Betsy "Psylocke" Braddock
Nov 6, 2012 9:55:27 GMT -5
Post by betsy on Nov 6, 2012 9:55:27 GMT -5
Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock
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{Share your thoughts with me
Send them over land and see
They seep through walls
Echo down abandoned halls
Let me see your joy and fear}
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Full Name: Elizabeth Braddock
Code Name: Betsy, Psylocke
Age: 25
Date of Birth: April 23rd
Sexual Orientation: Hetero
Species: Mutant
Alliance: X-Men (with X-Force and STRIKE ties)
Citizenship: Marvel
Canon or Original?: Marvel DC
"Victory is MINE Baldy!
And if you had any hair I'd take that too!"
And if you had any hair I'd take that too!"
Hair: Pre-body change, Betsy had thick, blonde curls that she wore long and often down. Now, in her new body, Betsy has long, dark, straight hair that she often dyes purple. Normally she parts her hair on the side to allow a thick fringe of bangs.
Eyes: When she was blonde, her eyes were wide and bright blue. After the body switch she has almond shaped eyes that are a deep purple and after she was re-awoken from being Lady Mandarin (see history) her eyes are a brighter purple and the iris seem to be on fire much how her psychic knife looks.
Height: 5'11
Weight: 155 lbs
Distinguishing Marks: Depending on story/time line. She had a red mark over her left eye.
Appearance: Betsy Braddock has a sense of self acceptance in any form she takes. She carries herself high and nobly with perfect posture. She has nice curves, a moderately sized bust and hips, both in good balance to her shoulders and waist. She walks with delicate steps and often on the balls of her feet to move in silence. She almost always wears her hair down and straight and takes pride in the care of it.
As muscular and strong as she is, the muscle is lean and not bulky. She definitely has the muscle tone of a gymnast not a body builder. Betsy is aware she is attractive and is not going to lie and say she isn't. When she uses her powers in great strength or focuses on a difficult task, a pair of purple butterfly wings appear around her eyes looking like they're made of fire and smoke.
It also could be stated her that she has a twin brother, Brian Braddock who is Captain Britain. Granted, in her current and permanent body she does not appear to be related to him.
Face Claim: Jamie Chung
"I’m not interested in making new friends,
I don’t even like the ones I have”
I don’t even like the ones I have”
Likes: Animals, especially cats and dogs.
Helping others and caring for people.
Having calm nights in pajamas watching movie marathons.
Her family and friends mean the world to her and she will defend them with her life.
She loves food that is really bad for her, though normally she keeps a very healthy diet.
Betsy also enjoys 'masculine' drinks such as Manhattans, dry martinis and very bitter wines.
The color purple.
Dislikes: People who misuse their powers, or use them to inflict fear upon others.
Villains and people who are cruel in general.
Mustard.
When people judge her by how she looks physically instead of what she can do or how intelligent she is.
Matsu'o, the man who placed her in this new(ish) body.
Being treated as an object instead of a person, or being treated as a monster instead of a member of humanity.
Personality: Betsy Braddock was born independent. She never wanted anyone helping her or doting on her. Help will be denied by her and only responded to by her offering to help the other person. She is truly self-less and would lay her life down to save the lives of her friends and family. Betsy is easy to get along with by most, but some would see her as cold or short. More than likely though, if she is around you, she likes you, if she says it or not. She is very nostalgic and takes great pleasure in remembering things from her youth or with old friends.
As Psylocke she is cold, calculating and extremely alert. She observes everything with either her own two eyes or her minds eye and takes it in. When she is in the zone for a fight or action, it's better to just not talk to her, because she won't be answering. It isn't that she's trying to ignore the person, it's that she goes to another place. Another state of mind where she can focus with her full ability. She also doesn't seem to be shy to speak her mind, especially when she's in the mind frame of hero.
Betsy however, loves to love life. She's smiling and positive a lot of the time. She enjoys relaxing and keeping up with friends on her down time. One flaw she has though, is that she loves easily and loves hard. She doesn't often get her heart broken, though she takes it hard when she does. Another sort of issue she has is handling her emotions. It's easier to just bottle the emotions up and tuck them away some where dark and away from everything. When those emotions erupt though, watch out, because things will get very emotional very quickly.
"With great power comes great responsibility"
Powers:
* Mind control She can control people's minds to a point. She cannot cause them to hurt themselves and will not cause them to hurt those around them. More often than not she uses it to make people sit down, walk over there, or unlock things.
* Long distance thought projection: Of all the telepaths in the world, she has one of the longest distances she can travel with it.
* Astral Projection: She can take herself and others into the astral plane. Anyone she takes to the astral plane she considers her direct responsibility. She can also use this to talk to people in person from great distances (often uses this to contact Brian in England).
* Project Illusions: Betsy can create small illusions to make others believe something in order, normally, for her to escape. Nothing in depth or incredibly well done, but good enough.
* Telekinesis: Picking things up, moving them, you get the idea.
* Flight: With telekinesis it allows her to fly.
* Precognitive Powers: She can see things before they happen. Sometimes she doesn't see all of the future, or sometimes it's a future that can be altered.
* Psi-Bolts and Psi-Blast: Betsy can throw bolts of pure psychic energy at her targets and can focus the power into one strong blast forward, though it normally tires her quickly.
* Psychic Knife: A sharp point juts a foot or so from her hand and she can battle with it as though it is physical. When stabbed into a person it can disrupt their central nervous system enough to cause temporary paralysis.
* Psychic Scanning: She is able to tell the motives of *most* people around her. This also works as a form of empathy.
* Psychic Katana: It's just a katana handle that she creates a blade on that can cut through just about anything (think light saber but made of purple fire).
* Creepy Twin Thing: While not a direct power to influence anyone other than Brian, I feel like putting it here. She and Brian hold that creepy twin connection and thanks to her telepathy she takes it to a whole new level of strength and empathy.
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Weapons Katana
Strengths/Abilities: Expert in Ninjitsu, and several other martial arts (enough to be considered a master).
In her head, she has the memories of Betsy Braddock, pretty, English, pilot who loves her brothers very much and Kwanon, the merciless ninja, assassin who loves Matsu'o a man who is only interested in manipulating her.
Weaknesses: When she enters a person's mind, even if they allow her or not, she can sometimes have memories attach themselves to her mind. On occasion the memories can confuse her and make her forget what is really her memory and what is the other person's.
Sometimes when she uses a lot of power, she can cause herself to black out for unknown periods of time. There's no rhyme or reason to it, sometimes it will be an hour, sometimes it will be a week.
She has no regenerative abilities or things of that nature, bottom line she is human (mutant, whatever). Anything that could kill a mortal being can kill her.
When thoughts are deeply emotional, it will effect Betsy and cause her to ask irrationally. Also, over use of her powers can cause her to have extreme headaches.
"All it takes is one bad day to reduce
the sanest man alive to lunacy,"
the sanest man alive to lunacy,"
History: Betsy was born in England to loving parents. Her father was originally from a different dimension and was sent to Earth to have a son whom he would name Brian and that boy would go on to being Captain Britain. What he wasn't expecting was that Brian would be a twin. He also didn't expect to stay on Earth but love kept him here. After Brian and Betsy they had another son, James. In her late teens her parents passed away in an accident, which caused her to fall into a deep depression for a good amount of time.
Betsy developed precognitive powers fairly early in life, but that appeared to be all. She went on to become a pilot and one day she was out taking Jamie to visit family when the ship was disrupted and crashed on a mountain. When she woke up, she was tied onto a table where 'tests' were being run on her. During those tests something was awoken with her and she expelled a great amount of power, sort of a concussive blast that nearly destroyed the building. She and her younger brother were saved by Brian, now Captain Britain. She now had an incredible amount of mental powers and joined up with S.T.R.I.K.E (basically the British S.H.I.E.L.D) while also pursuing a side passion in modeling. After she dyed her hair purple, she became quite the successful model in London, though she no longer looks like the celebrity she once was.
While with STRIKE she made some powerful enemies and some good allies. She fell in love and while on a vacation with her beau at the time she was attacked by several villains which resulted in her being blinded. She received cybernetic eyes after that and gave her incredible mental scarring. She fell out with STRIKE at that point and laid low for a long time.
Working with Brian now, she found herself in Asia where she caught the eye of a crime lord named Matsu'o. He saw in her a strength and power set that reminded him of his dead love, Kwannon. When she denied his affection he decided to take it by force and did a ritual that switched her mind, soul and powers into the lifeless body of his dead love. Initially when this happened, Betsy was lost, unable to negotiate what was Betsy's memories and what were Kwannon's. She was brainwashed by him, into loving him, doing bad things for him, killing for him. If it hadn't been for the intervention of a friend she had made a long time ago, Wolverine, she might not have ever come out of the fog Matsu'o had put her in.
Now, she is traveling with him to America. He tells her that there are great telepaths at the school he works with that can help her. All mutants there and they want to help even though they hadn't met her yet. She offers a smile to him and hopes that he's right, that she can find help at this school and sort through all these memories. She has been staying at a hotel the past few days and is anxious about moving into the school and meeting new people. This new body, these new powers, they were distracting, painful and had made her cold and distant. She was off to meet her new allies, her new comrades and hopefully her new friends, the X-Men.
"Next time guys, we should just
rebuild this place outta Lego."
rebuild this place outta Lego."
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