Kitora Alua

	Horizon

Kitora Alua (Scenesys ID: 4253)
Profile
Name:	Kitora Alua
Superalias:	Horizon
Gender:	Female
Species:	Mutant
Occupation:	High School Student
Citizenship:	United States
Residence:	Xavier's School
Education:	Physics student at ESU
Theme:	Original (OC)
Groups:	Xaviers
Details
Apparent Age:	18	Actual Age:	18
Date of Birth	29 May 2004	Played By	Minami Hamabe
Height:	5'2"	Weight:	110 lbs
Hair Color:	Bright Red	Eye Color:	Bright Red
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Theme Song:	"Gravity is a Bitch" by Miranda Lambert

Character Info

Profile

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A Japanese-descent young woman who awakened to a mutation with gravity powers and almost tore her house apart. After that, her parents kicked her out and exiled her from her family. After being homeless for half a year, she was found and brought to Xavier's School where she is growing up among people who understand that she is different.

Timeline

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Timeline:
* 2004: Kitora was born to her parents, Japanese immigrants who became United States citizens, who lived inthe suburbs of Hartfort, Connecticut.

* 2008: Kitora started showing a love for gymnastics and acrobatics, and seemed to be quite adept at it.

* 2009: Kitora started elementary school, was quite popular and was a good scholar. She thought she made friends that'd last a lifetime.

* 2015: When pushing herself, Kitora started managing to perform seemingly-improbable or impossible feats of acrobatics and jumping - she just thought she was getting really good at things.

* 2016: Shortly after summer vacation started after finishing elementary school, at age 12, Kitora was bouncing on her bed and suddenly the world turned upside down. She was standing on her bedroom ceiling, and was glowing strangely. She shrieked in panic and her parents ran in, seeing a strange glowing girl on the roof, not recognizing their daughter. Upon being attacked with a broom, her newly kindled gravity powers went out of control and warped the structural support of the house, causing it to collapse - only ending when a rogue ceiling joint knocked her out. The house was a total loss, her parents barely survived, and when they recovered, they exiled her from their lives.

* 2017: Homeless in the streets of Hartford since the summer, Kitora started to use her powers to survive - by finding hidey-holes in unlikely places and floating food to her - her control was awkward and she often 'dropped' things, but she is starting to get the hang of it. She is ALWAYS hungry. Her parents have blocked her on everything and she doesn't even know where they are. None of her friends will talk to the 'mutie' either - so she was alone. Shortly after hte new year, she eventually got caught by the police shoplifting and was thrown into juveline hall for a few weeks. When she got out, a strange van was waiting for her - telling her that there is a special school for children like her, the Xavier's School for Gifted Students.

* 2018: Kitora was a quiet young lady as she was adapting to her new life. Surrounded by those who understand that she is different, that everyone else is just as different in their own ways, she starts to break out of her depression, trying to push aside the memories of her trauma and open herself to new things.

* 2020: During her sophmore in high school, Kitora is almost unrecognizable as the homeless waif she was 3 years ago. Outgoing, highly into athletics, better at using her powers for all sorts of things - and has taught herself how to be an excellent cook - her appetitite has never slowed - a side-effect of her powers - she has to eat a lot, so likes to start cooking. She has also chosena codename for herself: Horizon - like the event horizon of a black hole.

* 2022: Kitora just turned eighteen years old right as her junior year of high school ended with a high GPA. She tried, one more time, to find her parents, but they were impossible to locate, but she's okay with that - she has a new family now. Many of her Xavier school friends were in the same boat. She is going to apply for physics scholarships, focusing on that in her studies: she can manipulate an elemental aspect of physics so wants to learn all about gravity. She is also searching on the Internet for any references to the mysterious group of mutant vigilantes known as the X-Men, wanting to be just like them one day...

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Personality

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Food:
Kitora's main passion is food: her powers demand a huge appetite. She eats for three. So she loves to cook, loves all food, and wants to share her creations with all those around her. It is a bit of an obsession of hers.

High Energy:
Kitora tends to be in turbo mode all the time - she is high spirited, high-strung, and full of energy - constantly wanting to move around. She also seldomly keeps her feet on the ground if she can help it, either via simple gymnastics or her gravity-shifting powers that she uses as often as possible. She even practices martial arts, finding one that synergizes with her mutant powers.

Homesick:
Kitora still misses her parents and the friends she used to have before her powers awakened. She tries not to think about them, for when she does, she tends to get sad and lonely. New friends are great, but losing the social links she had from her childhood still hurts. All she wants is to prove to her family that she isn't a monster.

Kindness:
Kitora tries to be kind and comopassionate to those around her. She is loyal to her friends, kind to her teachers, and tries to be a good person all around - part of this is wanting to be such a good person that she won't be forsaken again like when her powers erupted - cultivating true friends is one sure path to ensure she never gets lonely.

Mood Swings:
Kitora is in a way a damaged person, betrayed by the exile from her family imposed by her parents. She was always high-strung, but sometimes her moods shift unpredictably, for good or ill. She can be joyous one moment and depressed the next - she is just a bit unpredictable.

Studious:
Though somewhat hyperactive, Kitora has a keen mind and is good at analyzing situations - it can bog her down sometimes but she will do her best to solve problems. It does help her earn high grades in school.

Character Sheet

Powers

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Gravity Manipulation:
Horizon's ability to control gravity extends beyond being able to fly or use herself as a kinetic missile. She can manipulate the effect of gravity of objects and people in her line of sight.

She can make things weightless and move them around, in an effect that would seem similar to telekinesis. In her immediate vicinity, she can suspend 5 tons this way - she can make something stop in place and float, or deflect its trajectory. She can either have said object orbit her in a type of 'stasis field' or hold them still, or move them around. Any object she is manipulating will be limned in a red aura, similar to Horizon's own aura of power. But it's harder to do this at range, or to move something heavy away. Her power is more limited the farther away the object is - her maximum range is about a thousand feet in which she can barely 'pick up' anything. If she has something ensconced in a zero-g field, she can launch said object at a low to high speed in the direction of her choice, but the larger the item, the more effort this takes. (Some objects, like bullets, are moving so fast and are so tiny that gravity has little effect on them; it's very difficult to deflect or stop them.)

The other half of this is INCREASING the gravity. In her vicinity, she can trap someone in a high-gravity field, up to 5 times Earth's gravity in her immediately vicinity. She can focus this on a person to weigh them down; or create a 'high-gravity zone'. This, too, is of lesser effect at range; in a similar fashion to picking stuff up.

Gravity Shifting:
Horizon's main mutant power is the ability to manipulate gravity in her vicinity. Though whatever she does, she is never adversely affected by her own powers, nor does her actual mass change. She can use her power to negate her personal gravity so she can hover effortlessly in the air - or even 'fall' at high speeds at any direction - using these two aspects to basically 'fly' in a way. She can even propel herself feet-first as a high-speed kinetic missile to deal devastating physical blows.

She can make herself light enough that she can jump like she's on the moon - or so heavy that a kick would hit like a brick truck. In either mode she can move unhindered with her typical agility. She can also 'slide' along the ground with a focused gravity vector like it's on ice downhill. Of course, which way her personal gravity field pulls her is up to her discretion. She can stand on walls or ceilings just as easily as a floor.

Life Support:
Kitora's abilities are useful outside the normal environments that people live in. While her powers are active, environmental effects are of no importance. She can travel underwater no differently than in air, has no need to breathe, does not feel heat and cold, and can even survive outer space without protection and generate her own gravity field even if there's none to manipulate. Without having to fight the pull of Earth's gravity, her speed is greatly accelerated. However, it takes more effort to sustain her own life-support this way... she can survive an hour at most without protection. It could be very bad if her strength gave out while using her powers in a hostile environment...

Super Speed:
Though no speedster, Horizon can use her gravity-shifting abilities for more than just fighting. She has a variety of means of travel at her disposal. Her flying speed can be clocked at 500 mph at top speed (though it takes a LOT of effort that way), and she can use her gravity slide to travel at close to 50 mph while on the ground. She can also decrease her weight to simply make running more effective, or to do prodigious leaps that'd make a lunar astronaut jealous.

Skills

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Capoeira:
It took Kitora a time to find a martial art that suited her unique fighting style of acrobatics and powerful legs. She chose the Brazilian art of Capoeira due to its agility and kicking ability. She has honed her legs into being deadly weapons - she also wears heavy-soled shoes to deliver that much more kicking power - with this, she can weave and dodge her way across a battlefield and deliver devastating kicks. She can also amplify her weight to make her blows even MORE devastating. A kick from her will not be soon forgotten.

Cooking:
Kitora has a voracious appetite ever since her powers awakened - a more recent interest of her is cooking - she has a varied taste and knows how to cook a variety of meals - she even gets summer jobs cooking for fine restaurants.

Good Student:
Kitora doesn't like being cooped up indoors at school. Nonetheless she's an excellent student and routinely aces all her classes. She is a quick study and a fast reader, able to pick up on new subject material quickly.

Gymnastics:
Kitora's body is a finely tuned instrument - she has trained all her life in gymnastics. She can balance her weight on a finger, and knows how to manipulate her mind and body in three dimensions. She never suffers from vertigo, no matter how much she is twisted around - and knows how to fall - for flying on controlled gravity is much like falling - all the time.

Physics:
Kitora has studied physics all her life - figuring out how things work is a passion of hers - especially once she got her mutant powers and she could manipulate gravity, one of the hallmarks of the laws of physics - it made her even MORE interested - to control something, you have to understand it.

Resources

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Cooking Job:
Kitora has made some extra income by working part-time at a local restaurant. It's where she honed her cooking talents and she is rapidly considering an idea at being a full-time chef. But for now - it's a good source of spending money for a high-school senior. She does enjoy the friends she has made there, and even the managers are good people.

Xavier's School:
As a student and resident of Xavier's School, she has a place to live, friends to rely on, and the school's staff protect their students from those who would persecute mutants. They can also serve as confidants, counselors, and advisors for a student's future endeavors. Kitora has nowhere else to go - the school is her home now. (Though she still wishes she could go home for real...)

Weaknesses

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Disturbing Appearance:
Kitora's normal appearance is slightly unusual with the flame-red hair and eyes, but... when she turns on her powers, things get bizarre appearance-wise. Her body and garments glow a dull red color and wash out all other colors, with bright red lines visible inside her body - along her arms and legs, a large 'cluster' of these vein-like lines in the middle of her chest where her heart is, and a smaller cluster in her head, with her eyes glowing bright red. She could be mistaken for some kind of demon.

Family Issues:
When Kitora's powers kindled out of control, they tore her house apart - and almost crushed her parents. Though they survived, they exiled her for being a 'freak', and none of her family or friends from her former school will speak to her anymore, not even on social media. Though the people at the Xavier's School have become her friends and family now, she still longs to rejoin her real family one day - one day that seems to be very, very far off. She also tends to get moody when people talk about their families, especially if it's positive commentary.

Health Is Power:
In Kitora's case, this is quite literal. She has to be healthy and fit to use her powers. If sick or poisoned or otherwise incapacitated, she can lose her focus needed to turn her powers on. Poison gas would be an effective deterrent for darts could be deflected by her defense fields. But if physically injured or incapacitated, it could be possible to shut her down.

Highly Emotional:
Kitora's emotions are often wild and unpredictable - she is subject to mood swings, obsessions, and anger when things don't go her way. She tries to keep these manic tendencies under control, but sometimes stuff slips out. Her emotions are most often swayed by food and family.

Hunger:
Kitora's abilities require a lot of energy to use - that means food. Her appetite is rather legendary - she eats like a horse - and it's not just gluttony. It's necessary - for if she becomes too famished, her powers may fail her. This can become quite problematic if her resources are unable to procure the 'fuel' she needs to tell the laws of physics to shut up and sit down.

Role-Play

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
Meeting after Apes	April 21st, 2024	Kitora helps Bishop back to his room after the Grodd fight, asking about joining the X-Men.
I Believe I Can Fly... I Believe I Can Touch the Sky...	March 3rd, 2024	Kitora met Patty, who had recently come to Xavier's, and using gravity powers helps her learn how to fy by taking some weight off.
Mayday in February	February 19th, 2024	While pursuing Bi-Plane, Mark and Sunny meet Kitora Alua, who helps them save a plane in distress. Pizza and information is shared!
Central Park Shenanigans	January 29th, 2024	A meeting at a restaurant near Central Park ended up with a rather quirky encounter between Natasha Romanova, Nikolas Kamarov, and Kitora Alua, involving the imagery of mecha-Stalins and animate mushrooms.
More than a Spot of Tea	January 1st, 2024	Olivia stops by Xavier's school and has a great conversation with Rogue and Kitora. She even sneakily does the dishes to help out!
Gravities of a Feather...	December 27th, 2023	Singularity explores a pull on her gravity and meets Kitora! They discuss their powers and origins and learn a little about each other!
When The Levee Breaks I'll Have No Place To Stay	September 21st, 2022	Heroes respond to a dam collapsing in the valley above a Massachusetts town.
Wolfboom!	September 5th, 2022	When many gather for a little fun after destroying some archetecture, a Wheely Good Time is had by all! Sam Guthrie, Rahne Sinclair, Artia (Definitely not Artermis Crock) and Kitora Alua make acquaintence of one Bunny Macleod.
The trouble maker a Mentor	August 22nd, 2022	Atrid and Kitora had a meeting in the back yard of Xavier's school - and she agreed to go on a date with him.
No Plasma in the Pool	August 11th, 2022	Not every student knows everyone and their powers. But doing so is the first step to synergy and not exploding things dangerously!
Playing in the Pool	July 19th, 2022	Kitora met Monet St. Croix at the pool while she's practicing her underwater survival skills.
Helping those in need.	July 15th, 2022	And food is served at Hope house.

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