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O - MERCURY

Kincaid, Cessily (Secret Identity) FC
Nickname(s): Cessa, Lia

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

QUOTE:		"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." - Tori Amos
HEIGHT:		5' 7"
WEIGHT:		350 lbs.
EYE COLOR:		Silver
HAIR COLOR:		Red
ETHNICITY:		Caucasian
BIRTHDATE:		Sep 9, 1991
AGE:		18
GENDER:		Female
APPEARANCE:		Cessily is a very noticeable person. She is made entirely of Mercury, though she often maintains her original red hair from before her transformation. Even taking into consideration the fact that she is silver, Cessily is an extremely attractive young woman with shoulder length red hair and silver eyes. She has a small waist and curvaceous frame, and is physically mature for a girl her age. Due to strenuous physical workouts and a high metabolism she has a toned and sculpted physique. She almost always wears clothing that drapes her frame and is made of light materials.
MODEL:		Tori Amos
THEME SONG:		Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - "I'll be There"

LEGAL INFO

CITIZENSHIP: United States, Minor, No criminal record
PLACE OF BIRTH: Portland, Oregon
MARITAL STATUS: Single
OCCUPATION: Student
AFFILIATION: Xavier Institute
BASE OF OPERATIONS: 1407 Graymalkin Lane, Salem Center, N.Y.

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE

CHARACTER CONCEPT:		Cool 'Big' Little Sister
ORIENTATION:		Bisexual
DEMEANOR:		Survivor
NATURE:		Caregiver
PERSONALITY:		Cessily is a sweet and open-minded young woman with a lust for life. She is always playing the role of mother to those younger, and even some older than her. But at the same time she possesses an extreme sensuality about her. She is a natural flirt, even though she doesn't realize it half the time.
GOALS:		Cessily just wants to train to be an X-Man, something she is sure of. Not too many students can say that, usually holding doubt in their mind. Cessily is more "put together" than most of the students. She also wants to take care of everyone that she can. She also wants to fall in love, and find someone who won't mind her physical mutation.

CHARACTER STATS

CLASSIFICATION:		GAMMA-KAPPA - Gk2
POWER SOURCE:		MUTATION - Random
POWER RANK:		EX - 20
SKILL LEVEL:		Regular, intensive training
APTITUDE:		Operate current technology: computers, electronics
WEALTH:		Freelance, lower middle class, students

SPECIAL ABILITIES

ADVANTAGES:		AMBIDEXTROUS - Mercury is equally capable of performing any task with either hand from writing to rolling dice. This means that Mercury will be able to perform tasks just as well with one hand injured. APPROACHABLE - There's something very approachable and non–threatening about Mercury that draws individuals to her. This also makes it easier for others to confide in her. ATTRACTIVE - Cessily is a very attractive girl, even if she is made of silver mercury. CHARISMATIC - Mercury just has a special magnetic charm about her. There is something about her that people just cant seem to resist. She seems to have a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables her to influence others. DOUBLE-JOINTED - Mercury can bend her limbs and joints far more than most people. She can fit into any space equal to half her height and width and actions involving flexibility (like Escape Artistry) are one level easier for her. EATING HABIT - Mercury is made out of her namesake, and does not need to eat. She can digest, however, and likes to eat to feel more normal. She also still enjoys the taste of food. Because of her physiology, she is also not affected by alcohol. MATURITY - Cessily is a very mature girl for her age. She takes care of people and is very organized. She’s always prepared. MOTHERLY - Cessily has all the advantages of a "mother" figure. She is able to clean, cook, sew and counsel others. She is also easy to confide in, giving others good advice that seems to be beyond her years.
POWERS:		METALLIC FORM - Mercury’s body is composed of a non-organic mercury. She can then reshape or solidify this form at will, although she is still inexperienced in shape-shifting. Mercury can also fashion her mercurial body into a variety of knives, blades, and other basic weapons. Mercury often maintains her original red hair, suggesting that she has the ability to change her mercury's color and texture to a degree. She can also control pieces of her liquid mercury and has the potential to bring it back to her body. Usually, if forcefully separated from her body, her liquid mercury turns into dead flesh. MOLECULAR ADHESION - Mercury has the ability to cling to solid surfaces and move her body at will even without overt locomotive features. SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH - Mercury has also demonstrated superhuman strength by supporting huge slabs of concrete, though the extent of this strength is unknown.
FIGHTING SKILLS:		ACROBATICS - Gymnastic movement. Due to her malleable form Mercury can easily tumble, swing from ropes, walk across thin beams, and leap through windows. CLIMBING - Scaling vertical surfaces. Mercury can reduce the difficulty when resisting wind and acrophobia while scaling buildings, trees, cliffs, and other vertical challenges. COMBAT STYLE: Martial Arts - She's been taking Karate at the YMCA for little over a year before going to Xavier's. Her style when she's in metallic form is much harder to fight against because her moves are much more fluid and her body is less tangible. ESCAPE ARTISTRY - Getting out of dangerous places. She can reduce the difficulty to squeeze through ultra-narrow corridors, squirm out of ropes, and undo handcuffs from behind due to her shape shifting and body altering abilities. IMMUNITY - Mercury’s metallic body is Invulnerable to the effects of most poisons. LOCKPICK - Cessily can cause her body to turn into liquid mercury, slipping into a lock and turning it with ease.
DISADVANTAGES:		CHIVALROUS - Mercury can’t just stand by and watch bad things happen to good people. Or anyone, for that matter. If someone is in a bind, Mercury will find a way to help them out. Helping the wrong person has gotten her into trouble before, so what’s to say it won’t happen again? ELECTRICITY - Since Mercury is made of metal, electricity is her natural enemy. It causes her to go haywire, and become mentally and physically unstable. METAL FORM - Mercury is made of metal, and there’s no way to hide it. She also weighs a lot because of it. SELF-DESTRUCTIVE - Mercury doesn’t mean to be self-destructive, but she is. She will give anyone advice or help them in any way she can, even when she knows it means doing something that will cause herself to be harmed. Cessily also sometimes doesn't follow her own good advice, giving it to others easier than accepting it. TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF - Mercury gives advice freely, as she likes to help out. But because she is sort of a mother figure, she never asks anyone for advice, and no one asks about her problems. They don’t take into account that she might need help sometimes. Also, Cessily is a very nice girl, and believes that people are basically good. She forgives people perhaps a little too easily. Because of this, people often take advantage of her trust.

EQUIPMENT

UNIFORM:		When on a mission, Cessily wears a standard X-men uniform customized with a red x, red piping, and the symbol for mercury on the back in red. She also sports red and black gloves.
EQUIPMENT:		iPhone, small black notebook and pen
RESOURCES:		Freelance employment, bad credit risk
TRANSPORTATION:		Metro bus pass

CONTACTS

CONTACTS:		X-Men, David Marcos(half brother), Mark Kincaid(father)
RELATIVES:		David Marcos (half brother), Mark Kincaid (father), Jill Kincaid ( mother)
ENEMIES:		Magneto, Brotherhood of Evil

HISTORY

Cessily was the resident of a small town in Portland, Oregon. For the majority of her life she had always portrayed herself as the ideal daughter. Throughout her whole life she was taken care of by her mother Jill who is a neonatal nurse in a nearby hospital, and by her father Mark the local contractor. Her father and mother were both devout Catholics and because of this Cessily was very involved in the church. She also had an older half brother named David, from her father’s previous marriage, whom she was very close to even though he lived with his mother.

Life for her was very comfortable. She was a member of a lower middle class working family, she was a cheerleader at her high school, a B+ student, and she even had a young love named Armen Thresher. It seemed as if her life would be a nice quiet little journey. However, all this changed around the time of her fifteenth birthday.

Cessily had awakened that morning feeling a little out of it. She had skipped breakfast because of lack of an appetite and missed the school bus in an effort to get some air and walk off her grogginess. She reached school a half hour later than usual and took her seat in her first period class, still feeling very ill. She made it to her third period gym class, before the illness over took her, and she asked to be escorted to the school nurse.

At the nurse’s office, she was examined and it was found that she was perfectly healthy, barring a slight grey tinge to her flesh. Her parents were called and she was escorted home.

That night she lay in bed with a high fever, refusing to eat anything and screaming for Armen. Her parents called the doctor and he prescribed a fever reducer and bed rest for Cessily and insured the sickness would pass. On the third day of the sickness Cessily was visited by Armen. He sat next to her, caressing her arm, and noticed it was freezing. In an effort to warm her up, he turned up the thermostat, and opened the curtains to allow the sunlight in on her.

Almost immediately, he was overtaken by a bright light reflecting off of something. As he turned to Cessily, he screamed, as he saw her whole body was metallic and she no longer had any visible pupils. His scream alarmed her parents, who came rushing into the room to see what had happened. Upon seeing their daughter, they begin to weep and pray, thinking that she had been possessed by a demonic entity.

Two days after this, the Kincaids sent word to the church about a demonic possession, and before the week was out a priest had come to their house to perform an exorcism on Cessily. The exorcism was very intense and emotional and it lasted for eight hours before the priest ruled it as not being demonic in nature. Sometime after this Cessily shifted back into her human form, however the shifting at this stage was uncontrollable. She would go from flesh to metal, and at a moments notice, would experience almost no control on her part. Eventually, her entire body was metal, and she had no power to change it back into it's original, organic form. David was with her the entire time, scared to death but also worried about his little sister.

Not knowing what to do, Cessily’s parents opted to have her home schooled in order to lessen the shame of the public seeing their daughter. Jill became very disgusted with her daughter’s appearance and abilities, and over time stopped interacting with her. Mark loved his daughter and remained close to her. He was often the only person she had contact with, when David wasn’t around. His mother forbade him to see his sister, but he snuck out at night sometimes to visit.

One day, while her parents were away at work, Cessily heard a commotion in front of her house. As she peeked through the window, she saw a crowd of high school students led by Armen vandalizing her house, racist and anti mutant graffiti. Cessily ran to the attic, and once there cried until her parents had returned home.

When her parents returned home, Cessily’s mother became enraged, blaming what had happened on the small mindedness of the local populous. Her father, pooling his resources, began to make phone calls to the local precincts to report the crime. The police were unsympathetic to the Kincaid's, and instead, instructed them to send their child away to avoid future problems.

Not knowing what else to do, and not wanting to abandon their child, the family packed up and moved to a small town right outside of Westchester. During their time there, Cessily began to show improved ability to control her changes, and she also started attending public school. At school one day, Cessily overheard some students talking about a man named Charles Xavier, and how he had a school for special children not too far away from them. Cessily's eyes widened as she heard this news, and as soon as she got home, she told her parents about the man named Professor Xavier and his School.

After doing some research on Xavier's Institute, and at the insistence of Cessily, the parents wrote to the school in hopes of acceptance. Three days later, they received a letter of acceptance into the school, and Cessily was on her way.

Cessily was a bit antisocial for a while after coming to the school, even in the midst of mutants she was wary that they might not accept her because of the way she looked. But she soon got over it, seeing that she was not the only one with a physical mutation by far. There were plenty of students like her. But she was still the only one made of metal. Even Colossus could control whether he was in metal form or not. But she didn’t let it stop her from enjoying life. She eventually returned to her normal, fun loving self.

In the six months that she has been at the school, Mercury has made new friends, and lead a relatively normal life. However, the letters and calls from her father came less and less, and now it's come to the point that she's surprised whenever he contacts her. Her brother, however, still sends her letters often, and keeps in touch.