Student Name:  Hanuka Penelope McCoy<br/><br/>Avenger Name: Beast<br/><br/>Apparent Age: 17<br/><br/>Appearance: A 5'10 athletically built girl covered in downy blue-black fur, full in the hips and breast, slim in the waist.  She has golden eyes and wears glasses too read.  She has retractable claws and fully prehensile toes.  Her teeth are a bit pointy--enough to make kissing intimidating without actually interfering.  She has triangular ears and thick, waist length hair.<br/><br/>Alias Appearance: Through the use of an image inducer, she conceals herself under a hologram of a Caucasian girl with blue eyes and the same waist length, thick black hair.<br/><br/>Marvel Character: Hanuka McCoy is a gender reversal of Beast from the X-men.<br/><br/>History/Significant Events:  The daughter of Norton and Edna McCoy, Hanuka was born in Dundee Illinois and quickly promised to grow taller than her squat, compact father and petite mother.<br/>Her father worked at a nuclear power plant.  Her mother was a homemaker and ammeter poet.  Both spent time reading with their daughter and encouraging her studies.  In junior high, she could still pass for human despite her long limbs and heigtening prowess, and had a brief stint of celebrity in the schools gymnatics team.<br/><br/>In her fifteenth and sixteenth year her mutation furthered with her adulthood growth spurts, covering her body with downy black fur, making her toes even longer, and triggering the development of claws.<br/><br/>Shield initially took interest in her as a budding geneticist.  A Shield doctor took to offering her some mentorship while monitoring her discoveries and realized she was pursuing this field partially because of her own changes.<br/><br/>Personality:  Hanuka is taking college level science classes and also enjoys reading--both popular fiction and literature.  Like most nerds her age, she's shy at first, but full of depth and eloquence when you get too know her.  Unlike most, she's brave and not hard too bring out of her shell in small group situations.  It's in public that she clams up.<br/><br/>Powers:  Heightened physicality--especially agility.  Extremely intelligent.  Prehensile toes.  Retractable claws aid in climbing and can gouge through a kevlar vest.   She tends to produce gadgets when she can, useful for both the avengers and high school pranks.  Low light vision and slightly heightened senses.<br/><br/>Fears and Weaknesses:  Typical insecurities for a teenage girl who doesn't look at all normal.  She might even suffer a temporary change of allegiance if properly seduced.  She's also extremely uncomfortable with bugs.  "They were bad enough when I just had hair for them to get into.  Now I'm covered in fur."<br/><br/>Controllable: Yes.