Taylor Pierpoint

Ice Dancer

Female

Eighteen

5’6”

135 lbs

Downtown

Golden Blonde

Ice Blue

½ French, ½ Icelandic

Being the daughter of a former model, Taylor has been gifted with very good looks. She has a small frame and is decently physically fit. She has perfect skin tone, pale enough to show that she’s not very outdoorsy but tan enough that she doesn’t look like a ghost. She has a long, graceful body, with long legs and hands that always move in elegant, sweeping gestures. She is compact in physique, with some curvature.
Her face is round and heart-shaped, with plump cheeks and a beauty mark near the left corner of her mouth. She has small ears that are always adorned by diamond stud earrings. Her eyes are an icy blue, and seem rather wide above her soft nose. Her hair is kept a little below shoulder length, and is always tied up in a ponytail or twist. She loves her hair very much, and takes great care of it, making sure that she never gets split ends or anything of the sort. Taylor is rather prone to acne, and so she puts herself on a strictly-regimented set of acne control creams and soaps. This, combined with her makeup, makes Taylor’s face look nearly flawless. Her lips are unnaturally red, and her eyelashes are unnaturally full. Her nails are always freshly manicured, and are usually painted white or clear. She keeps them longer than average, and has a habit of drumming them on things when she's bored. She has no tattoos of any kind, but she wants one on her left shoulder. However, knowing her family, she’d get in huge trouble if she got one, so she doesn’t bother with it. Taylor speaks with a pretty obvious French accent, although it is beginning to sound slightly less French because she’s been in America for so long.

Rich. Taylor only wears the finest clothing, usually Prada or Gucci. She wears a lot of blues, silvers, and whites. She wears a lot of designer jeans, and has a thing for fur (though it’s tough to wear fur in the winter). Taylor generally dresses a little heavily for the warm temperatures in Verthaven, as if she’s always cold. She wears a lot of silver jewelry, as well as sapphires. Despite being French, Taylor does not wear a beret. And do you know why? Because nobody from France would be caught dead in a beret. Berets are tourist trash, and anyone seen wearing a beret in France is immediately branded “tourist”.

A life of riches can lead one to easily become pompous. Taylor is one of those people. Now she’s not the type to brag; she won’t walk around counting her money or telling you about how many yachts her father owns (the answer is four), but she is incredibly judgemental and generally turns her nose up at people who look dirty or non-rich. She subconsciously judges books by their covers, and disassociates herself with people who do not look or act like they have money. From a friend level, Taylor is alright. She’s a tad shy, and acts rather innocent when she’s in a group; you won’t find her making dick jokes anytime soon. She’s rather awkward, socially, often stumbling over words and lapsing into French when she makes a fool out of herself so that people can’t tell what she’s saying. She has a habit of talking to herself when she’s alone. Unlike other rich people, Taylor is somewhat shy and reserved, and prefers small groups to large crowds. She absolutely hates the paparazzi (which is a problem when she's with Carole).
Taylor acts almost smothering towards friends and lovers. She’s quick to use the L-word in a relationship simply to keep the boy from leaving her, and it’s not the most complicated thing for a boyfriend to get her into bed. Now allow me to clarify here so that the name of Taylor Rouleau is not too overly-besmirched; Taylor is not what modern society would call a slut. She is not promiscuous for the sake of being promiscuous, but she will go out of her way to get romantic partners so attached to her that they won’t leave. She is very easily bothered by the idea of people leaving her.

Dancing, ice skating, acting, painting, poetry; she’s very left-brained. Taylor doesn’t read often. She listens to a lot of pop music, and her favorite band is Coldplay. Her favorite painter is Van Gogh. Despite her She has a thing for aquatic animals, especially bright-colored fish. She has a sizeable fish tank in her house. Her favorite thing to do by far is ice skate.

Taylor is an excellent dancer, and is going to college for dance. She excels in ballet. She is also an excellent ice skater, and was going to try out for the French Olympic team until metas were banned from it. She speaks better French than she does English, though she speaks English well too.

Her ice skates

"Si il ya une âme, il est composé d'eau. Eau dans sa forme la plus pure est pure et calme et efface toute imperfection.”

Taylor was born in Marseille, a coastal city in southern France. She grew up rich and overprivileged, her father being the millionaire fashion designer Anthony Pierpoint. Taylor’s mother was a supermodel, but her dad wasn’t exactly the best at keeping women happy, and so by age four, they divorced. Taylor was mostly raised by her stepmother, who was American. Her stepmother was a former ballet dancer, and she enrolled Taylor in dance classes as soon as she could. Taylor showed herself to be very adept at ballet, and while on a family vacation in the Italian Alps discovered a love for ice skating.
She discovered her power at age eight while at the beach. For many years, she practiced her power on her own (her father was also a meta, and so was fine with her abilities). One day when she was thirteen, however, she accidentally hit a potential business partner in the face with an ice ball, breaking his jaw and knocking him unconscious. Taylor’s father decided then to send her to an American superpower training school; Academy 218. While at the Academy, Taylor learned how to use her powers well, and returned home four years later with an incredible amount of skill. Now she is in Verthaven to support her friend Carole, who she met at 218, in her modeling.

Anthony Pierpoint: Father
Marie Pierpoint: Mother
Dominique Pierpoint: Stepmother
Renee Pierpoint: Sister (younger)

Carole Elias | Good | Best Friend | "I just love Carole. She's my best friend in the world and I will always support her." |

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Elemental

Ice Manipulation. Taylor has the power to freeze water into ice and use it in a variety of ways, both offensively and defensively. She has grown quite skilled with her ice, and is capable of making both incredibly strong and incredibly intricate. She is good at making ice sculptures, and can use her ice offensively as well, firing razor-sharp icicles at enemies. Her ice can travel along surfaces, allowing Taylor to cover an entire room in a layer of ice. This allows Taylor to transform any battlefield to her advantage, and due to her skill in ice skating, she is able to move with incredible speed and agility. Taylor can cause any ice that she physically touches to become immune to the environment around it, preventing it from melting. She can also melt her own ice, allowing her to store her water easier.

Temperature Manipulation. Because Taylor has been trained so well, Taylor has gained the ability to temporarily manipulate the temperature in a closed space around her, causing any room to turn cold. This gives her a power boost, making her ice attacks harder and stronger. It also allows her a slight advantage against fire metas when in an enclosed room, as it’s harder to create a fire when in a cold area. Taylor’s temperature manipulation only works indoors or in an already-cold environment, so it is useless outside.

Taylor’s primary limit is the availability of water. She can only freeze water that is within fifteen feet of her, and can only freeze fresh water (so the ocean is a no-no). Taylor can telekinetically control ice that has been pre-frozen, but she cannot manipulate its shape nearly as efficiently as she can water that she froze herself. She can manipulate water in the air, but cannot make overly-thick ice with it. The thinner Taylor’s ice is, the weaker it is, and so a very thin sheet of ice created by her is weaker than a thicker sheet.

Firstly, heat. Taylor’s worst enemy is fire. High temperatures (obviously) melt ice, and so fire or high heat can render her powerless. Fire manipulators can easily defeat Taylor by melting her ice faster than she can generate it. While Taylor can level the playing field with fire manipulators through her temperature abilities when inside, when outside she is completely vulnerable. Warm temperatures outside also weaken Taylor’s ice and makes it melt more quickly.

Another problem for Taylor is temperature. You see, while Taylor can lower the temperature of her environment, but she herself is not immune to temperature changes. Taylor’s body temperature also drops when she freezes water. As such, Taylor can drop her body into hypothermia if she stays in a cold room for too long or uses her powers too frequently.

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