[hider=Vanessa Kalford][u][b]Basic Information[/b][/u]

[b]Name:[/b] [i]Vanessa Katherine Kalford[/i]
[b]Nickname/Alias/Etc:[/b] [i]Iron-Clad, The Iron Slugger, The Full Metal Fucker[/i]
[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Age:[/b] 23
[b]Height:[/b] 5'2
[b]Weight:[/b] 152

[b][u]Appearance[/u][/b]

[b]Hair Color:[/b] Dark-Brown
[b]Eye Color:[/b] Green
[b]Ethnicity:[/b] Puerto-Rican, & African-American
[b]Physical Appearance:[/b] From first sight, Vanessa is a heavy-set woman with a short and stocky build. She is certainly portly, and her limbs are wide and packed with body fat. Obviously, she has a gut that she is working on getting rid of. Her behind and breasts are larger due to having this extra body weight, with her thighs being very large. However, instead of looking sloppy, her body is rather tight. She doesn't have any love handles, and she definitely is losing weight. Vanessa carries herself like a confident fighter. Standing straight up and tall, and taking large steps. Her body is almost always covered in signs that she's been doing some fighting [i]very[/i] recently. Her knuckles are fairly bruised/cut, she has a black eye, her nose looks crooked from being broken too many times, and she has a fair share of scars. Naturally, she leans on being tomboy rather than a traditional woman. Must be because of that fighter look, and the way she carries herself around. Her strong, masculine, earth-hands tends to contribute to this. However, her head of hair betrays this. Her curly hairstyle, which is a dark-brown color, hangs off the back of her head, going down to her back, and she keeps it very well managed and clean. There are two long french braids that go far past her curly mane. 

Going off her ethnic background, Vanessa is a mixed cup. She has Hispanic, and African-American in her genes. She'd definitely leave someone trying to figure out exactly what scratching their head until she tells them. Her skin color definitely suggests that she is a lighter African-American, or a darker Hispanic. Her facial features do absolutely nothing to suggest she's one ethnicity or the other. Her skin is a light-brown color, definitely. Her upper body is coated in black freckles, plenty can be seen on her face, and upper body if she were to take off her shirt. Like I said before, her skin is coated in scars and bruises. For the latter, she has nasty purple bruises on her upper body. Mainly around her chest, and on her arms. Other than the small scars from boo-boos in the past, she has some interesting scars, indeed. On her shoulder, she has a network of scars that look like cracks, that encompass her entire shoulder. Once again, you wouldn't notice most of them unless you took off her clothes. Fortunately, she managed to keep her face scar free.

Vanessa's face is rounded, and she has a rather large head. Her head is triangle shaped, with her face being rather thick. It's best shown in her chubby cheeks, which are childlike, similar to a girl's decades younger than her. Her jawline is sharp, with a large, boxy, pointy, chin - with a clef that few would notice. Vanessa has a small, rounded nose, that looks like a tiny stub, it's crooked due to being broken one too many times and never quite healed right. Vanessa's lips are thick and full, and pretty wide. Vanessa's eyes are large and child-like, her iris have a light-green color. She has a massive-forehead too, it's smooth and round, but still pretty wide/tall.

[b]Attire:[/b] Vanessa's style is pretty bland on a regular, since style isn't too much of a worry. She usually wears t-shirts, jeans, and whatever matches/she feels like wearing. Though, she tends to wear outfits that are loose, doesn't hug her frame too much, and gives her plenty of freedom of movement. So she tends to wear things like sweat pants and t-shirts, while she likes to throw things like hoodies on. Though, Vanessa likes to wear jackets and coats like they're capes. Vanessa almost never wears jewelry, or the likes. She does like wearing sunglasses, though. In the few occasions Vanessa can prepare for a fight, she wraps a chain around her arms super tightly. Or when going boxing, she tends to coat her hands in fighter's tape.

[b][u]Personality[/u][/b]

[b]Outward & Innate Personality:[/b] Vanessa is a normally kind and sweet woman. She usually acts calm and quiet, like the introverted type that you'd see hovering over a crowd. People who talks to her realize that she acts pretty nice and dorky. Trying to act calm, but ultimately slips when she hears news that would excite her. Sometimes even acting like a child by jumping up and down. She enjoys having fun, and being around people, even if she's not the center of attention. Vanessa is bisexual, but mostly leans on liking boys. She's open to a same-sex relationship, but boys are her main attraction. This normally sweet girl has a darkside, however. A thrill seeker at heart. Vanessa loves the rush that being in a do or die situation or fight gives her. Which is her main draw to the more illicit parts of Mendel. Sometimes running out and delivering vigilante justice. She knows it's something she shouldn't do, but it's like an addiction to the action. She can't turn herself from it, and that's why she's working on weening herself. Though, she feels herself as becoming nothing more than a thug. Vanessa has a bit of trouble restraining her anger, and tends to solve her problems with fists rather than with choice words. Which is why she avoids regular conflict or confrontation lest she risks letting that anger guide a fist into someone's face. In terms of morality, she'll help people when she can, she's against harming innocents and causing senseless acts of destruction, on the other hand, she's fine delivering brutal beat downs on enemies and calling it fun. Long as no one dies, then it's fine, right? Her sense of right and wrong wasn't really 100% set. Her opinions of the various factions of Mendal are piss poor, mostly because she has a bad opinion of all of them. The Skulls are nothing but ruthless thugs, the Vanguard are wolves in sheeps clothing, and the Hackers are nothing but a bunch of WoW nerds. With factions like those, she'd rather go solo, and fight for the people.

[b]Hobbies/Interests:[/b] Vanessa likes eating candy, comic-books, tv/movies, super heroes, crime shows, MMA, cartoons, and media in general.

[b]Skills/Talents:[/b] Vanessa has a few skills. Naturally, Vanessa is good at diplomacy and leveling with people. Social skills she's honed over the years. She can also run pretty fast for a girl her size, nothing impressive, but surprising how quick on her feet she is. She is also honed at photography, and if she gets her hands on a camera, she will take pictures of every beautiful thing in sight. Vanessa also had the opportunity to learn a few instruments, her favorite being brass instruments. She knows how to play the tuba, the saxophone, and the trumpet - She's best at the last one, however. Because brass instruments are awesome. Vanessa was also trained in a few martial arts, initially for self defense in case anyone tried to fight her. Vanessa has learned a bit of Karate, and ascended to orange belt at least - but hasn't practiced in ages. What she has done plenty of was boxing. She's a skilled boxer, and could probably go pro if she shed that weight. Both of these martial arts came in handy when she fights out on the streets. She has gained quite a bit of experience.

[b]Prized Possession:[/b] N/A

[b]Quote(s):[/b] N/A

[b]History/Bio:[/b]

[b]Family:[/b] Vanessa had a rather large family. She has a mother, father, four sisters, and two brothers. She's not really in contact with them anymore. Merely because she can't face them since she feels like a thug. I'll provide names later!

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[b][u]Abilities[/u][/b]

[b]Power Class:[/b] Elemental/Anatomical

[b]Power:[/b] Vanessa can play some mean DEATH METAL.

[i]Metal Mimicry.[/i] Vanessa can transform her body, fully or selectively, into a black cast iron form. Cast iron is a pretty tough kind of metal, heat-resistant, and it's heavy. In fact, it's what frying pans are made of. If you think that's lame, go grab the nearest frying pan and put it over an open flame for a minute or two. Then grab it, and punch it hard as you can. After you're done [i]that[/i], go find a car, channel the power of your ancestors, and smack that bitch up. Did all that? Great job, jackass, you have a burned and broken hand and probably going to get arrested for vandalism. Point is, her durability in this state is elevated by quite a few notches. She can shrug off most physical attacks, knives and blades won't do anything to her, and she can withstand all but the hottest heats. Her body will be homogeneous, no part of her body will be more important than the other. In addition, she won't be able to feel pain, will be immune to biological attacks, and will be independent of oxygen. In addition to having a strong defense, she can dish out the damage just as well. Packing enough force behind her punches to break bones in one swing. Naturally, her strength is brought up too, nothing to the levels of say Titus and Mia, but she can lift up a lot more, and put more strength behind her attacks. Vanessa is also capable of manipulating her body, she can shape her body into tools, long as she has the mass for it. She usually employs stuff like hammers, blades, and maybe stuff like chains. Getting run through with a blade can be a particularly painful way to go. When she [i]doesn't[/i] have the mass to transform her body, she is capable of absorbing other metals, and adding them to her combined mass. She can do this with any and all metals she can come in contact with. She usually uses this ability to pack more armor on, or get more mass to shape her body into. One neat trick she was able to learn was merging with metals and controlling them like an extension of her body. Such as jamming her hand into a car, and shaping it (Or at least the metal components). Once she transforms back to human-form, any metals she has absorbed will harmlessly fall off.

[i]Metal Manipulation.[/i] A recent ability that Vanessa is that she's capable of manipulating all metal, raw or refined. One neat thing about metal is that it is mostly tough, thermal resistant, conductive, and is pretty damn common. Metals are rather flexible, and can be fused into one another. Thus, Vanessa can shape metal easily without breaking/cracking it. Giving her the ability to make any metal construction long as she's got the resources for it, and make changes to existing construct. She can move any metals that are within her sight, however, her control over metals is even greater if she's in contact with it. This ability by default has a wide range of uses. She can be an offensive powerhouse by default, metal can make a good defense, and maybe this isn't a fight, she can still do plenty of things too. Since this ability is pretty recent, she hasn't exactly worked out everything with it it. She can learn to liquidfy metal, break metal down into a powder, detect metals around her, control the temperature of metal, corrode metal, and even change one type of metal into another (Any converted metal will be in it's raw/pure state).

[b]Weaknesses/Limitations/Drawbacks:[/b] There's the obvious weaknesses a metal form would entail. She's heavy as hell, and thus, she's slow to boot. She will not be capable of the same feats of agility while made of metal. Absorbing metal can also bring her weight up a bit, to the point where she's immobile because there's a set amount her body can hold. She is also weak against magnetism, and just to save me some time; anything that'd normally affect metal (Rust, extreme colds, and so on). Any damage that Vanessa receives in metal form transfers to her human body. Cracks will appear as nasty cuts on her skin, dents will appear in her skin (with nasty bruises), etc, etc. Cast iron, while very shock absorbent, can't bend too much without breaking. Which isn't an issue for her since she's long worked around this weakness. It also rusts easily, and since Vanessa doesn't have any coating, she can rust pretty fast. Rust transfers back to her human form in the shape of scabs that can easily get infected if they're untreated. It's best that she stays away from large bodies of water in general. She can't operate that well underwater. Electricity can also serve as a problem, as being made entirely of metal her brain still has electrical impulses. A shock from say, a taser can mess all that up and render her temporarily paralyzed. While in metal form, Vanessa does not have access to her larger scale metal manipulation, only what her absorption abilities would entail. She has to be in her rather weak human form to control metals that she isn't touching. In general, Vanessa has to use both of her forms, for both maneuverability, defense, and manipulation of metals.

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