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.:Name of Character:. Ruby Eirlys Chen
.:Species:. Mutant
.:Alias:. Plasma
.:Year Born/Timeline:. X-men the last stand,
.:Affiliation:. Undecided,
Appearance
.:Physical Appearance:. Ruby is very small and frail looking. As she has albinism her skin is very pale, her eyes are a very light grey and her hair is white and fairly long, coming to just past her shoulders. She usually keeps her hair tied up in pigtails with odd looking bobbles shaped like dice. Her vision is quite poor and she wears glasses that are black square plastics framed with lenses that react to sunlight.
Ruby tends to dress rather scruffily; black flared jeans with holes in the knees, t shirts that are a bit too big and have logos for bands like the Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Fields of the Nephilim, etc. She owns a hooded top that is also black and looking a bit worse for wear. Socks are always mismatched and she hates wearing shoes and goes barefoot whenever she can. She owns a pair of black canvas trainers and will wear them if forced.
.:Height:. 4’8
.:Portrayed by:. Nastya Kumarova
Personality
.:Personality:. Ruby is very shy, sweet, kind and a little morbid. Like most people her age, she can be a little cynical and sarcastic, but this isn’t very often. She can’t talk very loud and is incapable of screaming. Although she doesn’t have a good relationship with her parents, she still loves them very much.
She enjoys reading and will read almost anything, including instruction manuals. Music is another great love of hers and she enjoys a lot of alternative music (Goth, punk, metal, industrial, etc.) and also some classics.
When upset she tends to bite her fingernails or the ends of her fingers. Sometimes she twists her pigtails or chews the drawstrings of her hoodie. In the worst case, she retreats into her own world. When thinking she doodles on whatever she can and has been known to make notes on her arm. She is rather prone to fits of depression and self loathing.
.:Powers/Abilities:.
Ruby has haemokinesis. This means that she can control all aspects of blood. She can control her own blood to a point, but finds it easier to control other peoples. The blood type doesn’t matter, she can control it as long as she is within five feet and can concentrate on what she’s doing. Animal blood is almost impossible to control and takes so much effort that she needs to rest after barely a few minutes. She can last a bit longer with humans, but even then she can collapse after five minutes.
Being able to control blood means that she can stop bleeding by making the blood clot, cause dizziness by affecting blood pressure, cause nosebleeds, re open wounds if they are only partially healed, cut off circulation to limbs, and prevent poison from spreading. She can also sense blood and find traces of it where it has been spilled.
As her powers have only just manifested, she is still very weak and has little control, so she accidentally causes nosebleeds and fainting when upset. With training she’ll be able to use this properly and may be able to lean how to pull blood closer or even push it away. but it will take a lot of time and practice.
History
.:Birthplace:. Leeds. UK
.:Family:. Arthur Chen | 46 | Father | Alive
Erika Chen | 46| Mother | Alive
Jet Chen | 28 | Brother| Alive
Emerald Chen | 26 | Sister | Alive
Sapphire Chen | 26 | Sister | Alive
Amethyst Chen| 24 | Sister | Alive
Slate Chen | 22 | Brother | Alive
Zircon Chen | 21 | Brother | Alive
Diamond Chen | 19 | Sister | Alive
Opal Chen | 18 | Sister | Alive
Pearl Chen | 18 | Sister | Alive
Jasper Chen | 16 | Brother | Alive
Jade Chen | 16 | Sister | Alive
Garnett Chen | 15 | Brother | Alive
.:Occupation:. Student
.:Current Location of Residence:. Leeds.
.:History:.
Ruby is the youngest of thirteen children and was born into a working class family in Leeds. Her father is an electrician and her mother works part time at a local café. Her parents had their first child, Jet, when they were both 18 and stayed together because they felt that they should. Their relationship is volatile at the best of times and they often argue over little things. Even though they have thirteen children, they only planned seven of them and the rest are often put down a lot and discouraged.
They live in an ordinary 4 bedroom semi detached house on a council estate. Naturally having so many people in the house meant that it was messy and chaotic at the best of times. Ruby shared a room with her sisters; Jade, Opal, Pearl and Diamond while growing up.
She attended a rather poorly funded primary school where quite a few of the children came from unstable homes and were less than interested in school. Because Ruby looked different to them they often made fun of her and sometimes hit her. The teachers made a token attempt to stop this but soon found it easier to put Ruby in isolation and keep her inside at break times when the other kids started. Sadly this didn’t help Ruby and she began to feel that maybe the other kids were right to pick on her as she was different and she soon stopped talking to people and began to retreat into her own world.
High school was a another matter and when she started she found it easier to just try and stay in the background. The high school was quite a big one so this was easier and many of the kids who bullied her grew up and stopped being as cruel. There were a few unkind comment tossed her way but it was nothing she couldn’t handle. Only a few kids continued to pick on her and after a while found reasons other than her appearance to mock her. Her tastes in music, films, games and the fact that she liked to read became the new reason.
Ruby got to year 9 before strange things started to happen around her. It started small enough, her parents argued and blamed her for being bad luck and one of them would start to feel dizzy. A kid at school made fun of her and passed out. You would be hard pressed to find someone who could see a connection between the two things. At this point Ruby began to notice odd things like how she could sometimes sense the blood pulsing through a persons veins or how she could feel microscopic drops of blood that had been spilled. This made her even more uncomfortable around people and she began to wonder if she was crazy.
Just after her 14th birthday her powers fully manifested while she was at school and she caused a girl who was mocking her to suffer a severe nosebleed. The girl went to the hospital and Ruby got sent home with a headache. The teachers had just assumed that Ruby had hit the girl and suspended her for a week. When she got home, she acted like nothing had happened and her parents didn’t notice much.
Later, however, they received a letter from a school in America that was offering Ruby a place.
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Ruby climbed onto the chair and carefully balanced herself on the armrest. It creaked worryingly under her weight and she waited for a few tense seconds before stretching and reaching for the top of the cabinet. She was certain the letter was there, she had seen her mum put it there. So where was it?
The letter she was searching for had arrived that morning and immediately caused an argument between Ruby’s parents. It had gone on for quite a while and they had both set off for work still mad at each other. Ruby hadn’t been dumb enough to ask what the letter was about. It may have been about her, but as it was addressed to her parents and they were unlikely to tell her anything. She had managed to catch a quick glimpse of it when it had landed on the mat and had seen something about a school on the return address. This had been a little confusing because as far as she knew, they weren’t looking for a new school for her. She hadn’t been expelled, only suspended and she very much doubted that her parents had decided to send her to a new school because of the bullying.
She was still searching for it when the door banged open.
“Hello!” a cheerful voice called out. Ruby swore as she nearly lost her balance. She quickly pretended that she was simply tidying everything on top of the cabinet and then got off the chair.
“Hi, Jet.” she turned to face her brother, hoping that she didn’t look guilty. “Just tidying things on top of there. It was beginning to bother me…”
Jet grinned. “Yeah, right. What were you looking for?” He strode over to the cabinet and looked on top. Then he smirked on flopped onto the sofa.
“Wasn’t looking for anything.” Ruby said as she sat down and picked up the TV remote.
“Sure you weren’t.” Jet reached over and plucked the remote from her hand. “And I’m starting a new job as the tooth fairy next week.” He switched the TV on and flicked through the channels. “Tell me, or I’ll pull a Garnet an’ go whining to mum.”
“Fine. There’s a letter up there addressed to mum and dad, but… its about me.” she twisted one of her pigtails. “Its from some school somewhere.”
Jet had found something worth watching and dumped the remote next to him on the sofa. “I thought you’d only been suspended for fighting. Good on you, by the way. Finally punching that brat, Kylie.” he shuddered when he mentioned the name.
“I have been suspended. So I don’t know where this letter’s come from. But they argued about it. The school contacted them and want to come over and speak to them.”
“So what else is new? They argue about everything.” he laughed. Then he saw his sisters worried face and frowned. “So, they didn’t contact this school first? The school contacted them? That is kinda strange…”
“Exactly.” Ruby curled up and wrapped her arms around her knees.
“So… what happened at school?”
“Oh the usual…” Ruby sighed. “Went to my locker, found it covered in graffiti. When I opened it, there was a dead bird inside. And a half-eaten burger. And all my books had been ripped up and scribbled over.”
“How did you know that Kylie did it?”
“It was obvious. The misspellings and the fact that the burger was from that stand near the school. The one that she and her friends go to.” Ruby gazed at the tv, a talk show was on and two women were yelling at other. “They showed up, y’know, Kylie, Sharon and those guys, and threw a bottle at me. This wasn’t enough and she had to start bothering me and pretty much admitted that she had done it. Then something happened…” she stopped talking and thought about what she said next. “I felt strange… all dizzy. I could feel all my blood pumping. And… I think I could feel hers as well. I wanted her to shut up and leave me alone. I… wanted to hurt her. Then the next thing I knew, she was screaming her head off. This set the others off. When I looked up, her nose was bleeding quite badly.”
“OK…. This is bad.” Jet was now sat facing her. “You wanted to hurt her, but you didn’t touch her and then she had a nosebleed?”
“Yep.”
Jet swore several times and began to pace back and forth across the room. “And, the school just suspended you? Nothing else?”
“No. They assumed that I’d hit her. She said so and so did her friends.” Ruby watched him nervously. “You don’t think…?”
“Yeah. This could be very bad news.” he stopped pacing. “D’you think you can keep this… problem under control for now?”
“I should be able to…”
“Ok. Cool. I’ll see if I can get a look at that letter and find out what’s going on. C’mon lets watch some TV. We’ll figure out what to do later.” he sat back down and ruffled her hair. “An’ don’t worry, if it turns out that you’re a mutant, you’re still my little sister and that wont change.”