Post by Rachel Grey on Sept 17, 2013 17:08:39 GMT -5
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=valign, top][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, border: 10px solid #f1e3b4; width: 450px; background-color: #f6f7f1;] PERMANENT RECORD NAME: Rachel Grey AGE: 22 (Recent approximate by Marvel Editors) GENDER: Female HEIGHT: 5'7 AFFILIATION: Faculty - Senior Staff FACE CLAIM: N/A. DESCRIPTION AND PERSONALITY: Having made peace with her past, her memories now clear, Rachel is far more level-headed and confident. She can still be slightly impulsive at times, but not as dangerously so as she would have been earlier in her career. She still retains certain instabilities, but these are nowhere near as severe as they had been. When Colossus and Psylocke returned from the dead, Rachel felt slightly bitter that her mother was still dead, which caused a rift between Rachel and Kitty, who was happy to have Colossus back. She also seems to have problems with her sense of identity and belonging. Rachel has a bit of an "attitude problem", often butting heads with authority figures such as Storm. She is often sarcastic and quick to make barbed jabs and veiled insults to prove a point. However, she has a strong compassionate streak and will go to great lengths to protect others (such as when she opposed Storm's decision to kill Karima in X-Men #3). “My father always told me not to let my emotions rule my decisions in battle. Too bad I take after my mother." - Rachel Grey HISTORY Rachel Grey-Summers is the daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey, Cyclops and Phoenix, on Earth-811. Her reality diverged from the regular time line when Senator Robert Kelly was assassinated by the Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants. In her world, this event caused the mutant/human relations to escalate to the point that an anti-mutant candidate won the next presidential election. He put forth the legislation that brought the giant mutant hunting robots known as the Sentinels. The goal was to eliminate all mutants. The Sentinels adapted and decided the best way to do so was to take over North America. They did not stop with just mutants. Several super-powered humans were also killed or imprisoned. When Rachel was a child, the X-Men's base, Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, was attacked. Rachel was the only survivor. Rachel was taken and brainwashed. Using her psionic powers, Rachel became a mutant "hound" and tracked down other mutants. Her face was tattooed with the mark of a hound. Rachel was even forced to kill some of her fellow mutants. After some time, Rachel ended up at a Mutant Containment Facility where she found other surviving X-Men. In a plan to end the nightmare that was their world, Rachel used her psionic powers to switch the psyche of the X-Man, Kate Pryde with that of her younger self. Kate found herself in the body of a young Kitty Pryde who was still new to the X-Men. Together they prevented the assassination of Senator Kelly. Unfortunately, history couldn't be changed. Rather than switching psyches with her younger self, Kate was actually sent into a different reality. So even though the assassination was stopped, the Sentinels still ruled their world. With everyone killed except for Kate and Rachel, Kate hypnotized Rachel to use her powers to tap into the Phoenix Force. Kate forced Rachel to travel back in time when the two were trapped in the laboratory of Project Nimrod, the next evolution in Sentinels. Rachel was followed by Nimrod and found herself, not in her past, but that of the mainstream reality. She was finally able to come to terms with her situation and found a home with the X-Men of this world. Upon hearing about the death of Jean Grey, Rachel decided to take on the mantle of Phoenix in the hopes of clearing her mother's name after the destruction the Phoenix Force had caused while in the guise of Jean. She locates a crystal with the mental imprint of her "mother" and relives the most indelible memories of Jean. Through experiencing what a woman her mother was in this time she feels confident that she can carry on with the good her mother had accomplished before becoming tied with the Phoenix Force. Rachel was a helpful but sometimes unreliable teammate who was driven mostly by her emotions and ghosts of her past. Rachel was next found as a prisoner of Mojo and Spiral, forced to perform for the people of Mojoworld. She is rescued by her former teammates Nightcrawler and Shadowcat and are later joined by British Superheroes Captain Britain and Meggan to form Excalibur. During her tenure with this team she came into her own as a confident woman and is frequently shown having to stave off advances from men all around England, much to the chagrin of her teammate Shadowcat. Rachel was a huge asset to the team and battled with several forces such as the Technet and Sat-yr-9. The team ventured through many adventures through time and even found themselves becoming a part of history in World War II. On the way back to the present, Captain Britain got lost in the time stream and Rachel switched places with him. Rachel finds herself in the far future where the evil mutant, Apocalypse rules. She starts the Clan Askani as a way to thwart his further rule. Knowing of her half-brother's potential (Nathan Summers, also known as Cable), she sends a member of the clan (aptly named Askani) to retrieve the young Nathan, who has been infected with a virus. To ensure a form of her brother can stand and fight against the forces of Apocalypse, Rachel has Nathan cloned. The clone falls into enemy hands and Rachel uses her psionic abilities to bring Scott and Jean's consciousness forward through time to care for Nathan. This, plus an attack on the Askani citadel, caused a great deal of strain on Rachel's body, which caused her to go into a coma. Her mind was still able to communicate and she helps Nathan grow as much as possible. As a Christmas gift from Cyclops and Emma Frost, Rachel was finally introduced to her maternal grandparents and was quickly accepted with open arms by the Grey family. She spent quite a bit of time trying to become a new part of that family and interacting with her Grandparents John and Elaine Grey. They attempted to throw a party in her honor but was attacked by the Shi'ar Death Commandos, an elite squad of bounty hunters. In the process the Death Commando's killed the entire Grey family in 24 seconds, also marking Rachel's back with some sort of ink that set into her DNA, a sort of scarlet letter for bounty hunters. With the help of the X-Men the Death Commando's were defeated. She was examined by Beast as to the nature of the mark that haunts Rachel, but it is compared to the "M" tattoo on Bishop's eye and Rachel claims to not be able to remove it. She is questioned by Nightcrawler on whether it is just a matter of her willingness to keep it. After trying to cope with the loss of her new family the Death Commando's escaped and attacked her again while at a therapy session. She escaped again only to fight most of the Death Commando's on her own. Once again the X-Men showed to help her battle her new foes. The defeated them but the world was attacked by a Shi'Ar battleship, Rachel combined her powers with Psylocke's to block the attack, redirecting it back to the ship and saving the planet. Rachel is currently with the X-Men, acting as a teacher and instructor at the school in addition to being a member of the active roster. She teaches foreign languages, Psychic Self Defense and Brain Spelunking. POWERS AND ABILITIES Rachel is an Omega-Level Mutant and oft Phoenix Force Avatar who possesses extremely powerful high-end levels of the psionic powers of telepathy and telekinesis, in addition to limited chronal abilities. Rachel is also a former host of the Phoenix Force. Unfortunately, all the Phoenix Force hosts (including Rachel) lost their connections to the cosmic entity at exactly the same moment. Rachel is an Omega-Level telepath (similar to her mother Jean Grey), carrying similar levels of telepathic and telekinetic power. Her telepathy allows her to sense and manipulate thought, allowing for a variety of effects. Most often for Rachel this includes mind reading, thought projection, forming temporary or permanent psychic rapports between individuals that can keep them connected to her despite great distances or power inhibitors. Because she was enslaved and forced to become a mutant-hunting hound Rachel's telepathy was honed to sense, locate and track other mutants based on their thoughts patterns; it's said she was the best Hound ever created. Rachel can project blasts of psionic energy using them to stun, stupefy or even kill, she was also taught how to protect and shield her mind from any external psychic attacks. She is able to cast psychic illusions manipulating the perceptions of others. Emma forcibly taught Rachel how to render herself undetectable to the senses, making her effectively invisible. She can also scan or alter somebody's memories without causing any harm, heal/repair any harm caused to somebody's mind, and even suppress somebody's access to his/her superpowers. She can shield her and others' minds from psychic intrusion and project her astral self into the physical or astral planes of existence. In rare circumstances she has been able to swap minds from one body to another, but mostly in conjunction with her "chronoskimming" ability. Rachel can also sense residual psychic energy in locations and objects (effectively pulling thoughts from objects instead of minds) in order to recreate events in her mind's eye (most telepaths can do this, but sometimes it is a singular power called "psychometry"). Rachel's telepathy, though having an immense potential, was very limited by her poor training and techniques. Rachel often relied on sheer power-level and lacked any subtlety or formal strategy. This is quite visible when some other telepaths with much less power have equaled or outmatched Rachel in battle, which happened with both Emma Frost or Professor X. However, Rachel underwent training with Frost and Xavier. During her intensive sessions with Xavier, he gave her full access to all his knowledge and telepathic skills which dramatically increased Rachel's finesse. Rachel is an Omega-Level telekinetic, allowing her to sense and manipulate matter and energy at varying thresholds. Commonly she uses her telekinesis three ways, offensively (firing concussive force blasts), defensively (creating telekinetic shields), and for transportation (flight). By using her telekinesis she can hover or fly at incredible speeds, manipulate matter down to the molecular level (often rearranging the unstable molecules of her costumes to better suit her tastes or the environment), manipulate objects at the macroscopic level, and deflect oncoming energy blasts. With or without her power levels heightened by the Phoenix Force, magics have proven resistant to Rachel's telekinesis. When the Soulsword appeared embedded into a rock near the Excalibur lighthouse, Rachel attempted to remove it but despite using the full extent of her powers, Rachel was unable to remove the sword. Rachel has displayed a variety of abilities akin to time-travel. She appears to be connected to the timestream, enabling her to sometimes travel physically or metaphysically through different points in time. Rachel has a particular ability called "chronoskimming" allowing her to psionically transplant a person's consciousness and send it through time into a younger or older version of that person (that particular reality's counterpart), into the closest living ancestor/descendant, or as a disembodied astral form. Rachel appears to generate a "fourth dimensional pulse" which shields her from distortions in the timeline (i.e. changes in reality or time). ROLE-PLAYING SAMPLE The wind blew gently across the morning dew at the Jean Grey Institute for Higher Learning. It had a cool and crispness to the air that made the hems of Rachel's uniform blow along with the gentle wind. The red hue of her power outlined her body a she shifted her posture, her fists clenched in restrained anger. Before her stood the memorial enshrined to the school's namesake, and her late mother - Jean Grey. The engraving was etched like a permanent burning into the stone, as much as her memories were a permanent burning into Rachel's mind. She clenched her fists tighter, her power lightly flaring round her. The wind slowed, and the trees stopped their restless motion, The very blades of grass seemed to still under her boots, and the droplets of dew froze in mid-air as they slowed their descent to earth, and then remained suspended a few inches above the soil. A glowing eye loosed a single tear down her face, running along the Hound marks on her cheek that had been there for as long as she could remember. So much of her family had been lost and too much Grey blood had been shed. There was not enough of her family left. The only legacy that was left to the Grey family was here, at the school that had helped so many mutants. She had seen the death and decay that awaited mutantkind in the time she was from, in the reality she was born in to. This was the last hope that mutantkind had to stem the coming apocalypse that awaited them. She had a chance here, and now.. to further the dream of Charles Xavier, to help ease mutantkind into the future and pray for the salvation of her race. The tear fell from her face, falling from her face before freezing in place in mid-air just as the dew droplets had. "I'm sorry, Mom. I don't know if you can hear me. I don't know what happens after one of us... one of the Phoenix avatars... moves on..." she said with passionate emotion. "I am doing the best I can. I am doing... what I hope is what you would do. What you would want me to do." she said as the hue around her body flared with her energy signature. "I won't let your world become my world, Mom." she said as she closed her eyes. The wind picked up around her again, and the tree branches moved. The droplets of dew and her tear fell to the Earth, as the surviving Grey placed her palm on the memorial. 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