Fred Mason - Grim (incomplete)Note: I know there were some power questions in relation to Scott but I can't for the life of me remember what we figured out on MSN since it was awhile ago and I don't want to hold things up for Exiles anymore and really wanna get this bio up. So please ask away here and critique about them because I think I'd appreciate the exercise of knowing her limits etc. as well. Even if the bio is accepted please comment on powers people, I want ya to! I realise the powers are on the side of many 'but what ifs' and other wishy washy things so ask away and drill me to the core, I really do want limits to be set and I need some help here on her!
Name: Winifred Elaine Mason Nickname: She was known as Winnie in life by her parents but secretly went with the much preferred Fred for friends. In her new beginning she’s going solely by the name Fred. Mason is something she also often gets called a lot however and Miss Mason by annoying authority figures like career counsellors. Code Name: Grim Affiliation: X-men, loosely a student (she’s graduated high school but she’ll take classes she finds interesting). Exiles team. Occupation: currently just a student and x-men but she’s broke so count on her getting a job in the near future. School: She has graduated high school and attended some college before dropping out, much to her mother’s dismay. She may take some classes at Xavier’s but won’t be a full student. Legal Status: She received one driving ticket for speeding but no criminal charges. Since she didn’t realise that she was a mutant in life she wasn’t registered. In fact in the eyes of the state she’s now deceased. Race: Mutant Place of Birth: Washington State, American citizen Gender: Female Age: 19 Birthday: January 26th Hair: Fred has straight ash blonde hair which falls several inches past her shoulder. Her hair is depressingly without volume and no matter how much she brushes it her hair always ends up with wispy loose strands. She tends to wear it pulled partly back so that it doesn’t get in her way but is still present. She has recently highlighted her hair to regain some of the lighter blonde of her youth. Eyes: Fred has eyes of a rich brown colour that are very ordinary although nice eyes. Height: 5”4 Weight: about average, on the slim side for her height. Mother: Joyce Mason, made up - alive Father: Robert Mason, made up – alive (both parents are non-mutants)
Other important relatives: Helena Mason, her thirteen-year-old sister.
Physical Description:
Fred has straight ash blonde hair with highlights. Her hair is parted down the middle and falls several inches past her shoulder. She prefers to wear it partially pulled back or fully back in a ponytail so that it doesn't get in her way for when she wears it long Fred tends to fidget with her hair, frequently brushing it behind her ear. She has been told that her warm chocolate coloured eyes are nice but they aren't really so out of the ordinary in her opinion. Fred also has full pink lips which give her the impression of a pout without even trying. Fred's round face combined with her height of five-foot-four makes her appear younger than she is in actuality. Although nineteen she could easily pass for fourteen, a fact which she hates, particularly since she'll now never reach the legal drinking age and will be stuck forever in a younger looking body. The false impression of innocence and sweetness is also given off as a result of her face. While short Fred has prescence and her glare when angry means she is capable of being quite imposing.
Fred has a low alto voice which makes it sound as though she is always mumbling or complaining, even when she isn't. She likes to slump when seated but she's conscious of her height when standing and has near perfect posture in an attempt to appear taller than she is. Since nothing in life, or death, is worth hurrying for according to Fred, she walks so slowly in everyday situations that the cliche of walking so slow you're going backwards very nearly applies to her. Fred rarely smiles and she tends to look vaguely bored or uncaring most of the time. She's on the slim side but far from being all skin and bones.
Fred isn't really a style person. She wears what is comfortable and, more often than not, what happens to be cleanish and accessible, that meaning draped over a chair rather than in another room or folded inside a drawer. It is most common to see her wearing a pair of jeans or cords and a plain long-sleeved T-shirt, tank or hoodie suits her fine although she isn't against occationally dressing up. She would often layer her clothing to avoid getting cold in life but now she finds the cold doesn't affect her as much and wears layers only out of habit.
Powers:
Fred's powers came into effect at a strange moment, shortly before she died. Before her death Fred had no indication that she was a mutant and had lived a fairly mundane life. As it turned out her powers related to the afterlife, or rather the strange version of one she would be living.
Resurrection
Fred's main power, and the one that resulted in her current situation, is the power of resurrection. When Fred died her X-gene kicked in. Fred did die in body but her soul remained. She was in a disembodied state and as a result she was able to move around but not to let her family know in any way what had happened to her. She was present at her own funeral but had no way of telling this to anyone.
After a week though Fred found herself in physical form once again. As it turns out her mutant power is that of regeneration, meaning that after her death her power is to build a new body (since the old will by then be buried and rotting). The new body is perfect in copy, wear and appearance but it doesn't function in the same way so Fred is no longer able to breathe, she is truly dead. Luckily none of the usual aftereffects of dying such as rotting flesh, decomposition or a putrid smell apply to her new body.
Unfortunently one death isn't enough, Fred can still be temporarily killed and since the first one was an unpleasant experience she would much rather avoid going through it a second time. Decapitation and/or any mutilation of the human body that goes beyond healing will do it. Since she no longer breathes, strangling and puncturing of internal organs will not.
She will only die permanently by her own hand, a fact she doesn't like to advertise although she has a feeling its true. Of course she has never tried this and is quite afraid of the power she might hold over her own life. Fred hasn't exactly been told that only she can end her life but there is a gut feeling in her that is so strong she would swear her life, or unlife as it may be, on it and in fact she is doing so. Better to let the illusion of immortality and invincibility be known than letting any enemies she might have that she can be killed if they force her to kill herself.
Other effects of this power are the fact that Fred no longer breathes. When people notice this she just says she's a shallow breather and attempts to mimic breathing for a few minutes but she can't keep it up and normally just appears to not breathe. Of course this is a handy power for swimming or other places where breathing is difficult.
She can still eat but it isn't neccessary to do so, when she does it it is for pleasure or habit rather than out of neccessity for survival.
Sense of Death
Now that she's dead Fred has something of spidey sense for death around her. It's incredibly disturbing to the nineteen-year-old but also interesting in a morbid way. Fred often has a very good inkling of if a person is soon to die (meaning within the next few weeks). They appear to her to be followed always by a few wisps of black smoke that grow stronger as the date grows ever closer. As much as she tries to avoid this power it doesn't seem to be one she can always turn off. For that reason Fred hates hospitals and avoids them like the plague, no pun intended.
Ghost
For a week after Fred died she had no physical prescence and assumed she was a ghost before she woke up one day to find she was in physical form.
During the week after she experiences death Fred is reduced to a soul without physical form. She can't be seen by anyone and she also can't be heard. Adding to that is the fact that she cannot become physical even for a moment so she can't leave a message for anyone or pick up any item, she simply seems, from everyone else's point of view, to cease to exist. Once one week exactly has passed she is returned to physical form and can be seen and heard. Once back in physical form she can't, for the time being anyway, return to a ghost form. The physical form, the new one she is given, reconnects with her psyche to bring her back into place wherever she happened to be non corporeally haunting, be it someone's living room or a public place so she has to be careful in any future such circumstances about where she is when her body is returned.
As a ghostlike being she can pass through walls and is unable to stand but seems to hover as a disembodied being.
Fred has only died once and thus she has only once used her ghost power. Through experience and over time she will gain more control and unlock deeper aspects of her power.
Future aspects of her ghosting power
In the future Fred will be able to gain a vague form in her ghosting power. She will still remain invisible to the eye, with the possible exception of animals who seem able to see the supernatural and mutants with powers specially designed for this sort of circumstance. However Fred will be able to use her power in times other than the week after death for short moments in time up to a maximum of one minute. She still will be unable to pick up physical objects but her powers will be ideal for briefly scoping out a space for danger before a mission of somesort.
History:
Winifred Elaine Mason was born by C-section to Joyce and Robert Mason in the cold winter month of January. She was the first child to her excited parents and they had high hopes for the nine pound baby girl.
She began walking and talking earlier than many children and her parents, in the excited overanxious way that young parents do, began to talk about career options as a doctor or lawyer. The possibility that Winifred, affectionately nicknamed Winnie, would not even make it to age twenty was something her parents hadn't even considered.
Joyce and Robert experienced their first overwhelming challenge of parenthood when Winnie hit the terrible twos with gusto. She threw tantrums, she bit and she kicked. Soon she became known less as Winnie and more as Her or 'the little terror'. She drove her parents crazy and Joyce and Robert made a decision that they weren't ready to have another child as they had previously thought.
Once the twos passed everything seemed better. Winnie was a seemingly perfect little girl. She went to school and finger painted, she took dance lessons twice a week and was forced into piano and she was so young that she accepted it all without questionning what exactly it was that she wanted to do. When she rejected dance and piano there were always other activities her mother believed she should take. Horseback riding, art classes, swimming, gymnastic and figure skating, the activities kept on coming. Winnie lived a mundane life of chores and school and she got along with her parents. She was always on the quiet side though and made few friends in pre-school and kindergarten.
Baby sister Helena was a surprise to all concerned. Having hit the age of five and a half Winnie didn't expect to have any siblings and was quite happy to be free of them. Robert and Joyce had only wanted one child after going through the trying time of the terrible twos with their girl and decided once was enough. Over the course of the pregnancy though they became accustomed to the thought of having another child and when the two weeks early Helena was born they doted on her. Suddenly Winnie, who had been overwhelmed with activities and attention in the way that an only child often is, was put behind the interests of the new child. Her parents began to forget that she had lessons that week and forgot to drive her as they cooed over baby Helena.
Winnie hadn't really appreciated the activities she was involved in and yet she didn't want to give all of them up and the lack of attention made her somewhat sour until she made up her mind not to care. Forced to look outside of her family and the friends she had made as a result of her activities, Winnie began speaking more to kids at school and fell in with a group of boys. With their urging and a desire to be part of something again she approached her dad about joining a girl-boy soccer team. Since the school field was right nearby he gave his permission and wrote the check.
Winnie began playing soccer and although she wasn't very good she was certainly determined and her kicks were hard if not always well aimed. Some of the boys admiringly said she played like a guy and Winnie got a new name once her full name was revealed and ridiculed. You kick like a guy, you might as well be named like one seemed to be the consensus and, to her friends anyway, Winnie became Fred.
When she wasn't playing with the guys Winnie spent time reading. She spent her lunch hours alone in the library reading with wide eyes the dilluted versions of myths and fairy tales. They didn't tell of the discretions of Zeus or of the violence in fairy tales but they were a beginning and later Winnie would find out the full stories. She was only ever an average student even though frustrated teachers often commented that she had the potential to be so much more than that if she would only apply herself. To that Winnie rolled her eyes.
In the meantime the appeal of the second-born was lessoning and her parents were beginning to look at her again, only to find that the five-year-old who wore dresses and danced in recitals for them had changed while their faces were turned. Now she came home with grass stains on her shirts, she wore her shoulder-length hair in a messy ponytail and she had made a face at the notion of ballet.
She was still their daughter though and in the search for common ground Joyce began to read stories to Winnie, stories of the classical gods and of fantasy heros and for one hour before bedtime each night the girl would climb up on her lap and everything was as it should be. Growing frustation amounted however as now eleven-year-old Winnie began to assert independance. She would ignore her homework in favour of watching television and she wouldn't answer her parents when they called her Winnie, insisting that she was now Fred despite the falling out she had had the previous year with that group of friends. Her bedroom door gained one of the "Stay Out" signs and puberty started a rift between parents and child although love still remained behind barriers.
Fred got her first pet at twelve as a peace offering from her parents for Christmas. The turtle wasn't exactly what she had been hoping for but soon she became very attached to "Sluggish the turtle". Six-year-old Helena meanwhile looked up to her big sister in silent awe as a much younger child often does. Fred was twelve though, she didn't have time for her sister to be constantly following her and trying to join in the grown up games. Fred ignored her.
At thirteen she had her tonsils out, a painful experience and one that helped her develop a deep hatred for hospitals. The only up side of this experience was the bowls of ice cream, pudding and other sweet substances however Helena got the same and she didn't have the operation so all in all Fred couldn't really see the point of it. As much as she liked cute kids she didn't really like her sister, or at least she thought she didn't.
By the time she entered high school Fred didn't really get on well with her parents although she loved them and certainly wasn't calling them names behind their backs to her friends. She became best friends with Christina Kim, a girl whose pessimistic views matched her own, and they were partners in just about everything. They developed their dark senses of humour by playing off one another. Despite her only average grades and pessimism Fred was never a bad girl and she didn't drink or smoke throughout high school. She also didn't have a boyfriend until her senior year and at the time that didn't bug her although after her death she would be extremely peeved that she hadn't gotten that opportunity.
Chris and Fred, as they were now known to most as the partners in crime who sat silently in the back of the classroom, parted ways as they graduated high school. They would, however, keep in touch and Christina was at Fred's funeral. Christina attended one university however while Fred had been accepted into a different college. The fact that she had been accepted thrilled Joyce Mason but the excitement would but cut short once Fred dropped out a year later.
The problem was that Fred had nothing she wanted to do with her life. She was quite content to live at home and let her mom do just about everything for her such as laundry and cooking dinner. She was handed everything and didn't even have a part-time job until her first year of college. Fred didn't know what to major in and took a variety of general first year courses, eventually ending up in the English program. Had she cared enough she likely could have succeeded but she didn't and by now Fred had become quite apathetic to just about everything except her turtle. Fred dropped out of college, telling her parents only after she had gone through the steps and they couldn't force her to do otherwise.
Joyce was livid and made sure her daughter knew that she was to get a job, not freeload off of them. Helena rather admired Fred and wished she could quit school like that but Helena was a better student than Fred and her parents one last gleaming hope it seemed and she obviously had to stay.
So Fred got a job. It wasn't a good job but it was a job nonetheless. She worked in the local library, stacking books and checking them out and she made a decent amount of money. Each day she would drive over the junk bucket car her parents had helped her pay for as a high school graduation gift and each day she would stack books until she thought there was no possible way that life could get any more boring. Unfortunently it was about to get exciting in such a way that Fred would later wish she had never had such thoughts.
still being worked on
Personality:
Fred is even more on the apathetic side than most teenagers. 'Whatever' seems to be her catch phrase, the difference being that she actually means it. Most of the time Fred really couldn't care any less. A dark sense of humour is only natural when you're dead although Fred's has been her weapon since she was in her pre-teens. Sarcasm, snark and pure morbid humour are her hallmarks and she has to bite her tongue sometimes when people are around who might take offence.
Rarely smiling or laughing she comes across as a very solumn person although Fred isn't so cold as people often believe. She's extremely stubborn and strong-willed but also highly intelligent. The problem with her intelligence being that she wasn't keen on using it for school purposes. Her average was decent and she made it to college but Fred dropped out of college part way through, to the anger of her mother, because she didn't care enough about her future. Fred had few friends in life and she doesn't expect to have many here although if she finds others who share her pessimistic view and dark sense of humour there would likely be an immediate bond. One thing Fred really hates is being asked questions, especially nosy curious ones. Her way of thinking is that if she wants something to be known she'll say it and if she wants to be told something she'll ask for it, she'd rather not be asked questions and forced to respond by strangers.
Since her death she hasn't complained quite as much as before, realizing that she had taken some things for granted. In a way she is lost. Before dying Fred had no idea which direction to take her life in and now on the opposite side of the country in her undead life she has even less of a clue.
While generally moody and disagreeable Fred does have some respect for authority figures as long as she feels they've deserved her respect. The same goes for people. She's adopted the thought that death is a way of life but even having gone through it once doesn't make it any less scary for her. Fred isn't a cruel person by nature and she never will be. She may say something sharp but she'd never physically hurt anyone.
All her life she has been lazy and lived with her parents but now she has been forced to have some independance and control over her own life. She's gaining independance slowly, learning how to cook and having for once to keep things clean for she's a pack rat by nature. Since she hasn't really gotten along with her parents in years she envies those who do have great relationships with their families and she is very good with children and younger kids because she misses her younger sister who was close to her.
In essence the keys to getting on Fred's good side are junk food, animals, cute kids, gentleness, a pessimistic view of the world and razor sharp wit.
Likes:
Animals - Fred isn't entirely little miss snarky and cold. She has a soft spot for animals among other things.
Not having to eat - Since Fred was a picky eater she loves the idea that she doesn't have to eat to live anymore but can just eat the junk food she prefers.
Her family - Although she won't really get to make contact with them anymore Fred likes her family. They've had major differences over the eyars but that doesn't mean she didn't love them in her own way.
Stories - The one thing Fred is passionate about is stories. She has a deep interest in all things mythological as well as in fantasy and science fiction. While she isn't fond of many of the supposed "classics" of literature she does like to read what she enjoys.
Dislikes:
Sensing Death - Fred has a particular dislike for this unfortunate power. She hates knowing someone is shortly to die.
Dying - Fred hated the experience of dying and doesn't want to go through it a second time.
Not being able to return to previous life - Fred knows from the brief encounter with her mother post-mortem that she can't ever return to her previous life and visit her parents like other kids who move away. That part of her life has ended for her and she hates it.
Hospitals - Hospitals are pretty much walking death as far as Fred is concerned. She didn't like them in life and in death she has a phobia of hospitals. Although Med Bay might be better don't count on her spending time there unless absolutely neccessary.
Questions - Fred hates being asked questions, more specifically personal questions or nosy questions by strangers. She's a big fan of privacy.
Perky people - Fred's philosophy was always life's a bitch and then you die. Or in her case die and come back but even still she likes her negative attitude and hates it when people pretend everything is wonderful when it isn't. Perky people just annoy her.
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