[color=lightpink][center][h2]Serenity Fleming Grier[/h2][/center][/color] [color=pink][i][center]“I do not see why I was turned down the opportunity. They told me I wasn’t as marketable as Rogue. She’s some weird goth chick with two tone hair colors. And I am a pretty girl. What are they trying to say about me? Am I that average? Ugh, it’s just so frustrating. I could make people happy. Instead I hear she banged Wolverine. Or maybe I am misrepresenting the story.”[/center][/i][/color] [center][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lQfK_vHtc4[/youtube][/center] [hider= "Don't worry its just a wig"][center][img]https://image.ibb.co/ht1ySF/Serenity2.jpg[/img][/center][/hider] Age: 24 Gender: Female - Proudly Alias: Blue Swallow [the bird. And no I won’t accept being called Captain Sparkles. And the next person who calls me Captain Sparkles should rethink their life decisions] My natural hair color is brown, my eyes are light brown, my bust and waist size are none of your business, my weight is none of your business that’s only belongs on legal documents and if you steal my ID to find out I will give you an Indian rash so bad you’ll want to stop drop and roll, my height is 5’5 without heels and 5’6” to 5’7” depending on what heels I choose to wear. I am not single. I am not looking to date you. I like to get dressy and flashy. But sometimes I try to keep it subtle. Everyone else doesn’t think I am subtle enough. I am not fucking Cloak. My power is already loud and the enemies can see my coming, so it’s not really important if I hide in the shadows. As for the things I like to wear when I am just hanging out, going to work at the studio, or trying to live an ordinary life without it being really that ordinary. It depends on the day, the colors I feel, the way the music sounds in my head. The way the melody plays in my head. Rythym. Beat of life. Here are some examples of the things I chose to wear on an average day. [u][b]Casual Everyday Wear[/b][/u] Stuff I like to wear on an average day and I am either running around doing errands because some of the people in the apartment cannot be seen outside because, have you seen the way some of them look like. Or I am taking a class. Hanging out with friends that are not these people. I love them, but I need to get away sometimes. [hider="Casual Super Star"][center][img]https://image.ibb.co/ew7MSF/Cas1.jpg[/img][/center][/hider] [hider="Just Going to Class"][center][img]https://image.ibb.co/hwvrSF/Cas9.jpg[/img][/center][/hider] [hider="Fashionable Errand Run"][center][img]https://image.ibb.co/mpLx1a/Cas2.jpg[/img][/center][/hider] [hider="Hanging with Friends"][center][img]https://image.ibb.co/eREqMa/Cas4.jpg[/img][/center][/hider] *But let's be honest and say all the outfits are interchangeable and I can wear them to any event I want [u][b]Business and Business Casual[/b][/u] Things I wear when I need to do something important. An interview. Or other things of that sort of thing. I want people to think of us as professionals, even we honestly are not. [hider= "It's Cute, Casual, and Professional"][center][img]https://preview.ibb.co/eQKknF/Cas5.jpg[/img][/center][/hider] [hider="Something Demure"][center][img]https://image.ibb.co/hetd7F/Cas7.jpg[/img][/center][/hider] [u][b]Date Night[/b][/u] This is me and Timothy time. And I dress specifically for him. No one else. You may look, but it’s not for you. [hider="Special Occasion"][center][img]https://image.ibb.co/jwPbSF/Cas8.jpg[/img][/center][/hider] [color=skyblue][center][h2]Blue Swallow[/h2][/center][/color] [color=pink][center][i]Do I think I am being vain? Look everybody in this world has a mask. We all chose to wear one to cover up the things we don't like about ourselves. People question whether or not I am serious about this job because of the way I dress when I fight. They don't think I care or don't think I was made out for this job. But they all don't know what feeling the eyes of the world on you means, they all don't know the weight of the world on your shoulders, and they definitely don't understand what it's like to look normal, be average, and everyone treat you like you're an ordinary woman, but you don't feel like an ordinary woman on the inside because you have a secret they don't. I don't have wings, I don't have green skin, I don't have scales. I'm just a woman. I am not special, but I am special. I choose to wear what I wear because I am proud to be a beautiful, average, wonderful weirdo.[/i][/center][/color] I want to be the world’s pain, the world’s happiness, and love as well as it’s hatred. Music brings people together. And there is not one type of music. There are many types of music in this world. I basically switch between costumes regularly. All you need to do is I have two types of costumes. One of them is just ordinary business. The other is that you have done something to royally piss me off. [u][b]Light Heroine Costumes[/b][/u] [b][color=skyblue]A Traditional Swallow[/color][/b] Everyone needs that traditional classic heroine outfit. It's the traditional super hero outfit, but I spiced it up with a little bit of Serenity magic. [hider= "Light Swallow 1] [center][img]https://image.ibb.co/f8cD7F/Blue_Swallow7.jpg[/img][/center] [img]https://image.ibb.co/cnYWuv/lighthero2.jpg[/img] [img]https://image.ibb.co/b4eFMa/makeup4.jpg[/img][/hider] [b][color=skyblue]Modern Take on a Heroine[/color][/b] I can't be condemned really for trying something new, can I? And it makes people happy. And I want to make the world happy and full of color. [hider= Modern Heroine] [center][img]https://image.ibb.co/nhS21a/Blue_Swallow1.jpg[/img][/center] [img]https://image.ibb.co/dbnVnF/Makeupref2.jpg[/img] [img]https://image.ibb.co/g6ki7F/Makeupref.jpg[/img][/hider] [u][b]Dark Heroine Costumes[/b][/u] Please keep in mind I used the term dark in a cheeky manner. I am not going to go out and murder people. Might kick a baddie in the groin, but it just means that I am really serious and am not going to mess around with a prick. [b][color=skyblue]Glam Swallow[/color][/b] She's in your face. She's going to make you pay for what you have done. Prepare yourself, she's about to make you feel the world's anger. [hider= "Glam Swallow"] [center][img]https://image.ibb.co/m9KbSF/Blue_Swallow2.jpg[/img][/center] [img]https://image.ibb.co/b5gqnF/Darkcostume.jpg[/img] [img]https://image.ibb.co/k83guv/makeupdark3.jpg[/img][/hider] [b][color=skyblue]Dynamic Swallow[/color][/b] You're a fuck head. You're more than a prick. And I am going to make you eat your words. [hider= "Dynamic Swallow"] [center][img]https://image.ibb.co/gabjEv/Blue_Swallow9.jpg[/img][/center] [img]https://image.ibb.co/ieu4Ev/darkcostume4.jpg[/img] [img]https://image.ibb.co/dSjRSF/makeupdark4.jpg[/img][/hider] [color=lightblue][u][b]Personality Strengths[/b][/u][/color] Mothering - Serenity is not very nurturing mother, but she is still very much mothering. She makes the team is properly fed, looked after, taken care of. She might be that hovering mother who makes sure everyone has what they need, but it makes her a rather dedicated mother because of it. She gets things done and is very efficient at these things because she cares that much. For some older than her she simply a little or older sister depending on the age difference, for the youngest members, or the most infant like she is a very caring, devoted mother. Who do anything for the people that she genuinely loves and cares for. Even when they annoy her sometimes, she will always make the sacrifice for her children and family. Upbeat - Do not mistake her upbeat attitude as blindly ignorant optimism. She’s a positive realist. She doesn’t delude herself into thinking things will get better when they are worse because that doesn’t solve problems. How she tends to deal with stressful situations around here is by keeping an upbeat attitude. Though she honestly doesn’t do it in the way that gets an eye roll out of everyone and then they ignore her. She’s not an idiot and anyone who mistakes her for being an idiot is going to be sorry that they did. She’s not going to tell you think about a silver lining or it can’t get worse or stay positive. She’s going to say, yeah, things are fucked right now, but sitting on our asses and not doing anything to fix it is just as fucked or isn’t going to solve the problem. If we don’t like then let’s go and change it to make it better. We need to stand up now. And then later on we can lick our wounds. I’ll make hot chocolate and we’ll sit on the couch drinking hot chocolate. And even she can have a moment or two when something disastrous happens and she doesn’t know the proper response to it. She’s not some creepy positive feeling robot. Opinionated - While it can be a double edge sword in her case, Serenity is not afraid to tell you what she thinks of you. She also tends to have a sailor mouth when doing it. She doesn’t keep quiet. And refuses to keep quiet. If she agrees or disagrees she’ll let you know. There is no, not knowing what Serenity means because she’s clear on what she means. She speaks straight forwardly. No hints. No subtlety. She lacks the tack to be that subtle about it. And sometimes her words are not enough and she’ll physically let you know what she thinks. Confident - But not arrogant. The reason why Serenity can stand up so fiercely, or look at a horrible situation with such certainty is because she is confident in herself. She is confident in her judgment of others. She is confident to make the right decisions when they need to be made. When she says, I am confident it will work. It means she is a hundred percent certain that it will work. [color=pink][u][b]Personality Flaws[/b][/u][/color] Vain - But only really a little bit. There’s no real reason for someone to own so much makeup and so much clothing and change their costumes based on their mood. But she’s not so obnoxiously vain it’s narcissism. She spent most of her life trying to prove that she was an ordinary girl like the rest. Only to not really fit in with them. And feel like an outcast. When she was found to be a mutant, she went to the Xavier School of the gifted. But there were people with tails, green skin, who shot lasers from their eyes, who breathed fire. She was too ordinary for them and didn’t really fit in with them either. She always felt a little out of the loop. And she covers it up with her mask. Not a physical one made out of fabric, but one that has to do with layers of clothes or choosing the makeup she does to reflect something inside of her. Opionated - Mentioned before in her case it can be a double edge sword. Because she doesn’t attempt tact, she has a habit of going off on the wrong people. Too easily jumping the gun and telling someone how it is, when it really isn’t how it is. This is often the reason why few are so willing to hold a lasting friendship with her. But those that truly know her. Love her. And understand her know she means nothing by it, sometimes she means nothing by it. Sometimes she means something by it based on false information or a false understanding of what the person has done or said. Controlling - Yeah she’s the leader, but she could learn to let go just a little bit. She seems overbearing and with her can do attitude, she can be hard to convince to let someone else take over the reigns. You see this often when she is in direct conflict with Umbra. As he is technically a secondary commander when either she is around, or there are many threats at once and the Avengers, X-men or whomever are gone. She has trouble letting others show what they might bring forth. Maybe because she’s a little bit of a perfectionist, but she also often takes the burden of failure on herself. If anyone was hurt, lost or something were to occur she’d be the one bare the responsibility even if it were not her actions that resulted in the problem at hand. She simply wants to do her best. Show her best. Which makes her overreaching and overbearing to some. She’s learning to give the reigns up, but often takes them back if she’s someone steer to close to an edge. It’s also probably the mothering nature in her not wanting to see them fail. Overbearing - Did we mention she can be overbearing? While she often needs break from the others. Sometimes the others feel they need a break from her. She’s controlling and doting, maybe too a fault sometimes. And tries to get everyone to do the best they can. She can be sort of in your personal space or she ruptures your personal space bubble trying to force you to do something you don’t necessarily want to do all based on her whim or desire. She tries not to do it too much. But her extroverted nature makes her seek people for comfort. Powers: [color=pink][center][i]There seems to be a fine line between a savant or genius in music and someone who is a superhuman in music. Everyone else gets to spray acid, throw fireballs, manipulate gasoline. I am one hell of a dancer and singer, and I am going to make you regret thinking it makes me weaker than anyone else.[/i][/center][/color] [u][b]Enhanced Musicianship [/b][/u] While her powers developed later in life, as most Mutant’s powers do end up display their full potential during puberty, Serenity was still unnaturally gifted in music, dancing, and singing. She didn’t just understand notes, it was like notes and music passed through her and she somehow could feel the music. Like music had life. As a little girl she was hailed a prodigy in music, and between the ages of 6 and 11 before puberty she was in many contest, many plays and talent shows at her school. She was hailed as being the next best singer, musician, and dancer of her age group. Enhanced musicianship is not necessarily directly a power, but it encompasses under it several applications for Serenity and they are; [color=lightblue]Performance Art Intuition[/color] - in a nutshell it simply means she possesses immense natural skills in the performing arts, but is limited to singing, dancing, and creating music. She’s tried to draw and other avenues and she fails in those sets of skill. [color=lightblue]Music Empowerment[/color] - when Serenity comes into contact with music she draws power from the rhythm, melody, harmony and beats, which makes her inhumanely strong, and fast. But not Flash fast or Quicksilver fast, simply faster than the average human and stronger than the average human allowing her to lift and launch people in the air with a relative ease. When the music is going, she has enhanced reflexes, which makes her notice a person’s attack patterns more. But if there is no music, then Serenity is as weak as her ordinary human self. [color=lightblue]Superhuman Dancing[/color] - When Serenity is dancing she is stronger than the average human being, able to lift others up with relative ease with a super punch or super kick, or a super dance combo. This doesn’t require music for her to perform these feats with just her dancing, but if she wants more benefits than she needs to tamp into her musical empowerment to gain more like speedier reflexes, and faster timing. But her superhuman dancing is also limited to when she is dancing. She uses her Superhuman Dancing as her main form of combat[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVfwe3irrjk]. Demonstrated in this video here, click to watch.[/url] [u][b]Musical Empowerment Manipulation[/b][/u] Her musical empowerment manipulation isn’t just to give her extra power in battle. But she also has an ability known as empowerment manipulation. In the shortest terms possible, she is able to control time in sink with any piece of music she touches. During the break she can slow down time. During a fast portion she can fast forward her actions or rewind her actions or the actions of others. And she can combine these things in any variation she likes. It simply needs to be perfectly timed with the rhythm of the music. This ability requires music to perform this ability. [u][b]Major Skills[/b][/u] Human Metronome While this may sound like a power, it is not. It is something Serenity has learned her whole life being as musically trained as she was. Before her enhanced musicianship was founded to be a power, she was encouraged and enabled to pursue music. She got the best training a middle class family could find, she played in school. And because of this, it’s easy for her to keep count of music in her head almost as if it were instinct. Musically Trained As a child Serenity was encourage to pursue her musical pursuits. When a power at first looks simply like genius levels of musicianship, only to later be found out it is a power leads some to believe Serenity cheated all those years. Either way Serenity has worked hard to be where she is today without it being necessarily not just her power, but a trained skill. Serenity is sometimes called in by friends or through connections of friends to Choreograph dance moves for upcoming music videos. When she was very young she took classes in urban hip hop, jazz, Broadway, and break dancing. But Serenity also Orchestrates her own musical composition. Owning a record label with her boyfriend and recording songs. Except that she isn’t really widely known and has to live with the fact that she may never be a big star. She also can Sing professionally as well. She often writes and sings her own music. Leadership Training She feels she is qualified for the job as a leader because she’s the only one who has been trained in leadership. How does she figure this? Because in her college courses she was required to take either a business management class or an economy class. She chose business management class. And they had a whole entire section on leadership, and trust exercises. [u][b]Minor Skills[/b][/u] Seamstress Who do you think makes my costumes? Me. I am the best seamstress in at least Rogue X. You got a hole in your cape, I’ll fix it. Have a little patch in your knee it’s fine I brought my fabric first aid kit. No one should go in this world without something beautiful to wear. Nor should they always chose to look homeless. Laundry There is a proper way to do laundry and there is an improper way of doing laundry. Being musically trained and going to the concerts she did or tournaments she did. Serenity has learned how to take care of different fabric in the wash. But anyone who thinks she’ll just do their laundry free has to pay her ten bucks up front.Twenty if the clothes are exceptionally dirty. Exception Riko. Charismatic Scolding If you don’t think this is a skill, then you do not know Serenity. On a good day when they are fighting a simply misguided villain she often gets them to stop their activities merely by scolding them sternly for their actions. Many feel so bad after her strong talking to they turn themselves in. It’s also the voice she uses to get things done in the apartment. She is not a house maid and makes sure everyone in Rogue X keeps their area clean. Weapon: None too much to carry Equipment: Casual Purse This is my everyday purse, it carries my phone in it, my communicator, the color of the lipstick I am wearing that day to freshen up, my eyeshadow, if I am taking Riko or Chibi with me I usually carry them little snacks or quick lunches because I am a good caretaker. It also has my notebook in it, some pens, and my wallet. [hider= My Purse and Wallet] [center][img]https://image.ibb.co/hX8N1a/purse.jpg[/img][/center] [img]https://image.ibb.co/hrPO7F/wallet.jpg[/img][/hider] Ipod and one of those wireless speakers you can play music portably Blue Swallow's Emergency Bag If anyone calls it my mom bag again, we'll see whose laughing the next time someone isn't prepared. I genuinely carry in this bag; -Packed Lunches or snacks depending on the mission -Water bottles have to stay hydrated in battle -A first aid kit -A first aid fabric kit, okay its a small sewing kit, but this can be a lifesaver as well -My Ipod and Portable Speaker -Any relevant data for the mission -A pair of handcuffs [hider= Emergency Bag] [center][img]https://image.ibb.co/hPMEEv/tote2.jpg[/img][/center][/hider] History: Was I treated well? Well yes. Have I never seen anyone close to me die before? Well yes too. But that doesn’t mean you get to discount the things I have been through. I have felt ridicule, I have felt mocked, and like I haven’t belonged. You don’t need scales to feel that way. To some I am the spoiled bitch who was born on October 25th, who had a mommy and daddy who loved her so why is she here at this school with people like us. I am of course talking about the School for Gifted Youth. I could tell you why, but people like you just laugh in my face when I tell the story. When I was young I was just thought of some kind of genius. Unlike you my powers started out subtly. It was understanding music. I didn’t just hear music or didn’t read notes. I felt music. I felt what the artist was trying to convey, I felt or saw the story the artist wrote into their notes. My parents just thought I was some gifted young girl so they encouraged me. Helen, my mother, and Lloyd, my father, weren’t very rich. We lived comfortably middle class, but they did everything for their precious little girl. Even my little brother, Jayden, had a hard time competing with his older sister who was a genius I think that’s why he resents me so much these days. I won contest. I won trophies. They were all taken from me. I was revoked the title of Junior Musician Champion because when my powers began to develop more everyone called me a cheater. They said I did it on purpose. My reputation was ruined. I didn’t get to keep any of my accomplishments of my childhood. Does that make me seem materialistic? Or selfish? Maybe. But I put in the training. The hard work. How was I supposed to know? I was a child. I didn’t know anything was wrong till puberty hit. Then when I danced the world could slow down, or move faster. I enjoyed it. But my parents disowned me, they saw me as a disgrace. And Jayden resented me. I could feel all his disdain for me. And I understood because he was a brilliantly gifted young man as well. When I came to the school of the Gifted Youth I thought things would change. I thought I’d be accepted into the group. I wasn’t. Very few accepted me because my powers were too average. Or there wasn’t anything special about me. I felt alone. I was fifteen, alone, and not even sure who I was. Few gave me the benefit of the doubt. Few gave me the opportunity to show them who I was. And yet I still worked my ass off. I still put in all of my effort. I worked harder than most because I was considered not as talented as the others. I admired people like Anna/Rogue, or Scott/Cyclops. When I was twenty, I was young and excited, but I saw all they could do. I wanted to be that. I wanted to be that woman on the screen everyone loved. That must make me sound like a narcissist. I am not. I just, I wanted to help. I wanted to good work. I wanted to make the world a better, happier place, and all my hard work meant nothing. I remember walking up to Xavier. I remember begging on my hands and knees to be a part of the X-men. I’ll never forget what he told me that day, [i][color=pink][center]“I am sorry Mrs. Grier, but to be an X-men is for the most exceptional in this school. I would not want you to needlessly throw your life away. There are so many paths and avenues you could take to achieve the same goals, to help people,” “I do not want to just help people, I want to be a hero that helps people!” He sighs. “I do have an opportunity for you. I was uncertain if I should help this mysterious individual out, we know so little of him. But we do need, or I am willing to send an individual to help a new group form here in New York. If you are willing,” “What is this project?” “Rogue X” “I’ll do anything!”[/center][/color][/i] Little did I know it send me to a little apartment in Brooklyn and I was about to lead the strangest group of heroes to do the work people like the X-men or Avengers couldn’t do. Or I really should say, wouldn’t do. Was it above their pay grade? No I’ll tell you what it was. A little secret no one knows. The Avengers and X-men are all faked. Not fake fakes, but Xavier and Nick Fury choose the most marketable, most flashy heroes, the most attractive to fund themselves and politics. They weren’t any different from anyone else. They just wanted the good looking people to make them money. And make people feel safe. I don’t want to be that type of hero. I don’t want that for Rogue X. If we’re going to make people safe, we’ll make them safe for real. If we’re going to help people, we’ll help them out for real. The perks of a dual life is I have met the love of my life, Timothy. You know him. He’s the geeky one who runs around and makes sure everything is okay at homebase. He’s helped out with the intercoms, he’s helped out with the computer system and security of this place. He’ll tell you he isn’t brilliant, but he’s brilliant in my eyes. About my parents. I don’t want to talk about it. They don’t want to talk to me. Fine I don’t want to talk about them. And Jayden. I hear he has powers. I also hear he is hanging out with the wrong crowd. I don’t. I haven’t been able to find him. He ran away from home after his powers erupted. Our parents were distraught that both their children were mutants. I hope I can find him, someday.