<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/X8fgAU6.jpg)</div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Bridges</strong></span></span><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><strong>*Disclaimer, see powers</strong></em></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>Bridgette Annabelle Desjardins<br/><strong>Age:</strong>Thirty (July 3rd)<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Nationality: </strong>Norman blood.<br/>Born In France. Raised near her birthplace in a small town called Guebwiller. She was born with dual citizenship in America and France, and often spent her summers in a different house on the coast of Oregon. Born in Mulhouse, France.<br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>Teacher for Highschool and College - Course Schedule at bottom of sheet.<br/><hr/><hr/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Physical Description</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Hair Colour:</strong>Dark Brown<br/><strong>Eye Colour:</strong>Steele Grey<br/><strong>Height:</strong>6’1<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>66 lbs.<br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong>Montana Cox and Montana Cox<br/><strong>Physical Features:</strong><br/>Bridgette bends. Her bones are structured differenly, so she doesn’t break as easily. She bruises pitch black. And she can change some of her physical features at will. But her basic form is as pictured.<br/><br/><strong>General Appearance:</strong><br/>Most notably, Bridgette can be either one person, or two people. Both of them are identical, but it’s as easy as taking on or taking off a ring for her.<br/><br/>Bridgett is long and thin. Her breasts are very small, and her hips are narrow. She does have a womanly shape, she just appears to be stretched out. She looks as if she weighs about 120 lbs. She towers over most other women, and she often wears heels, making the effect even more dramatic. Her muscle structure is weak, especially in her arms. She dresses in professional clothing most of the time, and tries to be modest over being her natural self, an incredibly sexual woman.<br/><hr/><hr/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Who they are</span></strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong><br/>Bridgett likes to stay quiet when she’s not teaching. She enjoys watching people behave, it still appears odd to her, normal behavior. Bridgett's first real friends were here at this school. And, they came along slowly. She had been amiable to other children before her powers had kicked in. But, she had never liked them, and her parents heard a lot of complaining about her classmates that only grew darker and more disturbing as she aged (see history). Her power gave her a bit of a mean streak, and controlling her became almost impossible. Her old personality was straight out of a horror movie, and keeping it at bay had taken most of her focus. For her first two years at the school, she stayed in her room most of the time, trying to control herself.<br/><br/>Now, Bridgett does her best to keep things comfortable for those around her. Despite these efforts, she sees a 'black lining' around everything. People's intentions are always shaded on the selfish side to her. She doesn't trust easily, and death is always on the tip of her tongue. She's good at timing absurd jokes. And Over the last few years she’s become very amiable and understanding. She’s matured a lot, and her abilities with understanding and using emotions to help others has become a passion for her.She supports people's dreams, but she also wants to make fun of them if they fail. She’s never done this to a student though.<br/><br/>She's often snacking on something salty. Bridgett is a salt fiend, and she has a bit of an oral fixation. Potato chips, pretzels, nuts, etc. Her favorite thing in the world is kettle corn, and she is rarely caught without any on her person(s).<br/><hr/>Bridges is bad with politics. She supports Xavier, but she also understands why The Brotherhood is doing what they are doing. She knows that if the Brotherhood had come to her before Xavier had, then she would be living a very different and demented life.<br/><br/>She has matured enough to support Xavier’s decisions, and for the most part, she is a pacifist. Bridgette has no real fighting capability at all. She’s a politician if anything, but an educator first. She has come to think that helping people control their powers is a noble cause, and helping humankind understand mutantkind is even more noble.<br/><br/>She is fully against the government’s current behavior, and finds it to be incredibly oppressive.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Biography:</strong><br/>Warning-Dark, you have been warned.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">The Deep Past</div><div class="spoiler_body">Bridgett came out of the womb with black skin. The doctors were confused, but they could tell that it was from bruising, after a week or so, the infants body turned peach, healed up, and she was a normal child, mostly. Other things started to become obvious quickly. When she was three and a half years old, she'd still only weighed eleven pounds. Her parents took her to the doctors often, and everyone seemed stumped. ‘She's healthy, she's never been hurt, she's been sick, and yeah, her internal clock seems to be on hyperdrive.’ Bridgett took 110 breaths a minute, almost four times the norm, and her heart beat was at 178 bpms. But her circulation was fine, she was getting plenty of oxygen into her bloodstream, she never seemed to be panicked, and she was learning at a normal rate. <br/><br/>She was still diagnosed with a mild case of Autism at the age of eight when she couldn't get along with anyone her own age, and she was starting to have problems with her parents. The doctors, and her parents had no idea what to do with death obsession. She was starting to draw, and write about it. And, her parents would catch her looking at horrific things on the internet. She never seemed depressed though, privacy was favored, and she often laughed to herself. Her parents never reported her having an imaginary friend, but she would often refer to herself as 'her'. No one seemed to notice too much, one psychiatrist considered that she might have been showing early signs of dissociative identity disorder, unable to commit to the idea of being alive in her own body, or unable to find an identity at all, always just seeing herself as something that is alive, not actually a person.<br/><br/>Bridgett's home was always the same, a three story mansion with a lake house and a barn. An eleven acre field that grew grain and grapes, and two large forests to the north and south. The northern woods led to the lakehouse, and the southern woods were sprouted from a large creek that eventually fed into a river. <br/><br/>Bridgett grew up. She enjoyed her hobbies, she still didn't enjoy other children. She was ignored by the other children at her private school.<br/><br/>In her early adolescence, Bridgett was on the right track, she was learning rapidly, her doctors were taking her off of medications. Bridgett was fourteen when she started to consider things that regular girls considered, she asked her mom if she would ever think about helping her dye her hair black. Naturally, her mother didn't like the idea of black hair, but it was good to hear the word dye come out of her daughter's mouth, instead of 'die'. <br/><br/>Bridgett never achieved a world class level, but she started to win regional tournaments for her age group in tennis. She was only 44 lbs at the age of fourteen, and gymnastics were appealing to her at that time as well. It was almost fun to be as light as a feather. She knew by that time that her bones were flexible, but no one else did. Boys could lift her above their heads as if they were moving a mattress. It was fun. Bridgett was enjoying herself, but the odds were stacked up against her.<br/><br/>Her friends were starting to envy her, or despise her for being rude, or too pretty, or weird, or just freaky in general. She was starting to develop a superiority complex. She gone from strange and dark to gorgeous and intimidating quickly. Everyone was growing tired of her. It was when they found out that she couldn't be broken. She was climbing a fence, and she fell, and everyone saw her leg bend the wrong way, and everyone saw her cringe in pain, and everyone saw her shake it out. She stood up and started along like nothing had gone wrong. <br/><br/>There was something wrong. The kids were not okay with what had just happened. She had officially become a freak, it was instant. Before she was an anomaly, but in that moment, she became a freak. And, they beat her, three girls she considered to be her best friends turned on her instantly and tested her body’s limits. The event ended in a coma. Bridgett was almost fifteen years old. The kids escaped, her friends, and the groundskeeper of the facility that they played tennis at had found her. She didn’t remember anything, and it had looked a lot like attempted suicide.<br/></div></div><br/>Bridgette was in a powerful coma when she turned fifteen years old. And, she was not progressing. It was on the sixth week, and the third day, two weeks after Bridgett had turned fifteen. Birthday balloons were still in the room, but her family had vacated. A nurse had been in the hall, two doctors were present, and one surgeon, but he was asleep in the break room of the hospital. Bridgett was no longer in the ICU, she had stabilized, and she was either going to wake up one day or die.<br/><br/>They hadn't figured that both would happen at the same time. Bridgett flat-lined, her brainwaves stopped, her body started to twitch. The nurse ran into the room, and shouted for a doctor. The nurse checked the young girl's wires and tubes, everything was fine, her bag was still inserted, and her iv was dripping. The nurse turned around when she heard a footstep. It wasn't the doctor. It was a copy...a Beta version of the girl in the bed. It was Her, It was Bridgett, as far as the nurse was concerned. The doctor then rushed into the room to find the girl standing in the middle of the room, while simultaneously laying down on the hospital bed plugged into machines.<br/><br/>The cameras in the hospital room recorded the following events, but the doctor and the nurse were never able to explain it completely. The doctor started to escort Beta out of the room, but the Nurse made it clear to him that this 'person' had appeared from nowhere. The camera did in fact record that Beta had appeared from nowhere. Had it been a better camera, it would have seen a puff of smoke as well. The three of them appeared to converse for a moment. And Beta took command of the room, she seemed to be explaining something to the two medical professionals. Beta than reached down and touches Bridgett's exposed foot. Then, a flash hits the camera, and static takes over the screan for a half of a second. At that point, Bridgett's vital signs return, Beta disappeared from the room, the nurse rushed over to the monitors, and the doctor looked around the room in confusion. He then looked down at Bridgett as the young girl rose from the bed, and out of her coma.<br/><br/>From that day on, Bridgett had full access to Beta, and her x-gene was active.<br/><br/>It only took four weeks for her parents to bring in a priest. Their daughter had changed completely. She had been found in bed, naked and writhing with the other version of herself. More than once, Bridgett had vanished completely for days, and returned talking nonsense about other dimensions, and the world of people-music. Bridgett was starting to be able to morph her face, and her parents were convinced that a demon had possessed their child, the surveillance footage from the hospital had not helped Bridgett's case.<br/><br/>Of course, the exorcism did not succeed. Bridge would not respond to a Latin Bible, holy water, candles, or the holy cross, and the priest concluded that this girl was beyond help.<br/><br/>A few years passed before she had been found by Xavier, he could feel her confusion, and he’d called her in with the help of a few x-men at the time. She came to the school in order to learn about her powers, and educate herself. It took a long time, but she finished a collegiate degree there. The young mutant started to teach at the school last year, at the age of twenty nine.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Addendum</div><div class="spoiler_body"> The truth that Bridgett doesn’t know: She’s a psionic being that doesn’t need a body. When she ‘recovered’ from her coma, her x-gene activated and hit it’s full potential right away. Her body was acting on it’s own to keep her alive. She became a psionic being in that moment. The ‘Beta’ that appeared was psionic, and when she touched Bridgette’s foot she burned up Bridgette’s original body gifting herself a new body made of psionic properties. This psionic quality allows her to take the form of anything she wants to take.<br/><br/>Bridgette is actually in a copy of her original body because it’s all she knows. The Beta is a copy of her original body as well, and when they combine together, she’s still just one copy of the original.</div></div><br/><hr/><hr/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Superpowers &amp; Equipment</span></strong></span><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong> *Disclaimer </strong></span></div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><em>Do not Tell Bridgett she is a psionic. She doesn't know, almost no one would be able to tell. She's strange, and ethereal in more ways than one, but she thinks she's a regular person with a regular human body. So, she is that, a regular person, in a regular human body... That's actually a psionic.<br/><br/>So don't tell her! Bad things will happen!</em></span><br/><br/><strong>Class:</strong>Alpha (unrealized potential still)<br/><br/><strong>Psionic Form:</strong><br/>Put plainly, Bridgette doesn't need a body. She can exist without one. She doesn't know this. And although she is a psionic being, she lacks the power of other dangerous psionic lifeforms. Bridgette’s body is real. All of her physical properties exist in the material world. But, they don’t have to. Bridgette can turn herself into anything she imagines. This power is the basis of her mutation. But she has no concept of being psionic energy. She just thinks she’s Bridgette, and her different forms are very limited.<br/><br/>There are applicable uses for this power. Bridgette could make her bones thicker, she could protect her brain better. But, she doesn’t know how, and she’s unable to accept it as an option right now. She doesn’t even know she’s a psionic being.<br/><br/>She has a few tricks though without full knowledge. Bridgette can put a feather in her hair at will, her hair actually becomes feathers if she wants it. She can make her skin into lizard like scales. She can change the color of her eyes, or her skin. She can change her clothing if she’s wearing it, and mend it together like a seamstress if she has it on. However, besides having the ability to psionically poof pimples and scars away subconsciously, she can actively take a few different distinct forms listed below<br/><hr/><em>Bridgette Desjardins</em>- Her identity, her ‘virtual self’. One girl from France who likes cigarettes, and sex. She’s six feet tall with bendy bones. As light as a feather, flexible, perfect tits, long legs, and incredibly soft hair.<br/><br/><em>Bridgette and Bridge</em>- The Twins, Two Bridges. An Alpha, and a Beta. The same girl twice. The limits and the actual rules: No telepathy between them, physically, two different people. Bridgette will instantly remember everything her Beta did as soon as they meld together again. If Beta gets a black eye, when the two of them meld, Bridgette will absorb the black eye. It would heal quickly, unless she likes it.<br/><br/><em>The Flower Girl </em>- Brigette calls her the flower girl. Rose petals fall out of her hair. She exudes a sweet scent, and flowers grow from her head. Bees float around her happily, and they actually pollinate the flowers, for they are real flowers. Her hair goes lighter, and her irises are pink. Her voice is more high pitched, and she’s actually three inches shorter.<br/><br/><em>Bridges </em>- Similar to Bridgette and Bridge, except both of her bodies have feathers on their limbs and their back. They have black Angel wings, and feathers also come out of her head. In this form, both of them can fly. She also likes to wear a helmet in this form that Xavier and a few others helped her design. Her bendy skull still makes her very fragile, so the helmet helps to keeps her alive.<br/><br/><em>Old Horror Forms </em>- Bridgette has tried to forget how to take these forms. Bridges is still sort of scary, but not as scary as what she used to be sometimes. She used these forms in her teens to scare the hell out of her parents and random people she met, fastly becoming a villain and a poster girl for evil mutants. She never made major news, and usually tried to scare people out alone or small groups of campers in the woods. She only wanted to scare them, to make them run home screaming. Again, she hasn’t done this in a long time, and has mostly forgotten how to take these forms: Zombie girl, Crow, Scarecrow, ghost girl, and the demon girl complete with red skin, a tail and horns. She still uses this one from time to time for the fantasies of her lovers. But, it’s difficult for her.<br/><hr/><hr/><strong>Psionic Empath:</strong><br/>Bridgette’s power is filtered through an understanding people’s emotions, and an understanding of her own emotions. Imagine her like a broadcast tower. Her Emotions have a volume that can be turned up and down, so she can hide her emotions. She can play different stations without listening. In other words, Bridgette can feel very sad, but she can project happiness with ease. (When she does this, her psionic powers make her smiles more honest, even when they’re not). She can also receive signals, using the tower metaphor even more. So, sensing other people’s emotions is her most used power. The distinct uses for these powers are below.<br/><hr/><em>Empathy</em>- sensing other people’s emotions, and sensing people in close quarters in general. This is not mind reading, she can’t read thoughts at all. All of this takes place as music in her mind. Angry people make aggressive music. Happy people are pleasant. And groups of people together sound like an orchestra or a band. Depending on how well people get along, the ‘quality of music’ changes. So, it’s easy for her to see who is and who isn’t getting along.<br/><br/><em>Broadcasting</em>- Bridgette can turn her emotional volume up or down. This is useful for teaching, if she’s having a rough day, she can hide that emotion. She can also turn ‘her station’ down in class to give students space. In the other direction, it’s easy for her to engage her students because she can ‘broadcast a happy song’.<br/><br/><em>Seduction</em>- It’s an art for her.<br/><br/><em>Hiding</em>- refer to Jubilation Lee, she was able to hide in a mall for years as well as in the x-mansion for an extended time with a similar power. She can turn down her presence of being and her emotions to make herself difficult to remember, or even perceive. Naturally, if someone can see her. They will know she’s there. But, in a crowd, it would be hard to spot her or track her down.<br/><br/><strong>Equipment:</strong><br/><em>Helmet</em>- to protect her skull from being caved in with a simple punch. She doesn’t wear it often, and is very careful with herself. One bad fall, and it’s coma time again for her.<br/><hr/><hr/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong><strong>Flaws or Weaknesses</strong></strong></span></span><br/><br/><em>Anatomically Wrong</em>-  Calm down, Bridgett has a vagina. But, Bridgett only weighs 66 lbs. That was not a typo up there. And that's just the beginning. Bridgett's bones are not bones. When she stands up straight, or runs, or jumps, or does anything that supports her own weightless-like self, her bones are fine. They feel hard, they feel good, and solid. However, when stressed, her bones are flexible, and difficult to damage. There is something to the structure of her DNA that changed the consistency of her skeleton. Her bones aren't bones, and their not cartilage. It is painful when her bones do 'bend', but her body is built for it, and, the feeling passes quickly. Her joints, and places on her body that should be cartilage, are also made of this mysterious plastic-like bone material. She appears to be normal until someone starts to bend her. Needless, to say, she's never had any bones broken. Moreover, Bridgett bruises incredibly easily, and the bruises are always black, as if there is oil in her bloodstream.<br/><br/>Bridgett is unbelievably flexible, and her tendons stretch like rubber bands. This only gives her an advantage in yoga and the bedroom, not the field of battle. Unfortunately, Bridgett also has a minor case of anemia, and her blood has difficulty clotting. Open wounds can lead to excessive bleeding, and she is more susceptible to bleeding out than a regular human would be. It is slightly difficult to cut her, her bones are not hard enough to cause serious laceration, she is genetically designed to bruise easily, and painlessly. All of this does, in fact, make her brain rather vulnerable. No one has ever tried to chop her bones in half, but they would find it to be incredibly easy. Her bones are NOT strong. Her bendy bird body is the only part of her mutation that has been with her her since birth.<br/><br/><em>Recovering Psychotic</em>- Bridgett was, at one time, more than one sandwich short of a full picnic basket. She's quite sane now, but when she was younger, she rarely used her Duplicate to do anything productive. She filled up thirty-five black and white composition notebooks, and then, never let anyone read them, for good reason, almost every page was littered with brutal murder scenes and bloody violence. It was mentioned that her duplicate never did anything productive. She’s still recovering a bit, the two of them (Bridgette and Beta) love to smoke cigarettes together. And they are often cuddling together in order to pass the time. She shares secrets with herself as if the other version of herself isn't going to know what she had just said.<br/><br/><em>Crow's Fighting Spirit</em>- She has no idea how to throw a punch or take one. So, if Bridgett gets into a fight, she feels a lot pain. She could easily be knocked out of the equation with a single punch.<br/><br/><em>Unnaturally Thin Blood</em>- Bridgett is a very bad bleeder, and a small cut can cause her to lose a lot of blood. A large wound could easily kill her.<br/><br/><em>Pessimist</em>- Bridgett is a coward. She is harshly afraid of dying and she always believes that the worst will always come to fruition. Bridgett would rather hide in a closet and turn down her empathy frequency than stand in the middle of a fight, back to back with her duplicate swinging blades at large hammers.<br/><br/><em>Crow Strength</em>- Bridgett's muscles do not move a lot of weight around. It's a strain for her to pick up an industrial sized bottle of shampoo, or a laptop computer. She also removes herself from any kind of training regiment, so she doesn't have the will to become stronger either. In her rationale, she would need to be a massive body builder just to be able to help somebody move out of their house, it's not worth it, she's fine being as weak as a seven year old child.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>OTHER</strong></span><br/><br/><em>Bridgette can Teach two classes at once. She also holds lessons for piano and tennis most days of the week, but it's not as scheduled. These are her courses for the fall. </em><br/><br/><em>Bridgette Desjardins #1</em><br/>7:35 - 8:30 -- Psychology, Childhood Development<br/>8:35 - 9:30 -- Psychology, Family systems<br/>9:35 - 10:30 -- French I<br/>10:35 - 11:30 -- Psychology, Human Sexuality<br/>11:35 - 12:30 -- Break/Lunch<br/>12:35 - 1:30 -- French Advanced<br/>1:35 - 2:30 -- Sex ed<br/>2:35 - 3:30 -- Runs a study hall and helps with all subjects<br/><br/><em>Bridgette Desjardins #2</em><br/>7:35 - 8:30 -- Psychology, Coping Skills<br/>8:35 - 9:30 -- European History<br/>9:35 - 10:30 -- Philosophy<br/>10:35 - 11:30 -- French II<br/>11:35 - 12:30 -- French III<br/>12: 35 - 1:30 -- Lunch/Break<br/>1:35 - 2:30 -- Comparative Religions<br/>2:35 - 3:30 -- Runs a detention hall for bad kids.<br/><br/><em>Tennis</em>-This is the one sport that Bridgett is good at, and her mother made sure that she knew how to play, Bridgette tried ballet as well, but she was too flexible and it scared the other children. As Bridgett got older she started to enjoy this game a lot more, because she could feel when her opponent was getting tired, or frustrated, or confident, or worried, or anxious. Also, she can play with her duplicate, which has done tons for her game, practice has ramped up big time since the age of fifteen. Tennis is the most normal thing that Bridgett is good at.<br/><br/><em>Piano</em>- Bridgett was trained to play the instrument from the age of four to the age of fiteen by an expensive professional, and she two of her own fine french pieces, one in her bedroom at home, and one in the study of her house in Oregon. Bridgett had always enjoyed playing, and again, her practice became more interesting and fruitful when her Duplicate could play the bass, and Bridgett could solo on the treble keys.<br/><br/><em>Multi-tasking</em>- Need I say much more? Bridge can grade Psychology essays, while Bridgett instructs a student on a new piece for the the piano, afterward, they can meld together, Bridgett learns what Bridge had learned, and then her bread in the oven can finish cooking from when the two of them had done some baking earlier. Finally, Bridgett can give a lecture or get a drink while Bridge plans lessons for the next day.