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Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ: Gavin
Email: gavin.downing@gmail.com
AIM (if you have one): crispengray
Character Name: Melinda Dyars
Character LJ (if applicable): shattered
Physical description (face, build, weight): Melinda is an young black woman with long hair. She has a round face that normally is smiling, though upcoming events may change this.
Age: 18
PB: Larissa Wilson
Abilities: Melinda has the ability to transform into a glass-like form; she can melt herself and reshape it into different forms. If shattered in this form, she can reform herself as she pools her body back together. She has independent control over each piece of her body.
Weaknesses and flaws: Melinda is about to undergo severe mental trauma, which will deeply affect her. In her human form, she has no particular resistance to injury.
Character location/Home: After introduction, she will move to Xavier's school.
Alignment (villain, hero etc): Initially, she'll be a villain, but this won't last long.
Relatives (living/dead?): Her mother Clarissa and her father Anton, who live in London. She has an older brother Michael who is going to school in Aberystwyth University, in Wales.
Backstory: Melinda has grown up in a pretty standard upper-middle-class neighborhood in London. She's had the typical fights with her parents over curfews, music, and so on. She realized she was a mutant several years ago, but has kept it secret, even from her parents -- she wants to live a "normal" life.
How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: With a plot that will destroy her life and allow her to start a new life.
What are you planning to do with this character? I plan to explore some of the themes of the X-Men with her as she rediscovers her life.
What do you want to see happen with this character?: I'd like to see her redeem herself after some events ruin her.

Sample post:

Melinda sighs as she glances at her phone. Mum again. She silences the ringer as she turns to her mates.

"I'll call her back later," she smirks. "I just didn't hear it ring."

Her friends snicker. "Melinda, you're so rotten," one says.

"What do you think she wants?" another asks.

Melinda shrugs. "Probably wants me to come home early," she sighs. "What I don't hear can't hurt me." She rolls her eyes again. "She probably wants to bug me about college again, too." She takes a sip of her drink. "I swear, she doesn't want to give me any time to consider what I want to do since graduating. She wants to know what I'm doing in the fall."

"Tell me about it," a friend tells her. "My mum isn't happy at all that I don't want to go to college. Just tell her!"

"I don't know," Melinda shrugs. "School's not out of the question. I just... want some time to think, you know?"

Her friends nod sympathetically, and Melinda takes another sip of her drink before her friends turn their attention to another topic.

She doesn't notice the man watching them carefully in the corner of the bar. She doesn't notice him follow her out of the bar.

Eventually, Melinda decides it's time to head home. She walks along the road alongside her best friend Kate.

"He liked you," Kate smiles, leaning up against her. "He was cute, too."

"Maybe," Melinda replies, remembering the cute young man that had purchased her last drink. "But he..." Her thought is interrupted by her phone ringing again. She shakes her head. It's 1 AM, and her mom is certain to be calling again, wondering where she is. With a sigh, she moves to answer the phone, figuring that she may as well let her mom know she's on her way home.

As she reaches for her phone, there's a flash of light, and Kate just... disintegrates before her eyes. She stares, uncomprehending, as the man who had been following her unseen stepped out in front of her, his hands still steaming from where it launched the lethal energy blast.

"Melinda," the man says, "come along. I have use for you."

As his features melt into a pale white face with a red diamond shape upon his forehead, Melinda feels her will start to fade away, and her phone's ringing seems more and more distant...