<div class="floatleft">(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j480/Erion2451/Blink__Don__t__by_psychegirl_zps7d5ebae0.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Basics</span></span><br/><strong>Character name:</strong>Clarice Ferguson<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Blink<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Heterosexual<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Single<br/><strong>Age:</strong>17<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'5"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>125 lbs<br/><strong>Hair color:</strong>Magenta<br/><strong>Eye color:</strong>Green (pupil-less)<br/><strong>Hometown/Place of birth:</strong>Bahamas<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">More Personal</span></span><br/><strong>Family:</strong>Joseph and Margarete Ferguson (both deceased)<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Clarice is an insecure and uncertain girl.  Shunned for most of her life, due to her appearance, she has a natural tendency to avoid attention and become nervous when given more than she can handle.  Despite how she has been treated, or possibly because of it, she has a strong desire to "fit-in" and make friends, though, even at the Institute she feels like the ugly duckling.  She has a number of self-image issues, which go slightly beyond the average teenage girl's.<br/><br/>Clarice is highly self-reliant, and compassionate, having had to fend for herself through patches in her life, and also helping to care for younger Delta and Gamma level mutants.  Initially traumatized from her first experience with her powers, Clarice has overcome that experience.  Her control has only improved since arriving at the school, and she has developed a blossoming, albeit fragile, confidence in her ability.<br/><br/>While she does wish to "fit-in" she displays, on occasion, behavior that "bucks" the system, since she is obviously not a part of it.  This is more often the case with society's rules and norms.  She is most often respectful and courteous to her friends and teachers, on campus.<br/><br/><strong>Hobbies:</strong>Javelin throwing, gymnastics, parkour, baton twirling, sight-seeing, traveling, Capoeira, Tae Kwan Do, and dancing.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Born to Joseph and Margarete Ferguson in the Bahamas, Clarice would have likely lived a carefree life full of sun and sand, had she not been born a mutant with obvious mutations.  From the moment she was born, Clarice has known prejudice and bigotry.  When other babies were ogled and cooed at by strangers, no matter how ugly, she was looked at with scorn or, at best, with pity - despite looking like a cute little pink elf.<br/><br/>Unsure how to raise their child, Clarice's parents did their best to hide and shelter her from society.  She was kept inside, as often as possible, and was home-schooled throughout her elementary years.  Despite being isolated and having no one to socialize with except her parents, Clarice would tell you, to this day, that she was happy.<br/><br/>At the age of twelve, Clarice's powers manifested.  Clarice had slipped out of the house, as she had become prone to do, after her parents had gone to sleep, and was visiting the beach when she was set upon by a group of older boys.  She tried to run, but quickly became lost and trapped.  When one of them threw a glass bottle at her, she instinctively threw something back.  A portal appeared and sent the bottle somewhere else.  Seeing this, the boys rushed her and, in reaction, Clarice opened another portal which teleported herself and one of the boys away, even as she was struck over the head with another bottle.<br/><br/>When Clarice woke, she found herself home, in her bedroom, lying in a pool of blood.  Her scream woke her parents, and their neighbors, and moments later it was discovered that her portal had shredded her attacker.  Word quickly traveled, throughout the small community of the incident, and her parents decided to flee with Clarice to the United States.  The family left everything behind and stowed away upon a shipping vessel.<br/><br/>In the United States, without proper paperwork, work was almost non-existent for her parents to find.  What they could find barely fed the three of them and, more often than not, they went without.  Worst of all was the constant prejudice.  Without a place to hide, Clarice was an open target for anti-mutant hate groups, and her parents were often forced to defend their child.  It was during one such attack, only a few months after arriving in the U.S., that both her parents were murdered.  Clarice escaped by opening a portal and teleporting away, but only after witnessing her parents' deaths.<br/><br/>On her own, the young girl did what she could to survive.  Dumpster-diving and scavenging provided her with a meal, every now and then.  She didn't spend long on the streets, completely alone.  A group of mutants, cast-out by society, discovered Clarice and adopted her into the community.  The community shared resources, and worked together for mutual survival and protection.  She learned to steal, pick pockets, and was even convinced to use her powers to help the group move around more easily.<br/><br/>While she fit in, for the most part, Clarice refused to take part in all of the group's activities, and was often left to babysit younger mutants and tend to the elderly or sick.  It was during one such day that the adults were captured and arrested by the local authorities.  Later that day, the police arrived at the abandoned apartment building Clarice and the others were living in and took all of the children into custody.<br/><br/>Put into the foster system, Clarice was shipped from home to home, and while she found some few kind souls, more often than not, she was turned away upon the doorstep.  After one too many rejections, Clarice teleported away and returned to life on the street.  Beginning to believe there was no place for her, she began to become involved in more and more law-breaking behavior.  It was during this time that she was contacted, mentally, by Charles Xavier and told about the Institute.  She arrived the next day with nothing more than the clothes on her back.<br/><br/>A few years have passed, now, and Clarice calls Xavier's home.  She has made progress and overcome hurdles, yet has many to still face.  During the most recent attack on the institute, she helped teleport the students to safety and remained away from the fighting.  It is something that doesn't sit right with her, as she feels like she could have helped and, if she had, she could have prevented some of the injuries, or damage, or something.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Mutations and Powers</span></span><br/><strong>Classification:</strong>First of Family<br/><br/><strong>Type of mutant:</strong>Gamma<br/><strong>Powers:</strong><br/><br/><em>Portal Teleportation:</em>Blink possesses the ability to generate teleportation portals, allowing her to displace people and objects. Her effective range is to the moon and back.<br/><br/><em>Trans-spatial Displacement Projectiles:</em>Blink manifests the energy for her portals in the form of projectiles, ranging in size from small knives to short javelins, which cause their targets to teleport.  She uses this power offensively and defensively, fully or partially teleporting whatever they is effected away or re-directing incoming attacks.  The projectiles do not need to impact the target, Clarice can mentally cause them to implode at any time, creating the portal at that spot.<br/><br/><em>Improved agility, balance, and flexibility:</em>Her mutations have given Clarice above human-average agility, balance, and flexibility.  Without training she can easily match the agility, balance, and flexibility of the world's top athletes.<br/><strong>Abilities:</strong><br/><br/><em>Marskmanship:</em>Clarice is extremely skilled with the use of thrown weapons, and bows.  (she dislikes guns).<br/><br/><em>Parkour:</em>A skill she's begun to develop in more recent years.  Natural ability and skill in gymnastics allows her to muddle her way through when experience and dedication are normally required.<br/><br/><em>Gymnastics:</em>Due to her increased agility, flexibility, and balance, Clarice has a tremendous love for tumbling, and aerials.  As a young child, it was one of the few things she felt she was good at, and spent many an hour, on her own, honing and developing the skills.<br/><br/><em>Pick-pocketing and sleight-of-hand:</em>Much to her shame, Clarice has done her fair share of theft.  A skill she developed while living with the Murlocks and while alone and on the streets.  To a professional thief she is likely clumsy and obvious, but to a regular passer-by, she can take a wallet and watch, and get away, faster than they can realize those items are gone.<br/><br/><em>Intermediate Self Defense and Martial Arts:</em>Being an obvious mutant, Clarice has had her fair share of fights.  Typically one to run away from conflict, especially considering her powers, there have been times where running wasn't an option.  Normally up against superior odds, she's taken her beatings, but in doing so, she's learned a thing or two about self-defense, and fighting dirty.  After coming to Xavier's, she has learned what she could from anyone who was willing to teach her, X-Man or student.  She is currently enrolled in a Tae Kwan Do class taught by (insert teacher here).<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">School Information</span></span><br/><strong>Classes Taken:</strong>Teleportation training, Mental Resilience, History (Mutant and Human), Power Control, History 101, Strategy and Tactics, Languages (is this supposed to be specific?)<br/><br/><strong>Clubs/Extracurriculars:</strong>Archery<br/><br/><strong>Student Relations:</strong>TBD.