Petra (_petra) wrote, @ 2019-08-27 16:06:00 |
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…BASICS; | ||||
FULL NAME: Petra Kristensen | Petra AGE: 22 DATE OF BIRTH: November 27, 1988 AFFILIATION: X-Men FAMILY:
PAST RELATIONSHIPS: Nothing of note | ||||
…POWERS AND ABILITIES; | ||||
POWERS: Petra is an incredibly powerful geokinetic, having the ability to psychokinetically manipulate, control, levitate and reshape the classic element of earth; sand, stone, rock, lava, and/or dirt and can even transform the consistency of earth and rock, such as turning a lump of coal into a diamond. She also can use this power to cause minor earthquakes and create shapes out of solid rock. ABILITIES: In her parents home she grew up bilingually with Danish and English spoken and also some passable German, but she really hasn't had any chance of using this since her family's deaths so her English is far better. Also, living on the street Petra picked up some skills mostly lockpicking and pickpocketing WEAKNESSES: Petra has a tendency to be overconfident about her abilities and her ability to control them. Also, personally she tends to be cold, distant, and distrusting of most everyone she meets for a good long while and rarely takes chances on them. Petra also loathes to fly. It's not a fear of airplanes, and she can handle a couple of hours fine. She does NOT like the feeling of not feeling the earth under her feet. | ||||
…HISTORY; | ||||
Natanael Kristensen moved to New Jersey from Denmark with his pregnant wife, Ibina, and son, Kai to work in a medical research firm. The family soon became what you would call the stereotypical American family. House in the suburbs, two kids, a dog. Petra grew up happy and healthy and did brilliantly in school. The bottom dropped out when Petra was 13. Her family went on a camping trip with a couple other families for a week one summer. Halfway through the trip there was a rock slide which killed all the campers, including Petra's entire family. She was the sole survivor, and she survived without a scratch. She couldn't explain how it had happened, and she sure as hell wasn't going to tell police and emergency workers that it felt like the slide was in her control after she saw her brother die. Her parents might have inadvertently raised a freak, but they didn't raise a fool. Petra went into the system. She bounced from foster family to foster family for the next year. Some were nice; that last one was horrible. The wife was a bitter woman who drank and smoked too much, and the husband was nice... too nice with the looks and constant need to touch you. He was a complete creep. One day, during a trip to the city, they took the kids to Central Park. Petra had had enough of the looks from her foster father and when he tried to reach for her at the park, she caused the earth to swallow him up to his knees. He yelled that she was a mutant, and she ran knowing she was. She spent the night in the park unable to sleep since she now believed, in her head, that she'd either killed her family or failed to save them like she had saved herself. For some time Petra lived in Central Park. She'd make enclosed caves to sleep in and for money she'd panhandle or make do with petty thievery, proud that she never turned to drugs or prostitution. It wasn't easy, but Petra survived this way for a year and a half. She'd practice with her abilities in private, and to get out of the cold she would sometimes go to the library or other public places. One night she succeeded in turning a piece of coal into a diamond. She found a shady pawn shop to sell it to, and then found a motel that wouldn't ask too many questions. This is how Petra lived and made money for some time. Different shops, smaller diamonds. She enjoyed having a bed, television, and shower. She had been running this scam for some time, afraid of being found out. One day she was trying to sell one of her coal diamonds when the worker excused himself saying he needed to call the owner. Instead he called the police. She ran. The police followed. She fought. They made with the taser. She was close to seventeen. Waking up the next morning she was on a cot in a jail cell. A guard came by and told her she was being released. Petra couldn't believe it, but the charges had been dropped as long as she went to Xavier's. So Petra went. It wasn't too great at first. She was highly suspicious and constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop. While it took a while, she did open up. She was very behind in regards to school and worked hard at getting caught up. In the end she only ended up earning her diploma a year behind when she would have had she missed no school. She didn't really feel she was made for the world of academics even if she liked to read. Petra hung out, trained, and few months ago joined Excalibur in Sydney. With the disbandment of the Australian team. Petra is back in Westchester, hanging around the school, helping out. Currently she answers a lot of phones at the school and helps out teachers and she's bored out of her skull, but she also gets to do X-men things. | ||||
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…OUT OF CHARACTER; | ||||