<ul class="bbc_list"></ul><div class="floatright">(http://www.taaz.com/images/913BE037A243A79DE3F1CB7F85981A27.jpg)</div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Wolfsbane</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>Rahne Sinclair<br/><strong>Age:</strong>19<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Nationality: </strong>Scottish (UK Citizenship)<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 Color:</strong>Red (Russet Brown when transformed)<br/><strong>Eye Color:</strong>Green<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>Face Claim:</strong>Emma Watson<br/><strong>Physical Features:</strong>Essentially the same as the face claim. Unless she's transformed. Then...she's, well, a giant wolf.<br/><br/><strong>General Appearance:</strong>Note: This area will be filled out better shortly. In basics though, she dresses casually, as one would expect a nineteen year-old young woman to dress. She prefers more conservative clothing, due to her religious upbringing, but also seeing as how that upbringing wasn't the best, she's slowly relaxing and becoming adventurous. Slightly. Kinda of...<br/><br/>Her largest issue is in regards to her powers, as she tends to destroy her clothing when she transforms, which leads to all kinds of issues, and is one of the reasons she does her best to stay human.<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>Rahne is a withdrawn and distant young woman, thanks to the abuse she suffered for most of her life at the hands of her father (who she still does not know is her father).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 her roommate 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>Biography:</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. For the most part she's done her best to stay out of politics, and out of the spotlight in general. When asked she just says she has no opinion, and simply wants to learn how to control her powers so that she might pretend they don't exist. But if pressed, she'd say she agrees with the US Government--and not just because they can revoke her card and send her back to Scotland if they so felt like it. Mutants can be dangerous, and hurt a lot of people very quickly, and the government needs to do what it can to protect everyone. The Brotherhood she hates, as they represent event her father said about mutant-kind. The fact she can now be considering one of them, a mutant, disturbs her to no end.<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><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>Equipment Name:</strong>N/A<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><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Sufficient pain/damage when in either of her transformed states will cause her to revert back to her normal human form, typically also rendering her unconscious.</li><li>As she changes, she loses some of her rational human mind for a more bestial, primal mentality. Logic and reason tend to escape her when fully transformed, a fact she's working to overcome, and is a leading reason she hates her powers.</li><li>She is susceptible to physics and mind-altering substances, which make weaken her control and force her to change against her will. People with animal empathy or similar abilities may also find some sway over her in her fully transformed state.</li></ul><br/><br/><strong>Flaw Name:</strong><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Rahne is a self-loathing individual, hating herself and the fact she is a mutant due to her somewhat extreme upbringing. She lacks confidence because of this, which does affect her grades and her ability to control her power, at least as much as she would like. </li><li>Related to the flaw above, some of her hardline religious beliefs have yet to be shaken, and so "evil" mutations such as those viewed as potentially whichcraft, or demonic in origin, make her very uncomfortable, and she would judge and avoid such classmates almost unfairly quick.</li><li>While in her lupine form, Wolfsbane can not orally communicate with others. Instead she has the vocal chords of a wolf and therefore barks, growls, and howls as one. Although in this form she is capable of communicating telepathically it's often hard to do so clearly. While she may retain her human consciousness, she is more prone to wild behavior. This can sometimes dull her intelligence or override her usually up-right and moral consciousness.</li></ul><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Other</strong></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Character Connections</span>:<ul class="bbc_list"><li><em>Laura Kinney / Wolverine</em> - Laura has been Rahne's roommate for the last year. The two met shortly after Rahne arrived at the school, and while Laura's intensity initially put Rahne on edge, the two fell in quickly enough. The two still retain some rough spots (such as room cleanliness, and Laura's ever-present suspicion), but the two are nonetheless good friends. Rahne harbors a growing crush on her friend that she tries to keep hidden to the best of her abilities.</li><li><em>Antoinette Laveau / Marionette</em> - Rahne has only just met Netty recently, and hasn't formed much of an opinion about her yet. She's pretty, though, and Rahne is sure that having her and Laura as roommates now will make the year...interesting, if nothing else.</li><li><em>Rogue</em> - The two have seen each other around the school, but have only just recently been formally introduced. The Southern belle is a bit loud for Rahne's liking, and their views on mutants clash some...but nonetheless, Rogue sees a girl that needs a bit of help, and is stepping in as a sort of "big sister" for Rahne.</li></ul>[/list]