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I'm not X-23. I'm not your experiment. I'm not your **** property! You are the last person who will ever think they can own me. No one owns me! I'm not a thing. I'm Laura Kinney! I'm the daughter of Sarah. I'm the daughter of Logan. I'm Wolverine!!! - Wolverine
WOLVERINE (X-23)
PL10
OPL: 10;
SPL: 5;
DPL: 10;
FWPL: 8;
HP: 1
Real Name: Laura Kinney
Age: 6 (19 biologically)
Height: 5-0
Weight: 110
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Race: Mutant
Skin: Olive
Identity: Public
Alignment: Hero
Status: Active
Occupation: Adventurer
Base of Operations: New York, NY, USA
Team Affiliations: X-Men; JLAXI; X-Force; Teen Titans
ABILITIES: STRENGTH 3, STAMINA 7, AGILITY 5, DEXTERITY 4, FIGHTING 13, INTELLECT 2, AWARENESS 2, PRESENCE 0
SKILLS: Acrobatics 7 (+12), Athletics 8 (+11), Deception 5 (+5), Expertise [Assassin] 8 (+10), Insight 8 (+10) [
Assessment], Intimidation 7 (+7), Investigation 3 (+5), Perception 13 (+15) [
Tracking], Stealth 10 (+15), Technology 3 (+5), Vehicles 4 (+8)
ADVANTAGES: All-Out Attack (1) (Claws), Assessment, Beginner's Luck, Close Attack (1), Defensive Attack (1) (Claws),
Diehard, Equipment (1),
Great Endurance, Improved Critical (2) (Claws 2), Improved Initiative (1), Languages (2) (French, Spanish, 3 others, Base: English), Last Stand*, Move-by Action, Power Attack (1) (Claws), Ranged Attack (7), Takedown (2), Tracking, Uncanny Dodge
POWERS:
Healing Factor: Immunity 2 (Aging, Disease [Limited], Poisons [Limited]), Enhanced Advantages 2 (Diehard, Great Endurance), Regeneration 6 (2 every 3 rounds; Extra: Persistent, Regrowth); 17 pts
Enhanced Senses: Senses 9 (Normal Sight [Extended], Normal Hearing [Extended]; Scent [Extended, Ranged, Accurate, Acute, Tracking], Low-Light Vision); 9 pts
Stronger Than She Looks: Enhanced Strength 1 (800 lbs; Flaw: Limited to lifting); 1 pt
Adamantium Laced Bone Claws: Slashing Strength-based Damage 3 (Extra: Double, Penetrating 6, Subtle [Quirk: Limited to Toe Blade]); 11 pts
EQUIPMENT:
(5 pts)
Krakoan Tech Costume: Feature 1 (Quick Change); 1 pt
OFFENSE:
Initiative +9
Close Attack +14 [Unarmed +3; Claws +6, Critical 18-20]
Ranged Attack +11
DEFENSES:
Dodge +13 [DC23] Parry +13 [DC23]
Toughness +7 (+7 without Defensive Roll), Fortitude +8, Will +7
COMPLICATIONS:
Enemy: Kimura, The Facility.
Emotionally Stunted: With her being raised a weapon, she sometimes struggles with regular human emotion and thinking of people as more than targets. She has also been known to cut herself when she feels bad about herself.
Prejudice: Mutant.
Relationships: She is protective of her teammates in the X-Men and Teen Titans, particularly Ravager and Red Robin. She is also very close to Wolverine. She is closest to her clone sister Gabby and still wants to bring Bellona back to her side.
Reputation: She was a trained killer for years and even though she is trying to live a better life, many people will not let her forget what she's done.
Vulnerable: She was encoded with trigger scents and possibly phrases that can turn her into a berserker.
Vulnerable: Due to the Adamantium on her claws, she is slightly more vulnerable to magnetic attacks.
Abilities 72 + Skills 38 (76 ranks) + Advantages 25 + Powers 38 + Defenses 14 = 187 / 187
Build Comments: I know there are still a lot of Wolvie haters out there and as such, there are a lot of X-23 haters out there. But be that as it may, I still like what they've done with Laura's character over the years. As a build goes, she's Wolvie lite, with some better assassin skills.
Secret Origins: When a top-secret program attempted to recreate the original Weapon X experiment that involved the feral mutant Wolverine, they failed to secure a test subject who could survive the bonding process of the virtually unbreakable metal Adamantium to their skeleton. Seeking to take the project in a new direction, the project's director, Doctor Martin Sutter, recruited renowned mutant geneticist Doctor Sarah Kinney and tasked her with creating a clone.
Using the only available genetic sample from Weapon X, which was damaged, they were unable to salvage the Y chromosome after twenty-two attempts. Kinney proposed they create a female clone, and though her request was initially denied, she still went ahead and produced a viable female subject, prompting Sutter to reconsider. Despite resistance from his protégé Doctor Zander Rice, whom Sutter had raised after Rice's father had been killed by a bestial Wolverine at the original Weapon X Project, Sutter allowed Kinney to proceed. As revenge for her insubordination, Rice forced Kinney to act as the surrogate mother for the clone, and she gave birth to "X-23".
The Story so Far: Seven years later, raised in captivity X-23 was trained to be a weapon. Kinney did her best to ensure the child retained some semblance of humanity, but her efforts appeared to be in vain. After seven years, Rice had X-23 subjected to radiation poisoning in order to accelerate the activation of her mutant gene, and forcibly extracted her claws and coated them with Adamantium. After Rice realized the child was growing soft, he blamed her sensei, one of the few people who treated her with kindness, and tested a chemical compound called "trigger scent" on him. The "trigger scent" caused Laura to mercilessly kill anything in her path, and thus she murdered her best friend. Rice already had a replacement in the wings, a woman named Kimura. Kimura was harsh and strictly punished X-23 for the death of her sensei.
Three years later, X-23 was sent on her first field mission to kill Presidential candidate Greg Johnson. She was assigned the mission as somewhat of an "advertising" ploy. Numerous other missions followed, as X-23's services were sold to the highest bidder. She was left emotionally stunted as a result. Her missions took her to locations all over the world, including Saudi Arabia, Las Vegas, Japan, Colombia, the Congo, and many others. For one mission she was assigned to pose as the Kingpin's daughter and kill the ones who had captured her, bringing the head of their leader back. Rice, in an attempt to avenge his father's murder, abandoned X-23 on a particularly dangerous mission with A.I.M., but she survived against overwhelming odds and managed to return to the facility. After her return to the facility Kimura punished her for not coming back with Rice.
Sarah Kinney let her out once, not as an attempt to escape but instead to use X-23 to help her find Kinney's niece, Megan, who had been kidnapped. X-23 found and rescued her with ease. Ultimately, Rice persuaded Sutter to hand control of the program over to him, then secretly ordered X-23 to kill Sutter and his family. X-23 was able to kill Sutter and his wife but was unable to kill their son. Later, Rice revealed to Kinney a chamber with dozens of incubation pods containing female clones before he fired her. Before fleeing the facility with X-23, Kinney gave her one last mission - destroy the pods and kill Rice. However, Rice was able to exact revenge on Kinney from beyond the grave, as he had earlier exposed her to the trigger scent, sending X-23 into a rage that caused her to kill her mother. As she lay dying, Kinney named X-23 "Laura", with X-23 lying beside her begging her not to leave her.
X-23 traveled to San Francisco and tracked down Megan and Debbie Kinney, her mother's niece and sister. Introducing herself as Sarah's daughter, she moved in with them. Although Megan experienced vivid nightmares of her abduction, her family believed these to be utter fantasies. X-23 informed Megan that the man in her nightmares was indeed real and that she had killed him.
Debbie's boyfriend turned out to be an agent for the Facility who had been instructed to manipulate X-23 into killing Megan and Debbie using the trigger scent. However, the agent fumbled the assignment and was killed by X-23. Facility agents stormed the house, led by Kimura. X-23 managed to get Megan and Debbie to safety by handcuffing Kimura to a radiator and then triggering an explosion in the house, buying some time. After X-23 and Megan parted, X-23 decided to confront the man who made her creation possible -- Wolverine.
X-23 tracked Wolverine to Xavier's mansion and engaged him in a battle, defeating him via tactics and maneuverability. However, she did not kill him. Instead, she told him why she had come. Wolverine revealed that he was aware of X-23's ordeal, having received a detailed letter from her mother. The talk was interrupted when Captain America came to arrest Laura.
As a captive of S.H.I.E.L.D., Laura was interrogated by Captain America and Matt Murdock. Despite the mayhem in her past, Matt Murdock accepted X-23's innocence. Captain America wanted X-23 to atone for the murders she had committed. However, he ultimately freed X-23 in order to avoid S.H.I.E.L.D.'s exploitation of her as their own weapon.
X-23 surfaced in New York two years later and was found living on the streets by a pimp named Zebra Daddy, who took her in and employed her as a prostitute. X-23 met Kiden Nixon, a young mutant with the ability to freeze time when in danger. Together with Kiden's teacher, they rescued another young mutant, the feral Catiana, from an angry mob. Zebra Daddy tracked X-23 down, but with the aid of her newfound friends and the mutant named Felon, Zebra Daddy's thugs were defeated. X-23 killed him to save the lives of her friends.
X-23 later took a job at the mutant-themed Wannabee's nightclub in the Mutant Town district of New York. It was there that she saved the life of the daughter of mob boss Don Parisi from a gang of thugs, whom she killed. The deaths inadvertently implicated Wolverine, prompting his teammates in the X-Men to investigate. X-23 instinctively attacked Wolverine on sight, but he was eventually able to calm her down. She led the X-Men to Parisi's daughter. After aiding the X-Men against Parisi's super-strong mutant enforcer Geech, X-23 fled the scene. She later returned to help the X-Men save victims of a car accident, after which she was enrolled at the X-Men's Xavier Institute.
She has been involved with the X-Men ever since, as a member of The New X-Men, X-Force and several other teams as well as continuing to study at the Xavier, then Jean Grey Institutes.
Currently she still retains her ties with the X-Men, but was relieved her duties with X-Force because both Cyclops and Logan thought she was heading down a path of no return with her killing. As such, Logan begged Batman to get Red Robin to take her into the Teen Titans so that she could see the super hero life from a better light. Her teammates were initially slow to take to her overall, but she has started to form bonds with Rose Wilson, Superboy and Tim.
Characterization: Laura is trying to atone for the dreadful things she did as a weapon of The Facility. She is slow to trust, but once she does, she is fiercely loyal. Still, the repair of her mental damage is a work in progress She is still a cutter, and has injured herself on a consistent basis using her claws from a young age.
Friends and Foes: X-23 is highly protective of Wolverine and sees him as a brother/father figure. Laura has expressed friendship with her cousin Megan. She also is close with Cessily Kincaid (Mercrury), Hellion (who she had a crush on), and a few of the other New X-Men, though her exterior makes it difficult to judge her true feelings to most of the team.
She is beginning to bond with her Teen Titans teammates, especially Superboy and Rose Wilson, because of their similar creation and brainwashed experiences, respectively. It seems she also has a crush on Tim Drake, as Rose has noticed.
She has accumulated a number of foes in her time with the X-family, but her greatest foe remains her former handler at The Facility, Kimura.
Me fail English? That's unpossible. - Ralph Wiggum
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