Name: Antoinette "Toni" Rhodes
Codename: Pulse
Group Affiliation: Avengers
Birthday: September 4, 1992
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 125 lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Relatives: James "Rhodey" Rhodes (father), Monica Rambeau-Rhodes (mother), Grandmother and Grandfather Rambeau (living)
History: Though Jim Rhodes first met Monica Rambeau during the so-called "Secret Wars" on the Beyonder's Battleworld, the two did not pursue a romantic relationship until many years later. Eventually, however, they were married and blessed with a daughter, shortly before Tony Stark and Natasha Romanov had a daughter of their own. Rhodes inists, however, that his daughter was not named after his longtime friend.
Regardless, Toni grew up as Anya Stark's best friend, even when their parents were feuding. She often served as the Stark heir's voice of reason and common sense, though she just as often ended up getting dragged into something in order to try and mitigate what damage she could. No matter what, however, she remainded loyal to her friend and "sister," both out of friendship and a certain sense of familial obligation to keep Starks from screwing up too badly.
The only time of any true seperation between the two occured when Toni turned thirteen and discovered that she was a mutant. An inadvertent electromagnetic pulse briefly crippled Anya, but was quickly sorted out. Rhodey himself has found it
very suspicious that his daughter developed abilities which could quickly shut Anya down, but has never voiced these to anyone.
She spent about a year at Xaiver's School, learning to control her abilities, before returning to New York proper. Toni, along with Anya and several other Avengers' children, was a founding member of the Young Avengers. She participated in several missions with the team before briefly leaving on family business just prior to the Lady Mandarin affair. Her absence during her best friend's most difficult time (and the thought that she could have slapped some sense into her preventing the whole thing) continues to haunt her.
Toni's career as an Avenger has largely been spotless, save for a brief bit of media exposure when she was outed while using her mutant powers to defend Anya from Temujin.
Toni currently attends ESU, though she has yet to decide on a major.
Powers:
Super-Conductive Electromagnetism: Toni's body can generate Raw Electromagnetic Energy, which she has learned to manipulate, control, to sense sources of electromagnetic energy, electricity and magnetism and administer as a range of attacks with a range of uses; she can charge devices with electricity, and alternatively drain the energy from them into herself, magnetize and demagnetize metals. Toni can hear radio waves meaning she can listen in on the police broadband and music stations, as well as tapping into the phone lines so she can make calls. Toni can choose to keep the electromagnetic energy that she currently holds in her body by controlling the Current and Voltage for whenever she wants to use it.
- Electromagnetic Force Bolts: Toni can fire Bursts of electromagnetic energy from her hands for uses like electrifying objects, administering large scale static-clings, generating shields and barriers, etc.
- Electromagnetic Fields: Toni generates an Electromagnetic field just like the earth and the sun generate their own Electromagnetic fields.
- Electromagnetic Levitation: Toni can cause objects to fly (metal is the easiest material to manipulate and wood is the most difficult.)
- Static Cling: Toni can adhere most objects/people to surfaces and other objects, plus Toni can magnetize surfaces.
- Taser Punch: an electrified punch administered during combat to send opponents flying, similar effects to a Taser Gun.
- Electromagnetic Displays: Electromagnetic Light Displays that Toni can shoot into the sky in the forms of pictures and words. With more power behind it, Toni can make these into Electromagnetic Nets and/or Cage.
- Electromagnetic Shields and Barriers: shields and barriers that Toni can generate with Electromagnetism to block, repel, hold back attacks and defend herself in battle.
- Ball Lightning: named after Ball Lightning, the weather phenomenon. Electromagnetic Energy compressed into a large ball and thrown at targets; an offensive maneuver in a combat situation.
- Electromagnetic Pulse: knocking out all local electrical devices.
Skills: Toni has a working knowledge of most firearms, is a skilled sailor and pilot, and has picked up enough hanging around Starks to be dangerous when it comes to technology.
Equipment: Toni makes use of an expanding metal disk that she can use her powers to levitate, in order to fly. The disk has been treated with Pym particles and becomes palm-sized, for storage in her jacket, when not in use.
