[b][h2][center][color=F6497B]Darlene St. James[/color][/center][/h2][/b]

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[h3][center][color=F6497B]General Information[/color][/center][/h3]

[center][color=F9799E]Name: Darlene St. James[/color][/center]

[center][color=F9799E]Alias: Empathy[/color][/center]

[center][color=F9799E]Age: 17 years old[/color][/center]

[center][color=F9799E]Occupation: Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters[/color][/center]

[center][color=F9799E]Date of Birth: April 22[/color][/center]

[center][color=F9799E]Hometown: Chicago, Illinois[/color][/center]

[center][color=F9799E]Appearance: Darlene appears to be a regular young woman. She has shoulder length blonde hair, dark blue eyes, and fair skin. She stands at 5'7'' and weighs 120 lbs.[/color][/center]
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[h3][center][color=F6497B]Ability Information[/color][/center][/h3]

[center][color=F9799E]Abilities: Emotion Inducement/Emotional Energy Manipulation

Darlene has the unique gift of being able to induce emotions in others. She uses a form of influence that, from what we gather, by just thinking it, but we also feel her gaze plays into that effect. The target goes through the emotion Darlene warrants and, depending on her choice, it can overtake them or it can be a brief period of time. These emotions range from anger to sadness, from self-doubt to love.

Darlene is also able to manipulate the emotional energy from others. From studying her, we can deduce that she absorbs the emotional energy and transfers it into her own choosing. A brief demonstration showed she is able to form small spheres of emotional energy that she is able to throw, she can form a shield to protect herself, and she can form a beam. We imagine she is able to do more with her powers, but may need the guidance and practice. It should also be noted that, depending on the emotion, the color of her power changes. We only saw two, anger and sadness. Anger was red and sadness was blue. We'll need more tests to determine what other emotions' colors would be.[/color][/center]

[center][color=F9799E]Skills: Darlene has no formal combat training and it is our recommendation she learn to defend herself. However, Darlene does posess a high intellect that surpasses many others in her class. She excels in a variety of subjects, such as math, science, and history. She has done very well in school, so well to garner attention from her professors and got offers from a few universities hoping she would attend. It is unclear what her interest would have been.

Darlene is also a skilled gymnast, having taken many courses growing up and was on her schools gymnastics team. She has helped the team win many championships. She has great balance and mobility.[/color][/center]

[h3][center][color=F6497B]Personal Information[/color][/center][/h3]

[center][color=F9799E]Personality: Darlene is by all accounts an outgoing, confident young woman. She is well-liked by others and no one has a bad word to say about her (though with Darlene's gifts, this may need to be explored a bit more). She is friendly and caring towards others, but she does have a vain side and likes to keep up her appearance. She doesn't like to remain quiet, often voices her opinions, and is behind women getting equal rights to their male counterparts. She is often looked down upon for her gender, but she believes she can keep up in a man's world if given the opportunity to do so.[/color][/center]

[center][color=F9799E]Backstory: Darlene is the youngest of her family. With 3 older brothers, she ended up being her father's light and he doted on her. Darlene wanted for nothing growing up. Even as a child, she was adventurous and wanted to play with her brothers whenever they went outside or wanted to ride their bikes, but her father and mother told her she had to play inside. Darlene would occasionally sneak out to play with the other kids in the neighborhood and quickly became friends with her next door neighbor, Molly. The two hung out for years and the families became close as a result.

It wasn't until she was 12 years old that Darlene's powers started to manifest. Unaware of this fact, an argument with Molly set the events in motion. Darlene managed to get Molly so angry that she "exploded" in anger to the point that no one could calm her down. Anger turned to hysteria and Molly had to be taken to the hospital, where she eventually was calmed down. Darlene didn't put two and two together until she tried the same thing with her youngest older brother, who she managed to make extremely sad with nothing but her own thought.

Darlene didn't quite know what to do, so she kept her powers hidden and tried to go through life as normal as possible. In times of great duress, however, she unwillingly unleashed her powers on others, such as when she was bullied when she was 13 and caused her attackers to run screaming in fear over nothing. Darlene decided that her gifts were trouble if not controlled, so she practiced controlling her own emotions and quickly adapted to controlling others. She did this throughout school, allowing some leeway, but for the most part she used her gifts sparingly.

It wasn't until she was almost into her senior year that she got the call from an unknown man, telling her he knew about her gifts and offered her a place to practice them and use them for something greater than she could have anticipated. Both excited and afraid at this idea, she accepted the help. She lied to her parents and said she got paid term at a prestigious boarding school that would continue her studies and allow her the freedom to go on from there. Her parents were afraid, but she quickly calmed them down and they allowed her to attend. They packed up her things and whisked her away to her new home. They parted ways at the stop the man on the phone told her to come to. Her future was about to start.[/color][/center]

[h3][center][color=F6497B]Other Information[/color][/center][/h3]

[center][color=F9799E]*Darlene has a huge crush on Cary Grant
*Darlene is able to swim
*Darlene may have excelled in her studies, but one subject she could never seem to do well in was art. She passed due to participation and her efforts (and maybe a little swaying of the teacher)[/color][/center]