Post by vampyremelayah on Nov 10, 2007 12:26:18 GMT -5
-=Your Information=-
Name/Nickname: Jeni
Age: You already know it. Twice.
IM/Email: AIM: VampyreMelayah, vampyremelayah@yahoo.com
RP Experience: Long time.
-=Character Information=-
Name: Leslie Ann Burke
Code Name: Taffy
Affiliation: X-Men
Age: 15
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 114 lbs.
Hair color: "Weasley" Orange cut to just below her chin. She usually keeps it out of her face with hair clips.
Eye color: A pastel, jade-green.
General Appearance: Leslie has the build and physique of a gymnast (i.e. a small frame), having trained in the sport for a little over half her life. She is wiry, with shapely but spindly limbs and a small waist. Her posture is exceptional, but her chest is (to her chagrin) rather flat.
She tends to wear bright clothing, favoring double-layered t-shirts or tank tops, mixing and matching colors. She favors shorts or long, straight-leg non-denim pants for their ease in movement, and adores long and multi-colored arm warmers. Most of the time she finds comfort in not wearing shoes at all, though she does wear her pair of gymnastic shoes.
Personality: Leslie is a fairly average teenager, drama and all. She is usually very happy, finding amusement in just about anything, and tells jokes or does small gymnastic feats to cheer up her fellow peers. Having been in a competitive sport for around 11 years, she is somewhat thingyy, but prefers working in a team over individual gain. She is really sentimental about family and will do just about anything to help close friends.
X-Factor: Taffy possesses the ability to convert the mass of her entire body into a highly malleable state at will. In such a state, she can stretch, deform, expand, or compress her entire body or parts thereof into any contiguous shape she can imagine. She can also increase or decrease her molecular density while retaining her shape.
Power Details: Taffy first discovered her powers after getting her hand caught in her grandfather's old taffy pulling machine. As she's trained and attempted to develop them further, she's discovered she can extend her limbs, torso, or neck to great distances: the maximum length she can distend thus far, before her body segments become painful, is about 500 feet. Although she can extend discrete body parts, such as a single finger, an ear, or an eye, she seldom (if ever) isolates such parts in her elongations. She can also extend her body in two directions, creating a canopy, parachute, or sheath, its thickness determined by the extent of its distention. She has morphed herself into such shapes as a cylinder, a pyramid, and a cube. She can also contort her hands or arms into various shapes, and increase her density so as to give them more mass - and thus, more force for a smashing attack.
Taffy can flatten herself to the thickness of an average sheet of typing paper or narrow herself (with great effort) to a diameter small enough to pass through the eye of a #10 beading needle. She can only remain in these distorted extremes for 3 minutes before her body starts to suffer from compressing both her respiratory and circulatory systems. She can alter her form in a matter of seconds, often much less (depending on the complexity of the shape), and revert to her normal humanoid shape within a similar time. The greater the distance she stretches or the more extended the size of the object she becomes, the weaker her overall strength becomes.
Due to the great malleability and elasticity of her molecular structure, Taffy is able to absorb the impact of any type of man-made ballistic projectile by deforming her body along the path of the projectile's trajectory at the point of initial impact. After her body absorbs the kinetic energy of a ballistic projectile's impact, she can expel the object back along its trajectory by flexing like a trampoline if she is adequately braced. She can enclose and absorb the energy of a medium explosive, on the order of 4 to 8 pounds of TNT (excluding exotic, high density explosives). Such shocks to her system are physically exhausting.
Taffy's skin is virtually impervious to laceration or punctures if she willfully employs reflexive control over small areas of her body. In that case, scalpels and ordinary needles cannot penetrate her skin.
General Skills: Taffy is proficient in a number of gymnastic forms: Acrobatic, Artistic, Rhythmic, Display, and Aerobic. She is also good at sports requiring a lot of dexterity to play them, such as basketball, and enjoys Tai Chi and kick-boxing. She has recently begun to explore contortion. Taffy is also afraid of guns and dislikes being in highly-crowded areas (explanation in history).
Brief History: Leslie was born to two dance instructors, Tim and Lisa Burk. At the age of four, she expressed interest in learning gymnastics, after having seen clips from the Olympics of athletes competing on the uneven bars during a news broadcast. Although her parents were severely disappointed, they set their daughter up with an instructor. Years of training and competition passed; it seemed as if the sport had been made for Leslie. Her parents supported her through everything.
The summer she turned 10, her father died of a brain aneurysm. Unable to cope with the loss of her husband, Lisa sent her daughter off to live with her grandfather in Florida for a month. The hot weather wasn't like anything Leslie had been used to, but although it took time to acclimate, she and her grandfather hit it off well. One day, he took her to the Central Florida Fair Grounds to help him run his home-made taffy booth. While setting the taffy up on the machine, she slipped, simultaneously knocking the machine into operation and getting her hand caught. She screamed, feeling her arm pull and expand, more out of shock than pain. Her grandfather came running, turned off the machine and then took in what had happened.
After dislodging her arm from the machine, it returned to normal, if not somewhat slowly. They sat in silence for a while, before he gave her a big hug. He told her she was special and that she should learn to develop this ability - it could help her in her gymnastics.
Her mother didn't send for her at the end of the month as promised, which worried Leslie. The word "hospital" was tossed around in quiet phone conversations between her grandfather and mother, along with "depression" and "suicide". Eventually it was that she would be staying with her grandfather for the school year; it ended up much longer than that.
Besides regular studies, Leslie continued her gymnastics classes. She joined the cheer-leading squad, earning extra cheers from the crowd with her acrobatic flips and tumbles. At night, she would practice with her powers, elongating her limbs, and anything else she thought she might be able to try. She expanded her hand into a hammer, a frying pan, and numerous other shapes.
5 years passed before tragedy struck. Leslie and her team were in a cheer leading competition. During one of her mid-air flips, her support toppled. With no one to catch her, and her body rapidly falling toward the ground, she extended her legs, breaking her fall then and there. Her teammates stood in shock, as did the judges. The crowd went wild. Angry shouts and violence broke out among the stands. Shouts of "Disqualify the Mutant" and "Throw out the freak" shook the auditorium.
The next week at school, no one spoke or looked at Leslie unless it was to call her a "freak". The coach of the cheer leading team informed her it was for the best that she quit. Her grandfather's house was attacked one night, bricks crashing through the windows and gunshots resounding through the air.
It was then that Leslie received Professor Xavier's invite to attend his school for Gifted Youngsters. And it is there she has been since.
Name/Nickname: Jeni
Age: You already know it. Twice.
IM/Email: AIM: VampyreMelayah, vampyremelayah@yahoo.com
RP Experience: Long time.
-=Character Information=-
Name: Leslie Ann Burke
Code Name: Taffy
Affiliation: X-Men
Age: 15
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 114 lbs.
Hair color: "Weasley" Orange cut to just below her chin. She usually keeps it out of her face with hair clips.
Eye color: A pastel, jade-green.
General Appearance: Leslie has the build and physique of a gymnast (i.e. a small frame), having trained in the sport for a little over half her life. She is wiry, with shapely but spindly limbs and a small waist. Her posture is exceptional, but her chest is (to her chagrin) rather flat.
She tends to wear bright clothing, favoring double-layered t-shirts or tank tops, mixing and matching colors. She favors shorts or long, straight-leg non-denim pants for their ease in movement, and adores long and multi-colored arm warmers. Most of the time she finds comfort in not wearing shoes at all, though she does wear her pair of gymnastic shoes.
Personality: Leslie is a fairly average teenager, drama and all. She is usually very happy, finding amusement in just about anything, and tells jokes or does small gymnastic feats to cheer up her fellow peers. Having been in a competitive sport for around 11 years, she is somewhat thingyy, but prefers working in a team over individual gain. She is really sentimental about family and will do just about anything to help close friends.
X-Factor: Taffy possesses the ability to convert the mass of her entire body into a highly malleable state at will. In such a state, she can stretch, deform, expand, or compress her entire body or parts thereof into any contiguous shape she can imagine. She can also increase or decrease her molecular density while retaining her shape.
Power Details: Taffy first discovered her powers after getting her hand caught in her grandfather's old taffy pulling machine. As she's trained and attempted to develop them further, she's discovered she can extend her limbs, torso, or neck to great distances: the maximum length she can distend thus far, before her body segments become painful, is about 500 feet. Although she can extend discrete body parts, such as a single finger, an ear, or an eye, she seldom (if ever) isolates such parts in her elongations. She can also extend her body in two directions, creating a canopy, parachute, or sheath, its thickness determined by the extent of its distention. She has morphed herself into such shapes as a cylinder, a pyramid, and a cube. She can also contort her hands or arms into various shapes, and increase her density so as to give them more mass - and thus, more force for a smashing attack.
Taffy can flatten herself to the thickness of an average sheet of typing paper or narrow herself (with great effort) to a diameter small enough to pass through the eye of a #10 beading needle. She can only remain in these distorted extremes for 3 minutes before her body starts to suffer from compressing both her respiratory and circulatory systems. She can alter her form in a matter of seconds, often much less (depending on the complexity of the shape), and revert to her normal humanoid shape within a similar time. The greater the distance she stretches or the more extended the size of the object she becomes, the weaker her overall strength becomes.
Due to the great malleability and elasticity of her molecular structure, Taffy is able to absorb the impact of any type of man-made ballistic projectile by deforming her body along the path of the projectile's trajectory at the point of initial impact. After her body absorbs the kinetic energy of a ballistic projectile's impact, she can expel the object back along its trajectory by flexing like a trampoline if she is adequately braced. She can enclose and absorb the energy of a medium explosive, on the order of 4 to 8 pounds of TNT (excluding exotic, high density explosives). Such shocks to her system are physically exhausting.
Taffy's skin is virtually impervious to laceration or punctures if she willfully employs reflexive control over small areas of her body. In that case, scalpels and ordinary needles cannot penetrate her skin.
General Skills: Taffy is proficient in a number of gymnastic forms: Acrobatic, Artistic, Rhythmic, Display, and Aerobic. She is also good at sports requiring a lot of dexterity to play them, such as basketball, and enjoys Tai Chi and kick-boxing. She has recently begun to explore contortion. Taffy is also afraid of guns and dislikes being in highly-crowded areas (explanation in history).
Brief History: Leslie was born to two dance instructors, Tim and Lisa Burk. At the age of four, she expressed interest in learning gymnastics, after having seen clips from the Olympics of athletes competing on the uneven bars during a news broadcast. Although her parents were severely disappointed, they set their daughter up with an instructor. Years of training and competition passed; it seemed as if the sport had been made for Leslie. Her parents supported her through everything.
The summer she turned 10, her father died of a brain aneurysm. Unable to cope with the loss of her husband, Lisa sent her daughter off to live with her grandfather in Florida for a month. The hot weather wasn't like anything Leslie had been used to, but although it took time to acclimate, she and her grandfather hit it off well. One day, he took her to the Central Florida Fair Grounds to help him run his home-made taffy booth. While setting the taffy up on the machine, she slipped, simultaneously knocking the machine into operation and getting her hand caught. She screamed, feeling her arm pull and expand, more out of shock than pain. Her grandfather came running, turned off the machine and then took in what had happened.
After dislodging her arm from the machine, it returned to normal, if not somewhat slowly. They sat in silence for a while, before he gave her a big hug. He told her she was special and that she should learn to develop this ability - it could help her in her gymnastics.
Her mother didn't send for her at the end of the month as promised, which worried Leslie. The word "hospital" was tossed around in quiet phone conversations between her grandfather and mother, along with "depression" and "suicide". Eventually it was that she would be staying with her grandfather for the school year; it ended up much longer than that.
Besides regular studies, Leslie continued her gymnastics classes. She joined the cheer-leading squad, earning extra cheers from the crowd with her acrobatic flips and tumbles. At night, she would practice with her powers, elongating her limbs, and anything else she thought she might be able to try. She expanded her hand into a hammer, a frying pan, and numerous other shapes.
5 years passed before tragedy struck. Leslie and her team were in a cheer leading competition. During one of her mid-air flips, her support toppled. With no one to catch her, and her body rapidly falling toward the ground, she extended her legs, breaking her fall then and there. Her teammates stood in shock, as did the judges. The crowd went wild. Angry shouts and violence broke out among the stands. Shouts of "Disqualify the Mutant" and "Throw out the freak" shook the auditorium.
The next week at school, no one spoke or looked at Leslie unless it was to call her a "freak". The coach of the cheer leading team informed her it was for the best that she quit. Her grandfather's house was attacked one night, bricks crashing through the windows and gunshots resounding through the air.
It was then that Leslie received Professor Xavier's invite to attend his school for Gifted Youngsters. And it is there she has been since.
