<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/reuIJTV.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Basics</span></span><br/><strong>Character name:</strong>Laura Kinney<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>X, X-23, Laura X, Talon, Lexie, Captain Universe<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Demisexual<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Single<br/><strong>Age:</strong>18<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5’1”<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>110 lbs (With adamantium claws)<br/><strong>Hair color:</strong>Black<br/><strong>Eye color:</strong>Green<br/><strong>Hometown/Place of birth:</strong>The Facility, unrevealed North American location<br/><br/>More Images(Imgur Gallery) (http://imgur.com/a/As0jl)<br/><br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">More Personal</span></span><br/><strong>Family:</strong><br/>Wolverine (James "Logan" Howlett) - genetic template/Big brother/Fatherly/Mentor/Thing<br/>Sarah Kinney - creator/mother<br/>Amiko Kobayashi - foster niece/sister/thing<br/>Megan Kinney - cousin<br/>Debbie Kinney - aunt<br/>Daken - half-brother/nephew/thing<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>A clone of the mutant Wolverine, Laura was trained as a living weapon by a secretive government agency. Now residing with the X-Men, she strives to recover her stolen youth and become a fully realized person. However, due to the way she was raised, Laura lacks many of the traits even mutant teens tend to exhibit, and beating around the bush is just about the worst thing you can do with her. While her temper typically has an unpredictable fuse, when it’s lit it often ends with<i>a lot</i>of blood being spilt. She doesn’t seem to have much of a sense of humor either, nor had she ever been seen smiling. Sometimes she is entirely to frank; she sees little reason for tact when speaking to others and has unintentionally created enemies because of this. However, she is slowly growing into her own person and while<i>slowly</i>seems to be the understatement of the century, there is still a relatively consistent growth rate! She has even shown interest in experiencing ‘normal teenager’ things (Such as sleep overs, games, concerts), even if she can sometimes take them into strange and awkward places for those around her.<br/><br/>At a distance Laura can be recognized as a very curious creature by nature, always interested in examining her surroundings and the things within it for new information and experiences. Despite her issues and her upbringing, Laura has somehow managed to retain a staunch sense of morality and while she has no problem killing and doing many unscrupulous things, she has a strict policy on how to go about these things… Even if she’s still kind of learning what these policies are. Many people have issues with what little of her they know. Not many are aware of more than the fact she’s a clone of Logan, was raised to be a weapon and in effect killed multiple people – because of this there have been many conflicting views on her and the safety risks she presents by being on the school premise. Thankfully neither Xavier nor Logan are ready to turn her away yet, and while she can be trying at times, sees plenty of potential in her she otherwise struggles to see.<br/><br/><br/>[Standoffish, quiet, observant, tactically minded, loyal, protective, distant, intimidating, reclusive, insecure, stoic, reserved, selfless, low self-worth, compassionate, merciless, ruthless, sharp.]<br/><br/><strong>Hobbies:</strong>Information gathering, reading(Nonfiction), trying new things, wood and stone carving, research, Tormenting Julian Keller, Human watching (Kind of like Bird watching, but unintentionally creepier…), video games, eating.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>X-23 is a female clone of Weapon X (Wolverine) and was raised by a government agency to be little more than a living, breathing weapon to be used by the highest bidder. The majority of her childhood was spent being trained and conditioned towards this end, and the means were often so savage that many psionics avoid reading her memories because of the sheer brutality they would have to experience through her eyes. Luckily, for Laura, she wasn’t so easy to brain wash and resisted them in one way or another around every turn. However, to punish her, they not only forced her to kill her Sensei – perhaps the only man to have shown her any kindness until that point – with a trigger scent she’d been conditioned to fall into a beserker like, mindless killing rage from. At one point they likewise gave her a puppy with an instruction to destroy the animal, and when she did not, they forcibly removed the animal from her possession and then gave her a choice – watch as they torture the creature to death because of her insubordination or kill the animal herself to reduce its suffering. It became very apparent to her at that point that she was doing those she killed a favor when the options were considered.<br/><br/>It was for a long time after that before she ever risked disobeying again, despite the abuse she endured at their hands, but this time it was as Zander Rice attempted to use her as a means to remove Dr. Sutter and his entire family from the facility’s equation. She was unable to bring herself to kill Sutter’s young son and covertly revealed the truth of the mission to Sarah Kinney. One thing led to another and the facility was left in ruins as X-23 emerged from within to meet up with Sarah, but in a cruel twist of fate Zander Rice extracted his revenge on the two from the grave and had exposed Sarah to the trigger scent. X-23 was forced to kill the last person that had ever treated her with compassion, even if she was just as criminal as the rest. It was during Sarah’s death that X-23 first discovered she had a name, and she left the facility as Laura Kinney.<br/><br/>Laura has participated in everything from prostitution to assassinations, covert operations and rescues all before the age of 15. She attempted to stay under the radar for years but as time went on a conditioned instinct drove her to seek out Wolverine. Little did she know that every time she came within proximity of the man she would have an uncontrollable urge to kill him – yet another one of those lovely condition responses drilled into her from her youth. After all, one of her primary missions had been to assassinate Logan. She and her genetic twin had several violent encounters where neither seemed to come out the victor. It wasn’t until she became desperate enough to come onto the Xavier Institute’s grounds and attack him there that she finally met Xavier – or more so, Xavier got into that chaotic head of hers. He discovered that her repeated attacks where not only something conditioned into her from her terrible history, but that she continuously returned and sought out Wolverine in hopes that he’d be capable of ending her life.<br/><br/>Xavier sent Laura into a deep sleep and stopped Logan from making the final kill at the last moment. It was explained to the man that this woman knew more about Logan than he even knew of himself, and that she was an extremely misguided youth that had endured abuse like he couldn’t even imagine. What inevitably made him stop Logan, however, was not the crimes of her past (both committed by her and upon her) but the glimmers of compassion she had shown over the years. She had<i>potential</i>, the girl clearly showed a capacity for becoming something better for herself. However, when they finally woke her and attempted to speak with her, she attacked Logan again – but this time not because of some conditioned response. This time it was because she was<i>angry</i>with him for not doing his duty and removing the world of a very dangerous weapon -<i>her</i>- and she openly berated him for it. She fled from the school shortly after attacking him, after realizing what had come out of her mouth, and disappeared for nearly a year after. Logan attempted to track her multiple times, and many times it proved extremely difficult – which just gave him a little taste of what she was capable of. However, over that year, when they did cross paths again… Laura found herself slowly coming to terms with what she was, and in no small part thanks to Logan’s communication attempts. Eventually, albeit begrudgingly, Laura agreed to return with him to the Institute – but not as a student of her own mutant abilities – but as a teenager attempting to recapture her youth. And she has had a<i>lot</i>of adventures since then.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Mutations and Powers</span></span><br/><strong>Classification:</strong>Beta, She has been classified as a severe threat by both the O*N*E and Nimrod.<br/><br/><strong>Type of mutant:</strong>Created<br/><br/><strong>Powers:</strong><br/><em>Superhumanly Acute Senses</em>- Laura possesses superhumanly acute senses that are comparable to those of certain animals. She is capable of seeing at much greater distances, and with perfect clarity, than an ordinary human. She retains this same level of clarity in near-total darkness. Her sense of hearing is enhanced in a similar manner, allowing her to both hear sounds that ordinary humans can't and to hear sounds that ordinary humans can, but at much greater distances. X-23 is able to use her highly developed sense of smell to track targets by scent with an impressive degree of success, even if the scent has been eroded by natural factors, such as the weather.<br/><br/><em>Bone Claws </em>– Her skeleton includes two retractable bone claws in each arm and one in each foot that she can extend and retract at will. These claws are housed beneath the skin and muscle. Unsheathing them causes her skin to tear and bleed, but the wounds are quickly dealt with by her healing factor. X-23 can unsheathe any number of these claws at once, although she must keep her wrists and/or feet straight at the moment the claws emerge. The claws are naturally sharp and tougher than normal human bone, allowing X-23 to cut through most types of flesh and natural materials. [citation needed]<br/><br/><em>Uni-Power</em>- Laura has been occasionally seen wielding the powers of Captain Universe. While the majority of Captain Universe’s abilities are not currently within her possession, it has been stated by the enigma power she is to be the future heir to its power - thusly why its mark permanently appears on her hand.<br/><br/><em>Growing Mental Resistance</em>– She has periodically exhibited the ability to both resist and break free of mind control, altering abilities or even parasitic take over. She has even started to show a passive resistance to mind reading, as Emma Frost has started to have difficulty probing her memories. Although no psionic has had difficulty reading her immediate thoughts to date. It has been suggested this is due to her connection with the Uni-force.<br/><br/><em>Regenerative Healing Factor</em>- Like Wolverine, X-23's primary mutant power is an accelerated healing factor that enables her to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue with far greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human – however, unlike Wolverine, her healing abilities are not hampered like his due to his entire skeletal structure being coated in adamantium. She is capable of fully healing injuries resulting in massive tissue damage and blood loss such as excessive bullet wounds, slash wounds, and puncture wounds within a matter of minutes. Her healing factor is developed to such a degree; she is capable of reattaching severed limbs, such as a hand. She has also proven capable of regrowing an entire arm on her own (Elixir was incapacitated at the time). Her healing factor may fluctuate with her psychological state as battle wounds tend to heal very quickly, but her self-inflicted cuts appear to remain visible for some time – this suggests she may be capable of controlling the rate of her regenerative factor in the future even if it is currently only subconscious.<br/><br/><em>Foreign Chemical Immunity</em>- X-23's natural healing also affords her the virtual immunity to poisons and most drugs. She can be affected by some drugs, such as tranquilizers, if she is exposed to a massive dose.<br/><br/><em>Disease Immunity</em>- Due to her highly efficient immune system, X-23 is immune to all Earthly diseases and infections.<br/><br/><em>Superhuman Stamina</em>– Laura’s muscles produce considerably less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the muscles of an ordinary human. She can exert herself at peak capacity for about 24 hours before fatigue begins to impair her.<br/><br/><em>Superhuman Agility</em>– Laura’s agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete.<br/><br/><em>Superhuman Reflexes</em>– Laura’s reflexes are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. In at least one case she reacts to and slices in half with her claws a bullet fired at her face from nearly point-blank range.<br/><br/><em>Superhuman Durability</em>- She was capable of fighting the Hulk without sustaining any severe injuries and surviving energy blasts from Nimrod (even if she required healing and nearly died).<br/><br/><em>Peak Human Strength</em>- Because of her healing factor, X-23 can push her muscles, joints, and ligaments to levels beyond the natural limits of a woman of her height, weight, and build without sustaining injury. Unlike Wolverine, her skeleton isn't laced with Adamantium. While her skeleton, much like her musculature, can withstand greater pressures than a normal human skeleton, she can only withstand so much weight and pressure without sustaining fractures. While not superhuman, she is as physically strong as an ordinary human can be and can lift about 800lbs.<br/><br/><em>Insulated Weather Adaptation</em>–Laura’s is resistant to elemental extremes, particularly arctic conditions.<br/><br/><em>Longevity</em>- Presumably, because X-23 is a clone of the mutant Wolverine, her healing factor will also provide her with an extended lifespan by slowing the effects of the aging process.<br/><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong><br/><em>Adamantium claws</em>– Two in each hand and one in each foot.<br/><em>Multilingual</em>- Laura can speak fluent English, French, and Japanese. She might be able to speak other languages.<br/><em>Gifted Intellect</em>- She possesses the ability to quickly process multiple information streams (e.g., threat assessment) and rapidly respond to changing tactical situations. She also retains an eidetic memory.<br/><em>Master Acrobat</em>- She is an Olympic class athlete, gymnast, acrobat and aerialist capable of numerous complex maneuvers and feats.<br/><em>Master Martial Artist</em>- She is a master in hand to hand combatant, with intensive training in numerous armed and unarmed martial arts techniques during her time in the facility.<br/><em>Expert Tracker</em>- Due to her enhanced sense of smell, Laura is a dangerous tracker and has memorized many different scents.<br/><em>Expert Marksman</em>- She is an expert marksman skilled in throwing weapons and firearms, but operates more efficiently without them.<br/><em>Pain Resistant</em>– Laura shows extreme resilience during undeniably painful experiences and has survived fatal injuries multiple times over without batting an eye in the heat of the moment.<br/><em>Expert Covert Ops Training</em>- Raised in captivity, due to her extensive training as a top-secret operative, X-23 has been trained to become a living weapon. She is highly trained in the use of long range weapons and explosives, and is an expert in assassination techniques.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">School Information</span></span><br/><strong>Classes Taken:</strong>Mental Resilience, Sorcery and Magic, History (Mutant & Human), Strategy and Tactics, Flight, Teleportation Training, Clairvoyance, Intermediate Telepathy, Intermediate Telekinesis, Languages (Because she’s really curious about everything. >.>)<br/><br/><strong>Clubs/Extracurriculars:</strong>Archery, Chess, Video games, Cooking<br/><br/><strong>School Relations:</strong><br/>Julian Keller – Best friend and crush<br/>Logan – Big brother/fatherly/mentor thing<br/>Xavier – Mentor/Fatherly/Grandfatherly<br/>Rae - Counselor/Maternal<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Connections</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div align="center">(http://i.imgur.com/rWLFc3G.jpg)<br/><em><strong>Laura Kinney – Talon – X-23</strong></em><br/><em>Connection and Plotting Seeds </em></div><br/><br/>The Little Details<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>While the X-men have been aware of her for several years now, she hadn’t officially joined the institute as a student until a year ago. She left after only being there briefly to join the Avengers Academy for a short time, during which she was a part of an incident where several of the students were kidnapped by Arcade and placed in a Death game where all of the students were forced to fight each other to survive. Several times the trigger scent was used on her to attack her fellow comrades, a great source of guilt for her, and to make matters worse the game was publicly televised. She has only returned to the Xavier Institute a couple of months ago. </li><li>Escaped the facility late in her 14th year of age. She did not approach Logan until she was about 16, then ended up running away from him and the other X-men for about a year before Logan convinced her to come back. She was only there for a few months before more incidents happened and she left to join Avenger's Academy.</li><li>During Magneto's most recent attack, Laura was severely injured but recovered quickly thanks to her healing factor. She spent the majority of the attack with the youngest of Xavier's institute.</li><li>She has a reputation for staring at people a lot, and copying certain behaviors at times.</li><li>She has upset more than a handful of students in the school with her blunt nature and tendency to ask questions that shouldn’t be asked.</li><li>It is rumored that she practically clings to Logan’s side, but it’s mostly due to the fact she is comfortable just sitting in silence with him while he repairs the jet or does whatever he does.</li><li>She has been accused of stalking people on more than one occasion.</li><li>Despite all of this, she actually typically proves to be a very loyal and compassionate friend with a sort of strangely useful insight to certain situations because of her strange point of view.</li><li> During the attack in the premise, Laura was severely wounded several times but because of the nature of her abilities she healed pretty quickly. She spent the entire attack among those of the youngest students of the institute and the medical staff, as protection.</li></ul><br/><strong>Connections I am looking for:</strong> Friends, Enemies, Frenemies, Rivalries, Bad Starts, Random tidbits etc, etc. <br/><br/><strong>Connections in Progress:</strong><br/>Ace Flyer<br/>Orange<br/><br/><strong>Confirmed connections:</strong><br/><em>Black Howling - Logan:</em> One screwed up set of siblings. &lt;3 He's kind of like her big brother, mentor and this sort of paternal thing all at the same time. She feels most comfortable around him at this point because she doesn't feel like she has to act any certain way around him to be accepted. Logan is her legal guardian. <br/><br/><em>Black Howling - Kyle Morgan:</em> Kyle is one of those guys that just can't seem to sit in silence, let alone stop talking. At first Laura really didn't know what to do with him, especially when he decided to force her to be more social by trying to hold mostly one sided conversations with him. She didn't mind his presence, but Laura was the type that appreciated the value of quiet. At one point she simply told him to stop talking, and poor Kyle, try as he did he just couldn't remain silent for more than a minute. Incidentally, Laura actually found herself chuckling at that. The fact that he simply <i>tried</i> meant a lot to the wayward woman, and it wasn't long before she counted him among her friends. Sometimes it's just nice to someone jabber at you. <br/><br/><em>Npc - Xavier:</em> Laura finds him intimidating, but only because he seems like such an inherently good person that she's not sure how to react to him. She definitely looks up to him and respects him, even if she doesn't like that he's pried into her mind. She seems him as a mentor and sort of fatherly figure. <br/><br/><em>Intimate Ink - Sean Cassidy:</em> He is her punk mentor. Laura wouldn't say she idolizes him but she definitely likes him and she definitely enjoys his philosophies. She's always been a bit of a punk already but when she learned there was an entire culture of people out there like her, Laura kind of dove nose first into learning as much as she could about the scene, and Sean Cassidy was and still is her guide!<br/><em><br/>Intimate Ink - Julian Keller:</em> Laura and Julian have a history that is... hard to label, really. She's honestly not really sure how to label it, herself. She knows she has feelings for him that are beyond friendship, but she's still not exactly sure what to do with them. She honestly doesn't have much experience with this sort of thing, and between warnings from Logan and Julian's womanizing ways... Well, while she is aware of her own feelings for him, she doesn't exactly take any of his advances seriously. Poor Julian. <br/><br/><em>Intimate Ink – Joshua Foley:</em> Work in Progress<br/><em><br/>Persephone - Anna Marie:</em> Not so good... Laura kind of asked her the wrong question and it came out waaay worse than she meant it to be. Needless to say, poor Rogue! Laura actually likes Anne, however, and doesn't quite understand why she was so upset. <br/><em><br/>Persephone - Wanda Maximoff:</em> Their relationship is somewhat strained due to the fact Laura unintentionally offended Anna Marie. <br/><br/><em>Persephone - Elizebeth "Betsy" Barddock:</em> Betsy and Laura have a relatively friendly relationship. They have been comrades on the battlefield more than a handful of times and both respect each other's abilities to the fullest. <br/><br/><em>Persephone - Layla Bayoumi:</em> Laura kind of pretty much watches her a bit to much... Strangely enough, Layla doesn't seem to be to miffed by it and seems to recognize it as observation from the curious mind of a child.  <br/><em><br/>Persephone - Ilyanna Rasputin:</em> Laura finds Ilyanna particularly interesting and has also engaged enemies on the battlefield beside this young woman. She respects Ilyanna for both her strength considering her history and her prowess. <br/><em><br/>Orange Marmalade - Marcel "M" St. Croix:</em> This relationship is strained at best. Marcel clearly isn't one of Laura's biggest fans and has done all he can to show as much. Despite his barrage of teasing and antagonistic attitude towards her, Laura hasn't given him the responses he has hoped for - things that proved to him, in his eyes, that she was actually more than a mindless, conditioned weapon. He has been more accepting of her during her second round of attendance at the institute, but he is still very leery of her. Laura, in return, is likewise leery of him. <br/><br/><em>Orange Marmalade - Theodore (Theo) Rufus Altman:</em> These two are friendly, to say the least, and occasionally sparring partners. He seems to be one of the few that can survive her sparring matches without broken bones (So long as she doesn't use her claws), so the two seem to go well together. <br/><br/><em>Lockepick - Ezra Bell:</em> Laura and Ezra were one of the few people in this world that Laura instantly hit it off with. It was almost effortless to get along with the undoubtedly brash and mischievous man, especially considering their coinciding interests - such as punk. Laura and Ezra have gotten into a lot of mischief together. He helped her cut loose more and also was the one to open her to the world of video games - much to many destroyed controllers' dismay... <br/><em><br/>AribethAmkiir - Clarice Ferguson:</em> Laura and Clarice first met each other years before they came to the Institute. Their relationship was complicated and simple all at the same time. Simple because survive was their single objective, complicated because survival was never simple when you were two mutant minors living on the streets. Laura learned some important things about herself and humanity thanks to Clarice, and Clarice was undoubtedly the first real friend she ever had. <br/><br/><em>nooblebloom - Winnifred Wilson:</em> Laura isn't really sure how to react to Winnie. On one hand, the girl seems to really like hearing herself talk but on the other hands she's pretty amusing when she does! The two of them are clones on top of that, and while Laura is far from the type of person to start a support group or club over it, she can't help but feel a bit of comradery with the girl. They can relate on about as many things as they can't relate on! So to put it simply, their friendship is budding despite the mutual dislike of their DNA-donors. <br/><br/><em>Elf - Ivan Storkov:</em> You could say they both became friends out of a mutual curiosity, or at least that’s how she sees it. Not many know how these two got to be friends, but then again no one’s really asked either. Sometimes it’s just better not to ask. <br/><br/><em>Wispyr - Rae Integra Bellemoore:</em> Laura was handed over to Rae for some much needed counseling the first time she came to the institute. It wasn’t an easy task, their first few sessions were informational at best but nothing you could really call ‘progress’. It didn’t take Rae long to switch tactics and slowly but surely the girl became more comfortable around the woman. When she came back from Avenger’s Academy and the incident that happened there, Laura was once again placed in Rae’s care. Rae is perhaps the only person she has ever really felt a maternal connection towards. <br/><br/><em>Bibliophilia – Jubilation Lee:</em> It wasn’t hard for Laura to see that Jubilee and Logan were close. It wasn’t long before the two were introduced. Their road was a rocky one and while they can sometimes annoy one another, it’s clear that they care for each other in an almost sisterly way. Unfortunately for Logan, during Laura’s ‘imitation’ phase she started to pick up some of Jubilee’s bad habits – namely poking fun at him. Jubilee seems to be more than happy to have a comrade in this and has gotten Laura into trouble quite a few times.<br/><br/><em>Juggtacular - Lucas Bishop:</em> These two aren’t exactly friends and they’re not exactly acquaintances either. The two are really far too comfortable sitting in silence with one another. <br/><br/><em>Juggtacular - Pietro Maximoff:</em> Most people think these two have a weird inside joke sort of game going on where Laura tries to kill him and he dodges – except Laura is actually trying to kill him…<br/><br/><em>Aida Rose - Samira "Sam" Kane:</em> As far as teachers go, Laura isn’t impressed. She’s aware that Sam and Logan once had ‘something’ between them but for the life of her, Laura can’t fathom why. Laura can smell whenever Sam participated in ‘extracurriculars’ and not only does she not approve, but she’s fairly certain Xavier wouldn’t either. Laura is typically one of those annoying students that pretty much pokes at her bad choices or questions just about everything she does.  <br/><br/><em>Ace Flyer - Remy Lebeau:</em> Laura has a long and strange history with Remy. It all started while she was one the run after that fateful day she decided to attack Logan at the Institute. At some point between dodging Logan, the X-men and Facility operatives, Remy and Laura ran into each other. Remy helped her fend off the ruthless Kimura, her handler, and they ran off together on a few crazy adventures. Eventually Logan caught up to them and convinced Laura to come back to the school. Remy came back with her, for one reason or another. They've been friends ever since. He was also one of the people that helped recover her from Arcade. <br/></div></div><br/><br/><strong>Extra Notes:</strong><br/>- During the attack in the premise, Laura was severely wounded several times but because of the nature of her abilities she healed pretty quickly. She spent the entire attack among those of the youngest students of the institute and the medical staff, as protection.<br/>- Laura joined the Institute on two separate occasions. The first time only lasted a few months before she left for Avenger's Academy. She was much less emotive back then.