Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2006 20:39:27 GMT -5
Name: Moira Kinross McTaggert
Codename(s): none
Affiliation: Natural Human
Age: 45
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 135
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Grey-Blue
Appearance: Moira is delicately boned with long, thin fingers perfect for handling the fragile instruments in her laboratory. She is pale, with dark brown hair that has already begun to shown gray streaks throughout, and gray-blue eyes that resemble the always-cloudy ocean that surrounds her home island.
She is always working, and so she can usually be found in white lab coats draped over nice slacks and a long-sleeved shirt (the ac is always running in the lab – Moira is always cold). Her long hair is usually up in a bun or a braid to keep it out of the way.
Personality: A bit of a workaholic, Moira usually keeps to herself and others with the mental capacity to understand what she does. She always talks about work – it’s become her life. She’s not very good at small talk, but likes to get straight into the important questions in life.
Outside of work, if you can ever manage to get her to leave the lab at Muir Island, Moira is very polite and soft-spoken, with a warm, caring demeanor that will immediately brighten at the mention of anything scientific. In the lab, however, she can be cold and ruthless in her search of what she needs to find.
Overly aggressive people make her very uncomfortable.
Powers and Abilities: None. Never had any, never will.
Weaknesses: She’s a natural human, and has all the weaknesses that come along with it.
History: Moira Kinross was born to Lord Kinross and his wife, Lady Kinross, in the Scottish Highlands. She was raised as a lady herself, giving her an appreciation of the finer things in life, as well as a fast-paced tutelage that allowed her to excel in her studies. At a young age she was delighted by the sciences, and when she went to college she acquired a love for genetics and molecular biology. Flying through her undergraduate studies at Edinburgh, she graduated with honors and began the molecular masters program at Oxford, where she first met Charles Xavier.
It was Charles that turned her on to genetics, and it was Moira who helped him concrete the idea behind the X-men. But while the two of them seemed to be growing closer, Lord Kinross had other plans for his daughter’s future. He arranged her marriage with Joseph McTaggert, a Royal Marine Commando with political ambitions and an equally affluent family. After a brief courtship, in which she stopped talking to Charles completely, feeling that she couldn’t take being “just friends”, they were married, and Moira was soon flung into a social and personal nightmare. Joseph proved a poor match, as well as a violent husband. When he beat her senseless one night and left her pregnant, she filed for divorce but he never did sign the papers. She is still technically married to him, although they have not spoke to each other in well over twenty years.
After her son was born and proved to be a mutant (a terrifyingly powerful mutant at that), Moira’s interests in genetics were renewed as she tried to find a “cure” for her son. With the money she inherited from her father’s death, she opened her own facility at Muir Island, a small costal dot off the coast of the Scottish Highlands, in order to research genetic mutations and their effects on human beings. She was never able to find a cure for her son, who is the facility’s only permanent live-in experiment, but despite these failed efforts she has been brought to the forefront of the mutant genetics movement, earning her not only a place as an “expert” in the field, but also a Nobel Prize for her work with mutants.
Through the years after her failed marriage, Moira did contact Xavier again, as a purely academic colleague, and they shared their knowledge together of mutants, their abilities, their problems, and how they came to be. When he approached her about their subject, James, she was more than willing to help keep the body alive in an effort to someday perform the first conscious-transfer in the world. She has also taken an interest in the long-term effects of the “mutant cure” as well as the true genetic makeup of a mutant body. She is about to publish two papers simultaneously about each of these subjects.
Codename(s): none
Affiliation: Natural Human
Age: 45
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 135
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Grey-Blue
Appearance: Moira is delicately boned with long, thin fingers perfect for handling the fragile instruments in her laboratory. She is pale, with dark brown hair that has already begun to shown gray streaks throughout, and gray-blue eyes that resemble the always-cloudy ocean that surrounds her home island.
She is always working, and so she can usually be found in white lab coats draped over nice slacks and a long-sleeved shirt (the ac is always running in the lab – Moira is always cold). Her long hair is usually up in a bun or a braid to keep it out of the way.
Personality: A bit of a workaholic, Moira usually keeps to herself and others with the mental capacity to understand what she does. She always talks about work – it’s become her life. She’s not very good at small talk, but likes to get straight into the important questions in life.
Outside of work, if you can ever manage to get her to leave the lab at Muir Island, Moira is very polite and soft-spoken, with a warm, caring demeanor that will immediately brighten at the mention of anything scientific. In the lab, however, she can be cold and ruthless in her search of what she needs to find.
Overly aggressive people make her very uncomfortable.
Powers and Abilities: None. Never had any, never will.
Weaknesses: She’s a natural human, and has all the weaknesses that come along with it.
History: Moira Kinross was born to Lord Kinross and his wife, Lady Kinross, in the Scottish Highlands. She was raised as a lady herself, giving her an appreciation of the finer things in life, as well as a fast-paced tutelage that allowed her to excel in her studies. At a young age she was delighted by the sciences, and when she went to college she acquired a love for genetics and molecular biology. Flying through her undergraduate studies at Edinburgh, she graduated with honors and began the molecular masters program at Oxford, where she first met Charles Xavier.
It was Charles that turned her on to genetics, and it was Moira who helped him concrete the idea behind the X-men. But while the two of them seemed to be growing closer, Lord Kinross had other plans for his daughter’s future. He arranged her marriage with Joseph McTaggert, a Royal Marine Commando with political ambitions and an equally affluent family. After a brief courtship, in which she stopped talking to Charles completely, feeling that she couldn’t take being “just friends”, they were married, and Moira was soon flung into a social and personal nightmare. Joseph proved a poor match, as well as a violent husband. When he beat her senseless one night and left her pregnant, she filed for divorce but he never did sign the papers. She is still technically married to him, although they have not spoke to each other in well over twenty years.
After her son was born and proved to be a mutant (a terrifyingly powerful mutant at that), Moira’s interests in genetics were renewed as she tried to find a “cure” for her son. With the money she inherited from her father’s death, she opened her own facility at Muir Island, a small costal dot off the coast of the Scottish Highlands, in order to research genetic mutations and their effects on human beings. She was never able to find a cure for her son, who is the facility’s only permanent live-in experiment, but despite these failed efforts she has been brought to the forefront of the mutant genetics movement, earning her not only a place as an “expert” in the field, but also a Nobel Prize for her work with mutants.
Through the years after her failed marriage, Moira did contact Xavier again, as a purely academic colleague, and they shared their knowledge together of mutants, their abilities, their problems, and how they came to be. When he approached her about their subject, James, she was more than willing to help keep the body alive in an effort to someday perform the first conscious-transfer in the world. She has also taken an interest in the long-term effects of the “mutant cure” as well as the true genetic makeup of a mutant body. She is about to publish two papers simultaneously about each of these subjects.
