<div class="floatleft">(https://themagazinemaker.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/jk_3.jpg?w=640)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Basics</span></span><br/><strong>Character name:</strong>Abigale Norwick (birth name) / Quinn Kline<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Kreek<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Genderfluid (assigned female at birth)<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Pansexual<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Single<br/><strong>Age:</strong>18<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'5''<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>170lbs (135lbs is body weight and 35lbs belongs to her wings)<br/><strong>Hair color:</strong>White<br/><strong>Eye color:</strong>White/Pale Blue<br/><strong>Hometown/Place of birth:</strong>Born in New Mexico. Raised in Carbon Hill, AL.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">More Personal</span></span><br/><strong>Family:</strong>Patrick Kline, Father. Non-Mutant.<br/>Viola Kline, Mother. Non-Mutant. Not blood related.<br/>Amanda (Unknown Last Name), Biological Mother. Undisclosed mutation.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Quinn is small in body, but they are loud and out going. They tries to be friends with everyone they meets. Tries not to hold grudges, even against their father who basically mutilated their body in his attempt to make them appear normal. They are desperate to be part of the world, they are also scared of how people would react to them. Not just due to their mutation, but their gender identity. Due to their history, they have little experience in physical bonds with other people. Instead, their mother did allow her a computer and internet. They managed to develop close friendships and emotional bonds with the people they met on their bird watching websites. It always hurt them when they had to cut off a relationship because it was getting too close and they knew they'd never be able to really commit.<br/><br/><strong>Hobbies:</strong>Taking nature photos, especially of birds. Building large, human sized nests out of found objects.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Quinn was born to Patrick and Viola Norwick in New Mexico. The two had married young and happy and immediately started trying for a family. Unfortunately, it turned out that Viola was infertile. Her womb could hold children, but her eggs were basically dead. After years of going over their options, they decided to get an egg from a donor and use Patrick's sperm to fertilize it.<br/><br/>They spent months sorting through and interviewing egg donors and finally settled on a young woman named Amanda. She was in her mid-thirties and had a PhD in genetics. She was extremely healthy and came with excellent references. It was an easy choice once they interviewed her.<br/><br/>While Viola was sad that the child wouldn't biologically hers, she knew she'd love it the minute she saw the first ultrasound. She was right. The minute she saw the little peanut sized child on the machine and heard it's 170 heart rate, she fell in love. Patrick, however, maintained a more logical view on things and wouldn't even discuss names or start to purchase baby items till at least mid-second trimester when most risks for miscarriage were gone. As the pregnancy went on, he became more and more unwilling to be happy about having the baby till it was delivered. Viola was upset by this, but she felt her husband would come around once he got to hold the baby.<br/><br/>After the baby was born, the doctor was concerned over some formations on the baby girl's back that had been brushed off as shadows on the ultrasound. Several tests later revealed that they contained bones. The doctor, and Patrick Kline, wanted to operate to remove the bones; but Viola wanted a second opinion. Then a third and a fourth. In the end, she refused to let anyone operate on her baby. Patrick tried to pull rank by enforcing the fact that she was not the biological mother, but Viola threatened to run away with the baby. Since all the doctors agreed that the bones were not in any danger of hurting the baby at the moment, Viola convinced her husband that surgery could wait till she was older. That they could wait till she was closer to kindergarten age.<br/><br/>As the first few years of her life went by, the baby was named Abigale and did all the things normal and average babies did. She learned to stand, crawl, eat, and talk. The formations on her back grew as well. Finally, Viola was convinced that they need to be looked at more closely. When the doctor recommended bringing in a veterinary specialist, the couple was floored. Somehow, their little girl had wings trying to push their way through the skin of her back.<br/><br/>Patrick was angered. Furious with Viola for not being able to have a child on her own that might have prevented this. Amanda for obviously having been defective in some way. And himself, because the doctors said that these sorts of new and rare mutations tended to be passed on from the father's side.<br/><br/>Not knowing what else to do, Viola refused to have her child operated on and featured like some kind of science experiment. She demanded one thing of her husband. That they move and start a new life where no one knew them. Somewhere small, quiet, and with a small population. Despite not liking the idea, Patrick would rather uproot his life than to be put on parade as the father of a freak.<br/><br/>With that in mind, they packed up and moved to a tiny town in Alabama. It was a former mining town that was mostly emptied when jobs moved on. Most of the people who stayed were below poverty line and were spaced out enough to not ask questions. While Patrick and Viola maintained their names, they changed Abigale Norwick to Quinn Kline. Viola took to home schooling their daughter while Patrick worked long hours away from home.<br/><br/>Even though he knew it was his child, Patrick had a hard time loving his mutant child. He crudely constructed a harness that would keep her growing wings down against her back to keep them from knocking over things in their small home. He claimed that was the only reason, but it also made it easier to look at her straight on without seeing the wings. He also instructed Viola to keep her hair dyed a natural brown because he attributed the white color it was to her mutation. The harness horribly disfigured her shoulders, causing large dents and welts over them and around her sides. The wings were mildly injured by the straps, but not as much as her shoulders.<br/><br/>As she grew, she knew she wanted to be out in the world, but she was smart enough to know that it was dangerous. One look at a news broad cast or a newspaper told her that much. The world didn't like things that were different and she was certainly different. Quinn didn't even step foot on grass till she was almost sixteen.<br/><br/>Despite her sheltering, her mother refused to let her be sheltered. She educated her daughter, she let her use a computer and the internet, she let her do arts and crafts, taught her how to write professional papers, taught her how to conduct herself in a business setting, and anything else she could think of that could help her daughter should she ever go out into the world.<br/><br/>It was thanks to her mother's allowance of a computer and internet, that Quinn began learning more about gender and sexuality. They confessed to their mother that they didn't feel like they were 'fully a woman'. Viola didn't understand this, but since they had such little contact with other people, the issue was brushed off and never spoken about. Deep down, Quinn knew that they were not female and began to keep a blog about it. People online were extremely supportive and introduced them to the terms of 'Genderfluid' and 'Non-Binary'. While the idea of it made them feel even more of a freak than they already were, it just felt right.<br/><br/>Unsure of how, people from the Xavier Institute found them and offered to give Quinn a more proper education (not that it was entirely lacking) and the chance to be around people like themself. While Viola was unwilling to let her child go, Patrick managed to convince her. Stating that it would be good for her and for them. That they could finally have a life in the open again with her gone. Quinn didn't take it too personally, mostly because they wanted to go.<br/><br/>Quinn saw it as a chance to see the world, or at least somewhere other than the middle of nowhere Alabama. They also saw it as a chance to actually get to spread their wings. Literally.<br/><br/>While fearful at first that the damage done to their shoulders and wings by the harness they had worn day and night for most of their life was irreversible, their wings have been mending for the few years they has been at the institute and they have hopes to be able to use them fully one day.<br/><br/>Since the attack on the Institute, Quinn practices harder and harder everyday to gain full use of their wings so that they can be of better asset to the school some day. Wanting to be an example for mutants with extreme mutations.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Mutations and Powers</span></span><br/><strong>Classification:</strong>Epsilon Level<br/><br/><strong>Type of mutant:</strong>Mutant parents. Biological mother had an undisclosed mutation.<br/><br/><strong>Powers:</strong><br/><br/><em>Flight</em>- More a form of transportation and fairly basic, but it's their primary ability. It is very untrained due to the time it has taken to heal from the damage the harness caused.<br/><br/><em>Hollow Bones</em>- Less of a 'power' and more of a physical mutation like their wings. While most avian mutants seem to possess normal human bones and their wings seem to be built to support a human frame; Quinn's bones are made to suit their wings.<br/><br/><em>Pain Tolerance</em>- Due to having hollowed bones, like a several bird species, they can be fragile. They is unsure if their ability to tolerate bone pain is a mutation or simply a body adaptation over the years. Either way, it takes more than breaking a bone to make them twitch.<br/><br/><em>High metabolism</em>- Basically being a large bird, like a vulture, who can survive on meats and fruits, they can afford to exert more energy in short bursts.<br/><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong>Fluent in Spanish. Advanced knowledge of bird anatomy and life cycles of various species (mostly as a way to study their own body and mutations)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">School Information</span></span><br/><strong>Classes Taken:</strong>Flight, History 101, Languages, Strategy and Tactics<br/><br/><strong>Clubs/Extracurriculars:</strong>Archery, Photography<br/><br/><strong>Student Relations:</strong>TBD