Post by Dr. Cecilia Reyes on Feb 17, 2008 23:08:47 GMT -5
Basic Stats
Name: Cecilia Rosalie Reyes, M.D. [Intro-venal Medicines]
Codename: Aegis
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Occupation:Medical Doctor at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning
Place of Birth: Jamaica, Queens, New York
Place of Residence: Xavier Mansion
Known Relatives:
Miguel Reyes Sr. [Father, deceased]
Lucille Reyes [Mother]
Miguel Reyes Jr. [Brother, estranged]
Alliance: Reserve X-Man, Faculty
Physical Stats
Height: 5 foot 7
Weight: 135 pounds
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Avatar: Mya Harrison
Abilities
Mutation:
Aegis is a mutant capable of producing a plasmoid-natured Force Field. This psionically generated force field is seen through an orange globule-like power signature, and is essentially consistent all through Cecilia’s body and varies six feet off in any direction, head to toe. This force field is not your typical mental force of will, but is a representation of Cecilia’s psionic energies in a different production. These plasmodia react to danger focused on the host, being Cecilia, and is subconsciously reacted by her id. If someone were to shoot a bullet at Cecilia, before she could even think about it her body would instantly register the danger of such an act and project her force field to prevent Cecilia from as much harm as it possibly could prevent. This reactionary time is rarely thought of by Cecilia, and a simple sub-conscious reaction to whatever would threaten to harm her.
Cecilia Reyes has also learned how to cognitively manipulate her force fields to work for her. Aside from their generic defensive techniques, Cecilia has learned how to project force fields at will and control their size - as long as they do not surpass the six feet from her body limit. These force fields are not generic to Cecilia, and defend anyone behind them, allowing her to be a defensive powerhouse to her teammates as well as herself. Her force fields grow stronger as her mental will and control over them do, allowing Cecilia to rival most body armors and durability mutations simply through her controlled psionic force of mind and will power. Although the force field can encompass more people than Cecilia, only Cecilia’s mental prowess can enhance and empower it.
Aside from the defensive nature of Aegis’ power, Cecilia can also fathom and fashion offensive properties to her bio-field. With mental projection, Cecilia can fashion her bio-field into an array of melee enhancements. Her fists can become coated in a thick resemblance of the shield, allowing a greater pack to her punches and the same asserts itself to her kicks, elbowing, and all other forms of physical assault. Aside from just enhancing her melee assaults she can also fashion her bio-field into bio-plasmic weaponry fueled from her very own imagination and willpower. In a sense, spikes and rods worthy of splitting molecules and impaling humanoids can generate themselves from the sheer will power of Cecilia’s psyche to aid her in combat and whatever other needs that may arise. Cecilia’s power over this aspect of her mutation is not very refined, but with work and dedication put into it, a chance at a truly dead manipulation of her mutation is on the horizon.
However, to all of Aegis’ powers, there is a draw back. As previously mentioned, her psionic will is the generator for her power and as equal to that - it is also the fuel. The damage she receives while using her bio-field to protect her is therefore delegated to mental assault, instead of physical assault. It takes a great psionic force of will to keep against consistent assault, and it generally wears away at Cecilia’s mental fatigue. As a result of her powers being controlled through mental will, Aegis is easily susceptible to mental suggestion and intrusion by psionic mutants because her brain has to constantly keep her mentality fluid to work with her defensive aspect of her mutation.
Although it has not be devised yet, it is quite possible that Cecilia’s mental structure has also mutated along with her body to provide a suepr-human outlet for mental bombardment and fatigue than a normal human being or non-psionic related mutant would be able to withstand and conquer.
Skills:
Cecilia is a very gifted woman asides from her mutation. Being a Grade A student, Cecilia is very adapt to learning new things and encompassing a wide array of ideas into her near-photographic class memory. She has a quick wit and a quick thought process, one that often bypasses the ability for others to comprehend or converse with her. Although she isn’t a genius-class intellect, Cecilia is quite a well-renowned mutant doctor in the Westchester Area and has her quirks about her.
Cecilia is trained in intro-venal medicine, allowing her to prescribe medication, offer analysis of patients, and intervene on behalf of a willing patient’s life, otherwise known as the requirement to preform surgery or other related tasks.
Through Kurt Wagner, Cecilia has learned a decent level of hand-to-hand melee combat and how to fence, using traditional weaponry. However, Cecilia prefers smaller weapons, such as hunting daggers.
Through the published works of Henry McCoy, PhD; Cecilia has learned much about genetics and has quickly grown to become quite the mutant geneticist despite her training in surgical medicines.
Personality:
The most notable thing about Cecilia’s personality is her quick wit and sharp tongue. Having grown up in somewhat hostile and attitude-prone environments, Cecilia learned from an early age how to grow a thick skin and defend herself verbally when need be. Though not one for physical altercation, Cecilia has always preferred to stump those who come at her with words and thought that sometimes goes over the heads of those around her. Even in natural conversation, Cecilia’s sense of humor is often a cynical and hard one to understand, that very few people ever find the direct humor from. Although Cecilia never means to alienate anyone, her less-than-political nature can often find itself upsetting those who are much softer to demographics and social standards that Cecilia simply does not let govern her life. Realizing that by faking who you are only causes a much worse outcome when those who you wish to not, find out what you are all about; she has promised herself to keep herself as wide as an open book emotionally as she can. Whether you choose to like her or not is your choice, but she won’t change herself for anyone - life is too short to be worrying about anyone but what you, yourself feel and think.
Despite her cynical outlook on life and apparent sarcasm, Cecilia does have a natural maternal and helpful nature about her underneath the hardened exterior. Her profession has shown her a world of suffering and depression that she never thought had existed in such a profession. Feeling compassion for her patients has been one of Cecilia’s greatest weaknesses and greatest strengths. She often finds herself intertwined with her work, and she does whatever she can to save or change a life. Losing a life is something that impacts Cecilia greatly, as she takes her work as if it was a gift from god - a calling that she is here to be a healer and preserve the sanctity of life. In some ways, Cecilia is too deeply intertwined into her duty and it can often effect her mood. Nonetheless, Cecilia is nothing short of professional.
Although previously denouncing and hiding the mutant aspect of her life, Cecilia has gradually come to accept and meet her new life in ways she never assumed she would have before. Taking part in X-Men exercises such as the Danger Room and becoming close friends with the blue-furred Nightcrawler has entirely changed her outlook on the beauty of mutation. The work of Henry P. McCoy is also another thing that has greatly influenced Cecilia as she finds herself diving deeper and deeper into genetics, formerly denouncing science as something for geeky nerds who try to find importance in their every day lives. Cecilia has always been the hands-on woman applying science to medicine, and now finds herself resorting to science to preserve medicine. An interesting change in her ethics has Cecilia conflicted often on how to treat her patients and events, but she has remained fully committed to her mutant kin and her work at the Xavier Institute.
One thing that generally annoys Cecilia is that of intolerance. Having grown up as a second generation immigrant, Cecilia knows all too well the mal-natured stares of those who deem her different. No matter the color of skin, orientation, race, ethnicity, gender, mutation, or religion - Cecilia sees everyone as a human being. She can only hope that some day humanity can agree with her on this aspect, but until then, Cecilia just tries to demand that everyone in her presence be tolerant towards others and does not take any sense of racism, nationalism, or subjection to another’s culture lightly. Ethics is something that in medicine and in life that Cecilia Reyes practices and preaches; a dominant portion of her personality is often routed in her upbringing and guides her morals today.
As with most doctors and scientists, Cecilia is an atheist. She has known despair and decay all too much in her life and believes that there can be no god who would allow his creations to kill and destroy the sanctity of what others try to preserve and build upon. The fact that in life there are those who week to build and those who seek to destroy disgusts Cecilia. Peaceful co-existence of all beings is what she strives for, and finds religion as a divider of this. Though many people would see her as amoral as a result, Cecilia governs herself a decent natured human being should, in her mind. Cecilia is pro-choice and is very liberal about most things to match her sharp tongue.
History:
Born to first generation Puerto Rican immigrants, Cecilia and her older brother of three years; Miguel - had grown up in a somewhat impoverished section of Jamaica in Queens, New York. Though the section of the community was not nearly a desired one, Cecilia and Miguel were very close, as a typical hispanic male he always preferred his role as a protector and provider to his sister and family. Unfortunately, great tragedy would strike the Reyes’ early on. Miguel Reyes Sr, the patriarch of the family, provided for his children and spouse by being a Police Officer in the New York City Police Department. Unfortunately, racist tensions and Miguel’s inability to move politically up the Irish-Italian dominated ladder caused him to be stuck with undesirable tasks about the city. One of these tasks was a night-shift prowl about some of the projects in Manhattan - a task usually devised for rookies; not someone who had ten years on the force already.
During one of his beats, Miguel Reyes was shot multiple times in the chest and limbs, and was rushed to St. Mercy Hospital in the heart of Manhattan. Lucille took Miguel Jr. and Cecilia with her to go and see their wounded, and quickly dying father as she knew his outlook was grim and he would die within hours from loss of blood and shattered organs and arteries. It was there in his bed wherein he lied, unable to speak or think, while his wife and children watched on. Cecilia was only seven at this point, and Miguel was but ten. In this very moment, both of the Reyes children knew how they would want to lead their lives. Miguel was vengeful and spited at what had occurred to his father and desired to join the Army and bring an end to evil people and beings everywhere; whereas Cecilia wanted to become a Medical Doctor and further technology and advance medicine so perhaps someday somewhere a man like her father would not need to suffer the same fate.
The result of their father’s death caused the entire life of the Reyes’ to turn upside down. Cecilia would find herself diving into schoolwork just to ignore the destruction of what she had known as a young girl and would graduate at the top of her class from Public School and gain a free ride through governmental Financial Aid and her educational grants to Columbia University in New York City. Around this time, Miguel was already moving up through the military ranks and began to be able to provide for his mother and Cecilia. While she was grateful for her brother’s contributions to her lifestyle, Cecilia could not forgive his darkened personality and change in person that had become so much unlike what he had been. As a result, when Cecilia had finished her college years she would go into her associate Medical field at the age of twenty-seven and leave most of her past behind her, telling Miguel that when he found himself he could come find her.
Living her life as a single woman, Cecilia had become very career oriented and rarely, if ever, dated. She had her boyfriends in college but had severed from them as much as she had severed from her family. Cecilia did not need someone else’s emotional baggage, and that was a virtue she would stay true to. By shutting her out from everything else, Cecilia was able to focus on herself and ignore the bullshit that led everyone else’s lives. Unfortunately, there was one tid bit of information that had changed Dr. Reyes forever - she was a mutant. Years ago in High School she had learned of her mutancy when a boy went to force himself on her - and potentially rape and kill her. Her body reacted in an unprecedented way than ever before and her orange globule spikes shot from her chest and impaled the assailant to death until Cecilia returned to a feeling of safety. She was shocked by the incident, and never told anyone. Since her energies had been what killed the man, his death was an unsolved case even to this day.
Keeping her mutancy hidden would not be something that Cecilia could do for long, however. Although she had been well acquainted with the works of Henry McCoy and Charles Xavier, Cecilia Reyes never assumed in her goal of being a surgeon that the research work of these two mutant-specialists would ever cross paths with her life. Unfortunately, when a mutant patient with an obvious physical mutation had been admitted to her hospital, Cecilia found that none of her co-workers wanted to operate on the man at all. They were being downright racist, and having faced plenty of discrimination for her hispanic heritage she knew she could not let this man die and immediately went to work on him - saving his life, at the time shattering her co-worker’s opinions of her. Like her father, Cecilia found herself put down by the same politico which could have essentially been what claimed his life.
Shortly after this event, Erik Lehnsherr, the mutant known as Magneto caused a great threat at Liberty Island and almost caused serious harm to humankind in Manhattan. The publication and propaganda of this event called for a great ousting against mutants as Reverend William Stryker had set out to continue Senator Kelly’s work of branding and imprisoning mutants. When one of Cecilia’s co-workers was revealed to also be a mutant, the doctors in their ward sought to turn him into the government, namely the platoon that Cecilia’s brother, Miguel was in charge of. Seeing Miguel for the first time in ten years had a great impact on Cecilia, and she revealed her own mutancy to Miguel and her co-workers which ousted her from St. Mercy’s hospital and therefore the livelihood that she had worked so hard for. Miguel found it hard to accept that Cecilia was a mutant and although he had detained her co-worker, his last act of mercy was letting her set free, though he would come and find her and treat as every other ‘monster’ in his book that threatened humanity.
Greatly saddened by the man that her brother had become, Cecilia quickly liquidated all of her assets and left the Manhattan area during the time that Stryker had assaulted the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters. Hearing about the assault on the mansion, Cecilia felt that perhaps her services could go to use there and quickly took off to offer them to the staff there. The work that the X-Men had done at the Arklay Dam had set back anti-mutant tensions a bit, allowing Cecilia to establish her name back in Westchester and although she had a side-practice alongside the mansion, she was also a medical consultant for Henry McCoy. Becoming familiar with his own work on mutants, Cecilia began developing her medicinal trade to expand into understanding mutants and brief preface on genetics. With simple tutelage from Henry McCoy’s published works, Cecilia was able to learn much about how anatomy could vary with mutants and was even learning about her own powers.
Following the events at Arcatraz Island and the release of the Cure; Cecilia realized that mutants were in graver danger than ever before and once more moved back into the Mansion. With the recent disappearance of Beast at the Mansion’s staff, Cecilia took up the position of head Medical Consultant to the growing student body at the Institute and pretty much found her entire medical sphere warping into something new. She was a previous surgeon who had now become a geneticist, and as much as her own trade was evolving - so were the threats to mutant kind. The sentient virus known as the Chimera Virus would soon sweep across Mutant Town as Cecilia quickly worked on a cure. A showdown between the brotherhood and a few select members of the X-Men were able to quell the threat that the government’s Virus had on the occupants of Mutant Town though mutants had once more found themselves back at odds they hoped had ended with Stryker.
Originally not wanting anything to do with the X-Men or their costuming selves, Cecilia Reyes agreed to join the reserve squad of X-Men up-taking the code-name Aegis when in combat. Finding a close friend in Kurt Wagner, Nightcrawler, Cecilia found herself to have quite the aptitude for physical combat and was learning from him as much as she was able to learn from the Danger Room. Throwing away her past life proved to be fruitful for Cecilia, as she had expanded more as a person in her past three years than she had in most of her life. What more lays in store for the mutant doctor remains to be seen, but exploring herself is something she often finds herself doing - in-between the constant medical cases of the students and the threat to mutant kind as a whole. Now if only Beast would return...
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Name: Chris
Age: 19
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Name: Cecilia Rosalie Reyes, M.D. [Intro-venal Medicines]
Codename
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Occupation:Medical Doctor at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning
Place of Birth: Jamaica, Queens, New York
Place of Residence: Xavier Mansion
Known Relatives:
Miguel Reyes Sr. [Father, deceased]
Lucille Reyes [Mother]
Miguel Reyes Jr. [Brother, estranged]
Alliance: Reserve X-Man, Faculty
Physical Stats
Height: 5 foot 7
Weight: 135 pounds
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Avatar: Mya Harrison
Abilities
Mutation:
Aegis is a mutant capable of producing a plasmoid-natured Force Field. This psionically generated force field is seen through an orange globule-like power signature, and is essentially consistent all through Cecilia’s body and varies six feet off in any direction, head to toe. This force field is not your typical mental force of will, but is a representation of Cecilia’s psionic energies in a different production. These plasmodia react to danger focused on the host, being Cecilia, and is subconsciously reacted by her id. If someone were to shoot a bullet at Cecilia, before she could even think about it her body would instantly register the danger of such an act and project her force field to prevent Cecilia from as much harm as it possibly could prevent. This reactionary time is rarely thought of by Cecilia, and a simple sub-conscious reaction to whatever would threaten to harm her.
Cecilia Reyes has also learned how to cognitively manipulate her force fields to work for her. Aside from their generic defensive techniques, Cecilia has learned how to project force fields at will and control their size - as long as they do not surpass the six feet from her body limit. These force fields are not generic to Cecilia, and defend anyone behind them, allowing her to be a defensive powerhouse to her teammates as well as herself. Her force fields grow stronger as her mental will and control over them do, allowing Cecilia to rival most body armors and durability mutations simply through her controlled psionic force of mind and will power. Although the force field can encompass more people than Cecilia, only Cecilia’s mental prowess can enhance and empower it.
Aside from the defensive nature of Aegis’ power, Cecilia can also fathom and fashion offensive properties to her bio-field. With mental projection, Cecilia can fashion her bio-field into an array of melee enhancements. Her fists can become coated in a thick resemblance of the shield, allowing a greater pack to her punches and the same asserts itself to her kicks, elbowing, and all other forms of physical assault. Aside from just enhancing her melee assaults she can also fashion her bio-field into bio-plasmic weaponry fueled from her very own imagination and willpower. In a sense, spikes and rods worthy of splitting molecules and impaling humanoids can generate themselves from the sheer will power of Cecilia’s psyche to aid her in combat and whatever other needs that may arise. Cecilia’s power over this aspect of her mutation is not very refined, but with work and dedication put into it, a chance at a truly dead manipulation of her mutation is on the horizon.
However, to all of Aegis’ powers, there is a draw back. As previously mentioned, her psionic will is the generator for her power and as equal to that - it is also the fuel. The damage she receives while using her bio-field to protect her is therefore delegated to mental assault, instead of physical assault. It takes a great psionic force of will to keep against consistent assault, and it generally wears away at Cecilia’s mental fatigue. As a result of her powers being controlled through mental will, Aegis is easily susceptible to mental suggestion and intrusion by psionic mutants because her brain has to constantly keep her mentality fluid to work with her defensive aspect of her mutation.
Although it has not be devised yet, it is quite possible that Cecilia’s mental structure has also mutated along with her body to provide a suepr-human outlet for mental bombardment and fatigue than a normal human being or non-psionic related mutant would be able to withstand and conquer.
Skills:
Cecilia is a very gifted woman asides from her mutation. Being a Grade A student, Cecilia is very adapt to learning new things and encompassing a wide array of ideas into her near-photographic class memory. She has a quick wit and a quick thought process, one that often bypasses the ability for others to comprehend or converse with her. Although she isn’t a genius-class intellect, Cecilia is quite a well-renowned mutant doctor in the Westchester Area and has her quirks about her.
Cecilia is trained in intro-venal medicine, allowing her to prescribe medication, offer analysis of patients, and intervene on behalf of a willing patient’s life, otherwise known as the requirement to preform surgery or other related tasks.
Through Kurt Wagner, Cecilia has learned a decent level of hand-to-hand melee combat and how to fence, using traditional weaponry. However, Cecilia prefers smaller weapons, such as hunting daggers.
Through the published works of Henry McCoy, PhD; Cecilia has learned much about genetics and has quickly grown to become quite the mutant geneticist despite her training in surgical medicines.
Personality:
The most notable thing about Cecilia’s personality is her quick wit and sharp tongue. Having grown up in somewhat hostile and attitude-prone environments, Cecilia learned from an early age how to grow a thick skin and defend herself verbally when need be. Though not one for physical altercation, Cecilia has always preferred to stump those who come at her with words and thought that sometimes goes over the heads of those around her. Even in natural conversation, Cecilia’s sense of humor is often a cynical and hard one to understand, that very few people ever find the direct humor from. Although Cecilia never means to alienate anyone, her less-than-political nature can often find itself upsetting those who are much softer to demographics and social standards that Cecilia simply does not let govern her life. Realizing that by faking who you are only causes a much worse outcome when those who you wish to not, find out what you are all about; she has promised herself to keep herself as wide as an open book emotionally as she can. Whether you choose to like her or not is your choice, but she won’t change herself for anyone - life is too short to be worrying about anyone but what you, yourself feel and think.
Despite her cynical outlook on life and apparent sarcasm, Cecilia does have a natural maternal and helpful nature about her underneath the hardened exterior. Her profession has shown her a world of suffering and depression that she never thought had existed in such a profession. Feeling compassion for her patients has been one of Cecilia’s greatest weaknesses and greatest strengths. She often finds herself intertwined with her work, and she does whatever she can to save or change a life. Losing a life is something that impacts Cecilia greatly, as she takes her work as if it was a gift from god - a calling that she is here to be a healer and preserve the sanctity of life. In some ways, Cecilia is too deeply intertwined into her duty and it can often effect her mood. Nonetheless, Cecilia is nothing short of professional.
Although previously denouncing and hiding the mutant aspect of her life, Cecilia has gradually come to accept and meet her new life in ways she never assumed she would have before. Taking part in X-Men exercises such as the Danger Room and becoming close friends with the blue-furred Nightcrawler has entirely changed her outlook on the beauty of mutation. The work of Henry P. McCoy is also another thing that has greatly influenced Cecilia as she finds herself diving deeper and deeper into genetics, formerly denouncing science as something for geeky nerds who try to find importance in their every day lives. Cecilia has always been the hands-on woman applying science to medicine, and now finds herself resorting to science to preserve medicine. An interesting change in her ethics has Cecilia conflicted often on how to treat her patients and events, but she has remained fully committed to her mutant kin and her work at the Xavier Institute.
One thing that generally annoys Cecilia is that of intolerance. Having grown up as a second generation immigrant, Cecilia knows all too well the mal-natured stares of those who deem her different. No matter the color of skin, orientation, race, ethnicity, gender, mutation, or religion - Cecilia sees everyone as a human being. She can only hope that some day humanity can agree with her on this aspect, but until then, Cecilia just tries to demand that everyone in her presence be tolerant towards others and does not take any sense of racism, nationalism, or subjection to another’s culture lightly. Ethics is something that in medicine and in life that Cecilia Reyes practices and preaches; a dominant portion of her personality is often routed in her upbringing and guides her morals today.
As with most doctors and scientists, Cecilia is an atheist. She has known despair and decay all too much in her life and believes that there can be no god who would allow his creations to kill and destroy the sanctity of what others try to preserve and build upon. The fact that in life there are those who week to build and those who seek to destroy disgusts Cecilia. Peaceful co-existence of all beings is what she strives for, and finds religion as a divider of this. Though many people would see her as amoral as a result, Cecilia governs herself a decent natured human being should, in her mind. Cecilia is pro-choice and is very liberal about most things to match her sharp tongue.
History:
Born to first generation Puerto Rican immigrants, Cecilia and her older brother of three years; Miguel - had grown up in a somewhat impoverished section of Jamaica in Queens, New York. Though the section of the community was not nearly a desired one, Cecilia and Miguel were very close, as a typical hispanic male he always preferred his role as a protector and provider to his sister and family. Unfortunately, great tragedy would strike the Reyes’ early on. Miguel Reyes Sr, the patriarch of the family, provided for his children and spouse by being a Police Officer in the New York City Police Department. Unfortunately, racist tensions and Miguel’s inability to move politically up the Irish-Italian dominated ladder caused him to be stuck with undesirable tasks about the city. One of these tasks was a night-shift prowl about some of the projects in Manhattan - a task usually devised for rookies; not someone who had ten years on the force already.
During one of his beats, Miguel Reyes was shot multiple times in the chest and limbs, and was rushed to St. Mercy Hospital in the heart of Manhattan. Lucille took Miguel Jr. and Cecilia with her to go and see their wounded, and quickly dying father as she knew his outlook was grim and he would die within hours from loss of blood and shattered organs and arteries. It was there in his bed wherein he lied, unable to speak or think, while his wife and children watched on. Cecilia was only seven at this point, and Miguel was but ten. In this very moment, both of the Reyes children knew how they would want to lead their lives. Miguel was vengeful and spited at what had occurred to his father and desired to join the Army and bring an end to evil people and beings everywhere; whereas Cecilia wanted to become a Medical Doctor and further technology and advance medicine so perhaps someday somewhere a man like her father would not need to suffer the same fate.
The result of their father’s death caused the entire life of the Reyes’ to turn upside down. Cecilia would find herself diving into schoolwork just to ignore the destruction of what she had known as a young girl and would graduate at the top of her class from Public School and gain a free ride through governmental Financial Aid and her educational grants to Columbia University in New York City. Around this time, Miguel was already moving up through the military ranks and began to be able to provide for his mother and Cecilia. While she was grateful for her brother’s contributions to her lifestyle, Cecilia could not forgive his darkened personality and change in person that had become so much unlike what he had been. As a result, when Cecilia had finished her college years she would go into her associate Medical field at the age of twenty-seven and leave most of her past behind her, telling Miguel that when he found himself he could come find her.
Living her life as a single woman, Cecilia had become very career oriented and rarely, if ever, dated. She had her boyfriends in college but had severed from them as much as she had severed from her family. Cecilia did not need someone else’s emotional baggage, and that was a virtue she would stay true to. By shutting her out from everything else, Cecilia was able to focus on herself and ignore the bullshit that led everyone else’s lives. Unfortunately, there was one tid bit of information that had changed Dr. Reyes forever - she was a mutant. Years ago in High School she had learned of her mutancy when a boy went to force himself on her - and potentially rape and kill her. Her body reacted in an unprecedented way than ever before and her orange globule spikes shot from her chest and impaled the assailant to death until Cecilia returned to a feeling of safety. She was shocked by the incident, and never told anyone. Since her energies had been what killed the man, his death was an unsolved case even to this day.
Keeping her mutancy hidden would not be something that Cecilia could do for long, however. Although she had been well acquainted with the works of Henry McCoy and Charles Xavier, Cecilia Reyes never assumed in her goal of being a surgeon that the research work of these two mutant-specialists would ever cross paths with her life. Unfortunately, when a mutant patient with an obvious physical mutation had been admitted to her hospital, Cecilia found that none of her co-workers wanted to operate on the man at all. They were being downright racist, and having faced plenty of discrimination for her hispanic heritage she knew she could not let this man die and immediately went to work on him - saving his life, at the time shattering her co-worker’s opinions of her. Like her father, Cecilia found herself put down by the same politico which could have essentially been what claimed his life.
Shortly after this event, Erik Lehnsherr, the mutant known as Magneto caused a great threat at Liberty Island and almost caused serious harm to humankind in Manhattan. The publication and propaganda of this event called for a great ousting against mutants as Reverend William Stryker had set out to continue Senator Kelly’s work of branding and imprisoning mutants. When one of Cecilia’s co-workers was revealed to also be a mutant, the doctors in their ward sought to turn him into the government, namely the platoon that Cecilia’s brother, Miguel was in charge of. Seeing Miguel for the first time in ten years had a great impact on Cecilia, and she revealed her own mutancy to Miguel and her co-workers which ousted her from St. Mercy’s hospital and therefore the livelihood that she had worked so hard for. Miguel found it hard to accept that Cecilia was a mutant and although he had detained her co-worker, his last act of mercy was letting her set free, though he would come and find her and treat as every other ‘monster’ in his book that threatened humanity.
Greatly saddened by the man that her brother had become, Cecilia quickly liquidated all of her assets and left the Manhattan area during the time that Stryker had assaulted the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters. Hearing about the assault on the mansion, Cecilia felt that perhaps her services could go to use there and quickly took off to offer them to the staff there. The work that the X-Men had done at the Arklay Dam had set back anti-mutant tensions a bit, allowing Cecilia to establish her name back in Westchester and although she had a side-practice alongside the mansion, she was also a medical consultant for Henry McCoy. Becoming familiar with his own work on mutants, Cecilia began developing her medicinal trade to expand into understanding mutants and brief preface on genetics. With simple tutelage from Henry McCoy’s published works, Cecilia was able to learn much about how anatomy could vary with mutants and was even learning about her own powers.
Following the events at Arcatraz Island and the release of the Cure; Cecilia realized that mutants were in graver danger than ever before and once more moved back into the Mansion. With the recent disappearance of Beast at the Mansion’s staff, Cecilia took up the position of head Medical Consultant to the growing student body at the Institute and pretty much found her entire medical sphere warping into something new. She was a previous surgeon who had now become a geneticist, and as much as her own trade was evolving - so were the threats to mutant kind. The sentient virus known as the Chimera Virus would soon sweep across Mutant Town as Cecilia quickly worked on a cure. A showdown between the brotherhood and a few select members of the X-Men were able to quell the threat that the government’s Virus had on the occupants of Mutant Town though mutants had once more found themselves back at odds they hoped had ended with Stryker.
Originally not wanting anything to do with the X-Men or their costuming selves, Cecilia Reyes agreed to join the reserve squad of X-Men up-taking the code-name Aegis when in combat. Finding a close friend in Kurt Wagner, Nightcrawler, Cecilia found herself to have quite the aptitude for physical combat and was learning from him as much as she was able to learn from the Danger Room. Throwing away her past life proved to be fruitful for Cecilia, as she had expanded more as a person in her past three years than she had in most of her life. What more lays in store for the mutant doctor remains to be seen, but exploring herself is something she often finds herself doing - in-between the constant medical cases of the students and the threat to mutant kind as a whole. Now if only Beast would return...
Sample Post: See Rogue. (Marie D’Ancanto)
Player Information:
Name: Chris
Age: 19
Contact Information:
Email:
AIM: haioly
or PM.
Other Characters: ROGUE [Marie D'Ancanto]