Catseye - Phase 1
| Sharon Smith | |
|---|---|
| File:Catseye2.jpg Portrayed by Summer Glau | |
| Codename: | none |
| Affiliations: | X-Men trainee, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters - student |
| Birthdate: | August 1, 1989 |
| Journal: | x_catseye |
| Player: | Available for Application |
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Sharon Smith, better known as Catseye, is a student of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, first attending the school from 2004 to 2006 and returning in 2008. She spent the intervening time living with her brother Evan in upstate New York. Following her boyfriend's disappearance, she left the mansion to search for him, checking in regularly with Charles Xavier.
Contents
Details
Character Journal: x_catseye
Real Name: Sharon Smith (birth name Gabrielle Elizabeth Smith)
Codename: Cheetara
Aliases: n/a
First Appearance: November 11, 2004
Date of Birth: August 1, 1989
Place of Birth: New York
Citizenship: American
Relatives: Harold (father), Rebecca (mother), Evan (brother), Harrison (brother)
Education: Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (2004-2006, 2008-present), home-schooled by her older brother Evan 2006-2008
Relationship Status: "In a couple" with Nicholas Gleason.
Occupation: student
Team Affiliation: New Mutants, X-Men
Biography
Childhood
When Catseye was born, she already showed signs of physical mutation - miniscule claws and a tail. When she was less than a year old, she developed the ability to change into a small purple kitten, an ability her mother attempted to hide from Catseye's father who was already upset by his daughter's 'deformities'. However, Catseye's older brother Evan was also aware of the kitten, although he did not make the connection between the cat and his baby sister.
Once Harold Smith discovered his daughter was a mutant, however, he took the small kitten from his home and abandoned her in the city during a snowstorm. After the winter, the Smiths told everyone their daughter had died during the winter.
As a small kitten, Catseye was raised by a pack of alley cats - although aging as a human, she outlived them all. Lost and confused, she was eventually found by an older lady who was only known to neighbors as "the Cat Lady". It was during these years that Catseye discovered the ability to change back to a human form, but thought of herself as a cat.
Coming To Xavier's
When the Cat Lady had a stroke and was hospitalized, her menagerie was taken by Animal Control to a shelter. It was in this shelter that Catseye shifted into her human form and one of the shelter employees called Xavier's School, due to Rahne Sinclair being a part-time employee of the shelter. Rahne and Kylun retrieved Catseye and brought her to the school.
Catseye made many friends quickly, with her guileless demeanor occasionally causing problems as she attempted to learn about human life, but more often than not endearing her to most of the mansion's residents. She became exceptionally close to many of the students, especially Rahne, Forge, Kyle Gibney and Jay Guthrie, often spending many nights sleeping in one of the boys' beds as a cat, curled up against them.
As time went on, Catseye began spending more time in human form, although she still thought of herself as a cat. Due to these longstanding habits, she refrained from using pronouns and very rarely called people by their given names, instead deciding upon her own descriptive names for them, such as "ShinyBitsBoy" for Forge, and "ManySkinsGirl" for Paige Guthrie.
Family
In the months that followed, Catseye wanted to discover what had become of the Cat Lady, and took a long journey from the school to the house she once lived in. Not finding her there, she was aided by Kylun in finding where the Cat Lady was being taken care of in a nursing home.
Later, the school was visited by Elspeth, an older woman who had been friends with the Cat Lady and had seen the small purple cat around her friend's home. She encountered Forge, and gave him an old flyer about a missing purple cat, made almost fifteen years prior by a young Evan Smith. Deciding to pursue this link, Forge spent weeks digging through public records and managed to track down Catseye's birth certificate and the current address of her family.
Catseye, however, did not take the news well. Her entire belief structure was hinged upon the reality that she was a cat who became a girl, not the other way around. Eventually she agreed to meet her family, and she went along with Forge and Kylun to meet them. However, upon walking towards their home, she noticed a Friends of Humanity sticker in the window, and promptly urged everyone to leave - but not before being seen by her brother, Evan.
Evan tracked the car's license plate back to the school, and showed up one morning claiming that the car had been in an accident. When he learned the truth about his sister, the two had a tearful, heartfelt reunion and Catseye made the choice to learn more about her family, despite her father's connections to the FoH. She learned that her mother and brother had been told that the baby (Gabrielle, by her birth name) had died, and that Harold had "taken care of things". Catseye's younger brother, Harrison, had never been told he had a sister. Over the following months, Catseye would spend more time with Evan, eventually leaving the school in the summer of 2006, to attempt to rebuild connections with her family.
The Return
In the two years that followed Catseye has met with her mother, but her younger brother and father still don't know of her existence. She has been schooled at home by Evan, but has come to realize that Evan has his own life and can't spend it constantly teaching her. BigBrother needs to go out, he needs to see his friends and while Catseye enjoys her solitude to a degree, she finds Evan's place lonely at times. She misses her humans at Xavier's very much and after discussing it with Evan has decided to return to the school to finish her education. Catseye has re-enrolled at the school as a freshman and is currently studying Biology/Life Science, Basic Math/Pre-Algebra, World History, Speech, and Visual Art.
Becoming Human
Since coming back to the school Catseye has become an enthusiastic member of the New Mutants and has been making many new friends and working to understand the concept of privacy. Jean-Paul Beaubier has been particularly involved in helping Catseye become more human (with or without her knowledge) by encouraging her to try out for the school play and making her understand that the names she gives humans instead of calling them by their given names can be hurtful. Catseye has also developed a love of driving, thanks to friends Carmilla Black and Forge. Her sense of responsibility towards her classmates skyrocketed when friend Yvette Petrovic was injured by a landmine, the catgirl remaining close to keep watch over her. After an uncomfortable (for both parties) encounter with Sarah Vale, Catseye once again talked to Jean-Paul and realized that in order to gain a person's trust she needed to tell people she was both a cat and a girl when they moved in to the school, instead of hiding it from them for the sake of napping with them in catform. She is also learning how to ride a bicycle.
In July 2009 she had an encounter with some alleycats in New York City that led her to realize she was no longer perceived as an animal by other animals- that she was seen as a human. This realization devastated the catgirl, who felt she had completely lost her identity. After three days in the woods and several encounters with friends, however, Catseye came to realize that she could not change what she was, only struggle, just as her friends were doing, with trying to fit in and understand themselves in society. For her twentieth birthday, Catseye met her brother Harrison for the first time, making her father the only member of the family who does not know of her existence.
The catgirl ended the year earning her driving license and visiting her family's home, where she watched her father from a distance and even played with him a little as a cat. It was decided that she should bide her time before introducing herself to him, to better gauge the reactions of her mother and brothers to how informing her father would affect them.
2010
2010 began with Catseye becoming an X-Men trainee. She also formalised her relationship with Nicholas Gleason, agreeing to 'be a couple' with him. Ever more conscious of how she was different from the other students, she focussed on her language, using personal pronouns more, and avoiding the bluntly descriptive nicknames she had been known to employ.
More and more often, she was called upon to play peacemaker in Nick's issues with Julian Keller, being one of the few people who could calm the werewolf's temper in wolf-form. It was a position she wasn't always comfortable with, but she cared deeply for Nick and wanted the best for him. When Nick disappeared after being wounded at the graduation ceremony attack, Catseye insisted on being allowed to look for him, making an agreement with Charles Xavier that she would check in regularly and ask for help if needed. She then left the school, intent on seeking out her 'mate'.
Physical Characteristics
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 155 lbs
Eyes: purple
Hair: purple
Other Features: Retractable claws on hands and feet, prehensile tail in human form
Powers
Catseye is a metamorph, shifting from a human form into a feline form. She has shown the ability to shift into a medium-sized housecat while retaining her full intelligence, although she cannot directly speak in this form. As a cat, the has the normal physical abilities of a common housecat.
Catseye has also displayed the ability to shift into a much larger feline form, similar to that of a mountain lion or cougar. In this form, her intellect is reduced to a more primitive state, and she operates primarily on instinct. Through time, she has learned to master this form and has become more adept in its use.
In human form, Catseye retains retractable claws on her fingers and toes, and her tail becomes prehensile. She also possesses acute senses of sight, hearing, and smell in all forms.
Equipment
Clothing that changes shape with her from a collar to various clothing combinations.
Trivia
Catseye's favourite possession was the pink Mini-squid Forge made for her.
Catseye has her own names for everyone at the mansion, usually based on the residents' unique talents, hobbies, or quirks of their powers. She does not call people by these names directly any longer unless annoyed, though she still thinks of people by these names in her head occasionally. Names were often subject to changing circumstances or situations. Some of these names include:
Amanda: SmellyPotionsGirl, CityMagicGirl
Angel: BurningGirl
Angelo: SillyPuttyBoy
Cain: BigMan
Callie: PointyEarsGirl
Cammie: BlackBloodGirl
Clarice: GlitterGirl
Crystal: WindyGirl
Dani: BreadCookingGirl
Dori: SquirrelGirl
Doug: ComputerBoy
Evan: BigBrother
Forge: ShinyBitsBoy, BrainyButtBoy
Haller: ManyPeople, SitsOnFloor
Hank: BigBlueFur
Illiyana: SharpTongueGirl
Inez: TableBreakingGirl
Jay: BirdBoy
Jean-Paul: MisterPointyEarsBeaubier
Jenny: BadLuckGirl
Jubilee: SillySparkyGirl, BrightSparksGirl
Kevin: ShinyRoomBoy
Kyle: WarmSnugglyFriend
Laurie: SmellyGirl, PastramiBringingGirl
Lil: SillyDreamsWoman
Manuel: SneakyBadBoy
Marie-Ange: VisionGirl
Marius: MouthyBiteyBoy
Meggan: LittleFur
Moira: SadGentleHands
Morgan: WrongNamesWoman
Nathan: SoftHands
Nori: ShockyGirl
Paige: ManySkinsGirl
Rahne: RedFurFriend
Terry: ScreamingGirl
Sam: SplodeyButt
Scott: OneEye, RedEye
Yvette: SharpSkinGirl
Plots
2005
2008
2009
2010
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Meta Trivia
Previously played by Willow. Played by Mon from September 2008 until May 2010.
