<div class="floatleft">(http://data.whicdn.com/images/123020137/large.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Basics</span></span><br/><strong>Character name:</strong>Ming Rhee<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Flicker<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Straight<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Single<br/><strong>Age:</strong>19<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'4<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>130 Lbs.<br/><strong>Hair color:</strong>Black<br/><strong>Eye color:</strong>Brown<br/><strong>Hometown/Place of birth:</strong>Poway, California<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">More Personal</span></span><br/><strong>Family:</strong>Father - Min Rhee (Living)<br/>Paternal Grandfather - Kwan Rhee (Living)<br/>Paternal Grandmother - Nari Rhee (Deseased)<br/>Mother - Lei Rhee (Living)<br/>Maternal Grandfather - Jin Chan (Deseased)<br/>Maternal Grandmother - Ling Chan (Deseased)<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Once an outgoing and very social young woman who had a tendency to wear her heart on her sleeve, the development of her abilities changed that. Ming found herself having a difficult time controlling her abilities if she had a spike in emotion. This caused her to become more introverted, as it's harder to have a spike of emotion if you don't talk to people. She can still brighten a room when she walks into it and is fun loving and easy going if she's comfortable with you. Larger crowds tended to worry her though, because if her anxiety gets too overwhelming, or there is an emotional spike Ming is worried she could hurt someone. She's loyal to a fault and will protect those she loves at all cost. She can also has the ability things fairly awkward rather quickly if she can't focus (IE: Cute boy) to control her abilities.<br/><br/>Ming's biggest fault is she often seems far more interested in her hobbies than other people, and that couldn't be further from the case; she keeps herself focused on things that interest her so that her emotions don't get to carried away.<br/><br/><strong>Hobbies:</strong>Video games, playing cello and guitar, singing, coloring, painting, singing, karate, and yoga, listening to music, dancing, gymnastics<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Ming Rhee was born to Lei and Min Rhee on February 16, 1998, in California. The young girl's youth was strange because for the longest time her Papa Kwan lived with them, and he was always telling the strangest stories about the Korean war and the man with the claws. He also always rambled about having powers himself, though never telling what kind. Ming just assumed it was a silly old man telling stories to make her laugh, or make things seem grander. She never imagined he was telling the truth...and that their family had a history of mutants.<br/><br/>Her parents kept her active from a young age though, and she was put in everything from dance to gymnastics to playing the cello. Ming was expected to succeed, and it's what the young girl strived for. She never performed poorly in school, and always enjoyed her extracurricular activities...most specifically karate with her grandfather. He'd started training with her when she was about four, and the training had continued into her youth.<br/><br/>In school and socially, Ming was active and outgoing. Often involving herself in clubs, committees, and sports she was a social butterfly and was often surrounded by friends until she turned about 16. That was the year that Ming's powers began to manifest. The first time being what started the change in Ming's personality.<br/><br/>One night at a party, Ming was playing seven minutes in heaven with a boy she really liked, when her emotions got the best of her. Before she could really understand what was happening, lights were flickering and bursting, and electronics were malfunctioning. Everyone else at the party thought it was just some weird electrical surge, but Ming knew she'd done it. She'd felt it surge through her body, the electricity...It had been thrilling yet terrifying, and Ming knew that it was dangerous in that moment. Without an idea of what was going on, and a way to control it, she was likely to hurt someone.<br/><br/>Shortly after her powers manifested, the young woman realized that perhaps her grandfather hadn't been telling tall tales, and there had been some truth to what he'd said about the war...and his abilities. So, the young girl went to him for guidance. It was then that Kwan Rhee told his granddaughter the truth about their family. For many years, every other generation of their family had developed some sort of power. Her grandmother before him had the ability of foresight...and her grandmother before her.<br/><br/>The family had felt it their duty to protect people from injustices in the world since they had the power to do so. It was why he'd started training her in karate at a young age, and started training her in martial weapons as she'd gotten older...it was merely the beginning of her journey. Before his passing, Kwan taught Ming what he felt was the most important lesson he had to teach her. To do things that keep her mind occupied...It would help her control her abilities, to focus them and learn to use them.<br/><br/>Sadly, Kwan passed around the time Ming turned 17. The young girl was crushed, and the day he passed the lights in the Rhee household would not turn on...Ming's emotions were just too strong. It was a difficult time for the young woman, but towards the end of her senior year she found out about Xavier's Institue, and after much discussion, her parents decided it was her best option. Ming was at the school during the attack and helped how she could, but is still fairly "new" to the school.<br/><br/>She is hoping this new year might pick up for her, and that things stay chill and peaceful...she was getting really tired of having to buy new lightbulbs.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Mutations and Powers</span></span><br/><strong>Classification:</strong>Beta<br/><br/><strong>Type of mutant:</strong>Generational Skip<br/><br/><strong>Powers:</strong><br/><br/><br/>Electrokinesis: Ming has a natural control over electric currents, though the scope of her manipulation is currently limited to the static build up and the natural electrical flow in her own body, or in an object by touch. She can currently utilize this power to make small manipulations to electrical machinery such as power on, off or even short circuit devices altogether. She can also produce a powerful taser like effect from her palms, sparking a negative reaction between her own current and someone else's. This can be used to lethal levels if she so chooses. As of now, Ming is currently unable to effect anything she cannot touch, but it's believed this can be overcome.<br/><br/>E=MC2: While not actually splitting an atom, Ming's ability to raise her own physical attributes utilize the same principal. By charging static in her own body and directing it back she can create a short lived burst of excess energy. This energy blow-off can give her the visage of superhuman speed or strength for a brief period. It requires some concentration before use and can leave her very drained.<br/><br/>Enhanced Metabolism: Ming's Metabolism has adjusted to her own powers, using sugar to fuel the excess. This has a few benefits, the first granting her natural Olympic level physical attributes, while her body produces roughly half the fatigue toxins. She also heals at about three times the normal rate because of this. The backdraw? Sugar, she requires a lot of sugar in her diet.<br/><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong><br/><br/>Martial Arts - Trained in Tae Kwan Do, Tai chi, and Korean Special Forces moves<br/><br/>Martial Weapon Training - Grandfather also trained her in the use of weapons such as staves, swords, fist weapons, and how to use impromptu weaponry (pool ball, pipe, rolls of quarters...ect.)<br/><br/>Cello - Ming has been taking cello lessons since she was close to five.<br/><br/>Gymnastics and Acrobatics - Gymnastics training started for the young woman at around five as well, taking beginner gymnastics and acrobatics lessons.<br/><br/>Dance - Dance lessons started with beginner ballet at the age of four, and progressed into things such as hip hop and jazz...All in all, Ming can move.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">School Information</span></span><br/><strong>Classes Taken:</strong>Philosophy, Sorcery and Magic, History, Mental Resiliance, Power Control, History<br/><br/><strong>Clubs/Extracurriculars:</strong>Archery, Track<br/><br/><strong>Student Relations:</strong>TBD