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sunfire〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Zully Quirke
AGE: 30
JOURNAL:zully
IM / EMAIL: zullyquirke@gmail.com
PLURK: Zully
RETURNING: New player
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Mariko Yashida
CHARACTER AGE: 24
SERIES: Marvel Exiles
CHRONOLOGY: She comes in from directly after her death in Exiles #37.
CLASS: Hero.
HOUSING: Random is fine!
BACKGROUND:
Mariko comes from an alternate X-Men past, referred to as Earth-2109. We don't know a lot of specific details, but in we know that in her timeline she was raised by two rich, strict parents in her native country of Japan. They demanded the best of her; straight A's in all her subjects, learning instruments such as the piano and violin. At the age of thirteen she discovered she was a lesbian when she got a crush on a friend of hers. Thinking her friend felt the same way, she told her and was rejected. Her parents found out and forced her to repress her sexuality, underlining how shameful it was and made her pretend she was straight like everyone else. This caused Mariko to grow increasingly more rebellious, and when her powers manifested a few years later, her parents were convinced she was cursed. Things got a lot worse for her at home, and her parents obvious shame over both her powers and lesbianism finally broke her. Unable to take it any longer she used her powers to run away, flying all the way from Japan to America where she was found and recruited by Xavier. Eventually she became a member of the X-men, fighting under the name "Sunfire." Her parents later saw her on television and legally disowned her.
She was pulled from her timeline by the Timebroker, which is where she starts in the Exiles story. The Timebroker literally just blips them out of their timeline, and the next thing they know they're standing in front of him -- usually in what looks like a desolate, abandoned landscape -- and tells them why they've been brought there. She is told that something has gone wrong in her reality, and time has somehow become unhinged. She must travel through time to different alternate realities with her other teammates to correct these rifts, and in doing this her own would be eventually corrected. In her reality her powers changed. Instead of producing fire, she produced an uncontrollable amount of radiation which would destroy everyone and everything in her world. Once her time's error had been corrected she would be automatically sent home.
Her arrival came directly after the first death in their team as she was to be his "replacement." One of her team members, Morph, was the first to make her feel welcome there. He continued to help her see the lighter side of life and the two struck up a close friendship. Eventually Morph's feelings became more than platonic, and Mariko hit a bump in the road as she didn't want to injure the feelings of her friend but was still somewhat in the closet. Finally in issue eleven she somewhat reluctantly informs him that she's gay. He takes it surprisingly well and the two continue a very strong, very close relationship throughout the time they're together.
During one of their missions, they landed in a reality where the Legacy Virus had taken over. During their brief stay there Mariko made a rather quick connection with that universes Spiderwoman -- Mary Jane Watson. Knowing that she wasn't likely to be there very long neither of them let it develop into anything terribly serious.
Through a fluke where the team members were separated, she found herself there again not much later with teammate Nocturne. During the six weeks they were there, she struck up a genuine relationship with MJ. Nocturne pulled her aside at one point when she thought her friend and teammate was in danger of actually being in love -- knowing they had to separate and couldn't stay in this world forever -- and Mariko reacted angrily. MJ overheard, and the two discussed it and decided to stay together anyway. Shortly after this revelation, they were both removed from the Legacy Virus world and taken back to their teammates.
It is discovered that fellow teammate Mimic was on a planet inhabited by the Brood for six months during their separation, and not long after their reunion it is discovered that he had brood eggs planted in him during this time, transforming him into one of them. While his teammates (aided by the Fantastic 4) tried to subdue him, he shot at Mariko and missed, hitting a building behind her instead. The building begins to collapse, and Mariko attempts to hold it up long enough for the civilians inside to escape. It collapsed on top of her, crushing her, and she suffocated. Morph finds her body and later she is taken back to the world with Spiderwoman where her bodies ashes are laid to rest.
PERSONALITY:
Mariko is a girl with an average, pleasant temperament. She isn't overly violent or overly passive. She'll stand up for herself when it needs doing, but she's not excessively confrontational except with a few choice hot button issues-- namely if anyone attempts to get between her and a partner or friend she's grown particularly attached to or presses too hard after she's given a clear, firm indication that the conversation is definitely over.
She doesn't like to talk about her family (one of those conversations I mentioned above that she's pretty quick to shut down). She loves and misses her family quite a bit, and this translates over to how she acts around other people. She tends to feel like she doesn't measure up and that she isn't good enough to have permanent attachments, something her time on the Exiles team as well as her home X-Men team did a lot to help cure. As such she's prone to forming familial-like attachments to her friends, often thinking of them as siblings, cousins or even parents. She longs for long-term connections with others, she's just a little out of her depth with them.
Other than that she's pretty amiable and easy to talk to. As she got along fairly well with Morph and it's understood that she has a good sense of humor. She's not quite what you'd call an optimist, but she's likely to provide a bright side or a little levity when appropriate to help clear up tension. She very much enjoys "goofing around," though not quite to the same extent as Morph (but who does?).
It should be mentioned that due to her jumping around in time she's going to be somewhat distrustful of anyone she meets, even anyone that might otherwise know her. Short of her own teammates she's never certain of what reality she's in which leads to a lot of confusion. Her time with the Exiles has taught her that her best friend back home could be an enemy in whatever time she lands in, and people she would have ordinarily shot on site are members of her home team. For example, the first mission the Exiles were sent on involved them saving Xavier from prison, trusting him to be the good Xavier they all knew as X-Men only to find out that he was a homicidal psychopath bent on destroying human life in that particular universe. A lot of people died, and though Mariko didn't join until shortly after this incident, she heard the story and remembered the lesson well.
POWER:
Mariko has the ability to absorb sunlight, spitting it out in the form of super heated plasma which then bursts into flame when it hits the air. Basically plasma-powered fireballs drained directly from the sun. She can also refine the outbursts to those of just heat with no actual fire to them. Mariko has the ability to fly by surrounding herself with fire and pushing the flames down, like a jet engine, at about 100mph. She can see heat waves and give herself "infa-red" sight, and is immune to extreme heat and radiation.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[video]
Gonna go ahead and guess that none of the rest of my team made it here since they probably would've contacted me by now, but if I'm wrong feel free to hit me up here.
My name's Mariko Yashida and I run with the X-Men back home if that helps anyone place me. I think I have a decent grasp on this place thanks to my stint with the Exiles, but that whole swearing in thing is pretty high up on my weirdness meter.
Now for the really important stuff: where can a girl get a decent burger around here?
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Mariko sat down gingerly on what was apparently her new bed, testing the mattress a little. Nothing fancy, but she'd slept on worse. She scooted backwards to rest her back against the wall the bed was pressed against, tucking her knees up against her chest. She hadn't taken off her boots which meant she now had dirt and muck on her bedsheets, something she'd regret later, but right now she couldn't bring herself to care.
It was a strange thing to realize that you were dead. She'd seen friends die before, both with the X-Men and Exiles, but she'd never done it herself. And she definitely hadn't seen one come back before. Well except Wolverine, but he was weird. But she remembered the tower crumbling, remembered the light fading and the dust settling around her, choking out the air. She couldn't move, couldn't breathe, and no matter how hard her body strained it was too much. I'm dying, she thought dumbly as she took in the fading image of concrete pinning her from above. She hoped Morph was alright.
God, poor Morph.
She had no idea if the Time Broker had sent her here or if this was something else entirely, but what struck her the most was how hard it felt to have to adjust here without any of her friends. She'd gotten used to them all, Morph and TJ especially, even when they fought. She trusted and relied on them, and selfish as it seemed to be upset just because she was lonely when there were obviously much larger problems at hand felt ridiculous.
"Chin up, Mariko," She exhaled, letting her head rock back against the wall. "We'll figure it out. We always do."
FINAL NOTES: I had Mariko in the game back at C&C, but I'm going to totally re-set her for MoM to make life easier since it's been so long.
NAME: Zully Quirke
AGE: 30
JOURNAL:
zullyIM / EMAIL: zullyquirke@gmail.com
PLURK: Zully
RETURNING: New player
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Mariko Yashida
CHARACTER AGE: 24
SERIES: Marvel Exiles
CHRONOLOGY: She comes in from directly after her death in Exiles #37.
CLASS: Hero.
HOUSING: Random is fine!
BACKGROUND:
Mariko comes from an alternate X-Men past, referred to as Earth-2109. We don't know a lot of specific details, but in we know that in her timeline she was raised by two rich, strict parents in her native country of Japan. They demanded the best of her; straight A's in all her subjects, learning instruments such as the piano and violin. At the age of thirteen she discovered she was a lesbian when she got a crush on a friend of hers. Thinking her friend felt the same way, she told her and was rejected. Her parents found out and forced her to repress her sexuality, underlining how shameful it was and made her pretend she was straight like everyone else. This caused Mariko to grow increasingly more rebellious, and when her powers manifested a few years later, her parents were convinced she was cursed. Things got a lot worse for her at home, and her parents obvious shame over both her powers and lesbianism finally broke her. Unable to take it any longer she used her powers to run away, flying all the way from Japan to America where she was found and recruited by Xavier. Eventually she became a member of the X-men, fighting under the name "Sunfire." Her parents later saw her on television and legally disowned her.
She was pulled from her timeline by the Timebroker, which is where she starts in the Exiles story. The Timebroker literally just blips them out of their timeline, and the next thing they know they're standing in front of him -- usually in what looks like a desolate, abandoned landscape -- and tells them why they've been brought there. She is told that something has gone wrong in her reality, and time has somehow become unhinged. She must travel through time to different alternate realities with her other teammates to correct these rifts, and in doing this her own would be eventually corrected. In her reality her powers changed. Instead of producing fire, she produced an uncontrollable amount of radiation which would destroy everyone and everything in her world. Once her time's error had been corrected she would be automatically sent home.
Her arrival came directly after the first death in their team as she was to be his "replacement." One of her team members, Morph, was the first to make her feel welcome there. He continued to help her see the lighter side of life and the two struck up a close friendship. Eventually Morph's feelings became more than platonic, and Mariko hit a bump in the road as she didn't want to injure the feelings of her friend but was still somewhat in the closet. Finally in issue eleven she somewhat reluctantly informs him that she's gay. He takes it surprisingly well and the two continue a very strong, very close relationship throughout the time they're together.
During one of their missions, they landed in a reality where the Legacy Virus had taken over. During their brief stay there Mariko made a rather quick connection with that universes Spiderwoman -- Mary Jane Watson. Knowing that she wasn't likely to be there very long neither of them let it develop into anything terribly serious.
Through a fluke where the team members were separated, she found herself there again not much later with teammate Nocturne. During the six weeks they were there, she struck up a genuine relationship with MJ. Nocturne pulled her aside at one point when she thought her friend and teammate was in danger of actually being in love -- knowing they had to separate and couldn't stay in this world forever -- and Mariko reacted angrily. MJ overheard, and the two discussed it and decided to stay together anyway. Shortly after this revelation, they were both removed from the Legacy Virus world and taken back to their teammates.
It is discovered that fellow teammate Mimic was on a planet inhabited by the Brood for six months during their separation, and not long after their reunion it is discovered that he had brood eggs planted in him during this time, transforming him into one of them. While his teammates (aided by the Fantastic 4) tried to subdue him, he shot at Mariko and missed, hitting a building behind her instead. The building begins to collapse, and Mariko attempts to hold it up long enough for the civilians inside to escape. It collapsed on top of her, crushing her, and she suffocated. Morph finds her body and later she is taken back to the world with Spiderwoman where her bodies ashes are laid to rest.
PERSONALITY:
Mariko is a girl with an average, pleasant temperament. She isn't overly violent or overly passive. She'll stand up for herself when it needs doing, but she's not excessively confrontational except with a few choice hot button issues-- namely if anyone attempts to get between her and a partner or friend she's grown particularly attached to or presses too hard after she's given a clear, firm indication that the conversation is definitely over.
She doesn't like to talk about her family (one of those conversations I mentioned above that she's pretty quick to shut down). She loves and misses her family quite a bit, and this translates over to how she acts around other people. She tends to feel like she doesn't measure up and that she isn't good enough to have permanent attachments, something her time on the Exiles team as well as her home X-Men team did a lot to help cure. As such she's prone to forming familial-like attachments to her friends, often thinking of them as siblings, cousins or even parents. She longs for long-term connections with others, she's just a little out of her depth with them.
Other than that she's pretty amiable and easy to talk to. As she got along fairly well with Morph and it's understood that she has a good sense of humor. She's not quite what you'd call an optimist, but she's likely to provide a bright side or a little levity when appropriate to help clear up tension. She very much enjoys "goofing around," though not quite to the same extent as Morph (but who does?).
It should be mentioned that due to her jumping around in time she's going to be somewhat distrustful of anyone she meets, even anyone that might otherwise know her. Short of her own teammates she's never certain of what reality she's in which leads to a lot of confusion. Her time with the Exiles has taught her that her best friend back home could be an enemy in whatever time she lands in, and people she would have ordinarily shot on site are members of her home team. For example, the first mission the Exiles were sent on involved them saving Xavier from prison, trusting him to be the good Xavier they all knew as X-Men only to find out that he was a homicidal psychopath bent on destroying human life in that particular universe. A lot of people died, and though Mariko didn't join until shortly after this incident, she heard the story and remembered the lesson well.
POWER:
Mariko has the ability to absorb sunlight, spitting it out in the form of super heated plasma which then bursts into flame when it hits the air. Basically plasma-powered fireballs drained directly from the sun. She can also refine the outbursts to those of just heat with no actual fire to them. Mariko has the ability to fly by surrounding herself with fire and pushing the flames down, like a jet engine, at about 100mph. She can see heat waves and give herself "infa-red" sight, and is immune to extreme heat and radiation.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[video]
Gonna go ahead and guess that none of the rest of my team made it here since they probably would've contacted me by now, but if I'm wrong feel free to hit me up here.
My name's Mariko Yashida and I run with the X-Men back home if that helps anyone place me. I think I have a decent grasp on this place thanks to my stint with the Exiles, but that whole swearing in thing is pretty high up on my weirdness meter.
Now for the really important stuff: where can a girl get a decent burger around here?
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Mariko sat down gingerly on what was apparently her new bed, testing the mattress a little. Nothing fancy, but she'd slept on worse. She scooted backwards to rest her back against the wall the bed was pressed against, tucking her knees up against her chest. She hadn't taken off her boots which meant she now had dirt and muck on her bedsheets, something she'd regret later, but right now she couldn't bring herself to care.
It was a strange thing to realize that you were dead. She'd seen friends die before, both with the X-Men and Exiles, but she'd never done it herself. And she definitely hadn't seen one come back before. Well except Wolverine, but he was weird. But she remembered the tower crumbling, remembered the light fading and the dust settling around her, choking out the air. She couldn't move, couldn't breathe, and no matter how hard her body strained it was too much. I'm dying, she thought dumbly as she took in the fading image of concrete pinning her from above. She hoped Morph was alright.
God, poor Morph.
She had no idea if the Time Broker had sent her here or if this was something else entirely, but what struck her the most was how hard it felt to have to adjust here without any of her friends. She'd gotten used to them all, Morph and TJ especially, even when they fought. She trusted and relied on them, and selfish as it seemed to be upset just because she was lonely when there were obviously much larger problems at hand felt ridiculous.
"Chin up, Mariko," She exhaled, letting her head rock back against the wall. "We'll figure it out. We always do."
FINAL NOTES: I had Mariko in the game back at C&C, but I'm going to totally re-set her for MoM to make life easier since it's been so long.
