<div class="floatleft">(http://i2.listal.com/image/4055822/600full-candice-accola.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Basics</span></span><br/><strong>Character name:</strong>Alison "Ali" Blaire<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>The Dazzler<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Heterosexual<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Single<br/><strong>Age:</strong>24<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'8"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>135 lbs<br/><strong>Hair color:</strong>Strawberry Blonde (originally)<br/><strong>Eye color:</strong>Blue<br/><strong>Hometown/Place of birth:</strong>Gardendale, Long Island, New York<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">More Personal</span></span><br/><strong>Family:</strong>Bella Blaire (paternal grandmother), Carter Blaire (father), Katherine Blaire a.k.a. Barbara London (mother), Nicholas Brown (step-father, deceased), Lois London a.k.a. Mortis (maternal half-sister)<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Ali is a driven and determined young woman who isn't afraid to go after her dreams no matter how insurmountable the obstacles.  Compassionate and rebellious, Ali believes that rules and laws which aren't beneficial to all should be challenged, and that all people, human or mutant, should be treated equally.  She's not hesitant to act, even if that could bring unwanted attention to herself, and when she's sees people in need she can't help but do something.  Ali's greatest struggle has always been balancing her dreams of being an internationally famous singer with the reality of being a mutant.<br/><br/><strong>Hobbies:</strong>Singing, Dancing, Acting, and Rollerskating.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Born to Carter and Katherine Blaire in the Long Island suburb of Gardendale, NY.  Her father was a stoic lawyer, while her mother a free-spirited entertainer, which led to their ultimate separation.  Ali's mom waked out on her when she was barely a toddler and left her to the care of her father and grandmother.  A fact which her father kept hid from her until just recently.<br/><br/>When Ali reached adolescence she began to develop a dream and aspirations of becoming a famous singer.  This dream was received with intolerance by her father, though, her grandmother secretly encouraged her.  With her father's influence, Alison excelled in academics, and was pushed toward a path which would lead to law school.<br/><br/>While performing in middle-school, Ali's mutant powers developed and blinded everyone in attendance, except herself.  For the next several years, Alison kept her powers a secret from those closest to her.<br/><br/>In college, Ali began to experiment with her powers, and her singing, and adopted the name "The Dazzler".  It was during this time that she decided to abandon her father's dream of her going to law school.  While at her college graduation ceremony, she finally informed her father that she wouldn't be attending Law school and would pursue a life as a singer, without her father's blessing or financial support.<br/><br/>Ali capitalized on her light-based mutant powers, and created a "state-of-the art" laser and visual effects which she brought to her audiences with accompaniment of her music and dancing.  This new look quickly brought her the attention to land several gigs in a number of New York night clubs.  Just as quickly, she also caught the attention of Professor Charles Xavier and the White Queen, Emma Frost.<br/><br/>Both the Hellfire Club and the X-Men were sent to a performance with the intent of recruiting Alison.  This inevitably lead to fighting, and Alison ultimately sided with the X-men.  When she was brought to the school, Alison was offered a position on the team, which she politely refused claiming she wanted to continue to follow her dreams.<br/><br/>For a brief time, Alison enjoyed a level of popularity and her musical career began to take off.  She played at a United Nation's charity, Carnegie Hall, and a number of high-end clubs.  She was even filmed in a movie roll.<br/><br/>This all began to come to an end when she was riding on a bus in New York city and saw an elderly couple being accosted by a gang of street thugs.  She didn't hesitate to use her powers to intervene, but when the lights cleared the couple began to harass her, and drew enough attention that a crowd formed to assail her.  She fled, but the incident was caught on camera and posted on the internet.<br/><br/>Overnight, Alison became a known mutant.  Night clubs who had previously booked her backed out of their deals, and soon there were no new offers for her to perform.<br/><br/>She took to traveling the country, and singing under different disguises.  She dyed her hair black, or even pink, and breached out into new genres in the hope that they wouldn't recognize her.  Eventually, however, she was outed, over and over again.<br/><br/>With nowhere left to turn, Alison swallowed her pride and took a temporary teaching job at Xavier's Institute.  She'd only been in her position for a few months when the Brotherhood decided to attack the school.  Despite coming to a stalemate with The Juggernaut, who refused to attack her when he claimed he was a fan, Alison received a break to her left forearm when she parried a kick from Mystique after the shape-shifter, disguised as a student, launched a surprise attack on Alison and Sean.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Mutations and Powers</span></span><br/><strong>Classification:</strong>Alpha<br/><br/><strong>Type of mutant:</strong>Dormant Gene<br/><br/><strong>Powers:</strong><br/><br/><em>Sound Conversion:</em>She has the ability to transduce sonic vibrations, which reach her body, into various types of light. This ability seems to operate over a great range of frequencies, including the audible spectrum (35 to 16,500 cycles per second), and a great variation of sound pressure levels regardless of the complexity, dissonance, or randomness of the sound. For example, a car crash and a symphonic passage of equal duration will both produce usable music incoming acoustic vibrations. Dazzler, however, does prefer the sound of music, particularly that which is rhythmically sustained. Not only is music more pleasant to her ears, but the steady beat of popular music provides a more constant source of sound to convert. However, she cannot use any sound produced by her own body.<br/><br/><em>Sound Release:</em>She has the ability to release the absorbed sound in a single burst.<br/><br/><em>Light Projection:</em>Dazzler possesses a body-wide energy field that controls the energy levels of the outer electron shells of her body in such a way as to cause the cascaded release of photons. In effect, this field is lasing, with the apparent efficiency of a laser (99.9%). The released energy is far greater than the incoming kinetic energy and therefore must involve an outside energy source, the nature of which is unknown. Left undirected, the Dazzler’s light will radiate from her body in all directions, producing regular flashes of white light (white light is a mixture of all portions of the visible spectrum). By conscious control over the light she produces, she can control its direction, frequency (color), amplitude (intensity), and duration. Apparently the Dazzler must consciously or subconsciously will the light to leave her body. Otherwise, light would “leak” from her at all times, even when she is asleep or unconscious. She can produce numerous effects with the light she converts from sonic vibrations. She can create very simple patterns out of rays of light like circles, squares, triangles, and stars. She can create a pulse of light on the order of several thousand watts seconds of power, which temporarily blinds people with its brilliance. She has learned to manifest her light as:<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><em>Lasers:</em> By concentrating, Dazzler can generate a coherent beam of light, approximating a laser beam, with which she can cut through virtually anything. The field thus operates in a similar fashion as the process that creates a laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) and apparently has the same efficiency as a laser (99.9 percent). The released energy is far greater than the incoming kinetic energy and therefore must involve another, unknown energy source as well.</li><li><em>Photon Blasts:</em> She can generate a blast of concussive solid light</li><li><em>Illumination:</em> She can cause a bright glow all about her body to create light.</li><li><em>Strobes:</em> She can generate a pulsating strobe-light effect.</li><li><em>Dazzle:</em> She can create a chaotic cascade of sparkling lights and colors that severely upsets other people’s equilibrium.</li><li><em>Holograms:</em> With effort, she can even create holograms of human beings and other three-dimensional beings and objects.</li><li><em>Rocket Bursts:</em> She has the ability to gain vertical altitude by direction a quick column of light beneath her.</li><li><em>Destructive Shield:</em> She has the ability to create a destructive shield of light around herself with laser light that can vaporize small, oncoming projectiles.</li><li><em>Light Mist:</em> She can create a glowing or hazy almost fog like effect that obscures the surrounding area.</li></ul><br/><em>Light Immunity:</em>Her body, especially her eyes, shields itself against any injurious effects of her light transducing abilities, and against those of bright lights in general.<br/><br/><em>Sound Immunity:</em>The ability to transduce sound also protects her from being deafened by loud noises.<br/><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong>She is a talented singer, actress, dancer, as well as a highly accomplished roller skater.  She is, also, a highly skilled athlete, and has become a good hand-to-hand combatant thanks to her training with the X-Men.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">School Information</span></span><br/><strong>Classes Taught:</strong>Dance, Voice Lessons, Aerobics.  (refused to teach Music Appreciation).  Will sub for most of the other teachers.<br/><br/><strong>Staff Relations:</strong>TBD