<strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong>Phoenix<br/><strong>REAL NAME:</strong>Rachel "Ray" Summers<br/><strong>AGE:</strong>22<br/><strong>SEXUAL ORIENTATION:</strong>Heterosexual<br/><strong>HEIGHT:</strong>5'7"<br/><strong>WEIGHT:</strong>125lbs<br/><strong>AFFILIATION:</strong>Excalibur (founding member), formerly X-Men<br/><strong>FACE CLAIM:</strong>Bryce Dallas Howard<br/><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong><br/>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/3d/XMenAvatarPhoenix01.jpg)  (https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/ea/XMenAvatarPhoenix03.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>POWERS/ABILITIES:</strong>Rachel inherited both powerful telepathic and telekinetic abilities from her mother. As a telepath she is capable of reading minds, projecting her thoughts into the minds of others, linking several people together in telepathic communication, creating illusions by affecting what people believe to see, and firing mental blasts that can stun or cause pain. Her telekinetic abilities allow her to lift great loads, levitate and fly, create force fields and concussive blasts, and manipulate matter on a molecular level. Rachel is also capable of projecting her own mind or that of others into the time stream and to past or future realities where the consciousness of the traveler will either occupy the body of a close relative / alternate self or exist on the local astral plane.<br/><br/>In addition to her natural gifts, Rachel is the living embodiment of the Phoenix Force, allowing her to tap into a vast reservoir of cosmic power to enhance her already considerable mutant gifts. Drawing on the Phoenix Force, Rachel is (for example) capable of projecting not just her mind but her physical body through the time stream, survive and travel in the vacuum of space, and make the flight across the Atlantic in less than ten minutes (somewhere up of Mach 30).<br/><br/>On top of that, Rachel would be able to perform feats of truly cosmic proportions, if she decided to tap into the full potential of the Phoenix Force. The Phoenix itself is a tremendously powerful force, providing a huge reservoir of power, but the Phoenix also represents the lifeforce of the whole cosmos, including life yet to be born. Drawing on this yet-unrealized life force, Rachel could destroy the solar system with but a thought or stand up to the likes of Galactus (which the Phoenix has done a few times). But doing so would extinguish life that waits to be born, rob the cosmos of something that was supposed to be there, extinguish billions of potential lives. This is something she is unwilling to do, knowing full well the potential for destruction the Phoenix Force holds.<br/><br/><strong>WEAKNESSES:</strong>After her time as a Hound under Ahab's control in her home reality, Rachel suffers from survivor's guilt, sometimes questioning why she, of all people, should have survived the ordeals of her native reality.<br/>While Rachel is aware that Scott and Jean of Earth 616 are not her real parents, she very much feels like their daughter. A threat against her 'parents' (especially Jean) could be used against her.<br/><br/><strong>HISTORY:</strong>Rachel is the daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey in another reality. She grew up in that world with the X-Men as her family, till the day Sentinels took over North America and killed most mutants. Rachel was captured and submitted to intense brainwashing and conditioning that turned her into a "Hound", a tracker used to hunt down (and occasionally kill) other mutants. But the conditioning didn't hold forever and after attacking the Hound Master, Ahab, Rachel was confined to a mutant concentration camp where she met Kate Pryde, an older version of Earth-616's Shadowcat. Together they hatched a plan for Rachel to send Kate's mind back into her younger self, to change the future, but when Kate returned, everything was the same (as she had traveled back not just into the past but also another reality). Trying to find out what had gone wrong, Rachel projected her own consciousness into the past. There the Phoenix found her and latched on to her before she traveled back into her own reality. When the Phoenix revealed itself to Kate Pryde, Kate begged it to help Rachel to a better life and the Phoenix agreed. During an assault on the Sentinel's headquarters by Kate and Rachel, Phoenix supercharged Rachel's powers and sent her back through time and reality to Earth 616, in the process suppressing some of her worst memories, to protect the young woman from her own past.<br/><br/>On Earth 616 Rachel ended up joining the X-Men for a time and became friends with that reality's Shadowcat, while her relationship with her "mother", Jean Grey, was somewhat strained (something for which Rachel still blames herself). (At the time the X-Men consisted of Rogue, Shadowcat, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Wolverine, and Storm.)<br/><br/>After some adventures with the X-Men, Rachel was captured by Mojo, who tried his best to brainwash her into being the next star attraction in one of his many shows, but Rachel managed to eventually overcome her conditioning, and, after six months in Mojoworld, managed to escape to Earth. There she ran into old friends Shadowcat and Nightcrawler, together with Captain Britain and Meggan. Together they defeated the warwolves Mojo had sent after her. After their victory Rachel propose the five of them form a new team to keep Charles Xavier's dream alive (as everyone then believed the X-Men had perished in a battle against the Adversary), and so Excalibur was born. At this point some of her memories of her home reality and Mojoworld were clouded, suppressed by the Phoenix for her own good, and her control over the Phoenix Force not always reliable. During her adventures with Excalibur Rachel eventually revealed her history to Jean Grey and Cyclops, leading to a strained relationship with Jean.<br/><br/>After several adventures with her new teammates, Rachel fought the ancient sorcerer Necrom, who had been trying to claim the Phoenix Force for himself since the Phoenix first attained sentience. After a hard-fought battle she defeated Necrom, but that victory cost her her own consciousness and shattered her mind and soul. The Phoenix, now bonded to Rachel stronger than ever, took her body into the far reaches of space, to give her mind time to heal and pull itself together. (At this point Charles Xavier tried to delve into her mind to see what was wrong with Rachel and, in a mind link established by Professor X, the Phoenix revealed herself and her full history to the Professor, Jean Grey, and Rachel's fellow founding members of Excalibur, i.e. Kurt, Kitty, Brian, Meggan, Charles, and Jean know all there is to know about Rachel's history up to that point.)<br/><br/>Eventually she was restored to full mental health and the spirit of the Phoenix left her, to resume its place as the embodiment of a natural force in the cosmic order of things, but leaving the raw power of the Phoenix Force still bonded to Rachel's body. At the same time the Phoenix also restored all the memories it had clouded or hidden from Rachel, for the first time in years leaving her very much her own true self.<br/><br/>Returning to her friends in Excalibur Rachel embraced the name Phoenix with all her heart and changed her costume to the red and gold one once worn by the Dark Phoenix, for (in her own words) "Green is really not my color. And you've got to admit, the Dark Phoenix may have been a threat to all life in the universe, but she had great taste in costumes".<br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY:</strong>Rachel can be both serious and fun-loving. While she doesn't suffer from frequent mood swings, she is prone to strong moods, both positive and negative. She can be playful, cocky, exuberant, but also withdrawn, blue, and serious. Her mind is very much her own, without any traces of false memories or past conditioning, but she has still to find herself, perhaps exactly because her mind has not always been completely her own for years. But one way or the other, Rachel is a firm believer in Xavier's dream of coexistence of humans and mutants.<br/><br/><strong>EQUIPMENT:</strong>Nothing special.<br/><br/><strong>KNOWN ENEMIES:</strong>Mojo (but the ugly slimeball hasn't made an attempt to get her back to his world in a while so perhaps he has lost interest). Various people and groups who might hold a grudge against the Phoenix Force. Excalibur's "rogues gallery", if only by association. (Arcade, Merlin (sometimes ally, sometimes manipulator, sometimes antagonist), Sat-Yr-9, among others)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">RELATION WITH 'FAMILY' MEMBERS:</div><div class="spoiler_body">While not related to her in the strictest sense (Rachel being from an alternate timeline and all that jazz), there are people in this world that could be considered her family. (What follows can and will be edited as time goes by, depending on which character is in play and talk with their players.)<br/><br/>Cyclops: Good question. I have no real clue how he feels about Rachel, but he seems more focused on Nathan than his 'pseudo daughter' from all I can tell.<br/><br/>Jean Grey: When Jean learned that Rachel could be her daughter she instinctively rejected the girl, feeling that the existence of Rachel meant her own future was preordained. Eventually she realized that, by pushing Rachel away, she was making her own problems that of her 'daughter' and accepted her as her child, going as far as making her one of the very first people she told about her planned wedding with Scott. (Excalibur #74 – which is in the future of our current timeline, but it might give an indication where this could be going)<br/><br/>Cable / Nathan Grey: Rachel has a strong psychic bond with her half-brother Nathan, making her one of the very few telepaths who can connect with Cable and sense his presence. She feels that she should know Cable, but has not yet made the connection that he is an older version of baby Nathan.</div></div>