Nydia Jordan

[Nydia Jordan]

Nydia Jordan

Full name: Nydia Remale Jordan
Aliases: N/A
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Race: Mutant
Alignment: Hero
Birthplace: Houston, Texas
Current Location: Xavier Institute, New York
Occupation: Student, Teacher Assistant
Celebrity Claim: Michelle Trachtenberg
Player's Cbox Name: chellote
Other Characters: None
Have You Read the Rules?: Hulk Smash puny god

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Appearance:

Nydia is a woman of average height and weight, being five feet and seven inches tall and weighing one hundred twenty eight pounds. Her long red hair comes to about halfway down her back when she does not have it up in a ponytail. Her smile is striking as she peers with her clear blue eyes and soft pink lips.

Nydia prefers to wear a mixture of both bright and dark colored clothing, particularly fond of dresses that fit her slightly curvy frame. More often than not she wears at least a small heel, hardly being caught wearing flats or sandals. Nydia also likes to accessorize, often being seen with necklaces, earrings, and a variety of bangles or rings.

Personality:

Nydia is a happy go lucky person, who always seems to see the good in people and events. Some of her friends say she is one of those people who is too happy, as she almost always seems to have a smile or content expression on her face. Whenever she can, she tries to spread that joy to others, by helping them with whatever they are doing or cheering them up when they are feeling down.

Nydia's good attitude and compassion makes it easy to make friends with those who choose to accept her. However she is also socially awkward, having spent most of her young life in the Xavier Institute. Although she got along well with most of her fellow mutants, the institute sheltered her from the rest of the world and kept her from picking up some social norms. This has made Nydia sometimes awkward when dealing with strangers and outsiders and difficult to approach.

Xavier's kindness and that of her fellow mutants at the institute. has made Nydia vastly loyal to them. There is nothing that Nydia would not do if it meant that it helped her friends or mentor. Nydia feels like she owes Xavier everything and is at his beck and call should their be occasions that he is in need of her assistance.

Likes:

• Skittles, seriously who doesn't love to taste the rainbow?
  
• Poker, Nydia loves to play cards particularly five card draw.
  
• Research, what might seem dull and boring to others, Nydia absolutely loves, particularly particle physics.
  
• Dancing, Nydia is known to love to dance so much, she'll even kick off her shoes and go dance in the yard during a thunderstorm.
  
• Royal blue, something about the color just lights a fire in her.
  
• Waffles, with extra syrup of course
  

Dislikes:

• Yellow, it is disturbingly bright and annoyingly the favorite color of preppy girls.
  
• Preppy girls, with their holier than thou, better than you attitude.
  
• Homework, if it is not research it bores her.
  
• Nevada, it is a dessert with no water and too many fake people looking for easy money.
  
• Coffee, it's like tar, all black and bitter and crazily addictive.
  
• Fish, they smell, they are slimy, and they have weird puffy lips.
  

Strengths:

• Intelligence, Nydia is working on her Master's degree in electrical engineering and graduated Summa Cum Laude with her Bachelor's degree.
  
• Optimistic, Nydia almost always sees the silver lining in things no matter how bad they might be.
  
• Clever, Nydia be a crafty and uncanny when the situation calls for it.
  
• Physically fit, Nydia spends a good amount of her free time dancing or fencing which keeps her in good shape.
  
• Loyal, Nydia is quite loyal to those that have treated her kindly and respectfully.
  

Weaknesses:

• Socially awkward, having grown up being different, Nydia has learned how to act normally in social places.
  
• Naive, Nydia has yet to experience the full spectrum of the world and its people and always expects the best out of everyone.
  
• Slightly cocky, her academic success has made her slightly overconfident and cocky of her mental prowess.
  
• Bored easily, Nydia seems to get bored easily by the mundane nature of life.
  
• Stubborn, Nydia finds it hard to change her mind or accept others peoples advice or opinions that she disagrees with.
  

Skills: (at least three)

• Sabre training, Nydia has spent a good amount of time learning to fence with the sabre.
  
• Good memory recall, Nydia can recall a vast majority of the memories she has experienced.
  
• Observant, Nydia can often see between the lines or spot what others miss.
  

Flaws: (at least three)

• Overly proud, her accomplishments thus far in life have inflated her pride.
  
• Allergic to bees, a sting from one of these creatures can send Nydia into shock.
  
• Herpetophobia, reptiles really freak Nydia out.
  

Skills and Abilities:

Kinetic Charging
Nydia has the power to manipulate the kinetic and potential energy of herself and objects around her, charging up either herself or objects she is holding. This is caused by the transfer of that energy of the objects into a singular object. With this power Nydia can charge up her physical attributes, allowing her greater strength, speed, and reflexes. When used with outside objects, she can give then an electrical charge which would explode on impact, such as playing cards. The size of the explosion is equal to the amount of charge that Nydia puts into an object plus the mass of the object as well. An explosion from a playing card would be like a black cat fire work while an explosion from a large barrel or vehicle a pyrotechnic. While Nydia is charge up herself or an object, she is immune to being acted upon by most physical powers, as she has a small electrical barrier.

Limits
Nydia can not charge more than a single object at any one time. Nydia would not be able to charge her own physical abilities up and then also objects. While Nydia can manipulate the potential energy of objects as well, it takes twice as long to convert convert it into a charge than kinetic energy. The size of objects also directly impact how long it takes to provide them a charge. A playing card can be done in a second, herself five seconds, a vehicle nearly a minute. While she is charging objects, she is left vulnerable to physical assaults. Repeated use of the ability on herself or large objects in a short amount of time, more than three times in an hour, runs the risk of exhaustion and passing out.

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History:

Nydia was the first born child of Nasri and Amele Jordan, being born in Houston on September 19th, 1986. Nasri, a French immigrant, was a French professor at Rice University while Amele was a pediatric nurse. Two years later Nydia would get a sister, Lesley, the only other child her parents would have. The two girls were well looked after in their infancy, with their mother making sure that they were always healthy and fit.

Nydia spent the first eight years of her life with her parents and sister and was in the first grade when something unexpected happened. While playing during recess, Nydia accidentally caused a toy shovel to explode as she threw it down to go the bathroom. No one realized that she had done it, as the explosion was tiny and the sound drowned out by the children at play. However, three weeks later, the Jordan's would receive a visit from Professor Xavier of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.

Nydia was not sure why at the time, but she returned with the professor to the Institute. Later she would find out that it was because she was a mutant and Xavier had convinced her parents it was better for her to be with her own kind as she grew and explored her powers. Nydia for a time was apathetic, as she felt home sick for her sister and parents. Yet as time wore on, she began to come out of her shell and join her classmates and fellow mutants. It did not take long for her cherry attitude to return and she soon found a handful of friends at the institute as well as a mentor in the Professor. Nydia spent a lot of her time split between dancing around, fencing with a few of her fellow mutants, or reading up on the scientific advancements of the world.

At age nineteen Nydia enrolled in Empire State University, living on campus but returning to the Institute on the weekends and during holidays. She majored in Chemistry and managed to keep all As and Bs through her entire four years. However Nydia found the social aspects of university more daunting as she somehow put off a good amount of people for reasons she did not understand. She tried to be friendly and helpful but not everyone seemed to appreciate. Despite that, she still managed to get a solid group of friends, many of them majoring in a scientific field like herself.

Upon the recommendation of her professor's and the advice of Xavier, Nydia enrolled in graduate school. To help augment her income, Nydia took up a role at the university as a TA to the Chemistry department. Although it helped provide Nydia the money she needed to support herself, the position and coursework left her little time to return to the Institute as much as she liked. Despite this, Xavier still keeps her room as she likes it any time she does come back home for a visit.

Sample RP:

Nydia wondered what she was going to do once the current semester was done. This was all she had left before she was set to graduate in late July. Attending classes every other day, classes that were mostly a bore now that they wanted application of the knowledge that they had accumulated over the past six years of their life. It was not that it was difficult to do so, but it was simply boring, too simple to do for anyone who paid any attention and did the readings like they were asked to.

Maybe that was it, maybe she was just too used to expecting people to do what was asked of them. No, people were innately good, they desired to do what was right, it was just the situations around them that hampered that ability to. Yes, that was it, it was the circumstance and not the subject that was the negatory.

Yet still, Nydia was feeling ever so slightly down as she pondered the future. "What are we going to with ourselves Nydia, what ever are we going to do? A job, return to the institute to help the professor, or something else? What is it that we want to do hrmm?" She asked herself, talking aloud to herself as she did far more often than her friends seemed to care for. Oh well, they knew all about her little social quirks by now and yet they still hung around her.

The question still remained though, what was it that was in her future once she crossed the stage and had the second of her degree's in hand?