Silver Carrot

Marvel Comics: Dawn of X

@Ruby

Actually, yeah, lol. What is the drinking age?

Strawberry Romantic

Yes, why?

Strawberry Romantic

What the hell was happening?

Kagura was currently taking shelter behind a dumpster, at the end of an alley. She had been with her friends, it had been an ordinary day. But as soon as the screaming started, and the bird creatures swarmed the streets, she remembered very little. It was chaos. She remembered running. She saw people in front of her get knocked down by the monsters and not get back up. She had no time to think about that. She ran right past them. She lost track of how many twists and turns she had taken. She didn't even know if she'd been actively chased or not. All she could think about was getting to safety.

So now here she was, having hit a dead end, now hiding behind a dumpster. She felt so powerless. She was such a coward. There were people out there who needed help. But she was too...

"Are ye scared?"

Kagura looked to her left, to see a lady in a white frilly ghile shirt and a brown waistcoat, with beige breeches and knee-length black boots. She was resting with both her feet up, and a tricorn hat pulled over her eyes. Her hair was long, with the color and appearance of staw. She stood up and readjusted her hat.

"Still, young lass, ye should probably get out of 'ere. This is not a good place to face monsters. Follow."

Kagura found it bizarre there was a woman dressed in a pirate costume, talking like a pirate, but she was desparate for any help she could get, so she listened. Then, something bizarre happened; the woman phased right through a door. Kagura stared in disbelief, before she called out from the other side.

"Lock's fair old! Just give 'er a few bashes!"

Kagura looked back to the main street, to see that two of the bird monsters were at the other end, and they'd seen her. They started running down the alley, straight at her. Kagura, in desperation, shoulder barged the door with all her strength and sure enough, it gave way. The pirate lady grinned, before racing up the stairwell. Kagura followed.

She now found herself on a roof, with no way off or back down, and she could hear the birds shrieking and flapping at the bottom of the stairwell. She turned back to the Pirate.

"We're trapped up here!"

"Nah!" Replied her guide. "This is just a more advantageous place for us to fight them! Look up!"

Kagura looked up at the sky, and to her surprise a small yet very dark storm cloud was gathering directly above her.

"Now," continued the woman. "Pull the Storm down to us."

It was a very strange, nonsensical phrase, but for some reason, Kagura knew exactly what she meant...almost like....she could feel the lightning. Like it was part of her already. "Am I dreaming?" she whispered to herself, before she reached up with her hand, and then, using her instict, willed the lightning to her.

The lightning striking the building could be seen and heard the entire surrounding mile around, as could the dark cloud immediately disippating. Back on the rooftop, Kagura found that she was now wearing yellow knee length boots not dissimilar to the lady's, a yellow skirt, a white corset with red lace, and over that, a yellow sil longcoat with bright, round brass buttons. Her hair was now also tied up with a ribbon. The most noticeable addition, though, was there was now a cutlass in her hand.

At that moment, the two birds finally reached the roof and charged Kagura. Her eyes narrowed and she strode cocksure towards them, slightly drunk off the power she now felt. She dispatched them with one slice each, before turning back to the Pirate, who was grinning.

"Aye, we'll need to teach you how to fight, lass, but you've got the spirit. Now, we just got to find who's in charge o' these birds."

Strawberry Romantic

Kagura Kasuke

Kagura is the daughter of a very rich family, who grow up the youngest child of a large family. Though she was spoiled and sheltered, she was unusually short, not as naturally pretty a child as her older sisters (though still not bad-looking) and grew up with the feeling she had a lot to prove. The resulting girl lies somewhere between an ojou-sama and a stuck-up brat. She's confrontational and abrasive, a living paradox between acting like she's better than you but also acting insecure because she believes the opposite.

Captain Joanna Hawke - "The Storm of the Seas"

Growing up in Cornwall, England in the late 17th Century, Joanna was also the youngest child of a large family, albeit a poor family of sailors. She rebelled against her family's desire for her to enter the Sisterhood, and at 15, snuck away on a trading ship. Ten years later, during the beginning of the Gold Age of Piracy, 'The Storm of the Seas' was already a fearsome captain of her own ship where grew her crew, reputation and wealth for over seven years before she was finally arrested and hanged. Her first mate, Edward "Red Ed" Crawford assumed the position of Captain before going on to become one of the most notorious, famous and legendary Pirates who ever roamed the seven seas. Joanna's role in history was relegated to a mere footnote in his origin story.

On top of the standard array of Magical Girl abilities, Kagura is also granted the ability to summon and control lightning, and her transformation sequence (which is of course being struck by lightning) can also summon Joanna's cutlass if she so needs it

Strawberry Romantic

@EmmaZ Ooh, I like a pirate! That's a good counterbalance to a rich girl.

Strawberry Romantic

I'm interested in joining this!

Trying to decide between a rich kusogaki tsundere, or a gyaru. Hmm, we already have both a slacker and a yankee. Leaning towards the rich girl to balance out the cast

Hmmm, what kind of ancient spirit would grant the user lightning powers?

Delta End

Hell yeah!

Marvel Comics: Dawn of X

Molly Hayes

Name: Molly Hayes
Alias: Bruiser
Age: 17
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA

Powers: Molly can activate a state where her eyes glow bright pink and she thus gains incredible super strength. Though not on the level of being such as The Hulk, she hasn't yet had the misfortune of ever being in a situation where she wasn't strong enough to lift/break what she needed to. This state also grants her some level of invulnerability to the degree where bullets bounce off her.

The drawback of this state is that it is a finite well to draw from. If she overexerts herself through prolonged or strenuous usage of her power, she will physically exhaust herself, possibly to the point of being unable to move, or even to loss of consciousness.

History: Molly's parents were founding members of the LA-based Supervillain group The Pride. Along with other children of Pride members, Molly was part of The Runaways, and after stopping their parents, had many adventures over the years, breaking up and reforming multiple times as members grew up and were busy with other events. One year ago, they seemingly split up for good, and Molly decided to focus on high school, wishing to enter college.

She hid her powers, and her past. The worse and worse public opinion on Mutants became, the more and more isolated Molly felt, that the bigger part of her identity being a Mutant became. She still kept in touch with The Runaways, and sometimes even met up with a few of them, but they were content with the paths they had taken, and encouraged her to focus on school. After a particularly nasty yelling match with Chase, she distanced herself from them. None of them were mutants. They didn't understand what she was going through right now.

She of course had known about Krakoa previously, but it was only now that she seriously entertained thoughts of going. She made her mind up and slipped away from her foster family without a word, taking only the possessions that fit in a rucksack, and fled with the goal of finding a place to belong with her own kind.

Story Arcs: Molly is looking for a place to belong, where she can start a new chapter of her life and possibly make some new friends.

Marvel Comics: Dawn of X

I might introduce Lydia later. I always like starting with one character so they can get developed and form connections

Marvel Comics: Dawn of X

Molly Hayes

Name: Molly Hayes
Alias: Bruiser
Age: 17
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA

Powers: Molly can activate a state where her eyes glow bright pink and she thus gains incredible super strength. Though not on the level of being such as The Hulk, she hasn't yet had the misfortune of ever being in a situation where she wasn't strong enough to lift/break what she needed to. This state also grants her some level of invulnerability to the degree where bullets bounce off her.

The drawback of this state is that it is a finite well to draw from. If she overexerts herself through prolonged or strenuous usage of her power, she will physically exhaust herself, possibly to the point of being unable to move, or even to loss of consciousness.

History: Molly's parents were founding members of the LA-based Supervillain group The Pride. Along with other children of Pride members, Molly was part of The Runaways, and after stopping their parents, had many adventures over the years, breaking up and reforming multiple times as members grew up and were busy with other events. One year ago, they seemingly split up for good, and Molly decided to focus on high school, wishing to enter college.

She hid her powers, and her past. The worse and worse public opinion on Mutants became, the more and more isolated Molly felt, that the bigger part of her identity being a Mutant became. She still kept in touch with The Runaways, and sometimes even met up with a few of them, but they were content with the paths they had taken, and encouraged her to focus on school. After a particularly nasty yelling match with Chase, she distanced herself from them. None of them were mutants. They didn't understand what she was going through right now.

She of course had known about Krakoa previously, but it was only now that she seriously entertained thoughts of going. She made her mind up and slipped away from her foster family without a word, taking only the possessions that fit in a rucksack, and fled with the goal of finding a place to belong with her own kind.

Story Arcs: Molly is looking for a place to belong, where she can start a new chapter of her life and possibly make some new friends.