Nico Minoru

PHASE 1

Nico Minoru
File:Nico.jpg Portrayed by Erika Toda
Codename:	None
Affiliations:	New Mutants
Birthdate:	October 31, 1992.
Journal:	x_staffofone
Player:	Serra

From a Runaway to a witch apprentice and student -much to her charing-, Nico's life in the Mansion means a chance to know herself, and to deal with whoever she meets while doing so.

Details

Character Journal: x_staffofone

Real Name: Nico Minoru

Codename: None.

Aliases: None.

First Appearance: (link to LJ (x_logs) with date as link text)

Date of Birth: October 31, 1992.

Place of Birth: Beverly Hills, California.

Citizenship: American/Japanese.

Relatives: The Minoru Family: Robert Minoru (Father), Tina Minoru (Mother).

Education: Incomplete High School.

Relationship Status: Single.

Occupation: School dropout, former runaway; reluctant student.

Team Affiliation: New Mutants.

Biography

Childhood

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Living At The X-Mansion

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Physical Characteristics

Height: 5'6

Weight: 110 lbs.

Eyes: Black

Hair: Black

Other Features: Gothic sense of fashion.

Powers

Nico is a latent mutant; her X-Gene is "sleeping", and won't activate by itself.

Nico possesses potential for casting magic, but her limits are untested. They are, at the moment, slightly over the average, and her ability to learn is more on the theory than the actual application due to the small amount of energy she can use on her own.

Nico's soul is linked with the Staff of One, an ancient artifact of uncalculated magical power. While most of the information regarding to it are legends and myths, all of them refer at it as an really powerful weapon, capable of incredible feats. It isn't known if it links with the user's soul every time, and Nico's abilities with the Staff are very specific. In order to "summon" the staff, Nico needs to bleed, the amount being unimportant; even the natural bleeding of a woman's period is enough to make the staff “summon able”. Upon bleeding, the phrase "When blood is shed, let the Staff of One emerge" (Nico doesn't remember knowing the words until she said them). The staff comes out of her body then, phasing through bones, flesh, skin and clothes, but pushing aside everything else on its path.

Wielding the Staff of One, Nico can cast magic by focusing on sad or bad -"dark"- memories of feelings and then "projecting" them on a command that could either be a single word or a sentence, while focusing on a desired effect; Nico goes through the entire process unconsciously, actually. While Nico can cause any desired effect besides bringing the dead back to life, she is limited to being able to cause an effect once, and only once; trying a "recast" will automatically cause a random effect to appear, even one of the already used. There is no limitation regarding the language used to cast the spell, or a limit of words. After some time being unused, the staff will re-enter Nico's chest in the same way it came out.

Other people can wield the Staff of One as well, the conditions of use sometimes changing, but it will ultimately re-enter Nico no matter what.

Equipment

Staff of One.

Trivia

Nico HATES the feeling bringing the staff out and in causes.

Nico is an outstanding self-taught sewer, and loves to make just about everything, although most of the times she uses black, white and red on her works; she can be persuaded to use other combinations though.

Plots

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Meta

Player: Serra

E-mail:

AIM: File:Serraemail.jpg

Player Icon Base: Erika Toda

Meta Trivia

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