<div class="floatright">(http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/13381189_236387550075587_999398268_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTI3MDM1MDIwOTYwMzcyODQ4MA%3D%3D.2&amp;se=7)</div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Blackout</strong></span></span></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Basics</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Full Name:</strong>Joanne Trinity Weber<br/><strong>Age:</strong>19<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Nationality: </strong>American<br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>Student<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Physical Description</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Hair Colour:</strong>Currently blue, but changes almost as often as her moods do.<br/><strong>Eye Colour:</strong>Green<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'3”<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>That's none of your damned business<br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong>Dayana Crunk<br/><strong>Physical Features:</strong>Joanne has a scar on her chest that runs from just over her right breast to just under her left.  She refuses to talk about how she got it.<br/><br/><strong>General Appearance:</strong>Her style has a bit of a slight goth element to it, usually sporting darker colors, spikes, and leather, however once in a while, she'll sport brighter colors if she feels like it.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Who they are</span></strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Rebellious is perhaps the best way to describe Joanne.  If she's told to do something she doesn't want to do, then odds are she's going to find a way to either not do it or find a way around it.  This can lead to her being a handful for anyone that's charged with trying to keep her on a certain path, but she's never intentionally spiteful or mean about things, simply preferring to find her own way.  Once you get past that rebellious nature, she's a kind, fun loving person and enjoys hanging around with others and just enjoying life to the fullest.  However, if someone manages to piss her off, then she becomes a totally different person and has no problems with letting someone know that she has an issue with them.  And she won't let it go until the issue is settled to her satisfaction, sometimes causing her to have issues with the senior members of the group.<br/><br/>This has led her to clash with Charles and his pacifistic way of handling the Brotherhood as she felt that if someone had betrayed her that badly, she would've made them suffer.  She's also very vocal about her disdain for the government as it makes an effort to round up mutants to either tag or imprison, believing with all her heart that no one should be able to do that to her just because of who she is.  However, she also doesn't see the wisdom in the Brotherhood's more violent activities since she can see how that only made those that opposed mutants feel justified in their continuing campaign against them.  She just wants to be left alone and allowed to live her life without any issues, and she will fight to the death in order to ensure that no one ever forces her to live as a slave or second-class citizen.<br/><br/><strong>Biography:</strong>Growing up in a small town in New York, Joanne had a fairly normal childhood.  Her parents both worked, but still managed to find plenty of time to devote to her, encouraging her to participate in whatever activity that she chose and she fell in love with music and was learning to play guitar from the time she was seven years old.  This made her very popular among her class growing up and she got along with most of the kids in her grade and the ones around it as everyone seemed to think that she was going to be famous at some point in her life.  While she never really thought about that much, she did enjoy how playing guitar seemed to make her popular, not to mention she loved how she could just lose herself in her music whenever she was having a bad day or was stressed out about something.  As far as her classes went, she was a fairly decent student, usually getting Bs with a few As mixed in for the most part.  It seemed like she was headed towards a fairly comfortable life until one incident when she was 13 years old would change all of that.<br/><br/>While most kids liked her, or at the very least didn't mind her, there were a few girls that didn't care for her that much.  They saw her and her popularity as a threat to their own popularity and didn't want anyone competing with them for attention.  Confronting Joanne one day after school as she was exiting the building.  Not willing to back down as the girls demanded that she change, she stood up to them, but she was outnumbered five to one and that made the girls bold.  When she refused to give into their demands, they attacked her, shoving her to the ground and starting to beat on her as dozens of their classmates looked on and cheered the fight.  Attempting to fight back only made the girls angry and one of them pulled out a knife and slashed at her, leaving a scar on her chest.  Realizing that things were going too far, others now stepped in, but it was too late and Joanne's powers manifested themselves that day as the shadows around them suddenly came to her aid, wrapping themselves around her like a shield and not allowing anyone near her until her parents finally arrived.<br/><br/>Everything changed that day.  Where before, she was extremely popular, now kids stirred clear of her, muttering under their breaths as she passed them by.  At first, she was able to ignore it by assuming that after a while, things would go back to normal.  But they never did.  In fact, things slowly got more and more hostile as more and more people learned what she was.  Where before, she had plenty of friends, now she had nobody and she started to lash out at people for even the slightest of things, making her even more of an outsider.  Eventually, she stopped trying to fit in, changing everything about herself, including her clothing style, hair, and how she behaved in school.  Where before, she was a decent student, she started skipping classes and sometimes not even getting out of bed at all.  Her parents also seemed to struggle with not only their daughter's change in behavior, but also with the knowledge that she was a mutant.  Where before, they had been extremely involved in her life and trying to help her, they stayed away and she could sometimes hear them arguing about what to do about her, which only fueled her anger and rebellious behavior even further.<br/><br/>And then, one day she came home from actually going to school to find a man in a wheelchair talking to her parents.  The man's name was Charles Xavier and after listening to what he had to say, she decided to take him up on the offer of going to his school and being surrounded by people like herself.  However, upon arriving, she struggled to adapt to her new environment at first and her rebellious attitude remained.  That said, after a time, she did learn how to fit in a bit better, but she still kept most people at arm's length, remembering how badly the betrayal of those that she'd counted as her friends hurt.  While her studies have improved, most of the last five years has been spent trying to discover how to manipulate her powers and use them to their fullest extent, her focus often leaving her on an island with few friends, but at this point, she wouldn't have it any other way.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Superpowers &amp; Equipment</span></strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Class:</strong>Beta<br/><br/><strong>Power Name:</strong>Darkness Manipulation.  She has the ability to use the darkness around her for a number of purposes.  They include cloaking herself and a small area around her, no more than five or six square feet, compressing shadows to form shields or weapons, allowing her to levitate and move around as though she's flying, and she has even begun to experiment with using the shadows to create copies of herself to distract her opponents, but she hasn't yet been able to muster more than a single copy.<br/><br/><strong>Equipment Name:</strong>Joanne doesn't carry anything special with her.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong><strong>Flaws or Weaknesses</strong></strong></span></span><br/><br/><strong>Weakness Name:</strong>The light.  As her power is based on darkness, if there's too much light, she will be unable to find shadows to manipulate, rendering her powers completely useless.<br/><br/><strong>Flaw Name:</strong>Her greatest flaw has to be her rebellious nature.  It often causes her to ignore the advice of well-meaning friends and teachers in favor of attempting to do it her own way.  This has caused her no small amount of pain and headaches, not to mention what it's caused for others around her.