| Introduction
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xxxxxA mutant born in Seattle, Taylor Marinov is a student at Xavier's who is trying to find a place they fit in.
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| History
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xxxxxTaylor Marinov was born to Rebecca and Alex Marinov under pretty ordinary circumstances. The couple were trying to have children for a long time and were having difficulty conceiving, but eventually after enough effort and planning, they managed to conceive. Alex worked as a grocery bagger while Rebecca worked as a department director for Staples, so they had decided that Rebecca would be keeping her job after a brief maternity leave, while Alex would become a stay at home father.
xxxxxWhile the pregnancy progressed normally, Rebecca and Alex decided to be surprised by their child's sex, preparing a gender neutral room in keeping with their rather socially liberal politics. They were indeed surprised, as Taylor was born with ambiguous sex, brought on by partial androgen insensitivity syndrome. The doctors tried to convince Rebecca and Alex to surgically assign their child a sex, but they refused, again due to their politics. They thought that such a decision should be left to the child, but because they had to choose something to put down on the birth certificate, Taylor's birth certificate would have the 'F' gender marker.
xxxxxGrowing up, Taylor was treated neutrally with regards to gender, and generally lived in a loving household, raised by Alex as a stay at home father. Indeed, Taylor was actually spoiled rotten as a child due to being an only child who was very much wanted. Anything that Taylor wanted would be provided, as far Rebecca could afford. Many dolls were purchased for Tay, due to the child's interest in dressing them up and making up little worlds for them to play in. Taylor didn't make much of a distinction between GI Joes or Barbies or any other kinds of dolls, so long as they were generally people shaped. Entire soap opera worlds would be conceived in the child's mind, with detailed handmade costumes for all of them. Taylor also enjoyed playing video games, always keen on getting the next age appropriate game for their age category.
xxxxxIn school, Taylor did not associate much with their peers, mostly because the boys thought Taylor may be a girl and the girls thought Taylor might be a boy, and Taylor did not particularly help to clear any misconceptions up. Tay's grades were mostly average, Bs and Cs, with As in chemistry class, which was the only class that captured the youth's imagination. Tay could not tolerate being picked on by classmates, even though it happened frequently, and would get into frequent fist fights with other students as a result of the bullying from being a kind of outsider.
xxxxxAround the age that most children start going through puberty, Taylor opted to take puberty blockers to avoid gaining any sort of undesired secondary sex characteristics with the support of their parents. It was also around this age that Taylor met Timothy Glass, a boy who had transfered into the same grade. For once, Taylor actually grew a friendship with the boy, and then even more than that, a sort of romantic relationship started to bloom. When one boy, named Joseph, decided to give Timothy a black eye for being involved in an unusual relationship as one with Taylor, Tay decided to give the boy a piece of their mind. That piece of mind was delivered on the end of a fist, and delivered multiple times to the boy's face. This landed Taylor finally in anger management.
xxxxxAs part of anger management, Taylor started (reluctantly) writing in a journal to keep track of day to day emotions, and having unproductive meetings with the school counsellor. A month and a half after the anger management classes started, Joseph with a few of his friends decided to show Taylor and Timothy that he was not to be trifled with. After classes were over, and many students were getting ready to practice in a Halloween play for drama class, Joseph and his friends sought out Timothy and Taylor in the darkened halls of the school. A couple of the boys pinned down Taylor and beat them up, while Joseph slammed Timothy's head into a locker over and over and over until Tim's body lay limp while Taylor could do nothing but look on.
xxxxxThe stress of this situation started the trigger of Taylor's mutation, and Taylor snapped, throwing the boys pinning them down off with untapped strength, striking the boys hard enough to knock them down and frighten them enough to run away. Taylor called for a teacher to get help and get Timothy to the hospital, where he would be able to recover. Timothy remained in a coma for a few days due to the head trauma, but after getting to the hospital, Taylor would also need to be hospitalized.
xxxxxWhile Taylor's mutation was triggered on the fight, it only started the changes in the teen's body. Tay's bones and muscle started to reshape, causing the youth extreme pain during the slow transformation into something entirely inhuman. It took one week for Taylor's body to change entirely, becoming entirely covered in fur and animalistic features that caused many in the hospital to be frightened, and Taylor would document the horror of the experience in their anger management journal, explaining the physical and emotional pain that the process had inflicted. But more than anything, Taylor was still more concerned for Timothy Glass's well-being.
xxxxxTay checked on the boy daily while still being kept in the hospital for observation (under close scrutiny by some of the frightened staff). When Timothy woke up, however, he was frightened by Taylor's extreme shift in appearance, and quickly rejected the youth and whatever relationship that they had built up was quickly ended. While Taylor was used to being an outsider, the pain of isolation, the new and sometimes painful senses and from being visibly a mutant was too much and caused the teen to break down.
xxxxxForseeing that Taylor would likely experience problems going back to the same school, Alex and Rebecca decided to contact the Xavier's institute to get help in finding Taylor a place to fit in and reform healthy relationships, still wanting what would ultimately be best for their child.
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| Powers
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-Feral Form: Taylors body has shifted into that of a humanoid ocelot, and simply will not shift back. This is a permanent and obvious mutation that the teen will have to adjust to. This form comes with a number of advantages and drawbacks.
-Senses: So long as it is not pitch black and there is at least a little light, Taylor will be able to see. Taylors peripheral vision is also enhanced, to the point where Taylor can see movement that is off to the side and slightly behind, in a 200 degree field of vision. However, the teen needs reading glasses to read anything up close, having lost strong near vision.
Taylor can pick up and distinguish sounds that are outside of normal human hearing, whether due to low intensity or it being out of range. 40Hz to 70000Hz is Taylors hearing range (though Taylor finds very high pitched sounds to be intensely uncomfortable to listen to), and sounds as quiet as a mouse rustling 40 feet away in grass can be heard. Any whispering around Taylor will almost certainly be heard. The flipside is that very loud sudden noises can be startling and painful: when watching television or playing games, Taylor keeps the volume quite low. Finally, it is easier to pinpoint the exact location of any sounds that are heard, and the teens ears can swivel to listen more closely to different things or to help block out a loud noise that is not as sudden.
In terms of smell, Taylor is about 20 times better than a human, and can determine emotional states based on scent alone after enough experience with this ability. As with other sensory powers, the drawback is that intense smells are much more unpleasant for Taylor to deal with. People can be recognized by scent, and if so inclined, Taylor could feasibly track someone.
Taylor has a generally normal sense of touch, but the whiskers on Taylors cheeks and eyebrows make it easier to pick up air movements. The whiskers are sensate, they affect balance and help Taylor know what spaces can be crawled through. Taylor is liable to get stuck in crawlspaces if they're cut and will seem generally less familiar with environments until they regrow.
-Strength and agility: Taylors reflexes are greatly improved, three times as fast as a regular human, with the physical speed to back it up (this actually makes Taylor seem rather skittish if people come too close with little warning). Taylor can run twice human speed, and can keep up this speed for almost an hour without tiring out. The teen is able to jump from the ground to latch on to objects that are up to twenty feet high, and due to these strengthened leg muscles, can deliver bone shattering kicks. The teen also seems to possess a strong sense of precision and balance, and so can jump from branch to branch in trees or walk on a railing, for example, without too much difficulty and without losing balance. Learning agility related skills comes more naturally, as well. In general, Taylor is also much stronger than before, and is about as strong and tough as a professional boxer in most ways, with Taylor's leg muscles being particularly enhanced beyond that into the superhuman.
-Natural weapons: Taylor has strong retractable claws that can pretty easily tear through flesh, but are not so useful against non-organic targets. They can chip off, and if the vein is torn, it will bleed and be quite painful, but the claws will regrow with time (about a week). The claws can help with clinging to surfaces and climbing. Taylors teeth are very sharp, but still just made out of teeth material. Still, the teen can bite with a lot of force, enough to crack bone.
-Limitations: Taylor has a mostly carnivorous diet, most greens will cause illness and vomiting, though grains can be digested. The lions share of food will have to be meat. There are also circumstances where the feline nature will take precedence over reason. For example, if there is the smell of certain foods in the air, Taylor is likely to try and steal it without really considering that other people are preparing that food for a reason. Or if Taylor is sleepy, everywhere is a fine sleeping spot. The teen will be apologetic if these actions are pointed out, but wont really notice or think anythings wrong until someone else mentions it.
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| Skills
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-Doll making: Taylor is good at putting dolls together based on parts, and then making outfits for them however elaborate. This can be translated to full person sized clothes as well, and Taylor makes a lot of their own clothing. The doll clothing tends to be of higher quality than Taylor's own outfits. That isn't to say that Taylor's own clothes aren't of high quality, just that they are really well dressed dolls.
-Chemistry: Taylor really enjoys chemistry class and has a genuine interest in it, and would be able to tutor other students. Other than that, Taylor is an average student, but knows a lot of trivia about various intersex conditions, and knows a fair bit about androgen insensitivity syndrome from experience alone.
-Video gaming: Taylor enjoys playing video games, and while not a professional gamer, is one of those people who seems to have a knack for pretty much any game they pick up.
-Brawling: Taylor is able to cause some damage in a fist fight, just from experience, finding it easier to make people shut up with violence and use fear as a deterrent. Taylor can normally fight and win against teens of about the same age who have no serious martial arts training, but the edge diminishes with a trained opponent.
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| Connections
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Friends
- Paige: She'll keep walking. I know she can.
- Taylor: He lives up to my arbitrary standard for people who share a name with me.
- Fiona: How's she so positive? It's admirable.
Foes
And everything in between
- Shane: Seems like he's the best. Might be the best?
- Ororo: She listens to me.
- Mai: She's friendly, but sometimes speaks before thinking.
- Hercules: Long distance never lasts...
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| Trivia
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- Marinov makes most of their own clothes, and is willing to help others with special wardrobe needs with design ideas.
- Their father is a Russian immigrant (despite having a Bulgarian name). During the zombie crisis, Russian was Marinov's language of choice, despite very few people around being able to speak it.
- They used to be a vegetarian before their mutation forced them onto an all meat diet. Marinov is still a bit sore about this.
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| Full Name
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| Codename
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| Birthdate
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November 4, 2000
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| Birthplace
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Seattle, WA
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| Species
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Mutant
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| Affiliation
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Xavier's
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| Alignment
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Chaotic
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| Powers
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Ocelot powers
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| Occupation
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Student
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| Registration Status
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Registered
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| Played By
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None
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| RP Hooks
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| Athletic - They spend a lot of their time running, climbing, jumping and playing any kind of games or sports involving those things.
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| Passion for Fashion - They keep up to date on current trends in fashion, but also hopes to become a trendsetter. They will be happy to discuss anything having to do with design.
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| Hot-Headed - They are very easy to provoke. Want to start a fight? They'll certainly oblige.
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| Obvious Mutant - They wear their mutation on their face, and have come to let that affect their activism.
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