Marvel Girl
From United Heroes MUSH
| Rachel Grey (Scenesys ID: 762) | |||
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| "Sometimes, kiddo, the choices aren't clear-cut, or easy. And the victories aren't absolute. Sometimes, you have to settle for a draw." | |||
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| Full Name: | Rachel Anne Grey-Summers | ||
| Gender: | Female | ||
| Species: | Mutant | ||
| Theme: | Marvel (FC) | ||
| Occupation: | It's Complicated | ||
| Citizenship: | {{{Citizenship}}} | ||
| Residence: | {{{Residence}}} | ||
| Education: | {{{Education}}} | ||
| Status: | Active | ||
| Groups: | X-Men Xavier's School | ||
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| Apparent Age: | {{{PAge}}} | Actual Age: | {{{AAge}}} |
| Date of Birth | Also Complicated | Actor: | Ruby Rose |
| Height: | 170 cm | Weight: | 57 kg |
| Hair Color: | Red | Eye Color: | Green |
| Theme Song: | "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" - Blue Oyster Cult | ||
Contents
Profile
A refugee from a dead, dystopian branch of time, Rachel Grey has spent most of her life living from tragedy to tragedy. In a desperate bid to save her time, she tapped into the immense wellspring of power at her command to project herself backwards through time... only to find herself stranded in a past different from her own. Her timeline now divergent and adrift from the main flow of things, Rachel finds herself a stranger in a strange land, desperate to belong in a time where she simply does not and saddled with the scars of a traumatic life... a fact further complicated by the indelible mark of the Phoenix Force upon her soul.
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Description
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Fiery red hair, vibrant green eyes, average height -- if Rachel reminds people strikingly of someone, it's probably just coincidence. Her similarities to a certain Phoenix-wielding mutant are hard to deny, if only largely superficial and definitely not significant in any way. In bearing, Rachel carries herself aggressively and with a wary distrust and uncertainty that is hard to hide. Her hair is short, done up in a pixie cut that leaves her mess of red bangs falling haphazard over her brow, and those green eyes are made all the more noticeable by the dark kohl that line them, often possessed of a reserved look that merely adds to the jaded feel she exudes, and her lips are often colored some dark shade of red.
Slender and toned like someone who's had to know how to fight her whole life, Rachel's choice of clothes are often mercurial and can change, quite literally, on a dime, even in the midst of combat. The joys of ridiculous telekinesis. While on the field, however, she typically favors leather. And spikes. Probably best not to wonder why. Currently, that stylistic choice involves a black leather, collared top, the choker and banded sleeves beset by a long series of steel spikes, said sleeves ending with yellow Xs at the backs of her hand. The top is designed with a yellow pattern down its center, cropped just below the ribs to expose her stomach until a pair of black leather leggings completes the look, ending in a pair of black heeled boots.
Though often hidden, in times of duress or otherwise, the marks of the Hound can be seen on Rachel -- ugly, black-red brands that cover her face and make explicit her past as a hunter and killer of her own kind, even if their significance is relevant only to her. It's a physical manifestation of her guilt! How symbolic! And also just tragic.
Slender and toned like someone who's had to know how to fight her whole life, Rachel's choice of clothes are often mercurial and can change, quite literally, on a dime, even in the midst of combat. The joys of ridiculous telekinesis. While on the field, however, she typically favors leather. And spikes. Probably best not to wonder why. Currently, that stylistic choice involves a black leather, collared top, the choker and banded sleeves beset by a long series of steel spikes, said sleeves ending with yellow Xs at the backs of her hand. The top is designed with a yellow pattern down its center, cropped just below the ribs to expose her stomach until a pair of black leather leggings completes the look, ending in a pair of black heeled boots.
Though often hidden, in times of duress or otherwise, the marks of the Hound can be seen on Rachel -- ugly, black-red brands that cover her face and make explicit her past as a hunter and killer of her own kind, even if their significance is relevant only to her. It's a physical manifestation of her guilt! How symbolic! And also just tragic.
History
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Rachel Anne Grey-Summers comes from a future that should not exist.
Born to a branch of time where Jean Grey merged with the Phoenix Force instead of apparently dying and being replaced by it, Rachel would ultimately be born of a result of that cosmic union. Child of Jean Grey and Scott Summers, Rachel was born with an unbreakable bond to the Phoenix Force, a fact that never ends well for literally anyone.
This universal fact would pan out in the end when anti-mutant Senator Robert Kelly ended up assassinated; while one might assume that'd be an overall plus for mutantkind, the paranoia and hatred this even inspired became widespread and pervasive. Robert Kelly became a martyr for the cause of mutant genocide, leading to widespread persecution made official with the election of a president running almost entirely on an anti-mutant platform.
The final straw would be the event that killed Rachel's mother -- a nuclear detonation in Pittsburg caused by the mutant supervillain, Mastermind. It wasn't difficult for the Mutant Registration Act and other genetic purity acts to glide effortlessly through the Houses, turning the X-Men into fugitives and giving free reign for the runaway military budget to be invested into practical things, like heavily armed giant robots designed explicitly to hunt and kill mutants. By the end of it, the United States had successfully purged not just mutants, but most known superbeings, and Rachel's father numbered amongst their ranks.
During this time, Rachel had been under the care and supervision of Xavier's. But inevitably, the school would be the target of the government's anti-mutant agenda, and when they came, they came knocking with artillery and semi-autonomous hunter-killer robots in lieu of torches and pitchforks. In the aftermath, Rachel Grey was one of the sole survivors, forced to watch as Charles Xavier was killed before her eyes. And in the end, it certainly was not charity that saved her.
Abducted, Rachel was drugged, tortured, brainwashed, and eventually branded with the Marks of the Hound, becoming one of Ahab's most prized Hounds, mutants forced to hunt other mutants. Leashed and heavily conditioned, Rachel was sent out to hunt and kill her own kind -- more than a few of them her friends. The nature of her powers scarred these memories into her psyche on a profound level -- the grief and stress and simple pain of the regular torture she was inflicted (literally, Ahab was - shockingly - not a good boss) eventually helped her to break free, maiming Ahab in the process (because, again, horrible boss)... but the emotional scars the time left behind would last a lifetime.
Her freedom earned, Rachel eventually met up with other surviving mutants, forming a nascent rebellion that was also doomed to end horribly. It was during this time that Rachel learned more of her connection to the Phoenix Force. While they tried their best, everything would go awry when they attempted to sabotage a secret government project to create godlike supersentinels called the Nimrod Project (because apparently 'you won, mutants are basically extinct' means you have to ratchet up the hate machine even more). An attempt to destroy it with a nuclear weapon on the part of her world's Kitty Pryde failed, and when they found themselves locked in a room with no escape (phase-proof walls are, apparently, a thing), Kitty used the stress and desperation from Rachel to fuel her friend's powers and send her hurtling backwards through time to a point she could help prevent this from ever happening.
And so she arrived, joined the X-Men, explained her situation (while keeping the nature of her parentage secret because OF COURSE no one would put two and two together on that one), and learned she was sent back to a different timestream. And that her timeline was a divergent anomaly and basically a vestigial dead-end in the great scheme of timespace. And that her parents never hooked up here so technically she doesn't exist.
So, yeah. Things aren't great.
Born to a branch of time where Jean Grey merged with the Phoenix Force instead of apparently dying and being replaced by it, Rachel would ultimately be born of a result of that cosmic union. Child of Jean Grey and Scott Summers, Rachel was born with an unbreakable bond to the Phoenix Force, a fact that never ends well for literally anyone.
This universal fact would pan out in the end when anti-mutant Senator Robert Kelly ended up assassinated; while one might assume that'd be an overall plus for mutantkind, the paranoia and hatred this even inspired became widespread and pervasive. Robert Kelly became a martyr for the cause of mutant genocide, leading to widespread persecution made official with the election of a president running almost entirely on an anti-mutant platform.
The final straw would be the event that killed Rachel's mother -- a nuclear detonation in Pittsburg caused by the mutant supervillain, Mastermind. It wasn't difficult for the Mutant Registration Act and other genetic purity acts to glide effortlessly through the Houses, turning the X-Men into fugitives and giving free reign for the runaway military budget to be invested into practical things, like heavily armed giant robots designed explicitly to hunt and kill mutants. By the end of it, the United States had successfully purged not just mutants, but most known superbeings, and Rachel's father numbered amongst their ranks.
During this time, Rachel had been under the care and supervision of Xavier's. But inevitably, the school would be the target of the government's anti-mutant agenda, and when they came, they came knocking with artillery and semi-autonomous hunter-killer robots in lieu of torches and pitchforks. In the aftermath, Rachel Grey was one of the sole survivors, forced to watch as Charles Xavier was killed before her eyes. And in the end, it certainly was not charity that saved her.
Abducted, Rachel was drugged, tortured, brainwashed, and eventually branded with the Marks of the Hound, becoming one of Ahab's most prized Hounds, mutants forced to hunt other mutants. Leashed and heavily conditioned, Rachel was sent out to hunt and kill her own kind -- more than a few of them her friends. The nature of her powers scarred these memories into her psyche on a profound level -- the grief and stress and simple pain of the regular torture she was inflicted (literally, Ahab was - shockingly - not a good boss) eventually helped her to break free, maiming Ahab in the process (because, again, horrible boss)... but the emotional scars the time left behind would last a lifetime.
Her freedom earned, Rachel eventually met up with other surviving mutants, forming a nascent rebellion that was also doomed to end horribly. It was during this time that Rachel learned more of her connection to the Phoenix Force. While they tried their best, everything would go awry when they attempted to sabotage a secret government project to create godlike supersentinels called the Nimrod Project (because apparently 'you won, mutants are basically extinct' means you have to ratchet up the hate machine even more). An attempt to destroy it with a nuclear weapon on the part of her world's Kitty Pryde failed, and when they found themselves locked in a room with no escape (phase-proof walls are, apparently, a thing), Kitty used the stress and desperation from Rachel to fuel her friend's powers and send her hurtling backwards through time to a point she could help prevent this from ever happening.
And so she arrived, joined the X-Men, explained her situation (while keeping the nature of her parentage secret because OF COURSE no one would put two and two together on that one), and learned she was sent back to a different timestream. And that her timeline was a divergent anomaly and basically a vestigial dead-end in the great scheme of timespace. And that her parents never hooked up here so technically she doesn't exist.
So, yeah. Things aren't great.
Personality
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Rachel Grey has not had an easy life. In fact, it's basically been the opposite; almost every major event in her life has been traumatic in some way, and the scars of her childhood carry with her through to the present. Rachel is troubled, with deep emotional scars -- and while she tries to put on a strong front, these issues define much of what and who Rachel Grey is.
If there's anything Rachel is, it's jaded. She has been hurt by the world, repeatedly, and it carries over to deep issues of mistrust, especially with humans. She is prone towards pragmatism and suspicion if only because they became a necessary component for survival; in a lot of ways, she sees the worst in everyone, and getting her to open up and trust is a difficult prospect because of her deep-seated vulnerabilities.
In the same vein, Rachel has phenomenal difficulties letting people get close to her or expressing herself on most emotional levels. Opening yourself up to people, in Rachel's experience, is a sure-fire way to get them killed, and she would rather save herself the hurt by trying to shut herself off completely. She can socialize, she can interact with others -- but trying to bond is another matter entirely, and any attempts at normalcy on her part are largely stunted by her wealth of emotional issues and insecurities, a fact that's led her to even avoiding trying to connect with her parents in this timeline... a fact not helped by how sheerly different everything is here, making her feel ever-more adrift and out of place and only exacerbating these problems. For those she does manage to connect with, Rachel tends to be fiercely -- perhaps obsessively -- protective of, because frankly, she has very real and justified fears of losing them given all her past experiences.
Rachel hides all these vulnerabilities largely through a veneer of sarcasm and a hot-headed flare for recklessness. Her experiences have lended her a personality that can often drive her to do things others would consider morally questionable at best because it was simply the way things had to be in her time, and more than that -- she worries over the consequences for this world if she -doesn't- take those actions she sees as necessary. It lends her towards an impulsive personality, constantly trying to both protect this time from becoming like hers -and- proving herself as someone capable of protecting the things she cares about, a double-edged sword born out of her repeated failures to do so in the past.
But despite all these flaws, Rachel truly does care. Cares too much, perhaps. Sarcastic and jaded, she is still stubbornly willful and determined, and wants nothing more than for this timeline to avoid the mistakes that led to her own. She does, truly, take after her parents.. but the problems she is sadled with are not ones that can be solved so easily.
If there's anything Rachel is, it's jaded. She has been hurt by the world, repeatedly, and it carries over to deep issues of mistrust, especially with humans. She is prone towards pragmatism and suspicion if only because they became a necessary component for survival; in a lot of ways, she sees the worst in everyone, and getting her to open up and trust is a difficult prospect because of her deep-seated vulnerabilities.
In the same vein, Rachel has phenomenal difficulties letting people get close to her or expressing herself on most emotional levels. Opening yourself up to people, in Rachel's experience, is a sure-fire way to get them killed, and she would rather save herself the hurt by trying to shut herself off completely. She can socialize, she can interact with others -- but trying to bond is another matter entirely, and any attempts at normalcy on her part are largely stunted by her wealth of emotional issues and insecurities, a fact that's led her to even avoiding trying to connect with her parents in this timeline... a fact not helped by how sheerly different everything is here, making her feel ever-more adrift and out of place and only exacerbating these problems. For those she does manage to connect with, Rachel tends to be fiercely -- perhaps obsessively -- protective of, because frankly, she has very real and justified fears of losing them given all her past experiences.
Rachel hides all these vulnerabilities largely through a veneer of sarcasm and a hot-headed flare for recklessness. Her experiences have lended her a personality that can often drive her to do things others would consider morally questionable at best because it was simply the way things had to be in her time, and more than that -- she worries over the consequences for this world if she -doesn't- take those actions she sees as necessary. It lends her towards an impulsive personality, constantly trying to both protect this time from becoming like hers -and- proving herself as someone capable of protecting the things she cares about, a double-edged sword born out of her repeated failures to do so in the past.
But despite all these flaws, Rachel truly does care. Cares too much, perhaps. Sarcastic and jaded, she is still stubbornly willful and determined, and wants nothing more than for this timeline to avoid the mistakes that led to her own. She does, truly, take after her parents.. but the problems she is sadled with are not ones that can be solved so easily.
Abilities
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CHRONOKINESIS
Perhaps a real testament both to her abilities and her unfocused and unskilled nature, Rachel's psychic abilities don't just affect space, but time as well. Rachel has the potential to project past events through people and objects, and move both forwards and backwards throughtime, as well as other rudimentary temporal manipulations. Through something called chronoskimming, Rachel can transplant a person's mind through time to a younger or older version of themselves or close ancestors or descendants temporarily.
However, Rachel cannot accomplish any of these feats on her own right now, perhaps ever, save under extreme duress -- such as the dystopian, hopeless context that brought her to shuttle herself back in time to present day out of desperation. Her only temporal ability is a fourth dimensional pulse that Rachel transmits subconsciously, shielding her from alterations in the timestream: Rachel remembers when time is altered, and knows what has been changed and how it used to be.
EMPATHY
Through her psychic gifts, Rachel is able to perceive and manipulation the sensations and emotions of others. These gifts are strong but unskilled, and she does not quite have the fine-tuned control that others might have -- often, she has to work just to block out the emotions of others from affecting her because of how sensitive and widespread the radius of her gifts can be.
PHOENIX HOST
The Phoenix, a cosmic entity of change and life itself. Because of the nature of her conception, Rachel was born with a piece of the Phoenix Force bonded to her. Rachel is destined to one day be a host for the evolutionary abstract entity thanks to the indelible bond they share. She is drawn to it, and vice versa -- Rachel can generally sense the presence of the Phoenix Force, and though she doesn't truly grasp the implications of why this is, it ironically makes her better capable of intuitively channeling it in the event it does possess her.
PYROKINESIS
The ability to generate, control, and intensify flames with one's mind. Rachel's pretty good at it, which is kind of a no-brainer when you consider who she is and who her mom is and what that gigantic flaming cosmic bird over there signifies for her entire family. Her fine-tune control with this, like with most things, isn't all that great -- she can mostly use it bluntly, increasing temperatures or generating high-heat flames in her immediate vicinity, which quickly taper off the further they get from her.
At her full potential, Rachel can control flames from further distances, as well as being able to control and utilize 'cosmic fire' -- essentially drawing ambient heat from stars and other celestial bodies to be able to produce something similar enough to flames in space, on a whole different level of intensities and scale, though with most things, she has not the means or training to really manage this consistently, at the moment.
TELEKINESIS
Rachel is an immensely powerful telekinetic, able to move and manipulate matter on macro and microscopic levels. Generally speaking, Rachel can control things at a molecular level, from moving massive objects to something as simple and subtle as changing her clothes into different outfits. Amongst other things, she can achieve flight, create force fields, and generate blasts or conjure weapons of pure, psychokinetic force as well as generating and manipulating flame.
Rachel's full potential is virtually unlimited, possibly constrained only by the limits of her imagination. At her best, tapping into the vast reservoir of untapped power at her command, she can manipulate matter at a sub-atomic level and create cosmic phenomenon like generating miniature black holes; she is even capable of altering her genetic code, essentially changing her very nature, as well as alter surrounding matter to transmute materials into something else (wood to gold, and etc.).
TELEPATHY
Like her mother, Rachel is an Omega-level telepath. Like most of her powers, this is skill is woefully unrefined however, often putting her at tiers lower than she should rightfully be. Rachel can manipulate the cognitive processes of others towards a variety of ends, projecting telepathic messages, reading and altering thoughts and memories. She can create mind-links between people, and generate psionic energy offensively, disrupting brain function or tweaking the nervous system for jolts of pain or otherwise, and project herself into the astral plane, amongst other things.
The full potential of Rachel's powers make her one of the strongest minds in the world, on a level if not beyond telepaths like Charles Xavier. There's very little that she cannot do with her powers when she is actually capable of using her true potential, both able to suppress and amplify superpowers, swap minds between people, and track mutants based on thought patterns across vast distances (though for obvious reasons, Rachel has an aversion to this). This potential, however, is largely untapped, much like most of her powers.
Perhaps a real testament both to her abilities and her unfocused and unskilled nature, Rachel's psychic abilities don't just affect space, but time as well. Rachel has the potential to project past events through people and objects, and move both forwards and backwards throughtime, as well as other rudimentary temporal manipulations. Through something called chronoskimming, Rachel can transplant a person's mind through time to a younger or older version of themselves or close ancestors or descendants temporarily.
However, Rachel cannot accomplish any of these feats on her own right now, perhaps ever, save under extreme duress -- such as the dystopian, hopeless context that brought her to shuttle herself back in time to present day out of desperation. Her only temporal ability is a fourth dimensional pulse that Rachel transmits subconsciously, shielding her from alterations in the timestream: Rachel remembers when time is altered, and knows what has been changed and how it used to be.
EMPATHY
Through her psychic gifts, Rachel is able to perceive and manipulation the sensations and emotions of others. These gifts are strong but unskilled, and she does not quite have the fine-tuned control that others might have -- often, she has to work just to block out the emotions of others from affecting her because of how sensitive and widespread the radius of her gifts can be.
PHOENIX HOST
The Phoenix, a cosmic entity of change and life itself. Because of the nature of her conception, Rachel was born with a piece of the Phoenix Force bonded to her. Rachel is destined to one day be a host for the evolutionary abstract entity thanks to the indelible bond they share. She is drawn to it, and vice versa -- Rachel can generally sense the presence of the Phoenix Force, and though she doesn't truly grasp the implications of why this is, it ironically makes her better capable of intuitively channeling it in the event it does possess her.
PYROKINESIS
The ability to generate, control, and intensify flames with one's mind. Rachel's pretty good at it, which is kind of a no-brainer when you consider who she is and who her mom is and what that gigantic flaming cosmic bird over there signifies for her entire family. Her fine-tune control with this, like with most things, isn't all that great -- she can mostly use it bluntly, increasing temperatures or generating high-heat flames in her immediate vicinity, which quickly taper off the further they get from her.
At her full potential, Rachel can control flames from further distances, as well as being able to control and utilize 'cosmic fire' -- essentially drawing ambient heat from stars and other celestial bodies to be able to produce something similar enough to flames in space, on a whole different level of intensities and scale, though with most things, she has not the means or training to really manage this consistently, at the moment.
TELEKINESIS
Rachel is an immensely powerful telekinetic, able to move and manipulate matter on macro and microscopic levels. Generally speaking, Rachel can control things at a molecular level, from moving massive objects to something as simple and subtle as changing her clothes into different outfits. Amongst other things, she can achieve flight, create force fields, and generate blasts or conjure weapons of pure, psychokinetic force as well as generating and manipulating flame.
Rachel's full potential is virtually unlimited, possibly constrained only by the limits of her imagination. At her best, tapping into the vast reservoir of untapped power at her command, she can manipulate matter at a sub-atomic level and create cosmic phenomenon like generating miniature black holes; she is even capable of altering her genetic code, essentially changing her very nature, as well as alter surrounding matter to transmute materials into something else (wood to gold, and etc.).
TELEPATHY
Like her mother, Rachel is an Omega-level telepath. Like most of her powers, this is skill is woefully unrefined however, often putting her at tiers lower than she should rightfully be. Rachel can manipulate the cognitive processes of others towards a variety of ends, projecting telepathic messages, reading and altering thoughts and memories. She can create mind-links between people, and generate psionic energy offensively, disrupting brain function or tweaking the nervous system for jolts of pain or otherwise, and project herself into the astral plane, amongst other things.
The full potential of Rachel's powers make her one of the strongest minds in the world, on a level if not beyond telepaths like Charles Xavier. There's very little that she cannot do with her powers when she is actually capable of using her true potential, both able to suppress and amplify superpowers, swap minds between people, and track mutants based on thought patterns across vast distances (though for obvious reasons, Rachel has an aversion to this). This potential, however, is largely untapped, much like most of her powers.
Skills
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COMBAT
You don't live through a dystopian future without learning how to fight your way through it. And having been - unwittingly - part of both sides of the apocalyptic equation, Rachel has become very good at fighting. She combines different styles taught to her by different people, usually going for whatever feels most effective for the situation -- but she has no true close quarters style she calls her own. She's also relatively adept with a variety of weapons, both melee and ranged. Like a good future Summers child ought to.
MECHANIC
Rachel is fairly good with machines of various stripes, and knows how to repair them if necessary, from vehicles to more complex machinery. She's far from a master of the trade -- but she at very least knows what she's doing.
QUICK STUDY
Whether thanks to the power of her mind or developed as a necessity of survival, Rachel Grey is very adept at swiftly picking up skills and knowledge to the point that she can intuitively grasp an act or skillset just by observing it. She has learned to pick locks simply by watching Storm, and has disseminated complex fighting styles just through watching people spar to the point that she can replicate it almost perfectly. It's practically photographic memory; suffice to say, Rachel is a very quick learner.
TRACKING
She doesn't like to think about it, she doesn't like to make use of any aspect of it, but Rachel spent a considerable amount of time as the prized mutant hunter-killer of Ahab, his lead Hound. The scars still linger as deeply as the skills: Rachel is adept at tracking people and things across long distances, both with her powers and conventionally looking for all manners of trails by which to look for them. If she wants to, Rachel can generally find someone, even if they don't want to be found. It's just that she so very wants to. Trauma is like that.
You don't live through a dystopian future without learning how to fight your way through it. And having been - unwittingly - part of both sides of the apocalyptic equation, Rachel has become very good at fighting. She combines different styles taught to her by different people, usually going for whatever feels most effective for the situation -- but she has no true close quarters style she calls her own. She's also relatively adept with a variety of weapons, both melee and ranged. Like a good future Summers child ought to.
MECHANIC
Rachel is fairly good with machines of various stripes, and knows how to repair them if necessary, from vehicles to more complex machinery. She's far from a master of the trade -- but she at very least knows what she's doing.
QUICK STUDY
Whether thanks to the power of her mind or developed as a necessity of survival, Rachel Grey is very adept at swiftly picking up skills and knowledge to the point that she can intuitively grasp an act or skillset just by observing it. She has learned to pick locks simply by watching Storm, and has disseminated complex fighting styles just through watching people spar to the point that she can replicate it almost perfectly. It's practically photographic memory; suffice to say, Rachel is a very quick learner.
TRACKING
She doesn't like to think about it, she doesn't like to make use of any aspect of it, but Rachel spent a considerable amount of time as the prized mutant hunter-killer of Ahab, his lead Hound. The scars still linger as deeply as the skills: Rachel is adept at tracking people and things across long distances, both with her powers and conventionally looking for all manners of trails by which to look for them. If she wants to, Rachel can generally find someone, even if they don't want to be found. It's just that she so very wants to. Trauma is like that.
Resources
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XAVIER'S SCHOOL
Rachel is a recent transplant, having been discovered and taken in by them when both her temporal and mutant signature was discovered upon being hurtled into the (wrong) past. While she hasn't been forthcoming about all the specifics of her timeline (her time as a Hound and her parentage, in particular) she makes no secret that she is from some manner of horrible future, and has been afforded the school's safety and protection.
As a fledgling X-Man and a member of the institute, Rachel is afforded all the basic amenities one could expect, as well as all the resources afforded to a member of the X-Men. All the other multitudes of problems with her situation aside, it's kind of nice, having an actual home, protected by like, five different billionaires.
Rachel is a recent transplant, having been discovered and taken in by them when both her temporal and mutant signature was discovered upon being hurtled into the (wrong) past. While she hasn't been forthcoming about all the specifics of her timeline (her time as a Hound and her parentage, in particular) she makes no secret that she is from some manner of horrible future, and has been afforded the school's safety and protection.
As a fledgling X-Man and a member of the institute, Rachel is afforded all the basic amenities one could expect, as well as all the resources afforded to a member of the X-Men. All the other multitudes of problems with her situation aside, it's kind of nice, having an actual home, protected by like, five different billionaires.
Weaknesses
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DON'T BE CRY
Being a rage-filled, brainwashed living weapon for most of your life can kind of stunt your social skills. Part of Rachel wants to just be a normal girl, but she's never going to be able to be entirely normal, a fact that frustrates her endlessly. She can be hopelessly awkward in social situations, and has difficulty addressing situations that challenge her emotionally in any way, a fact that has led her to, amongst other things, hide the nature of her parentage simply because she just doesn't know how to deal. Emotionally stunted is probably a nice way to put it. Rachel has a lot of problems to sort through before she can properly people.
FOCUS
A psionic, Rachel is entirely dependent on her ability to concentrate to use her powers. Losing her focus means losing her ability to effectively use her powers, and considering that she is a powder keg of emotional issues and past traumas, that's not necessarily a hard thing to achieve. Poor, poor woobie Rachel.
MUTANT
Rachel is a mutant. She's not an obvious one, though times of high stress reveal the Marks of the Hound branded upon her, ugly facial scars that make her more recognizable. Regardless, her nature as a mutant makes her a target by people who would like to exploit her, or kill her, because despite the world being filled with about ten dozen different metahuman varieties, mutants are definitely still the true threat to mankind, or something. It's a complex issue, okay?
PHOENIX HOST
The Phoenix Force and Rachel are tied together in a way that can't be broken. Though she is not its host, she understands it on an instinctual level, and has the potential to house it in the event it ever requires it. This is not always a good thing. Beyond the fact that the Phoenix is about as tempestuous as an abstract cosmic god-thing that lives forever outside the bounds of conventional logic and purges worlds on unknowable whims can be expected to be, Rachel's nature makes her a target of anyone who either wishes to use the Phoenix's power for their own ends... or holds grudges against it, probably for reasons relating to its temperamental abstract cosmic god-thing that lives forever outside the bounds of conventional logic and purges worlds on unknowable whims... thing.
PTSD
Rachel has been through much in her short life. She watched a great man die right in front of her eyes as a child before being abducted, tortured, branded and brainwashed with extensive and invasive tampering until she was turned into a living weapon and forced to kill mutants -- many of whom were once friends and loved ones. To say she's had a hard life would be a tremendous understatement, and her time as a Hound of Ahab has saddled Rachel with a considerable post-traumatic stress disorder. Certain circumstances and contexts, phrases and people, will trigger flashbacks and anxiety attacks in Rachel, and can sometimes render her unable to properly function at the worst of times -- or worse yet, will trigger more extreme reactions to try to get rid of the problem.
TIME DISPLACED
Rachel does not belong in this timeline. It's not even a matter of being from the future: her desperate jaunt backwards displaced her into an entirely different timeline where events have transpired in a way very different from her home time. The knowledge that not only is this time different, but her own divergent and basically a temporal dead end making her very existence anomalous, is disheartening enough -- but everything about this world is different in ways that can unsettle her like a temporal version of culture shock. People, places, things, events -- they are all similar enough to be all the more jarring for their differences, sometimes blatant... and sometimes subtle enough that she can find herself tricked or in a poor spot from believing something or someone is different from what they really are in this time. Being from a dead future has very few actual benefits and tons of downsides. The More You Know!
UNSKILLED
A blunt hammer. That's probably the best way to describe Rachel. 'Runaway atomic bomb' might be better. Rachel Grey, while not entirely unskilled, is more or less all power with no true finesse. The simple fact is she's spent most of her time enslaved by mutant-hating humans and then the rest of the time was spent watching the people who -could- teach her be murdered in front of her eyes.
Rachel requires training -- a lot of training -- until she can inherit the full breadth of her power. Until then, her more considerable capacities usually manifest themselves in times of high stress and desperation. Most of Rachel's considerable power remains untapped without the proper instruction on how to use it, leaving her with phenomenal cosmic powers that she mainly uses to manifest hammers to bludgeon people with. See? Blunt hammer.
Being a rage-filled, brainwashed living weapon for most of your life can kind of stunt your social skills. Part of Rachel wants to just be a normal girl, but she's never going to be able to be entirely normal, a fact that frustrates her endlessly. She can be hopelessly awkward in social situations, and has difficulty addressing situations that challenge her emotionally in any way, a fact that has led her to, amongst other things, hide the nature of her parentage simply because she just doesn't know how to deal. Emotionally stunted is probably a nice way to put it. Rachel has a lot of problems to sort through before she can properly people.
FOCUS
A psionic, Rachel is entirely dependent on her ability to concentrate to use her powers. Losing her focus means losing her ability to effectively use her powers, and considering that she is a powder keg of emotional issues and past traumas, that's not necessarily a hard thing to achieve. Poor, poor woobie Rachel.
MUTANT
Rachel is a mutant. She's not an obvious one, though times of high stress reveal the Marks of the Hound branded upon her, ugly facial scars that make her more recognizable. Regardless, her nature as a mutant makes her a target by people who would like to exploit her, or kill her, because despite the world being filled with about ten dozen different metahuman varieties, mutants are definitely still the true threat to mankind, or something. It's a complex issue, okay?
PHOENIX HOST
The Phoenix Force and Rachel are tied together in a way that can't be broken. Though she is not its host, she understands it on an instinctual level, and has the potential to house it in the event it ever requires it. This is not always a good thing. Beyond the fact that the Phoenix is about as tempestuous as an abstract cosmic god-thing that lives forever outside the bounds of conventional logic and purges worlds on unknowable whims can be expected to be, Rachel's nature makes her a target of anyone who either wishes to use the Phoenix's power for their own ends... or holds grudges against it, probably for reasons relating to its temperamental abstract cosmic god-thing that lives forever outside the bounds of conventional logic and purges worlds on unknowable whims... thing.
PTSD
Rachel has been through much in her short life. She watched a great man die right in front of her eyes as a child before being abducted, tortured, branded and brainwashed with extensive and invasive tampering until she was turned into a living weapon and forced to kill mutants -- many of whom were once friends and loved ones. To say she's had a hard life would be a tremendous understatement, and her time as a Hound of Ahab has saddled Rachel with a considerable post-traumatic stress disorder. Certain circumstances and contexts, phrases and people, will trigger flashbacks and anxiety attacks in Rachel, and can sometimes render her unable to properly function at the worst of times -- or worse yet, will trigger more extreme reactions to try to get rid of the problem.
TIME DISPLACED
Rachel does not belong in this timeline. It's not even a matter of being from the future: her desperate jaunt backwards displaced her into an entirely different timeline where events have transpired in a way very different from her home time. The knowledge that not only is this time different, but her own divergent and basically a temporal dead end making her very existence anomalous, is disheartening enough -- but everything about this world is different in ways that can unsettle her like a temporal version of culture shock. People, places, things, events -- they are all similar enough to be all the more jarring for their differences, sometimes blatant... and sometimes subtle enough that she can find herself tricked or in a poor spot from believing something or someone is different from what they really are in this time. Being from a dead future has very few actual benefits and tons of downsides. The More You Know!
UNSKILLED
A blunt hammer. That's probably the best way to describe Rachel. 'Runaway atomic bomb' might be better. Rachel Grey, while not entirely unskilled, is more or less all power with no true finesse. The simple fact is she's spent most of her time enslaved by mutant-hating humans and then the rest of the time was spent watching the people who -could- teach her be murdered in front of her eyes.
Rachel requires training -- a lot of training -- until she can inherit the full breadth of her power. Until then, her more considerable capacities usually manifest themselves in times of high stress and desperation. Most of Rachel's considerable power remains untapped without the proper instruction on how to use it, leaving her with phenomenal cosmic powers that she mainly uses to manifest hammers to bludgeon people with. See? Blunt hammer.
Logs
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| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
|---|---|---|
| H is for Hunt Part 1 | May 24th, 2024 | A batch of mutants and F.o.H. members come together. More than words are exchanged leaving both groups changed in the aftermath. |
| Attack on Genosha | April 9th, 2024 | Clan Akkaba blow up on a vault on Genosha before leaving with the Segment of Death |
| Another night at the Diner | February 19th, 2020 | Grabbyhands end up crossing paths with PTSD |
| A Good Sweat. Also, Death To Future Robots | November 2nd, 2019 | Kitty and Rachel catchup during a jog. Sebastion, Ogun, Jason Todd and Peter Parker get discussed. |
| Did You Try Taking It Apart And Putting It Back Together Again | October 13th, 2019 | Two former weapons take the experience apart and work on putting it back together again. |
| Snooping by the UN | October 12th, 2019 | Rachel is a snack barbarian, here is the proof |
| Carousing in Caernarvon | October 5th, 2019 | Friends, old and new, enjoy an evening under the stars |
| Cheap One-Liners | October 1st, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Down, But Not Out | September 22nd, 2019 | A very long day in the medbay is lightened by good company all around. Rachel reveals that Kitty is still 'home', even if in a coma. Shannon and Samuel have a long talk about home, heroes, and their histories. |
| Vigilante Interests | September 22nd, 2019 | Punisher and Rachel Grey have a discussion |
| Summer Wonderland | September 2nd, 2019 | Winter is coming. And it's early. |
| Same New Self, Same Old Place | August 27th, 2019 | Marvel Girl and Cable meet in the woods. They talk apocalyptic futures and have a foot race. |
| Another Walk in the Park | August 13th, 2019 | A vampire was stopped from attacking Rachel. Blade teaches Rachel and Kaydin about vampires. Blade did not reveal what he is. |
| Unrelated Training | July 18th, 2019 | Rachel and Scott talk tactics, more tactics, and the meaning of life. |
| One Small Step For Man... | July 14th, 2019 | The X-men go to the moon seeking a crashed Cybertronian probe. |
| Into the Lions Den | July 13th, 2019 | Members of the X-Men meet the Punisher at one of his underground safehouses to discuss their Sentinel factory raid. |
| Meanwhile at the Mansion | July 11th, 2019 | Updates are shared, plans are discussed, hair dying is considered. |
| All the Java | July 7th, 2019 | Rachel and Josh meet for coffee. Nothing weird happens. |
| Because Xavier's | July 3rd, 2019 | Several students meet up in the backyard. Rachel apologizes. Laura hugs someone. Sam recruits for garden patrol. Hisako gets a new roomate. And no leather pants were used in the making of this scene. |
| Brotherly Advice | July 2nd, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Breakstone Lake July 4th Extravaganza | July 2nd, 2019 | Students, friends, and faculty of Xavier's School gather by the Lake to celebrate July 4th! |
| Back at It | July 1st, 2019 | A day in the life at Xavier's School |
| Sentinels: Meet the Mold - Team 2 | June 30th, 2019 | Team 2 infiltrate the Trask facility and soon discover they have been discovered! |
| Kitchen Days of Future Past | June 28th, 2019 | Rachel and Kitty have a kitchen talk about Rachel's past and if it might relate to events with the Sentinels today. |
| Curfews are for Losers | June 27th, 2019 | People hit up Club Evolution to unwind. |
| Mix and Mingle | June 26th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Xavier's: Friends Like No Others | June 24th, 2019 | A cookout at Breakstone Lake has surprise guests: therapy dogs brought by a mutant family. |
| X-MEN: They Hide Below | June 22nd, 2019 | Frank Castle and his Unpunishable X-Men take on a strange new type of maybe... Sentinel...? Nobody's really sure, even when its all said and done, they saved lives and fought some weird robotic spider things. But they got basically no questions answered! |
| A quiet night under the stars | June 18th, 2019 | Sam and Rachel talk and Sam gets the hint. |
| A Clown, A Phoenix, and an Ocean God Walk Into A Park | June 16th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Sentinels: Protest Panic | June 15th, 2019 | Sentinels arrive at a protest march. Negasonic, Rachel Grey, Nightcrawler and Thor intervene. |
| Summers Session | June 14th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Double Trouble | June 13th, 2019 | Pulse tried to take out Rachel. He got /way/ more trouble than he bargained for. |
| Sci-Fi night. | June 12th, 2019 | Sci-fi night in the Rec room. |
| New Growth in the Garden | June 10th, 2019 | Rachel is back around with some things on her mind. Rahne ends up discussing them with her. |
| Horsing Around | June 9th, 2019 | Rogue, Rachel and Kitty go for a horseback ride at the school. |
| So You Got Detention... | June 6th, 2019 | Steve, Janet and Tony visit Xavier's school and meet the students and staff for a cookout and then a motorcycle race against Cap. Doug Ramsey wins! |
| Loads of motorcycles. | April 26th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Forces of Nature | April 15th, 2019 | Meeting of Rachel and Marc. <Had to pause as Rachel's player was super tired> |
| Chatting with Rachel. | March 29th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Big mood on the couch | March 28th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Wreck Room | March 27th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Friday Night LED Lights | March 23rd, 2019 | Ellie was just playing with a drone when Kitty sets off a Rachel shaped explosion destroying the computer lab. Erika and Jean come to the rescue. |
| Meeting Ma. | March 23rd, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Tv Night | March 22nd, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Be mutie, do crimes | March 21st, 2019 | Summary needed |
| In The Kitchen With Sam | March 15th, 2019 | Samuel, Rachel, Erika, Blink, Negasonic, and X-23 make fried chicken while discussing hero names, image inducers, and various student issues |
| New taste treats. | March 9th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| SpaceSelfies | March 8th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Dead | March 7th, 2019 | Reactions to Sam surviving his apparent death in a fight against FoH Sentinels |
| Dinner time at Chucky Xs | March 1st, 2019 | Summary needed |
| A king in Mutant town. | February 23rd, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Getting To Know A Daughter | February 23rd, 2019 | Summary needed |
| late night x-snack | February 21st, 2019 | Summary needed |
| An evening on the town. | February 20th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| My new BFF | February 18th, 2019 | Meggan returns to Xaviers. Various people visit. Erika gets embarrassed a lot. |
| Learning Rachel's Past...Future...Whatever | February 15th, 2019 | Rachel discovers cheetos popcorn. Kitty discovers more of Rachel's story. |
| Checking On Aunty | February 14th, 2019 | Rachel came to check on Kitty's recovery from the boating mishap |
| Bedroom chats | February 14th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| X-Peoples Visit! | February 13th, 2019 | A bunch of Xavier nerds hassle Thor! |
| Exploring New Asgard | February 13th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Rogueasonic | February 13th, 2019 | Rogue and Negasonic have a chat with each other, casual friend stuff. Rachel Grey shows up and is introdcued to Rogue for the first time! |
| Whats the Asgardian's up to. | February 12th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| And then they find the dangerroom. | February 12th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Ugn Class Tomorrow | February 10th, 2019 | Ellie has an emergency study session due to her first week of classes since she came back from Genosha starting the next day. Rachel psychic cheats to catch her up on Math. So cheating. Also serious relationship talk. |
| The Young Aunty Kate | February 10th, 2019 | Rachel Grey runs into her Aunt Kate (Kitty) in this timeline. Nega and Cannonball stop by to talk |
| One Thousand Origami Cranes | February 10th, 2019 | Rachel shares more with Kitty about her past, before they join Logan to watch hockey |
| There I Was! | February 9th, 2019 | Big family drama, mean girls on twitter, snark, movies, and cuddles. |
| Dating the Bosses Daughter can be a bad thing. | February 9th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Where You Goin With a Head Like That | February 9th, 2019 | The search for the head continues! Illyana finds Sam and Rachel and someone is gonna die! (Not in this scene but soon!) |
| Not my Parts Birdbutt! | February 8th, 2019 | Rachel gets lightly chewed out by Wolverine over the bike parts. Then the girls challenge the boys to a race. |
| FFS How hard is unpacking | February 7th, 2019 | NWT is unpacking in her old room when she gets Erika and Rachel as company. Leather. Costumes. Spikes. Doughnuts. Sarcasm. Trouble is afoot. |
| Firebird from the Future | February 5th, 2019 | What begins as Rahne meeting Rachel turns into a small gathering of a few more mutants. |
| Parting is Such Sweet S--Oh Who Am I Kidding | February 3rd, 2019 | Emma turns in her resignation from Xavier's school. She also meets Rachel, her Goddaughter from a future timeline. Who knew? Sam is entrusted to care for the New Mutants. And Logan is just plain mean. |
| Summery Winter | February 3rd, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Immortal Visitations | February 2nd, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Out shooping with the Future girl | February 1st, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Sparring with the Fire Canary, and the RedNeck | February 1st, 2019 | Summary needed |
| The Fire Bird and Coffee | February 1st, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Fire from the future. | January 31st, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Xavier's has a Jacuzzi | October 25th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Unseasonably Warm Weather | October 6th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Feast Fit For a Faerie | October 2nd, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Hisako Ichiki and the Suppurating Arm Wound | September 22nd, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Meanwhile in the Medbay | September 20th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Apokolips Now: Goodness Gracious ... Granny! | September 19th, 2017 | The Furies attack the Hall of Justice, and many heroes come to it's defense. |
| adult swim | September 18th, 2017 | Summary needed |
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