Post by taryn cain on Jun 27, 2014 19:04:47 GMT
Born: 20 February 1942
1942-57: Lived solely with her mother, Esther, while her father, William, was away for the war. When he returned in ’45 they remained in Aurora, IL where Taryn first started exhibiting and hiding her powers. Her refusal to accept her abilities and constant attempts to suppress both her power and her emotions erupted in the incident that killed her parents unexpectedly.
1957-61: Living with Aunt, Uncle and Cousin in Coventry, England. This side of the family never accepted her father’s decision to move to America and marry a woman of a lower social class, therefore treat Taryn like she is worth less than them. Here she trained herself to control her power and began testing what her limits were when possible. Also learns that her father had another daughter before her named Annabelle, who was declared dead after being missing for so long.
1961-beginning of ’63: Moves away from Coventry to London when she turns 19, gets a small flat and a job in a local café as a waitress. Enjoys her new freedom and continues practising her abilities and begins wondering if there are others like her out there. She begins gathering a pool of sources and information given her monetary background and intelligence.
1963/64: Takes an extended holiday to the USA, initially to see old friends of hers and her parents, but eventually to seek out other mutants, including the Brotherhood. When the majority of younger Taryn’s posts in America take place.
-Twenty On Red (Corin)
-More Like Me (Erik)
1964-72: Returns to England, though returns to America several times during this period to see friends old and new
1972-75: Learns that Annabelle is still alive, and therefore goes out looking for her. Is informed of Annabelle’s status as a mutant and that that was the reason for her disappearance. Eventually finds her sister, who has been brainwashed into hunting down and neutralising other mutants. Taryn is forced to stop her, but given that Annabelle has the ability to overpower her younger sister, the only thing Taryn can do is kill her. This obviously traumatises her, given that she has now killed three of her own family members. Taryn is never the same again.
-The Cards Lie About As Much As I Do (Magda)
1975 onward: Taryn moves to the US permanently and lists herself as a mercenary, taking no sides in the growing war between Humans and Mutants. She sees the war as fruitless and as such feels that her input will be irrelevant. She doesn’t refrain from using her powers like some would think she would, given that doing so only seems to cause even more damage. Instead, she uses her powers to prove that mutants can be a very destructive force, and those who can get away with it should use them only when truly necessary. As her hatred for them grows, so do her abilities. She now freely has the ability to suppress emotions in others, where before it was only accessible in her own states of heightened emotion, though using this power is still difficult and doesn’t always work. She has also now learnt that she can more than equal the force of something she is opposing, making any attacks against her more dangerous for the attacker. She is often seen with members of both the X-men and Brotherhood, having allies in both camps, though she refrains from having close personal relationships for obvious reasons.
1942-57: Lived solely with her mother, Esther, while her father, William, was away for the war. When he returned in ’45 they remained in Aurora, IL where Taryn first started exhibiting and hiding her powers. Her refusal to accept her abilities and constant attempts to suppress both her power and her emotions erupted in the incident that killed her parents unexpectedly.
1957-61: Living with Aunt, Uncle and Cousin in Coventry, England. This side of the family never accepted her father’s decision to move to America and marry a woman of a lower social class, therefore treat Taryn like she is worth less than them. Here she trained herself to control her power and began testing what her limits were when possible. Also learns that her father had another daughter before her named Annabelle, who was declared dead after being missing for so long.
1961-beginning of ’63: Moves away from Coventry to London when she turns 19, gets a small flat and a job in a local café as a waitress. Enjoys her new freedom and continues practising her abilities and begins wondering if there are others like her out there. She begins gathering a pool of sources and information given her monetary background and intelligence.
1963/64: Takes an extended holiday to the USA, initially to see old friends of hers and her parents, but eventually to seek out other mutants, including the Brotherhood. When the majority of younger Taryn’s posts in America take place.
-Twenty On Red (Corin)
-More Like Me (Erik)
1964-72: Returns to England, though returns to America several times during this period to see friends old and new
1972-75: Learns that Annabelle is still alive, and therefore goes out looking for her. Is informed of Annabelle’s status as a mutant and that that was the reason for her disappearance. Eventually finds her sister, who has been brainwashed into hunting down and neutralising other mutants. Taryn is forced to stop her, but given that Annabelle has the ability to overpower her younger sister, the only thing Taryn can do is kill her. This obviously traumatises her, given that she has now killed three of her own family members. Taryn is never the same again.
-The Cards Lie About As Much As I Do (Magda)
1975 onward: Taryn moves to the US permanently and lists herself as a mercenary, taking no sides in the growing war between Humans and Mutants. She sees the war as fruitless and as such feels that her input will be irrelevant. She doesn’t refrain from using her powers like some would think she would, given that doing so only seems to cause even more damage. Instead, she uses her powers to prove that mutants can be a very destructive force, and those who can get away with it should use them only when truly necessary. As her hatred for them grows, so do her abilities. She now freely has the ability to suppress emotions in others, where before it was only accessible in her own states of heightened emotion, though using this power is still difficult and doesn’t always work. She has also now learnt that she can more than equal the force of something she is opposing, making any attacks against her more dangerous for the attacker. She is often seen with members of both the X-men and Brotherhood, having allies in both camps, though she refrains from having close personal relationships for obvious reasons.
