Post by Bonita Juarez on Jul 8, 2012 23:10:35 GMT -7
Bonita Juarez
Full name: Bonita Juarez
Aliases: Firebird, La Espirita
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Race: Mutate
Alignment: Hero
Birthplace: Taos, New Mexico
Current Location: Transient
Occupation: Vigilante
Celebrity Claim: Salma Hayek
Player's Cbox Name: Chellote
Other Characters: Nydia Jordan
Have You Read the Rules?: Hulk smash!
Appearance:
Bonita is a short woman, standing at barely five foot two inches tall and weighing one hundred twenty pounds. Her long shoulder length black hair is one of her most striking details as is her fine and soft facial features. Her eyes are a dark brown, almost chocolate in appearance.
Despite her short stature, Bonita is a very curvy woman, an almost perfect hour glass figure. She likes to wear outfits that show off her body while maintaining modesty. When at "work" however, she wears skin tight outfights, usually in red or black leathers. She also has an affinity for bright colored outfits, such as yellow and orange.
Personality:
Bonita is what almost everyone who has met her would call a good person. Born into a very devout family, Bonita was brought up with a very clear idea on what was right and what was wrong. This extended into the charity of mankind, giving to others to better themselves and help those in need. This has lead to Bonita helping out others constantly without any thought of what was in it for herself.
Bonita is a bit of a combination of both shy and outgoing person. She likes to meet new people and help them out but feels self conscious and awkward when working in groups larger than five. She feels like in large groups there is too much confusion on who to do what and things don't honestly get done the way they should or in a timely matter. This could be perhaps because Bonita herself gets distracted in the details of the task or moves on to another one before finishing the task or mission she was on. Despite this, she always finishes what she sets out to do, though it might take her longer than she anticipated.
Bonita has shown from time to time the need to try and control the things that are happening around her. This is especially true after she has one of her precognitive visions, trying to fight the idea that fate is fixed. This conflicts with her faith in the free will of man to make life the way they desire it to be. Bonita is also proud of the way she looks and sometimes goes out of her way to have others notice it.
Likes:Dislikes:
- Religion, Bonita is a devout Roman Catholic
- Ancient folklore telling of great stories of the past
- Tamales, dear god they are so yummy! (just not chicken ones)
- Fire, the bringer of life and civilization. It is far misunderstood as a simple tool of destruction.
- Red, because why not be sassy and sexy?
Strengths:
- Hamburgers, why would you eat cardboard stuck between sandpaper?
- Fences, they just are a bit unsightly and create unwanted division and feelings of animosity!
- Poker, it is the devil's game!
- Iguanas, the way they lick their eyes is just nasty and unsanitary.
- Demons, the minions of Lucifer himself, they are abominations!
Weaknesses:
- Extremely strong willed.
- A strong sense of what is right and wrong.
- Reliable, Bonita gets the jobs done asked of her more often than not.
- Upright, Bonita believes in doing what is good not only for herself but those around her as well.
- Trustworthy.
Skills:
- Temperamental.
- A need for control of her surroundings.
- Easily distracted.
- Doesn't work well in large groups.
- Impatient.
Flaws:
- Map making.
- Excellent memory recall.
- Good with computers.
- Narcissistic tendencies.
- Afraid of the sea.
- Extremely poor driving skills.
Skills and Abilities:
Firebird has a myriad of useful abilities including the manipulation of fire. She is able to create blasts of flame exciting the atoms until they spontaneously combust and create fire. She can envelop herself in an aura of flame by exciting the atoms of the air around her, often in the shape of a bird. Envoloped in this aura has allowed Firebird to show signs of being able to survive in the vacuum of space. If she directs this energy downward or behind her in a tight stream, she can shoot through the sky like a rocket. Controlled bursts allowed her to fly at her control and safe speeds. Due to the alteration of her DNA, Firebird has also discovered she is immune not only to fire, but poison, radiation, and demonic powers. In addition she has a variation of precognition, seeing glimpses of the future from time to time.
Although she can move at superhuman speed using her abilities she can not breathe while moving at such speeds without skin protection and an oxygen supply. Firebird can only maintain her aura as long as there atoms and molecules to combust. If in space, her aura would eventually come to a halt after the atoms had burned themselves completely out. While Firebird can heal from many otherwise fatal wounds, attacks against her heart or brain will kill her. Firebird's glimpses into the future come at random and she can not control them and is left physically vulnerable through the duration of the vision.
History:
Bonita Juarez was born the only child of Esmeralda and Jose Juarez. From very early on in her life, her parents made sure she attended church and had the fear of God in her. They were both very devout Roman Catholics and worked diligently to make sure that Bonita would grow up the same way. Bonita took the measure to heart and became quite devout herself, though sometimes finding the ideas of the religion and practices of the Church itself in conflict.
Besides the need to make Bonita religious, her parents provided her with a very stable and good childhood. She spent the entirety of it in Taos and learned to speak both English, Spanish, and some of the Native American languages of the area as she spent time at some of the reservations in her teenage years. She enjoyed the company of the natives and the stories they told, their folklore was very interesting and rivaled that of the mythology of the ancient European and Mesopotamian cultures.
Bonita went to the University of California-Berkley for her education, studying to become a geologist. She found the experience rewarding and rich, but found a minor disdain for the mainstream American culture. Instead of continuing on with her education after receiving her Bachelor's, she return to New Mexico and took up various jobs, though she found great joy in being a tour guide.
One afternoon when she was camping out in the desert, contemplating her next job, a radioactive meteorite crashed to the earth near her campsite. The result blast sent her flying dozens of feet from her campsite and knocked her out. When she came to, she noticed that many of her wounds had already began to heal and that she was enveloped in flames but was not being burned. They seemed to disappear though as she realized that they were there.
When she went to receive medical attention for the wounds her blood tests came back with odd results. Not sure what to make of it, her doctors ordered a full work up and the results showed that the very fabric of Bonita's DNA had been altered from the exposure to the meteorite. Bonita soon concluded that the fire that she had been wrapped up in was a power that the radiation provided her after a few more random occurrences.
Unsure what to make of it all, Bonita spent six months in the desert away from others trying to figure out what her power was. During this time, she slowly began to master the ability to create fire and surprisingly to her, the ability to fly, though many instances had crashing results. These crashes though revealed a somewhat accelerated healing factor as she was sure some of the wounds should have killed her. She also experienced visions, of what she thought was the future, but could not discern from them what they were.
Believing these powers were a gift from the mythological phoenix, Bonita crafted an outfit of black and red fire proof leather to use her powers in. As they were a gift from such a noble creature that meant they were given to her to further help others. She began to fight crime under the name "Firebird" or "La Espirita" depending on what city she was in at the time. Everywhere she travels, she looks for something to do to help those around her and use her powers for the good of mankind.
Sample RP:
"Well your tests come back positive... again. There is nothing different about that and we still are unable to take x-rays of your body that come out right since the incident. If I did not know any better, I would believe you to be completely immune to radioactive waves. That's impossible though... or at least it should be impossible." Dr. Hernandez said as he looked over the results from his patient's latest check up. Her entire physiology confused him, ever since that meteorite strike she seemed in the prime of health and half of the tests he ran can up awkward.
"Exactly what I wanted to hear doctor. Everything is the way it should be, I'm still as healthy as a horse. And don't sound so disappointed, you should be happy your patient is in good health and you can move on to those who are more in need of your services." Bonita said with a smile and energy that said she was happy. With a trip to New York soon, she wanted to make sure she was still in good health. With as many crazy things as could go on in New York, it was likely she would be quite busy and need to be in the best of shape.
New York from Phoenix was a long ways though and it would be the first time she had been two time zones away from home. Yet she had these gifts and she needed to use them to do good. New York was just where she needed to go right now...