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| Portrayed by Ksenia Solo |
| Statistics |
| Full Name |
Nancy Margaret O'Neal |
| Age |
21 |
| Height |
5'6" |
| Build |
Athletic |
| Eyes |
Pale Grey |
| Hair |
Dirty blonde |
| Factions |
Outsiders |
| Occupation |
Student at Juilliard and head of the Nest |
| Alignment |
Neutral, but leaning towards Heroic |
Claim to Fame
Nancy attends Juilliard, working towards a Bachelor of Music in Strings, specifically the cello. She is also known for having a smart-ass comment for just about anything said or done around her.
Reputation
Nancy is not considered a very nice person, more of a loose cannon. With her acerbic personality, most people just try to avoid her. The only time she's pleasant to be around is when she's playing her cello.
Biography
Nancy's mother, Annabeth, was in college for nursing when she was approached by a Hydra agent, representing himself as being from a pharmaceutical company. They offered her a slot in a study they were doing, offering her very good money. All she needed to do was receive injections once a week for the next two years and answer questions about her health and well-being. Annabeth didn't see the harm in it and it was rather good money for one of those human guinea pig gigs.
The truth of the matter was that Hydra was working yet again on trying to get the Super Soldier formula to work. Without access to the machine that helped the drug to work on a grown body, they were experimenting with the theory that a pregnant woman, given smaller doses over a longer period of time, would be able to act as the machine did, producing a child with super abilities. This experiment had been going on for quite some time already, with very little success. Each new run of the drug was given a letter designation and they were already on the N series with no success so far. When Annabeth's levels of the drug were high enough, Hydra created a scenario to get her pregnant. Annabeth had gone to a party and woke up the next morning having been roofied.
When Annabeth found out she was pregnant it was from the weekly screening. They told her that this was actually a wonderful opportunity for them to study an aspect of the drug that would have been difficult for them to test otherwise and offered her double what she was getting now if she was willing to keep the baby. Annabeth hadn't wanted to be a mother so young in her life, especially without a father around, but the sum of money was good enough that she let good sense be swayed. Nine months later, Nancy was born, so named after the drug designation Annabeth had been on, N-13. It was now Nancy's turn for the weekly prodding and poking. Hydra told Annabeth that there was a possibility that an unforeseen side effect of the drug was that it might have caused Nancy to have developed super powers. They told her that for allowing them to continue testing on Nancy, they would continue the monthly stipend that Annabeth had grown accustomed to.
For Nancy's early years, things were pretty idyllic. Annabeth had a job she loved and even though it didn't pay much, the extra money from the testing on Nancy more then made up the difference. True, Annabeth was starting to show signs of depression, but that wasn't a big deal. Right? Nancy didn't really like the testing, but was used to it. It was boring mostly. It was the same every week, give her a full physical and then ask her questions about how she was feeling and if anything different or interesting happened in the last week. As the years went by, it seemed the researchers were less happy with her answers. It didn't help that as the years passed and Nancy continued to not manifest any powers, the research company started to trim the amount of money they were giving her mother. Annabeth's depression had gotten pretty bad by this point and she blamed Nancy for the loss of funding. Annabeth turned to alcohol for comfort, mixing them with her medications. Nancy was too young to understand why her mother was always angry at her, she blamed herself.
The researchers seemed to gain new interest in Nancy when she started puberty. According to the blood test, she was indeed a super. X-Factor they called it. So, more and new tests started, trying to find out just what her super power was. Nancy was excited. Her mother too. The stipend went back to its full size and things were good again. Nancy's grades went back up and she started coming out of her shell. It was during this time that Nancy discovered her love of music. She started Band in junior high, given the cello as her instrument. She would play her cello as she daydreamed what her super power might be. Would she fly? Read minds? Was she super strong?
Two years went by and she still hadn't manifested more then just showing up as a super in a blood test. When she started high school, the researchers informed Nancy's mother that the funding for the project was gone. Nancy had shown no signs of manifesting more then the power to show up positive on a blood test for X-Gene. This devastated Nancy. It was the worst super power ever! It didn't help that with the checks not coming in every month now, Annabeth's job didn't make nearly enough to keep them living in the lifestyle that they had become used to.
In truth, Hydra had cancelled the experiment as a lost cause. Series N, which had had the best results yet had only produced children with powers that were unremarkable at best. The most powerful among the N series was a girl that could turn anything she touched the color blue. There was the possibility that the N-series children might become parents of supers that were more useful, but until that time, why waste the resources?
Unbeknownst to everyone, N-series was more potent then they thought. All of the children had manifested, but their powers were subtle, easily dismissed as coincidence. Nancy was a null, having the power to repress the meta-gene in anyone around her. Since there were never any people that fit that description around when she was tested, it was completely missed.
Nancy and her mother had to move to a different part of town. Annabeth's alcoholism grew worse, and she lost her job. Annabeth blamed Nancy for this, constantly berating her for being a useless burden. At one point, Nancy tried to commit suicide, using her mother's booze and pills. A night of getting her stomach pumped had her promising herself that she would *never* try that again. Nancy's self loathing started to show in her wardrobe and make-up. Dark colors, garments to make her look tough, and an attitude to match. She shrouded herself with an air of cynicism. Only her cello got to see the real her. The music and her, the only thing she could trust. And so, her skill with the cello grew as she used it as her only means of escape.
It was by her band teacher's suggestion that she applied to Julliard. She
didn't actually expect to get in. She was just some crumby goth girl with a lowsy super power she couldn't even tell anyone about. No one was more surprised then her when she got accepted. Annabeth sneered at the acceptance, suggesting that Nancy must have bribed her way in or that the teachers were stoned. Nancy's luck didn't stop at just being accepted into Julliard though. She had earned a scholarship, and though it wasn't enough to pay for all of her schooling, it took the sting off, especially since Annabeth had spent Nancy's college fund years ago when times had first started to get tight. Nancy got a job at Bodymods and made friends with one of her co-workers, who hoped to someday become a painter. It was him that painted the back of Nancy's favourite leather jacket.
And so, two years later, Nancy is still in Julliard and living with her mother, working at the Bodymods store with her friend, Paul. She doesn't express her worry that maybe her mother is right, that she isn't good enough, that she'll never be good enough, worried that if she says it out loud, others will agree with Annabeth.
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Character Details
On the surface, Nancy is mean-spirited, acerbic, and sarcastic. She is bitter and takes it out on the world around her.
Under the surface, however, her bravado and snarkiness are based in the fact that she has a low self esteem. She has been told all her life that she just isn't good enough and has bought into this. This attributes to her competitive spirit. Even though she is a student at Julliard, she believes that this was just a luck and that they will eventually also tell her that she isn't good enough and kick her out.
She had a deep seated hatred of Supers based out of envy, but now that she has been revealed as a mutant herself, she's starting to realize that supers are people just like everyone else.
| Cellist |
| Nancy is a very talented cellist. She started playing in high school, but took to it like a natural. She is good enough to have gotten herself into Juilliard, where she is currently working on her Bachelors degree in music. |
| Power Negation |
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She is starting to be able to shape her aura into more of an elliptical shape to target a specific person. By extending the axis of her aura, she is able to envelope a target into it as far as 10 feet from herself while keeping the main portion of her aura at only a 3-foot radius.
Some examples of how her power effects others are - Beast goes back to human. Cypher is incapable of speech. Magik is unable to *open* her portals, but
previously opened portals remain in place. Bruce Banner is unable to Hulk out *unless* not doing so will kill him.
If you have questions on how this power would affect you, talk to me OOC and we can work things out. I don't want to make the game unfun for people after all.
| College |
| Nancy is attending Juilliard, working towards her Bachelor of Music. She is paying for her schooling with scholarships that she has earned and the money that her trainer has given her. She is taking the summer semester, and possibly the fall one too, off for 'family reasons'. |
| Cello |
| Nancy owns her cello, and while it may not be an impressive instrument, it belongs to her all the same. |
| Small Fortune |
| When Nancy had to go into hiding from Hydra, Partisan set her up with a secret identity and some money. The money includes $25,000 in USD, a small pouch of diamonds and a handful of Krugerrands. |
| Secret Identity |
| When Nancy had to go into hiding from Hydra, Partisan set her up with a secret identity and some money. Nancy now has birth certificate, passport, drivers license and other various ID for Tabitha Greene with her new blonde look. This is the name under which she has her new cellphone as well. |
| Mama Wolf |
| Nancy has been adopted by Partisan. Not in reality, but in emotional bonds. Partisan gives Nancy the approval and maternal attention she has been aching for and Nancy in return gives Partisan her long displaced feelings for a maternal figure in her life. Partisan has taught her many things that she didn't think she would ever learn, giving her a workout regime, taught her about weapons, hand to hand combat, secret societies, tactics. Nancy has since decided that the life of a terrorist (even if it's a terrorist for the greater good) isn't her thing, but she still supports Partisan and feels strongly towards her. |
| Xavier's |
| Nancy has been brought to Xavier's in order to protect her from Hydra as well as give her a safe place to learn control of her powers. She's also been given a new outlook on her powers as something that might be useful and not just as a pain in the butt for mutants around her. She's not an X-man, or even really knows about them except for the news, but she is at the Xavier Mansion for the time being. |
| Combat Trained |
| Nancy is familiar with firearms operation, marksmanship, and unarmed combat and while not a soldier, her practice has been dedicated enough that she can be expected to perform on the level of a trained soldier in the technical if not the tactical. Put simply, she can shoot, hit what she is aiming at, maintain weapons an clear basic malfunctions,. In addition, she is proficient with a martial art that is heavily weighted with pressure points and joint locks. |
| Low Self Esteem |
| Even though it doesn't seem that way, Nancy is haunted with the feeling that she is not, and never will be, good enough. She has been told that she's just not good enough by her mother and by the company that monitored her in childhood for super abilities. Even though she attends Julliard, she still feels that the other students are better then her and she will be kicked out eventually as they decide she's not good enough as well. |
| Control |
| Nancy is aware of her powers and is currently working on controlling them better. She is currently able to intentionally pull back her aura to her sleeping state size with concentration. Her goal is to someday get her aura to be held within her so she only affects others when she wants/needs to. |
| Limitations |
| There are limits to Nancy's nullification abilities. Firstly, she is only able to affect metahumans and mutants (x-factor, x-gene, metagene, genfactor). This means that powers based on Magic, Technology, Alien origin, Divine or Demonic are not affected by her field. Physical abilities (ie. superspeed, superstrength, superendurance, etc) are dampened rather then nullified, down to one fourth of their strength. |
| Family Ties |
| Even though Annabeth is a paranoid schizophrenic who blames Nancy and the study that was responsible for Nancy's birth for everything under the sun, Nancy loves her mother dearly. She remembers the woman she was when she was a little girl, before the madness set in. Nancy will do anything in her power to help and protect her mother, a weakness that could be taken advantage of by unscrupulous villian types. Kidnapping, blackmail, threatening her well being are all possibilities, as is the fact that if one wants to catch Nancy, all they really need to do is keep an eye on the Mother. Nancy will show up, eventually. With Annabeth on social services due to her mental illness, Nancy also tries to help with the finances. |
| Sugar Rush |
| Nancy's sweet tooth is actually a side effect of the N13 Project. When her blood sugar levels are human normal, she becomes highly suggestable as well as losing her sense of compassion and self preservation. This was a side effect created by Hydra for the sole purpose of making the N13 children the perfect soldiers, they take orders and don't worry about the reprecussions of their actions. When Nancy's blood sugar is high, which is most of the time given her sweet tooth, she has the level of compassion and self preservation that is normal for her. This dependence on a high blood sugar level does not make her immune to a high sugar diet, however and diabetes and tooth decay are definite risk factors for her. |
| Hunted |
| Polyglobal Pharmaceuticals, a HYDRA front, gave her her mutant abilities through their experimentations on her mother. While the recent raid on the N subject base at North General Hospital succeeded in the removal of the majority of the files that HYDRA had on the N series of the Ubermensch Project, there are still some back ups in other locations. For now, Nancy and the other N series mutants, are difficult for them to find, their files that hold their information on the back burner of importance. |
Relationships
| Image |
Name |
Relation |
Information |
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Annabeth O'Neal |
Mother |
Annabeth is a paranoid schizophrenic with alcohol abuse issues, which are mostly side effects from the N-Series project. Nancy loves her mother and does her best to help her, understanding that her mother is sick, but it takes its toll sometimes and the relationship is strained at best. |
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Bobby |
Boyfriend |
Coolest boyfriend ever! (pun totally intended) Makes good breakfast, plays a mean guitar and has totally mellowed her snarky side. |
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Partisan |
Mentor |
Mama Wolf. Partisan/Ingrid/Bianca took Nancy under her wing and showed her that one doesn't need super powers to be a hero. Partisan taught her a lot in the 6 weeks that they were close and Nancy continues to practice all that she was taught, even though they don't see eye to eye on the issue of killing. |
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Jericho |
Confidant |
Brother Wolf. Jericho, or Jeri-curl as she sometimes calls him, was just an interesting guy on the street, till he broke into her house to warn her that Hydra was coming for her. He is a close associate with Partisan too, so that makes him a little more trusted then most. She texts with him every night and he is keeping an eye on her mother while she is away. |
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Illyana |
Best Friend |
In spite of a rocky start, Nancy has come to like Illyana, seeing a lot of how she projects herself to the world in the Demon Queen. Perhaps she has the deluded belief that, like herself, the tough girl act is just an act. Silly Nan. |
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Amara |
Friend |
She is nice, warm (no pun intended) woman who has helped her to see the advantages of her powers. For that, she is grateful. |
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Hank McCoy |
Friend |
Nancy had a fairly serious crush on Hank, but his continued rebuffs has brought his status to 'Cute Guy with Issues'. Two completely different people and yet maybe that is why she likes him so much. |
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Doug |
Friend |
The introduction to the meta world, Nancy has decided for better or worse that Doug is a friend. That and the fact that she loves playing with his power by negating it when he's in the shower. |
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Paul Orman |
Former Best Friend |
Paul was actually her monitor for Hydra for the last three years. While his being friends with her was just a 'job', he does genuinely like Nancy and hates what he has been doing. Even so, if Nancy ever sees him again, she's probably going to hospitalize the poor bugger. |
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Friend |
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Notes
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Character Gallery
Logs
What's Your Poison
June 20, 2014: Jericho stops by the Avenue C Clinic with something he needs checked out, and Paul Ormond shows up shortly after.
(log: 20140620-what-s-your-poison | tags: aspect deadzone seraph | posted: 21 Jun 2014 17:43)
All Of Me
June 20, 2014: Late at night, Nancy and Jamie meet for the first time. Far too similar for their own good, an unspoken challenge of who can out sass the other seems to be laid on the table. (Warning: lots of sexual innuendo)
(log: 20140620-all-of-me | tags: deadzone multiple-man x-men | posted: 20 Jun 2014 23:56)
Gym Rat Rat Fink
June 19, 2014: Paul Orman runs into an old friend and a new stalker
(log: 20140619-gym-rat-rat-fink | tags: aspect deadzone seraph | posted: 20 Jun 2014 15:58)
No Coup For You
June 18, 2014: An X-Team is dispatched to the DRC to prevent a mutant takeover, and extract the mutants in question
(log: 20140618-no-coup-for-you | tags: beast cyclops cypher deadzone jacky_diamond magma mimic storm x-men | posted: 19 Jun 2014 15:41)
Moving Day Swim
June 17, 2014: After moving to the college-level dorms at the Xavier Institute, Jacky meets girls. This place is getting better all the time!
(log: 20140617-moving-day-swim | tags: deadzone jacky_diamond magma | posted: 19 Jun 2014 15:13)
New Girl In Town
June 15, 2014: Cal makes sure Nancy is getting accustomed to her new environment.
(log: 20140615-new-girl-in-town | tags: deadzone mimic x-men | posted: 16 Jun 2014 03:01)
In Search Of Good Acoustics
June 15, 2014: Nancy meets one of the other students at the Xavier Institute and makes a .. friend?
(log: 20140615-in-search-of-good-acoustics | tags: deadzone magma | posted: 16 Jun 2014 06:53)
Crazy-Mother's-Day-Out
June 15, 2014: Anabel O'Neal goes searching for her daughter in the streets of M-Town.
(log: 20140615-crazy-mother-s-day-out | tags: deadzone seraph | posted: 15 Jun 2014 21:45)
Negate This
June 13, 2014: It's a late night at Xavier's. Not everyone there knows about its slight demon infestation yet.
(log: 20140613-negate-this | tags: bamfs deadzone nightcrawler nocturne x-men | posted: 07 Jul 2014 13:25)
A Simple Conversation
June 13 2014: Jericho and Nancy discuss nothing of particular importance. Funny how those conversations turn out to be the most important after it's all said and done.
(log: 20140613-a-simple-conversation | tags: aspect deadzone | posted: 14 Jun 2014 10:10)
The Xavier Institute For Grumpy Gothlings?
June 10, 2014: Nancy is finally delivered to Xavier's Institute for testing and training.
(log: 20140612-the-xavier-institute-for-grumpy-gothlings | tags: beast cypher deadzone | posted: 12 Jun 2014 23:25)
Of Paranoia and Parents
June 12 2014: Jericho checks in on Nancy's mom. He promised he'd keep an eye on her. And he keeps his promises.
(log: 20140612-of-paranoia-and-parents | tags: aspect deadzone | posted: 13 Jun 2014 10:05)
Date Night at Xavier's
June 12, 2014: Hank gives Nancy some good news about her powers and then they finally have that movie date.
(log: 20140612-date-night-at-xavier-s | tags: beast deadzone | posted: 13 Jun 2014 04:51)
Catfight Denied
June 10, 2014: Doug finally gets Illyana to visit his apartment to play mutant taxi service for Nancy. The two strong willed women finally hash out their differences.
(log: 20140612-catfight-denied | tags: cypher deadzone magik | posted: 12 Jun 2014 20:16)
Phonecalls at 4AM are Rarely Good News
June 6,2014: Nancy phones up one of the very few people she thinks she can trust. Poor Doug
(log: 20140606-phonecalls-at-4am-are-rarely-good-news | tags: cypher deadzone | posted: 08 Jun 2014 21:11)
Doug Gets A Roommate
June 6, 2014: Doug calls in for some help in the Nancy/Hydra situation
(log: 20140606-doug-gets-a-roommate | tags: cyclops cypher deadzone mimic | posted: 08 Jun 2014 21:32)
Blondes Have More Fun
June 6, 2014I: Nancy changes her look to better help her hide from Hydra
(log: 20140606-blondes-have-more-fun | tags: cypher deadzone | posted: 12 Jun 2014 06:48)
Watch Dog
June 04 2014: When you deal in secrets, sometimes you learn things you wish you had not. And sometimes you learn things that make you break into a snarky goth's house and have a sit down chat with her.
(log: 20140604-watch-dog | tags: aspect deadzone | posted: 05 Jun 2014 08:14)
M-Town Hustle
June 2 2014: M-Town nightlife takes a sinister turn for Scott and Nancy.
(log: 20140602-m-town-hustle | tags: aspect cyclops deadzone m-town nyc | posted: 03 Jun 2014 03:15)
The War: Virulent Pursuit
June 01, 2014: The initial battle of the war takes place in Napata, Kush. The Mission: To take Ibrahim al-Tawhid, preferably alive.
(log: 20140601-the-war:virulent-pursuit | tags: arsenal aspect black_widow captain_america deadzone evelyn hawkeye jericho lunair partisan paul_manning shield shift the_cavalry witchblade | posted: 04 Jun 2014 23:44)
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