Xi'An Coy Manh
 Karma |
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| Name: | Xi'an (Shan) Coy Manh | ||
| Superalias: | Karma | ||
| Gender: | Female | ||
| Species: | Mutant | ||
| Occupation: | Student/Adventurer | ||
| Citizenship: | Vietnamese | ||
| Residence: | Westchester County | ||
| Education: | College student | ||
| Theme: | Marvel (FC) | ||
| Groups: | Xaviers, X-Men | ||
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| Apparent Age: | 22 | Actual Age: | 22 |
| Date of Birth | 7 Dec 1998 | Played By | |
| Height: | 5'4" | Weight: | 119 lbs |
| Hair Color: | Black | Eye Color: | Brown |
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Contents
Character Info
Profile
An upstanding young woman from Vietnam who attends school at an elite private institution OR the niece of an international gangster with terrifying mutant powers? Xi'an ("Shan") Coy Minh is both of these and more, having stood with the New Mutants as a costumed adventurer for years. Dedicated to the care of her loved ones, sometimes to extremes.
Timeline
Timeline:
* 1998: Xi'an and Tran Coy Manh born, Vietnam
* 2007: Younger siblings Leong and Nga Coy Manh
born (also twins)
* 2009: Family caught up in criminal proceedings against Xi'an's uncle, Lt.
Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Coy. Xi'an and Tran use similar mutant powers against a VN soldier on patrol. Tran
and Nguyen travel directly to Madripoor: Xi'an and younger twins arrive as refugees months later.
* 2012-2013: Xi'an approached by Nguyen about using her mutant powers to assist with criminal
operations. Xi'an refuses; travels to America with aid of a sympathetic priest.
* 2014-2015:
Assorted mishaps conclude with Xi'an residing at Xavier's institute.
* 2015-2019: A wide range
of uncanny, impossible, astonishing, fantastic, incredible and team-up adventures ensue as part of
the New Mutants.
* 2020: Begins pursing coursework in library science; loses a leg due to enemy
action.
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Personality
Cerebral:
Karma will tend to take the logical and reasonable path when faced with a challenge, valuing
intellectual pursuits and being willing to swallow her feelings in tense conditions. This can be
valuable in high-stress situations or when faced with truly bizarre or superficially repulsive
situations, and can lead to its own kind of courage, by undertaking audacious but tightly-reasoned
plans -- however, it can also lead to dithering and indecisiveness, as well as a vulnerability to
compromising her values if somehow pressed by logical argument.
Filial:
Karma is strongly motivated by care and concern for her family, writ large to include the found
family of the X-Men and New Mutants: she will in almost every case place the well-being of these
people above strangers, especially when the chips are down and it is one or the other. She will go
through great lengths to support and nurture them, and will have a great deal of interior conflict
if she has to place one against the other or if she is driven to take sides in some high-stakes
conflict.
Character Sheet
Powers
Possession:
Karma's mutant power allows her to possess other sentient beings by psionic means. If this
succeeds, the individual's consciousness is overwhelmed and their body is controlled by Karma, who
can command them to undertake any action that they could normally - although she may be unfamiliar
with these skills and abilities. This includes the use of superpowers, as well as any skills or
abilities that Karma herself possesses. When the possession ends, the target will come to as if they
had just regained focus - while very short periods of possession which did not involve significant
movement might be written off as daydreams, most recipients will notice that something has happened.
Karma is capable of possessing two or three other beings at once but can only really focus
on one at a time. She is able to command people from tens of miles away (although she may need to be
closer for initial contact) -- however, determined and oppositional wills, psionic or mystical
ability, or both may require Karma to be within a few yards at most. (And - like all powers - this
requires consent to be used on another PC!)
Telepathy:
Karma can achieve direct mind-to-mind contact with others as a development of her primary
ability. In addition to direct communication which can transcend language boundaries, Karma can
share thought-forms and images, as well as defend herself from psionic attacks. She can also
cooperate effectively with other telepaths, who can often boost the range and "strength" of her
possession attempts. Karma has considerable latent potential in this field, however it does not come
easily, and in most cases she will be outperformed by dedicated telepaths. (Outside of possession,
of course.)
Skills
Combat:
As a semi-veteran costume adventurer, Karma has been trained in a range of self-defense
techniques and can hold her own in a bar-fight or against opponents armed with bats and knives or
similar equipment -- at least, until numbers begin to tell. She is also familiar with a wide range
of infantry-type firearms and has at least seen heavier equipment fired, especially if it is the
sort of thing you would find sloshing around Indochina.
Library Science:
Thanks to a detail-oriented perspective and a systematic way of thinking about things, Karma is
pursuing a career in library science -- or at least is taking courses in it because let's be real
that most mutants end up with careers better summarized by other terms. However, she is familiar
with both academic and general-purpose classification systems as well as a lot of the nuances of
maintaining and effectively using books and other resources. She may also be able to levy late
fees.
Linguistics:
Karma speaks Vietnamese and English with native-speaker fluency, and is conversationally fluent
in French, particularly the Madripoor dialect.
Resources
X-Men:
Or perhaps New Mutants would be more correct? As an established member of the paramilitary found
family that is the X-folk, Karma has access to technological resources, places to stay, and a
valuable support network, in addition to a small completely-independent salary for part-time work.
Weaknesses
I Ate My Brother's Soul:
Oops. Karma and her twin brother did not have the common mutant trait of being immune to one
another's powers, and when Karma attempted to possess him, she instead completely absorbed his soul.
While this happened long ago, it may be metaphysically distinctive and is a major source of interior
guilt for her.
My Criminal Uncle:
Karma's uncle, General Nguyen Ngoc Coy, is a crime lord resident primarily in Madripoor and with
operations spread out across a large section of the world. He would really appreciate if Karma could
come and work for him the same way Tran did, before she ate his soul (oops). He may express this
desire through abduction and criminal violence when the opportunity arises, although he is a patient
man.
Standing Completely Still:
While using her possession abilities, Karma is severely distracted. While she can move around
without stumbling into things if her possess-ee is not in pitched combat or a comparable fully-
absorbing activity, she cannot really focus on her surroundings. Since she does not have much in the
way of intrinsic defenses, this is a major downside and can lead to her being blindsided.
Stupid Robot Leg:
Karma has a prosthetic right leg due to injuries sustained in the course of Adventure. While the
advanced bionics are a match for the original's performance, it does not provide any superpowers, so
it is instead a large piece of visually-distinctive metal which can also break, be detected, get
magnetized, be stolen by raccoons, and so on. It could be worse...
That Hurts a Lot:
While *injury* is not sent back to Karma from people who she is possessing, *sensation* is.
While training and experience has made her resistant to letting go of the possession in the face of
her host's injuries, this places a drastic downside on many obvious and flexible uses of her power.
Role-Play
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| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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| The X in Mexico | March 25th, 2022 | Part 1: X-Men get wasted in Cancun. Borrow a boat from Beto and invade a tourist trap island for possible ruins and loot! To be continued! |
| Library Lounging | March 20th, 2022 | Emma and Xi'an talk about life and libraries |
| Reading is Fun(damental) | March 17th, 2022 | Negasonic gets a book late night at the library |
| Dinner for Two | March 13th, 2022 | Emma and Xi'an have a first date at a nice restaurant and discuss their lives. |
| Librarians in the Rain | March 12th, 2022 | Emma Frost makes a donation to the Mansion's collection, and Xi'an swoons. |
| Hanging at Harry's | March 9th, 2022 | Sarah and Xi'an run into one another and Xi'an gives Sarah dating advise. |
| Hellfire Mardi Gras 2022 | February 23rd, 2022 | The Hellfire Club's Mardi Gras party for 2022 sees a lot of beads earned. |
| To break the language barrier. | February 22nd, 2022 | And Sam gets some pointers |
| X-Men: Graduation Day Pt. 1 | February 12th, 2022 | Graduation Day for the newest batch of X-Men recruits is underway and off to a promising start. The Danger Room is put to good use, evaluating the adaptability and teamwork of some of the most promising potentials. |
| Library Amnesty II: Book II the Future | October 9th, 2021 | Library services provided today include reshelving, the provision of a Cyrillic language keyboard and emotional support, initial recommendations on recreational reading, and receipt of several donated books and a cheeseburger combo courtesy of Friend of the Library S. Guthrie. All in all, a good afternoon. |
| Lesson Planning | September 16th, 2021 | Checking out the classrooms, Michael meets one of the students - and a discussion about geopolitics turns into one about protection and his intentions for the school (and more.) |
| The Nightmare Barrier: Xi'an | August 22nd, 2021 | Xi'an faces the shadows of her past, fear and temptation, to overcome a creature of nightmare blocking the heart of the crystal from her and her allies. |
| Shi'ar: The White Hot Room | August 20th, 2021 | Having overcome the nightmare barrier, the X-men and their Green Lantern ally explore the tower in the center of the crystal's city, encountering the mysterious builder, before facing D'Ken and Davan Shakari. The battle seems to fracture the crystal around then (and perhaps all of reality with it), while the version of Jean they have found appears a corpse. Yet James makes contact with the Phoenix, who sweeps them into the center of its domain. It shows them a multitude of Phoenix hosts across time as they ask for their friend's return. The Phoenix agrees, although the process means they will be bonded again - and it demonstrates anger toward Lilandra for the Shi'ar's meddling. Soon after that, they are all ejected from the crystal, returned to the surface of M'Kraan for Illyana to transport home. |
| Shi'ar: Into the Crystal | August 15th, 2021 | The X-Men break some perfectly good space quarantine gear and finally make contact with the M'kraan crystal, sensing a disturbance caused by D'Ken's meddling. Once inside its impossible space, they feel as though they can almost reach the center of everything, only to be cast into a void filled with the greatest horrors of their own souls. |
| Shi'ar: Sic Itur Ad Astra | August 8th, 2021 | Illyana transports a team of X-Men (and a Green Lantern consultant!) to another Galaxy and the Shi'ar planet M'kraan. There, they find a world under ancient quarantine, a dead city of science, alien signage, Oan mysteries, and at the end of a long trail, a crystal containing incredible energy. Also, apparently, some very hostile quarantine measures. |
| A Spark Fades | July 30th, 2021 | Jean meets Rogue, Shan, Noriko, and Gabby at the local hospital where Jean has to identify Jubilation's body and break the news. |
| Shi'ar: Heart and Mind | July 26th, 2021 | Terry brings Lilandra to Xaviers, where she meets Charles and a number of X-men and students. Lilandra shares her knowledge of the Phoenix, through a psychic vision depicting the X-Men's encounter with the Brood, as well as knowledge of her brother D'Ken's ambitions to somehow control that power for himself, through an ancient crystal artifact on M'Kraan, deep in Shi'ar space. The X-Men are on high alert as they prepare for a long journey, and the Brotherhood is warned of -- and asked for help with -- the Shi'ar fleet in space. |
| How Do You Solve a Problem Like... | July 26th, 2021 | You can't. |
| Birthday Blast | July 25th, 2021 | A birthday party by the lake brings people together. |
| Let's Get Wine Drunk And Buy A Hardcover Book | July 2nd, 2021 | The titular activities occur. A brief conversation on science fiction and fantasy casting is held. Autographs are obtained... |
| Let's Kill Our Enemies With Weapons | June 10th, 2021 | A humble library scientist and a marriage on the rocks come to a climax in PROFESSOR GREY'S MUTANT MASSACRE. THRILL to the room where the bodies were broken! GASP at the chainsaw-slaughter from the top pupil! SHUDDER at the cataclysmic revelation of ACADEMIC ANTIPATHY and MUTATED MALICE in SEN-SU-ROUND.
Or, Shan demonstrates a possible new therapy approach to Jean! One of those two. |
| Finding Drive-Thru in Midtown | May 21st, 2021 | No description |
| Library Espionage Action | May 2nd, 2021 | Shan checks a goth out of the NYPL. |
| Drinks and Swanky Snacks | April 19th, 2021 | Roland, Xi'an and Yelizaveta get to know each other over drinks. |
| You Want Fries with That | April 7th, 2021 | Leslie has a new job at Mel's diner. And it turns out there's at least one good customer from nearby! The milkshake machine is also 'broken'. |
| Nights of Presents Past | March 27th, 2021 | Karma infiltrates the dream-space of the lightly napping Kassandra, meeting her mental guardians and placing her at ease, as well as guiding her to untroubled sleep. Nobody dies - this time! |
| Feast of Souls: A Handful of Dust | March 22nd, 2021 | Illyana plans terrible things in a tree. Julio, Shan, and Bobby leaf safety behind. |
| Xavier School Staff Meeting | March 21st, 2021 | The meeting was had, followed by a cookie fight! |
| Bizarro Destroys Metropolis | March 19th, 2021 | Manipulated by Mister Mxyzpltk, The Bizarro Superman confuses the Fifth Annual Giant Robot Appreciation Day Parade for an invasion! Sweeping in to help save the day, Bizarro must be stopped before he ruins the nice day out...or gets someone killed. |
| They Say It's Your Birthday | March 18th, 2021 | Noriko's birthday gets her a cake and some presents. Even though she had to be tricked into showing up. |
| Trouble in Ibiza Pt. 2 | March 18th, 2021 | All's well that ends well |
| EXTREME HOTEL MAKEOVER | March 14th, 2021 | Watch the worker bees raise a building in one week! |
| Brisket Night! | March 13th, 2021 | Friday Brisket happens at Xavier's. Everyone comes to eat and to meet the new kid. Plans are made to do this again. |
| Battering Down The Battery | March 11th, 2021 | No description |
| Toby or not Toby | March 10th, 2021 | Scott comes by the library to read. Xi'an is there. They discuss Owls. Catyclops detective agency is recruited for a case. |
| Trouble in Ibiza | March 8th, 2021 | The plot is laid? |
| Legs Miserables | March 6th, 2021 | It's leg day for Jean, Scott, and Xi'an. Also included: devious kitten-based plans, literature, and Scott taking all the fun out of pornography. |
| Slithering In The Sewers | March 6th, 2021 | While the unlikely collection of heroes might have managed to deal with the threat presented by the Lamia, Kurt is left with no answers on the more personal matter of his heritage. |
| Library Police: Amnesty Hours | March 5th, 2021 | The Library Police successfully retrieve several books, including an interestingly enchanted one from Julio. A fugitive is identified for later apprehension. There are donuts. |
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