Name: Shannon Dorothy Myers
Codename: Ion
Age: 21
Date of Birth: November 10th
Height: 5'0" out of suit 5'2" in suit
Weight: 104 out of suit
Hair Color: Brown/NA
Eye Color: Green/NA
Place of Origin: Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Nationality/Race: Caucasian/NA
Classification: Mutant
Status: Trainee
Occupation: None
Personality Profile:
Shannon used to be outgoing, a touch hyper, and always ready to try new things. Following her power accident, she became withdrawn and refused to speak with others or show her face. Since then she’s become shy and wary of others, afraid that they’ll fear her, or her powers, or that she'll accidentally hurt someone. But after being in Cobalt she’s slowly gaining her confidence back. Shannon has almost gone back to her old self, though she still gets shy easily.
Physical Description:
Before the power accident Shannon was a plain looking girl. She had deep brown eyes (which later turned a vivid green after her powers manifested) and straight shoulder length light brown hair. She was fairly small and skinny for her age. Now after the accident, Shannon vaguely resembles a human in form but composed entirely of a glowing green energy of a fluctuating form. It is not often that she lets people see her like this, preferring to stay inside her armor even though the risk exposing others to her radiation is somewhat diminished now thanks to intense training and being more capable of holding in her potency.
Her suited form is a lightweight gold and bronze colored fully articulated full-body armor. It keeps her safely contained, and able to be around others. Now capable of being human again for short amounts of time Shannon, in that form has taken on a paler almost sickly appearance (looking as though she could use some sun and a few good meals) from her transformation and year-long stay in the suit.
Her second suit was lighter and more sophisticated. Colored black with glowing green lines running through it. This one did not include a helmet as it stabilized her enough to go without one. Her head still resembles that of a human but a mass of her glowing energy. Unfortunately, Shannon lost this suit following a kidnapping. Her third and latest suit was specially crafted for her and even has a feature where it compacts into a small hip pack for easy travel when she goes human and can even stay on her while energy to help her maintain a definite form.
Character Img:
http://mandaart73.deviantart.com/art/Shannon-124527257 Thank You, Manda!
Thank You, AnE! Human
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Powerset: Radiokinesis
Primary: Radioactive energy creation and manipulation/control:
Shannon can create radiation usually in the form of glowing green blasts which she can fire off, normally focused through her hands though sometimes she has used her eyes. Such a power is a serious danger to everything around her. So Shannon doesn't use it unless she is wearing a specially designed armored suit that filters and modifies the energy to the point where it's mostly a concussive blast though some secondary effects may include burns or in rarer cases nausea, vomiting, and even hair loss.
Since her accident Shannon has lost some control of her abilities and somehow converted her entire body into the energy. She can still fire the blasts but has not been able to become flesh and blood under her own power again, the energy is now her true form. Along with the limited control of her own radiation (the part that makes up her body), Shannon can also manipulate and create the radiation that's normally already present in the air (and even see using some of them. See tertiary). She could effectively microwave food or block UV for example.
Secondary: Radiation Form:
Shannon is now composed entirely of the energy she once controlled. She still has fine control of it in every way except for the potency of her form (for short periods.) The glowing green energy is her body now. Through training Shannon has been able to hold her energy form solid without the assistance of a suit. Unfortunately, most of the time she is only capable of doing so inside a Sim chamber or similar area of containment out of fear that she'll hurt or kill those around her. But recently Shannon has discovered that she can indeed hold her potency for short periods of time. Meaning she can walk around without her suit. But a number of things can cause her to need it once again. Mainly, too much emotional stress, fatigue, or similar feelings (she'd still need to sleep in the suit or wear it at night as she tends to really light a place up.) She does have to worry about how much heat she gives off though. Just like on a sunny day you could get a tan or on rarer occasions a burn from standing near her for too long. Possibility of a burn depends on proximity and duration, also if said person is touching her. But most of the time it's just a pleasantly warm sensation unless one were to apply too much pressure, but most would feel the heat and let go before anything too bad occurs.
Shannon does have some pluses since loosing her human body. Her form as energy people can now see without her suit holds no definite shape. While yes, her form and body are humanoid in shape what it resembles is linked to her concentration. For example, one minute her hands could be normally shaped hands, but the next instant mitten-like or even blades or tentacles. It is not shape shifting as she’s technically energy and holds no true appearance. The shape of her form depends on how she’s feeling. But most of the time it looks pretty similar to her human form, but with a few suit-like qualities to it (her auditory area may take on an earpiece like look, eyes might flicker into a visor shape, etc.).
Lastly, energy doesn't weigh a whole lot if anything, Shannon’s form grants her the ability to flight, but she cannot carry much for extended periods. Solo however, Shannon can fly and maneuver quite quickly, even more so if she doesn’t have the suit on. She cannot be hurt by conventional means. It has its downsides. (See drawbacks)
Tertiary: Radioactive Senses: Though Shannon has lost the senses of taste, touch, and smell, she can still use them to some degree. She knows if other sources of radiation are around and can feed/gain energy off of them/interact with them. Shannon can see on different spectrums including X-ray, UV, and Infrared radiation, and lastly she can hear radio waves. Or Shannon could cause interference in communication devices if she's not careful. And though she hasn't tried it out yet, Shannon could understandably speak through radios or even play the received waves.
Drawbacks/Weaknesses:
- Shannon cannot pass for human without a dampener or be around others without one or her suit.
- Her transformation has cost her the senses of touch, (sensation really. She can tell if something is soft or hard, smooth or pointy, etc. But she cannot feel it.) Taste, and smell (Things she greatly misses.)
- She is technically immortal, unless trauma were to occur. Yes immortality is a drawback, sure she'll live possibly billions of years, but she will do so as a walking nuclear reaction (there is also the case of Shannon lives vs. Shannon exists.)
- Aforementioned trauma would be extremely dense material such as lead, concrete, graphite, etc. While it's not a "werewolf/silver" effect as Shannon can handle these materials without getting burned, being harmed by it will cause her pain, even in her energy state (and it is easier for her to contract lead poisoning than it would be for most people.)
- Electricity and certain sound frequencies tend to make her feel uncomfortable or to the furthest range, temporarily disrupt her cohesion.
- Lapses in concentration and a strong gust of wind could disperse her, while it won't completely kill her it could take a good long while before Shannon is able to reform herself once again (without help.) Same thing if she would chose to explode for whatever reason. The effect won't kill her but disperse her, and depending upon the size of her dispersal area will put her out of commission for possibly hundreds of years. (At the most without assistance.)
- She is incapable of reproducing in the human way. She is not sterile, but anything foreign within her body will die. While this means she cannot get sick she also cannot have children in the traditional way.
- She needs wear her suit nearly all the time except when she has her dampener on or times she decides to go exercise her energy form. Even then the suit needs to be with her, she does not want to take the chance of hurting someone with her powers.
- Prior to her accident and resulting physical mutation, Shannon's body had come to rely on her powers to kill any bodily invaders. The radiation prevented her from getting sick, but at the same time it weakened her body's more natural defenses. If Shannon is completely dampened for too long she will fall victim to anything that might attack her weakened immune system.
Projected Power Growth & Development:
Shannon will never gain a hold on turning back to human form on her own. But she will one day safely be able to leave her suit without causing harm to herself or to those around her. She will gain control of her potency without the aid of a suit as well as the shape her energy takes without worry that she'll break apart or disperse even with wind about.
Skills: TBA
Background:
For the longest time Shannon never knew she was a mutant. She knew she had an older brother, Kenneth who was one but with her father an anti-mutant they scarcely spoke about him. When she was thirteen, Shannon started noticing odd things, plants would wither near her, she would hear a radio without being anywhere near one, she wouldn't tan or get a sunburn anymore, and at times she would even glow in the dark. Scared after what happened to her older brother, Shannon tried to suppress what she could only guess were mutant powers. Fighting them back and forcing the abilities down appeared to work at first, but after a while doing so just seemed to make things worse. After multiple accounts of walking into walls because she was seeing through them and the green blast that she spontaneously generated one day Shannon knew she couldn't ignore them any longer.
At fifteen, Shannon still hid her powers from all around her, but this time she trained in secret. Eventually even joining up with other mutants including her cousin, Max who had discovered her practicing and brought her to his friends to help her out. Max even reunited Shannon with her brother who had come to live with him and his mother after Kenneth had left his home. They helped her learn to use and control her powers better. Her cousin even constructed her a pair of gauntlets (and later on an armored suit) to help her to focus better. The blasting aspect of her powers was the worst and often too much for her to handle, causing some frequent "hiccups.” For a while things went well for Shannon, her powers were still mostly a secret from at least her father, her mother knew and worried about her, but wasn't about to toss her out. She still needed the suit when she used her powers, yes things were going well, but someone knew . . .
One night while returning home a few months before her seventeenth birthday, Shannon was attacked by an anti-mutant group. Not wanting to use her powers against non-powered people and having no fighting skills other than her powers, she tried to defend herself but ended up taking a beating. But her attackers still wouldn't back off. That all changed when Shannon lost all control of her powers. The radiation just kept pouring off her body and Shannon couldn't stop and tried to draw it back in, forcing her powers to stay within her. It didn't work but it did at last make them at last stop. The sight of her glowing body more than enough to scare her tormentors away.
In tremendous pain, (shocking her since her powers had never hurt to use before) Shannon, still trying her hardest to keep her energy within her flew to her brother's home. She passed out at the door unable to maintain consciousness from the pain anymore. When she awoke she was devoid of all feeling and she soon learned now trapped inside a containment suit. Shannon feared she couldn't go home now, that her father would disown her. Her brother and cousin tried to comfort her but she was too scared. It took time but they managed to calm her (and her livid with worry mother) down and set to work to help Shannon any way they could. After some therapy from the mutant gym/rehabilitation center her brother worked at she would go to Cobalt Hill. There she could hopefully learn better control of her powers, continue her education, and not be hidden away.
Criminal Record: None
Quirks/Extras (Special skills, links, etc.):
- The accident has effectively stopped her aging.
- She cannot, and does not need to eat and cannot smell or feel, these are things she really misses and regrets losing. If she were to try and eat without the use of a dampener, the food would be incinerated if organic, and if processed would be expelled as a blob of irradiated goo.
- When in a good mood, Shannon tends to float rather than walk around.
- She powers her suit's containment abilities herself, giving the excess energy she is constantly producing a place to go.
- Her favorite enhancements used to be the ability to show emotion using the movements of her helmet’s ear pieces, and a shield on the visor so she can blink and close her eyes. But with her latest suit she can show emotions on her own, if the helmet is retracted.
- Rubber tips to the suit's fingers help her to manipulate small objects.
- Shannon can become human again using a dampener, usually a necklace or bracelet of some sort, but also her suit in its hip pack form. While she could become human in form with it again, the process of forcing her normally plasma-like body to become solid and stay solid is quite painful. Add in sensory overload from suddenly being able to feel and smell again and the discomfort is even greater.
- Her time as human is limited depending on how severe the dampening and much activity she does. Too much physical stimulation/activity and using her powers as a human affects this time.
- Shannon knows her limits and when to turn back, if she tries to over stay time in human form, (on partial dampening) she’ll start to become depressed at first and then physically ill. Depending on how long she stays human effects how long she needs to rest before changing again. On full dampening Shannon, like all mutants could go indefinitely, though as stated before it wouldn't be healthy for her to do so and the depression will still occur.
- Yes she is capable of once again eating while human with no adverse effects upon returning to “normal.”
- While not a power, when Shannon goes human she is often oversensitive to getting back the senses of touch, smell, and taste. Sometimes even talking excitedly about what to her are interesting and nearly new experiences. Her excited talking of these things has decreased as of late, as Shannon has become better adapted to being human.
- Her father has since learned of Shannon's mutation and of the many problems and issues associated with them. While he's not quite as ill-natured as he was when Kenneth's powers manifested, he is slowly coming to terms that his children though mutants are still his children.
