![]() |
Munroe, Ororo (Secret Identity) FC
Nickname(s): Stormy, 'Ro, Wind Rider, Weather Witch
Physical Description
Quote: |
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. | |
HEIGHT: |
5' 11" | |
WEIGHT: |
140 lbs. | |
EYE COLOR: |
Blue | |
HAIR COLOR: |
White | |
Ethnicity: |
African | |
Birthdate: |
Jul 23, 1973 | |
Age: |
20 | |
Gender: |
Female | |
Appearance: |
Storm's hair is platinum white. She tends to wear a white shirt, under a leather jacket and black leather pants. Unless she's feeling particularly "goddess-like", and opts for long, flowing skirts. Storm is of a medium body-type, having an athletic tone. She is of African-American descent, but her face is paler them most people of her culture. She also has shockingly beautiful blue eyes. | |
Model: |
Iman | |
THEME SONG: |
Storm Coming by Gnarles Barkley | |
WAIVER: |
Open to anything from G rated to X, just please contact me before killing, maiming, or causing serious injury to the character. Also contact me if you are planning something that will cause significant changes in who the character is. |
Legal Information
Citizenship: |
United States of America, Adult, No Known Criminal Record | |
Place of Birth: |
Manhattan, New York, USA | |
Marital Status: |
Single | |
Occupation: |
Adventurer, Teacher (formerly Thief) | |
Affiliation: |
X-Men, Xavier Institute (formerly Xavier Institute, X-Men) |
Education
Education: |
GRD 11 - Junior |
Pshycological Profile
Concept: |
Urban Goddess | |
Orientation: |
Straight | |
Demeanor: |
Defender | |
Nature: |
Caregiver | |
Personality: |
Storm is serene and conformist, some may even call her "earth mother." She tends to be an emotional woman at times, a real justice fighter. She's relatively good with children and teens, trying to teach them to be as good as she can. Sometimes it calls for a firm hand, and other times for a nice hug. Storm is very kind and independent. She's a great role model and prides herself greatly on that. | |
Goals: |
Storm wants to see the Professor's dream of harmony between humans and mutants become a reality. She wants to help as many children find their place in the world as she can. |
Character Stats
Ag: REM | Ag: REM | Str: TY | End: AM | Rea: GD | Int: REM | Psy: REM | ||
Classification: |
-------------------- | |
Power Source: |
Genetic Mutation | |
Power Rank: | AM - 50 | |
Skill Level: | Superior talent with extensive training | |
Aptitude: | Modify existing current technology | |
Wealth: | Professional employment, middle class | |
Special Abilities
Advantages: |
ATHLETE - Naturally athletic, Storm has won multiple awards for athletic achievement. Much of this is due to training, but natural ability and aptitude also plays a lot in to it. Storm appears to excel at track and field, being able to outrun practically anyone. BALANCE - Storm can run across ropes or rails, effortlessly climb ropes, and instantly recover from being thrown. Her movements are unhindered while doing these things. COMBAT REFLEXES - Storm is able to quickly move and defend herself. INDOMITABLE WILL - Ororo has a very strong will, thanks to years of practice to control the weather. Her will is strong enough to resist the influence of some of the most powerful of entities. | |
Power(s): |
WEATHER MANIPULATION - Storm is a mutant who possesses the psionic ability to manipulate weather patterns over limited areas. She can stimulate the creation of any form of precipitation such as rain or fog, generate winds in varying degrees of intensity up to and including hurricane force, raise or lower the humidity and temperature in her immediate vicinity, induce lightning and other electrical atmospheric phenomena, and disperse natural storms so as to create clear change. Storm can direct the path of certain atmospheric effects, such as bolts of lightning, with her hands. She has also demonstrated the ability to manipulate ocean currents, though the extent of this ability is still unclear. Storm’s control over the atmosphere is such that she can create certain effects over a specific area while shielding smaller areas within that region. For example, she can create a rainstorm around herself but prevent the raindrops from touching her. Storm can also create atmospheric phenomena over very small areas, such as creating a rainstorm small enough to water a single potted plant. Storm can only manipulate weather patterns as they exist in nature. For example, she can end a drought in one area by creating torrential rains there, but that would necessitate robbing all available moisture from the surrounding areas. Storm is not able to create atmospheric conditions that do not exist naturally on the planet she is on. For example, Storm is unable to lower temperatures as far as absolute zero or raise them to solar intensities on Earth. The limit to the size of the area over which Storm can manipulate the weather is not yet known. However, she once diverted the jet stream so as to create storms over the entire East Coast of the United States. She can create weather effects within indoor areas or within artificially maintained environments. Storm is limited by the force of her will and the strength of her body. It once took her several hours to stop a savage blizzard sweeping over much of Canada, and she nearly died from exhaustion in the process. FLIGHT (Wind Assisted) - Storm is able to fly by creating winds strong enough to support her weight, the weight of others, and to propel her forward through the air. Storm can thus travel as fast as any wind can, and has reached speeds up to 300 miles per hour. Her powers over the atmosphere enable her to breathe at any speed, protect her from air friction, and grant her limited immunity to extreme heat and cold. ALTERED VISION - Storm is also able to alter her visual perception so as to perceive electrical energy patterns as well as those factors responsible for existing meteorological phenomena in her surrounding environment. ENERGY MANIPULATION - When using her powers, Storm becomes one with the energy patterns she manipulates. This gives her the ability to project weather effects through her body. For instance, she can generate lightning, intense cold and intense heat, from her hands rather than from her actual atmosphere. Her power over thunder has been used to create deafening sounds for distracting her enemies. She can create powerful tornadoes, hurricanes, and various winds that are capable of moving a vast number of objects/people including levitating an entire building, and sending the Hulk soaring away from her and her teammates. Her ability over water and its forms has been shown by her creating heavy rainfall, and instant floods that have even "washed" away savage land dinosaurs. Control over moisture and temperature allows Storm to freeze/flash freeze objects and people in the blink of an eye. | |
Skill(s): |
EXPERT COMBATANT - She is an experienced hand-to-hand combatant, trained by Wolverine. She is also an extraordinary marksman with handguns. | |
Disadvantages: |
CLAUSTROPHOBIA - Having been trapped under rubble for three days while her mother lay dying, Storm's claustrophobia was once so severe, it rendered her completely helpless. However, she has more or less conquered her fear, though tight spaces still make her uncomfortable. EMOTIONAL INFLUENCE - Storm's ability to manipulate the weather in her immediate vicinity is affected by her emotions; hence, if she does not maintain control, a fit of rage might induce a destructive storm. As a result, Storm has in the past kept a tight rein on all extreme emotions. PHYSICAL CONDITION - Storm is limited by the force of her will and the strength of her body. It once took her several hours to put an end to a savage blizzard sweeping over much of Canada, and she nearly killed herself from exhaustion in the process. NATURALLY OCCURING LIMITATION - Storm must manipulate weather patterns as they naturally exist. For example, she could end a drought in one area by creating torrential rains there, but that would necessitate robbing all available moisture from the surrounding area. (In contrast, Thor, whose weather affecting ability is magical, can change the weather in one area without disrupting existing weather patterns anywhere else). Storm cannot create atmospheric conditions that cannot exist naturally on the planet she is on. She could not, for example, lower temperatures as far as absolute zero or raise them to solar intensities. |
Equipment
Uniform: |
X-Men uniform of black leather with cloak | |
Equipment: |
Cellphone, Lock-picks | |
Resources: |
T'Challa - Her husband is the king of Wakanda, and by default that makes her queen. Through her husband, she is able to call upon the vast resources of his country. This includes some of his personal wealth. | |
Transportation: |
Ninja Motorcycle, Flight |
Contacts
Allies: |
XAVIER - POLARIS - MACTAGGERT, MOIRA - HUNTER, STEVIE - HAVOK - GREY, JEAN (Formerly MARVEL GIRL/PHOENIX) - CASSIDY, SEAN (Formerly BANSHEE) - CYCLOPS - COLOSSUS - BEAST - ANGEL - | |
Contacts: |
XAVIER INSTITUTE - | |
Relatives: |
Princess N'Dare, (Mother, deceased) David Monroe, (Father, deceased) Azari, (Nephew) | |
Enemies: |
XAVIER (Other) - Xavier has an evil psychic 'shadow', this might be Cassandra manifesting through Prof. X (See Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 1, #106) WARHAWK - Mitchell Tanner was a career soldier during the Vietnam war. He was badly injured and the US Government transformed him into the deadly assassin known as Warhawk. STRYKER (William) - A genocidal preacher and leader of an extremist group called the Purifiers. He was the main villain of the X-Men graphic novel "God Loves, Man Kills". SAURON - Bitten at a young age by a mutant Pteranodon, Karl Lykos is an energy vampire forced to absorb the life out of victims to survive. If he absorbs the life of a mutant, he transforms into the insidious were-pterodactyl Sauron. PROTEUS - Proteus is the mutant child of Moira MacTaggert and politician Joseph MacTaggert. He lived most of his life in forced seclusion at his mother’s Muir Island research facility. MESMERO - Green-skinned mutant with the power to mesmerize. MASTER MOLD/SENTINELS - MASTERMIND - Founding member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Jason Wyngarde was the original Mastermind. He was instrumental in the creation of Dark Phoenix, ruining Wolverine's relationship with Mariko Yashida to name but a few of his deeds. MAGNETO - KRAKOA - Krakoa is the island that walks like a man, a living island mutant in the middle of the pacific ocean spawned from nuclear experiments. JUGGERNAUT - Though brothers, Charles and Cain don't always see eye to eye though they have recently made up. INNER CIRCLE (Hellfire Club) - Comprised of the Black Kine, White Queen, Black Bishop, White Knight and the Black Rook, they comprise a cadre of super-powered industrialists who embody the ethos of 'The One Percent'. GYRICH, HENRY PETER - A politician who, while sometimes a force for good, can be a corrupt threat--especially to superhumans, mutants and aliens specifically. Recently brainwashed by Hydra he has unleashed a new scourge upon the underworld. GAROKK (The Petrified Man) - The Self proclaimed sun god of the Savage Land FIRELORD - One of the former heralds of Galactus. He is also a future member of the Guardians of the Galaxy. ERIC THE RED - Davan was a member of the Shiar Empire and protected their leader with his life. DELUGE - An albino mutant from Africa booted out of his tribe because of his skin condition. He encountered a young Storm and the original five X-Men during the events of the series X-Men: The Hidden Years. CYTTORAK - Ruler of the Crimson Cosmos and supplier of power to his avatar, The Juggernaut. CASSANDRA NOVA XAVIER (Stillborn) - Sister, Psychotic BROTHERHOOD II - Avalanche, Blob, Destiny, Mystique comprised the second inebriation of the Brotherhood. BLACK TOM (Cassidy) - A mutant criminal, Sean Cassidy's cousin, and the Juggernaut's partner. ARKON - An alien monarch from the planet Polemarchus who once tried to make Storm his queen. ARCADE - Seeking challenges, Arcade has tested the abilities of many superheroes in the Marvel Universe. Trapped inside his dangerous MURDERWORLD and playing to survive, it was nothing more than just a game for Arcade. ANI-MEN - Comprised of Ape-Man, Bird-Man, Cat-Man, Dragonfly, Gorilla-Man, they were mutates created by Count Nefaria to assist him when he attempt to seize control of NORAD | |
Rivals: |
CALISTO |
History
Ororo Monroe, also known as Storm, is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses, all of whom have white hair, blue eyes, and the potential to wield "magic". Her mother, N'Daré, was the princess of a tribe in Kenya, who married the American photojournalist, David Munroe, and moved with him to Manhattan, where Ororo was born.
When Ororo was six months old, she and her parents moved to Cairo, Egypt, and when Ororo was just five years old, a plane crash destroyed their home. Ororo's parents were killed, but she survived, buried under rubble near her mother's body. This traumatizing effect left Ororo with the severe claustrophobia that still afflicts her today.
Ororo managed to escape the rubble of her shattered home with nothing but the tattered clothes on her back and her mother's ancestral ruby. Homeless and orphaned, Ororo was found by a gang of street urchins who took her to their master, Achmed El Gibár. Achmed trained Ororo in the arts of thievery and she soon became his prize pupil, excelling in picking both pockets and locks.
During her time in Cairo, Ororo picked the pocket of an American tourist. The man proved no easy mark, however, as he was Charles Xavier, a powerful mutant telepath who used his abilities to stop the theft. At that moment, Xavier was psionically attacked by another mutant, Amahl Farouk (absolute ruler of Cairo’s thieves), and Ororo used the opportunity to escape. Xavier, who acknowledged she was a mutant from her brainwaves, declined to contact Ororo at this point, not wanting to shock the young woman with the true nature of her powers.
Years later, feeling a strong urge to wander south, Ororo left Cairo. During her travels, Ororo naively accepted a ride from a complete stranger and was almost raped by him. Forced to defend herself, Ororo killed the man and, from that moment, she swore never to take another human life. Ororo wandered for thousands of miles, almost dying during her trek across the Sahara Desert. Ororo's mutant ability to psionically control the weather emerged soon after, and she was able to use them to rescue T'Challa, a prince of the African nation of Wakanda, from his would-be kidnappers. The pair shared a romance and spent much time together, however, T'Challa's duties as a prince prevented them from further exploring their burgeoning mutual attraction.
Finally, Ororo reached her ancestors' homeland of the Kilimanjaro Valley on the Serengeti Plain in Kenya. Ororo was taken in by an elderly tribal woman, named Ainet, who taught her to be responsible with her powers. Ororo soon came to be the object of worship of the local tribes, who believed her to be a goddess due to her gift.
Months later, Professor Xavier felt it was high time to recruit Storm, as he called her, as well as other mutants from around the world, into the X-Men. Prof. Xavier explained to Ororo that she was not a "goddess", but a mutant and, as such, she had a responsibility to use her abilities to help the world, just as she had helped the local tribes. Curious, Ororo accepted Professor Xavier's offer and was given the codename "Storm". After most of the original team left, Ororo, along with fellow new recruits Nightcrawler, Colossus, Wolverine, Thunderbird, and Banshee stayed as members of the new X-Men. The second group of X-Men were mostly adults and required no tutoring from Professor X, but trained in the use of their powers, in the Danger Room. Storm remained with the X-Men for years.
Storm was initially very naive when it came to the customs of the modern world, but her team mate, Jean Grey (Marvel Girl), helped educate her in the ways of society and the pair formed a lasting friendship. Jean was also one of the first X-Men to learn of Storm's claustrophobia, after the two women chased a thief into the subway.
When the Xavier Institute was attacked by mysterious forces, leaving Xavier and Jean missing, the X-Men split up, and Ororo returned to Africa, once again. While in Africa, the Shadow King telepathically took over her body and created an illusion to make her think that all of Africa was on fire. Using her powers to the best of her ability, she created violent waves, strong winds, frightening lightning, thunder, and hail storms - all resulting in a turbulent wasteland, as she was under the impression that she was saving Africa, when in all reality she was really destroying it.
The X-Men then came to recruit her back to the team and stop her from using her powers. After a telepathic probe of Ororo's mind, Emma Frost discovered that she was under Shadow King's control. A battle then ensued between Emma and the Shadow King on the Astral Plane, with Emma being victorious. Storm was then released from the Shadow King's mental control, and when she realized what she'd done, she used her powers to reverse the effects. After an invitation back to the team, she once again left Africa to become an X-Man.
During her time with the X -men, she continued to take frequent trips to Africa. During one trip to the nation of Wakanda, Storm met and fell in love with T'Challa. He is better known to most as the Black Panther. There love grew and grew, until one day he asked her to be his bride. Overcome with emotion, she said yes. The two wed in an elaborate ceremony in front of the X-Men, and the entire kingdom of Wakanda.
Journal
Recent Posts
XM001: Flying Home [Jan 07, 2013] -- Storm suggests that ICEMAN cover the breach in the mansions wall until Wadsworth and Mustard arrive to effect temporary repairs.
XM001: Flying Home [Jan 01, 2013] -- STORM offers to fly HAVOK to the X-Mansion
BEAKER | DITKO | SIMONSON | CONTACT MODS | DUTIES
Loading...