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Guthrie, Melody; Aero
Topic Started: Sep 15 2009, 05:51 AM (2,818 Views)
Melody Guthrie
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CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE:
My old bio
Guthrie siblings' bios
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_(comics)
http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Melody_Guthrie_(Earth-616)
http://marvel.com/universe/Aero

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BASIC INFORMATION

CANON OR ORIGINAL: Canon
AFFILIATION: Other

FULL NAME: Melody Guthrie
CODENAME: Aero
NICKNAMES: Mel

CURRENT AGE: 20
DATE OF BIRTH: December 21st, 1994
MARITAL STATUS: Single
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Bisexual
BASE OF OPERATIONS: N/A
TIME AT INSTITUTE: Fall 2009- Purifiers explosion
REGISTERED WITH SHIELD?: Unlikely
HOMETOWN: Cumberland County, KY
KNOWN RELATIVES: Tom (dad, deceased), Lucinda (mom), Luke (uncle), Sam (Cannonball, brother), Paige (Husk, sister), Jay (Icarus, brother), Joelle (sister), Elizabeth (sister), Jeb (brother), Lewis (brother), two other brothers and sisters

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

HEIGHT: 5'5”
BUILD: Slender
EYES: Blue-green
HAIR: Brown
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: N/A
CLOTHING STYLE: Casual
UNIFORM: N/A but if she knows she's going to be flying she's going to dress for it, a jacket and goggles and maybe a scarf.

POWERS

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Flight is usually attained by wings or some sort of propulsion. Aero has 'an aura' that allows her 'to float and ride airwaves'. Exactly how that works is unknown, to Melody at least. As for control... she's gained some measure of control since she first developed her powers. She's not as likely to crash land, and she has learned her current limits and what not to do. She's moderately good at moving around in the sky, with loops and other such aerial feats. She’s still getting better.

She still hasn't tested how high she can reach, her endurance, etc, but it'd be right to assume that she hasn't tried going higher than fifty feet. She could likely go a few hundred feet at this point. Aero may be able to go higher with more control. However, she won't be able to pass the point that humans can go safely without some kind of protection. Something for oxygen and something for the cold, at least, and possibly pressurized. As it is, those may be the major issues with her pushing her limits.

Speed isn't one of her greatest assets at the moment, maybe going twenty to twenty five miles an hour. In time she may reach up to forty five to fifty miles an hour. She's not really interested in pushing herself, so her limits haven't been pushed very far as of yet.Now, she could pass someone that was running at average speed, since she could keep that same speed for a good distance. Longer if she's not pushing herself. And of course, if she's in a dive or descending, she'd be going much faster, but she might crash land if its not a controlled dive.

WEAKNESS: She's got the same weaknesses as anyone else, besides the fact that she has the flight-evasion facet. She's not any tougher than your average human, though she won't let that stop her from showing off her flying skills. Going too high, with the various problems that go with it, may end up being a problem. She might end up going too high without realizing the danger and passing out. That can be circumvented with technology but she doesn't have access to that. She can only carry as much as she can carry normally. That isn't really a great deal, and her maneuverability suffers if she's struggling carrying something. Or someone.

PERSONALITY

Aero isn't quite the same cheerful girl as she used to be. She still has 'got her head on straight' and has her priorities straight. She just has had reality shoved in her face, the reality of the mutant-human struggles. Her illusions of safety are shattered. She's scared, for herself, her family, and her friends. Not as intensely as when her life was first threatened but its still there. She had nightmares of being trapped under the rubble with her dead friend for a long time after going home.

For all that she's a social creature, she's responsible more often than not. She knows her priorities. She's always put family first, school second, ... and snuck fun in whenever she could. Though she's not quite as outgoing as some of her siblings, she's not shy. She'll speak her mind, and give as good as she gets in the teasing department. Pretty easygoing, she's got a long fuse and its not explosive when it does reach its end.. more like pop rocks than firecrackers. Mel just doesn't have a mean bone in her body. She isn't a ditz, but she can have her moments like anyone, forgetting some obvious thing or someone's name or what she was doing.

Mel comes from a religious family. How much of that she will adhere to now that she's leaving the nest is uncertain, however it has fundamentally affected her growing up and helped shape her personality. Even if she disagrees with certain things, her morals align pretty closely with the ideals of her family.

She's not as stifled as she was growing up, but even at Xaviers she's under the shadow of her many siblings. The middle child of a very large family, and a mutant, for a while she didn't really have a complete sense of self. She was so-and-so's sister, a Guthrie, and then she was Aero. It was rare that she could just be Melody.

She wants to set herself apart in some way, prove herself to her siblings, especially since her powers aren't quite as flashy or useful as theirs. She loves flying, though, and the freedom that comes with it. She wouldn't trade it if she had the choice.

HISTORY: PRE-APOCALYPSE
With a family like the Guthries, when talking about one, the others' are tightly intertwined in describing that one's life. Melody grew up with her parents, five brothers, and four sisters. She was four years old when their father died. It was tough, but her eldest brother Sam worked to keep the family afloat. They all worked, doing whatever they could. He left when she was eleven, because he needed help with his powers. One by one, the Guthrie children's powers manifested.

In a mostly anti-mutant town, that made growing up difficult in one way or another for each of them. The anti-mutant sentiment and general animosity toward the Guthries was embodied in the Cabots. Mel was one of the few that didn't participate much in the family feud, worrying more for her brothers. Her younger brother Jeb fought with them, while her older brother Joshua had fallen in love with a member of the family.

Unfortunately, though the love was requited, the family found out and there was more fighting than ever. It ended with the father attempting to kill Jay. It apparently worked, his Julia killed herself, and Joshua healed from his wounds, to discover her dead. In the time that came after that, he tried to kill himself several times. It was heart-wrenching to his family. Meanwhile, Mel's younger brother Jeb's powers emerged in a fight with another one of the Cabots and was shot by a police offer in an attempt to protect the other boy.

Despite the struggles in the family, Mel got decent grades, maintaining a 'B' average. She had an after school job and helped her Ma and older sisters take care of their younger sibs. She's always looked up to her older siblings. Though she didn't know Sam as well as the ones closer to her age, she had always wanted to join them at the mansion. She wanted to have powers like them, and get away from her problems... even though thoughts like that made guilt gnaw away at her.

DURING APOCALYPSE (April 7th through April 12th, 2009)

Melody was safe at home during the Apocalypse. The family was affected as everyone else was in the world that were not directly hit by the Horsemen. She was of course terrified, but far more worried for her family that she just knew were dealing with it first hand. She didn't stop worrying about Sam until she heard from him again.

POST-APOCALYPSE

As much as she loved her family, she felt like she was suffocating at times. When her power manifested, she had an excuse to leave. To go to the school, to study, to train her powers or whatever. But she didn't go, at first. She didn't say anything about her powers, even when others left for Xavier's after the apocalypse. Almost all of the older kids had gone, and she felt guilty about leaving the family behind. She brought in money, even if it wasn't much since she only worked part time at minimum wage.. Eventually, though, her sister Liz caught on and questioned her about it. Melody admitted to having powers and wanting to join their siblings at the mansion, and before long she was packed up and ready to go. Knowing she'd miss everyone, but excited to see her other siblings and 'surprise' them.

Then she was at Xaviers, training and making friends. There, she was still 'another Guthrie' and had to work with and against assumptions about her and her family. Still she came to love Xaviers as a second home. She became more outgoing and encouraged in exploring her interests. Her flying has improved a great deal... and just as importantly she improved her landings.

She wasn't as effected by WwX as those who were swapped with alter selves from that reality. The whole situation confused her, as much as she was aware of it. Mostly she just focused on school work, which actually made sense.

PURIFIERS

The Purifiers attack on Xavier's mansion left Melody injured, though the worst of it was a broken leg. She was healed by Josh after being rescued from the rubble by a member of the Brotherhood. The real trauma cannot be so easily healed. The time from the explosion until she was dug out, she was trapped with the impaled body of a classmate. A friend. A crush. He didn't die immediately. He was fully conscious as he died, and she kept him company, crying with him, telling him they were going to be okay, that help was coming. It was too late, when help finally did come. It was just one of many deaths. It was also the end of Melody Guthrie's childhood, sheltered and protected as much as her sibs could make it.

Mel went to Warren's place in the city with the rest of the survivors, but when the other students went to some strange far away land, Melody went home. Where things made sense. She went back to school there despite the difficulties she faced as a young mutant in a bigoted town. After she returned to school, someone made a crack about the Purifer attacks, andshe confirmed that she was in the school explosion and that, yeah, good friends of hers were dead and she could have died.

She focused on her studies for the most part, and back home, she tried to sort things out and return to normalcy. She only had about a year left to finish high school, a year to deal with petty, unpleasant behavior. It seemed much longer than that, after living in such an accepting environment, merely being tolerated at the best of times was difficult to swallow.

SKRULLS

The initial fear that had sprung up after the Skrulls announced they had taken control had only lasted a day. Then the complacency wave took effect. She, and the rest of the Guthries on the farm, were under its effect. It only lasted a few days, however her memories of being under the influence remained.

CURRENT HISTORY

When Xavier's reopened, she decided not to return. She was already finished with high school, and she had her plans laid out already. Since they didn't involve becoming a superhero, continuing her training wasn't a priority. What her plans did include was getting her shit together and figuring out what she wanted to go to major in.

As distant as their home was from the chaos, the events involving the Illuminati were all over the news. It wouldn't take much for some people, some just needed an excuse. Mel feared for her friends and sibs out there and worried. There were plenty of bad people out there, but this was one of those things that didn't make sense. No real rhyme or reason to it. Just chaos and bloodshed for the sake of it. Once again the villains were taken down, and uneasy peace returned. For a while.

As easy as it would have been for Melody to stick around the farm and let her life center in Cumberland County, with the respite from people trying to end or take over the world she decided it was time to get out of the nest. Again. She got in contact with some old school friends online and figured out a living situation in Mutant Town. She still wasn't a hundred percent certain about what she wanted to do with her life, but she knew she wasn't going to figure it out at home.

Mel didn't call her siblings in New York immediately after moving, although she knew their Ma would have called them to let them know she was going to be around. She wanted to get settled in first. Though the move would have been easier with her brothers' help, she didn't have so much she needed them.

College is a vague maybe, now that its that time. She doesn't know what she wants to do with her life and paying for school before she decides that seems like a massive waste of energy, time, and money. Her most immediate concern upon moving to Mutant Town is finding a job, but she's got a month or so leeway with what she saved before the move.

SAMPLE RP POST:

Freckles. Damn it, every summer, she was cursed with freckles. And not just a few across her nose for added cuteness. No, they were scattered all across her face. It wasn't the end of the world, Mel knew there were more important matters, but damnitall if there was one thing she hated about summer it was the freckles. They came, every year, without fail. Burn, skip the tan, and freckle like crazy. It just wasn't fair. Then again... she knew as well as anyone that life wasn't fair. She and her nine siblings lost their father at a young age. The middle Guthrie girl had started working young, like the rest of them, to help out. And even with everyone working, she still got hand-me-downs from her older sisters. And now that the world had nearly ended, things were tougher than ever.

Sighing, she tied her hair back in a pony-tail. Since school was out for the summer, she was working full time. It was minimum wage, but she couldn't really get anything better than that at her age. Particularly now, and in this town... and with her family. Even though it wasn't yet known that she was a mutant, that she could fly, they were just waiting to see what this Guthrie was. They'd have to wait for it, until she was on the news for saving the world with her older sibs. And that wouldn't be a while yet, considering she hadn't even told anyone in her family that she was a mutant too. Still, work was work, and she did her share the same as everyone else in their family.

Glancing into the mirror one last time after she finished getting ready, she shook her head at the preoccupation with her appearance - hardly a regular thing for her - and headed out. After closing the front door, she took the next few steps in a run and jumped the steps… going further than should be possible, her aura visible for a moment before she let herself fall to the ground in a run. She’d dallied in the bathroom too long, and if she didn’t hurry her silly ass she’d be late to work.
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Since our Cannonball doesn't have a problem with it, I have no problem with this.
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Melody Guthrie
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Updated.
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This app has already been approved once and resubmitted as the character was dropped. I have read the entire thing over again however and approve of the updated history section as well as the rest of the bio.

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You will need one more approval from another admin. Though I am satisfied, he or she might require you to change some things before they are ready to approve you.
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Callisto
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Okay. Going to set a few things out first. Make sure to keep up activity with your other characters as well, as you've only just recently come off of dropping Melody a few months back and downgrading another go minof status because of your own admitted inability to post as much as you'd like for everyone. Just fair warning. If you drop her again, don't expect to get her back.

That said, this looks fine to me and I'll give it a stamp and thus an approval.

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EET WORKS FOR MEEEE.

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Another site mod might have a bone to pick yada yada
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