<div class="floatright">(https://i.ibb.co/wYTh5Qf/images.jpg)<br/></div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;">Sunfire</span></div><br/><strong>Name:</strong><em>Mariko Yashida </em><br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Age:</strong>20<br/><strong>Ethnicity:</strong>Japanese<br/><strong>Place of Birth:</strong>Tokyo, Japan<br/><strong>Physical Appearance:</strong><br/>Height: 5’ 6”<br/>Weight: 125 lbs<br/>Hair: Black<br/>Eyes: Blue<br/>Languages: Japanese and English with a slight Japanese accent<br/>Other Skills: Can play the piano and violin<br/><br/><em>Face Claim: Tao Okamoto.</em><br/><br/>Mariko is slight of stature but athletic in build and unusually buxom for a Japanese woman. That and the pigtails she often wears make her stand out in a crowd. She also wears a ring through her right eyebrow but never when in costume. Her costume is made up of knee-high yellow boots, yellow gloves, a red unitard, and a yellow shoulder protector, which protects her upper body from the initial shock when flying through a physical object. It also hides her communications equipment. She also wears a pair of gold loop earrings.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Sunfire is a mostly quiet, private, and practical young woman. While she enjoys partying as most twenty-something kids do, she’s not an extrovert. She can be quite comfortable playing music alone on the Mansion’s piano.<br/><br/>Sunfire is open about her sexuality and is looking for a partner for a real relationship. Her sexual experience in this arena is very limited, her confidence in finding someone is surprisingly low, and she is very shy about her desires.<br/><br/>Due to her past history with her parents, Sunfire dislikes unjust authority and will defend herself against such. But she isn’t the aggressive type either. Mariko prefers non-lethal solutions to combat but will kill if there is no other choice.<br/><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong>Sunfire is a mutant who can absorb solar radiation to generate the process of ionized matter (usually air) through a mentally triggered unknown biochemical process so that it is converted to plasma, the superheated state of matter. Plasma is the state in which matter making up the sun exists; hence, Sunfire. Sunfire can manipulate and project the intensity of this plasma with great accuracy, so that one target may feel like they have been sunbathing all day to total incineration of another. Her maximum recorded temperature (before the instruments were destroyed) was 1,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Sunfire's body emits a short-range psionic force field to protect herself from the intense heat and light she generates. She can also sense infrared radiation, enabling her to detect humans, animals, and vehicles at range.<br/><br/>Sunfire can sheath her body in intense flames hot enough to melt through solid rock. However, such high levels of heat will quickly drain her. Usually, Sunfire will manipulate the plasma around herself to form an aura that can melt bullets or stop other physical attacks from hitting her.<br/><br/>Sunfire’s most well-known ability is projecting intense plasma energy blasts, usually from her hands. She can also release stored up plasma energy in a controlled fusion blast up to 3 kilotons of explosive force. But she would be drained from the effort. Sunfire can also create super-heated air currents to enable flight, giving her considerable maneuverability and stand off from targets. Sometimes this super-heated air is visible as a trail of flame behind Sunfire. The upper limit Sunfire can achieve in flight is not yet known, but she generally tops out around 250 mph. Sunfire is skilled in Karate but prefers to combine her flight and plasma generation skills to fight enemies from a distance.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Flaws/Weaknesses:</strong>Mariko’s powers require oxygen to function. If she is submerged in water, or smothered in a fire retardant, the biochemical process she uses to form plasma will be interrupted and she will cease emitting plasma. Her plasma energy can also be directed, channeled or blocked by intense magnetic fields.<br/><br/>Mariko also wants to have a more “conventional” life. She wants to finish her education (on her own terms), to travel, and, most importantly, find a partner. Unfortunately, these are goals that are very hard to balance with being an X-Man. At times she can become very frustrated with the situation she is in, but so far hasn’t considered quitting the X-Men.<br/><br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Mariko is a mutant refugee from…her parents. Born to an extremely wealthy and powerful couple who ran the Yashida industrial empire, the gifted girl had high expectations filling her life, from homework to classical music, from day one. Mariko had to get straight A's, excel at violin and piano and apply herself in areas that only furthered her education, all so she could be married off and have children Mariko resented that and rebelled against her parents as much as she could. This would get worse in her teens.<br/><br/>When Mariko was 12, her mutant powers manifested. Her parents saw it as a great shame and prohibit her from exploring them. And when she was about 16, she determined she was a lesbian. Things quickly went downhill from there, and the day after her 18th birthday, Mariko fled her parents to go to the United States, the land of opportunity.<br/><br/>Mariko managed to withdraw a small sum of money before she fled and subsequently disowned by her parents. The little money she had enabled her to explore a little bit of America, but quickly ran low. Mariko soon began to worry about finding a job. She was smart and accomplished, but only 18, with no college education and on a Japanese tourist visa. It was fortunate that she ran into Charles Xavier that day two years ago in Penn Station before she became desperate and willing to step over the line into a life of crime.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Other Visual</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div align="center">(https://i.ibb.co/m0BJbrj/3134216-exiles03210.jpg)</div></div></div>