Characters Name: Natalie Christine Wayne
Nicknames: Nat, Leigh-leigh, Chrissie, Brat-a-lie, Rainbowgirl
Codename: Searchlight
Affiliation: X-Men
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Grade: 11th
Classes: Beginners weight training, Honors Literature, Advanced Placement American History, Driver's Ed, Honors Physics, Pre-Calculus
Eyes: Naturally aqua. Since her powers developed, however, they change into a variety of colors depending on the mood that she is currently in.
Hair: light brown with red streaks. She keeps it just below her shoulders, and flipped, and has pieces clipped back from her face like 2 pigtails, and lets two red bangs frame her face. She also likes to braid in two.
Build: average for her size and frame
Height: 5' 4"
Weight: 130 lbs
Other features: Natalie doesn't smile much, but she is usually happy. . . except when her powers are in use. She has a small scar through her right eyebrow, due to a horseback riding accident when she was eight. Her skin is slightly tanned (sun-kissed, if you will) from spending many days outside under the hot southern sun, and she has thin, willowy hands. She also has little feet. She has large eyes, and a smaller rosebud mouth.
Power: Can see through the eyes of lost children. She can psychically connect with certain children, though they've never met, and she can see what the child sees, often being able to find where the child is. There is no particular pattern to it, it's just whoever's silent pleas reach her first. She can't try and connect with only certain ones. (i. e. If Sam Guthrie is kidnapped by Magneto or something, Natalie can't find him. His 'pleas' as she calls them have to find her. Many times, they are lost among the world, or go to someone who can't interpret the incoming messages, since there is such a jumble. Only very few actually make it to her mind. This is why she can't always find them.)
But it only works sometimes, and only with lost children. The true nature of her power is still unknown (such as why is it only lost children that can be helped), and has yet to be discovered. But for now, she cannot hold onto these visions for a long period of time, and they grow more vague by the minute, and the memory eventually disappears altogether, after about twenty minutes at the most.
Also recently noted, the type of 'lost children' that she connects to are often those in danger. Those wanting to get home. Those who are terrified beyond the imagination can possibly muster. Runaways and such don't normally appear on the list... unless someone is after them, or they are in true and real physical danger.
Her eyes also change colors with her mood, often reflecting a bright rainbow. They are as follows:
Bright yellow- happy
Bright green- frightened
Light blue/ aqua- calm
Dark or midnight blue- sad
Black- angry
Brown- tense or nervous
Orange- annoyed or perplexed, frustrated
Red- jealous
Purple- playful, laughing
Pink- lovestruck
Grey- confused
White- embarrassed
Rainbow (flashing)- very happy or excited
Let it be known that though her eyes change colors at a sometimes alarming rate, it does not actually harm her.
Stregnths/Weaknesses:
Natalie can only vaguely see through the eyes of the lost child, and cannot hold it for very long, maybe 5-10 seconds at a time, and it gets more vague every time. If she holds it longer, she could pass out, or possibly force herself into a coma. Not much else it known, as her power is still developing, but is not expected to grow much more.
Home Location: Was Baldwin, Florida, now lives in Bayville
Bio:
Natalie grew up in Northern Suburban Florida with her two seemingly "old" parents, two married older sisters, two neices, and grandparents. She lived there her whole life, and spent her years in public schooling.
Her parents found her to be "exceptionally gifted in academics" and placed her in a preparatory school for gifted children. Natalie found the faster- paced lifestyle at this school to be rather overwhelming, and transferred back to her old school in the country after only one school term.
Once there, she joined many clubs, including the Honors Society, Positive Role Models, the Future Farmers of America (as an inside joke among the few friends that she had), and also bowled on the school team for a year. It was all an effort to be more sociable than she found herself to be at that time.
It was very dull in a small town like that, so Natalie and her handful of friends did their best to make things more interesting, often at another's expense. Natalie can be quite a prankster once she gets an idea in her head. For example, when the Senior Class hosted their annual carwash to raise money for the Homecoming Dance, Natalie convinced her three friends Cheyenne, Stormy, and her older friend Haylee to go mudding in her pick-up, then show up at the car wash! Needless to say, the Class of 2003 were none too pleased.
She was always successful in her academics, but always felt that what she did was somehow not good enough for her overshadowing parents. But for the most part, she enjoyed the slower pace of country-suburban life. Nothing exciting ever happened (sans the new traffic lights installed three years ago!). . . until the night of her 15th birthday.
On the night of her 15th birthday, Natalie and her parents were eating supper when a news special cam on the air. A little girl, Sandy McKabe, the daughter of the couple who owned McKabe's Hardware downtown, had been kidnapped from her bedroom. No one knew where she had been taken.
Natalie jerked her head up, wide-eyed and shaking. Her parents were shocked when they heard her say "I know where she is."
As it turned out, Natalie was seeing visions of the inside of a warehouse. She had saw Turner-C posted on a building outside of the window, and recognized it as a said hot-spot for gang activity. She privately phoned in the tip and saved Sandy's life, though they had never met! Natalie just passed it off as a coincidence.
A few months later, a little boy became missing on a hunting trip with his father and had fallen down an old well and was trapped. Natalie began seeing vague visions: Hands grabbing at dirt, and light shining down into a dark hole.
When it was reported that the little boy was missing, Natalie joined the search, and the boy was found. He had a broken leg, but he was alive! Again, the two had never met before.
She became deeply perplexed by the whole situation, but at the same time excited that she could be a mutant. . . so excited, in fact, that her eyes began to change colors with her mood. She became very frightened by it, and no matter what she did, her eyes wouldn't stay their natural color.
Natalie became frightened that she might be hated by her community, and somehow feared letting down her parents, and became completely convinced that such was so. After some online researching, she found the location of the Xavier Institute for gifted youngsters. After contacting the professor, she packed up her belongings and bought a train ticket to Bayville.
Likes: Good food, music, dancing, humans and mutants alike
Dislikes: horses, Satan and satanic beings, and boybands. ALL boybands. And anything that reminds her of a boyband. Boybands must burn. . .
Personality: Natalie tries to act unhappy, but she really is not that bad off. Her only true weakness in her personality is her pride, and fear of rejection. She cannot back down from a dare, and she has to succeed in everything she does.
She is competitive, but often has a quiet victory, not to say that she doesn't like to celebrate! She is not a party-goer, and she's conservative, but she always wishes she could open up more. But in the end, she always holds herself back.
However, more than anything (even more than home-grown collard greens and sweet cornbread) she loves art, and she's really good. Her main focus is people, and she is fascinated with their reactions and emotions. So, when she decides to talk amongst a crowd, rather than sit back and enjoy people- watching, she may try to jerk your chain, but it's all fun and games to her.
Sometimes, though, she'll go a little further than that, often playing practical jokes on other people. Some incidents she have pulled off with friends are the mudding incident, (read on for information), prankcalling the local Burger King, toilet-papering it after a girl from school had been fired, and hanging a huge sign on the billboard coming into town that said "Mrs. Crawford smells like a cow patty!" Mrs. Crawford was the cheerleading coach at school and their homeroom teacher, and also loved to share in jokes like that.
Favorite Saying: She talks a lot, and many things are just bits of random insanity. She talks with a strong southern accent, but not as exaggerated as Rogue's ;) Some lines fo' ya:
"Ah wanna go ta Hawaii, yay!"
" *name goes here* smells lahk a cow patty!"
"Oh, screw it."
"Hee-eey!"
"Hey nerd! Need a hero cookie fo' ya trouble?"
"Ya freakin' retard!"
"Ya small anus dwelling butt-monkey!" (don't ask)
"Can ah get a lay-up?"
"Flamer!"
Fears: the unknown
Clothing: Normally wears faded levis with a yellow lace corsetted top and a matching choker. She also loves brown thick-soled boots. She always has some of her hair clipped back. Other days, when it's warm, she wears a very short, flared denim skirt with a sky blue top and small rainbow on the front and a phrase "We're taking it back." She wears a striped choker and black converses with this.
Bathing suit: royal blue and aqua two-toned tankini. That's a mouthful! ;)
Pajamas: white knee-length spaghetti-strap gown that ties off at just above her waist in a little bow. Straight neck line.
Uniform: Black leather halter, with an aqua stripe running down it, forming a star in the middle of her chest, and cutting down in a triangle to bare her stomach. Paired with black leather pants with an aqua stripe on her hips, and black leather boots with aqua soles. She also wears very long, black leather gloves. It didn't originally look like this, but. . . well, never give an artistic person a really ugly looking outfit, lest they know where a good pair of scissors are. She doesn't battle much, since she can't fight worth crap, but she has it anyway. She wears it to Danger Room sessions, and sometimes outside on missions, but other than that, she's usually working behind the scenes.
Known family:
Jonathan and Margaret Wayne (grandparents)
Thomas and Audrey Wayne (parents)
Michael and Maire Brooks (sister and brother-in-law)
Samuel and Jennifer Stewart (sister and brother-in-law)
Angela and Rachel Brooks (neices)
Music:
Loves Country, especially Shania Twain and Toby Keith (go figure), Rock, especially punk, like Simple Plan or Limp Bizkit, and the oldies, especially Dion. (Her favorite song is Teenager in Love-- Dion is her secret crush, if he was still that young and good-looking!) She has also recently discovered "Punk Christian" meaning bands such as East West or Relient K, her personal favorite. (Aside from that cutie Dion!)
Addition information:
Natalie is a klutz. Do not give her alcohol or large amounts of sugar. (Not like she drinks, but don't spike it.) She gets loud and silly, and will probably do something really stupid, like break her face on concrete. It happened to her once before, when someone spiked the tea at a school dance, and Natalie, attempting to imitate Jane Goodall, broke her arm falling off of the bleachers. She doesn't go to dances anymore. And if she does. . . she won't eat or drink anything. Blame her? ;)
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Hey! Sorry this is a bit long, or doesn't mesh completely with this story. I've been working on this profile for weeks on end, and. . . well, I'm lazy, and decided to give the short version of how exactly she wound up at the Institute, for my story purposes. But this goes into more detail (obviously! Lol) for those of you who love a good mystery and have no life like your favorite River goddess. (heh, right.) So, enjoy, please review this and let me know if ya have any suggestions, and have fun! I love you all! Kudos to everyone who takes time out to read this. I have oatmeal raisin cookies and gift-baskets of inspiration for ya'll! All my love, Piotr's girl
Nicknames: Nat, Leigh-leigh, Chrissie, Brat-a-lie, Rainbowgirl
Codename: Searchlight
Affiliation: X-Men
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Grade: 11th
Classes: Beginners weight training, Honors Literature, Advanced Placement American History, Driver's Ed, Honors Physics, Pre-Calculus
Eyes: Naturally aqua. Since her powers developed, however, they change into a variety of colors depending on the mood that she is currently in.
Hair: light brown with red streaks. She keeps it just below her shoulders, and flipped, and has pieces clipped back from her face like 2 pigtails, and lets two red bangs frame her face. She also likes to braid in two.
Build: average for her size and frame
Height: 5' 4"
Weight: 130 lbs
Other features: Natalie doesn't smile much, but she is usually happy. . . except when her powers are in use. She has a small scar through her right eyebrow, due to a horseback riding accident when she was eight. Her skin is slightly tanned (sun-kissed, if you will) from spending many days outside under the hot southern sun, and she has thin, willowy hands. She also has little feet. She has large eyes, and a smaller rosebud mouth.
Power: Can see through the eyes of lost children. She can psychically connect with certain children, though they've never met, and she can see what the child sees, often being able to find where the child is. There is no particular pattern to it, it's just whoever's silent pleas reach her first. She can't try and connect with only certain ones. (i. e. If Sam Guthrie is kidnapped by Magneto or something, Natalie can't find him. His 'pleas' as she calls them have to find her. Many times, they are lost among the world, or go to someone who can't interpret the incoming messages, since there is such a jumble. Only very few actually make it to her mind. This is why she can't always find them.)
But it only works sometimes, and only with lost children. The true nature of her power is still unknown (such as why is it only lost children that can be helped), and has yet to be discovered. But for now, she cannot hold onto these visions for a long period of time, and they grow more vague by the minute, and the memory eventually disappears altogether, after about twenty minutes at the most.
Also recently noted, the type of 'lost children' that she connects to are often those in danger. Those wanting to get home. Those who are terrified beyond the imagination can possibly muster. Runaways and such don't normally appear on the list... unless someone is after them, or they are in true and real physical danger.
Her eyes also change colors with her mood, often reflecting a bright rainbow. They are as follows:
Bright yellow- happy
Bright green- frightened
Light blue/ aqua- calm
Dark or midnight blue- sad
Black- angry
Brown- tense or nervous
Orange- annoyed or perplexed, frustrated
Red- jealous
Purple- playful, laughing
Pink- lovestruck
Grey- confused
White- embarrassed
Rainbow (flashing)- very happy or excited
Let it be known that though her eyes change colors at a sometimes alarming rate, it does not actually harm her.
Stregnths/Weaknesses:
Natalie can only vaguely see through the eyes of the lost child, and cannot hold it for very long, maybe 5-10 seconds at a time, and it gets more vague every time. If she holds it longer, she could pass out, or possibly force herself into a coma. Not much else it known, as her power is still developing, but is not expected to grow much more.
Home Location: Was Baldwin, Florida, now lives in Bayville
Bio:
Natalie grew up in Northern Suburban Florida with her two seemingly "old" parents, two married older sisters, two neices, and grandparents. She lived there her whole life, and spent her years in public schooling.
Her parents found her to be "exceptionally gifted in academics" and placed her in a preparatory school for gifted children. Natalie found the faster- paced lifestyle at this school to be rather overwhelming, and transferred back to her old school in the country after only one school term.
Once there, she joined many clubs, including the Honors Society, Positive Role Models, the Future Farmers of America (as an inside joke among the few friends that she had), and also bowled on the school team for a year. It was all an effort to be more sociable than she found herself to be at that time.
It was very dull in a small town like that, so Natalie and her handful of friends did their best to make things more interesting, often at another's expense. Natalie can be quite a prankster once she gets an idea in her head. For example, when the Senior Class hosted their annual carwash to raise money for the Homecoming Dance, Natalie convinced her three friends Cheyenne, Stormy, and her older friend Haylee to go mudding in her pick-up, then show up at the car wash! Needless to say, the Class of 2003 were none too pleased.
She was always successful in her academics, but always felt that what she did was somehow not good enough for her overshadowing parents. But for the most part, she enjoyed the slower pace of country-suburban life. Nothing exciting ever happened (sans the new traffic lights installed three years ago!). . . until the night of her 15th birthday.
On the night of her 15th birthday, Natalie and her parents were eating supper when a news special cam on the air. A little girl, Sandy McKabe, the daughter of the couple who owned McKabe's Hardware downtown, had been kidnapped from her bedroom. No one knew where she had been taken.
Natalie jerked her head up, wide-eyed and shaking. Her parents were shocked when they heard her say "I know where she is."
As it turned out, Natalie was seeing visions of the inside of a warehouse. She had saw Turner-C posted on a building outside of the window, and recognized it as a said hot-spot for gang activity. She privately phoned in the tip and saved Sandy's life, though they had never met! Natalie just passed it off as a coincidence.
A few months later, a little boy became missing on a hunting trip with his father and had fallen down an old well and was trapped. Natalie began seeing vague visions: Hands grabbing at dirt, and light shining down into a dark hole.
When it was reported that the little boy was missing, Natalie joined the search, and the boy was found. He had a broken leg, but he was alive! Again, the two had never met before.
She became deeply perplexed by the whole situation, but at the same time excited that she could be a mutant. . . so excited, in fact, that her eyes began to change colors with her mood. She became very frightened by it, and no matter what she did, her eyes wouldn't stay their natural color.
Natalie became frightened that she might be hated by her community, and somehow feared letting down her parents, and became completely convinced that such was so. After some online researching, she found the location of the Xavier Institute for gifted youngsters. After contacting the professor, she packed up her belongings and bought a train ticket to Bayville.
Likes: Good food, music, dancing, humans and mutants alike
Dislikes: horses, Satan and satanic beings, and boybands. ALL boybands. And anything that reminds her of a boyband. Boybands must burn. . .
Personality: Natalie tries to act unhappy, but she really is not that bad off. Her only true weakness in her personality is her pride, and fear of rejection. She cannot back down from a dare, and she has to succeed in everything she does.
She is competitive, but often has a quiet victory, not to say that she doesn't like to celebrate! She is not a party-goer, and she's conservative, but she always wishes she could open up more. But in the end, she always holds herself back.
However, more than anything (even more than home-grown collard greens and sweet cornbread) she loves art, and she's really good. Her main focus is people, and she is fascinated with their reactions and emotions. So, when she decides to talk amongst a crowd, rather than sit back and enjoy people- watching, she may try to jerk your chain, but it's all fun and games to her.
Sometimes, though, she'll go a little further than that, often playing practical jokes on other people. Some incidents she have pulled off with friends are the mudding incident, (read on for information), prankcalling the local Burger King, toilet-papering it after a girl from school had been fired, and hanging a huge sign on the billboard coming into town that said "Mrs. Crawford smells like a cow patty!" Mrs. Crawford was the cheerleading coach at school and their homeroom teacher, and also loved to share in jokes like that.
Favorite Saying: She talks a lot, and many things are just bits of random insanity. She talks with a strong southern accent, but not as exaggerated as Rogue's ;) Some lines fo' ya:
"Ah wanna go ta Hawaii, yay!"
" *name goes here* smells lahk a cow patty!"
"Oh, screw it."
"Hee-eey!"
"Hey nerd! Need a hero cookie fo' ya trouble?"
"Ya freakin' retard!"
"Ya small anus dwelling butt-monkey!" (don't ask)
"Can ah get a lay-up?"
"Flamer!"
Fears: the unknown
Clothing: Normally wears faded levis with a yellow lace corsetted top and a matching choker. She also loves brown thick-soled boots. She always has some of her hair clipped back. Other days, when it's warm, she wears a very short, flared denim skirt with a sky blue top and small rainbow on the front and a phrase "We're taking it back." She wears a striped choker and black converses with this.
Bathing suit: royal blue and aqua two-toned tankini. That's a mouthful! ;)
Pajamas: white knee-length spaghetti-strap gown that ties off at just above her waist in a little bow. Straight neck line.
Uniform: Black leather halter, with an aqua stripe running down it, forming a star in the middle of her chest, and cutting down in a triangle to bare her stomach. Paired with black leather pants with an aqua stripe on her hips, and black leather boots with aqua soles. She also wears very long, black leather gloves. It didn't originally look like this, but. . . well, never give an artistic person a really ugly looking outfit, lest they know where a good pair of scissors are. She doesn't battle much, since she can't fight worth crap, but she has it anyway. She wears it to Danger Room sessions, and sometimes outside on missions, but other than that, she's usually working behind the scenes.
Known family:
Jonathan and Margaret Wayne (grandparents)
Thomas and Audrey Wayne (parents)
Michael and Maire Brooks (sister and brother-in-law)
Samuel and Jennifer Stewart (sister and brother-in-law)
Angela and Rachel Brooks (neices)
Music:
Loves Country, especially Shania Twain and Toby Keith (go figure), Rock, especially punk, like Simple Plan or Limp Bizkit, and the oldies, especially Dion. (Her favorite song is Teenager in Love-- Dion is her secret crush, if he was still that young and good-looking!) She has also recently discovered "Punk Christian" meaning bands such as East West or Relient K, her personal favorite. (Aside from that cutie Dion!)
Addition information:
Natalie is a klutz. Do not give her alcohol or large amounts of sugar. (Not like she drinks, but don't spike it.) She gets loud and silly, and will probably do something really stupid, like break her face on concrete. It happened to her once before, when someone spiked the tea at a school dance, and Natalie, attempting to imitate Jane Goodall, broke her arm falling off of the bleachers. She doesn't go to dances anymore. And if she does. . . she won't eat or drink anything. Blame her? ;)
* * *
Hey! Sorry this is a bit long, or doesn't mesh completely with this story. I've been working on this profile for weeks on end, and. . . well, I'm lazy, and decided to give the short version of how exactly she wound up at the Institute, for my story purposes. But this goes into more detail (obviously! Lol) for those of you who love a good mystery and have no life like your favorite River goddess. (heh, right.) So, enjoy, please review this and let me know if ya have any suggestions, and have fun! I love you all! Kudos to everyone who takes time out to read this. I have oatmeal raisin cookies and gift-baskets of inspiration for ya'll! All my love, Piotr's girl