Delilah Holmes/Flora
Feb 29, 2016 0:54:30 GMT
Post by Flora on Feb 29, 2016 0:54:30 GMT
DELILAH HOLMES
(Flora)
(spam) is the player of this character and (nightcrawler, quicksilver and painkiller).
female | 15 | New Mutants | 9th grade | Mackenzie Foy
(Flora)
(spam) is the player of this character and (nightcrawler, quicksilver and painkiller).
female | 15 | New Mutants | 9th grade | Mackenzie Foy
Physical Description:
Delilah, being only fifteen has not reached maturity so she stands at 5'1 and 101 lbs. She has long light brown hair and has green eyes and fair skin. She has somewhat of a baby face, so does appear a bit younger than she is. Her body type is slim, but throughout training and as she gets older, she is expected to gain a bit of muscle mass.
She considers herself somewhat of a hippie yet a bit of a fashionista and is always up to date with the latest trends. Her style is a little boho and a little elegance.
Her uniform consists of a black pants made from durable material and a black and green sleeveless top made form the same material with an X-Men insignia belt buckle. The green is because it represents her mutant powers.
Personality Demeanor:
Delilah is a bit of a flower child as she loves nature and everything in it. On nice days when there is no class. she is mainly found outside doing something such as tending to the gardens, hiking or just reading a book somewhere under a tree. She comes off as a little weird because she considers plants her friends, but she does have a few friends at the school, though kids are kids and like any kid, there are people who tease her for the weirdness of talking to plants and such.
Despite that, she is sweet and does not let negativity get her down, at least thats what is shown outwardly. Inwardly, she does feel like a bit of an outcast.
One thing she is pretty bad at is punctuality. She has been late to classes on more than one occasion because of oversleeping or just losing track of time.
Mutation:
The main ability she possesses is phytokinesis, or plant manipulation. She can control the growth and development of plants and use them as a defense or offense mechanism. For example. she can cause a small sprout to turn into a giant vine within seconds and cause the vine to wrap around enemies, causing strangulation and just expedite growth and development in general, even if the plant is not in an ideal environment. She has not reached her full potential and will eventually learn to manipulate the toxins in toxic plants to be more potent and also manipulate the scents of various plants to induce headaches and nausea from pungent plants.
A secondary gift she has is plant communication. She can talk to plants and they “talk” back to her. Those who don’t really know her get weirded out, but she seems to have full conversations with them. Her favorite plants to communicate with are trees. She maintains that trees have many stories to tell.
Flaws:
As for personality flaws that were not mentioned in the personality section, Delilah is a anti-social, which can make her come off as a little rude. Also, she has been known to daydream a lot during classes, so though she is smart, she isn't the most model student in that sense.
Powerwise, she cannot bring dead plants back to life. Once they are dead, they are dead. Also, fire and ice manipulators can really hinder her power as they can set the plants on fire or freeze them. Once that happens, she can not manipulate the burned or frozen plant. Other than that, she has your basic human physical weaknesses. She possesses average strength for someone with her build as well.
Hobbies & Aptitudes:
gardening, herbalism, climbing trees, journaling, scrapbooking, singing, speaks american sign language
History:
Delilah was born in Wichita, Kansas along with her twin brother Derek. The family lived on a farm just outside the city. Their parents are Kathy and Owen Holmes. Their mother Kathy fell off a ladder while picking walnuts while she was pregnant with them, resulting in Derek being born deaf. However, that did not stop the two siblings from having fulfilled childhoods. The two loved the farm and helping out.
When the twins were 8, they lost the farm due to the city wanting to build highway through it. They took it to court and lost. Owen packed up his family and they moved to Washington State where Owen got a job managing an apple farm. The kids went to a normal school, however Derek was in specialized classes. She always found herself sticking up for her brother after being teased in school. The kids mostly sat together alone at lunch. She was never really a people person except to her brother and few acquaintances but they were mostly the nerds of the school. She was always exceptionally smart.
At age 12, she began manifesting her powers, by "hearing" voices. They turned out to be the trees, plants and flowers around, but she did not know that at first and thought she was crazy to the point where she started seeing the school psychologist. Rumors began in school and she became the resident freak.
Things completely changed when she rescued her brother from falling out of a tree he climbed by causing the grass below to change in size and texture so it was like landing on a soft bed. She did it automatically as she panicked, witnessing the fall. She thought it was just a mere miracle, but other things started to happen around her whenever she felt a rush of adrenaline, like roots breaking through her bedroom floor and such. As if she didn't feel crazy enough, now she had to deal with being even more different.
Her parents divorced shortly after as well as their marriage just didn't work out. Kathy moved herself and her children back to Kansas to be closer to their grandparents as their grandfather was dying of cancer. He died about 3 months after they moved there and at the funeral, her sadness overwhelmed her and she caused all of the flowers to die simultaneously. Because she caused a stir, she ran out of the funeral home and ran away.
The next day, they were visited by representatives of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, however Delilah was still missing. She was finally found in the willow tree in their back yard. She refused to come down at the request of her mother when her mother brought up the school. One of the representatives climbed up the tree to have a heart to heart talk about the school. They explained that though people didn't understand her here, the school would be the one place where they did understand her and she would fit in and be accepted. She eventually made the decision to come down the tree and become a student of the institute.
First Appearance:
Well, she is in the middle of Freshmen year at the institute. I could have her returning from spending the weekend with her dad and brother in Atlantic City, but she would know the others already.