Laura also begins to show feelings enough to develop friendships. One time when she runs off from Julian she goes to cut herself and her team mate Mercury found her. Mercury placed an arm around her and talked to her. Laura did not pull away and a bond of sorts developed. When Mercury was kidnapped Laura went after her to rescue her.

Laura is secretive and does not share information about herself easily. She tells information about herself on a need to know basis. When she does she is very fact or fact and calm, even about the torture that she received at the hands of Weapon X. She has a no nonsense attitude towards situations and analyses them. She is also clever and has a wide range of facts. When she is talking in a conversation, she still prefers to state the facts rather than give an opinion. She has still to learn how to develop her own opinion on many things and still has has trouble comprehending and expressing the many new emotions she has been experiencing for the very first time.


Laura’s secretive nature leads her to go off alone to pursue her past and find out for herself who she really is. Away from the other teens, Laura’s social improvements fade away. She tells Gambit that she does understand friendship, and when Julian catches up with her again, she refuses his advances. All of this indicating that she wants to be her own person where she is not defined by the people she is around. She finds feeling complicate what she needs to discover about herself.

Thread Sample: here

Prose Sample:
Laura had promised Jubilee that she would participate in the game. It was a pointless outdoor exercise and her companion’s sole purpose for it was to ‘beat the boys’. Despite the time she had spent in company of people her age, their reasons often confused her. She had spent the first thirteen years of her life training. Every activity she had participated in had a purpose to improve her skills, strength or agility. She was aware that her outlook was perceived to be wrong. She often smelt pity on the people around her or awkward poses as they tried to talk to her. It made her feel alone. A newer emotion for her.

“I will leave tomorrow,” she said flatly to Jubilee as joined her outside.

“No Laura, stay and hang out with me, we can go shopping and have fun. You don’t need to worry about the spoilsports here!” Jubiliee bubbled the information at her friend, casting a look at some of the other people gathered around the outdoor court. She tried to slip an arm through Laura but Laura pulled her arm away.

“No. I do not belong,” Laura got the words out with difficulty. “I am only a weapon to the adults.” She did not wish to be this anymore. She did not wish to dream about the endless blood on her hands anymore. It was time for her to find out who she really was and she was eighty-three percent sure she was not the type of person to worry about beating the boys.

Plans: My plans for her are basic at the moment! I plan to throw her at plots and characters and seeing how she develops and interacts with people in social and dangerous situations.
Notes: I’m happy to answer any questions about her!

DÆMON

Name: Ezhno
Sex: Male
Form: grey wolf
Additional notes: Picture!
Why this form: Lone wolves are strong and aggressive like Laura. When a lone wolf joins a pack, he becomes more friendly and protective as wolf packs form strong bonds. Underneath the confusion of the world and her inability to discern what her own emotions mean, Laura wants these ties. When she was with the x-men at school, she became part of a team and was fierce in her protection of them. At her canon point, she has left to join Academy X because she was looking for a place to belong and be accepted. Ezhno will aid Laura in showing the personality and emotions that she finds difficulty in expressing for herself.

'I can smell their reactions when they hear I cut. Shock, revolution, fear, worry, anger. I do not understand. It helps me to feel. I am frustrated that I can't feel more for what I have done. I know I should. But I cannot cry. I just feel hollow'

Laura drew her legs up against her chest while she sat under the oak tree. She looked at her wrists. There were marks again, they left no impression like the many faceless people she had killed. Her fingers bunched up into fists and she rested her head on her knees.

'I cannot do this. I do not know how to ask for help.' She looked to where crowds of people were standing and laughing and chatting. 'How do I go forwards when I still have blank holes from my past'