Name: Claudia Rhoads
Age: 15
Appearance (pictures accepted):
[img]https://i.imgur.com/nRdzshf.jpg[/img]

Power: Claudia is a living volcano capable of generating molten lava from her skin and manipulating it to a certain degree. As a required secondary ability she is completely immune to the negative effects of intense heat. 

Background: Claudia grew up in a trailer park in a small rust belt town with her three job working single mother. She was a quiet and withdrawn child, raised more by the neighborhood than her mother due to work, and didn't make a lot of friends. Then she set a school-bus on fire and everything went to hell.

It wasn't her fault. She was shy and frightened and her mama hadn't been able to drop her off like she'd promised and strangers were so loud and pretty soon the six year old had melted through the floor and given three other children sever burns. Her mother was quietly encouraged to ship her child off to a safe haven, but she didn't. This was her kid and she could home school her if she quit one her jobs and cut back here and there on things like food and electricity. This went about as well as could be expected.

Then, the pair heard of an opportunity. A way that they could stay together and still make enough to live. A secret game where people like Claudia could fight for money. She was scared at first. What child wouldn't be? She lost a lot, but she won some too, and when she won they were able to put good food on the table, buy clothes that weren't second hand, and get new appliances to replace the ones that broke. So, gradually, Claudia got into the swing of things. She started winning more often, and they had good things more often, and her mother smiled more often. By the time they were travelling around the country, hitting different underground competitions from sea to shining sea, they'd long since left their ratty old trailer behind and were living the good life on their winnings.

Then they got busted in Vegas at one of the biggest competitions, her mother was thrown in prison, and Claudia became a ward of the state and was shipped off to the Safe Haven. She's been there for two years now taking back lessons to get her up to something approaching a high school level education.