Rift

Kitora Alua (Scenesys ID: 898)
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"See? It all makes sense now. Down is up, up is sideways. *stomach gurgle* Ummm.... heheh... ummm.... it's lunchtime. Where's the closest Big Belly Burger? I have a date with Super Bellybusters - I think three will do."
Profile
Full Name:	Kitora Alua
Gender:	Female
Species:	Mutant
Theme:	Original (OC)
Occupation:	College Student; Part-Time Cook
Citizenship:	American
Residence:	Xavier's School
Education:	Empire State University (Physics Major)
Status:	Shelved
Groups:	Mutant-OOC, Xavier's School
Other Information
Apparent Age:	20	Actual Age:	20
Date of Birth	14 August 2008	Actor:	Minami Hamabe
Height:	158 cm (5'2")	Weight:	50 kg (110 lb)
Hair Color:	Red	Eye Color:	Red
Theme Song:	"Gravity is a Bitch" by Miranda Lambert

Profile

A Japanese-descent girl living in Hartfort, CT, quite intelligent and into acrobatics. However, she had the X-gene - and when her gravity-shifting powers ignited, the wild uncontrolled surges severely injured her parents as the house collapsed around them. Her parents survived - barely - but with everything ruined, they disowned Kitora for being a 'freak' and dangerous.

Taken in by the Xavier's School, they helped her to train her powers and to make new friends - for all her old ones had forsaken her due to the incident. She accepts herself as a mutant - and she tends to eat like a horse - her powers are demanding on her body, but no matter how much she eats, she doesn't gain any weight.

Prone to nightmares of that fateful day, she tries to put on a brave face... but she still misses her parents - the rest of her family shunned her for being a 'freak'. She hopes, one day, to reconcile with them. But all attempts of contact have been shunned so far.

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Description

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Desc (Kitora):
A young woman stands before you, about five foot two. She has bright red shoulder-length hair that seems to swirl around in the wind with a mind of its own. She has classical Asian features. Her eyes are ruby-red and lined with some mascara. She has a petite nose. Her lips are painted red, and are often in a mischievous smile.

Her neck is long and leads to slender shoulders. She has an athletic physique with a modest bust - she wears a snug red V-neck blouse. She has lightly-muscled arms and delicate hands with red-painted fingernails. She has a narrow waist and curvy hips - her athletic legs are contained in red cotton pants. Her feet are in sensible tennis shoes, also red.

Desc (Rift):

An eerie sight is before you. A female figure, around five foot two, with blowing red hair. Rift's body and clothing glows dully red, washing out all the other colors. Bright red lines can be seen inside her body - along her arms and legs, a large 'starburst' in her chest (located around her heart), and a small 'starburst' in her head where her brain is. Her eyes also glow red.

History

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History:

Kitora started her life as a normal girl, born in the suburbs of Hartford, CT; her parents were Japanese immigrants made citizens. She showed an early love of gymnastics and being an acrobat, and was always moving around, constantly in motion, hard to hold still. Basically, a very happy and playful girl, and very popular at school. An only child, she was the apple of her parents' eyes. Even at a young age, she studied gymnastics and physics, enjoying the complicated subjects.

Then... just as she was finishing grade school at age 12... she was bouncing on her bed and suddenly everything went weird. Suddenly she found herself standing on the bedroom ceiling - and her body was glowing red - dull red for the most part with bright red lines down her arms and legs visible through her skin, and big sunbursts of red where her heart and brain were. She, of course, screamed in panic. Her parents came rushing in to see what looked like some kind of demon - in a panic, her powers erupted out of control as everything in her room started pulling to her and flinging about - the gravitational anomaly was powerful enough to warp the structural support of the home - even as her parents were smashed into a wall. It finally ended when a ceiling joist hit her in the head, knocking her out - but the damage is done. The house was ruined, and her parents were critically injured. Other than a bump, she was fine, but she discovered that her hair and eyes are now permanently bright red.

Once they recovered, her parents threw her out, told her never to contact them again. She started wandering off, not knowing where to go - when a van came to her. An envoy of the Xavier's School for Gifted Students, they told her what she was - a mutant. And they can help her control her powers, so an accident like that won't happen again. Having nowhere else to go, she accepted.

Away from her old school, she got homesick fast - all calls she tried making to her parents were rejected and she gave up - none of her friends from school would have anything to do with her either - they were all afraid of the 'mutie'. Giving up on all that, she started to try to rebuild a new life at the Xavier's School, making new friends. Discovering how to use her powers in a more constructive manner - and shocking the cafeteria workers at how much she eats - she eats triple what a normal person her age would eat but never gains a pound. Apparently bending the laws of physics requires a lot of energy.

As she ages, she gains more control and fine-tuning of her powers. Her studies of gymnastics and acrobatics help her to learn how to move in the air - for she figured out pretty early how to fly - and her study of physics let her know just what she was messing with; she's amused by the fact that all her textbooks tell her what she can do is impossible. She is working on her senior year at Xavier's, with a high GPA, working on earning a scholarship in physics. Meanwhile, she read all she could about the mysterious group of mutant vigilantes known as the X-Men, wishing that one day she can join their elite ranks.

Personality

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Personality:

Kitora is a feisty high-spirited girl - as long as her bottomless stomach is filled. She is high-strung and high-energy, bouncing around most of the time - though a good student she hates being cooped up in a classroom. She enjoys using her powers very much - getting her NOT to use her powers is difficult. She tends to overanalyze things sometimes, but is very loyal to her friends and possesses great empathy.

Kitora's main passion is food. She eats enough for three normal people, and likes almost everything, and has learned how to cook for herself and others, and is getting very good at it. So much so that she has taken part-time jobs as cooks at various restaurants, and is seriously debating becoming a professional chef instead of something more serious like a physics student.

But when her mind turns to her family, from which she has been exiled, she can get homesick and lonely. She is trying to prove herself not to be the monster, the demon they called her, just because her ill-controlled awakening almost killed them.

Abilities

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Gravity Manipulation:
Rift's ability to control gravity extends beyond being able to fly or use herself as a kinetic missile. She can manipulate the effect of gravity of objects and people in her line of sight.

She can make things weightless and move them around, in an effect that would seem similar to telekinesis. In her immediate vicinity, she can suspend 5 tons this way - she can make something stop in place and float, or deflect its trajectory. She can either have said object orbit her in a type of 'stasis field' or hold them still, or move them around. Any object she is manipulating will be limned in a red aura, similar to Rift's own aura of power. But it's harder to do this at range, or to move something heavy away. Her power is more limited the farther away the object is - her maximum range is about a thousand feet in which she can barely suspend 10 pounds. If she has something ensconced in a zero-g field, she can launch said object at a low to high speed in the direction of her choice, but the larger the item, the more effort this takes. (Some objects, like bullets, are moving so fast and are so tiny that gravity has little effect on them; it's very difficult to deflect or stop them.)

The other half of this is INCREASING the gravity. In her vicinity, she can trap someone in a high-gravity field, up to 5 times Earth's gravity in her immediately vicinity. She can focus this on a person to weigh them down; or create a 'high-gravity zone'. This, too, is of lesser effect at range; the furthest way she can do this is 250 feet in which she can barely make things heavier.

Gravity Shifting:
Rift's main mutant power is the ability to manipulate gravity in her vicinity. Though whatever she does, she is never adversely affected by her own powers, nor does her actual mass change. She can use her power to negate her personal gravity so she can hover effortlessly in the air - or even 'fall' at high speeds at any direction - using these two aspects to basically 'fly' in a way. She can even propel herself feet-first as a high-speed kinetic missile to deal devastating physical blows.

She can make herself light enough that she can jump like she's on the moon - or so heavy that a kick would hit like a brick truck. In either mode she can move unhindered with her typical agility. She can also 'slide' along the ground with a focused gravity vector like it's on ice. Of course, which way her personal gravity field pulls her is up to her discretion. She can stand on walls or ceilings just as easily as a floor.

Life Support:
Kitora's abilities are useful outside the normal environments that people live in. While her powers are active, environmental effects are of no importance. She can travel underwater no differently than in air, has no need to breathe, does not feel heat and cold, and can even survive outer space without protection and generate her own gravity field even if there's none to manipulate. Without having to fight the pull of Earth's gravity, her speed is greatly accelerated, up to 10,000 MPH. However, it takes more effort to sustain her own life-support this way... she can survive an hour at most without protection. It could be very bad if her strength gave out while using her powers as a life-support aura.

Portals:
Rift can use her gravity powers to tear open a small portal that she can use to travel from one place to another. These portals take the form of a glowing red ring, the aperture around ten feet in diameter. The portal can be seen through like a window to see what's on the other side. It requires effort to hold the portal open, and her presence at one end or another. This ties up most of her powers - she cannot do much else but float while a portal is open.

She can hold the portal open for up to ten minutes; other people or objects can freely use this portal. Once she stops focusing on it or leaves its vicinity, it closes. She can form a portal in line-of-sight if she can clearly see the destination. If she is intimately familiar with the destination, she can also make a portal directly there with a five-mile range from her current location.

Super Speed:

Though no speedster, Rift can use her gravity-shifting abilities for more than just fighting. She has a variety of means of travel at her disposal, other than portals. Her flying speed can be clocked at 500 mph at top speed (though it takes more effort that way), and she can use her gravity slide to travel at close to 50 mph while on the ground. She can also decrease her weight to simply make running more effective, or to do prodigious leaps that'd make a lunar astronaut jealous.

Skills

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Capoeira:
It took Kitora a time to find a martial art that suited her unique fighting style of acrobatics and powerful legs. She chose the Brazilian art of Capoeira due to its agility and kicking ability. She has honed her legs into being deadly weapon - she also wears heavy-soled shoes to deliver that much more kicking power - with this, she can weave and dodge her way across a battlefield and deliver devastating kicks. She can also amplify her weight to make her blows even MORE devastating. A kick from her will not be soon forgotten.

Cooking:
Kitora has a voracious appetite ever since her powers awakened - a more recent interest of her is cooking - she has a varied taste and knows how to cook a variety of meals - she even gets summer jobs cooking for fine restaurants.

Good Student:
Kitora doesn't like being cooped up indoors at school. Nonetheless she's an excellent student and routinely aces all her classes. She is a quick study and a fast reader, able to pick up on new subject material quickly.

Gymnastics:
Kitora's body is a finely tuned instrument - she has trained all her life in gymnastics. She can balance her weight on a finger, and knows how to manipulate her mind and body in three dimensions. She never suffers from vertigo, no matter how much she is twisted around - and knows how to fall - for flying on controlled gravity is much like falling - all the time.

Physics:

Kitora has studied physics all her life - figuring out how things work is a passion of hers - especially once she got her mutant powers and she could manipulate gravity, one of the hallmarks of the laws of physics - it made her even MORE interested - to control something, you have to understand it.

Resources

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Cooking Job:
Kitora has made some extra income by working part-time at a local restaurant. It's where she honed her cooking talents and she is rapidly considering an idea at being a full-time chef. But for now - it's a good source of spending money for a high-school senior. She does enjoy the friends she has made there, and even the managers are good people.

Xavier's School:

As a student and resident of Xavier's School, she has a place to live, friends to rely on, and the school's staff protect their students from those who would persecute mutants. They can also serve as confidants, counselors, and advisors for a student's future endeavors. Kitora has nowhere else to go - the school is her home now. (Though she still wishes she could go home for real...)

Weaknesses

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Disturbing Appearance:
Kitora's normal appearance is slightly unusual with the flame-red hair and eyes, but... when she turns on her powers, things get bizarre appearance-wise. Her body and garments glow a dull red color and wash out all other colors, with bright red lines visible inside her body - along her arms and legs, a large 'cluster' of these vein-like lines in the middle of her chest where her heart is, and a smaller cluster in her head, with her eyes glowing bright red. She could be mistaken for some kind of demon.

Family Issues:
When Kitora's powers kindled out of control, they tore her house apart - and almost crushed her parents. Though they survived, they exiled her for being a 'freak', and none of her family or friends from her former school will speak to her anymore, not even on social media. Though the people at the Xavier's School have become her friends and family now, she still longs to rejoin her real family one day - one day that seems to be very, very far off. She also tends to get moody when people talk about their families, especially if it's positive commentary.

Health Is Power:
In Kitora's case, this is quite literal. She has to be healthy and fit to use her powers. If sick or poisoned or otherwise incapacitated, she can lose her focus needed to turn her powers on. Poison gas would be an effective deterrent for darts could be deflected by her defense fields. But if physically injured or incapacitated, it could be possible to shut her down.

Highly Emotional:
Kitora's emotions are often wild and unpredictable - she is subject to mood swings, obsessions, and anger when things don't go her way. She tries to keep these manic tendencies under control, but sometimes stuff slips out. Her emotions are most often swayed by food and family.

Hunger:

Kitora's abilities require a lot of energy to use - that means food. Her appetite is rather legendary - she eats like a horse - and it's not just gluttony. It's necessary - for if she becomes too famished, her powers may fail her. This can become quite problematic if her resources are unable to procure the 'fuel' she needs to tell the laws of physics to shut up and sit down.

Logs

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
New Old Faces	August 12th, 2023	Jean meets an alum of Xavier's and they touch base
Creatures of the Breakstone Campgrounds	July 17th, 2023	Hunting creatures?
Don't stop Be-Juggin'	June 7th, 2021	Rogue and Rift meet the Juggernaut!
Late night repairs!	May 4th, 2021	A nice quick conversation with Rift!
High Pressure	April 26th, 2021	Summary needed
A Quiet Nightcap	April 8th, 2021	Emma treats herself to a nightcap, and discusses the finer points of education and reading materials while catching up with Rift.
Extraordinary Gentlemen	April 5th, 2021	The Unveiling of the Superhero Exhibit commences!
A Meeting in the Rec Room	March 8th, 2021	A meeting in the rec room that turned into a warning and an exploration
Peace and quiet, take 2.	September 7th, 2020	Jimmy and Rift had some time to talk at the lake, general things about her new talent with water.
Warehouse Duet	August 11th, 2020	After crossing paths and singing
Crashing a Party	July 11th, 2020	The Hulk comes out in a routine incident, and runs into Rift and Shannon, who get him out of the city before anyone else can piss him off
Comfort Food Supreme	February 16th, 2020	Josiah cooks up a storm in the kitchen and draws in company. Remy has competition in the kitchen!
Hello Hell's Kitchen	January 21st, 2020	Harley decides to check out Hell's Kitchen, and has a chance encounter with a gravity girl, or rather, Rift.
Hello Up There!	December 25th, 2019	Some Xavier students meet on the roof patio of Xavier's School - then more come, talking about flying, Christmas, small dragons, and the like.
TBA	December 3rd, 2019	Rift and Rave cross paths in Mutant Town, get to know each other and their abilities, and then go to lunch.
ROXY VS. PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT: PART ONE	November 5th, 2019	Halo Burger is challenged by its worst employee yet! Continuity errors abound! Kitora eats the entire kitchen, Katsumi celebrities around, and Hogarth orders up some historical comfort food. Really though, Halo Burger is both bad for you and sort of offensive to a major religion. It's a miracle (ugh) that they're still in business.
The Night of the Living Sams.	October 22nd, 2019	Wolfman got Nards
Coffee Break	October 1st, 2019	Hector and Kitora meet and chat.
Frosty Ambush	September 10th, 2019	Emma, Doug and Kitora become involved with corporations, capitalism and cured ham in the kitchen.
Laughing at Physics	August 18th, 2019	Rift and Nadia Pym meet again, discuss gross violations of the laws of physics and ninjas, then have plans to keep in touch.
Rec-Room Adventures	August 11th, 2019	Kitora and Henry chat about their lives and eat blue Twinkies.
Some Kind of Teacher	August 3rd, 2019	Emma and Rift talk school and career plans and the limits of science. And when Rift worries about whether she has a future with the X-Men, Emma is all too happy to point out that she may have other opportunities in life. She's such a helpful sort, really!
Where the Road Will Lead Us	July 18th, 2019	Summary needed
Picknic in Central Park	July 11th, 2019	Oz invites Rift to have a picnic with him in Central Park, and things end up a lot different than he expected. Will this be the start of a new relationship?
Always good for a lounge	July 8th, 2019	Summary needed
Porting into the Danger Room	June 27th, 2019	Summary needed
Sideways in Central Park	June 24th, 2019	Summary needed
How do powers work anyway	June 9th, 2019	Summary needed
I Miss The Rain Down in Africa	May 18th, 2019	Ororo entertains two more late-nighters in the Mansion
New Mutant Recruitment	May 14th, 2019	Summary needed
Musings in the Dark	April 30th, 2019	Summary needed
Put a Ring On It	April 24th, 2019	Nadia, Rift, and Gwen foil THE RINGER. It was more impressive than it sounds.
A new face.	April 23rd, 2019	Summary needed
Cereal: It Does A Body Good	April 17th, 2019	Kitty and Negasonic run into Rift, recently returned to the school
Moving Back Home	April 8th, 2019	Summary needed
Log 5237	August 25th, 2018	Summary needed
The Graduate	August 23rd, 2018	Summary needed
Futures talk	August 6th, 2018	Tatum, Kitora, and Erika talk about future plans.
On the Court	July 10th, 2018	Some students hang out at the basketball court.
Woodsmoke	June 20th, 2018	Several New Mutants chat around the campfire. Rift visits. Tyler unloads a secret that may get him in trouble.
Hanging out. Let's entertain ourselves, New Mutants.	June 15th, 2018	Bunch of young mutants got together to talk, get some downtime in. Andrea performs a song.
Pool Party	June 4th, 2018	Summary needed
That's not a floor!	May 31st, 2018	Rift, Nicky, and the Scarlet Spider meet on a wall. And under a ledge. Escher would be proud.
First Impressions	May 23rd, 2018	Summary needed
Mutants at the Beach	May 19th, 2018	Summary needed
Training Togeather	May 16th, 2018	Summary needed
Can't Sleep	May 12th, 2018	Summary needed
Monsters, sausages, kings and queens	May 5th, 2018	Mutants eating hot dogs, Paper goddesses blowing up mind-warping horrors from beyond, and Atlantean royalty out for a walk.
Meeting the New Girl	April 24th, 2018	Summary needed
A Coffee pit stop	April 10th, 2018	Summary needed
Randon Ninja Attack Go!	April 5th, 2018	Summary needed
About A School Pt 3 - The Curious Parents of Alice Nelson	March 11th, 2018	Summary needed
Danger, Kitora Alua! Danger!	February 28th, 2018	Summary needed
To the Future!	February 20th, 2018	Summary needed
Some art in Mutant town!	February 17th, 2018	Summary needed
Girl Talk	February 10th, 2018	Summary needed
Researching History	February 7th, 2018	Bookworm tries to rob the library, but is thwarted
Amends	January 29th, 2018	Summary needed
The French Mistake	January 26th, 2018	Summary needed
Cultists Abound!	January 21st, 2018	NYC learns the Sons of Satannish are on the move, though Doctor Strange isn't their apparent target.
Ice, Ice, Baby	January 20th, 2018	Summary needed
That New Girl	January 14th, 2018	Summary needed
Tacos and Snow	January 4th, 2018	A bunch of mutants meet for tacos. Talks are had, and Quentin gets a new project.
Burgers in Times Square	December 31st, 2017	A lot of people really like burgers.
A Meeting	December 27th, 2017	Summary needed
Late night snacks	December 27th, 2017	Summary needed
New Look, same girl	December 25th, 2017	Sarah and Rift compare notes on crime fighting techniques.
Shadows after a riot	December 24th, 2017	Summary needed
Cafeteria Catastrophe	December 20th, 2017	Summary needed
Shine, Dazzler, Shine	December 20th, 2017	Summary needed
Boogity Boogity	December 17th, 2017	Summary needed
a day at the zoo	December 17th, 2017	Kenan and Kitara converse about pandas
Another day in the danger room	December 16th, 2017	Summary needed
Beef tacos, now with paper cows!	December 13th, 2017	Origami and Rift meet up for tacos, and play with a cow.
Beauty and the Beast	December 11th, 2017	Summary needed
Cell Phone Shopping Network	December 10th, 2017	Summary needed
Welcome to the club	December 6th, 2017	Summary needed
Home from the Hospital	December 2nd, 2017	Summary needed
Helping Hands	November 29th, 2017	Summary needed
Log 3263	November 28th, 2017	Summary needed
Mentoring Meeting!	November 26th, 2017	Summary needed
Recreational Recreation	November 25th, 2017	Summary needed
Things We Do In The Subway	November 23rd, 2017	Summary needed
Thanksgiving at Xavier's	November 23rd, 2017	Summary needed
Grand Central Conversations	November 22nd, 2017	Summary needed
Meeting on a Rooftop	November 20th, 2017	Summary needed
Gravity and Magnetism	November 20th, 2017	The Master of Magnetism is in New York. He is spotted by a couple of curious people in the form of Rift and Mariam O'Shea.
New York Airshow!	November 15th, 2017	Summary needed
Battle of the Buffet!	November 13th, 2017	Summary needed
Rift and the Crusader	November 10th, 2017	Summary needed
A spot of trouble!	November 7th, 2017	Summary needed
A Stroll in Central Park	June 19th, 2017	Traci & Atlee meet for the first time. Adorkable ensues.
Training with Kit	June 13th, 2017	Summary needed
Log	June 11th, 2017	Summary needed
Gravitational Pull	June 9th, 2017	Summary needed
School Reunion and First Meeting	June 6th, 2017	Summary needed

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