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Phoenix; Jean Grey
Topic Started: May 10, 2015, 12:16 am (206 Views)
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Full Name: Jean Grey
Code Name: Phoenix
Age: 27
Gender: Female; Heterosexual
Physical Description: Jean is 5'8 and roughly 125 lbs. She has a fit and healthy shape on her lithe frame, something she adamantly maintains. Her hair is a natural black cherry hue, and she leaves it long and thick. She has large green eyes and a soft 'sweetheart' shape to her facial features.

Jean's style is something of a fusion between practical and chic. While she is inclined to lean toward edgy but feminine looks, she's grown accustomed to spontaneity. Because she knows she must be ready for anything, her wardrobe consists of "on-the-go" clothes: stylish but fitted tops, fitted slacks or denim pants. She won't wear many accessories.
Playby: Alexandra Breckenridge



Personality Overview:
  • Over-sharing, Neurotic Nut: While Jean isn't used to living free and open, she's definitely grown to embrace a life among peers who understand The Struggle. As such, she tends to run at the mouth and over-explain things in social settings. This tends to present itself in her chronic foot-in-mouth issues, saying the wrong things at the wrong time, and fumbling at the mouth while trying to undo it. She's a bit of an A-Type when it comes to trying (and usually failing) to present a polished adult.
  • Poker-Mug Straight-Shooter: When the going gets going, Jean's a real focused one. She takes her missions seriously. She's known for keeping her cool in times of heightened stress and tension. She doesn't cower from confrontation, and has no issue laying down lessons. This leads way to her natural sense of leadership. Though she does not intentionally exert any form of dominance, she is intuitively inclined to express her opinions on matters like strategy, assignments, team delegation, etc.
  • Truth Stinger, Heart Bringer: She drops truths like they're dollar bills, but it's all out of love.
  • DAS-UBER-PHOENIX: Jean has a history that inspired the Phoenix monicker that she has grown to identify with. While not entirely a separate identity, her hard edges were formed in a time of misguided anger. Faced with overcoming trauma, surrounded by a family that was terrified of her, a vicious hand of oppression against her kind, a constant bombardment of every horrible thought from anyone around her, and the pressures given to her by Charles Xavier, Jean displayed a prolonged period of delinquency. While she's moved on from this time in her life, when pressures build to an insurmountable level, she has a tendency to display thrashing mood swings and an unstable grasp of reality - a form of PTSD.

Likes: Junk food, Fireball whiskey, medical dramas, ugly animals, swear jars
Dislikes: Cargo pants, judgmental people, flat hair, pestering, incompetence
Fears: Her own raw power, an inability to save everyone



Powers: Jean is an omega level mutant with powers encompassing many psionic avenues, primarily Telekinesis and Telepathy. While her strength with each is quite vast, her telepathy has been intentionally crippled by mental blocks from Charles Xavier in order to restrain any unwelcome bombardment from those around her. She has currently mastered the following feats:
  • Telekinesis: Jean has the ability to levitate, move, and manipulate objects and people with her mind. She can use objects as projectiles, with the force of a truck speeding 80 mph. While she's capable of lifting roughly sixty tons of mass at one given time, any prolonged strain at this level would take a tremendous toll on her physical body. This typically results in severe migraines or even unconsciousness.
  • Flight: Jean is able to telekinetically propel herself through the air in flight. Though her speeds are untested, she sticks to speeds in which breathing is not hindered.
  • Force Fields: She's able to create dense telekinetic shields around herself and others for protection. While she can repel forces like shotgun blasts, powerful energy projections, and even collapsing buildings, continuous pressure will eventually shatter her shields.
  • Concussive Bolts: She can project her telekinesis into a burst of energy that presents itself as a concussive blast of brute force. At max, she is strong enough to crack holes through thick steel doors.
  • Telepathy: Currently, Jean is capable of sending and receiving messages and images mentally. Because of the intentional mental walls that Xavier built, she is not currently capable of thoroughly scanning another's mind, though others can open up to her and allow her a bit more freedom.
  • Psionic Flare: The collision of her telepathy and telekinesis causes a strange reaction and ignites something she calls "psionic flare". In essence, this is a psionic fire that effects anyone who is touched by it on a physical and mental level. While it does create a physical burning sensation, it is not a typical fire, in that it does not change the chemical properties of what it touches (it burns you without longterm effects). When this is used on objects, it will heat them but not burn them. On the mental aspect, it will create a "mental burning" sensation, a horrible psionic throb and pain that lingers until the Psionic Flare is no longer focused on the person. At current, the mental aspect of the flare is low-level.
  • Mental Channels: Jean is able to act as a conduit for those she mentally connects with, enabling many people to relay surface messages and images at once. Anything beyond about a dozen causes a toll.
  • Mental Blocks: Jean is extremely resistant to psychic intrusion and manipulation. She typically needs to willingly open her mind up in order to be probed.

Skills: Jean achieved a Bachelor's Degree in Biology and went on to obtain her medical degree to become a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. She has three years of experience as a trained trauma medic, with an additional three years of untrained experience in her youth. She is able to assess life threatening injuries and ailments in emergency situations, and proceed with immediate care.

Jean is an experienced street fighter, able to utilize her psionic talents to give her a slight edge when faced with unarmed combat. She is able to use the environment around her as a means of added support in her combat when necessary (IE: knocking people against walls or utilizing blunt objects as makeshift weapons).

Jean's developed ability to keep calm and rational in emergency or high-stress situations also gives her an edge on any battlefield. She's able to quickly and swiftly assess situations and react in kind, allowing her a strong sense of immediate tactics. She is better equipped to deal with tactics in the heat of emergency than she is at long, drawn-out schemes, mostly due to the fact that she believes you must always expect the unexpected. Given her history, thriving in emergency situations and overcoming immediate threats, she knows drawn-out schemes will only go so far.



Birthday: April 1
Family:
  • John Grey (father)
  • Elaine Grey (mother)
  • Sara Grey (sister)
  • Julia Grey (sister)
  • Roger Grey (brother)
  • Liam Grey (brother)

History: Jean Grey was born in New York to John, a professor of history, and Elaine, a quaint housewife. She grew up with four siblings - Sara, Julia, Roger, and Liam. They were any typical lower-middle class family... able to "get by", with some few basic leisures.

Jean's mutant abilities developed when she was 10 years old, just starting puberty. She and her best friend Annie Richardson were outside playing around dusk, when an impatient driver swung into the wrong lane in hopes of skipping up a few cars. Unfortunately, a line of oncoming traffic came and obliterated the car, resulting in a horrible pileup. In the chaos of the wreckage, Jean was struck and knocked back by a spinning car. She collided with a brick wall and fell out of view next to a dumpster in an alleyway. Shrapnel and debris littered the area, and when Jean awoke and took in the scene, something was different. Initially believing she was dead, she was faced with a flood of voices in her mind from the people in the pileup. It took her some time to realize what had happened to her, and even more to drown out the noise in her head, but somehow... she knew what to do. She assessed herself, yanking a few bits of shrapnel out of her skin, one of which was a big piece of windshield that had torn through her side and left a flap of skin and muscle open. Not quite able to get up or call for help, she still had an understanding of the immense damage done to her body - a knowledge she had never had before, and certainly shouldn't have at such a young age. She was bleeding out.

Her body in shock and her senses somewhat skewed, Jean dragged herself to a nearby pile of trash bags and began tearing into them. She kept as much pressure as she could with one hand on the worst of the wounds, meanwhile clawing her way through old food and waste, searching for any materials she could use to stop the bleeding. It only took a minute or two before she finally came upon something... and under normal circumstances it would be a last resort, but she'd die before anyone found her at the rate she was losing blood. It was a broken office stapler snapped at the joint, but after a quick inspection, Jean saw that there were enough staples left in it to close the biggest of the wounds and give her some extra time to find help. So, the ten year old, who had somehow absorbed the knowledge of a nearby surgeon, sat in the alleyway and stapled her side closed. She made it as far as she could, though somewhere near the end, she finally passed out from the pain and initial blood loss.

It was twenty or so minutes before she was found, but was immediately rushed to the hospital, and a real surgeon cleaned her up and fixed her jerry-rigged suture. The doctors, her family - everyone was surprised at how she'd managed to save her own life in such a manner, and as far as they knew, her know-how was somewhat of a miracle. Jean, however, was left devastated and utterly traumatized. Not because of what she had had to do to herself, but because she then learned that her best friend, Annie Richardson, had been entirely run over by the same car that had struck her, effectively killing her instantaneously.

The year that followed was a bit of a blur, involving intensive therapy to quell the post-traumatic stress-disorder that Jean had developed, though nothing could explain or stop the onslaught of raw telepathic might. Her family had grown to fear Jean and the fact that no secret was safe from her. Eventually, a man named Charles Xavier sat in on a therapy session with her. He informed the young girl of what she was, and agreed to help her on the trade that she help him. While he worked with her to understand and put some control on her telepathy, she helped him develop a machine called Cerebro (by acting as a conduit for him to study while using the machine), something that would amplify telepathic frequencies in order to locate fellow mutants around the globe. During this time, Jean's second set of abilities began to develop, her telekinesis. Though weak at first, she quickly grew stronger and stronger as Xavier trained her.

One day, after a leap forward in progress with Cerebro, Xavier finally put Jean to use. Then thirteen, with her powers growing and expanding, albeit under a decent amount of control, something went wrong when Jean was using Cerebro. Her powers reacted on a level that combined her telepathic and telekinetic might in a glorious hail of psionic fire that pulsed through the people she was focusing on with Cerebro. Hundreds of people were knocked unconscious, with dozens put in comas that lasted weeks, some months. Had Jean been a little older and stronger, or had Cerebro been a little more advanced, every one of those people would have died. Jean's trust of Xavier was marred from that event, and she cut ties with him.

The next few years, Jean spent much of her time in New York City. A troubled teen, hellbent on mending her past by saving as many people as she could, she became somewhat of a vigilante. She spent her nights rescuing rape victims, people trapped in fires or other accidents, people accosted by gangs, etc. Her vast telepathic powers put the city under her watchful eye, and she got a reputation on the streets. The mysterious Phoenix that gave people their second chance at life. She came to identify with the name herself, even utilizing her combined powers and psionic flare as a display of a flaming bird, more of a trademark, really.

However, Jean was playing a dangerous game, one she didn't quite understand. While she'd saved many lives and even made an underground "fan-base" for herself, she also made many enemies. Specifically a group of drug dealers who were distributing a new drug called Malice. After months of helping people escape drug-induced nightmares caused by temporary supernatural abilities that typically hindered more than helped, she became a target for an underground drug organization known as the Marauders. Because of this, she used her psychic abilities to give her an edge in order to learn to fight, albeit pretty street heavy. After enough tussles, her experience led to understanding battlefield tactics on some level, which only advanced through time. She became obsessed with her own mission, even when the civilians she had saved were ungrateful or feared her more than their oppressors. She became guarded, paranoid, displayed vicious and violent mood swings, and lashed out with her abilities with no self-control.

After hearing the rumors of this mysterious Phoenix, and using his then fully operational Cerebro to discover the truth behind the mystery vigilante, Xavier came to find her again. When he finally managed to confront her, the deeply disturbed, somewhat deranged sixteen year old Jean was a completely different person than the innocent girl he had known just years prior. The sight of him alone sparked a surge of repressed trauma and she violently lashed out at him using the combined efforts of her telekinetic and telepathic powers. She ignited him with a powerful blast of her psionic flare, nearly killing him in the process. Ultimately, though, even at the brink of death, he was able to utilize the full raw force of his massive telepathic strength in order to overpower and subdue her. And after days of subsequent observation, he assessed that the root of her mental struggles were primarily based in her telepathic might, and so he forced mental barriers in place, shutting off her telepathic abilities entirely.

After some time under intensive psychiatric evaluation, her diagnosis had not changed – she struggled from a strange case of PTSD, something that she could learn to cope with through years of therapy. And she did. She was able to tame the beast within, turn away from her life of violent vigilante work on the streets, and learned to keep her cool under pressure. She learned to love and laugh again. It took work, and a lot of will power, but Jean eventually developed into a fine young woman. And though she still didn't trust Xavier the way she had in her adolescence, she was undeniably grateful for his intervention.

While going through this intense therapy, Jean graduated from high school a year early and achieved her associates degree in biology the following year. She then went on to graduate with her bachelor's degree at the age of twenty. The next four years would have been dedicated to med school, however her tenure was nearly halved before she earned her MD from Dartmouth, thanks to the knowledge she'd retained from the constant probing of doctors in her teen vigilante years in order to save trauma victims. She was a licensed doctor and became a practicing trauma medic by twenty three. Sometime during her education, she and Xavier began monthly visitations. He spent his time with her chipping away at the mental barriers he'd restrained her telepathy with. He'd realized that her control and finesse over telekinesis was really a result of growing with her powers at the same time, but as a girl, her telepathic powers all kicked in at once, thus causing a disturbance in her mind in the same time as a massive trauma. This led him to decide on a course of action to bring her telepathic powers out again – he'd let them grow with her this time, in the same way her telekinesis had.

After a year of practicing medicine, though, and during a time of heightened mutant mania in the public eye (something she even had a hand in because of her Phoenix days on the street), Jean was forced to use her telekinetic abilities in public during a horrible disaster. While her choice of outing herself as a mutant to the public and her colleagues inevitably saved dozens of lives, she was effectively terminated from her job.

However, no sooner did one door close than another opened. An offer of Utopia, and a new life she could live out in the open came. While she and Xavier were not the closest people yet, still keeping a professional distance between them, it was really an offer she couldn't refuse. She jumped at the opportunity, if only so she didn't have to hide as a mutant any longer.



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