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Created on 2008-05-16 16:09:27 (#15613585), last updated 2009-11-28

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Basic Info

Name:	Laura Kinney (X-23)
Birthdate:	11-15

Bio

Real Name
Laura Kinney

Aliases
Formerly Captain Universe, Laura X, Talon

Identity
Secret

Occupation
Adventurer; former student, assassin, prostitute

Citizenship
None

Place of Birth
The Facility, location unrevealed

Known Relatives
Sarah Kinney (surrogate mother, deceased), James Howlett (Wolverine, genetic progenitor)

Group Affiliation
X-Force; formerly New X-Men (trainee team), Xavier Institute Student Body, The Facility

Education
Home schooled

Height
5'6"

Weight
147 lbs.

Eyes
Green

Hair
Black

Powers
X-23 possesses the ability to regenerate damaged or destroyed areas of her cellular structure at a superhuman rate, which varies in direct proportion with the severity of the damage she suffers. Despite the extent of her healing factor, X-23 is not immortal. Injuries that result in the loss of vital organs, large amounts of blood, and/or loss of physical form are potentially lethal for her. X-23's natural healing also affords her virtual immunity to poisons and most drugs, as well as an enhanced resistance to diseases and the fatigue poisons generated by bodily activity. Hence, her endurance, agility and reflexes are enhanced. X-23 also possesses superhumanly acute senses, allowing her to see and hear things at an extended distance. She is able to recognize people and objects by scent, even if that person or object is hidden, and can use these enhanced senses to track any creature with an impressive degree of success. X-23's skeleton includes two retractable bone claws in each arm and one in each foot that she can extend and retract at will. These claws are housed beneath the skin and muscle. Unsheathing them causes her skin to tear and bleed, but the wounds are quickly dealt with by her healing factor. X-23 can unsheathe any number of these claws at once, although she must keep her wrists and/or feet straight at the moment the claws emerge. The claws are naturally sharp, tougher than normal human bone and have been coated with Adamantium, allowing X-23 to cut through most types of flesh and natural materials. Presumably, because X-23 is a clone of the mutant Wolverine, her healing factor will also provide her with an extended lifespan by slowing the effects of the aging process.

Abilities
Due to her extensive training as a top-secret operative, X-23 is a master of multiple forms of martial arts, and is an expert in assassination techniques.

Paraphernalia
X-23's claws have been coated with the nigh-indestructible metal Adamantium. As a result, her claws are virtually unbreakable and are capable of cutting through almost any substance depending on its thickness and the amount of force she can exert. Due to her healing factor, the presence of Adamantium in her body does not interfere with her bones' normal function of generating blood corpuscles.

First Appearance
NYX #3 (2004)

Origin
X-23 #1-6 (2005)

Significant Issues
Worked as prostitute, met Kiden, saved Catiana, vs Zebra Daddy (NYX #3-7, 2004-2005); saved Jade Parisi, vs Wolverine & X-Men (Uncanny X-Men #450-451, 2004); enrolled at Xavier Institute (X-Men #165, 2005); with Spider-Man, vs alternate Iron Man (Marvel Team-Up #5-6, 2005); with X-Men, vs Hauk’ka (Uncanny X-Men #455-459, 2005); joined X-Force (Uncanny X-Men #493, 2008)

Other: Mun imput.
X-23 is a very extreme personality, and by no means subtle. She’s a genetically engineered weapon, raised from childhood as an assassin, and with no proper understanding of the real world, other than what she picked up to blend in for short periods while on missions. One view she's not damaged at all; she's just been built that way, and there is no "real" personality underneath it all.
She’s meant to be emotionally inarticulate. She doesn't really understand how screwed up she is, and to the extent that she does, she refuses to talk about it. A point central to the character. Laura just does what she does, leaving a string of baffled and appalled supporting characters in her wake.
Arguably X-23 looks more complex than she really is, because we're denied access to her thoughts, (something I’m hoping to involve through role-playing with this character).

After Laura was given her freedom by Steve, Laura headed to New York to keep a low profile. Attachment to others isn’t something she likes to have, because she feels that it will endanger those she starts to care about, (and yes, I believe she does start to learn to care, that she has choices). It is in New York she became a prostitute, not believing there was anything wrong with it, and it is from here that I brought her into play.

The words Sarah wrote down, and given to her by Logan, will always stay with her, none more than those last few she wrote:

You’re a child not a weapon. You are my child. You are my daughter and I love you

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