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[- OOC Information -] Name: Sam Do you play any other characters in Outer Divide? Nope [- Character Information -] Character Name: Hope Summers Fandom: Marvel Comics AU or OU: CR AU Canon Point: End of AVX #0 Journal: messiahed Icon: http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/3888677/1151041 Appearance: Due to the numerous timejumps Hope made throughout her life it was hard to define how time passed for her. Years passed but the months weren’t numbered to the day. As such her age is speculated to be from 17-19. I typically play her as age 18. A defining attribute of Hope is her fiercely bright red hair. Where most redheads tend to be more of an orange-ish tint, Hope’s is a deeper red color. Her eyes are a bright green to match the red hair. She’s of paler skin, maybe even paler than most as most of her later life was spent in dystopic futures where the sun barely touched. She’s overly skinny due to being starved for most of her entire life, and until recently was malnourished because of it. She has some muscle tone, though, due to always fighting and training her entire life. History: | Hope Wikia | Hope Wiki Previous Game History: Hope resided in Bete Noire for a full year and was only taken out once for updating. When Hope moved to the city she was originally faced with the problem of what to do without a purpose. In her home Hope lived as a sort of messiah. Her goal was to save her kind, and she took that very seriously. Bete Noire left her without her people which left her feeling undefined. Until Janet posted the next day asking for people to work in the Fire Department. Hope’s mother was a fire fighter, and though she never knew her mother she jumped at the opportunity. Shortly after this Janet disappeared from the city and the Fire Department was left in the hands of an NPC chief. Eventually Hope took control of the Fire Department and made it her own. While Hope worked for the Fire Department she did a number of things to bring the Department and the City up to code. She performed safety inspections (with an NPC crew) on buildings in Bete Noire and campaigned for more people to join the Department. During this time strife was growing between the citizens of Bete Noire and the non-supernatural vs the supernatural beings. Hope took this chance to begin looking into the strife and making a private stand to defend and protect anyone in the city who needed sanctuary. Eventually more mutants began to filter into Bete Noire, but most of them came from a different world than Hope. Even going so far as to be younger versions of themselves that didn’t know about the X-Men. Hope had issues connecting with the X-Men at home, and had even more issues connecting with the X-Men from elsewhere. She preferred to isolate herself and not communicate with them as much as possible, especially after a failed attempt at talking with Charles Xavier (au) that didn’t end so happily for either of them. During this time tensions between humans and supernaturals grew higher in Bete Noire and Hope checked in with all of them, even going so far as to consider joining Roar, though that faction didn’t last long. For a brief time Hope was switched into Cordelia Chase’s body through a science experiment that effected all of the City. During this time Hope didn’t remember herself well and spoke with Charles Xavier (ou) who helped her find out more about herself until she knew who she was properly again. The next major event to take place was the arrival of Sebastian Shaw. Hope made contact with Sebastian Shaw upon his arrival as a welcome, but upon learning who he was became instantly wary. They talked out finer points of mutant theory and established their own belief systems. Both of them ended up thinking they could get the other on their side. Hope especially believed that Shaw wasn’t so bad, buying into his charming behavior easily. He seemed to really want for the good of mutantkind, but was only misguided. Eventually Hope returned to her body. Upon returning she agreed to meet with Erik Lehnsherr (au) to test the range of her mutant abilities and the strength at different ranges by playing a game of hide and go seek. She also met with Sebastian Shaw in her normal body and tested their abilities together, sending energy back and forth between each other to build as much energy as they could by hitting the other. While out of her body Glory came to power as the Magistrate. Hope introduced herself to the Magistrate as the Fire Chief and also came out as a mutant to her (Hope being able to pass for human most of the time). She also stated that she was intending to post the next day announcing herself as a mutant to the community at large in order to put a face on the nonhuman side of the struggle in Bete Noire at Charles Xavier’s (au) suggestion. Hope instantly disliked Glory’s attitude towards nonhumans vs humans (even her prejudice at telling Hope that she was out the second she fucked up with a human) but she stayed civil for her job. The next day Hope did as she promised and made an announcement that she was a mutant, much to the support of PCs in the city who were either nonhuman or human themselves. Four days later the Sanctuary (a club in the city) was attacked by pro-humans. Hope and the growing PC Fire Department responded immediately and worked to put out the fire, though Hope was angered by what she witnessed. A week later Tony Stark began preparations and sent out invitations for a gala benefit to support the Fire Department. Hope, not being one for socializing, reluctantly agreed to attend as Chief of the Fire Department. Before the gala could take place, however, Erik Lehnsherr (au) attacked the Magistrate’s Tower and tore it to the ground. Hope was angered that Erik would do this and put non-humans back like that. It put a lot of people on edge, including Glory and the pro-human supporters. Things progressed from there and eventually the day of the Gala came. At the gala Hope danced with Sebastian Shaw, before meeting with Satan who decided to crash the party. At first Hope wasn’t sure who he was, not raised with religion or in any society with religion. However he introduced himself and Hope felt awkward, especially when he offered her as much money as she wanted. At first Hope joked with a million dollars, but Satan said that was dreaming small. So she hesitated and said a hundred million at random, and the next thing she knew Satan tucked the check into her pocked and that was that. A few days later Hope was involved in a hostage situation in a small store. While trying to help ease the situation Hope got grabbed by a man. With no mutants around to help her she was taken off guard, and Eddie Dean shot through her in a successful attempt to kill the man holding her, though she never blamed Eddie for the shot. It was hard to work with the arm but she understood her brashness hadn’t helped anyone. First Charles Xavier (au) returned updated, and him and Hope began to build the connection they’d previously abandoned. Then came Terrance ‘Trauma’ Ward. Trauma was a newbie to Bete Noire, and Hope greeted him like any other, but they his awkwardness endeared him to her and made it easier for her to relax her more professional attitude around him. The two instantly bonded, to the point that Terry even took her out shopping for clothes (Hope seriously lacking in style). The two were close in age and from the same world, though, and it helped her relax more with him than anyone else. After this Hope finally decided what to do with the check Satan gave her. She decided to use as much as she could to fund as much development in the department as possible. She hired a lot of people to repair old tools and make new ones, renovate her department, and had Tony making a second truck. She also planned to open up more buildings and hire more people, and gave her staff a raise. She was wary of what this would mean for her relations with Satan, but she knew the Department needed it and was willing to take on that risk for herself. At this time Hope disappeared and was canon updated to Regenesis (post Schism). On her return Hope was pushed to her limits as a person. She was more closed off than ever before and found it hard to even want to associate with anyone. She was stressed, overworked, scared, and panicking. But she came back and did her job, and then met with Terry again. Terry helped stabilize her when she was down, and the Strange helped teach her to level out her inner being. Slowly she calmed in the city again, taken from the pressures of her home. It’s after this that Erik Lehnsherr (au) begins to destabilize in jail. Still being for mutant rights above all else, Hope gets the call from Erik that she’s needed and demands to see him despite his state in jail. She never abandons her own kind. She forces her way into jail almost and tells Givens she’ll work with him as best she can, but Erik is her top priority. Here she sees something she only saw in new mutants on her world, powers going out of control. And here Hope touches Erik to stabilize his power. Unfortunately the city deages him as well, and soon Hope is being stalked by a tiny Erik that she takes an immediate liking too. For the next few months Hope works on her relationships with people she cares about. She even begins to date Terry and bonds more with Erik, those two mattering most in her life. Tony Stark finishes her two trucks, and for her birthday Hope buys herself a dog that she happily names ‘The Dog’ (who is often stolen by a young!Erik). Hope fights for young!Erik’s rights vs. older!Erik’s lack of them and even asks Terry to move in with her after a point (having cycled through roommates in the apartment at the Hostel she pays for though she usually lives at the Department). Eventually Hope leaves Bete Noire again and goes home, being updated to AVX #0 before being brought to OD with BN memories (if approved). previous cr. Terrance ‘Trauma’ Ward: He was late coming into her life in Abax, but when he did he was the most influential. He always made Hope stop and examine herself when she got too wrapped up in work and stress. He made her calm and more natural and relaxed. He was a perfect foil of awkwardness to her overconfidence. Erik Lehnsherr (au): Was the next influential. Despite trying to avoid the mutants who came in around the same time, Erik wormed his way into Hope’s life. Once there he became her personal project to save, and she took a lot o responsibility for him and fought for him endlessly. It helped that in her world Erik was the one of few she’d learned to trust. Sebastian Shaw: Was highly influential to Hope, despite hoping she was more influential to him. She’d hoped to make him see how to help mutants the right way, but he spent his time trying to earn her trust and use that to his advantage. She never found out, though, and to this day still respects and cares for him. He was the one that talked her into keeping Satan’s money. The Xaviers (au and ou): Hope was never close to either of them, especially AU. She found them a little hard to connect with, but they were fellow mutants and people who started the X-Men so she did her best to work with them when possible. Tony Stark: While typically more professional in their relationship, Hope still respected the man and he her. They did watch out for each other whenever possible, and Tony helped take care of her department in ways she was forever grateful for. Jack Harkness (s2): The oldest member of the Fire Department besides herself, he was Hope’s second in command. Their relationship was primarily business, but she trusted him with the department more often than anything. Stephen Strange: They didn’t interact much, but she vaguely knew of him from her world. She liked him a lot and his ideas were new and strange to her. She liked to learn from him and build what she could off his knowledge. Nathan Young: While late into the game for her, he still became her friend when she lost most of her others. He also forced her to relax more than anything and reminded her she was a teenager and how to behave and enjoy life like a teenager should. Most of her interactions with Givens and Glory were in passing and related to job type things. She knows Snape from a personal snark fest over young!Erik’s condition, and Raven (au) from Charles and having met her briefly. Her interactions with Satan were brief, however she did always feel indebted to him. And Romana was killed during the hostage event, and then lived with Terry and worked with Terry. Hope knew her through those scenarios and liked her a lot. Personality: One look at the sweet little red-head with the soft green eyes and most people take her for a sweetheart. It’s hard to understand that Hope is a soldier first, a teen second. Even talking to her a person might not get it, that while they’ve been talking the entire time she’s already planned out 7 escape routes while laughing over a shared joke. Nathan trained Hope to survive. This eliminated a lot of talk of emotions. That’s not say Nathan squandered them, but rather would more just express their discontent at things rather than sit down and talk about things like love or try to resolve anger with long heart to hearts. Always they wore their emotions on their sleeves, expressing them and then letting them go. Nathan had a policy of absolute transparency with Hope. He never wanted her to distrust him, and she never did. Instead she took all of his lessons to heart. Still, Hope is a teenager at heart. She has her moments of rebellion and those had cost her at times. She has her boiling points, though, and when pushed past them she can throw teenage fits. This is mostly out of stubborn refusal to concede, not that truly believes she’s always right. She just has to express herself. She has the ability to read situations and adapt. This is part of her soldier training, but can be applied to social situations as well. If she meets someone who is kind and warmhearted, she’ll give that back. If someone is afraid, she’ll be soothing. If someone is hospitable, she’ll punch them in the face. It’s all about the moment for her. When she’s your friend, though, she’s the most loyal friend you’ll ever have. She defends her friends lives with her very own and refuses to stay out of a battle while others battle for her. She’s always on the front lines, even when told to stay out of them. She values the lives of others above her own while everyone else values her life above theirs. Hope also struggles with a lot of things. She keeps herself busy as a distraction, but there are many things that trouble and haunt her. The number of people who have died for her, the weight she carries on her shoulders as the mutant messiah, what she will do in the future, her father’s death. Hope carries a great weight with her. She’s either mutantkind’s savior or destroyer and that’s not an easy thing to heft around at 18. This has caused Hope to reject her destiny often, and embrace it later. It’s still a heavy burden, but she’s starting to realize that if it all does weigh on her, then she’s going to step it up and be the savior mutantkind needs. And she’d do anything to protect her fellow mutants. For the early part of Hope's life her true identity was kept secret from her. Not through direct lies, but more like an omission of what's to come. Nathan did his best just to diffuse any questions about it and put it off for the future. When Hope first realized she was a mutant she was excited about it at first. But when she first realized she was the mutant messiah she was scared. Hope doesn't feel special. In fact, until recently, she didn't even think she was a mutant due to the fact that her powers never manifested. Then finding out that people were dying for her to live, because supposedly she was meant to save an entire species of people, it sort of left her feeling inadequate. She doesn't know what people expect of her and she doesn't know what she can do to save them. She gets tired of people looking at her like she's about to perform a miracle at any second. But at the same time her run in with the Lights started to show her that maybe she could make a difference. She doesn't know just how important she can or will be, but she knows that if she can help she wants to in any way that she can. She's still unsure of herself, but knowing that people need her it doesn't matter to her if she can or cannot live up to their expectations, she knows she just has to try. Nathan died for her to try. Nathan's death, especially, is why she keeps busy. For the most part, Hope is able to put tragedies behind her and move on. For her it was always about surviving. That was what Nathan taught her. The two of them had to survive. She's been troubled by things in the past, especially deaths of those she's cared for, but she's always gone by 'Win first, cry later'. And with the need to always survive, with something always there to beat and 'win' at, she's never stopped to fully address what goes on inside of her head. In fact, since coming to modern Earth Hope has been faced with more adversity than she’s fully able to handle. Upon arrival people died for her, people admired her, people loathed her. She’s watched people die and she’s watched her friends betray her and she’s watched people try to kill her. Hope has been entirely isolated from real relationships and put under more pressure than any other mutant alive. She’s the messiah, or so they say. And she’s the destroyer. On top of that Scott and Emma lied to her and hid more of the truth from her, something major and impactful that she couldn’t ignore yet they hid it from her. People play games with her and try to use her and no one asks her what she wants. So she stopped depending on people and only depends on herself. Even with the return of Nathan she no longer listens to him but does what she feels is best. She’s lost the ability to function as a human being, almost, and lives entirely as an idea. Hope's a mess in side. She has the weight of the world on her shoulders and the lives to back that up. People she has loved have died, she's seen the world destroyed, she's gone to hell and back again, because everyone expects her to be their 'messiah'. It's easy to forget all this when there's always a new mission and a new target to conquer and distract her. But without a distraction her mind heads to dark places. Without a goal to keep her happy and positive for, she retreats into the dark things she's experienced. Being so young, and now without Nathan to stop and rest with her and teach her how to deal, she doesn't quite know how to deal. It results in a turmoil of emotions erupting in anger and outbreak at others as well as breakdowns. She's not afraid to cry, but when she does finally stop to cry she's not sure how long it will take to stop. Now she’s afraid of weakness all together. She has to be the best. And she’ll sacrifice her own existence if that’s what it takes. Bete Noire effect. Hope learned responsibility from Bete Noire more than anything. She worked fiercely in the Fire Department and took total control of it. It was a substitute really for mutantkind for her, but it gave her an outlet and a practice area to target her abilities as a leader and grow as a person in that respect. She’s grown a level in maturity that her new canon updates have buried slightly, but can be brought back out once again. She’s also learned to take more time to be a teenager. To relax and let go of stress in her life. It’ll take her awhile to remember how to do this, especially without Terry around to help her in this respect, but she does her best to remember to be more normalized and not always a robot. Powers/Abilities: Hope is an Omega-Level Mutant. In X-Men history there have only ever been ten, her included, recorded Omega-Level Mutants (not to say there aren’t unrecorded ones), and there have been millions of mutants. Her powers have the potential to be the strongest of mutantkind. Due to canon still not clearly defining her powers, this section is based on what she can do as of now in canon. As more of her powers are shown in canon, I’ll likely move her through the same changes just in OD but through the same development techniques (not sudden new power but sudden discovery through similar ways). As such, she is still developing and at rest her powers are stronger than they used to be and growing constantly. In times of extreme heightened emotion (ie. her father’s death), especially, her powers come out to their fullest extent and can be either beneficial or catastrophic depending on the situation. Power Mimic. Vaguely like Rogue, Hope has the ability to take a person’s powers and use them. The difference is that Hope doesn’t have to be touching her subject to use the powers, and that when she does use them she utilizes them beyond the abilities of their original users and amplifies them to the level of a mutant of her power. It’s still unsure if she can still use a power again once used, or how close she has to be to someone to use them. As of canon so far she’s shown a need to be really close (at least the length of the golden gate bridge) to her subject to use their powers at her average moments, and can only duplicate them at the mutant’s power levels. If in heightened emotional state, though, she can utilize any mutant power she wants that she’s taken on, and use it beyond its strongest potential. Canon also dictates she cannot use a power that is not at-hand (ie. someone close by). She can only use the powers of mutants around her currently. powers acquired so far telekinesis and telepathy (from cable) energy absorption and release (from bishop) optic blasts (from cyclops) transformation of flesh to steel (from colossus) freezing with ice (still unclear if storm or iceman) psionic armor (from armor) electricity control (from storm or surge) earth manipulation (from rockslide) creation of organic matter (from kenji) super-human strength and self-propelled flight (from namor) regenerative healing factor (from wolverine) pixie wings (from pixie) transonic speed and shifting crystal skin (from transonic) magnetic field manipulation (from magneto) extreme strength (from gentle) telepathy (from emma frost/phoebe) teleportation (from magik) organic diamond form (from emma frost) these are all powers she’s shown using and can possibly recall in heightened states of emotion again Phoenix Force An unexplained power that Hope exerts more and more of as time goes on. In the past it only showed itself in her eyes. Now she uses it without even thinking twice about the new powers she’s developing or the levels she’s displaying. She uses it like it’s the most natural thing in the world. Still, she tends to only exert the power as a last ditch effort when nothing else works. So far she’s been shown cleansing Nathan (her father) of the techno-organic virus (an affliction he’s had since birth). * The next powerset explains further what might be more phoenix powers or her own abilities, likely the answer will be shown in the next six months. Power Manifestion Also known as X-Gene Stabilization. When Hope arrives in modern Earth new mutants manifest and they manifest dangerously. Hope’s hand glows, she touches them, and then they’re stable and in control and at their peaks already. She’s been seen using this on pre-existing mutants as well (phoebe cuckoo). This touch also creates a binding relationship between Hope and the affected member. She is forever a part of their lives and it’s like everything they do shifts around her. She can even nudge them mentally without their full knowledge. Even more dangerously, she can literally control them and make them do what she wants. She only uses this power to stabilize mutants, but Phoebe she did use it on in anger. It’s unsure entirely what this means, but likely has to do with either the Phoenix or her Messiah qualities. Soldier Girl Trained by Cable, Hope is a skilled fighter. Better than most soldiers, really. She has average human strength, but she’s calculating like a soldier. She knows how to use a variety of weapons as well. Weaknesses Hope is not much of a team player. She has issues with authority, and tends to make a lot of wrong decisions that don’t benefit the group. In fact, she’s damaged her entire team with her stubborn ways. She risks her neck constantly and can be highly volatile at times. Her powers are unknown and dangerous to both herself and others when she loses her control of them. And her emotional state makes her very careless. Possessions: | green and yellow tight jumpsuit | loose rags (that she ties around herself) | one tattered poncho-like thing | two knee guards | two gloves | one set of canisters with ammo | one large gun ( pictured here ) Arrival: ship arrival Reason for Playing: Hope has always been a favorite character of mine, and playing her in Bete Noire I developed her to a place that I loved but grew stale with. I never stopped liking the character, but I did want to explore her further. I think that OD provides a new setting, one she’s even vaguely used to, but a new way to deal with it. I’d like to see how it goes with her and where this new development will take her with the development from before as well. [- Writing Samples -] First person: ➘ “What are good dog names?” | pets make for good friends | ❝BN❞ ➘ “I want to say thank you to everyone…” | deals with devils | ❝BN❞ ➘ “I’ve got extra space at my place if you want to move in.” | boyfriends are complicated | ❝BN❞ ➘ “What if someone takes responsibility for him?” | pretend erik’s a kid | ❝BN❞ Third person: ➘ “Discipline? Unity? With what?” | the doctor makes a good teacher | ❝BN❞ ➘ “I understand that your priority is… everything else, but my priority is Erik.” | feelingstaking care of business | ❝BN❞ ➘ “So… we are exclusive, then? Like… boyfriend and girlfriend exclusive?” | how does dating work? | ❝BN❞       note: written in aim and posted, looks a bit clunky