<div class="floatleft">(http://www.taaz.com/images/913BE037A243A79DE3F1CB7F85981A27.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Basics</span></span><br/><strong>Character Name:</strong>Rahne Sinclair<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Wolfsbane<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Lesbian (in closet/in denial)<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Single<br/><strong>Age:</strong>19<br/><strong>Height:</strong><br/>---Human Form: 5'2"<br/>---Transitional ("Werewolf") Form: 8'0"<br/>---Lupine (Fully Transformed) Form: 12'0" (when standing on hind legs)<br/><strong>Weight:</strong><br/>---Human Form: 110 lbs.<br/>---Transitional ("Werewolf") Form: 410 lbs.<br/>---Lupine (Fully Transformed) Form: 1050 lbs.<br/><strong>Hair Color:</strong>Red (Russet Brown when transformed)<br/><strong>Eye Color:</strong>Green<br/><strong>Hometown/Place of Birth:</strong>In the north highlands of Ullapool, Scotland<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">More Personal</span></span><br/><strong>Family:</strong><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Unnamed (mother, deceased)</li><li>Reverand Craig (father)</li><li>Dr. Moira MacTaggart (foster mother)</li><li>Kevin MacTaggart / Proteus (foster brother)</li></ul></div></div><br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Rahne is a withdrawn and distant young woman, thanks to the abuse she suffered for most of her life at the hands of her father (who she still does not know is her father). Believing herself to be an unwanted child, a reject, and now an abomination, she rarely uses her powers. As comfortable alone in her room as she is out alone in nature...Well, the point there is she likes her solitude. It isn't that groups or people make her nervous or uncomfortable, she just doesn't like attention.<br/><br/>Due to her strict religious upbringing, Rahne finds it hard to come to terms with some of her teammates habits. For example, Rahne would turn away embarrassed when Dani changed clothes and struggled to come to terms with Nightcrawler's demonic looks and Magik's demonic persona. Rahne also struggled with her own romantic feelings, which she believed were sins and made her wicked in the eyes of God. This is amplified even more so by the fact her feelings often spring up when admiring another woman, and she is torn by why her heart wants and what her mind says is evil.<br/><br/><strong>Hobbies:</strong><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Reading and Studying</li><li>Anything Outside (Climbing, Running, Archery, Swimming)</li></ul><br/><strong>History:</strong>Rahne's birth set the tone for how her life would turn out. A complicated birth, the unwanted child of a local prostitute and the church preacher, the girl was born in the highlands of Scotland just outside of Ullapool. Her mother died giving birth, and her father disowned her--a man of his stature, reputation, and faith could not be known to have broken his holy vows and sullied himself with sinful acts with a sinful woman. Nonetheless, his church ran the orphanage, and the young girl was delivered into his care regardless by Dr. Moira MacTaggert--she lived locally, and had served as the midwife to Rahne's mother, and had tried to save her life. Reverend Craig viewed the young girl as a constant reminder of his misdeeds, a testimony of his weakness and sins, and sought to redeem himself by making his living sin suffer.<br/><br/>Her early years were hard, harder than most others in the orphanage. Every slight misdeed was punished excessively. Any moment of speaking out of line brought rebukes full of promises of fire and brimstone upon her, left her serving such penance, that even others in the church had to question why the girl was being treated as she was. None stepped in to help her, though, for none would truly question the actions of their spiritual leader. Rahne would grow up to be a terrifically (as in, terror-bound) pious girl, quiet and withdrawn, led to believe there was something inherently wrong with her that made people hate her so much. No other child was treated as she was, and no one was ever reprimanded or scolded for mistreating her...She became a prime target for bullies in the orphanage...among much worse predators, as well, a fact no one but herself knows.<br/><br/>When Rahne first developed her mutant powers, she was mistaken for a werewolf. The girl was a shifter, able to take the form of a large wolf, or a more "traditional" representation of a Hollywood werewolf as well. The local people were terrified that night, as she lost control, and fled in a panic. Reverend Craig gathered a mob of religious townsfolk, believing his redemption was in sight. His sin-spawn's true form was reveal--a foul wretch possessed by the Devil himself, and that God was now testing him to slay the beast and he would be forgives. They chased Rahne across the Scottish highlands, deep into the woods...and it was either blind luck or divine providence that Rahne ended up where she did. At the end of the chase, just outside of the home of Moira MacTaggert, Rahne fell unconscious and reverted to her naked human form at the feet of the doctor. Moira recognized her as a mutant, not a demon, and saved her from the mob. She became a surrogate mother to the young mutant and tried to raise her, but the damage done in her early years was too much for the busy woman to undo on her own. Hoping for help, she took Rahne to America, to the Institute headed by her dear old friend, Charles Xavier. Here, the woman hoped, Rahne could finally come to grips with what she was, and receive the tutelage, and healing, she needed.<br/><br/>At the Institute she was confronted with a whole new look on the world than she had ever considered possible. Struggling to make sense of the sheer openness and trust, the acceptance, and the lack of "fire and brimstone" speeches, Rahne kept mostly to herself. If not for the efforts of a few that would become her friends she would have stayed a hermit likely for her entire stay at the institute. And now, starting her second year there...Well, she's improved somewhat, but still has a ways to go in terms of opening up, and accepting her powers as a gift and not a curse. When the Institute was most recently attacked, she used her powers to fight back only with great reluctance, but the praise and gratitude she saw afterwards did great wonders for improving her outlook on the Institute.<br/><br/>Now starting her second year, she can only wonder what her new life yet has in store for her.<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>First of Family<br/><br/><strong>Powers:</strong><ul class="bbc_list"><li><span class="bbc_u">Lycanthropy</span>: Much like the werewolves of folklore, Rahne can transform into a wolf. However, she is not a werewolf, and therefore is not restricted to the limitations of a creature of the night. She can also retain full memory of herself, and therefore has her human consciousness while in her wolf and transitional forms. In her transitional form she is able to stand erect on her legs and retain the use of her hands, but is also able to run and maneuver on all fours like a wolf. Other effects of her wolf and/or transitional forms include:</li><ul class="bbc_list"><li><span class="bbc_u">Enhanced Size</span>: Proportionately greater in size than that of her human form, her hybrid wolf-human bones and muscles make Wolfsbane taller and stronger. Although her lupine and transitional forms are more massive than her human form, the source of this additional mass is unknown.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">Enhanced Strength</span>: Greater strength than that of a normal male adult human, due to her enhanced muscular build. However, she is not considered to have superhuman strength. Her strength seems to increase exponentially to her human level-strength, so she may be able to grow stronger with a heavy training regimen as a human, if she so desired.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">Enhanced Speed</span></li><li><span class="bbc_u">Enhanced Reflexes</span>: As well as being enhanced her, muscles and skeleton are also extremely flexible, giving her the agility of an animal.</li></ul><li><span class="bbc_u">Hyperkeen Senses</span>: Keen animal senses of sight, smell &amp; hearing combined with human intelligence are heightened further than that of a regular wolf. She can perceive infrared, ultra violet, heat, pheromones &amp; emotions such as fear or lust. With training and focus she's learned to "activate" these at will, though gaining them through transforming is much easier.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">Regenerative Healing Factor</span>: Wolfsbane is capable of regenerating damaged or destroyed areas of her body with much greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. Injuries that result in massive tissue damage such as bullet wounds, slashes, punctures, blunt force trauma, and severe burns heal completely, without so much as a scar, in a shorter amount of time. She cannot regenerate severed limbs. Severe injuries will still require medical attention and bed rest, but all but the most dire will heal within a few days' time.<br/></li></ul><strong>Abilities:</strong><ul class="bbc_list"><li>In human form Wolfsbane possesses the normal human strength of a girl of her age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise. In her lupine and transitional forms her strength is heightened beyond average, but not to a superhuman degree.</li><li>Multilingual</li></ul><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">School Information</span></span><br/><strong>Classes Taken:</strong>Strategy and Tactics, Power Control (Part 2), Mutant and Human History, History  Mental Resilience<br/><br/><strong>Clubs/Extracurriculars:</strong>Archery, Chess, Track<br/><br/><strong>Student Relations:</strong><ul class="bbc_list"><li><span class="bbc_u">Winnie Wilson/Muerta</span>: A young woman that seems obsessed with Rahne, and may or may not be stalking her. Rahne has no idea how to take her, nor the fact that she makes her feel all weird and warm with the constant attention and gifts--feelings the shifter is certain are wrong, despite how nice they feel. Rahne does her best to avoid Winnie, put it proves harder that it seems.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">Ivan Storkov/Stripe</span>: Another shifter at the Institute, albeit a feline one. Rahne actively tries to avoid him and his constant pestering to tansform/train/run/play together in their animal forms.</li><li>More TBD...</li></ul><br/>