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| Husk; Paige Elisabeth Guthrie | |
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| Topic Started: June 22, 2015, 1:39 am (154 Views) | |
| Roman | June 22, 2015, 1:39 am Post #1 |
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Husk![]() Full Name: Paige Elisabeth Guthrie Code Name: Husk Age: 26 Gender: Female, Lesbian Physical Description: Paige stands at a modest height of 5'5 with a weight of 138lbs. Although she is slender in frame, she is solid and lean with muscles sculpted from years of military exercise and combat training. Her face has a long but youthful shape and her piercing blue eyes offer an innocent impression to the casual passerby with no knowledge of her tortured history. Her hair is naturally bright blonde and worn short with a textured, razor-cut style. She has a handful of freckle-shaped birthmarks that pepper across her skin, which is pale in Winter, but slightly golden and bronze by Summer's end. Her style of dress reflects her cyber-activist and slightly nerdy personality. She preferes lots of t-shirts with various designs on the front, oversized sweaters, sneakers, camo-pants, and silver necklaces. Playby: Mackenzie Davis Personality Overview: Lateral Thinker: In growing up in the Guthrie household, Paige developed a resourceful and self-sufficient way of solving problems. From scraping off dried grilled cheese using a compound of dish soap and peanut butter that she made herself to creating make-shift tourniquets from underwear elastic and hair clips, her limitations are only thwarted by her imagination and in-the-moment ingenuity. Wounded Warrior: Though she has been able to maintain a stable mentality and has compounded mental coping mechanisms, there are certain experiences from her time as a soldier at war that have left her vulnerable. Loud, abrupt sounds such as popping, gunshots, and slams leave her momentarily debilitated with her ears covered and crouched into a fetal position. Instances where loved ones become even remotely injured cause her to abandon her sense of protocol and self-preservation to ensure that person is taken care of, survives, or is given primary importance over whatever her current mission entails. She only prefers to enter the field with colleagues, and not family because of this. Country Girl: In as much as her life experiences may have differed from the rest of her tribe, Paige is still a country girl at heart. She loves to drink moonshine, listen to music with friends and family, good home cooking, and teasing her siblings only in a way that an older sister could. She can come across a bit surly and forceful in a conflict, but prefers to use logic over fists when she has the option. And because of this down-home attitude, she protects family above all else, even if she states her priorities are elsewhere. Likes: Dogs, Computer ANYTHINGS, James Bond films, Chick Flicks (guilty pleasure), Women with foreign accents, MMORP games Dislikes: Fishing, Cats, Narcissism, Intellectual Ignorance, Dane Cook, Golf, Whiskey that ain't American Fears: Professional stagnation, being unable to get out of a physical confrontation, not being able to protect those important to her, indifference or unacceptance from family Goals: Software Designer and Future Human-Mutant Rights Ambassador Powers: Paige has the ability of metamorphosis on a cellular level through the circuitry of her epidermal system. Her mutation allows her to use preconceived mental registration of varying levels of density to reconstitute her bottom layer of skin in order to shift said sub-dermal tissue into that perceived level of density and their inherent physical properties. From tactile experience (having registered and analyzed on a subconscious cellular level), she can use this data to naturally adjust her genes to accept and utilize new forms of 'epidermis'. In doing so, her mutation also 'flash-fries' or cellularly rejects the outermost layers of her skin by way of natural bodily heat, causing her to shed her outer surface layer of skin in visual forms varying from sunburn-like peeling, to more elastic, meaty tearing of condensed chunks of discarded epidermis. Paige is only able to maintain a solid-based form for up to an hour at a time. After this timeframe, it draws from her internal physical stores and may cause her to faint, internal bleeding, or render her comatose. She also cannot transform her dermal tissue into a substance or composition she has not physically interfaced with. Paige is able to husk into 4 different solid forms in a 24 hour period, excluding her reversion back into her default/natural form. Her epidermal regeneration becomes fatigued and is no longer able to process the neurological information it requires to successfully take on a consistent form. If she were to 'husk' beyond 4 alternate forms within a 24 hour period, her resulting husked form may a disjointed collection of saved mental data on varying densities. This may cause injury from two non-binding substances cracking or breaking, or internal bodily shock due to the physical stress it takes to continue generating alternate skin forms past her daily limit. The minimum amount of time she requires to safely husk from one form to another, again excluding her natural form, is 1 hour after husking back into her default form. Immediately shifting from one altered density such as rock to another such as steel is possible, though exhausts her energy regenerative stores tremendously. Generally, this is done only in critical circumstances.
She is currently able to shift into the varying forms of:
Birthday: September 10th Family: Lucinda Guthrie (mother), Thomas 'Ty' Zebulon 'Zeke' Guthrie (father-deceased), Lucas Bartholomew Guthrie (paternal uncle), Samuel Guthrie, Joshua Guthrie, Joelle Guthrie, Elizabeth Guthrie, Melody Guthrie, Jebediah Guthrie, Lynnette Guthrie, Lewis Guthrie, Cissie Guthrie Legal Status: U.S. Citizen, no criminal record History: Everyone in Cumberland County, Kentucky knew of the Guthrie family. Headed by the strong and virile patron of the family, Thomas, and the nurturing and iron-willed Lucinda, Paige was born as the second child in a family that would eventually grow to a family of 10 children. People in town used to joke that the Guthries made up a good quarter of the County's population. Both Thomas and Lucinda were thought of in high regard due to their hard working ethics and good-natured sense of spirit. This was the kind of environment that a child should grow up in. And it was because of these factors that Paige and her family, despite not having much at all in the way of money or possessions, still had a normal and healthy upbringing. At least for as long as they were able to. As more and more Guthrie children were born, Thomas had a larger and larger responsibility to provide for his family. Lucinda was holding up her end of the family by way of care and vital necessities. So Thomas worked. And he worked a lot. Between taking time in the oilfields and changing an endless amount of diapers, the parents were exhausted. But Paige, ever the problem-solver, took it upon herself to help with extra chores, trips into town for groceries, and looking after her younger siblings so her parents could take their own rare and sporadic moments of personal space and recuperation. And when Paige entered junior high and attended her school's first computer class, she was hooked and mind-blown. Technology in the Guthrie household consisted of a telephone in the kitchen with a 40-foot cord, as well as one Texas Instruments calculator that the kids would all take turns using when Sam wasn't procuring it to take to his own high school-level math class. The amount in which she enjoyed working on a computer, as well as the innate ability in which she evolved her skills in computing, was something that none of the Guthries had foreseen. She got the teasing nickname of the 'brain' in the family by her siblings, and she took this name in stride. None of her siblings were dumb... and she would've punched out anyone who'd said otherwise... but she had a sense for technology and a thirst for more knowledge in the field than the rest had really expressed interest in. And even though money was scarce to be found within the family, their father Thomas did his best to set little sums aside for his children to help encourage their interests and spark kindling for their future fires when he could. At age 13, he'd put some of what he'd set aside for Paige to gift her a math program software set from the town's bargain electronics store. And even outside of school, she'd take her beloved algorithms and geometry puzzles to the Cumberland Public Library to brush up on her skills. She had found her young passion. Her 'place' that had set her apart from the rest of her siblings, and the spark that she dreamed would help her start a future and further help her family financially and mentally so that they could continue to thrive and laugh and build memories like generations of Guthries before them. And in the fall before her last year of junior high, the unthinkable had happened. The head of their clan, Thomas Guthrie, was killed in an explosion as he worked in the oilfields where he had scrimped and saved and provided his family from for so many years. The family hit a free fall. The domino effect that occurred made it so that the entire dynamic of the family had changed. Her beloved eldest brother Samuel, took to working in the coalmines to provide for the family. Lucinda pushed her efforts even beyond what she was capable of by herself by picking up odd telephone-agent jobs and was only helped minimally by the State in the form of foodstamps. Paige, herself, stepped up in as much as she could. She had stopped going to the library and started helping her brothers and sisters with their homework. She listened to Joshua's new songs he'd made. She hushed and rocked the twins to sleep at night. She and Joelle took their sister Lizzy by the hand and walked to the store every other day to pick up 'damaged but not defective' produce to keep the family fridge stocked at all times. The illusion that their father was still there. And somehow... probably only because they had each other... they made it work. They tried. It was still normal. Their lives were still ok. Then one night... Sam had arrived home from the mines. And something was different. He was covered in grime and soot, same as usual... but the way he looked. His face. There was something different in the way his face look. Sam had become trapped and had exhibited and manifested a mutation that allowed him to free himself and his fellow coworkers. And this was the beginning of the end of the peace. The Guthrie family reputation was sullied by the outing of Sam as a mutant. Less and less were the siblings able to leave the house by themselves. And more and more clubs and after-school activities was Paige able to attend, now that she was in high school. Sam had officially been ousted from town and had taken his leave, sending the family money from working odd jobs, and Paige, now driving, heading an hour outside of town to work as a waitress at a rest stop where no one would ostracize or physically antagonize them for having a mutant in the family. One day, as Paige worked the kitchen area frying up tater tots and chicken legs, she found herself hitting an apex as well. Caked in speckled grease, sweat, and exhaustion, she found herself being harassed by local high school kids. Evidently, an hour outside of her hometown wasn't far enough to escape the black mark upon their name. As she brought out the food, one of the girls in the group had stuck out a foot to trip Paige, sending the tray flying and Paige down on her face. The amount of rage and boiled-over emotion that the girl experienced was higher than anything she'd ever outwardly experienced before. She stood up, marched over to the offending female, imagined herself as strong as steel, and laid into the over-confident girl still sitting at the table. It was the first time Paige had ever resorted to physical blows in a confrontation before. The 'crack' that sounded when her punch connected would be forever burned in Paige's consciousness. She recoiled her hand, expecting it to be swollen and raw from when her brothers used to fight the bullies in their town, and was stunned by what she saw. Bits and sections of her knuckles and hand had peeled and lifted away. Sun-tanned flesh was broken away to reveal silvery, polished, chrome-glistening steel where there should have been blood and raw, open wounds. The girl had suffered a broken jaw, and now Paige was the cause of further hysteria geared towards their family. She quit on the spot. When she arrived home, she headed straight for the bathroom and spent the entire night peeling off her 'flash-fried' former native flesh, and then peeling the formerly-die-cast steel shell off of her body like charred aluminum. She stood naked in the shower... in shock. A mutant. She was actually a mutant. Half of her was horrified and a little bit disgusted by what she could do. The other half... utterly thrilled and ecstatic by the possibilities. When she exited the bathroom, she found her entire family waiting outside the door for her. Someone had phoned. And now everybody knew. The next two years were a mixture of triumph and abject cruelty for the girl. She hunkered down and studied hard and excelled enough to graduate early at the age of 17. And by that time, she'd been jumped and had three of her ribs broken, her car (that she'd scrounged and paid for herself) vandalized, her clothing stolen and burned during gym class, and countless more trips to the doctor and police station for incidents surrounding her younger brothers and sisters. The only escape and solace she found was with her family. Her gentle but strong mother, her sweet and innocent youngest siblings, her very straight-forward and homey sisters, and her brilliant and talented brother Joshua. And it was only when they'd found out the extent of Josh's mostly-secreted mutation, that Paige had decided to apply to school. To be the very first Guthrie to ever graduate from University and get a degree. Although her grades were superb and her low-income status qualified her for many scholarships... there was still no way that Paige or the Guthrie family were financially sound enough to pick up the slack, short of her gaining a full ride. She didn't. And that's when she decided to think alternatively. As things had only gotten worse at the household, with new siblings seemingly to develop mutations on a daily basis, Paige had passed a recruitment office while visiting her her brother Sam in Tennessee in the Summer after her early graduation. Upon entering, she was sold on all points of their persuasion. She could gain an entry-level position after basic training to be a communications officer, the United States Army would pay fully for her to go to school, and she was able to get out of dodge and let the fires of hatred and misunderstanding die down with both herself and Sam temporarily out of the picture of Cumberland County. The day she turned 18, she enlisted, keeping her mutation a secret from the official forms. And it wasn't long before her basic training was completed. Her drive and will to succeed in the field was only exceeded by her natural aptitude at programming, computer technological knowledge, and forward-thinking innovation in software upgrading. However... she'd only spent four months behind a desk before her world was about to shift into something much more dangerous. Her department had been liquidated, where she was stationed in North Carolina. She was then moved to a combat-heavy unit on the Northern outskirts of Kuwait. And it was there she remained for two years. Having limited contact or ability to connect to those back home, Paige compartmentalized her former good-ol'-girl nature, her mutation, as well as her burgeoning sexuality. As there was strict legislation at the time restricting being either, Paige was forced to harden her emotions and urges and become solely reactive and resourceful with combat-forward thinking. In the early hours when the rest of her platoon were asleep, Paige would wake up in cold sweats, though the rest of her body would be feverishly burning. She knew that suppressing her mutation was physically degenerative and dangerous. So she would hide herself far from the bunker and molt three-to-four skins of varying densities and compositions to relieve the pressure. And she continued this pattern of evasion for the next three years. In that time, Paige had become a soldier, through and through. The injuries and battle scars and losses she suffered on the battlefield across the Middle East and Northern Africa only strengthened her resolve to push forward. She had to. Most of the money she'd made, though sparse, was sent back home to Kentucky to support her family, as well as that of her older brother Samuel's position as Sheriff in their hometown. The only emotional reprieve Paige could find during this time was from the company of a fellow soldier who shared her rank as Corporal. The soldier, Rachel Childress, would eventually become her lover on the down-low. And it was for this reason that Paige assumed she was being called to her Master Sergeant's office one faithful Winter day. Although she had earned medals and accolades for her tours and service... Paige's personal life was being called into question. She expected Rachel's name to pop up. And she was fully willing to deny it, as a woman still struggling with her sexual identity in a world where it was not accepted. The curve-ball thrown, however, was that she was accused of being a mutant. The 'husks' of her altered forms had been discovered in various camps where she had taken up station in and was ruled in by process of elimination. Because of the governmental stance, she had no say or opportunity to defend herself. She was immediately discharged from the military, dishonorably. Utterly dejected and shattered by this... Paige had no other alternative but to return home. And in the time she'd been away, both her world, as well as the world of her family, had changed. Josh had suffered tragedy that she had yet to express her condolences for, he had taken up a very active role as a musician, Sam had gained the trust of their community in his role as Sheriff, Lizzy had started... pageanting... And it seemed like... they were ok. They were ok, but Paige was in a world she no longer recognized. Though it was true that the effects of war on a soldier's brain led to severe PTSD, nightmares, trouble assimilating back into the real world, among other things... Paige just felt... out of place. Shaken. Haunted. She chose not to tell her family that she was a homosexual and mourned the loss of her first romantic connection of Rachel, in private in her room at night. She yearned to be back on the field. To tool with equipment and put her skills to use again. And she was only back at the Guthrie family household for a month before she'd received a telegram from the United States Government. Apparently, there had been a repeal of legislation and known mutants who had previously been discharged were now welcome to serve once again. It was news she never expected to hear. At least not in such a short amount of time. It was so sudden that she didn't even suspect the catch. Paige reported back to her home camp of basic training in North Carolina. And it was from there that she alone was transported in the cover of night by a military envoy to a hangar, hours away from where she was previously stationed. After another cryptic trip by plane, Paige was brought to a temporary holding facility with six other soldiers. Each one of them were mutants. In the progress that had been made in recent years within the U.S. Government it was decided that a mutant until would be put together to test the potential weaponization of mutant gifts on the battlefront. And while Paige instantly thought that there were many elements missing from the logic and execution of this as a whole... she found herself in combat again. This time, and for the very first time, on the front lines... Given negligent and discriminatory orders to use mutant gifts as a primary means of offense, limiting firearms and explosives as a last resort method, the team struggled to not only establish stable bases... but to survive at all. By the end of a six-month period, there were only two survivors of this experimental platoon left. Paige was one of them. In a position to either succumb to the horror and mental anguish or to rise above it, but sacrifice more of her humanity in the process... The secretive program had been abruptly disbanded. And after signing a Bible's-worth of official paperwork swearing her to secrecy of what went on and the bare-bones of the project she'd experienced by being on it under her security clearance, Paige was officially, and for the very last time, let go from the U.S. Military. She was also given a hefty $100,000 sum under her name as an addition to the tragedy and travesty she'd witnessed in that timeframe. Finding herself completely dis-enchanted with the U.S. Government, unable to persuade herself to go back home to Kentucky, or to continue on with meaningless security-minded technical jobs... Paige found an alternative route to try and get herself together. In going back to her roots as a technology and computer expert, Paige rented an apartment in Washington D.C. and began her work as a software designer using the funds she was given upon her military release. What she also did, behind the self-created firewalls of an online system she installed, was join the mysterious online hacking group Anonymous and used her superior hacking skills to leak and expose detrimental governmental documents and information for nations around the world, specifically devoting herself to her own nation's secrets. Although she was excellently skilled, she never could break enough security failsafes to access anything to do with the black ops unit she was a part of, or the governments alleged misgivings with mutants, as a whole. It was also during this timeframe that she had discovered that her siblings Joelle, Liz, Joshua, and Samuel had gone missing during a frantic phone conversation with her mother. And she did her very best utilizing her talents to try to uncover any leads or information relating to this case during three long months of restless nights of little sleep but staggeringly high hopes. Guthries were a strong breed. Time didn't change that fact. Then, as fate would have it, she found herself in a new chapter of her life altogether. It came in the form of a knock on the door. Two agents explained to Paige through the safety of the chain-lock on her apartment door that they knew who she was, that her siblings were missing, and that they had news. Now distrustful of the government altogether, she reluctantly only agreed to be escorted out by them through the love of her family. Eventually, she ended up on a plane headed towards San Francisco, and on that flight, her suspicions became quelled in the form of Henry McCoy, also known as Beast. It was explained to her by the mutant that in the government she knew, where there was only mistrust, cruelty, and ignorance towards the mutant race... the opposite was meant. He proved this by outing the existence and his involvement with the branch known as Division X, their involvement with recalibrating and expelling former prejudiced ideals within the government, and that they were responsible for shutting down the inhumane and deceitful 'all-mutant' unit that she was a part of that nearly claimed her life and her sanity. He also mentioned that her siblings were moved to a safe location. They were en route to Utopia. Additional Images: ![]() ![]()
Edited by Roman, June 25, 2015, 12:49 am.
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