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Character Information:
Name: Layla Rose Miller aka "Butterfly"
Canon: Marvel 616
Canon Point: Right before Jamie Madrox's return to life- X-Factor Vol 1, issue 229
Age: 21
Reference: http://marvel.wikia.com/Layla_Miller_%28Earth-616%29
Setting: The Marvel 616 Universe runs parallel to our world, with a few major differences. One of those, is that the world, in addition to being inhabited by super humans and superheroes, is inhabited by mutants. 10% of the world's population that have been gifted with the X-Gene, located on the 23rd chromosome. The X-Gene manifests itself around puberty, giving those with it outstanding powers, or 'mutations'. Mutants, or Homo superior, are the next step in evolution. But humans, being humans, feel threatened by the existence of mutants, and so they are persecuted- thrown out of their homes, beaten to death, facing expulsion and eviction simply because of their DNA, something they can't control- sound familiar?
In the 1950s, Charles Xavier, a professor, and a mutant with incredible psychic powers, created the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, where he vowed to train young mutants to help integrate them into society, believing that humans and mutants could coexist. His good friend and rival, Erik Lensherr- a Holocaust survivor- believed that history was doomed to repeat itself, and created his Brotherhood of Mutants, mutants who believed in their superiority. Magneto, as he came to be known, became a feared terrorist in the world's eyes.
Meanwhile, the X-Men, Xavier's students, began to come into the public eye, both as a menace and as heroes. The X-Men, and the many teams that formed in connection with the Xavier Institute, fought to serve humanity, to help them, even though they were only treated with fear and hate.
Humans began to take matters into their own hands in order to save themselves, and eradicate the mutant threat. The Sentinel Program was created by Bolivar Trask, creating giant robots that had the power to detect the X-Gene and attack mutants, and at the same time, Senator Edward Kelly pushed for anti-mutant legislature to pass in the Senate.
The warring continued, and was showing no signs of slowing when, an Avenger by the name of Wanda Maximoff, The Scarlet Witch, gifted with the power of reality warping and driven to the point of insanity whispered three words that would forever change the course of mutant history: "Daddy, no more mutants."
What happened next was known as M-Day. The majority of the mutant population lost their X-Gene over-night, resulting in death, destruction, and chaos. The Decimation turned the entire world on it's head, and mutants became an endangered species. During this time, a mutant named Jamie Madrox, capable of creating multiples of himself, opened up a detective agency in New York City, called X-Factor Investigations, after an earlier team of X-Men. Pulling together a rag-tag group of mutants (and one ex-mutant), Madrox and his team worked to solve the decimation, taking any case they could to pay the rent. They were soon joined by fifteen-year-old Layla Miller, who waltzed in the front door and started filing and faxing.
With some help ('help' being a strongly debated term) from Layla, X-Factor bumped along, solving cases, and remaining somewhat distant from their X-Cousins out in California. When word came about the birth of the first mutant child since M-Day, Jamie and Layla took off to Dallas. There, they met up with Forge, a mechanic, who had created a, well, time machine. Madrox created two duplicates of himself, each one going off to a different point in time. Just as the second one was getting ready to take off to 80 years in the future, Layla ran into the machine and grabbed on to Madrox. Together, the two of them were sent to the future.
There, it didn't take them long to be rounded up and placed in work camps for mutants, an M tattooed over their left eye to signal that they were mutants. After gathering information on what caused the world to come to this, Layla pushed Madrox on to a grenade, killing him, so that his memories of the future would be transferred to Madrox Prime. This left Layla alone in the future.
Using her precognitive powers, she was able to escape the camp, and began to put into place events that would change the course of the future's future. On the run, she ran into a much older Cyclops (Scott Summers, the current leader of the X-Men), and his daughter Ruby, who had been warned of Layla's coming by Layla herself. She joined up with them until five years later when the technology was secured to send Layla back to the past- Madrox's present- but only temporarily.
Finding him, she brought him back to the future with her, using him to help further the Summers' Rebellion, a mutant uprising. After finding an elderly Victor Von Doom, Layla and Madrox were once again transferred back to the present day, but something went wrong and Layla got off the ride a bit too soon. A year earlier than Madrox. Using this time, she went back to New York to find her younger self and transfer her memories to her. Following that, she headed to Latvia to train under Doctor Doom.
Eventually, Layla, now grown up, returned to X-Factor Investigations at Jamie's side. As usual, no one seems to trust her, and life is as dangerous as ever for mutants. But Layla still has a lot of work to do, and a wedding to look forward to.
Personality:
Layla was once described as "Nostradamus reborn as Wednesday Addams" and that tends to pretty much be true. The first thing most people would say about Layla is that she's creepy. Granted, that was mostly when she was a kid and wore pigtails and spent all day sitting around making cryptic comments mixed with pop-culture references. Then again, though her age has changed, she tends to pretty much do the same. Layla is incredibly cryptic. Partially because she gets a sort of thrill from it, but also because she has to be. She, as she happily informs anyone, knows stuff. It's her job in life to keep things on the set track, in order to get certain outcomes, and if they waver, well, bad things will happen.
Layla tries to be upbeat, despite her relatively morbid sense of humor. She enjoys a joke, a drink, and a quick round of karaoke. But at times, it's incredibly hard to be positive when she knows she's sending her friends out to be killed. Because of this, she works hard to conceal any sort of negative emotions she may be feeling at the time. You'd be hard pressed to ever see her cry, and she can count the amount of times she has on one hand. It's this slight detachment that makes many people consider her creepy.
Additionally, Layla knows that, as much as she loves her friends at X-Factor, that she doesn't belong. She knows they distrust her, and for all the right reasons, too. But still, she puts on a smile and tries to go along with it as much as she can, when even in the thick of things, she's still the outsider. She's known this from the beginning, and it will always be that way. In fact, it's probably better this way, anyway.
Layla has never really been a child. Sure, she may seem younger at times, but even when she was a kid, she was faced with difficult decisions that she had to make alone, quietly, and that sort of thing doesn't allow anyone to remain a child for long. She knows most people still view her as a kid, and at times it gets tiring, but there's nothing she can do about it, and there are bigger fish to fry then everyone's mental image of her.
Because of her duty in life, and her abilities, Layla has a lot on her small shoulders. She knows things she shouldn't, and has to live with the fact that she has to do some terrible things, go through horrible things, and make horrible things happen, in order to keep the world on track. It's not unusual for her, especially when she was younger, to wake up screaming at night, plagued by nightmares. During the day, however, she's as bright and sunny as she can be, erring on the side of sarcastic. It's almost impossible to realize just how difficult she has it, and she certainly doesn't want you to.
One thing that should be noted about Layla is that she knows who she's going to marry. One Jamie Madrox. He is, as far as she is concerned, her best friend, and a very good kisser. And while he has asked her to marry him, she hasn't officially accepted. There's a right time and a right moment for that, and she's not going to give him an answer until it's necessary. But due to her knowledge of this eventual outcome, Layla is, as much a she tries to hide it, a bit jealous when it comes to Jamie and other people.
Layla, however, is still a twenty-one-year-old girl. She longs for companionship, for friends. She likes having a drink or two, laughing, watching TV. She had a great deal of that while she was in the future, but back with X-Factor, she hasn't had too much of it, given the great distrust everyone has for her. Especially considering it was her that returned Guido Carosella to life, and subsequently, set off a series of events that lead to the death of Jamie Madrox. This is something that wracks Layla with guilt every single day. She already has enough weighing on her shoulders, but Jamie, the man she was supposed to marry, dead? It isn't easy. And until she gets confirmation that he comes back, it certainly won't be.
In the end, despite the fact that she often comes off as strange, Layla is a friendly girl who likes having friends. However, she will not let any ties get in the way of doing what she knows she needs to do, no matter how much it may hurt. She's only a pawn, and to try to be anything else would have catastrophic results, as she now knows.
Having woken up in a bath, Layla is going to be extremely confused. And she hates being confused. Because this is not New York, this is not the morgue in X-Factor Headquarters. This is not what she wanted, so someone, please casually explain to her what the hell she's doing here? Oh, right, Kedan, thanks. After the initial 'This is what's going on' introduction, Layla will find herself trying to get her footing, somewhat clumsily. She wasn't supposed to be here, and on top of Jamie being dead back at home? Nothing is going the way it's supposed to and she's SCARED.
Of course, she has appearances to keep up, so she'll be damned if she lets anyone know.
Appearance:
Layla Miller is 5' 4'' tall, with medium-length blonde hair and green eyes. The most noticeable thing about her is the M tattoo over her right eye, given to her in the future when she found herself in one of the mutant containment camps.
Abilities: Layla Miller knows stuff.
No, really. That's one of her abilities. Not everything, as she'll tell you, but stuff. To be technically, Layla has the gift of pseudo-precognition. When she was fifteen, an older version of her self that had traveled from the future stopped by and injected everything that was going to happen in the next 80 years into her brain. Obviously, that's a lot of things for a kid to get all at once, and she cannot remember EVERYTHING. She also has a journal that she started after arriving from the future in order to give to herself in the future so she knows even more stuff- such as the day she takes up golf.
Now, as The Doctor would tell you, time is wibbly-wobbly. There are certain fixed points in time that NEED to happen, and there are things that need to happen in order for the world to go the way it needs to. Layla does her best to keep all of these on track. However time is also relative and always moving. It's fluid. As a result, when something happens, some sort of divergence from the main timeline, Layla is able to see the different outcomes, and as such, choose the right one to keep the world going the way it needs to, or what will happen if she chooses a different path. It's extremely difficult and tiring, and, given that she can't actually tell anyone, she's afraid that this will drive her insane.
But life decided to throw a curveball at her, and she woke up here. This was not part of the plan. The result? Layla Doesn't Know Stuff. At least, not anymore. Everything on Tu Vishan? New, different, and unexpected. And it's throwing her off her game.
Now, this pseudo-precognition is not actually Layla's mutant power.
Her real mutant power is RESURRECTION. Within a certain amount of time after their death, Layla can return them back to life. We're talking minutes, here, not even. However, as all great power comes with great responsibility blah blah blah, there's a catch. When people come back? They come back wrong. Without souls. As a result, Layla tries to avoid actually resurrecting people unless absolutely necessary (the last time she did was Guido Carosella, and it's thrown SO MANY THINGS out of whack it's not even funny). Animals are one thing, but people? Yeah. Never a good thing.
Finally, Layla has been trained in magic by Doctor Victor Von Doom, and is shown to be incredibly competent in it- Doom's magic is based on Roma magics, and as such, so is Layla's. She's nowhere near as gifted as he is, having only spent a year studying, but she is capable of using her gauntlet to create below mentioned forcefields and blasts, summon demons and spirits and evoke them, create wards, as well as basic spell-work. She can read mystical signs and symbols with ease, using them as the basis for all of her magic. Unfortunately, David didn't go into details about what she learned from Doom, but she will keep her magic to wards and her gauntlet, as those are the only magic she's been shown using in canon.
Inventory: -1 (one) gauntlet, capable of creating protective forcefields and force blasts
- 1 (one) pair black leather combat boots
- 1 (one) pair of black-and-pink striped socks
- 1 (one) black leather jacket with orange accents
- 1 (one) black leather belt, with X insignia
- 1 (one) necklace with a small silver butterfly on it
- 1 (one) white tank-top
Suite: Metal sector! Building 3, preferably.
In-Character Samples:
Third Person: Would you actually believe it if the first thing out of Layla's mouth, upon waking up in the bathtub was, "Are you telling me I'm a frakking Cylon?" but apparently no one else thought this was funny, mostly because the Kedan, as use later learned as they were called, just gave her odd looks and had no idea what a Cylon was.
Which turned out to be great for Layla, because she had no idea what a Kedan was.
Correction: it was not so great for Layla. Toweling off, she asked as many questions as she could possibly think of before they shepherded her off to a kart to taxi her into town. Which was quite a lot of questions to the point of even more side-eyeing for the petite blonde.
All the while, she was fighting a gnawing in her stomach. She was here. Tu Vishan. Last time she'd checked, she was in the morgue of X-Factor, passed out on top of the freezer she'd placed the body of Jamie Madrox in, following his autopsy. She'd refused to move, in case he returned to life.
Which- oh god. Her eyes widened. If she was here, she wasn't going to be there to let Jamie out. He was going to freeze to death. He was going to suffocate. He was going to die again if he even woke up to begin with! And without her… Well, she wouldn't kid herself to think that X-Factor would be mourning her departure, especially not compared to Madrox's untimely death, but, they needed her. There was a reason she was hung out with them, even when they'd all rather she vanish off the face of the earth for a second time.
Careful what you wish for.
She slunk down in her seat, resting her head in her hands and heaving a deep sigh. She'd get back to him. She had to get back to him. Even if his life wasn't promised. But for now… she was here.
She was here and she had no idea what the hell was going on for the first time since she was fifteen.
Layla Miller was very, very lost.
Network: [Layla's been here for some time now, gotten her bearings, and come to do as much research as she possibly could on what they were facing. So far, she'd gotten a few answers, but mostly new questions. With all of that under her belt, she'd turned to the Network. When her face pops up on the screen, she's sitting in a rather dark room in a high-backed chair. For emphasis.
However this emphasis is totally ruined by the lollipop she's got in one hand.]
Greetings, Fellow Foreigners! I've got questions, I've got answers, and I know you do, too.
I'm going to speak with the Emperor and ask for some library time. But I'm going to need more than that before I go in, so I don't waste any time. I've been told it's of the essence. For your questions, I'm going to find you answers. Something tells me we won't like them.
First: [She holds up a finger.] This is about The Big Bad.
Second: [Layla adds another finger.] Tu Vishan created the barrier, and we don't know anything else about it. I want to know if there's any way to strengthen it. If we can, I want volunteers. If we can't… [There's a brief moment where she almost smiles.] I don't want to burn the bridge before we cross it.
Third: [And the third finger is added.] If he's going to follow us home, I want you all to know I'm going to do everything I can to keep your worlds safe. [This time, there's something darker in her green eyes, even as she points the lollipop to the screen to emphasize her point.] I may be at a bit of a loss here, but I know none of you want to destroy your home world. And if you do, then I'm sure you'd prefer it to be done by your own hand.
For some of us, this war is a regular Tuesday. For others, it's time to get down to business. [To defeat the huns, she adds mentally, a glimmer in her eyes.] If you want to sit on the sidelines, I will not blame you. But I think our Big Bad is biding his time, waiting for us to drop our guards, to blink.
And whatever I do, I won't blink.
Name: Shea
Age: 23
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Game Cast: Éponine Thénardier | Les Misérables |
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Character Information:
Name: Layla Rose Miller aka "Butterfly"
Canon: Marvel 616
Canon Point: Right before Jamie Madrox's return to life- X-Factor Vol 1, issue 229
Age: 21
Reference: http://marvel.wikia.com/Layla_Miller_%28Earth-616%29
Setting: The Marvel 616 Universe runs parallel to our world, with a few major differences. One of those, is that the world, in addition to being inhabited by super humans and superheroes, is inhabited by mutants. 10% of the world's population that have been gifted with the X-Gene, located on the 23rd chromosome. The X-Gene manifests itself around puberty, giving those with it outstanding powers, or 'mutations'. Mutants, or Homo superior, are the next step in evolution. But humans, being humans, feel threatened by the existence of mutants, and so they are persecuted- thrown out of their homes, beaten to death, facing expulsion and eviction simply because of their DNA, something they can't control- sound familiar?
In the 1950s, Charles Xavier, a professor, and a mutant with incredible psychic powers, created the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, where he vowed to train young mutants to help integrate them into society, believing that humans and mutants could coexist. His good friend and rival, Erik Lensherr- a Holocaust survivor- believed that history was doomed to repeat itself, and created his Brotherhood of Mutants, mutants who believed in their superiority. Magneto, as he came to be known, became a feared terrorist in the world's eyes.
Meanwhile, the X-Men, Xavier's students, began to come into the public eye, both as a menace and as heroes. The X-Men, and the many teams that formed in connection with the Xavier Institute, fought to serve humanity, to help them, even though they were only treated with fear and hate.
Humans began to take matters into their own hands in order to save themselves, and eradicate the mutant threat. The Sentinel Program was created by Bolivar Trask, creating giant robots that had the power to detect the X-Gene and attack mutants, and at the same time, Senator Edward Kelly pushed for anti-mutant legislature to pass in the Senate.
The warring continued, and was showing no signs of slowing when, an Avenger by the name of Wanda Maximoff, The Scarlet Witch, gifted with the power of reality warping and driven to the point of insanity whispered three words that would forever change the course of mutant history: "Daddy, no more mutants."
What happened next was known as M-Day. The majority of the mutant population lost their X-Gene over-night, resulting in death, destruction, and chaos. The Decimation turned the entire world on it's head, and mutants became an endangered species. During this time, a mutant named Jamie Madrox, capable of creating multiples of himself, opened up a detective agency in New York City, called X-Factor Investigations, after an earlier team of X-Men. Pulling together a rag-tag group of mutants (and one ex-mutant), Madrox and his team worked to solve the decimation, taking any case they could to pay the rent. They were soon joined by fifteen-year-old Layla Miller, who waltzed in the front door and started filing and faxing.
With some help ('help' being a strongly debated term) from Layla, X-Factor bumped along, solving cases, and remaining somewhat distant from their X-Cousins out in California. When word came about the birth of the first mutant child since M-Day, Jamie and Layla took off to Dallas. There, they met up with Forge, a mechanic, who had created a, well, time machine. Madrox created two duplicates of himself, each one going off to a different point in time. Just as the second one was getting ready to take off to 80 years in the future, Layla ran into the machine and grabbed on to Madrox. Together, the two of them were sent to the future.
There, it didn't take them long to be rounded up and placed in work camps for mutants, an M tattooed over their left eye to signal that they were mutants. After gathering information on what caused the world to come to this, Layla pushed Madrox on to a grenade, killing him, so that his memories of the future would be transferred to Madrox Prime. This left Layla alone in the future.
Using her precognitive powers, she was able to escape the camp, and began to put into place events that would change the course of the future's future. On the run, she ran into a much older Cyclops (Scott Summers, the current leader of the X-Men), and his daughter Ruby, who had been warned of Layla's coming by Layla herself. She joined up with them until five years later when the technology was secured to send Layla back to the past- Madrox's present- but only temporarily.
Finding him, she brought him back to the future with her, using him to help further the Summers' Rebellion, a mutant uprising. After finding an elderly Victor Von Doom, Layla and Madrox were once again transferred back to the present day, but something went wrong and Layla got off the ride a bit too soon. A year earlier than Madrox. Using this time, she went back to New York to find her younger self and transfer her memories to her. Following that, she headed to Latvia to train under Doctor Doom.
Eventually, Layla, now grown up, returned to X-Factor Investigations at Jamie's side. As usual, no one seems to trust her, and life is as dangerous as ever for mutants. But Layla still has a lot of work to do, and a wedding to look forward to.
Personality:
Layla was once described as "Nostradamus reborn as Wednesday Addams" and that tends to pretty much be true. The first thing most people would say about Layla is that she's creepy. Granted, that was mostly when she was a kid and wore pigtails and spent all day sitting around making cryptic comments mixed with pop-culture references. Then again, though her age has changed, she tends to pretty much do the same. Layla is incredibly cryptic. Partially because she gets a sort of thrill from it, but also because she has to be. She, as she happily informs anyone, knows stuff. It's her job in life to keep things on the set track, in order to get certain outcomes, and if they waver, well, bad things will happen.
Layla tries to be upbeat, despite her relatively morbid sense of humor. She enjoys a joke, a drink, and a quick round of karaoke. But at times, it's incredibly hard to be positive when she knows she's sending her friends out to be killed. Because of this, she works hard to conceal any sort of negative emotions she may be feeling at the time. You'd be hard pressed to ever see her cry, and she can count the amount of times she has on one hand. It's this slight detachment that makes many people consider her creepy.
Additionally, Layla knows that, as much as she loves her friends at X-Factor, that she doesn't belong. She knows they distrust her, and for all the right reasons, too. But still, she puts on a smile and tries to go along with it as much as she can, when even in the thick of things, she's still the outsider. She's known this from the beginning, and it will always be that way. In fact, it's probably better this way, anyway.
Layla has never really been a child. Sure, she may seem younger at times, but even when she was a kid, she was faced with difficult decisions that she had to make alone, quietly, and that sort of thing doesn't allow anyone to remain a child for long. She knows most people still view her as a kid, and at times it gets tiring, but there's nothing she can do about it, and there are bigger fish to fry then everyone's mental image of her.
Because of her duty in life, and her abilities, Layla has a lot on her small shoulders. She knows things she shouldn't, and has to live with the fact that she has to do some terrible things, go through horrible things, and make horrible things happen, in order to keep the world on track. It's not unusual for her, especially when she was younger, to wake up screaming at night, plagued by nightmares. During the day, however, she's as bright and sunny as she can be, erring on the side of sarcastic. It's almost impossible to realize just how difficult she has it, and she certainly doesn't want you to.
One thing that should be noted about Layla is that she knows who she's going to marry. One Jamie Madrox. He is, as far as she is concerned, her best friend, and a very good kisser. And while he has asked her to marry him, she hasn't officially accepted. There's a right time and a right moment for that, and she's not going to give him an answer until it's necessary. But due to her knowledge of this eventual outcome, Layla is, as much a she tries to hide it, a bit jealous when it comes to Jamie and other people.
Layla, however, is still a twenty-one-year-old girl. She longs for companionship, for friends. She likes having a drink or two, laughing, watching TV. She had a great deal of that while she was in the future, but back with X-Factor, she hasn't had too much of it, given the great distrust everyone has for her. Especially considering it was her that returned Guido Carosella to life, and subsequently, set off a series of events that lead to the death of Jamie Madrox. This is something that wracks Layla with guilt every single day. She already has enough weighing on her shoulders, but Jamie, the man she was supposed to marry, dead? It isn't easy. And until she gets confirmation that he comes back, it certainly won't be.
In the end, despite the fact that she often comes off as strange, Layla is a friendly girl who likes having friends. However, she will not let any ties get in the way of doing what she knows she needs to do, no matter how much it may hurt. She's only a pawn, and to try to be anything else would have catastrophic results, as she now knows.
Having woken up in a bath, Layla is going to be extremely confused. And she hates being confused. Because this is not New York, this is not the morgue in X-Factor Headquarters. This is not what she wanted, so someone, please casually explain to her what the hell she's doing here? Oh, right, Kedan, thanks. After the initial 'This is what's going on' introduction, Layla will find herself trying to get her footing, somewhat clumsily. She wasn't supposed to be here, and on top of Jamie being dead back at home? Nothing is going the way it's supposed to and she's SCARED.
Of course, she has appearances to keep up, so she'll be damned if she lets anyone know.
Appearance:
Layla Miller is 5' 4'' tall, with medium-length blonde hair and green eyes. The most noticeable thing about her is the M tattoo over her right eye, given to her in the future when she found herself in one of the mutant containment camps.Abilities: Layla Miller knows stuff.
No, really. That's one of her abilities. Not everything, as she'll tell you, but stuff. To be technically, Layla has the gift of pseudo-precognition. When she was fifteen, an older version of her self that had traveled from the future stopped by and injected everything that was going to happen in the next 80 years into her brain. Obviously, that's a lot of things for a kid to get all at once, and she cannot remember EVERYTHING. She also has a journal that she started after arriving from the future in order to give to herself in the future so she knows even more stuff- such as the day she takes up golf.
Now, as The Doctor would tell you, time is wibbly-wobbly. There are certain fixed points in time that NEED to happen, and there are things that need to happen in order for the world to go the way it needs to. Layla does her best to keep all of these on track. However time is also relative and always moving. It's fluid. As a result, when something happens, some sort of divergence from the main timeline, Layla is able to see the different outcomes, and as such, choose the right one to keep the world going the way it needs to, or what will happen if she chooses a different path. It's extremely difficult and tiring, and, given that she can't actually tell anyone, she's afraid that this will drive her insane.
But life decided to throw a curveball at her, and she woke up here. This was not part of the plan. The result? Layla Doesn't Know Stuff. At least, not anymore. Everything on Tu Vishan? New, different, and unexpected. And it's throwing her off her game.
Now, this pseudo-precognition is not actually Layla's mutant power.
Her real mutant power is RESURRECTION. Within a certain amount of time after their death, Layla can return them back to life. We're talking minutes, here, not even. However, as all great power comes with great responsibility blah blah blah, there's a catch. When people come back? They come back wrong. Without souls. As a result, Layla tries to avoid actually resurrecting people unless absolutely necessary (the last time she did was Guido Carosella, and it's thrown SO MANY THINGS out of whack it's not even funny). Animals are one thing, but people? Yeah. Never a good thing.
Finally, Layla has been trained in magic by Doctor Victor Von Doom, and is shown to be incredibly competent in it- Doom's magic is based on Roma magics, and as such, so is Layla's. She's nowhere near as gifted as he is, having only spent a year studying, but she is capable of using her gauntlet to create below mentioned forcefields and blasts, summon demons and spirits and evoke them, create wards, as well as basic spell-work. She can read mystical signs and symbols with ease, using them as the basis for all of her magic. Unfortunately, David didn't go into details about what she learned from Doom, but she will keep her magic to wards and her gauntlet, as those are the only magic she's been shown using in canon.
Inventory: -1 (one) gauntlet, capable of creating protective forcefields and force blasts
- 1 (one) pair black leather combat boots
- 1 (one) pair of black-and-pink striped socks
- 1 (one) black leather jacket with orange accents
- 1 (one) black leather belt, with X insignia
- 1 (one) necklace with a small silver butterfly on it
- 1 (one) white tank-top
Suite: Metal sector! Building 3, preferably.
In-Character Samples:
Third Person: Would you actually believe it if the first thing out of Layla's mouth, upon waking up in the bathtub was, "Are you telling me I'm a frakking Cylon?" but apparently no one else thought this was funny, mostly because the Kedan, as use later learned as they were called, just gave her odd looks and had no idea what a Cylon was.
Which turned out to be great for Layla, because she had no idea what a Kedan was.
Correction: it was not so great for Layla. Toweling off, she asked as many questions as she could possibly think of before they shepherded her off to a kart to taxi her into town. Which was quite a lot of questions to the point of even more side-eyeing for the petite blonde.
All the while, she was fighting a gnawing in her stomach. She was here. Tu Vishan. Last time she'd checked, she was in the morgue of X-Factor, passed out on top of the freezer she'd placed the body of Jamie Madrox in, following his autopsy. She'd refused to move, in case he returned to life.
Which- oh god. Her eyes widened. If she was here, she wasn't going to be there to let Jamie out. He was going to freeze to death. He was going to suffocate. He was going to die again if he even woke up to begin with! And without her… Well, she wouldn't kid herself to think that X-Factor would be mourning her departure, especially not compared to Madrox's untimely death, but, they needed her. There was a reason she was hung out with them, even when they'd all rather she vanish off the face of the earth for a second time.
Careful what you wish for.
She slunk down in her seat, resting her head in her hands and heaving a deep sigh. She'd get back to him. She had to get back to him. Even if his life wasn't promised. But for now… she was here.
She was here and she had no idea what the hell was going on for the first time since she was fifteen.
Layla Miller was very, very lost.
Network: [Layla's been here for some time now, gotten her bearings, and come to do as much research as she possibly could on what they were facing. So far, she'd gotten a few answers, but mostly new questions. With all of that under her belt, she'd turned to the Network. When her face pops up on the screen, she's sitting in a rather dark room in a high-backed chair. For emphasis.
However this emphasis is totally ruined by the lollipop she's got in one hand.]
Greetings, Fellow Foreigners! I've got questions, I've got answers, and I know you do, too.
I'm going to speak with the Emperor and ask for some library time. But I'm going to need more than that before I go in, so I don't waste any time. I've been told it's of the essence. For your questions, I'm going to find you answers. Something tells me we won't like them.
First: [She holds up a finger.] This is about The Big Bad.
Second: [Layla adds another finger.] Tu Vishan created the barrier, and we don't know anything else about it. I want to know if there's any way to strengthen it. If we can, I want volunteers. If we can't… [There's a brief moment where she almost smiles.] I don't want to burn the bridge before we cross it.
Third: [And the third finger is added.] If he's going to follow us home, I want you all to know I'm going to do everything I can to keep your worlds safe. [This time, there's something darker in her green eyes, even as she points the lollipop to the screen to emphasize her point.] I may be at a bit of a loss here, but I know none of you want to destroy your home world. And if you do, then I'm sure you'd prefer it to be done by your own hand.
For some of us, this war is a regular Tuesday. For others, it's time to get down to business. [To defeat the huns, she adds mentally, a glimmer in her eyes.] If you want to sit on the sidelines, I will not blame you. But I think our Big Bad is biding his time, waiting for us to drop our guards, to blink.
And whatever I do, I won't blink.