X-23 (Earth-688)

X-23

Name:	Laura Kinney
Gender:	Female
Place of Birth:	The Facility, unrevealed North American location
Age:	18
Aliases:	X-23
Origin:	Mutant (Clone)
Origin Earth:	688
Present Location:	Westchester
Occupation:	Student
Team:	None
Alignment:	Hero
Significant Other(s):	None Known
Powers and Abilities:	Healing Factor, Superhuman Physique, Enhanced Senses, Adamantium claws
Portrayed by:	Crystal Reed

Origin

Birth: X-23 is implanted in Sarah Kinney and carried to term from a damaged sample of mutant DNA, resulting in a female clone of a male subject. From birth, 23 (or Laura as her 'mother' calls her) is conditioned to Trigger Scent, a pheremone brainwashing tool.

Training: Throughout childhood, X-23 is trained, tortured and battered into submission. She is taught to be a killer and emotionally damaged to make her not connect to others. She is intended to be a perfect assassin.

Activation: Radiation is used to activate her mutation prematurely. She gains her healing factor and has her newly-generated claws bonded with Adamantium to make her even more deadly. By age 11, she has become a skilled and efficient killer.

Rogue: One of X-23s handlers begins using her for side jobs and personal vendettas. When her 'mother' learns of this, Sarah tries to rescue Laura only to have the Trigger Scent used to cause Laura to attack her instead. Laura, as a result, rebels and escapes.

NYX: Laura moves to the Mutant Town section of New York City, hiding out. She works as a prostitute and at various nightclubs, doing whatever she can to make ends meet and keep herself below radar.

X-men: A conflict at a nightclub leads Laura to encounter the X-men of her world and the version of the hero Wolverine there from whom she was cloned. Their relationship is immediately testy, torn between mentorship and resentment. Laura eventually becomes a student at Xavier's.

Exile: A conflict with the powerful mutant known as Legion results in the opening of a dimensional rift, through which X-23 is deposited here in the 616 universe. Alone and lost, she returns to hiding out in Mutant Town until she gets the lay of the land.

Psyche

+ Bad-Tempered

Laura has a bad attitude. She's grouchy, irritable, prone to fits of rage. She likes hurting people sometimes, more than she should. She's not likely to be found cheerful, excited or happy anytime soon, unless someone manages to earn her trust in a big way.

+ Stone Cold Killer

Simply put, Laura is a killer. She may not murder people on a whim without reason, but it is what she was born and bred to do, and she had a decade and a half of being de-sensitized to the violence. If she, or (in a rare instance) someone she cares about is in danger, her immediate response is to end the threat, in the most permanent way possible. She does not think twice before ending lives, something that separates her rather starkly from her peers and associates, and will likely put a very tall wall between herself and them if it ever is made blatantly apparent.

+ Feral

Laura doesn't give up or quit very easily, be it in terms of a life and death fight, or backing down from a silly argument with another student at Xavier's. Coupled with her defunct interpersonal skills, she does not handle social conflict very well and often resorts to yelling, hitting the wall, and breaking things.

+ Seeking to Belong

Despite her issues, which she is often objectively fully aware of, an important part of Laura /does/ want to be like everybody else. She wants to be human. She wants friends. She wants to not think of herself as a murderer. She is just horribly, horribly ill-equipped for reaching those goals, and because of it often finds herself taking one step forward and then ninety-seven steps backwards when she has a fit, gets scared and angry, and pops claws on somebody in a panic because she doesn't know how to deal with a situation that might arise in her relationships with others.

+ Motivation

Laura is driven by the desire to become her own person. To develop her own life and separate herself from her awful past.

+ Goals

Laura wants to grow, she wants to be able to live a "normal" life. She wants to prove that she can go out and function like a normal human being, out in society, surrounded by other people. She wants to find a place she belongs.

Abilities

+ Adamantium Claws

X-23 has natural bone claws, two sheathed in each forearm, and has one in each foot. Courtesy of The Facility and the Weapon X program, these claws have been completely coated in adamantium, a rare metal that is essentially unbreakable, and these claws are able to cut through almost every other known material like a hot knife through butter.

+ Healing Factor

Much like Weapon X himself, X-23's mutation comes in the form of an incredible healing factor. In truth, this ability has proven to be even more potent than her predecessor's, though the disparity is largely attributed to the fact that her entire skeleton is not covered in adamantium, which means her power is not constantly working overtime every second of every day to keep her alive through that abnormality. Laura is capable of re-attaching severed limbs, or even regrowing them. X-23 is also immune to almost every known disease, toxin, poison, and anything else of the sort.

+ Superhuman Physique

A side effect of her Healing Factor, spawned by the rigorous, inhumane training The Facility put her through, Laura's body is capable of feats beyond her size, and flat out beyond human capability. Her reflexes, dexterity, and agility have all been honed to the literal breaking point and beyond, only enabled due to her incredible healing forcing her body to permit the feats. She's also far stronger than she appears, due to the healing factor constantly regenerating muscle tissue, and she is able to lift roughly 800 pounds. The rate at which she heals also allows her to endure blows from drastically stronger opponents without being immediately out of the fight. The Hulk might knock her half way across the city, but she's going to get back up pretty quickly. Laura may not be quick enough to dodge a bullet at close range, but anybody (even multiple anybodies) without similarly enhanced reflexes has little to no chance against her in melee combat without some other factor coming into play.

+ Enhanced Senses

X-23 has increased senses, her sense of smell being the strongest of them, with her sight and hearing and the others not far behind. Most notably, this trait displays itself in her ability to tell who is approaching her just based on their scent, assuming she knows the person.

Advantages

+ Contacts

While new to this world, she's taken the place of her 616 counterpart and the similarities between their lives will give her access to and connections with those contacts that she can call upon.

Skills

+ Tracking

Aside from actually being trained to track prey, Laura's incredibly keen sense of smell alone makes her one of the world's best trackers.

+ Expert Operator

Laura was born, bred, and raised to be as great an operative and assassin as possible. Trained as a living weapon, she is incredibly adept at stealth and disguising herself, she is a master martial artist and marksman (even if she rarely uses a weapon other than her claws), and well versed in many brands of assassination. She also has a keen mind for tactics and the flow of combat. She lacks the charisma and skills to lead a team, but she herself can adept to wild fluctuations in tactical situations on the fly.

+ Athletics

Laura is able to perform at, and above, Olympic level in many forms of athletics. She can form seemingly impossibly acrobatics and gymnastics, as well as run faster and jump higher than humanly possible due to her enhanced physique.

+ Multilingual

Laura can speak fluent English, French, German, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese.

Disadvantages

+ Kimura

X-23's former handler when she was a tool of the Facility. Laura has undergone extensive torture, both physical and mental under the hands of this woman. Kimura's mutation renders her impervious to even adamantium, which results in a pretty bad day for Laura, and this woman and the Facility would be all too happy to get their hands on X-23 again.

+ Most Wanted

X-23's stint as a globe-trotting, brainwashed assassin killing off political figures did not go unnoticed by world authorities, and at least some of them, like SHIELD, are aware of X in detail.

+ Instinctive

There is a very feral quality to Laura, and she often reacts to many things on instinct and like a threatened animal. This makes it both difficult for her to relate to other people, and difficult for them to understand her or get close. Anybody who's spent more than a few days around her would probably not be surprised to learn she stabbed someone "on accident" one day.

+ Trigger Scent

Trigger 42 is a special pheromone designed by The Facility, and one that Laura has been severely conditioned to. The smallest whiff of this on or near another person will send her into a murderous rage, shredding anything and anyone who gets between her and the target. She has absolutely no control over herself when this comes into play, and the existence of it is one of her greatest fears.

+ Stranger In A Strange Land

Laura is not from this earth. And even though he/she is familiar with the people and world, he/she doesn't share history with most of the people here. So therefore he/she will be out of place and have to play catch-up trying to figure out the Earth-616 character's life.

IC Events

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10 Jun 2016 23:07 (2016-06-05) Glitter Bombs

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