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[b]Name:[/b] Laura Kinney, called 'X-23' or 'X' mostly.
[b]Callsign:[/b] X-23
[b]Age:[/b] Early 30's. Appears early 20's.
[b]Mutation:[/b]

[i]Healing Factor[/i] - X-23 is a mutant who possesses the ability to regenerate damaged or destroyed areas of her cellular structure at a rate far greater than that of an ordinary human. The speed at which this healing factor works varies in direct proportion with the severity of the damage X-23 suffers. It is this healing factor that allowed her to sustain her entire skeletal structure being artificially bonded to the nearly indestructible metal Adamantium.

[i]Animalism[/i] - X-23's senses of sight, smell, and hearing are all superhumanly acute. In addition to this, her mutation also consists of animal-like adaptations of her body, including pronounced, and sharp fang-like canines and four sets of two retractable claws housed within each forearm and each foot. 

[b]Personality:[/b]

Laura is tough. She had to be to survive all she's been throw. Beneath the appearance of the young-late teen girl, is a woman who has undergone some of the worst tortures imaginable, killed more than the most experienced of mobsters and suffered through more loss than nearly anyone alive. Originally emotionally stunted from the events of her life, she has since developed into a caring, if harsh woman. This is not to say she does not understand the trials and tribulations of others, she simply does not suffer melodrama and is always there to provide a little perspective.

She is hard on the students, never sugar coating the situation and confronting those who don't show the potential she believes they have. 

[b]History:[/b]

X-23 was born out of the failure of the Weapon-X project. A new secret program, lead by Zander Rice and Martin Stutter, attempted to recreate the project, in part to kill Wolverine, as well as fill the role the feral mutant had been designed for. They could not find any viable candidates to accept the genetic material salvaged from the previous project and so brought genetic expert Sarah Kinney to the project to assist them. Eventually Kinney proposed the idea that a female clone of wolverine could be 'grown' from the salvaged X-gene. Both project leaders refused, on account of suspecting a female host would either change or weaken the end result. Despite orders not to, Kinney carried out her plan, successfully creating a host. Stutter accepted the creation as a success, although as punishment, Rice forced Kinney to carry the child herself as surrogate.

As a child, X-23 was raised to kill and little more. She was taught rudimentary knowledge of several languages, with a slight focus on English, simply to function, while the majority of her time was spent being developed to kill. She was exposed to radiation to hasten the development of her mutations and her claws were forceably extracted before being coated with adamantium, all off anaesthetic and both nearly killing her. Her only respite was secret meetings with Sarah Kinney, who would read childrens' stories to her, despite never revealing herself as her surrogate mother. By 11, X-23 was the most sought after assassin in the world, her owners earning potentially millions of dollars for each of her contracts. Eventually Stutter, feeling his days as head of the project were over, granted primary control to Rice. The power hungry son of the original leader of Project X then used X-23 to murder Stutter and his family, besides his young son, out of a random burst of compassion from X-23. Rice then went about replacing the staff of the project, including Sarah who he held particular contempt for. Before she left, Rice revealed a lab containing another 20 growing female foetus, the expansion of the project. Using command overrides she had created, Sarah ordered X-23 to kill Rice. Once Rice was killed however, Sarah realised he had previously exposed her to the trigger scent, a chemical causing X-23 to go into a murderous rage. Hence, daughter killed mother, but on her deathbed, Sarah gave X-23 her name, Laura Kinney.

Following these events, Laura wandered. Her life improved little, in an emotionally underdeveloped state she was used as both a prostitute and an enforcer by different criminals. She eventually encountered her mother's family, although only her aunts survived the few months of their reunion. The new leaders of Project-X using the trigger scent to turn her on a number of her family, before themselves attacking. Managing to get her aunts to safety, she then disappeared, now with the intent of tracking down, and killing, the man who had been the cause of the new Project. Wolverine.

Their first meeting was suitably violent. A grim fight between two individuals able to heal any wounds. With the element of surprise and a lack of moral implications on her side, Laura eventually bested her biological father, although he was able to convince her not to kill him, to instead move on from the trauma inflicted upon her by others. While she would flee the scene, she would eventually be reunited with Wolverine after she and Spider-man rescued a young mutant. She was inducted into Xavier's School, mostly as a precaution and to teach her how to exist within society. Following their defeat, she swore to carry on a mission she had yet to really understand.

As the co-leader of one of the many cells still working to building to some mysterious end, Laura has been contacted once again to raise this new team of youngsters, to prepare them to one day bear the title of X-men, if they can survive.