Storm

Summery

[For the Private RP]
Storm is born in New York City to N’dare, a princess of an African tribe living in Kenya, and photojournalist David Munroe. On her mother’s side, Ororo is descended from a long line of African witch-priestesses who all were born with white hair, blue eyes, and strange “magical” abilities.

When she is 6 months old, her parents move to Cairo, where her father is on assignment. Five years later, her parents are killed there in an Arab/Israeli conflict which destroys their Egyptian home and traps Ororo under a pile of rubble. While she eventually frees herself, she has had claustrophobia ever since.

Wandering the streets of Cairo, she is found by Egyptian master-thief Achmed el-Gibar, a Fagin-like character who trains street children to steal for him in return for food and shelter. There she is taught how to pick locks and pockets, and to escape from any trap.

When she is 12, she feels the need to go South, and she travels to her ancestral home on the Serengeti Plains, located in Kenya and Tanzania. She comes into her mutant powers, and begins to use them to help the local African tribes. Ororo’s control of the weather is looked on in awe by the local tribes people, who begin to worship her as a goddess. It is there that Professor X (Dr. Charles Xavier), finds her and convinces her to use her abilities to contribute to the entire world as part of the X-Men. He gave her the code name Storm.

History

Storm is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses, all of whom have white hair, blue eyes, and the potential to wield magic. Her mother, N'Dare, was the princess of a tribe in Kenya. She married the American photojournalist David Munroe and moved with him to Manhattan, where Ororo was born.

When Ororo was six months old, she and her parents moved to Cairo, Egypt. Five years later, a bomb destroyed their home. Ororo's parents were killed, but she survived, buried under rubble near her mother's body. This traumatizing effect left Ororo with the severe claustrophobia that still afflicts her today.

Early Years

Ororo managed to escape the rubble of her shattered home with nothing but the tattered clothes on her back and her mother's ancestral ruby. Homeless and orphaned, Ororo was found by a gang of street urchins who took her to their master, Achmed el-Gibar. Achmed trained Ororo in the arts of thievery and she soon became his prize pupil, excelling in picking both pockets and locks. During her time in Cairo, Ororo picked the pocket of an American tourist. The man proved no easy mark, however, as he was Charles Xavier, a powerful mutant telepath who used his abilities to stop the theft. At that moment, Xavier was psionically attacked by another mutant and Ororo used the opportunity to escape.

Years later, feeling a strong urge to wander south, Ororo left Cairo. During her travels, Ororo naively accepted a ride from a complete stranger and was almost raped by him. Forced to defend herself, Ororo killed the man. From that moment, she swore never to take another human life. Ororo wandered for thousands of miles, almost dying during her trek across the Sahara Desert. Her mutant ability to psionically control the weather emerged soon after, and she was able to use them to rescue T'Challa, a prince of the African nation of Wakanda, from his would-be kidnappers. The pair spent much time together, however T'Challa's duties as a prince prevented them from further exploring their burgeoning mutual attraction.

Finally, Ororo reached her ancestors' homeland on the Serengeti Plain in Kenya. She was taken in by an elderly tribal woman named Ainet who taught her to be responsible with her powers. Ororo soon came to be the object of worship of the local tribes who believed her to be a goddess due to her gift.

The X-men

Years later, Ororo was forced to battle the threat of a fellow mutant weather manipulator known as Deluge, who sought revenge against humanity. With the help of several members of the team of mutant heroes known as the X-Men, Deluge was seemingly destroyed and Ororo returned to her life amongst the tribal people. The X-Men subsequently told their founder, Professor Xavier, about Storm but he declined to contact her at this point, not wanting to shock the young woman with the true nature of her powers.

Months later, however, Xavier was left with no choice but to recruit Storm and other mutants from around the world into the X-Men in order to rescue his original students from the threat of the sentient island being known as Krakoa. Xavier explained to Ororo that she was not a "goddess," but a mutant, and as such she had a responsibility to use her abilities to help the world just as she had helped the local tribes. Curious, Ororo accepted Xavier's offer, and was given the codename "Storm." After most of the original team left for a time, Ororo, along with fellow new recruits Nightcrawler, Colossus, Wolverine, and Banshee, stayed as members of the new X-Men.
Storm was initially very naive when it came to the customs of the modern world, but her team mate Jean Grey helped educate her in the ways of society and the pair formed a lasting friendship. Jean was also one of the first X-Men to learn of Storm's claustrophobia after the two women chased a thief into the subway.

Queen of Wakanda's History

Storm leaves the X-Men to go to Africa; rekindles her relationship with T’Challa, now a superhero known as Black Panther; marries him; and becomes the queen of the kingdom of Wakanda and joins the new Fantastic Four alongside her husband when Reed and Sue take a vacation. On a recent mission in space, the Watcher told Black Panther and Storm that their children would have a special destiny. Upon Reed and Sue's return to the Fantastic Four, Storm and the Black Panther leave, with Storm returning to the Uncanny X-Men to help out with events in Messiah Complex. After joining with the X-Men again, Storm is confronted by Cyclops over her position as an X-Men and a Queen. Cyclops reminds her that she made him choose between family and duty before, and she needs to make the same decision. Storm reacts by returning to Wakanda to face a despondent Black Panther, with the two seemingly falling out with each other, although it is later revealed that the Black Panther has been possessed by the Shadow King.

Powers

Storm is a mutant who possesses the psionic ability to manipulate weather patterns over limited areas. She can stimulate the creation of any form of precipitation such as rain or fog, generate winds in varying degrees of intensity up to and including hurricane force, raise or lower the humidity and temperature in her immediate vicinity, induce lightning and other electrical atmospheric phenomena, and disperse natural storms so as to create clear change. Storm can direct the path of certain atmospheric effects, such as bolts of lightning, with her hands. She has also demonstrated the ability to manipulate ocean currents, though the extent of this ability is still unclear.

Storm’s control over the atmosphere is such that she can create certain effects over a specific area while shielding smaller areas within that region. For example, she can create a rainstorm around herself but prevent the raindrops from touching her. Storm can also create atmospheric phenomena over very small areas, such as creating a rainstorm small enough to water a single potted plant.

Storm can only manipulate weather patterns as they exist in nature. For example, she can end a drought in one area by creating torrential rains there, but that would necessitate robbing all available moisture from the surrounding areas. Storm is not able to create atmospheric conditions that do not exist naturally on the planet she is on. For example, Storm is unable to lower temperatures as far as absolute zero or raise them to solar intensities on Earth.

The limit to the size of the area over which Storm can manipulate the weather is not yet known. However, she once diverted the jet stream so as to create storms over the entire East Coast of the United States. She can create weather effects within indoor areas or within artificially maintained environments. Storm is limited by the force of her will and the strength of her body. It once took her several hours to stop a savage blizzard sweeping over much of Canada, and she nearly died from exhaustion in the process.

Storm is able to fly by creating winds strong enough to support her weight, the weight of others, and to propel her forward through the air. Storm can thus travel as fast as any wind can, and has reached speeds up to 300 miles per hour. Her powers over the atmosphere enable her to breathe at any speed, protect her from air friction, and grant her limited immunity to extreme heat and cold.

Storm is also able to alter her visual perception so as to perceive electrical energy patterns as well as those factors responsible for existing meteorological phenomena in her surrounding environment.

Storm's ability to manipulate the weather in her immediate vicinity is affected by her emotions; hence, if she does not maintain control, a fit of rage might induce a destructive storm. Storm also suffers from severe claustrophobia.

Storm is extraordinarily skilled at picking both locks and pockets. Storm is also a gifted hand-to-hand combatant, having been trained extensively by her fellow X-Man Wolverine, and is also an excellent marksman with handguns.

Enemies

Shadow King

Roleplaying Statistics

NAME: Ororo Munroe
CHARACTER INFO:
AGE: 35
STRENGTHS: Leadership, Lock-Picking, Pick Pockets, Escape Techniques, General Thieving, Knives, Aerial Combat, Martial Arts A, C, Multi-Lingual: (Russian, English, Kenyan), Resist Domination
WEAKNESSES: Severe claustrophobia, American culture, restrictive clothing (or clothing at all).
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STATS
STRENGTH: Typical
AGILITY: Remarkable
ENDURANCE: Amazing
REASON: Good
INTUITION: Remarkable
PSYCHE: Remarkable
SPEED: Remarkable
POPULARITY: Good
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DICE
PHYSICAL ATTACK: Typical 1d6
PHYSICAL DEFENSE: Remarkable 3d10
ENERGY ATTACK: see below (elemental based)
ENERGY DEFENSE: Remarkable 3d10
PSYCHIC ATTACK: none
PSYCHIC DEFENSE: Amazing 1d50
OTHER ABILITIES:

1. Weather Control: Monstrous

   * Flight: Excellent, up to 5 passengers
   * Protection from the weather: Amazing
   * Weather Prediction: Amazing
   * Fog Summoning: Amazing intensity & thickness
   * Lightning Bolts: Monstrous accuracy
   * Summoning of strong winds, cyclones etc: Amazing
   * Reduce weather effects with Amazing abilities, faliure will mean effects will increase

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WEAPONS
Lock Pick