Post by Jubilee on Jul 19, 2006 16:47:48 GMT -5
Joining Application: (please mark all original non-cannon characters as OC in the title)
Name: Jubilation “Jubilee” Lee
Codename(s): Jubilee
Affiliation: Cured Mutants (Restored is not a word to describe it, in her opinion)
Age: 18
Height: 5”5
Weight: 105 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
[glow=red,2,300]Appearance:[/glow]
Jubilee is a Chinese American girl with long jet-black and utterly straight black hair. Having lived in a mall for six months of her life, Jubes is the epitome of a ‘mall rat’. She has a wacky sense of style—wacky being a positive word for it, whereas ‘weird’ is a less kind one. She would have fit right in in the nineties and often wonders if she was born ten years too late. She wears mismatched clothes, and adores a variety of colors all put together in one outfit. Her favorite jacket, for example, is a green pleather snake-print jacket. She prefers low-riding jeans and plain t-shirts or tanktops; comfort is the number one importance, then originality, and only then does she think about looking cute.
Tacky is not in her vocabulary; she loves jewelry, no matter how big or fake. She always wears many jelly bracelets on each wrist, and large hoop earrings. She often wears her hair up, including in a side ponytail (another tribute to the nineties).
[glow=red,2,300]Personality:[/glow]
Jubilee believes in being honest. She is very opinionated, and has no qualms about sharing her opinions with others when they come up. She is straightforward in everything she says and does, and doesn’t sugarcoat things. She is open to other's opinions as well, but it is very hard to sway her own opinion.
At the school, Jubilee had a very apparent love of life. That’s not to say that she was always happy, but she often excited about one thing or another. She also often had a mischievous look—because she often had some joke or prank planned that simply no one else knew about yet. She loved to joke around and laugh, and loved to make others laugh as well. She was very intense in her emotions—she could be very excited, or very angry when occasion called for it. At these times, she often ranted about whatever it was that was making her mad. She was often sarcastic when angry, but then again, at times her humor is sarcastic as well (in a much lighter way). She knew how to draw the line so as not to hurt anyone’s feelings impeccably well.
Jubilee never felt sorry for having trespassed and stolen while living at the mall—the way she saw it, she’d done what she’d had to do to get by. She wasn’t embarrassed of it, either, and spoke of it casually. One thing she didn’t speak of lightly, though, was her parents’ death, nor anything about her parents in general.
She was always fiercely proud of her powers, and very fond of them. She had never even considered getting the cure, and didn’t think that others should get it either. That said, knowing Rogue brought her to change her opinions a bit. She believed then that it was acceptable to seek the cure if one’s mutation very severely and negatively impacted their life. But even seeking the cure because one looked odd was not a very good excuse, because they could go to Xavier’s and be accepted, as she had done.
[glow=red,2,300]Powers and Abilities:[/glow]
Jubilee had the power to create bursts of energy from her fingertips. She lovingly called them her fireworks. She could control the globules of energy with her mind, directing them and arranging them in balls, streamers, and other shapes, and exploding them when she wished. The explosions resembled fireworks, and she could control their colors as well. The strength of the energy could range from a multitude of colorful sparkles, which did no damage and simply looked spectacular, to an amount of energy capable of temporarily blinding a person.
She was also capable of a powerful detonation that could smash objects and destroy property, though she rarely used this. She never used her power to such a level, but she could create a burst inside a human's brain, which would simulate the effects of a massive stroke. Jubilee could absorb the fireworks back into her own body without harm.
She also called the little explosions her ‘pafs’, because they energy made a paf noise when it exploded.
[glow=red,2,300]Weaknesses:[/glow]
Jubilee saw no need to develop her powers, because she did not want to harm anyone. She was afraid that if she were to develop the ability to kill someone using her powers, she would overreact and use that power when scared or angry at some point. She did not trust herself in that sense.
Jubilee was diagnosed after moving to live with her aunt as having dyscalculia, which is ‘a fundamental inability to conceptualize numbers themselves as an abstract concept of comparative quantities’. This makes her unable to perform operations in math or arithmetic. This affects people of all IQs, as Jubes is very bright but without an interest in school. It most likely had a lot to do with her lack of interest in school, as she became less and less able to understand math as she entered her teenage years.
[glow=red,2,300]History: [/glow]
Born to two prosperous Chinese immigrants, Dr. and Mrs. Lee, Jubilation Lee lived the first fourteen years of her life comfortably in Beverly Hills. She attended an exclusive Beverly Hills school, and was enrolled in gymnastics from an early age. As she continued learning, her coaches and those around her said that she had the potential to participate in the Olympic Games someday. It was her dream to do so.
When Jubilee was fourteen and a half, Dr. and Mrs. Lee lost a substantial amount of their money in the stock market. The same weekend, two hit men mistook Dr. and Mrs. Lee for their neighbors, also named the Lees, and killed both of them. Jubilee, having no remaining relatives (her parents were, by all accounts, the only children in their families, and both sets of Jubilee’s grandparents had passed away), was sent to an orphanage. She ran away within a week, though, and sought refuge in her favorite Hollywood mall, where she had once spent lots of money shopping. She now spent her days mostly in the mall, stealing food and clothes and whatever else she might need. She learned all about how to avoid the mall cameras and mall security—in fact, she was rarely caught doing anything wrong. When she was caught, she always got away before security came, or managed to lose them.
But after almost half a year of living in the mall (at fifteen), she was caught stealing clothes. By then the security was very suspicious of her, and eager to catch her at something. It seemed that she wouldn’t get away when in running from the mall security, she turned a corner outside the back of the mall and found herself in a back alley with a dead end. This was when she first discovered that she was a mutant. In her panic, she set off a series of blinding and explosive energy ‘fireworks’, which completely disoriented the guards and allowed Jubilee to run past them and escape.
Jubilee loved her powers right away. She immediately saw their use; she could make easy money creating light shows for customers in the mall. Frustrated with the young girl's rebellious nature and powerful lightshows, the mall security hired mutant hunters to capture her. Jubilee had never only used her powers as a weapon a handful of times, and the only time she’d ever done any real harm had been upon being attacked by a viscous dog. She used her powers to blow the beast up. So when the mutant hunters attacked her, she tried to fight them back, but she was no match for the professional fighters.
Jean Grey and Ororo Munroe, who were shopping in the mall at the time, saw the commotion and got Jubilee out of the potentially sticky situation. They brought Jubes to Xavier's school with them.
At the school, Jubilee embraced her life as a mutant, among other mutants. If anyone ever loved their powers, it was Jubes. That said, she did not like the school aspect of Xavier’s. She was an underachiever; she just didn’t seem to have an interest in school. That said, if it was something that interested her, she was very intent on learning more. For instance, anything debatable, such as theology or politics, she would research extensively and argue about till the cows came home, even to a teacher. She enjoyed reading sometimes and some writing—though usually her writing was as sarcastic as she was. She had great potential, but she was simply far too laid-back and nonchalant to waste her time worrying about grades. She grew close to many of the students there, especially Bobby Drake, who was almost as much of a prankster as she was. The two were infamous for their well-planned and hilarious pranks. Despite her mischievous pranks and lack of interest in school, she could always make Professor Xavier laugh or smile. She looked up to him a great deal. But no one became closer to Jubilee than did Storm, who grew to be something of a mother figure to her during the two years she lived at Xavier's.
She never joined the X-Men, and was open about the reason - because fighting and possibly killing were ‘not her thing’. She supported the X-Men whole-heartedly, though, and often wore a choker with a charm that was an X in a circle as a part of her mismatched outfits. Soon after moving to the school, she started up with gymnastics again.
Soon after the time that Rogue and Bobby broke up (to put it into perspective), Jubilee was contacted by an aunt her parents had never mentioned. Aunt Hope offered to adopt Jubes, and after much consideration, Jubilee accepted. After the fighting with the Brotherhood, which she herself had not been a part of but had of course heard much about, and the attack on the school in which she was one of the students captured and held in Stryker’s lab at Alkali Lake, Jubilee was growing weary of the intensity of the school’s atmosphere. She went to live with her aunt in LA. While there, she attended Payton Noble High School and became a peer advisor. She got into a few fights in school, and was shunned by some of the students, as well as reprimanded by the adults, because of her use of her powers.
After living there for many months, Jubilee’s Aunt Hope decided that something must be done about Jubilee’s discipline problems. She felt that if Jubilee no longer had her powers, she would not want to fight and would buckle down and apply herself. So she used the connections she had to high-up business associates, and managed to get a private and early appointment in which Jubilee would unknowingly receive the vaccination which would repress her mutant powers. Creating an elaborate cover that Jubes needed minor surgery, her Aunt took her to a medical lab in San Francisco (this would have happened the day before she enters the rp). Upon waking up from the anesthesia, Jubilee overheard her aunt and a scientist talking, and figured out what had happened. She tested her powers, and upon finding it to be the awful truth—she had lost her powers—she was enraged and deeply saddened.
Knowing that she couldn’t attack them without her powers, she snuck out of the lab before they realized she was awake. She ran away, and stole a map (old habits die hard). She had kept in touch with Lee, one of her best friends from school, since leaving the school and knew that Rogue had gone back to her old home and turned it into something of a safe haven for cured mutants. With nowhere else to go, Jubilee began to hitchhike to Mississippi. When she couldn’t find a ride, she hid in the beds of trucks that were heading the right way, hopping from rest stop to rest stop. All she had was what was in her fanny-pack.
[glow=red,2,300]Relationships:[/glow]
((Because she spent so much time at the school, I wanted to establish how close she was to some of the people. This of course requires the other people’s input, so let me know what you think. This is how I thought of it, but if you see it differently let me know, it’s totally up to change.))
Bobby – Possibly who she was closest to of the students. He was almost as much of a prankster as she was, and the two were infamous for their well-planned and hilarious pranks, on others as well as on each other. They never saw each other in a romantic light, only as close friends.
Logan - Because Logan was one of the few adults at the school that wasn't one of her teachers and didn't pester her to do better, she came to like him when he arrived. They had their straightforward attitudes in common, and he's one of the few adults Jubes has ever considered a friend.
John – Jubes was very open and nonchalant about the fact that she’d lived in a mall and stolen to get by, and soon after meeting John, they found that they shared their hard times in common. They weren’t extremely close, as John and Bobby, or Bobby and Jubes were, but they were friends. When John turned to the Brotherhood, Jubes was the first (and one of the only) to be very vocal about her opinion of the ‘no-good, stupid, shit-head sell-out’. Her anger hid her sadness over what he’d done quite nicely.
Lee – Another of Jubes’ best friends. They shared a fun-loving personality. Probably her best girl friend.
Because she was so close with Bobby, Jubes hung out with much of his group. She became friends with Rogue, though not close enough to be considered best friends. Kitty and herself were even less close—still friends, but there were times when Jubilee’s straight-forward and mischievous nature and Kitty’s innocent (and, in Jubes’ mind, a bit of a goody-two-shoes) nature were all too obvious to each other. They rarely hung out just with each other.
((Jubes could use a few more friends, so let me know if your character would have gotten along with her!))
[glow=red,2,300]Sample post:[/glow]
When Jubilee woke up, she didn’t move for a good five minutes. She was too tired. She laid perfectly still, not even moving her eyes beneath her eyelids. She didn’t know where she was at first, didn’t even wonder as her brain moved slowly in the minutes after waking from the anesthesia. There was a machine beeping softly somewhere, it sounded like it was far away. The sound of her own breathing as the air moved in and out of her nose was magnified, but it’s steady cadence made Jubilee even more tired.
There was a sound of a door opening, and it tugged Jubilee from her sleepy thoughts. She didn’t really want to open her eyes yet. ‘Mom…Just five more minutes…’ she thought sluggishly, still not moving.
“Doctor,” a familiar voice sounded from somewhere close by. It triggered a more clear thought in Jubes’ mind. Aunt Hope was there? Somehow, she’d thought she was alone. It was so quiet, after all…
Without opening her eyes, slowly everything flowed back into her memory—the trip from LA to San Fran, meeting the doctors, being given the anesthesia. The last thing she remembered seeing was her aunt’s face hovering over her, swimming in Jubilee’s tired gaze. It had looked to Jubes like her Aunt Hope was close to tears, and she’d slowly thought, ‘Chillax, Hope. It’s just a little mouth fix-up’ as she’d closed her eyes.
“Shouldn’t she be up by now?” her aunt’s was a little nervous, Jubes didn’t need to open her eyes to tell that.
“Oh, no, she’ll probably sleep a good twenty minutes still,” a man’s voice responded reassuringly. “We have a few additional papers for you to sign, if you want to do that now…”
“I think I’d better wait, I don’t want her to wake up and realize…” Jubilee heard her aunt take a deep breath and let it out in a rush of air. “I ought to be here to tell her.”
Jubilee’s eyebrows tugged faintly into an unsettled look. Her mind stirred, forming thoughts. ‘Realize? Realize what?’ She wondered if perhaps the surgery had left her hideously disfigured. It made her want to open her eyes, to see for herself. She began to open them, only to find herself blinded by impossibly bright lights on the ceiling. Her eyes watered and she closed them quickly.
“That’s perfectly fine. I just thought that in case she reacted negatively, that it would be best to get it out of the way. That way the two of you can leave soon after she wakes up.”
There was a pause before Aunt Hope spoke again. “Alright, I suppose that’s fine…And you’re sure there won’t be any…effects?”
The voices moved out into the hall as the doctor responded. “Almost all of the patients given the vaccine when it first came out have shown full health to—“ the voice was muted as the door shut.
Jube’s eyes opened quickly, and she started to sit up. ‘Vaccine?! What are they talking about?’ she wondered wildly. Her eyes fell on the door her aunt had just left through, and a sickening feeling hit her stomach, dropping it like a weight. She scrambled onto her knees on the bed as she lifted her hands into sight, and proceeded to stare at them dumbly. After a moment, she mentally willed her powers to come, already feeling panic rising in her chest. She’d never had to think about creating the light before. It had just happened when she’d wanted it to. As she concentrated then on her fingers, still nothing happened.
Her shocked expression was the only thing that kept her face from crumbling as she started to cry. She gave one sob from her gaping mouth, her shoulders shaking once. She threw her hands out in front of her, which should have caused an explosion large enough to blow a hole in the wall. Not a single thing was touched. No light flashed. There was no familiar ‘paf’ as she sent the energy across the room, because there was no energy.
Her hands fell to her sides, and from there she seemed to topple over. She landed at the edge of the bed, her legs tucked under her, one hand instinctively catching her against the bedsheets. But she only gave herself ten seconds of despair. Her infamous temper was swiftly setting in, and it had never had better reason to rear it’s ugly head. She unfolded her legs and swung them over the side of the bed. Her shoes were near her aunt’s things on the table. She shoved her feet into them, the already abused backs of the tennis shoes buckling under the force. Her hands clawed at her aunt’s purse, jerking it across the table to her. She all but ripped it open, her hands immediately finding the compartment where she knew Hope kept her money. She grabbed every bill, folding the wad of cash with hands so angry that they shook. She grabbed her own fanny-pack then and, unzipping it, shoved the money inside. She re-zipped the pack and threw it around her waist, buckling it.
Then she stopped, her hands on her fanny-pack, her eyes fixed on the table. Her anger shook, showing an emotion on the opposite end. Her already almond-shaped eyes started to close as her jaw trembled, then clenched, as if refusing the flood. In a rush of anger, Jubilee grabbed her aunt’s purse and threw it across the room. It’s contents emptied in mid-air, hitting the ground and scattering across the tile floor. It did nothing to ease Jubilee’s anger, or her pain.
Jubes rushed to the door, opening it roughly and pulling it behind her as she stepped into the doorway. She looked to the left and right down the hallway. Movement not far down the hall caught her eye as people filed out of an elevator. She raced down the hall to it, squeezing past those exiting and moving out of sight against the wall. It was empty. She pressed the down button again and again, until the doors were all the way closed and the elevator began it’s slow trip downwards. Then she collapsed against the cold metal wall, pressed into the corner. She lifted her hand, staring down at it with her head hung. With her last shred of hope she willed the fireworks to come. Nothing. She closed her hand into a fist, drawing her arm back as her fist tightened. Pain shot through her hand and up her arm when he hand crumpled against the steel, and she let out a cry.
This one cry opened the floodgates, and she couldn’t stop. She cradled her injured hand against her stomach, her other hand holding it protectively, and she leaned against the wall and cried. When the doors of the elevator opened, she couldn’t stop the tears, and all through the hospital lobby she drew uneasy looks. When she slammed through the doors, she turned down the sidewalk and started to run, tears blurring everything she passed.
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Name: Jubilation “Jubilee” Lee
Codename(s): Jubilee
Affiliation: Cured Mutants (Restored is not a word to describe it, in her opinion)
Age: 18
Height: 5”5
Weight: 105 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
[glow=red,2,300]Appearance:[/glow]
Jubilee is a Chinese American girl with long jet-black and utterly straight black hair. Having lived in a mall for six months of her life, Jubes is the epitome of a ‘mall rat’. She has a wacky sense of style—wacky being a positive word for it, whereas ‘weird’ is a less kind one. She would have fit right in in the nineties and often wonders if she was born ten years too late. She wears mismatched clothes, and adores a variety of colors all put together in one outfit. Her favorite jacket, for example, is a green pleather snake-print jacket. She prefers low-riding jeans and plain t-shirts or tanktops; comfort is the number one importance, then originality, and only then does she think about looking cute.
Tacky is not in her vocabulary; she loves jewelry, no matter how big or fake. She always wears many jelly bracelets on each wrist, and large hoop earrings. She often wears her hair up, including in a side ponytail (another tribute to the nineties).
[glow=red,2,300]Personality:[/glow]
Jubilee believes in being honest. She is very opinionated, and has no qualms about sharing her opinions with others when they come up. She is straightforward in everything she says and does, and doesn’t sugarcoat things. She is open to other's opinions as well, but it is very hard to sway her own opinion.
At the school, Jubilee had a very apparent love of life. That’s not to say that she was always happy, but she often excited about one thing or another. She also often had a mischievous look—because she often had some joke or prank planned that simply no one else knew about yet. She loved to joke around and laugh, and loved to make others laugh as well. She was very intense in her emotions—she could be very excited, or very angry when occasion called for it. At these times, she often ranted about whatever it was that was making her mad. She was often sarcastic when angry, but then again, at times her humor is sarcastic as well (in a much lighter way). She knew how to draw the line so as not to hurt anyone’s feelings impeccably well.
Jubilee never felt sorry for having trespassed and stolen while living at the mall—the way she saw it, she’d done what she’d had to do to get by. She wasn’t embarrassed of it, either, and spoke of it casually. One thing she didn’t speak of lightly, though, was her parents’ death, nor anything about her parents in general.
She was always fiercely proud of her powers, and very fond of them. She had never even considered getting the cure, and didn’t think that others should get it either. That said, knowing Rogue brought her to change her opinions a bit. She believed then that it was acceptable to seek the cure if one’s mutation very severely and negatively impacted their life. But even seeking the cure because one looked odd was not a very good excuse, because they could go to Xavier’s and be accepted, as she had done.
[glow=red,2,300]Powers and Abilities:[/glow]
Jubilee had the power to create bursts of energy from her fingertips. She lovingly called them her fireworks. She could control the globules of energy with her mind, directing them and arranging them in balls, streamers, and other shapes, and exploding them when she wished. The explosions resembled fireworks, and she could control their colors as well. The strength of the energy could range from a multitude of colorful sparkles, which did no damage and simply looked spectacular, to an amount of energy capable of temporarily blinding a person.
She was also capable of a powerful detonation that could smash objects and destroy property, though she rarely used this. She never used her power to such a level, but she could create a burst inside a human's brain, which would simulate the effects of a massive stroke. Jubilee could absorb the fireworks back into her own body without harm.
She also called the little explosions her ‘pafs’, because they energy made a paf noise when it exploded.
[glow=red,2,300]Weaknesses:[/glow]
Jubilee saw no need to develop her powers, because she did not want to harm anyone. She was afraid that if she were to develop the ability to kill someone using her powers, she would overreact and use that power when scared or angry at some point. She did not trust herself in that sense.
Jubilee was diagnosed after moving to live with her aunt as having dyscalculia, which is ‘a fundamental inability to conceptualize numbers themselves as an abstract concept of comparative quantities’. This makes her unable to perform operations in math or arithmetic. This affects people of all IQs, as Jubes is very bright but without an interest in school. It most likely had a lot to do with her lack of interest in school, as she became less and less able to understand math as she entered her teenage years.
[glow=red,2,300]History: [/glow]
Born to two prosperous Chinese immigrants, Dr. and Mrs. Lee, Jubilation Lee lived the first fourteen years of her life comfortably in Beverly Hills. She attended an exclusive Beverly Hills school, and was enrolled in gymnastics from an early age. As she continued learning, her coaches and those around her said that she had the potential to participate in the Olympic Games someday. It was her dream to do so.
When Jubilee was fourteen and a half, Dr. and Mrs. Lee lost a substantial amount of their money in the stock market. The same weekend, two hit men mistook Dr. and Mrs. Lee for their neighbors, also named the Lees, and killed both of them. Jubilee, having no remaining relatives (her parents were, by all accounts, the only children in their families, and both sets of Jubilee’s grandparents had passed away), was sent to an orphanage. She ran away within a week, though, and sought refuge in her favorite Hollywood mall, where she had once spent lots of money shopping. She now spent her days mostly in the mall, stealing food and clothes and whatever else she might need. She learned all about how to avoid the mall cameras and mall security—in fact, she was rarely caught doing anything wrong. When she was caught, she always got away before security came, or managed to lose them.
But after almost half a year of living in the mall (at fifteen), she was caught stealing clothes. By then the security was very suspicious of her, and eager to catch her at something. It seemed that she wouldn’t get away when in running from the mall security, she turned a corner outside the back of the mall and found herself in a back alley with a dead end. This was when she first discovered that she was a mutant. In her panic, she set off a series of blinding and explosive energy ‘fireworks’, which completely disoriented the guards and allowed Jubilee to run past them and escape.
Jubilee loved her powers right away. She immediately saw their use; she could make easy money creating light shows for customers in the mall. Frustrated with the young girl's rebellious nature and powerful lightshows, the mall security hired mutant hunters to capture her. Jubilee had never only used her powers as a weapon a handful of times, and the only time she’d ever done any real harm had been upon being attacked by a viscous dog. She used her powers to blow the beast up. So when the mutant hunters attacked her, she tried to fight them back, but she was no match for the professional fighters.
Jean Grey and Ororo Munroe, who were shopping in the mall at the time, saw the commotion and got Jubilee out of the potentially sticky situation. They brought Jubes to Xavier's school with them.
At the school, Jubilee embraced her life as a mutant, among other mutants. If anyone ever loved their powers, it was Jubes. That said, she did not like the school aspect of Xavier’s. She was an underachiever; she just didn’t seem to have an interest in school. That said, if it was something that interested her, she was very intent on learning more. For instance, anything debatable, such as theology or politics, she would research extensively and argue about till the cows came home, even to a teacher. She enjoyed reading sometimes and some writing—though usually her writing was as sarcastic as she was. She had great potential, but she was simply far too laid-back and nonchalant to waste her time worrying about grades. She grew close to many of the students there, especially Bobby Drake, who was almost as much of a prankster as she was. The two were infamous for their well-planned and hilarious pranks. Despite her mischievous pranks and lack of interest in school, she could always make Professor Xavier laugh or smile. She looked up to him a great deal. But no one became closer to Jubilee than did Storm, who grew to be something of a mother figure to her during the two years she lived at Xavier's.
She never joined the X-Men, and was open about the reason - because fighting and possibly killing were ‘not her thing’. She supported the X-Men whole-heartedly, though, and often wore a choker with a charm that was an X in a circle as a part of her mismatched outfits. Soon after moving to the school, she started up with gymnastics again.
Soon after the time that Rogue and Bobby broke up (to put it into perspective), Jubilee was contacted by an aunt her parents had never mentioned. Aunt Hope offered to adopt Jubes, and after much consideration, Jubilee accepted. After the fighting with the Brotherhood, which she herself had not been a part of but had of course heard much about, and the attack on the school in which she was one of the students captured and held in Stryker’s lab at Alkali Lake, Jubilee was growing weary of the intensity of the school’s atmosphere. She went to live with her aunt in LA. While there, she attended Payton Noble High School and became a peer advisor. She got into a few fights in school, and was shunned by some of the students, as well as reprimanded by the adults, because of her use of her powers.
After living there for many months, Jubilee’s Aunt Hope decided that something must be done about Jubilee’s discipline problems. She felt that if Jubilee no longer had her powers, she would not want to fight and would buckle down and apply herself. So she used the connections she had to high-up business associates, and managed to get a private and early appointment in which Jubilee would unknowingly receive the vaccination which would repress her mutant powers. Creating an elaborate cover that Jubes needed minor surgery, her Aunt took her to a medical lab in San Francisco (this would have happened the day before she enters the rp). Upon waking up from the anesthesia, Jubilee overheard her aunt and a scientist talking, and figured out what had happened. She tested her powers, and upon finding it to be the awful truth—she had lost her powers—she was enraged and deeply saddened.
Knowing that she couldn’t attack them without her powers, she snuck out of the lab before they realized she was awake. She ran away, and stole a map (old habits die hard). She had kept in touch with Lee, one of her best friends from school, since leaving the school and knew that Rogue had gone back to her old home and turned it into something of a safe haven for cured mutants. With nowhere else to go, Jubilee began to hitchhike to Mississippi. When she couldn’t find a ride, she hid in the beds of trucks that were heading the right way, hopping from rest stop to rest stop. All she had was what was in her fanny-pack.
[glow=red,2,300]Relationships:[/glow]
((Because she spent so much time at the school, I wanted to establish how close she was to some of the people. This of course requires the other people’s input, so let me know what you think. This is how I thought of it, but if you see it differently let me know, it’s totally up to change.))
Bobby – Possibly who she was closest to of the students. He was almost as much of a prankster as she was, and the two were infamous for their well-planned and hilarious pranks, on others as well as on each other. They never saw each other in a romantic light, only as close friends.
Logan - Because Logan was one of the few adults at the school that wasn't one of her teachers and didn't pester her to do better, she came to like him when he arrived. They had their straightforward attitudes in common, and he's one of the few adults Jubes has ever considered a friend.
John – Jubes was very open and nonchalant about the fact that she’d lived in a mall and stolen to get by, and soon after meeting John, they found that they shared their hard times in common. They weren’t extremely close, as John and Bobby, or Bobby and Jubes were, but they were friends. When John turned to the Brotherhood, Jubes was the first (and one of the only) to be very vocal about her opinion of the ‘no-good, stupid, shit-head sell-out’. Her anger hid her sadness over what he’d done quite nicely.
Lee – Another of Jubes’ best friends. They shared a fun-loving personality. Probably her best girl friend.
Because she was so close with Bobby, Jubes hung out with much of his group. She became friends with Rogue, though not close enough to be considered best friends. Kitty and herself were even less close—still friends, but there were times when Jubilee’s straight-forward and mischievous nature and Kitty’s innocent (and, in Jubes’ mind, a bit of a goody-two-shoes) nature were all too obvious to each other. They rarely hung out just with each other.
((Jubes could use a few more friends, so let me know if your character would have gotten along with her!))
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When Jubilee woke up, she didn’t move for a good five minutes. She was too tired. She laid perfectly still, not even moving her eyes beneath her eyelids. She didn’t know where she was at first, didn’t even wonder as her brain moved slowly in the minutes after waking from the anesthesia. There was a machine beeping softly somewhere, it sounded like it was far away. The sound of her own breathing as the air moved in and out of her nose was magnified, but it’s steady cadence made Jubilee even more tired.
There was a sound of a door opening, and it tugged Jubilee from her sleepy thoughts. She didn’t really want to open her eyes yet. ‘Mom…Just five more minutes…’ she thought sluggishly, still not moving.
“Doctor,” a familiar voice sounded from somewhere close by. It triggered a more clear thought in Jubes’ mind. Aunt Hope was there? Somehow, she’d thought she was alone. It was so quiet, after all…
Without opening her eyes, slowly everything flowed back into her memory—the trip from LA to San Fran, meeting the doctors, being given the anesthesia. The last thing she remembered seeing was her aunt’s face hovering over her, swimming in Jubilee’s tired gaze. It had looked to Jubes like her Aunt Hope was close to tears, and she’d slowly thought, ‘Chillax, Hope. It’s just a little mouth fix-up’ as she’d closed her eyes.
“Shouldn’t she be up by now?” her aunt’s was a little nervous, Jubes didn’t need to open her eyes to tell that.
“Oh, no, she’ll probably sleep a good twenty minutes still,” a man’s voice responded reassuringly. “We have a few additional papers for you to sign, if you want to do that now…”
“I think I’d better wait, I don’t want her to wake up and realize…” Jubilee heard her aunt take a deep breath and let it out in a rush of air. “I ought to be here to tell her.”
Jubilee’s eyebrows tugged faintly into an unsettled look. Her mind stirred, forming thoughts. ‘Realize? Realize what?’ She wondered if perhaps the surgery had left her hideously disfigured. It made her want to open her eyes, to see for herself. She began to open them, only to find herself blinded by impossibly bright lights on the ceiling. Her eyes watered and she closed them quickly.
“That’s perfectly fine. I just thought that in case she reacted negatively, that it would be best to get it out of the way. That way the two of you can leave soon after she wakes up.”
There was a pause before Aunt Hope spoke again. “Alright, I suppose that’s fine…And you’re sure there won’t be any…effects?”
The voices moved out into the hall as the doctor responded. “Almost all of the patients given the vaccine when it first came out have shown full health to—“ the voice was muted as the door shut.
Jube’s eyes opened quickly, and she started to sit up. ‘Vaccine?! What are they talking about?’ she wondered wildly. Her eyes fell on the door her aunt had just left through, and a sickening feeling hit her stomach, dropping it like a weight. She scrambled onto her knees on the bed as she lifted her hands into sight, and proceeded to stare at them dumbly. After a moment, she mentally willed her powers to come, already feeling panic rising in her chest. She’d never had to think about creating the light before. It had just happened when she’d wanted it to. As she concentrated then on her fingers, still nothing happened.
Her shocked expression was the only thing that kept her face from crumbling as she started to cry. She gave one sob from her gaping mouth, her shoulders shaking once. She threw her hands out in front of her, which should have caused an explosion large enough to blow a hole in the wall. Not a single thing was touched. No light flashed. There was no familiar ‘paf’ as she sent the energy across the room, because there was no energy.
Her hands fell to her sides, and from there she seemed to topple over. She landed at the edge of the bed, her legs tucked under her, one hand instinctively catching her against the bedsheets. But she only gave herself ten seconds of despair. Her infamous temper was swiftly setting in, and it had never had better reason to rear it’s ugly head. She unfolded her legs and swung them over the side of the bed. Her shoes were near her aunt’s things on the table. She shoved her feet into them, the already abused backs of the tennis shoes buckling under the force. Her hands clawed at her aunt’s purse, jerking it across the table to her. She all but ripped it open, her hands immediately finding the compartment where she knew Hope kept her money. She grabbed every bill, folding the wad of cash with hands so angry that they shook. She grabbed her own fanny-pack then and, unzipping it, shoved the money inside. She re-zipped the pack and threw it around her waist, buckling it.
Then she stopped, her hands on her fanny-pack, her eyes fixed on the table. Her anger shook, showing an emotion on the opposite end. Her already almond-shaped eyes started to close as her jaw trembled, then clenched, as if refusing the flood. In a rush of anger, Jubilee grabbed her aunt’s purse and threw it across the room. It’s contents emptied in mid-air, hitting the ground and scattering across the tile floor. It did nothing to ease Jubilee’s anger, or her pain.
Jubes rushed to the door, opening it roughly and pulling it behind her as she stepped into the doorway. She looked to the left and right down the hallway. Movement not far down the hall caught her eye as people filed out of an elevator. She raced down the hall to it, squeezing past those exiting and moving out of sight against the wall. It was empty. She pressed the down button again and again, until the doors were all the way closed and the elevator began it’s slow trip downwards. Then she collapsed against the cold metal wall, pressed into the corner. She lifted her hand, staring down at it with her head hung. With her last shred of hope she willed the fireworks to come. Nothing. She closed her hand into a fist, drawing her arm back as her fist tightened. Pain shot through her hand and up her arm when he hand crumpled against the steel, and she let out a cry.
This one cry opened the floodgates, and she couldn’t stop. She cradled her injured hand against her stomach, her other hand holding it protectively, and she leaned against the wall and cried. When the doors of the elevator opened, she couldn’t stop the tears, and all through the hospital lobby she drew uneasy looks. When she slammed through the doors, she turned down the sidewalk and started to run, tears blurring everything she passed.
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RP Experience: Six years of general fantasy-based rping as well as various fandoms, including Redemption_Isle (2005-now) (mod), Regenerate_RPG (2006-now), 4815162342 (2005-now), LostOnCrack (2005-now), and LuckyToBeLost (2004-now) (creator/mod).
