This is PROBABLY the most extensive character profile I'll ever do...

Name: Maria Antoinette Cortez

Age: 25

Occupation: Child psychologist

Powers and abilities: Maria has the ability to turn completely invisible; this includes any object that she happens to be touching, including clothing. She cannot - however - turn other people invisible.

Maria can also turn completely intangible. She cannot turn OTHER people intangible, but she can phase THROUGH other people or any other sort of object, no matter what material it's made out of (meaning that she cannot get trapped in a giant space bullet, like Kitty Pryde). Due to this ability, she can also air-walk. If she were to turn solid while phasing through an object/person, then she and the object/person would not fuse molecules. Instead, a hole would be formed in the object/person in the space where she was as she turned solid. For example, if she were to phase her hand through a person's head, and she turned solid, then there would be a hole in the persons head shaped like her hand.

It has been stated by her doctor that her blood pressure is almost non-existant, and her heart beats once every two minutes. It has also been stated that she hasn't aged since her last checkup and has not gained any weight. She also has several wounds (one over her left breast; one on her shoulder; one across her back) that have not healed, though they do bleed. It is unknown if this is connected to one of her abilities.

She has other abilities, but she has not revealed them thus far.

Clothing and appearance: Maria is average height (around 5'6"), with long, brown hair and naturally tan skin. She has no particular clothing style, though she often wears band t-shirts, despite the fact that she rarely ever goes to concerts.

Background information: Born to an interesting couple consisting of a Mexican immigrant and a French immigrant, Maria was raised in one of the poorer areas of Silver Hills. Her father had trouble finding work, and - whenever he DID manage to make money - he usually wasted it on alcohol instead of spending it on his wife and daughter. When he got drunk, he got angry.
When he got angry, he beat his wife.
When his wife finally stood up to him, he raped her.
Eventually, he managed to beat his wife to death in one of his drunken rages. Maria was ten.

From then on, Maria became her father's scapegoat for all of their hardships. It was HER fault that they were poor. It was HER fault that her mother had died. When he got into his drunken rages, he beat HER, and he raped HER when SHE stood up to him. At one point, he gave himself the idea that - if his daughter became a piano prodigy - they would become rich. So he went out and bought his daughter a piano... and every time she played a note wrong, he smashed her fingers with a hammer.

Fed up, Maria ran away when she was 14. She survived on the streets until she was 18. At that point, she was approached by a hooker named Boo, who said that a pimp named Daddy was interested in giving her a job. With nowhere else to go, Maria agreed. She worked as a hooker for almost a year before there was... an INCIDENT with Daddy... She doesn't like to talk about it. She ran away from Daddy shortly afterward, presumed dead by him, Boo, and the other prostitutes.

She then lived on the streets again for three years, mostly by herself. At that point, a mysterious stranger helped her get back on her feet... To this day, she still doesn't know their name. With the stranger's help, she became determined to make sure that no other child was given a childhood like hers, studied hard, and barely made it through college, where she studied psychology. After this, she became a certified child psychologist.

-- Edited by Sara on Friday 31st of July 2009 11:03:58 PM