Laura Kinney (X-23)
Jul 13, 2013 23:36:36 GMT
Post by Laura Kinney on Jul 13, 2013 23:36:36 GMT
Name: Laura Kinney
Alias: X-23
Age: Late Teens. (exact year unknown)
Background/Bio:
A top-secret program was tasked to replicate the original Weapon X experiment that produced the feral mutant Wolverine. However, the project failed to produce a test subject capable of surviving the bonding of the virtually unbreakable metal adamantium to his skeleton. The project was taken in a new direction: Doctor Martin Sutter recruited renowned mutant geneticist Doctor Sarah Kinney to develop a clone of Wolverine.
Since the only genetic sample from Weapon X was damaged, Kinney was unable to salvage the Y chromosome after 22 failed attempts. Kinney proposed the creation of a female clone; her request was denied. However, when she surreptitiously produced a viable female embryo, her success, when known, prompted Sutter to reconsider. Sutter’s protégé Doctor Zander Rice, whom he raised after Rice’s father was killed by the original Weapon X, was opposed to the idea. Although Kinney was allowed to proceed, Rice exacts revenge for her insubordination by forcing her to act as the surrogate mother of the clone. For nine months Kinney’s every move was monitored; till she gave birth to “X-23.”
After seven years, Rice subjected X-23 to radiation poisoning in order to activate her mutant gene. He extracted her claws, coated them with adamantium, and reinserted them back into her hands - a procedure performed without affording her any anesthetic. Rice also created a “trigger scent” that drives X-23 into a murderous, blind rage when she detects it. In a warped attempt to avenge his father’s murder, Rice abandoned X-23 during a particularly dangerous mission. However, she survived and returns to the facility.
Shortly after, Kinney’s niece Megan was abducted by a serial killer causing her to smuggle X-23 out of the facility to rescue the girl. X-23 tracked the abductor to his apartment, killed him, and freed Megan. Kinney was fired when she returned for her actions; and escorted off the base.
For his own reasons, Rice assigned X-23 to eliminate Sutter and his family. Following the completion of the mission, Rice ordered her to keep it a secret. However, X-23 revealed to Sarah that Rice was responsible for the murders. Before Kinney leaves, Rice revealed a chamber containing the incubation pods for X-24 through X-50.
Kinney prepared to leave the facility, drafting a letter for her daughter. She assigned X-23 one final mission: destroy the pods and kill Rice. X-23 succeeded and met her mother outside and two prepare to flee. However, prior to his death Rice exposed Kinney to the trigger scent, causing X-23 to go into a murderous frenzy and kill her mother. As she lied dying, Kinney told X-23 that her name was Laura, and handed her the letter and pictures of Charles Xavier, Wolverine, and the Xavier Institute.
X-23 traveled to San Francisco and tracked down Megan and Debbie (her mother’s sister). Introducing herself as Sarah’s daughter, she moved in with them. Although Megan experienced vivid nightmares of her abduction she doesn’t remember X-23 and, her family believes these to be utter fantasies. X-23 informs Megan that the man in her nightmares was indeed real and that she killed him. The two girls, now sharing a bond, become best friends.
Debbie’s boyfriend turned out to be an agent for the Facility who had been instructed to manipulate X-23 into killing Megan and Debbie using the trigger scent. However, the agent fumbled the assignment and is killed by X-23. Facility agents storm the house, led by the woman who served as X-23’s handler, Kimura. (Kimura abused X-23 in the facility and punished her even if the mission went according to plan). Although able to fend off the agents, X-23 was helpless against Kimura, whose skin is invulnerable to X-23’s claws.
X-23 managed to get Megan and Debbie to safety by handcuffing Kimura to a radiator and then triggering an explosion in the house, buying some time. As X-23 put Megan and Debbie on a plane with a detailed plan to keep them safe, she knows that she will likely never see them again. After X-23 and Megan part, X-23 decided to run.
She ended up moving to New York City and assisting the X-men in the Sentinel Attacks deciding to stay at the mansion. However, while staying with them, she got captured by Weapon X and tortured. After being locked up for months, X-23 escaped, but with a cost. Her mind was fractured due to the length of torture and manipulation.
Ending up back at the mansion, Xavier assisted in her recovery and in getting her mind back to as normal as it could be. Learning about the Prophecy, she went in search of how to help meeting a man named Gambit. He steered her in the right direction to help, but like so many others she was unable to help in stoping the apocalypse.
She fought hard, but in the end even her mutant powers weren't a match. Laura had lost everything yet again in her life. Jodie was missing, presumed dead in her eyes. Logan had ventured off to help others in other countries leaving Laura in the states to do as much as she could. Her aunt had been killed and Laura had no idea where Megan had ended up taking her mother's death hard.
When things began to settle down again, Laura ventured back toward New York needing something familiar in her life. Needing something stable instead of the chaos that had surrounded her in the past two years. Being created and used as a weapon, she felt as if she was nothing more then that. She was hoping something was left of New York, and that hopefully someone was left at mansion that she recognized.
Powers: X-23’s primary mutant ability is an accelerated healing factor that allows her to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissues with far greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. Injuries such as gunshot wounds, slashes, and puncture wounds completely heal within a matter of minutes. Her
healing factor is developed to such a degree that she can reattach severed limbs. The effects of her accelerated healing powers extend to her body’s immune system, rendering her immune to disease and infection. She is also immune to most drugs and toxins, although she can be affected by certain drugs if given sufficient dosage.
Due to the effect of X-23’s mutant healing factor, her physical senses, strength, stamina, agility, and reflexes are heightened to superhuman levels. X-23 possesses retractable claws sheathed within her forearms. She releases the claws through the tissue of her knuckles, leaving small wounds which are healed by her healing factor. X-23 has only two claws that emerge from her fists. She possesses a single, retractable claw housed within each foot.
These claws are actually made of bone and were forcefully extracted by Zander Rice, sharpened, coated with adamantium, and reinserted into her body; X-23 survived the procedure due to her healing factor. Since the claws are laced with adamantium, they are virtually unbreakable and are capable of cutting any known material, other than adamantium itself and vibranium.
X-23 escaped before the procedure to fuse her entire skeleton with adamantium could be performed.
Skills: Raised in captivity, X-23 has been trained to become a living weapon. She is highly trained in the use of long range weapons and explosives. She is also a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, with intensive training in numerous armed and unarmed martial arts techniques
Personality: Upon initially encountering her, X-23 might be mistaken for a typical young woman, calm and quiet. However, she has become somewhat darker and more complex. X-23 is very taciturn, rarely uttering more than five words at a time. She use to cut herself with her own claws, something she had done since a very young age. She as stopped for the most part. X-23 is a highly trained and skilled combatant; she is able to kill dozens of heavily armed opponents during a single encounter, and she does so with little emotion or remorse.
X-23’s mother did her best to ensure the child retained some semblance of humanity, but her efforts appeared to be in vain. X-23 rarely spoke, or expressed much interest in her mother, who was forced to reject any emotional advance the girl might make, such as laying her head in her mother’s lap, because of the Facility. Despite the upbringing X-23 received, she has at times shown signs of humanity.
Power weaknesses: Sonic waves, Electricity, Trigger Scent
Played By: Summer Glau
Alias: X-23
Age: Late Teens. (exact year unknown)
Background/Bio:
A top-secret program was tasked to replicate the original Weapon X experiment that produced the feral mutant Wolverine. However, the project failed to produce a test subject capable of surviving the bonding of the virtually unbreakable metal adamantium to his skeleton. The project was taken in a new direction: Doctor Martin Sutter recruited renowned mutant geneticist Doctor Sarah Kinney to develop a clone of Wolverine.
Since the only genetic sample from Weapon X was damaged, Kinney was unable to salvage the Y chromosome after 22 failed attempts. Kinney proposed the creation of a female clone; her request was denied. However, when she surreptitiously produced a viable female embryo, her success, when known, prompted Sutter to reconsider. Sutter’s protégé Doctor Zander Rice, whom he raised after Rice’s father was killed by the original Weapon X, was opposed to the idea. Although Kinney was allowed to proceed, Rice exacts revenge for her insubordination by forcing her to act as the surrogate mother of the clone. For nine months Kinney’s every move was monitored; till she gave birth to “X-23.”
After seven years, Rice subjected X-23 to radiation poisoning in order to activate her mutant gene. He extracted her claws, coated them with adamantium, and reinserted them back into her hands - a procedure performed without affording her any anesthetic. Rice also created a “trigger scent” that drives X-23 into a murderous, blind rage when she detects it. In a warped attempt to avenge his father’s murder, Rice abandoned X-23 during a particularly dangerous mission. However, she survived and returns to the facility.
Shortly after, Kinney’s niece Megan was abducted by a serial killer causing her to smuggle X-23 out of the facility to rescue the girl. X-23 tracked the abductor to his apartment, killed him, and freed Megan. Kinney was fired when she returned for her actions; and escorted off the base.
For his own reasons, Rice assigned X-23 to eliminate Sutter and his family. Following the completion of the mission, Rice ordered her to keep it a secret. However, X-23 revealed to Sarah that Rice was responsible for the murders. Before Kinney leaves, Rice revealed a chamber containing the incubation pods for X-24 through X-50.
Kinney prepared to leave the facility, drafting a letter for her daughter. She assigned X-23 one final mission: destroy the pods and kill Rice. X-23 succeeded and met her mother outside and two prepare to flee. However, prior to his death Rice exposed Kinney to the trigger scent, causing X-23 to go into a murderous frenzy and kill her mother. As she lied dying, Kinney told X-23 that her name was Laura, and handed her the letter and pictures of Charles Xavier, Wolverine, and the Xavier Institute.
X-23 traveled to San Francisco and tracked down Megan and Debbie (her mother’s sister). Introducing herself as Sarah’s daughter, she moved in with them. Although Megan experienced vivid nightmares of her abduction she doesn’t remember X-23 and, her family believes these to be utter fantasies. X-23 informs Megan that the man in her nightmares was indeed real and that she killed him. The two girls, now sharing a bond, become best friends.
Debbie’s boyfriend turned out to be an agent for the Facility who had been instructed to manipulate X-23 into killing Megan and Debbie using the trigger scent. However, the agent fumbled the assignment and is killed by X-23. Facility agents storm the house, led by the woman who served as X-23’s handler, Kimura. (Kimura abused X-23 in the facility and punished her even if the mission went according to plan). Although able to fend off the agents, X-23 was helpless against Kimura, whose skin is invulnerable to X-23’s claws.
X-23 managed to get Megan and Debbie to safety by handcuffing Kimura to a radiator and then triggering an explosion in the house, buying some time. As X-23 put Megan and Debbie on a plane with a detailed plan to keep them safe, she knows that she will likely never see them again. After X-23 and Megan part, X-23 decided to run.
She ended up moving to New York City and assisting the X-men in the Sentinel Attacks deciding to stay at the mansion. However, while staying with them, she got captured by Weapon X and tortured. After being locked up for months, X-23 escaped, but with a cost. Her mind was fractured due to the length of torture and manipulation.
Ending up back at the mansion, Xavier assisted in her recovery and in getting her mind back to as normal as it could be. Learning about the Prophecy, she went in search of how to help meeting a man named Gambit. He steered her in the right direction to help, but like so many others she was unable to help in stoping the apocalypse.
She fought hard, but in the end even her mutant powers weren't a match. Laura had lost everything yet again in her life. Jodie was missing, presumed dead in her eyes. Logan had ventured off to help others in other countries leaving Laura in the states to do as much as she could. Her aunt had been killed and Laura had no idea where Megan had ended up taking her mother's death hard.
When things began to settle down again, Laura ventured back toward New York needing something familiar in her life. Needing something stable instead of the chaos that had surrounded her in the past two years. Being created and used as a weapon, she felt as if she was nothing more then that. She was hoping something was left of New York, and that hopefully someone was left at mansion that she recognized.
Powers: X-23’s primary mutant ability is an accelerated healing factor that allows her to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissues with far greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. Injuries such as gunshot wounds, slashes, and puncture wounds completely heal within a matter of minutes. Her
healing factor is developed to such a degree that she can reattach severed limbs. The effects of her accelerated healing powers extend to her body’s immune system, rendering her immune to disease and infection. She is also immune to most drugs and toxins, although she can be affected by certain drugs if given sufficient dosage.
Due to the effect of X-23’s mutant healing factor, her physical senses, strength, stamina, agility, and reflexes are heightened to superhuman levels. X-23 possesses retractable claws sheathed within her forearms. She releases the claws through the tissue of her knuckles, leaving small wounds which are healed by her healing factor. X-23 has only two claws that emerge from her fists. She possesses a single, retractable claw housed within each foot.
These claws are actually made of bone and were forcefully extracted by Zander Rice, sharpened, coated with adamantium, and reinserted into her body; X-23 survived the procedure due to her healing factor. Since the claws are laced with adamantium, they are virtually unbreakable and are capable of cutting any known material, other than adamantium itself and vibranium.
X-23 escaped before the procedure to fuse her entire skeleton with adamantium could be performed.
Skills: Raised in captivity, X-23 has been trained to become a living weapon. She is highly trained in the use of long range weapons and explosives. She is also a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, with intensive training in numerous armed and unarmed martial arts techniques
Personality: Upon initially encountering her, X-23 might be mistaken for a typical young woman, calm and quiet. However, she has become somewhat darker and more complex. X-23 is very taciturn, rarely uttering more than five words at a time. She use to cut herself with her own claws, something she had done since a very young age. She as stopped for the most part. X-23 is a highly trained and skilled combatant; she is able to kill dozens of heavily armed opponents during a single encounter, and she does so with little emotion or remorse.
X-23’s mother did her best to ensure the child retained some semblance of humanity, but her efforts appeared to be in vain. X-23 rarely spoke, or expressed much interest in her mother, who was forced to reject any emotional advance the girl might make, such as laying her head in her mother’s lap, because of the Facility. Despite the upbringing X-23 received, she has at times shown signs of humanity.
Power weaknesses: Sonic waves, Electricity, Trigger Scent
Played By: Summer Glau
