Laurie Collins (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fridgeflower) wrote2022-02-25 09:49 pm
fridgeflower) wrote2022-02-25 09:49 pm
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Who Invited You?: Shikki
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Character —
Character Name: Laurie "Wallflower" Collins
Character Canon: Marvel 616
Character Age: 23
Canon Point: New X-men # 25 w/ a whole lotta![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
maskormenace CRAU.
Link to History: Canon History, CRAU History
Inventory: One daily outfit, large purse containing: make-up & toiletries bag, 2 paperbacks (both her own published works), e-reader, journal, pens, laptop, wallet.
Powers: Pheromone Emission - Laurie can emit scent-based pheromones that alter the emotions of (and select physical reactions in) those who come into contact with them. Initially, she could not control this ability and constantly put out pheromones that matched her own emotions, which made interacting with others difficult. Through her time at Xavier's, she gained better control over her powers, learning to not constantly spread them and to project emotions that she's not actively feeling. A good, quick example of her potential lies in a training scenario she participated in with her team in which she quickly calmed the Hulk and stopped his holographic rampage.
She continued fine-tuning control after dying and winding up in another world while carrying on with superhero work. While she can still slip up in cases of sudden, extreme emotion, she's a fully-realized mutant, confident in her abilities even if she's often still unsure about how to best utilize them for the common good.
Character Canon: Marvel 616
Character Age: 23
Canon Point: New X-men # 25 w/ a whole lotta
maskormenace CRAU.Link to History: Canon History, CRAU History
Inventory: One daily outfit, large purse containing: make-up & toiletries bag, 2 paperbacks (both her own published works), e-reader, journal, pens, laptop, wallet.
Powers: Pheromone Emission - Laurie can emit scent-based pheromones that alter the emotions of (and select physical reactions in) those who come into contact with them. Initially, she could not control this ability and constantly put out pheromones that matched her own emotions, which made interacting with others difficult. Through her time at Xavier's, she gained better control over her powers, learning to not constantly spread them and to project emotions that she's not actively feeling. A good, quick example of her potential lies in a training scenario she participated in with her team in which she quickly calmed the Hulk and stopped his holographic rampage.
She continued fine-tuning control after dying and winding up in another world while carrying on with superhero work. While she can still slip up in cases of sudden, extreme emotion, she's a fully-realized mutant, confident in her abilities even if she's often still unsure about how to best utilize them for the common good.
Personality —
Laurie's big, big trait in canon is that she's so shy. Her superlative, as voted by her classmates, is just... shyest student. She's introverted, she's quiet, she doesn't like interacting with others... You get it. And it's not like this is untrue! Laurie grew up with only her mother, who worked a lot and left Laurie to cultivate herself in quiet. She is introverted. Her favorite hobbies are reading and doing puzzles. She's quiet and hates public speaking and doesn't know how to talk to people with confidence. This was, in her adolescence, only magnified by her powers. Literally projecting her feelings onto others caused conflict, once causing a fearful stampede at her school, and the ongoing reactions and rejections from others caused her to withdraw. While she slowly gains friendship's a confidence in canon, she never grows out of these aspects of her nature. While she longs for friendship and romance, she's clumsy at proactively obtaining it, and she occasionally misjudges the correct moves in social situations. (To say the least. Hello, pheromonally manipulating one of your friends into kissing you to spark more jealousy and drama. Not a proud or good moment.)
Her time outside of her world, post-death, allowed her to grow tremendously over her teen and early adult years. She lived and functioned more independently than she'd ever been allowed to, which increased her practical abilities within real-world situations. She had to make new friends from a blank slate, land on schooling and career choices, etc. She eventually joins a non-X-Men superhero team! She writes and publishes two books! And does press tours for those books! While she remains a somewhat subdued, very introverted person, she's definitely developed a hard-won sense of confidence in her own day-to-day worth as a human being.
Laurie's a character completely stacked with personal tragedy that's never resolved in any satisfying way, and she's slogged through all of that to the other side. This isn't to say she's completely victorious. She's still bad at certain, delicate parts of human interaction. She still feels like she's somehow outside of others at times. She's prone to stifling her own emotions or otherwise handling them in fits and bursts. She's overly-cautious. She's got an occasional tendency towards gallows humor and cynicism. She still can't just ask for what she wants.
But she's alive. She knows she wants to be alive, and she'll do whatever she needs to in order to reach whatever unknown satisfaction comes at the end of that.
Her time outside of her world, post-death, allowed her to grow tremendously over her teen and early adult years. She lived and functioned more independently than she'd ever been allowed to, which increased her practical abilities within real-world situations. She had to make new friends from a blank slate, land on schooling and career choices, etc. She eventually joins a non-X-Men superhero team! She writes and publishes two books! And does press tours for those books! While she remains a somewhat subdued, very introverted person, she's definitely developed a hard-won sense of confidence in her own day-to-day worth as a human being.
Laurie's a character completely stacked with personal tragedy that's never resolved in any satisfying way, and she's slogged through all of that to the other side. This isn't to say she's completely victorious. She's still bad at certain, delicate parts of human interaction. She still feels like she's somehow outside of others at times. She's prone to stifling her own emotions or otherwise handling them in fits and bursts. She's overly-cautious. She's got an occasional tendency towards gallows humor and cynicism. She still can't just ask for what she wants.
But she's alive. She knows she wants to be alive, and she'll do whatever she needs to in order to reach whatever unknown satisfaction comes at the end of that.
Gameplay —
Areas of Interest / Brainstorming: Laurie will initially be annoyed (but largely unsurprised tbh) at ending up on another world. She'll want to get as long a feel as possible for the world and their expectations before she commits to anything, and she'll be potentially annoyed at having to find a job outside of any super-stuff. If she decides to align, she'd likely lean into something more heroic-on-paper, but... Playing by ear!
Samples: Later MoM action thread, involves physical violence and character death. Laurie's confrontation with Kavinsky.; Laurie's MoM inbox, just to show a sampling of various text-style threads; Meta TDM with David, for a more recent if puny sample
Samples: Later MoM action thread, involves physical violence and character death. Laurie's confrontation with Kavinsky.; Laurie's MoM inbox, just to show a sampling of various text-style threads; Meta TDM with David, for a more recent if puny sample