Marina Jaques "Done"

Name: Marina Jaques
Alias: MJ, Nymph
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Species: Mutant
Faction: Weapon X
Occupation: Agent
Play By: Alexis Knapp


Over all Personality: Marina was a very athletic girl in her younger years, she loved to play out on the beach and do athletic sports like volley ball, Kayaking, swimming, and scuba diving in their beach home. She was also a very outdoors like person as she loved to appreciate nature and everything that was around her. She enjoyed learning as much as she could with the surrounding areas and what animals were in it. On many times she has gone outside and stayed outside for a couple of nights camping out in the woods. Her father would teach her survival skills that would be heavily important later on in life as she was with the Weapon X programming facility and would be rather useful if you got lost or were on your own.

Now that Marina is out by herself and stuck with the Weapon X facility, she has changed and a different side of her has been shown. She is more of the loner type and often keeps to herself. She rarely speaks out in a rebellious manner towards those who are superior to her. There is even a bit of a cold side for her, as she dislikes humans a lot and won't be afraid of attacking them if they get too close. If anything she's more than happy enough to try and harm humans or scare them on a daily basis. Since they treated her badly in the past it is not likely she'll become friends with humans any time soon. The only ones that she remembers as being close is her family. Marina also longs for a chance to go home or see her family but she knows it is not possible at the rate she’s going with the team, they’ve hung onto her far too closely in the past couple of years and a promise of her returning home was not likely to happen.

Over all Appearance:Marina stands at five foot nine, a little on the tall side for most, and weighs one hundred forty five pounds. In the water Marina's body changes suddenly when she takes her mermaid form. She forms a long tail that is blue and pink in color from her scales as they shimmer in the light of the sun. She also forms the ability to breath under water easily without having to worry about coming up for air for some time and can swim long distances. Marina's hair is a deep dark brown and is long and wavy.

She normally doesn't have a problem with what people are wearing today and will try to blend into the crowd. Her favorite of her items is a fake feather coated jacket that she keeps with her while she is in Weapon X in order not to get cold. The rest of the style of clothing includes semi short cut t-shirts where a bit of her chest is exposed, and as well as baggy jean pants. She likes to wear dress shoes and sandals more often in the summer and in the spring. While she will wear sport shoes or snow boots in the winter.

Anything else: Marina has a couple of scars on her right leg that look like shark teeth where a shark tried to bite her.
Items: Sometimes water bottles since she never knows when she tends to use them in combat.


Skills:
Bilingual: Marina has the ability to speak English and Spanish very fluently and can understand someone speaking Spanish and put up a conversation with them in return. She was taught how to speak Spanish by her father when she was young.

Skilled Combatant: While Marina is in the Weapon X program, the tutors there have shown her a variety of ways to handle herself in combat. She has learn many styles such as offensive techniques and defensive techniques that have been proven useful in a fight. She has been able to put up with many others in a fight without giving up that easily. She is capable of wielding weapons like the ones she has made out of her water manipulation or even the real object into a fight without little struggle.

Expert Tactician: Marina can handle herself in a battle and if needed she will not be afraid to step up and lead things. Though this is very rare she does not like being in the spot light. If anything she will do this as a last resort if the main leader has fallen.

Expert Swimmer: Marina has been swimming since she was a little girl. And with her water abilities and mermaid adaption she has gone to the limits of swimming in some ways. She is far more skilled than one of the finest athletes. Even those athletes would have difficulties trying to follow her in the water.

Powers:
Mermaid Physiology: Marina's main mutation has been consisted of a dramatic change. If or when she does touch water she will be transformed into something like a mythological creature called a mermaid. Her legs transform into fish like tail and her legs disappear. She obtains the ability to breathe underwater and swim for great distances, roughly for ten hours, and not have to come up for air. Her tail length is about roughly two feet long and has two points on the end, her color on the scales vary from a color looking like it is pink and blue. She can change out of her water form if or when she steps out onto the air. Even her hands gain a bit more webbing in them to help her swim along more agilely in it.

Water Adaptation: Marina can live underwater for some time and with little difficulty. She can survive in both salt and fresh water without having to come over of both effects of the water. Under the water she can survive freezing cold temperatures below -150 degrees and also in the heat of 300 degrees. This makes it easier for her to swim around harsh conditions, without even being burned. Normally she can handle these temperatures for some time before having to flee from the area and return back to stable temperatures in the ocean. She can handle eight hours of staying near these harsh conditions before she reaches her limits.

Super Human Speed: Marina can swim faster and run faster on land than most normal humans. She can run about 20 miles an hour easily.

Super Human Strength: Marina's strength has also been enhanced by her mermaid physiology and water adaptation where she can lift two tons easily. While on constant strain she'd be able to handle three tons before exhausting herself.

Super Human Stamina: Marina's stamina can last her about 15 hours before she has to stop and rest. Although her swimming abilities are a bit lower than this, she can keep them up for a long time as well and swim for half a day easily.

Super Human Reflexes: Marina's reflexes are faster than 15 kilometers per hour of the average rate of a human's which is much smaller than that. She can easily dodge high caliber bullets in a few rounds but much faster guns or weapons might have a better chance of striking her.

Super Human Sight: Marina's senses are heightened under water as she can see things through the murkiest type of water no matter how dirty it is. The water can be so bad that you might not even be able to see what is surrounding you while she can. Her senses can also be used at night while swimming allowing her to rely on a very bit of light in order to move through the sea floor. In some parts of the world there is obviously no light down there, making it difficult to see with hardly any light, this is where marina's ability to se will come in handy far down in the water.

Water Manipulation:After obtaining Marina’s main power of being a mermaid, she had two sub powers that will be seen as rather useful in a fight or towards her advantages. She can manipulate water into a variety of constructs such as spears or even blasts of water. One of her strongest abilities is that she can raise some of the waves around her and cause a rather large wave of about nine feet tall. This is with also the help of the moon as on her strongest nights the moon will be full. And therefore make her water manipulation far stronger than normal. Since the moon is only up for about roughly eight to ten hours, this is a small gap of where she can take advantage of such ability that she has. With this she would not be able to create such large waves under normal circumstances.

Healing Water: Marina has another ability that allows her to heal herself or even others if she has water with him. As long as she has some source of water near her she would be able to heal someone else. Minor wounds have not been a problem for Marina if it is a small or medium sized wound like a bullet wound or a cut or scrap. If it was something much larger like healing a broken limb it would take a lot more strength and energy and Marina would have to rest in order to gain back her energy. Roughly a broken limb would force Marina to rest for roughly eight hours before being able to use this power. Something like a far serious injury would be a cause of concern for the young mermaid because it might take a lot more out of her; if it is very powerful she will probably have to ask for help or might even pass out if it was too large of a body wide wound for her.


Weaknesses:
Being a Loner: Marina's time at being in the Weapon X program, has caused her to become rather cold and untrustworthy due to her treatment there from some of the scientists. Marina will not do well in groups and cannot tolerate a lot of people. There will be very little chance of some people or even the team mates gaining trust from Marina. All she'll really do is follow orders and go from there without saying much.

Loss of Water: Without water Marina would not be able to change into her mermaid form or even use her water manipulation in a fight. She might be stranded in some areas where there is very little water like in a metal cell, or even in a desert where the area is so hot and very little water can be found. In these temperatures she would not do well if someone tried to fight her.

Inability to Manipulate: She can not manipulate water if there are large deposits of sand or oil within her water. It must be clear and fresh.

Inability to Heal: Large wounds like an all over burn on the body will cause to be very difficult for Marina causing her to have difficulty and trouble in healing. She will need some help or might not be able to heal it at all. If or when she has the come to the problem of where there is no water in the surrounding area she will not be able to heal the wounds on a person which would cause some possibility to arise that she might not be able to heal them.


Father: Alexander Jaques, 41 years old
Mother: Maria Jaques, 40 years old
Other family: Mia Jaques (Aunt from Alexander), John Jacques (Uncle from Alexander), Vincent and Veronica Jaques (paternal grandparents)
History: Marina Jaques was born into the new and young family consisting of Maria and Alexander Jaques. She was taught Spanish as her second language. Her father was a detective for the police and her mother was a maid working for several houses and cleaning them on many occasions. Leaving them busy but also with a large amount of wealth to go around. As the young family introduced someone new into the world, they decided to name the child after her mother for looking so similar to her, and changed Maria's name around a bit by adding an n into the name. With Marina in arms now the family returned to their east coast home in Georgia. Their home was located on one of the shores closest to the water where they spent a lot of their time out on the ocean. Marina would come to love the water and would spend a good chunk out there even as an infant.

On many times her grandparents would come over to come visit her and as well as her father's two other siblings Mia and John. Alexander was the eldest of both but they showed compassion for their newest addition to the family stating that she looked a lot like her mother. Life was pretty much normal for the family as they enjoyed an uneventful and quiet life. On occasions suffering through a few hardships, but they always picked up where they left off.

On one faithful day Marina had been out on the water a bit farther away than normal, she was about thirteen years old when something didn't seem right. As she was out swimming, she felt as if she wasn't alone in the water, like someone or something was watching. As she continued on she didn't seem to notice it that much, and tried to brush it off. But the feeling was certainly true as she felt something rub onto her. It was rough and a bit hard to the touch as it was startling to her. Marina nearly jumped but that only caused things to get worse as she realized what happened next. A shark came up to her again, confusing her for something else as it latched onto her leg trying to pull her away and underneath the water. It felt like an eternity, she thought for sure she was going to die way down on the ocean floor. But death never came. Instead her leg suddenly changed as the process was almost too painful compared to the shark biting onto her leg.

As the shark tried to keep a hold her legs changed into something that she had never seen before. Her body had turned into something like a mermaid as she formed a tail, and her mutant ability had been triggered for the first time. With all the pain in her body she was likely to pass out but she wanted the shark gone from attacking her and sent a powerful blast of water straight at it once she managed to resurface. But as she did, she blacked out too relieved to see what happened to her. She was safe for now, the shark was gone, but her blood was far too rough and strong for her as she was too exhausted to swim back to shore. So instead she just let herself float there.

Her family did indeed notice that their daughter was missing as they set up a rescue team to try and find her, but not even a body had been found. They feared that the shark might have eaten her and or carried her away of where she would drown. And so, the family grieved for a long time for their only daughter and set up a memorial for her out near in the ocean where she would always play. Little did they know, the young girl had indeed survived and was picked up by a group that was notorious for working on new agents, but their ways were not always the greatest of kinds. The group was known as Weapon X as they sent Marina to her new ‘home’. It would later be the place of a kind of a test subjects as they tried to work on Marina. While she was there, her healing powers also activated as she managed to heal most of the wounds on the attack that the shark had made. But there was a bit of a scar left on her leg to show that at least a couple of bites that had been made in her leg, none the less she was well about that.

For nearly seven or eight years, Marina spent time with Weapon X as she was one of the elder members there now. Fully aware of what she has to do, but as always she wanted to return home and worried about her parents. That was the last time she’d trust anyone anymore after running into Weapon X. The group made her trust humans far less, and even her parents were the only ones that she would trust. It is also likely she might not become friends with many unless they give her good reasons to. As of now, Marina is a loner.

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