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Trixie "Trix" FerdinandCode-Name: Silhouette Position: Peacekeeper, Island TransportEthnicity: Korean-German
Sex: Female
Age: 17
Appearance:
Hair: Purple, just past shoulders
Eyes: Violet
Skin: Oriental
Weight: 152 lbs
Height: 5'8
Other: Trix is a mutate. Large spikes follow the line of her spine, flowing into her tail and gradually getting smaller. She can control the seven largest spikes on her back, they can be folded downward or stand straight on end. It is also affected by her mood. She has short claws. Her feet are three toed talons, so its impossible for her to wear shoes. A black and purple pattern runs along the skin of her back, parts of her legs and down her arms and tail. Her tail is very flexible and is strong enough to hold her own weight.
Date Of Birth: November 17th
Place Of Birth: South Korea, Seoul
Education: Uneducated, only schooling was half a year at Belleville middleschool in Hoover, Alabama. Speaks fluent German and some conversational Korean as she grew up with these languages in her home. She speaks English but can't write or read it.
Mother:
Name: Bae "Baby" Kwan
Age: 37
Race: Korean, Human
Father:
Name: Hansel Ferdinand
Age: 36
Race: German, Human
Other Relatives: Trixie has three siblings, her sisters Silver, age 19 and Lara, age 5. Also her brother Pennie, age 20. The whereabouts of her family members is currently unknown.
Powers: Shadow Teleportation. Trix is able to traverse through the darkforce dimension, which is a dimension that overlaps the physical world, when teleporting from one place on Earth to another. She accesses the Darkforce dimension through her shadow or from the shadow of another person or object. This power allows her to travel short and long distances, though the further the location the longer it takes, as she actually has to look for where she is going once inside the darkforce. This is easier if she has been to the place in question but still a shadow needs to be available on both sides for her to pass through the dimensions. She also has some other abilities related to shadows - such as being able to store objects in shadows to pick up later, and hide within a shadow and see and hear what is going on around it.
Power Limitations: Silhouette can take a max of two people into a shadow with her and if she was to lose sight or contact with a person it is possible to get lost or left in the darkforce dimension. The shadow must be large enough to at least get her head and shoulders through, and traveling through a shadow that suddenly disappears can be very painful. If Trix overexerts herself it's possible she would be stuck in the darkforce dimension until she was rested. For others this can be dangerous, as extended exposure to the darkforce can cause emotional extremes such as great sadness or confusion, as well as a feeling of cold and numbness at the tips of one's fingers. Trix is immune and is not aware of these affects.
Hobbies and Interests: Trixie likes to people watch, and is a bit of a gossip - she wants to know what is going on with everyone and isn't a shamed to spy to figure it all out. She also has sudden spouts of interest in photography and instruments. When she was younger she dressed in any random thing that fit, making for some strange outfits. As she'd gotten olden she's developed more interest in fashion and makeup, though in a tough girl way - she is a fan of leather, anything spiked, hoodies, and dark colors. She's an outdoorsy girl, still a tom boy at heart, and has done her fair share of fishing, camping, and rock climbing, a skill that has come in handy now that the team must survive on the streets.
Background: Trixie was born in Korea but doesn't remember much about it, when she was four years old her family moved to Bamberg, Germany - her father's home town. She had young parents who loved to travel and so she saw much of Europe before the age of ten - often they would travel by boat, bus, or train, and very rarely by plane, as her father was always concerned about the 'slice of life' one could get out of traveling through the small towns. Her father and mother were moderately successful traveling musicians, the family never had a lot of money but always got by surprisingly cheap, with other friends or family always willing to take them in under a wing when things got tough. Trixie grew up without the security of a constant roof over her head, and was often shuffled state to state, country to country, so never attended school. The constant on-the-go lifestyle changed dramatically when her mother got pregnant again and suffered many complications during the pregnancy and birth, forcing her into an early retirement. Lara was born in Virginia where the family had been staying at the time, and her father decided to stay in the states and try for citizenship. The family moved the kids down to Hoover, Alabama, where her dad was promised a steadier job.
Trixie did not take this change well, although her brother Pennie liked getting into a consistent school, Trixie hated it. She didn't understand what any of the teachers were talking about, and felt stupid all the time. She quickly learned to stop asking questions and to just pretend she understood the lessons, which did not help her education at all. And while Hoover was no small town, she had grown up with constant changes and excitement she just didn't have anymore.
Trixie's closest friends in school were two twin boys, Richie and Robbie, the three being inseparable until the two boys moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin - and despite her best efforts, Trixie's attempts to hide in their parents SUV were quickly foiled. Trixie was very sad to see them go and tended to over react, often throwing herself into whining and crying fits, mixing in complaints of pain in her stomach and shoulders. Her family was quite aware of Trixie's attention grabbing tactics, so eventually paid these episodes little notice in hopes that Trixie would stop and move on.
This changed when what appeared to be bruises began to appear all over Trixie's skin and her complexion got paler. The family avoided going to the doctor at first because Trixie's stay in the states wasn't legal and they didn't have any insurance. Her mother said enough was enough when Trixie was so bad she could barely move and unnatural bumps stared appearing along her spine, so her father took Trixie to a friend of a friend who was a doctor. All tests came back inconclusive, except one: Trixie carried the mutant gene. X-Rays showed her body was changing rapidly, and not much could be done except some medications for her pain.
Doctor McDermott did causally mention - over and over - that Trixie's illegal immigrant status wouldn't bod well with the Mutant Registration Act. Though the doctor spoke very vaguely, it became obvious to Hansel the man was trying to warn him - the nurses and receptionists had all seen Trixie, and it was required for personnel in certain positions to report unregistered mutants to the police. Several times the police came pounding on their apartment door though they knew better than to answer. As Trixie was getting worse and worse, Baby decided the family should return to Korea - much to her two eldest children's dismay - the family constantly fought about what should be done about Trixie.
One night, Trixie decided to leave on a whim - she didn't like school, and she didn't want Pennie or Silver to suffer the move back overseas when they were so obviously against it. Trixie knew the police would never stop until she was gone and she loved her family and didn't want to cause problems. Also, this seemed all the better excuse for a road trip - maybe to visit Robbie and Richard. To her, it was almost like an extended vacation - just an adventure.
So at the age of thirteen Trixie hit the streets heavily clothed to hide her mutation, hopping trains across the country to Wisconsin, but once there realized it wasn't so easy to find her friends as she would have hoped. She sent her family postcards with pictures of Paris, London, and Idaho with extravagant stories of her travels, though she never left a return address - she didn't really have one.
Stuck in La Crosse, Trixie experienced the first truly negative reactions to her mutation - people wouldn't look at her, and those who did called her names and threatened to call the police. Next to no one would serve her where ever she went, though Trixie did not completely understand why. For some reason, her mutation felt like home, she felt more like herself than she had in her life - and Trixie was sure she was born for some amazing story, and her powers were, to her, proof of that. She learned how to use her powers slowly but surely, and got to know some local mutants and started staying with them. Through their whispers of hope for the mutant population she traveled to Milwaukee in hopes of attending the meeting and maybe finding new friends.
At the meeting, Trixie was recruited by the X-Men and sent to a new team in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was excited about starting out with the new team, but after only a few missions she became very home sick. She checked in through the shadows on her parent's old trailer and found it abandoned. She has no clue where her family may have gone, and with her parents history in traveling it could have been anywhere in the world. She took to 'haunting' their old trailer, trying to stop new families from moving in. For some reason, she just felt like maybe someday her family would come back.
At the base, Trixie often made a habit of announcing herself as more important than she actually was, especially to new teammates. She decided on a whim she was head of security, and no one really had the heart to tell her otherwise. It could not be denied her teleportation ability was helpful to the team, and so one of the team leaders, Finn Howard, eventually assigned her as 'lead teleporter' perhaps because of her competition with the team's other teleporter, Ringo, and to humor her. Also one of her closest friends, Pietro, dubbed her an official Atlantean guard, a position she takes very seriously and with pride.
On an assignment for a mission, Trixie was captured by Purifiers, an anti-mutant group. The group beat her, breaking one of her middle back spikes off, and planned to kill her but Trix retaliated and tried to escape. Doing so, she killed one of the men before getting knocked unconscious. She was arrested for murder, witnesses claiming she broke into their home and attacked without provocation. Trixie was locked in prison for weeks, and began to lose hope that her friends would ever rescue her.
Trix was eventually broken out of jail, not by the X-Men, but rather Amelia Voght, the leader of the Acolytes. Devastated by everything she had been through, Trixie was in Amelia's dept, and when Amelia asked her to stay on Utopia, she decided she should. Trix did not forget about her so-called friends though, and returned to the X-Men base to tell them she was leaving the team, and to invite anyone who wanted to join her to come to the all-mutant island with her, to live peacefully.
Though Trixie did make some friends among the Acolytes, her happiness on Utopia was short lived. Amelia Voght's involvement in the break out was confirmed by the prison and condoned as an act of terrorism by the government. The Island was made a target. The initial attack was by marine foot soldiers and Sentinels, but in the end Utopia was bombed, causing catastrophic damage to the Capitol and leaving nothing but smoldering buildings and scorched landscape behind. The death toll for mutants was in the thousands.
Trix managed to escape with the help of the X-Men, and begrudgingly returned to the base in New Orleans. She was bitter and angry for being abandoned in prison for so long, and blamed Trent the most. He was the one who ordered her friends not to rescue her. Despite a rivalry against the X-Men's leader, she continued to work with the X-Men, determined to make a difference and stop the unfair treatment of mutants around the world and in the U.S.
Growing up among the X-Men and in such a troubled world, Trix was no stranger to death and loss. Many of the people she had become close to, loved, or even hated, died in the fight - some of them in front of her. Others betrayed the team and became their enemies. While over time Trix may have lost her innocence and naivety, she never lost her spark and mischievous nature. As teammates came and went, Trix became close friends with Bridge, Georgia and Oshinko, and eventually Oshinko became Trixie's first boyfriend.
After the virus wiped out a huge chunk of the U.S.'s human population, Trix had no idea if her family was alive or dead, or even if they were still in the states. She blamed herself for leaving them behind, and for never trying harder to find them. She decided to leave the base in search of them, and was surprised, but happy, that Oshinko wanted to go with her.The two traveled across the United States. Everywhere there was death and horror stories, people struggling just to survive, bodies left to rot in the streets. They grappled with humans and mutants that attacked them for supplies, and were constantly hunted by sentinels. It was hard but they didn't give up, following every lead to a dead end, until their journey brought them to Europe.It was sad for Trix to see the cities she had known as a child, and loved so much, in ruin. The destruction had reached across oceans straight into her home town in Germany. Mutants were scorned, and even people she had known as a child refused to help them. In the end, she didn't find her family, and she felt helpless knowing she would probably never see them again. It broke her heart the day her and Oshinko gave up and returned to the base. It was good to be around familiar faces, and Trix realized the team had been her family for years. She should have never left and she was more determined than ever to keep them safe. She didn't want to lose anyone else. The destruction of the base affected her less than she thought. She was used to living on the streets during her traveling with Oshinko, giving her some experience to help the others as they struggled to find their footing.
Personality: Trix is very social, outgoing and rambunctious, she never backs down from a challenge and acts as if she is not afraid of anything or anyone. Beyond the tough chick attitude, she's usually very friendly, but she has a temper and can be suspicious of people, and will sometimes jump to false conclusions based on little to no facts. She normally launches a barrage of intrusive questions at new people as a way to make sure they are trustworthy. She tends to run her mouth off on any subject thrown at her, even if she has no idea what she is talking about, she will pretend she does. She also has no qualms with lying or stretching the truth to to back up her claims.
Trix is very prideful and can get defensive about her lack of education, and doesn't take kindly to people talking down to her for any reason. She was been through many missions and disasters in her short lifetime and expects the same respect given to any of the other X-Men. She is very protective of the people she cares about.
Special Notes (if any): Model is Gong Minzy.
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