Kylora Spens Chambers-GaiaName: Kylora Irene Spens Chambers Nickname: Kyla, Ivy, Ky, 'Lor, 'Lora Aliases: Christie Hart, Sarah Wright, Karen Oliver, Erin Sanders, etc. Code Name: Gaia Affiliation: X-Men Legal Status: Kyla is a citizen of the United States with no criminal record whatsoever. Occupation: Botanist (current), waitress (former), sales person (former) Place of Birth: Charleston, South Carolina Marital Status: Single Gender: Female Age: 19 Birthday: March 18 Hair: Dark brown (gets a greenish gleam when using powers) Eyes: Green Height: 5’7” Weight: 145 lbs. (I have no idea if this is healthy for a girl of that height or what...)
Mother: Lenora Nicole Spens (made-up) Father: Cole Chambers (made-up, deceased) Other Important Relatives: Major Ilene MacCloed (grandmother), Cordelia (many great grandmother), Rebecca O'Shannon (great grandmother [deceased]), Lt. Commander Austin Spens (grandfather), Relena Nicole Deloncré (cousin), Maria Deloncré (cousin), Jean-Paul Deloncré (cousin), Danielle Deloncré (cousin)
Powers:
Can make plants grow at an accelerated rate and communicate with them with a secondary power to communicate with animals. Her powers are basically to cause plants to grow rapidly, completing full life cycles in minutes. Since she can communicate with the plants themselves, she can also get them to do exactly what she wants.
An example of this would be along the lines of if she was around some ivy or kudzu, she could ask them to wrap around her opponent's legs or have them tie her opponent up.
Her communication with plant life goes on in her head. She can sense plant life when it is near and ask it what it can do and such. She can only ask plants to do her bidding. Whether or not they do it is up to them. (This kind of makes funny situations because it could be in the nature of something to be ornery and refuse to do what she wants. It all depends on the plant though. This would probably be considered one of her weaknesses.)
Her secondary ability to communicate with animals ties in with her connection to plants, sort of, since she has a small connection with nature. Like her ability to communicate with plants, she does all of her talking with her mind (to the animals, that is). Once again, she can only get them to do what they want to do (meaning, she can only ask and they make the choice to help her or not). She can call on them and they will come to her if they wish to. Its like a little tug on their conscience.
Her only limit with plants is her imagination. She can show them, with her mind, what she wants them to do and they'll do it if they want. She just has to be very persuasive with her presentation and asking.
Think of her as a sort of Poison Ivy (without the poisonous skin and unsusceptableness to poisons). She carries seeds around in a pouch and can even make new plants by cross germination. She basically has a green thumb and a way with animals. Oh, and she also glows electric green with the use of her powers (minor use will result in her eyes glowing [i.e. communication with animals and plants], while full use results in her body glowing [like when she accelerates plant growth and communicates with the plants and animals]).
History: (Short Version [For those of you who have too much to read anyway!])
Basically, Kylora lived in a small town near Charleston, South Carolina, called Riley. Although she had very unusual pointed ears, the town just grew accustomed to them and never said anything about it really. She was just accepted and loved. She lived this way for thirteen years with her mother teaching English and her father running an auto repair shop.
When her thirteenth birthday rolled around, though, all of it changed within the blink of an eye. Apparently her parents had led a very dangerous life before settling down in Riley. They had been apart of another reality's mutant team, called the X-Tremes. They had been trained under Xavier's watchful eye and battled the Hellfire Club's very own new Hellions for years. Once the Hellions were defeated though, they had left the team and come to this reality to settle down for a peaceful existence.
Now, fifteen years later, they wanted the entire old team dead. Lenora (a.k.a. Selkie [chosen due to her hydrokinesis]) and Cole Chambers (a.k.a. Brushfire [pyrokinesis]) had to fight off these new Hellions. So, when Kylora used her powers for the first time to help her parents, Cole sent Kylora and Lenora on to make their escape. He died fighting the Hellions off.
For four and a half years, Lenora and Kylora stayed one step ahead of the Hellions. Kylora learned how to lie like a champ during this time. Her mother was her best friend those years. She learned how to hide her ears and also how to gain moderate control over her powers. They would only stay in one place for a couple of months, getting temp jobs mostly, before moving on to the next town.
After four and a half years of hiding, Lenora finally decided to send Kylora off to another reality with the help of Professor Xavier and her grandmother, Cordelia. She had been keeping the fact that she was of the Tuatha De Naan for years from Kylora, hoping that she wouldn't have to use those connections for a while. Yet, the time had come to send her off. So, she concocted a plan to stay at Xavier's Institute of Higher Learning for a year before sending Kylora off to another reality to learn from another Professor Xavier. She had decided this so that Kylora could graduate after years of undergoing her distance learning studies while under Lenora’s thoughtful teachings from Xavier’s Institute. After sending Kylora off safely, Lenora would teach English in this reality and be under his protection while Kylora would be safe in a similar situation.
So, one night, after spending the day with her daughter and explaining everything she could to her, Lenora gathered all of her resources and got a power transference from her grandmother and sent Kylora off to another reality with a letter from this reality's Professor Xavier to himself in the next and some money so that Kyla can have enough for tuition and other things. So it was that Kylora found herself in a different reality with several bags and no idea how everyone else would react.
History: (Long Version [For those of you who would like a more detailed background])
Kylora grew up on the outskirts of Charleston, South Carolina in a small community called Riley (made-up). Growing up, Kylora had everything a little girl could ever want. She had friends, family, and a church family that loved her dearly. Her mother was an English teacher at their local high school while her father owned the local auto shop. They just seemed like a normal American family living the American Dream. Yet, all this was to change the day that her parents’ past came back to haunt them on a nice spring day in March, Kylora’s 13th birthday to be exact. Apparently her parents had been apart of an elite force called the X-Tremes back in their hay-day. This team had been trained by Xavier himself to go on covert missions that pitted them up against the Hellfire Club’s latest attempts at taking over the world through their own new and improved Hellions. Time and again the X-Tremes and the Hellions had been pitted against each other, each one gaining their own little victories along the way, but in the end the Hellions were defeated and the members of X-Tremes scattered to the four winds. Some took refuge among the stars, getting a fresh start in other universes, while others took refuge in other realities that had never heard of their adventures. Lenora and Cole were one of the few to have taken refuge in a different reality. Though they were not of this reality, they had gotten in contact with the Professor Xavier of their new reality who had then helped to get them settled in at a small house in Riley. Now the Hellions were back and they wanted the survivors of the X-Tremes dead.
So, it was on Kylora’s 13th birthday that the Hellions made their move. There was an attack on her house just as she was about to blow out the candles on her birthday cake. It was utter chaos as the familiar pink and purple uniforms of the Hellions came into view, children and parents ran for cover as a whole score of fireballs came careening out of the outstretched palm of the Hellion known as Spitfire. It was just about to hit little Kylora in the chest when her father caught it right in his hand. Kylora looked up at her father in amazement as he threw the fireball right at the Hellion’s telepath, Psyche, catching him right on his right arm. You see, her father had the ability to control fire (pyrokinesis) while her mother, as she soon found out, had the ability to control water (hydrokinesis). During the whole onslaught of chaos, Kylora had found her way to her mother who had been dishing out water balls left and right, drawing the water from the air and the tiny stream that ran from through the garden. Her father was close by and there was just enough of a gap between them and the enemy to make it seem like a line was drawn. By this time, Kylora was very scared, but that soon gave way to anger. That’s when her powers kicked in. All of the sudden, the grass was growing into a sort of lifelike carpet with arms that wrapped around the legs of the Hellions, making them fall backwards into the prickly bushes close by or just knocking the wind out of their lungs. Lenora and Cole looked at their daughter as she stood there, glaring menacingly at their enemies with an emerald green glow coming from her already green eyes and her long raven tresses suddenly had a greenish gleam to them as they whipped about in a nonexistent wind. Cole took one look at his wife and daughter before he turned his attention back to the slowly recuperating Hellions.
“Go!,” he shouted as he sent a fireball careening back at the telekinetic, Teke, who had just gotten to his knees (having directed it from the other pyrokinetic that had hurled it in the first place), “I’ll hold them off!” Lenora looked helplessly at her husband before she nodded and dragged a distraught Kylora away from the battle, the other children and parents long gone by then.
Kylora’s father died that day in battle by the hand of the Hellions. Kylora and Lenora never went back to that house. Their things were boxed up by friends and sent to Westchester to Professor Xavier and their house was sold soon after. Over the next four and a half years, Kylora and Lenora spent their time moving from place to place, staying just one step ahead of the Hellions. They traveled all over the place. They always chose places where they would blend in fairly well. On one occasion, Lenora had them hide in the highlands of Scotland, making it seem like they disappeared into the mists. It was at the end of the three years that Lenora decided to send Kylora off to a new reality; this time, though, Lenora was going to make sure that no one could trace her daughter’s comings and goings. Lenora had another secret that she had been keeping from her daughter; one that just might keep her safe and one that had gotten them out of all of their fixes for Lord knew how long. Lenora’s Irish-Scots family was very different from everyone else in the sense that they were one of the few families that were of the descent of the ancient Tuatha Da Naan. Because they were of the fair folk, they all had a touch of magic to them, along with some luck and protection. They all also had elven ears that Lenora had been hiding with the help of an image inducer built into a little charm bracelet that she always wore. Kylora had an identical charm bracelet that she too always wore. Kylora’s, however, didn’t have any magic to it whatsoever. She’d never had the chance to receive the magic that would make that particular charm work the same way for her as it did for her mother. She just had to cover her elfin ears with kerchiefs and hats at times. All that Kylora knew was that the bracelet was given to her at birth by her grandmother Cordelia (who resides in Tir Na Nog, but she doesn’t know that) and seemingly grew with her, never having to be adjusted at all. Lenora always wore a sapphire teardrop necklace that seemed to glow every once in a while. If it was significant, Kylora never knew until a few months after her eighteenth birthday.
It was around this time that Lenora decided that Kylora should have a chance to live in a safe and stable environment for a bit before she left this reality. So, Lenora took Kylora to the one place that she had always felt the safest: Xavier’s Institute for Higher Learning. For the first time in her life, Kylora had a place that felt like it could be home. She could finish up her studies that she had been keeping up on the run (Lenora had been home-schooling her through Xavier’s distance learning program, allowing Kylora to learn at her own pace while they kept one step ahead of the Hellions). It was there that she took the exams that allowed her to graduate from high school and become qualified for college. She even got to take her ACTs and PSATs (she received top marks, excelling in English and History while doing pretty good on her Math and Science scores). It was also during this time that Lenora told Kylora everything; from what it meant to be of the Tuatha Da Naan to Lenora and Cole’s history prior to Kylora’s birth. They had a good talk and Kylora finally understood fully just what her parents had given up to get a chance at a normal life. She found that the bedtime stories her parents had told her when she was little of a team of superheroes, risking their lives everyday to save the world a hundred times over just so that the future just might be the reality of one man’s dream of peace and unity between mutants and humans, were actually true. She had thought that the hydrokinetic, Selkie, and pyrokinetic, Brushfire, had seemed to be similar to her parents, but didn’t really put it all together until then.
It had been almost a year when Lenora got wind of the Hellions’ movements somewhere in the United States. They were heading towards New York, getting far too close to Lenora and Kylora than she wanted. It was then that Lenora decided that she was going to have to send Kylora to another reality. She had already contacted Cordelia, just in case that she needed to send Kylora away within the next few months. It was March, almost Kylora’s birthday. Lenora didn’t want to send her off before her birthday, but she couldn’t wait. She had to send her off before the Hellions figured out where they were. So, Lenora arranged for her and Kylora to spend their last day together, shopping and doing all the things she’d wanted them to be able to do for a long time. She even got Kylora a birthday cake and an early birthday present to go with her so that Kylora would have something to open on her birthday. That night, Lenora helped Kylora pack the remainder of her bags with the things they had gotten while out shopping. They both did this in silence, Lenora having already explained the whole process to Kylora with which she would be able to be sent to another reality. You see, Lenora had arranged for Cordelia to make a power transference to Lenora so that she could open a portal at the exact moment when there would be no way to that anyone could trace Kylora’s passage to this other reality, keeping her safe from her enemies.
So it was that when the moment came, Kylora was given a protective talisman that was a silver necklace with an emerald leaf for the charm. She was also given a magic mirror that would allow her to communicate with her mother through realities through a safe line developed by her Grandmother, Cordelia. Kylora was then sent through the portal with all of her belongings and a note to that reality’s Professor Xavier, written by her previous reality’s Professor Xavier. So it was that Kylora found herself on the front steps of Xavier’s Institute for Higher Learning…
Personality:
Kylora is a private person. She may seem shy at first because, well, she is a little, but once you open her up, she’s just as outgoing and fun as everyone else. Because she’s been on the run for the last few years, she has found that her ability to trust others has been a bit tainted. She hasn’t had any friends other than her mother since she was twelve, so she might come off as a bit aloof. Right now, though, she is looking to get over her shyness, if only to fit in. She is very patient and sometimes she can be a bit extreme in the sense that when she’s mad, she’s not a little mad, she’s furious and when she’s hyper there is no “little” to it. She has a fierce temper that she constantly has to rein in. She’s also fiercely loyal to family and friends. Her sweetness is refreshing though and her intelligence is remarkable. Her bluntness often gets her in trouble, but that is typical of her. She is respectful of others and sharp as tack. Not much gets past her. Last of all, though, she has a lot of compassion for others and a knack for seeing other people’s point of views remarkably well with a whole lot of intuition.
Dislikes:
Rap, Punk music, smart attitudes, know-it-alls, agism, prejudice people, onions, slow internet, not being able to finish a sentence, superficial people, unappreciative people, spoiled brats, arrogance, betrayal, wasps, snakes, throwing up, drugs, vandalism, supreme pizza, oranges, two-faced people, off-key singing, being sick, feeling helpless, fear in itself
Gadgets:
Kylora’s necklace is a protective amulet given to her for her 18th birthday. It too cannot be taken from her unless she takes it off herself (unless it is another family member or friend with good intentions).
Kylora’s mirror can shrink into a charm that can clip onto her charm bracelet. This can be done by the touch of a leaf-shaped button (mirror is stirling silver with ivy detail work around it [think of the magic mirror from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast). The mirror is stirling silver with ivy detail work around it with a few roses sprinkled here and there around the mirror itself, leaving the handle free of details, giving it a good grip. The mirror is magic, of course.
E-mail: luminous_muse@yahoo.com
Sample Post:
Kylora ran her fingers through her long wavy raven tresses, hoping that the wind from the portal to this reality hadn’t messed her hair up too badly. It seemed like only yesterday that her parents were singing “Happy Birthday” to her for her twelfth birthday, a year before the Hellions came into her life. Now here she was, standing at the door of yet another reality’s Xavier’s, smoothing out her black capris and straightening her lavender sleeveless shirt. She looked down at her black reef sandals with the wood on the thongs and sides.
‘Well, the Hellions were aptly named,’ she thought to herself as she set one of her bags down and rang the doorbell. Her emerald eyes gazed at the detail work on the frame of the door then at the front of the school.
“At least everything’s familiar,” she said to herself as she sat on one of her rolling bags. She had five bags. Each of them was connected to each other somehow for the jump here. Her mother had assured her that the rest of her things would be sent to her, but she doubted that. Unless she had another chance like the one that they had taken that day, then it could take her months before she could get the rest of her things.
‘Oh well,’ she thought, ‘At least she gave me some money, but I’ll have to get a job soon before it runs out.’
She didn’t know how much was in the envelope her mom had put in her bag. She said that she’d taken care of her tuition at Xavier’s here. Something about having some money left over from her previous life. Well, however much it was, she was determined to get a job if only to show how ready she was to become independent. Not like her mom was going to be there to show anyway. Her mom had assured her that she was going to be alright on her own in their old reality. She was going to stay at Xavier’s there and teach English like she had done in Riley. That didn’t mean, though, that she wasn’t going to worry about her.
She played with her emerald leaf necklace; rubbing the jewel and watching it sparkle in the sunlight. She felt safe wearing the necklace. Every time she touched it, she felt like her parents were right there with her and that she was being wrapped up in a warm blanket. All the comfort that she had felt before all of this had started, rolled into one, was what it felt like every time she touched the gem.
She glanced at the door once more. The minutes that had passed seemed like years. The worries that she had been pushing down ever since she had learned of her mother’s plans, surfaced again as she nervously played with her charm bracelet, running each charm through her fingers.
‘What if they don’t like me?,’ she thought as she waited, ‘What if my powers aren’t impressive enough? Will they laugh at me? Will I be able to make friends with these people?’ All these thoughts whirled through her head before she touched her emerald leaf again and sighed resignedly, pushing all those worries aside. This was a new reality and something told her that she’d be just fine…
Edited by: xX Pure Radiance Xx at: 8/26/06 11:02 pm
The bio is rather details (the likes and dislikes are a good list!!) but would you be able to paragraph the bio? The history, the sample, it's all just one big block and I have to admit I'm lazy when it comes to bios at the moment.. (I'm organising a few posts that are starting up storylines and such that are keeping me busy).. so seeing this massive block made it really hard for me to concentrait on it, something that can be a problem when you start posting.
When a player sees such a large block of text they might be swayed away by another more easier to read thread, paragraphing is a must, as it makes posts more managable for every one.
But from what I've read you're character can manipulat plant growth, communicate with Animal and plantlife, teleport, change her voice and image with the inducer-gizmo, has a 'claudification pocket that can act as storage for anything at all' and a magic mirror..
That's 8 different things, most of which aren't related.
She sounds interesting and all, but she has far too many different powers in my opinion, too many different 'gifts', and we have restricted any further apps with teleportation as a power for now since there are a few too many teleporters on the board.
I haven't read your history, and I apologise, I'm sure you've mentioned the charms and her powers and all that in her history since you've got pretty much there, but I'm not well at the moment and the wirds all seem to swirl together and I know I can move it into 'Word' and enlarge the font and all, but it's the player's responsibility to make a bio as reader friendly as possible.
Would it be possible for you to alter some things about and fix the bio?
If you need any help with things feel free to ask as well, everyone here is full of ideas and helpful advice, and they're all really friendly. Most of us are away, but hopefully Loza and maybe Matt will drop by to also check over your bio!
How am I going to be strong without you? I need you by my side..
Re: Gaia
I think I got a bit too carried away with the charms. It started out just as a way for her image inducer to be on her at all times. As for the history, I'll write up a summary as soon as possible. I'm new to EZBoards, so I'm still figuring out some of the codes and such. I'll start editing, though, ASAP. Thanks for pointing those things out, though!
Re: Gaia
Well, I redid the bio and tweaked a few things. The special charm bracelet is gone and so are a few cumbersome tidbits as well. I tried to just paragraph the bio, but I think I got a bit into the details again. I kept the detailed one for the people who would like more of a background. I basically just paraphrased the short one though. I can cut it down even more if you want, though. I tried to do html, the tags showed up on my computer, so I am staying away from it for now. So, anyways, thanks for the tips and enjoy the new bio!
Re: Gaia
Incredible. The history is lovely and the dual history, (the short and long versions) is a real treat to me.
Your sample post is a bit on the short side, but it's filled with the kind of flavor text I like to see. And I love you prose. You paced your sample very well. It was a smooth read in that, very easy on the eyes. That greatly helped the flavor text you had in there, for a scene is much easier to envision when one can quickly digest the writing without undue thought.
All in all, a very well done bio, to be sure. -All- I ask, is for you to expand on her powers. Give them a bit of further definition and maybe even an example so that we all know and truely understand the extent of what -you- mean by, 'plant control' and the like.
Welcome to NE, I hope you will be staying with us and enjoying your time here.
Your bio is very good, its a good read and the split history is a good idea, especially if people are going to be RP'in with you and they need to check character background quickly.
I like the sample post, and although it is short I think it gives the kind of writing skill and feel that is liked here at NE and as it is a sample post the length doesn't make much diference to me as long as it shows enough skill, when your character gets taken into the RP you will probably find yourself posting longer replies.
As has already been stated the only thing i would like to see here is a more detailed description of her powers; strengths weaknesses, how controled they are and to what extent they can be used. Once this has been done you will have my stamp!
Re: Gaia
Thanks everyone for the welcomes and the advice. I have redone the powers, added a few details. I also edited my sample post. I had cut down on it earlier because I was afraid it was too long, but I guess I was wrong. So, um, yeah, if you wanna take a look, then do so.
Gaia
I was actually going for that...I made up the character after reading a Xanth book or two and just added the secondary powers to keep her from being a power copycat. Anyways, only one more stamp to go! Woohoo! Hope to start Rpin' with all of you soon...Well, see ya'll around and thanks again!
*Bounces off now in pursuit of chocolate now...*
Re: Gaia
lol I was wondering it that was a huge coincidence or if you had read the books! Haha I've used a few Xanth powers for charries too (Tantrums for Julian etc.) Ooo chocolate! Hope ya find some! Hope I get to roleplay with you too, interesting charrie
I like the powers-reminds me of Xanth...
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