Post by Neena Thurman on Feb 28, 2008 1:07:21 GMT -5
Cite: Marvel Database
Basic Stats
Name: Neena Thurman
Codename: Domino
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Occupation: Mercenary
Place of Birth: Alkali Lake Military Facility
Place of Residence: no permanent residence
Known Relatives:
Lazarus (half-brother)
Dr. Milo Thurman (husband – deceased)
Col. William Stryker (adopted father – deceased)
Alliance: Neutral
Physical Stats
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 120
Eyes: Black
Hair: Black
Avatar: Angelina Jolie
Abilities
Mutation:
Domino’s mutant ability subliminally and psionically initiates random telekinetic acts that affect probability in her favor by making improbable (but not impossible) things to occur within her line of sight, thus causing her to have "good luck" and her opponents to have "bad luck." This phenomenon can be anything from an enemy's equipment failure to hitting just the right switch with a stray shot to shut down an overloading nuclear reactor. The full extent of her powers is still unknown.
This effect constantly emanates from her body at all times and is completely subconscious. However, it is also largely participatory - in order for the luck to take effect, Domino herself must engage in an action whose chance she can affect. She cannot consciously control her ability, Domino can only activate it by putting herself in a position in which she could be harmed. For example, if debris falling from the sky was about to hit her in the head, she would still be hurt if she stood still. However, if she tried to avoid them, she would move perfectly to avoid each and every piece about to hit her. In addition, if Domino where to stand before a hail of bullets she would be a bullet-ridden corpse. Instead, she must take action; in attempting to avoid the gunfire, she will miraculously bob and weave just right to avoid every single shot.
As a byproduct of her probability abilities, Domino's cerebral cortex emits a current of bioelectric pulses down her spine to instinctively guide her movements during such situations, which has the added effect of augmenting her natural reflexes and agility to near-superhuman levels.
Skills:
Domino is a superb marksman with various firearms. She has undergone extensive training in various armed and unarmed combat techniques, including martial arts. She is also adept in the use of explosives, both in arming and disarming. Domino is also fluent in multiple languages, the most notable of which are Spanish, Arabic, French, and Chinese.
Personality:
Domino is:
Obedient: Domino is a weapon, trained to kill whatever she was directed too. She was taught not to question her orders or consider any deeper implications to her actions. While she has recently begun to pull away from this, she is still more comfortable in heretical situations, and she usually doesn’t question orders or directions when they come from someone in authority.
Independent: – Domino does not play well with others, professionally or personally. She does not like to discuss things with others, does not like to adapt her plans to conform to others needs, and does not like having to take other people into consideration. That said, she does enjoy working with people who are of a similar skill level and mind set to herself, who she can trust to get the job done and stay out of her way doing it. She is very social and enjoys the company of others, so long as they don’t interfere with her way of life.
Impulsive: Domino acts first and thinks later. She lives her life entirely on instinct, something influenced by the nature of her powers, and is quick to give in to her gut instincts. She rarely sticks with plans or schedules, and is always changing and rewriting her life.
Stubborn: When Domino decides she’s going to do something, or isn’t going to do something, there isn’t anything on heaven or earth that can change her mind. Whether it’s completing a mission or being someone’s friends, she will stubbornly persist in it no matter how hard the world tries to sway her otherwise. Sometimes she will change her own mind in her own time, but the harder people try to change it for her the more stubbornly she clings to whatever it is.
History:
The woman known as Domino is the result of a top-secret government-breeding project intended to develop the perfect weapon. Based of the old Weapon X project, it sought to create genetically perfect human soldiers, as the mutant soldiers created in the previous incarnation had proven to be both unstable and unpredictable.
It used genetic material collected from individuals deemed to have suitable traits for reproduction in order to produce human soldiers that were genetically superior to those born through normal reproductive methods. Most of the genetic donors were not told they were participating in the project and their identities were kept secret from the children produced through the project. As a result, Domino has no idea who her genetic donors (as she refers to her biological parents) were and they, in turn, have no idea that she even exists.
Project Armageddon initially produced thirteen children, of which Domino was the youngest. They were raised at Alkali Lake, under the supervision of Colonel William Stryker, who over saw their training and Dr. Beatrice Evans, who was responsible for creation. These two people would be the closest thing to parents in Domino’s life.
Domino was raised in a strict, militaristic training project that was designed to push the children to their limits and identify the strong from the weak. It was so demanding and unforgiving that out of the thirteen children originally conceived through the project, only Domino would survive to adulthood. Her survival was aided in large part by her probability-altering mutant power.
Despite the fact that Domino was the only student to complete the project, the fact that she was a mutant meant she was considered a failure by the project’s standards. They had already tried to create the perfect mutant weapon, and Domino was nowhere near at his level. She was branded a failure and Dr. Beatrice Evans was forced to return to the drawing board to try and figure out what had gone wrong.
At fifteen, Domino had no where else to go and knew no other life then the one she’d been living at Alkali Lake. So even though she had been disqualified from Project Armageddon, she continued to work for Stryker. Her mutation was almost invisible, easily over looked as nothing more then good luck, and her training in the project made her the perfect henchman. For the next seven years she would serve as his own personal mercenary, performing tasks that were too difficult or sensitive for the regular soldiers to be involved.
The fact she was a mutant was kept secret from everyone outside of Project Armageddon. Only Stryker and Dr. Beatrice knew the truth about her DNA, everyone else assumed she was just another henchmen. Stryker treated her as his own personal pet, adopting an attitude towards her that might have been mistaken as fatherly by those who didn’t know better. Since Domino has been raised to follow orders without questioning, she was the perfect henchmen, following Stryker blindly and obediently. Unlike the other mutants who would alter serve him, there was no need to use Jason Stryker to brainwash her or mentally control her. Her upbringing had been brainwash enough.
When she was 18, Domino would become briefly involved with Dr. Milo Thurman, one of the scientists working at Lake Alkali. Dr. Thurman was the only person who ever showed an interest in Domino as a person, instead of as a weapon, and she quickly fell in love with him, despite the almost 20 year age difference. Although he had never been involved with Project Armageddon and knew nothing of Domino’s past, Dr. Thurman would quickly guess the secret of her mutant ability, but unlike the others who knew, he would accept that part of her and encourage her to see it as a positive part of her life instead of a disability.
Eventually Stryker would come to realize that extent of Dr. Thurman’s influence over Domino and come to fear that the two might attempt to leave his employment. He would be faced with a choice: one of the two would have to go, either Domino or Dr. Thurman. Perhaps it was Dr. Thurman’s pro-mutant views, perhaps it was his fatherish attachment to the girl he’d watched over from infancy, but Stryker never hesitated. Dr. Thurman was killed in a lab explosion in one of the outlaying building.
After his death, Domino would begin calling herself Neena Thurman and referring to Dr. Thurman as her late-husband. She claims the two were married three weeks before the explosion, but there is no proof as to whether or not this actually happened.
It was common knowledge that Project Armageddon had continued after Domino’s failure to meet project standards. They had begun breeding new children soon after it become obvious that the first batch had been a failure, and the second class was already inseminated by the time Domino was rejected from the project. Domino had never been particularly surprised or bothered by the creation of a second class, superior to her own, as she had never been particularly surprised or bothered to see her former friends and classmates killed as the struggled to survive the complex tasks set before her. Occasionally she herself would participate in the training process and push the children to complete harder and harder tasks. She never, however, spent much personal time with any of the children or thought much of them outside of their few encounters.
All that would change shortly after her 22 birthday when she would learn that one of the children created in this second class shared one of the same genetic donors as she. She was in Asia at the time, completing a routine assassination mission and the news, given to her by the women she’d been sent to kill, completely threw her. She had assumed that Dr. Beatrice would reuse some of the genetic donors from her class, but it was the language that the women used that threw her. Half-brother. She had never considered applying familial terms to the project. The genetic donors were never described as parents, the children who shared a genetic donor were never described as siblings. But once the women had used the term, she would find it impossible to get out of her head.
She completed her mission and returned to Aklani, struggling with the realization that one of the children currently living on the fourth floor corridors not only shared one of her genetic donors but was, in fact, her brother. She wasn’t sure what to do with this news, if it should some how change her behavior or her reality, or what she should do with the information.
She would never have a chance to find out as she would arrive in New York on the heals of the x-men’s departure, finding the base destroyed, the dam broken, and the lake flooded. Stryker was dead, Lady Deathstrike was dead, Dr. Beatrice was dead, the Project Armageddon children were dead, everyone she’d ever known or worked with was dead.
Set adrift for the first time in her life, Domino would drift aimlessly from job to job. She discovered that she could make a lot of money doing the jobs she’d always done for Stryker for free, that mercenaries were in surprisingly high demand, especially those who didn’t ask questions or struggle with their conscience. Occasionally she would consider using her newfound freedom to go after the X-men, who she blamed for the deaths of Dr. Thurston, Stryker, Dr. Beatrice, Lady Deathstrike, and her unnamed brother. But she never did anything. She was only just learning about what Stryker’s work had really done, or nearly done, to the mutant population, to Lady Deathstrike, to his own son. While he’d always known that there was something wrong with Lady Deathstrike, with Jason Stryker, with the kidnapped children from the Xavier Academy, with Stryker’s view of the world, it was only now that she began to realize what had really been going on, and she found herself unable to blame the X-men for their retaliation. She would never forgive them for it, but she wouldn’t seek revenge.
Domino continued to hide her mutant ability, as she had while working for Stryker, and no one suspected that she was anything more then an ex-soldier, making a living. She probably would have continued living the lie if she had not heard a rumor that the Project Armageddon children had survived the attack on Alkali Lake, and were still undergoing training at a new, secret location.
With nothing else in her life to give her structure and meaning, Domino began searching for the Project Armageddon children, all of who are currently 10 years old. One of them is her half-brother, whose name she has since learned is Lazarus. The others include the siblings and half-siblings of the children she had grown up with and watched die trying to fulfill the project’s goals, and she feels a strange kinship with them. They are the only family she has left and in this new, empty world, family has become deeply important to her.
So far she has found no trace of them.
Sample Post:
See Outlaw
Player Information:
Name: Jani
Age: 26
Contact Information:
Other Characters: Outlaw
Basic Stats
Name: Neena Thurman
Codename
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Occupation: Mercenary
Place of Birth: Alkali Lake Military Facility
Place of Residence: no permanent residence
Known Relatives:
Lazarus (half-brother)
Dr. Milo Thurman (husband – deceased)
Col. William Stryker (adopted father – deceased)
Alliance: Neutral
Physical Stats
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 120
Eyes: Black
Hair: Black
Avatar: Angelina Jolie
Abilities
Mutation:
Domino’s mutant ability subliminally and psionically initiates random telekinetic acts that affect probability in her favor by making improbable (but not impossible) things to occur within her line of sight, thus causing her to have "good luck" and her opponents to have "bad luck." This phenomenon can be anything from an enemy's equipment failure to hitting just the right switch with a stray shot to shut down an overloading nuclear reactor. The full extent of her powers is still unknown.
This effect constantly emanates from her body at all times and is completely subconscious. However, it is also largely participatory - in order for the luck to take effect, Domino herself must engage in an action whose chance she can affect. She cannot consciously control her ability, Domino can only activate it by putting herself in a position in which she could be harmed. For example, if debris falling from the sky was about to hit her in the head, she would still be hurt if she stood still. However, if she tried to avoid them, she would move perfectly to avoid each and every piece about to hit her. In addition, if Domino where to stand before a hail of bullets she would be a bullet-ridden corpse. Instead, she must take action; in attempting to avoid the gunfire, she will miraculously bob and weave just right to avoid every single shot.
As a byproduct of her probability abilities, Domino's cerebral cortex emits a current of bioelectric pulses down her spine to instinctively guide her movements during such situations, which has the added effect of augmenting her natural reflexes and agility to near-superhuman levels.
Skills:
Domino is a superb marksman with various firearms. She has undergone extensive training in various armed and unarmed combat techniques, including martial arts. She is also adept in the use of explosives, both in arming and disarming. Domino is also fluent in multiple languages, the most notable of which are Spanish, Arabic, French, and Chinese.
Personality:
Domino is:
Obedient: Domino is a weapon, trained to kill whatever she was directed too. She was taught not to question her orders or consider any deeper implications to her actions. While she has recently begun to pull away from this, she is still more comfortable in heretical situations, and she usually doesn’t question orders or directions when they come from someone in authority.
Independent: – Domino does not play well with others, professionally or personally. She does not like to discuss things with others, does not like to adapt her plans to conform to others needs, and does not like having to take other people into consideration. That said, she does enjoy working with people who are of a similar skill level and mind set to herself, who she can trust to get the job done and stay out of her way doing it. She is very social and enjoys the company of others, so long as they don’t interfere with her way of life.
Impulsive: Domino acts first and thinks later. She lives her life entirely on instinct, something influenced by the nature of her powers, and is quick to give in to her gut instincts. She rarely sticks with plans or schedules, and is always changing and rewriting her life.
Stubborn: When Domino decides she’s going to do something, or isn’t going to do something, there isn’t anything on heaven or earth that can change her mind. Whether it’s completing a mission or being someone’s friends, she will stubbornly persist in it no matter how hard the world tries to sway her otherwise. Sometimes she will change her own mind in her own time, but the harder people try to change it for her the more stubbornly she clings to whatever it is.
History:
The woman known as Domino is the result of a top-secret government-breeding project intended to develop the perfect weapon. Based of the old Weapon X project, it sought to create genetically perfect human soldiers, as the mutant soldiers created in the previous incarnation had proven to be both unstable and unpredictable.
It used genetic material collected from individuals deemed to have suitable traits for reproduction in order to produce human soldiers that were genetically superior to those born through normal reproductive methods. Most of the genetic donors were not told they were participating in the project and their identities were kept secret from the children produced through the project. As a result, Domino has no idea who her genetic donors (as she refers to her biological parents) were and they, in turn, have no idea that she even exists.
Project Armageddon initially produced thirteen children, of which Domino was the youngest. They were raised at Alkali Lake, under the supervision of Colonel William Stryker, who over saw their training and Dr. Beatrice Evans, who was responsible for creation. These two people would be the closest thing to parents in Domino’s life.
Domino was raised in a strict, militaristic training project that was designed to push the children to their limits and identify the strong from the weak. It was so demanding and unforgiving that out of the thirteen children originally conceived through the project, only Domino would survive to adulthood. Her survival was aided in large part by her probability-altering mutant power.
Despite the fact that Domino was the only student to complete the project, the fact that she was a mutant meant she was considered a failure by the project’s standards. They had already tried to create the perfect mutant weapon, and Domino was nowhere near at his level. She was branded a failure and Dr. Beatrice Evans was forced to return to the drawing board to try and figure out what had gone wrong.
At fifteen, Domino had no where else to go and knew no other life then the one she’d been living at Alkali Lake. So even though she had been disqualified from Project Armageddon, she continued to work for Stryker. Her mutation was almost invisible, easily over looked as nothing more then good luck, and her training in the project made her the perfect henchman. For the next seven years she would serve as his own personal mercenary, performing tasks that were too difficult or sensitive for the regular soldiers to be involved.
The fact she was a mutant was kept secret from everyone outside of Project Armageddon. Only Stryker and Dr. Beatrice knew the truth about her DNA, everyone else assumed she was just another henchmen. Stryker treated her as his own personal pet, adopting an attitude towards her that might have been mistaken as fatherly by those who didn’t know better. Since Domino has been raised to follow orders without questioning, she was the perfect henchmen, following Stryker blindly and obediently. Unlike the other mutants who would alter serve him, there was no need to use Jason Stryker to brainwash her or mentally control her. Her upbringing had been brainwash enough.
When she was 18, Domino would become briefly involved with Dr. Milo Thurman, one of the scientists working at Lake Alkali. Dr. Thurman was the only person who ever showed an interest in Domino as a person, instead of as a weapon, and she quickly fell in love with him, despite the almost 20 year age difference. Although he had never been involved with Project Armageddon and knew nothing of Domino’s past, Dr. Thurman would quickly guess the secret of her mutant ability, but unlike the others who knew, he would accept that part of her and encourage her to see it as a positive part of her life instead of a disability.
Eventually Stryker would come to realize that extent of Dr. Thurman’s influence over Domino and come to fear that the two might attempt to leave his employment. He would be faced with a choice: one of the two would have to go, either Domino or Dr. Thurman. Perhaps it was Dr. Thurman’s pro-mutant views, perhaps it was his fatherish attachment to the girl he’d watched over from infancy, but Stryker never hesitated. Dr. Thurman was killed in a lab explosion in one of the outlaying building.
After his death, Domino would begin calling herself Neena Thurman and referring to Dr. Thurman as her late-husband. She claims the two were married three weeks before the explosion, but there is no proof as to whether or not this actually happened.
It was common knowledge that Project Armageddon had continued after Domino’s failure to meet project standards. They had begun breeding new children soon after it become obvious that the first batch had been a failure, and the second class was already inseminated by the time Domino was rejected from the project. Domino had never been particularly surprised or bothered by the creation of a second class, superior to her own, as she had never been particularly surprised or bothered to see her former friends and classmates killed as the struggled to survive the complex tasks set before her. Occasionally she herself would participate in the training process and push the children to complete harder and harder tasks. She never, however, spent much personal time with any of the children or thought much of them outside of their few encounters.
All that would change shortly after her 22 birthday when she would learn that one of the children created in this second class shared one of the same genetic donors as she. She was in Asia at the time, completing a routine assassination mission and the news, given to her by the women she’d been sent to kill, completely threw her. She had assumed that Dr. Beatrice would reuse some of the genetic donors from her class, but it was the language that the women used that threw her. Half-brother. She had never considered applying familial terms to the project. The genetic donors were never described as parents, the children who shared a genetic donor were never described as siblings. But once the women had used the term, she would find it impossible to get out of her head.
She completed her mission and returned to Aklani, struggling with the realization that one of the children currently living on the fourth floor corridors not only shared one of her genetic donors but was, in fact, her brother. She wasn’t sure what to do with this news, if it should some how change her behavior or her reality, or what she should do with the information.
She would never have a chance to find out as she would arrive in New York on the heals of the x-men’s departure, finding the base destroyed, the dam broken, and the lake flooded. Stryker was dead, Lady Deathstrike was dead, Dr. Beatrice was dead, the Project Armageddon children were dead, everyone she’d ever known or worked with was dead.
Set adrift for the first time in her life, Domino would drift aimlessly from job to job. She discovered that she could make a lot of money doing the jobs she’d always done for Stryker for free, that mercenaries were in surprisingly high demand, especially those who didn’t ask questions or struggle with their conscience. Occasionally she would consider using her newfound freedom to go after the X-men, who she blamed for the deaths of Dr. Thurston, Stryker, Dr. Beatrice, Lady Deathstrike, and her unnamed brother. But she never did anything. She was only just learning about what Stryker’s work had really done, or nearly done, to the mutant population, to Lady Deathstrike, to his own son. While he’d always known that there was something wrong with Lady Deathstrike, with Jason Stryker, with the kidnapped children from the Xavier Academy, with Stryker’s view of the world, it was only now that she began to realize what had really been going on, and she found herself unable to blame the X-men for their retaliation. She would never forgive them for it, but she wouldn’t seek revenge.
Domino continued to hide her mutant ability, as she had while working for Stryker, and no one suspected that she was anything more then an ex-soldier, making a living. She probably would have continued living the lie if she had not heard a rumor that the Project Armageddon children had survived the attack on Alkali Lake, and were still undergoing training at a new, secret location.
With nothing else in her life to give her structure and meaning, Domino began searching for the Project Armageddon children, all of who are currently 10 years old. One of them is her half-brother, whose name she has since learned is Lazarus. The others include the siblings and half-siblings of the children she had grown up with and watched die trying to fulfill the project’s goals, and she feels a strange kinship with them. They are the only family she has left and in this new, empty world, family has become deeply important to her.
So far she has found no trace of them.
Sample Post:
See Outlaw
Player Information:
Name: Jani
Age: 26
Contact Information:
Other Characters: Outlaw