<strong>Character Name:</strong>Gwendolyn Grace<br/><strong>Nickname(s):</strong>Gwen, Gigi<br/><strong>Code Name:</strong>Singe (Widely known mercenary title), Starburst (Abandoned X-Men title)<br/><strong>Parent(s):</strong>Scott Summers (Cyclops), Emma Frost<br/><strong>Role:</strong>Independent<br/>(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/7a/Women-Rose-Byrne-75755.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Birthdate:</strong>June 21<br/><strong>Age:</strong>28<br/><strong>Birthplace:</strong>New York<br/><strong>Nationality:</strong>White<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Open<br/><strong>Dominance:</strong>Switch, leaning dominant<br/><br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'9"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>145<br/><strong>Eye Color:</strong>Brown<br/><strong>Hair Color:</strong>Brown<br/><br/><strong>Known Mutant Power(s):</strong><br/><em>Energy Production:</em>Inherited from her father, Gwen possesses the ability to open dimensional portals to produce beams of varying intensity. However, hers is more advanced, allowing her to open them anywhere on her body. She has also sustained no head trauma, allowing her to retain personal control over the beams without any mechanical or magical aid. This allows her much finer control over every aspect of the beam production. Gwen is also not limited only to kinetic energy bursts - indeed, she has developed the ability to summon several types of energy, greatly widening her applicability. Among her many talents are abilities such as flight via carefully controlled kinetic bursts. Skills like this do not come naturally, however.<br/><em>Energy Accumulation:</em>She gathers primary energy from ultraviolet radiation, but due to her psychic abilities, can gather secondary energy from the living things in the vicinity. This can be an effective strategy against opponents, but can be devastating to the surrounding biosphere. This is a desperation ability.<br/><em>Diamond Form:</em>Inherited from her mother, Gwen can instantly turn the outer inch of her body into an organic composite denser than diamond and just as resplendent. This gives her incredible superhuman strength and durability, but renders her incapable of energy production and suppresses her psychic abilities. She also seems to lose a measure of reasoning ability, turning essentially into a brute.<br/><em>Telepathy:</em>Instead of honing her abilities to make them stronger, Gwen has instead devoted her life to suppressing her telepathy. Being somewhat of a misanthrope, she would rather shut people out than be able to manipulate them. However, with her mother being one of the most powerful psychics known, she has a certain amount of innate ability and boundless potential. This in fact allows her to suppress it effectively, and most psychics are unaware that she is one of them, though higher level psychics can pick her out easily.<br/><em>Telekinesis:</em>A relatively new ability for Gwen, she is only beginning to practice it. At present, her talent is unwieldy at best, with unpredictable results. She discovered this ability in a moment of distress, and for now, she only uses it reflexively in battle.<br/><br/><strong>Weaknesses:</strong>Psychics more powerful or skilled than Gwen can overwhelm her defenses and take advantage of her relative inexperience. Dimensional and temporal distortions can (but do not as a rule) interfere with her ability to form her energy portals correctly. She has a measure of mutant durability, but is relatively squishy, unless she is in crystalline form. When she is in crystalline form, there is a single point that, if pierced, would cause her to shatter. However, she is still not invulnerable in that form, and concussions of sufficient force can crack the material, resulting in a wound that will remain when she turns back. Many of her energy-based abilities such as flight can be rather easily disrupted by breaking her concentration enough, as no amount of practice can make portal creation second nature to what is essentially still a human.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Born Gwendolyn Summers-Frost, she was the youngest of a long line of Summers children. However, given Scott Summers' flaky ways with women, Gwen was raised primarily by her mother. Emma Frost was a caring mother, but her mind always seemed to be on something other than Gwen, leaving the young girl feeling marginalized, and planting the seed of discontent in her heart that would plague her for the rest of her life.<br/><br/>Gwen grew up in the company of heroes, but never truly associated with or related to them. They were people, just like she was, but they were occupied with a particular sense of righteousness that Gwen could never grasp for herself, despite trying. It never made sense to her to value other people, strange unknown people especially, with such single-minded reverence. She could only see people for what they were, compounding her discontent and slowly turning it into a seething misanthropy.<br/><br/>She kept to herself, mostly, throughout her childhood. Her mother occasionally offered to train her, but Gwen wasn't interested in the half-hearted teachings of a distracted progenitor. Having long since developed the ability to amuse herself, she decided to simply suppress her inherited psychic abilities and focus on her energy production, which was far superior in potential to her father's, much to her satisfaction. Gwen developed an incredible range of applications for her talents, becoming the equivalent of a Swiss army knife in terms of energy applications.<br/><br/>The breadth of things she was capable of made her very attractive to contractors, leading her into the life of a mercenary. She was never the most combat-minded mutant, and was rarely called in to do any “heavy lifting” as they called it in the business, but found work to be regular and well-paying. It was also an exploitative enough occupation to sate her undercurrent of disgust. She didn't allow herself to get carried away, and was never abusive, but was also never hesitant to follow the most convenient path towards achieving any given goal, particularly if it resulted in being able to cause a little suffering and be praised for it later. Perhaps she was not evil, but she certainly reveled in schadenfreude.<br/><br/>From birth she was already well known as being the daughter of the long-winded romance of Cyclops and the White Queen. However, because of her strong hate of her father and general disinterest in her mother, she changed her last name from Summers-Frost to Grace, her mother's middle name, which was not well known. She wasn't about to alter her appearance, but the name change allowed her a modicum of peace from time to time.<br/><br/>The newly named Singe became well known in her own right in mercenary circles for her particular brand of mitigated cruelty and the flashiness inherent to her powers. Her celebrity parents and considerable reputation have made sure that she is well known in all mutant circles. Disdain has given her a special kind of extended patience via not considering most conflicts worthwhile, but she is also known for merciless brutality once her ire is awakened. Having no particular aspirations or ambitions, she can't very well be considered a direct threat to anyone, but as she is for hire, must always be considered. Gwen very much enjoys the wariness she inspires.<br/><br/>(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/b9/Rose_byrne_wall_(1).jpg)