<strong>ASTRAFLARE</strong><br/><br/><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong>Astraflare<br/><strong>REAL NAME:</strong>Idris Raleigh<br/><strong>AGE:</strong>20<br/><strong>SEXUAL ORIENTATION:</strong>(Mostly) Lesbian<br/><strong>HEIGHT:</strong>5'6<br/><strong>WEIGHT:</strong>136 lbs<br/><strong>AFFILIATION:</strong>N/A<br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE/COSTUME (<em>Perhaps in the future</em>):</strong><br/><br/>(http://i4.ifrm.com/5941/107/upload/p22002665.jpg)<br/><br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE WITHOUT COSTUME (<em>Dyes her hair black to avoid being pinned for a mutant</em>):</strong><br/><br/>(http://i4.ifrm.com/5941/107/upload/p22002677.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>POWERS/ABILITIES:</strong><br/><br/>A: Gravity Control;<br/><br/>She is able to increase, decrease, or otherwise shift the potency of gravity around herself or objects or persons to varying degrees. When it applies to herself, she uses it as a means to decrease her own weight and make it possible for her to run faster, jump higher, and engage in a variety of acrobatic and gymnastic feats. She also uses her local manipulation of gravity fields to provide a cushion against or stop incoming blows.<br/><br/>She can use her gravity-centered abilities to lift, pull, throw, or crush objects to varying degrees from afar. The closer and lighter the object is, the easier it is for her to affect its center of gravity. Larger, heavier objects such as a concrete slab require moments of concentration and focus for her to seize control over.<br/><br/>B: Temperature Manipulation<br/><br/>She has the ability to rapidly increase or decrease the temperatures of the air or things affected by her control of gravity fields. This allows her to ignite or freeze over objects and people. As with her ability to manipulate gravity, she has a far easier time igniting or freezing things within the range of her touch than she does with objects or persons from afar. She has been known to ignite or freeze larger objects, then utilize them as small meteors or comets, though it puts her under tremendous strain and requires several moments of focus.<br/><br/><br/><strong>WEAKNESSES:</strong><br/><br/>Trying to affect the mass and/or temperature of objects from afar can take a heavy toll on her as she's still in the process of learning how to manage her powers. Though her control over gravity allows her to move faster, leap higher, and hit harder, anything that shatters her concentration or otherwise cancel her effects on gravity would render her as strong as a fit human girl.<br/><br/><br/><strong>HISTORY:</strong><br/><br/>Like most humans in today's world, Idris grew up with a contrasting mixture of feelings towards mutantkind and other superbeings. Awe and fear. Enchantment and disgust. She daydreamed of putting on a tech-suit and saving the world in style like Iron Man just or controlling the elements like Storm. She hated them for the destruction wrought by villains and the collateral caused as heroes tried to take them down. And yet, she always wondered what life would be like if she had those powers too. She never once imagined that she already did, that the right things just needed to occur for them to come to her.<br/><br/>Until her sixteenth year, she was a normal human girl. Brown skin, brown eyes, dark hair. A high school student concerned with such trivial things as popularity, hanging out with friends at Burger King, and rushing home to play video games. She toyed around in drama club, geeked out in the anime club, swayed her hips in the Salsa club. The only 'mutants' she knew were the other girls and boys she relentlessly teased in her desire to make people laugh.<br/><br/>Was that guy's nose too big? He was a mutie. That cross-eyed girl in room in physics? Mutie. That reclusive nerd with the World of Warcraft hoodie? Mutie.<br/><br/>But she eventually grew out of that and stopped living to please people. She actually saw a few mutants. Real ones. She began to read about them online and feel for them. As mutants moved to Utopia to get away from the real freaks...people like her, she evolved and realized that mutants were people just like everyone else. And that life was much harder for them than anyone else on the planet.<br/><br/>It was a good thing that her opinion changed because the war between the Avengers and X-men, the emergence of forces and beings she'd have never been able to comprehend triggered something in her. Growing up, she'd had many dreams during her slumber of having powers. She outran the fastest humans. Jumped onto rooftops. Lifted impossible things. But now those dreams were becoming a frightening reality.<br/><br/>Some days, she felt lighter than she should have, as if she was in danger of walking off of the ground and through the air. She sometimes found she had to struggle to avoid bouncing on her feet like astronauts did on the moon. Her irises of her eyes began slowly changing to a brilliant turquoise and her dark hair was succumbing to streaks of white, much to her wonder and horror. If she felt too cold and hugged herself, the air around her grew warmer. When she fanned herself in the heat, the air became suspiciously cold.<br/><br/>She was becoming what she feared and admired and she was running out of lies and hair dyes to keep it under wraps even as she sought out secluded places to test and learn to control her growing powers. In the end, it didn't matter. The chance to be a hero eventually presented itself when a flash mob of bangers tried to beat down and rob a couple at a subway station as she waited on a train to get home from a friend's place. She stared at them as they rained blows on the nearly defenseless innocents and soon, the thugs found themselves confused and frightened as it became difficult to keep their feet planted on the ground. She shoved the air in their direction then, and they were thrown to the ground, up in the air, and against walls as if hit with a giant bowling ball.<br/><br/>And then she heard, "Freeze!" behind her. As the thugs scattered and ran, she stared at the police officer like a deer into headlights as he cautiously closed in with handcuffs in one hand and his gun pointed at her in the other. Panic set in and before she could think about what she was doing, she shoved him away through gravity and ran faster than any human ought to...<br/><br/>Two weeks later, she nervously made her way up the steps of The Jean Grey Institute for Higher Learning.<br/><br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY:</strong><br/><br/>Though she's struggling with the changes in her appearance and emergence of her powers, Idris is a bit a cautious optimist. She hopes for the best, while bracing herself for the worst. She's an avid fan of an eclectic assortment of music and is rarely seen without her headphones over her ears or resting on her shoulders. Music, especially of the upbeat variety, is how she deals with her stresses. Well. That and singing and dancing when she thinks no one's around.<br/><br/>She has a playful, sarcastic sense of humor and is intensely curious about other mutants. The more obvious the mutation or flashier the powers, the harder it is for her to pretend she's not staring at the subject in question. Feelings of regret about the way she taunted others in her youth drives her to be a bit of a firebrand and outspoken towards those that pick on the weak.<br/><br/>And yet, realizing that she's different has left her feeling alone and afraid. She yearns for the day that she control her powers well enough to protect the innocent, but fears how the world will react.<br/><br/><br/><strong>EQUIPMENT:</strong><br/><br/>Her backpack, smartphone, charger, water bottle, and a Kindle. In other words, nothing special.<br/><br/><br/><strong>KNOWN ENEMIES:</strong><br/><br/>None, yet.