Post by Ororo Munroe on Sept 27, 2006 4:56:37 GMT
Name: Ororo Munroe
Codename: Storm
Age: 28
Mutation:
Storm has the power of atmokinesis - she can control the weather. This includes the wind, rainstorms, snowstorms, as well as more severe forms of weather like hurricanes and tornadoes. She also can control lightning and the temperature of any area. This lightning can be called down from the skies or hurled from her hands. Her eyes become white when she exerts this control over the elements.
Her control over the wind allows her to create gale-force blasts, enabling her to throw objects similar to telekinesis - fine manipulation has eluded her to this point, however. She can also hover and fly, though using her powers for massive wind-assisted jumps takes less concentration.
Storm is also an ecopath. She has a preternatural sense for living things and can tell when something is wrong with something biological.
Physical Description:
Ororo is an African-American woman in the prime of her 20’s. She is in peak physical shape after having been an active member of the X-Men for several years. Ororo has recently changed her hairstyle - which is an unusual natural white - from a flowing style to a short layered look. As mentioned above, when she utilizes her powers her eyes become cloudy and white.
Personality:
Ororo is a gentle person at heart. She is most at peace when working in the garden, or helping students learn. Because of her innate connection with the earth and its weather patterns, she has, over many years, learned to control her emotions. When she becomes concerned, dark clouds circle overhead. Worse, if she becomes angry or upset, thunder cracks, lightning strikes, and storms threaten overhead.
However, she is also a confident and decisive person. She needs this as leader. Once Ororo is committed to a course of action, she follows through.
She is a staunch believer in teamwork. When she, Jean, and Scott were the only X-Men on a mission, the three of them had to stick together or die. Anyone endangering the team through shoddy tactics will quickly feel her wrath.
With the death of Professor Xavier, Scott, and Jean, Ororo was left adrift in more ways than one. Her closest friends were gone. The X-Men had no leader, and no guiding light. Ororo reluctantly assumed a leadership role, as one of the only remaining original team members. When she’s totally honest with herself, she wants to dump it on someone else. At the same time, she refuses to trust anyone else with the job. Too much is at stake.
Background:
Storm’s parents were killed when she was only five years old in a freak accident. She was trapped in the rubble, which is the source of her severe claustrophobia. Ororo was a pickpocket and thief on the streets of Cairo in her teen years, where she was under the influence of Amahl Farouk, otherwise known as the Shadow King. He tended to let her have a free hand in her endeavors, but she was ultimately answerable to him. For some time, she chafed under his control.
Her life changed forever when a strange man in a wheelchair, accompanied by a young boy in glasses and a red-haired girl, approached her one day in the marketplace. Xavier engaged in mental battle with the Shadow King and bested him that day, allowing the four of them to narrowly escape in the Blackbird.
Since that day, Ororo has been first a student, and then a teacher, at the Institute. She has taken on more responsibilities in light of recent events, and assumed command of the X-Men when no other options presented themselves. Both her and Wolverine direct its day to day actions, and the two of them work closely with Jake Sheppard.
Current Affiliation
X-Men
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